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Taking Care of Youth and the Generations by Bernard Stiegler
RRP: £27.99£23.43Bernard 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 Philosophy of Elizabeth Anscombe by Roger Teichmann 9780199603350
RRP: £43.99£34.54One of the most important philosophers of recent times, Elizabeth Anscombe wrote books and articles on a wide range of topics, including the ground-breaking monograph Intention. Her work is original, challenging, often difficult, always insightful; but... -
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... -
Hegel's Practical Philosophy: Rational Agency as Ethical Life by Robert B. Pippin
RRP: £26.99£22.16This fresh and original book argues that the central questions in Hegel's practical philosophy are the central questions in modern accounts of freedom: What is freedom, or what would it be to act freely? Is it possible so to act? And how important is... -
Companion to Philosophy in Australia and New Zealand by Graham Oppy
RRP: £46.99£39.18Apologies 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 -
The Oxford Handbook of Continental Philosophy by Brian Leiter 9780199572991
RRP: £43.99£43.24The Oxford Handbooks series is a major new initiative in academic publishing. Each volume offers an authoritative and up-to-date survey of original research in a particular subject area. Specially commissioned essays from leading figures in the... -
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: £21.99£19.34This 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... -
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,... -
The Cambridge History of Philosophy in the Nineteenth Century (1790-1870) by Allen W. Wood
RRP: £54.99£46.58The latest volume in the Cambridge Histories of Philosophy series, The Cambridge History of Philosophy in the Nineteenth Century (1790-1870) brings together twenty-nine leading experts in the field and covers the years 1790-1870. Their twenty-eight... -
Knowledge: Readings in Contemporary Epistemology by Sven Bernecker 9780198752615 [USED COPY]
RRP: £58.99£2.80Epistemology, or the theory of knowledge, is concerned with how we know what we do and what justifies us in believing what we do. The philosophical literature in epistemology has mushroomed in the past four decades, and interest in the topic continues to... -
Knowledge: Readings in Contemporary Epistemology by Sven Bernecker 9780198752615
RRP: £58.99£48.17Epistemology, or the theory of knowledge, is concerned with how we know what we do and what justifies us in believing what we do. The philosophical literature in epistemology has mushroomed in the past four decades, and interest in the topic continues to... -
The Philosophy of "As If": A System of the Theoretical, Practical and Religious Fictions of Mankind by David G Payne 9781508663751
RRP: £13.50£12.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781508663751Author David G PayneFormat PaperbackPage Count 314Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent... -
Late Marxism: Adorno: Or, the Persistence of the Dialectic by Fredric Jameson 9781844675753
RRP: £19.99£14.55In the name of an assault on "totalization" and "identity," a number of contemporary theorists have been busily washing Marxism's dialectical and utopian projects down the plug-hole of postmodernism and "post-politics." A case in point is recent... -
Heretics!: The Wondrous (and Dangerous) Beginnings of Modern Philosophy by Steven Nadler 9780691168692
RRP: £20.00£17.15An entertaining, enlightening, and humorous graphic narrative of the dangerous thinkers who laid the foundation of modern thought This entertaining and enlightening graphic narrative tells the exciting story of the seventeenth-century thinkers who... -
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... -
The Letters of Marsilio Ficino: 10 by Language Department, School of Economic Science 9780856835001
RRP: £25.00£22.03This 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... -
Negative Dialectics by Theodor W. Adorno
RRP: £32.99£26.90The 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... -
General Intellects: Twenty Five Thinkers for the 21st Century by McKenzie Wark
£21.73What 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... -
Kant: Critique of Practical Reason by Andrews Reath 9781107467057
RRP: £22.99£17.15The 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... -
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... -
All Gall Is Divided: The Aphorisms of a Legendary Iconoclast by E M Cioran 9781948924238
RRP: £17.99£10.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948924238Author E M CioranFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Arcade PublishingPublisher Arcade PublishingWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 206mm *... -
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... -
The Logic of the Cultural Sciences: Five Studies by Ernst Cassirer 9780300081152
£17.03This new translation of The Logic of the Cultural Sciences (formerly entitled The Logic of the Humanities) makes Ernst Cassirer's classic study, long out of print, available to English readers. A German Jew living in exile at the beginning of the Second... -
Drawn and Quartered by E M Cioran 9781611456967
RRP: £11.99£11.47Apologies 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 Rawls by Samuel Freeman 9780521657068
RRP: £34.99£29.89Each volume of this series of companions to major philosophers contains specially commissioned essays by an international team of scholars and will serve as a reference work for students and nonspecialists. John Rawls is the most significant and... -
Thomas More's Vocation by Frank Mitjans 9780813236100
RRP: £75.00£63.64The book considers Thomas More's early life-choices. An early letter is cited by biographers but most miss More's reference to the market place. More's great-grandson, Cresacre, a Londoner, understood it correctly, and that gives reason to trust him on... -
Hegel's Century: Alienation and Recognition in a Time of Revolution by Jon Stewart
RRP: £34.99£30.49The 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... -
Limited Inc by Jacques Derrida
RRP: £22.95£19.24Limited Inc is a major work in the philosophy of language by the celebrated French thinker Jacques Derrida. The book's two essays, "Limited Inc" and "Signature Event Context," constitute key statements of the Derridean theory of deconstruction. They are... -
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... -
Hegel's Phenomenology: The Sociality of Reason by Terry P. Pinkard
RRP: £30.99£25.80The Phenomenology of Spirit is both one of Hegel's most widely read books and one of his most obscure. The book is the most detailed commentary on Hegel's work available. It develops an independent philosophical account of the general theory of... -
Friedrich Nietzsche: A Philosophical Biography by Julian Young
RRP: £42.99£37.24In 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... -
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... -
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... -
On the Genealogy of Universals: The Metaphysical Origins of Analytic Philosophy by Fraser MacBride 9780198811251
RRP: £87.00£84.75The concepts of particular and universal have become so familiar that their significance has become difficult to discern, like coins that have been passed back and forth too many times, worn smooth so their values can no longer be read. On the Genealogy... -
Collected Papers by Gareth Evans 9780198236276
RRP: £45.49£38.38This volume contains thirteen papers, including two previously unpublished, by Gareth Evans, a brilliant philosopher who died in 1980 at the age of 34. The treatments of problems about language are here informed by a lively sense of interconnections with... -
Being Inclined: Felix Ravaisson's Philosophy of Habit by Mark Sinclair
RRP: £76.00£50.47Being 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... -
Spinoza on Philosophy, Religion, and Politics: The Theologico-Political Treatise by Susan James 9780198701217
RRP: £41.99£24.27Spinoza's Theologico-Political Treatise is simultaneously a work of philosophy and a piece of practical politics. It defends religious pluralism, a republican form of political organisation, and the freedom to philosophise, with a determination that is...