Filter By
- Book
- Qty in Cart
- Quantity
- Price
- Subtotal
-
What is Metaphysics? John Heil 9781509546497
RRP: £14.99£13.58If we didn't possess certain beliefs about such things as time, appearance and reality, and how effect follows cause, we wouldn't be able to get out of bed in the morning, let alone read a book about metaphysics, which is the study of our experience and... -
The Realistic Spirit: Wittgenstein, Philosophy, and the Mind by Cora Diamond 9780262540742
£44.69The realistic spirit, a nonmetaphysical approach to philosophical thought concerned with the character of philosophy itself, informs all of the discussions in these essays by philosopher Cora Diamond. Diamond explains Wittgenstein's notoriously elusive... -
Rousseau's Dog: A Tale of Two Philosophers by David Edmonds
RRP: £12.99£8.56Jean-Jacques Rousseau - philosopher, novelist, composer, educationist, political provocateur - was on the run. He was fleeing intolerance, persecution, and enemies who proclaimed him a madman, dangerous to society. David Hume, the foremost philosopher in... -
Lou Von Salome: A Biography of the Woman Who Inspired Freud, Nietzsche and Rilke by Julia Vickers 9780786436064
RRP: £21.99£17.97The daughter of an illustrious Russian general, Lou von Salome left her home in the heart of Tsarist Russia to conquer intellectual Europe at the tender age of 18. Eventually settling in Germany, she became a best-selling novelist, a groundbreaking... -
Nothing: A Philosophical History by Roy Sorensen
RRP: £23.49£16.61An entertaining history of the idea of nothing - including absences, omissions, and shadows - from the Ancient Greeks through the 20th century How can nothing cause something? The absence of something might seem to indicate a null or a void, an... -
The Two Greatest Ideas: How Our Grasp of the Universe and Our Minds Changed Everything by Linda Zagzebski
RRP: £35.00£27.74Two simple yet tremendously powerful ideas that shaped virtually every aspect of civilizationThis book is a breathtaking examination of the two greatest ideas in human history. The first is the idea that the human mind can grasp the universe. The second... -
The Cambridge History of Moral Philosophy by Sacha Golob
RRP: £26.99£25.08With fifty-four chapters charting the development of moral philosophy in the Western world, this volume examines the key thinkers and texts and their influence on the history of moral thought from the pre-Socratics to the present day. Topics including... -
On What Matters: Two-volume set by Derek Parfit 9780199265923
RRP: £65.00£57.39On What Matters is a major work in moral philosophy. It is the long-awaited follow-up to Derek Parfit's 1984 book Reasons and Persons, one of the landmarks of twentieth-century philosophy. Parfit now presents a powerful new treatment of reasons,... -
Human Nature: The Categorial Framework P. M. S. Hacker (University of Oxford, UK) 9781444332483
RRP: £29.95£26.61This major study examines the most fundamental categories in terms of which we conceive of ourselves, critically surveying the concepts of substance, causation, agency, teleology, rationality, mind, body and person, and elaborating the conceptual fields... -
The Intellectual Powers: A Study of Human Nature P. M. S. Hacker (St John's College, University of Oxford, UK) 9781118651216
RRP: £21.95£19.72The Intellectual Powers is a philosophical investigation into the cognitive and cogitative powers of mankind. It develops a connective analysis of our powers of consciousness, intentionality, mastery of language, knowledge, belief, certainty, sensation,... -
Critique of Judgment by Immanuel Kant 9780872200258
RRP: £27.99£22.99"Pluhar maintains a fine, even tone throughout. . . . Those who have found the prospect of teaching the third Critique daunting will admire its clarity. . . . No one will be disappointed." -Timothy Sean Quinn, The Review of Metaphysics Contents:Foreword... -
Thinking in Time: An Introduction to Henri Bergson by Suzanne Guerlac
RRP: £24.99£21.67"Under the aegis of time Suzanne Guerlac displaces matter, intuition, memory, and vitalism of the early twentieth century into the wake of poststructuralism and the dilemmas of nature and culture here and now. This book is a landmark for anyone working... -
Hegel: Philosophy of Mind: A revised version of the Wallace and Miller translation by Michael Inwood 9780199593026
£28.70G. W. F. Hegel is an immensely important yet difficult philosopher. Philosophy of Mind is the third part of Hegel's Encyclopaedia of the Philosophical Sciences, in which he summarizes his philosophical system. It is one of the main pillars of his thought... -
Future Stories: A user's guide to the future by David Christian
RRP: £20.00£14.29'David Christian's approach to understanding history can help all of us learn to prepare for the future' - Bill GatesA user's guide to the future: from the algorithms in DNA to why time is like a cocktail glass, interstellar migrations, transhumanism,... -
An Awareness of What is Missing: Faith and Reason in a Post-secular Age by Jurgen Habermas 9780745647210
£15.23In his recent writings on religion and secularization, Habermas has challenged reason to clarify its relation to religious experience and to engage religions in a constructive dialogue. Given the global challenges facing humanity, nothing is more... -
The Open: Man and Animal by Giorgio Agamben 9780804747387
RRP: £18.99£11.66The end of human history is an event that has been foreseen or announced by both messianics and dialecticians. But who is the protagonist of that history that is coming-or has come-to a close? What is man? How did he come on the scene? And how has he... -
Hegel by Charles Taylor 9780521291996
RRP: £34.99£28.25A major and comprehensive study of the philosophy of Hegel, his place in the history of ideas, and his continuing relevance and importance. Professor Taylor relates Hegel to the earlier history of philosophy and, more particularly, to the central... -
Beyond Good and Evil / On the Genealogy of Morality: Volume 8 by Friedrich Nietzsche
RRP: £20.99£18.37Beyond Good and Evil is Nietzsche's first sustained philosophical treatment of issues important to him. Unlike the expository prose of the essayistic period (1872-76), the stylized forays and jabs of the aphoristic period (1878-82), and the... -
The Origin and Goal of History by Karl Jaspers
RRP: £16.99£15.22Karl 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... -
How to be Radical in Philosophy by Professor Maximilian de Gaynesford
RRP: £18.99£16.18Radicality is at the very heart of philosophy. Sustaining this lifeblood of progressive thinking means refashioning philosophy constantly. It means engaging with the fundamental issues of living, working, thinking and dying. Otherwise, philosophy loses... -
How To Be Good: What Socrates Can Teach Us About the Art of Living Well Massimo Pigliucci 9781399804936
RRP: £20.00£13.35What Socrates's greatest failure says about a 2,000-year-old question: is it possible to teach ourselves and others to become better people? Can we make ourselves into better human beings? Can we help others do the same? And can we get the leaders of our... -
Selected Letters of Friedrich Nietzsche by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche 9780872203587
RRP: £25.99£21.05This collection of more than two hundred of Nietzsche's letters offers a representative body of correspondence on subjects of main concern to him--philosophy, history, morals, music and literature. Also included are letters of biographical interest... -
Kant's Critical Philosophy: The Doctrine of the Faculties by Gilles Deleuze 9780826432063
£19.99Gilles Deleuze was one of the most important and influential Continental philosophers of the twentieth century and this book is an essential text for the field of Kant studies. Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995) was Professor of Philosophy at the University of... -
Absence of Myth: Writings on Surrealism by Georges Bataille 9781844675609
RRP: £16.99£14.55For Bataille, the absence of myth had itself become the myth of the modern age. In a world that had lost the secret of its cohesion, Bataille saw surrealism as both a symptom and a beginning of an attempt to address this loss. His writings on this theme... -
From Empedocles to Wittgenstein: Historical Essays in Philosophy by Anthony Kenny 9780199550821
RRP: £93.00£69.96From Empedocles to Wittgenstein is a collection of fifteen historical essays in philosophy, written by Sir Anthony Kenny in the early years of the 21st century. In the main they are concerned with four of the great philosophers whom he most esteems,... -
The Prayers by Soren Kierkegaard
RRP: £16.00£13.84Soren Kierkegaard's influence has been felt in many areas of human thought from theology to psychology. Nearly 100 of his prayers are gathered here, illuminating his own life of prayer and speaking to the concerns of Christians today. The second part of... -
Tarrying with the Negative: Kant, Hegel, and the Critique of Ideology by Slavoj Zizek
RRP: £22.99£20.01In the space of barely more than five years, with the publication of four pathbreaking books, Slavoj Zizek has earned the reputation of being one of the most arresting, insightful, and scandalous thinkers in recent memory. Perhaps more than any other... -
The Complete Works of Harriet Taylor Mill by Jo Ellen Jacobs
RRP: £53.00£46.94For 170 years, Harriet Taylor Mill has been presented as a footnote in John Stuart Mill's life. This volume gives her a separate voice. Readers may assess for themselves the importance and influence of her ideas on "women's" issues such as marriage and... -
The Second Sexism: Discrimination Against Men and Boys by David Benatar
RRP: £28.95£25.07Does sexism against men exist? What it looks like and why we need to take it seriously This book draws attention to the "second sexism," where it exists, how it works and what it looks like, and responds to those who would deny that it exists... -
Hume: An Intellectual Biography by James A. Harris
RRP: £30.99£26.03This is the first book to provide a comprehensive overview of the entire career of one of Britain's greatest men of letters. It sets in biographical and historical context all of Hume's works, from A Treatise of Human Nature to The History of England,... -
Genius: A Very Short Introduction by Andrew Robinson
RRP: £8.99£6.45Homer, Leonardo da Vinci, Mozart, Shakespeare, and Tolstoy; Curie, Darwin, Einstein, Galileo, and Newton. What do these world-famous artists and scientists have in common?- apart from the fact that their achievements predate our own time by a century or... -
The Odd One In: On Comedy by Alenka Zupancic 9780262740319
£35.64A Lacanian look at how comedy might come to philosophy's rescue, with examples ranging from Hegel and Moliere to George W. Bush and Borat. Why philosophize about comedy? What is the use of investigating the comical from philosophical and psychoanalytic... -
Alienation: Marx's Conception of Man in a Capitalist Society by Professor Bertell Ollman
RRP: £26.99£21.57In this book, the most thorough account of Marx's theory of alienation yet to have appeared in English, Professor Ollman reconstructs the theory from its constituent parts and offers it as a vantage point from which to view the rest of Marxism. The book... -
Leibniz: Body, Substance, Monad by Daniel Garber 9780199693092
RRP: £37.49£30.55Daniel Garber presents an illuminating study of Leibniz's conception of the physical world. Leibniz's commentators usually begin with monads, mind-like simple substances, the ultimate building-blocks of the Monadology. But Leibniz's apparently idealist... -
A Companion to Schopenhauer Bart Vandenabeele (Ghent University, Belgium) 9781119144809
RRP: £33.95£30.38A Companion to Schopenhauer provides a comprehensive guide to all the important facets of Schopenhauer's philosophy. The volume contains 26 newly commissioned essays by prominent Schopenhauer scholars working in the field today. A thoroughly... -
Objective Communication: Writing, Speaking and Arguing by Leonard Peikoff 9780451418159
RRP: £18.85£14.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451418159Author Leonard PeikoffFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint New American LibraryPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 414gDimensions(mm)... -
Olympe de Gouges by Sandrine Berges
RRP: £17.00£14.72Olympe de Gouges, though a well-known historical figure, has not been investigated as a philosopher until quite recently. Yet, many of her writings have philosophical import, whether they are written in the genre of the philosophical treatise, drama or... -
The Philosophical Writings of Descartes: Volume 2 by Rene Descartes 9780521288088
RRP: £39.99£35.61These two volumes provide a translation of the philosophical works of Descartes, based on the best available Latin and French texts. They are intended to replace the only reasonably comprehensive selection of his works in English, by Haldane and Ross,... -
Growing Moral: A Confucian Guide to Life by Stephen C. Angle
RRP: £17.99£12.95Ancient 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... -
Sartre: A Philosophical Biography by Thomas R. Flynn 9781107476011
RRP: £26.99£22.92Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980) was one of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century. Regarded as the father of existentialist philosophy, he was also a political critic, moralist, playwright, novelist, and author of biographies and short...