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Violence and Civility: On the Limits of Political Philosophy by Tienne Balibar 9780231153997
RRP: £18.99£15.12In Violence and Civility, Etienne Balibar boldly confronts the insidious causes of violence, racism, nationalism, and ethnic cleansing worldwide, as well as mass poverty and dispossession. Through a novel synthesis of theory and empirical studies of... -
The Blind Storyteller by Iris Berent
RRP: £29.99£19.99Do newborns think? Do they know that "three" is greater than "two"? Do they prefer "right" to "wrong"? What about emotions--can newborns recognize happiness or anger? If the answer to these questions is yes, then how are our inborn thoughts and feelings... -
Integration and Difference: Constructing a Mythical Dialectic by Grant Maxwell
RRP: £31.99£28.33This groundbreaking work synthesizes concepts from thirteen crucial philosophers and psychologists, relating how the ancient problem of opposites has been opening to an integration which not only conserves differentiation but enacts it, especially... -
The Unspeakable Girl: The Myth and Mystery of Kore by Giorgio Agamben 9780857420831
RRP: £19.00£16.60Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Breakdown of Will by George Ainslie 9780521596947
RRP: £22.99£19.56Ainslie argues that our responses to the threat of our own inconsistency determine the basic fabric of human culture. He suggests that individuals are more like populations of bargaining agents than like the hierarchical command structures envisaged by... -
The Monstrous and the Dead: Burke, Marx, Fascism by Mark Neocleous 9780708319031
RRP: £9.99£7.58Examines the use of metaphors of monstrosity and the place of the dead in political theory, specifically in relation to conservatism, Marxism and fascism.About the AuthorMark Neocleous is a Professor of the Critique of Political Economy at Brunel... -
An Historical View of the English Government: From the Settlement of the Saxons in Britain to the Revolution in 1688 by John Millar 9780865974456
RRP: £10.95£9.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865974456Author John MillarFormat PaperbackPage Count 889Imprint Liberty Fund IncPublisher Liberty Fund IncWeight(grams) 1213g -
Identity, Personal Identity and the Self by John Perry 9780872205208
RRP: £19.99£16.44This volume collects a number of Perry's classic works on personal identity as well as four new pieces, The Two Faces of Identity,Persons and Information,Self-Notions and The Self, and The Sense of Identity. Perry's Introduction puts his own work and... -
Dialectics of Revolution by Kevin B Anderson
RRP: £19.99£13.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781988832753Author Kevin B AndersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 254Imprint Daraja PressPublisher Daraja PressWeight(grams) 1000g -
The Oxford Handbook of Value Theory by Iwao Hirose 9780190927028
RRP: £40.99£37.68Value theory, or axiology, looks at what things are good or bad, how good or bad they are, and, most fundamentally, what it is for a thing to be good or bad. Questions about value and about what is valuable are important to moral philosophers, since most... -
Bourdieu: A Critical Reader by Richard Shusterman 9780631188186
RRP: £38.95£34.20This Critical Reader provides a new perspective on the work of France's foremost social theorist Pierre Bourdieu, by examining its philosophical import and promoting a fruitful dialogue between Bourdieu and philosophers in the English-speaking world. ... -
Hegel and Modern Society by Charles Taylor 9781107534261
RRP: £19.99£15.41This rich study explores the elements of Hegel's social and political thought that are most relevant to our society today. Combating the prevailing post-World War II stereotype of Hegel as a proto-fascist, Charles Taylor argues that Hegel aimed not to... -
Philosophy for AS: 2008 AQA Syllabus by Michael Lacewing
RRP: £36.99£32.93Philosophy for AS is the definitive textbook for students of the current AQA Advanced Subsidiary Level. Structured closely around the examination specifications, it covers the two units of the AS Level in an exceptionally clear and student-friendly style... -
A Companion to Kant's Critique of Pure Reason by Matthew C. Altman
RRP: £37.99£33.38Immanuel Kant's groundbreaking Critique of Pure Reason inaugurated a new way of understanding the world that continues to impact philosophy to the present day. With clear explanations and numerous examples, A Companion to Kant's Critique of Pure Reason... -
Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime by Immanuel Kant 9780520240780
RRP: £23.00£18.10When originally published in 1960, this was the first complete English translation since 1799 of Kant's early work on aesthetics. More literary than philosophical, Observations shows Kant as a man of feeling rather than the dry thinker he often seemed to... -
Persian Letters: With Related Texts by Montesquieu 9781624661808
RRP: £15.99£13.36A classic work of the European Enlightenment--and one of the most popular, if scandalous, in its day--the Persian Letters captures, in an engaging epistolary format, the transformational spirit of the era. Amid an ongoing tale rife with sex, violence,... -
Summa Philosophica Peter Kreeft 9781587318252
RRP: £24.00£20.12Next to the Socratic Method, the best method for organizing a logical debate over a controversial philosophical or theological issue is the method St. Thomas Aquinas uses in the Summa Theologiae. As the charm of the Socratic dialogue is its dramatic... -
Badiou and Indifferent Being: A Critical Introduction to Being and Event by William Watkin
£30.16The first critical work to attempt the mammoth undertaking of reading Badiou's Being and Event as part of a sequence has often surprising, occasionally controversial results. Looking back on its publication Badiou declared: "I had inscribed my... -
Emile: Or On Education by Jean-Jacques Rousseau 9780465019311
£29.70Alan Bloom's new translation of Emile , Rousseau's masterpiece on the education and training of the young, is the first in more than seventy years. In it, Bloom, whose magnificent translation of Plato's Republic has been universally hailed as a... -
The Difficulty of Tolerance: Essays in Political Philosophy by T. M. Scanlon
RRP: £24.99£20.31These essays in political philosophy by T. M. Scanlon, written between 1969 and 1999, examine the standards by which social and political institutions should be justified and appraised. Scanlon explains how the powers of just institutions are limited by... -
Wittgenstein and Heidegger David Egan 9781138942998
RRP: £46.99£40.97Ludwig Wittgenstein and Martin Heidegger are arguably the two most influential philosophers of the twentieth century. Their work not only reshaped the philosophical landscape, but also left its mark on other disciplines, including political science,... -
The Cambridge Companion to Spinoza's Ethics by Olli Koistinen 9780521618601
RRP: £26.99£21.34Since its publication in 1677, Spinoza's Ethics has fascinated philosophers, novelists, and scientists alike. It is undoubtedly one of the most exciting and contested works of Western philosophy. Written in an austere, geometrical fashion, the work... -
Praxis and Action: Contemporary Philosophies of Human Activity by Richard J. Bernstein
RRP: £27.99£24.14From the Introduction: This inquiry is concerned with the themes of praxis and action in four philosophic movements: Marxism, existentialism, pragmatism, and analytic philosophy. It is rare that these four movements are considered in a single inquiry,... -
Twilight of the Self: The Decline of the Individual in Late Capitalism by Michael Thompson
RRP: £21.99£19.19In this new work, political theorist Michael J. Thompson argues that modern societies are witnessing a decline in one of the core building blocks of modernity: the autonomous self. Far from being an illusion of the Enlightenment, Thompson contends that... -
Conversations with Zizek by Slavoj Zizek 9780745628974
RRP: £16.99£15.22In this new book, Slavoj Zizek and Glyn Daly engage in a series of entertaining conversations which illustrate the originality of Zizek's thinking on psychoanalysis, philosophy, multiculturalism, popular/cyber culture, totalitarianism, ethics and... -
Heraclitus Seminar by Martin Heidegger
£28.46In 1966-67 Martin Heidegger and Eugen Fink conducted an extraordinary seminar on the fragments of Heraclitus. Heraclitus Seminar records those conversations, documenting the imaginative and experimental character of the multiplicity of interpretations... -
Intricate Ethics: Rights, Responsibilities, and Permissible Harm by F. M. Kamm 9780195371956
£36.84F.M. Kamm is one of the leading ethical theorists working in philosophy today. She has become well known for her brand of exacting analysis, largely in defense of a non-consequentialist perspective - the view that some actions are right or wrong by... -
The Cambridge Companion to Husserl by Barry Smith
RRP: £34.99£30.49The essays in this volume explore the full range of Husserl's work and reveal just how systematic his philosophy is. There are treatments of his most important contributions to phenomenology, intentionality and the philosophy of mind, epistemology, the... -
Dyskolos: 2-volume set by Menander 9780929524207
RRP: £14.99£12.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780929524207Author MenanderFormat PaperbackPage Count 92Imprint Bryn Mawr CommentariesPublisher Bryn Mawr CommentariesWeight(grams) 140g -
Kant: The Three Critiques by Andrew Ward
£19.04Immanuel Kants three critiques the Critique of Pure Reason, the Critique of Practical Reason and the Critique of Judgment are among the pinnacles of Western Philosophy. This accessible study grounds Kants philosophical position in the context of his... -
Posthumanism in Art and Science: A Reader by Susan McHugh
RRP: £30.00£23.29Posthumanism synthesizes philosophical, literary, and artistic responses to technological advancements, globalization, and mass extinction in the Anthropocene. It asks what it can mean to be human in an increasingly more-than-human world that has lost... -
The Secret Connexion: Causation, Realism, and David Hume: Revised Edition by Galen Strawson 9780199605859
RRP: £35.99£35.94In this revised and updated edition of The Secret Connexion, Galen Strawson explores one of the most discussed subjects in all philosophy: David Hume's work on causation. Strawson challenges the standard view of Hume, according to which he thinks that... -
The Body of Faith: God and the People Israel by Michael Wyschogrod 9781568219103
RRP: £35.00£30.95The original edition of this book describes it as an attempt to 'develop a comprehensive understanding of traditional Judaism in conversation with contemporary philosophical and Christian thought.' This book has been praised by many as one of the most... -
Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays: First and Second Series: A Library of America Paperback Classic by Ralph Waldo Emerson
RRP: £12.95£8.69A compilation of the best essays written by the father of transcendentalism, with selections from Emerson's lectures on history, art, politics, and moreIn the words of Harold Bloom, "Emerson's prose is his triumph, both as eloquence and as insight. After... -
Deconstruction and the Possibility of Justice by David Gray Carlson
RRP: £47.99£42.21The purpose of this volume is to rethink the questions posed by Derrida's writings and his unique philosophical positioning, without reference to the catch phrases that have supposedly summed up deconstruction.About the AuthorDrucilla Cornell, Michel... -
After Disbelief: On Disenchantment, Disappointment, Eternity, and Joy by Anthony T. Kronman
£19.04An intimate, philosophic quest for eternity, amidst the disenchantments and disappointments of our time Many people of faith believe the meaning of life depends on our connection to an eternal order of some kind. Atheists deride this belief as a... -
Social Epistemology and Epistemic Agency: Decentralizing Epistemic Agency by Patrick J. Reider 9781783483488
RRP: £39.00£36.07The field of epistemology is undergoing significant changes. Primary among these changes is an ever growing appreciation for the role social influences play on one's ability to acquire and assess knowledge claims. Arguably, social epistemology's greatest... -
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus: German and English Ludwig Wittgenstein 9780415051866
RRP: £36.99£32.53The Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus first appeared in 1921 and was the only philosophical work that Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) published during his lifetime. Written in short, carefully numbered paragraphs of extreme compression and brilliance, it... -
The Cambridge Companion to Ockham by Paul Vincent Spade
RRP: £30.99£27.17The Franciscan William of Ockham (c. 1288-1347) was an English medieval philosopher, theologian, and political theorist. Along with Thomas Aquinas and Duns Scotus, he is regarded as one of the three main figures in medieval philosophy after around 1150... -
An Introduction to Chinese Philosophy by Karyn Lai
RRP: £27.99£24.67This second edition of An Introduction to Chinese Philosophy presents a comprehensive introduction to key ideas and arguments in early Chinese philosophy. Written in clear, accessible language, it explores philosophical traditions including Confucianism,...