Books - "philosophy"
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Metabioethics and Biomedicine: Synthesis of Principles and Applications
TIDY EX-LIBRARY, DISC TO REAR POCKET MISSING, imperial octavo, illus glossy boards, white lettering to spine, 207pp, illus, VG+ (usual but minimal library markings, light bruising to extrems, light chafing, light water damage to base of rear pages- some light adhesion)
PUBLISHER: Editrice Velar-Gorle (Printer) 2006
KEYWORDS: metabioethics biomedicine philosophy science religion ethics medicine
Stanley Cavell and Literary Scepticism
Octavo softcover (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: University of Chicago Press 1989
KEYWORDS: stanley cavell literary theory scepticism criticism critique philosophy
The Dream of the Earth
Octavo softcover (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Sierra Club Books
KEYWORDS: nature sierra club philosophy science natural library
The Melancholy Art
Super octavo, brown heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, xxv + 194pp, illus/photos, Near FINE, in d/w, Near FINE (sl creasing to edges)
PUBLISHER: Princeton University Press 2013
KEYWORDS: art history sadness melancholy criticism renaissance philosophy
The Inner Journey: Views From the Gurdjieff Work
DVD AT REAR, super octavo, illus light card covers with french flaps, white lettering to spine, xxxii + 357pp, Near FINE (sl bruising to extrems)
PUBLISHER: Morning Light Press 2008
KEYWORDS: literature Gurdjieff philosophy
Lesson From History: The Tokushi Yoron
Super octavo, black heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, lx + 417pp, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, prev. owner's name in ink & white-out to ffep) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing & chipping to edges, light fading to spine, light chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: University of Queensland Press 1982
KEYWORDS: Japanese literature philosophy
Things Seen and Unseen: Discourse and Ideology in Tokugawa Nativism
LACKS D/W, super octavo, blue cloth boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, xii + 494pp, VG+ (light bruising & scuffing to edges & extrems, light foxing to page edges)
PUBLISHER: University of Chicago Press 1988
KEYWORDS: Tokugawa nativism Japan Japanese history kokugaku ideology philosophy 18th eighteenth century
State and Scholars in T'ang China
LACKS D/W, super octavo, green cloth boards, silver gilt lettering to spine & front board, x + 423pp, Near FINE
PUBLISHER: Press Syndicate of the University of Cambridge 1988
KEYWORDS: China Chinese T'ang dynasty ancient history state intellectual life philosophy
From Philosophy to Philology: Intellectual and Social Aspects of Change in Late Imperial China
Super octavo, black heavy boards, white lettering to spine, frontispiece, xxv + 368pp, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, light soiling to page edges, prev. owner's sm name label to ffep, sl cracking to some gutters) in d/w, VG- (heavy creasing & chipping with some sl loss, moderate fading to spine, light chafing)
PUBLISHER: Council on East Asian Studies, Harvard University Press 1984
KEYWORDS: philosophy philology Chinese China late imperial history lower Yangtze region
Intellectual Trends in the Ch'ing Period (Ch'ing-tai hsueh-shu kai-lun)
Super octavo, grey buckram boards, brown lettering to spine, xxii + 147pp + lii bibliography, VG+ (light bruising to board edges & extrems) in d/w, VG (light creasing & chipping to edges, light tanning to spine, light chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: Harvard University Press 1059
KEYWORDS: China Chinese philosophy Ch'ing period dynasty
Revolution as Restoration: Guocui xuebao and China's Path to Modernity, 1905-1911
LACKS D/W, super octavo, pink heavy boards, black lettering to spine & boards, 135pp, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, spine sl cocked, light chafing to boards, ffep completely missing)
PUBLISHER: Brill/Leiden 2013
KEYWORDS: China Chinese revolution restoration history philosophy Guocui xuebao
Overcome by Modernity: History, Culture and Community in Interwar Japan
Super octavo, blue cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, xxxii + 440pp, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, light soiling to page edges, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing & chipping ot edges, light fading to spine)
PUBLISHER: Princeton University Press 2000
KEYWORDS: Japan Japanese history Asian studies culture philosophy
Hermeneutics and Praxis
Super octavo softcover (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Notre Dame 1985
KEYWORDS: hermeneutics praxis martin heidigger hans-georg gadamer richard rorty pragmatism philosophy social theory
A Healer's Journey Into Light
Super octavo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Bantam Press 1995
KEYWORDS: self help improvement Lorna Todd light work philosophy psychology meditation relaxation
Leo Tolstoy: Resident and Stranger: A Study in Fiction and Theology
Super octavo softcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Princeton University Press 1989
KEYWORDS: Leo Tolstory literary criticism literature philosophy theology religion
Orthodoxy in Late Imperial China
LACKS D/W, super octavo, red cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, x + 364pp, Near FINE (v sl bruising to extrems)
PUBLISHER: University of California Press 1990
KEYWORDS: China Chinese history imperial civilization civilisation congresses philosophy studies humanities class stratification
Told Round a Brushwood Fire: The Autobiography of Arai Hakuseki
Super octavo, cream cloth boards with blue buckram spine, gilt lettering to spine, xii + 347pp, Near FINE (prev. owner's v sm name label to ffep) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing & chipping ot edges, 1cm loss to lower spine extrem, light to moderate fading to spine)
PUBLISHER: Princeton University Press & University of Tokyo Press 1979
KEYWORDS: autobiography memoir Arai Hakuseki Japanese literature philosophy Confucius
Pioneer of the Chinese Revolution: Zhang Binglin and Confucianism
Octavo, blue heavy boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, xv + 190pp, Near FINE, in d/w, VG+ (light creasing & chipping to edges, light fading to spine)
PUBLISHER: Stanford University Press1990
KEYWORDS: China Chinese Japan Confucius philosophy essays prose collection revolution thought religion
Tai Chen on Mencius: Explorations in Words and Meaning: A Translation of the Meng Tzu tzu-i shu-cheng
Super octavo, beige cloth boards, black lettering to spine, xi + 222pp, Near FINE (sl bruising to upper extrems) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing & chipping to edges, light chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: Yale University Press 1990
KEYWORDS: China Chinese meng tzu tzu-i shu-cheng Tai Chen Ch'ing philosophy Confucius confucian
Chinese Theories of Reading and Writing: A Route to Hermeneutics and Open Poetics
Super octavo, illus glossy card covers, white lettering to spine, xiv + 334pp, VG+ (light creasing & chafing to cover corners & edges, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep, light chafing to covers)
PUBLISHER: State University of New York Press 2005
KEYWORDS: China Chinese theories literature reading writing theory Asian studies literary criticism philosophy