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Anti-Electra: The Radical Totem of the Girl by Elisabeth von Samsonow
RRP: £17.99£15.90A close examination of the relationship between media, art, and the "Electra complex" The feminist counterpart to Deleuze and Guattari's Anti-Oedipus, Anti-Electra is a philosophy of "the girl" as a model of contemporary transgressive subjectivity... -
The Norton Anthology of Western Philosophy: After Kant by Richard Schacht 9780393974683
RRP: £39.99£37.06The Norton Anthology of Western Philosophy: After Kant provides a comprehensive introduction to the predominantly European ("Continental") interpretive tradition of philosophy after Kant in one volume, and to the now predominantly Anglo-American analytic... -
Thinking it Through: An Introduction to Contemporary Philosophy by Kwame Anthony Appiah 9780195134582
RRP: £96.99£60.34Thinking it Through is a thorough, vividly written introduction to contemporary philosophy and some of the most crucial questions of human existence, including the nature of mind and knowledge, the status of moral claims, the existence of God, the role... -
Gravity and Grace by Gustave Thibon 9780415290005
RRP: £89.99£78.09Gravity and Grace was the first ever publication by the remarkable thinker and activist, Simone Weil. In it Gustave Thibon, the farmer to whom she had entrusted her notebooks before her untimely death, compiled in one remarkable volume a compendium of... -
The Routledge Companion to Seventeenth Century Philosophy by Dan Kaufman
RRP: £43.99£38.44The Routledge Companion to Seventeenth Century Philosophy is an outstanding survey of one of the most important eras in the history of Western philosophy - one which witnessed philosophical, scientific, religious and social change on a massive scale.A... -
Fashion - Philosophy for Everyone: Thinking with Style Fritz Allhoff (Western Michigan University, The Nanoethics Group, USA) 9781405199902
RRP: £14.95£13.55If you just can't decide what to wear, this enlightening guide will lead you through the diverse and sometimes contradictory aspects of fashion in a series of lively, entertaining and thoughtful essays from prominent philosophers and writers. A unique... -
Cornel West: A Critical Reader George Yancy (Duquesne University) 9780631222927
RRP: £38.95£34.60This comprehensive text offers a systematic and thematic approach to West's philosophical work. It moves the reader through his distinctive form of prophetic pragmatism, his historicist and improvisational philosophy of religion, his socialist democratic... -
The Writings by William James
£33.05In his introduction to this collection, John McDermott presents James's thinking in all its manifestations, stressing the importance of radical empiricism and placing into perspective the doctrines of pragmatism and the will to believe. The critical... -
Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, Volume 43 by Brad Inwood 9780199666164
£107.52Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy is a volume of original articles on all aspects of ancient philosophy. The articles may be of substantial length, and include critical notices of major books. OSAP is now published twice yearly, in both hardback and... -
Divine Hiddenness and Human Reason by J. L. Schellenberg
RRP: £27.99£24.54Why, if a loving God exists, are there "reasonable nonbelievers," people who fail to believe in God but through no fault of their own? In Part 1 of this book, the first full-length treatment of its topic, J. L. Schellenberg argues that when we notice how... -
Thoughts: Papers on Mind, Meaning, and Modality by Stephen Yablo 9780199266470
RRP: £41.49£41.28Thoughts is a collection of twelve essays by Stephen Yablo which together constitute a modern-day examination of Cartesian themes in the metaphysics of mind. Yablo offers penetrating discussions of such topics as the relation between the mental and the... -
Being in Time: Selves and Narrators in Philosophy and Literature by Genevieve Lloyd 9780415071963
RRP: £41.99£36.75Genevieve Lloyd's book is a provocative and accessible essay on the fragmentation of the self as explored in philosophy and literature. The past is irrevocable, consciousness changes as time passes: given this, can there ever be such a thing as the unity... -
Heidegger and the Problem of Consciousness by Nancy J. Holland 9780253035943
RRP: £29.99£26.50Nancy J. Holland turns to the thought of Martin Heidegger to help understand an age-old philosophical question: Is there a split between the body and the mind? Arguing against philosophical positions that define human consciousness as an overarching... -
Metasemantics: New Essays on the Foundations of Meaning by Alexis Burgess 9780199669592
£86.70Metasemantics comprises new work on the philosophical foundations of linguistic semantics, by a diverse group of established and emerging experts in the philosophy of language, metaphysics, and the theory of content. The science of semantics aspires to... -
Responsibility and Atonement by Richard Swinburne 9780198248491
£40.25This study is based on the Edward Cadbury Lectures given by the author at the University of Birmingham in 1987. It is an account of how moral concepts such as forgiveness, praise, mercy, guilt and punishment and reward apply to human interaction and... -
Body Consciousness: A Philosophy of Mindfulness and Somaesthetics by Richard Shusterman
RRP: £24.99£19.88Contemporary culture increasingly suffers from problems of attention, over-stimulation, and stress, and a variety of personal and social discontents generated by deceptive body images. This book argues that improved body consciousness can relieve these... -
Nietzsche's Metaphysics of the Will to Power: The Possibility of Value by Tsarina Doyle
RRP: £30.99£22.85Nietzsche's controversial will to power thesis is convincingly rehabilitated in this compelling book. Tsarina Doyle presents a fresh interpretation of his account of nature and value, which sees him defy the dominant conception of nature in the... -
The Three Principal Aspects Of The Path by Geshe Sonam Rinchen
RRP: £19.99£12.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781559393508Author Geshe Sonam RinchenFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Snow Lion PublicationsPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)... -
Five Lessons on Wagner by Alain Badiou
£21.95For over a century, Richard Wagner's music has been the subject of intense debate among philosophers, many of whom have attacked its ideological-some say racist and reactionary-underpinnings. In this major new work, Alain Badiou, radical philosopher and... -
Error, Illusion, Madness Bento Prado, Jr. 9781509537051
RRP: £15.99£14.41This book makes available in English the work of one of the most important Brazilian philosophers and intellectuals of the twentieth century. First published in 2004, Error, Illusion, Madness is an original contribution to the debate about the nature and... -
Talent Development, Existential Philosophy and Sport: On Becoming an Elite Athlete Kenneth Aggerholm (University of Southern Denmark) 9781138208346
RRP: £43.99£38.44'Why don't young athletes in sport just quit?' Starting with this question and drawing on existential philosophy, phenomenology and hermeneutics, Talent Development, Existential Philosophy and Sport seeks a deeper understanding of the experience of... -
Necessary Beings: An Essay on Ontology, Modality, and the Relations Between Them by Bob Hale 9780198748038
£42.75Necessary Beings is concerned with two central areas of metaphysics: modality--the theory of necessity, possibility, and other related notions; and ontology--the general study of what kinds of entities there are. Bob Hale's overarching purpose is to... -
Attention Is Cognitive Unison: An Essay in Philosophical Psychology by Christopher Mole 9780195384529
RRP: £80.00£65.53Some psychological phenomena can be explained by identifying and describing the processes that constitute them. Others cannot be explained in that way. In ATTENTION IS COGNITIVE UNISON Christopher Mole gives a precise account of the metaphysical... -
Heidegger and the Myth of a Jewish World Conspiracy by Peter Trawny 9780226303734
RRP: £24.00£23.43In 2014, the first three volumes of Heidegger's Black Notebooks-the personal and philosophical notebooks that he kept during the war years-were published in Germany. These notebooks provide the first textual evidence of anti-Semitism in Heidegger's... -
The Ethics of Sport: What Everyone Needs to Know (R) by Robert L. Simon 9780190270193
RRP: £10.99£7.77The Ethics of Sport explores moral issues that arise in sports, especially competitive athletics, in a manner that is accessible not only to sports fans or participants but also to those critical of sports or simply interested in an introduction to the... -
On Compassion, Healing, Suffering, and the Purpose of the Emotional Life by Susan Wessel
RRP: £22.99£22.85Reading Augustine presents concise, personal readings of St. Augustine of Hippo from leading philosophers and religion scholars. Augustine of Hippo knew that this fallen world is a place of sadness and suffering. In such a world, he determined that... -
Postmodern Apologetics?: Arguments for God in Contemporary Philosophy by Prof. Christina M. Gschwandtner 9780823242757
RRP: £29.99£26.50This book provides an introduction to the emerging field of continental philosophy of religion by treating the thought of its most important representatives, including its appropriations by several thinkers in the United States. Part I provides context... -
Divine Contradiction by Prof Jc Beall
RRP: £60.00£54.13Building on his paradigm-shifting work on the incarnation in The Contradictory Christ (OUP, 2021), Jc Beall extends a robust contradictory theology with an account of the trinity. Throughout the history of the Christian church, heretics, apophatics,... -
Capitalism and the Limits of Desire by John Roberts
RRP: £23.99£20.94Addressing Spinoza's perennial question: "why do the masses fight for their servitude as if it was salvation?", Capitalism and the Limits of Desire examines the ways in which self-love as the care of the self has become intertwined with self-love as the... -
Lyotard and the Inhuman Condition: Reflections on Nihilism, Information and Art by Ashley Woodward
RRP: £23.99£19.51Ashley Woodward demonstrates what a new generation of scholars are just discovering: that Lyotard s incisive work is essential for current debates in the humanities. Lyotard s ideas about the arts and the confrontations between humanist traditions and... -
Karl Jaspers: An Introduction to His Philosophy by Charles Frederic Wallraff 9780691621081
RRP: £35.00£27.74The thought of the late Karl Jaspers, co-founder of the existentialist movement, has long exerted a powerful influence on world opinion. But, surprisingly, though translations of his writings have appeared in over 160 editions in 16 countries, his... -
America's Racial Karma by Larry Ward
RRP: £11.99£7.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781946764744Author Larry WardFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Parallax PressPublisher Parallax Press -
Kant and the Creation of Freedom: A Theological Problem by Dr. Christopher J. Insole 9780198755197
£32.73Kant actively struggles with the problem of how to conceive of God's creative action in relation to human freedom. He comes to the view that human freedom can only be protected if God withdraws in certain ways from the created world. The two pillars of... -
The Rehabilitation of Myth: Vico's 'New Science' by Joseph Mali
RRP: £26.99£22.80In this important essay, Joseph Mali argues that Vico's New Science must be interpreted according to Vico's own clues and rules of interpretation, principally his claim that the 'master-key' of his New Science is the discovery of myth. Following this... -
Peirce on Realism and Idealism by Robert Lane
RRP: £30.99£22.85This book offers a new interpretation of the metaphysics of Charles Peirce (1839-1914), the founder of pragmatism and one of America's greatest philosophers. Robert Lane begins by examining Peirce's basic realism, his belief in a world that is... -
Our Wound is Not So Recent: Thinking the Paris Killings of 13 November Alain Badiou (l'Ecole normale superieure) 9781509514939
RRP: £7.99£5.60On 13 November 2015, Paris suffered the second wave of brutal terrorist attacks in a year, leaving 130 dead and many more seriously injured. How are we to make sense of these violent acts and what do they tell us about the forces shaping our world... -
Platonic Conversations by Mary Margaret McCabe 9780198732884
£96.41M. M. McCabe presents a selection of her essays which explore the ways in which the Platonic method of conversation may inform how we understand both the Platonic dialogues and the work of his predecessors and his successors. The centrality of... -
Hate Speech Law: A Philosophical Examination Alex Brown 9781138062740
RRP: £47.99£42.21Hate speech law can be found throughout the world. But it is also the subject of numerous principled arguments, both for and against. These principles invoke a host of morally relevant features (e.g., liberty, health, autonomy, security,... -
Reappraising Political Theory: Revisionist Studies in the History of Political Thought by Terence Ball 9780198279952
£61.30Machiavelli, Hobbes, Rousseau, Mill, and Marx, and Foucault - what really links these and other `classic' political theorists? Not, argues Terence Ball, their common status as `dead, white, European males', but instead the exciting and compelling way in... -
The Trolley Problem Mysteries by F. M. Kamm 9780190247157
RRP: £32.49£30.55Suppose you can stop a trolley from killing five people, but only by turning it onto a side track where it will kill one. May you turn the trolley? What if the only way to rescue the five is to topple a bystander in front of the trolley so that his body...