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Tragedy as Philosophy in the Reformation World by Russ Leo
$227.31Tragedy as Philosophy in the Reformation World examines how sixteenth- and seventeenth-century poets, theologians, and humanist critics turned to tragedy to understand providence and agencies human and divine in the crucible of the Reformation. Rejecting... -
Schopenhauer by Julian Young 9780415333474
RRP: $50.68$44.13Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) was one of the greatest writers and German philosophers of the nineteenth century. His work influenced figures as diverse as Wagner, Freud and Nietzsche. Best known as a pessimist, he was one of the few philosophers read... -
Montaigne: A Very Short Introduction by William M. Hamlin
RRP: $17.53$12.58The French author Michel de Montaigne is widely regarded as the founder and greatest practitioner of the personal essay. A member of the minor aristocracy, he worked as a judicial investigator, served as mayor of Bordeaux, and sought to bring stability... -
Ibn Sina's Remarks and Admonitions: Physics and Metaphysics: An Analysis and Annotated Translation by Shams C. Inati
RRP: $107.25$82.17Al-Isharat wal-Tanbihat (Remarks and Admonitions) is one of the most mature and comprehensive philosophical works by Ibn Sina (Avicenna, 980-1037). Grounded in an exploration of logic (which Ibn Sina described as the gate to knowledge) and happiness (the... -
Spirit of Mediaeval Philosophy, The by Etienne Gilson
RRP: $48.73$42.18In this book (a translation of his well-known work L'esprit de la philosophie medievale), Etienne Gilson undertakes the task of defining the spirit of mediaeval philosophy. Gilson asks whether we can form the concept of a Christian philosophy and whether... -
The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius 9780393930719
$26.77The Consolation of Philosophy occupies a central place in the history of Western thought. Its author, Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius (ca. 476-526 c.e.), was a Roman philosopher, scholar, and statesman who wrote The Consolation of Philosophy while in... -
Medieval Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction by Dr. John Marenbon 9780199663224
RRP: $17.53$12.58For many of us, the term 'medieval philosophy' conjures up the figure of Thomas Aquinas, and is closely intertwined with religion. In this Very Short Introduction John Marenbon shows how medieval philosophy had a far broader reach than the thirteenth and... -
On Exile by Francesco Filelfo 9780674066366
RRP: $58.40$46.00Francesco Filelfo's philosophical dialogue On Exile (ca. 1440) depicts a prominent group of Florentine noblemen and humanists, driven from their city by Cosimo de' Medici, discussing the sufferings imposed by exile such as poverty and loss of reputation,... -
Giordano Bruno: Cause, Principle and Unity: And Essays on Magic by Giordano Bruno
RRP: $64.33$55.34Giordano Bruno's notorious public death in 1600, at the hands of the Inquisition in Rome, marked the transition from Renaissance philosophy to the Scientific Revolution of the seventeenth century. In his philosophical works he addressed such delicate... -
Commentary on Aristotle's "Physics" by Saint Thomas Aquinas 9781883357764
RRP: $70.20$68.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781883357764Author Thomas AquinasFormat PaperbackPage Count 670Imprint Dumb Ox Books,USPublisher St Augustine's PressWeight(grams) 956gDimensions(mm) 230mm... -
After Aquinas: Versions of Thomism by Fergus Kerr 9780631213130
RRP: $62.30$55.17This guide to the most interesting work that has recently appeared on Aquinas reflects the revival of interest in his work. Written by one of the foremost Roman Catholic theologians currently writing in English.Offers a guide to the most interesting work... -
Maimonides: Life and Thought by Moshe Halbertal 9780691165660
RRP: $42.90$33.91Maimonides was the greatest Jewish philosopher and legal scholar of the medieval period, a towering figure who has had a profound and lasting influence on Jewish law, philosophy, and religious consciousness. This book provides a comprehensive and... -
Scholastic Humanism and the Unification of Europe, Volume II: The Heroic Age by R. W. Southern 9780631220794
RRP: $75.95$68.33This is the second of the three volumes comprising, Scholastic Humanism and the Unification of Europe. Focussing on the period from c.1090-1212, the volume explores the lives, scholarly resources, and contributions of a wide sample of people who either... -
Reading the Song of Songs with St. Thomas Aquinas by Serge-Thomas Bonino 9780813235981
RRP: $126.75$102.59St. Thomas Aquinas never commented on the Song of Songs. The purpose of this book is to demonstrate, however, that he meditated on it and absorbed it, so that the words of the Song are for him a familiar repertoire and a theological source. His work... -
Medieval Philosophy: A New History of Western Philosophy, Volume 2 by Anthony Kenny
RRP: $31.18$23.42Sir Anthony Kenny continues his magisterial new history of Western philosophy with a fascinating guide through more than a millennium of thought from 400 AD onwards, charting the story of philosophy from the founders of Christian and Islamic thought... -
A Hidden Wisdom: Medieval Contemplatives on Self-Knowledge, Reason, Love, Persons, and Immortality by Christina Van Dyke 9780198861683
RRP: $63.36$54.62Medieval philosophy is primarily associated today with university-based disputations and the authorities cited in those disputations. In their own time, however, scholastic debates were recognized as just one part of wide-ranging philosophical and... -
The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern European History, 1350-1750: Volume I: Peoples and Place by Hamish Scott
$77.49This Handbook re-examines the concept of early modern history in a European and global context. The term 'early modern' has been familiar, especially in Anglophone scholarship, for four decades and is securely established in teaching, research, and... -
A New History of Western Philosophy by Anthony Kenny 9780199656493
RRP: $37.03$30.34This book is no less than a guide to the whole of Western philosophy--the ideas that have undergirded our civilization for two-and-a-half thousand years. Anthony Kenny tells the story of philosophy from ancient Greece through the Middle Ages and the... -
The Cambridge Companion to Arabic Philosophy by Peter Adamson 9780521520690
RRP: $68.23$56.32Philosophy written in Arabic and in the Islamic world represents one of the great traditions of Western philosophy. Inspired by Greek philosophical works and the indigenous ideas of Islamic theology, Arabic philosophers from the ninth century onwards put... -
The Adventure by Giorgio Agamben
RRP: $23.38$16.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262037594Author Giorgio AgambenFormat HardbackPage Count 104Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 152mm * 102mm * 8mm -
Abelard: Ethical Writings by Peter Abelard
RRP: $31.18$27.85Abelard's major ethical writings--Ethics, or Know Yourself, and Dialogue between a Philosopher, a Jew and a Christian, are presented here in a student edition including cross-references, explanatory notes, a full table of references, bibliography, and... -
The Old English Boethius: with Verse Prologues and Epilogues Associated with King Alfred by Susan Irvine
RRP: $58.40$45.22The Old English Boethius boldly refashions in Anglo-Saxon guise a great literary monument of the late-antique world, The Consolation of Philosophy. Condemned to death for treason around 525 ce, the Roman scholar Boethius turned to philosophy to transform... -
Machiavelli's Ethics by Erica Benner
RRP: $54.60$42.43Machiavelli's Ethics challenges the most entrenched understandings of Machiavelli, arguing that he was a moral and political philosopher who consistently favored the rule of law over that of men, that he had a coherent theory of justice, and that he did... -
Medieval Philosophy: A history of philosophy without any gaps, Volume 4 by Peter Adamson 9780198842408
RRP: $53.61$38.38Peter Adamson presents a lively introduction to six hundred years of European philosophy, from the beginning of the ninth century to the end of the fourteenth century. The medieval period is one of the richest in the history of philosophy, yet one of the... -
The Winding Stair: Francis Bacon, His Rise and Fall by Daphne Du Maurier
RRP: $21.43$14.43FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF REBECCA' ... a writer of fearless originality' GUARDIAN 'Unlike many authors of popular historical biographies, du Maurier resembled Antonia Fraser in being an indefatigable researcher' FRANCIS KING'du Maurier has no equal'... -
Giordano Bruno: Philosopher Heretic by Ingrid D. Rowland
RRP: $26.33$25.41Giordano Bruno (1548-1600) is one of the great figures of early modern Europe, and one of the least understood. Ingrid D. Rowland's biography establishes him once and for all as a peer of Erasmus, Shakespeare, and Galileo - a thinker whose vision of the... -
German Philosophers: Kant, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche by Roger Scruton
RRP: $35.08$25.25German Philosophers contains studies of four of the most important German theorists: Kant, arguably the most influential modern philosopher; Hegel, whose philosophy inspired an enduring vision of a communist society; Schopenhauer, renowned for his... -
Philosophy Bites Back by David Edmonds
RRP: $21.43$15.15Philosophy Bites Back is the second book to come out of the hugely successful podcast Philosophy Bites. It presents a selection of lively interviews with leading philosophers of our time, who discuss the ideas and works of some of the most important... -
Confessions by Augustine 9781624667824
RRP: $25.33$21.04"Williams's masterful translation satisfies (at last!) a long-standing need. There are lots of good translations of Augustine's great work, but until now we have been forced to choose between those that strive to replicate in English something of the... -
Augustine: A Very Short Introduction by Henry Chadwick
RRP: $17.53$12.89By his writings, the surviving bulk of which exceeds that of any other ancient author, Augustine came to influence not only his contemporaries but also the West since his time. This Very Short Introduction traces the development of Augustine's thought,... -
The Metaphysical Foundations of Love: Aquinas on Participation, Unity, and Union by Anthony T. Flood 9780813231204
RRP: $126.75$102.59The Metaphysical Foundations of Love: Aquinas on Participation, Unity, and Union offers a systematic treatment of St. Thomas Aquinas's account of the metaphysical relations of unity-to-union and unity-to-participation in God as the key structuring... -
The Bonds of Humanity: Cicero's Legacies in European Social and Political Thought, ca. 1100-ca. 1550 by Cary J. Nederman
RRP: $58.40$51.46Of the great philosophers of pagan antiquity, Marcus Tullius Cicero is the only one whose ideas were continuously accessible to the Christian West following the collapse of the Roman Empire. Yet, in marked contrast with other ancient philosophers, Cicero... -
Against the Academicians and The Teacher by Augustine 9780872202122
RRP: $35.08$28.43These new translations of two treatises dealing with the possibility and nature of knowledge in the face of skeptical challenges are the first to be rendered from the Latin critical edition, the first to be made specifically with a philosophical audience... -
The Essential Galileo by Galileo 9780872209374
RRP: $31.18$25.47Finocchiaro's new and revised translations have done what the Inquisition could not: they have captured an exceptional range of Galileo's career while also letting him speak--in clear English. No other volume offers more convenient or more reliable... -
How To Be Good: What Socrates Can Teach Us About the Art of Living Well by Massimo Pigliucci 9781399804950
RRP: $21.43$14.43What Socrates's greatest failure says about a 2,000-year-old question: is it possible to teach ourselves and others to become better people? Can we make ourselves into better human beings? Can we help others do the same? Can we get our leaders to care... -
The Praise of Folly: Updated Edition by Desiderius Erasmus 9780691165646
RRP: $27.28$21.61Desiderius Erasmus (1466-1536) was a Dutch humanist, scholar, and social critic, and one of the most important figures of the Renaissance. The Praise of Folly is perhaps his best-known work. Originally written to amuse his friend Sir Thomas More, this... -
Integralism: A Manual of Political Philosophy by Thomas Crean
RRP: $48.65$39.51Integralism is the application to the temporal, political order of the full implications of the revelation of man's supernatural end in Christ and of the divinely established means by which it is to be attained. These implications are identified by means... -
The Treatise on Happiness: The Treatise on Human Acts by Thomas Aquinas 9781624665295
RRP: $50.68$40.21The fifth volume of The Hackett Aquinas, a series of central philosophical treatises of Aquinas in new, state-of-the-art translations accompanied by a thorough commentary on the text.Acclaim for previous volumes in the series:The Treatise on Human Nature... -
Theology and the Scientific Imagination: From the Middle Ages to the Seventeenth Century, Second Edition by Amos Funkenstein
RRP: $78.00$60.33Theology and the Scientific Imagination is a pioneering work of intellectual history that transformed our understanding of the relationship between Christian theology and the development of science. Distinguished scholar Amos Funkenstein explores the... -
Aquinas: An Introduction to the Life and Work of the Great Medieval Thinker by Frederick C. Copleston
RRP: $31.18$22.64Aquinas (1224-74) lived at a time when the Christian West was opening up to a wealth of Greek and Islamic philosophical speculation. An embodiment of the thirteenth-century ideal of a unified interpretation of reality (in which philosophy and theology...