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In 1998, the first edition of Anthony Kenny's comprehensive history of Western philosophy was published, to be met with immediate praise and critical acclaim. As the first book since Bertrand Russell's 1945 A History of Western Philosophy to offer a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262540568Author Hubert L. DreyfusFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 522gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

John Dupre explores recent revolutionary developments in biology and considers their relevance for our understanding of human nature and human society. Epigenetics and related areas of molecular biology have eroded the exceptional status of the gene and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780618872022Author Professor of English Leopold Damrosch, JrFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams)...

This book provides beginners with a sense of the questions and methods that make up the philosophy of language. The first four chapters develop the idea that language is a system that allows us to exchange information with each other, and the second four...

Wittgenstein is one of the most important and influential twentieth-century philosophers in the western tradition. In his Philosophical Investigations he undertakes a radical critique of analytical philosophy's approach to both the philosophy of language...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781879159075Author Paul FerriniFormat PaperbackPage Count 166Imprint Heartways Press,U.S.Publisher Heartways Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 218gDimensions(mm)...

Hailed as the 'Guru of the New Left' and a leading figure of 1960s counterculture and liberation movements, the philosopher Herbert Marcuse is amongst the most renowned and controversial thinkers of the twentieth century. Eros and Civilization is one of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781890951948Author Daniel Heller-RoazenFormat HardbackPage Count 280Imprint Zone BooksPublisher Zone BooksWeight(grams) 590gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865474420Author Robert AitkenFormat PaperbackPage Count 332Imprint North Point PressPublisher North Point PressWeight(grams) 476gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780985452377Author Jack DonovanFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Dissonant HumPublisher Dissonant HumWeight(grams) 145gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 133mm * 7mm

Karl Jaspers (1883-1969) was a German psychiatrist and philosopher and one of the most original European thinkers of the twentieth century. As a major exponent of existentialism in Germany, he had a strong influence on modern theology, psychiatry and...

A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2023 FOR FINANCIAL TIMES, TIME, VULTURE, LIT HUB, GOODREADS, RUMPUS, BUSTLE, READER'S DIGEST and moreBoth vilified and venerated, wolves abound through cultural folklore and literature. In this hauntingly lyrical and...

Having set global warming in irreversible motion, we are facing the possibility of ecological catastrophe. But the environmental emergency is also a crisis for our philosophical habits of thought, confronting us with a problem that seems to defy not only...

First published in 1914, Meditations on Quixote was Ortega's first book. It has immensely grown in value with time, and since the 1930's, when Ortega himself began to refer back to it in his later writings, it has become more and more important among...

Over the past few hundred years, animism has been dismissed as a primitive, naive and irrational perspective, irrelevant within the civilised West. In The Wakeful World, Emma Restall Orr argues that this is based on the misrepresentation, drawn in...

The major work and Adorno's culminating achievement. Negative Dialectics is a critique of the philosophies of Kant, Hegel, and Heidegger, and a visionary elaboration of the author's own vision of dialectics.About the AuthorTheodor W. Adorno (1903-69) was...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780942299519Author Gilles DeleuzeFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Zone BooksPublisher Zone BooksWeight(grams) 617gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 33mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781722501327Author Dr. Joseph MurphyFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint G&D MediaPublisher G&D Media

In Why Grow Up, the latest volume in the Philosophy in Transit series, world-renowned philosopher Susan Neiman looks at growing up as an ideal with urgent relevance todayBecoming an adult today can seem a grim prospect. As you grow up, you are told to...

With his hallmark discernment, George Steiner presents in The Poetry of Thought his magnum opus, staking out his claim for the essential oneness of great thought and great style. Steiner spans the entire history of Western philosophy as it entwines with...

Hume is traditionally credited with inventing the 'regularity theory' of causation, according to which the causal relation between two events consists merely in the fact that events of the first kind are always followed by events of the second kind. Hume...

This introduction to ethics judiciously combines moral theory with applied ethics to give an opportunity for students to develop acute thinking About Ethical Matters.; The Author Begins Motivating A Concern For moral discourse by dispelling often met...

Original papers by leading international authors address the most important problem in the philosophy of language, the question of how to assess the prospects of developing a tenable theory of meaning, given the influential sceptical attacks mounted...

Better Call Saul and Philosophy: I Think Therefore I Scam is a collection of twenty-three essays exploring the philosophical themes in the hit television show Better Call Saul, a prequel to the TV show Breaking Bad. The sixth and final season of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914316371Author Douglas HardingFormat HardbackPage Count 94Imprint Shollond TrustPublisher Shollond TrustWeight(grams) 513gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 216mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781784791087Author Idries ShahFormat PaperbackPage Count 378Imprint ISF PublishingPublisher ISF Publishing

Gramsci's Prison Notebooks are one of the most important and original sources of modern political philosophy but the Prison Notebooks present great difficulties to the reader. Not originally intended for publication, their fragmentary character and their...

'Most of the serious thinking I have done over the past twenty years has been done while running.' Mark Rowlands has run for most of his life. He has also been a professional philosopher. And for him the two - running and philosophising - are...

'Witty, knowledgeable and mind-expanding' RICHARD FISHER | 'A joyful romp' TOM HARFORD | 'A fun and inspiring teaser for curious minds' JEREMIE HARRISEvery so often, a new idea comes along that changes everything. Vaccinations. Relativity. Fascism. Can...

First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9780415488440Author Ambrose, Alice and Lazerowtiz, MorrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 326Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788367583275Author Oswald SpenglerFormat PaperbackPage Count 162Imprint Legend Books Sp. Z O.O.Publisher Legend Books Sp. Z O.O.Weight(grams)...

Sexual Secretsis the definitive guide to sex and mysticism, revealing the wisdom of the sages of India, Nepal, Tibet, China, and Japan whose teachings on sexuality unveil how physical love can be the pathway to spiritual liberation. Containing more than...

Written in political exile during the Second World War and first published in 1945, Karl Popper's The Open Society and Its Enemies is one of the most influential books of the twentieth century. Hailed by Bertrand Russell as a 'vigorous and profound...

The margins of philosophy are populated by non-human, non-animal living beings, including plants. While contemporary philosophers tend to refrain from raising ontological and ethical concerns with vegetal life, Michael Marder puts this life at the...

The key to human nature that Marx found in wealth and Freud in sex, Bertrand Russell finds in power. Power, he argues, is man's ultimate goal, and is, in its many guises, the single most important element in the development of any society. Writting in...

At the age of eight, Karl Popper was puzzling over the idea of infinity and by fifteen was beginning to take a keen interest in his father's well-stocked library of books. Unended Quest recounts these moments and many others in the life of one of the...

In this book Gay Watson offers an alternative view of emptiness via a tour of early and non-Western philosophy, taking us from Buddhism, Taoism and religious mysticism to the contemporary world of philosophy, science and art practice. While traditionally...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262537179Author Nolen GertzFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 178mm * 127mm * 14mm

The four short works in Untimely Meditations were published by Nietzsche between 1873 and 1876.They deal with such broad topics as the relationship between popular and genuine culture, strategies for cultural reform, the task of philosophy, the nature of...