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Learning through original texts can be a powerful heuristic tool. This book collects a dozen classic readings that are generally accepted as the most significant contributions to the philosophy of space. The readings have been selected both on the basis...

In this book, Reiner Schurmann argues that what is most original about Marx is his philosophical axis. Extending his highly original engagement with the history of philosophy, Schurmann draws out this axis, which determines and localizes his theories of...

This Devorss edition is the original 1947 text. Since the beginning of time, human nature has driven people to explore beyond their surroundings. The results have shaped the world not just in terms of geographic boundaries, but also in the context of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781398647Author Albert EinsteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint Benediction ClassicsPublisher Benediction ClassicsWeight(grams) 172gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942173793Author Anselm Jape JappeFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Common NotionsPublisher Common NotionsWeight(grams) 431g

As this book richly and entertainingly demonstrates, philosophy is as much the search for the right questions as it is the search for the right answers. Robert M. Martin's popular collection of philosophical puzzles, paradoxes, jokes, and anecdotes is...

Adorno's lectures on ontology and dialectics from 1960-61 comprise his most sustained and systematic analysis of Heidegger's philosophy. They also represent a continuation of a project that he shared with Walter Benjamin - 'to demolish Heidegger'...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486400365Author Henri BergsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

Why has autonomy been a leading idea in philosophical writing on bioethics, and why has trust been marginal? In this important book, Onora O'Neill suggests that the conceptions of individual autonomy so widely relied on in bioethics are philosophically...

If you keep removing single grains of sand from a heap, when is it no longer a heap? From discussions of the heap paradox in classical Greece, to modern formal approaches like fuzzy logic, Timothy Williamson traces the history of the problem of vagueness...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780226080451Author Graham BurchellFormat PaperbackPage Count 318Imprint University of Chicago PressPublisher The University of Chicago Press

Soul in the Game, is a book of inspiring stories and hard-won lessons on how to live a meaningful life, crafted by investor and writer Vitaliy Katsenelson. Drawing from the lives of classical composers, ancient Stoics, and contemporary thinkers,...

The Flame of Eternity provides a reexamination and new interpretation of Nietzsche's philosophy and the central role that the concepts of eternity and time, as he understood them, played in it. According to Krzysztof Michalski, Nietzsche's reflections on...

In the The Undivided Universe, David Bohn and Basil Hiley present a radically different approach to quantum theory. They develop an interpretation of quantum mechanics which gives a clear, intuitive understanding of its meaning and in which there is a...

Speech Genres and Other Late Essays presents six short works from Bakhtin's Esthetics of Creative Discourse, published in Moscow in 1979. This is the last of Bakhtin's extant manuscripts published in the Soviet Union. All but one of these essays (the one...

This "fascinating new book" (The New Yorker) shows how our digital way of life makes us overvalue some ways of processing information over others and thus risks distorting what it means to be human. Lynch argues that it will be the way in which we adapt...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781889051789Author Joel GoldsmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 236Imprint Acropolis Books Inc.,U.S.Publisher Acropolis Books Inc.,U.S.

Originally published in Norwegian in 1941, this is the magnum opus of one of Norway's most celebrated philosophers, now made available in English for the first time. It examines the concept of the tragic and attempts to construct a more precise and...

Sitting on pins and needles, anxiously waiting to see what will happen next, horror audiences crave the fear and exhilaration generated by a terrifying story; their anticipation is palpable. But they also breathe a sigh of relief when the action is over,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780942299014Author Pierre ClastresFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Zone BooksPublisher Zone BooksWeight(grams) 374gDimensions(mm) 228mm * 153mm * 18mm

In this third, enlarged edition of Lehrs' classic study, the reader is led, step by step, to a spiritual-scientific method of investigation. The author demonstrates how one can transcend the boundaries of the physical-material world, to the metaphysical...

Dismissed by some as the last of the anti-Darwinians, his fame as a rigorous biologist even tainted by an alleged link to National Socialist ideology, it is undeniable that Jakob von Uexkull (1864-1944) was eagerly read by many philosophers across the...

The School of Life offers radical ways to help us raid the treasure trove of human knowledge' Independent on Sunday Sigmund Freud is best known as the father of psychoanalysis. Born in 1856, he was a physiologist, medical doctor and psychologist who...

Philosophical Allusions in James Joyce's Finnegans Wake is the first study to offer complete and comprehensive explanations of the most significant philosophical references in James Joyce's avant-garde masterpiece. Philosophy is important in all of...

The premier political philosopher of his day, John Rawls, in three decades of teaching at Harvard, has had a profound influence on the way philosophical ethics is approached and understood today. This book brings together the lectures that inspired a...

Bertell Ollman has been hailed as "this country's leading authority on dialectics and Marx's method" by Paul Sweezy, the editor of Monthly Review and dean of America's Marx scholars. In this book Ollman offers a thorough analysis of Marx's use of...

Why Plato Wrote argues that Plato was not only the world's first systematic political philosopher, but also the western world's first think-tank activist and message man. Shows that Plato wrote to change Athenian society and thereby transform Athenian...

Ricoeur's theory of productive imagination in previously unpublished lectures. The eminent philosopher Paul Ricoeur was devoted to the imagination. These previously unpublished lectures offer Ricoeur's most significant and sustained reflections on...

There are a bewildering variety of ways the terms "realism" and "anti-realism" have been used in philosophy and furthermore the different uses of these terms are only loosely connected with one another. Rather than give a piecemeal map of this very...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783689760199Author Giovanni AloiFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint AntennaeprojectPublisher AntennaeprojectWeight(grams) 794gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 216mm...

In 2008, as the storms of the financial crash blew, Isabelle Fremeaux and Jay Jordan deserted the metropolis and their academic jobs, traveling across Europe in search of post-capitalist utopias. They wanted their art activism to no longer be uprooted. ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525436379Author Robert B. ReichFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. Knopf

Bertrand Russell is considered to be one of the most significant educational innovators of his time. In this influential and controversial work, Russell calls for an education that would liberate the child from unthinking obedience to parental and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143416852Author Sir Muhammad IqbalFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Penguin Books IndiaPublisher Penguin Books India Pvt LtdDimensions(mm) 200mm *...

When Bernard Williams died in 2003, the Times newspaper hailed him 'as the greatest moral philosopher of his generation'. This outstanding collection of specially commissioned new essays on Williams's work is essential reading for anyone interested in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781990263859Author Gordon R. LewisFormat PaperbackPage Count 30Imprint Daraja PressPublisher Daraja Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997301403Author Basarab NicolescuFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint Quantum ProsePublisher Quantum ProseWeight(grams) 231gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 148mm...

Ludwig Feuerbach's departure from the traditional philosophy of Hegel opened a door for generations of radical philosophical thinkers, foremost among them the young Karl Marx. Indeed, much of early Marx is unintelligible without reference to certain...

A celebrated study of the origins of ancient Greek philosophy, now in English for the first timeHow can we talk about the beginnings of philosophy today? How can we avoid the conventional opposition of mythology and the dawn of reason and instead explore...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781596052802Author Ralph Waldo EmersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 68Imprint Cosimo ClassicsPublisher Cosimo ClassicsWeight(grams) 82gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...