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Fifty Key Eastern Thinkers by Diane Collinson
RRP: £96.99£84.45Close analysis of the work of fifty major thinkers in the field of Eastern philosophy make this an excellent introduction to a fascinating area of study. The authors have drawn together thinkers from all the major Eastern philosophical traditions from... -
On Descartes' Metaphysical Prism: The Constitution and the Limits of Onto-theo-logy in Cartesian Thought by Jean-Luc Marion
RRP: £40.00£38.55Does Descartes belong to metaphysics? What do we mean when we say "metaphysics"? These questions form the point of departure for Jean-Luc Marion's study of Cartesian thought. Analyses of Descartes' notion of the "ego" and his idea of God show that if... -
Archetypes of Thought by Thomas Molnar
RRP: £43.99£38.44In Archetypes of Thought, originally published in 1991 with the title Philosophical Grounds, Thomas Molnar follows seven basic themes of Western philosophical speculation from their development in the earliest times of systematic thought through their... -
The Joy of Missing Out: The Art of Self-Restraint in an Age of Excess by Svend Brinkmann
RRP: £40.00£26.15'Because you're worth it', proclaims the classic cosmetics ad. 'Just do it!' implores the global sports retailer. Everywhere we turn, we are constantly encouraged to experience as much as possible, for as long as possible, in as many ways as possible... -
Antiquity as the Source of Modernity: Freedom and Balance in the Thought of Montesquieu and Burke by Thomas Chaimowicz
RRP: £135.00£117.28This is a book that contrary to common practice, shows the commonalities of ancient and modern theories of freedom, law, and rational actions. Studying the works of the ancients is necessary to understanding those that follow. Thomas Chaimowicz... -
Book of Addresses by Peggy Kamuf
RRP: £108.00£93.80This book consists of a series of essays that all turn around questions of the address of speech or writing. They argue and demonstrate that meaning is not just a matter of the active intention of a subject (for example, speaker, writer, or other... -
Rhetoric, Modality, Modernity by Professor Nancy S. Struever
RRP: £37.00£35.77Since antiquity, philosophy and rhetoric have traditionally been cast as rivals, with the former often lauded as a search for logical truth and the latter usually disparaged as empty speech. But in this erudite intellectual history, Nancy S. Struever... -
Abysmal: A Critique of Cartographic Reason by Gunnar Olsson
RRP: £45.00£44.21People rely on reason to think about and navigate the abstract world of human relations in much the same way they rely on maps to study and traverse the physical world. Starting from that simple observation, renowned geographer Gunnar Olsson offers in... -
Machiavelli's Virtue by Harvey C. Mansfield
RRP: £48.00£46.39Uniting 30 years of authoritative scholarship by a master of textual detail, "Machiavelli's Virtue" is a comprehensive statement on the founder of modern politics. Harvey C. Mansfield begins by analyzing Machiavelli's radical concept of virtue. Rejecting... -
Spinoza by Steinberg
RRP: £55.00£47.73Benedict de Spinoza is one of the most controversial and enigmatic thinkers in the history of philosophy. His greatest work, Ethics (1677), developed a comprehensive philosophical system and argued that God and Nature are identical. His... -
Aristocratic Liberalism: The Social and Political Thought of Jacob Burckhardt, John Stuart Mill, and Alexis De Tocqueville by Alan Kahan
RRP: £45.99£40.13"Liberalism" is widely used to describe a variety of social and political ideas, but has been an especially difficult concept for historians and political scientists to define. Burckhardt, Mill, and Tocqueville define one type of liberal thought. They... -
Enthusiasm: The Kantian Critique of History by Jean-Francois Lyotard
RRP: £16.99£15.07Enthusiasm studies what Kant calls a "strong" sense of the sublime, not as an aesthetic feeling but as a form of political judgment rendered not by the active participants in historical events but those who witness them from afar. Lyotard's analysis,... -
The Cambridge Companion to Marx by Terrell Carver 9780521366250
RRP: £85.00£72.57Marx was a highly original and polymathic thinker, unhampered by disciplinary boundaries, whose intellectual influence has been enormous. Yet in the wake of the collapse of Marxism-Leninism in Eastern Europe the question arises as to how important his... -
Friendship and Society: Introduction to Augustine's Practical Philosophy by Donald X. Burt 9780802846822
RRP: £20.99£13.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802846822Author Donald X. BurtFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint William B Eerdmans Publishing CoPublisher William B Eerdmans Publishing... -
Scottish Philosophy in the Seventeenth Century by Alexander Broadie 9780198769842
RRP: £78.00£70.88During the seventeenth century Scots produced many high quality philosophical writings, writings that were very much part of a wider European philosophical discourse. Yet today Scottish philosophy of the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries is widely... -
Classics of Western Philosophy by Steven M. Cahn 9781603847438
RRP: £57.99£47.85The Eighth Edition of Steven M. Cahn's Classics of Western Philosophy offers the same exacting standard of editing and translation that made earlier editions of this anthology the most highly valued and widely used volume of its kind. But the Eighth... -
Understanding Social Science: Philosophical Introduction to the Social Sciences by Professor Roger Trigg 9780631218722
RRP: £32.95£29.14In this lucid and engaging introductory volume on the nature of society, Roger Trigg examines the scientific basis of social science and shows that philosophical presuppositions are a necessary starting point for the study of society.About the... -
Classifying Reality by David S. Oderberg 9781118508350
RRP: £18.75£16.68Distinguished metaphysicians examine issues central to the high-profile debate between philosophers over how to classify the natural world, and discuss issues in applied ontology such as the classification of diseases. Leading metaphysicians explore... -
The Invention of Autonomy: A History of Modern Moral Philosophy by Jerome B. Schneewind 9780521473996
RRP: £127.00£108.59This remarkable book is the most comprehensive study ever written of the history of moral philosophy in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Its aim is to set Kant's still influential ethics in its historical context by showing in detail what the... -
How We Are and How We Got Here: A Practical History of Western Philosophy by Douglas Giles 9781735880884
RRP: £24.99£22.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781735880884Author Douglas GilesFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Real Clear PhilosophyPublisher Real Clear PhilosophyWeight(grams) 744gDimensions(mm)... -
Pure: Modernity, Philosophy, and the One by Mark Anderson 9781597310949
£12.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781597310949Author Mark AndersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint Sophia Perennis et UniversalisPublisher Sophia Perennis et UniversalisWeight(grams)... -
Three Discourses: A Critical Modern Edition of Newly Identified Work of the Young Hobbes by Thomas Hobbes
RRP: £23.00£22.13The three discourses presented here are now confirmed to have been written by the young Thomas Hobbes. Their contents may well lead to a resolution of the long-standing controversy surrounding Hobbes's early influences and the subsequent development of... -
Rousseau: A Guide for the Perplexed by Matthew Simpson
£27.99"Continuum's Guides for the Perplexed" are clear, concise and accessible introductions to thinkers, writers and subjects that students and readers can find especially challenging. Concentrating specifically on what it is that makes the subject difficult... -
Ancient and Modern: Time, Culture and Indigenous Philosophy by Stephen Muecke 9780868407869
RRP: £22.95£20.48How 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... -
A Centenary Celebration: Volume 87: Anscombe, Foot, Midgley, Murdoch by Anthony O'Hear
RRP: £23.99£21.51This volume celebrates the centenary of the birth of Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Mary Midgley and Iris Murdoch. These four remarkable women were philosophical colleagues in Oxford in the 1940s, and their careers intertwined and overlapped... -
Modality: A History by Yitzhak Y. Melamed 9780190089863
RRP: £19.99£18.21Modality: A History provides readers a sweeping study of the history of philosophical work on modal concepts. Everyday discourse is saturated with appeals to what might be the case or to what must be true or to what cannot happen. Possibility, necessity,... -
The Concept of Woman: The Early Humanist Reformation, 1250-1500 by Prudence Allen 9780802833464
RRP: £38.99£23.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802833464Author Prudence AllenFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint William B Eerdmans Publishing CoPublisher William B Eerdmans Publishing... -
The Modern Philosophical Revolution: The Luminosity of Existence by David Walsh 9780521727631
RRP: £34.99£24.20The 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 Sublime: From Antiquity to the Present by Timothy M. Costelloe 9780521143677
RRP: £30.99£27.17This volume offers readers a unique and comprehensive overview of theoretical perspectives on 'the sublime', the singular aesthetic response elicited by phenomena that move viewers by transcending and overwhelming them. The book consists of an editor's... -
Passion and Action: The Emotions in Seventeenth-Century Philosophy by Susan James 9780198236740
£66.50Passion and Action explores the place of the emotions in seventeenth-century understandings of the body and mind, and the role they were held to play in reasoning and action. Interest in the passions pervaded all areas of philosophical enquiry, and was... -
Freedom, Fatalism, and Foreknowledge by John Martin Fischer 9780199942411
RRP: £40.99£33.99We typically think we have free will. But how could we have free will, if for anything we do, it was already true in the distant past that we would do that thing? Or how could we have free will, if God already knows in advance all the details of our... -
Philosophy of Education: An Anthology by Randall Curren 9781405130226
RRP: £105.95£92.67Philosophy of Education: An Anthology brings together the essential historical and contemporary readings in the philosophy of education. The readings have been selected for their philosophical merit, their focus on important aspects of educational... -
Kierkegaard for Beginners by Donald D. Palmer 9781934389140
RRP: £13.99£11.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781934389140Author Donald D. PalmerFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint For BeginnersPublisher For Beginners -
Reconciliation and Reification: Freedom's Semblance and Actuality from Hegel to Contemporary Critical Theory by Todd Hedrick
RRP: £83.00£68.85The critical theory tradition has, since its inception, sought to distinguish its perspective on society by maintaining that persons have a deep-seated interest in the free development of their personality--an interest that can only be realized in and... -
Institution: Critical Histories of Law: 2023 by Cooper Francis 9781739145149
RRP: £12.00£11.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739145149Author Cooper FrancisFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint CRMEP BooksPublisher CRMEP BooksWeight(grams) 310gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 138mm * 18mm -
Dummett: Philosophy of Language by Karen Green 9780745622958
£18.09Michael Dummett stands out among his generation as the only British philosopher of language to rival in stature the Americans, Davidson and Quine. In conjunction with them he has been responsible for much of the framework within which questions... -
The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the Greater Philosophers Will Durant 9798888976371
RRP: £21.99£16.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798888976371Author Will DurantFormat HardbackPage Count 568Imprint Mint EditionsPublisher Mint Editions -
Leibniz: Journal Articles in Philosophy Paul Lodge 9780199654734
RRP: £77.00£65.45This volume gathers together for the first time the philosophical journal articles that appeared during Leibniz's lifetime under his name or which would have been easily attributed to him due to other identifying marks. Its primary aim is to convey a... -
Definition and Essence from Aristotle to Kant Peter R. Anstey 9781032787466
RRP: £135.00£114.75This volume brings together twelve essays exploring the history of theories of definition and essence in Western philosophy from Aristotle to Kant. Definition and essence have been central to philosophical theorising since antiquity and remain so to this... -
Wilfrid Sellars on Truth: Between Immanence and Transcendence Stefanie Dach 9781032807256
RRP: £135.00£114.75This book offers an innovative defense of Wilfrid Sellar’s notion of ideal truth.Sellars adopts two attractive ideas about truth: the pragmatist idea that the concept of truth cannot be understood independently from the norms and practices we find...