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History Man: The Life of R. G. Collingwood by Fred Inglis 9780691150055
RRP: £30.00£23.69This is the first biography of the last and greatest British idealist philosopher, R. G. Collingwood (1889-1943), a man who both thought and lived at full pitch. Best known today for his philosophies of history and art, Collingwood was also a historian,... -
Speaking the Truth about Oneself: Lectures at Victoria University, Toronto, 1982 by Michel Foucault 9780226616865
RRP: £27.00£22.48Just 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... -
Photography off the Scale: Technologies and Theories of the Mass Image by Toma Dvo?ak
RRP: £20.99£18.44These 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,... -
Apocalypse of Truth: Heideggerian Meditations by Jean Vioulac
RRP: £35.00£29.57We inhabit a time of crisis-totalitarianism, environmental collapse, and the unquestioned rule of neoliberal capitalism. Philosopher Jean Vioulac is invested in and worried by all of this, but his main concern lies with how these phenomena all represent... -
Reassessing Foucault: Power, Medicine and the Body by Colin Jones 9780415183413
RRP: £37.99£33.38Though Foucault is now widely taught in universities, his writings are notoriously difficult. Reassessing Foucault critically examines the implications of his work for students and researchers in a wide range of areas in the social and human sciences... -
The Jean Baudrillard Reader by Professor Steve Redhead
RRP: £27.99£26.01Jean Baudrillard was perhaps the most controversial of all social and cultural theorists. He has been variously vilified as a 'postmodernist', an 'overrated French theorist' and one of the 'intellectual imposters'. In his seventies he survived global... -
Theory of the Subject by Alain Badiou 9780826496737
RRP: £50.00£49.86Badiou 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... -
French Theory: How Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze, & Co. Transformed the Intellectual Life of the United States by Francois Cusset
RRP: £19.99£17.94"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... -
British Ethical Theorists from Sidgwick to Ewing by Thomas Hurka 9780198801528
RRP: £29.99£27.59Thomas 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: £19.99£11.83E. 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... -
A Different Order of Difficulty: Literature After Wittgenstein by Karen Zumhagen-Yekple
RRP: £28.00£27.39Is the point of philosophy to transmit beliefs about the world, or can it sometimes have higher ambitions? In this bold study, Karen Zumhagen-Yekple makes a critical contribution to the "resolute" program of Wittgenstein scholarship, revealing his... -
Kant's Critique of Pure Reason: A Critical Guide by James R. O'Shea
RRP: £30.99£22.85Kant's monumental book the Critique of Pure Reason was arguably the most conceptually revolutionary work in the history of philosophy and its impact continues to be felt throughout philosophical debates today. However, it is a notoriously difficult work... -
Nietzsche's Postmoralism: Essays on Nietzsche's Prelude to Philosophy's Future by Richard Schacht 9780521168298
RRP: £39.99£33.26This important collection of essays, originally published in 2000, the year of the centenary of Nietzsche's death, offers a full assessment of his contribution to philosophy and represents a helpful guide to the current landscape of Nietzsche studies. In... -
Heidegger's Later Writings: A Reader's Guide by Lee Braver 9780826439673
RRP: £21.99£21.89This 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: £44.49£41.58The 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: £75.00£67.74Hegel'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
£66.93Though 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,... -
Heidegger and Unconcealment: Truth, Language, and History by Mark A. Wrathall
RRP: £24.99£20.02This book includes ten essays that trace the notion of unconcealment as it develops from Heidegger's early writings to his later work, shaping his philosophy of truth, language and history. 'Unconcealment' is the idea that what entities are depends on... -
Introducing Heidegger: A Graphic Guide by Jeff Collins
RRP: £8.99£6.70Martin 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,... -
Positions by Jacques Derrida 9780226143316
RRP: £19.00£18.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780226143316Author Jacques DerridaFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint University of Chicago PressPublisher The University of Chicago Press -
Introducing Modernism: A Graphic Guide by Chris Rodrigues
RRP: £8.99£6.70Modernism 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: £23.99£23.80This 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... -
Liberty and Property: A Social History of Western Political Thought from Renaissance to Enlightenment by Ellen Meiksins Wood
RRP: £21.99£21.89The 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
£32.28Jean-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... -
British Philosophy in the Seventeenth Century by Sarah Hutton 9780198801542
£29.72Sarah Hutton presents a rich historical study of one of the most fertile periods in modern philosophy. It was in the seventeenth century that Britain's first philosophers of international stature and lasting influence emerged. Its most famous names,... -
Philosophical Grammar Ludwig Wittgenstein (Philosopher) 9780631118916
RRP: £32.95£29.54Wittgenstein 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... -
Deleuze by Reidar Andreas Due 9780745630359
RRP: £16.99£15.22This book provides a clear and concise introduction to the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze. It analyses his key theoretical concepts, such as difference and the body without organs, and covers all the different areas of his thought, including metaphysics,... -
Thinker On Stage: Nietzsche's Materialism by Peter Sloterdijk 9780816617654
RRP: £21.99£19.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816617654Author Peter SloterdijkFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint University of Minnesota PressPublisher University of Minnesota PressDimensions(mm)... -
The Big Typescript: TS 213 Ludwig Wittgenstein 9781118346334
RRP: £37.95£34.96Long 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... -
Gadamer: A Guide for the Perplexed by Chris Lawn 9780826484628
£32.28Continuum'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... -
About the Beginning of the Hermeneutics of the Self: Lectures at Dartmouth College, 1980 by Michel Foucault
RRP: £24.00£20.52In 1980, Michel Foucault began a vast project of research on the relationship between subjectivity and truth, an examination of conscience, confession, and truth-telling that would become a crucial feature of his life-long work on the relationship... -
Paradox by Margaret Cuonzo
RRP: £16.99£11.54Apologies 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 -
Nietzsche's System by John Richardson 9780195155952
RRP: £44.49£30.82This 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: £8.99£6.08Illustrated 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... -
Remarks on the Philosophy of Psychology, Volume 1 Ludwig Wittgenstein (Philosopher) 9780631130611
RRP: £40.95£35.89"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... -
The Courtier and the Heretic: Leibniz, Spinoza, and the Fate of God in the Modern World by Matthew Stewart 9780300125078
£29.61Philosophy 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: £26.99£21.91Emmanuel 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... -
Sloterdijk Jean-Pierre Couture 9780745663814
RRP: £15.99£14.41This is the first English-language introduction to Peter Sloterdijk, the distinguished German philosopher and controversial public intellectual. Sloterdijk, in the tradition of Nietzsche and Heine, is an iconoclast who uses humour and biting critique to... -
Apocalypse and/or Metamorphosis by Norman O. Brown
RRP: £25.00£19.59Here is the final volume of Norman O. Brown's trilogy on civilization and its discontents, on humanity's long struggle to master its instincts and the perils that attend that denial of human nature. Following on his famous books "Life Against Death" and... -
Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil: A Reader's Guide by Christa Davis Acampora 9780826473646
£25.45This book presents a student-friendly introduction to one of Nietzsche's most widely-read and studied texts. "Beyond Good and Evil" contains Nietzsche's mature philosophy of the free spirit. Although it is one of his most widely read texts, it...