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Problems from Kant by James Van Cleve 9780195169485
RRP: €54.73€38.31This rigorous examination of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason provides a comprehensive analysis of the major metaphysical and epistemological questions of Kant's most famous work. Author James Van Cleve presents clear and detailed discussions of Kant's... -
Beast and the Sovereign: Volume 2 by Jacques Derrida
RRP: €30.94€29.57Following on from The Beast and the Sovereign, Volume I, this book extends Jacques Derrida's exploration of the connections between animality and sovereignty. In this second year of the seminar, originally presented in 2002 2003 as the last course he... -
Hegel: Philosophy of Mind: A revised version of the Wallace and Miller translation by Michael Inwood 9780199593026
€34.15G. W. F. Hegel is an immensely important yet difficult philosopher. Philosophy of Mind is the third part of Hegel's Encyclopaedia of the Philosophical Sciences, in which he summarizes his philosophical system. It is one of the main pillars of his thought... -
An Awareness of What is Missing: Faith and Reason in a Post-secular Age by Jurgen Habermas 9780745647210
€18.12In 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... -
Emmanuel Levinas: Basic Philosophical Writings by Adriaan Theodoor Peperzak
RRP: €20.22€17.93Emmanuel 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... -
Hegel by Charles Taylor 9780521291996
RRP: €41.64€33.62A major and comprehensive study of the philosophy of Hegel, his place in the history of ideas, and his continuing relevance and importance. Professor Taylor relates Hegel to the earlier history of philosophy and, more particularly, to the central... -
Brief Encounters: Notes from a Philosopher's Diary by Anthony Kenny
RRP: €13.08€9.25Cardinals, directors, dissidents, dons, judges, novelists, philosophers, prime ministers, scientists, world statesmen. . . Throughout his long and distinguished career, Sir Anthony Kenny has encountered some of the most notable and influential leaders of... -
Return To Tibet by Heinrich Harrer
€17.70Heinrich Harrer returns to Tibet - thirty years after the visit described in his bestselling SEVEN YEARS IN TIBET.SEVEN YEARS IN TIBET told of an idyllic life on the 'rooftop of the world', before Harrer was forced to flee from the invading Chinese... -
The Lyotard Reader Andrew Benjamin (Monash University) 9780631163398
RRP: €48.73€43.19Jean-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 Fragmentary Demand: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Jean-Luc Nancy by Ian James 9780804752701
RRP: €26.17€15.58This introduction to the philosophy of Jean-Luc Nancy gives an overview of his philosophical thought to date and situates it within the broader context of contemporary French and European thinking. The book examines Nancy's philosophy in relation to five... -
How To Be Good: What Socrates Can Teach Us About the Art of Living Well Massimo Pigliucci 9781399804936
RRP: €23.80€15.89What Socrates's greatest failure says about a 2,000-year-old question: is it possible to teach ourselves and others to become better people? Can we make ourselves into better human beings? Can we help others do the same? And can we get the leaders of our... -
The Cambridge Companion to Hobbes's Leviathan by Patricia Springborg
RRP: €41.64€31.93This 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... -
Selected Letters of Friedrich Nietzsche by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche 9780872203587
RRP: €30.93€25.05This collection of more than two hundred of Nietzsche's letters offers a representative body of correspondence on subjects of main concern to him--philosophy, history, morals, music and literature. Also included are letters of biographical interest... -
The Cambridge Companion to Hannah Arendt by Dana R. Villa
RRP: €32.12€25.60Hannah Arendt was one of the foremost political thinkers of the twentieth century, and her particular interests have made her one of the most frequently cited thinkers of our time. This Companion examines the primary themes of her multi-faceted work,... -
Hitler's Philosophers by Yvonne Sherratt
RRP: €17.84€15.51A gripping account of the philosophers who supported Hitler's rise to power and those whose lives were wrecked by his regime Hitler had a dream to rule the world, not only with the gun but also with his mind. He saw himself as a... -
Hidden Valleys: Haunted by the Future by Justin Barton 9781782798156
RRP: €15.46€13.64The 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 Ken Wilber 9781611806427
RRP: €11.89€8.09Apologies 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 -
Sartre Explained: From Bad Faith to Authenticity by David Detmer
€19.73Jean-Paul Sartre is perhaps the most famous of the existentialists, and by far the most famous philosopher of the post-war era. Sartre was a highly prolific writer and thinker, and delving into his novels, plays, stories, essays, and memoirs can be... -
Absence of Myth: Writings on Surrealism by Georges Bataille 9781844675609
RRP: €20.22€17.31For Bataille, the absence of myth had itself become the myth of the modern age. In a world that had lost the secret of its cohesion, Bataille saw surrealism as both a symptom and a beginning of an attempt to address this loss. His writings on this theme... -
Heidegger's Later Philosophy by Julian Young 9780521006095
RRP: €19.03€16.54Heidegger's later philosophy has often been regarded as a lapse into unintelligible mysticism. While not ignoring its deep and difficult complexities, Julian Young's book explains in simple and straightforward language just what it is all about. It... -
Albert Schweitzer in Thought and Action: A Life in Parts by James Paget Carleton 9780815634799
€139.55In the 1940s and 1950s, Albert Schweitzer was one of the best-known figures on the world stage. Courted by monarchs, world statesmen, and distinguished figures from the literary, musical, and scientific fields, Schweitzer was awarded the Nobel Peace... -
The Cambridge Companion to Kant's Critique of Pure Reason by Paul Guyer
RRP: €36.88€30.98Immanuel 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... -
The Cambridge Introduction to Michel Foucault by Prof. Lisa Downing 9780521682992
RRP: €23.79€20.38French philosopher and historian Michel Foucault is essential reading for students in departments of literature, history, sociology and cultural studies. His work on the institutions of mental health and medicine, the history of systems of knowledge,... -
Metaphysics: A Contemporary Introduction Michael J. Loux 9781138639348
RRP: €53.54€46.74Metaphysics: 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... -
Merleau-Ponty's Philosophy by Lawrence Hass
RRP: €26.17€22.84The work of French philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty touches on some of the most essential and vital concerns of the world today, yet his ideas are difficult and not widely understood. Lawrence Hass redresses this problem by offering an exceptionally... -
The Beast and the Sovereign: Volume I by Jacques Derrida
RRP: €30.94€29.57When he died in 2004, Jacques Derrida left behind a vast legacy of unpublished material, much of it in the form of written lectures. With "The Beast and the Sovereign, Volume I", the University of Chicago Press inaugurated an ambitious series, edited by... -
Bruno Latour by Gerard de Vries
RRP: €21.41€19.09Bruno Latour is among the most important figures in contemporary philosophy and social science. His ethnographic studies have revolutionized our understanding of areas as diverse as science, law, politics and religion. To facilitate a more realistic... -
The Conflict of Interpretations by Paul Ricoeur 9780826477095
€44.70Paul Ricoeur (1913-) is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Chicago and Dean of the Faculty of Letters and Human Sciences at the University of Paris X, Nanterre. One of the foremost contemporary French philosophers, his work is... -
An Introduction to Husserl's Phenomenology by Jan Patocka 9780812699807
RRP: €21.41€14.64Patocka's celebrated Introduction is here made available in English for the first time. In addition to introducing Husserl's ideas, this book is also an important work of original philosophy. Patocka ranges over the whole of Husserl's output, from The... -
Beckett, Derrida, and the Event of Literature by Asja Szafraniec
RRP: €28.55€24.80The 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... -
Kant: Critique of Practical Reason by Andrews Reath 9781107467057
RRP: €27.36€19.84The Critique of Practical Reason is the second of Kant's three Critiques, one of his three major treatises on moral theory, and a seminal text in the history of moral philosophy. Originally published three years after his Groundwork of the Metaphysics of... -
Leibniz: Body, Substance, Monad by Daniel Garber 9780199693092
RRP: €44.61€36.35Daniel Garber presents an illuminating study of Leibniz's conception of the physical world. Leibniz's commentators usually begin with monads, mind-like simple substances, the ultimate building-blocks of the Monadology. But Leibniz's apparently idealist... -
Hegel: The Philosopher of Freedom by Klaus Vieweg 9781503630574
RRP: €38.08€28.25A 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... -
A Companion to Schopenhauer Bart Vandenabeele (Ghent University, Belgium) 9781119144809
RRP: €40.40€36.15A Companion to Schopenhauer provides a comprehensive guide to all the important facets of Schopenhauer's philosophy. The volume contains 26 newly commissioned essays by prominent Schopenhauer scholars working in the field today. A thoroughly... -
Deleuze and New Technology by David Savat
RRP: €36.89€34.14In 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... -
Deleuze: The Clamor of Being by Alain Badiou 9780816631407
RRP: €21.41€18.92This volume draws on a five-year correspondence undertaken by Badiou and Deleuze near the end of Deleuze''s life, when the two put aside long-standing political and philosophical differences to exchange ideas about similar problems in their work'Book... -
Introductions to Nietzsche by Robert Pippin 9780521189910
RRP: €29.74€24.30Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) is one of the most important philosophers of the last two hundred years, whose writings, both published and unpublished, have had a formative influence on virtually all aspects of modern culture. This volume offers... -
Yves Bonnefoy and Jean-Luc Nancy: Ontological Performance by Emily McLaughlin
€97.89This volume explores how poets use different kinds of formal experimentation to change the way we think, and to allow us to try out new ways of perceiving existence and positioning ourselves within the world. Yves Bonnefoy and Jean-Luc Nancy: Ontological... -
Husserl's Legacy: Phenomenology, Metaphysics, and Transcendental Philosophy by Dan Zahavi
RRP: €32.12€23.79Dan Zahavi offers an in-depth and up-to-date analysis of central and contested aspects of the philosophy of Edmund Husserl, the founder of phenomenology. What is ultimately at stake in Husserl's phenomenological analyses? Are they primarily to be... -
The Question Concerning the Thing: On Kant's Doctrine of the Transcendental Principles by Martin Heidegger 9781783484645
RRP: €35.70€31.75The Question Concerning the Thing presents a full English translation of a lecture course first delivered by Heidegger at Freiburg University during the Winter Semester of 1935-36 (originally published in German as volume 41 of the Gesamtausgabe). ...