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Correspondence by Immanuel Kant 9780521037259
RRP: $83.98$70.92This is a most complete English edition of Kant's correspondence. The letters are concerned with philosophical and scientific topics but many also treat personal, historical and cultural matters. On one level the letters chart Kant's philosophical... -
Fallen Leaves: Last Words on Life, Love, War, and God by Will Durant
RRP: $37.78$22.91Praised as a "revelatory" book by The Wall Street Journal, this is the last and most personal work of Pulitzer Prize-winning author and historian Will Durant, discovered thirty-two years after his death.The culmination of Will Durant's sixty-plus years... -
The Physics of God: How the Deepest Theories of Science Explain Religion and How the Deepest Truths of Religion Explain Science by Joseph Selbie
RRP: $33.58$25.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781632651983Author Joseph SelbieFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint New Page Books,USPublisher Red Wheel/Weiser -
Heinemann Advanced History: Russia 1848-1917 by Jonathan Bromley
$56.43A study of Russia from 1848 to 1914. 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 boxes and definitions in the... -
Michael Oakeshott: Notebooks, 1922-86: Issue 6 by Michael Oakeshott
RRP: $52.50$49.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845409562Author Michael OakeshottFormat PaperbackPage Count 620Imprint Imprint AcademicPublisher Imprint AcademicWeight(grams) 600gDimensions(mm) 234mm *... -
The Indivisible Remainder by Slavoj Zizek 9781844675814
RRP: $37.78$29.82The feature which distinguishes the great works of materialist thought, from Lucretius' De rerum natura through Capital to the writings of Lacan, is their unfinished character: again and again they tackle their chosen problem. Schelling's Weltalter... -
History of Philosophy: Vol 6: The Enlightenment: Voltaire to Kant by Frederick C. Copleston
RRP: $52.50$46.60Copleston, 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... -
Stolen Legacy by George G M James 9781585095865
RRP: $56.60$40.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781585095865Author George G M JamesFormat HardbackPage Count 204Imprint Book TreePublisher Book TreeWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 16mm -
The German Idealism Reader: Ideas, Responses, and Legacy Marina F. Bykova (North Carolina State University, USA) 9781474286671
RRP: $94.48$84.34The German Idealism Reader is a comprehensive account of the key ideas and arguments central to German idealists and their immediate critics. Expanding the scope beyond the four best-known representatives - Kant, Fichte, Schelling, and Hegel - and... -
The Daily Henry David Thoreau: A Year of Quotes from the Man Who Lived in Season by Henry David Thoreau 9780226624969
RRP: $25.20$19.26"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... -
The Cambridge Companion to Merleau-Ponty by Professor Taylor Carman
RRP: $65.08$51.35Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908-61) was described by Paul Ricoeur as 'the greatest of the French phenomenologists'. The essays in this volume examine the full scope of Merleau-Ponty's philosophy, from his central and abiding concern with the nature of... -
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus by Ludwig Wittgenstein 9781602064515
RRP: $27.28$24.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781602064515Author Ludwig WittgensteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint Cosimo ClassicsPublisher Cosimo ClassicsWeight(grams) 168gDimensions(mm) 218mm *... -
The Correspondence Between Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia and Rene Descartes by Princess Elisabeth
RRP: $67.20$65.33Between the years 1643 and 1649, Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia (1618-80) and Rene Descartes (1596-1650) exchanged fifty-eight letters - thirty-two from Descartes and twenty-six from Elisabeth. Their correspondence contains the only known extant... -
Spinoza: Complete Works by Baruch Spinoza 9780872206205
RRP: $172.18$153.11The only complete edition in English of Baruch Spinoza's works, this volume features Samuel Shirley's preeminent translations, distinguished at once by the lucidity and fluency with which they convey the flavor and meaning of Spinoza's original texts... -
All Life is Problem Solving by Patrick Camiller
RRP: $88.18$77.18'Never before has there been so many and such dreadful weapons in so many irresponsible hands.' - Karl Popper, from the PrefaceAll Life is Problem Solving is a stimulating and provocative selection of Popper's writings on his main preoccupations during... -
Wittgenstein and Hegel: Reevaluation of Difference by Jakub Macha 9783110762945
RRP: $55.65$44.60This book brings together for the first time two philosophers from different traditions and different centuries. While Wittgenstein was a focal point of 20th century analytic philosophy, it was Hegel's philosophy that brought the essential discourses of... -
Time's Arrow and Archimedes' Point: New Directions for the Physics of Time by Huw Price 9780195100952
RRP: $147.00$113.76The arrow of time and the meaning of quantum mechanics are two of the great mysteries of modern physics. This important book - written for non-specialist readers, as well as physicists and philosophers - throws a fascinating new light on both issues, and... -
Two Regimes of Madness: Texts and Interviews 1975-1995 Gilles Deleuze 9781584350620
RRP: $37.78$26.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781584350620Author Gilles DeleuzeFormat PaperbackPage Count 424Imprint Semiotext (E)Publisher AutonomediaWeight(grams) 635gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *... -
Differend: Phrases in Dispute by Jean-Francois Lyotard 9780816616114
RRP: $37.78$33.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816616114Author Jean-Francois LyotardFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint University of Minnesota PressPublisher University of Minnesota... -
The Decline of the West (Volume 1): Form and Actuality by Oswald Spengler 9781628451276
RRP: $37.78$37.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781628451276Author Oswald SpenglerFormat PaperbackPage Count 462Imprint Windham PressPublisher Windham PressWeight(grams) 816gDimensions(mm) 246mm * 189mm *... -
Thou Shall Not Die Gabriel Marcel 9781587318610
RRP: $25.20$21.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781587318610Author Gabriel MarcelFormat HardbackPage Count 88Imprint St Augustine's PressPublisher St Augustine's PressWeight(grams) 140gDimensions(mm)... -
On the Name by Jacques Derrida 9780804725552
RRP: $41.98$36.83"The name: What does one call thus? What does one understand under the name of name? And what occurs when one gies a name? What does one give then? One does not offer a thing, one delivers nothing, and still something comes to be, which comes down to... -
John Locke: The Reasonableness of Christianity by John C Higgins-Biddle 9780198822790
RRP: $74.53$70.25n 1695 John Locke published The Reasonableness of Christianity, an enquiry into the foundations of Christian belief. He did so anonymously, to avoid public involvement in the fiercely partisan religious controversies of the day. In the Reasonableness... -
Gilles Deleuze's Difference and Repetition: A Critical Introduction and Guide by James Williams
RRP: $52.48$42.61This 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... -
Wittgenstein's Tractatus: A Dialectical Interpretation by Matthew B. Ostrow 9780521006491
RRP: $79.78$65.75Wittgenstein once wrote that 'The philosopher strives to find the liberating word, that is, the word that finally permits us to grasp what up until now has intangibly weighed down our consciousness'. Would Wittgenstein have been willing to describe the... -
Great Minds on Small Things: The Philosophers' Guide to Everyday Life by Matthew Qvortrup 9780715654965
RRP: $27.28$18.12Three centuries ago, Voltaire published his Dictionnaire philosophique, taking in such idiosyncratic topics as adultery, mountains, nakedness, and others besides. In 1957, another French philosopher of more recent vintage, Roland Barthes, mused in his... -
Simone Weil: Late Philosophical Writings by Simone Weil
RRP: $33.58$29.90Although trained as a philosopher, Simone Weil (1909-43) contributed to a wide range of subjects, resulting in a rich field of interdisciplinary Weil studies. Yet those coming to her work from such disciplines as sociology, history, political science,... -
The Philosophy of the Enlightenment: Updated Edition by Ernst Cassirer 9780691143347
RRP: $67.20$52.00In this classic work of intellectual history, Ernst Cassirer provides both a cogent synthesis and a penetrating analysis of one of history's greatest intellectual epochs: the Enlightenment. Arguing that there was a common foundation beneath the diverse... -
The Fold by Gilles Deleuze 9780826490766
$80.09Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995) was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris VIII. He is a key figure in poststructuralism, and one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century. In The Fold Deleuze proposes a new and radical way of... -
Finding an Ending: Reflections on Wagner's Ring by Phillip Kitcher 9780195183603
RRP: $31.48$22.01Few musical works loom as large in Western culture as Richard Wagner's four-part Ring of the Nibelung. In Finding an Ending, two eminent philosophers, Philip Kitcher and Richard Schacht, offer an illuminating look at this greatest of Wagner's... -
On Escape: De l'evasion by Emmanuel Levinas 9780804741408
RRP: $35.68$31.65First published in 1935, On Escape represents Emmanuel Levinas's first attempt to break with the ontological obsession of the Western tradition. In it, Levinas not only affirms the necessity of an escape from being, but also gives a meaning and a... -
The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Reid by Terence Cuneo 9780521012089
RRP: $75.58$64.93Widely acknowledged as the principal architect of Scottish common sense philosophy, Thomas Reid is increasingly recognized today as one of the finest philosophers of the eighteenth century. Combining a sophisticated response to the skeptical and idealist... -
On What Matters: Two-volume set by Derek Parfit 9780199265923
RRP: $136.50$120.52On What Matters is a major work in moral philosophy. It is the long-awaited follow-up to Derek Parfit's 1984 book Reasons and Persons, one of the landmarks of twentieth-century philosophy. Parfit now presents a powerful new treatment of reasons,... -
Kierkegaard's "Fear and Trembling": A Reader's Guide by Clare Carlisle
$58.78A concise and accessible introduction, this "Reader's Guide" takes students through Kierkegaard's most important work and a key nineteenth century philosophical text. Soren Kierkegaard was without question one of the most important and influential... -
Renaissance Philosophy by Brian P. Copenhaver 9780192891846
RRP: $90.28$74.53The 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... -
Foucault in California: [A True Story-Wherein the Great French Philosopher Drops Acid in the Valley of Death] by Simeon Wade
RRP: $23.08$15.50A "wildly entertaining" and "masterly" memoir (Times Literary Supplement) now in paperback In The Lives of Michel Foucault, David Macey quotes the iconic French philosopher as speaking "nostalgically...of 'an unforgettable evening on LSD, in... -
Knowledge & Human Interests by Jurgen Habermas 9780807015414
$59.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807015414Author Jurgen HabermasFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press -
The Information Bomb by Paul Virilio 9781844670598
RRP: $29.38$28.88"Civilization or the militarization of science?"With this typically hyperbolic and provocative question as a starting point, Paul Virilio explores the dominion of techno-science, cyberwar and the new information technologies over our lives ... and deaths... -
Critique of Judgment by Immanuel Kant 9780872200258
RRP: $58.78$48.28"Pluhar maintains a fine, even tone throughout. . . . Those who have found the prospect of teaching the third Critique daunting will admire its clarity. . . . No one will be disappointed." -Timothy Sean Quinn, The Review of Metaphysics Contents:Foreword... -
On Resistance: A Philosophy of Defiance by Howard Caygill 9781472523099
$40.13No word is more central to the contemporary political imagination and action than 'resistance'. In its various manifestations - from the armed guerrilla to Gandhian mass pacifist protest, from Wikileaks and the Arab Spring to the global eruption and...