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Difference and Givenness: Deleuze's Transcendental Empiricism and the Ontology of Immanence by Levi Bryant 9780810124547
RRP: $51.54$42.25From one end of his philosophical work to the other, Gilles Deleuze consistently described his position as a transcendental empiricism. But just what is transcendental about Deleuze's transcendental empiricism? And how does his position fit with the... -
Descartes's Method: The Formation of the Subject of Science by Tarek R. Dika
RRP: $116.10$105.24Descartes's Method develops an ontological interpretation of Descartes's method as a dynamic and, within limits, differentiable problem-solving cognitive disposition or habitus, which can be actualized or applied to different problems in various ways,... -
Chomsky and His Critics by Louise M. Antony 9780631200215
RRP: $52.83$46.30In this compelling volume, ten distinguished thinkers -- William G. Lycan, Galen Strawson, Jeffrey Poland, Georges Rey, Frances Egan, Paul Horwich, Peter Ludlow, Paul Pietroski, Alison Gopnik, and Ruth Millikan -- address a variety of conceptual issues... -
The Critique of Pure Modernity: Hegel, Heidegger and After by David Kolb 9780226450292
RRP: $38.70$37.73"Modernity" is a troubling concept, not only for scholars but for the general public, for it seems to represent a choice between oppressive traditions and empty, rootless freedom. Seeking a broader understanding of modernity, Kolb first considers the... -
Manhunts: A Philosophical History by Gregoire Chamayou 9780691151656
RRP: $51.60$39.91Touching on issues of power, authority, and domination, Manhunts takes an in-depth look at the hunting of humans in the West, from ancient Sparta, through the Middle Ages, to the modern practices of chasing undocumented migrants. Incorporating historical... -
Twenty Greatest Philosophy Books by James J. Garvey 9780826490544
RRP: $30.95$30.75The essential guide to the top twenty greatest books in philosophy for those who have just never quite found the time to read them. In this witty and engaging book, James Garvey offers an introductory account of the must-read books from the whole history... -
Essays in Political Philosophy by R. G. Collingwood 9780198235668
$50.48This book brings together for the first time R. G. Collingwood's political and related writings, in which he places political action in the context of action as a whole and addresses the substantive social and political issues - in particular Nazism and... -
Reading Philosophy: Selected Texts with a Method for Beginners by Samuel Guttenplan 9780631234371
RRP: $135.39$117.69This flexible introductory textbook explores several key themes in philosophy, and helps the reader learn to engage with the key arguments by introducing and analysing a selection of classic readings. Fully integrated introductory text with readings... -
Aha!: The Moments of Insight that Shape Our World by William B. Irvine
RRP: $15.47$12.04Great ideas often develop gradually after studying a problem at length--but not always. Sometimes, an insight hits like a bolt from the blue. For Archimedes, clarity struck while he was taking a bath. For Gustav Mahler, it came as the blades of his oars... -
Marx on Suicide by Karl Marx 9780810116382
RRP: $25.74$21.16In 1864 - two years before the publication of ""The Communist Manifesto"" and 21 years before the publication of ""Das Kapital"" - Karl Marx published an essay titled ""Peuchet on Suicide."" The essay was originally presented as a translation of excerpts... -
Aesthetic Judgment and the Moral Image of the World: Studies in Kant by Dieter Henrich 9780804723671
RRP: $28.37$24.21This is a collection of four essays on aesthetic, ethical, and political issues by Dieter Henrich, the preeminent Kant scholar in Germany today. Although his interests have ranged widely, he is perhaps best known for rekindling interest in the great... -
On the Fourfold Root of the Principles of Sufficient Reason by Arthur Schopenhauer 9780875482019
RRP: $33.53$28.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780875482019Author Arthur SchopenhauerFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Open Court Publishing Co ,U.S.Publisher Open Court Publishing Co ,U.S... -
Two Eyes of Spinoza and Other Essays by Leszek Kolakowski 9781587318757
$39.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781587318757Author Leszek KolakowskiFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint St Augustine's PressPublisher St Augustine's PressWeight(grams) 622gDimensions(mm)... -
Why?: The Philosophy Behind the Question by Philippe Huneman 9781503628908
RRP: $33.53$24.47A philosopher explores the many dimensions of a beguilingly simple question. Why did triceratops have horns? Why did World War I occur? Why does Romeo love Juliet? And, most importantly, why ask why? Through an analysis of these questions and others,... -
Happiness, Death, and the Remainder of Life by Jonathan Lear 9780674006744
RRP: $55.41$43.51Separated by millennia, Aristotle and Sigmund Freud gave us disparate but compelling pictures of the human condition. But if, with Jonathan Lear, we scrutinize these thinkers' attempts to explain human behavior in terms of a higher principle-whether... -
Nietzsche, Psychology, and First Philosophy by Robert B. Pippin
RRP: $103.20$98.83Friedrich Nietzsche is one of the most elusive thinkers in the philosophical tradition. Nonetheless, certain readings of his work have become standard and influential. In this major new interpretation of Nietzsche, Robert B. Pippin challenges various... -
Logics of Disintegration: Poststructuralist Thought and the Claims for Critical Theory by Peter Dews 9781844675746
RRP: $29.66$18.99Over the last two decades, contemporary French philosophy has exercised a powerful influence on intellectual life, across both Europe and America. Post-structuralist strategies and concepts have played an important role in many forms of social, cultural... -
Thinking Through Film: Doing Philosophy, Watching Movies by Damian Cox
RRP: $33.48$29.15THINKING THROUGH FILM Thinking Through Film provides the best introduction available to the diverse relationships between film and philosophy. Clearly written and persuasively argued, it will benefit students of both film and philosophy.Thomas E... -
Friedrich Nietzsche and the Politics of the Soul: A Study of Heroic Individualism by Leslie Paul Thiele 9780691020617
RRP: $45.15$35.10Reading Nietzsche's works as the "political biography of his soul," Leslie Thiele presents an original and accessible essay on the great thinker's attempt to lead a heroic life as a philosopher, artist, saint, educator, and solitary. He takes... -
Mental Representation: A Reader by Stephen P. Stich 9781557864772
RRP: $47.67$42.45This volume is a collection of new and previously published essays focusing on one of the most exciting and actively discussed topics in contemporary philosophy: naturalistic theories of mental content. The volume brings together important papers written... -
Behind the Geometrical Method: A Reading of Spinoza's Ethics by Edwin Curley
RRP: $38.70$29.44This book is the fruit of twenty-five years of study of Spinoza by the editor and translator of a new and widely acclaimed edition of Spinoza's collected works. Based on three lectures delivered at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1984, the work... -
Thought in a Hostile World: The Evolution of Human Cognition by Kim Sterelny 9780631188872
RRP: $47.67$41.94WINNER OF THE 2004 LAKATOS AWARD! Thought in a Hostile World is an exploration of the evolution of cognition, especially human cognition, by one of today's foremost philosophers of biology and of mind. Featuresan exploration of the evolution of human... -
The Philosophical Child by Jana Mohr Lone 9781442217324
RRP: $52.89$50.21What does it mean to be good? Why do people die? What is friendship? Children enter the world full of questions and wrestle with deep, thoughtful issues, even if they do not always wonder them aloud. Many parents have the desire to discuss philosophical... -
Kristeva by Stacey Keltner 9780745638973
RRP: $23.21$20.69Julia Kristeva is one of the most creative and prolific writers to address the personal, social, and political trials of our times. Linguist, psychoanalyst, social and cultural theorist, and novelist, Kristeva's broad interdisciplinary appeal has... -
Philosophy Then and Now: An Introductory Text with Readings by N. Scott Arnold 9781557867421
RRP: $67.02$59.55Philosophy Then and Now provides an innovative and engaging blend of introductory text with classic and contemporary readings. Each of the eight parts begins with an introductory section on the major ideas associated with a seminal figure from the... -
Hegel's Idealism: The Satisfactions of Self-Consciousness by Robert B. Pippin
RRP: $34.82$27.68This is the most important book on Hegel to have appeared in the past ten years. Robert Pippin offers a completely new interpretation of Hegel's idealism, which focuses on Hegel's appropriation and development of kant's theoretical project. Hegel is... -
Critical Thinking: An Introduction to Analytical Reading and Reasoning by Larry Wright 9780199796229
RRP: $125.12$121.80Critical Thinking: An Introduction to Analytical Reading and Reasoning, Second Edition, provides a nontechnical vocabulary and analytic apparatus that guide students in identifying and articulating the central patterns found in reasoning and in... -
Hegel's Ethical Thought by Allen W. Wood 9780521377829
RRP: $34.82$28.10This important new study offers a powerful exposition of the ethical theory underlying Hegel's philosophy of society, politics, and history. Professor Woodshows how Hegel applies his theory to such topics as human rights, the justification of legal... -
Science and an African Logic by Helen Verran 9780226853918
RRP: $36.12$35.33Does two and two equal four? Ask almost anyone and they will unequivocally answer yes. A basic equation such as this seems the very definition of certainty, but is it? In this text, Helen Verran addresses precisely that question by looking at science,... -
Sense and Certainty by Marie McGinn 9780631157861
RRP: $52.83$46.30This dissertation aims to construct a non-dogmatic defence of common sense. It tries to show why the absence of justification for the judgements of common sense, which the sceptic reveals, does not invalidate them.Book InformationISBN 9780631157861Author... -
Archetype of the Absolute: The Unity of Opposites in Mysticism, Philosophy, and Psychology by Sanford L Drob 9780986393099
RRP: $25.74$24.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780986393099Author Sanford L DrobFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Fielding University PressPublisher Fielding University PressWeight(grams)... -
The British Aesthetic Tradition: From Shaftesbury to Wittgenstein by Timothy M. Costelloe
RRP: $29.66$24.56The British Aesthetic Tradition: From Shaftesbury to Wittgenstein is the first single volume to offer readers a comprehensive and systematic history of aesthetics in Britain from its inception in the early eighteenth century to major developments in... -
What's Left of Enlightenment?: A Postmodern Question by Keith Michael Baker
RRP: $36.11$30.52It has become increasingly clear in recent years that, for all their differences, the many varieties of thinking commonly grouped together under the rubric of "postmodernism" share at least one salient characteristic: they all depend upon a stereotyped... -
Leibniz: Journal Articles on Natural Philosophy by Arthur 9780192843531
RRP: $77.40$69.83This is the first volume compiling English translations of Leibniz's journal articles on natural philosophy, presenting a selection of 26 articles, only three of which have appeared before in English translation. It also includes in full Leibniz's public... -
Deconstruction by David J Gunkel
RRP: $19.34$12.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262542470Author David J. GunkelFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
A Philosophy for Europe: From the Outside by Roberto Esposito 9781509521067
RRP: $23.21$20.69Amid a devastating economic crisis, two tragic events coming from the outside - the wave of immigration and Islamic terrorism - have radically changed the profile and significance of the space we call Europe. Given a paradigm leap of this sort,... -
Birth Of Tragedy & Genealogy by Friedrich Nietzsche
RRP: $14.18$10.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385092104Author Friedrich NietzscheFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Bantam Dell Publishing Group, Div of Random House, IncPublisher Random House USA... -
Philosophy Matters: An Introduction to Philosophy by Professor Roger Trigg 9780631225461
RRP: $39.93$35.41Written for those who may be approaching the subject for the first time, Philosophy Matters shows that philosophy is crucial in questioning our presuppositions, and for helping us to establish our own beliefs about the nature of the world.About the... -
The Essential Crazy Wisdom by Scoop Nisker 9781580083461
RRP: $16.76$12.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781580083461Author Scoop NiskerFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Ten Speed PressPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 178g -
Ancient and Modern: Time, Culture and Indigenous Philosophy by Stephen Muecke 9780868407869
RRP: $29.61$26.42How might we think and talk about indigenous philosophy? Why has Aboriginal knowledge not been given the status of philosophical knowledge, but treated by whites rather as culture or history? There is a quarrel about whose antiquity is at the foundation...