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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780953303229Author Tony ParsonsFormat PaperbackPage Count 242Imprint Open Secret PublishingPublisher Open Secret PublishingWeight(grams) 356g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781068705700Author Ray KohnFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Ray Kohn PublishingPublisher Ray Kohn PublishingWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Giles Deleuze (1925-1995) was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris VIII. He is a key figure in poststructuralism and one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century. In "Foucault", Deleuze presents one of the most incisive...

How do we understand the agency and significance of material forces and their interface with human bodies? What does it mean to be human in these times, with bodies that are inextricably interconnected with our physical world? Bodily Natures considers...

First published in French in 1943, Jean-Paul Sartre's L'Etre et le Neant is one of the greatest philosophical works of the twentieth century. In it, Sartre offers nothing less than a brilliant and radical account of the human condition. The English...

This brief work is the closest Einstein ever came to writing an autobiography. Although a very personal account, it is purely concerned with the development of his ideas, saying little about his private life or about the world-shaking events through...

Phenomenology is the general study of the structure of experience, from thought and perception, to self-consciousness, bodily-awareness, and emotion. It is both a fundamental area of philosophy and a major methodological approach within the human...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780942299557Author Gilles DeleuzeFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Zone BooksPublisher Zone BooksWeight(grams) 476gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 150mm * 23mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781610976305Author John the ScotFormat PaperbackPage Count 410Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams)...

A COMPANION TO KIERKEGAARD "'Companions' to important thinkers help readers focus on the main drift of their texts with the help of a dig into their origin and some account of their reception. This one digs deeper, and over a wider terrain, than most...

This new edition takes stock of the revolutionary changes that have taken place since the dictionary was first published in 1982. 1790 entries cover every aspect of political thought providing an indispensable guide to the thought, the wisdom and the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556438189Author Rob BrezsnyFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint North Atlantic Books,U.S.Publisher North Atlantic Books,U.S.Weight(grams)...

In this updated edition of his outstanding introduction to Kant, Paul Guyer uses Kant's central conception of autonomy as the key to his thought.Beginning with a helpful overview of Kant's life and times, Guyer introduces Kant's metaphysics and...

In the first two volumes of this work, Paul Ricoeur examined the relations between time and narrative in historical writing, fiction, and theories of literature. This final volume, a comprehensive reexamination and synthesis of the ideas developed in...

The Philosophy of Philosophy The Blackwell / Brown Lectures in Philosophy The Philosophy of Philosophy presents an original, unified concept of philosophy as a non-natural science. In this provocative work, distinguished philosopher Timothy Williamson...

Modern history is a history of aesthetizations - and every aesthetization raises a claim of protection. We aestheticize and want to protect almost everything, including Earth, oceans, the atmosphere, rare animal species and exotic plants. Humans are no...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780892134816Author His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami PrabhupadaFormat PaperbackPage Count 634Imprint Bhaktivedanta Book TrustPublisher Bhaktivedanta...

What has a use in the future, unforeseeably, is radically useless now. What has an effect now is not necessarily useful if it falls through the gaps. In For a Pragmatics of the Useless Erin Manning examines what falls outside the purview of already-known...

Alien and Philosophy: I Infest, Therefore I Am presents a philosophical exploration of the world of Alien, the simultaneously horrifying and thought-provoking sci-fi horror masterpiece, and the film franchise it spawned. The first book dedicated to...

Accessible, insightful and a must-have toolkit for all final year doctoral students, the founders of the 'Thesis Boot Camp' intensive writing programme show how to survive and thrive through the challenging final year of writing and submitting a thesis...

Aristotle classified the things in the world into ten categories: substance, quantity, quality, relative, and six others. Plotinus, the founder of Neoplatonism, attacked the classification, accepting only these first four categories, rejecting the other...

Nietzsche's late works are brilliant and uncompromising, and stand as monuments to his lucidity, rigour, and style. This volume combines, for the first time in English, five of these works: The Antichrist, Ecce Homo, Twilight of the Idols, Nietzsche...

Heraclitus is the first English translation of Volume 55 of Martin Heidegger's Gesamtausgabe. This important volume consists of two lecture courses given by Heidegger at the University of Freiburg over the Summers of 1943 and 1944 on the thought of...

How can we articulate the intimate demand of the spiritual life and the struggle for solidarity? These two issues have often been treated separately; in Simone Weil: Attention to the Real, however, Robert Chenavier explores the work of Simone Weil...

The Routledge Guidebook to Heidegger's Being and Time examines the work of one of the most controversial thinkers of the twentieth century. Heidegger's writings are notoriously difficult, requiring careful reading. This book analyses his first major...

There are many ways to try to improve our lives - we can turn to the wisdom of philosophers, the teachings of religions or the latest experiments of psychologists. But we rarely to look to history for inspiration - and when we do it can be surprisingly...

Is Democracy overrated? Does power corrupt? Or do corrupt people seek power? Do corporate puppet masters pull politicians strings? Why does Frank talk to the camera? Can politics deliver on the promise of justice? House of Cards depicts our worst fears...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781933435091Author Eric HofferFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Hopewell Publications LLCPublisher Hopewell Publications LLCWeight(grams)...

This is the first time that a seminal collection of fourteen essays by Martin Heidegger (originally published in German under the title Wegmarken) has appeared in English in its complete form. It includes new or first-time translations of seven essays,...

This landmark book is now reissued in a new edition that has been vastly rewritten and updated to respond to recent Kantian literature. It includes a new discussion of the Third Analogy, a greatly expanded discussion of Kant's Paralogisms, and entirely...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998021805Author Sister Emmanuel MaillardFormat PaperbackPage Count 374Imprint Children of Medjugorje. IncPublisher Children of Medjugorje...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781473333574Author H G WellsFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint H. G. Wells LibraryPublisher H. G. Wells LibraryWeight(grams) 172gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

As a growing area of research, the philosophy of time is increasingly relevant to different areas of philosophy and even other disciplines. This book describes and evaluates the most important debates in philosophy of time, under several subject areas:...

Few books have had as great an impact on intellectual history as Kant's The Moral Law. In its short compass one of the greatest minds in the history of philosophy attempts to identify the fundamental principle 'morality' that governs human action...

On its first appearance in 1960, the Concise Encyclopediaof Western Philosophy established itself as a classic; this third edition builds on its original strengths but brings it completely up to date. The Concise Encyclopedia offers a lively, readable,...

What is education for? Should it produce workers or educate future citizens? Is there a place for faith schools - and should patriotism be taught? In this compelling and controversial book, Harry Brighouse takes on all these urgent questions and more. He...

Nietzsche regarded 'Thus Spoke Zarathustra' as his most important work, and his story of the wandering Zarathustra has had enormous influence on subsequent culture. Nietzsche uses a mixture of homilies, parables, epigrams and dreams to introduce some of...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385262187Author Stephen LevineFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing GroupPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing...

What we call growth today is in fact a tumorous growth, a cancerous proliferation which is disrupting the social organism. These tumours endlessly metastasize and grow with an inexplicable, deadly vitality. At a certain point this growth is no longer...