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The A to Z of the Enlightenment by Harvey Chisick 9780810868243
RRP: $94.50$83.77The Enlightenment Movement changed society forever, driving it forward through new and fresh ways of thinking about science, religion, history, politics, and culture. This dictionary offers a balanced overview and helps us to understand and appreciate... -
Transcendence and Film: Cinematic Encounters with the Real by David P. Nichols 9781498580014
RRP: $63.00$56.03In this edited collection of essays, ten experts in film philosophy explore the importance of transcendence for understanding cinema as an art form. They analyze the role of transcendence for some of the most innovative film directors: David Cronenberg,... -
Philosophical Health: A Practical Introduction Dr Luis de Miranda 9781350405028
RRP: $105.00$104.71What does it mean to become a sound mind in a healthy body and harmonious environment? This engaging introduction to the new field of philosophical health, written by its forerunner, presents the core tenets of the discipline. It explains in clear and... -
Cross-Cultural Approaches to Consciousness: Mind, Nature, and Ultimate Reality Itay Shani 9781350238794
$84.19Uniting analytic philosophy with Buddhist, Indian, and Chinese traditions, this collection marks the first systematic cross-cultural examination of one of philosophy of mind's most fascinating questions: can consciousness be conceived as metaphysically... -
Heidegger on Being Affected Katherine Withy 9781009504041
RRP: $104.98$104.69Things get to us. We are moved or affected by 'things' in the ordinary sense=the paraphernalia of our daily lives-and also by ourselves, by others, and by ontological phenomena such as being and time. How can such things get to us? How can things matter... -
Baumgarten and Kant on the Foundations of Practical Philosophy Courtney D. Fugate 9780192873538
RRP: $168.00$152.59Over the last two decades, scholarship on Kant and modern German philosophy has become increasingly focused on understanding their historical roots. Central to this development is the work of Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten (1714-62), whose textbooks... -
Heidegger on Being Affected Katherine Withy 9781009504096
RRP: $35.70$30.91Things get to us. We are moved or affected by 'things' in the ordinary sense=the paraphernalia of our daily lives-and also by ourselves, by others, and by ontological phenomena such as being and time. How can such things get to us? How can things matter... -
Kantian Dignity and its Difficulties Karl Ameriks 9780198917625
RRP: $147.00$133.85Kantian Dignity and its Difficulties defends Kant's doctrine that all human beings have a moral capacity that gives them unconditional dignity. It explains how the reception of this influential doctrine was marred by serious misunderstandings, and how... -
The Right-Wing Mirror of Critical Theory: Studies of Schmitt, Oakeshott, Hayek, Strauss, and Rand by Larry Alan Busk 9781666929638
RRP: $170.10$149.23What really separates emancipatory thinking from its opposite? The prevailing Left defines itself against neoliberalism, conservative traditionalism, and fascism as a matter of course, but are the philosophical differences more apparent than real? The... -
Max Stirner on the Path of Doubt by Lawrence S Stepelevich 9781793636904
RRP: $73.50$65.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781793636904Author Lawrence S StepelevichFormat PaperbackImprint Lexington BooksPublisher Lexington Books -
Historical Dictionary of Heidegger's Philosophy by Frank Schalow 9781538169483
RRP: $86.10$76.61Martin Heidegger's thinking is a complex, and his terminology is as nuanced, as any thinker in the history of philosophy. As the historian of philosophy par excellence, he also exhibits both a greater appreciation and mastery of previous thinkers than... -
Social Media and the Value of Truth by Berrin Beasley 9781498503556
RRP: $94.50$82.93Social media is ubiquitous. From Facebook and Twitter to YouTube, the blogosphere, and Massively Multi-Player Online Role-Playing Games, people have plugged into numerous online venues for social, intellectual, and leisure activities. The pervasiveness... -
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche: The Philosopher of the Second Reich by William H. F. Altman 9780739197813
RRP: $111.30$97.27When careful consideration is given to Nietzsche's critique of Platonism and to what he wrote about Bismarck, Kaiser Wilhelm, and to Germany's place in "international relations" (die Grosse Politik), the philosopher's carefully cultivated... -
Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit: A Critical Rethinking in Seventeen Lectures by Richard Dien Winfield 9781442223370
RRP: $262.50$229.64Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit: A Critical Rethinking in Seventeen Lectures provides a clear and philosophically engaging investigation of Hegel's first masterpiece, perhaps the most revolutionary work of modern philosophy. The book guides the reader on... -
Diphtheria Serum as a Technological Object: A Philosophical Analysis of Serotherapy in France 1894-1900 by Professor Jonathan Simon 9781498531474
RRP: $189.00$165.50Introduced in 1894 as a treatment for a deadly childhood disease, the diphtheria serum stands as a milestone in pharmaceutical history. Diphtheria Serum as a Technological Object: A Philosophical Analysis of Serotherapy in France 1894-1900 considers the... -
Imagination and Postmodernity by Patrick L. Bourgeois 9781498556514
RRP: $90.30$79.34Imagination and Postmodernity addresses the role of the imagination in philosophy today. By focusing on philosophy at the boundary of reason with constant reference to Kant's view of the boundary-limit, it is possible to advance a viable alternative to... -
Imagination and Postmodernity by Patrick L. Bourgeois 9780739181898
RRP: $147.00$127.76Imagination and Postmodernity addresses the role of the imagination in philosophy today. By focusing on philosophy at the boundary of reason with constant reference to Kant's view of the boundary-limit, it is possible to advance a viable alternative to... -
Conservatism and Crisis: The Anti-Modernist Perspective in Twentieth Century German Philosophy by David J. Rosner 9780739175514
RRP: $170.10$149.23What happens to a culture when it's most basic assumptions are questioned and rejected, but no new ones are offered to replace them? This book critically analyzes anti-modernist philosophy, the (perhaps futile) attempt to recover traditional worldviews... -
Curriculum in the Postmodern Condition by Alicia de Alba 9780820441764
RRP: $50.61$41.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780820441764Author Alicia de AlbaFormat PaperbackPage Count 306Imprint Peter Lang Publishing IncPublisher Peter Lang Publishing IncWeight(grams) 420g -
Fallible Man: Philosophy of the Will by Paul Ricoeur 9780823211500
$142.63The most accessible of Ricoeur's early texts, Fallible Man offers an introduction to phenomenological method.Book InformationISBN 9780823211500Author Paul RicoeurFormat HardbackPage Count 196Imprint Fordham University PressPublisher Fordham University... -
Lines of Thought: Discourse, Architectonics, and the Origin of Modern Philosophy by Claudia Brodsky Lacour 9780822317777
RRP: $165.90$100.23It is considerably easier to say that modern philosophy began with Descartes than it is to define the modernity and philosophy to which Descartes gave rise. In Lines of Thought, Claudia Brodsky Lacour describes the double origin of modern philosophy in... -
The Memory of the World: Deep Time, Animality, and Eschatology by Ted Toadvine 9781517916008
RRP: $54.58$43.76Advancing a phenomenological approach to deep time Our imagination today is dominated by the end of the world, from sci-fi and climate fiction to actual predictions of biodiversity collapse, climate disruption, and the emergence of the Anthropocene... -
Rethinking Rights: Historical Development and Philosophical Justification by Eleanor Curran 9781498547895
RRP: $63.00$56.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781498547895Author Eleanor CurranFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Lexington BooksPublisher Lexington Books -
Spinoza & Anti-Spinoza Literature: The Printed Literature of Spinozism 1665-1832 by Fritz Bamberger 9780878209149
RRP: $92.40$86.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780878209149Author Fritz BambergerFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Hebrew Union College Press,U.S.Publisher Hebrew Union College Press,U.S.Weight(grams)... -
Kant's Theory of Value by Christoph Horn 9783110795981
RRP: $220.50$209.41In explicit form, Kant does not speak that much about values or goods. The reason for this is obvious: the concepts of 'values' and 'goods' are part of the eudaimonistic tradition, and he famously criticizes eudaimonism for its flawed 'material' approach... -
Modern Philosophy: An Introduction and Survey by Roger Scruton 9780140249071
RRP: $42.00$31.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780140249071Author Roger ScrutonFormat PaperbackPage Count 624Imprint The Penguin PressPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 471gDimensions(mm) 196mm *... -
Leibniz on God and Man in 1686 by Ryan Phillip Quandt 9781793633248
RRP: $153.30$134.78G. W. Leibniz’s “Discourse on Metaphysics” is viewed by many scholars as a milestone of his mature thought—his first attempt to systematize various stances. A lengthier, theological work, “Examination of the Christian Religion,” written a few months... -
Foucault's Critical Philosophy of History: Unfolding the Present by Adam Takács 9781793651198
RRP: $153.30$134.78Foucault's Critical Philosophy of History: Unfolding the Present provides a comprehensive interpretation of Foucault’s work by focusing on its methodological, procedural, and epistemological elements. Adam Takács argues that despite all its thematic and... -
Posthumanist Manifesto: A Pluralistic Approach by Roberto Marchesini 9781666928228
RRP: $153.30$134.78Posthumanist Manifesto: A Pluralistic Approach compares the posthumanist proposal with humanism and transhumanism in ethics, aesthetics, ontology, and epistemology. Roberto Marchesini clarifies the specificity of the posthumanist approach and the novelty... -
The Idea of Beginning in Jules Lequier's Philosophy by Ghislain Deslandes 9781666927207
RRP: $144.90$125.98The Idea of Beginning in Jules Lequier's Philosophy analyzes the work of an author mostly unknown in Anglophone countries, but who greatly influenced the trajectory of French philosophy over the last two centuries. Jules Lequier, in The Search for a... -
Being and Not Being: End Times of Posthumanism and the Future Undoing of Philosophy by Richard Iveson 9781538188224
RRP: $178.50$156.47Against the grain of many contemporary theoretical positions that indulge in delusions of safety and certainty, Being and Not Being argues that contingency is definitive of the structure of being itself. As a result, any predictions about the future... -
Transcendence and Film: Cinematic Encounters with the Real by David P. Nichols 9781498579995
RRP: $178.50$156.47In this edited collection of essays, ten experts in film philosophy explore the importance of transcendence for understanding cinema as an art form. They analyze the role of transcendence for some of the most innovative film directors: David Cronenberg,... -
Re-thinking Rights: Historical Development and Philosophical Justification by Eleanor Curran 9781498547871
RRP: $178.50$156.47Re-thinking Rights: Historical Development and Philosophical Justification takes a new look at the history of individual rights, focussing on the way that philosophers have written that history. The scholastics and early modern writers used the notion of... -
The Edinburgh Companion to the New European Humanities by Rosi Braidotti 9781399505192
RRP: $262.50$213.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781399505192Author Rosi BraidottiFormat HardbackPage Count 448Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press -
Wittgenstein's On Certainty: There - Like Our Life by Rush Rhees 9781405105798
$238.43Rush Rhees, a close friend of Wittgenstein and a major interpreter of his work, shows how Wittgenstein's On Certainty concerns logic, language, and reality - topics that occupied Wittgenstein since early in his career. Authoritative interpretation... -
A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge by George Berkeley 9780915145409
RRP: $62.98$50.65Kenneth Winkler's esteemed edition of Berkeley's Principles is based on the second edition (London, 1734), the last one published in Berkeley's lifetime. Life other members of Hackett's philosophical classics series, it features editorial elements found... -
On the Dignity of Man by Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola 9780872203976
RRP: $69.28$57.02Reflecting the broad range of interests of a major Renaissance philosopher and his distinctive brand of syncretism, this anthology offers in their entirety three central works of Pico's. On the Dignity of Man, the quintessential expression of Renaissance... -
Nietzsche and the Becoming of Life by Vanessa Lemm 9780823262861
$238.56Throughout his writing career Nietzsche advocated the affirmation of earthly life as a way to counteract nihilism and asceticism. This volume takes stock of the complexities and wide-ranging perspectives that Nietzsche brings to bear on the problem of... -
The Question of German Guilt by Karl Jaspers 9780823220687
RRP: $186.90$186.59Shortly after the Nazi government fell, a philosophy professor at Heidelberg University lectured on a subject that burned the consciousness and conscience of thinking Germans. "Are the German people guilty?" These lectures by Karl Jaspers, an... -
Classic American Philosophers: Peirce, James, Royce, Santayana, Dewey, Whitehead. Selections from Their Writings by Max H. Fisch 9780823216574
$174.85Alfred North Whitehead OM FRS (15 February 1861 - 30 December 1947) was an English mathematician and philosopher. He is best known as the defining figure of the philosophical school known as process philosophy,[16] which today has found application to a...