John R Searle Editor (8 results)

Paperback. Condition: Good. [From the library of noted scholar William E. Connolly.] Softcover. Good binding and cover. Shelf wear. Scattered underlining and markings by Connolly. "William E. Connolly is Krieger-Eisenhower Professor in the political science department at Hopkins where he teaches political theory. His early book, The Terms of Political Discourse, was awarded the Benjamin Lippincott Award in 1999 as 'a work of exceptional quality that is still considered significant at least 15 years after publication.' In a poll of American political theorists published in PS in 2010, he was ranked the fourth most influential political theorist in America over the last twenty years, after Rawls, Habermas, and Foucault. His work focuses on the issues of democratic pluralism, capitalism, inequality, fascism, and bumpy intersections between capitalism and planetary amplifiers in climate change." - Johns Hopkins University.…

paperback. Condition: Used - Good. some light wear. Good copy.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Some wear. Very serviceable copy.

x, 228 pages. Hardcover: H 24.25cm x L 15.75cm. Purple dust jacket rubbed with bumping along edges. Purple boards with vibrant gilt spine lettering. EDITOR'S TEN-LINE INK INSCRIPTION DATED JULY 6, 1995 ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER FAMILIARLY SIGNED "DWIGHT." Interior pages are otherwise clean. Binding is firm. A very good+ copy in a very good dust jacket. Papers and concluding panel discussion of the Eighteenth Alabama Symposium on English and American Literature held Oct. 8-10, 1992, at the University of Alabama. With Acknowledgements, Introduction by editor Dwight Eddins, Contributors, and Index. Features the following nine papers: "What is Humanistic Criticism?" by M.H. Abrams, "The End of the Poststructuralist Era" by Frederick Crews, "The Current Polarization of Literary Studies" by Richard Levin, "Time and the Intelligentsia: A Patchwork of Nine Parts, with Loopholes" by Gary Saul Morson, "The Agony of Feminism: Why Feminist Theory is Necessary After All" by Nina Baym, "Confessions of a Reluctant Critic; or, The Resistance to Literature" by Ihab Hassan, "Deconstruction After the Fall" by David Lehman, "The Poetic Fallacy" by Paisley Livingston, and "Literary Theory and Its Discontents" by John R. Searle. ISBN 0817307788.…

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 149pp. Stated: "First published in 1971 / This Reprint 1972". CONTRIBUTORS: J.L. Austin, "Performatives-Constatives", pp. 13-22; P.F. Strawson, Intention and Convention in Speech Acts", pp. 23-38; J.R. Searle, "What is a Speech Act?", pp. 39-53; H.P.Grice, "Utterer's Meaning, Sentence-Meaning and Word-Meaning", pp. 54-70; Noam Chomsky, "Topics in theTheory of Generative Grammar", pp. 71-100; Jerrold J. Katz, "The Philosophical Relevance of Linguistic Theory", pp. 101-120; "SYMPOSIUM ON INNATE IDEAS: Noam Chomsky, "(a) Recent Contributions to the Theory of Innate Ideas: Summary of Oral Presentation", pp.121-129; Hilary Putnam, "(b) The 'Innateness Hypothesis' and Explanatory Models in Linguistics", pp. 130-139; Nelson Goodman, "(c) The Epistemological Argument", pp. 140-144. Notes on the Contributors, p. 145; Bibliography, pp. 146-148; Index of Names, p. 149. Glossy wraps with customary original Series colorful geometrical illustration on lower two-thirds front cover, below white background for title and editor name lettering in black over white. Minor age-toning around perimeters of pages and book edges; sunning to spine, but lettering still distinct and readable, and slightly down left side of front cover (minimal); previous owner surname and book purchase date and place discreetly at top left inside front cover; 6 small horizontal marks opposite names of authors cited in Bibliography (very nugatory), else Clean Text. Binding tight (NO cracks), no rubbing wear, no remainder marks. Solid copy, the way to read a philosophical classic. …

Paperback. Condition: Good. B0029TUJYW very slight wear to exterior, interior in good clean condition.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 113 pages. 8.00x5.50x0.50 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Xiii, 586 Pp. First Printing. Book Is Fine, No Wear, Previous Owner's Information On Title Page. Dj Near Fine, Price Clipped At Top Of Front Flap Leaving Uk Price At Bottom. Dj With Just A Touch Of Rubbing At A Few Points, Near Fine, With Speculative Dates Written Next To "Two Decades" On Front Flap. …