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The Veil of Isis: An Essay on the History of the Idea of Nature by Pierre Hadot
RRP: £25.95£20.22Nearly twenty-five hundred years ago the Greek thinker Heraclitus supposedly uttered the cryptic words "Phusis kruptesthai philei." How the aphorism, usually translated as "Nature loves to hide," has haunted Western culture ever since is the subject of... -
Aesthetics and Subjectivity by Andrew Bowie 9780719057380
RRP: £25.00£21.58New, completely revised and re-written edition. Offers a detailed but accessible account of the vital German philosophical tradition of thinking about art and the self. Looks at recent historical research and contemporary arguments in philosophy and... -
Hegel: The Phenomenology of Spirit: Translated with introduction and commentary by Michael Inwood 9780198899648
RRP: £25.00£23.67G. W. F. Hegel's first masterpiece, the Phenomenology of Spirit, is one of the great works of philosophy. It remains, however, one of the most challenging and mysterious books ever written. Michael Inwood presents this central work to the modern reader... -
Empiricists: Essays by John Locke
RRP: £16.99£13.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385096225Author John LockeFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Bantam Dell Publishing Group, Div of Random House, IncPublisher Random House USA... -
Critique and Crisis: Enlightenment and the Pathogenesis of Modern Society by Reinhart Koselleck
£35.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262611572Author Reinhart KoselleckFormat PaperbackPage Count 214Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *... -
On the Pleasure of Hating by William Hazlitt
RRP: £7.99£5.79Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched... -
History of Madness by Michel Foucault
RRP: £29.99£27.64When it was first published in France in 1961 as Folie et Deraison: Histoire de la Folie a l'age Classique, few had heard of a thirty-four year old philosopher by the name of Michel Foucault. By the time an abridged English edition was published in 1967... -
The History of Hylomorphism: From Aristotle to Descartes by David Charles 9780192897664
RRP: £90.00£81.98Although Aristotle was not the first to understand objects in terms of their matter and their form, the account he developed has exercised a major influence on Western philosophy to this day. The History of Hylomorphism: From Aristotle to Descartes... -
Basic Writings of Nietzsche by Friedrich Nietzsche
RRP: £18.99£13.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679783398Author Friedrich NietzscheFormat PaperbackPage Count 896Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 499gDimensions(mm)... -
Science and Relativism: Some Key Controversies in the Philosophy of Science by Larry Lauden 9780226469492
RRP: £21.00£20.31In recent years, many members of the intellectual community have embraced a radical relativism regarding knowledge in general and scientific knowledge in particular, holding that Kuhn, Quine, and Feyerabend have knocked the traditional picture of... -
On Suicide: A Discourse on Voluntary Death by Jean Amery
RRP: £20.99£17.98" . . . a moving, deep series of insights into the suicide's world . . . " -Kirkus ReviewsJean Amery (Auschwitz survivor and author of At the Mind's Limits) thought of On Suicide as a continuation of the kind of reflections on mortality he had laid down... -
Hobbes: A Very Short Introduction by Richard Tuck
RRP: £8.99£6.45Thomas Hobbes, the first great English political philosopher, has long had the reputation of being a pessimistic atheist, who saw human nature as inevitably evil and proposed a totalitarian state to subdue human failings. In this illuminating study,... -
The Roots Of Romanticism by Isaiah Berlin
RRP: £18.99£13.61The Roots of Romanticism is the long-awaited text of Isaiah Berlin's most celebrated set of lectures, the Mellon Lectures, delivered in Washington in 1965 and heard since by a much wider audience on BBC radio. For Berli, the Romantics set in train a... -
An Intellectual History of Cannibalism by Catalin Avramescu 9780691152196
RRP: £30.00£27.39The 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... -
The Present Age: On the Death of Rebellion by Soren Kierkegaard 9780062930859
RRP: £10.99£6.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062930859Author Soren KierkegaardFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Harper PerennialPublisher Harper PerennialWeight(grams) 91g -
The Human A Priori: Essays on How We Make Sense in Philosophy, Ethics, and Mathematics by Prof A. W. Moore 9780192871411
RRP: £90.00£81.98The Human A Priori is a collection of essays by A.W. Moore, one of them previously unpublished and the rest all revised. These essays are all concerned, more or less directly, with something ineliminably anthropocentric in our systematic pursuit of a... -
The Gothic and Theory: An Edinburgh Companion by Jerrold E. Hogle 9781474427784
RRP: £27.99£22.61This collection provides a thorough representation of the early and ongoing conversation between Gothic and theory philosophical, aesthetic, psychological and cultural.Book InformationISBN 9781474427784Author Jerrold E. HogleFormat PaperbackPage Count... -
Memory, History, Forgetting by Paul Ricoeur
RRP: £28.00£27.79A landmark work, "Memory, History, Forgetting" examines the reciprocal relationship between remembering and forgetting, revealing how this symbiosis influences both the perception of historical experience and the production of historical narrative. A... -
On the Basis of Morality by Arthur Schopenhauer 9780872204423
RRP: £17.99£14.58This edition originally published by Berghahn Books.Schopenhauer's treatise on ethics is presented here in E. F. J. Payne's definitive translation, based on the Hubscher edition (Wiesbaden, 1946-1950). This edition includes an Introduction by David... -
The History of Animals: A Philosophy by Oxana Timofeeva 9781350012011
RRP: £23.99£20.94Oxana Timofeeva's The History of Animals: A Philosophy is an original and ambitious treatment of the "animal question". While philosophers have always made distinctions between human beings and animals, Timofeeva imagines a world free of such walls and... -
The Intellectual and His People: Staging the People Volume 2 by Jacques Ranciere
RRP: £11.99£7.86A classic collection of essay by Jacques Ranciere, that focuses on the ways in which radical philosophers understand the people they profess to speak for. The Intellectual and His People engages in an incisive and original way with current political and... -
The Collected Works of Spinoza, Volume I by Benedictus de Spinoza 9780691072227
RRP: £48.00£41.88The Collected Works of Spinoza provides, for the first time in English, a truly satisfactory edition of all of Spinoza's writings, with accurate and readable translations, based on the best critical editions of the original-language texts, done by a... -
An Introduction to Hegel: Freedom, Truth and History by Stephen Houlgate
RRP: £31.95£28.69This classic introduction to one of the most influential modern thinkers, G.W.F. Hegel (1770-1831) has been made even more comprehensive through the addition of four new chapters. New edition of a classic introduction to Hegel.Enables students to engage... -
Treatise on Toleration by Voltaire
RRP: £9.99£7.11Voltaire's Treatise on Toleration is one of the most important essays on religious tolerance and freedom of thought A powerful, impassioned case for the values of freedom of conscience and religious tolerance, Treatise on Toleration was written after the... -
Choosing Freedom: A Kantian Guide to Life by Karen Stohr
RRP: £16.99£12.28An exploration of everything Kant's philosophy can teach us about being the best people we can be, from using our human reasoning to its fullest potential to being affably drunk at dinner parties. Immanuel Kant is well known as one of the towering... -
A Commentary on Kant's "Critique of Practical Reason" by Lewis White Beck
RRP: £28.00£27.39When this work was first published in 1960, it immediately filled a void in Kantian scholarship. It was the first study entirely devoted to Kant's Critique of Practical Reason and by far the most substantial commentary on it ever written. This landmark... -
The Great Philosophers: An Introduction to Western Philosophy by Bryan Magee
RRP: £12.99£9.09Beginning with the death of Socrates in 399 BC, and following the story through the centuries to recent figures such as Bertrand Russell and Wittgenstein, Bryan Magee's conversations with fifteen contemporary writers and philosophers provide an... -
Hume: A Very Short Introduction by James A. Harris 9780198849780
RRP: £8.99£6.45David Hume, philosopher, historian, economist, librarian, and essayist, was one of the great figures of the European Enlightenment. Unlike some of his famous contemporaries, however, he was not dogmatically committed to idealised conceptions of reason,... -
Judaism and Modernity by Gillian Rose
RRP: £20.99£17.69Judaism and Modernity: Philosophical Essays challenges the philosophical presentation of Judaism as the sublime 'other' of modernity. Here, Gillian Rose develops a philosophical alternative to deconstruction and post-modernism by critically re-engaging... -
Discourse on Method by Rene Descartes 9780872204225
RRP: £8.99£8.02By far the most widely used translation in North American college classrooms, Donald A. Cress's translation from the French of the Adam and Tannery critical edition is prized for its accuracy, elegance, and economy. The translation featured in the Third... -
Aspects of the New Right-Wing Extremism by Theodor W. Adorno
RRP: £9.99£6.80On 6 April 1967, at the invitation of the Socialist Students of Austria at the University of Vienna, Theodor W. Adorno gave a lecture which is not merely of historical interest. Against the background of the rise of the National Democratic Party of... -
Pragmatism and Idealism: Rorty and Hegel on Representation and Reality by Robert B. Brandom 9780192870216
RRP: £11.99£11.30In this short book, based upon his Spinoza Lectures at the University of Amsterdam, Robert B. Brandom offers a pragmatist approach to representation and reality, drawing on Richard Rorty and Hegel. During the last decade of his life, Rorty emphasized... -
Principles of Human Knowledge and Three Dialogues by George Berkeley
RRP: £10.99£7.77One of the greatest British philosophers, Bishop Berkeley (1685-1753) was the founder of the influential doctrine of Immaterialism - the belief that there is no reality outside the mind, and that the existence of material objects depends upon their being... -
The Niche of Lights by Abu Hamid Muhammad ibn Muhammad al- Ghazali 9780842523530
RRP: £22.50£18.95Abu Hamid Muhammad al-Ghazali's philosophical explorations covered nearly the entire spectrum of twelfth-century beliefs. Beginning his career as a skeptic, he ended it as a scholar of mysticism and orthodoxy. The Niche of Lights, written near the end of... -
Modlib-Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
£16.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679601753Author Friedrich NietzscheFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm)... -
Simply Philosophy by DK
RRP: £9.99£6.52A clear, simple, graphic-led introduction to philosophy.Are you short of time but hungry for knowledge? This philosophy book proves that sometimes less is more. Bold graphics and easy-to-understand explanations make it the most accessible guide to... -
The Rehabilitation of Myth: Vico's 'New Science' by Joseph Mali
RRP: £26.99£25.45In this important essay, Joseph Mali argues that Vico's New Science must be interpreted according to Vico's own clues and rules of interpretation, principally his claim that the 'master-key' of his New Science is the discovery of myth. Following this... -
Leviathan: With selected variants from the Latin edition of 1668 by Thomas Hobbes 9780872201774
RRP: £17.99£15.33Designed to meet the needs of both student and scholar, this edition of Leviathan offers a brilliant introduction by Edwin Curley, modernized spelling and punctuation of the text, and the inclusion, along with historical and interpretive notes, of the... -
The Awakening: A History of the Western Mind AD 500 - 1700 by Charles Freeman 9781789545630
RRP: £16.00£11.62A monumental and exhilarating history of European thought, from the fall of Rome in the fifth century AD to the Scientific Revolution thirteen centuries later. The Awakening traces the recovery and refashioning of Europe's classical heritage from... -
The Incoherence of the Philosophers by Abu Hamid Muhammed Al-Ghazali 9780842524667
RRP: £37.50£31.98Although Abu Hamid Muhammad al-Ghazali lived a relatively short life (1058-1111), he established himself as one of the most important thinkers in the history of Islam. The Incoherence of the Philosophers, written after more than a decade of travel and...