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The People at Play. Excursions in the Humor and Philosophy of Popular Amusements
Hartt, Rollin Lynde
Book Number: 46594
ISBN: 
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston and New York, 1909
8vo. hardcover. 317pp. b/w illus. Fair, cover faded & worn on spine edge, spine slipt on rear edge. Ex-lib.
Price: $15.00


The Library of Philosophical Translations. Plotinus: Vol. 1, The Ethical Treatises; vol. 2, Psychic and Physical Treatises; vol. 3, The Nature of the Soul; vol. 4, The Divine Mind; vol. 5 On the One and Good.
Plotinus - Translated by Stephen Mackenna
Book Number: 61087
ISBN: 
Publisher: Philip Lee Warner, Publisher to the Medici Society, Limited 7 Grafton St. London, W, 1. 1917
4to. Cloth spine to blue boards. Limited edition stated on Vol I, II, III. volumes 4 & 5 are identical, but no limited edition statement. Printed on rag paper. Volume I has a foxed cover, with tape marks around the edges of the front and rear board. All volumes have bumped extremes, un-cut page edges, foxing to end pages, however the copies are bright and unmarked. Vol 1 & 2 have po name on fep.
Price: $1200.00


An Introduction to the Philosophy of Herbert Spencer.
Hudson, Professor W.H.
Book Number: 29376
ISBN: 
Publisher: Watts & Co., London 1904.
8vo. softcover. 128pp. good+. Scarce.
Price: $35.00


Solid Philosophy asserted, against the fancies of the Ideists, with Reflexions on Mr. Locke’s Essay concerning Human Understanding
Sergeant, John
Book Number: 32796
ISBN: 
Publisher: Printed for Roger Clavil at the Peacock, Able Roper at the Black Boy, both in Fleet Street, and Thomas Metcalf, over against Earl''s-Court in Drury-Lane 1697 First Edition
8vo. front board missing. ffl has an inscription "This book was wrote by J. Sergeant a Jesuit. Spine and back board, leather, and worn. 460pp. Pages are wavy, so book may have been wet. Copy is solidly bound and has no foxing. printed in old english.
Price: $1200.00


A Self Portrait
Gibran, Kahlil
Book Number: 43073
ISBN: 
Publisher: Heinemann, 1974 reprint
8vo. hardcover. 93pp. Very good, page edges slightly browned. / Very good, clipped d/w.
Price: $18.00


A Tear and a Smile
Gibran, Kahlil
Book Number: 61681
ISBN: 0434290742
Publisher: Heinemann, 1972 reprint
8vo. hardcover. 172pp. Very good, light foxing to endpapers & edges. / Very good, clipped d/w.
Price: $15.00


Spirits Rebellious
Gibran, Kahlil
Book Number: 61104
ISBN: 
Publisher: Heinemann, 1964 reprint
8vo. hardcover. 123pp. Very good. / Very good, clipped d/w.
Price: $18.00


Time The Familiar Stranger
Fraser, J. T.
Book Number: 58033
ISBN: 1556151713
Publisher: Tempus Books of Microsoft Press 1987
Trade paperback. 388pp. Very good. examines the classical and contemporary theories and conceptions of time. Fraser explores and expansive range of topics, the origins of the universe, the history of timekeeping devices, the biology of aging and death, human perception of time, dreaming vs waking reality, expectation and memory, scientists' exploration of time in the physical world, and the ways in which technological rhymes control our lives.
Price: $25.00


The muse in the machine : computers and creative thought
Gelernter, David Hillel.
Book Number: 29804
ISBN: 1857020839
Publisher: London Fourth Estate 1994
8vo hardcover 211pp index. very good+ / very good+ d/w. Designed for a wide audience, this book claims that the standard approach to human thought is wrong in fundamental ways. The author challenges, in particular, the views of Daniel Dennett ("Consciousness Explained") and Roger Penrose ("The Emperor's New Mind"): first, emotion is a necessary part of thought and so a thinking computer will not be possible until a feeling computer is possible; second, reasoning, logic and analysis are only part of the way we think - there are also other kinds of thinking, such as poetic and religious; third, the nature of thought is intertwined with the nature of art. He also discusses philosophy, psychology, technology, art and literature, in particular the poetry of Wordsworth, Blake, Keats and the Bible.
Price: $12.00


Story of Pascualete
Quintanilla, Aline
Book Number: 27325
ISBN: 004320094X
Publisher: London: John Murray, 1963.
8vo hardcover 214pp index, b/w illus. very good / very good d/w.
Price: $12.00


Neuropolitique
Leary, Timothy
Book Number: 27275
ISBN: 0941404846
Publisher: New Falcon Publications January 1989
8vo softcover 187pp. very good.
Price: $20.00


Farewell to Revolution: Marxist philosophy and the modern world.
Kissin, S.F.
Book Number: 5434
ISBN: 
Publisher: London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1978.
8vo. hardcover. 256pp, index. very good / very good d/w, light stain rear board.
Price: $15.00


Life and Living
Jones, Frederic Wood
Book Number: 59347
ISBN: 
Publisher: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. 1939
8vo. Brown cloth hardcover. 268pp. Very good. Includes front, and flaps of original d/w in pieces. Contents includes Mechanism or Vitalism?, Life and Growth, The Spirit of Adventure, Disease and Individuality, The Master Surgeon, Anatomy and a Life Principle, Universities and Life, The Changing Point of View, The Mammalian Toilet.
Price: $20.00


An Introduction to Modal Logic
Hughes, G. E. & Cresswell M. J.
Book Number: 38894
ISBN: 041629460x
Publisher: Methuen 1972.
8vo. Paperback. 371pp. Very good, owner's signature on fep. Contents includes Index of Authors, Index of Subjects, List of Symbols and important rules. Modal Propositional Logic, Non-Modal Proposition Calculus, The System T, The Systems S4 and S5, Validity in T, S4 and S5, The Modal Predicate Logic, A Survey of Modal Logic, Natural deduction and Modal Systems, Kripke's Model Structures and Hintikka;s Model Sets.
Price: $10.00


Vox Clamantis
Minimus, Numa
Book Number: 44795
ISBN: 
Publisher: London: Macmillan & Co., 1911
8vo. red cloth hardcover. 200pp. Good, foxed, cover slightly flecked. / no d/w.
Price: $15.00


New Harmony Movement
Lockwood, George B.
Book Number: 54617
ISBN: 0486227197
Publisher: Dover Publications, 1971
8vo softcover 404pp index, b/w illus. very good.
Price: $12.00


The City Of Words. Understanding civilisation through story. (Massey Lecture Series)
Manguel, Alberto
Book Number: 42717
ISBN: 0-7022-3684-5
Publisher: Uninversityof Queensland Press 2007
8vo. softcover. 166pp. index. Fine.
Price: $12.00


Contemporary Political Thought in England
Rockow, Lewis
Book Number: 49039
ISBN: 
Publisher: Leonard Parsons, London, 1925.
8vo. blue cloth hardcover. 336pp. index. Good_, foxing, wear to cover corners.
Price: $25.00


History and Subjectivity: The Transformation of Marxist Theory
Gottlieb, Roger S.
Book Number: 41175
ISBN: 0877224943
Publisher: Temple Univ Press 1987
8vo hardcover 318pp index, b/w illus. very good+ / very good d/w. Can Marxism still serve the American left? History and Subjectivity answers this question by synthesizing the conflicting perspectives of traditional Marxism, Western and neo-Marxism, socialist-feminism, and various minority political movements into a comprehensive and original social theory. nnIn the last seventy years, social change and the failure of leftist movements have made it necessary to transform Marxist theory. Undermined by its own theoretical success, traditional Marxism mistakenly assumed that Marx's understanding of competitive capitalism could be the model for theories of any society. Roger Gottlieb argues convincingly that the transformation of Marxist theory requires a fundamentally new understanding of social primacy. nnGottlieb draws on resources from virtually all areas of contemporary radical social theory. This interdisciplinary approach results in a sweeping synthesis of existing Marxist thought and an original and compelling social theory. nnFrom the PublishernAn original social theory synthesizing conflicting perspectives of Marxism
Price: $28.00


Theories Of Education. Studies of Significant Innovation in Western Educational Thought
Bowen, James; Hobson, Peter.
Book Number: 57315
ISBN: 0471334200
Publisher: Wiley, 1974
8vo. softcover. 478pp. index. Very good, light crease to cover, small owner's name on fep.
Price: $16.00


Universal Abandon? The Politics of Postmodernism
Ross, Andrew (ed)
Book Number: 57144
ISBN: 0852246544
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press, UK. 1989
8vo. softcover. 300pp. index. Very good.
Price: $14.00


Between Hume and Mill: An Anthology of British Philosophy, 1749-1843.
Brown, Robert (ed).
Book Number: 57147
ISBN: 
Publisher: Modern Library, New York, 1970.
8vo. hardcover. 495pp. index. Very good. / Good d/w, torn on bottom corners.
Price: $18.00


Kant Studies Today
Beck, Lewis W. (editor)
Book Number: 57170
ISBN: 
Publisher: Open Court Publishing. USA 1969
8vo. hardcover. 507pp. index. Very good. / Good+ d/w.
Price: $22.00


Language, Minds and Knowledge
Hoffman, Robert
Book Number: 57175
ISBN: 0391000071
Publisher: Humanities Press, 1970.
8vo. hardcover. 184pp. index. Very good. / Very good d/w.
Price: $15.00


The Fullness of Life
Kurtz, Paul
Book Number: 34368
ISBN: 0818013206
Publisher: New York Horizon Press 1974
8vo softcover 216pp. very good.
Price: $8.00


Quest for Mind
Gardner, Howard
Book Number: 34166
ISBN: 090457606X
Publisher: Coventure 1972
8vo hardcover 276pp index. very good / very good d/w.
Price: $12.00


The Culture of Contentment
Galbraith, John Kenneth
Book Number: 57183
ISBN: 1856191478
Publisher: Sinclair-Stevenson, London 1992
8vo. hardcover. 195pp. index. Very good, page edges slightly browned.
Price: $12.00


Rational Belief Systems
Ellis, Brian
Book Number: 30719
ISBN: 0631115900
Publisher: Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1979. First edition.
8vo. hardcover. 118pp. index. very good. / very good d/w.
Price: $18.00


The Moral Law
Paton, H. J.
Book Number: 57186
ISBN: 0090360338
Publisher: Hutchinson's University Library, London, 1972
8vo. softcover. 135pp. Very good.
Price: $8.00


Ethics, Emotion and the Unity of the Self
Letwin, Oliver
Book Number: 57191
ISBN: 0709941102
Publisher: Groom Helm 1987
8vo. hardcover. 132pp/ index. Very good+. / Very good+ d/w.
Price: $45.00


Indvidualism Reconsidered
Riesman
Book Number: 30547
ISBN: 
Publisher: Free Press 1954
8vo softcover 530pp index. very good.
Price: $15.00


Postmodernism and Its Discontents: Theories, Practices
Kaplan, E. Ann
Book Number: 57215
ISBN: 0860919250
Publisher: Verso Books, London & New York, 1993.
8vo. softcover. 188pp. Very good+.
Price: $15.00


Theory of Moves
Brams, Steven J.
Book Number: 38589
ISBN: 0521458676
Publisher: Cambridge University Press 1994
8vo softcover 248pp index. very good, book covered in clear adhesive plastic.
Price: $12.00


Mirror of Philosophers
Versfeld, Martin
Book Number: 29916
ISBN: 
Publisher: London: Sheed and Ward, 1960.
8vo. hardcover. 301pp. index. very good. / good, chipped d/w.
Price: $12.00


Empty Names, Fiction and the Puzzles of Non-Existence
Everett, Anthony J. & Hofweber, Thomas (editors)
Book Number: 39711
ISBN: 1575862549
Publisher:
8vo. softcover. 325pp. index. near fine.
Price: $25.00


A Critical Account of the Philosophy of Kant Volume 1
CAIRD, Edward.
Book Number: 41326
ISBN: 
Publisher: Glasgow, James Maclehose & Sons, 1889
8vo. blue cloth hardcover. 654pp. very good, light wear to cover corners, foxing to endpapers & edges, owner's details on fep.
Price: $55.00


Philosophy and educational foundations
Brent, Allen.
Book Number: 27269
ISBN: 0043701442
Publisher: London ; Boston Allen & Unwin 1983
8vo softcover 3639pp index. very good.
Price: $22.00


The God of the Philosophers
Kenny, Anthony
Book Number: 57809
ISBN: 0198245947
Publisher: Clarendon Press, Oxford 1979.
8vo. hardcover. 135pp. indexVery good, light foxing to endpapers. / Very good+ d/w.
Price: $18.00


Chaos & Cyber Culture
Leary, Timothy
Book Number: 44109
ISBN: 0914171771
Publisher: Ronin Pub 1994
4to softcover 270pp good, corners bumped.
Price: $15.00


Burke and Paine on revolution and the rights of man
Dishman, Robert B
Book Number: 46428
ISBN: 0684412276
Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons., 1971.
8vo. softcover. 309pp. Good+, cover creased.
Price: $15.00


Bringing Human Rights to Life
Bailey, Peter
Book Number: 51773
ISBN: 862871035
Publisher: Federation Press, Sydney 1993
8vo. softcover. 270pp. index. Very good.
Price: $10.00


Explorations in Feminist Ethics: Theory and Practice (A Midland Book)
Cole, Eve Browning; McQuin, Susan C. (editors)
Book Number: 57172
ISBN: 0253313848
Publisher: Indiana University Press. 1992.
8vo. softcover. 203pp. index. Very good.
Price: $15.00


Michel Foucault: The Will To Truth
Sheridan, Alan [Michel Foucault]
Book Number: 57177
ISBN: 0415051177
Publisher: Routledge, London, 1994.
8vo. softcover. 243pp. index. Very good.
Price: $11.00


Philosophy from the Romantic Age to the Age of Positivism (A History of Western Philosophy Volume IV)
Caponigri, A. Robert
Book Number: 57197
ISBN: 0268005087
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press, U.S.A., 1971.
8vo. softcover. 327pp. index. Very good.
Price: $15.00


Berkeley's Theory of Vision
Armstrong, D. M.
Book Number: 59841
ISBN: 
Publisher: Melbourne University press, 1960.
8vo. hardcover. 106pp. index. Very good. / Very good lightly foxed d/w with some small tears on top edge.
Price: $35.00


The Family in Political Thought
Elshtain, Jean Bethke (editor)
Book Number: 57199
ISBN: 0710804318
Publisher: The Harvester Press, UK 1982
8vo. softcover. 354pp. index. Very good.
Price: $14.00


The winding stair: Francis Bacon, his rise and fall
Maurier, Daphne Du
Book Number: 37268
ISBN: 0575021683
Publisher: London Gollancz 1976
8vo hardcover 254pp index, b/w illus. very good / very good d/w.
Price: $15.00


Golden lads: A study of Anthony Bacon, Francis and their friends
Maurier, Daphne Du
Book Number: 37267
ISBN: 0575019808
Publisher: London Gollancz 1975
8vo hardcover 288pp index, b/w illus. very good / very good d/w. Ill. on lining papers.
Price: $15.00


The Body & The Text: Helene Cixous, Reading & Teaching (eds)
Cixous, Helene; Helen Wilcox: edited by Keith McWatters; Ann Thompson & Linda Williams
Book Number: 62168
ISBN: 0745008224
Publisher: Harvester Wheatsheaf, UK, 1990
8vo. softcover. 222pp. index. Very good.
Price: $25.00


Deschanel's Natural Philosophy - Elementary Treatise of Natural Philosophy
Deschanel, A. Privat
Book Number: 61960
ISBN: 
Publisher: Blackie & Son. 1913.
8vo. blue cloth hardcover. 318pp. index, b/w illus. Good, missing fep.
Price: $25.00


ISAAC ISRAELI - A Neoplatonic Philosopher of the Early 10thC
Altmann, Alexander & Samuel Miklos Stern - With a New Forward by Alfred Ivry
Book Number: 61682
ISBN: 9780226016139
Publisher: University of Chicago Press 2009
8vo Paperback. 226pp. Very good. Index. This volume contains English translations of Israeli's philosophical writings, including the Book of Definitions, the Book of Substances, and the Book on Spirit and Soul. Includes a biographical sketch and extensive notes and comments on the texts, as well as a surevey and appraisal of his philosophy. Essential reading for students and scholars of Islamic and medieval Jewish Philosophy.
Price: $25.00


Thinkers of the East
Shah, Idries
Book Number: 61597
ISBN: 079171353
Publisher: Penguin 1974
8vo. Softcover. 183pp. Very good. This anthology of Studies in Experientialism, is a collection of entertaining anecdotes and parables in action illustrating the eminently practical approach of Eastern dervish thinkers. Distilled from the teachings of more than a hundred sages, these extracts provide lucid introduction to Sufic thought.
Price: $12.00


Lenin in Zürich
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr
Book Number: 52055
ISBN: 0370106075
Publisher: The Bodley Head Ltd September 1, 1990
8vo Hardcover in d/w. 256pp near fine. English, Russian (translation. Solzenitsyn has set himself the task of establishing the truth of Russia's early revolutionary years and of probing the character of the man who made such an indelible impact on his country's fate. Lenin in Surich fulfils the challenge of this task, reaffirming once again Solzhenitsyn's remarkable vision and his vital place in world literature.
Price: $12.00



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