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Historical Dictionary of Kierkegaard's Philosophy by Christopher B. Barnett 9781538122617
RRP: £123.00£107.63Historical Dictionary of Kierkegaard's Philosophy, Second Edition chronicles the life and thoughts of the great Danish thinker Soren Kierkegaard (1813-55). What makes this volume essential is its extensive scope: it provides a glossary of concepts,... -
The Woman of Reason: Feminism, Humanism and Political Thought Karen Green (Monash University, Australia) 9780745614496
RRP: £16.99£15.22This is a timely re-appraisal of feminist political thinkers and their male contemporaries, providing a re-evaluation of feminist humanism.About the AuthorKaren Green is a lecturer in Philosophy at Monash University, Australia.Reviews'The Woman of Reason... -
European and Chinese Traditions of Philosophy by Chung-Ying Cheng 9781118763834
£35.90The Journal of Chinese Philosophy initiates this volume on the origins of philosophy and their relations in philosophical languages, be it Chinese or Greek or European as not merely derived from the Greek. Given this understanding we see how a... -
What is Orientation in Global Thinking?: A Kantian Inquiry by Katrin Flikschuh 9781107003811
RRP: £90.00£81.03Starting from Kant's striking question 'What is orientation in thinking?', this book argues that the main challenge facing global normative theorising lies in its failure to acknowledge its conceptual inadequacies. We do not know how to reason globally;... -
Leibniz by Richard T. W. Arthur 9780745653747
RRP: £55.00£54.87Few philosophers have left a legacy like that of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. He has been credited not only with inventing the differential calculus, but also with anticipating the basic ideas of modern logic, information science, and fractal geometry. He... -
Nietzsche's The Gay Science: An Introduction by Michael Ure 9780521760904
RRP: £54.99£49.36Nietzsche's The Gay Science (1882/1887) is a deeply personal book, yet also an important work of philosophy. Nietzsche conceives it as a philosophical autobiography, a record of his own self-transformation. In beautifully composed aphorisms he... -
Thinking about the Emotions: A Philosophical History by Alix Cohen 9780198766858
RRP: £83.00£75.74Philosophical 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... -
Philosophy and the Historical Perspective by Marcel van Ackeren 9780197266298
£65.68Does 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
£35.22Rationalism, 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: £19.99£18.21On 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: £71.00£65.04Above 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... -
Ars Erotica: Sex and Somaesthetics in the Classical Arts of Love by Richard Shusterman 9781107004764
RRP: £88.99£80.53The term ars erotica refers to the styles and techniques of lovemaking with the honorific title of art. But in what sense are these practices artistic and how do they contribute to the aesthetics and ethics of self-cultivation in the art of living? In... -
Mary Ann Shadd Cary: Essential Writings of a Nineteenth-Century Black Radical Feminist by Nneka D. Dennie 9780197609477
RRP: £19.99£18.21This 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,... -
The Invention of Dionysus by James I. Porter
£106.80This book argues that The Birth of Tragedy, Nietzsche's first book, does not mark a rupture with his prior philosophical undertakings but is, in fact, continuous with them and with his later writings as well. These continuities are displayed above all in... -
Knowledge, Belief, and Witchcraft: Analytic Experiments in African Philosophy by Barry Hallen
£97.94First published in 1986, Knowledge, Belief, and Witchcraft remains the only analysis of indigenous discourse about an African belief system undertaken from within the framework of Anglo-American analytical philosophy. Taking as its point of departure W... -
Just Theory: An Alternative History of the Western Tradition by David B Downing
£43.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814125304Author David B DowningFormat PaperbackImprint National Council of Teachers of EnglishPublisher National Council of Teachers of English -
An Elegant and Learned Discourse of the Light of Nature by Nathaniel Culverwell
RRP: £24.99£21.67Apologies 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)... -
Questioning: A New History of Western Philosophy by Gideon Baker
£104.38Weaving together studies of eighteen ancient, medieval and modern philosophers from Socrates to Judith Butler, Gideon Baker provides a gripping genealogy of Western philosophy as a history of questioning. As well as revealing the ancient in the modern,... -
Evolution and the Big Questions: Sex, Race, Religion, and Other Matters by David N. Stamos
RRP: £30.95£27.45Evolution and the Big Questions "David N. Stamos's Evolution and the Big Questions delivers what its title promises-you get to look at all of the issues, such as race and ethics and religion, that make the study of evolution so interesting, and more than... -
Romancing Antiquity: German Critique of the Enlightenment from Weber to Habermas by George E. McCarthy
£58.81In 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... -
The Berlin Academy in the reign of Frederick the Great: Philosophy and science by Tinca Prunea-Bretonnet
£74.74This collection sheds new light on the nature, role and practice of philosophy and science in the renewed Berlin Academy from the mid-1740s to the 1770s, and in so doing provides a robust new instalment of materials for the broader task of constructing a... -
Maxims by La Rochefoucauld
£12.14Apologies 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 Philosophers: Introducing Great Western Thinkers by Ted Honderich
RRP: £14.99£11.53The Philosophers introduces some of the most brilliant minds in history and shows the enduring fascination of their ideas, which shaped our civilization. An illustrious team of authors offer concise and illuminating tours through the lives and thought of... -
The Broadview Anthology of Social and Political Thought: The Twentieth Century and Beyond by Andrew Bailey
£40.33This 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: £45.00£35.32For 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... -
Irish Philosophy in the Age of Berkeley: Volume 88 by Kenneth L. Pearce
RRP: £23.99£21.51This volume presents a selection of new articles examining the state of Irish philosophy during the lifetime of Ireland's most famous philosopher, Bishop George Berkeley (1685-1753). The thinkers examined include Berkeley, Robert Boyle, William King,... -
In Search of Mechanisms: Discoveries Across the Life Sciences by Carl F. Craver
RRP: £80.00£76.61Neuroscientists investigate the mechanisms of spatial memory. Molecular biologists study the mechanisms of protein synthesis and the myriad mechanisms of gene regulation. Ecologists study nutrient cycling mechanisms and their devastating imbalances in... -
The Sovereignty of Joy: Neitzsche's Vision of Grand Politics by Alex McIntyre
RRP: £25.99£22.49Nietzsche's philosophical effort is fundamentally a response to the political question of who should rule and upon what basis in the era following the death of God. Because Nietzsche's response to nihilism is so unique, scholars still debate the nature... -
Philosophical Essays, Volume 1: Natural Language: What It Means and How We Use It by Scott Soames
RRP: £55.00£43.31The two volumes of Philosophical Essays bring together the most important essays written by one of the world's foremost philosophers of language. Scott Soames has selected thirty-one essays spanning nearly three decades of thinking about linguistic... -
Philosophy Between the Lines: The Lost History of Esoteric Writing by Arthur M. Melzer
RRP: £31.00£30.59Philosophical 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... -
Truth and Meaning: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Language Kenneth Taylor (Stanford University) 9781577180494
RRP: £36.95£32.91This lucid and wide-ranging volume constitutes a self-contained introduction to the elements and key issues of the philosophy of language.About the AuthorKenneth Taylor is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Stanford University. He is the author of... -
The Political Philosophy of Hobbes: I'ts Basis and it's Genesis by Leo Strauss 9780226776965
RRP: £24.00£23.03In this classic analysis, Leo Strauss pinpoints what is original and innovative in the political philosophy of Thomas Hobbes. He argues that Hobbes's ideas arose not from tradition or science but from his own deep knowledge and experience of human nature... -
Natality: Toward a Philosophy of Birth by Jennifer Banks 9781324076070
RRP: £12.99£11.54Birth 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... -
Lectures on Kant's Political Philosophy Hannah Arendt 9780226025957
RRP: £19.00£18.50Hannah Arendt's last philosophical work was an intended three-part project entitled The Life of the Mind. Unfortunately, Arendt lived to complete only the first two parts, Thinking and Willing. Of the third, Judging, only the title page, with epigraphs... -
Doctrine of Creation by Colin E Gunton 9780567080790
£35.21This study by leading scholars from around the world engages with central hermeneutical, philosophical and theological dimensions of the doctrine of creation. Particular prominence is given to discussion of creation 'out of nothing'm the relation of... -
Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit: A Guide by Terry Pinkard 9780197663134
RRP: £22.99£20.80Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit has a long-standing reputation as one of the key books in the history of Western philosophy, but many are unsure just what it is about. Even the words in the title are disputed: What sense of "phenomenology" is being used?... -
An Intellectual History of Cannibalism by Catalin Avramescu 9780691152196
£32.62The cannibal has played a surprisingly important role in the history of thought--perhaps the ultimate symbol of savagery and degradation-- haunting the Western imagination since before the Age of Discovery, when Europeans first encountered genuine... -
Phenomenology and the Problem of Time by Professor Michael R. Kelly 9780230347854
RRP: £99.99£89.87This book explores the problem of time and immanence for phenomenology in the work of Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Jacques Derrida. Detailed readings of immanence in light of the more familiar problems of... -
The Philosophy of German Idealism by Johann Gottlieb Fichte 9780826403070
£38.14This volume provides representative texts of transcendental idealism, including ones by J. G. Fichte (Some Lectures Concerning the Scholar's Vocation and A Crystal Clear Report Concerning the Actual Essence of the Newest Philosophy), E H. Jacobi... -
A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume 9780486432502
RRP: £16.99£11.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486432502Author David HumeFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams) 555gDimensions(mm)...