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The Genesis of Heidegger's Being and Time by Theodore Kisiel
RRP: £34.00£27.37This book, ten years in the making, is the first factual and conceptual history of Martin Heidegger's "Being and Time" (1927), a key twentieth-century text whose background until now has been conspicuously absent. Through painstaking investigation of... -
The Cambridge Companion to Hippocrates by Peter E. Pormann
RRP: £28.99£24.82Hippocrates is a towering figure in Greek medicine. Dubbed the 'father of medicine', he has inspired generations of physicians over millennia in both the East and West. Despite this, little is known about him, and scholars have long debated his... -
Language, Madness, and Desire: On Literature by Michel Foucault
RRP: £15.99£14.24As a transformative thinker of the twentieth century, whose work spanned all branches of the humanities, Michel Foucault had a complex and profound relationship with literature. And yet this critical aspect of his thought, because it was largely... -
Toward a Pragmatist Metaethics by Diana Heney
RRP: £39.99£35.06In our current social landscape, moral questions-about economic disparity, disadvantaging biases, and scarcity-are rightly receiving attention with a sense of urgency. This book argues that classical pragmatism offers a compelling and useful account of... -
Benjamin'S Arcades: An Unguided Tour by Professor Peter Buse
RRP: £19.99£17.61The Arcades Project, Walter Benjamin's unfinished masterpiece, is a brilliant but maddening book. Benjamin's Arcades: an unGuided Tour looks for the method behind the madness, carefully reconstructing the intellectual and political context of the work... -
Lady Mary Shepherd: Selected Writings by Deborah Boyle 9781845409890
RRP: £14.95£14.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845409890Author Deborah BoyleFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint Imprint AcademicPublisher Imprint AcademicWeight(grams) 300g -
Being Sure of Each Other: An Essay on Social Rights and Freedoms by Kimberley Brownlee 9780198714064
RRP: £59.00£53.25We are deeply social creatures. Our core social needs--for meaningful social inclusion--are more important than our civil and political needs and our economic welfare needs, and we won't secure those other things if our core social needs go unmet. Our... -
Zen In Martial Arts - Reissue by Joe Hyams
RRP: £7.99£6.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553275599Author Joe HyamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Bantam Dell Publishing Group, Div of Random House, IncPublisher Random House USA... -
Interpreting Proclus: From Antiquity to the Renaissance by Stephen Gersh
RRP: £36.99£23.25This is the first book to provide an account of the influence of Proclus, a member of the Athenian Neoplatonic School, during more than one thousand years of European history (c.500-1600). Proclus was the most important philosopher of late antiquity, a... -
The Empire of Fashion: Dressing Modern Democracy by Gilles Lipovetsky
RRP: £35.00£27.74In a book full of playful irony and striking insights, the controversial social philosopher Gilles Lipovetsky draws on the history of fashion to demonstrate that the modern cult of appearance and superficiality actually serves the common good. Focusing... -
Disordered Actions: A Moral Analysis of Lying and Homosexual Activity by John Skalko 9783868382181
£36.69The first two decades of the twenty-first century witnessed a rapid change in Western societal acceptance of homosexual activity. This change, however, remains fundamentally unstable unless founded upon an adequate moral theory. Today many within the... -
The Emergency of Being: On Heidegger's "Contributions to Philosophy" by Professor Richard Polt
RRP: £29.99£26.50"The heart of history, for Heidegger, is not a sequence of occurrences but the eruption of significance at critical junctures that bring us into our own by making all being, including our being, into an urgent issue. In emergency, being emerges."-from... -
The Right and the Good by Sir David Ross 9780199252640
£57.29"The Right and the Good" is now presented with an introduction by Philip Stratton-Lake. David Ross's book examines ethical intuitionism, which was the dominant moral theory in British philosophy for much of the 19th and early 20th century. Intuitionism... -
Techne Theory: A New Language for Art by Henry Staten
RRP: £24.99£21.78Only since the Romantic period has art been understood in terms of an ineffable aesthetic quality of things like poems, paintings, and sculptures, and the art-maker as endowed with an inexplicable power of creation. From the Greeks to the 18th century,... -
Normativity, Meaning, and the Promise of Phenomenology by Matthew Burch
RRP: £39.99£35.06The aim of this volume is to critically assess the philosophical importance of phenomenology as a method for studying the normativity of meaning and its transcendental conditions. Using the pioneering work of Steven Crowell as a springboard,... -
Marx: A Philosophy of Human Reality by Michel Henry
£30.50If we are to understand Marx's thought, argues French philosopher Michel Henry, we must cast aside Marxism. In his original and richly detailed study of Marx's philosophy, Henry emphasizes the importance of approaching Marx's writings directly, rather... -
Plato Prehistorian: Myth, Religion, Archeology by Mary Settegast 9781584208976
RRP: £45.00£34.68In his Timaeus and Critias dialogues, Plato wrote of two ancient civilisations that flourished more than 9,000 years before his time. Socrates accepted the account as true, and modern archaeological techniques may yet prove him right. In Plato,... -
Hume's True Scepticism by Donald C. Ainslie 9780198801412
£34.73David Hume is famous as a sceptical philosopher but the nature of his scepticism is difficult to pin down. Hume's True Scepticism provides the first sustained interpretation of Part 4 of Book 1 of Hume's Treatise, his deepest engagement with sceptical... -
Cowardice: A Brief History by Chris Walsh 9780691138633
RRP: £22.00£17.36Coward. It's a grave insult, likely to provoke anger, shame, even violence. But what exactly is cowardice? When terrorists are called cowards, does it mean the same as when the term is applied to soldiers? And what, if anything, does cowardice have to do... -
The Routledge Handbook of Applied Epistemology by David Coady 9780367733766
RRP: £43.99£38.84While applied epistemology has been neglected for much of the twentieth century, it has seen emerging interest in recent years, with key thinkers in the field helping to put it on the philosophical map. Although it is an old tradition, current... -
The End of the World: The Science and Ethics of Human Extinction by John Leslie 9780415140430
RRP: £135.00£117.28Are we in imminent danger of extinction? Yes, we probably are, argues John Leslie in his chilling account of the dangers facing the human race as we approach the second millenium.The End of the World is a sobering assessment of the many disasters that... -
Moderately Modern by Remi Brague
RRP: £24.00£20.12Moderately Modern wears its thesis on its sleeve. Modern men and women, those thoroughly imbued with modernity's ideas, hopes, and projects, need to moderate themselves. They need to rein themselves in, they need to think and act beyond their comfort... -
Narrative, Emotion, and Insight by Noel Carroll
RRP: £34.95£31.19While narrative has been one of the liveliest and most productive areas of research in literary theory, discussions of the nature of emotional responses to art and of the cognitive value of art tend to concentrate almost exclusively on the problem of... -
Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morality David Owen 9781844651047
RRP: £37.99£33.38A landmark work of western philosophy, "On the Genealogy of Morality" is a dazzling and brilliantly incisive attack on European "morality". Combining philosophical acuity with psychological insight in prose of remarkable rhetorical power, Nietzsche takes... -
Jean Baudrillard: The Disappearance of Culture: Uncollected Interviews by Richard G. Smith
RRP: £23.99£22.47Jean Baudrillard (1929-2007) was one of the world's most influential, celebrated and controversial thinkers. Originally published between 1968 and 2009, this collection of 25 pieces includes six interviews translated into English for the first time and a... -
Persons and Personal Identity Amy Kind 9780745654324
RRP: £15.99£14.41As persons, we are importantly different from all other creatures in the universe. But in what, exactly, does this difference consist? What kinds of entities are we, and what makes each of us the same person today that we were yesterday? Could we survive... -
Pragmatism: An Open Question Hilary Putnam (Harvard University) 9780631193432
RRP: £34.95£30.83Hilary Putnam has been at the center of contemporary debates about the nature of the mind and of its access to the world, about language and its relation to reality, and many other metaphysical and epistemological issues. In this book he turns to... -
Biopolitics Catherine Mills 9781844656059
RRP: £37.99£33.38The concept of biopolitics has been one of the most important and widely used in recent years in disciplines across the humanities and social sciences. In Biopolitics, Mills provides a wide-ranging and insightful introduction to the field of biopolitical... -
Encyclopedia of Feminist Theories by Lorraine Code
RRP: £45.99£41.13The path-breaking Encyclopedia of Feminist Theories is an accessible, multidisciplinary insight into the complex field of feminist thought. The Encyclopedia contains over 500 authoritative entries commissioned from an international team of contributors... -
Wittgenstein and the Limits of Language by Hanne Appelqvist
RRP: £39.99£35.06The limit of language is one of the most pervasive notions found in Wittgenstein's work, both in his early Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus and his later writings. Moreover, the idea of a limit of language is intimately related to important scholarly... -
Explaining the Normative by Stephen P. Turner 9780745642567
£19.04Normativity is what gives reasons their force, makes words meaningful, and makes rules and laws binding. It is present whenever we use such terms as 'correct,' 'ought,' 'must,' and the language of obligation, responsibility, and logical compulsion. Yet... -
The Submerged Reality: Sophiology and the Turn to a Poetic Metaphysics by Michael Martin 9781621381136
RRP: £16.00£15.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621381136Author Michael MartinFormat PaperbackPage Count 246Imprint Angelico PressPublisher Angelico PressWeight(grams) 367gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm... -
Philosophical Works: On the Relation of Philosophy to Theology by Joseph C. McLelland
RRP: £22.00£21.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999552766Author Joseph C. McLellandFormat PaperbackPage Count 396Imprint The Davenant InstitutePublisher The Davenant Institute -
Time and its Importance in Modern Thought M. F. Cleugh 9781138394032
RRP: £32.99£29.16Originally published in 1937. This book is a classic work on the philosophy of time, looking at the pshychology, physics and logic of time before investigating the views of Kant, Bergson, Alexander, McTaggart and Dunne. The second half of the book... -
Rationality: An Essay Towards Analysis by Jonathan Francis Bennett 9780872200661
RRP: £13.99£11.83This stimulating work takes the concept of 'rationality', a concept that more than any other is supposed to express the essence of what it means to be human, and submits it to a careful and penetrating analysis. The conclusions drawn often challenge... -
Speculative Annihilationism: The Intersection of Archaeology and Extinction Matt Rosen 9781789041477
RRP: £9.99£8.59If Levinas and Negarestani raised a child enchanted by the dark, then this is his debut. In this book, Rosen argues that current archaeological theoretic approaches are not up to the task of adequately theorizing exhumation in our present age of... -
Rousseau and Hobbes: Nature, Free Will, and the Passions by Robin Douglass 9780198724964
£77.21Robin Douglass presents the first comprehensive study of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's engagement with Thomas Hobbes. He reconstructs the intellectual context of this engagement to reveal the deeply polemical character of Rousseau's critique of Hobbes and to... -
His Holiness The Dalai Lama: Infinite Compassion for an Imperfect World Alan Jacobs 9781780280066
RRP: £8.99£6.20Masters of Wisdom: His Holiness the Dalai Lama is a jewelled casket of spiritual wisdom and practice to promote world peace and global happiness, love and compassion. The Dalai Lama writes clearly and concisely in a delightful, measured prose that... -
Cooking, Eating, Thinking: Transformative Philosophies of Food by Deane W. Curtin
RRP: £23.99£20.84Philosophy has often been criticized for privileging the abstract; this volume attempts to remedy that situation. Focusing on one of the most concrete of human concerns, food, the editors argue for the existence of a philosophy of food. The collection... -
Encounters with World Affairs: An Introduction to International Relations Emilian Kavalski 9781472411167
RRP: £43.99£39.44This book is designed to familiarise students with leading International Relations (IR) theories and their explanation of political events, phenomena, and processes which cross the territorial boundaries of the state. Thus, students will be exposed to...