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Irrationality: A History of the Dark Side of Reason by Justin E. H. Smith 9780691178677
RRP: £25.00£19.99A fascinating history that reveals the ways in which the pursuit of rationality often leads to an explosion of irrationalityIt's a story we can't stop telling ourselves. Once, humans were benighted by superstition and irrationality, but then the Greeks... -
Lectures and Conversations on Aesthetics, Psychology and Religious Belief Ludwig Wittgenstein 9780631095804
RRP: £26.95£23.43Notes from Wittgenstein's small-group, philosophical lectures on aestheticsThis book is based on a series of lectures on aesthetics that Ludwig Wittgenstein, an influential Austrian-British philosopher, gave at the University of Cambridge in 1938... -
Philosophy of Right by G. W. F. Hegel 9780486445632
RRP: £8.99£6.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486445632Author Epicurus EpicurusFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Scottish Philosophy in the Eighteenth Century, Volume II: Method, Metaphysics, Mind, Language by Aaron Garrett 9780198807940
RRP: £90.00£81.98A History of Scottish Philosophy is a series of collaborative studies by expert authors, each volume being devoted to a specific period. Together they provide a comprehensive account of the Scottish philosophical tradition, from the centuries that laid... -
Philosophers on Art from Kant to the Postmodernists: A Critical Reader by Christopher Kul-Want
RRP: £30.00£23.29Here, for the first time, Christopher Kul-Want brings together twenty-five texts on art written by twenty philosophers. Covering the Enlightenment to postmodernism, these essays draw on Continental philosophy and aesthetics, the Marxist intellectual... -
The Domestication of Critical Theory by Michael J. Thompson
RRP: £45.00£39.49Critical theory was one of the most vigorous and insightful intellectual traditions of the twentieth-century. At its core was a critique of culture and consciousness tied to instrumental rationality and capitalist economic life. Yet, Michael J. Thompson... -
Pleromatica, or Elsinore's Trance by Gabriel Catren
RRP: £30.00£19.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781733628143Author Gabriel CatrenFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Sequence PressPublisher Sequence Press -
Process-relational Philosophy: An Introduction to Alfred North Whitehead by C. Robert Mesle 9781599471327
RRP: £15.99£14.24Process thought is the foundation for studies in many areas of contemporary philosophy, theology, political theory, educational theory, and the religion-science dialogue. It is derived from Alfred North Whitehead's philosophy, known as process theology,... -
A Philosopher Looks at Architecture by Paul Guyer
RRP: £9.99£8.17What should our buildings look like? Or is their usability more important than their appearance? Paul Guyer argues that the fundamental goals of architecture first identified by the Roman architect Marcus Pollio Vitruvius - good construction,... -
Left-Wing Melancholia: Marxism, History, and Memory by Enzo Traverso 9780231179430
RRP: £22.00£17.36The fall of the Berlin Wall marked the end of the Cold War but also the rise of a melancholic vision of history as a series of losses. For the political left, the cause lost was communism, and this trauma determined how leftists wrote the next chapter in... -
Poetic Diction by Owen Barfield
£21.50Poetic Diction, first published in 1928, begins by asking why we call a given grouping of words "poetry" and why these arouse "aesthetic imagination" and produce pleasure in a receptive reader. Returning always to this personal experience of poetry, Owen... -
The Trouble with Being Born by E M Cioran
RRP: £14.95£9.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611457407Author E M CioranFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Arcade PublishingPublisher Skyhorse PublishingWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 208mm *... -
Contemporary Metaethics: An Introduction Alexander Miller (University of Otago) 9780745646596
RRP: £22.99£20.16This new edition of Alexander Miller's highly readable introduction to contemporary metaethics provides a critical overview of the main arguments and themes in twentieth- and twenty-first-century contemporary metaethics. Miller traces the development of... -
Points...: Interviews, 1974-1994 by Jacques Derrida 9780804724883
RRP: £29.99£26.90This volume collects twenty-three interviews given over the course of the last two decades by Jacques Derrida. It illustrates the extraordinary breadth of his concerns, touching upon such subjects as the teaching of philosophy, sexual difference and... -
An Autobiography by R. G. Collingwood 9780198246947
RRP: £33.49£23.32An AutobiographyBook InformationISBN 9780198246947Author R. G. CollingwoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Oxford University PressPublisher Oxford University PressWeight(grams) 234g -
Freud: An Intellectual Biography by Joel Whitebook 9781108829045
RRP: £22.99£19.14The life and work of Sigmund Freud continue to fascinate general and professional readers alike. Joel Whitebook here presents the first major biography of Freud since the last century, taking into account recent developments in psychoanalytic theory and... -
Afrotopia by Felwine Sarr 9781517906917
RRP: £19.99£17.54A vibrant meditation and poetic call for an African utopian philosophy of self-reinvention for the twenty-first century In the recent aftermath of colonialism, civil wars, and the AIDS crisis, a new day finally seems to be shining on the African... -
Foucault, Health and Medicine by Robin Bunton
RRP: £52.99£46.03The reception of Michel Foucault's work in the social sciences and humanities has been phenomenal. Foucault's concepts and methodology have encouraged new approaches to old problems and opened up new lines of enquiry. This book assesses the contribution... -
Truth, Language, and History: Philosophical Essays Volume 5 by Donald Davidson 9780198237570
RRP: £41.49£33.99Truth, Language, and History is the much-anticipated final volume of Donald Davidson's philosophical writings. In the four groups of essays that comprise it, Davidson continues to explore the themes that occupied him for more than fifty years: the... -
The Oxford Handbook of Spinoza by Michael Della Rocca 9780197677070
£39.11Until recently, Spinoza's standing in Anglophone studies of philosophy has been relatively low and has only seemed to confirm Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi's assessment of him as "a dead dog." However, an exuberant outburst of excellent scholarship on... -
I and Claudius: Travels with My Cat by Clare de Vries 9780747548089 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99£1.87"A cross between Kerouac's "On the Road" and "Animal Hospital". That's not something you get to say every day. London girl Clare de Vries' account of her road trip across America with her 19-year-old, chocolate-brown Burmese cat, Claudius, is nutty,... -
Philosophy of the Encounter: Later Writing, 1978-1987 by Louis Althusser
RRP: £22.99£20.65In the late 1970s and 1980s, Louis Althusser endured a period of intense mental instability during which he murdered his wife and was committed to a psychiatric hospital. Spanning this deeply troubling period, this fourth and final volume of political... -
Vladimir Soloviev and the Spiritualization of Matter by Oliver Smith 9781618118264
RRP: £31.99£30.93While he is widely acknowledged as the most important Russian thinker of the nineteenth century, Vladimir Soloviev's place in the landscape of world philosophy nevertheless remains uncertain. Approaching him through a single synoptic lens, this book... -
The Boxer and The Goal Keeper: Sartre Versus Camus by Andy Martin 9781847394255
RRP: £14.99£13.45Jean-Paul Sartre is the author of possibly the most notorious one-liner of twentieth-century philosophy: 'Hell is other people'. Albert Camus was The Outsider. The two men first came together in Occupied Paris in the middle of the Second World War, and... -
Edith Stein: The Philosophical Background by Alasdair MacIntyre 9780826494016
£26.43MacIntyre is one of the major British philosophers of the post-war years, and a convert to Roman Catholicism. Edith Stein was an intellectual of considerable importance in the period between the two World Wars. The fact that she was also canonised as a... -
The Enlightenment and Original Sin by Matthew Kadane 9780226832890
RRP: £24.00£23.03Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Scientific Outlook by Bertrand Russell
RRP: £14.99£13.58According to Bertrand Russell, science is knowledge; that which seeks general laws connecting a number of particular facts. It is, he argues, far superior to art, where much of the knowledge is intangible and assumed. In The Scientific Outlook, Russell... -
Dawn: Thoughts on the Presumptions of Morality, Volume 5 by Friedrich Nietzsche 9780804780056
RRP: £20.99£18.37Dawn is the most recent volume to appear in the first complete, critical, and annotated English edition of all of Nietzsche's work. The edition, organized originally by Ernst Behler and Bernd Magnus, is a translation of the celebrated Kritische... -
The Essential David Bohm by Lee Nichol 9780415261746
RRP: £36.99£32.53There are few scientists of the twentieth century whose life's work has created more excitement and controversy than that of physicist David Bohm (1917-1992). For the first time in a single volume, The Essential David Bohm offers a comprehensive overview... -
History of Western Philosophy Bertrand Russell 9781138127043
RRP: £100.00£87.61First published in 1946, History of Western Philosophy went on to become the best-selling philosophy book of the twentieth century. A dazzlingly ambitious project, it remains unchallenged to this day as the ultimate introduction to Western philosophy... -
History of Philosophy Volume 10: Russian Philosophy Frederick Copleston 9780826469045
RRP: £22.99£20.51Copleston, 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... -
On the Basis of Morality by Arthur Schopenhauer 9780872204423
RRP: £17.99£14.91This 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... -
Nietzsche and Metaphor by Sarah Kofman 9780485120981
RRP: £100.00£99.72This book addresses the question of metaphor in Nietzsche. It provides an unusual reading of Nietzsche's ideas (particularly of the central concept of "will to power") and an incisive method for investigating his style. Developing work on... -
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,... -
Heinemann Advanced History: Stalinist Russia by Steve Phillips
£26.87A study of Stalinist Russia for AS and A Level History students. It is designed to fulfil the AS and A Level specifications in place from September 2000. The AS section deals with narrative and explanation of the topic. There are extra notes, biography... -
The Women Are Up to Something: How Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Mary Midgley, and Iris Murdoch Revolutionized Ethics by Benjamin J. Bruxvoort Lipscomb 9780197689967
RRP: £14.99£13.09The story of four remarkable women who shaped the intellectual history of the 20th century: Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Mary Midgley, and Iris Murdoch. On the cusp of the Second World War, four women went to Oxford to begin their studies: a... -
The Transhumanist Reader: Classical and Contemporary Essays on the Science, Technology, and Philosophy of the Human Future Max More (President and CEO of the Alcor Life Extension Foundation, USA) 9781118334317
RRP: £39.95£35.44The first authoritative and comprehensive survey of the origins and current state of transhumanist thinking The rapid pace of emerging technologies is playing an increasingly important role in overcoming fundamental human limitations. Featuring core... -
John Searle by Barry Smith 9780521792882
RRP: £65.00£58.56From his groundbreaking book Speech Acts to his most recent studies of consciousness, freedom and rationality John Searle has been a dominant and highly influential figure amongst contemporary philosophers. This systematic introduction to the full range... -
Immanuel Kant by Lucien Goldmann 9781844677825
£20.01Immanuel Kant was a philosopher at the end of the 18th century Enlightenment. Kant's magnum opus, the Critique of Pure Reason, aimed to unite reason with experience to move beyond what he took to be failures of traditional philosophy and metaphysics... -
Recognition and Ambivalence by Heikki Ikaheimo
RRP: £25.00£19.59Recognition is one of the most debated concepts in contemporary social and political thought. Its proponents, such as Axel Honneth, hold that to be recognized by others is a basic human need that is central to forming an identity, and the denial of...