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The Philosophy of 'As If' by H. Vaihinger
RRP: €23.79€21.05Hans Vaihinger (1852-1933) was an important and fascinating figure in German philosophy in the early twentieth century, founding the well-known journal Kant-Studien. Yet he was overshadowed by the burgeoning movements of phenomenology and analytical... -
Kant's Critical Philosophy: The Doctrine of the Faculties by Gilles Deleuze 9780826432063
€23.79Gilles 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... -
An Introduction to Philosophy by Jon Nuttall 9780745616636
RRP: €22.60€21.85This new textbook is a lively and highly accessible introduction to philosophy. From the fundamental issues of philosophical thought to the latest theories in the philosophy of mind, An Introduction to Philosophy provides clear and incisive discussion of... -
A Gallery of Recuperation: On the Merits of Slandering Charlatans, Swindlers, and Frauds by Jaime Semprun 9780262546171
RRP: €20.22€15.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262546171Author Jaime SemprunFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
Who Needs a World View? by Raymond Geuss
RRP: €38.02€29.95One of the world's most provocative philosophers attacks the obsession with comprehensive intellectual systems-the perceived need for a world view.We live in a unitary cosmos created and cared for in all its details by a benevolent god. That, for... -
Absence of Myth: Writings on Surrealism by Georges Bataille 9781844675609
RRP: €20.22€17.31For 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: €110.67€83.25From 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 Second Sexism: Discrimination Against Men and Boys by David Benatar
RRP: €34.45€29.83Does 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... -
Nothing: A Philosophical History by Roy Sorensen
RRP: €27.95€19.77An 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... -
Hume: An Intellectual Biography by James A. Harris
RRP: €36.88€27.32This 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,... -
History of Philosophy: Vol 7: 18th and 19th Century German Philosophy by Frederick C. Copleston
RRP: €29.75€26.41Copleston, 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 Odd One In: On Comedy by Alenka Zupancic 9780262740319
€42.41A 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... -
The Two Greatest Ideas: How Our Grasp of the Universe and Our Minds Changed Everything by Linda Zagzebski
RRP: €41.65€33.01Two 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... -
When Philosophers Rule: Ficino on Plato's Republic, Laws and Epinomis by Arthur Farndell 9780856832574
RRP: €22.55€20.17Searching for a definition of good government, this commentary from Marsilio Ficino examines three Platonic dialogues that have had a profound effect on Western statesmen and jurists. A leading scholar of the Italian Renaissance-who translated all the... -
What Is Posthumanism? by Cary Wolfe 9780816666157
RRP: €23.79€20.87What does it mean to think beyond humanism? Is it possible to craft a mode of philosophy, ethics, and interpretation that rejects the classic humanist divisions of self and other, mind and body, society and nature, human and animal, organic and... -
Alienation: Marx's Conception of Man in a Capitalist Society by Professor Bertell Ollman
RRP: €32.12€25.67In 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: €44.61€36.35Daniel 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... -
Objective Communication: Writing, Speaking and Arguing by Leonard Peikoff 9780451418159
RRP: €22.43€17.16Apologies 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: €20.23€17.52Olympe 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: €47.59€42.38These 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,... -
Sartre: A Philosophical Biography by Thomas R. Flynn 9781107476011
RRP: €32.12€27.27Jean-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... -
Utilitarianism by John Stuart Mill 9780486454221
RRP: €4.15€3.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486454221Author John Stuart MillFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Causation and Conditionals by Ernest Sosa 9780198750307
€66.85Causation and ConditionalsBook InformationISBN 9780198750307Author Ernest SosaFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Oxford University PressPublisher Oxford University PressDimensions(mm) 204mm * 135mm * 12mm -
Women and Liberty, 1600-1800: Philosophical Essays by Jacqueline Broad 9780198810261
RRP: €103.53€100.85There have been many different historical-intellectual accounts of the shaping and development of concepts of liberty in pre-Enlightenment Europe. This volume is unique for addressing the subject of liberty principally as it is discussed in the writings... -
Weltschmerz: Pessimism in German Philosophy, 1860-1900 by Frederick C. Beiser
RRP: €35.09€32.31Weltschmerz is a study of the pessimism that dominated German philosophy in the second half of the nineteenth century. Pessimism was essentially the theory that life is not worth living. This theory was introduced into German philosophy by Schopenhauer,... -
The Power Of Ideas by Isaiah Berlin
RRP: €22.60€16.20'Over a hundred years ago, the German poet Heine warned the French not to underestimate the power of ideas: philosophical concepts nurtured in the stillness of a professor's study could destroy a civilisation' - Isaiah Berlin, Two Concepts of Liberty,... -
Sociology For Beginners by Richard Osborne
RRP: €11.89€8.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956267870Author Richard OsborneFormat PaperbackPage Count 186Imprint Zidane PressPublisher Zidane Press -
Dead Man Working Carl Cederstrom 9781780991566
RRP: €11.89€10.22Capitalism has become strange. Ironically, while the 'age of work' seems to have come to an end, working has assumed a total presence - a 'worker's society' in the worst sense of the term - where everyone finds themselves obsessed with it. So what... -
Two Treatises of Government and A Letter Concerning Toleration by John Locke 9780300100181
€23.79Two of Locke's most mature and influential political writings and three brilliant interpretive essays combined in an outstanding new volume Among the most influential writings in the history of Western political thought, John Locke's Two Treatises of... -
Consciousness is Everything by Swami Shankarananda
€23.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789392510502Author Swami ShankaranandaFormat PaperbackPage Count 350Imprint Motilal Banarsidass,Publisher Motilal Banarsidass, -
Convention: A Philosophical Study David Lewis (Princeton University) 9780631232575
RRP: €35.64€31.67Convention was immediately recognized as a major contribution to the subject and its significance has remained undiminished since its first publication in 1969. Lewis analyzes social conventions as regularities in the resolution of recurring coordination... -
An Introduction to the Philosophical Work of Gilles Deleuze by Jean Khalfa 9780826459961
€83.53Gilles Deleuze has been labelled as the post-x thinker: post-structuralist, post-modern, post-Spinozist, post-Nietzschean, and even post-utopian. An Introduction to the Philosophy of Gilles Deleuze explores such categorizations and places Deleuze and... -
Thinker On Stage: Nietzsche's Materialism by Peter Sloterdijk 9780816617654
RRP: €26.17€22.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816617654Author Peter SloterdijkFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint University of Minnesota PressPublisher University of Minnesota PressDimensions(mm)... -
The Crooked Timber of Humanity: Chapters in the History of Ideas - Second Edition by Isaiah Berlin
RRP: €26.18€18.39"Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made."--Immanuel Kant Isaiah Berlin was one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century--an activist of the intellect who marshaled vast erudition and eloquence in defense... -
A Kant Dictionary Howard Caygill 9780631175353
RRP: €39.21€35.15In this new lexical survey of Kanta s works, Howard Caygill presents Kantian concepts and terminology in terms that will introduce and clarify his ideas for students and general readers alike.Book InformationISBN 9780631175353Author Howard CaygillFormat... -
The Social Contract and The First and Second Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau 9780300091410
RRP: €19.03€18.75Jean-Jacques Rousseau's ideas about society, culture, and government are pivotal in the history of political thought. His works are as controversial as they are relevant today. This volume brings together three of Rousseau's most important political... -
The History of Philosophy: A Marxist Perspective by Alan Woods
€17.79Apologies 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 -
The Subject's Point of View by Katalin Farkas 9780199592012
RRP: €44.61€37.83Descartes's philosophy has had a considerable influence on the modern conception of the mind, but many think that this influence has been largely negative. The main project of The Subject's Point of View is to argue that discarding certain elements of... -
Advanced Course in Yogi Philosophy by Yogi Ramacharaka
RRP: €15.41€9.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997414851Author Yogi RamacharakaFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Bamboo Leaf PressPublisher Bamboo Leaf PressWeight(grams) 140g -
Defining Modernism: Baudelaire and Nietzsche on Romanticism, Modernity, Decadence, and Wagner by Andrea Gogroef-Voorhees 9780820437934
RRP: €48.49€42.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780820437934Author Andrea Gogroef-VoorheesFormat HardbackPage Count 201Imprint Peter Lang Publishing IncPublisher Peter Lang Publishing IncWeight(grams) 420g