Epilonian Books

Rare, out-of-print & unusual books · Since 1997

Catalog notes

Description

Philosophical Library, Published 1956. Hardcover, 142 pp.; 22 cm; First Edition.

Condition & notes

In Good condition with an Acceptable+ dust jacket. Burgundy textured paper over boards with gilt lettering on spine; scuffing to edges, chipping and color loss to the paper along the bottom edge, fading along the top edge, head and tail of spine rubbed. Binding tight. Endpapers mildly toned; pages otherwise unmarked. Blue dust jacket has several chips and tears (one inch or less) increasing along edges, moderate overall scuffing, color loss along front cover edges and spine, and soiling to back cover. Now in an archival quality (removable) Brodart cover. A mid-century monograph contending that "transcendent" philosophies of reality are erroneous, and that reality, though it includes ideality, is "transcendental," meaning "in the midst of" rather than "beyond" the world, so that the phenomenal and the noumenal are not disparate. By Oscar W. Miller, Associate Professor of Psychology at Nebraska Wesleyan University. Includes a conclusion, addendum, bibliography, and index.