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"These two volumes must be welcomed in particular for the illumination they shed ... on Wittgenstein's already published discussions ... the characteristic deluge of examples, analogies, questions and challanges is as ever, maddening, provoking and...

This new translation of On Coming to Be and Passing Away and Meteorology 1 and 4 fits seamlessly with the other volumes in the New Hackett Aristotle Series, enabling Anglophone readers to study these works in a way previously not possible. The...

Compact INTRODUCING guide to the influential philosopher, sociologist and economist. INTRODUCING MARX - A GRAPHIC GUIDE explores the life of the most famous Socialist figure, from his early years to meeting Engels in1842. It provides a readable,...

The third volume of Professor Guthrie's great history of Greek thought, entitled The Fifth-Century Enlightenment, deals in two parts with the Sophists and Socrates, the key figures in the dramatic and fundamental shift of philosophical interest from the...

One of the greatest prodigies of his era, John Stuart Mill (1806-73) was studying arithmetic and Greek by the age of three, as part of an astonishingly intense education at his father's hand. Intellectually brilliant, fearless and profound, he became a...

This engaging and instructive analysis of the first half of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason continues to be valuable to both practiced Kant scholars and newcomers. Jonathan Bennett examines the arguments and themes of Kant's work in relation to those of...

In his first book, The Birth of Tragedy, Nietzsche observes that Greek tragedy gathered people together as a community in the sight of their gods, and argues that modernity can be rescued from 'nihilism' only through the revival of such a festival. This...

Stephen Gaukroger presents an original account of the development of empirical science and the understanding of human behaviour from the mid-eighteenth century. Since the seventeenth century, science in the west has undergone a unique form of cumulative...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156076005Author Karl JaspersFormat PaperbackPage Count 275Imprint Wadsworth Publishing Co IncPublisher Cengage Learning, Inc

How did Nietzsche the philosopher come into being? The Nietzsche known today did not develop 'naturally', through the gradual maturation of some inborn character. Instead, from an early age he engaged in a self-conscious campaign to follow his own...

Europe was in the long slumber of the Middle Ages, the Roman Empire was in tatters, and the Greek language was all but forgotten, until a group of twelfth-century scholars rediscovered and translated the works of Aristotle. His ideas spread like wildfire...

A History of Modern Aesthetics narrates the history of philosophical aesthetics from the beginning of the eighteenth century through the twentieth century. Aesthetics began with Aristotle's defense of the cognitive value of tragedy in response to Plato's...

The essays collected in this new volume reveal Isaiah Berlin at his most lucid and accessible. He was constitutionally incapable of writing with the opacity of the specialist, but these shorter, more introductory pieces provide the perfect starting-point...

This volume translates Brentano's intentionality into medieval psychological and ontological discussions through Sadrian theories of sense perception and mental existence. Applying a new methodology, it reframes various parts of Sadrian theory around the...

Ennead I.1 is a succinct and concentrated analysis of key themes in Plotinus' psychology and ethics. It focuses on the soul-body relation, discussing various Platonic, Aristotelian, and Stoic views before arguing that there is only a soul-trace in the...

In the late fourth and early fifth centuries of our era, Hypatia of Alexandria was the world's greatest living mathematician and astronomer. A strikingly beautiful woman and a devoted celibate, she lived in a city as turbulent and troubled as Baghdad or...

This Handbook re-examines the concept of early modern history in a European and global context. The term 'early modern' has been familiar, especially in Anglophone scholarship, for four decades and is securely established in teaching, research, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791455388Author Dirk L. CouprieFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York...

Modernism is usually thought of as a shock wave of innovations hitting art, architecture, music, cinema and literature - the work of Picasso, Joyce, Schoenberg, movements like Futurism and Dada, the architecture of Le Corbusier, T.S. Eliot's The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906948047Author Herbert MarcuseFormat PaperbackPage Count 246Imprint MayFlyPublisher MayFlyWeight(grams) 245gDimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 13mm

By far the most widely used translation in North American college classrooms, Donald A. Cress's translation from the French of the Adam and Tannery critical edition is prized for its accuracy, elegance, and economy. The translation featured in the Third...

The scale of death and destruction during the Battle of Stalingrad during late 1942 and early 1943 remains unprecedented in the history of warfare. The annihilation of General von Paulus' 6th Army epitomised the devastating defeat of Hitler's ambition...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999638429Author Peter KingsleyFormat HardbackPage Count 600Imprint Catafalque PressPublisher Catafalque PressWeight(grams) 1043gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781589831612Author John M. DillonFormat PaperbackPage Count 146Imprint Society of Biblical LiteraturePublisher Society of Biblical LiteratureWeight(grams)...

Montaigne called it a ramble; Chesterton the joke of literature; and Hume an ambassador between the worlds of learning and of conversation. But what is an essay, and how did it emerge as a literary form? What are the continuities and contradictions...

Published in 1785, the Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals is one of the most powerful texts in the history of ethical thought. In this book, Immanuel Kant formulates and justifies a supreme principle of morality that issues universal and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789501025Author Frederich NietzscheFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint ArcturusPublisher Arcturus Publishing Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807015414Author Jurgen HabermasFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press

Kant is probably the philosopher who best typifies the thought and ideals of the Enlightenment. He was influenced by the modern physics of Newton, the rationalist perfectionism of Leibniz and Wolff, the critical empiricism of Locke and Hume, and...

A Companion to Nietzsche provides a comprehensive guide to all the main aspects of Nietzsche's philosophy, profiling the most recent research and trends in scholarship. Brings together an international roster of both rising stars and established...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993267574Author Rory B MackayFormat PaperbackPage Count 378Imprint Blue Star PublishingPublisher Blue Star Publishing

Gottfried Leibniz was a remarkable thinker who made fundamental contributions not only to philosophy, but also to the development of modern mathematics and science. At the centre of Leibniz's philosophy stands his metaphysics, an ambitious attempt to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781668050804Author Marcus AureliusFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint ScribnerPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm) 206mm * 137mm *...

The Norton Anthology of Western Philosophy: After Kant provides a comprehensive introduction to the predominantly European ("Continental") interpretive tradition of philosophy after Kant in one volume, and to the now predominantly Anglo-American analytic...

The life and work of Sigmund Freud continue to fascinate general and professional readers alike. Joel Whitebook here presents the first major biography of Freud since the last century, taking into account recent developments in psychoanalytic theory and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486848556Author Will DurantFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams) 350gDimensions(mm)...

This book represents a series of incursions or philosophical forays between realms of Byzantine and Russian thought and territory long claimed by Western philosophy and theology. Beginning with thoughts inevitably rooted in the West, it seeks to...

Winner of the Gustave O. Arlt Award in the HumanitiesWinner of the Istvan Hont Book PrizeAn ambitious reinterpretation and defense of Plato's basic enterprise and influence, arguing that the power of his myths was central to the founding of philosophical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541672635Author Catherine WilsonFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Basic BooksPublisher Basic BooksWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 239mm * 155mm * 28mm

Contemporary intellectuals still struggle over the relationship of ends to means, especially in political discourse. Pacifism is still an important topic today, as terrorism and dictatorial states abound. Many will find solace in Ends and Means, while...