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God, Death, and Time by Emmanuel Levinas 9780804736664
RRP: $50.68$43.95This book consists of transcripts from two lecture courses Levinas delivered in 1975-76, his last year at the Sorbonne. They cover some of the most pervasive themes of his thought and were written at a time when he had just published his most... -
Severally Seeking Sartre by Benedict O'Donohoe 9781443852333
RRP: $87.73$50.25This collection of twelve essays by scholars from the USA, Canada, the UK and Japan, presents fresh perspectives on familiar Sartrean subjects and novel approaches to neglected ones. Divided into four equal parts - Aesthetics, Philosophy, Politics and... -
Gilles Deleuze: An Introduction by Todd May 9780521603843
RRP: $44.83$33.19This book offers a readable and compelling introduction to the work of one of the twentieth century's most important and elusive thinkers. Other books have tried to explain Deleuze in general terms. Todd May organizes his book around a central question... -
Philosophers on Film from Bergson to Badiou: A Critical Reader by Christopher Kul-Want 9780231176033
RRP: $58.50$44.50Philosophers on Film from Bergson to Badiou is an anthology of writings on cinema and film by many of the major thinkers in continental philosophy. The book presents a selection of fundamental texts, each accompanied by an introduction and exposition by... -
Red Hamlet: The Life and Ideas of Alexander Bogdanov by James D. White
RRP: $78.00$53.29In 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... -
Isaac Newton and Natural Philosophy by Niccolo Guicciardini 9781780239064
RRP: $35.00$25.19Isaac Newton is generally regarded as one of the greatest scientists in history, yet the spectrum of his interests was much broader than that of a contemporary scientist. He was deeply involved in alchemical, religious and biblical studies, and in the... -
Walter Benjamin by Gershom Gerhard Scholem
RRP: $35.08$23.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590170328Author Gershom ScholemFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)... -
Nietzsche's 'Thus Spoke Zarathustra': A Critical Guide by Keith Ansell-Pearson
$146.48Nietzsche regarded Thus Spoke Zarathustra as his most important philosophical contribution because it proposes solutions to the problems and questions he poses in his later books - for example, his cure for the human disposition to vengefulness and his... -
Nihilism and Destiny by Emanuele Severino 9788869770111
RRP: $8.78$8.56Emanuele 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: $58.48$50.68This 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: $72.05$63.39Essays 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: $52.55$46.47A 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: $20.48$19.54Apologies 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: $58.48$51.46Along 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
$54.41Directed 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
RRP: $70.18$63.14Apologies 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: $48.65$37.99Kant 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: $46.80$44.91In 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: $33.05$29.64A 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
$38.03First 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: $62.40$47.33In 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: $42.88$33.27The 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
$52.40A 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
$40.07This 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: $80.91$72.42In 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
$76.05This 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: $21.43$18.70Friedrich 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: $37.03$32.90It 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: $42.88$33.42It 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: $57.51$57.23At 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: $78.00$61.11This 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: $83.75$68.48In 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: $11.68$8.58'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: $25.33$22.52Apologies 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: $60.43$59.92Adam 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: $28.28$18.56Apologies 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: $60.43$47.99Existentialism 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: $50.70$48.46Hegel 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
$42.22Poetic 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: $38.98$32.96In 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...