Philosophy

A timely defense of liberalism that draws vital lessons from its greatest midcentury proponentsToday, liberalism faces threats from across the political spectrum. While right-wing populists and leftist purists righteously violate liberal norms, theorists...

Atheism: The Basics is a concise and engaging introduction to belief in the non-existence of deities. Atheism has long fascinated people but debate around this controversial position may seem daunting. In this lively and lucid book, Graham Oppy addresses...

In his third and concluding volume, Lloyd P. Gerson presents an innovative account of Platonism, the central tradition in the history of philosophy, in conjunction with Naturalism, the "anti-Platonism" in antiquity and contemporary philosophy. Gerson...

Final thoughts on an ideal constitution.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...

Societies around the world are struggling to think clearly about trans realities and understand trans identities. Real Gender is the first book to present a cis defence of what it means to be transgender.  Moyal-Sharrock and Sandis delve into the various...

Speech is a way of tearing out a meaning from an undivided whole."Thus does Maurice Merleau-Ponty describe speech in this collection of his important writings on the philosophy of expression, composed during the last decade of his life. For him,...

Rae Langton offers a new interpretation and defence of Kant's doctrine of things in themselves. Kant distinguishes things in themselves from phenomena, and in so doing he makes a metaphysical distinction between intrinsic and relational properties of...

Contemporary Debates in Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art features pairs of newly commissioned essays by some of the leading theorists working in the field today. Brings together fresh debates on eleven of the most controversial issues in aesthetics...

Written in Latin for students at the Gregorian University in Rome, Bernard Lonergan's De Deo Trino (The Triune God) is a monumental two-part examination of trinitarian theology published initially in 1961 and again, in revised form, in 1964. The first...

"The Analytic Thomist," Rob Koons, delivered the 2021 Aquinas Lecture at the University of Dallas. Here he engages the possibility of a bridge between philosophy and metaphysics proper. Koons boldly lays out his position: without Aristotelian...

Suppose you're offered an opportunity to experience something that is unlike anything you have ever encountered, but that's all you know--aside from the fact that the experience is physically safe and morally acceptable. How do you decide whether to take...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781959891475Author Marcus AureliusFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint Warbler ClassicsPublisher Warbler ClassicsWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907962233Author Robert NichollsFormat PaperbackPage Count 50Imprint 123 BooksPublisher Cranmore PublicationsWeight(grams) 60gDimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781569753194Author Martin AronsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Ulysses PressPublisher Ulysses PressWeight(grams) 203g

Engaging Political Philosophy investigates the political philosophies of Hobbes, Rousseau, Locke, Mill, Rawls, and Marx and reveals the scope and limits of the philosophical tradition they helped to forge. Investigates the political philosophies of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788090704442Author Jakub TrpisFormat HardbackPage Count 250Imprint Jakub TrpisPublisher Jakub TrpisWeight(grams) 449gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 148mm * 16mm

For much of its history, philosophy was not merely a theoretical discipline but a way of life, an 'art of living'. This practical aspect of philosophy has been much less dominant in modernity than it was in ancient Greece and Rome, when philosophers of...

An engaging introduction to Zen Buddhism, featuring a new English translation of one of the earliest Zen texts Leading Buddhist scholar Sam van Schaik explores the history and essence of Zen, based on a new translation of one of the earliest surviving...

The first of its kind, this anthology in the burgeoning field of technology ethics offers students and other interested readers 32 chapters, each written in an accessible and lively manner specifically for this volume. The chapters are conveniently...

In What Philosophy Can Do, Gary Gutting leaves the ivory tower to tackle difficult questions in everyday life and shows how philosophy can be used as a method for interrogating our world-and one another. He looks at why today's political debates are so...

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...

To take a journey, travelers must know where they are, where they are going, and how to get there. Moral theology examines the same three truths. The Christian Moral Life is a handbook for moral theology that uses the theme of a journey to explain its...

The cannibal has played a surprisingly important role in the history of thought--perhaps the ultimate symbol of savagery and degradation-- haunting the Western imagination since before the Age of Discovery, when Europeans first encountered genuine...

In The Coloniality of the Secular, An Yountae investigates the collusive ties between the modern concepts of the secular, religion, race, and coloniality in the Americas. Drawing on the work of Edouard Glissant, Frantz Fanon, Aime Cesaire, Sylvia Wynter,...

Informed by a provocative exhibition at the Louvre curated by the author, The Severed Head unpacks artistic representations of severed heads from the Paleolithic period to the present. Surveying paintings, sculptures, and drawings, Julia Kristeva turns...

The first book to address the historical failures of philosophy-and what we can learn from themPhilosophers are generally unaware of the failures of philosophy, recognizing only the failures of particular theories, which are then remedied with other...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476749723Author Emile DurkheimFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Free PressPublisher Free PressWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 211mm * 137mm * 23mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788562022104Author Hermes TrismegistusFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Iap - Information Age Pub. Inc.Publisher Iap - Information Age Pub. Inc...

Philosophers didn't always busy themselves with life's big questions. The earliest ancient philosophers were primarily concerned with the world of nature, including phenomena such as earthquakes and eclipses. But one enigmatic Greek named Socrates began...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780835607308Author Ken WilberFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Quest Books,U.S.Publisher Quest Books,U.S.Weight(grams) 1g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398801882Author Sun TzuImprint Sirius EntertainmentPublisher Sirius EntertainmentWeight(grams) 2100gDimensions(mm) 249mm * 163mm * 69mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476777849Author Michael PuettFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 198mm *...

Rescued in 1972 from a storeroom in which rats and seeping water had severely damaged the fifty-year-old manuscript, this text is the earliest major work (1919-1921) of the great Russian philosopher M. M. Bakhtin. Toward a Philosophy of the Act contains...

Learning to Look is a wandering journey through the nature of art - and the ways it can transform us, if we let it. Author of Infinite Baseball, Alva Noe, presents a collection of short, stimulating essays that explore how we experience art and what it...

This is the companion volume to Spectres of Marx , and tackles the central theme of the fate of Marxism after the global collapse of communism.About the AuthorBernd Magnus, Stephen CullenbergReviews"They hold conferences on the future of Marxism, when...

Farewell to Reason offers a vigorous challenge to the scientific rationalism that underlies Western ideals of "progress" and "development," whose damaging social and ecological consequences are now widely recognized. For all their variety in theme and...

Unfit for the Future argues that the future of our species depends on our urgently finding ways to bring about radical enhancement of the moral aspects of our own human nature. We have rewritten our own moral agenda by the drastic changes we have made to...

"Are you acquainted with Tolstoy's The Gospel in Brief? At its time, this book virtually kept me alive. . . . If you are not acquainted with it, then you cannot imagine what an effect it can have upon a person."-Ludwig Wittgenstein, in a letter to Ludwig...

In the Louvre museum hangs a portrait that is considered the iconic image of Rene Descartes, the great seventeenth-century French philosopher. And the painter of the work? The Dutch master Frans Hals--or so it was long believed, until the work was...

Ronald Dworkin's work on equality has shaped debates in the field of distributive justice for nearly three decades. In this book Alexander Brown attempts to provide a critique but also a defence of that work, and to extend equality of resources globally...