48pp.
Stenlake Publishing, 2003, Paperback, Book Condition: Fine, Jacket Condition: No d/j as Published. First Edition. . 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

ISBN: 1840332301

Inventory #20131

Price: £ 5.00 GBP ($ 7.40 approx. - € 5.81 approx.)

As new but with slight bump to corner of front board.Take the snowiest mountains in Canada, add two Austrian immigrants, an army of adrenaline-addicted skiers (kings, queens, billionaires, average people and everyday ski bums) and throw a helicopter into the mix for an unforgettable story of mountain adventure. The tale begins when two childhood friends - Hans Gmoser and Leo Grillmair - leave post-war Austria and travel to Canada in search of adventure. They stumble upon employment taking skiers across the vast glaciers and through the thick forests of Western Canada. When skiers start asking the immigrant mountaineers if it would be possible to use a helicopter to reach the best high-altitude powder, the two find themselves catapulted into a project brimming with more adventure, success, tragedy and fame than they could have dreamed.Complete with archival and contemporary photos, this is the inside story of the people, thrills, accidents and innovations behind the evolution of a sport from a dangerous, ramshackle and lawless enterprise into a multi-million dollar industry offering reliable access to one of the world's most exciting forms of recreation. 293pp.
Rocky Mountain Books, 2008, Cloth, Book Condition: As New, Jacket Condition: As New. First Edition. . 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

ISBN: 9781897522110

Inventory #20800

Price: £ 15.00 GBP ($ 22.20 approx. - € 17.43 approx.)

N.B. Slight crease to front cover. Edges of covers and spine slightly rubbed. Slight mark to front cover. 88pp.
Arts Council of Great Britain, 1983, Paperback, Book Condition: Very Good, Jacket Condition: No d/j as Published. . . 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

ISBN:

Inventory #23578

Price: £ 7.50 GBP ($ 11.10 approx. - € 8.72 approx.)

This work advances a hermeneutical conception of ethics, one oriented particularly toward questions of power and the critique of power in the aftermath of foundationalism. Bringing into mutual interrogation such disparate traditions as hermeneutics, liberalism, critical theory and postmodernism, and such figures as Gadamer, Ricoeur, Habermas, Foucault, Nietzsche and Artistotle, Fairfield argues that the principal question of ethics is no longer how to ground practices and judgments on a secure epistemological foundation. Rather, what is of importance is how normative discourses rooted in tradition and invested with power may adopt a critical posture toward these same conditions without generating an impossible circularity. Fairfield asserts that the practice of social criticism is ultimately inseparable from that of hermeneutic interpretation; critique is a matter of perceiving and understanding contexts of moral action in light of principles. In taking this view, Fairfield defends hermeneutics - in particular, Gadamer's philosophical hermeneutics - against the charge leveled at it by critical theorists - in particular, Jurgen Habermas - that hermeneutical philosophy's emphasis on historicity and finitude demonstrates an absence of critical perspective in reflecting upon tradition and the power operative within tradition. With this objection in mind, Fairfield embarks upon his project to formulate a hermeneutical ethics. Ethical criticism, he maintains, belongs to the universal practice that is the struggle for illumination and self-understanding, a practice ubiquitous in human existence and central to the task of fashioning a just order. "The Ways of Power" is unique in bringing together a myriad of philosophical voices and perspectives, not to continue a quest for moral certainty and objective grounds - which is so often sought in contemporary society, but which Fairfield insists must be given up - but to take seriously the need for rationality in moral and political discourse. 209pp.
Duquesne University Press, 2004, Paperback, Book Condition: New, Jacket Condition: . First Paperback Edition. . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

ISBN: 0820703605

Inventory #14455

Price: £ 12.50 GBP ($ 18.50 approx. - € 14.53 approx.)

"Human, All Too Human" (1878) is often considered the start of Friedrich Nietzsche's mature period. A complex work that explores many themes to which Nietzsche later returned, it marks a significant departure from his previous thinking. Here Nietzsche breaks with his early allegiance to Schopenhauer and Wagner, and establishes the overall framework of his later philosophy. In contrast to his previous disdain for science, now Nietzsche views science as key to undercutting traditional metaphysics. This he sees as a crucial step in the emergence of free spirits who will be the avant-garde of culture.In summing up the crucial change of perspective expressed in "Human, All Too Human", Nietzsche used the following words in his later work "Ecce Homo": '"Human, All Too Human" is a memorial of a crisis ...With this book I liberated myself from that in my nature which did not belong to me. Idealism does not belong to me ...realities were altogether lacking in my knowledge, and the 'idealities' were worth damn all! A downright burning thirst seized hold of me: thenceforward I pursued in fact nothing other than physiology, medicine, and natural science.' This is an essential work for anyone who wishes to understand Nietzsche's incisive critique of Western culture and values.536pp.
Prometheus Books, 2009, Paperback, Book Condition: As New, Jacket Condition: No d/j as Published. . . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

ISBN: 9781591026785

Inventory #20840

Price: £ 9.50 GBP ($ 14.06 approx. - € 11.04 approx.)