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Manifest Reality: Kant's Idealism and his Realism by Lucy Allais 9780198801337
RRP: £29.49£27.15At 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: £40.00£38.21This 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: £42.95£35.12In 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: £5.99£4.40'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... -
The Cambridge Companion to Adam Smith by Knud Haakonssen
RRP: £30.99£30.73Adam 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: £14.50£9.58Apologies 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: £30.99£25.06Existentialism 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... -
Poetic Diction by Owen Barfield
RRP: £16.95£14.08Poetic 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... -
Hegel's Realm of Shadows: Logic as Metaphysics in "the Science of Logic" by Robert B Pippin
RRP: £26.00£24.85Hegel 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... -
Socrates, Buddha, Confucius, Jesus by Karl Jaspers 9780156835800
RRP: £15.99£11.42A part of Jaspers's planned universal history of philosophy, focusing on the four paradigmatic individuals who have exerted a historical influence of incomparable scope and depth. Edited by Hannah Arendt; Index. Translated by Ralph Manheim.Book... -
Bentham's An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation: A Guide by Steven Sverdlik
RRP: £19.99£17.13Bentham'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... -
Metaphysical Exile: On J.M. Coetzee's Jesus Fictions by Robert Pippin 9780197565940
RRP: £56.00£50.59Nobel Prize-winning novelist J.M. Coetzee's "Jesus" fictions constitute a trilogy of novels that have appeared over the last decade. They stand out from his earlier work in their difficulty, and in the central role they accord philosophy--in part through... -
Taking Care of Youth and the Generations by Bernard Stiegler
RRP: £27.99£24.07Bernard 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: £27.00£26.87Paul 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: £18.99£13.81This 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: £18.99£16.87The 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: £46.99£38.48Apologies 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: £15.99£11.65Apologies 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: £14.99£13.03One 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,... -
The Japan Lectures: A Transnational Critical Encounter by Michel Foucault 9781032301747
RRP: £19.99£17.69This book makes available, for the first time in English, lectures and interviews that Foucault gave in Japan in 1978, reconstructing their context, and isolating the question of their singular relevance for us today. In these forgotten lectures, in a... -
The Collected Works of John Dewey v. 6; 1910-1911, Journal Articles, Book Reviews, Miscellany in the 1910-1911 Period, and How We Think: The Middle Works, 1899-1924 by John Dewey 9780809328017
RRP: £48.95£40.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780809328017Author John DeweyFormat PaperbackPage Count 616Imprint Southern Illinois University PressPublisher Southern Illinois University... -
Remarks on the Foundation of Mathematics by Ludwig Wittgenstein 9780631125051
RRP: £32.95£29.14This substantially revised edition of Wittgenstein's Remarks on the Foundations of Mathematics contains one section, an essay of fifty pages, not previously published, as well as considerable additions to others sections. In Parts I, II and III,... -
Alasdair MacIntyre by Mark C. Murphy
RRP: £65.00£60.60The contribution to contemporary philosophy of Alasdair MacIntyre is enormous. His writings on ethics, political philosophy, philosophy of religion, philosophy of the social sciences and the history of philosophy have established him as one of the... -
The Cambridge Companion to Heidegger's Being and Time by Mark A. Wrathall 9780521720564
RRP: £30.99£25.01The Cambridge Companion to Heidegger's 'Being and Time' contains seventeen chapters by leading scholars of Heidegger. It is a useful reference work for beginning students, but also explores the central themes of Being and Time with a depth that will be... -
Lectures on Anthropology by Immanuel Kant 9781107583504
RRP: £39.99£35.30Kant was one of the inventors of anthropology, and his lectures on anthropology were the most popular and among the most frequently given of his lecture courses. This volume contains the first translation of selections from student transcriptions of the... -
The Letters of Marsilio Ficino: 10 by Language Department, School of Economic Science 9780856835001
RRP: £25.00£21.58This series is the first English translation of the letters of the philosopher priest who helped to shape the Renaissance worldview. This volume spans the seventeen months from April 1491 to September 1492. This is a crucial period for Marsilio Ficino... -
Foucault's Last Decade by Stuart Elden
RRP: £18.99£16.87On 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 volumes... -
French Philosophy in the Twentieth Century by Gary Gutting
RRP: £42.99£37.56In this book Gary Gutting tells, clearly and comprehensively, the story of French philosophy from 1890 to 1990. He examines the often neglected background of spiritualism, university idealism, and early philosophy of science, and also discusses the... -
Negative Dialectics by Theodor W. Adorno
RRP: £32.99£27.18The major work and Adorno's culminating achievement. Negative Dialectics is a critique of the philosophies of Kant, Hegel, and Heidegger, and a visionary elaboration of the author's own vision of dialectics.About the AuthorTheodor W. Adorno (1903-69) was... -
Kant: Critique of Practical Reason by Andrews Reath 9781107467057
RRP: £22.99£17.58The 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... -
General Intellects: Twenty Five Thinkers for the 21st Century by McKenzie Wark
RRP: £16.99£11.47What happened to the public intellectuals that used to challenge and inform us? Who is the Sartre or De Beauvoir of the internet age? General Intellects argues that we no longer have such singular figures, but we do have general intellects whose writing... -
Philosophical Introductions: Five Approaches to Communicative Reason by Jurgen Habermas 9781509506729
RRP: £17.99£16.04On the occasion of Habermas's 80th birthday, the German publisher Suhrkamp brought out five volumes of Habermas's papers that spanned the full range of his philosophical thought, from the theory of rationality to the critique of metaphysics. For each of... -
Modernism as a Philosophical Problem: On the Dissatisfactions of European High Culture by Robert B. Pippin
RRP: £36.95£32.51Modernism as a Philosophical Problem, 2e presents a new interpretation of the negative and critical self-understanding characteristic of much European high culture since romanticism and especially since Nietzsche, and answers the question of why the... -
The Infidel and the Professor: David Hume, Adam Smith, and the Friendship That Shaped Modern Thought by Dennis C. Rasmussen 9780691192284
RRP: £16.99£13.34The story of the greatest of all philosophical friendships-and how it influenced modern thoughtDavid Hume is arguably the most important philosopher ever to have written in English, but during his lifetime he was attacked as "the Great Infidel" for his... -
A Commentary on Jean-Paul Sartre's "Being and Nothingness" by Joseph S. Catalano
RRP: £30.00£29.25"[A Commentary on Jean-Paul Sartre's Being and Nothingness] represents, I believe, a very important beginning of a deservingly serious effort to make the whole of Being and Nothingness more readily understandable and readable. . . . In his systematic... -
Drawn and Quartered by E M Cioran 9781611456967
RRP: £11.99£11.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611456967Author E M CioranFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Arcade PublishingPublisher Skyhorse PublishingWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 208mm *... -
The Cambridge Companion to Hume by David Fate Norton
RRP: £34.99£26.83Although best known for his contributions to the theory of knowledge, metaphysics, and philosophy of religion, Hume also influenced developments in the philosophy of mind, psychology, ethics, political and economic theory, political and social history,... -
Gilles Deleuze's Philosophy of Time: A Critical Introduction and Guide by James Williams
RRP: £24.99£20.29Throughout his career, Deleuze developed a series of original philosophies of time and applied them successfully to many different fields. Now James Williams presents Deleuze's philosophy of time as the central concept that connects his philosophy as a... -
Wittgenstein in Cambridge: Letters and Documents 1911 - 1951 by Brian McGuinness 9781444350890
RRP: £32.95£29.54This volume collects the most substantial correspondence and documents relating to Wittgenstein's long association with Cambridge between the years 1911 and his death in 1951, including the letters he exchanged with his most illustrious Cambridge... -
Friedrich Nietzsche: A Philosophical Biography by Julian Young
RRP: £42.99£38.55In this beautifully written account, Julian Young provides the most comprehensive biography available today of the life and philosophy of the nineteenth-century German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. Young deals with the many puzzles created by the...