Millennium Prophecies: Predictions for the Year 2000
Shaftesbury: Element, 1999. Paperback. More
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Slight Exaggeration
New York: Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 2017. First U.S. Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. A new essay collection by the noted Polish poet For Adam Zagajewski—one of Poland’s great poets—the project of writing, whether it be poetry or prose, is an occasion to advance what David Wojahn has characterized as..... More
The Hindu Tradition: Readings in Oriental Thought
New York: Vintage Books, 1972. del Gaudio & Munson Design Group (cover design). First Vintage Books Edition. Paperback. Vintage Books no. V-702 This book, compiled from basic Hindu writings, is an exploration of the essential meaning of the Hindu tradition, the way of thinking and acting that has dominated..... More
The Architecture of Happiness
London: Penguin Books, 2014. Cat Johnston (cover illustrations). Reissued Edition. Sixth Printing. Paperback. One of the great, but often unmentioned, causes of both happiness and misery is the quality of our environment: the kind of walls, chairs, buildings and streets we’re surrounded by. And yet a concern for architecture..... More
The Plague
London: Penguin Books, 2020. David Pearson (cover design). Paperback. Introduction by Tony Judt Translated by Robin Buss 'A story for our, and all, times' Guardian The Plague is Albert Camus's world-renowned fable of fear and courage The townspeople of Oran are in the grip of a...... More
The Wittgenstein Reader
Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2006. Second Edition. First Printing. Paperback. This popular selection of Wittgenstein’s key writings has now been updated to include new material relevant to recent debates about the philosopher. - Follows the evolution of Wittgenstein’s philosophical thought from the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus through to the Philosophical Investigations..... More
Augustine Confessions: Books 9-13
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2018. First Revised Edition. Hardcover. No. 27 in the Loeb Classical Library series Edited and translated by Carolyn Hammond Augustinus (354–430 CE), son of a pagan, Patricius of Tagaste in North Africa, and his Christian wife Monica, while studying in Africa to become..... More
The Tao of Pooh
London: Methuen/Magnet Books, 1984. Ernest H. Shepard (illustrations). First Paperback Edition, Fifth Printing. Paperback. The how of Pooh? The Tao of who? The Tao of Pooh!?! In which it is revealed that one of the world's great Taoist masters isn't Chinese--or a venerable philosopher--but is in fact none other that..... More
The Inward Pilgrimage: Spiritual Classics from Augustine to Bonhoeffer
Minneapolis, Minnesota: Augsburg Publishing House, 1976. Paperback. More
Pensees
Harmondsworth: Penguin Classics, 1966. A.j. Krailsheimer (tr.). First Edition (presumed). Paperback. Blaise Pascal, the precociously brilliant contemporary of Descartes, was a gifted mathematician and physicist, but it is his unfinished apologia for the Christian religion upon which his reputation now rests. The Penseés is a collection of philosohical fragments, notes..... More
Young Ludwig: Wittgenstein's Life, 1889-1921
Oxford: Clarendon/ Oxford University Press, 2005. Reissued Edition. Paperback. Ludwig Wittgenstein is universally recognized as one of the most original and influential philosophers of his age and as a personality of great magnetism and power. Not all who recognize his importance admire him or approve of it; his life and..... More
Christianity and Classical Culture: A Study of Thought and Action from Augustus to Augustine
London: Oxford University Press, 1974. Emil Antonucci (cover design). Reprint. Trade Paperback. A Galaxy Book. No. GB 7 About the author Charles Norris Cochrane (August 21, 1889 – November 23, 1945) was a Canadian historian and philosopher who taught at the University of Toronto. He is known for..... More
The Analects (Lun yu)
Harmondsworth: Penguin Classics, 1983. Reprint. Paperback. The Analects express a philosophy, or a moral code, by which Confucius, one of the most humane thinkers of all time, believed everyone should live. Upholding the ideals of wisdom, self-knowledge, courage and love of one's fellow man, he argued that the pursuit of..... More
Philosophy's Cool Place
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1999. First Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. Ludwig Wittgenstein established a "cool" stance for philosophy, contemplating the world without meddling in it. D. Z. Phillips explores this position, focusing on its implications for philosophical authorship and the philosophical investigation of the nature of reality. Influenced by..... More
Clouds in the West: Lessons from the Martial Arts of Japan
Guilford: The Lyons Press, 2004. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. More
Existentialism and Modern Literature
New Jersey: Citadel Press, 1972. Marshall Matusow (cover design). Fourth paperbound printing. Paperback. More
Discourse on Method and Other Writings
Harmondsworth: Penguin Classics, 1968. F.E. Sutcliffe (tr.). First Edition (presumed). Paperback. See photo of back cover. More
Structuralism and Poststructuralism For Beginners
New York: Writers and Readers Publishing, 1998. Second Printing. Paperback. "What is Structuralism? How is it possible? And once the structures of Structuralism have been discovered, how is Poststructuralism possible?" Thus begins Don Palmer's Structuralism and Poststructuralism For Beginners. If Nobel or Pulitzer ever made a prize for making..... More
Ethics in Action: Workable Guidelines for Private and Public Choices
Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 2008. First Edition (presumed). Hardcover. American politicians often claim a moral imperative to ensure quality affordable health care to all Americans, but as Donald Munro points out, leaders rarely outline the content of this moral standard and whether it can be applied to all..... More
Ideas: General Introduction to Pure Phenomenology
Collier Books, 1967. Softcover. First Collier Books edition 1962, Second Printing 1967; translated by W.R. Boyce Gibson. More
Speaking of Gender
New York: Routledge, 1989. First Trade Paperback Edition. Softcover. From Library Journal: Feminist criticism began in the 1970s with the analysis of women's writing by women; in recent years, "gender studies" has come to constitute a field in which male and female critics consider the construction, meaning, and transformation..... More
Intergroup Relations Centers
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1949. First Edition. Hardcover (cloth). More
Before and After Socrates
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Cecil Keeling (cover design). Reprint. Paperback. In this book, F.M. Cornford explains why the life and work of Socrates stand out as marking a turning-point in the history of thought. He shows how Socrates revolutionized the concept of philosophy, converting it from the study of..... More
Herr Eugen Duhring's Revolution in Science (Anti-Dühring)
New York: International Publishers Co., Inc., 1972. Third Printing of 1939 Ediiton. Paperback. New World Paperbacks book no. NW-21. More
Brief Notes on the Art and Manner of Arranging One's Books (Penguin Great Ideas)
London: Penguin Books, 2020. Paperback. 'A problem of space first of all, then a problem of order' One of the most singular and extravagant imaginations of the twentieth century, the novelist and essayist Georges Perec was a true original who delighted in wordplay, puzzles, taxonomies and seeing the extraordinary..... More
