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Second Treatise of Government by John Locke
RRP: £10.99£8.76The Second Treatise is one of the most important political treatises ever written and one of the most far-reaching in its influence.In his provocative 15-page introduction to this edition, the late eminent political theorist C. B. Macpherson examines... -
The Shadow of God: Kant, Hegel, and the Passage from Heaven to History by Michael Rosen
RRP: £30.95£24.33A bold and beautifully written exploration of the "afterlife" of God, showing how apparently secular habits of mind in fact retain the structure of religious thought.Once in the West, our lives were bounded by religion. Then we were guided out of the... -
Quine by Christopher Hookway 9780745602394
£17.13This book provides a clear and comprehensive introduction to the work of Willard van Orman Quine, the most important and influential American philosopher of the post-war period. An understanding of Quine's work is essential for anyone who wishes to... -
Enlightenment Edinburgh: A Guide by Sheila Szatkowski
RRP: £12.99£8.56During the 18th century, Edinburgh was the intellectual hub of the Western world. Adam Smith, David Hume, Dugald Stewart and Adam Ferguson delivered their diverse tomes on philosophy and political economy. Others such as James Hutton, Joseph Black, Lord... -
Kant on Self-Knowledge and Self-Formation: The Nature of Inner Experience by Katharina T. Kraus
£25.45As the pre-eminent Enlightenment philosopher, Kant famously calls on all humans to make up their own minds, independently from the constraints imposed on them by others. Kant's focus, however, is on universal human reason, and he tells us little about... -
The Analysis of Beauty by William Hogarth
RRP: £12.49£8.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486795256Author William HogarthFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
The Daily Henry David Thoreau: A Year of Quotes from the Man Who Lived in Season by Henry David Thoreau 9780226624969
RRP: £12.00£7.82"Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of each." Modernity rules our lives by clock and calendar, dividing the stream of time into units and coordinating every... -
Bergson by Mark Sinclair
RRP: £25.99£22.63Henri Bergson (1859-1941) was one of the most celebrated and influential philosophers of the twentieth century. He was awarded in 1928 the Nobel prize for literature for his philosophical work, and his controversial ideas about time, memory and life... -
Language, Truth and Logic by A. J. Ayer 9780486200101
£6.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486200101Author A. J. AyerFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams) 181g -
Knowledge, Mind & the Given by Willem A. DeVries 9780872205505
RRP: £20.99£16.84"Sellars' s argument in EPM is enormously rich, subtle, and compelling. It is also, for the uninitiated, extraordinarily dense. Willem deVries and Timm Triplett's comprehensive commentary Knowledge, Mind, and the Given provides a much needed guide... -
Introducing Sartre: A Graphic Guide by Philip Thody
RRP: £7.99£3.42INTRODUCING guide to the father of existentialism and one of 20th century philosophy's most famous characters. Jean-Paul Sartre was once described as being, next to Charles de Gaulle, the most famous Frenchman of the 20th century. Between the ending of... -
An Event, Perhaps: A Biography of Jacques Derrida by Peter Salmon
RRP: £9.99£6.64Who was Jacques Derrida? For some, he is responsible, at least in part, for the contemporary crisis of truth. For the far right, he is one of the architects of Cultural Marxism. To his academic critics, he reduced French philosophy to 'little more than... -
A Discourse on the Method: of Correctly Conducting One's Reason and Seeking Truth in the Sciences by Rene Descartes 9780199540075
RRP: £7.99£6.08'I concluded that I was a substance whose whole essence or nature resides only in thinking, and which, in order to exist, has no need of place and is not dependent on any material thing.' Descartes's A Discourse on the Method of Correctly Conducting... -
Machiavelli's Ethics by Erica Benner
RRP: £28.00£23.22Machiavelli'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... -
David Hume: A Treatise of Human Nature: Volume 1: Texts by David Fate Norton 9780199596331
RRP: £35.99£31.32David and Mary Norton present the definitive scholarly edition of one of the greatest philosophical works ever written. This first volume contains the critical text of David Hume's Treatise of Human Nature (1739/40), followed by the short Abstract (1740)... -
Mathematics of the Transcendental by Alain Badiou
RRP: £45.00£33.40In Mathematics of the Transcendental, Alain Badiou painstakingly works through the pertinent aspects of category theory, demonstrating their internal logic and veracity, their derivation and distinction from set theory, and the 'thinking of being'. In... -
In Other Words: Transpositions of Philosophy in J.M. Coetzee's 'Jesus' Trilogy by Stephen Mulhall 9780192869715
RRP: £52.00£47.06J. M. Coetzee's 'Jesus' Trilogy extends and intensifies his long-term interest in engaging with a wide range of texts, themes and assumptions that help constitute the history of Western European philosophy. In this commentary, Stephen Mulhall extends his... -
Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations: An Introduction by David G. Stern
RRP: £29.99£27.40In this new introduction to a classic philosophical text, David Stern examines Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations. He gives particular attention to both the arguments of the Investigations and the way in which the work is written, and especially... -
Ethics: with The Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect and Selected Letters by Baruch Spinoza 9780872201309
RRP: £16.99£13.81Since their publication in 1982, Samuel Shirley's translations of Spinoza's Ethics and Selected Letters have been commended for their accuracy and readability. Now with the addition of his new translation of Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect... -
Bruno Latour by Gerard de Vries
RRP: £17.99£16.04Bruno Latour is among the most important figures in contemporary philosophy and social science. His ethnographic studies have revolutionized our understanding of areas as diverse as science, law, politics and religion. To facilitate a more realistic... -
Maxims by Francoi de La Rochefoucauld
RRP: £10.99£7.77The philosophy of La Rochefoucauld, which influenced French intellectuals as diverse as Voltaire and the Jansenists, is captured here in more than 600 penetrating and pithy aphorisms.About the AuthorLa Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) was a French classical... -
Modern Times: Temporality in Art and Politics by Jacques Ranciere
RRP: £10.99£8.94In this book Jacques Ranciere radicalises his critique of modernism and its postmodern appendix. He contrasts their unilinear and exclusive time with the interweaving of temporalities at play in modern processes of emancipation and artistic revolutions,... -
The Tyranny of Science by Paul K. Feyerabend 9780745651903
RRP: £12.99£11.94Paul Feyerabend is one of the greatest philosophers of science of the 20th century and his book Against Method is an international bestseller. In this new book he masterfully weaves together the main elements of his mature philosophy into a gripping... -
The Angela Y. Davis Reader by Joy James
RRP: £23.95£20.97For three decades, Angela Y. Davis has written on liberation theory and democratic praxis. Challenging the foundations of mainstream discourse, her analyses of culture, gender, capital, and race have profoundly influenced democratic theory, antiracist... -
Essays -- Moral Political & Literary, 2nd Edition by David Hume
RRP: £10.95£9.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865970564Author David HumeFormat PaperbackPage Count 684Imprint Liberty Fund IncPublisher Liberty Fund IncWeight(grams) 1167g -
What I Believe by Bertrand Russell 9780415854764
RRP: £19.99£17.69The author is widely regarded as one of the greatest philosophers of the twentieth century and a brilliant writer and commentator on social and political affairs. What I Believe offers a lucid and concise insight into the author's thinking on issues that... -
Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language: An Elementary Exposition by Saul A. Kripke 9780631135210
RRP: £25.95£22.60In this book Saul Kripke brings his powerful philosophical intelligence to bear on Wittgenstein's analysis of the notion of following a rule.About the AuthorBorn in Bay Shore, New York, the son of a rabbi (Myer Samuel) and a writer (Dorothy Karp), Saul... -
The Middle Works of John Dewey, Volume 14, 1899 - 1924: Human Nature and Conduct, 1922 by John Dewey 9780809328093
RRP: £48.95£39.88Volume 11 brings together all of Dewey's writings for 1918 and 1919. A Modern Language Association Committee on Scholarly Editions textual edition. Dewey's dominant theme in these pages is war and its after-math. In the Introduction, Oscar and Lilian... -
Rousseau: The Basic Political Writings: Discourse on the Sciences and the Arts, Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Discourse on Political Economy, On the Social Contract, The State of War by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
RRP: £14.99£13.06This substantially revised new edition of Rousseau: The Basic Political Writings features a brilliant new Introduction by David Wootton, a revision by Donald A. Cress of his own 1987 translation of Rousseau's most important political writings, and the... -
Why Didn't Nietzsche Get His Act Together? by Elijah Millgram 9780197669303
RRP: £22.99£19.96Nietzsche wrote the philosophical work for which he is most famous while he was coming apart at the seams. The circumstances of Nietzsche's dramatic psychological disintegration make his writing, while popular, often hard for readers to understand... -
The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell by Bertrand Russell
RRP: £33.99£30.40Bertrand Russell was born in 1872 and died in 1970. One of the most influential figures of the twentieth century, he transformed philosophy and can lay claim to being one of the greatest philosophers of all time. He was a Nobel Prize winner for... -
Introducing Wittgenstein: A Graphic Guide by John Heaton 9781848310865
RRP: £8.99£7.07This is a superlative graphic guide described as 'warm, witty and wise' by Jonathan Ree to an enigmatic master of twentieth-century philosophy.About the AuthorJohn Heaton is a psychotherapist and was a colleague of R.D. Laing. He studied natural and... -
The Foucault Effect: Studies in Governmentality by Graham Burchell
RRP: £25.00£20.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780226080451Author Graham BurchellFormat PaperbackPage Count 318Imprint University of Chicago PressPublisher The University of Chicago Press -
Introduction to Philosophical Hermeneutics by Jean Grondin 9780300070897
RRP: £22.50£21.68In this wide-ranging historical introduction to philosophical hermeneutics, Jean Grondin discusses the major figures from Philo to Habermas, analyzes conflicts between various interpretive schools, and provides a persuasive critique of Gadamer's view of... -
The Work of Mourning by Jacques Derrida
RRP: £26.00£24.85Jacques Derrida is, in the words of the New York Times, "perhaps the world's most famous philosopher if not the only famous philosopher." He often provokes controversy as soon as his name is mentioned. But he also inspires the respect that comes from an... -
Moral Psychology with Nietzsche by Brian Leiter 9780192897930
£34.25Brian Leiter defends a set of radical ideas from Nietzsche: there is no objectively true morality, there is no free will, no one is ever morally responsible, and our conscious thoughts and reasoning play almost no significant role in our actions and how... -
Canguilhem by Stuart Elden 9781509528783
RRP: £17.99£16.04Georges Canguilhem (1904-95) was an influential historian and philosopher of science, as renowned for his teaching as for his writings. He is best known for his book The Normal and the Pathological, originally his doctoral thesis in medicine, but he also... -
History Man: The Life of R. G. Collingwood by Fred Inglis 9780691150055
RRP: £28.00£23.22This is the first biography of the last and greatest British idealist philosopher, R. G. Collingwood (1889-1943), a man who both thought and lived at full pitch. Best known today for his philosophies of history and art, Collingwood was also a historian,... -
Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science by Alan Sokal 9780312204075
RRP: £19.99£13.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312204075Author Alan SokalFormat HardbackPage Count 300Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 336g -
Everything, All the Time, Everywhere: How We Became Postmodern by Stuart Jeffries 9781788738231
RRP: £11.99£7.86But where do these ideas come from and how have they impacted on the world? In his brilliant history of a dangerous idea, Stuart Jeffries tells a narrative that starts in the early 1970s and continue to today. He tells this history through a riotous...