Philosophy from Goldring Books

Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press, 1967. A near Fine unmarked copy (Fine apart from a name written on top edge) with VG dustjacket which has a little edge wear. 213 pages. In this age of the 'organization' man, thoughtful people may become discouraged as to the opportunity for individualism in our society. Professor Miller's study indicates cause… Read more about this item

London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1987. A near Fine unmarked copy (Fine apart from a small light mark to top edge) with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. xv + 412 Pages. 18 illustrations. Simone Lucie Ernestine Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir, called Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986), dominated not only the French intelligentsia, but feminist thinking throughout… Read more about this item

London: Macmillan, 1984. A Fine unmarked copy with near Fine dustjacket. x + 152 pages. Between 1946 and 1981 approximately 4,000 pages of Sartre's biographical discourse have been published - almost 2 million words. The average reader rarely associates Sartre's name with biography, but Sartre spent thirty years of his life engaged in oneway or another in… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1984. A near Fine unmarked copy (Fine apart from a bump to spine head) with dustjacket which has a small tear to back.vii + 190 pages. The book explores major theoretical issues in the study of an individual life through its focus on Jean-Paul Sartre. Sartre's quest for an 'existential psychoanalysis' led him to… Read more about this item

London: The Harvill Press, 1995. A near Fine unmarked copy (Fine apart from a small inscription to front endpaper) with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. xi + 433 pages. Translated from the French by Richard Veasey. The French philosopher's book is the result of his quest to tell the story, in his own way, of French… Read more about this item

London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1963. Black title on red boards which are very clean and unmarked with no wear. Internally there is a touch of light foxing to top edge else very clean, tight and unmarked. A Very Good+ copy. Dustjacket has fading to spine, very little wear and is not price clipped. 166 pages. First published in 1958.… Read more about this item

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 2003. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. First UK edition, first printing. 'The Art of Happiness' has become the classic guide to the Dalai Lama's enlightened approach to living - illuminating the profound principles and perceptive wisdom of this greatest, most revered spiritual leader. Now for the first time since… Read more about this item

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1946. Paper title label on blue cloth boards which are very clean and unmarked with no wear. Internally there is a small contemporary label with name and date to front pastedown else clean, tight and unmarked. A Very Good+ copy. Dustjacket is also VG+ with age darkening to spine and is not price clipped. Also loosely… Read more about this item

London: Macmillan, 1958. A Fine unmarked copy with VG+ dustjacket which has age darkening to spine. Christian belief and modern British philosophy have long existed in almost complete isolation from each other; the limited contact made between the two has been on the academic highly specialised level, and has so far been disappointingly indecisive. In this book the author seeks… Read more about this item

London: Eyre & Spottiswoode and the Book Society, 1962. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket. The book provides a clear and full introduction to some of the most important philosophical developments of the last quarter century, and presents a substantial defence of religious thought against positivist crtics. The rise of logical positivist philosophy and its later developments in linguistic… Read more about this item

London: George Allen & Unwin / Religious Book Club, 1959. A near Fine clean, tight and unmarked copy. Uniform with the Muirhead Library of Philosophy series. The author is Professor of the History and Philosophy of Religion in the University of London, and in this work of 19 chapters covers all aspects of religious belief from a historic and philosophical… Read more about this item

London: SCM Press, 1970. A near Fine very clean, tight and unmarked copy which has a little foxing to top edge with near Fine dustjacket. Translated from the German by R.A. Wilson. Uniform with the Library of Philosophy and Theology Series. Friedrich Gogarten, who died in 1967, was one of a most distinguished generation of German philosophers and theologians which… Read more about this item

London: SCM Press, 1969. A Fine unmarked copy with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. Uniform with the Library of Philosophy and Theology Series. Religious claims seem to be becoming increasingly problematical, and it is not simply that many find them to be untrue, rather they seem to hover on the verge of meaninglessness. The words are familiar,… Read more about this item

Lewes, East Sussex: The Book Guild, 2003. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine complete dustjacket. In the book the author invites us to a debate, one that he has been having with himself throughout his life: what gives rise to problems in society, and how can we solve them? How could a better society be created and maintained? His exposition… Read more about this item

Lewes, East Sussex: The Book Guild, 2004. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine complete dustjacket. A rigorous work of philosophy which takes as its subject one of the most common forms of irrational behaviour in human beings. Self-deception has been much written about from a philosophical point of view, but, according to the author, has never been adequately explained or… Read more about this item

London: Johan H. Quanjer, 1964. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on front endpaper. Gilt title to spine on red boards. Front board has a thin white line (half inch long) some ink underlining not affecting the text nor detracting from the book's appeal, else clean and unmarked with no wear. Internally there is an INSCRIPTION BY AUTHOR dated March 1964 in… Read more about this item

New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992. A very clean, tight and unmarked copy VG+. Brandt is regarded as one of the most eminent and influential of contemporary moral philosophers and his work has been concerned with how to justify what is good or right, not by reliance on intuitions or theories about what moral words mean but by the… Read more about this item