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Deconstruction and Philosophy
The Texts of Jacques Derrida
Paperback
ISBN: 0226734390
This volume represents the first sustained effort to relate Derrida's work to the Western philosophical tradition from Plato to Heidegger. Bringing together twelve essays by twelve leading Derridean philosophers and an important paper by Derrida previously unpublished in English, the collection retrieves the significance of deconstruction for philosophy.

Many Lives, Many Masters
Paperback
ISBN: 0671657860
Describes the case of a young woman suffering from anxiety attacks, explains how hypnosis revealed her memories of past lives, and discusses the usefulness of regression therapy

On Violence
Paperback
ISBN: 0156695006
The author explores the nature of violence and its relationship to war, politics, and power

Husserl
An Analysis of His Phenomenology
Paperback
ISBN: 0810105306
Paul Ricoeur was one of the foremost interpreters and translators of Edmund Husserl's philosophy. These nine essays present Ricoeur's interpretation of the most important of Husserl's writings, with emphasis on his philosophy of consciousness rather than his work in logic. In Ricoeur's philosophy, phenomenology and existentialism came of age and these essays provide an introduction to the Husserlian elements which most heavily influenced his own philosophical position.

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
An Inquiry into Values
Hardcover
ISBN: 0688002307
While cycling through the western states, a disillusioned American questions the meaning of existence after confronting the ghost of his former, uninstitutionalized self
Book Club Edition.

On the Genealogy of Morals/Ecce Homo
Paperback
ISBN: 0679724621
Presents and analyzes two major works on ethics, dealing with morality, goodness, guilt, and ascetic ideals

The History of Sexuality
An Introduction
Paperback
ISBN: 0679724699
The author turns his attention to sex and the reasons why we are driven constantly to analyze and discuss it. An iconoclastic explanation of modern sexual history.

The Aesthetic Dimension
Toward a Critique of Marxist Aesthetics
Paperback
ISBN: 0807015199

Ethics Without God
Paperback
ISBN: 0879755520
Argues that morality can exist without religion, suggests that values and principles of conduct emerge from life, and examines the consequences of moral absolutism

Power/Knowledge
Selected Interviews and Other Writings, 1972-1977
Paperback
ISBN: 039473954x
Study of the intersection of history and philosophy as it relates to recent French political change, evidenced in essays concerning popular justice, power struggles, and the history of sexuality