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Kierkegaard's Mirrors: Interest, Self, and Moral Vision by P. Stokes
$101.35What is it to see the world, other people, and imagined situations as making personal moral demands of us? What is it to experience stories as speaking to us personally and directly? Kierkegaard's Mirrors explores Kierkegaard's answers to these... -
Ideas and Mechanism: Essays on Early Modern Philosophy by Margaret Dauler Wilson
RRP: $157.50$122.83For more than three decades, Margaret Wilson's essays on early modern philosophy have influenced scholarly debate. Many are considered classics in the field and remain as important today as they were when they were first published. Until now, however,... -
French Theory in America by Sylvere Lotringer
RRP: $77.68$68.31What does it mean to"do theory" in America? In what ways has "French Theory" changed American intellectual and artistic life? How different is it from what French intellectuals themselves conceived, and what does all this tell us about American... -
Classics of Philosophy by Louis P. Pojman
$201.41Incorporating the insights of new coeditor Lewis Vaughn, Classics of Philosophy, Third Edition, is the most comprehensive anthology of writings in Western philosophy in print. Spanning 2,500 years of thought, it is ideal for introduction to philosophy... -
With Nature: Nature Philosophy as Poetics Through Schelling, Heidegger, Benjamin and Nancy by Warwick Mules
RRP: $75.50$72.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781841505732Author Warwick MulesFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Intellect BooksPublisher Intellect Books -
Vagaries of Value: Basic Issues in Value Theory by Nicholas Rescher
RRP: $283.50$246.29Pragmatism's founder, C. S. Peirce, initially envisioned philosophy as a means of rationally validating our beliefs and actions. Afterward, William James changed pragmatism into a way of undermining commitment to rational cogency. With the subsequent... -
The Autocritique of Enlightenment: Rousseau and the Philosophes by Mark Hulliung
RRP: $96.58$84.27Of all the critiques of the Enlightenment, the most telling may be found in the life and writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau. This searching, long overlooked auto critique receives its first full treatment by Mark Hulliung. Here he restores Rousseau to his... -
Perception by Robert Schwartz
RRP: $77.60$69.11Perception presents classic essays on the conceptual and theoretical problems in the study of vision. In a style that is accessible to the non-expert, the volume lays out core issues in the theory of vision and then sets up a dialogue on the topics among... -
A Theory of Modernity by Agnes Heller
RRP: $245.60$212.98Written by one of the most influential figures in post-World-War-II social thought, A Theory of Modernity is a comprehensive analysis of the main dynamics of modernity, which discusses the technological, social and political elements of modernism... -
The Handbook of Critical Theory by David M. Rasmussen
RRP: $100.70$90.36The Handbook of Critical Theory brings together for the first time a detailed examination of the state of critical theory today. The fifteen essays provide analyses of the various orientations which critical theory has taken both historically and... -
The Zen Arts: An Anthropological Study of the Culture of Aesthetic Form in Japan by Rupert Cox
RRP: $92.38$80.72The tea ceremony and the martial arts are intimately linked in the popular and historical imagination with Zen Buddhism, and Japanese culture. They are commonly interpreted as religio-aesthetic pursuits which express core spiritual values through bodily... -
The Correspondence of John Stuart Mill and Auguste Comte by John Stuart Mill
RRP: $283.50$247.13This volume presents eighty-nine letters exchanged between John Stuart Mill and Auguste Comte between 1841 and 1847. They address important issues of the mid-nineteenth century in philosophy, science, economics, and politics. Cumulatively, these letters... -
The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Philosophers in America: From 1600 to the Present by John R. Shook
$233.69For scholars working on almost any aspect of American thought, The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia to Philosophers in America presents an indispensable reference work. Selecting over 700 figures from the Dictionary of Early American Philosophers and the... -
Kierkegaard and the Rise of Modern Psychology by Sven Hroar Klempe
RRP: $283.50$246.29This book investigates the Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard's (1813-1855) contributions to our understanding of psychology. In Kierkegaard's historical context, psychology was challenged from both scientific and philosophical perspectives... -
History and Anti-History in Philosophy by Victorino Tejera
RRP: $92.38$80.72History and Anti-History in Philosophy demonstrates the viability of the idea of the unity of philosophic thinking and the reflective practice of the history of philosophy. It is a concise in-depth history of the deconstructive turn in philosophy, and of... -
After Parmenides: Idealism, Realism, and Epistemic Constructivism by Tom Rockmore
RRP: $84.00$71.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780226795423Author Tom RockmoreFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint University of Chicago PressPublisher University of Chicago PressWeight(grams) 152g -
Butes by Pascal Quignard
$27.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788496867819Author Pascal QuignardFormat PaperbackPage Count 95Imprint Sexto PisoPublisher Sexto PisoWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 145mm * 10mm -
Contemporary Philosophy of Mind: A Contentiously Classical Approach by Georges Rey
RRP: $79.70$70.90This volume is an introduction to contemporary debates in the philosophy of mind. In particular, the author focuses on the controversial "eliminativist" and "instrumentalist" attacks - from philosophers such as of Quine, Dennett, and the Churchlands - on... -
This Is Philosophy: An Introduction by Steven D. Hales
$62.14This is Philosophy: An Introduction offers an engagingly written introduction to philosophical concepts that include ethics, the existence of God, free will, personal identity, philosophy of mind, and epistemology. * Conveys the excitement and importance... -
Presenting Women Philosophers by Cecile T. Tougas
RRP: $71.40$64.83Western philosophy has long excluded the work of women thinkers from their canon. Presenting Women Philosophers addresses this exclusion by examining the breadth of women's contributions to Western thought over some 900 years. Editors Cecile T. Tougas... -
Insensitive Semantics: A Defense of Semantic Minimalism and Speech Act Pluralism by Herman Cappelen
RRP: $79.70$70.06Insensitive Semantics is an overview of and contribution to the debates about how to accommodate context sensitivity within a theory of human communication, investigating the effects of context on communicative interaction and, as a corollary, what a... -
Christians and Christianity in India and Pakistan: A General Survey of the Progress of Christianity in India from Apostolic Times to the Present Day by P. Thomas
$224.72Originally published in 1954, Christians and Christianity in India and Pakistan is an historical account of Christianity from the time of Apostle Thomas through to contemporary times. The book records the vicissitudes of the Church prior to the... -
Latinos in America: Philosophy and Social Identity by Jorge J. E. Gracia
RRP: $71.30$62.96A first-of-its-kind book that seriously and profoundly examines what it means philosophically to be Latino and where Latinos fit in American society. * Offers a fresh perspective and clearer understanding of Latin American thought and culture, rejecting... -
How History Matters to Philosophy: Reconsidering Philosophy's Past After Positivism by Robert C. Scharff
RRP: $88.18$77.18In recent decades, widespread rejection of positivism's notorious hostility toward the philosophical tradition has led to renewed debate about the real relationship of philosophy to its history. How History Matters to Philosophy takes a fresh look at... -
A Companion to Relativism by Steven D Hales
RRP: $79.70$72.16A Companion to Relativism presents original contributions from leading scholars that address the latest thinking on the role of relativism in the philosophy of language, epistemology, ethics, philosophy of science, logic, and metaphysics. Features... -
Nietzsche as German Philosopher by Otfried Hoffe
RRP: $189.00$157.75This collection brings together in translation the finest postwar German-language scholarship on Nietzsche's philosophy, ranging over his concept of irony, his thoughts on music, his relation to the pre-Socratics, his concept of truth, and numerous other... -
Education, Nihilism, and Survival by Ernest Krausz
RRP: $90.28$78.94Under the influence of science, modern civilization has adopted the view that only things that can be verified empirically or arrived at rationally are true. Modern people tend to regard themselves as mechanisms, without any subjective aspects to their... -
Hegel and Feminist Philosophy by Kimberly Hutchings
RRP: $37.78$33.68Hegel and Feminist Philosophy traces the legacy of Hegel in the work of thinkers such as de Beauvoir, Irigaray and Butler, and also in contemporary debates in feminist ethics and political philosophy. As Hutchings demonstrates, this is an ambivalent... -
The Verge of Philosophy by John Sallis
RRP: $168.00$165.92"The Verge of Philosophy" is both an exploration of the limits of philosophy and a memorial for John Sallis' longtime friend and interlocutor Jacques Derrida. The centerpiece of the book is an extended examination of three sites in Derrida's... -
Calling Philosophers Names: On the Origin of a Discipline by Christopher Moore
RRP: $63.00$48.91An original and provocative book that illuminates the origins of philosophy in ancient Greece by revealing the surprising early meanings of the word "philosopher"Calling Philosophers Names provides a groundbreaking account of the origins of the term... -
The First Modern Jew: Spinoza and the History of an Image by Daniel B. Schwartz
$131.59Pioneering biblical critic, theorist of democracy, and legendary conflater of God and nature, Jewish philosopher Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677) was excommunicated by the Sephardic Jews of Amsterdam in 1656 for his "horrible heresies" and... -
The Modern Philosophical Revolution: The Luminosity of Existence by David Walsh
RRP: $107.10$97.15The Modern Philosophical Revolution breaks new ground by demonstrating the continuity of European philosophy from Kant to Derrida. Much of the literature on European philosophy has emphasised the breaks that have occurred in the course of two centuries... -
The Evolution of Modern Metaphysics: Making Sense of Things by A. W. Moore
RRP: $161.70$148.07This book is concerned with the history of metaphysics since Descartes. Taking as its definition of metaphysics 'the most general attempt to make sense of things', it charts the evolution of this enterprise through various competing conceptions of its... -
A Sneetch is a Sneetch and Other Philosophical Discoveries: Finding Wisdom in Children's Literature by Thomas E. Wartenberg
RRP: $35.60$24.17Taking Picture Books Seriously: What can we learn about philosophy through children's books? This warm and charming volume casts a spell on adult readers as it unveils the surprisingly profound philosophical wisdom contained in children's picture books,... -
John Locke: En Essay Concerning Human Understanding in Focus by Gary Fuller
RRP: $79.78$70.10John Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding is among the most important books in philosophy ever written. It is also a difficult work dealing with many themes, including the origin of ideas; the extent and limits of human knowledge; the philosophy... -
Thomistic Papers VI by John F.X. Knasas
RRP: $58.78$50.69The essays in this volume offer a critique of From Unity to Pluralism: The Internal Evolution of Thomism by Gerald McCool, SJ. Twelve philosophers in this collection analyse key aspects of McCool's interpretation of Aquinas, which stands opposed to the... -
Samuel Beckett and the Terror of Literature by Christopher Langlois
RRP: $189.00$172.14Samuel Beckett and the Terror of Literature addresses the relevance of terror to understanding the violence, the suffering, and the pain experienced by the narrative voices of Beckett s major post-1945 works.About the AuthorChristopher Langlois is... -
Infinite Regress: The Theory and History of Varieties of Change by Nicholas Rescher
RRP: $283.50$246.29Regression addresses what has come before; it is a matter of looking backward of retrospections? The motionless things of nature are generally forward-looking their problem is that of the question: Where do we go from here? It is primarily with... -
Philosophy and Temporality from Kant to Critical Theory by Espen Hammer
RRP: $189.00$139.97This book is a critical analysis of how key philosophers in the European tradition have responded to the emergence of a modern conception of temporality. Espen Hammer suggests that it is a feature of Western modernity that time has been forcibly... -
An Introduction to Philosophy by Jon Nuttall
RRP: $126.00$109.10This new textbook is a lively and highly accessible introduction to philosophy. From the fundamental issues of philosophical thought to the latest theories in the philosophy of mind, An Introduction to Philosophy provides clear and incisive discussion of...