Philosophy

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578730479Author Richard J BernsteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 118Imprint Richard J. BernsteinPublisher Richard J. BernsteinWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262043090Author Eric SchwitzgebelFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 203mm * 137mm * 32mm

Here is the final volume of Norman O. Brown's trilogy on civilization and its discontents, on humanity's long struggle to master its instincts and the perils that attend that denial of human nature. Following on his famous books "Life Against Death" and...

This book offers an accessible and inclusive overview of the major debates in the philosophy of action. It covers the distinct approaches taken by Donald Davidson, G.E.M. Anscombe, and numerous others to answering questions like "what are intentional...

This book explores the metaphysics of political communities. It discusses how and why a plurality of individuals becomes a political unity, what principles or forces keep that unity together, and what threats that unity can be faced with.In Part I, the...

What can philosophy reveal about painting and how might it deepen our understanding of this enduring art form? Philosophy of Painting investigates the complex relationship between the painted surface and the depicted subject, opening up current debates...

We are all captivated and puzzled by the infinite, in its many varied guises; by the endlessness of space and time; by the thought that between any two points in space, however close, there is always another; by the fact that numbers go on forever; and...

Jean-Luc Nancy is one of the leading contemporary thinkers in France today. Through an inventive reappropriation of the major figures in the continental tradition, Nancy has developed an original ontology that impacts the way we think about religion,...

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In his writing, Gilles Deleuze drew on a vast array of source material, from philosophy and psychoanalysis to science and art. Yet scholars have largely neglected one of the intellectual currents underlying his work: Western esotericism, specifically the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993793516Author B BinaohanFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Biyuti PublishingPublisher Biyuti PublishingWeight(grams) 200gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

One of Jacques Derrida's richest and most provocative works, Life Death challenges and deconstructs one of the most deeply rooted dichotomies of Western thought: life and death. Here Derrida rethinks the traditional philosophical understanding of the...

What would happen if we could stroll through the revolutionary history of the 20th century and, without any fear of the possible responses, ask the main protagonists - from Lenin to Che Guevara, from Alexandra Kollontai to Ulrike Meinhof - seemingly...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780835607315Author Ken WilberFormat PaperbackPage Count 421Imprint Quest Books,U.S.Publisher Quest Books,U.S.

This two-volume treatise is important for its wide range of insights about the nature of the human mind, the foundations of morals, and the relationship between morality and religion.About the AuthorGeorge Turnbull (1698-1748) furthered the Enlightenment...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780893892906Author Rajmani TigunaitFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Himalayan Institute PressPublisher Himalayan Institute PressWeight(grams)...

A major new edition of the so-called Presocratics.The fragments and testimonia of the early Greek philosophers (often labeled the 'Presocratics') have always been not only a fundamental source for understanding archaic Greek culture and ancient...

This book provides a philosophical analysis of adult-child sex and pedophilia. This sex intuitively strikes many people as sick, disgusting, and wrong. The problem is that it is not clear whether these judgments are justified and whether they are...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781733716413Author Jose Maria ArizmendiarrietaFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Solidarity HallPublisher Solidarity HallWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780887061578Author Kalu RinpocheFormat PaperbackPage Count 236Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York...

The Arachnean and Other Texts by Fernand Deligny (1913-1996) is a collection of writings from the second half of the 1970s. In 1968 Deligny established a "network" for informally taking care of children with autism that was more than a mere site of...

Considering a range of present-day phenomena, from the immediacy effects of literature to the impact of hypercommunication, globalization, and sports, Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht notes an important shift in our relationship to history and the passage of time...

Modernism as a Philosophical Problem, 2e presents a new interpretation of the negative and critical self-understanding characteristic of much European high culture since romanticism and especially since Nietzsche, and answers the question of why the...

This is a critical introduction to modern French philosophy, commissioned from one of the liveliest contemporary practitioners and intended for an English-speaking readership. The dominant 'Anglo-Saxon' reaction to philosophical development in France has...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621381150Author Michael MartinFormat HardbackPage Count 246Imprint Angelico PressPublisher Angelico PressWeight(grams) 517gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Exploring Religious Diversity analyzes the philosophical questions raised by the fact that many religions in the world often appear to contradict each other in doctrine and practice. Analyzes the philosophical questions raised by the fact that many...

Everywhere, the twentieth century has been judged and condemned: the century of totalitarian terror, of utopian and criminal ideologies, of empty illusions, of genocides, of false avant-gardes, of democratic realism everywhere replaced by abstraction. It...

Walter Lowrie's classic, bestselling translation of Soren Kierkegaard's most important and popular books remains unmatched for its readability and literary quality. Fear and Trembling and The Sickness Unto Death established Kierkegaard as the father of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262518314Author Willard Van Orman QuineFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

n 1715 Leibniz wrote to his friend the Princess of Wales to warn her of the dangers Newton's philosophy posed for natural religion. Seizing this chance of initiating an exchange between the two greatest minds in Europe, the princess showed his letter to...

A landmark defense of democracy that has been hailed as one of the most important books of the twentieth centuryOne of the most important books of the twentieth century, The Open Society and Its Enemies is an uncompromising defense of liberal democracy...

The Art of Videogames explores how philosophy of the arts theories developed to address traditional art works can also be applied to videogames. Presents a unique philosophical approach to the art of videogaming, situating videogames in the framework of...

A philosopher's personal meditation on how painful emotions can reveal truths about what it means to be truly humanUnder the light of ancient Western philosophies, our darker moods like grief, anguish, and depression can seem irrational. When viewed...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791413364Author Parviz MorewedgeFormat PaperbackPage Count 267Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York...

'Imagine that you could choose a book that everyone in the world would read. My choice would be this book.' Roger Crisp, Ethics Many people have an uneasy feeling that they may be missing out on something basic that would give their lives a...

Restoring Nietzsche to a Nietzschean context-examining the definitive element that animates his work. What is it that makes Nietzsche Nietzsche? In The Shortest Shadow, Alenka Zupancic counters the currently fashionable appropriation of Nietzsche as a...

This second edition of David Woodruff Smith's stimulating introduction to Husserl has been fully updated and includes a new ninth chapter featuring contemporary issues confronting Husserl's phenomenology. It introduces the whole of Edmund Husserl's...

'An excellent book' - Ted Honderich, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy of Mind and Logic at University College London (UCL) Introducing Consciousness provides a comprehensive guide to the current state of consciousness studies. It starts with the history...

This book re-imagines law as ecolaw.The key insight of ecological thinking, that everything is connected to everything else - at least on the earth, and possibly in the cosmos - has become a truism of contemporary theory. Taking this insight as a...

Written in a clear and engaging style, this text demonstrates Nietzsche's significance as a philosopher and as a political theorist by highlighting his critique of liberalism (in both its philosophical and political forms) and by elaborating the form of...