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Intelligibility of Nature: A William A Wallace Reader by William A. Wallace 9780813235943
RRP: $52.63Booksplease Price: $45.79The intelligibility of nature was a persistent theme of William A. Wallace, OP, one of the most prolific Catholic scholars of the late twentieth century. This Reader aims to make available a representative selection of his work in the history of science,... -
After Postmodernism: An Introduction to Critical Realism by Jose Lopez 9780826478924
Booksplease Price: $178.21What comes after 'postmodernism'? A buzzword which began as an energising, radical critique became, by the 20th Century's end, a byword for fracture, eclecticism, political apathy and intellectual exhaustion. The last few years have seen a growing... -
The Cambridge Companion to Philosophical Methodology by Soren Overgaard
RRP: $62.40Booksplease Price: $56.71The 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 Encyclopedia of Eastern Philosophy and Religion: Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, Zen by Ingrid Fischer-Schreiber 9780877739807
Booksplease Price: $63.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780877739807Author Gert WoernerFormat PaperbackPage Count 488Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)... -
Ethics of the Real: Kant and Lacan by Alenka Zupancic 9781844677870
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $35.55The idea of Kantian ethics is both simple and revolutionary: it proposes a moral law independent of any notion of a pre-established Good or any 'human inclination' such as love, sympathy or fear. In attempting to interpret such a revolutionary... -
Nietzsche: Life as Literature by Alexander Nehamas
Booksplease Price: $49.92More than eighty years after his death, Nietzsche's writings and his career remain disquieting, disturbing, obscure. His most famous views-the will to power, the eternal recurrence, the UEbermensch, the master morality-often seem incomprehensible or,... -
Anti-Education Friederich Nietzsche 9781590178942
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590178942Author Friederich NietzscheFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)... -
Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics Sixth Edition by Alfred Korzybski 9781970164220
RRP: $97.50Booksplease Price: $90.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781970164220Author Alfred KorzybskiFormat HardbackPage Count 982Imprint Institute of General SemanticsPublisher Institute of General SemanticsWeight(grams)... -
A Companion to Continental Philosophy Simon Critchley (University of Essex) 9780631218500
RRP: $75.95Booksplease Price: $70.61Covering the complete development of post-Kantian Continental philosophy, this volume serves as an essential reference work for philosophers and those engaged in the many disciplines that are integrally related to Continental and European Philosophy... -
Philosophy Between the Lines: The Lost History of Esoteric Writing by Arthur M. Melzer
Booksplease Price: $61.76Philosophical esotericism the practice of communicating one's unorthodox thoughts "between the lines" was a common practice until the end of the eighteenth century. The famous Encyclopedie of Diderot, for instance, not only discusses this practice in... -
Against the Current: Essays in the History of Ideas by Isaiah Berlin 9780712666909
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $38.08Berlin's main theme in these essays is the importance in the history of ideas of dissenters whose thinking still challenges conventional wisdom - among them Machiavelli, Vico, Montesquieu, Herzen and Sorel. With his unusual powers of imaginative... -
Irrationality: A History of the Dark Side of Reason by Justin E. H. Smith 9780691178677
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $42.32A fascinating history that reveals the ways in which the pursuit of rationality often leads to an explosion of irrationalityIt's a story we can't stop telling ourselves. Once, humans were benighted by superstition and irrationality, but then the Greeks... -
A Brief History of Analytic Philosophy: From Russell to Rawls by Stephen P. Schwartz
RRP: $54.50Booksplease Price: $50.82A Brief History of Analytic Philosophy: From Russell to Rawls presents a comprehensive overview of the historical development of all major aspects of analytic philosophy, the dominant Anglo-American philosophical tradition in the twentieth century. ... -
The Fourth Way: Teachings of G.I. Gurdjieff by P. D. Ouspensky
RRP: $39.00Booksplease Price: $25.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780394716725Author P. D. OuspenskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 329gDimensions(mm)... -
Spinoza and Spinozism by Stuart Hampshire 9780199279548
Booksplease Price: $68.66Stuart Hampshire, one of the most eminent British philosophers of the twentieth century, will be perhaps best remembered for his work on the seventeenth-century philosopher Spinoza, all of which is gathered now in this volume. Among the great thinkers of... -
The Rationalists by John Cottingham 9780192891907
Booksplease Price: $68.66The seventeenth century saw a fundamental shift in our ways of thinking about ourselves and the universe. The reassuring medieval view of an earth-centred cosmos designed expressly for the benefit of mankind had been steadily eroded; yet at the same time... -
Analysis and Metaphysics: An Introduction to Philosophy by P. F. Strawson 9780198751182
Booksplease Price: $71.90All developed human beings possess a practical mastery of a vast range of concepts, including such basic structural notions as those of identity, truth, existence, material objects, mental states, space, and time; but a practical mastery does not entail... -
Philosophical Mysticism in Plato, Hegel, and the Present by Dr Robert M. Wallace 9781350267381
Booksplease Price: $67.94Few twenty-first century academics take seriously mysticism's claim that we have direct knowledge of a higher or more "inner" reality or God. But Philosophical Mysticism argues that such leading philosophers of earlier epochs as Plato, G. W. F. Hegel,... -
Descartes' Meditations: A Reader's Guide by Richard Francks 9780826492845
Booksplease Price: $48.59This is a Reader's Guide to one of the most important, and most frequently studied, works in the history of philosophy - an essential addition to the series."Descartes' Meditations" is one of the most important texts in the whole history of... -
The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Education by Harvey Siegel 9780199915729
Booksplease Price: $96.12Philosophy of education has an honored place in the history of Western philosophical thought. Its questions are as vital now, both philosophically and practically, as they have ever been. In recent decades, however, philosophical thinking about education... -
History of Philosophy: Vol 4: The Rationalists: Descartes to Leibniz by Frederick C. Copleston
Booksplease Price: $56.30Copleston, 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... -
The Evolution of Modern Metaphysics: Making Sense of Things by A. W. Moore 9780521616553
RRP: $81.90Booksplease Price: $73.98This book is concerned with the history of metaphysics since Descartes. Taking as its definition of metaphysics 'the most general attempt to make sense of things', it charts the evolution of this enterprise through various competing conceptions of its... -
Kierkegaard: Construction of the Aesthetic by Theodor Adorno 9780816611874
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $32.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816611874Author Theodor AdornoFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint University of Minnesota PressPublisher University of Minnesota PressDimensions(mm)... -
An Introduction to Feminist Philosophy by Alison Stone
Booksplease Price: $35.22This is the first book to offer a systematic account of feminist philosophy as a distinctive field of philosophy. The book introduces key issues and debates in feminist philosophy including: the nature of sex, gender, and the body; the relation between... -
Introducing Marxism: A Graphic Guide by Rupert Woodfin 9781848310582
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $13.01Was 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,... -
The History of Philosophy: A Marxist Perspective by Alan Woods
Booksplease Price: $29.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913026240Author Alan WoodsFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Well Red PublicationsPublisher Well Red Publications -
With the Sharpened Axe of Reason: Approaches to Walter Benjamin by Gerhard Fischer 9781859730546
Booksplease Price: $81.47Walter Benjamin holds a unique fascination for students and scholars interested in the question of modernity. The most original thinker of Weimar Germany, Benjamin has become something of a cultural icon and his works are often regarded with awe rather... -
The Empiricists by R. S. Woolhouse 9780192891884
Booksplease Price: $100.09`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... -
Maine de Biran's 'Of Immediate Apperception' by Maine de Biran 9781350262300
Booksplease Price: $67.94Written when Maine de Biran was coming into his philosophical maturity, in 1807, 'Of Immediate Apperception' was the first complete statement of his own philosophy of the will. It was the winning entry to a competition organised by the Berlin Academie... -
An Autobiography by R. G. Collingwood 9780198246947
Booksplease Price: $48.98An AutobiographyBook InformationISBN 9780198246947Author R. G. CollingwoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Oxford University PressPublisher Oxford University PressWeight(grams) 234gDimensions(mm) 199mm * 133mm * 10mm -
Kierkegaard: Fear and Trembling by C. Stephen Evans
RRP: $42.90Booksplease Price: $40.85In this rich and resonant work, Soren Kierkegaard reflects poetically and philosophically on the biblical story of God's command to Abraham, that he sacrifice his son Isaac as a test of faith. Was Abraham's proposed action morally and religiously... -
Women Philosophers in Nineteenth-Century Britain by Alison Stone 9780192874719
RRP: $181.35Booksplease Price: $165.65Many women wrote philosophy in nineteenth-century Britain, and they wrote across the full range of philosophical topics. Yet these important women thinkers have been left out of the philosophical canon and many of them are barely known today. The aim of... -
History of Philosophy: Vol 8: Utilitarianism to Early Analytic Philosophy by Frederick C. Copleston
Booksplease Price: $56.88Copleston, 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... -
The Great Riddle: Wittgenstein and Nonsense, Theology and Philosophy by Stephen Mulhall 9780198801627
Booksplease Price: $59.49Can we talk meaningfully about God? The theological movement known as Grammatical Thomism affirms that religious language is nonsensical, because the reality of God is beyond our capacity for expression. Stephen Mulhall critically evaluates the claims of... -
A Little Manual for Knowing by Esther Lightcap Meek 9781610977845
RRP: $35.10Booksplease Price: $21.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781610977845Author Esther Lightcap MeekFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams)... -
Socrates Cafe: A Fresh Taste of Philosophy by Christopher Phillips 9780393322989
RRP: $23.38Booksplease Price: $19.77Christopher Phillips is a man on a mission: to revive the love of questions that Socrates inspired long ago in ancient Athens. "Like a Johnny Appleseed with a master's degree, Phillips has gallivanted back and forth across America, to cafes and coffee... -
The Theory of the Sublime from Longinus to Kant by Robert Doran 9781107499157
RRP: $52.65Booksplease Price: $50.54In this book, Robert Doran offers the first in-depth treatment of the major theories of the sublime, from the ancient Greek treatise On the Sublime (attributed to 'Longinus') and its reception in early modern literary theory to the philosophical accounts... -
Conversations on Science, Culture, and Time: Michel Serres Interviewed by Bruno Latour by Michel Serres
RRP: $40.85Booksplease Price: $40.23Although elected to the prestigious French Academy in 1990, Michel Serres has long been considered a maverick - a provocative thinker whose prolific writings on culture, science and philosophy have often baffled more than they have enlightened. In these... -
Nature's God: The Heretical Origins of the American Republic by Matthew Stewart 9780393064544
RRP: $44.83Booksplease Price: $41.50Erudite Thomas Jefferson, wily Benjamin Franklin, rough-hewn general Ethan Allen and Thomas Young (who instigated the Boston Tea Party)-the radicals who founded America set their sights on a revolution of the mind. Derided as "infidels" and "atheists" in... -
Classification of Knowledge in Islam: A Study in Islamic Philosophies of Science by Osman Bakar 9780946621712
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $28.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780946621712Author Osman BakarFormat PaperbackPage Count 330Imprint The Islamic Texts SocietyPublisher The Islamic Texts SocietyWeight(grams) 410g