University Park, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. Pennsylvania State University Press, 1998. Trade Paperback. 316 pp. With a few black and white photos. A study of postmodern theory and its contradictions, examining its implications for various artists and poets. This includes sections on Jasper Johns, John Ashbery, Robert Creeley, Sylvia Plath and others..... More
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005. Cloth. 358 pp. A look at how race, gender, sexuality, religion and other identities can sometimes constrain one's freedom to make an individual life. VERY GOOD condition. Minor fading, rubbing and edgewear. More
Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, Inc, 1981. Wraps. Yellow printed wraps. 95 pp. A collection of translations of various works published in the Soviet Union that reflected then recent trends in Soviet philosophical ideas. This issue contains 'Contemporary Science and Problems of the Human Individual;' 'Contradiction as a Category in Hegel's..... More
London: Printed for John Stockdale, Piccadilly, 1792. Disbound. 283 pages. LACKING ALL covers, spine and endpapers. Collated and complete textually. This work critiques both Edmund Burke's 'Observations on the Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs' and 'The Rights of Man,' by Thomas Paine and espouses a similar philosophical..... More
No Place: No Publisher. Wraps. Printed wraps. No publisher, place or date, presumed circa 1932. A short piece presenting a somewhat philosophical argument asserting that introspection is a method of observation of certain events of the brain, referring to the work of Wundt, Tichener and others. This piece seems to..... More
Portland: Arthur Shirley, 1824. Full Leather. Full calf leather. 414 pp. A collection of philosophical and theological writings including discussions of the mind, will, liberty, morals, appetites, etc. Asa Burton was an American clergyman and teacher during the late 1700s, early 1800s, primarily in the Vermont area. GOOD condition, ex-theological..... More
France: Roissard Grenoble, 1970. Limited. Wraps. #195 of 844 copies. Printed wraps, housed in a burgundy clothbound folder in matching slipcase. 215 pp. Illustrations by Raymond Moretti throughout. All text in French. Writing by the French philosopher Jules Chaix-Ruy. FINE book in a VERY GOOD case. No visible wear to..... More
London: Printed for John and Paul Knapton, 1738. Full Leather. Folios. Full leather. xxiv, 728; (10), 758, (30); (10), 926; (10), xiv, 740 pp. With a frontis portrait in volume 1. A posthumously published collection of the works of Samuel Clarke, including various sermons, essays on various religious and philosophical..... More
New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. Trade Paperback. 322 pp. A philosophical study of knowledge, developing ecological thinking as an alternative to epistemic monolingualism. VERY GOOD condition. Small circular sticker on the front cover. Minor rubbing, fading and edgewear. More
No Place: Ex Ducali Campidonensi Typographeo per Joannem Mayr, 1722. Vellum. Full title: Philosophia Rationalis Nov-Antiqua. Sive Disputationes Selectae, in Logicam et Metaphysicam Aristotelis. Cujus Antiquae Sententiae, Sicut et D. Thomae plerumque noviter elucidantur, accurate fulciuntur; & ab impugnationibus praefertim recentibus, vindicantur. Opus in IV. Tomos Divisum, Quorum I. Logicam..... More
Leipzig: F.A. Brockhaus, 1901. Cloth. Blue cloth. Frontis cabinet photo picture of Nietzsche. 111 pages. With three facsimiles of letters written by Nietzsche. ALL TEXT IN GERMAN. A look at the life and philosophy of Friederich Nietzsche through the letters written to his friend Paul Deussen. Deussen and Nietzsche met..... More
New York: The Progressive Education Association, Publisher, 1938. Wraps. Wraps, with a front cover photo of a sculpture, Flight, by Jose Ruiz de Rivera, the American sculptor known for his abstract work. Pagination runs 353-440. A single issue of this journal devoted to new thought and theories in education. This..... More
Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1990. Cloth. 235 pp. A critique of the field of sociology, asserting it does not accurately describe how people experience the world, generating ideology instead of knowledge, especially in sociology's treatment or representation of women. GOOD condition. Some fading, minor soiling and scuffing to the jacket..... More
Paris: Robert Laffont, Publisher, 1948. Leather. Number 3409 of 3500 copies. Red leather decorated with gilt. 92 + pages. With decorative page ornamentation by Andree Corbin. All text in French. A collection of aphorisms or short bits of wisdom from the Arabic culture. VERY GOOD condition. Light fading and a...... More
London: Presumed printed by Will: Hall for Tho. Gilbert, 1671. Full Leather. Full leather. (40) 448 pp. Title page MISSING, making title and bibliographic information conjecture based on ESTC record R469383. Partial title handwritten on the first endpaper. Part II of this three part work that aims to attribute the..... More
Boston: William D. Ticknor, Publisher, 1835. Pamphlet. 32 pp. A predominately philosophical work musing on ultraism, or the focus on one object, often to the detriment of other objects, and its effects on various institutions, whether religious or secular, although primarily focusing on religion. GOOD condition. Ex-historical society, with a...... More
Richmond, VA: Williams Printing Company. Wraps. ca 1913. Printed wraps. 10 pp. Reprinted from the Virginia Medical Semi-Monthly, July 25, 1913. A short essay reflecting on habit in human beings, exploring the benefits to 'instinctively' carrying out daily tasks, but also the perils of bad habits in modern society. Citing..... More
London: J. Johnson, Printer, 1791. Full Leather. Full calf leather. xvi, iv, 5-512; xii, iv, 5-455; xv, v-ix, 457-768 plus index. A later printing of this key work by British philosopher, explaining his theories on the mind-body connection, including his doctrines of vibrations and associations, the formation and growth of..... More
Paris: Apud Stephanum Michallet via San Jacobaea, sub signo Sancti Pauli, 1679. Full Leather. Folio. Full leather. (8), 20, 726, (8) pp. Collated and complete, with a few pages misnumbered. A work examining various aspects of the Bible, seeking, among other topics, to prove that Greek deities originated from the..... More
Cambridge: Harvard University, 1987. Trade Paperback. 145 pp. A look at the work of Ai Ssu-Ch'i a Chinese philosopher who focused on Marxism and the theories of Marx. GOOD condition. Heavy fading along the spine. Minor edgewear. More
New York: No Publisher. Hard Cover. ). Apparent excerpt from his larger work: The Class Struggle. No publisher given. (New York). No date but believed early 1900's. Cloth binding with marbled boards. 79pp. A cyrillic/Russian language printing of a chapter from Karl Kautsky's work, "The Class Struggle," apparently chapter four..... More
New York: Stephen A. Kiss, Publisher, 1947. Cloth. Blue cloth. No jacket. 322 pp. A study of the symmetries of certain abstract structures for those interested in the development of 4-class locis and mathematics. The author begins with some philosophical musings on the structure of the universe as experienced by..... More
Dublin: David Mallet, Publisher. P. Byrne, Printer. 1793. Leather. Full leather. 563, 515, 561, 647, 600 pp. A collection of essays and letters containing Henry St. John's writings on philosophy, history and politics, including pieces on patriotism, the history of Europe, a dissertation on parties, essays on philosophers and their..... More
Philadelphia: Carey and Hart, 1846. Full Leather. Full calf leather. 596 pp., plus ads. An expansive collection of various essays and pieces by James Mackintosh, reflecting on philosophy, history, law and other topics. This includes: on the philosophical genius of Lord Bacon and Mr. Locke; a discourse on the law..... More
Fryeburg, ME: Walker’s Pond Press, 1977. Original Wraps. The History of the Celtic Language. Wherein it is shown to be based upon natural principles, and, elementarily considered, contemporaneous with the infancy of the human family: likewise showing its importance in order to the proper understanding of the classics, including the..... More