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Beyond Moral Judgment by Alice Crary
RRP: £28.95£22.90What is moral thought and what kinds of demands does it impose? Alice Crary's Beyond Moral Judgment claims that even the most perceptive contemporary answers to these questions offer no more than partial illumination, owing to an overly narrow focus on... -
Voices of Ancient Philosophy: An Introductory Reader by Julia Annas 9780195126952
RRP: £116.99£71.45This topically organized collection is intended as an introduction to the many varied voices of ancient philosophy that involves the reader directly in the issues. Rather than proceeding chronologically through different systems, the student engages with... -
The Don Giovanni Moment: Essays on the Legacy of an Opera by Lydia Goehr
RRP: £28.00£24.96Mozart's Don Giovanni is an operatic masterpiece full of iconic and mythical tensions that still resonate today. The work redefines the terms of power, seduction, and morality, and the resulting conflict between the aesthetic and the ethical is deeply... -
The Cambridge Edition of Early Christian Writings: Volume 3, Christ: Through the Nestorian Controversy by Mark DelCogliano
£117.39The Cambridge Edition of Early Christian Writings provides the definitive anthology of early Christian texts from ca. 100 CE to ca. 650 CE. Its volumes reflect the cultural, intellectual, and linguistic diversity of early Christianity, and are organized... -
Abelard in Four Dimensions: A Twelfth-Century Philosopher in His Context and Ours by Dr. John Marenbon
RRP: £26.99£23.32Abelard in Four Dimensions: A Twelfth-Century Philosopher in His Context and Ours by John Marenbon, one of the leading scholars of medieval philosophy and a specialist on Abelard's thought, originated from a set of lectures in the distinguished Conway... -
The Value of Privacy by Beate Rossler 9780745631110
£19.04This new book by Beate Roessler is a work of real quality and originality on an extremely topical issue: the issue of privacy and the relations between the private and the public. Roessler investigates the reasons why we value privacy and why we ought... -
Music in German Philosophy: An Introduction by Stefan Lorenz Sorgner
RRP: £40.00£38.55Though many well-known German philosophers have devoted considerable attention to music and its aesthetics, surprisingly few of their writings on the subject have been translated into English. Stefan Lorenz Sorgner, a philosopher, and Oliver Furbeth, a... -
The Spirit of Revolution: Beyond the Dead Ends of Man Drucilla Cornell (University of Pennsylvania) 9780745690759
RRP: £16.99£15.22In recent years, feminist and queer theory have effectively disavowed both "the human" and revolutionary politics. In the face of massive geopolitical crisis, posthumanists have called for us to reconsider fundamentally the superiority and centrality of... -
Nietzsche: Naturalism and Interpretation by Christoph Cox
RRP: £49.00£44.29Nietzsche: Naturalism and Interpretation offers a resolution of one of the most vexing problems in Nietzsche scholarship. As perhaps the most significant predecessor of more recent attempts to formulate a postmetaphysical epistemology and ontology,... -
Reason and Human Good in Aristotle by John M. Cooper 9780872200227
RRP: £18.99£15.67"A sophisticated and illuminating study of central questions about Aristotle's views on practical reason and the ultimate good. Cooper's three chapters . . . examine familiar exegetical puzzles in a fresh and challenging way; but they also . . . raise... -
Aristotle on Thought and Feeling by Paula Gottlieb
RRP: £90.00£75.12Aristotle's discussion of the motivation of the good person is both complicated and cryptic. Depending on which passages are emphasized, he may seem to be presenting a Kantian style view according to which the good person is and ought to be motivated... -
Kant's Theory of Labour by Jordan Pascoe
RRP: £17.00£14.72This Element examines Kant's innovative account of labour in his political philosophy and develops an intersectional analysis of Kant. By demonstrating that Kant's analysis of slavery, citizenship, and sex developed in inter-linked ways over several... -
On Delusion Jennifer Radden 9780415774482
RRP: £23.99£20.99Delusions play a fundamental role in the history of psychology, philosophy and culture, dividing not only the mad from the sane but reason from unreason. Yet the very nature and extent of delusions are poorly understood. What are delusions? How do they... -
Arendt and Heidegger: The Fate of the Political by Dana R. Villa 9780691044002
RRP: £50.00£39.12Theodor Adorno once wrote an essay to "defend Bach against his devotees." In this book Dana Villa does the same for Hannah Arendt, whose sweeping reconceptualization of the nature and value of political action, he argues, has been covered over and... -
Philosophiae Moralis Institutio Compendi: With a Short Introduction to Moral Philosophy by Francis Hutcheson 9780865974531
RRP: £10.95£9.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865974531Author Francis HutchesonFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Liberty Fund IncPublisher Liberty Fund IncWeight(grams) 1010g -
On Education: Conversations with Riccardo Mazzeo by Zygmunt Bauman 9780745661568
£15.23What is the role of education in a world where we no longer have a clear vision of the future and where the idea of a single, universal model of humanity seems like the residue of a bygone age? What role should educators play in a world where young... -
Wittgenstein Hans Sluga (University of California, Berkeley, USA) 9781405118484
RRP: £20.95£18.50wittgenstein "Sluga draws a fascinating picture of Wittgenstein as a situated thinker: brilliant insights into the cultural background mesh with an often original and always profound understanding of Wittgenstein's work, yielding an accessible and... -
The Unity of Science by Rudolf Carnap
RRP: £32.99£29.16As a leading member of the Vienna Circle, Rudolph Carnap's aim was to bring about a "unified science" by applying a method of logical analysis to the empirical data of all the sciences. This work, first published in English in 1934, endeavors to work out... -
Kant’s Humorous Writings: An Illustrated Guide by Noël Carroll
RRP: £65.00£56.57While Kant is commonly regarded as one of the most austere philosophers of all time, this book provides quite a different perspective of the founder of transcendental philosophy. Kant is often thought of as being boring, methodical, and humorless. Yet... -
Temporality and Shame: Perspectives from Psychoanalysis and Philosophy Ladson Hinton 9781138702349
RRP: £42.99£37.59Winner of the 2018 American Board and Academy of Psychoanalysis (ABAPsa) prize for best Edited book Temporality has always been a central preoccupation of modern philosophy, and shame has been a major theme in contemporary psychoanalysis. To date,... -
Anarchy, State, and Utopia: An Advanced Guide Lester H. Hunt (University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA) 9781118880470
RRP: £26.95£23.43Anarchy, State, and Utopia: An Advanced Guide presents a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the ideas expressed in Robert Nozick's highly influential 1974 work on free-market libertarianism-considered one of the most important and influential... -
Concrete Critical Theory: Althusser’s Marxism by William S. Lewis 9781642597899
RRP: £25.00£16.73Taking an analytic and historical approach, this work develops and defends Althusserian critical theory. This theory, it is argued, produces knowledge of how a particular class of people, in a particular time, in a particular place, is dominated,... -
The Best Things in Life: A Guide to What Really Matters by Thomas Hurka 9780195331424
RRP: £15.99£12.23For centuries, philosophers, theologians, moralists, and ordinary people have asked: How should we live? What makes for a good life? In The Best Things in Life, distinguished philosopher Thomas Hurka takes a fresh look at these perennial questions as... -
Derrida and Other Animals: The Boundaries of the Human by Judith Still
RRP: £31.00£26.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474474559Author Judith StillFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University PressWeight(grams) 630g -
Is it Rape?: On Acquaintance Rape and Taking Women's Consent Seriously Joan McGregor 9780754650669
RRP: £39.99£35.06The issue of acquaintance rape has been gaining increased prominence in recent years. In this book Joan McGregor analyses the ethical and legal problems that arise in connection with acquaintance rape cases. She discusses with great clarity and precision... -
On the History of Modern Philosophy by F. W. J. von Schelling
RRP: £42.99£36.72On the History of Modern Philosophy is a key transitional text in the history of European philosophy. In it, F. W. J. Schelling surveys philosophy from Descartes to German Idealism and shows why the Idealist project is ultimately doomed to failure. The... -
Eastern Philosphy for Beginners by Jim Powell 9781934389072
RRP: £13.99£11.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781934389072Author Jim PowellFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint For BeginnersPublisher For Beginners -
Naturalism and Normativity by Mario De Caro 9780231134675
RRP: £30.00£23.29Normativity concerns what we ought to think or do and the evaluations we make. For example, we say that we ought to think consistently, we ought to keep our promises, or that Mozart is a better composer than Salieri. Yet what philosophical moral can we... -
Perception Barry Maund 9781902683607
RRP: £36.99£32.53The philosophical issues raised by perception make it one of the central topics in the philosophical tradition. Debate about the nature of perceptual knowledge and the objects of perception comprises a thread that runs through the history of philosophy... -
The Philosophy of Envy by Sara Protasi 9781009001717
RRP: £24.99£22.37Envy is almost universally condemned and feared. But is its bad reputation always warranted? In this book, Sara Protasi argues that envy is more multifaceted than it seems, and that some varieties of it can be productive and even virtuous. Protasi brings... -
Martin Heidegger on Being Human: An Introduction to Sein Und Zeit by Richard Schmitt 9780595121526
RRP: £14.99£12.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780595121526Author Richard SchmittFormat PaperbackPage Count 284Imprint iUniversePublisher iUniverseWeight(grams) 376gDimensions(mm) 219mm * 142mm * 19mm -
Ethics: with The Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect and Selected Letters by Baruch Spinoza 9780872201316
RRP: £44.99£36.60Since their publication in 1982, Samuel Shirley's translations of Spinoza's Ethics and Selected Letters have been commended for their accuracy and readability. Now with the addition of his new translation of Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect... -
The Sorites Paradox by Sergi Oms 9781316615690
RRP: £24.99£11.90For centuries, the sorites paradox has spurred philosophers to think and argue about the problem of vagueness. This volume offers a guide to the paradox which is both an accessible survey and an exposition of the state of the art, with a... -
The Ethics of Confucius and Aristotle: Mirrors of Virtue Jiyuan Yu 9780415803052
RRP: £45.99£40.13As a comparative study of the virtue ethics of Aristotle and Confucius, this book explores how they each reflect upon human good and virtue out of their respective cultural assumptions, conceptual frameworks, and philosophical perspectives. It does not... -
Sophist by Plato
RRP: £24.00£23.03Theaetetus, the Sophist, and the Statesman are a trilogy of Platonic dialogues that show Socrates formulating his conception of philosophy as he prepares the defense for his trial. Originally published together as The Being of the Beautiful, these... -
When All Else Fails: The Ethics of Resistance to State Injustice by Jason Brennan 9780691181714
RRP: £25.00£19.59Why you have the right to resist unjust governmentThe economist Albert O. Hirschman famously argued that citizens of democracies have only three possible responses to injustice or wrongdoing by their governments: we may leave, complain, or comply. But in... -
The Cambridge Companion to Montaigne by Ullrich Langer
RRP: £75.00£63.71Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592), the great Renaissance skeptic and pioneer of the essay form, is known for his innovative method of philosophical inquiry which mixes the anecdotal and the personal with serious critiques of human knowledge, politics and... -
Letter Concerning Toleration & Other Writings by John Locke 9780865977914
£12.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865977914Author John LockeFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Liberty Fund IncPublisher Liberty Fund IncWeight(grams) 436g -
A History of Philosophy in the Twentieth Century Christian Delacampagne (Professor, The Johns Hopkins University) 9780801868146
RRP: £26.50£25.31In A History of Philosophy in the Twentieth Century, Christian Delacampagne reviews the discipline's divergent and dramatic course and shows that its greatest figures, even the most unworldly among them, were deeply affected by events of their time... -
Exploring Marx's Capital: Philosophical, Economic And Political Dimensions: Historical Materialism, Volume 14 by Jaques Bidet
RRP: £30.00£19.88This volume offers a new interpretation of Marx's great work. It shows how the novelty and lasting interest of Marx's theory arises from the fact that, as against the project of a `pure' economics, it is formulated in concepts that have simultaneously an...