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Degrees of Knowledge by Jacques Maritain
RRP: £32.00£28.61Maritain argues that there are different 'kinds' and 'orders' of knowledge and, within them, different 'degrees' determined by the nature of the thing to be known and the 'degree of abstraction' involved. The book is divided into two parts: Part one... -
Late Marxism: Adorno: Or, the Persistence of the Dialectic by Fredric Jameson 9781844675753
RRP: £19.99£14.16In 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... -
The Parallax View by Slavoj Zizek
RRP: £25.00£17.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262512688Author Slavoj ZizekFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 612gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 29mm -
Lessons on the Analytic of the Sublime by Jean-Francois Lyotard 9780804722421
RRP: £23.99£20.84Philosophical aesthetics has seen an amazing revival over the past decade, as a radical questioning of the very grounds of Western epistemology has revealed that some antinomies of aesthetic experience-and in particular of the limits of the... -
Basic Writings of Nietzsche by Friedrich Nietzsche 9780679600008
RRP: £25.00£19.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679600008Author Friedrich NietzscheFormat HardbackPage Count 864Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 890gDimensions(mm)... -
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... -
General Intellects: Twenty Five Thinkers for the 21st Century by McKenzie Wark
RRP: £16.99£14.10What 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... -
Zizek: A Critical Introduction by Sarah Kay 9780745622088
£16.18Zizek is hailed as the most significant interdisciplinary thinker of modern times. His work is a powerful, often explosive combination of Lacanian psychoanalysis and philosophy which tests key psychoanalytical concepts against the ideas of major European... -
Philosophical Introductions: Five Approaches to Communicative Reason 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... -
All Gall Is Divided: The Aphorisms of a Legendary Iconoclast by E M Cioran 9781948924238
RRP: £17.99£10.02Apologies 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 *... -
Wittgenstein in Cambridge: Letters and Documents 1911 - 1951 Brian McGuinness (University of Siena, Italy) 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... -
Isaiah Berlin: An Interpretation of His Thought by John Gray
RRP: £25.00£17.82Isaiah Berlin (1909-1997) was the greatest intellectual historian of the twentieth century. But his work also made an original and important contribution to moral and political philosophy and to liberal theory. In 1921, at the age of eleven, Isaiah... -
Drawn and Quartered by E M Cioran 9781611456967
RRP: £11.99£11.50Apologies 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£29.28Each 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... -
Deleuze: A Guide for the Perplexed by Claire Colebrook 9780826478306
RRP: £21.99£21.89"Continuum's Guides for the Perplexed" are clear, concise and accessible introductions to thinkers, writers and subjects that students and readers can find especially challenging. Concentrating specifically on what it is that makes the subject... -
Introduction to Positive Thinking by Frederick Ferre 9780872200500
RRP: £11.99£9.77Contents:IntroductionSelected Bibliography Works by Comte in English Translation Works about Comte in EnglishI. The Nature and Importance of the Positive PhilosophyII. The Classification of the Positive SciencesIndexBook InformationISBN... -
The Letters of David Hume: Volume 2 by J. Y. T. Greig
£45.05J. Y. T. Greig's two-volume edition, first published in 1932, presents the correspondence of one of the great men of the 18th century. This second volume contains David Hume's letters from 1766 to 1776. Hume correspondents include such famous thinkers... -
Hegel's Phenomenology: The Sociality of Reason by Terry P. Pinkard
RRP: £30.99£25.43The 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... -
For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition) by Ayn Rand 9780451163080
RRP: £9.99£4.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451163080Author Ayn RandFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Dutton / SignetPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 113gDimensions(mm) 171mm * 106mm *... -
The Priority of Events: Deleuze's Logic of Sense by Dr. Sean Bowden
RRP: £31.00£28.69Sean Bowden shows you how the Deleuzian event should be understood in terms of the broader metaphysical thesis that fixed things or substances are always secondary with respect to events. He achieves this through a reconstruction of Deleuze's relation to... -
Leo Strauss and Nietzsche Laurence Lampert 9780226468266
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... -
Rameau's Nephew, and Other Works by Denis Diderot 9780872204867
RRP: £14.99£12.59This anthology features unabridged translations of Diderot's best work as a literary artist, including those writings that embody his most original and influential ideas.About the AuthorJacques Barzun is Professor Emeritus of History, Columbia University... -
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... -
Modern Movements in European Philosophy: Phenomenology, Critical Theory, Structuralism by Richard Kearney
RRP: £19.99£14.52In this now classic textbook, Richard Kearney surveys the work of nineteen of this century's most influential European thinkers, and acts as an introduction to three major movements: phenomenology, critical theory and structuralism.This edition includes... -
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... -
The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Philosophy by Frank Jackson 9780199234769
£46.02Oxford Handbooks offer authoritative and up-to-date surveys of original research in a particular subject area. Specially commissioned essays from leading figures in the discipline give critical examinations of the progress and direction of debates... -
Lo! by Charles Fort 9781612030517
RRP: £18.99£17.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781612030517Author Charles FortFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint Spastic Cat PressPublisher Spastic Cat PressWeight(grams) 404gDimensions(mm) 235mm *... -
The Ear of the Other: Otobiography, Transference, Translation by Jacques Derrida 9780803265752
£16.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780803265752Author Jacques DerridaFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint University of Nebraska PressPublisher University of Nebraska Press -
Hegel: An Intellectual Biography by Horst Althaus 9780745617817
£60.02This accessible and highly readable book is the first full-length biography of Hegel to be published since the largely outdated treatments of the nineteenth century. Althaus draws on new historical material and scholarly sources about the life and times... -
The Analysis of Beauty by William Hogarth
RRP: £12.49£8.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486795256Author William HogarthFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Hegel: Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion: One-Volume Edition, The Lectures of 1827 by Peter C. Hodgson 9780199283521
RRP: £52.00£41.47The Hegel Lectures Series Series Editor: Peter C. Hodgson Hegel's lectures have had as great a historical impact as the works he himself published. Important elements of his system are elaborated only in the lectures, especially those given in Berlin... -
Philosophy of Logic and Mathematics: Proceedings of the 41st International Ludwig Wittgenstein Symposium by Gabriele M. Mras 9783110763478
RRP: £31.50£24.84This volume presents different conceptions of logic and mathematics and discuss their philosophical foundations and consequences. This concerns first of all topics of Wittgenstein's ideas on logic and mathematics; questions about the structural... -
Kierkegaard: Thinking Christianly in an Existential Mode by Sylvia Walsh 9780199208364
£44.76Soren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) was first and foremost a Christian thinker who is perhaps best known for his devastating attack upon Christendom or the established order of his time. Not since Luther has there been a Protestant thinker who has so... -
The Importance of Nietzsche: Ten Essays by Erich Heller 9780226326382
RRP: £24.00£23.03In this book, one of the most distinguished scholars of German culture collects his essays on a figure who has long been one of his chief preoccupations. Erich Heller's lifelong study of modern European literature necessarily returns again and again to... -
The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is: A History, A Philosophy, A Warning by Justin E. H. Smith 9780691212326
RRP: £28.00£14.88An original deep history of the internet that tells the story of the centuries-old utopian dreams behind it-and explains why they have died todayMany think of the internet as an unprecedented and overwhelmingly positive achievement of modern human... -
The Great Philosophers: Voltaire 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... -
Kant: Natural Science by Immanuel Kant 9781107552142
RRP: £39.99£33.77Though Kant is best known for his strictly philosophical works in the 1780s, many of his early publications in particular were devoted to what we would call 'natural science'. Kant's Universal Natural History and Theory of the Heavens (1755) made a... -
Derrida, Supplements by Jean-Luc Nancy
RRP: £27.99£24.14When 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...