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Leo Strauss and Nietzsche by Laurence Lampert
RRP: £30.00£29.25The political philosopher Leo Strauss has been credited by conservatives with the recovery of the great tradition of political philosophy stretching back to Plato. Strauss left a strongly negative assessment of Nietzsche as the modern philosopher most at... -
Language and Myth by Ernst Cassirer 9780486200514
RRP: £8.49£6.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486200514Author Ernst CassirerFormat PaperbackPage Count 113Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Hegel's Century: Alienation and Recognition in a Time of Revolution by Jon Stewart
RRP: £34.99£30.73The remarkable lectures that Hegel gave in Berlin in the 1820s generated an exciting intellectual atmosphere which lasted for decades. From the 1830s, many students flocked to Berlin to study with people who had studied with Hegel, and both his original... -
Being Inclined: Felix Ravaisson's Philosophy of Habit by Mark Sinclair
RRP: £64.00£57.67Being Inclined is the first book-length study in English of the work of Felix Ravaisson, France's most influential philosopher in the second half of the nineteenth century. Mark Sinclair shows how Ravaisson, in his great work Of Habit (1838), understands... -
Kant's Critique of Pure Reason: A Critical Guide by James R. O'Shea
RRP: £30.99£22.85Kant's monumental book the Critique of Pure Reason was arguably the most conceptually revolutionary work in the history of philosophy and its impact continues to be felt throughout philosophical debates today. However, it is a notoriously difficult work... -
The Cambridge Companion to Rousseau by Patrick Riley
RRP: £30.99£30.73Universally regarded as the greatest French political theorist and philosopher of education of the Enlightenment, and probably the greatest French social theorist tout court, Rousseau was an important forerunner of the French Revolution, though his... -
Into the Crocodile Nest by Benedict Allen
RRP: £12.99£8.56Benedict Allen travelled through Papua New Guinea in search of a tribe that would let him participate in an initiation ceremony into manhood. He was finally admitted to the ceremonies of the Sepik tribe, whose totemic god is the crocodile. With fifteen... -
Derrida, Supplements by Jean-Luc Nancy
RRP: £29.99£25.99When Jean-Luc Nancy first encountered the work of Jacques Derrida in the 1960s, he knew he was hearing something new, a voice genuinely of its time. Thinking with and against each other over the course of their long friendship, the two thinkers reshaped... -
Sartre and Psychoanalysis: Existentialist Challenge to Clinical Metatheory by Betty Cannon 9780700604456
RRP: £65.00£60.51This book explores the implications of Sartean philosophy for the Freudian psychoanalytic tradition. Drawing upon Sartre's work as well as her own experiences as a practicing therapist, Betty Cannon shows that Sartre appreciated Freud's psychoanalytic... -
How To Read Sartre by Robert Bernasconi 9781862078758
RRP: £12.99£8.56'I can want only the freedom of others' Jean-Paul Sartre Jean-Paul Sartre is best known as the pre-eminent philosopher of individual freedom. He is the one who told us that we are totally free. Robert Bernasconi shows how the early existentialist... -
The Norton Anthology of Western Philosophy: After Kant by Richard Schacht 9780393929089
RRP: £39.99£37.66The Norton Anthology of Western Philosophy: After Kant provides a comprehensive introduction to the predominantly European ("Continental") interpretive tradition of philosophy after Kant in one volume, and to the now predominantly Anglo-American analytic... -
The Big Typescript: Ts 213 by Ludwig Wittgenstein
RRP: £37.95£34.96Long awaited by the scholarly community, Wittgenstein's so-called Big Typescript (von Wright Catalog # TS 213) is presented here in an en face English-German scholar's edition. Presents scholar's edition of important material from 1933, Wittgenstein's... -
Of Spirit: Heidegger and the Question by Jacques Derrida
RRP: £20.00£19.40I shall speak of ghost, of flame, and of ashes. These are the first words of Jacques Derrida's lecture on Heidegger. It is again a question of Nazism of what remains to be thought through of Nazism in general and of Heidegger's Nazism in particular. It... -
The Cambridge Companion to Nietzsche by Bernd Magnus
RRP: £30.99£25.29The significance of Friedrich Nietzsche for twentieth century culture is now no longer a matter of dispute. He was quite simply one of the most influential of modern thinkers. The opening essay of this 1996 Companion provides a chronologically organised... -
The Cambridge Companion to Kierkegaard by Alastair Hannay 9780521477192
RRP: £34.99£29.29Each volume of this series of Companions to major philosophers contains specially-commissioned essays by an international team of scholars, together with a substantial bibliography, and will serve as a reference work for students and non-specialists. The... -
Kant by Allen W. Wood
RRP: £20.95£18.50This lucid survey takes readers on a thought-provoking tour through the life and work of Immanuel Kant. Offers an excellent introduction to the broad range of Kant's philosophical thought. Provides an exposition of Kant's major philosophical works,... -
Richard McKeon: A Study by George Kimball Plochmann
£68.40In the contemporary atmosphere of concern with the problems of relativism, cultural pluralism, and textuality, the time is ripe for rediscovery of the thought of Richard McKeon, one of the most important but neglected American philosophers of this... -
The Romantic Absolute: Being and Knowing in Early German Romantic Philosophy, 1795-1804 by Dalia Nassar
RRP: £47.00£45.47The absolute was one of the most significant philosophical concepts in the early nineteenth century, particularly for the German romantics. Its exact meaning and its role within philosophical romanticism remain, however, a highly contested topic among... -
Speaking the Truth about Oneself: Lectures at Victoria University, Toronto, 1982 by Michel Foucault 9780226616865
RRP: £27.00£22.48Just before the summer of 1982, French philosopher Michel Foucault gave a series of lectures at Victoria University in Toronto. In these lectures, which were part of his project of writing a genealogy of the modern subject, he is concerned with the care... -
Modern Social Imaginaries by Charles Taylor
RRP: £22.99£18.90One of the most influential philosophers in the English-speaking world, Charles Taylor is internationally renowned for his contributions to political and moral theory, particularly to debates about identity formation, multiculturalism, secularism, and... -
French Theory: How Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze, & Co. Transformed the Intellectual Life of the United States by Francois Cusset
RRP: £21.99£17.73"A great story, full of twists and turns. . . . Careers made and ruined, departments torn apart, writing programs turned into sensitivity seminars, political witch hunts, public opprobrium, ignorant media attacks, the whole ball of wax. Read it and laugh... -
The Cambridge Companion to Pragmatism by Alan Malachowski
RRP: £30.99£27.80Pragmatism established a philosophical presence over a century ago through the work of Charles Peirce, William James and John Dewey, and has enjoyed an unprecedented revival in recent years owing to the pioneering efforts of Richard Rorty and Hilary... -
Heidegger's Philosophy of Art by Julian Young 9780521616225
RRP: £22.99£21.89This book, the first comprehensive study in English of Heidegger's philosophy of art, starts in the mid-1930s with Heidegger's discussion of the Greek temple and his Hegelian declaration that a great artwork gathers together an entire culture in... -
The Cambridge Companion to Schopenhauer by Christopher Janaway
RRP: £34.99£29.60Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) is something of a maverick figure in the history of philosophy. He produced a unique theory of the world and human existence based upon his notion of will. This collection analyses the related but distinct components of... -
No Exit: Arab Existentialism, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Decolonization by Yoav Di-Capua
RRP: £31.00£30.19It is a curious and relatively little-known fact that for two decades--from the end of World War II until the late 1960s--existentialism's most fertile ground outside of Europe was in the Middle East, and Jean-Paul Sartre was the Arab intelligentsia's... -
Secular Philosophy and the Religious Temperament: Essays 2002-2008 by Thomas Nagel 9780195394115
£38.60This volume collects recent essays and reviews by Thomas Nagel in three subject areas. The first section, including the title essay, is concerned with religious belief and some of the philosophical questions connected with it, such as the relation... -
Paradox by Margaret Cuonzo
RRP: £16.99£11.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262525497Author Margaret CuonzoFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 178mm * 127mm * 14mm -
Hegel Reader by S Houlgate
RRP: £38.95£34.60The Hegel Reader is the most comprehensive collection of Hegel's writings currently available in English.About the AuthorStephen Houlgate is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Warwick. He is the author of Hegel, Nietzsche and the Criticism of... -
Notebooks, 1914 - 1916 by Ludwig Wittgenstein
RRP: £28.95£25.07A glimpse inside one of the world's greatest philosophical minds Ludwig Wittgenstein is considered one of the greatest philosophers of the 20th century. While much of the notes written during his most productive years were destroyed, several remain;... -
Thus Spake Zarathustra by Frederich Nietzsche 9781789501025
RRP: £6.99£4.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789501025Author Frederich NietzscheFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint ArcturusPublisher Arcturus Publishing Ltd -
British Ethical Theorists from Sidgwick to Ewing by Thomas Hurka 9780198801528
RRP: £27.99£25.82Thomas Hurka presents the first full historical study of an important strand in the development of modern moral philosophy. His subject is a series of British ethical theorists from the late nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century, who shared key... -
Kant's Tribunal of Reason: Legal Metaphor and Normativity in the Critique of Pure Reason by Sofie Moller 9781108724050
RRP: £30.99£22.85Kant's Critique of Pure Reason, his main work of theoretical philosophy, frequently uses metaphors from law. In this first book-length study in English of Kant's legal metaphors and their role in the first Critique, Sofie Moller shows that they are... -
The Oxford Handbook of Leibniz by Professor of Philosophy Maria Rosa Antognazza
£41.58The extraordinary breadth and depth of Leibniz's intellectual vision commands ever increasing attention. As more texts gradually emerge from seemingly bottomless archives, new facets of his contribution to an astonishing variety of fields come to light... -
Recognition and the Self in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit by Timothy L. Brownlee
£75.12Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit is famed for its account of the problem of recognition. Yet while readers agree about the importance of its influential accounts of the struggle to the death and the master/slave relation in developing that problem, there... -
Divine Machines: Leibniz and the Sciences of Life by Justin E. H. Smith 9780691141787
RRP: £58.00£44.77Though it did not yet exist as a discrete field of scientific inquiry, biology was at the heart of many of the most important debates in seventeenth-century philosophy. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the work of G. W. Leibniz. In Divine Machines,... -
Liberty and Property: A Social History of Western Political Thought from Renaissance to Enlightenment by Ellen Meiksins Wood
RRP: £21.99£18.49The formation of the modern state, the rise of capitalism, the Renaissance and Reformation, the scientific revolution and the Age of Enlightenment have all been attributed to the "early modern" period. Nearly everything about its history remains... -
On the Heights of Despair by E.M. Cioran 9780226106717
£29.14This work shows E.M. Cioran's first grappling with themes he would return to in his mature works: despair and decay, absurdity and alienation, futility and the irrationality of existence. It also presents Cioran as a connoisseur of apocalypse, a... -
A Wittgenstein Dictionary by Hans-Johann Glock
RRP: £36.95£32.91This lucid and accessible dictionary presents technical terms that Wittgenstein introduced into philosophical debate or transformed substantially, and also topics to which he made a substantial contribution. Hans-Johann Glock places Wittgenstein's ideas... -
The Cambridge Companion to Hannah Arendt by Dana R. Villa
RRP: £26.99£22.54Hannah 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,... -
An Introduction to Husserlian Phenomenology by Rudolph Bernet 9780810110304
RRP: £32.95£27.19This comprehensive study of Husserl's phenomenology concentrates on Husserl's emphasis on the theory of knowledge. The authors develop a synthetic overview of phenomenology and its relation to logic, mathematics, the natural and human sciences, and...