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HUSSERL, Edmund - LITT, Theodor. Individuum und Gemeinschaft. Grundlegung der Kulturphilosophie.Leibzig & Berlin : 1926.
Third, revised edition, from the library of Edmund Husserl, with his ownership inscription to the front free endpaper, subsequently in the library of his co-worker and assistant, Ludwig Landgrebe. Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 131949
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POPPER, Karl R. [Postscript to the Logic of Scientific Discovery. Comprising:] Realism and the Aim of Science (Volume 1); The Open Universe (Volume 2); Quantum Theory and the Schism in Physics (Volume 3).Totowa : 1982-3
First US editions in book form, first impressions, of one of the major works on determinism and indeterminism, Popper's three-part postscript to his first published book, The Logic of Scientific Discovery (1936). Although the culmination of Popper's work in the philosophy of physics (reaching its peak in the second volume, The Open Universe) the Postscript... Learn More£450.00Stock Code: 144236
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NAGEL, Ernest. Principles of the Theory of Probability.Chicago : 1939
First edition, first printing, presentation copy, inscribed by the author to the philosopher Alfred North Whitehead on the front free endpaper: "To Professor A. N. Whitehead with the esteem of Ernest Nagel". The English philosopher Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947) was a seminal figure in process philosophy, and together with Bertrand Russell, wrote... Learn More£2,750.00Stock Code: 132994
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BENTHAM, Jeremy - HALEVY, Elie. The Growth of Philosophical Radicalism.London : 1952
Fourth edition in English (first English edition published in 1928), with C. W. Everett's Bibliography of Bentham's works at the end (pages 522-546), and an index. Learn More£30.00Stock Code: 103802
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CASSIRER, Ernst. Substance and Function and Einstein's Theory of Relativity.Chicago and London : 1923
First edition in English, first printing, in the scarce jacket. The two works were first published in German as Substanzbegriff und Funktionsbegriff in 1910 and Einsteinschen Relativitätstheorie in 1921. Both relate Cassirer's Neo-Kantian approach to developments in science, the former in line with late-19th century developments which were still fundamentally... Learn More£250.00Stock Code: 141886
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AYER, A. J. The Origins of Pragmatism.London : 1968
First edition, first impression. In 1956, Ayer published "The Problem of Knowledge, in which, abounding reductionism, he justified our everyday beliefs' by their power to explain our sense-experience. This line of argument was developed in such later works as The Origins of Pragmatism (1968) and Russel and Moore (1971), in which the history of philosophy... Learn More£75.00Stock Code: 129789
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HEARD, Gerald. These Hurrying Years.London : 1934
First edition, first impression; rare in the dust jacket. Gerald Heard (1889-1971) was a British author and philosopher whose innovative works examined history in the context of humankind's evolving consciousness. This book is his attempt to write a "history of our own times" and to determine the underlying causes of modern events. His conclusion, that... Learn More£375.00Stock Code: 68865
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HAYEK, Friedrich August von. Leather briefcase owned by Friedrich Hayek.c.1965
A briefcase owned and used by Friedrich Hayek, dating from the time of his professorship at the University of Freiburg (1962-1968), and showing all the signs of sustained use. Hayek has mounted his business card to the inner lid, as an identificatory label in the event of loss. The briefcase remained in Hayek's possession until his death in 1992, thereafter... Learn More£10,000.00Stock Code: 134840
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JAMES, William. The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy.New York, London and Bombay : 1897
First edition, second impression, reprinted three months after the first. The first publication in book form of ten influential essays by philosopher and psychologist William James in which he presents some of his most developed contributions to psychology, including his understanding of determinism, compatibilism, morality, and pragmatism. Each was... Learn More£275.00Stock Code: 144745
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RUSSELL, Bertrand, & Lewis F. Richardson. Mathematical Psychology of War.Oxford : 1919
First edition of Richardson's first and pioneering paper on the subject, containing Russell's 20-line contribution, "Problem: To Produce in Two Nations a Mutual Will to War" (pp. 15-16). It was published at the author's own expense, costing him 35 for 300 copies total. In this fifty-page essay the mathematician and pacifist Lewis Fry Richardson (1881-1953)... Learn More£2,750.00Stock Code: 135563
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JAMES, William. The Varieties of Religious Experience. A Study in Human Nature.London, New York and Bombay : 1902
First edition, first impression, of one of James's masterworks, with a printed presentation slip "From the Author", from the library of the Oxford philosopher F. "Canning" S. Schiller (1864-1937), with his pencil annotations throughout.
James focuses on four central topics: the "experiential approach and the generic meaning of religion; the... Learn More£3,750.00Stock Code: 136480
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DERRIDA, Jacques. The Work of Mourning.Chicago & London : 2001
First edition, first printing, presentation copy, inscribed by Derrida to the poet and photographer Ira Cohen on the title page, "Pour Ira, de tout coeur, J.D." The book is a collection of eulogies, essays and condolences on the deaths of 14 writers and thinkers who were Derrida's friends or colleagues: Roland Barthes, Michel Foucault, Louis Althusser,... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 111353
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HAYEK, Friedrich August von (ed.) Capitalism and the Historians.London : 1954
First edition, first impression. Hayek both edited and contributed an introduction to this work, which seeks to outline the reasons for historians' critical treatment of the capitalist system. The contributors were T. S. Ashton, L. M. Hacker, W. H. Hutt, and B. de Jouvenel. Learn More£200.00Stock Code: 144687
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BOULDING, Kenneth E. The Image.Ann Arbor : 1956
First edition, first printing, inscribed by the author, "To Rusty, with affectionate greetings, Kenneth" on the front free endpaper. This work was "the 'product' of Boulding's sojourn at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioural Sciences in Palo Alto, California. There he met many of his contemporaries, who, he says, had a profound influence... Learn More£350.00Stock Code: 124812
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CAMPION, George G. The Riddle of the Sphinx: An Essay.London : [1914]
First and sole edition of this very scarce and interesting essay on education, printed for private circulation in presumably very small numbers. Presentation copy from the author, inscribed on the half-title, "With the Author's Kind Regards, 22 Oct. 1914, G. G. C.". Campion (d. 1945) was consulting dental surgeon to the Manchester Dental Hospital. He... Learn More£150.00Stock Code: 141399
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KRIPKE, Saul A. A Completeness Theorem in Modal Logic.New Brunswick, NJ : 1959
First edition, first impression of the author's first major work, published when he was only eighteen years old. Saul Kripke (1940- ) is one of the most original and influential logicians and philosophers of the present day. In 1977 the New York Times magazine described him as "one of the most penetrating minds of our time. His achievements span the... Learn More£1,700.00Stock Code: 86372
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MISES, Ludwig von. The Free and Prosperous Commonwealth.Princeton, New Jersey, Toronto, New York, London : 1962
First edition in English, first printing, of Mises's Liberalismus, originally published in German in 1927.
In the work, Mises "sought to make the case for a free society, a case that was not based on aesthetic or ethical considerations, but on the rock-solid foundations of economic science. From there he would spell out the further implications... Learn More£425.00Stock Code: 144720
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KIERKEGAARD, Søren. Either/Or:London : 1944
First UK edition of the first English translation. Either/Or is Kierkegaard's earliest major work and his "first attempt to articulate a plane of motion constituted by subjective, existential inwardness" (Carlisle, p. 49). It was a best-seller upon publication in Denmark in 1843 under the title Enten-Eller.
Kierkegaard wrote Either/Or in his... Learn More£1,100.00Stock Code: 132071
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RUSSELL, Bertrand. A Critical Exposition of the Philosophy of Leibniz.Cambridge : 1900
First edition, first impression, of Russell's first published philosophical work, his third book overall, marking a major turning point in his early career as a logician.
It was Russell's engagement with Leibniz which set the stage for his break with the neo-Hegelian influence of British Idealism, and instead allowed him to form his concept... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 139118
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JAMES, William. Autograph letter signed from James to his friendly critic, the American philosopher John Edward Russell;Rome : 1900
An affectionate autograph letter signed from James to John Edward Russell, professor of philosophy at Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts, with the letter from Russell to James, in his wife's hand, which prompted the aforementioned response, plus related correspondence from Alice James dated from their time spent abroad in Europe.
Russell... Learn More£4,500.00Stock Code: 126088
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MISES, Ludwig von. Theory and History.New Haven : 1957
First edition, first printing, of this major work by the libertarian philosopher, "a sweeping epistemological vindication of the case for liberty and capitalism" (Hulsmann, pp. 949-50).
"Mises argued that the only scientific interpretation of social reality was based on economics and history, and that the conclusions of both these disciplines... Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 144715
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STAPLEDON, Olaf. A Modern Theory of Ethics.London : 1929
First edition, first impression. Presentation copy inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "A. M. Carr-Saunders, with compliments from W. O. S. 3rd February 1929". A Modern Theory of Ethics was Stapledon's first published work of prose, based on the thesis for his PhD in philosophy awarded at the University of Liverpool in 1925. The recipient,... Learn More£1,750.00Stock Code: 87348
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MACHEN, Arthur. War and the Christian Faith.London : 1918
First and only edition in book form, written after his very successful Bowmen (1914) and at the suggestion of the acting editor of The Evening News where it was first published and where Machen worked as a reporter from 1910 to 1921.
"Although he detested journalism, his Johnsonian manner and compelling character established him as one of Fleet... Learn More£100.00Stock Code: 144148
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SARTRE, Jean-Paul. Critique de la raison dialectique (précédé de Question de méthode). Tome I. Théorie des ensembles pratiques.Paris : 1960
First edition, first impression of Sartre's second major philosophical work, with the title misprinted Question rather than Questions de méthode, one of 85 copies printed on vélin pur fil Lafuma-Navarre, this copy numbered 55.
The Critique "is the result of sustained thinking which began in the fifties, that is, at the same time he was drawing... Learn More£650.00Stock Code: 134749
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KRISHNAMURTI, Jiddu. Think on these Things.New York : 1964
First edition, first printing. A major presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper to the visionary inventor and designer Buckminster Fuller: "to Dr.Fuller, with much affection, J. Krishnamurti".
The dust jacket bears Fuller's characteristic markings: above Krishnamurti's name on the front panel he has written in blue... Learn More£2,000.00Stock Code: 140987
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CROCE, Benedetto. An Autobiography.Oxford : 1927
First edition in English of the autobiography of the Italian philosopher and historian Benedetto Croce (1866-1952). The translator, the philosopher and historian R. G. Collingwood (1889-1943), was heavily influenced by Croce: "His work displays particularly close affinities with the philosophy of the Italians Croce and Gentile, though not with the latter's... Learn More£100.00Stock Code: 130680
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POPPER, Karl R. Conjectures and Refutations.London : 1963
First edition, first impression, of one of the author's most wide-ranging and popular works, gathering together his articles and lectures to chart the growth of scientific understanding, and its influence on history.
"The essays and lectures of which this book composed are variations upon one very simple theme - the thesis that we can learn from... Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 143371
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WITTGENSTEIN, Ludwig. "Logisch-Philosophische Abhandlung."Leipzig : 1921
First edition, first issue, of the extremely rare German language journal publication of Wittgenstein's earliest published work, published as pages 185-262 of volume XIV, parts 3 & 4 of Ostwald's Annalen der Philosophie, the entire issue paginated 185-308, plus the title page and table of contents leaf for the whole volume. The journal further includes... Learn More£75,000.00Stock Code: 143905
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DURKHEIM, Émile. Les Formes élémentaires de la vie religieuse.Paris : 1912
First edition, first impression, of one of the author's most influential works, his sociological study of religion. "In his last great work, The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life, Durkheim gave his most compelling demonstration of the structuralist method, tracing relationships between social organization, religious beliefs, and such fundamental... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 114093
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HAYEK, Friedrich August von. Law, Legislation and Liberty.Chicago : 1973-9
First US editions, first printings, of each volume of Hayek's last major work of social philosophy, published over a seven-year period. In many ways the culmination of his philosophical career, Law, Legislation and Liberty was Hayek's most extensive philosophical analysis of the structure of society, the nature of justice, and the underlying principles... Learn More£2,750.00Stock Code: 144233
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WITTGENSTEIN, Ludwig. Philosophical Investigations.Oxford : 1953
First edition, first impression. A nice association copy, with the ownership signature to the front pastedown of Geoffrey Reginald Gilchrist Mure (1893-1979), the leading Idealist philosopher, and a specialist in the works of the German philosopher Hegel. Mure's signature is dated March 1955, and there are various pencil, ink and crayon marginalia in... Learn More£3,250.00Stock Code: 138738
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ECO, Umberto. Il nome della rosa.Milan : 1983
First edition, 11th printing, inscribed by the author on the title page to the American philosopher Willard Van Orman Quine (1908-2000), "A W.V.O. Quine grande maestro medievale, Umberto Eco", and with the recipient's ownership inscription to the half-title. This is a superb association copy.
Willard Van Orman Quine (1908-2000) was "a logician... Learn More£3,750.00Stock Code: 144936
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SARTRE, Jean-Paul. Autograph manuscript.c.1952
An unpublished fragment from Sartre's unfinished novel, La Dernière Chance, the final volume of his projected tetralogy, Les Chemins de la liberté (Roads of Freedom). Two chapters had appeared in Les Temps modernes in 1949 under the title Drôle d'amitié (Strange Friendship), but Sartre dropped the work in 1952. A version of the novel, reconstructed... Learn More£15,000.00Stock Code: 129308
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LÉVI-STRAUSS, Claude. Regarder écouter lire.Paris : 1993
First edition, first impression, inscribed by the author on the half-title, "To Raymond Firth warmest regards Levi-Strauss". Firth (1901-2002) was a prominent New Zealand anthropologist and student of Bronislaw Malinowski, whom he succeeded as Professor Anthropology at the London School of Economics in 1944, remaining there for twenty-four years. Lévi-Strauss... Learn More£600.00Stock Code: 132941
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NIETZSCHE, Friedrich. Götzen-Dämmerung oder Wie man mit dem Hammer philosophirt.Leipzig : 1889 [but 1888]
First edition, first issue, of Nietzsche's last great work before his psychological collapse in January 1889, with an excellent association; the heavily annotated copy of Heinrich Köselitz, Nietzsche's amanuensis and most frequent correspondent, and the person responsible for the title of this work, with the surname of his pseudonym, "Gast" (a name... Learn More£32,500.00Stock Code: 126701
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JOYCE, James - MCLUHAN, Marshall. James Joyce: Trivial and Quadrivial.New York : spring 1953
Offprint with the ownership inscription of poet and academic Ronald Bates to the front wrapper and his pencilled notes to the contents. Ronald Gordon Nudell Bates (1924-1995) earned his PhD from the University of Toronto, the subject of his doctoral thesis being James Joyce's Finnegans Wake. His teaching career was spent at the universities of Upsala,... Learn More£520.00Stock Code: 60922
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WEININGER, Otto. Geschlecht und Charakter.Vienna & Leipzig : 1903 & 1906
First edition of the author's only published book, a fin-de-siècle sensation "unrivalled as a compendium of turn-of-the-century prejudices, stereotypes, and anxieties" and admired by the likes of Joyce, Kafka, Kraus, Strindberg, and Wittgenstein (Sengoopta, p. 453); a near-fine copy offered here with the first English translation in the uncommon dust... Learn More£2,750.00Stock Code: 142779
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BRADLEY, Francis Herbert. Collected Essays.Oxford : 1935
First editions, first impressions, collecting together the essays of the influential British idealist philosopher.
Published posthumously, the present volumes include his earliest work, The Presuppositions of Critical History, and two essays here published for the first time: The Treatment of Sexual Detail In Literature, and an unfinished article,... Learn More£375.00Stock Code: 144699
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ROTHBARD, Murray. For a New Liberty.New York : 1973
First edition, first printing, of the work that has been heralded as the manifesto of the libertarian movement, rejecting all the common defences of the right and necessity of government force, and instead defending an anarchic society with capitalism as its foundation. The publication inspired a generation of New Right thinkers and politicians. Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 144769
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LANGER, Susanne K. Philosophical Sketches.Baltimore : 1962
First edition, first printing, of one of Langer's most important books, which offers preliminary indications of the pivotal concepts of her great Mind trilogy, published in 1967, 1972 and 1982 respectively.
One of the most insightful and popular thinkers of the 20th century, the American philosopher and educator Susanne K. Langer (1895-1985)... Learn More£350.00Stock Code: 135256
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HUSSERL, Edmund. Méditations Cartésiennes. Introduction à la phénoménologie.Paris : 1931
First edition: the work first appeared in this French translation. It was based on two double lectures Husserl gave at the Sorbonne in 1929. The Méditations Cartésiennes constitutes Husserl's fullest treatment of a problem which came to concern him more and more, the problem of intersubjectivity. In this work, "he tried to show how the transcendental... Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 133939
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WITTGENSTEIN, Ludwig. Philosophical Grammar.Oxford : 1974
First edition in English, first impression. Considered a transitional work alongside Philosophical Remarks, Philosophical Grammar had been published in German by Blackwell in 1969. "The fruits of his work from 1929 to 1932 were embodied in a 762 page typescript, known as the 'Big Typescript', dictated at the Hochreit in the summer of 1932, and evidently... Learn More£225.00Stock Code: 132933
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CUSA, Nicholas of. Of Learned Ignorance.London : 1954
First English translation of Nicolas of Cusa's major work, published in the series Rare Masterpieces of philosophy and Science.
"Nicholas of Cusa's most complete set of proposals about what is real occurs in his best-known work of 1440, De docta ignorantia: On Learned Ignorance. Here Cusanus addresses the four categorical realities traditionally... Learn More£95.00Stock Code: 126155
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WITTGENSTEIN, Ludwig. Philosophical Investigations.Oxford : 1953
First edition, first impression, of Wittgenstein's second philosophical masterpiece, published two years after his death.
Philosophical Investigations strives to expose "fallacies in the traditional way of thinking about language, truth, thought, intentionality, and, perhaps mainly, philosophy. In this sense, it is conceived of as a therapeutic... Learn More£650.00Stock Code: 144704
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JOHNSON, W. E. Logic.Cambridge : 1921-2-4
First editions, first impressions, of the British logician's major treatise, the first part focusing on informal logic, the second on syllogistic logic, and the third on causality. By the early 1920s Johnson (1858-1931) had been a popular lecturer in moral sciences at Cambridge for almost 20 years, and taught logic while Wittgenstein was a student.... Learn More£250.00Stock Code: 119706
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WITTGENSTEIN, Ludwig. Autograph letter signed ("Ludwig Wittgen.") to Moritz Schlick.[Cambridge : 1932]
An affectionate but frustrated autograph letter signed from Wittgenstein to Moritz Schlick, the founder of the Vienna Circle, in which Wittgenstein expresses his regrets over appearing to condone the plagiarism apparent in Rudolf Carnap's most recent paper through his own inaction.
Wittgenstein received Carnap's offprint, "Physicalistic Language... Learn More£22,500.00Stock Code: 128528
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NOZICK, Robert. Anarchy, State, and Utopia.Oxford : 1974
First UK edition, first impression, using the American sheets as published the same year by Basic Books in New York. Nozick's influential work on free-market libertarianism is "recognised as a classic of modern political philosophy... it is widely credited with breathing new life into the discipline in the second half of the twentieth century" (Bader... Learn More£250.00Stock Code: 139972
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LANGER, Susanne K. An Introduction to Symbolic Logic.London : 1937
First edition of Langer's introduction to symbolic logic, an excellent elementary text book, still in print today. "The present Introduction aims at developing the essential concepts of symbolic logic from the level of common sense to the point of understanding the classical masterpiece, Whitehead's and Russell's Principia Mathematica. It presupposes... Learn More£400.00Stock Code: 135253
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WITTGENSTEIN, Ludwig - ENGELMANN, Paul. Briefe von Ludwig Wittgenstein und Errinnerungen an ihn.Tel Aviv : 1965
An original German typescript copy of Engelmann's correspondence from, and memories of, Ludwig Wittgenstein, posthumously prepared for publication and with an introduction by his friend Dr. Josef Schächter. With occasional manuscript corrections and occasional notes for the translator, L. Furtmüller, in blue ballpoint and in pencil. Unpublished before... Learn More£3,500.00Stock Code: 133740
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ANSCOMBE, G. E. M. An Introduction to Wittgenstein's Tractatus.London : 1959
First edition, first impression, of the first serious study of Wittgenstein's Tractatus, a significant influence on the reception of Wittgenstein's early philosophy; a lovely copy in the jacket.
A highly regarded analytic philosopher, Gertrude Elizabeth Margaret Anscombe (1919-2001) read Classics and Philosophy at Oxford, where she held several... Learn More£300.00Stock Code: 144794
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JAMES, William. Some Problems of Philosophy.New York : 1911
First edition, first printing, of James's last book, published posthumously. "For years he had talked of rounding out his philosophical work with a treatise on metaphysics. Characteristically, he chose to do so in the form of an introduction to the problems of philosophy, because writing for beginners would force him to be nontechnical and readable.... Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 136485
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HUSSERL, Edmund. Erfahrung und Urteil.Prague : 1939
First edition, first impression, the editor Ludwig Landgrebe's file copy, of Husserl's posthumously published work on Experience and Judgement, one of the few copies that escaped being pulped as a result of the German annexation of Czechoslovakia in 1939. 200 copies were sent to London for distribution by Allen & Unwin, but the bulk of the edition was... Learn More£9,750.00Stock Code: 131942
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JAMES, William. Some Problems of Philosophy.New York : 1911
First edition, first printing, of James's last book, published posthumously from an unfinished manuscript left at his death.
"For years he had talked of rounding out his philosophical work with a treatise on metaphysics. Characteristically, he chose to do so in the form of an introduction to the problems of philosophy, because writing for beginners... Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 145963
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HUSSERL, Edmund. Die Krisis der Europäischen Wissenschaften und die Transzendentale Phänomenologie. Eine Einleitung in die phänomenologische Philosophie.Belgrade : 1936
Original offprint of Husserl's last great work, inscribed by him to his student and co-worker, Ludwig Landgrebe, whose printed carte de visite is loosely inserted.
"Edmund Husserl is undoubtedly one of the most important philosophers of the 20th century. This is true not only because of the profundity, breadth, and rigor of his own philosophical... Learn More£7,500.00Stock Code: 131945
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RYLE, Gilbert. Dilemmas.Cambridge : 1954
First edition, first impression. "Ryle's next book, Dilemmas (1954), was a slightly modified version of the Tarner lectures which he delivered in Trinity College, Cambridge, in the previous year. In it he demonstrated, in a number of diverse cases, how specialist and non-specialist accounts of what is in some sense the same subject matter may generate... Learn More£175.00Stock Code: 130687
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JAMES, William. Some Problems of Philosophy.New York : 1911
First edition, first printing, of James's last book, published posthumously from an unfinished manuscript left at his death.
"For years he had talked of rounding out his philosophical work with a treatise on metaphysics. Characteristically, he chose to do so in the form of an introduction to the problems of philosophy, because writing for beginners... Learn More£400.00Stock Code: 145960
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SCARPA, Roque Esteban. Dos poetas españoles. Federico García Lorca. Rafael Alberti.Santiago : 1935
First edition, first printing. With a signed presentation inscription from the author to the philosopher and essayist Ramiro de Maeztu on the verso of the front wrapper: "A Ramiro de Maeztu, mi devoción por su obra maravillosamente hispana, cerradamente española. R. E. Scarpa... Stgo de Chile. Dic. 1935" ("To Ramiro de Maeztu, my devotion to his marvellously... Learn More£875.00Stock Code: 132519
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BLOCH, Ernst. Geist der Utopie.Munich & Leipzig : 1918
First edition of Bloch's first book, a treatise on the spirit of utopian thought, in which he touches on themes which would occupy him throughout his life, particularly that of the "Not-Yet-Conscious."
Bloch (1885-1977) "stands alone in his attempt to graft on to the inherited doctrine of Marxism a complete metaphysic, cosmology, and speculative... Learn More£1,750.00Stock Code: 126033
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SARTRE, Jean-Paul. Cahiers pour une morale.Paris : 1983
First edition, posthumously published, of Sartre's unfinished sequel volume to L'être et le néant. The final lines of that work announced the present one; "Toutes ces questions, qui nous renvoient à la réflexion pure et non complice, ne peuvent trouver leur réponse que sur le terrain moral. Nous y consacrerons un prochain ouvrage."
Sartre... Learn More£475.00Stock Code: 134878
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ANSCOMBE, G. E. M. Intention.Oxford : 1957
First edition, first impression, of the author's seminal work, the "most important treatment of action since Aristotle" (Donaldson).
A highly regarded analytic philosopher, Gertrude Elizabeth Margaret Anscombe (1919-2001) read Classics and Philosophy at Oxford, where she held several research positions until her move to Cambridge in 1970. There... Learn More£250.00Stock Code: 144799
