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Lectures on the History of Philosophy, Volume 1: Greek Philosophy to Plato by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
RRP: $58.05$39.35G. W. F. Hegel (1770-1831), the influential German philosopher, believed that human history was advancing spiritually and morally according to God's purpose. At the beginning of this masterwork, Hegel writes: "What the history of Philosophy shows us is a... -
Story of Philosophy by Will Durant
$17.14This brilliant and concise account of the lives and ideas of the world's great philosophers-Plato, Aristotle, Bacon, Spinoza, Voltaire, Kant, Schopenhauer, Spencer, Nietzsche, Bergson, Croce, Russell, Santayana, James, and Dewey-is "a delight" (The New... -
Seeing More: Kant's Theory of Imagination by Samantha Matherne 9780198898283
RRP: $132.87$120.20Samantha Matherne defends a systematic interpretation of the philosopher Immanuel Kant's theory of imagination. To this end, she offers an account of what kind of mental capacity Kant takes imagination to be in general, as well as an account of the way... -
Man is the Measure by Reuben Abel 9780684836362
RRP: $24.45$21.83An intelligently truthful book that explores the uneven landscape of the human intellect.An accessible introduction to philosophy, this book narrows the gap between the general reader and intellectual inquiry. Its points are illustrated with concrete... -
Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant 9780486445434
RRP: $10.95$9.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486445434Author Immanuel KantFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams) 259g -
Natality: Toward a Philosophy of Birth by Jennifer Banks 9781324076070
RRP: $16.76$14.77Birth is one of the most fraught and polarized issues of our time, at the center of debates on abortion, gender, work, and medicine. But birth is not solely an issue; it is a fundamental part of the human condition, and, alongside death, the most... -
The Death and Life of Philosophy by Robert Greene 9781890318192
$38.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781890318192Author Robert GreeneFormat HardbackPage Count 316Imprint St Augustine's PressPublisher St Augustine's Press -
Classics of Western Philosophy by Steven M. Cahn 9781603847445
RRP: $122.54$98.74The Eighth Edition of Steven M. Cahn's Classics of Western Philosophy offers the same exacting standard of editing and translation that made earlier editions of this anthology the most highly valued and widely used volume of its kind. But the Eighth... -
Thinking Through Film: Doing Philosophy, Watching Movies by Damian Cox 9781405193436
$98.50An introduction to philosophy through film, Thinking Through Film: Doing Philosophy, Watching Movies combines the exploration of fundamental philosophical issues with the experience of viewing films, and provides an engaging reading experience for... -
The Matter of the Mind: Philosophical Essays on Psychology, Neuroscience and Reduction by Maurice Schouten 9781405144438
$126.45The Matter of the Mind addresses and illuminates the relationship between psychology and neuroscience by focusing on the topic of reduction. Written by leading philosophers in the fieldDiscusses recent theorizing in the mind-brain sciences and reviews... -
Current Continental Thought and Modern Philosophy by Stephen H. Daniel 9780810122024
RRP: $42.51$35.69For decades Continental theorists from Derrida to Deleuze have engaged in provocative, penetrating, and often extensive examinations of modern philosophers - studies that have opened up new ways to think about figures such as Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz,... -
Rethinking the Political: The Sacred, Aesthetic Politics, and the College de Sociologie: Volume 55 by Simonetta Falasca-Zamponi 9780773539013
$47.59Rethinking the Political demonstrates that the College de Sociologie's quest to create a new place for the sacred in modern collective life ostensibly entailed avoiding the theorization of both aesthetics and politics. While the College condemned... -
Hegel: New Directions by Katerina Deligiorgi 9780773531741
RRP: $29.66$24.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780773531741Author Katerina DeligiorgiFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint McGill-Queen's University PressPublisher McGill-Queen's University... -
Analytic Philosophy and History of Philosophy by Professor Tom Sorell 9780199278992
RRP: $187.05$143.09Philosophy written in English is overwhelmingly analytic philosophy, and the techniques and predilections of analytic philosophy are not only unhistorical but anti-historical, and hostile to textual commentary. Analytic usually aspires to a very high... -
Descartes, Malebranche, and the Crisis of Perception by Walter R. Ott 9780198791713
RRP: $95.46$79.27The seventeenth century witnesses the demise of two core doctrines in the theory of perception: naive realism about color, sound, and other sensible qualities and the empirical theory, drawn from Alhacen and Roger Bacon, which underwrote it. This created... -
Louise Dupin's Work on Women: Selections by Angela Hunter 9780190090098
RRP: $82.56$74.39The eighteenth-century text Work on Women by Louise Dupin (also known as Madame Dupin, 1706-1799) is the French Enlightenment's most in-depth feminist analysis of inequality--and its most neglected one. Angela Hunter and Rebecca Wilkin here offer the... -
The Wild Girl, Natural Man, and the Monster: Dangerous Experiments in the Age of Enlightenment by Julia V. Douthwaite 9780226160559
$125.19This study looks at the lives of the most famous "wild children" of eighteenth-century Europe, showing how they open a window onto European ideas about the potential and perfectibility of mankind. Julia V. Douthwaite recounts reports of feral children,... -
Communications with the Future: Matthew Arnold in Dialogue by Donald D. Stone 9780472108015
$108.82Matthew Arnold has long been recognized as the greatest of Victorian critics. In Communications with the Future, Donald Stone demonstrates Arnold's enormous range, vitality, and continuing relevance. Demonstrating the similarities between Arnold's... -
On Descartes' Metaphysical Prism: The Constitution and the Limits of Onto-theo-logy in Cartesian Thought by Jean-Luc Marion 9780226505381
$134.64Does Descartes belong to metaphysics? What do we mean when we say "metaphysics"? These questions form the point of departure for Jean-Luc Marion's study of Cartesian thought. Analyses of Descartes' notion of the "ego" and his idea of God show that if... -
Philosopher On Dover Beach by Roger Scruton 9781890318604
$49.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781890318604Author Roger ScrutonFormat HardbackPage Count 350Imprint St Augustine's PressPublisher St Augustine's Press -
Historical Dictionary of the Enlightenment by Jonathan Israel 9781538123133
RRP: $174.15$153.38Given the huge advances achieved by research regarding many aspects of the Enlightenment over the past several decades there is certainly a crying need for a one-volume dictionary to serve as guide to the main Enlightenment writers, thinkers, publicists... -
Roger Bacon's Philosophy of Nature: A Critical Edition , with English Translation, Introduction and Notes, of "De Multiplicatione Specierum'"and "De Speculis Comburentibus" by Roger Bacon 9781890318758
$90.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781890318758Author Roger BaconFormat HardbackPage Count 502Imprint St Augustine's PressPublisher St Augustine's PressWeight(grams) 998g -
History of Political Ideas (Volume 6): Revolution and the New Science by Eric Voegelin 9780826212009
RRP: $74.82$60.71Volume VI of Voegelin's account of the history of Western political ideas continues from the point reached in the previous volume with the study of the mystic-philosopher Jean Bodin. Voegelin begins with a discussion of the conflict between Bishop... -
Modality: A History by Yitzhak Y. Melamed 9780190089863
RRP: $25.79$23.49Modality: A History provides readers a sweeping study of the history of philosophical work on modal concepts. Everyday discourse is saturated with appeals to what might be the case or to what must be true or to what cannot happen. Possibility, necessity,... -
Thinking about the Emotions: A Philosophical History by Alix Cohen 9780198766858
RRP: $107.07$97.70Philosophical reflection on the emotions has a long history stretching back to classical Greek thought, even though at times philosophers have marginalized or denigrated them in favour of reason. Fourteen leading philosophers here offer a broad survey of... -
Pleasure: A History by Lisa Shapiro 9780190225117
RRP: $31.59$28.51For many, the word 'pleasure' conjures associations with hedonism, indulgence, and escape from the life of the mind. However little we talk about it, though, pleasure also plays an integral role in cognitive life, in both our sensory perception of the... -
Philosophy and the Historical Perspective by Marcel van Ackeren 9780197266298
$84.73Does historical perspective contribute to today's philosophy? If so, what is the contribution of this perspective, and how does relating it to current philosophy bring this contribution about? Since the rise of analytical philosophy, debates on... -
Rationalism, Platonism and God: A Symposium on Early Modern Philosophy by Michael Ayers 9780197264201
$45.43Rationalism, Platonism and God comprises three main papers on Descartes, Spinoza and Leibniz, with extensive responses. It provides a significant contribution to the exploration of the common ground of the great early-modern Rationalist theories, and an... -
Nietzsche's On The Genealogy of Morality: A Guide by Rex Welshon 9780197611821
RRP: $25.79$23.49On the Genealogy of Morality is one of Nietzsche's greatest works. Taking recent scholarship on board and using it to inform its analysis of this challenging text, Rex Welshon's Guide introduces readers of all levels to the major arguments found in the... -
Peirce on Inference: Validity, Strength, and the Community of Inquirers by Richard Kenneth Atkins 9780197689066
RRP: $91.59$83.90Above all other titles, Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914) prized that of logician. He thought of logic broadly, such that it includes not merely formal logic but an examination of the entire process of inquiry. His works are replete with detailed... -
Mary Ann Shadd Cary: Essential Writings of a Nineteenth-Century Black Radical Feminist by Nneka D. Dennie 9780197609477
RRP: $25.79$23.49This volume compiles writings by and about Mary Ann Shadd Cary, a nineteenth-century Black radical feminist, an abolitionist, suffragist, and one of the first Black woman newspaper editors in North America. Mary Ann Shadd Cary includes letters,... -
Kant on Freedom and Rational Agency by Markus Kohl 9780198873143
RRP: $116.10$105.75Kant on Freedom and Rational Agency provides a novel interpretation and rational reconstruction of Kant's doctrine of freedom. Markus Kohl shows how Kant defends the belief that we are free from foreign (natural and super-natural) causes as a... -
An Elegant and Learned Discourse of the Light of Nature by Nathaniel Culverwell
RRP: $33.53$30.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781442639614Author Nathaniel CulverwellFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint University of Toronto PressPublisher University of Toronto PressWeight(grams)... -
Heidegger and Plato by Catalin Partenie
RRP: $90.30$72.98For Martin Heidegger the ""fall"" of philosophy into metaphysics begins with Plato. Thus, the relationship between the two philosophers is crucial to an understanding of Heidegger - and, perhaps, even to the whole plausibility of... -
The History of Philosophy: A Reader's Guide by Donald Phillip Verene
RRP: $28.32$19.08With the aim of guiding readers along, in Hegel's words, ""the long process of education towards genuine philosophy,"" this introduction emphasizes the importance of striking up a conversation with the past. Only by looking to past... -
Current Continental Thought and Modern Philosophy by Stephen H. Daniel
RRP: $103.20$96.85For decades Continental theorists from Derrida to Deleuze have engaged in provocative, penetrating, and often extensive examinations of modern philosophers - studies that have opened up new ways to think about figures such as Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz,... -
Romancing Antiquity: German Critique of the Enlightenment from Weber to Habermas by George E. McCarthy
$78.88In this unique and comprehensive book, George McCarthy examines the influence of Greek philosophy, literature, arts, and politics on the development of twentieth-century German social thought. McCarthy demonstrates that the classical spirit vitalized... -
Maxims by La Rochefoucauld
$15.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781587314957Author La RochefoucauldFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint St. Augustine's PressPublisher St. Augustine's PressWeight(grams) 249g -
The Broadview Anthology of Social and Political Thought: The Twentieth Century and Beyond by Andrew Bailey
RRP: $51.54$42.76This comprehensive volume contains much of the important work in political and social philosophy from ancient times until the end of the nineteenth century. The anthology offers both depth and breadth in its selection of material by central figures,... -
Kant and the Early Moderns by Daniel Garber
RRP: $58.05$44.72For the past 200 years, Kant has acted as a lens--sometimes a distorting lens--between historians of philosophy and early modern intellectual history. Kant's writings about Descartes, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, and Hume have been so influential that it...