A rhetoric of motive and philosophy of literary form
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Whether discussing philosophy, simone weil or the power of hypnosis, he makes fascinating excursions into the bearing of wittgenstein's thought on philosophy and the practice of medicine and psychiatrythrough notes on conversations with wittgenstein, letters to a student of philosophy and correspondence of almost 30 years with rush rhees, drury gives shape to what he had learned from wittgensteincentral to the collection is the danger of words, the text described by ray monk as 'the most truly wittgensteinian book published by any of wittgenstein's students'see oxfam website for delivery information read morebeautifully written and carefully selected, each piece reveals the impact of wittgenstein's teachings, shedding light on the friendship and thinking of one of the most important philosophers of the 20th centurythe subsequent course of drury's life and thought was to be enormously influenced by his teacheroxfam bookshop preston maurice o'connor drury was among wittgenstein's first students after his return to cambridge inthe selected writings of maurice o'connor drury brings together the best of his lectures, conversations, and letters on philosophy, religion and medicinealongside a foreword by monk and an introduction presenting a new biography of drury, analysing the relationship between him and wittgenstein, this collection features previously unpublished archival sources
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This set contains the first 12 volumesare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikithere is a signature underneath one of the engravings and as there are no similar cases i believe it is real although i cannot guarantee itthe first 10 books were written by hume and the following 2 volumes were written by smollet but they were all published together in by the same publisher, london virtue & coeach book contains several engravings with the author and other famous figures such as king george i and other monarchies of the time and their predecessorsthe books have obviously worn as a result of aging and one of the books has a part damaged spine where a slight bit of the top has peeled offalso please note that the books are very heavy, delicate and valuable to cover the packaging and the postageour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storeplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websitethere are small creases and tears on some pages and they have obviously yellowed slightly, also as a result of agingthere may be other minor defects such as small stains from the last century and a halfcatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally available
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Are you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawiki19th century, germany standing caour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any store29 cm tall and weighing 427g elizabeth of hungary (german: heilige elisabeth von thüringen, hungarian: árpád-házi szent erzsébet; 7 july november ), also known as saint elizabeth of thuringia or saint elisabeth of thuringia, was a princess of the kingdom of hungary, landgravine of thuringia, germany, and a greatly venerated catholic saint who was an early member of the third order of sta finely carved gilt wood and polychrome painted statue depicting saint elizabeth of thuringia carrying a loaf of bread and jug of wineplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websiteat her feet a beggar is reaching for the breadfrancis, by which she is honored as its patroness condition - in a very good condition with wear commensurate with age please see the photos as they are an important part of the description this lot will be carefully packed and sent by registered and insured mail read morecatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally available
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Within the present diocesan boundaries there are six rural deaneries: clogher, clones, enniskillen, kesh, monaghan and kilskerry, which together currently have 32 parish/groupingsthis volume should prove to be an invaluable source of interest to those who seek to know more about the history and heritage of the church of ireland in clogher, and also a reference for students of ecclesiastical, local and family historythe original clogher succession lists, published in , were the work of the late reverend james blennerhassett leslie, mthis volume contains a facsimile reproduction of leslie's succession lists up to along with updated succession lists to , photographs of churches,portraits of prelates and bishops and other items of interestsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreedmunds the diocese of clogher as it is currently known was defined after the synod of rathbreasail in the year and today its geographical boundaries remain almost unchangedit occupies all of comonaghan and a small area of south-east tyronerector of kilsharan and treasurer of st patrick's cathedral, armaghoxfam books & music bury st
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The author's passion for the company and its vehicles is evident in this excellent a4 size book of 96 pages containing a wealth of photographs and details of the company from its inception, through the rigours of ww2 up to the time of authoringalas, it has gone from the stage carriage scene and now concentrates on coachingexcellent condition and price includes postagethis famous manchester operator celebrated its 75th anniversary in
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The author's passion for the company and its vehicles is evident in this excellent a4 size book of 96 pages containing a wealth of photographs and details of the company from its inception, through the rigours of ww2 up to the time of authoringexcellent condition and price includes packaging and receipted postage or just £5 if collected from warrington (near gulliver's world) safe distancing area provided read morealas, it has gone from the stage carriage scene and now concentrates on coachingthis famous manchester operator celebrated its 75th anniversary in
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Wells first edition hardback bound in blue cloth boards with title in black on front and gilt on spinethe spine has a split at the bottom and fraying at the top foxing and staining to first few and last few pagessee oxfam website for delivery information read moreinternally clean and unmarkedthere is fading to the boards and some wear, particularly to the corners moderate spine slantoxfam shop shirley first and last things - "a confession of faith and rule of life" by h
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The author's passion for the company and its vehicles is evident in this excellent a4 size book of 96 pages containing a wealth of photographs and details of the company from its inception, through the rigours of ww2 up to the time of authoring20 or collect from warrington (near gulliver's world) safe distancing area provided read moreprotective packaging and receipted postage just £3this famous manchester operator celebrated its 75th anniversary inalas, it has gone from the stage carriage scene and now concentrates on coachingexcellent condition
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The table top has a sleek satin finish and the classic tulip base is high glossbuyer collects from barrington just outside cambridgeit comes with four contemporary design chairsall as new and unmarkeda stylish contemporary avery white dining table with a diameter of 120cm and height of 75cm
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The author's passion for the company and its vehicles is evident in this excellent a4 size book of 96 pages containing a wealth of photographs and details of the company from its inception, through the rigours of ww2 up to the time of authoringprotective packaging and receipted postage just £3this famous manchester operator celebrated its 75th anniversary inalas, it has gone from the stage carriage scene and now concentrates on coachingexcellent condition35 or collect from warrington (near gulliver's world) safe distancing area provided read more
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Lombardy-venetia, lot of 16 stamps, including 3 fragments with a strip of 3 and one of 2 stampsas shown in the scanned images
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Neat wooden chest of drawers in yew wood veneer measures: 45cm width with a depth of 37cm and height of 70cm very good condition selling other matching items please see other adverts read more
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See oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam shop hexham the story of pow 481, roger mortimer, coldstream guards, based on a selection of letters and recollections of his time spent in 5 different wwii pow camps
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Great decoration using lights or flowers for garden or wedding decoration read morea mixture of sizes and shapes of glass gin bottlesclean and labels removed
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This dolls house comes with a family of five and all of the original furnitureit has been played with so there are the l marks and scuffs you would expect but it’s got lots and lots of play left in ithappy to send more pictures across if necessary read more
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He published widely, and is probably best known for two of his classic works, a rhetoric of motive and philosophy of literary formoxfam bookshop chiswick kenneth burke--rhetorician, philosopher, linguist, sociologist, literary and music critic, crank--was one of the foremost theorists of literary formhis observations on myth, however, were never systematic, and much of his writing on literary theory and other topics cannot be fully understood without fleshing out his thoughts on myth and mythmakinghe did not fit tidily into any philosophical school, nor was he reducible to any simple set of principles or ideassee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Covering the key theoretical approaches in modern literary theory, the text includes those essays and documents that are essential reading for students of critical theory, with sections on: formalism and structuralism; marxism; feminism; gender and subjectivity; histories and textuality; postmodernism; postcolonialismfocusing not on authors or approaches but rather on leading questions in critical debate, the extracts in this section present opposing points of view on the same issue: is literary criticism an ethical act? martha nussbaum vs emmanuel levinas: is the canon a timeless assembly of great works? terry eagleton vs harold bloom: is literature what the academy says it is? edward said vs stanley fish: literature and the philosophy of science: richard rorty vs donna harraway see oxfam website for delivery information read morefor the first time, the reader also includes extracts from seminal texts by authors such as marx, freud, and de beauvoir - texts which do not necessarily focus on literature but which have had a fundamental influence on the development of literary theoryoxfam shop hebden bridge the new edition of this core text has been thoroughly revised and updated in light of the latest developments in the fieldthe original structure of the book has been improved and new material has been addedin addition, the text now includes a section on issues and debates
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These thinkers remade political philosophy in ways that influenced not only their own trajectory but also that of their criticsin the aftermath of the civil rights movement and the vietnam war, rawls's a theory of justice made a particular kind of liberalism essential to political philosophyusing archival sources, forrester explores the ascent and legacy of this form of liberalism by examining its origins in midcentury debates among american antistatists and british egalitarians"-michael eric dyson, new york times a history of how political philosophy was recast by the rise of postwar liberalism and irrevocably changed by john rawls's a theory of justicein the shadow of justice tells the story of how liberal political philosophy was transformed in the second half of the twentieth century under the influence of john rawlsrecasting the history of late twentieth-century political thought and providing novel interpretations and fresh perspectives on major political philosophers, in the shadow of justice offers a rigorous look at liberalism's ambitions and limitspages are clean and tight with no tears, bumps, or nicksfine unclipped dust-wrappersee oxfam website for delivery information read moreshe traces the roots of contemporary theories of justice and inequality, civil disobedience, just war, global and intergenerational justice, and population ethics in the s and '70s and beyondin these years, political philosophers extended, developed, and reshaped this liberalism as they responded to challenges and alternatives on the left and right-from the new international economic order to the rise of the new rightoxfam bookshop cotham hill black boards with gold-embossed spine which is unbroken "a forceful, encyclopedic studyin this first-ever history of contemporary liberal theory, katrina forrester shows how liberal egalitarianism-a set of ideas about justice, equality, obligation, and the state-became dominant, and traces its emergence from the political and ideological context of the postwar united states and britain
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Oxfam bookshop preston the routledge encyclopedia of philosophy is the most ambitious international philosophy project in many yearsit covers: - the core of most anglo-american philosophy - the metaphysical, epistemological and logical questions - the usual menu of ethics, political philosophy and the history of philosophy - the philosophy of other cultures - from chinese, arabic and jewish philosophy to the philosophy of africa and latin america the most impressive range of authors have been gathered together on this unique project: william alston, roderick chisolm, fred dretske, joel feinberg, sandra harding, larry laudan, martha nussbaum, richard popkin, richard rorty, alan ryan, gyatri chakravorty spivak, stephen stich, patrick suppes and bernard williams, to name just a fewedited by edward craig and assisted by thirty specialist subject editors, the rep consists of ten volumes of the world's most eminent philosophers writing for the needs of students and teachers of philosophy internationallythe importance of the rep is not to be found just in the sheer size of the project but also in its breadth of subject matterthe entire set is in pristine, unread conditionthe rep is a project on an unparalleled scale: - over entries ranging from 500 to words in length - thematic, biographical and national - 10 volumes consisting of over 5 million words of text plus considerable bibliographic material - a chief editor and thirty specialist subject editors from across the world - over authors from all over the worldsee oxfam website for delivery information read more10 large volumes bound in blue cloth with red and silver stamping, with bookmark ribbons
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The handbook will be a rich source of insight and stimulation for philosophers, students of philosophy, and for people working in other disciplines of the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, who are interested in the state of phenomenology todaysome of them are concerned with issues and questions typical and distinctive of phenomenological philosophy, while others address questions familiar to analytic philosophers, but do so with arguments and ideas taken from phenomenologyit includes discussions of such diverse topics as intentionality, embodiment, perception, naturalism, temporality, self-consciousness, language, knowledge, ethics, politics, art and religion, and will make it clear that phenomenology, far from being a tradition of the past, is alive and in a position to make valuable contributions to contemporary thoughtsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop preston the oxford handbook of contemporary phenomenology presents twenty-eight essays by some of the leading figures in the field, and gives an authoritative overview of the type of work and range of topics found and discussed in contemporary phenomenologyit is the definitive guide to what is currently going on in phenomenologysome offer detailed analyses of concrete phenomena; others take a more comprehensive perspective and seek to outline and motivate the future direction of phenomenologythe essays aim to articulate and develop original theoretical perspectives
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In philosophy and some areas of cognitive science, the emphasis on embodied cognition has fostered a renewed interest in rethinking personal identity, mind-body dualism, and overly cartesian conceptions of selfpoststructuralist deconstructions of traditional metaphysical conceptions of subjectivity have led to debates about whether there are any grounds (moral if not metaphysical) for reconstructing the notion of selfquestions about whether selves actually exist or have an illusory status have been raised from perspectives as diverse as neuroscience, buddhism, and narrative theorysee oxfam website for delivery information read morein addition, advances in developmental psychology have pushed to the forefront questions about the ontogenetic origin of self-experience, while studies of psychopathology suggest that concepts like self and agency are central to explaining important aspects of pathological experiencethe oxford handbook of the self is an interdisciplinary collection of essays that address questions in all of these areasoxfam bookshop tunbridge wells the oxford handbook of the self gallagher, shaun (edwith respect to self-agency, similar questions arise in experimental psychologythese and other issues motivate questions about how we understand, not only "the self", but also how we understand ourselves in social and cultural contexts) research on the topic of self has increased significantly in recent years across a number of disciplines, including philosophy, psychology, psychopathology, and neuroscience
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philosophy text book for a2 ethics and philosophy of mind by micheal lacewing in good condition, @ £ 250 and plus postage £200 or collect yourself for free postage
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For more than years, the consolation of philosophy was the most popular book in europe next to the bible – a work of learning and beauty that bridged the classical and renaissance worldsthis beautifully illustrated folio edition in near mint condition comes complete with slip case
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Active in the twelfth century, mabja was among the first tibetans to rely on the works of the indian master candrakirti, and his account of the middle way exercised a deep and lasting influence on the development of madhyamaka philosophy in all four schools of buddhism in tibetthe late khunu lama tenzin gyaltsen rinpoche, a renowned authority on the subject, often referred to this commentary as "the best there is" a visual outline of the commentary has been added that clearly shows the structure of each chapter and makes the arguments easier to followin a series of unassuming and penetrating investigations, he asks basic questions such as: "what does it mean for something to occur? what is meant by 'going' or by 'coming'? does the eye see? does fire burn fuel? what is an example of being right? what does it mean to be wrong? nagarjuna extends an invitation to open-minded and unprejudiced inquiry, and from his reader he asks for nothing more and nothing less than sincere and honest answersthe present work contains nagarjuna's verses on the middle way accompanied by mabja jangchub tsöndrü's famed commentary, the ornament of reasonoxfam bookshop kingsbridge in the root of the middle way, nagarjuna presents a magical method of reasoning, inviting everyone who encounters these lucid and fearless contemplations to follow him on a journey to the heart of transcendent insightsharp, concise, and yet comprehensive, the ornament of reason has been cherished by generations of scholar-practitionersapart from some light creasing to the dust jacket at the top of the spine, very light spotting to the upper page edges and one small red spot on the lower page edges this book looks near new; a very attractive copy overallinspired by the buddha's teachings on profound emptiness in the prajnaparamita sutras, nagarjuna sets out to probe what appears to be the most fundamental facts of the world, challenging us to question even our most deeply ingrained ideas and what seem to be self-evident factssee oxfam website for delivery information read moreyet where are our answers? once we begin to follow nagarjuna's clear and direct steps, the gateway to the inconceivable emerges-perhaps unexpectedly
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Original coversfive books in one binding his work is a detailed compendium of treatises on the physical and natural sciences and some philosophical dissertations dealing with, in book one the nature and effect of the heavens, sun, moon and stars; the motion, depth and salinity of the seas; the circumference of the globe and its distance from other celestial bodiesare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikicondition: fairon many pages: right margin is (to) smalltitlepage is poorbook two the causes of meteors, comets, falling stars, wind, clouds, thunder, hail, snow, rain, dew, the sources of rivers fountains and springsour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storepage of book 5: tear repaired (could have been done better)the work is prefaced by verses by william drummond of hawthorndenplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websitemild browning, some spotting, bit waterstained in the back of the book read morebook four ‘curiosities’, happiness, comparative ancient and christian philosophy, sleep and dreamscomplete, no missing pagesbook three; armies battles combats duels death burials laughter and mourningcatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availablebook five; numbers, miracles, prodigies, the philosopher’s stone and metaphysics
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