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Gadamer: A Guide for the Perplexed by Chris Lawn 9780826484628
$67.79Continuum'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... -
Introducing Baudrillard: A Graphic Guide by Chris Horrocks
RRP: $18.88$12.77Illustrated 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... -
The Courtier and the Heretic: Leibniz, Spinoza, and the Fate of God in the Modern World by Matthew Stewart 9780300125078
$62.18Philosophy 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: $56.68$46.01Emmanuel 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
$60.63Desmond 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: $69.20$62.03Wittgenstein 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: $115.50$88.37W. 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: $20.90$16.17Apologies 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)... -
Historical Ontology by Ian Hacking
RRP: $56.60$44.96With 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: $62.90$55.88Zettel 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
$49.56"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: $65.08$51.79Critical 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: $74.53$47.99African 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: $35.68$5.63The 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: $165.90$104.50This 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: $58.78$50.02This 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: $23.08$16.36This 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... -
Locke: His Philosophical Thought by Nicholas Jolley 9780198752004
RRP: $119.68$89.82This 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... -
Foucalt for Beginners by Lydia Alix Fillingham 9781934389126 [USED COPY]
RRP: $29.38$11.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781934389126Author Lydia Alix, I FillinghamFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint For BeginnersPublisher For Beginners -
Foucalt for Beginners by Lydia Alix Fillingham
RRP: $29.38$23.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781934389126Author Lydia Alix, I FillinghamFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint For BeginnersPublisher For Beginners -
The Spirit of Terrorism by Jean Baudrillard
$28.73Baudrillard sees the power of the terrorists as lying in the symbolism of slaughter-not merely the reality of death, but in a sacrifice that challenges the whole system. Where previously the old revolutionary sought to conduct a struggle between real... -
Remarks on the Philosophy of Psychology, Volume 1 by Ludwig Wittgenstein
RRP: $86.00$75.37"These two volumes must be welcomed in particular for the illumination they shed ... on Wittgenstein's already published discussions ... the characteristic deluge of examples, analogies, questions and challanges is as ever, maddening, provoking and... -
Heraclitus Seminar by Martin Heidegger
$59.77In 1966-67 Martin Heidegger and Eugen Fink conducted an extraordinary seminar on the fragments of Heraclitus. Heraclitus Seminar records those conversations, documenting the imaginative and experimental character of the multiplicity of interpretations... -
Before Tomorrow: Epigenesis and Rationality by Catherine Malabou 9780745691510
RRP: $37.78$33.68Is contemporary continental philosophy making a break with Kant? The structures of knowledge, taken for granted since Kant s Critique of Pure Reason, are now being called into question: the finitude of the subject, the phenomenal given, a priori... -
Thinking the Impossible: French Philosophy Since 1960 by Gary Gutting 9780199674671
RRP: $72.43$46.98The late 20th century saw a remarkable flourishing of philosophy in France. The work of French philosophers is wide ranging, historically informed, often reaching out beyond the boundaries of philosophy; they are public intellectuals, taken seriously as... -
Wittgenstein: Rules, Grammar and Necessity: Volume 2 of an Analytical Commentary on the Philosophical Investigations, Essays and Exegesis 185-242 by Gordon P. Baker
RRP: $54.50$47.46The Second Edition of Wittgenstein: Rules, Grammar and Necessity (the second volume of the landmark analytical commentary on Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations) now includes extensively revised and supplemented coverage of the Wittgenstein's... -
Martin Heidegger on Being Human: An Introduction to Sein Und Zeit by Richard Schmitt 9780595121526
RRP: $31.48$25.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780595121526Author Richard SchmittFormat PaperbackPage Count 284Imprint iUniversePublisher iUniverseWeight(grams) 376gDimensions(mm) 219mm * 142mm * 19mm -
Senses of the Subject by Judith Butler
RRP: $48.28$40.80This book brings together a group of Judith Butler's philosophical essays written over two decades that elaborate her reflections on the roles of the passions in subject formation through an engagement with Hegel, Kierkegaard, Descartes, Spinoza,... -
The Cambridge Companion to Husserl by Barry Smith
RRP: $73.48$64.03The essays in this volume explore the full range of Husserl's work and reveal just how systematic his philosophy is. There are treatments of his most important contributions to phenomenology, intentionality and the philosophy of mind, epistemology, the... -
Kant: The Three Critiques by Andrew Ward
$39.98Immanuel Kants three critiques the Critique of Pure Reason, the Critique of Practical Reason and the Critique of Judgment are among the pinnacles of Western Philosophy. This accessible study grounds Kants philosophical position in the context of his... -
Stanley Cavell: Philosophy's Recounting of the Ordinary by Stephen Mulhall 9780198238508
RRP: $119.70$111.74Stephen Mulhall presents the first full-length philosophical study of the work of Stanley Cavell, best known for his highly influential contributions to the fields of film studies, Shakespearian literary criticism, and the confluence of psychoanalysis... -
The Cambridge Companion to Spinoza by Don Garrett
RRP: $58.78$48.32Benedict (Baruch) de Spinoza (1632-1677) was one of the most systematic, inspiring, and influential philosophers of the early modern period. From a pantheistic starting point that identified God with Nature as all of reality, he sought to demonstrate an... -
Carl Schmitt: A Biography by Reinhard Mehring
RRP: $126.00$111.20Carl Schmitt is one of the most widely read and influential German thinkers of the twentieth century. His fundamental works on friend and enemy, legality and legitimacy, dictatorship, political theology and the concept of the political are read today... -
Heidegger, Art, and Postmodernity by Iain D. Thomson 9780521172493
RRP: $48.28$41.08Heidegger, Art, and Postmodernity offers a radical new interpretation of Heidegger's later philosophy, developing his argument that art can help lead humanity beyond the nihilistic ontotheology of the modern age. Providing pathbreaking readings of... -
The Radial Method of the Middle Wittgenstein: In the Net of Language Piotr Dehnel 9781350257375
$61.64Spanning the period between Wittgenstein’s return to Cambridge in 1929 and the first version of Philosophical Investigations in 1936, Piotr Dehnel explores the middle stage in Ludwig Wittgenstein’s philosophical development and identifies the major... -
Apocalyptic Patience: Mystical Theology / Gnosticism / Ethical Phenomenology Revd Canon Dr Andrew Shanks 9781350410602
RRP: $178.50$178.42Andrew Shanks brings together a grand narrative of theology and continental philosophy to argue that the 'solidarity of the shaken' is the kingdom of God in secular dress. Shanks engages with the philosophy of Jan Patocka; specifically, his Heretical... -
The Human Vocation in German Philosophy: Critical Essays and 18th Century Sources Dr Anne Pollok 9781350353206
$84.19In 18th-century Germany philosophers were occupied with questions of who we are and what we should be. Can the individual fulfill its vocation or is this possible only for humanity as a whole? Is significant progress towards perfection in any way... -
The 21st Century and Its Discontents: How Changing Discourse Norms are Changing Culture by Jack Simmons 9781793607997
RRP: $207.90$181.78American culture is changing, a sentiment echoed in phrases such as "the new normal," and "in these uncertain times," that regularly introduce all forms of public discourse now, signally a national sense of vulnerability and... -
The Humanist Project: Will, Judgment, and Society from Dante to Vico by Peter Carravetta 9781666920369
RRP: $193.20$169.11Humanistic studies has been subjected to critiques from the inside of the university disciplines and shrinking support structures on the outside; moreover, recent technological developments have trapped humans in the maws of the information machine,... -
Reverence for Life: The Words of Albert Schweitzer by Albert Schweitzer 9781600251153
$58.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781600251153Author Albert SchweitzerFormat HardbackPage Count 124Imprint Maurice BassettPublisher Maurice BassettWeight(grams) 336gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...