Mcbride Alfred A (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. "Authoritative advice on planning, teaching, and evaluating all aspects of religious education from one of America's foremost experts." 297 pages. Dust jacket has a vertical tear on the front cover, which goes halfway up the cover; plus light edge wear. Inked name on flyleaf. Book.…

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Please see any and all photos connected with this listing. A bit scuffed but all pages intact and legible. Good reading copy. Clean. No store stamps. --- Feb, 1987 issue --- Crime stories including authors - E. N. Welch - Robert Loy - Anita McBride - Maggie Wagner- Hankins - Joseph Hansen - Jas R. Petrin - James A. Noble - Gary Alexander - A. A. Milne. . .See photos for additional content. . . …

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 444 pp., lv. NAP. Following a Foreword by John Wild, Preface by Editor, and Introduction by Editor, "An Introductory Essay: The Political Relevance of Existential Phenomenology", pp. xvii-lv, Contents divided into four Parts and 15 Essays: Part I: THE LIFE-WORLD, PHENOMENOLOGY, AND THE SOCIAL SCIENCES 1. Edmund Husserl, "The Life-World and Theoretical Praxis"; 2. Paul Ricoeur, "Work and the Word"; 3. Maurice Merleau-Ponty, "The Philosopher and Sociology"; 4. Alfred Schutz, "Concept and Theory Formation in the Social Sciences"; Part II: INDIVIDUAL ACTION AND SOCIALITY 5. Jean-PaulSaretre, "Existential Psychoanalysis"; 6. Mikel Dufrenne, "The Subject as Social"; 7. Maurice Natanson, "The Nature of Social Man"; 8. Alfred Schutz, "The World of Contemporaries as a Structure of Ideal Types"' Part III: FREEDOM, RESPONSIBILITY, AND HUMAN DIGNITY 9. Maurice Merleau-Ponty, "Freedom"; 10. George A. Schrader, "Responsibility and Existence"; 11. Gabriel Marcel, "Human Dignity"; Part IV: THE EXISTENTIAL CONDITIONS OF POLITICS 12. Maurice Merleau-Ponty, "A Note on Machiavelli"; 13. Paul Ricoeur, "The Political Paradox"; 14. John Wild, "The Need for a Philosophy of Democracy"; 15. William Leon McBride, "Voluntary Associations: The Basis of an Ideal Model, and the 'Democratic' Failure"; Selected Bibliography, pp. 429-444. Gray textured or faux-leather boards with brilliant silver lettering on spine. Tight binding (NO cracks); sharp corners (NO curls or bumps); NO remainder marks. Clean text, Dustwrapper did its job--only flaw is previous owner name and purchase date at top right ffep. Brown dustwrapper not price-clipped ($12.50) title lettering in white across top front cover, above Contributors' list in smaller black letters, above editor name lettering in white; large eye-dazzling circular illustration of man's profile in alternating sky blue and black repetition, for 360 degrees, on lower 2/3 front cover; spine sunned to diminished brown, but all lettering in white and black still sharp and distinct, eminently readable; some wear across spine ends and nugatory wear at corners: all these peccadilloes have been backed by Archival tape and dustwrapper now in Brodart mylar which graciously forgives. Solid copy, looking little read, if at all, in that unusual, lovely gray leather or faux-leather binding. The way to read a Classic in this ostensibly little-explored field.…

Hardcover. Condition: New.