A Philosophical Investigation, Paperback

A philosophical approach to the concept of 'security', offering practical guidance to help states better allocate resources better to security prob...

Reducere. A dazzling treatise, as erudite and eloquent as Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex and considerably more sound in its conclusion - TLS "He is an e...

Reissue of a terrifyingly prescient cult classic by the bestselling author of the Bernie Gunther series

This is Richard Appignanesi's erudite investigation of Existentialism, the philosophical and cultural movement that prioritizes individual experien...

Reducere. First published in German in 1940 and widely recognized as a classic of philosophical anthropology, Laughing and Crying is a detailed investigation...

This impressive literary debut takes as its premise and inspiration ten of the best-known thought experiments in philosophy - the 'what ifs' of phi...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Stanislaw LemTranslator: Adele MilchA young officer at Scotland Yard is assigned to investigate a puzzling and eerie case o...

Rocco Gangle addresses the methodological questions raised by a commitment to immanence in terms of how diagrams may be used both as tools and as o...

Offers investigation of the material and philosophical aspects of conserving contemporary art. This title gives a comprehensive overview of the man...

Originally published in 1971, this book provides a lucid philosophical investigation of the area in which the demands of social and political insti...

"Presence and Absence is a book of importance for all who are actively engaged in the philosophical enterprise, whatever their differing persuasion...

"The love of repetition is in truth the only happy love." So says Constantine Constantius on the first page of Kierkegaard's Repetition. Life itsel...

Owing heavily to the styles of Plato and Socrates, Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy is a deep investigation into the nature of wisdom and the p...

Reveals the intimate connection between beauty and the philosophical life. What Plato meant by beauty is not easily characterized, this work shows ...

Ever a source of philosophical conjecture and debate, the concept of time represents the beating heart of physics. This final work by the distingui...

Reducere. Now, for the first time, a philosopher undertakes a systematic investigation of the moral and aesthetic issues to which cultural appropriation give...

Japanese Culture: The Religious and Philosophical Foundations takes readers on a thoroughly researched and extremely readable journey through Japan...

Reducere. Provides a scholarly account of the striking interplay between the Gothic and theory over two-and-a-half centuries This collection provides a thoro...

DescriptionA philosophical interrogation of the concepts of chance, contingency, and eternity through a concentrated study of Mallarm 's poem "Un C...

Reducere. Bernard Lonergan was a mid 20th century Canadian philosopher and theologian. This book aims to help form a basis for inquiry into Lonergan's achiev...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Roy BhaskarThe Order of Natural Necessity: A Kind of Introduction to Critical Realism is based on the transcripts from six ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Domenico LosurdoTranslator: Gregory ElliottIn this definitive historical investigation, Italian author and philosopher Dome...

Reducere. Choice is a field guide for navigating the polarization of our world and living interdependently by creating a reflective space where the reader ca...

A challenge to the hegemony of perspective: investigations into other forms of representation used by different cultures over the last two thousand...

Reducere. Set theory, initially built on the Cantorian extension of number into the infinite and the Zermelian axiomatization affirming a foundation for math...

DescriptionOrigin of the German Trauerspiel was Walter Benjamin's first full, historically oriented analysis of modernity. Readers of English know ...

Reducere. How philosophy transformed human knowledge and the world we live in Philosophical investigation is the root of all human knowledge. Developing new ...

A New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceOne of LitHub's Most Anticipated Books of 2020An expansive, radiant, and genre-defying investigation in...

Reducere. One of the most profound questions philosophers have asked throughout history is "What is the relationship between mankind and the universe?" Are w...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Martin KeoghYou went to your first Contact Improvisation (C.I.) class, or a friend invited you to the weekly jam, and you'r...

Reducere. "Both Thomistic scholars and analytic philosophers interested in theories of human action and accountability will find this book a welcome addition...

Reducere. Conversations with the Brush is a wildly entertaining and inspirational journey into examining the question of how to become more creatively free a...

Reducere. Michel Foucault was one of the most influential philosophical thinkers in the contemporary world, someone whose work has affected the teaching of h...

Reducere. Yanantin and Masintin in the Andean World is an eloquently written autoethnography in which researcher Hillary S. Webb seeks to understand the indi...

Reducere. Here is the continuation of Martha Ronk's life-long investigation of things as they are seen at a remove or seen not at all as in the presence of s...

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. The veil can be an instrument of feminis...

The Animal That Therefore I Am is the long-awaited translation of the complete text of Jacques Derrida's ten-hour address to the 1997 C risy confer...

DescriptionDesire in Language traces the path of an investigation, extending over a period of ten years, into the semiotics of literature and the a...

Reducere. The full title of Newton's Principia is ""The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy."" Sadly, some contemporary philosophers might be hard-...

Reducere. DescriptionAge and aging are pressing social-political issues. Yet, philosophers still have not paid sufficient attention to one of the major explo...

Reducere. DescriptionMathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy: Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica by Isaac Newton and translated into English ...

Reducere. A summary of the twenty five years of philosophical study that preceded the Ra contact. This study began with investigation into the metaphysical a...

Reducere. E-Co-Affectivity is a philosophical investigation of affectivity in various forms of life: photosynthesis and growth in plants, touch and trauma in...

Reducere. The Second Edition of this popular critical study has been significantly expanded and completely revised, making it the most thorough single-volume...