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Negative Dialectics by Theodor W. Adorno
RRP: £32.99£25.88The major work and Adorno's culminating achievement. Negative Dialectics is a critique of the philosophies of Kant, Hegel, and Heidegger, and a visionary elaboration of the author's own vision of dialectics.About the AuthorTheodor W. Adorno (1903-69) was... -
A Companion to Heidegger by Hubert L. Dreyfus 9781405163668
RRP: £38.95£34.60The Blackwell Companion to Heidegger is a complete guide to the work and thought of Martin Heidegger, one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century. Considers the most important elements of Heidegger's intellectual biography,... -
On the Genealogy of Universals: The Metaphysical Origins of Analytic Philosophy by Fraser MacBride 9780198811251
RRP: £87.00£84.75The concepts of particular and universal have become so familiar that their significance has become difficult to discern, like coins that have been passed back and forth too many times, worn smooth so their values can no longer be read. On the Genealogy... -
The Communist Hypothesis by Alain Badiou
£17.13"We know that communism is the right hypothesis. All those who abandon this hypothesis immediately resign themselves to the market economy, to parliamentary democracy - the form of state suited to capitalism - and to the inevitable and "natural"... -
Intelligent Materialism: Essays on Hegel and Dialectics by Evald Ilyenkov 9781642590609
RRP: £30.00£22.38CBSD Description:Evald Ilyenkov is a unique figure among the many Soviet thinkers that have recently been introduced to English-speaking readers. Although a thoroughly academic philosopher (both in the choice of his subject matter and in his... -
Anthropic Bias: Observation Selection Effects in Science and Philosophy by Nick Bostrom 9780415883948
RRP: £45.99£40.13Anthropic Bias explores how to reason when you suspect that your evidence is biased by "observation selection effects"--that is, evidence that has been filtered by the precondition that there be some suitably positioned observer to "have" the evidence... -
A Somaesthetics of Performative Beauty: Tangoing Desire and Nostalgia by Falk Heinrich
RRP: £125.00£107.86This book develops an original theory of performative beauty. Philosophical aesthetics has largely neglected one's own actions as a potential experience of the beautiful. The author uses own experiences of Argentine tango as a case study; one important... -
Shape of Knowledge, The: An Introduction to Paraphilosophy by Benjamin Davies 9781803410227
RRP: £22.99£19.33The Shape of Knowledge is the outcome of a meaningful experience that occurred in 2012. In it are developed the foundations of a new science of philosophy, which promises to provide a solution to the disparity preventing our discourse from progress... -
Representing Capital: A Reading of Volume One by Fredric Jameson 9781781681572
£16.89Representing Capital, Fredric Jameson's first book-length engagement with Marx's magnum opus, is a unique work of scholarship that records the progression of Marx's thought as if it were a musical score. The textual landscape that emerges is the... -
The Death of You: A Book for Anyone Who Might Not Live Forever by Miguel Chen 9781614295747
RRP: £13.99£10.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781614295747Author Miguel ChenFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Wisdom Publications,U.S.Publisher Wisdom Publications,U.S. -
Battle for the Hague 1940 by E.H. Brongers
RRP: £24.95£17.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789059113077Author Lieutenant Colonel E H BrongersFormat PaperbackPage Count 293Imprint Aspekt B.V., UitgeverijPublisher Aspekt B.V.,... -
Nietzsche's 'On the Genealogy of Morality': An Introduction by Lawrence J. Hatab 9780521697705
RRP: £25.99£21.89Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morality (1887) is a forceful, perplexing, important book, radical in its own time and profoundly influential ever since. This introductory textbook offers a comprehensive, close reading of the entire work, with a... -
The Main Enterprise of the World: Rethinking Education by Philip Kitcher 9780190928971
RRP: £36.49£31.73Philip Kitcher's The Main Enterprise of the World offers a sweeping vision of the goals of education. Kitcher considers the ways in which schools and universities should advance their goals, explores the social changes required to make high-quality... -
Reading Nietzsche: An Analysis of "Beyond Good and Evil" by Douglas Burnham 9781844650750
RRP: £32.99£29.16"Beyond Good and Evil" is a concise and comprehensive statement of Nietzsche's mature philosophy and is an ideal entry point into Nietzsche's work as a whole. Pithy, lyrical and densely complex, "Beyond Good and Evil" demands that its readers are already... -
The Ruthless Critique of Everything Existing: Nature and Revolution in Marcuse's Philosophy of Praxis by Andrew Feenberg
RRP: £17.99£17.91For several years after 1968, Herbert Marcuse was one of the most famous philosophers in the world. He became the face of Frankfurt School Critical Theory for a generation in turmoil. His fame rested on two remarkable books, Eros and Civilization and... -
Expression and Meaning: Studies in the Theory of Speech Acts by John R. Searle 9780521313933
RRP: £44.99£38.14John Searle's Speech Acts made a highly original contribution to work in the philosophy of language. Expression and Meaning is a direct successor, concerned to develop and refine the account presented in Searle's earlier work, and to extend its... -
Many Worlds?: Everett, Quantum Theory, & Reality by Simon Saunders 9780199655502
RRP: £56.00£37.67What does realism about the quantum state imply? What follows when quantum theory is applied without restriction, if need be, to the whole universe? These are the questions which an illustrious team of philosophers and physicists debate in this volume... -
Institution by R Esposito
RRP: £14.99£13.58The pandemic has brought into sharp relief the fundamental relationship between institution and human life: at the very moment when the virus was threatening to destroy life, human beings called upon institutions - on governments, on health systems, on... -
Art's Claim to Truth by Gianni Vattimo 9780231138512
RRP: £20.00£15.89First collected in Italy in 1985, Art's Claim to Truth is considered by many philosophers to be one of Gianni Vattimo's most important works. Newly revised for English readers, the book begins with a challenge to Plato, Aristotle, Kant, and Hegel, who... -
Myth and Meaning in Jordan Peterson by Ron Dart
RRP: £15.99£11.82Popular philosopher Jordan Peterson has captured the imagination of Western world. For some, Peterson represents all that is wrong with patriarchal culture; for others, he is the Canadian academic prophet who has come to save civilization from... -
Collected Papers by Gareth Evans 9780198236276
RRP: £45.49£38.38This volume contains thirteen papers, including two previously unpublished, by Gareth Evans, a brilliant philosopher who died in 1980 at the age of 34. The treatments of problems about language are here informed by a lively sense of interconnections with... -
The Jewish Writings by Hannah Arendt
RRP: £21.00£15.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805211948Author Hannah ArendtFormat PaperbackPage Count 640Imprint Schocken BooksPublisher Schocken BooksWeight(grams) 527gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 132mm *... -
The Message of a Master by John N. McDonald 9780931432958
RRP: £7.99£6.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780931432958Author John N. McDonaldFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint New World LibraryPublisher New World LibraryWeight(grams) 113g -
The Hunger Games and Philosophy: A Critique of Pure Treason by Nicolas Michaud 9781118065075
RRP: £15.95£14.38A philosophical exploration of Suzanne Collins's New York Times bestselling series, just in time for the release of The Hunger Games movie Katniss Everdeen is "the girl who was on fire," but she is also the girl who made us think, dream, question... -
The Moral Fool: A Case for Amorality by Hans-Georg Moeller 9780231145091
RRP: £25.00£19.59Justice, equality, and righteousness--these are some of our greatest moral convictions. Yet in times of social conflict, morals can become rigid, making religious war, ethnic cleansing, and political purges possible. Morality, therefore, can be viewed as... -
John McDowell by Tim Thornton
RRP: £28.99£25.09John McDowell is one of the most widely read philosophers in recent years. His engagement with a philosophy of language, mind and ethics and with philosophers ranging from Aristotle and Wittgenstein to Hegel and Gadamer make him one of the most original... -
Moral Imagination: Essays by David Bromwich 9780691173160
RRP: £20.00£15.89Spanning many historical and literary contexts, Moral Imagination brings together a dozen recent essays by one of America's premier cultural critics. David Bromwich explores the importance of imagination and sympathy to suggest how these faculties may... -
Counterfactuals by Christopher Prendergast 9781350090095
RRP: £24.99£21.78What are counterfactuals and what is their point? In many cases, none at all. It may be true that if kangaroos didn't have tails, they would fall over, but they do have tails and if they didn't they wouldn't be kangaroos (or would they?). This is the... -
Being Inclined: Felix Ravaisson's Philosophy of Habit by Mark Sinclair
RRP: £76.00£50.47Being Inclined is the first book-length study in English of the work of Felix Ravaisson, France's most influential philosopher in the second half of the nineteenth century. Mark Sinclair shows how Ravaisson, in his great work Of Habit (1838), understands... -
The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek Political Thought by Stephen M. Salkever
RRP: £30.99£26.77The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek Political Thought provides a guide to understanding the central texts and problems in ancient Greek political thought, from Homer through the Stoics and Epicureans. Composed of essays specially commissioned for... -
Platonist Philosophy 80 BC to AD 250: An Introduction and Collection of Sources in Translation by George Boys-Stones 9780521547390
RRP: £34.99£30.73'Middle' Platonism has some claim to be the single most influential philosophical movement of the last two thousand years, as the common background to 'Neoplatonism' and the early development of Christian theology. This book breaks with the tradition of... -
Xunzi: The Complete Text by Xunzi
RRP: £28.00£22.20This is the first complete, one-volume English translation of the ancient Chinese text Xunzi, one of the most extensive, sophisticated, and elegant works in the tradition of Confucian thought. Through essays, poetry, dialogues, and anecdotes, the Xunzi... -
Anarchy and the Kingdom of God: From Eschatology to Orthodox Political Theology and Back by Davor Dzalto
RRP: £31.00£27.36Anarchy and the Kingdom of God reclaims the concept of "anarchism" both as a political philosophy and a way of thinking of the sociopolitical sphere from a theological perspective. Through a genuinely theological approach to the issues of power,... -
I am Not a Brain: Philosophy of Mind for the 21st Century by Markus Gabriel 9781509514755
RRP: £55.00£35.85Many consider the nature of human consciousness to be one of the last great unsolved mysteries. Why should the light turn on, so to speak, in human beings at all? And how is the electrical storm of neurons under our skull connected with our... -
How to Thrive in the Digital Age by Tom Chatfield
£10.47Our world is, increasingly, a digital one. Over half of the planet's adult population now spend more of their waking hours 'plugged in' than not, whether to the internet, mobile telephony, or other digital media. To email, text, tweet and blog our way... -
Against Democracy by Jason Brennan 9780691162607
RRP: £35.00£28.14Most people believe democracy is a uniquely just form of government. They believe people have the right to an equal share of political power. And they believe that political participation is good for us--it empowers us, helps us get what we want, and... -
Ruling Passions: A Theory of Practical Reasoning by Simon Blackburn 9780199241392
RRP: £37.49£30.15Simon Blackburn puts forward a compelling original philosophy of human motivation and morality. He maintains that we cannot get clear about ethics until we get clear about human nature. So these are the sorts of questions he addresses: Why do we behave... -
The End of Modernity: Nihilism and Hermeneutics in Post-modern Culture by Gianni Vattimo 9780745609713
RRP: £17.99£16.44Now available in paperback, this book provides an elegant analysis of the philosophical background to the post-modernity debate. Vattimo focuses on the work of Nietzsche and Heidegger and shows how their bitter criticisms of modern European thought... -
Man & Citizen by Thomas Hobbes 9780872201118
RRP: £15.99£13.36A reprint of the 1972 Doubleday edition. Contains the most helpful version of Hobbes's political and moral philosophy available in English. Includes the only English translation of De Homine, chapters X-XV. Features the English translation of De Cive... -
Truth: Ideas in Profile by Simon Blackburn
RRP: £10.99£7.77Truth has always been a thorny topic. How does it work? Who decides what it is? And why is it seen as so important? In this lucid introduction to the topic, leading scholar Simon Blackburn describes the main approaches to the notion of truth and...