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 about Postmodernisms Now: Essays on Contemporaneity in the Arts (Literature and Philosophy

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 about Observations on the Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs, and on Mr. Paine's Rights of Man. In...

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 about Essays on Some of the First Principles of Metaphysicks, Ethicks and Theology

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 about The Works of Samuel Clarke, D.D. Late Rector of St. James's Westminster. In Four Volumes

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 about Philosophia Rationalis Nov-Antiqua. Sive Disputationes Selectae, in Logicam et Metaphysicam...

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 about The Conceptual Practices Of Power: A Feminist Sociology of Knowledge (Northeastern Series on...

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 about Le Livre de la Sagesse Arabe

Cambridge: Blackwell Publishers, 1995. Trade Paperback. 313 pp. A philosophical and theoretical analysis of radicalized discourse and racist expression, showing how racism becomes normalized through social conceptions and categories. GOOD condition. Some scuffing and fading to the covers and extremities. Some pencil underlining and bracketing in the text. More about Racist Culture: Philosophy and the Politics of Meaning

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 about The Philosophy of Ultraism. An Address Delivered Before the Society of Alumni, of Newton...

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 about Observations on Man, His Frame, His Duty and his Expectations. In Two Parts. Three volumes,...

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 about The Commonwealth of the Future

New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. Trade Paperback. 326 pp. A philosophical analysis of political and philosophical worries about identity, including gendered and racialized identities. VERY GOOD condition. Light fading and edgewear. Section of pages in the center with a wrinkle at their top edge. More about Visible Identities: Race, Gender, and the Self (Studies in Feminist Philosophy

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 about The Miscellaneous Works of the Right Honourable Sir James Mackintosh. Three volumes, complete in...