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Routledge Companion to Ancient Philosophy Frisbee Sheffield 9781138478251
RRP: £47.99£42.81The Routledge Companion to Ancient Philosophy is a collection of new essays on the philosophy and philosophers of the ancient Greek and Roman worlds. Written by a cast of international scholars, it covers the full range of ancient philosophy from the... -
Remembering, Second Edition: A Phenomenological Study by Edward S. Casey
RRP: £27.99£24.14RememberingA Phenomenological StudySecond EditionEdward S. CaseyA pioneering investigation of the multiple ways of remembering and the difference that memory makes in our daily lives.A Choice Outstanding Academic Book"An excellent book that provides an... -
Philosophy and Theatre: An Introduction by Tom Stern 9780415604512
RRP: £36.99£32.53The relationship between philosophy and theatre is a central theme in the writings of Plato and Aristotle and of dramatists from Aristophanes to Stoppard. Where Plato argued that playwrights and actors should be banished from the ideal city for their... -
Worlds Without End: The Many Lives of the Multiverse by Mary-Jane Rubenstein 9780231156639
RRP: £20.00£15.89"Multiverse" cosmologies imagine our universe as just one of a vast number of others. While this idea has captivated philosophy, religion, and literature for millennia, it is now being considered as a scientific hypothesis-with different models emerging... -
Choose Your Bearing: Édouard Glissant, Human Rights, and Decolonial Ethics by Benjamin P. Davis 9781399522441
RRP: £14.99£12.55What do we in the West owe those who grow our food, sew our clothes and produce our electronics? And what have we always owed one another, but forgotten, avoided, or simply disregarded? Looking back on nearly a century of colonial war and genocide, in... -
Forms of Desire: Sexual Orientation and the Social Constructionist Controversy by Edward Stein
RRP: £45.99£40.53Perhaps the foremost issue in the emerging area of inquiry known as lesbian and gay studies is the social constructionist controversy. Social constructionism is the view that the categories of sexual orientation are cultural constructs rather than... -
The Metaphysical Foundations of Logic by Martin Heidegger
RRP: £19.99£17.54Offering a full-scale study of the theory of reality hidden beneath modern logic, The Metaphysical Foundations of Logic, a lecture course given in 1928, illuminates the transitional phase in Heidegger's thought from the existential analysis of Being and... -
Making Sense of Kant's 'Critique of Pure Reason': An Introduction by Michael Pendlebury
RRP: £17.99£17.02Kant's Critique of Pure Reason has had, and continues to have, an enormous impact on modern philosophy. In this short, stimulating introduction, Michael Pendlebury explains Kant's major claims in the Critique, how they hang together, and how Kant... -
New Rhetoric, The: A Treatise on Argumentation by Ch. Perelman
RRP: £27.99£24.54The New Rhetoric is founded on the idea that since "argumentation aims at securing the adherence of those to whom it is addressed, it is, in its entirety, relative to the audience to be influenced," says Chaim Perelman and L. Olbrechts-Tyteca, and they... -
The Experience of Freedom by Jean-Luc Nancy 9780804721905
RRP: £21.99£19.19This is the most systematic, the most radical, and the most lucid treatise on freedom that has been written in contemporary Continental philosophy. Finding its guiding motives in Kant's second Critique and working its way up to and beyond Heidegger and... -
Nietzsche by Richard Schacht
RRP: £53.99£47.27Few philosophers have been as widely misunderstood as Nietzsche. His detractors and followers alike have often fundamentally misinterpreted him, distorting his views and intentions and criticizing or celebrating him for reasons removed from the views he... -
Constructions of Reason: Explorations of Kant's Practical Philosophy by Onora O'Neill
RRP: £44.99£38.14Two centuries after they were published, Kant's ethical writings are as much admired and imitated as they have ever been, yet serious and long-standing accusations of internal incoherence remain unresolved. Onora O'Neill traces the alleged incoherences... -
Conspiracy Theories in the Time of Coronavirus by Richard Greene
RRP: £14.99£9.88There are common categories of conspiracy theories, variants of which pop up over and over again. These theories can be used to closely track people's most significant philosophical concerns. In this up-to-date study of conspiracy theories, the authors... -
Key Concepts in World Philosophies: A Toolkit for Philosophers Dr Sarah Flavel 9781350168121
RRP: £24.99£21.93Crossing continents and running across centuries, Key Concepts in World Philosophies brings together the 45 core ideas associated with major Indian, Chinese, Japanese, Islamic, African, Ancient Greek, Indigenous and modern European philosophers. The... -
Readings of Dogen's Treasury of the True Dharma Eye by Steven Heine
RRP: £30.00£23.29The Treasury of the True Dharma Eye (Shobogenzo) is the masterwork of Dogen (1200-1253), founder of the Soto Zen Buddhist sect in Kamakura-era Japan. It is one of the most important Zen Buddhist collections, composed during a period of remarkable... -
Conversations with Rene Girard by Dr Rene Girard
£27.99French theorist Rene Girard was one of the major thinkers of the twentieth century. Read by international leaders, quoted by the French media, Girard influenced such writers as J.M. Coetzee and Milan Kundera. Dubbed "the new Darwin of the human sciences"... -
5-Minute Daily Meditations: Instant Wisdom, Clarity, and Calm by Sah D'Simone 9781641520737
RRP: £16.99£13.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781641520737Author Sah D'SimoneFormat PaperbackPage Count 268Imprint Althea PressPublisher Althea PressWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 165mm * 165mm * 23mm -
Kripke by John P. Burgess 9780745652856
RRP: £17.99£16.04Saul Kripke has been a major influence on analytic philosophy and allied fields for a half-century and more. His early masterpiece, Naming and Necessity, reversed the pattern of two centuries of philosophizing about the necessary and the contingent... -
Works: v. 3 by Isocrates
RRP: £24.95£23.39The sophisticated schoolmaster.The importance of Isocrates for the study of Greek civilization of the fourth century BC is indisputable. From 403 to 393 he wrote speeches for Athenian law courts, and then became a teacher of composition for would-be... -
Practical Shape: A Theory of Practical Reasoning by Jonathan Dancy
RRP: £22.49£20.37Everyone allows that we can reason to a new belief from beliefs that we already have. Aristotle thought that we could also reason from beliefs to action. Practical Shape: A Theory of Practical Reasoning establishes this possibility of reasoning to... -
Positions by Jacques Derrida 9780226143316
RRP: £19.00£18.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780226143316Author Jacques DerridaFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint University of Chicago PressPublisher The University of Chicago Press -
John Dee: The World of the Elizabethan Magus Peter J. French 9780744800791
RRP: £37.99£33.38First published in 1987. John Dee was Renaissance England's first Hermetic magus, a philosopher magician. He was also a respected practical scientist, an immensely learned man who investigated all areas of knowledge. In this fine biography, Peter French... -
Rome: The First Book of Foundations by Michel Serres 9781472590152
RRP: £45.00£43.42Michel Serres first book in his 'foundations trilogy' is all about beginnings. The beginning of Rome but also about the beginning of society, knowledge and culture. Rome is an examination of the very foundations upon which contemporary society has been... -
Knowing Our Limits by Nathan Ballantyne
RRP: £39.99£33.29Changing our minds isn't easy. Even when we recognize our views are disputed by intelligent and informed people, we rarely doubt our rightness. Why is this so? How can we become more open-minded, putting ourselves in a better position to tolerate... -
Torture and Dignity: An Essay on Moral Injury by J M Bernstein
RRP: £32.00£31.51In this unflinching look at the experience of suffering and one of its greatest manifestations-torture-J. M. Bernstein critiques the repressions of traditional moral theory, showing that our morals are not immutable ideals but fragile constructions that... -
Schelling and Modern European Philosophy:: An Introduction by Andrew Bowie 9780415103473
RRP: £41.99£36.75Andrew Bowie's book is the first introduction in English to present F W J Schelling as a major European philospher in his own right. Schelling and Modern European Philosophy, surveys the whole of Schelling's philosophical career, lucidly reconstructing... -
Shaman: The Mysterious Life and Impeccable Death of Carlos Castaneda by Mike Sager 9781950154197
RRP: £6.99£5.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781950154197Author Mike SagerFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Sager Group LLCPublisher Sager Group LLCWeight(grams) 127gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *... -
The Constitution of Selves by Marya Schechtman
RRP: £25.99£22.49An amnesia victim asking "Who am I?" means something different from a confused adolescent asking the same question. Marya Schechtman takes issue with analytic philosophy's emphasis on the first sort of question to the exclusion of the second. The problem... -
The Philosophy of Kierkegaard by Professor George Pattison 9781844650316
RRP: £37.99£33.38Although the ideas of Soren Kierkegaard played a pivotal role in the shaping of mainstream German philosophy and the history of French existentialism, the question of how philosophers should read Kierkegaard is a difficult one to settle. His intransigent... -
Correspondence: 1923 - 1966 Theodor W. Adorno (Frankfurt School) 9780745649238
RRP: £35.00£31.27Theodor W. Adorno and Siegfried Kracauer were two of the most influential philosophers and cultural critics of the 20th century. While Adorno became the leading intellectual figure of the Frankfurt School, Kracauer's writings on film, photography,... -
What Matters Most: Conversations on the Art of Living by Anthony Morgan
RRP: £16.99£16.12The ancient Greek philosopher Plotinus insisted that philosophy should be concerned with nothing less than "what matters most". This collection of philosophical conversations seeks to honour Plotinus' vision by addressing questions related to the art of... -
Post-History by Vilem Flusser
RRP: £19.99£17.54Is there any room left for freedom in a programmed world? This is the essential question that Vilem Flusser asks in Post-History. Written as a series of lectures to be delivered at universities in Brazil, Israel, and France, it was subsequently developed... -
The Algebra of Revolution: The Dialectic and the Classical Marxist Tradition by John Rees
RRP: £37.99£33.38The Algebra of Revolution is the first book to study Marxist method as it has been developed by the main representatives of the classical Marxist tradition, namely Marx and Engels, Luxembourg, Lenin, Lukacs, Gramsci and Trotsky. This book provides the... -
Transparency and Reflection: A Study of Self-Knowledge and the Nature of Mind by Matthew Boyle 9780199926299
RRP: £59.00£53.25The topic of self-knowledge has been central to philosophy since antiquity--but if self-knowledge deserves to be not just a goal that each of us should privately pursue, but a topic that philosophers should investigate in general terms, on what basis... -
Kant's Ethical Thought by Allen W. Wood 9780521648363
RRP: £34.99£30.09This is a major new study of Kant's ethics that will transform the way students and scholars approach the subject in future. Allen Wood argues that Kant's ethical vision is grounded in the idea of the dignity of the rational nature of every human being... -
Phenomenology Of Merleau Ponty: A Search For The Limits Of Consciousness by Gary Brent Madison 9780821406441
RRP: £27.99£24.54The first study of its kind to appear in English, The Phenomenology of Merleau-Ponty is a sustained ontological reading of Merleau-Ponty which traces the evolution of his philosophy of being from his early work to his late, unfinished manuscripts and... -
Personal Identity and Buddhist Philosophy: Empty Persons Mark Siderits 9781472446459
RRP: £39.99£35.06Since the publication of Mark Siderits' important book in 2003, much has changed in the field of Buddhist philosophy. There has been unprecedented growth in analytic metaphysics, and a considerable amount of new work on Indian theories of the self and... -
The Art of Worldly Wisdom: A Pocket Oracle by Balthasar Gracian
RRP: £28.00£16.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385421317Author Baltasar GracianFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing GroupPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing... -
Ethics in the Confucian Tradition: The Thought of Mengzi and Wang Yangming by Philip J. Ivanhoe 9780872205970
RRP: £17.99£14.91This volume serves both as an introduction to the thought of Mengzi (Mencius) and Wang Yangming and as a comparison of their views. By examining issues held in common by both thinkers, Ivanhoe illustrates how the Confucian tradition was both continued... -
The Brain in a Vat by Sanford C. Goldberg 9781107643383
RRP: £24.99£21.18The scenario of the brain in a vat, first aired thirty-five years ago in Hilary Putnam's classic paper, has been deeply influential in philosophy of mind and language, epistemology, and metaphysics. This collection of new essays examines the scenario and...