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Whither Fanon?: Studies in the Blackness of Being by David Marriott
RRP: £27.99£24.14Frantz Fanon may be most known for his more obviously political writings, but in the first instance, he was a clinician, a black Caribbean psychiatrist who had the improbable task of treating disturbed and traumatized North African patients during the... -
Philosophy of Language: The Classics Explained by Colin McGinn
RRP: £32.00£21.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262529822Author Colin McGinnFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 17mm -
Ockham's Theory of Propositions: Part II of the Summa Logicae by William of Ockham 9781587316050
RRP: £16.00£15.77In this work Ockham proposes a theory of simple predication, which he then uses in explicating the truth conditions of progressively more complicated kinds of propositions. His discussion includes what he takes to be the correct semantic treatment of... -
Three Methods of Ethics: A Debate by Marcia W. Baron 9780631194354
RRP: £37.95£33.36During the past decade ethical theory has been in a lively state of development, and three basic approaches to ethics - Kantian ethics, consequentialism, and virtue ethics - have assumed positions of particular prominence.About the AuthorMarcia W. Baron... -
Superman and Philosophy: What Would the Man of Steel Do? by William Irwin 9781118018095
RRP: £15.95£14.38Go beyond the cape and into the mind of the Man of Steel, in time for release of Zack Snyder's Man of Steel movie and Superman's 75th anniversary He has thrilled millions for 75 years, with a legacy that transcends national, cultural, and generational... -
Baudrillard with Nietzsche and Heidegger - A Contrastive Analysis by Vanessa Freerks
RRP: £27.00£22.25Vanessa Freerks analyses how Baudrillard re-actualizes Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morals, investigating how themes and approaches in Baudrillard's Consumer Society, Simulacra and Simulations and Symbolic Exchange and Death resonate with Nietzsche's... -
Making the Social World: The Structure of Human Civilization by John Searle 9780199576913
£26.77The renowned philosopher John Searle reveals the fundamental nature of social reality. What kinds of things are money, property, governments, nations, marriages, cocktail parties, and football games? Searle explains the key role played by language in the... -
The Will To Power by Friedrich Nietzsche 9780394704371
RRP: £15.99£12.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780394704371Author Friedrich NietzscheFormat PaperbackPage Count 608Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)... -
Liberty and Property: A Social History of Western Political Thought from Renaissance to Enlightenment by Ellen Meiksins Wood
RRP: £21.99£21.89The formation of the modern state, the rise of capitalism, the Renaissance and Reformation, the scientific revolution and the Age of Enlightenment have all been attributed to the "early modern" period. Nearly everything about its history remains... -
Global Poverty: A Theological Guide by Justin Thacker 9780334055150
RRP: £28.00£27.43While a number of secular philosophers have written on global poverty, theologians have either steered clear entirely or simply mimicked the political analysis currently on offer. Christian authors have argued either for a free market solution to global... -
Play as Symbol of the World: And Other Writings by Eugen Fink
RRP: £50.00£43.81Eugen Fink is considered one of the clearest interpreters of phenomenology and was the preferred conversational partner of Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger. In Play as Symbol of the World, Fink offers an original phenomenology of play as he attempts... -
Kierkegaard's Writings, VIII, Volume 8: Concept of Anxiety: A Simple Psychologically Orienting Deliberation on the Dogmatic Issue of Hereditary Sin by Soren Kierkegaard
RRP: £28.00£21.80This edition replaces the earlier translation by Walter Lowrie that appeared under the title The Concept of Dread. Along with The Sickness unto Death, the work reflects from a psychological point of view Soren Kierkegaard's longstanding concern with the... -
The Avengers and Philosophy: Earth's Mightiest Thinkers William Irwin (King's College, Wilkes-Barre, PA) 9781118074572
RRP: £15.95£14.38An engaging look at the philosophical underpinnings of Earth's Mightiest Heroes Avengers assemble! Tackling intriguing dilemmas and issues that no single great philosopher can withstand, this powerful book enlists the brainpower of an A-list team of... -
Knowledge and the Body-Mind Problem: In Defence of Interaction by Sir Karl Popper 9780415135566
RRP: £39.99£35.06Based upon the Kenan Lectures that Karl Popper delivered at Emory University in 1969, Knowledge and the Body-Mind Problem raises problems connected with human freedom, creativity, rationality, and the relationship between human beings and their actions... -
Ancient Philosophy: A Contemporary Introduction by Christopher Shields
RRP: £33.99£30.00In Ancient Philosophy (2012), Christopher Shields expanded on the coverage of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle in his earlier book, Classical Philosophy (2003), to include the philosophy of the Hellenistic era. In this new edition (2023), Shields reaches... -
Republic by Plato 9780195003642
RRP: £48.99£45.89Essestially an inquiry into morality, the Republic is the central work of the Western world's most famous philosopher. Containing crucial arguments and insights into many other areas of philosophy, it is also a literary masterpiece: the philosophy is... -
The Death of God and the Meaning of Life Julian Young (Wake Forest University, USA) 9780415841139
RRP: £43.99£38.44What is the meaning of life? In today's secular, post-religious scientific world, this question has become a serious preoccupation. But it also has a long history: many major philosophers have thought deeply about it, as Julian Young so vividly... -
The Incomplete Project of Schizoanalysis: Collected Essays on Deleuze and Guattari by Ian Buchanan
RRP: £25.99£21.06'If all we do is bring to light what we already know, then what is the point of what we are doing?'This has been Ian Buchanan's guiding motto throughout his academic career and continues to inform his reading of Deleuze and Guattari. In these twenty... -
William of Ockham, Dialogus Part 1, Book 6 by George Knysh 9780197267516
£100.12William Ockham intended the Dialogus to be a thorough examination (a "summa") of the doctrinal and political issues at stake during what in fact became the last major confrontation between Church and State in the waning period of the Western Middle Ages... -
Thinking Without Words by Jose Luis Bermudez 9780195341607
RRP: £29.49£20.94Thinking without Words provides a challenging new theory of the nature of non-linguistic thought. Many scientific disciplines treat non-linguistic creatures as thinkers, explaining their behavior in terms of their thoughts about themselves and about the... -
The Great Questions of Life by Don Cupitt 9780944344569
RRP: £17.95£15.03In everyday speech we often hear people jokingly mention what they call the 'ultimate questions', the 'big questions', or 'the great questions' of life. In Don Cupitt's judgment, however, these questions are no joking matter. He believes that there is no... -
Tolstoy's Political Thought: Christian Anarcho-Pacifist Iconoclasm Then and Now by Alexandre Christoyannopoulos
RRP: £41.99£36.75Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910), besides writing famous novels such as War and Peace, also wrote on political issues, especially later in his life, putting forward a political philosophy which might be termed 'Christian anarchism'. This book provides a... -
Problems: v. I, Bk. 1-19 by Aristotle
RRP: £24.95£23.39Peripatetic potpourri.Aristotle of Stagirus (384-322 BC), the great Greek philosopher, researcher, logician, and scholar, studied with Plato at Athens and taught in the Academy (367-347). Subsequently he spent three years in Asia Minor at the court of... -
SpongeBob SquarePants and Philosophy: Soaking Up Secrets Under the Sea! by Joseph J. Foy
RRP: £10.99£8.29SpongeBob SquarePants and Philosophy is designed to introduce fans of SpongeBob SquarePants to some of the great thinkers and questions in philosophy. The essays can be shared by young and old alike, kindling new interest in philosophy and life's big... -
The Sense of the World by Jean-Luc Nancy
RRP: £20.99£18.37An essential exploration of sense and meaning. Is there a "world" anymore, let alone any "sense" to it? Acknowledging the lack of meaning in our time, and the lack of a world at the center of meanings we try to impose, Jean-Luc Nancy presents a rigorous... -
Aristotle on Knowledge and Learning: The Posterior Analytics by David Bronstein 9780198724902
£81.25'All teaching and all intellectual learning come to be from pre-existing knowledge.' So begins Aristotle's Posterior Analytics, one of the most important, and difficult, works in the history of western philosophy. David Bronstein sheds new light on this... -
The Eternal Tao Te Ching: The Philosophical Masterwork of Taoism and Its Relevance Today by Benjamin Hoff
RRP: £17.99£17.03From the bestselling author of The Tao of Pooh, a uniquely authentic translation of the enduring Tao Te Ching based on the meanings of the ancient Chinese characters in use when the Taoist classic was written From Benjamin Hoff, the author of The Tao of... -
Art and Value George Dickie (University of Illinois at Chicago) 9780631229469
RRP: £30.95£27.45Art and Value focuses on the questions of history, methods, and nature of art theories, and on the value and evaluation of art. It serves as a valuable primer to aesthetics, as well as a summary and extension of Dickie's contribution to the field.About... -
Politics and Vision: Continuity and Innovation in Western Political Thought - Expanded Edition by Sheldon S. Wolin 9780691174051
RRP: £22.00£17.69Politics and Vision is a landmark work by one of the great thinkers of the twentieth century. This is a significantly expanded edition of one of the greatest works of modern political theory. Sheldon Wolin's Politics and Vision inspired and instructed... -
The Human Animal: Personal Identity Without Psychology by Eric T. Olson 9780195134230
RRP: £68.00£45.95Most philosophers writing about personal identity in recent years claim that what it takes for us to persist through time is a matter of psychology. In this groundbreaking new book, Eric Olson argues that such approaches face daunting problems, and he... -
Outside Color: Perceptual Science and the Puzzle of Color in Philosophy by Mazviita Chirimuuta 9780262534574
£35.64An integrated study of the history, philosophy, and science of color that offers a novel theory of the metaphysics of color. Is color real or illusory, mind independent or mind dependent? Does seeing in color give us a true picture of external reality?... -
Of Rule and Office: Plato's Ideas of the Political by Melissa Lane
RRP: £42.00£33.04A constitutionalist reading of Plato's political thoughtPlato famously defends the rule of knowledge. Knowledge, for him, is of the good. But what is rule? In this study, Melissa Lane reveals how political office and rule were woven together in Greek... -
David Hume on Morals, Politics, and Society by David Hume
RRP: £10.99£9.37A compact and accessible edition of Hume's political and moral writings with essays by a distinguished set of contributors A key figure of the Scottish Enlightenment, David Hume was a major influence on thinkers ranging from Kant and Schopenhauer to... -
A Duty to Resist: When Disobedience Should Be Uncivil by Candice Delmas 9780190872199
RRP: £29.99£25.94What are our responsibilities in the face of injustice? How far should we go to fight it? Many would argue that as long as a state is nearly just, citizens have a moral duty to obey the law. Proponents of civil disobedience generally hold that, given... -
The Vision of the Soul: Truth, Beauty, and Goodness in the Western Tradition by James Matthew Wilson
RRP: £29.95£28.73Ours is an age full of desires but impoverished in its understanding of where those desires lead-an age that claims mastery over the world but also claims to find the world as a whole absurd or unintelligible. In The Vision of the Soul, James Matthew... -
The New Cambridge Companion to Plotinus by Lloyd Gerson
RRP: £26.99£23.20Plotinus stands at a crossroads in ancient philosophy, between the more than 600 years of philosophy that came before him and the new Platonic tradition. He was the first and perhaps the greatest systematizer of Plato's thought, and all later students of... -
The View of Life: Four Metaphysical Essays with Journal Aphorisms by Georg Simmel 9780226273303
RRP: £23.00£22.13Published in 1918, The View of Life is Georg Simmel's final work. Famously deemed "the brightest man in Europe" by George Santayana, Simmel addressed diverse topics across his essayistic writings, which influenced scholars in aesthetics, epistemology,... -
The Road to Character by David Brooks 9780812983418
RRP: £20.00£11.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812983418Author David BrooksFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Random House Trade PaperbacksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)... -
Frantz Fanon: Philosopher of the Barricades by Peter Hudis 9780745336251
RRP: £16.99£11.54Frantz Fanon (1925-1961) was a Caribbean and African psychiatrist, philosopher and revolutionary whose works, including Black Skin, White Masks and The Wretched of the Earth are hugely influential in the fields of post-colonial studies, critical theory,... -
Critical Theory and Psychoanalysis: From the Frankfurt School to Contemporary Critique Jon Mills (University of Essex, UK and Adelphi University, USA) 9781032104270
RRP: £29.99£26.64Critical theory has traditionally been interested in engaging classical psychoanalysis rather than addressing postclassical thought. For the first time, this volume brings critical theory into proper dialogue with modern developments in the...