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Aquinas's Ontology of the Material World: Change, Hylomorphism, and Material Objects by Jeffrey E. Brower 9780198714293
€116.39What is the nature of the material world? And how are its fundamental constituents to be described? These questions are of central concern to contemporary philosophers, and in their attempt to answer them, they have begun reconsidering traditional views... -
Cambridge Translations of Renaissance Philosophical Texts: Moral and Political Philosophy by Jill Kraye 9780521426046
RRP: €58.30€48.87The Renaissance, known primarily for the art and literature that it produced, was also a period in which philosophical thought flourished. This two-volume anthology contains 40 new translations of important works on moral and political philosophy written... -
Ibn Sina's Remarks and Admonitions: Physics and Metaphysics: An Analysis and Annotated Translation by Shams C. Inati
RRP: €65.45€51.06Al-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... -
Wandering Joy: Meister Eckhart's Mystical Philosophy by Reiner Schurmann 9780970109712
RRP: €17.84€13.03This remarkable work shows Meister Eckhart, the thirteenth-century western mystic, as the great teacher of the birth of God in the soul, who shatters the dualism between God and the world, and the self and God. It is not only an exposition of Eckhart's... -
Summa Contra Gentiles: Book 4: Salvation by Thomas Aquinas 9780268016845
RRP: €34.50€29.70The Summa Contra Gentiles is not merely the only complete summary of Christian doctrine that St. Thomas has written, but also a creative and even revolutionary work of Christian apologetics composed at the precise moment when Christian thought needed to... -
History of Philosophy: Vol 2: Medieval Philosophy by Frederick C. Copleston
RRP: €23.79€21.43Copleston, an Oxford Jesuit and specialist in the history of philosophy, first created his history as an introduction for Catholic ecclesiastical seminaries. However, since its first publication (the last volume appearing in the mid-1970s) the series has... -
German Philosophers: Kant, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche by Roger Scruton
RRP: €22.60€16.20German 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... -
Duns Scotus: Philosophical Writings by John Duns Scotus 9780872200180
RRP: €24.98€20.48The philosophical writings of Duns Scotus, one of the most influential philosophers of the Later Middle Ages, are here presented in a volume that presents the original Latin with facing page English translation.CONTENTS: Foreword to the Second Edition... -
Summa Contra Gentiles, 2: Book Two: Creation by Thomas Aquinas 9780268016807
RRP: €34.50€29.70Book Two of the Summa Contra Gentiles series examines God's freedom in creation, his power as creator of all things, and the nature of man, particularly the unity of soul and body within man.Book InformationISBN 9780268016807Author Thomas AquinasFormat... -
The Long Life by Helen Small 9780199592562
€44.98The Long Life invites the reader to range widely from the writings of Plato through to recent philosophical work by Derek Parfit, Bernard Williams, and others, and from Shakespeare's King Lear through works by Thomas Mann, Balzac, Dickens, Beckett,... -
Summa Contra Gentiles: Book 3: Providence Part I by Thomas Aquinas 9780268016869
RRP: €33.31€25.35The Summa Contra Gentiles is not merely the only complete summary of Christian doctrine that St. Thomas has written, but also a creative and even revolutionary work of Christian apologetics composed at the precise moment when Christian thought needed to... -
Medieval Philosophy: A New History of Western Philosophy, Volume 2 by Anthony Kenny
RRP: €20.22€15.46Sir 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... -
Medieval Philosophy: A history of philosophy without any gaps, Volume 4 by Peter Adamson 9780198842408
RRP: €34.50€24.61Peter 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... -
History of Philosophy: Vol 3: Late Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy by Frederick C. Copleston
€33.34Copleston, an Oxford Jesuit and specialist in the history of philosophy, first created his history as an introduction for Catholic ecclesiastical seminaries. However, since its first publication (the last volume appearing in the mid-1970s) the series has... -
Aquinas after Frege by Giovanni Ventimiglia
RRP: €89.24€83.53This book provides a fresh reading of Aquinas' metaphysics in the light of insights from the works of Frege. In particular, Ventimiglia argues that Aquinas' doctrine of being can be better understood through Frege's distinction between the 'there is'... -
The Old English Boethius: with Verse Prologues and Epilogues Associated with King Alfred by Susan Irvine
RRP: €35.64€28.16The 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... -
How To Read Machiavelli by Maurizio Viroli
RRP: €8.32€5.76'Men are infamous and detestable who are destroyers of religion, squanderers of kingdoms and republics, and enemies of the virtues.' Niccolo Machiavelli Machiavelli (1459-1527) is one of the most influential modern political thinkers. His works,... -
The Winding Stair: Francis Bacon, His Rise and Fall Daphne Du Maurier 9781844080748
RRP: €13.08€8.81FROM 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'... -
The Letters of Marsilio Ficino Volume 11: (Book XII) by Language Department of the School of Economic Science, London 9780856835193
RRP: €35.70€32.55This volume and its companions contain the first English translation of the letters written by the philosopher-priest who helped to shape the changes that we associate with the Renaissance. The letters in this eleventh volume cover the period from autumn... -
Interpreting Maimonides: Critical Essays by Charles H. Manekin
RRP: €36.88€30.29Moses Maimonides (1138–1204) was arguably the single most important Jewish thinker of the Middle Ages, with an impact on the later Jewish tradition that was unparalleled by any of his contemporaries. In this volume of new essays, world-leading scholars... -
Oxford Studies in Medieval Philosophy Volume 8 by Robert Pasnau
RRP: €35.69€32.83Oxford Studies in Medieval Philosophy showcases the best scholarly research in this flourishing field. The series covers all aspects of medieval philosophy, including the Latin, Arabic, and Hebrew traditions, and runs from the end of antiquity into the... -
The Praise of Folly: Updated Edition by Desiderius Erasmus 9780691165646
RRP: €17.84€13.14Desiderius 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... -
After Aquinas: Versions of Thomism Fergus Kerr (University of Oxford and University of Edinburgh) 9780631213130
RRP: €38.02€33.67This 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... -
The New Cambridge Companion to Aquinas by Eleonore Stump
RRP: €89.24€81.07This new Companion to Aquinas features entirely new chapters written by internationally recognized experts in the field. It shows the power of Aquinas's philosophical thought and transmits the worldview which he inherited, developed, altered, and argued... -
Philosophy Bites Back by David Edmonds
RRP: €14.27€10.03Philosophy 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... -
Schopenhauer by Julian Young 9780415333474
RRP: €30.93€26.93Arthur 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... -
Giordano Bruno: Philosopher Heretic by Ingrid D. Rowland
RRP: €21.42€18.33Giordano 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... -
The Discovery of the Individual 1050-1200 by Colin Morris 9780802066657
RRP: €26.17€22.84Colin Morris traces the origin of the concept of the individual, not to the Renaissance where it is popularly assumed to have been invented, but farther back, to the spirituality and intellectually dynamic world of Europe in the twelfth century. First... -
Maimonides: Life and Thought by Moshe Halbertal 9780691165660
RRP: €29.75€23.79Maimonides 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... -
A Hidden Wisdom: Medieval Contemplatives on Self-Knowledge, Reason, Love, Persons, and Immortality by Christina Van Dyke 9780198861683
RRP: €41.04€35.31Medieval 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
€48.90This 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... -
Good Without God by Greg Epstein 9780061670121
RRP: €19.03€12.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061670121Author Greg EpsteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint William Morrow & CompanyPublisher William Morrow & Company -
John Scottus Eriugena by Dierdre Carabine 9780195113624
RRP: €38.07€30.29This volume provides a brief and accessible introduction to the 9th-century philosopher and theologian John Scottus Eriugena, who was perhaps the most important philosophical thinker to appear in Latin Christendom in the period between Augustine and... -
Monologion and Proslogion: with the replies of Gaunilo and Anselm by Saint Anselm
RRP: €15.46€14.02Williams's translations are scrupulously faithful and accurate without being slavishly literal, and yet are lively and graceful.--Paul Vincent Spade, Indiana UniversityAbout the AuthorThomas Williams is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Religious... -
Renaissance Philosophy by Brian P. Copenhaver 9780192891846
RRP: €51.16€42.23The Renaissance has long been recognized as a brilliant moment in the development of Western civilization. However, little attention has been devoted to the distinct contributions of philosophy to Renaissance culture. This volume introduces the reader to... -
Aquinas on Friendship by Daniel Schwartz 9780199205394
€127.95Daniel Schwartz examines the views on friendship of the great medieval philosopher Thomas Aquinas. For Aquinas friendship is the ideal type of relationship that rational beings should cultivate. Schwartz argues that Aquinas fundamentally revises some of... -
The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern European History, 1350-1750: Volume II: Cultures and Power by Hamish Scott 9780198820574
RRP: €48.78€48.18This 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... -
The Treatise on Happiness: The Treatise on Human Acts by Thomas Aquinas 9781624665295
RRP: €30.93€25.05The 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... -
Plotinus by Eyjolfur Kjalar Emilsson
RRP: €30.93€26.93Plotinus (AD 205-270) was the founder of Neoplatonism, whose thought has had a profound influence on medieval philosophy, and on Western philosophy more broadly. In this engaging book, Eyjolfur K. Emilsson introduces and explains the full spectrum of... -
Christian Philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas by Etienne Gilson
RRP: €27.36€24.29In this final edition of his classic study of St. Thomas Aquinas, Etienne Gilson presents the sweeping range and organic unity of Thomistic philosophical thought. The philosophical thinking of Aquinas is the result of reason being challenged to relate to...