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New York:: George Braziller,, (1970). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in near fine dust jacket (price-clipped). First printing. A collection of eight separate essays on the nature of art and how art can permeate the whole sphere of man's thinking and on his sense of what he is and is not. Notes, index. xc, 268 pp.

Arcadia, California:: The Marvimon Foundation, , (1914). Hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in marbled paper covered boards with a tan cloth spine in a good printed tan dust jacket. Very uncommon, and especially so in dust jacket. . First printing. A slim book containing a "new melding of time-old conceptions into a simple and workable philosophy of life for a mind that does not presume to know the beyond" - essentially, this life is all we have and we should find joy in this life (which doesn't sound so "barren.") Illustrated with a color frontispiece and symbolic design and sketches by Mary Carlin. 69 pp plus a final drawing.

New York:: Macmillan,, (1969). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in black cloth with silver spine lettering in a fine dust jacket. Rather hard to find, especially in this condition. . First printing. An unusual experimental work - the first page states only "Man is dead." - the first book written while he was still a young man, by this author and literary agent, who, among other things, established the Edge Foundation, an organization that brings together leading thinkers across a broad range of scientific and technical fields. Small format. 166 pp plus 4 pp of notes.

New York:: Columbia Universtiy Press,, (1970). Very good (previous owner's name inside front cover). Trade paperback. A book whcih "examines the role of social forces in determining the goals of science and considers what the scientist owes to society as a whole and what benefits the layman may legitimately expect from science." xii. Illustrated. 167 pp.

Westport, CT:: Greenwood Press,, (1970). Hardcover -. Fine in charcoal cloth with gold lettering on the spine, no dust jacket as issued.. First thus. Reprint of a work originally published in 1954. Horatio Greenough (1805-1852), the most eloquent spokesman of Emerson's esthetic faith, was by trade a portrait sculptor. Notes, bibliograhy, index. 153 pp.

Chicago:: University of Chicago Press,, (1971). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in a very near fine dustjacket (some light toning to the dj).. First printing. Beginning with Sartre's autobiography Les Mots, the author "examines Sartre's work as steps in an increasingly dialectical movement." Sartre's comment in Huis Clos that "No one of us can save himself alone. You must either be lost together or get along together. Take your choice" sums up this book. Bibliography, index. x, 404 pp.

New York:: Hill & Wang (Farrar, Strauss & Giroux),, (2008). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. A brief look at the most prevalent reasons why people claim that God exists - or miracles happen - and just how illogical these are. Index. 158 pp.

New York:: Basic Books (HarperCollins),, 2013.. First edition -. Fine in illustrated wrappers.. Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. ) A collection of essays originally written between 1956 and 2006 by "one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century. A prominent anticommunist writer, Kolakowski was also a deeply humanistic thinker, and his meditations on society, religion, morality, and culture stand alongside his political writings as commentaries on intellectualand everydaylife in the twentieth century.. . Accessible and wide ranging, these essays - many of them translated into English for the first time - testify to the remarkable scope of Kolakowskis work. From a provocative and deeply felt critique of Marxist ideology to the witty and self-effacing In Praise of Unpunctuality and more - His essay (censored by the authorities and only available on the underground) on "What is socialism" is a long list of what it is not and ends with "socialism is… Read More

Ann Arbor:: University of Michigan Press,, (1960)(. Hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a near fine dustjacket (a bit of rubbing and wear to the dj).. First printing. A book which focuses on Sartre's ethical and political views, and measures them against the three great orthodoxies of the times - Catholicism, Marxism and liberalism - Notes. vii, 213 pp.

New York:: Philosophical Library, , (1962.). Hardcover -. Very good in light beige cloth (darkening to spine), lacking the dj.. Hardcover. Fairly uncommon early 'self-help' book by this prolific psychotherapist, ending with his ten rules ranging from learn to say 'yes', refuse to be discouraged, be decisive, be flexible, have fun, SIGNED on the front endpaper. 96 pp.

New York:: Columbia University Press,, (1966, c. 1954). Very good (prev owner's name, some rubbing and wear to the covers).. Trade paperback. Notes, 136 pp.

New York:: Columbia University Press,, c. 1954 (ca 1970's). Fine.. Trade paperback. Notes, 136 pp.

New York:: Meredith Press,, 1966.. Fair condition. (edge wear, creased spine, ink underlining). Trade paperback.

Chicago:: University of Chicago Press,, (1988). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. "A sample of essays from Germany, France and the US available for the first time in English - the editors have "brought together scholars from a variety of disciplines - philosophy, history, literary criticism, and musicology - and from schools of thought that differ both methodologically and ideologically. The contributors - Karsten Harries, Robert Pippin, Eugen Fink, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Kurt Paul Janz, Sarah Kofman, Jean-Michel Rey - take a new approach to Nietzsche, one that begins with the claim that his enigmatic utterances can best be understood by examining the style or structure of his thought." INSCRIBED and signed on the title page by BOTH editors to the noted Oklahoma book collector Larry Owens. Notes on contributors, index. 240 pp.

New Haven & London:: Yale University Press,, 1969.. SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Near fine in near fine dust jacket (name on front endpaper, some very light spots of foxing on the last few pages, but overall a very tight and clean copy) . First printing. His second (and probably most influential) book, an attack on contemporary philosophical and political nihilism. The book begins by reflecting on the consequences of the separation of the conception of reason from the conception of good in modern rationalism, which took the value-neutral science of mathematics as its model. It follows from this separation that reason can say nothing about its own goodness, or that the assertion of goodness is necessarily non-rational. However, he argues forcefully for the goodness of reason, and suggests a return to the ideas of Plato. Rosen is noted in his writings as relying as much as possible on non-technical language - this "reflects his conviction that ordinary experience is the basis of the… Read More

New York:: Harper & Row,, (1970). Very good overall - front cover has a tear along the upper side of the spine, usual toning to the pages, but otherwise clean and tight. . Trade paperback. Edited and with an introduction by J. Glenn Gray, Index. 324 pp.

Minneapolis:: Milkweed Editions,, (2004). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.). First printing. An exploration of the separations brought to us by Enlightenment philosophers: of human from nature, of things near and far away, and of the sacred from the mundane. "Moore disguises her philosophical explorations in stories: about vacationing on a tiny island in Alaska [the Pine Island of the title], visiting her father in the hospital, watching grouse perform their mating dance in the desert. Throughout, she shows that, when properly observed, the world is full of opportunities to find hidden connections." SIGNED on the title page. 251 pp.

London:: Macmillan,, 1927 (c 1912). Hardcover -. Very good in original dark red cloth with gilt lettering on spine (previous owner's name, some minor scattered underlining, mostly in pencil) Overall a tight, clean and attractive copy. . 2nd printing. The first of two books by this noted philosopher based on his Gifford Lectures. They serve as the most developed statement of his metaphysical views, but their publication incited a significant critical reaction to his views, especially on the controversy surrounding idealism and materialism and on the nature of finite individuality. Common to Bosanquet's work is a "desire to find common ground among philosophers of various traditions and to show relationships among different schools of thought, rather than to dwell on what separates them.. .At the time of his death, he was arguably 'the most popular and influential of the English idealists'." (Stanford Encylopedia of Philosophy) Index. xxxvii, 409 pp.

London:: Routledge & Kegan Paul , , (1984). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a like dustjacket.. First printing. A critical examination of the theories of Sartre, Heidegger, Husserl and Hegel on the fundamental relationships between persons. INSCRIBED by the author on the front endpaper to the noted book collector Larry Owens, with the comment that "I hope this book improves your grasp of our relationships to other people as well as the thinking of J.P. Sartre. I am glad to be part of your Sartre collection. Cordially. ..." Laid in is a page and a half informal holographic note to Owens, signed Bill Schroeder. Notes, texts cited, index. xv, 326 pp.

Athens, Ohio:: Ohio University Press,, (1969). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Fine in near fine dust jacket (price-clipped) Uncommon signed. . First printing. A refutation of the criticism that Sartre's later works are a betrayal of the existentialism he had earlier expoused. INSCRIBED by the author James Sheridan on the title page to the noted book collector Larry Owens "with my appreciation for your interest in things Sartrean" Notes. xii, 168 pp.