Books - "philosophy"
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The Power of the Story: Fiction and Political Change
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: Berghahn Books 1994
KEYWORDS: literary criticism literature politics philosophy psychology fiction sociology
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
Classicism, Politics, and Kinship: The Ch'ang-chou School of New Text Confucianism in Late Imperial China
Super octavo, grey cloth boards, black lettering to spine, frontispiece, illus prelims, xxxiii + 409pp, illus, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, spine sl cocked, prev. owner's sm name label to prelims, adhesive errata slip to full title page) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing & chipping to edges, light fading to spine, light chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: University of California Press 1990
KEYWORDS: China Chinese history classicism politics philosophy imperial confucianism confucius literature
The Green Leaf: A Tribute to Grey Owl
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: Lovat Dickson Ltd 1938
KEYWORDS: grey owl the green leaf philosophy biography humanitarianism first peoples canada indigenous collection
Realism and Social Vision in Coubert & Proudhhon
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 may reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Princeton University Press 1980
KEYWORDS: gustave coubert art analysis theory social commentary vision history realism anarchist anarchy philosophy pierre-joseph proudhon
Basel in the Age of Burckhardt: A Study in Unseasonable Ideas
Super octavo, white heavy boards, purple lettering to spine, frontispiece, xii + 608pp, illus/photos, VG+ (moderate deformity/mishapening to spine) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to spine & edges, light chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: University of Chicago Press 2000
KEYWORDS: Basel 19th nineteenth century history Switzerland Europe philosophy culture
Figuring it Out: What Are We? Where Do We Come From? The Parallel Visions of Artists and Archeologists
Ex. library. Imperial 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: Thames and Hudson 2006
KEYWORDS: origins of humanity philosophy archeologists artists art history theory interdiscipline sculpture
The Platform of the Sixth Patriarch
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: Columbia
KEYWORDS: platform sutra fifth patriarch tun-huang tun huang translated buddism philosophy spirituality religion religious
Space, Time and Architecture: The Growth of a New Tradition
Imperial octavo, grey heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, lvi + 897pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, sm lettering in ink to lower page edges, prev. owner's name in pencil to ffep) in d/w, VG- (moderate creasing & chipping to edges, light closed tearing in various spots, light soiling to spine & covers, price clipped)
PUBLISHER: Harvard University Press 1967
KEYWORDS: architecture buildings philosophy art history technology
Genuine Fake: A Biography of Alan Watts
Super octavo, blue heavy boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, x + 198pp, illus/photos, VG+ (sl bruising to spine extrems, light foxing to page edges) in d/w, VG (price clipped, light creasing & chipping to edges, light tanning to spine, light chafing & soiling to covers)
PUBLISHER: william Heinemann 1986
KEYWORDS: biography memoir Alan Watts sixties 60s philosophy
Enlightenment! The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali; A New Translation and Commentary
Super octavo, light card covers, gilt lettering to spine, 332pp, VG+ (prev. owner's name in ink inside front cover, light annotation in ink to rear pgs)
PUBLISHER: Society for Ascension 1996
KEYWORDS: spirituality yoga sutras patanjali religion philosophy meditation
Earth at Omega: Passage to Planetization
Octavo, blue cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, vi + 117pp, VG+ (light foxing to page edges, prev. ownership stamp in ink to ffep) in d/w, VG-/scruffy (heavy creasing & chipping to edges with some loss, 3cm loss to top of front flap, moderate chafing with light surface loss)
PUBLISHER: The Branden Press 1982
KEYWORDS: philosophy politics Donald Keys planetary existence
The Seven Human Temperaments
Sm octavo, blue heavy boards, black lettering to spine & front board, xviii + 81pp, folding chart to rear, VG+ (sl bruising & soiling to boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, ownership ink stamp to ffep, 2cm closed tear to folding chart- otherwise tidy) in d/w, VG (light creasing & chipping to edges, light fading to spine, light tanning & foxing to edges)
PUBLISHER: The Theosophical Publishing House 1973
KEYWORDS: theosophy philosophy spirituality meditation New Zealand Geoffrey Hodson literature
The Impossible Question
FIRST EDITION, octavo, blue heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, 207pp, VG+ (light fading to spine extrems, light foxing to page edges, gift inscription in pencil & ownership stamp in ink to ffepsl foxing to prelims) in d/w, VG (price clipped, moderate foxing, light discolourationt o spine, light creasing & chipping to edges, 1cm closed tear to lower edges of front cover with archival tape repair)
PUBLISHER: Victor Gollancz 1972
KEYWORDS: first edition spirituality meditation teachings Krishnamurti philosophy
Atmatattwam: Recorded Talks of Sri Adwayananda (Sri K. Padmanabha Menon)
Octavo, brown light card covers, gilt lettering to spine & front cover, frontispiece, 201pp, VG+ (light fading to spine, sl creasing to covers, sl soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light scuffing & creasing to spine & edges)
PUBLISHER: Advaita Publishers 1995
KEYWORDS: talks religion spirituality Sri Adwayananda philosophy
Spiritual Elixir: Timeless Excerpts From Correspondence
Octavo, blue light card covers, yellow lettering to spine & covers, frontispiece, xi + 383pp, VG (light creasing & chafing to spine & covers, light foxing to page edges, some page edges roughly cut & creased, prev. owner's name in ink to inside front cover)
PUBLISHER: Ruhani Satsang (Books) 1978
KEYWORDS: spirituality religion philosophy Kirpal Singh India