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The Matrix and Philosophy: Welcome to the Desert of the Real by William Irwin 9780812695021
RRP: $25.33$20.07Is the world around us truly as it appears or are we inert bodies in tanks, our brains subjected to electronic stimulation creating a make-believe world of hallucination? The Keanu Reeves cult sci-fi movie, The Matrix, vividly conveyed the excitement and... -
Notebooks, 1914 - 1916 by Ludwig Wittgenstein
RRP: $56.45$48.89A 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: $97.50$97.23Badiou 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... -
British Ethical Theorists from Sidgwick to Ewing by Thomas Hurka 9780198801528
RRP: $58.48$53.80Thomas 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... -
A Short History of Decay by E. M. Cioran 9781611457360
RRP: $38.98$23.19E. 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
$43.54Apologies 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: $42.88$42.69This 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: $86.76$81.08The 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: $146.25$132.09Hegel'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: $113.10$88.88Though 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: $17.53$13.07Martin 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,... -
Husserl's Legacy: Phenomenology, Metaphysics, and Transcendental Philosophy by Dan Zahavi 9780199684830
$95.18Dan 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... -
Introducing Modernism: A Graphic Guide by Chris Rodrigues
RRP: $17.53$13.07Modernism 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: $46.78$46.41This 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: $72.05$64.17This 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: $42.88$42.69The 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... -
Sartre: A Guide for the Perplexed by Gary Cox 9780826487063
$62.95Jean-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... -
Gadamer: A Guide for the Perplexed by Chris Lawn 9780826484628
$62.95Continuum'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 difficult to... -
Nietzsche's System by John Richardson 9780195155952
RRP: $86.76$60.10This book argues, against recent interpretations, that Nietzsche does in fact have a metaphysical system-but that this is to his credit. Rather than renouncing philosophy's traditional project, he still aspires to find and state essential truths, both... -
Introducing Baudrillard: A Graphic Guide by Chris Horrocks
RRP: $17.53$11.86Illustrated guide to the controversial sociologist Jean Baudrillard, who died in 2007. Did the Gulf War take place? Is it possible to fake a bank robbery? Was sexual liberation a disaster? Jean Baudrillard has been hailed as one of France's most subtle... -
Nietzsche's 'Thus Spoke Zarathustra': A Critical Guide by Keith Ansell-Pearson
RRP: $146.25$132.09Nietzsche regarded Thus Spoke Zarathustra as his most important philosophical contribution because it proposes solutions to the problems and questions he poses in his later books - for example, his cure for the human disposition to vengefulness and his... -
The Courtier and the Heretic: Leibniz, Spinoza, and the Fate of God in the Modern World by Matthew Stewart 9780300125078
$57.74Philosophy in the late seventeenth century was a dangerous business. No careerist could afford to know the reclusive philosopher known as the 'atheist Jew', Baruch de Spinoza. Yet the wildly ambitious young genius Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz became... -
The Cambridge Companion to Levinas by Simon Critchley
RRP: $52.63$42.72Emmanuel Levinas is now widely recognised alongside Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty and Sartre as one of the most important Continental philosophers of the twentieth century. His abiding concern was the primacy of the ethical relation to the other person and... -
French Philosophy, 1572-1675 by Desmond M. Clarke 9780198822448
$56.30Desmond M. Clarke presents a thematic history of French philosophy from the middle of the sixteenth century to the beginning of Louis XIV's reign. While the traditional philosophy of the schools was taught throughout this period by authors who have faded... -
Philosophical Grammar by Ludwig Wittgenstein
RRP: $64.25$57.60Wittgenstein wrote the Philosophical Grammar during the years 1931 to 1934 - the period just before he began to dictate the Blue Book. Although it is close to the Investigations in some points, and to the Phiosophische Bemerkungen at others, the... -
British Idealism: A History by W. J. Mander 9780198705840
RRP: $107.25$82.06W. J. Mander presents the first ever synoptic history of British Idealism, the philosophical school which dominated English-language philosophy from the 1860s through to the early years of the following century. Offering detailed examination of the... -
The Art of Philosophizing by Bertrand Russell 9780806529080
RRP: $19.40$15.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806529080Author Bertrand RussellFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Philosophical LibraryPublisher Philosophical LibraryWeight(grams)... -
Philosophical Interventions: Reviews 1986-2011 by Martha C. Nussbaum 9780199777853
RRP: $84.81$58.01This volume collects the notable published book reviews of Martha C. Nussbaum, a philosopher and high profile public intellectual who comments often on issues in philosophy, politics, gender equality, economics, and the law. Many of her engagements have... -
Historical Ontology by Ian Hacking
RRP: $52.55$41.75With the unusual clarity, distinctive and engaging style, and penetrating insight that have drawn such a wide range of readers to his work, Ian Hacking here offers his reflections on the philosophical uses of history. The focus of this volume, which... -
Zettel by Ludwig Wittgenstein
RRP: $58.40$51.89Zettel is a collection of fragments which Wittgenstein cut from various of his typescripts and preserved for future use. More than half of the fragments were written in the years 1946-1948, after the completion of Part I and before the composition of... -
Understanding John Dewey: Nature and Co-operative Intelligence by James Campbell 9780812692853
$46.02"This beautifully written work is the best general introduction to Dewey's philosophy. The exposition is greatly enriched by Campbell's provision of the historical context of Dewey's aims and enquiries". -- James Gouinlock Emory University "Understanding... -
The Cambridge Companion to Critical Theory by Fred Rush 9780521016896
RRP: $60.43$48.09Critical Theory constitutes one of the major intellectual traditions of the twentieth century, and is centrally important for philosophy, political theory, aesthetics and theory of art, the study of modern European literatures and music, the history of... -
African Philosophy: New and Traditional Perspectives by Lee M. Brown 9780195114416
RRP: $69.21$44.56African Philosophy is a collection of previously unpublished essays that address epistemological and metaphysical concerns that have emerged from the sub-Saharan regions of Africa. The primary focus of the book is on traditional African conceptions of... -
Towards the Light by A. C. Grayling 9780747592990 [USED COPY]
RRP: $33.13$5.23The often-violent conflicts of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries were sparked by the pursuit of freedom of thought. In time, this drive led to bitter fighting, including the English Civil War. Then came revolutions in America and France that swept... -
The Works of Alain Locke by Henry Louis Gates 9780199795048
RRP: $154.05$97.03This book features a comprehensive collection of essays by Alain Locke (1885-1954), the most formidable African American public intellectual of his generation. It is by far the largest collection of his brilliant essays, gathered from a career that... -
Human, All Too Human I: Volume 3 by Friedrich Nietzsche 9780804741712
RRP: $54.58$46.45This is the second volume to appear in an edition that will be the first complete, critical, and annotated English translation of all of Nietzsche's work. Volume 2: Unfashionable Observations, translated by Richard T. Gray, was published in 1995. The... -
Discourse on Method and Related Writings by Rene Descartes
RRP: $21.43$15.19This is the second of a new two-volume edition of the works of Descartes in Penguin Classics. This volume is designed for students who approach Descartes from the point of view of his philosophy of science. Includes DISCOURSE ON METHOD, the most... -
Introducing Sartre: A Graphic Guide by Philip Thody 9781848312111
RRP: $15.58$6.67INTRODUCING guide to the father of existentialism and one of 20th century philosophy's most famous characters. Jean-Paul Sartre was once described as being, next to Charles de Gaulle, the most famous Frenchman of the 20th century. Between the ending of... -
Introducing Sartre: A Graphic Guide by Philip Thody 9781848312111 [USED COPY]
RRP: $15.58$2.98INTRODUCING guide to the father of existentialism and one of 20th century philosophy's most famous characters. Jean-Paul Sartre was once described as being, next to Charles de Gaulle, the most famous Frenchman of the 20th century. Between the ending of... -
Locke: His Philosophical Thought by Nicholas Jolley 9780198752004
RRP: $111.13$83.40This book is a general introduction to the philosophy of John Locke, one of the most influential thinkers in modern times. Nicholas Jolley aims to show the fundamental unity of Locke's thought in his masterpiece, the Essay Concerning Human Understanding...