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General Introduction to Western European Philosophy by Nicholas Mertens 9781560724926
RRP: $159.58$128.14This book will not introduce you to any philosopher or philosophy in particular. Instead it will introduce you to the main questions and answers that interest philosophy and its major practitioners. If you ever asked yourself: What, exactly, is... -
One God: The Political and Moral Philosophy of Western Civilization by Ernesto Lorca 9781551642109
RRP: $39.88$33.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781551642109Author Ernesto LorcaFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Black Rose BooksPublisher Black Rose Books -
Problems from Philosophy: An Introductory Text by James Rachels 9781538149584
RRP: $105.00$91.90Problems from Philosophy is an introduction to philosophy organized around the great philosophical problems the existence of God, the nature of the mind, human freedom, the limits of knowledge, and the truth about ethics. It begins by reflecting on the... -
Movements of Thought: Ludwig Wittgenstein's Diary, 1930–1932 and 1936–1937 by Ludwig Wittgenstein 9781538163665
RRP: $144.90$125.98While the published works of Ludwig Wittgenstein reveal the final, coalesced thoughts of this philosophical giant, Wittgenstein's diary reveals his process of doing philosophy. Only in his private writing does Wittgenstein's philosophical practice fully... -
Thinking Education Through Alain Badiou by Kent den Heyer 9781444337426
$68.27Thinking Education Through Alain Badiou represents the first collection to explore the educational implications of French philosopher Alain Badiou's challenge to contemporary philosophical orthodoxy put forth in his 1993 work, Ethics: An Essay on the... -
Language, Names, and Information by Frank Jackson 9781405161589
$58.02Language, Names, and Information is an important contribution to philosophy of language by one of its foremost scholars, challenging the pervasive view that the description theory of proper names is dead in the water, and defending a version of the... -
Maimonides by T. M. Rudavsky 9781405148986
$66.82A thorough and accessible introduction to Maimonides, arguably one of the most important Jewish philosophers of all time. This work incorporates material from Maimonides' philosophical, legal, and medical works, providing a synoptic picture of... -
Maimonides by T. M. Rudavsky 9781405148979
$166.57A thorough and accessible introduction to Maimonides, arguably one of the most important Jewish philosophers of all time. This work incorporates material from Maimonides' philosophical, legal, and medical works, providing a synoptic picture of... -
Early Modern Philosophy Reconsidered, Volume XXXV by Peter A. French 9781118298343
$101.16Early Modern Philosophy Reconsidered: Essays in Honor of Paul Hoffman is an international collection of essays from both well-established and younger scholars. In keeping with the example of Hoffman’s own work, the essays are written in the spirit of... -
The Essential Spinoza: Ethics and Related Writings by Baruch Spinoza 9780872208049
RRP: $111.28$90.95Designed to facilitate a thoughtful and informed reading of Spinoza's Ethics, this anthology provides the Ethics, related writings, and two valuable appendices: List of Propositions from the Ethics, which helps readers to trace the development of key... -
Engaging Philosophy: A Brief Introduction by Mitchell S. Green 9780872207967
RRP: $33.58$28.06This brief, elegant book introduces students and general readers to philosophy through core questions and topics--particularly those involving ethics, the existence of God, free will, the relation of mind and body, and what it is to be a person. It also... -
Introduction To Hegel: Stages Of Modern Philosophy by Howard P. Kainz 9780821411421
RRP: $37.78$33.39Kainz clarifies and elaborates on material from Hegel's own lectures on the history of modern philosophy.Book InformationISBN 9780821411421Author Howard P. KainzFormat PaperbackPage Count 111Imprint Ohio University PressPublisher Ohio University Press -
Plato and Europe by Jan Patocka 9780804738002
RRP: $207.90$180.05The Czech philosopher Jan Patocka (1907-1977), who studied with Husserl and Heidegger, is widely recognized as the most influential thinker to come from postwar Eastern Europe. Refusing to join the Communist party after World War II, he was banned from... -
The Course of Remembrance and Other Essays on Hoelderlin by Dieter Henrich 9780804727396
RRP: $138.60$120.39Friedrich Hoelderlin (1770-1843) has long been recognized as one of the greatest poets of the German language, but his importance to philosophy has surfaced only comparatively recently. Although Schelling and Hegel acknowledged Hoelderlin early on as... -
Daily Conversations with my Interloper: Healthy Exercises in Ennui and Malaise by G.A. Powell 9780761838876
RRP: $73.50$65.00In this unique work, Professor G.A. Powell Jr. writes: "Thinkers are different from writers-writers are prostitutes. Thinkers desire to be prostitutes." Daily Conversations with My Interloper is first and foremost a celebration of the narrative... -
Ludwig Feuerbach, and the Outcome of Classical German Philosophy by Engels 9780717801206
RRP: $27.28$25.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780717801206Author EngelsFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint International Publishers Co Inc.,U.S.Publisher International Publishers Co Inc.,U.S. -
Christian Discourses, etc: The Lilies of the Field and the Birds of the Air and Three Discourses At the Communion on Fridays by Soren Kierkegaard 9780691647302
RRP: $306.60$237.57The edition includes "Christian Discourses," "The Lilies of the Field and the Birds of the Air" and "Three Discourses at the Communion on Fridays." Originally published in 1971. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest... -
Christian Discourses, etc: The Lilies of the Field and the Birds of the Air and Three Discourses At the Communion on Fridays by Soren Kierkegaard 9780691620558
RRP: $121.80$94.88The edition includes "Christian Discourses," "The Lilies of the Field and the Birds of the Air" and "Three Discourses at the Communion on Fridays." Originally published in 1971. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest... -
The Sovereignty of Reason: The Defense of Rationality in the Early English Enlightenment by Frederick C. Beiser 9780691600543
RRP: $105.00$82.15The Sovereignty of Reason is a survey of the rule of faith controversy in seventeenth-century England. It examines the arguments by which reason eventually became the sovereign standard of truth in religion and politics, and how it triumphed over its... -
A Short Life of Kierkegaard by Walter Lowrie 9780691157771
RRP: $37.78$30.20A small, insignificant-looking intellectual with absurdly long legs, Soren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) was a veritable Hans Christian Andersen caricature of a man. A strange combination of witty cosmopolite and melancholy introvert, he spent years writing... -
Descartes's Changing Mind by Peter Machamer 9780691138893
RRP: $115.50$90.11Descartes's works are often treated as a unified, unchanging whole. But in Descartes's Changing Mind, Peter Machamer and J. E. McGuire argue that the philosopher's views, particularly in natural philosophy, actually change radically between his early and... -
Socrates Cafe: A Fresh Taste of Philosophy by Christopher Phillips 9780393322989
RRP: $20.98$20.48Christopher 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... -
Eric Voegelin: Philosopher of History by Eugene Webb 9780295994383
RRP: $58.78$50.69A search for an understanding of the order that can be found in history, and within the human being who is the subject of history, has resulted in a large and complicated body of work by this contemporary philosopher. Eugene Webb offers a full... -
Philosophy's Big Questions: Comparing Buddhist and Western Approaches by Steven M. Emmanuel 9780231174862
RRP: $210.00$163.65Certain questions have recurred throughout the history of philosophy. They are the big questions-about happiness and the good life, the limits of knowledge, the ultimate structure of reality, the nature of consciousness, the relation between causality... -
Critique of Heaven by Arend Theodoor van Leeuwen 9780227170427
RRP: $120.23$112.37The first series of van Leeuwen's Gifford Lectures examining the young Karl Marx's developing thought, of importance to those studying Marx and those involved in Marxist-Christian dialogue.Book InformationISBN 9780227170427Author Arend Theodoor van... -
Critique of Earth by Arend Theodoor van Leeuwen 9780227170403
RRP: $115.50$113.21The second series of van Leeuwenis Gifford Lectures examining the young Karl Marxis developing thought, of importance to those studying Marx and those involved in Marxist-Christian dialogue.Book InformationISBN 9780227170403Author Arend Theodoor van... -
The Legacy of Simone de Beauvoir by Emily R. Grosholz 9780199265367
$39.17The legacy of Simone de Beauvoir has yet to be properly assessed and explored. The 50th anniversary of the publication of The Second Sex inspired this volume which brings together philosophers and literary critics, some of whom are well known for their... -
The Subject's Point of View by Katalin Farkas 9780199230327
$116.11Descartes'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... -
The Architecture of Matter: Galileo to Kant by Thomas Holden 9780199204205
$88.70Thomas Holden presents a fascinating study of theories of matter in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. These theories were plagued by a complex of interrelated problems concerning matter's divisibility, composition, and internal architecture. Is... -
George Berkeley: Idealism and the Man by David Berman 9780198264675
$94.00Unlike nearly all studies of Berkeley, this book looks at the full range of his work and links it with his life - focusing in particular on his religious thought. While aiming to present a clear picture of his career, this book breaks new ground on,... -
Images of History: Kant, Benjamin, Freedom, and the Human Subject by Richard Eldridge 9780190847364
$75.05Developing work in the theories of action and explanation, Eldridge argues that moral and political philosophers require accounts of what is historically possible, while historians require rough philosophical understandings of ideals that merit... -
Mill by Wendy Donner 9781405150873
$163.09John Stuart Mill investigates the central elements of the 19th century philosopher's most profound and influential works, from On Liberty to Utilitarianism and The Subjection of Women. Through close analysis of his primary works, it reveals the very... -
Language and Human Understanding: The Roots of Creativity in Speech and Thought by David Braine 9780813221748
$170.04Human speech and writing reveal our powers both to generalize and to criticize our own procedures. For this we must use words non-mechanically and with a freedom without definite limits, but still allowing mutual intelligibility. Such powers cannot be... -
What People Call Pessimism: Freud, Schnitzler & 19th Century Controversy at the University of Vienna by Mark Luprecht 9780929497280
RRP: $48.28$39.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780929497280Author Mark LuprechtFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint Ariadne PressPublisher Ariadne PressWeight(grams) 296g -
Baudrillard & Postmodernism by Jason L. Powell 9781622575411
RRP: $165.88$109.37This innovative book locates the historical emergence of post-modernism and what it is a reaction against. One of the key theorists of post-modernism, is Jean Baudrillard. He has had an enormous impact on contemporary social theory and social philosophy... -
Elements of Criticism, Volumes 1 & 2 by Henry Home 9780865974661
RRP: $71.30$61.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865974661Author Henry HomeFormat HardbackPage Count 821Imprint Liberty Fund IncPublisher Liberty Fund IncWeight(grams) 1630g -
Introduction to Guoxue: Traditional Chinese Thoughts, Culture, and Learning by Zhang Taiyan 9781032614502
RRP: $283.50$246.29A comprehensive introduction to traditional Chinese thoughtsA brilliant analysis of the representative figures and works from various erasOfferes insightful comments on the schools of classical Chinese literatureBook InformationISBN 9781032614502Author... -
Engaging Philosophy: A Brief Introduction by Mitchell S. Green 9780872207974
RRP: $71.38$58.67This brief, elegant book introduces students and general readers to philosophy through core questions and topics--particularly those involving ethics, the existence of God, free will, the relation of mind and body, and what it is to be a person. It also... -
Invitation to Philosophy: Imagined Dialogues with Great Philosophers by Yuval Steinitz 9780872202665
RRP: $54.58$44.21Classical positions on central topics--mind/body, epistemology, freedom/determinism--are presented in a series of imagined discussions between renowned philosophers and critical interlocutors.ReviewsFor the undergraduates who have read little or no... -
Invitation to Philosophy: Imagined Dialogues with Great Philosophers by Yuval Steinitz 9780872202658
RRP: $31.48$26.44Classical positions on central topics--mind/body, epistemology, freedom/determinism--are presented in a series of imagined discussions between renowned philosophers and critical interlocutors.Book InformationISBN 9780872202658Author Yuval SteinitzFormat...