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Heidegger's Phenomenology of Perception: Learning to See and Hear Hermeneutically, Volume II by David Kleinberg-Levin 9781786612151
RRP: £39.00£36.07In volume I, Kleinberg-Levin interprets five key words in Heidegger's project. In this second volume, he illuminates their significance for Heidegger's phenomenology of perception and his philosophy of history. At stake is the possibility of a new... -
The History of Materialism by F. A. Lange 9780415614160
RRP: £54.99£48.72This is Volume I of five in a series on Epistemology and Metaphysics. Originally published in 1865, this book offers the history of materialism and a criticism of its present importance in that period of time, presented in three parts.About the... -
The Tao of Natural Breathing: For Health, Well-Being, and Inner Growth by Dennis Lewis 9781930485143
RRP: £15.99£10.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781930485143Author Dennis LewisFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Rodmell PressPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams) 299gDimensions(mm) 213mm... -
Awakening and Insight: Zen Buddhism and Psychotherapy by Polly Young-Eisendrath
RRP: £38.99£34.22Buddhism first came to the West many centuries ago through the Greeks, who also influenced some of the culture and practices of Indian Buddhism. As Buddhism has spread beyond India, it has always been affected by the indigenous traditions of its new... -
Race and Racism in Continental Philosophy by Robert Bernasconi
RRP: £21.99£19.19The 15 original essays in Race and Racism in Continental Philosophy explore the resources that continental philosophy brings to debates about contemporary race theory and investigate the racism of some of Europe's most important thinkers. Attention is... -
Plant Minds: A Philosophical Defense by Chauncey Maher 9780367258467
RRP: £19.99£17.69The idea that plants have minds can sound improbable, but some widely respected contemporary scientists and philosophers find it plausible. It turns out to be rather tricky to vindicate the presumption that plants do not have minds, for doing so requires... -
How to Win: 36 Ancient Strategies for Success Eva Wong 9781611808278
RRP: £15.99£10.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611808278Author Eva WongFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications Inc -
The Ethics of Armed Humanitarian Intervention by Don E. Scheid
RRP: £23.99£18.09The question of military intervention for humanitarian purposes is a major focus for international law, the United Nations, regional organizations such as NATO, and the foreign policies of nations. Against this background, the 2011 bombing in Libya by... -
Causalism: Unifying Action and Free Action by Prof Carolina Sartorio 9780192874726
RRP: £45.00£40.87In this volume, Carolina Sartorio makes the case for big-picture causalism: a naturalistic conception of agency and free agency that unifies the two phenomena under a common thesis. This is the thesis that actions/free actions are behaviors that have the... -
Fredric Jameson: The Project of Dialectical Criticism by Robert T. Tally
RRP: £26.99£20.84Fredric Jameson is the most important Marxist critic in the world today. While consistently operating at the cutting edge of literary and cultural studies, Jameson has remained committed to seemingly old-fashioned philosophical discourses, most notably... -
Grafts by Michael Marder
RRP: £19.99£17.54Grafting: do we ever do anything other than that? And are we ever free from vegetal influences when we engage in its operations? For the philosopher Michael Marder, our reflections on vegetal life have a fundamental importance in how we can reflect on... -
Nietzsche's the Gay Science by Robert Miner
RRP: £20.99£17.19Robert Miner attends closely to the rhymes and aphorisms that comprise Nietzsche's Gay Science a text more often quoted than understood. Tracking Nietzsche's mixture of subtle argumentation, memorable images and provocative rhetoric, Miner opens up... -
Propositions in the Making: Experiments in a Whiteheadian Laboratory by Roland Faber 9781793612564
RRP: £90.00£82.62How do we make ourselves a Whiteheadian proposition? This question exposes the multivalent connections between postmodern thought and Whitehead's philosophy, with particular attention to his understanding of propositions. Edited by Roland Faber,... -
Wittgenstein: Meaning and Mind, Volume 3 of an Analytical Commentary on the Philosophical Investigations, Part II: Exegesis 243-247 P. M. S. Hacker (University of Oxford) 9780631190646
RRP: £37.95£33.36This third volume of the monumental commentary on Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations covers sections 243-427, which constitute the heart of the book. Like the previous volumes, it consists of philosophical essays and exegesis. The thirteen... -
Spinoza's Metaphysics: Substance and Thought by Yitzhak Y. Melamed
RRP: £47.49£31.25Yitzhak Melamed here offers a new and systematic interpretation of the core of Spinoza's metaphysics. In the first part of the book, he proposes a new reading of the metaphysics of substance in Spinoza: he argues that for Spinoza modes both inhere in and... -
Nietzsche's Philosophy of the Eternal Recurrence of the Same by Karl Lowith
RRP: £58.00£45.58This long overdue English translation of Karl Lowith's magisterial study is a major event in Nietzsche scholarship in the Anglo-American intellectual world. Its initial publication was extraordinary in itself - a dissident interpretation, written by a... -
Richard Rorty Alan Malachowski 9781902683133
RRP: £32.99£29.16Richard Rorty is notorious for contending that the traditional, foundation-building and truth-seeking ambitions of systematic philosophy should be set aside in favour of a more pragmatic, conversational, hermeneutically guided project. This challenge has... -
Mathematics in Aristotle by Sir Thomas L. Heath 9781138942417
RRP: £36.99£32.93Originally published in 1949. This meticulously researched book presents a comprehensive outline and discussion of Aristotle's mathematics with the author's translations of the greek. To Aristotle, mathematics was one of the three theoretical sciences,... -
Routledge Companion to Sixteenth Century Philosophy by Henrik Lagerlund
RRP: £49.99£44.50Sixteenth century philosophy was a unique synthesis of several philosophical frameworks, a blend of old and new, including but not limited to Scholasticism, Humanism, Neo-Thomism, Aristotelianism, and Stoicism. Unlike most overviews of this period, The... -
Popper: Philosophy, Politics and Scientific Method by Geoffrey Stokes 9780745603223
RRP: £17.99£16.04Karl Popper is a philosopher of knowledge and politics, rationality and freedom. His ideas have won acceptance and provoked controversy among an academic as well as a more general audience. This book aims to broaden our understanding of Popper's... -
Speech and Morality: On the Metaethical Implications of Speaking by Terence Cuneo 9780198712725
£72.56Terence Cuneo develops a novel line of argument for moral realism. The argument he defends hinges on the normative theory of speech, according to which speech acts are generated by an agent's altering her normative position with regard to her audience,... -
Happiness, Death, and the Remainder of Life by Jonathan Lear 9780674006744
RRP: £42.95£34.37Separated by millennia, Aristotle and Sigmund Freud gave us disparate but compelling pictures of the human condition. But if, with Jonathan Lear, we scrutinize these thinkers' attempts to explain human behavior in terms of a higher principle-whether... -
Rekindling Life: A Common Front Baptiste Morizot 9781509549283
RRP: £15.99£14.41As the environmental crisis accelerates, we can easily feel overwhelmed, but our feeling of powerlessness is partly due to a misunderstanding of the natural world. We tend to think of nature as a cathedral on fire, like Notre Dame engulfed in flames. But... -
Dialectic and Dialogue by Dmitri Nikulin
RRP: £19.99£17.54This book considers the emergence of dialectic out of the spirit of dialogue and traces the relation between the two. It moves from Plato, for whom dialectic is necessary to destroy incorrect theses and attain thinkable being, to Cusanus, to modern... -
Biological Cognition by Bryce Huebner
RRP: £17.00£14.72This Element introduces a biological approach to cognition, which highlights the significance of allostatic regulation and the navigation of challenges and opportunities. It argues that cognition is best understood as a juggling act, which reflects... -
Shaftesbury: Characteristics of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times by Lord Shaftesbury
RRP: £45.99£40.73Shaftesbury's Characteristics of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times was first published in 1711. It ranges widely over ethics, aesthetics, religion, the arts (painting, literature, architecture, gardening), and ancient and modern history, and aims at nothing... -
Unbelievable Errors: An Error Theory about All Normative Judgements by Bart Streumer 9780198785897
RRP: £76.00£73.28Unbelievable Errors defends an error theory about all normative judgements: not just moral judgements, but also judgements about reasons for action, judgements about reasons for belief, and instrumental normative judgements. This theory states that... -
Foucault and the Political by Jonathan Simons
RRP: £37.99£33.38Michel Foucault's involvement with politics, both as an individual and a writer, has been much commented upon but until now has not been systematically reviewed. This is the first major introductory study of Michel Foucault as a political thinker... -
Works: v. 4 by Dio Chrysostom
RRP: £24.95£23.39The 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 ... -
Just Words: On Speech and Hidden Harm by Mary Kate McGowan
RRP: £25.49£22.95We all know that speech can be harmful. But what are these harms, and how exactly does the speech in question bring them about? Mary Kate McGowan identifies a previously overlooked mechanism by which speech constitutes, rather than merely causes,... -
The Rigor of Things: Conversations with Dan Arbib by Jean-Luc Marion
RRP: £27.99£24.14In a series of conversations, Jean-Luc Marion reconstructs a career's path in the history of philosophy, theology, and phenomenology. Discussing such concepts as the event, the gift, and the saturated phenomenon, Marion elaborates the rigor displayed by... -
The Natural and the Human: Science and the Shaping of Modernity, 1739-1841 by Stephen Gaukroger 9780198757634
£60.71Stephen Gaukroger presents an original account of the development of empirical science and the understanding of human behaviour from the mid-eighteenth century. Since the seventeenth century, science in the west has undergone a unique form of cumulative... -
Outsourcing Duty: The Moral Exploitation of the American Soldier by Michael Robillard 9780190671457
RRP: £27.99£23.61Are contemporary soldiers exploited by the state and society that they defend? More specifically, have America's professional service members disproportionately carried the moral weight of America's war-fighting decisions since the inception of an... -
Recognizing Reality: Dharmakirti's Philosophy and Its Tibetan Interpretations by Georges B. J. Dreyfus 9780791430989
£30.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791430989Author Georges B. J. DreyfusFormat PaperbackPage Count 622Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York... -
Human Kindness and the Smell of Warm Croissants: An Introduction to Ethics by Ruwen Ogien 9780231169233
RRP: £28.00£21.80Human Kindness and the Smell of Warm Croissants makes philosophy fun, tactile, and popular. Moral thinking is simple, Ruwen Ogien argues, and as inherent as the senses. In our daily experiences, in the situations we confront and in the scenes we witness,... -
Malebranche: Theological Figure, Being 2 by Alain Badiou
RRP: £30.00£23.29Alain Badiou is perhaps the world's most significant living philosopher. In his annual seminars on major topics and pivotal figures, Badiou developed vital aspects of his thinking on a range of subjects that he would go on to explore in his influential... -
Liberty in Their Names: The Women Philosophers of the French Revolution by Sandrine Bergès
RRP: £17.99£15.94Telling the story of three overlooked revolutionary thinkers, Liberty in Their Names explores the lives and works of Olympe de Gouges, Sophie de Grouchy and Manon Roland. All three were thinking and writing about political philosophy, especially equality... -
Damasio's Error and Descartes' Truth: An Inquiry into Consciousness, Metaphysics, and Epistemology Andrew L. Gluck 9781589661271
£11.69The question of the relationship between mind and body as posed by Descartes, Spinoza, and others remains a fundamental debate for philosophers. In Damasio's Error and Descartes' Truth, Andrew Gluck constructs a pluralistic response to the work of... -
Reflections on the Revolution in France by Edmund Burke 9780872200210
RRP: £38.99£31.88John Pocock's edition of Burke's Reflections is two classics in one: Burke's Reflections and Pocock's reflections on Burke and the eighteenth century.ReviewsPocock is, without question, the leading historian of eighteenth-century British-American... -
The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek and Roman Science by Liba Taub 9781107465763
RRP: £24.99£21.18This book provides a comprehensive overview of the key themes in Greek and Roman science, medicine, mathematics and technology. A distinguished team of specialists engage with topics including the role of observation and experiment, Presocratic natural...