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Consequences Of Pragmatism: Essays 1972-1980 by Richard Rorty 9780816610648
RRP: $44.08$38.58Rorty seeks to tie philosophy's past to its future by connecting what he sees as the positive (and neglected) contributions of the American pragmatic philosophers to contemporary European developments. What emerges from his explorations is a revivified... -
Virtue Ethics by Roger Crisp
$89.63The aim of this series is to bring together important recent writings in major areas of philosophical inquiry, selected from a variety of sources, mostly periodicals, which may not be conveniently available to the university student or the general reader... -
Foucault's Last Decade Stuart Elden (Durham University) 9780745683911
RRP: $115.50$100.23On 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... -
Roger Scruton: The Philosopher on Dover Beach by Mark Dooley 9781847060136
RRP: $46.18$40.76This book presents an intriguing portrait of Roger Scruton and his philosophy. Roger Scruton is one of the outstanding British philosophers of the post-war years. Why then is he at best ignored and at worst reviled? Part of the reason is that he is an... -
The Passions: A Study of Human Nature P. M. S. Hacker (University of Oxford) 9781119440468
RRP: $56.60$50.04A 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... -
The Age of Questions: Or, A First Attempt at an Aggregate History of the Eastern, Social, Woman, American, Jewish, Polish, Bullion, Tuberculosis, and Many Other Questions over the Nineteenth Century, and Beyond by Holly Case
RRP: $58.80$45.78A groundbreaking history of the Big Questions that dominated the nineteenth centuryIn the early nineteenth century, a new age began: the age of questions. In the Eastern and Belgian questions, as much as in the slavery, worker, social, woman, and Jewish... -
Continental Divide: Heidegger, Cassirer, Davos by Peter E. Gordon
RRP: $50.30$40.19In the spring of 1929, Martin Heidegger and Ernst Cassirer met for a public conversation in Davos, Switzerland. They were arguably the most important thinkers in Europe, and their exchange touched upon the most urgent questions in the history of... -
Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari: Intersecting Lives by Francois Dosse 9780231145619
RRP: $63.00$59.62In May 1968, Gilles Deleuze was an established philosopher teaching at the innovative Vincennes University, just outside of Paris. Felix Guattari was a political militant and the director of an unusual psychiatric clinic at La Borde. Their meeting was... -
Ideas for the Philosophy of the History of Mankind by Johann Gottfried Herder 9780691147185
RRP: $142.80$126.78One of the most important works of the Enlightenment—in the first new, unabridged English translation in more than two centuriesPublished in four volumes between 1784 and 1791, Herder’s Ideas for the Philosophy of the History of Mankind is one of the... -
The History of Philosophy: A Marxist Perspective by Alan Woods
$31.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913026240Author Alan WoodsFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Well Red PublicationsPublisher Well Red Publications -
Wittgenstein and Derrida by Henry Staten
RRP: $41.98$36.83"By linking Wittgenstein with Derrida, Staten suggests that the intellectual relevance of deconstruction is wider than the English-speaking public has recognized."-Studies in the Humanities "This work is altogether first rate. It is informative,... -
Oakeshott on Rome and America by Gene Callahan 9781845406677
$49.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845406677Author Gene CallahanFormat PaperbackPage Count 238Imprint Imprint AcademicPublisher Imprint AcademicWeight(grams) 400g -
Senses of the Subject by Judith Butler
RRP: $44.08$38.58This book brings together a group of Judith Butler's philosophical essays written over two decades that elaborate her reflections on the roles of the passions in subject formation through an engagement with Hegel, Kierkegaard, Descartes, Spinoza,... -
Philosopher of the Heart: The Restless Life of Soren Kierkegaard by Clare Carlisle 9781250798428
RRP: $42.00$27.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250798428Author Clare CarlisleFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USAWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm) 221mm * 142mm * 28mm -
The Burden of Responsibility: Blum, Camus, Aron, and the French Twentieth Century by Tony Judt
RRP: $44.10$42.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780226414195Author Tony JudtFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint University of Chicago PressPublisher The University of Chicago Press -
The Destruction of Reason by Georg Lukacs
RRP: $63.00$50.76A classic of Western Marxism, The Destruction of Reason is Georg Lukacs's trenchant criticism of German philosophy after Marx and the role it played in the rise of National Socialism. Originally published in 1952, the book is a sustained and detailed... -
Melville among the Philosophers by Corey McCall 9781498536769
RRP: $81.90$75.75For more than a century readers have found Herman Melville's writing rich with philosophical ideas, yet there has been relatively little written about what, exactly, is philosophically significant about his work and why philosophers are so attracted to... -
The Bataille Reader Fred Botting (Department of English at Lancaster University) 9780631199595
RRP: $86.00$75.37Since the publication in France of his Oeuvres Completes in the mid-1970s, the breadth of Bataille's writing and influence has become increasingly apparent across the disciplines in, for example, the fields of literature, art, art history, philosophy,... -
The New Cambridge Companion to Nietzsche by Tom Stern 9781316613863
RRP: $65.08$50.06Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) remains one of the most challenging, influential and controversial figures in the history of philosophy. The New Cambridge Companion to Nietzsche provides a comprehensive and up-to-date guide to his most difficult ideas,... -
History of Philosophy: Vol 7: 18th and 19th Century German Philosophy 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... -
True Truth by Art Lindsley 9780830832354
RRP: $54.58$33.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780830832354Author Art LindsleyFormat PaperbackImprint Inter-Varsity Press,USPublisher InterVarsity PressWeight(grams) 222g -
Simone Weil: Mystic of Passion and Compassion by Maria Clara Bingemer 9780718894269
RRP: $38.33$35.26In Simone Weil, Maria Clara Bingemer reflects on the life, work, and legacy of an exceptional and enigmatic woman: the philosopher and French Jewish mystic of the same name. It constitutes a testimony so unique that it is impossible to ignore. In a... -
The Natural and the Human: Science and the Shaping of Modernity, 1739-1841 by Stephen Gaukroger 9780198801603
$70.62Stephen Gaukroger presents an original account of the development of empirical science and the understanding of human behaviour from the mid-eighteenth century. Since the seventeenth century, science in the west has undergone a unique form of cumulative... -
Heidegger's Way of Being by Richard M. Capobianco 9781442630697
RRP: $37.78$33.39In Heidegger's Way of Being, the follow-up to his 2010 book, Engaging Heidegger, Richard Capobianco makes the case clearly and compellingly that the core matter of Heidegger's lifetime of thought was Being as the temporal emergence of all beings and... -
Hume's Epistemology in the Treatise: A Veritistic Interpretation by Frederick F. Schmitt 9780199683116
$179.97Frederick F. Schmitt offers a systematic interpretation of David Hume's epistemology, as it is presented in the indispensable A Treatise of Human Nature. Hume's text alternately manifests scepticism, empiricism, and naturalism in epistemology... -
Aesthetics: Volume 1 by G. W. F. Hegel 9780198238164
RRP: $113.40$89.52In his Aesthetics Hegel gives full expression to his seminal theory of art. He surveys the history of art from ancient India, Egypt, and Greece through to the Romantic movement of his own time, criticizes major works, and probes their meaning and... -
God, Death, and Time by Emmanuel Levinas 9780804736664
RRP: $50.38$43.76This 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... -
The Cambridge Companion to Foucault by Gary Gutting 9780521600538
RRP: $73.48$60.25For Michel Foucault, philosophy was a way of questioning the allegedly necessary truths that underpin the practices and institutions of modern society. He carried this out in a series of deeply original and strikingly controversial studies on the origins... -
Severally Seeking Sartre Benedict O'Donohoe 9781443852333
RRP: $94.48$54.12This 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... -
Immanuel Kant: A Very Brief History by Anthony Kenny
RRP: $20.98$15.86'Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration. . . the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.' Immanuel Kant (1724- 1804) remains a major influence in philosophy, especially in the areas of epistemology, ethics,... -
Red Hamlet: The Life and Ideas of Alexander Bogdanov James D. White 9781642590487
RRP: $84.00$57.39In 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... -
Bergson and the Art of Immanence: Painting, Photography, Film by John Mullarkey
RRP: $60.88$56.51This title takes an immanent turn in art history. Immanence is a theory of divine presence, in which the divine is found in the material world, not outside of it. This new collection brings the major 20th century French philosopher Henri Bergson's work... -
Theory and Practice by Jacques Derrida
RRP: $65.10$55.29Theory and Practice is a series of nine lectures that Jacques Derrida delivered at the Ecole Normale Superieure in 1976 and 1977. The topic of "theory and practice" was associated above all with Marxist discourse and particularly the influential... -
Heidegger and Leibniz: Reason and the Path with a Foreword by Hans Georg Gadamer by Renato Cristin 9780792351375
$189.57Heidegger holds that our age is dominated by the ambition of reason to possess the world. And he sees in Leibniz the man who formulated the theorem of our modern age: nothing happens without a reason. He calls this attitude `calculating thought' and... -
Weltschmerz: Pessimism in German Philosophy, 1860-1900 by Frederick C. Beiser
RRP: $61.93$57.02Weltschmerz is a study of the pessimism that dominated German philosophy in the second half of the nineteenth century. Pessimism was essentially the theory that life is not worth living. This theory was introduced into German philosophy by Schopenhauer,... -
Isaac Newton and Natural Philosophy by Niccolo Guicciardini 9781780239064
RRP: $37.70$27.13Isaac 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... -
Philosophers on Film from Bergson to Badiou: A Critical Reader by Christopher Kul-Want 9780231176033
RRP: $63.00$48.91Philosophers 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... -
Walter Benjamin by Gershom Gerhard Scholem
RRP: $37.78$25.49Apologies 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)... -
Practical Reason: On the Theory of Action by Pierre Bourdieu 9780745616254
RRP: $33.58$30.26In this new volume Pierre Bourdieu - one of the foremost social thinkers of our time - clarifies and elaborates the most fundamental characteristics of his theoretical approach. Bourdieu's theory is both a relational philosophy of science dedicated to... -
Introducing Foucault: A Graphic Guide by Chris Horrocks 9781848310605 [USED COPY]
RRP: $18.88$4.73Michel Foucault's work was described at his death as 'the most important event of thought in our century'. As a philosopher, historian and political activist, he certainly left behind an enduring and influential body of work, but is this acclaim...