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In "German Idealism and the Jew", Michael Mack uncovers the deep roots of anti-Semitism in the German philosophical tradition. While many have read German anti-Semitism as a reaction against Enlightenment philosophy, Mack instead contends that the...

A collection of vivid fragments engaging with ethical and sceptical themes by means of an engagement with several major European thinkers, including Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Levinas and Wittgenstein.About the AuthorMatthew Alun Ray was educated at...

This open access book brings together for the first time all aspects of the tragic life and fascinating work of the polymath Robert Leslie Ellis (1817-1859), placing him at the heart of early-Victorian intellectual culture. Written by a diverse team of...

Thomas Kuhn's "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" is one of the best known and most influential books of the 20th century. Whether they adore or revile him, critics and fans alike have tended to agree on one thing: Kuhn's ideas were revolutionary...

Until quite recently, almost no philosophers trained in the continental tradition saw anything of value in realism. The situation in analytic philosophy was always different, but in continental philosophy realism was usually treated as a pseudo-problem...

This collection of essays considers a variety of educational ideas and programs from the perspective of governmentality, integrating conceptual and theoretical insights and empirical investigation of policy documents, and government technologies. ...

Are we rational creatures? Do we have free will? Can we ever know ourselves? These and other fundamental questions have been discussed by philosophers over millennia. But recent empirical findings in psychology and neuroscience suggest we should...

Epistemology is the philosophical study of knowledge. Epistemologists seek to understand knowledge's nature and availability. What is knowledge? There are competing theories. Can we really have knowledge? Challenges abound. In this lively book, Stephen...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781509518470Author Peter SloterdijkFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Polity PressPublisher Polity Press

This book provides an overview of some of the most important critics of "Enlightenment rationalism." The subjects of the volume (including, among others, Pascal, Vico, Schmidt, Weber, Anscombe, Scruton, and Tolkien) do not share a philosophical...

Phenomenology is one of the leading movements in twentieth-century philosophy and continues to exert a strong influence on many contemporary philosophical traditions and investigations. In recent years, phenomenological insights have been increasingly...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780875480305Author Gottfried W. LeibnizFormat PaperbackPage Count 295Imprint Open Court Publishing Co ,U.S.Publisher Open Court Publishing Co ,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374525699Author Sir Isaiah BerlinFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781497873858Author Jacob BoehmeFormat HardbackPage Count 64Imprint Literary Licensing, LLCPublisher Literary Licensing, LLCWeight(grams) 259g

This book is a critical introduction to the philosophy of social science. While most social scientists maintain that the social sciences should stand free of politics, this book argues that they should be politically partisan. Root offers a clear...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241471439Author Grantley F BerkeleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 66Imprint British Library, Historical Print EditionsPublisher British Library, Historical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865973275Author Nathaniel CulverwellFormat HardbackPage Count 260Imprint Liberty Fund IncPublisher Liberty Fund IncWeight(grams) 596g

First published in 1979, Havelock Ellis is a biography of the philosopher of sex. Havelock Ellis trained first as a doctor but soon broke out of conventional medicine to shock Victorian England with his encyclopaedic seven-volume work, Studies in the...

This is the first volume devoted exclusively to the practical philosophy of Wilfrid Sellars. It features original essays by leading Sellars scholars that examine his ethical theory, his theory of practical reasoning, and his theory of intentional agency...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783161592300Author Calvin D. UllrichFormat PaperbackPage Count 281Imprint JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck)Publisher JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck)

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783957431547Author Philipp SteinkrügerFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Brill MentisPublisher Brill MentisWeight(grams) 408g

This collection of recent articles by leading scholars is designed to illuminate one of the greatest and most influential philosophical books of all time. It includes incisive commentary on every major theme and argument in the Meditations, and will be...

This book brings together thirteen articles on the most discussed thinkers in the rationalist movement: Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, and Malebranche. These articles address the topics in metaphysics and epistemology that figure most prominently in...

Debates about the unique, the singular, and the individual raise epistemological, hermeneutical, metaphysical, ethical, and theological problems. They are often discussed in separate discourses without attention to the multiple relationships that exist...

In Making Wonderful, Martin M. Tweedale tells how an ideology in the West energized an economic expansion that has led to ecological disaster. He takes us back to the rise of cities and autocratic rulers, analyzing how respect for custom and tradition...

This book is a radical reappraisal of positivism as a major movement in philosophy, science and culture. In examining positivist movement and its contemporary impact, the author had six goals. First, to provide a more precise and systematic definition...

A revolutionary look at the intellectual and social mileu within which early modern philosophers invented scientific identitiesBook InformationISBN 9781566394369Author Naomi ZackFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Temple University Press,U.S.Publisher...

Christopher Hookway has been influential in promoting engagement with pragmatist and naturalist perspectives from classical and contemporary American philosophy. This book reflects on Hookway's work on the American philosophical tradition and its...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices...

The relationship between two distinct periods in Michel Foucault's work is the starting point for this book. In "Truth and Power," an interview Foucault gave in 1976, he states that to create a new politics of truth is an intellectual's main...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788869773761Author Elisa Bricco BriccoFormat PaperbackPage Count 330Imprint Mimesis InternationalPublisher Mimesis InternationalWeight(grams) 140g

However you view the present time, it is a new century, a new world, and also a new humanity - in fact, humanity is not something that was ever defined once and for all, but remains an open project. For several decades we have been witnessing a...

This book uncovers in the works of Plato and Nietzsche, not some royal road to truth, but rather the intensity of their love and commitment to the life of thought, whatever it discovers and wherever it might lead. Plato explored this in his ubiquitous...

In this book, Westphal offers an original interpretation of Hegel's moral philosophy. Building on his previous study of the role of natural law in Hume's and Kant's accounts of justice, Westphal argues that Hegel developed and justified a robust form of...

An alarming number of philosophers and cognitive scientists have argued that mind extends beyond the brain and body. This book evaluates these arguments and suggests that, typically, it does not. A timely and relevant study that exposes the need to...

Martin Heidegger is one of the most important as well as one of the most difficult thinkers of the last century. His masterpiece Being and Time has been described as the most profound turning point in German philosophy since Hegel. Raymond Tallis, who...

The essays in this collection are not confined to any one period or any one subject. Nearly every one, in the author's words, is ""an attempt to understand some short passage from the work of some philosopher, teasing the passage with analogies of sense...

The poet and part-time philosopher Johan Ludvig Heiberg published the first issue of his review Perseus, Journal for the Speculative Idea in June of 1837 as a part of his long-standing campaign to convert his Golden Age contemporaries to G.W.F. Hegel's...

A study of the genesis of Schelling's philosophy of nature and absolute idealism, highlighting the importance of his critic Eschenmayer During the first decade of the 19th century, F. W. J. Schelling was involved in 3 distinct controversies with one of...

Sets up new frameworks to explore law as perpetual experimentation. This collection of 13 essays offers insights into philosophy of law, investigating new forms of politics, economics and society. It explores the features of Deleuze's universal...