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Walter Benjamin: An Aesthetic of Redemption by: Wolin, Richard
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Walter Benjamin: An Aesthetic of Redemption by: Wolin, Richard

Softcover. Berkeley, CA, The University of California Press, 2nd, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 316 pages, soft cover. Covers are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. Few twentieth-century thinkers have proven as influential as Walter Benjamin, the German-Jewish philosopher and literary critic. This book remains among the clearest and most insightful introductions to Benjamin's writings, offering a philosophically rich exposition of his complex relationship to Adorno, Brecht, Jewish Messianism, and Western Marxism. Clean copy. Record # 34191
Price: $20.00 

 

Sehnsucht nach dem Paradies : Tiefenpsychologischische Umkreisung eines Urbilds


Jacoby, Mario

Softcover. Fellbach GR, Bonz, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 230 pages, b&w illustrations. German text. INSCRIBED BY JACOBY on the front fly leaf. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 407462


Price: $19.00 

Future of Human Nature Habermas, Jurgen
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Future of Human Nature


Habermas, Jurgen

Hardcover. Cambridge, UK, Polity Press, reprint, April 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 127 pages. Minor wear to dust jacket. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 454630


Price: $15.00 

 

Yesterday's Self: Nostalgia and the Construction of Personal Identity


Ritivoi, Andreea Deciu

Softcover. Lanham, Md., Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., rep, 2002, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 184 pages, corner and edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 456284


Price: $22.00 

 

Becoming a Geographer (Space, Place, and Society)


Gould, Peter

Softcover. US, Syracuse Univ Pr (Sd), 1st pb, 2000-08-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 350 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

Record # 461163


Price: $15.00 

Lessons from the Living Cell: The Limits of Reductionism Rothman, Stephen
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Lessons from the Living Cell: The Limits of Reductionism


Rothman, Stephen

Hardcover. New York, McGraw-Hill Companies, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 300 pages. Hardcover. Gilt titles on spine. Light shelf wear to dust jacket, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 468148


Price: $15.00 

Late Marxism: Adorno, or, the Persistence of the Dialectic Jameson, Fredric
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Late Marxism: Adorno, or, the Persistence of the Dialectic


Jameson, Fredric

Softcover. London, Verso, reprint, 1990, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 270 pages. Softcover. Some marking. Water stain to bottom edge, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 468232


Price: $13.00 

 

Wrath of Nations, The: Civilization and the Furies of Nationalism by: Pfaff, William

Hardcover. New York, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1993, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 256 pages. Hardcover. Previous owner's signature on front and rear fly leaf. Otherwise clean, tight copy. Record # 468269
Price: $12.00 

Thinking about Social Thinking Flew, Antony G.
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Thinking about Social Thinking


Flew, Antony G.

Softcover. Amherst NY , Prometheus Books, reprint, 1995, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 278 pages. Softcover. Includes erratum card. Some curling to edges, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 468273


Price: $13.00 

 

Selected letters: The personal correspondence, 1844-1877


Marx, Karl

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, reprint, 1981, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 194 pages. Hardcover. Gilt titles on spine. Blind stamp on cover. Small stains to front and back gutters. Foxing to top and fore edge, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 468276


Price: $19.00 

How to Do It: Guides to Good Living for Renaissance Italians Bell, Rudolph M.
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How to Do It: Guides to Good Living for Renaissance Italians


Bell, Rudolph M.

Hardcover. Chicago, IL, University Of Chicago Press, reprint, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 389 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 469953


Price: $15.00 

 

Theodore Parker: Preacher and Reformer


Chadwick, John White

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton, Mifflin & Co. , 1st, 1900, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 422 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Maroon cover with gilt lettering and gilt top edge. Minor scratches on front cover. Former library stamp on front fly leaf. Clean, unmarked copy. Spine labeled.

Record # 470801


Price: $19.00 

Darwin's Cathedral: Evolution, Religion, and the Nature of Society Wilson, David Sloan
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Darwin's Cathedral: Evolution, Religion, and the Nature of Society


Wilson, David Sloan

Softcover. Chicago, IL, University Of Chicago Press, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 268 pages. Softcover. Sticker residue to back wrapper. Some slight shelfwear. Otherwise a clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear.

Record # 471266


Price: $13.00 

 

Semites & Anti-Semites: An Inquiry into Conflict and Prejudice


Lewis, Bernard

Hardcover. New York, W.W. Norton & Co., 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 283 pages w/ index. 1/4 dark blue cloth, gilt; otherwise yellow boards. White dust jacket shows minor edgewear. Clean, tight, unmarked copy.

Record # 604650


Price: $15.00 

 

Escape to Utopia - The Communal Movement in America


Webber, Everett

Hardcover. New York, Hastings House, 1st, 1959, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 444 pages. Black & white illustrations. Ex-Library copy with usual marks and stamping. Dust jacket worn.

Record # 606760


Price: $12.00 

 

Nishi Amane and Modern Japanese Thought


Havens, Thomas R.H.

Hardcover. Princeton, Princeton University, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 253 pages. Previous owners name on front endpaper. Minor foxing to page edges and dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 607972


Price: $12.00 

 

Conservative England and the Case Against Voltaire


Schilling, Bernard N.

Hardcover. New York, Columbia University, 1st, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 394 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON FRONT ENDPAPER. Fading to spine cloth. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 608559


Price: $20.00 

 

Tale of Three Cities - The 1993 Rede Lecture and Related Summit Declarations, A


Singhvi, L. M.

Softcover. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1st, 1996, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 77 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON FRONT COVER. Covers with some spots of soiling. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 610372


Price: $38.00 

 

Sources of Indian Tradition - Volume II by: de Bary (Editor), Wm. Theodore

Softcover. New York, Columbia University Press, Reprint, 1966, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 384 pages. Volume II only. Softcover. Previous owners name at top right corner of front endpaper. Fading to spine. Clean, tight copy. Record # 610744
Price: $12.00 

Heart Turned East - Among the Muslims of Europe & America, A Lebor, Adam
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Heart Turned East - Among the Muslims of Europe & America, A


Lebor, Adam

Hardcover. New York, Thomas Dunne , 1st US, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 322 pages. Hardcover. Black & white photographs. Dust jacket with light rubbing. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 613883


Price: $31.00 

 

Lysistrata, Or Woman's Future and Future Woman


Ludovici, Anthony M./Norman Haire (Forward)

Hardcover. New York, NY, E. P. Dutton and Company, First Edition, 1925, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 110 pages. Hardcover. Red cloth covered boards with black titles to ivory text block. Light sunfade to spine edge, some soiling to edges. Clean & unmarked inside with age toning throughout. Previous owner's signature to front end. A very nice copy.

Record # 751399


Price: $38.00 

 

In Defense of Civility: How Religion Can Unite America on Seven Moral Issues That Divide Us


Davis, James Calvin

Softcover. KY, Louiseville, First Edition, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 198 pages. Softcover with only minor wear to edges. Davis offers provocative discussion that seeks to answer the modern day question: Is the religious viewpoint an aid or a hinderance to open discussions on moral values? Clean, unmarked pages throughout.

Record # 751554


Price: $13.00 

 

Play of the World, The


Hans, James S.

Softcover. Amherst, MA, University of Massachusetts Press, First Edition, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 210 pages. Scarce. Softcover with foxing top edge, small spots to right edge. Light wear to edges & one inch tear to heel of spine. Faint soil to preliminary pages. Else clean copy. Hans explores the cultural importance of play among a wide variety of fields, including language, history, aesthetics, socioeconomics and ethics.

Record # 751555


Price: $50.00 

 

Property in the Eighteenth Century: With Special Reference to England and Locke


Larkin, Paschal

Hardcover. NY, Kennikat Press, reprint, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 252 pages, hardcover. With a preface by Professor J.L. Stocks. Spine slightly rubbed, mild shelf wear to front boards. Unmarked. Bright and clean; a tight copy.

Record # 951212


Price: $25.00