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The Paradoxes of Delusion: Wittgenstein, Schreber, and the Schizophrenic Mind by Louis A. Sass
RRP: £24.99£22.01Insanity-in clinical practice as in the popular imagination-is seen as a state of believing things that are not true and perceiving things that do not exist. Most schizophrenics, however, do not act as if they mistake their delusions for reality. In a... -
Prefigurative Politics: Building Tomorrow Today Paul Raekstad 9781509535910
RRP: £16.99£15.22Many of us wonder what we could possibly do to end oppression, exploitation, and injustice. People have studied revolutions and protest movements for centuries, but few have focused on prefigurative politics, the idea of 'building the new society within... -
Cultural Evolution: Conceptual Challenges by Tim Lewens 9780198801191
£26.72Tim Lewens aims to understand what it means to take an evolutionary approach to cultural change, and why it is that this approach is often treated with suspicion. Convinced of the exceptional power of natural selection, many thinkers--typically working... -
Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics, Books II-IV: Translated with an introduction and commentary by C. C. W. Taylor 9780198250661
£50.41C. C. W. Taylor presents a clear and faithful new translation of one of the most famous and influential texts in the history of Western thought, accompanied by an analytical and critical commentary focusing on philosophical issues. In Books II to IV of... -
Bayesian Epistemology by Luc Bovens 9780199270408
£44.76Probabilistic models have much to offer to philosophy. We continually receive information from a variety of sources: from our senses, from witnesses, from scientific instruments. When considering whether we should believe this information, we assess... -
Critique of Judgment by Immanuel Kant 9780872200258
RRP: £27.99£23.35"Pluhar maintains a fine, even tone throughout. . . . Those who have found the prospect of teaching the third Critique daunting will admire its clarity. . . . No one will be disappointed." -Timothy Sean Quinn, The Review of Metaphysics Contents:Foreword... -
History and Illusion in Politics by Raymond Geuss 9780521000437
RRP: £39.99£32.99The distinguished political philosopher Raymond Geuss examines critically some of the most widely held and important preconceptions about contemporary politics held in advanced Western societies. In a series of analytically focused chapters Dr Geuss... -
Presuppostion & Transcendental Inference Humphrey Palmer 9780367426262
RRP: £21.99£19.34Originally published in 1985. This book is about a single famous line of argument, pioneered by Descartes and deployed to full effect by Kant. That argument was meant to refute scepticism once and for all, and make the world safe for science. 'I think,... -
Thomas Kuhn Alexander Bird 9781902683119
RRP: £32.99£28.94Thomas Kuhn (1922-96) transformed the philosophy of science. His seminal 1962 work "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" introduced the term 'paradigm shift' into the vernacular and remains a fundamental text in the study of the history and... -
De-Medicalizing Misery: Psychiatry, Psychology and the Human Condition by Mark Rapley 9780230307919
RRP: £89.99£80.03Psychiatry and psychology have constructed a mental health system that does no justice to the problems it claims to understand and creates multiple problems for its users. Yet the myth of biologically-based mental illness defines our present. The book... -
Philosophy in Turbulent Times: Canguilhem, Sartre, Foucault, Althusser, Deleuze, Derrida by Elisabeth Roudinesco 9780231143004
RRP: £80.00£62.29For Elisabeth Roudinesco, a historian of psychoanalysis and one of France's leading intellectuals, Canguilhem, Sartre, Foucault, Althusser, Deleuze, and Derrida represent a "great generation" of French philosophers who accomplished remarkable work and... -
Brainstorms: Philosophical Essays on Mind and Psychology by Daniel C. Dennett
RRP: £30.00£27.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262534383Author Daniel C. DennettFormat PaperbackPage Count 440Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 22mm -
Critical Theory and Dystopia by Patricia McManus 9781526139757
RRP: £20.00£17.84Critical theory and dystopia offers a uniquely rich study of dystopian fiction, drawing on the insights of critical theory. Asking what ideological work these dark imaginings perform, the book reconstructs the historical emergence, consolidation and... -
Visions of Freedom - Critical Writings on Ecology and Anarchism by Brian Morris 9781551646442
RRP: £18.00£14.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781551646442Author Brian MorrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint Black Rose BooksPublisher Black Rose Books -
The Moral Foundations of Parenthood by Joseph Millum 9780190695439
RRP: £78.00£65.53Most people believe that parents have moral rights and responsibilities regarding their children. These rights and responsibilities undergird the nuclear family and are essential to the flourishing of its members. However, their basis and contents are... -
Deja Vu and the End of History by Paolo Virno
£15.10This book places two key notions up against each other to imagine a new way of conceptualizing historical time. How do the experience of deja vu and the idea 'End of History' relate to one another? Through thinkers like Bergson, Kojeve and Nietzsche,... -
Introduction to Logic Harry J Gensler 9781138910591
RRP: £53.99£47.63Introduction to Logic is clear and concise, uses interesting examples (many philosophical in nature), and has easy-to-use proof methods. Its key features, retained in this Third Edition, include: simpler ways to test arguments, including an innovative... -
Natural Law - Reflections On Theory & Practice Jacques Maritain 9781890318680
£8.10Can there be universal moral principles in a culturally and religiously diverse world? Are such principles provided by a theory of natural law? Jacques response to both questions is 'yes.' These essays, selected from the writings of one of the most... -
Widening Circles: A Memoir by Joanna Macy 9781897408018
RRP: £35.00£21.98In this absorbing memoir, well-known eco-philosopher, Buddhist scholar, and deep ecology activist /teacher Joanna Macy recounts her adventures of mind and spirit in the key social movements of our era. Macy's autobiography reads like a novel as she... -
Engels before Marx by Terrell Carver 9783030423704
£54.99This book examines the life and works of Friedrich Engels during the decade before he entered a political partnership with Karl Marx. It takes a thematic approach in three substantial chapters: Imagination, Observation, and Vocation. Throughout, the... -
Intensities: Philosophy, Religion and the Affirmation of Life Katharine Sarah Moody 9781409443292
RRP: £47.99£41.81Is the affirmation or intensification of life a value in itself? Can life itself be thought? This book breaks new ground in religious and philosophical thinking on the concept of life. It captures a moment in which such thinking is regaining its force... -
Dao De Jing by Laozi
RRP: £20.00£16.97From bestselling cartoonist C. C. Tsai, a delightfully illustrated version of the classic work of Daoist philosophyC. C. Tsai is one of Asia's most popular cartoonists, and his editions of the Chinese classics have sold more than 40 million copies in... -
Theaetetus by Plato 9780674991378
RRP: £24.95£23.76An epistemological diptych.Plato, the great philosopher of Athens, was born in 427 BC. In early manhood an admirer of Socrates, he later founded the famous school of philosophy in the grove Academus. Much else recorded of his life is uncertain; that... -
Secret Government: The Pathologies of Publicity by Brian Kogelmann
RRP: £75.00£67.74Among politicians and policy-makers it is almost universally assumed that more transparency in government is better. Until now, philosophers have almost completely ignored the topic of transparency, and when it is discussed there seems to be an... -
The Power of Phenomenology: Psychoanalytic and Philosophical Perspectives by Robert D. Stolorow 9781138328563
RRP: £36.99£32.78The Power of Phenomenology took form when the two authors realized that a single theme has run through the course of their almost half-century-long collaboration like a red thread-namely, the power of phenomenological inquiry and understanding in a wide... -
The Mystery of Emotions: Seeking a Theory of What We Feel by R. D. Hinshelwood 9781800131743
RRP: £26.99£25.55Psychoanalysis is, above all, the science of the emotions but, as yet, there is no single accepted theory of affects. Instead, there are many, all of them too limited, based, as they are, on idiosyncratic introspection. R. D. Hinshelwood presents an... -
Gender in the Mirror: Cultural Imagery and Women's Agency by Diana Tietjens Meyers 9780195140415
RRP: £44.49£44.16The cultural imagery of women is deeply ingrained in our consciousness. So deply, in fact, that feminists see this as a fundamental threat to female autonomy because it enshrines procreative heterosexuality as well as the relations of domination and... -
The Figure of the Migrant by Thomas Nail
RRP: £21.99£19.49This book offers a much-needed new political theory of an old phenomenon. The last decade alone has marked the highest number of migrations in recorded history. Constrained by environmental, economic, and political instability, scores of people are on... -
Hospitality, Volume I by Jacques Derrida 9780226828015
RRP: £35.00£29.57Jacques Derrida explores the ramifications of what we owe to others.Hospitality reproduces a two-year seminar series delivered by Jacques Derrida at the Ecole des hautes etudes en sciences sociales in Paris between 1995 and 1997. In these lectures,... -
Commentary on Aristotle`s Nicomachean Ethics Thomas Aquinas 9781883357511
RRP: £36.00£34.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781883357511Author Thomas AquinasFormat PaperbackPage Count 700Imprint Dumb Ox Books,USPublisher Dumb Ox Books,USWeight(grams) 1034gDimensions(mm) 236mm *... -
Doing What Comes Naturally: Change, Rhetoric, and the Practice of Theory in Literary and Legal Studies by Stanley Fish 9780198129998
£29.62In a succession of provocative and wide-ranging chapters, Stanley Fish explores the rational basis of our literary, legal, and psychoanalytic interpretations. He argues that while we can never separate our judgements from the context in which they are... -
Introducing Persons: Theories and Arguments in the Philosophy of the Mind Peter Carruthers 9780415045124
RRP: £37.99£33.38Stimulating introduction to the most central and interesting issues in the philosophy of mind. Topics covered include dualism versus the various forms of materialism, personal identity and survival, and the problem of other minds.Reviews'An excellent... -
Soul-Centered Healing: A Psychologist's Extraordinary Journey into the Realms of Sub-Personalities, Spirits, and Past Lives by Ed.D Thomas Zinser 9780983429401
RRP: £20.00£17.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983429401Author Ed.D Thomas ZinserFormat PaperbackPage Count 270Imprint Union Street PressPublisher Union Street PressWeight(grams) 366g -
The Mystery of Things Prof A.C. Grayling 9780753820193
RRP: £9.99£7.00Following the huge success of THE MEANING OF THINGS and THE REASON OF THINGS, a third collection of bestselling essays from Britain's top philosopher.'Human genius has done much, and promises much, in the way of removing the mystery from many things in... -
The Presocratic Philosophers by Jonathan Barnes
RRP: £37.99£34.38The Presocratics were the founding fathers of the Western philosophical tradition, and the first masters of rational thought. This volume provides a comprehensive and precise exposition of their arguments, and offers a rigorous assessment of their... -
Critique on the Couch: Why Critical Theory Needs Psychoanalysis by Amy Allen
RRP: £22.00£17.36Does critical theory still need psychoanalysis? In Critique on the Couch, Amy Allen offers a cogent and convincing defense of its ongoing relevance.Countering the overly rationalist and progressivist interpretations of psychoanalysis put forward by... -
Recognition: A Chapter in the History of European Ideas by Axel Honneth 9781108819305
RRP: £20.99£16.27The idea that we are mutually dependent on the recognition of our peers is at least as old as modernity. Across Europe, this idea has been understood in different ways from the very beginning, according to each country's different cultural and political... -
Was Jesus God? by Richard Swinburne
RRP: £9.49£7.40The orderliness of the universe and the existence of human beings already provides some reason for believing that there is a God - as argued in Richard Swinburne's earlier book Is There a God ? Swinburne now claims that it is probable that the main... -
On Tyranny: Corrected and Expanded Edition, Including the Strauss-Kojeve Correspondence by Leo Strauss
RRP: £26.00£24.85"On Tyranny" is Leo Strauss' classic reading of Xenophon's dialogue Hiero, or Tyrannicus, in which the tyrant Hiero and the poet Simonides discuss the advantages and disadvantages of exercising tyranny. Included are a translation of the dialogue from its... -
Heretics!: The Wondrous (and Dangerous) Beginnings of Modern Philosophy by Steven Nadler 9780691168692
RRP: £20.00£17.25An entertaining, enlightening, and humorous graphic narrative of the dangerous thinkers who laid the foundation of modern thought This entertaining and enlightening graphic narrative tells the exciting story of the seventeenth-century thinkers who...