Criticism

First published in 1972, The Hope of Progress presents collection of essays and lectures dealing with the history of scientific ideas and the impact of science on society. The principle piece in this volume is the author's 1969 presidential address to...

Yves R. Simon (1903-1961) was one of this century's greatest students of the virtue of practical wisdom. Simon's interest in this virtue ranged from ultimate theoretical and foundational concerns, such as the relationship between practical knowledge and...

In Foucault Beyond Foucault Jeffrey Nealon argues that critics have too hastily abandoned Foucault's mid-career reflections on power, and offers a revisionist reading of the philosopher's middle and later works. Retracing power's "intensification" in...

First published in 1977, Georg Lukacs gives an outline of Lukacs' views and explains how they are related to the relevant cultural traditions of his epoch. The author covers the whole range of Lukacs' thought, from his earliest literary criticism to the...

First published in 1983, Perception, Learning and the Self is a collection of essays demonstrating the incompleteness of the information-processing model in cognitive psychology and the connection between epistemic factors and social conditions in the...

First published in 1972, The Hope of Progress presents collection of essays and lectures dealing with the history of scientific ideas and the impact of science on society. The principle piece in this volume is the author's 1969 presidential address to...

Pierre Bayle (1647-1706) has been described by Richard Popkin as the key intellectual figure at the outset of the eighteenth century. Examinations of libraries from the period show him to have been by far the most successful author of the century, and...

While Sartre was committed to liberation struggles around the globe, his writing never directly addressed the oppression of women. Yet there is compatibility between his central ideas and feminist beliefs. In this first feminist collection on Sartre,...

In 1951, the eight o'clock nightly news reported on Jean-Paul Sartre for the first time. By the end of the twentieth century, more than 3,500 programs dealing with philosophy and its practitioners had aired on French television. According to Tamara...

This third collection of articles by John Dillon covers the period 1996-2006, the decade since the appearance of The Great Tradition. Once again, the subjects covered range from Plato himself and the Old Academy, through Philo and Middle Platonism, to...

Gabriel Richardson Lear presents a bold new approach to one of the enduring debates about Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics: the controversy about whether it coherently argues that the best life for humans is one devoted to a single activity, namely...

The prevailing interpretation of Kant's First Critique in Anglo-American philosophy views his theory of a priori knowledge as basically a theory about the possibility of empirical knowledge (or experience), or the a priori conditions for that possibility...

How can we experience real emotions when viewing a movie or reading a novel or watching a play when we know the characters whose actions have this effect on us do not exist? This is a conundrum that has puzzled philosophers for a long time, and in this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781447878339Author Bob BlackFormat PaperbackPage Count 146Imprint Lulu Press IncPublisher Lulu Press IncWeight(grams) 181g

Between 1931 and 1935, Bertrand Russell contributed some 156 essays to the literary pages of the American newspaper New York American. These were often fun, humorous observations on the very real issues of the day, such as the Depression, the rise of...

Gunther Anders's prolific philosophy of technology is undergoing a major revival but has never been translated into English. Prometheanism mobilises Anders's pragmatic thought and current trends in critical theory to rethink the constellations of power...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262512725Author Irving SingerFormat PaperbackPage Count 404Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 544gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 24mm

Inspired by Heidegger's concept of the clearing of being, and by Wittgenstein's ideas on human practice, Theodore Schatzki offers a novel approach to understanding the constitution and transformation of social life. Key to the account he develops here is...

A collection of essays that rethinks what constitutes materiality. These efforts are encapsulated by a rewriting of the Derridean axiom, 'there is no outside text' as 'there is no outside nature'.Book InformationISBN 9781474437394Author Vicki KirbyFormat...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935408468Author Alexander KlugeFormat HardbackPage Count 544Imprint Zone BooksPublisher Zone Books

In this passionate and polemical classic work, Norman Geras argues that the view that Marx broke with all conceptions of human nature in 1845 is wrong. Rather, his later writings are informed by an idea of a specifically human nature that fulfills both...

Nietzsche is not difficult to read, but he is famously difficult to understand. This is because of the bewildering array of words, phrases or metaphors that he uses. The Nietzsche Dictionary aims to help, by giving readers a road map to Nietzsche's...

Offers an in depth study of the emerging French philosopher Quentin Meillassoux. In this expanded edition of his landmark 2011 work on Meillassoux, Graham Harman covers new materials not published at the time of the first edition. Along with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781988832753Author Kevin B AndersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 254Imprint Daraja PressPublisher Daraja PressWeight(grams) 1000g

Gilles Deleuze was one of the most influential French philosophers of the last century.This book aims to make sense of his fundamental project in the clearest possible terms, by engaging with the central idea that informs virtually all of his work: the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781584350996Author Peter SloterdijkFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Semiotext (E)Publisher AutonomediaWeight(grams) 86gDimensions(mm) 178mm * 114mm * 6mm

Presents a new realist ontology based on the concept of fields of sense. Markus Gabriel presents us with an innovative answer to one of the central questions of philosophy: what is the meaning of 'being' - or, rather, 'existence' - and how does that...

Since the publication of Mark Siderits' important book in 2003, much has changed in the field of Buddhist philosophy. There has been unprecedented growth in analytic metaphysics, and a considerable amount of new work on Indian theories of the self and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262544337Author Greg BirdFormat PaperbackPage Count 514Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 709gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 178mm * 33mm

How are we to conceive of acts that suddenly expose the injustice of the prevailing order? These acts challenge long-standing hidden or silently tolerated injustices, but as they are unsupported by existing ethical rules they pose a drastic challenge to...

The Messianic Reduction is a groundbreaking study of Walter Benjamin's thought. Fenves places Benjamin's early writings in the context of contemporaneous philosophy, with particular attention to the work of Bergson, Cohen, Husserl, Frege, and Heidegger...

The critical condition and historical motivation behind Time Studies The concept of time in the post-millennial age is undergoing a radical rethinking within the humanities. Time: A Vocabulary of the Present newly theorizes our experiences of time in...

Stephen Mulhall presents a detailed critical commentary on sections 243-315 of Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations: the famous remarks on 'private language'. In so doing, he makes detailed use of Stanley Cavell's interpretations of these remarks;...

For English-speaking readers, this book serves as an introduction to an important French intellectual whose work, especially on the issues of antisemitism and anti-Zionism, runs counter to the hostility shown toward Jews by some representatives of...

'Men are infamous and detestable who are destroyers of religion, squanderers of kingdoms and republics, and enemies of the virtues.' Niccolo Machiavelli Machiavelli (1459-1527) is one of the most influential modern political thinkers. His works,...

As one of the foremost public intellectuals of the twentieth century, Hannah Arendt is well known for her writings on political philosophy. Less familiar are her significant contributions to cultural and literary criticism. This edition brings together...

Who might reasonably be nominated as the funniest philosopher of all time? With this anthology, Thomas Oden provisionally declares Soren Aabye Kierkegaard (1813-1855)--despite his enduring stereotype as the melancholy, despairing Dane--as, among...

Our knowledge comes primarily from experience - what our senses tell us. But is experience really what it seems?The experimental breakthroughs in 17th-century science of Kepler, Galileo and Newton informed the great British empiricist tradition, which...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781420958072Author Immanuel KantFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Digireads.comPublisher Digireads.comWeight(grams) 544g

If 2019 was an "Adornian year" because of the 50th anniversary of the untimely death of Theodor W. Adorno in August 1969, also 2020 has been an "Adornian year" because of the 50th anniversary of the posthumous publication of Adorno's great but unfinished...