Search Results: Philosophy from House of Our Own Books

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Routledge, 1996 This book elaborates on the relationship between Levinas' thought and the writings of other philosophers; it goes beyond Levinas' alternatives to traditional theories of the self to suggest a notion of subjectivity that is not grounded in violence (purple cover with red & white lettering, photo of a Caspar David Friedrich painting on the front cover; a bright, clean, tight copy). Trade Paperback. As New.

Latham, MD, U.S.A.: University Press of America, 1986. This is a study of Hayek's ethical concepts which explores the intellectual background of these views and elaborates some of the interpretive issues raised by his ethics; it considers Hayek in terms of the political and economic liberalism of which he is a prominent proponent (purple cover with white & blue lettering; author's own address label at the top of title page; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy in nearly perfect condition; in stock & available for immediate shipment from a reliable independent bookstore). Trade Paperback. Near Fine.

Waterloo, Ontario, Canada: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1981. This is a history of the development of philosophy as an academic discipline in British Canada during its first 100 years, from the publication of James Beaven's Elements of Natural Theology in 1850 until the mass immigration of philosophers from abroad after World War II changed its character; it includes those philosophers whose writing was extensive and covered a variety of topics; includes portraits of six philosophers by Kathryn Cole (bright yellow cloth with black lettering, inscribed by one of the co-authors and dated June, 1982, on the front endpaper; two very small cuts on edges of front and back covers and indentation in bottom edge of textblock, otherwise both cover and text are in excellent condition). Inscribed By Author. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket.

New York , NY, U.S.A.: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. This is a collection of diverse essays by philosophers and other observers of the meanings of fashion (white laminated pictorial cover with black lettering; a bright, clean, tight copy in nearly perfect condition; in stock & available for immediate shipment from a reliable independent bookstore). First Edition. Hard Cover. As New/No Jacket.

Prague, Czech Republic: Petr Rezek Publishers, 2001. The author was one of a number of philosophers who visited Prague as part of a long-term Oxford project aimed at supporting underground philosophy seminars in communist Czechoslovakia; this volume contains four lectures, previously unpublished, and three published papers on Aristotle; the first two lectures on Plato's Republic were delivered in November, 1988, and the second two lectures on Aristotle's Ethics in May, 1992 (white paper-covered boards with black lettering and red stripe on the front, pages tanned; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy). First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket.

Cambridge, MA, U.S.A.: MIT Press, 1987. Originally published in Frankfurt in 1932, this is the first English translation of one of Marcuse's most important philosophical works, a study of Hegel's ontology from a Heideggerian or phenomenological perspective; includes a substantial introduction by the translator (green covers with white lettering; a bright, clean, tight copy in nearly perfect condition; in stock & available for immediate shipment from a reliable independent bookstore). Trade Paperback. As New.

Lanham, MD, U.S.A.: University Press of America, 1985. This collection of essays represents an attempt to subject Marx's thought to critical analysis and to evaluate its relevance to the concerns of contemporary analytic philosophy: contributors include G. A. Cohen, William Shaw, John Elliott, George Panichas, Allen Wood, Ziyad Husami, Gary Young, and Allen Buchanan (blue covers with white lettering; a bright, clean, tight copy in nearly perfect condition; in stock & available for immediate shipment from a reliable independent bookstore). Trade Paperback. Fine.

Moscow, Russia: Progress Publishers, 1977. First published in 1947, this is the third printing in 1977 of the fourth revised edition of 1964 of Lenin's defence of dialectical materialism; includes Lenin's prefaces to the first and second editions of 1908 and 1920 and frontispiece portrait of Lenin (gray textured cloth with gold lettering on front & spine; a bright, clean, tight copy in near fine condition; in stock & available for immediate shipment from a reliable independent bookstore). Fourth Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket.

Latham, MD, U.S.A.: University Press of America, 1986. The book is a critical and historical review of competing views on the question of demarcating science from non-science in order to assess the scientific status of economics (maroon cloth with gold lettering; a bright, clean, tight copy, in nearly perfect condition; in stock & available for immediate shipment from a reliable independent bookstore). Hard Cover. As New/No Jacket.

New York , NY, U.S.A.: Cambridge University Press, 2008. This is the third edition of an anthology of classic and contemporary essays on the methodology of economics which constitutes an introduction to the subject (black covers with white lettering, lower right front corner slightly creased; otherwise a bright, clean, tight, unmarked copy; in stock & available for immediate shipment from a reliable independent bookstore). Third Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good.

Athens, GA, U.S.A.: Ohio University Press, 1976. This collection of essays on political and social themes is a supplement to an earlier anthology, History and Truth; the primary concern of the essays in this volume is the question of what it means to be human in a world dominated by oppressive governments, large bureaucracies, and multi-national corporations; the essays are grouped in three sections: The Meaning of Man, The Christian and Society, and Politics and the State; includes a substantial introduction by the editors (black covers with silver lettering on spine, previous owner's embossed stamp on front end paper; black dust jacket with photo of author on front is price-clipped and has slight shelf wear; otherwise a bright, clean, tight, unmarked copy; in stock & available for immediate shipment from a reliable independent bookstore). Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

New York , NY, U.S.A.: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. This is a collection of diverse essays on consumer culture in the context of concerns and conflicts over the effect of affluence on the environment and the lives of individuals in consumer society; this critique of consumerism is based on the concept of alternative hedonism, the pursuit of other pleasures (orange laminated pictorial covers; a bright, clean, tight copy in nearly perfect condition (in stock & available for immediate shipment from a reliable independent bookstore). First Edition. Hard Cover. As New/No Jacket.

Oxford, England, U.K.: Oxford University Press This is an historical and critical study of Henry Sidgwick's Methods of Ethics, published in 1874, a systematic treatise on moral philosophy which brought together the ethical views of different schools of thought that preceded it and created the prototype of the modern treatment of moral philosophy (black cloth with gold lettering has slightly bumped corners; brown dust jacket with white lettering has silght edge wear and sunned spine; otherwise a bright, clean tight copy; in stock & available for immediate shipment from a reliable independent bookstore). Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good.

Atlantic Highlands, NJ, U.S.A.: Humanities Press, 1975. The second of two volumes, this book contains a selection of the most influential articles on the Greek philosophers before Socrates, beginning with the Eleatics and continuing with those philosophers who argued against the Eleatics or tried to come to terms with their arguments; these studies deal only with the four major philosophical positions of the period: the arguments of Parmenides and Zeno against pluralist theories, and the three pluralist responses of Empedocles, Anaxagoras, and the early Atomists (orange cloth with gold lettering, slightly creased at ends of spine; light yellow & dark green dust jacket is worn along the edges with small tears and chips; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy). Hard Cover. Very Good/Good.