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Introducing Foucault: A Graphic Guide by Chris Horrocks 9781848310605
RRP: $11.60$5.21Michel 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... -
Hegel Contra Sociology by Gillian Rose 9781844673544
RRP: $25.79$18.23Gillian Rose is among the twentieth century's most important social philosophers. In perhaps her most significant work, Hegel Contra Sociology, Rose mounts a forceful defence of Hegelian speculative thought. Demonstrating how, in his criticisms of Kant... -
The Japan Lectures: A Transnational Critical Encounter by Michel Foucault 9781032301747
RRP: $28.37$24.95This 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... -
Moral Psychology with Nietzsche by Brian Leiter 9780192897930
$35.75Brian Leiter defends a set of radical ideas from Nietzsche: there is no objectively true morality, there is no free will, no one is ever morally responsible, and our conscious thoughts and reasoning play almost no significant role in our actions and how... -
Søren Kierkegaard: Subjectivity, Irony, & the Crisis of Modernity by Jon Stewart 9780198785224
RRP: $32.88$32.40Soren Kierkegaard: Subjectivity, Irony, and the Crisis of Modernity examines the thought of Soren Kierkegaard, a unique figure, who has freeired, provoked, fascinated, and irritated people ever since he walked the streets of Copenhagen. At the end of his... -
Downcast Eyes: The Denigration of Vision in Twentieth-Century French Thought by Martin Jay
RRP: $42.57$35.10Long considered 'the noblest of the senses', vision has increasingly come under critical scrutiny by a wide range of thinkers who question its dominance in Western culture. These critics of vision, especially prominent in twentieth-century France, have... -
Heidegger: A Critical Reader Hubert L. Dreyfuss 9780631163428
RRP: $47.67$41.94Essays 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 World as Will and Representation (the World as Will and Idea), Volume I of III by Arthur Schopenhauer 9781420946529
RRP: $16.76$16.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781420946529Author Arthur SchopenhauerFormat PaperbackPage Count 278Imprint Digireads.comPublisher Digireads.comWeight(grams) 413gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
Culture and Value by Ludwig Wittgenstein
RRP: $13.55$12.84Apologies 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 -
Human Dignity: A Way of Living Peter Bieri 9780745689012
RRP: $19.34$12.64Dignity is humanity s most prized possession. We experience the loss of dignity as a terrible humiliation: when we lose our dignity we feel deprived of something without which life no longer seems worth living. But what exactly is this trait that we... -
Julia Kristeva by Noelle McAfee 9780415250092
RRP: $25.79$22.82One of the most original thinkers of the twentieth century, Julia Kristeva has been driving forward the fields of literary and cultural studies since the 1960s. This volume is an accessible, introductory guide to the main themes of Kristeva's work,... -
Wittgenstein's 'Tractatus Logico-philosophicus': A Reader's Guide by Roger M. White 9780826486189
$41.64Wittgenstein's Tractatus - the only book he actually published within his lifetime - was an immensely important work which changed the direction of philosophy in the first half of the twentieth century. Higlighting the importance of the nature of... -
Lectures on the Foundations of Mathematics: Cambridge by Ludwig Wittgenstein
RRP: $30.96$29.71From his return to Cambridge in 1929 to his death in 1951, Wittgenstein influenced philosophy almost exclusively through teaching and discussion. These lecture notes indicate what he considered to be salient features of his thinking in this period of his... -
In Defense of Tradition: Collected Shorter Writings of Richard M Weaver, 1929-1963 by Richard M. Weaver 9780865972834
RRP: $18.00$16.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865972834Author Richard WeaverFormat PaperbackPage Count 861Imprint Liberty Fund IncPublisher Liberty Fund IncWeight(grams) 1034g -
World as Will & Idea by Arthur Schopenhauer 9780460875059
$10.81The nineteenth-century idealist philosopher and precursor of FreudThe World as Will and Idea (1819) holds that all nature, including man, is the expression of an insatiable will to life; that the truest understanding of the world comes through art and... -
The Deed is Everything: Nietzsche on Will and Action by Aaron Ridley 9780198825449
$91.78Nietzsche is often held to be an extreme sceptic about human agency, keen to debunk it along every dimension. He dismisses the ideas of freedom, autonomy and morality, we are told, and even the very existence of agents or selves. This book sets out the... -
A History of Western Philosophy: From the Pre-Socratics to Postmodernism by C. Stephen Evans 9780830852222
RRP: $67.07$47.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780830852222Author C. Stephen EvansFormat HardbackPage Count 600Imprint IVP AcademicPublisher IVP AcademicWeight(grams) 1016gDimensions(mm) 236mm * 163mm *... -
America's Philosopher: John Locke in American Intellectual Life by Claire Rydell Arcenas
RRP: $36.12$30.02America's Philosopher examines how John Locke has been interpreted, reinterpreted, and misinterpreted over three centuries of American history. The influence of polymath philosopher John Locke (1632-1704) can still be found in a dizzying range of... -
The Zizek Reader Elizabeth Wright (University of Cambridge) 9780631212010
RRP: $54.12$47.38The Zizek Reader - which includes a Foreword by Zizek and a new, previously unpublished essay on cyberspace - provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the flamboyant work of a figure who has been variously described as 'one of the most... -
The Aesthetic Dimension by Herbert Marcuse
RRP: $25.80$18.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807015193Author Herbert MarcuseFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 142gDimensions(mm) 213mm * 142mm *... -
Kant's 'Critique of Pure Reason': An Introduction by Jill Vance Buroker 9780521618250
RRP: $42.56$36.61In this introductory textbook to Kant's Critique of Pure Reason, Jill Vance Buroker explains the role of this first Critique in Kant's Critical project and offers a line-by-line reading of the major arguments in the text. She situates Kant's views in... -
Francis Bacon and the Transformation of Early-Modern Philosophy by Stephen Gaukroger 9780521805360
RRP: $49.01$40.39This ambitious and important book, first published in 2001, provides a truly general account of Francis Bacon as a philosopher. It describes how Bacon transformed the values that had underpinned philosophical culture since antiquity by rejecting the... -
Beyond the Chains of Illusion: My Encounter with Marx and Freud by Erich Fromm
RRP: $23.21$20.82First 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... -
Rational Man by Henry Babcock Veatch 9780865973930
RRP: $11.55$9.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865973930Author Henry Babcock VeachFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint Liberty Fund IncPublisher Liberty Fund IncWeight(grams) 374g -
A Beginner's Guide to Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil Gareth Southwell (Independent Scholar) 9781405160056
RRP: $21.87$19.61A 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. ... -
For Marx by Louis Althusser
$25.74This 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... -
Schopenhauer: A Biography by David Edgar Cartwright 9780521825986
RRP: $127.71$49.73In his quest to solve 'the ever-disquieting riddle of existence', Schopenhauer explored almost every dimension of human existence, developing a darkly compelling worldview that found deep resonance in contemporary literature, music, philosophy, and... -
R. G. Collingwood: An Autobiography and other writings: with essays on Collingwood's life and work by David Boucher
$52.44This 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 Russian Cosmists: The Esoteric Futurism of Nikolai Fedorov and His Followers by George M. Young
RRP: $57.39$47.91In 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... -
Rationalists by Rene Descartes
RRP: $21.92$15.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385095402Author Rene DescartesFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group IncWeight(grams)... -
The Essential Davidson by Donald Davidson 9780199288861
RRP: $48.36$38.89The Essential Davidson compiles the most celebrated papers of one of the twentieth century's greatest philosophers. It distils Donald Davidson's seminal contributions to our understanding of ourselves, from three decades of essays, into one thematically... -
How To Be Good: What Socrates Can Teach Us About the Art of Living Well by Massimo Pigliucci 9781399804950
RRP: $16.76$11.09What 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? Can we get our leaders to care... -
Pierre Bourdieu by Richard Jenkins
RRP: $47.72$41.96This short critical introduction to Pierre Bourdieu's thought is a model of clarity and insight. Where Bourdieu's own writings are often complex, even ambiguous, Richard Jenkins is direct, concise and to the point. He emphasizes Bourdieu's contributions... -
The SPCK Introduction to Nietzche: His Religious Thought by Lucy Huskinson
RRP: $14.18$12.37Friedrich 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... -
Passwords by Jean Baudrillard
$17.49In his analysis of the deep social trends rooted in production, consumption, and the symbolic, Jean Baudrillard touches the very heart of the concerns of the generation currently rebelling against the framework of the consumer society. With the... -
Husserl's Crisis of the European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology: An Introduction by Dermot Moran
RRP: $34.82$28.24The Crisis of the European Sciences is Husserl's last and most influential book, written in Nazi Germany where he was discriminated against as a Jew. It incisively identifies the urgent moral and existential crises of the age and defends the relevance of... -
The Early Foucault Stuart Elden (Durham University) 9781509525966
RRP: $24.50$21.76It 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... -
Life Against Death by Christopher Lasch 9780819561442
RRP: $28.32$24.33A shocking and extreme interpretation of the father of psychoanalysis.Book InformationISBN 9780819561442Author Christopher LaschFormat PaperbackPage Count 387Imprint Wesleyan University PressPublisher Wesleyan University Press -
Notebooks, 1914 - 1916 Ludwig Wittgenstein (Philosopher) 9780631124993
RRP: $37.35$32.34A 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;... -
Manifest Reality: Kant's Idealism and his Realism by Lucy Allais 9780198801337
RRP: $41.27$37.86At 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...