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The Norton Anthology of Western Philosophy: After Kant by Richard Schacht 9780393929089
RRP: $83.98$79.09The 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... -
Husserl's Legacy: Phenomenology, Metaphysics, and Transcendental Philosophy by Dan Zahavi 9780199684830
$102.50Dan Zahavi offers an in-depth and up-to-date analysis of central and contested aspects of the philosophy of Edmund Husserl, the founder of phenomenology. What is ultimately at stake in Husserl's phenomenological analyses? Are they primarily to be... -
Merleau-Ponty: A Guide for the Perplexed by Eric Matthews 9780826485328
$57.54Maurice Merleau-Ponty was one of the most important figures in the existential and phenomenological traditions in twentieth-century Continental philosophy. Merleau-Ponty: A Guide for the Perplexed is the ideal text for students encountering... -
The Big Typescript: Ts 213 by Ludwig Wittgenstein
RRP: $79.70$73.42Long 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... -
Donald Davidson: A Short Introduction by Kathrin Gluer 9780195382969
RRP: $83.98$50.97Donald Davidson was one of the 20th Century's deepest analytic thinkers. He developed a systematic picture of the human mind and its relation to the world, an original and sustained vision that exerted a shaping influence well beyond analytic philosophy... -
Of Spirit: Heidegger and the Question by Jacques Derrida
RRP: $42.00$40.74I 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... -
Controverting Kierkegaard by K. E. Løgstrup 9780198874768
RRP: $126.00$113.67This is the first English edition of a major work by the Danish philosopher and theologian K. E. Logstrup (1905-81). It is the culmination of his critical engagement with Kierkegaardianism, which had begun almost 20 years earlier. In this text, Logstrup... -
Kant by Allen W. Wood
RRP: $44.00$38.85This 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,... -
The Romantic Absolute: Being and Knowing in Early German Romantic Philosophy, 1795-1804 by Dalia Nassar
RRP: $98.70$95.49The 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... -
The Cambridge Companion to Kant and Modern Philosophy by Paul Guyer 9780521529952
RRP: $73.48$62.60The philosophy of Immanuel Kant is the watershed of modern thought, which irrevocably changed the landscape of the field and prepared the way for all the significant philosophical movements of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This 2006 volume,... -
Speaking the Truth about Oneself: Lectures at Victoria University, Toronto, 1982 by Michel Foucault 9780226616865
RRP: $56.70$47.21Just 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... -
French Theory: How Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze, & Co. Transformed the Intellectual Life of the United States by Francois Cusset
RRP: $46.18$41.14"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... -
Isaiah Berlin: An Interpretation of His Thought by John Gray
RRP: $52.50$38.43Isaiah 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... -
The Cambridge Companion to Pragmatism by Alan Malachowski
RRP: $65.08$57.06Pragmatism 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: $48.28$41.08This 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... -
No Exit: Arab Existentialism, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Decolonization by Yoav Di-Capua
RRP: $65.10$63.40It 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... -
Deleuze: A Guide for the Perplexed by Claire Colebrook 9780826478306
RRP: $46.18$45.97"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... -
Secular Philosophy and the Religious Temperament: Essays 2002-2008 by Thomas Nagel 9780195394115
RRP: $81.88$66.76This 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... -
The Cambridge Companion to German Idealism by Karl Ameriks
RRP: $65.08$53.26This updated edition offers a comprehensive, penetrating, and informative guide to what is regarded as the classical period of German philosophy. Kant, Fichte, Hegel, and Schelling are all discussed in detail, along with contemporaries such as... -
The Making of Friedrich Nietzsche: The Quest for Identity, 1844-1869 by Daniel Blue 9781316500958
RRP: $52.48$44.48How did Nietzsche the philosopher come into being? The Nietzsche known today did not develop 'naturally', through the gradual maturation of some inborn character. Instead, from an early age he engaged in a self-conscious campaign to follow his own... -
Paradox by Margaret Cuonzo
RRP: $35.68$24.23Apologies 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: $81.80$72.66The 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... -
Photography off the Scale: Technologies and Theories of the Mass Image by Toma Dvo?ak
RRP: $44.08$38.72These essays address the epistemological, aesthetic and political implications of scale in both scholarly and artistic work. From the mass image in vernacular culture to transformations of photography in contexts of big data and artificial intelligence,... -
Notebooks, 1914 - 1916 by Ludwig Wittgenstein
RRP: $60.80$52.65A 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;... -
Theory of the Subject by Alain Badiou 9780826496737
RRP: $105.00$104.71Badiou is widely considered to be France's most important and exciting contemporary thinker. Much of Badiou's earlier work (including "Being and Event") can only be fully understood with a clear grasp of "Theory of the Subject", one... -
Kant's Tribunal of Reason: Legal Metaphor and Normativity in the Critique of Pure Reason by Sofie Moller 9781108724050
RRP: $65.08$47.99Kant'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... -
A Short History of Decay by E. M. Cioran 9781611457360
RRP: $41.98$24.97E. M. Cioran confronts the place of today's world in the context of human history-focusing on such major issues of the twentieth century as human progress, fanaticism, and science-in this nihilistic and witty collection of aphoristic essays concerning... -
Chaosophy: Texts and Interviews 1972-1977 by Felix Guattari
$46.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781584350606Author Felix GuattariFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Semiotext (E)Publisher AutonomediaWeight(grams) 499gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *... -
Heidegger's Later Writings: A Reader's Guide by Lee Braver 9780826439673
RRP: $46.18$45.97This is a Reader's Guide to the most important and influential essays of Heidegger's later work, crucial to an understanding of his philosophy as a whole.Martin Heidegger is one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century. His later writings... -
The Oxford Handbook of Leibniz by Professor of Philosophy Maria Rosa Antognazza
RRP: $93.43$87.32The 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
RRP: $157.50$142.25Hegel'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: $121.80$95.72Though 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,... -
Introducing Heidegger: A Graphic Guide by Jeff Collins
RRP: $18.88$14.07Martin Heidegger - philosophy's 'hidden king', or leading exponent of a dangerously misguided secular mysticism. Heidegger has been acclaimed as the most powerfully original philosopher of the twentieth century. Profoundly influential on deconstruction,... -
Introducing Modernism: A Graphic Guide by Chris Rodrigues
RRP: $18.88$14.07Modernism is usually thought of as a shock wave of innovations hitting art, architecture, music, cinema and literature - the work of Picasso, Joyce, Schoenberg, movements like Futurism and Dada, the architecture of Le Corbusier, T.S. Eliot's The... -
Positions by Jacques Derrida 9780826477118
RRP: $50.38$49.98This new edition of a key, accessible text to the work of the most influential psychoanalytic and literary critic alive today includes a new introduction by Christopher Norris setting these key early interviews in the context of the full trajectory of... -
A Wittgenstein Dictionary by Hans-Johann Glock
RRP: $77.60$69.11This 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... -
Liberty and Property: A Social History of Western Political Thought from Renaissance to Enlightenment by Ellen Meiksins Wood
RRP: $46.18$45.97The 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... -
The Logic of the Cultural Sciences: Five Studies by Ernst Cassirer 9780300081152
$35.76This 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... -
Sartre: A Guide for the Perplexed by Gary Cox 9780826487063
$67.79Jean-Paul Sartre in one of the most widely read and important of twentieth-century philosophers, an iconic figure, whose ideas and writings continue to resonate. A confident understanding of Sartre is essential for students of Continental philosophy... -
Leibniz on Causation and Agency by Julia Jorati
RRP: $65.08$47.99This book presents a comprehensive examination of Gottfried Leibniz's views on the nature of agents and their actions. Julia Jorati offers a fresh look at controversial topics including Leibniz's doctrines of teleology, the causation of spontaneous...