Books, Nonfiction, Philosophy, Ontology

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Rene Descartes
Meditations on First Philosophy: In Which the Existence of God and the Distinction of the Soul from the Body Are Demonstrated
by Hackett Publishing Company (Paperback)

Martin Heidegger
Being and Time
by Harper Perennial Modern Classics (Paperback) (Release Date: 2008-07-22)

"What is the meaning of being?" This is the central question of Martin Heidegger's profoundly important work, in which the great philosopher seeks to explain the basic problems of existence. A central influence on later philosophy, literature, art, and criticism—as well as existentialism and much of postmodern thought—Being and Time forever changed the intellectual map of the modern world. As Richard Rorty wrote in the New York Times Book Review, "You cannot read most of the important thinkers of recent times without taking Heidegger's thought into account." This first paperback edition of John Macquarrie and Edward Robinson's definitive translation also features a new foreword by Heidegger scholar Taylor Carman.

Jean Paul Sartre
Being and Nothingness
by Washington Square Press (Mass Market Paperback)

Leonard Koren
Wabi-Sabi: for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers
by Stone Bridge Press (Paperback)

This extended essay in words and pictures universalizes the Japanese traditional rustic aesthetic of wabi-sabi that was developed over hundreds of years by Zen priests and teamasters. Wabi-sabi functions today as a prototypical "complete" aesthetic, nature-based and "soft" in contrast to the "hard" digital aesthetics of modern computer-age design. As such, it offers designers and other creative people a wealth of insight into materials and process.

Martin Buber
I and Thou
by T. & T. Clark (Unknown Binding)

Paul Tillich
The Courage to Be
by Yale University Press (Paperback)

In this classic and deeply insightful book, one of the world's most eminent philosophers describes the dilemma of modern man and points a way to the conquest of the problem of anxiety. This edition includes a new introduction by Peter J. Gomes that reflects on the impact of this book in the years since it was written.

Martin Heidegger
An Introduction to Metaphysics
by Yale University Press (Paperback)

The German existentialist delineates his theories concerning the nature, problems, and limitations of man's being.

Gilles Deleuze
Difference and Repetition
by Continuum International Publishing Group - Athlone (Paperback)

This brilliant exposition of the critique of identity is a classic in contemporary philosophy and one of Deleuze's most important works. Of fundamental importance to literary critics and philosophers,Difference and Repetition develops two central concepts--pure difference and complex repetition--and shows how the two concepts are related. While difference implies divergence and decentering, repetition is associated with displacement and disguising. Central in initiating the shift in French thought away from Hegel and Marx toward Nietzsche and Freud, Difference and Repetition moves deftly to establish a fundamental critique of Western metaphysics.

Leslie Stevenson, David L. Haberman
Ten Theories of Human Nature
by Oxford University Press, USA (Hardcover)

With over a quarter of a million copies sold since 1974, Seven Theories of Human Nature was a remarkably popular introduction to key points of Western thought. Now completely revised, taking into account the most recent scholarship, and expanded to include Eastern thinkers, Ten Theories of Human Nature is more appealing than ever, with added chapters on Hinduism and Confucianism as well as a new chapter on Kant. The virtues of the book remain the same, compressing into a small space the essence of such thinkers as Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud, Jean Paul Sartre, B.F. Skinner, and Konrad Lorenz. Moreover, the authors juxtapose the ideas of these and other thinkers in a way that helps us to understand how humanity has struggled to comprehend its nature. We see, for instance, how Skinner's theories, which assert the primacy of learned behavior, are undercut by Lorenz's studies of animals, which suggest that complex behavior can occur prior to learning. To bring these comparisons ...

Walter Arnold Kaufmann
Existentialism from Dostoevsky to Sartre. The Basic Writings of Existentialism, Many Never Before Translated.
by Meridian Books (Unknown Binding)

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