Filter By
- Book
- Qty in Cart
- Quantity
- Price
- Subtotal
-
Mind, Body, and Morality: New Perspectives on Descartes and Spinoza Martina Reuter 9781032093529
RRP: £39.99£35.06The turn of the millennium has been marked by new developments in the study of early modern philosophy. In particular, the philosophy of Rene Descartes has been reinterpreted in a number of important and exciting ways, specifically concerning his work on... -
Being a Skull: Site, Contact, Thought, Sculpture by Georges Didi-Huberman
RRP: £17.99£15.90What would a sculpture look like that has as its task to touch thought? For the French philosopher and Art Historian, Georges Didi-Huberman, this is the central question that permeates throughout the work of Italian artist Giuseppe Penone. Through a... -
Lacan for Beginners by Philip Hill 9781934389393
RRP: £12.99£11.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781934389393Author Phillip HillFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint For BeginnersPublisher For Beginners -
Quantum Theory and the Flight from Realism: Philosophical Responses to Quantum Mechanics by Christopher Norris
RRP: £41.99£36.75This book is a critical introduction to the long-standing debate concerning the conceptual foundations of quantum mechanics and the problems it has posed for physicists and philosophers from Einstein to the present. Quantum theory has been a major... -
Nietzsche's Free Spirit Works: A Dialectical Reading by Matthew Meyer
RRP: £30.99£25.45Between 1878 and 1882, Nietzsche published what he called 'the free spirit works': Human, All Too Human; Assorted Opinions and Maxims; The Wanderer and His Shadow; Daybreak; and The Gay Science. Often approached as a mere assemblage of loosely connected... -
Pious Nietzsche: Decadence and Dionysian Faith by Bruce Ellis Benson
RRP: £19.99£17.54Bruce Ellis Benson puts forward the surprising idea that Nietzsche was never a godless nihilist, but was instead deeply religious. But how does Nietzsche affirm life and faith in the midst of decadence and decay? Benson looks carefully at Nietzsche's... -
Deleuze, a Stoic by Ryan J Johnson
RRP: £20.99£19.25Deleuze shows that Stoicism is a philosophical operation that turns the history of thought inside out. Deleuze dramatizes the story of ancient philosophy as a rivalry of four types of thinkers: the subverting pre-Socratics, the ascending Plato, the... -
After The Apocalypse – Finding hope in organizing by Monika Kostera
RRP: £14.99£13.03Our times of crumbling structures and decaying social bonds are often depicted as apocalyptic. This book takes the apocalypse as a metaphor to help us in the search for meaning in our everyday realities. Yes, the apocalypse is when social structures and... -
Profanations by Giorgio Agamben
RRP: £17.99£12.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781890951832Author Giorgio AgambenFormat PaperbackPage Count 102Imprint Zone BooksPublisher Zone BooksDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 13mm -
The Praise of Folly by Desiderius Erasmus 9780300097344
RRP: £16.99£16.66First published in Paris in 1511, The Praise of Folly hasenjoyed enormous and highly controversial success from the author's lifetime down to our own day.It hasno rival, except perhaps Thomas More's Utopia, as the most intense and lively presentation of... -
Inventing Philosophy's Other: Phenomenology in America by Jonathan Strassfeld
RRP: £24.00£23.03The history of phenomenology, and its absence, in American philosophy. Phenomenology and so-called "continental philosophy" receive scant attention in most American philosophy departments, despite their foundational influence on intellectual movements... -
Blade Runner 2049 and Philosophy by Robin Bunce
RRP: £14.99£12.35Blade Runner 2049 is a 2017 sequel to the 1982 movie Blade Runner, about a world in which some human-looking replicants have become dangerous, so that other human-looking replicants, as well as humans, have the job of hunting down the dangerous models... -
Form without Matter: Empedocles and Aristotle on Color Perception by Mark Eli Kalderon 9780198717904
£94.39Mark Eli Kalderon presents an original study in the philosophy of perception written in the medium of historiography. He considers the phenomenology and metaphysics of sensory presentation through the examination of an ancient aporia. Specifically, he... -
Just Health Care by Norman Daniels
RRP: £22.99£19.56How should medical services be distributed within society? Who should pay for them? Is it right that large amounts should be spent on sophisticated technology and expensive operations, or would the resources be better employed in, for instance, less... -
A Rousseau Dictionary Nicholas Dent (University of Birmingham) 9780631175698
RRP: £32.95£29.14The social, educational and political writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau have become enormously influential in the 200 years since his death. But the breadth as well as the depth of Rousseau's achievement - he was amongst other things a creative writer... -
Aquinas on Being and Essence: A Translation and Interpretation by Joseph Bobik 9780268006174
RRP: £22.99£20.01In Aquinas on Being and Essence: A Translation and Interpretation, Joseph Bobik interprets the doctrines put forth by St. Thomas Aquinas in his treatise On Being and Essence. He foregrounds the meaning of the important distinction between first and... -
Entropic Philosophy: Chaos, Breakdown, and Creation by Shannon Mussett 9781786612465
RRP: £89.00£77.95Now is a time of tremendous anxiety about the present and future state of the world. The second law of thermodynamics states that entropy never decreases, that time marches relentlessly forward, and that systems and energy inevitably break down. Entropy... -
Conceptual Engineering and Conceptual Ethics by Alexis Burgess 9780198801856
RRP: £107.50£78.08This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Conceptual engineering and conceptual... -
Chomsky and His Critics by Louise M. Antony 9780631200215
RRP: £40.95£35.89In this compelling volume, ten distinguished thinkers -- William G. Lycan, Galen Strawson, Jeffrey Poland, Georges Rey, Frances Egan, Paul Horwich, Peter Ludlow, Paul Pietroski, Alison Gopnik, and Ruth Millikan -- address a variety of conceptual issues... -
Reading Philosophy: Selected Texts with a Method for Beginners by Samuel Guttenplan 9780631234371
RRP: £104.95£91.23This flexible introductory textbook explores several key themes in philosophy, and helps the reader learn to engage with the key arguments by introducing and analysing a selection of classic readings. Fully integrated introductory text with readings... -
The Knowing Animal: A Philosophical Inquiry into Knowledge and Truth by Raymond Tallis
RRP: £31.00£28.69In The Hand, the first volume of his trilogy, Raymond Tallis looked at how humans have overcome the constraints of biology. The second volume, I Am, focused on two crucial aspects of the escape from being a mere organism: selfhood and agency. This, the... -
Philosophy Comes to Dinner: Arguments About the Ethics of Eating Andrew Chignell 9780415806831
RRP: £39.99£35.06Everyone is talking about food. Chefs are celebrities. "Locavore" and "freegan" have earned spots in the dictionary. Popular books and films about food production and consumption are exposing the unintended consequences of the standard American diet... -
Becoming a Subject: Reflections in Philosophy and Psychoanalysis by Marcia Cavell 9780199287093
£31.60Marcia Cavell draws on philosophy, psychoanalysis, and the sciences of the mind in a fascinating and original investigation of human subjectivity. A 'subject' is a creature, we may say, who recognizes herself as an 'I', taking in the world from her own... -
Logic from A to Z: The Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy Glossary of Logical and Mathematical Terms John B. Bacon 9780415213752
RRP: £35.99£31.69First published in the most ambitious international philosophy project for a generation; the Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy.Logic from A to Z is a unique glossary of terms used in formal logic and the philosophy of mathematics.Over 500 entries... -
The Cultural Turn: Selected Writings on the Postmodern, 1983-1998 by Fredric Jameson
RRP: £16.99£16.91Fredric Jameson, a leading voice on the subject of postmodernism, assembles his most powerful writings on the culture of late capitalism in this essential volume. Classic insights on pastiche, nostalgia, and architecture stand alongside essays on the... -
Propositions by Trenton Merricks 9780198812098
£29.22Propositions has two main goals. The first is to show that there are propositions. The second is to defend an account of their nature. While pursuing these goals, Trenton Merricks draws a variety of controversial conclusions about related issues,... -
Philosophy Of Biology by Elliott Sober
RRP: £49.99£43.50Perhaps because of it implications for our understanding of human nature, recent philosophy of biology has seen what might be the most dramatic work in the philosophies of the ?special? sciences. This drama has centered on evolutionary theory, and in the... -
On the World and Religious Life by Coluccio Salutati 9780674055148
RRP: £29.95£23.66On the World and Religious Life (c. 1381) is the first surviving treatise of Coluccio Salutati (1332-1406), chancellor of the Florentine Republic (1375-1406) and the leader of the humanist movement in Italy in the generation after Petrarch and Boccaccio... -
American Smart Cinema by Claire Perkins
RRP: £23.99£22.96This title describes a new critical tradition in American filmmaking. American Smart Cinema examines a contemporary type of US filmmaking that exists at the intersection of mainstream, art and independent cinema and often gives rise to absurd, darkly... -
An Appeal to the World: The Way to Peace in a Time of Division by Dalai Lama XIV
RRP: £9.99£6.64In An Appeal to the World, His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet illuminates the way to peace in our time, arguing for a form of universal ethics that goes beyond religion - values we all share as humans that can help us create unity and peace to... -
The Fall and Hypertime by Hud Hudson 9780198712695
£69.12Frequently, alleged irreconcilable conflicts between science and religion are instead misdescribed battles concerning negotiable philosophical assumptions--conflicts between metaphysics and metaphysics. Hud Hudson provides a two-stage illustration of... -
How Do You Know?: A Dialogue by Gordon Barnes
RRP: £14.99£12.59How Do You Know? explores problems of knowledge that arise in everyday life. If you are not an expert, how can you know that another person is an expert? If experts are politically biased should you still trust them? More generally, how should you... -
Rousseau's Reader: Strategies of Persuasion and Education John T. Scott 9780226689142
RRP: £31.00£26.33On his famous walk to Vincennes to visit the imprisoned Diderot, Rousseau had what he called an "illumination"-the realization that man was naturally good but becomes corrupted by the influence of society-a fundamental change in Rousseau's perspective... -
Kant's Philosophical Revolution: A Short Guide to the Critique of Pure Reason by Yirmiyahu Yovel 9780691180526
RRP: £30.00£23.29A short, clear, and authoritative guide to one of the most important and difficult works of modern philosophyPerhaps the most influential work of modern philosophy, Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason is also one of the hardest to read, since it... -
The Tyranny of the Ideal: Justice in a Diverse Society by Gerald Gaus 9780691183428
RRP: £30.00£23.29In his provocative new book, The Tyranny of the Ideal, Gerald Gaus lays out a vision for how we should theorize about justice in a diverse society. Gaus shows how free and equal people, faced with intractable struggles and irreconcilable conflicts, might... -
Ancient Music in the Pines: In Zen Mind Suddenly Stops by Osho 9780984444427
RRP: £10.99£7.38Today, humanity is caught up in the mad complexity of the mind and there is an urgent need to rediscover simplicity and innocence. Here, the contemporary mystic Osho brings to life the inherent and timeless wisdom of traditional Zen stories, showing that... -
Anaesthetics of Existence: Essays on Experience at the Edge by Cressida J. Heyes
RRP: £19.99£17.54"Experience" is a thoroughly political category, a social and historical product not authored by any individual. At the same time, "the personal is political," and one's own lived experience is an important epistemic resource. In Anaesthetics of... -
Political Theology: Four New Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty by Paul Kahn 9780231153416
RRP: £22.00£17.36In this strikingly original work, Paul W. Kahn rethinks the meaning of political theology. In a text innovative in both form and substance, he describes an American political theology as a secular inquiry into ultimate meanings sustaining our faith in... -
Empty Ideas: A Critique of Analytic Philosophy by Peter Unger 9780190696016
RRP: £36.49£27.40Peter Unger's provocative new book poses a serious challenge to contemporary analytic philosophy, arguing that to its detriment it focuses the predominance of its energy on "empty ideas." In the mid-twentieth century, philosophers generally agreed... -
The Roger Scruton Reader by Mark Dooley 9781441115386
£16.43The Roger Scruton Reader is the first comprehensive collection of Scruton's writings, spanning a period of thirty years. It gathers selections from some of his earliest works such as The Aesthetics of Architecture (1979) to his most recent Culture Counts...