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Love and the Abyss: An Essay on Finitude and Value by Ralph D. Ellis 9780812694574
RRP: $39.88$35.18This book develops the notion of a "culture of narcissim," a concept originally proposed by Christopher Lasch. The author puts forward a coherent theory of the role played by love in human attempts to grapple with the problems of finitude and... -
The Philosophy of A. J. Ayer, Volume 21 by Lewis Edwin Hahn 9780812691726
RRP: $90.28$83.81A.J. Ayer burst like a supernova upon the Anglo-American philosophical world in 1936, with "Language, truth and logic", an eloquent, uncompromising manifesto for logical positivism which transformed the thinking of a generation. Inside a few years,... -
The Speculative Remark: (One of Hegel's Bons Mots) by Jean-Luc Nancy 9780804737135
$208.17This work, by one of the most innovative and challenging of contemporary thinkers, pivots on a Remark added by Hegel in 1831 to the second edition of his Science of Logic. As a model of close reading applied both to philosophical texts and the making of... -
D'Holbach's Coterie: An Enlightenment in Paris by Alan Charles Kors 9780691617244
RRP: $105.00$82.99Students of the Enlightenment have long assumed that the major movement towards atheism in the Ancien Regime was centered in the circle of intellectuals who met at the home of Baron d'Holbach during the last half of the eighteenth century. This major... -
Nietzsche, Godfather of Fascism?: On the Uses and Abuses of a Philosophy by Jacob Golomb 9780691007106
RRP: $73.50$66.63Nietzsche, the Godfather of Fascism? What can Nietzsche have in common with this murderous ideology? Frequently described as the "radical aristocrat" of the spirit, Nietzsche abhorred mass culture and strove to cultivate an Ubermensch endowed... -
Philosophical Troubles: Collected Papers, Volume 1 by Saul A. Kripke 9780199992928
RRP: $79.78$48.83This important new book is the first of a series of volumes collecting the essential articles by the eminent and highly influential philosopher Saul A. Kripke. It presents a mixture of published and unpublished articles from various stages of Kripke's... -
Out from the Shadows: Analytical Feminist Contributions to Traditional Philosophy by Sharon L. Crasnow 9780199855469
RRP: $142.80$117.18Out from the Shadows showcases the work of 18 analytical feminists from a variety of traditional areas of philosophy: social and political philosophy, normative ethics, virtue theory, metaethics, philosophy of language, metaphysics, epistemology, and... -
The Equality of the Sexes: Three Feminist Texts of the Seventeenth Century by Desmond M. Clarke 9780199673506
$242.99Desmond M. Clarke presents new translations of three of the first feminist tracts to support explicitly the equality of the sexes. The alleged inferiority of women's nature and the corresponding roles that women were (in)capable of exercising in society... -
New Essays on Leibniz's Theodicy by Larry M. Jorgensen 9780199660032
$208.19In 1710 G. W. Leibniz published Theodicy: Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man, and the Origin of Evil. This book, the only one he published in his lifetime, established his reputation more than anything else he wrote. The Theodicy brings... -
The Expansion of Autonomy: Hegel's Pluralistic Philosophy of Action by Christopher Yeomans 9780199394548
$207.35Georg Lukacs wrote that "there is autonomy and 'autonomy.' The one is a moment of life itself, the elevation of its richness and contradictory unity; the other is a rigidification, a barren self-seclusion, a self-imposed banishment from the dynamic... -
Kantian Subjects: Critical Philosophy and Late Modernity by Karl Ameriks 9780198841852
RRP: $163.80$129.05In this volume, Karl Ameriks explores 'Kantian subjects' in three senses. In Part I, he first clarifies the most distinctive features-such as freedom and autonomy-of Kant's notion of what it is for us to be a subject. Other chapters then consider related... -
Bernard Bolzano: His Life and Work by Paul Rusnock 9780198823681
RRP: $278.25$190.85Bernard Bolzano (1781-1850) is increasingly recognized as one of the greatest nineteenth-century philosophers. A philosopher and mathematician of rare talent, he made ground-breaking contributions to logic, the foundations and philosophy of mathematics,... -
Language and the Structure of Berkeley's World by Kenneth L. Pearce 9780198790334
$167.83According to George Berkeley (1685-1753), there is fundamentally nothing in the world but minds and their ideas. Ideas are understood as pure phenomenal 'feels' which are momentarily had by a single perceiver, then vanish. Surprisingly, Berkeley tries to... -
Baumgarten and Kant on Metaphysics by Courtney D. Fugate 9780198783886
$170.16Baumgarten and Kant on Metaphysics explores the metaphysics of Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten (17141762) and its decisive influence on Immanuel Kant. For over a century, scholars have recognized the significance of Baumgarten's Metaphysics, both because... -
Nietzsche on Mind and Nature by Manuel Dries 9780198722236
RRP: $157.50$153.89This volume presents new essays exploring important aspects of Nietzsche's philosophy in connection with two major themes: mind and nature. A team of leading experts address questions including: What is Nietzsche's conception of mind? How does mind... -
Shifting Ground: Knowledge and Reality, Transgression and Trustworthiness by Naomi Scheman 9780195395112
RRP: $134.40$116.34This volume of essays by Naomi Scheman brings together her views on epistemic and socio-political issues, views that draw on a critical reading of Wittgenstein as well as on liberatory movements and theories, all in the service of a fundamental... -
Reflection and the Stability of Belief: Essays on Descartes, Hume, and Reid by Louis E. Loeb 9780195368765
RRP: $134.40$117.18A unifying theme of Loeb's work is epistemological - that Descartes and Hume advance theories of knowledge that rely on a substantial 'naturalistic' component, adopitng one or another member of a cluster of psychological properties of beliefs as the goal... -
Classics of Philosophy: Volume III: The Twentieth Century by Louis P. Pojman 9780195132830
RRP: $163.78$101.16This is Volume 3 of the most comprehensive anthology of writings in Western philosophy in print. It assembles the classic essays of Western philosophy of the twentieth century which have given shape and value to its character and structure. From logical... -
Differences: Rereading Beauvoir and Irigaray by Emily Anne Parker 9780190275594
RRP: $231.00$205.02Simone de Beauvoir and Luce Irigaray famously insisted on their philosophical differences, and this mutual insistence has largely guided the reception of their thought. What does it mean to return to Simone de Beauvoir and Luce Irigaray in light of... -
Anscombe's Intention: A Guide by John Schwenkler 9780190052027
RRP: $205.80$167.83Written against the background of her controversial opposition to the University of Oxford's awarding of an honorary degree to Harry S. Truman, Elizabeth Anscombe's Intention laid the groundwork she thought necessary for a proper ethical evaluation of... -
Family Pictures: A Philosopher Explores the Familiar by Laura Kaplan 9780812693621
RRP: $27.28$25.10"Family Pictures" reveals the immediate and important application that classical philosophical questions have to our aspirations, emotional ties with others, jobs, concrete relationships, and daily routines. In this volume, a philosopher writes in the... -
The Philosophy of Michael Dummett by Randall E. Auxier 9780812696226
RRP: $90.28$85.28For over 50 years, Sir Michael Dummett has been a major philosophical voice in a wide range of fields, including epistemology, ontology, and the philosophy of language. This comprehensive volume treats all of these subjects and more in detail. It... -
Aspects of Alterity: Levinas, Marcel, and the Contemporary Debate by Brian Treanor 9780823226849
$181.29"Every other is truly other, but no other is wholly other." This is the claim that Aspects of Alterity defends. Taking up the question of otherness that so fascinates contemporary continental philosophy, this book asks what it means for something or... -
Being and Some 20th Century Thomists by John F.X. Knasas 9780823222483
$180.94In this powerfully argued book, Knasas engages a debate at the heart of the revival of Thomistic thought in the twentieth century. Richly detailed and illuminating, his book calls on the tradition established by Gilson, Maritain, and Owen, to build a... -
The Anthropological Turn: The Human Orientation of Karl Rahner by Anton Losinger 9780823220663
$151.73The form and content of the study of theology in the present, modern epoch are marked by a vast quantity and variety of the most diverse and, in part, the most divergent points of departure. The classical unity and perspicuity of the world of theological... -
A Thoughtful Profession: The Early Years of the American Philosophical Association by James Campbell 9780812696028
RRP: $75.58$64.91A profession that contemplates timeless truth, philosophy is rarely seen through a historian's eyes, with its own discrete history and relationship to domestic and international politics. This fascinating, richly detailed account charts the development... -
Harmless Naturalism: The Limits of Science and the Nature of Philosophy by Robert Almeder 9780812693799
RRP: $79.78$68.27Does science have all the answers? The view that it does is known as scientific naturalism or scientism, and is now commonly advanced under the label 'naturalized epistemology'. Scientism holds that the only legitimate claims about the world are those... -
Foucault's Critical Project: Between the Transcendental and the Historical by Helene Beatrice Han 9780804737081
$153.78This book uncovers and explores the constant tension between the historical and the transcendental that lies at the heart of Michel Foucault's work. In the process, it also assesses the philosophical foundations of his thought by examining his... -
Nietzsche: An Introduction by Gianni Vattimo 9780804737982
$226.84This book is both a concise and lucid introduction to Nietzsche and an original contribution to critical debates concerning Nietzsche interpretation and reception. This overview takes issue with the prevailing tendency to focus on Nietzsche's later work,... -
God, Death, and Time by Emmanuel Levinas 9780804736657
$227.01This book consists of transcripts from two lecture courses Levinas delivered in 1975-76, his last year at the Sorbonne. They cover some of the most pervasive themes of his thought and were written at a time when he had just published his most... -
Conversations with Anthony Giddens: Making Sense of Modernity by Anthony Giddens 9780804735681
$115.63Anthony Giddens has been described as "the most important English social philosopher of our time." Over 25 years, with a dazzling series of books that attest to his unrelenting productivity, he has established himself as today's most widely... -
Kierkegaard and Consciousness by Adi Shmueli 9780691647173
$179.38Kierkegaard's philosophy is the description of the structure and behavior of human consciousness. Adi Shmueli reconstructs that philosophy by showing that it always reflects the structure in question, and thus provides a useful key to Kierkegaard's work... -
Diderot's Chaotic Order: Approach to Synthesis by Lester G. Crocker 9780691645520
$175.62Because of its fragmentary, evolving, exploratory, and dialectical character, Diderot's thought has continuously resisted overall synthesis. In the ideas of "order" and "disorder," ideas important in all of eighteenth-century thought,... -
Berkeley's Three Dialogues: New Essays by Stefan Storrie 9780198755685
RRP: $144.90$124.45This is the first volume of essays devoted to Berkeley's Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous, a classic of early modern philosophy. Leading experts examine all the central issues in Berkeley's work. The Three Dialogues is a dramatization of... -
Questions of Order: Confederation and the Making of Modern Canada by Cary Boucock 9781487522186
RRP: $46.18$41.73What happened on July 1, 1867? Over 150 years after Canadian Confederation, it seems like a question with an obvious answer. Questions of Order argues that Confederation was not just a political deal struck by politicians in 1867, but was a process of... -
The Women Are Up to Something: How Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Mary Midgley, and Iris Murdoch Revolutionized Ethics by Benjamin J. Bruxvoort Lipscomb 9780197689967
RRP: $31.48$27.49The story of four remarkable women who shaped the intellectual history of the 20th century: Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Mary Midgley, and Iris Murdoch. On the cusp of the Second World War, four women went to Oxford to begin their studies: a... -
Toleration and Understanding in Locke by Nicholas Jolley 9780198791706
$174.80Despite recent advances in Locke scholarship, philosophers and political theorists have paid little attention to the relations among his three greatest works: An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Two Treatises of Government, and Epistola de... -
Wittgenstein and Natural Religion by Gordon Graham 9780198713975
$158.53Gordon Graham presents a radically innovative study of Wittgenstein's philosophy, in relation to the age-old impulse to connect ordinary human life with the transcendent reality of God. He offers an account of its relevance to the study of religion that... -
The World of René Girard: Interviews by Nadine Dormoy 9781611864861
$77.05In 1988, Nadine Dormoy conducted a series of interviews with RenÉ Girard at a pivotal moment in his career, just after a number of books and conferences had situated his work in a new context of research on self-organizing systems. In these interviews,... -
Rilke's Sonnets to Orpheus: Philosophical and Critical Perspectives by Hannah Vandegrift Eldridge 9780190685416
RRP: $205.80$167.83Written in three weeks of creative inspiration, Rainer Maria Rilke's Sonnets to Orpheus (1923) is well known for its enigmatic power and lyrical intensity. The essays in this volume forge a new path in illuminating the philosophical significance of this...