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An Awareness of What is Missing: Faith and Reason in a Post-secular Age by Jurgen Habermas 9780745647210
RRP: £14.99£13.58In his recent writings on religion and secularization, Habermas has challenged reason to clarify its relation to religious experience and to engage religions in a constructive dialogue. Given the global challenges facing humanity, nothing is more... -
Hegel: Lectures on the Philosophy of World History, Volume I: Manuscripts of the Introduction and the Lectures of 1822-1823 by Robert F Brown 9780198776642
£37.44This edition makes available an entirely new version of Hegel's lectures on the development and scope of world history. Volume I presents Hegel's surviving manuscripts of his introduction to the lectures and the full transcription of the first series of... -
Karl Marx: Thoroughly Revised Fifth Edition by Isaiah Berlin
RRP: £22.00£16.99Isaiah Berlin's intellectual biography of Karl Marx has long been recognized as one of the best concise accounts of the life and thought of the man who had, in Berlin's words, a more "direct, deliberate, and powerful" influence on mankind than any other... -
Heidegger's Way of Being by Richard M. Capobianco 9781442630697
RRP: £18.99£17.34In Heidegger's Way of Being, the follow-up to his 2010 book, Engaging Heidegger, Richard Capobianco makes the case clearly and compellingly that the core matter of Heidegger's lifetime of thought was Being as the temporal emergence of all beings and... -
The Lyotard Reader by Jean-Francois Lyotard 9780631163398
RRP: £40.95£36.29Jean-Francois Lyotard was one of the founding members of the College Internationale de philosophie. Ha has taught at Vincennes, Saint Denis and is currently Professor of Philosophy at the University of California at Irvine. Several of his books have... -
The Cambridge Companion to Hobbes's Leviathan by Patricia Springborg
RRP: £34.99£26.83This Companion makes a new departure in Hobbes scholarship, addressing a philosopher whose impact was as great on Continental European theories of state and legal systems as it was at home. This volume is a systematic attempt to incorporate work from... -
Converts to the Real: Catholicism and the Making of Continental Philosophy by Edward Baring
RRP: £47.95£37.94In the most wide-ranging history of phenomenology since Herbert Spiegelberg's The Phenomenological Movement over fifty years ago, Baring uncovers a new and unexpected force-Catholic intellectuals-behind the growth of phenomenology in the early twentieth... -
Basic Questions of Philosophy: Selected "Problems" of "Logic" by Martin Heidegger
RRP: £36.00£30.99First published in German in 1984 as volume 45 of Martin Heidegger's collected works, this book is the first English translation of a lecture course he presented at the University of Freiburg in 1937-1938. Heidegger's task here is to reassert the... -
Julia Kristeva by Noelle McAfee 9780415250092
RRP: £19.99£17.69One of the most original thinkers of the twentieth century, Julia Kristeva has been driving forward the fields of literary and cultural studies since the 1960s. This volume is an accessible, introductory guide to the main themes of Kristeva's work,... -
Being Singular Plural by Jean-Luc Nancy 9780804739757
RRP: £25.99£22.04This book, by one of the most innovative and challenging contemporary thinkers, consists of an extensive essay from which the book takes its title and five shorter essays that are internally related to "Being Singular Plural." One of the strongest... -
Hidden Valleys: Haunted by the Future by Justin Barton 9781782798156
RRP: £12.99£11.46The future is alongside us, sometimes closer, sometimes further away. Hidden Valleys starts from the perception that the human world is an eerie place, particularly in relation to its stories and dreams. It also starts from events that took place in... -
Integral Vision: A Very Short Introduction by Ken Wilber 9781611806427
RRP: £9.99£6.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611806427Author Ken WilberFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications Inc -
Downcast Eyes: The Denigration of Vision in Twentieth-Century French Thought by Martin Jay
RRP: £33.00£26.71Long considered 'the noblest of the senses', vision has increasingly come under critical scrutiny by a wide range of thinkers who question its dominance in Western culture. These critics of vision, especially prominent in twentieth-century France, have... -
The Cambridge Companion to Kant's Critique of Pure Reason by Paul Guyer
RRP: £30.99£26.83Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason, first published in 1781, is one of the landmarks of Western philosophy, a radical departure from everything that went before and an inescapable influence on all philosophy since its publication. This Companion is... -
A History of Western Philosophy: From the Pre-Socratics to Postmodernism by C. Stephen Evans 9780830852222
RRP: £50.99£36.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780830852222Author C. Stephen EvansFormat HardbackPage Count 600Imprint IVP AcademicPublisher IVP AcademicWeight(grams) 1016gDimensions(mm) 236mm * 163mm *... -
Jacques Derrida: Basic Writings by Barry Stocker
RRP: £37.99£33.78One of the most influential and controversial thinkers of the twentieth-century, Jacques Derrida's ideas on deconstruction have had a lasting impact on philosophy, literature and cultural studies.Jacques Derrida: Basic Writings is the first anthology to... -
Red Hamlet: The Life and Ideas of Alexander Bogdanov by James D. White
RRP: £40.00£30.74In the first full-length biography of Alexander Bogdanov, James D. White traces the intellectual development of this key socialist thinker, situating his ideas in the context of the Russian revolutionary movement. This sweeping and informative volume... -
Beckett, Derrida, and the Event of Literature by Asja Szafraniec
RRP: £25.99£22.59The late Jacques Derrida's notion of literature is explored in this new study. Starting with Derrida's self-professed inability to comment on the work of Samuel Beckett, whom Derrida nevertheless considered one of the most interesting and exemplary... -
Metaphysics: A Contemporary Introduction by Michael J. Loux 9781138639348
RRP: £44.99£39.28Metaphysics: A Contemporary Introduction is for students who have already completed an introductory philosophy course and need a fresh look at the central topics in the core subject of metaphysics. It is essential reading for any student of the subject... -
Practical Reason: On the Theory of Action by Pierre Bourdieu 9780745616254
RRP: £15.99£14.41In this new volume Pierre Bourdieu - one of the foremost social thinkers of our time - clarifies and elaborates the most fundamental characteristics of his theoretical approach. Bourdieu's theory is both a relational philosophy of science dedicated to... -
Two Books of the Elements of Universal Jurisprudence by Samuel Pufendorf 9780865976207
RRP: £10.95£9.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865976207Author Samuel PufendorfFormat PaperbackPage Count 425Imprint Liberty Fund IncPublisher Liberty Fund IncWeight(grams) 520g -
The Study of Man: The Lindsay Memorial Lectures 1958 by Michael Polanyi 9780415705455
RRP: £15.99£14.41Michael Polanyi (1891-1976) was an eminent theorist across the fields of philosophy, physical chemistry and economics. Elected to the Royal Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, his contributions to research in the social sciences, and... -
Hegel: The Philosopher of Freedom by Klaus Vieweg 9781503630574
RRP: £36.00£24.13A monumental new biography of a pivotal yet poorly understood pioneer in modern philosophy. When a painter once told Goethe that he wanted to paint the most celebrated man of the age, Goethe directed him to Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. Hegel worked... -
Deleuze and New Technology by David Savat
RRP: £31.00£28.15In a world where our lives are increasingly mediated by technologies it is surprising that more attention is not paid to the work of Gilles Deleuze. This is especially strange given Deleuze's often explicit focus and reliance on the machine and the... -
History of Western Philosophy by 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... -
Jena 1800: The Republic of Free Spirits by Shelley Frisch
£21.57Around the turn of the nineteenth century, a steady stream of young German poets and thinkers coursed to the town of Jena to make history. The French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars had dealt a one-two punch to the dynastic system. Confidence in... -
John Locke: An Essay concerning Human Understanding by John Locke 9780198245957
RRP: £31.99£30.73This paperback edition reproduces the complete text of the Essay as prepared by professor Nidditch for The Clarendon Edition of the Works of John Locke. The Register of Formal Variants and the Glossary are omitted and Professor Nidditch has written a... -
Essays and Reviews: 1959-2002 by Bernard Williams 9780691168609
RRP: £22.00£17.39Bernard Williams was one of the most important philosophers of the past fifty years, but he was also a distinguished critic and essayist with an elegant style and a rare ability to communicate complex ideas to a wide public. This is the first collection... -
Lessons on the Analytic of the Sublime by Jean-Francois Lyotard 9780804722421
RRP: £25.99£22.53Philosophical aesthetics has seen an amazing revival over the past decade, as a radical questioning of the very grounds of Western epistemology has revealed that some antinomies of aesthetic experience-and in particular of the limits of the... -
Biopower: Foucault and Beyond by Vernon W. Cisney
RRP: £31.00£30.19Michel Foucault's notion of "biopower" has been a highly fertile concept in recent theory, influencing thinkers worldwide across a variety of disciplines and concerns. In The History of Sexuality: An Introduction, Foucault famously employed the term to... -
Foucault's Last Decade by Stuart Elden 9780745683911
RRP: £55.00£47.73On 26 August 1974, Michel Foucault completed work on Discipline and Punish, and on that very same day began writing the first volume of The History of Sexuality. A little under ten years later, on 25 June 1984, shortly after the second and third... -
Wittgenstein and Derrida by Henry Staten
RRP: £21.99£18.79"By linking Wittgenstein with Derrida, Staten suggests that the intellectual relevance of deconstruction is wider than the English-speaking public has recognized."-Studies in the Humanities "This work is altogether first rate. It is informative,... -
Oakeshott on Rome and America by Gene Callahan 9781845406677
£22.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845406677Author Gene CallahanFormat PaperbackPage Count 238Imprint Imprint AcademicPublisher Imprint AcademicWeight(grams) 400g -
The Examined Life: Philosophical Meditations by Robert Nozick 9780671725013
£13.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780671725013Author Robert NozickFormat PaperbackPage Count 308Imprint Pocket BooksPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 363g -
Left Hemisphere: Mapping Critical Theory Today by Razmig Keucheyan
RRP: £13.99£9.09As the crisis of capitalism unfolds, the need for alternatives is felt ever more intensely. The struggle between radical movements and the forces of reaction will be merciless. A crucial battlefield, where the outcome of the crisis will in part be... -
Philosopher of the Heart: The Restless Life of Soren Kierkegaard by Clare Carlisle 9781250798428
RRP: £20.00£13.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250798428Author Clare CarlisleFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USAWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm) 221mm * 142mm * 28mm -
Who's Afraid of Postmodernism?: Taking Derrida, Lyotard, and Foucault to Church by James K. A. Smith
RRP: £16.99£12.28The philosophies of French thinkers Derrida, Lyotard, and Foucault form the basis for postmodern thought and are seemingly at odds with the Christian faith. However, James K. A. Smith claims that their ideas have been misinterpreted and actually have a... -
Emmanuel Levinas: Basic Philosophical Writings by Adriaan Theodoor Peperzak
RRP: £18.99£16.36Emmanuel Levinas (1906-1996) has exerted a profound influence on 20th-century continental philosophy. This anthology, including Levinas's key philosophical texts over a period of more than forty years, provides an ideal introduction to his thought and... -
The Destruction of Reason by Georg Lukacs
RRP: £30.00£19.53A classic of Western Marxism, The Destruction of Reason is Georg Lukacs's trenchant criticism of German philosophy after Marx and the role it played in the rise of National Socialism. Originally published in 1952, the book is a sustained and detailed... -
Melville among the Philosophers by Corey McCall 9781498536769
RRP: £37.00£35.41For more than a century readers have found Herman Melville's writing rich with philosophical ideas, yet there has been relatively little written about what, exactly, is philosophically significant about his work and why philosophers are so attracted to...