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Nihilism and Destiny by Emanuele Severino 9788869770111
RRP: $5.81$5.66Emanuele Severino, one of the leading thinkers on contemporaneity, responds here to some of the most profound and essential questions raised by philosophy. His reflections are collected in this book, for the first time translated in English. Grounded on... -
Potentialities: Collected Essays in Philosophy by Giorgio Agamben 9780804732789
RRP: $38.69$33.53This book collects fifteen major philosophical essays written over a period of more than twenty years by acclaimed Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben. The volume opens with an introduction in which the editor situates Agamben's work with respect to both... -
Heidegger – A Critical Reader by HL Dreyfus 9780631163428
RRP: $47.67$41.94Essays on Heidegger from notable thinkers of the 20th centuryThe work of Martin Heidegger significantly influenced philosophers in the 1900s. Heidegger: A Critical Reader is a collection of writings by those who studied his work, including Jean-Paul... -
The Passions: A Study of Human Nature by P. M. S. Hacker 9781119440468
RRP: $34.77$30.74A survey of astonishing breadth and penetration. No cognitive neuroscientist should ever conduct an experiment in the domain of the emotions without reading this book, twice. Parashkev Nachev, Institute of Neurology, UCL There is not a slack moment in... -
Culture and Value by Ludwig Wittgenstein
RRP: $13.55$12.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780226904351Author Ludwig WittgensteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 198Imprint University of Chicago PressPublisher The University of Chicago Press -
Being Given: Toward a Phenomenology of Givenness by Jean-Luc Marion
RRP: $38.69$34.04Along with Husserl's Ideas and Heidegger's Being and Time, Being Given is one of the classic works of phenomenology in the twentieth century. Through readings of Kant, Husserl, Heidegger, Derrida, and twentieth-century French phenomenology (e.g.,... -
Deconstruction Reframed by Floyd Merrell 9781557531506
$35.99Directed chiefly toward scholars in literary criticism and theory, Peircean semiotics, and, more generally, philosophy, this book is, by the nature of its broad focus, more descriptive than critical, synthetic rather than overtly prescriptive. Beginning... -
Logic of Desire: An Introduction to Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit by Peter Kalkavage 9781589880375
$53.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781589880375Author Peter KalkavageFormat PaperbackPage Count 537Imprint Paul Dry Books, IncPublisher Paul Dry Books, IncWeight(grams) 774g -
The Twenty-Five Years of Philosophy: A Systematic Reconstruction by Eckart Forster
RRP: $32.19$25.13Kant declared that philosophy began in 1781 with his Critique of Pure Reason. In 1806 Hegel announced that philosophy had now been completed. Eckart Foerster examines the reasons behind these claims and assesses the steps that led in such a short time... -
Heidegger, Strauss, and the Premises of Philosophy: On Original Forgetting by Richard L. Velkley 9780226214948
RRP: $30.96$29.71In this groundbreaking work, Richard L. Velkley examines the complex philosophical relationship between Martin Heidegger and Leo Strauss. Velkley argues that both thinkers provide searching analyses of the philosophical tradition's origins in radical... -
A Beginner's Guide to Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil by Gareth Southwell
RRP: $21.87$19.61A concise and very readable summary of Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil, geared toward students embarking on their studies and general readers. It is an ideal companion for those new to the study of this challenging and often misunderstood classic. ... -
Beyond the Chains of Illusion: My Encounter with Marx and Freud by Erich Fromm
$25.16First published in 1962 Beyond the Chains of Illusion is Fromm's landmark book about Marx and Freud. Here he delivers original readings of these hugely influential thinkers and, in doing so, offers us new ways of understanding the individual and society... -
The Philosophy of the Enlightenment: Updated Edition by Ernst Cassirer 9780691143347
RRP: $41.28$31.31In 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 Essential Foucault: Selections from Essential Works of Foucault, 1954-1984 by Michel Foucault
RRP: $28.37$22.01The essential one-volume collection of Michel Foucault's letters, lectures, and interviews, tracing the evolution of the eminent and groundbreaking philosopher's thought throughout his life"A rare opportunity to see how a great and original mind produces... -
Heinemann Advanced History: Lenin and the Russian Revolution by Steve Phillips
$34.66A study of Lenin and the Russian Revolution. 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... -
For Marx by Louis Althusser
$26.51This is the work in which Louis Althusser formulated some of his most influential ideas. For Marx, first published in France in 1968, has come to be regarded as the founding text of the school of "structuralist Marxism" which was presided over by the... -
The Russian Cosmists: The Esoteric Futurism of Nikolai Fedorov and His Followers by George M. Young
RRP: $53.52$47.91In the nineteenth and early twentieth century, a controversial school of Russian thinkers emerged, convinced that humanity was entering an advanced stage of evolution and must assume a new, active, managerial role in the cosmos. In the first account in... -
R. G. Collingwood: An Autobiography and other writings: with essays on Collingwood's life and work by David Boucher
$50.31This volume presents a many-faceted view of the Oxford philosopher R. G. Collingwood. At its centre is his Autobiography, published in 1939, which has the status of a cult classic for its compelling 'story of his thought'. Collingwood's work has enjoyed... -
The SPCK Introduction to Nietzche: His Religious Thought by Lucy Huskinson
RRP: $14.18$12.37Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) is a key figure of modern (and postmodern) Western thought. This book argues that the underlying message of his thought is extremely relevant to Christians today.The SPCK Introduction to Nietzsche is an Informative... -
The Early Foucault by Stuart Elden
RRP: $24.50$21.76It was not until 1961 that Foucault published his first major book, History of Madness. He had already been working as an academic for a decade, teaching in Lille and Paris, writing, organizing cultural programmes and lecturing in Uppsala, Warsaw and... -
Husserl's Phenomenology by Dan Zahavi 9780804745468
RRP: $28.37$21.10It is commonly believed that Edmund Husserl (1859-1938), well known as the founder of phenomenology and as the teacher of Heidegger, was unable to free himself from the framework of a classical metaphysics of subjectivity. Supposedly, he never abandoned... -
Manifest Reality: Kant's Idealism and his Realism by Lucy Allais 9780198801337
RRP: $38.04$37.86At the heart of Immanuel Kant's critical philosophy is an epistemological and metaphysical position he calls transcendental idealism; the aim of this book is to understand this position. Despite the centrality of transcendental idealism in Kant's... -
Philosophical Analysis in the Twentieth Century, Volume 2: The Age of Meaning by Scott Soames
RRP: $51.60$40.43This is a major, wide-ranging history of analytic philosophy since 1900, told by one of the tradition's leading contemporary figures. The first volume takes the story from 1900 to mid-century. The second brings the history up to date. As Scott Soames... -
Unmodern Philosophy and Modern Philosophy by Phillip Deen
RRP: $55.41$45.30In 1947 America's premier philosopher, educator, and public intellectual John Dewey purportedly lost his last manuscript on modern philosophy in the back of a taxicab. Now, sixty-five years later, Dewey's fresh and unpretentious take on the history and... -
The Great Philosophers: Voltaire by John Gray 9781399612302
RRP: $7.73$5.68'Judge a man by his questions, rather than by his answers.' VoltaireVoltaire was one of the first philosophers to be commercially successful internationally. Famous for his strong views on the importance of civil liberties, he was equally renowned for... -
Structuralism and Poststructuralism for Beginners by Donald D. Palmer 9781934389102
RRP: $16.76$14.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781934389102Author Donald D. PalmerFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint For BeginnersPublisher For Beginners -
The Cambridge Companion to Adam Smith by Knud Haakonssen
RRP: $39.98$39.64Adam Smith is best known as the founder of scientific economics and as an early proponent of the modern market economy. Political economy, however, was only one part of Smith's comprehensive intellectual system. Consisting of a theory of mind and its... -
Native American Wisdom by Kent Nerburn 9780931432781
RRP: $18.71$12.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780931432781Author Kent NerburnFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint New World LibraryPublisher New World LibraryWeight(grams) 227g -
The Cambridge Companion to Existentialism by Steven Crowell
RRP: $39.98$31.75Existentialism exerts a continuing fascination on students of philosophy and general readers. As a philosophical phenomenon, though, it is often poorly understood, as a form of radical subjectivism that turns its back on reason and argumentation and... -
Hegel's Realm of Shadows: Logic as Metaphysics in "the Science of Logic" by Robert B Pippin
RRP: $33.54$32.06Hegel frequently claimed that the heart of his entire system was a book widely regarded as among the most difficult in the history of philosophy, The Science of Logic. This is the book that presents his metaphysics, an enterprise that he insists can only... -
Poetic Diction by Owen Barfield
$27.93Poetic 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... -
Read My Desire: Lacan Against the Historicists by Joan Copjec 9781781688885
RRP: $25.79$21.80In Read My Desire, Joan Copjec stages a confrontation between the theories of Jacques Lacan and those of Michel Foucault, protagonists of two powerful modern disciplines-psychoanalysis and historicism. Ordinarily, these modes of thinking only cross... -
Bentham's An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation: A Guide by Steven Sverdlik
RRP: $25.79$23.14Bentham's An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation is often considered the first work of the philosophical school of utilitarianism and is thus a vital text for students of philosophy. In this comprehensive guide to the text, Steven... -
Taking Care of Youth and the Generations by Bernard Stiegler
RRP: $36.11$31.05Bernard Stiegler works systematically through the current crisis in education and family relations resulting from the mesmerizing power of marketing technologies. He contends that the greatest threat to social and cultural development is the destruction... -
Oneself as Another by Paul Ricoeur
RRP: $34.83$34.66Paul Ricoeur has been hailed as one of the most important thinkers of the century. Oneself as Another, the clearest account of his "philosophical ethics," substantiates this position and lays the groundwork for a metaphysics of morals. Focusing on the... -
The Instant of My Death /<I>Demeure</I>: Fiction and Testimony by Maurice Blanchot 9780804733267
RRP: $24.50$17.62This volume records a remarkable encounter in critical and philosophical thinking: a meeting of two of the great pioneers in contemporary thought, Maurice Blanchot and Jacques Derrida, who are also bound together by friendship and a complex relation to... -
Wilfrid Sellars: Naturalism with a Normative Turn by James O'Shea 9780745630038
RRP: $24.50$21.76The work of the American philosopher Wilfrid Sellars continues to have a significant impact on the contemporary philosophical scene. His writings have influenced major thinkers such as Rorty, McDowell, Brandom, and Dennett, and many of Sellars basic... -
Companion to Philosophy in Australia and New Zealand by Graham Oppy
RRP: $60.62$49.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781921867712Author Graham OppyFormat PaperbackPage Count 730Imprint Monash University PublishingPublisher Monash University Publishing -
What Nietzsche Really Said by Professor Robert C. Solomon
RRP: $20.63$15.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805210941Author Robert C. SolomonFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Schocken BooksPublisher Schocken BooksWeight(grams) 262gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
European Intellectual History from Rousseau to Nietzsche by Frank M. Turner
RRP: $19.34$16.81One of the most distinguished cultural and intellectual historians of our time, Frank Turner taught a landmark Yale University lecture course on European intellectual history that drew scores of students over many years. His lectures-lucid, accessible,...