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Interanimations: Receiving Modern German Philosophy by Robert B. Pippin
RRP: £31.00£30.19In this latest book, renowned philosopher and scholar Robert B. Pippin offers the thought-provoking argument that the study of historical figures is not only an interpretation and explication of their views, but can be understood as a form of philosophy... -
Theory and Practice by Jacques Derrida
RRP: £31.00£26.33Theory and Practice is a series of nine lectures that Jacques Derrida delivered at the Ecole Normale Superieure in 1976 and 1977. The topic of "theory and practice" was associated above all with Marxist discourse and particularly the influential... -
Freud by Jonathan Lear 9780415831802
RRP: £25.99£22.63In this fully updated second edition, the author clearly introduces and assesses all of Freud's thought, focusing on those areas of philosophy on which Freud is acknowledged to have had a lasting impact. These include the philosophy of mind, free will... -
Conversations with Roger Scruton by Mark Dooley
RRP: £16.99£12.28A candid and personal insight into the life and work of the philosopher and writer Roger Scruton, by his intellectual biographer Mark Dooley. This book reveals what life was like for Roger Scruton growing up in High Wycombe, how he survived Cambridge... -
Photography off the Scale: Technologies and Theories of the Mass Image by Toma Dvo?ak
RRP: £20.99£18.36These essays address the epistemological, aesthetic and political implications of scale in both scholarly and artistic work. From the mass image in vernacular culture to transformations of photography in contexts of big data and artificial intelligence,... -
Gilles Deleuze's Difference and Repetition: A Critical Introduction and Guide by James Williams
RRP: £24.99£20.29This is a revised, expanded and fully up-to-date critical introduction to Deleuze's most important work of philosophy. This is the first critical introduction to "Difference and Repetition" (first published in 1968): Gilles Deleuze's most important work... -
Walter Benjamin: A Critical Life by Lecturer in Literature Howard Eiland
RRP: £22.95£18.99Walter Benjamin is one of the twentieth century's most important intellectuals, and also one of its most elusive. His writings-mosaics incorporating philosophy, literary criticism, Marxist analysis, and a syncretistic theology-defy simple categorization... -
Letters of Frithjof Schuon: Reflections on the Perennial Philosophy by Frithjof Schuon
RRP: £14.99£10.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781936597727Author Frithjof SchuonFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint World Wisdom BooksPublisher World Wisdom Books -
Truth and Reality by Otto Rank 9780393008999
RRP: £14.50£12.04Anticipating one of the central findings of post-Freudian psychiatry, he argues that "truth" is irrelevant to the work of therapy. He contrasts the negative externalization of will, which leads to denial and guilt, with the creative power of will,... -
The Parallax View by Slavoj Zizek
RRP: £25.00£17.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262512688Author Slavoj ZizekFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 612gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 29mm -
A Pocket Philosophical Dictionary by Voltaire
RRP: £10.99£7.97'What can you say to a man who tells you he prefers obeying God rather than men, and that as a result he's certain he'll go to heaven if he cuts your throat?' Voltaire's Pocket Philosophical Dictionary, first published in 1764, is a major work of the... -
Nietzsche, the Aristocratic Rebel: Intellectual Biography and Critical Balance-Sheet by Domenico Losurdo
RRP: £65.00£44.09Perhaps no philosopher is more of a conundrum than Nietzsche, the solitary rebel, poet, wayfarer, anti-revolutionary Aufklarer and theorist of aristocratic radicalism. His accusers identify in his 'superman' the origins of Nazism, and thus issue an... -
Critical Realism: an Introduction to Roy Bhaskar's Philosophy by Andrew Collier 9780860916024
RRP: £19.99£16.90The work of Roy Bhaskar has had far-reaching effects in the philosophy of science and for political and moral theories of human emancipation. It shows how to overcome the atomistic and narrowly human-centered approaches which have dominated European... -
The Age of Questions: Or, A First Attempt at an Aggregate History of the Eastern, Social, Woman, American, Jewish, Polish, Bullion, Tuberculosis, and Many Other Questions over the Nineteenth Century, and Beyond by Holly Case
RRP: £25.00£21.19A groundbreaking history of the Big Questions that dominated the nineteenth centuryIn the early nineteenth century, a new age began: the age of questions. In the Eastern and Belgian questions, as much as in the slavery, worker, social, woman, and Jewish... -
An Introduction to Hegel's Logic by Justus Hartnack 9780872204249
RRP: £16.99£13.81Justus Hartnack provides a highly accessible, philosophically astute introduction to Hegel's logic--one of those rare books that rewards readers at any level of sophistication--and the ideal text for students about to embark on the study of this... -
Forget Foucault by Jean Baudrillard
RRP: £13.99£9.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781584350415Author Jean BaudrillardFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Semiotext (E)Publisher AutonomediaWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *... -
Introducing Modernism: A Graphic Guide by Chris Rodrigues
RRP: £8.99£6.63Modernism is usually thought of as a shock wave of innovations hitting art, architecture, music, cinema and literature - the work of Picasso, Joyce, Schoenberg, movements like Futurism and Dada, the architecture of Le Corbusier, T.S. Eliot's The... -
The Nietzsche Reader by Keith Ansell-Pearson 9780631226543
RRP: £16.95£16.20The Nietzsche Reader brings together in one volume substantial selections from the entire body of Nietzsche's writings, together with illuminating commentary on Nietzsche's life and importance, and introductions to his major works and philosophical ideas... -
Introducing Heidegger: A Graphic Guide by Jeff Collins
RRP: £8.99£6.70Martin Heidegger - philosophy's 'hidden king', or leading exponent of a dangerously misguided secular mysticism. Heidegger has been acclaimed as the most powerfully original philosopher of the twentieth century. Profoundly influential on deconstruction,... -
Freedom Evolves by Daniel C. Dennett
RRP: £10.99£7.77Daniel C. Dennett's Freedom Evolves tackles the most important question of human existence - is there really such a thing as free will? How can humans make genuinely independent choices if we are just a cluster of cells and genes in a world determined... -
Derrida: A Biography by Benoit Peeters 9780745656151
RRP: £25.00£17.38This biography of Jacques Derrida (1930-2004) tells the story of a Jewish boy from Algiers, excluded from school at the age of twelve, who went on to become the most widely translated French philosopher in the world - a vulnerable, tormented man who,... -
Philosophy and Social Hope by Richard Rorty
RRP: £10.99£7.77Richard Rorty is one of the most provocative figures in recent philosophical, literary and cultural debate. This collection brings together those of his writings aimed at a wider audience, many published in book form for the first time. In these eloquent... -
Wittgenstein's Artillery: Philosophy as Poetry by James C Klagge
RRP: £43.00£36.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Choice Outstanding Academic Titles 2022.Book InformationISBN 9780262045834Author James C. KlaggeFormat HardbackPage Count 264Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press... -
The Debate Between Sartre and Merleau-Ponty by Dr. Jon Stewart 9780810115323
RRP: £39.95£33.15The Debate between Sartre and Merleau-Ponty provides a balanced portrait of the intellectual relationship between these two men. Essays by leading scholars as well as selections from the primary texts of Merleau-Ponty, Sartre, and Simone de Beauvoir... -
Theology After Wittgenstein by Fergus Kerr
RRP: £15.99£11.61The philosopher Wittgenstein is considered by many to be the most influential and significant of the 20th century. This book introduces him to students of theology and focuses on his writings dealing with theological issues such as the inner life,... -
In Search of the Miraculous by P. D. Ouspensky
RRP: £19.99£13.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156007467Author P. D. OuspenskyFormat PaperbackImprint Harcourt Publishers,U.S.Publisher Harcourt Publishers,U.S. -
Routledge Philosophy GuideBook to Merleau-Ponty and Phenomenology of Perception by Komarine Romdenh-Romluc 9780415343152
RRP: £23.99£20.99Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908 - 1961) is hailed as one of the key philosophers of the twentieth century. Phenomenology of Perception is his most famous and influential work, and an essential text for anyone seeking to understand phenomenology. In this... -
Spinoza, the Transindividual by Etienne Balibar
RRP: £21.99£17.97Etienne Balibar, one of the foremost living French philosophers, builds on his landmark work 'Spinoza and Politics' with this exploration of Spinoza's ontology. Balibar situates Spinoza in relation to the major figures of Marx and Freud as a precursor to... -
Love and Saint Augustine by Hannah Arendt
RRP: £13.50£13.03Hannah Arendt began her scholarly career with an exploration of Saint Augustine's concept of caritas, or neighborly love, written under the direction of Karl Jaspers and the influence of Martin Heidegger. After her German academic life came to a halt in... -
Kant: A Biography by Manfred Kuehn
RRP: £30.99£25.86This is the first full-length biography in more than fifty years of Immanuel Kant, one of the giants amongst the pantheon of Western philosophers as well as the one with the most powerful and broad influence on contemporary philosophy. It is well known... -
Splinters in Your Eye: Frankfurt School Provocations by Martin E. Jay
RRP: £19.99£16.90Although successive generations of the Frankfurt School have attempted to adapt Critical Theory to new circumstances, the work done by its founding members continues in the twenty-first century to unsettle conventional wisdom about culture, society and... -
Tragic Sense of Life by Miguel de Unamuno 9780486202570
RRP: £12.49£7.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486202570Author Miguel De UnamunoFormat PaperbackPage Count 367Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Thomas More's Vocation by Frank Mitjans 9780813236100
RRP: £75.00£66.88The book considers Thomas More's early life-choices. An early letter is cited by biographers but most miss More's reference to the market place. More's great-grandson, Cresacre, a Londoner, understood it correctly, and that gives reason to trust him on... -
Between Kant and Hegel: Lectures on German Idealism by Dieter Henrich
£30.07Electrifying when first delivered in 1973, legendary in the years since, Dieter Henrich's lectures on German Idealism were the first contact a major German philosopher had made with an American audience since the onset of World War II. They remain one of... -
The Decline of the West (Volume 2): Perspectives of World-History by Oswald Spengler 9781628451283
£21.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781628451283Author Oswald SpenglerFormat PaperbackPage Count 554Imprint Windham PressPublisher Windham PressWeight(grams) 975gDimensions(mm) 246mm * 189mm *... -
The Deleuze Dictionary by Adrian Parr
RRP: £28.99£23.78This dictionary is dedicated to the work of Gilles Deleuze, providing an in-depth introduction to a leading figure in continental philosophy. It defines and contextualises more than 150 terms that relate to Deleuze's philosophy: the key terms and... -
Introducing Baudrillard: A Graphic Guide by Chris Horrocks
RRP: £8.99£6.70Illustrated guide to the controversial sociologist Jean Baudrillard, who died in 2007. Did the Gulf War take place? Is it possible to fake a bank robbery? Was sexual liberation a disaster? Jean Baudrillard has been hailed as one of France's most subtle... -
The Political Ontology of Martin Heidegger by Pierre Bourdieu
RRP: £15.99£14.41This book is an important and timely contribution to the debate concerning the relation between Heidegger's philosophy and his political affiliations to Nazism. But it is more than that: it is also a study, by the leading sociologist in France today, of... -
Recursivity and Contingency by Yuk Hui 9781786600530
RRP: £37.00£35.41This book employs recursivity and contingency as two principle concepts to investigate into the relation between nature and technology, machine and organism, system and freedom. It reconstructs a trajectory of thought from an Organic condition of... -
History of Philosophy: Vol 6: The Enlightenment: Voltaire to Kant by Frederick C. Copleston
RRP: £25.00£22.19Copleston, 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...