Philosophy

Susanne Langer (1895-1985) was one of American philosophy's most distinctive thinkers. Her philosophy was a deep exploration of human life as a continuous process of meaning-making through symbolic forms. Here, Robert E. Innis brings readers closer to...

Neil Levy presents an original theory of freedom and responsibility. Cognitive neuroscience and psychology provide a great deal of evidence that our actions are often shaped by information of which we are not conscious; some psychologists have concluded...

The man with the golden mouth.Dio Cocceianus Chrysostomus (AD ca. 40-ca. 120), of Prusa in Bithynia, Asia Minor, inherited with his brothers large properties and debts from his generous father Pasicrates. He became a skilled rhetorician hostile to...

"The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms is one of the landmarks of twentieth century philosophy. Drawing from the influential work of Wilhelm Dilthey, it transformed neo-Kantianism into a new robust philosophy of culture. The second volume, on Mythical...

No philosopher since Augustine had more strings to his bow than Soren Kierkegaard. He wrote from many points of view, in many literary styles, about many topics (not all of them traditional philosophical topics). He should have written novels or plays,...

The attempt to pursue philosophy in the name of phenomenology is one of the most significant and important developments in twentieth century thought. In this bold and innovative book, Simon Glendinning introduces some of its major figures, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781736680414Author Waysun LiaoFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint Taichi CenterPublisher Taichi CenterWeight(grams) 245gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 11mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307473011Author Alan WolfeFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 255gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781946511546Author Agnes CallardFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Boston Review/Boston Critic Inc.Publisher Boston Review/Boston Critic Inc.

The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Literature is an in-depth examination of literature through a philosophical lens, written by distinguished figures across the major divisions of philosophy. Its 40 newly-commissioned essays are divided into six...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345434074Author Roger T. AmesFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 329gDimensions(mm)...

Are we paying enough attention? At least since the nineteenth century, critics have alleged a widespread and profound failure of attentiveness-to others, to ourselves, to the world around us, to what is truly worthy of focus. Why is there such great...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611800210Author Sean Michael WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)...

Thomas Williams presents the most extensive collection of John Duns Scotus's work on ethics and moral psychology available in English. John Duns Scotus: Selected Writings on Ethics includes extended discussions-and as far as possible, complete...

Kai Draper begins his book with the assumption that individual rights exist and stand as moral obstacles to the pursuit of national no less than personal interests. That assumption might seem to demand a pacifist rejection of war, for any sustained war...

Bringing together three previously unpublished lectures presented to the public by Lacan at the height of his career, and prefaced by Jacques-Alain Miller, My Teaching is a clear, concise introduction to the thought of the influential psychoanalyst after...

This groundbreaking volume investigates the most fundamental question of all: Why is there something rather than nothing? The question is explored from diverse and radical perspectives: religious, naturalistic, platonistic and skeptical. Does science...

Jacques Derrida remains a leading voice of philosophy, his works still resonating today-and for more than three decades, one of the main sites of Derridean deconstruction has been the arts. Collecting nineteen texts spanning from 1979 to 2004, Thinking...

"Being and Logos" is . . . a philosophical adventure of rare inspiration. . . . Its power to illuminate the text . . . , its ecumenicity of inspiration, its methodological rigor, its originality, and its philosophical profundity-all together make it one...

Through an engagement with the philosophies of Proust's contemporaries, Felix Ravaisson, Henri Bergson, and Georg Simmel, Suzanne Guerlac presents an original reading of Remembrance of Things Past (A la recherche du temps perdu). Challenging traditional...

How can the world we live in and see, touch, hear, and smell, the world of living things, people, consciousness, free will, meaning, and value - how can all of this exist and flourish embedded as it is in the physical universe, made up of nothing but...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780670087372Author Gurcharan DasFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Allen LanePublisher Penguin Putnam IncDimensions(mm) 240mm * 160mm * 50mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474438346Author Deborah GoldgaberFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press

Nietzsche wrote in "Ecce Homo" (1888) `that a psychologist without equal speaks from my writings - this is perhaps the first insight gained by a good reader...Who among the philosophers before me was in any way a psychologist? Before me there simply was...

G. W. F. Hegel (1770-1831), the influential German philosopher, believed that human history was advancing spiritually and morally according to God's purpose. At the beginning of Lectures on the History of Philosophy, Hegel writes: "What the history of...

In The Glance of the Medusa, Laszo F. Foeldenyi offers a mesmerizing examination of the rich history of European culture through the lens of mythology and philosophy. Embracing the best traditions of essay writing, this volume invites readers on a...

Do we really know how words actually refer to things, how they describe the world? These questions are not limited to the study of language. They quickly lead to important debates about the character of existence and subjectivity, and they are also...

This text develops a philosophical theory of imagination that draws upon the latest work in psychology. This theory illuminates the use of imagination in coming to terms with art, its role in enabling us to live as social beings, and the psychological...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935408048Author Veit ErlmannFormat HardbackPage Count 424Imprint Zone BooksPublisher Zone BooksWeight(grams) 839gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 44mm

Early Modern German Philosophy (1690-1750) makes some of the key texts of early German thought available in English, in most cases for the first time. The translations range from texts by the most important figures of the period, including Christian...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781640096172Author Brian Thomas SwimmeFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint CounterpointPublisher Counterpoint

The third volume of The Hackett Aquinas, a series of central philosophical treatises of Aquinas in new, state-of-the-art translations accompanied by a thorough commentary on the text.About the AuthorJeffrey Hause is Associate Professor of Philosophy,...

Starve and Immolate tells the story of leftist political prisoners in Turkey who waged a deadly struggle against the introduction of high security prisons by forging their lives into weapons. Weaving together contemporary and critical political theory...

The emerging field of 'psychoanalytic political theory' has now reached a stage in its development and rapid evolution that deserves to be registered, systematically defined and critically evaluated. This Handbook provides the first reference volume...

With Western cultures becoming more pluralistic, the question of "truth" in politics has become a game of interpretations. Today, we face the demise of the very idea of truth as an objective description of facts, though many have yet to acknowledge that...

Wars have played a momentous role in shaping the course of human history. The ever-present specter of conflict has made it an enduring topic of interest in popular culture, and many movies, from Hollywood blockbusters to independent films, have sought to...

"This is the peculiar paradox of loneliness: I am unseen yet I feel exposed, as though my most internal suffering were on public display, as though I am disclosing to the world the vulnerability it does not want to see." By reflecting on the...

This is a theoretical and practical interrogation of how the post political has come to dominate governance. We are told that we live in a 'post ideological' era; that we have moved 'beyond Left and Right'; and that we are 'all in it together'. Democracy...

James Williams sets out a new process philosophy of signs where signs are processes, not fixed relations. He develops his argument through a formal model and a series of case studies in art, science, technology, politics and nature. He engages in...

Ethics: The Key Thinkers introduces the individuals who have wrestled with core moral questions and shaped how we understand ethics today, from what constitutes a good life to arguments about what is right and wrong. Chapters are organised...