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The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity by Toby Ord 9780316484923
RRP: £19.99£12.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316484923Author Toby OrdFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Hachette BooksPublisher Hachette BooksWeight(grams) 399gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 137mm * 38mm -
Routledge Philosophy GuideBook to Kant on Judgment by Robert Wicks 9780415281119
RRP: £25.99£22.63Kant's Critique of Judgment is one of the most important texts in the history of modern aesthetics. This GuideBook discusses the Third Critique section by section, and introduces and assesses:Kant's life and the background of the Critique of Judgment the... -
Common Sense and Nuclear Warfare by Bertrand Russell 9780415487344
RRP: £12.99£11.94Written at the height of the Cold War in 1959, Common Sense and Nuclear Warfare was published in an effort 'to prevent the catastrophe which would result from a large scale H-bomb war'. Bertrand Russell's staunch anti-war stance is made very clear in... -
Playing by the Rules: A Philosophical Examination of Rule-Based Decision-Making in Law and in Life by Frederick Schauer 9780198258315
RRP: £74.00£53.21This is a philosophical but non-technical analysis of the very idea of a rule. Although focused somewhat on the role of rules in the legal system, it is also relevant to the place of rules in morality, religion, etiquette, games, language, and family... -
The Claim of Reason: Wittgenstein, Skepticism, Morality, and Tragedy by Stanley Cavell 9780195131079
RRP: £47.49£37.14This reissue of an American philosophical classic includes a new preface by Cavell, in which he discusses the work's reception and influence. The work fosters a fascinating relationship between philosophy and literature both by augmenting his... -
Agora, Academy, and the Conduct of Philosophy by Debra Nails 9780792335436
£90.27Agora, Academy, and the Conduct of Philosophy offers extremely careful and detailed criticisms of some of the most important assumptions scholars have brought to bear in beginning the process of (Platonic) interpretation. It goes on to offer a new way to... -
Why We Argue (And How We Should): A Guide to Political Disagreement in an Age of Unreason by Scott F. Aikin
RRP: £36.99£32.53Why We Argue (And How We Should): A Guide to Political Disagreement in an Age of Unreason presents an accessible and engaging introduction to the theory of argument, with special emphasis on the way argument works in public political debate. The authors... -
Marx in Motion: A New Materialist Marxism by Thomas Nail
RRP: £37.99£34.66Karl Marx is the most historically foundational and systematic critic of capitalism to date, and the years since the 2008 financial crisis have witnessed a rebirth of his popular appeal. In a world of rising income inequality, right-wing nationalisms,... -
Thinking of Necessity: A Kantian Account of Modal Thought and Modal Metaphysics by Jessica Leech 9780198873969
RRP: £72.00£65.53Thinking of Necessity: A Kantian Account of Modal Thought and Modal Metaphysics sets out a Kant-inspired theory of modality, i.e., possibility and necessity. The theory is driven by a methodology which takes seriously questions about the function of... -
Enlightenment Contested: Philosophy, Modernity, and the Emancipation of Man 1670-1752 by Jonathan I. Israel 9780199279227
RRP: £74.00£72.66Jonathan Israel presents the first major reassessment of the Western Enlightenment for a generation. Continuing the story he began in the best-selling Radical Enlightenment, and now focusing his attention on the first half of the eighteenth century, he... -
On Bernard Stiegler: Philosopher of Friendship by Jean-Luc Nancy 9781350329034
RRP: £14.99£12.65"What I love, and those whom I love, you, that is to say us in so far as we are capable of forming a we, all this I love, and I love them, and I love you infinitely" (Bernard Steigler April 1952- August 2020). When Bernard Stiegler writes "I love you"... -
Major Works: Selected Philosophical Writings by Ludwig Wittgenstein
RRP: £17.99£12.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061550249Author Ludwig WittgensteinImprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 336g -
Dialectic by Mortimer J. Adler
RRP: £53.99£46.87First published in 2000. This is Volume I of eight in the International Library of Philosophy looking at the area pf philosophy of Mind an Language. Written in 1927, Dialectic is a convenient technical name for the kind of thinking which takes place... -
Neo-Existentialism by Markus Gabriel 9781509532483
RRP: £12.99£11.94In this highly original book, Markus Gabriel offers an account of the human self that overcomes the deadlocks inherent in the standard positions of contemporary philosophy of mind. His view, Neo-Existentialism, is thoroughly anti-naturalist in that it... -
The Law of Nations: Or Principles of the Law of Nature Applied to the Conduct of Nations and Sovereigns by Emer de Vattel 9780865974517
£16.61The significance of THE LAW OF NATIONS resides in its distillation from natural law of an apt model for international conduct of state affairs that carried conviction in both the Old Regime and the new political order of 1789-1815.Book InformationISBN... -
Bertrand Russell by A. J. Ayer 9780226033433
RRP: £33.00£32.05With extraordinary concision and clarity, A. J. Ayer gives an account of the major incidents of Bertrand Russell's life and an exposition of the whole range of his philosophy. "Ayer considers Russell to be, except possibly for Wittgenstein, the most... -
On the Currency of Egalitarian Justice, and Other Essays in Political Philosophy by G. A. Cohen
RRP: £28.00£21.80G. A. Cohen was one of the most gifted, influential, and progressive voices in contemporary political philosophy. At the time of his death in 2009, he had plans to bring together a number of his most significant papers. This is the first of three volumes... -
Kierkegaard's Writings, XVI, Volume 16: Works of Love by Soren Kierkegaard
RRP: £42.00£33.44The various kinds and conditions of love are a common theme for Kierkegaard, beginning with his early Either/Or, through "The Diary of the Seducer" and Judge William's eulogy on married love, to his last work, on the changelessness of God's love. Works... -
The Currency of Politics: The Political Theory of Money from Aristotle to Keynes by Stefan Eich 9780691235431
RRP: £18.99£15.12Money in the history of political thought, from ancient Greece to the Great Inflation of the 1970sIn the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, critical attention has shifted from the economy to the most fundamental feature of all market economies-money. Yet... -
The Political History of the Devil by Daniel Defoe
RRP: £10.99£7.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486802374Author Daniel DefoeFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Wittgenstein: A Religious Point Of View? by Norman Malcolm
RRP: £41.99£36.75Ludwig Wittgenstein once said: 'I am not a religious man, but I cannot help seeing every problem from a religious point of view.' This study, the last work of the distinguished philosopher Norman Malcolm, is a discussion of what Wittgenstein may have... -
In Gods We Trust: The Evolutionary Landscape of Religion by Scott Atran 9780195178036
RRP: £38.99£30.15This ambitious, interdisciplinary book seeks to explain the origins of religion using our knowledge of the evolution of cognition. A cognitive anthropologist and psychologist, Scott Atran argues that religion is a by-product of human evolution just as... -
Can Non-Europeans Think? by Hamid Dabashi
£17.82'In Can Non-Europeans Think? Dabashi takes his subtle but vigorous polemic to another level.' Pankaj Mishra What happens to thinkers who operate outside the European philosophical pedigree? In this powerfully honed polemic, Hamid Dabashi argues that... -
The Principle of Hope: Volume 2 by Ernst Bloch 9780262522007
£53.34The Principle of Hope is one of the great works of the human spirit. It is a critical history of the utopian vision and a profound exploration of the possible reality of utopia. Even as the world has rejected the doctrine on which Bloch sought to base... -
Heidegger: A Guide for the Perplexed by David R. Cerbone 9780826486691
RRP: £21.99£21.89Martin Heidegger is one of the twentieth century's most influential, controversial and challenging philosophers. His "Being and Time" is a landmark text in modern philosophy, required reading for anyone studying Continental thought. However,... -
The Cunning of Uncertainty Helga Nowotny (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich) 9780745687629
RRP: £16.99£11.54Uncertainty is interwoven into human existence. It is a powerful incentive in the search for knowledge and an inherent component of scientific research. We have developed many ways of coping with uncertainty. We make promises, manage risks and make... -
Liberty, the God That Failed: Policing the Sacred and Constructing the Myths of the Secular State, from Locke to Obama by Christopher A Ferrara 9781621380061
£26.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621380061Author Christopher A FerraraFormat PaperbackPage Count 726Imprint Angelico PressPublisher Angelico PressWeight(grams) 998gDimensions(mm) 234mm *... -
Understanding Causality by Jean Piaget 9780393008586
RRP: £18.50£14.84During the past few years, the research of the International Center for Genetic Epistemology has dealt with causality, in its broadest sense, including every explanation of a material phenomenon, both the physical aspects of actions and their... -
A A History of Greek Philosophy The Fifth Century Enlightenment: Volume 3: Part 2: Socrates by William Keith Chambers Guthrie 9780521096676
RRP: £40.99£33.26The third volume of Professor Guthrie's great history of Greek thought, entitled The Fifth-Century Enlightenment, deals in two parts with the Sophists and Socrates, the key figures in the dramatic and fundamental shift of philosophical interest from the... -
Metaphysics: The Big Questions by Peter Van Inwagen
RRP: £33.95£30.98This extensively revised and expanded edition of van Inwagen and Zimmerman's popular collection of readings in metaphysics now features twenty-two additional selections, new sections on existence and reality, and an updated editorial commentary. ... -
Unpublished Fragments from the Period of Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Summer 1882-Winter 1883/84): Volume 14 by Friedrich Nietzsche
RRP: £24.99£21.67With this latest book in the series, Stanford continues its English-language publication of the famed Colli-Montinari edition of Nietzsche's complete works, which include the philosopher's notebooks and early unpublished writings. Scrupulously edited so... -
The Routledge Companion to Aesthetics by Berys Gaut 9780415782876
RRP: £58.99£52.08The third edition of the acclaimed Routledge Companion to Aesthetics contains over sixty chapters written by leading international scholars covering all aspects of aesthetics.This companion opens with an historical overview of aesthetics including... -
Manual on the Art of Living by Tristan K. Epictetus 9786185048709
RRP: £12.99£11.06"Of all existing things, some are in our power, and others are not in our power." So begins the Enchiridion or Manual on the Art of Living of Epictetus, a collection of precepts that together provide a powerful philosophy for daily life. With practical... -
Writing the Book of the World by Theodore Sider 9780199687503
RRP: £41.99£25.45In order to perfectly describe the world, it is not enough to speak truly. In this ambitious and ground-breaking book, Theodore Sider argues that for a representation to be fully successful, truth is not enough; the representation must also use the right... -
Subjectivity and Truth: Lectures at the College de France, 1980-1981 by Michel Foucault 9781250195081
RRP: £23.00£13.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250195081Author Michel FoucaultFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USAWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 137mm * 20mm -
Thinking Through Animals: Identity, Difference, Indistinction by Matthew Calarco
RRP: £10.99£9.60The rapidly expanding field of critical animal studies now offers a myriad of theoretical and philosophical positions from which to choose. This timely book provides an overview and analysis of the most influential of these trends. Approachable and... -
Go Slowly, Breathe and Smile: The Wisdom of Thich Nhat Hahn by Thich Nhat Hanh 9781642507195
RRP: £19.95£13.21A Book of Mindfulness, Kindfulness, and Words of Wisdom"Rashani's extraordinary collages perfectly mirror Thich Nhat Hanh's simple yet powerful teachings. An exquisite collection." -James Baraz, author of Awakening Joy#1 New Release in Zen Philosophy,... -
Secular Translations: Nation-State, Modern Self, and Calculative Reason by Talal Asad
RRP: £22.00£17.36In Secular Translations, the anthropologist Talal Asad reflects on his lifelong engagement with secularism and its contradictions. He draws out the ambiguities in our concepts of the religious and the secular through a rich consideration of... -
The Plural Event: Descartes, Hegel, Heidegger by Andrew Benjamin
RRP: £21.99£19.34Benjamin provides new and important readings of key canonical texts in the history of philosophy in his sustained philosophical reworking of ontology. Amongst texts included are Hegel's Difference Essay and the Shorter Logic and Heidegger's Time and... -
Kant's Critique of Pure Reason: A Critical Guide by James R. O'Shea
RRP: £30.99£22.85Kant's monumental book the Critique of Pure Reason was arguably the most conceptually revolutionary work in the history of philosophy and its impact continues to be felt throughout philosophical debates today. However, it is a notoriously difficult work...