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The Hidden God: A Study of Tragic Vision in the Pensees of Pascal and the Tragedies of Racine by Lucien Goldmann
$61.17This remarkable text, first published in 1964, was a landmark of its era and remains, in the words of Michael Loewy, a work of "remarkable richness." Drawing on Georg Lukacs' History and Class Consciousness, Lucien Goldmann applies the concept of "world... -
Spinoza: Complete Works by Baruch Spinoza 9780872206205
RRP: $159.88$142.17The only complete edition in English of Baruch Spinoza's works, this volume features Samuel Shirley's preeminent translations, distinguished at once by the lucidity and fluency with which they convey the flavor and meaning of Spinoza's original texts... -
After the Apocalypse Srecko Horvat 9781509540082
RRP: $29.23$26.48In this post-apocalyptic rollercoaster ride, philosopher Srecko Horvat invites us to explore the Apocalypse in terms of 'revelation' (rather than as the 'end' itself). He argues that the only way to prevent the end - i.e., extinction - is to engage in a... -
How to Think About the Great Ideas: From the Great Books of Western Civilization by Mortimer J. Adler 9780812694123
RRP: $72.13$55.63Philosophy of everybody's business. As human beings, we all have the ability, and even the proclivity, to philosophize. We all engage in philosphical thought in the course of our daily live. What is philosophy? Why is it important? The importance of... -
An Autobiography by R. G. Collingwood 9780198246947
RRP: $65.31$45.47An AutobiographyBook InformationISBN 9780198246947Author R. G. CollingwoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Oxford University PressPublisher Oxford University PressWeight(grams) 234g -
Freud: An Intellectual Biography by Joel Whitebook 9781108829045
RRP: $44.83$37.32The 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... -
Athens and Jerusalem by Lev Shestov 9780821422205
RRP: $68.25$60.72For more than two thousand years, philosophers and theologians have wrestled with the irreconcilable opposition between Greek rationality (Athens) and biblical revelation (Jerusalem). In Athens and Jersusalem, Lev Shestov-an inspiration for the French... -
An Introduction to Hegel's Logic by Justus Hartnack 9780872204249
RRP: $33.13$27.55Justus Hartnack provides a highly accessible, philosophically astute introduction to Hegel's logic--one of those rare books that rewards readers at any level of sophistication--and the ideal text for students about to embark on the study of this... -
The Oxford Handbook of Spinoza by Michael Della Rocca 9780197677070
$76.26Until recently, Spinoza's standing in Anglophone studies of philosophy has been relatively low and has only seemed to confirm Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi's assessment of him as "a dead dog." However, an exuberant outburst of excellent scholarship on... -
The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx 9781680922110
RRP: $9.73$8.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781680922110Author Karl MarxFormat PaperbackPage Count 24Imprint 12th Media ServicesPublisher 12th Media ServicesWeight(grams) 50gDimensions(mm) 234mm *... -
Introducing Marxism: A Graphic Guide by Rupert Woodfin 9781848310582
RRP: $17.53$13.07Was Marx himself a 'Marxist'? Was his visionary promise of socialism betrayed by Marxist dictatorship? Is Marxism inevitably totalitarian? What did Marx really say? "Introducing Marxism" provides a fundamental account of Karl Marx's original philosophy,... -
Critique and Crisis: Enlightenment and the Pathogenesis of Modern Society by Reinhart Koselleck
$69.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262611572Author Reinhart KoselleckFormat PaperbackPage Count 214Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *... -
The Cambridge Companion to Philosophical Methodology by Soren Overgaard
RRP: $60.43$50.41The Cambridge Companion to Philosophical Methodology offers clear and comprehensive coverage of the main methodological debates and approaches within philosophy. The chapters in this volume approach the question of how to do philosophy from a wide range... -
The Gift of Death, Second Edition & Literature in Secret by Deceased Jacques Derrida
RRP: $29.25$29.00The Gift of Death, Jacques Derrida's most sustained consideration of religion, explores questions first introduced in his book Given Time about the limits of the rational and responsible that one reaches in granting or accepting death, whether by... -
Growing Moral: A Confucian Guide to Life by Stephen C. Angle
RRP: $35.08$25.25Ancient and enduring, rich and wide-ranging, the tradition of Confucianism offers profound insights into how we can lead good lives--lives built on understanding that we are deeply connected to one another. For thousands of years, Confucian thinkers... -
Collected Papers on Mathematics, Logic, and Philosophy Gottlob Frege 9780631127284
RRP: $87.65$77.34A magnificent collection of work by the father of analytical philosophy Gottlob Frege is widely considered one of the most influential minds in the history of philosophy, having spent a lifetime delving into the nuances of language and mathematics... -
Problems of Moral Philosophy by Theodor W. Adorno 9780745628653
$35.28This volume makes Adorno's lectures on the problems of moral philosophy available for the first time to English-speaking readers. It is one of several volumes of Adorno's unpublished writings which are currently being published in Germany, and which will... -
Saturn and Melancholy: Studies in the History of Natural Philosophy, Religion, and Art by Raymond Klibansky
RRP: $136.50$120.72Saturn and Melancholy remains an iconic text in art history, intellectual history, and the study of culture, despite being long out of print in English. Rooted in the tradition established by Aby Warburg and the Warburg Library, this book has deeply... -
Differend: Phrases in Dispute by Jean-Francois Lyotard 9780816616114
RRP: $35.08$31.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816616114Author Jean-Francois LyotardFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint University of Minnesota PressPublisher University of Minnesota... -
The Form of Things: Essays on Life, Ideas and Liberty Prof A.C. Grayling 9780753822234
RRP: $19.48$13.26The bestseller from our pre-eminent philosopher, A.C. Grayling'Grief and loneliness, depression, despair and failure - those things are the common human lot at least at times in all our lives'. Yet it is philosophy which, while not providing an answer to... -
Narcocapitalism: Life in the Age of Anaesthesia by Laurent De Sutter
RRP: $29.23$26.48What do the invention of anaesthetics in the middle of the nineteenth century, the Nazis' use of cocaine, and the development of Prozac have in common? The answer is that they're all products of the same logic that defines our contemporary era: 'the age... -
The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Education Nigel Blake (Open University) 9780631221197
RRP: $64.25$57.60In this important survey, an international group of leading philosophers chart the development of philosophy of education in the twentieth century and point to signficant questions for its future. Presents a definitive introduction to the core areas of... -
Descartes by John Cottingham 9780631150466 [USED COPY]
RRP: $58.40$5.97In this new introduction to the life, thought and works of one of the greatest seventeenth-century philosophers, John Cottingham aims to place Descartes' ideas in their historical context while at the same time showing how they relate to a network of... -
Descartes by John Cottingham
RRP: $58.40$56.65In this new introduction to the life, thought and works of one of the greatest seventeenth-century philosophers, John Cottingham aims to place Descartes' ideas in their historical context while at the same time showing how they relate to a network of... -
Nietzsche and Metaphor by Sarah Kofman 9780485120981
RRP: $195.00$194.45This book addresses the question of metaphor in Nietzsche. It provides an unusual reading of Nietzsche's ideas (particularly of the central concept of "will to power") and an incisive method for investigating his style. Developing work on... -
On Becoming God: Late Medieval Mysticism and the Modern Western Self by Ben Morgan
RRP: $115.05$100.25Do we have to conceive of ourselves as isolated individuals, inevitably distanced from other people and from whatever we might mean when we use the word God? On Becoming God offers an innovative approach to the history of the modern Western self by... -
Introduction to Positive Thinking by Frederick Ferre 9780872200500
RRP: $23.38$19.05Contents:IntroductionSelected Bibliography Works by Comte in English Translation Works about Comte in EnglishI. The Nature and Importance of the Positive PhilosophyII. The Classification of the Positive SciencesIndexBook InformationISBN... -
History of Philosophy: Vol 3: Late Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy by Frederick C. Copleston
$54.64Copleston, an Oxford Jesuit and specialist in the history of philosophy, first created his history as an introduction for Catholic ecclesiastical seminaries. However, since its first publication (the last volume appearing in the mid-1970s) the series has... -
Verstehen: The Uses of Understanding in the Social Sciences Michael Martin 9780765800039
RRP: $263.25$229.48In late nineteenth-century German academic circles, the term verstehen (literally, understanding, or comprehension) came to be associated with the view that social phenomena must be understood from the point of view of the social actor. Advocates of this... -
Sentientist Politics: A Theory of Global Inter-Species Justice by Alasdair Cochrane 9780198789802
$166.34There is now widespread agreement that many non-human animals are sentient, and that this fact has important moral and political implications. Indeed, most are in agreement that animal sentience ought to constrain the actions of political institutions,... -
Immanuel Kant by Lucien Goldmann 9781844677825
$39.02Immanuel Kant was a philosopher at the end of the 18th century Enlightenment. Kant's magnum opus, the Critique of Pure Reason, aimed to unite reason with experience to move beyond what he took to be failures of traditional philosophy and metaphysics... -
The Origin and Goal of History by Karl Jaspers
RRP: $33.13$29.68Karl 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... -
Enlightenment Contested: Philosophy, Modernity, and the Emancipation of Man 1670-1752 by Jonathan I. Israel 9780199541522
RRP: $130.65$116.53Jonathan Israel presents the first major reassessment of the Western Enlightenment for a generation. Continuing the story he began in the best-selling Radical Enlightenment , and now focusing his attention on the first half of the eighteenth century, he... -
Opus Postumum by Immanuel Kant 9780521319287
RRP: $77.98$63.96This volume is the first ever English translation of Kant's last major work, the so-called Opus Postumum, a work Kant himself described as his 'chef d'oeuvre' and as the keystone of his entire philosophical system. It occupied him for more than the last... -
Speculative Realism: An Introduction by Graham Harman
RRP: $35.08$33.93On April 27, 2007, the first Speculative Realism (SR) workshop was held at Goldsmiths, University of London, featuring four young philosophers whose ideas were loosely allied. Over the ensuing decade, the ideas of SR spread from philosophy to the arts,... -
The Indivisible Remainder by Slavoj Zizek 9781844675814
RRP: $35.08$27.69The feature which distinguishes the great works of materialist thought, from Lucretius' De rerum natura through Capital to the writings of Lacan, is their unfinished character: again and again they tackle their chosen problem. Schelling's Weltalter... -
Jean-Paul Sartre: Basic Writings Jean-Paul Sartre 9780415213684
RRP: $58.48$51.95Jean-Paul Sartre is one of the most famous philosophers of the twentieth century. The principle founder of existentialism, a political thinker and famous novelist and dramatist, his work has exerted enormous influence in philosophy, literature, politics... -
The Empiricists by R. S. Woolhouse 9780192891884
$89.31`One of the great historic controversies in philosophy' was how Bertrand Russell described the ideological conflict between rationalists and empiricists - the conflict between reason and experience as sources of knowledge and ideas. Yet in this study of... -
One: Being an Investigation into the Unity of Reality and of its Parts, including the Singular Object which is Nothingness by Graham Priest 9780198776949
$70.65Graham Priest presents an original exploration of philosophical questions concerning the one and the many. He covers a wide range of issues in metaphysics--including unity, identity, grounding, mereology, universals, being, intentionality, and... -
Phenomenology: An Introduction by Stephan Kaufer
RRP: $35.08$31.28A classic in its field, this comprehensive book introduces the core history of phenomenology and assesses its relevance to contemporary psychology, philosophy of mind, and cognitive science. It provides a jargon-free explanation of central themes in the...