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Leibniz on Causation and Agency by Julia Jorati 9781107192676
RRP: £92.99£83.67This book presents a comprehensive examination of Gottfried Leibniz's views on the nature of agents and their actions. Julia Jorati offers a fresh look at controversial topics including Leibniz's doctrines of teleology, the causation of spontaneous... -
Mandeville and Hume: Anatomists of Civil Society by Mikko Tolonen 9780729410687
£85.99The Fable of the bees and the Treatise of human nature were written to define and dissect the essential components of a 'civil society'. How have early readings of the Fable skewed our understanding of the work and its author? To what extent did... -
Essays -- Moral Political & Literary, 2nd Edition by David Hume 9780865970557
£27.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865970557Author David HumeFormat HardbackPage Count 684Imprint Liberty Fund IncPublisher Liberty Fund IncWeight(grams) 1286g -
Hammer Of The Gods: Apocalyptic Texts for the Criminally Insane by Friedrich Nietzsche
RRP: £9.95£6.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983884262Author Friedrich NietzscheFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Sun Vision PressPublisher Sun Vision PressWeight(grams) 277g -
On Leibniz: Expanded Edition by Nicholas Rescher
£56.60Contemporary philosopher John Searle has characterized Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) as “the most intelligent human being who has ever lived.” The German philosopher, mathematician, and logician invented calculus (independently of Sir Isaac... -
Bentham: Selected Writings of John Dinwiddy by John R. Dinwiddy
£54.77Jeremy Bentham, the founder of utilitarianism, made a powerful impact on several major areas of thought and policy: ethics, jurisprudence, political and constitutional theory, and social and administrative reform. Yet from the start his ideas have been... -
Women Philosophers in the Long Nineteenth Century: The German Tradition by Dalia Nassar
RRP: £86.00£83.24The long nineteenth-century—the period beginning with the French Revolution and ending with World War I—was a transformative period for women philosophers in German-speaking countries and contexts. The period spans romanticism and idealism, socialism,... -
"Chatter": Language and History in Kierkegaard by Peter Fenves
£77.81"Chatter" cannot always be taken lightly, for the insignificance and insubstantiality of "idle talk," "prattle," "nonsense," and so forth challenge the very notions of substance and significance through which... -
Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Fundamental Political Writings by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
RRP: £18.95£17.48Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Fundamental Political Writings includes the Social Contract, Discourse on the Sciences and the Arts, Discourse on the Origins of Inequality, and "Preface to Narcissus." Each text has been newly translated, and includes a... -
The Scottish Enlightenment: Human Nature, Social Theory and Moral Philosophy: Essays in Honour of Christopher Berry by Robin Mills
£112.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474467315Author Robin MillsFormat HardbackPage Count 344Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press -
Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy, Volume IX by Donald Rutherford
RRP: £78.00£61.45Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy is an annual series, presenting a selection of the best current work in the history of early modern philosophy. It focuses on the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries-the extraordinary period of intellectual... -
John Locke: Literary and Historical Writings by J. R. Milton
RRP: £110.00£99.81This is the first critical edition (and in some cases, the first edition ever) of the various literary and historical writings of the philosopher John Locke (1632-1704). The writings published here include poems, orations, a plan for a play, detailed... -
Jacques Derrida and the Institution of French Philosophy by Vivienne Orchard
RRP: £75.00£74.25This book explores the importance of Jacques Derrida in French philosophy and France's idea of what studying 'philosophy' might mean after the student uprisings of 1968. It discusses the GREPH's significance in relation to some of the issues around... -
Thomas Hill Green and the Development of Liberal-Democratic Thought by I M Greengarten
RRP: £18.99£17.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781487599270Author I M GreengartenFormat PaperbackPage Count 164Imprint University of Toronto PressPublisher University of Toronto PressWeight(grams) 249g -
Deleuze and Race by Arun Saldanha
RRP: £31.00£28.69The French philosopher Gilles Deleuze and his collaborator Felix Guattari provided new concepts of how humans are differentiated, through processes of state formation, capitalism, madness and desire. As this collection of essays shows, Deleuze and... -
Essays on Frege's Basic Laws of Arithmetic by Philip A. Ebert
RRP: £130.00£90.88The volume is the first collection of essays that focuses on Gottlob Frege's Basic Laws of Arithmetic (1893/1903), highlighting both the technical and the philosophical richness of Frege's magnum opus. It brings together twenty-two renowned Frege... -
Early Modern Philosophy: An Anthology by Lisa Shapiro
£63.67This new anthology of early modern philosophy enriches the possibilities for teaching this period by highlighting not only metaphysics and epistemology but also new themes such as virtue, equality and difference, education, the passions, and love. It... -
Frege's Detour: An Essay on Meaning, Reference, and Truth by John Perry
RRP: £22.49£20.37John Perry offers a rethinking of Gottlob Frege's seminal contributions to philosophy of language. Frege's innovations provided the basis of modern logic, but his influence in other areas should not be understated. For instance, the view that he... -
The Edinburgh Companion to Twentieth-century Philosophies by Constantin V. Boundas
RRP: £125.00£114.90The Companion is organized into two sections, each one of which reflects the developments of the Anglo-American Analytic and the Continental European philosophical traditions respectively. An appendix presents the main accomplishments of non-Western... -
Crossings: Nietzsche and the Space of Tragedy by John Sallis
RRP: £28.00£27.39Boldly contesting recent scholarship, Sallis argues that The Birth of Tragedy is a rethinking of art at the limit of metaphysics. His close reading focuses on the complexity of the Apollinian/Dionysian dyad and on the crossing of these basic art impulses... -
Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy, Volume VIII by Daniel Garber
RRP: £72.00£59.26Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy is an annual series, presenting a selection of the best current work in the history of early modern philosophy. It focuses on the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries-the extraordinary period of intellectual... -
Walter Benjamin and the Demands of History by Michael P. Steinberg
RRP: £35.00£30.74This book is the first to consider the presence of history and the question of historical practice in Walter Benjamin's work. Benjamin, the critic and philosopher of history, was also the practitioner, the authors contend, and it is in the practice of... -
Global Origins of the Modern Self, from Montaigne to Suzuki by Avram Alpert
£81.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438473857Author Avram AlpertFormat HardbackPage Count 452Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York... -
Deleuzism: A Metacommentary by Ian Buchanan
RRP: £22.99£20.72The conviction that Gilles Deleuze is doing something radical in his work has been accompanied by a corresponding anxiety as to how to read it. In this rigorous and lucid work, Ian Buchanan takes up the challenge by answering the following questions: How... -
Walter Benjamin: An Introduction to His Work and Thought by Uwe Steiner
RRP: £23.00£22.13Seven decades after his death, German Jewish writer, philosopher, and literary critic Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) continues to fascinate readers and influence academic writing, both stylistically and conceptually. Here Uwe Steiner offers a comprehensive... -
Martin Heidegger and the First World War: Being and Time as Funeral Oration by William H. F. Altman
RRP: £50.00£43.76In a 1934 speech, marking the Twenty-fifth Reunion of his high school class, Martin Heidegger spoke eloquently of classmates killed in the Great War and called on his audience to recognize that the national rebirth now occuring in Hitler's Germany must... -
Iconoclastic Theology: Gilles Deleuze and the Secretion of Atheism by F. LeRon Shults
RRP: £23.99£21.85Offera a new reading of Deleuze's whole corpus in light of his treatment of religion and theological themes. French philosopher Gilles Deleuze was vehemently opposed to the idea of the transcendental, yet still found value in religion - in its ability to... -
Living Mirrors: Infinity, Unity, and Life in Leibniz's Philosophy by Ohad Nachtomy
RRP: £85.00£61.45In Living Mirrors, Ohad Nachtomy examines Leibniz's attempt to "re-enchant" the natural world-that is, to infuse life, purpose, and value into the very foundations of nature, a nature that Leibniz saw as disenchanted by Descartes' and Spinoza's more... -
Kant's Revolutionary Theory of Modality by Uygar Abaci
£92.50Kant's Revolutionary Theory of Modality is a comprehensive study of Immanuel Kant's views on modal notions of possibility, actuality or existence, and necessity. Abaci locates Kant's views on these notions in their broader historical context, establishes... -
Camus' Answer: 'No' to the Western Pharisees Who Impose Reason on Reality by Robert C. Trundle
£55.91This book investigates whether Camus' ideal of living without conceptual absolutes is an attainable goal.Book InformationISBN 9781902210988Author Robert C. TrundleFormat HardbackPage Count 183Imprint Sussex Academic PressPublisher Sussex Academic... -
Modern Philosophy: An Anthology of Primary Sources by Roger Ariew
RRP: £93.99£77.04The 3rd edition of this masterfully edited anthology incorporates important contributions of women and minority thinkers into the canon of the modern period, while retaining all of the material of the previous edition. Included are works by Princess... -
Individuality and Beyond: Nietzsche Reads Emerson by Benedetta Zavatta
RRP: £59.00£53.25Though few might think to connect the two figures, Ralph Waldo Emerson was an important influence on Friedrich Nietzsche. Specifically, Emerson played a fundamental role in shaping Nietzsche's philosophical ideas on individualism, perfectionism, and the... -
The Cambridge Companion to the Scottish Enlightenment by Alexander Broadie
RRP: £85.00£77.00The second edition of this Companion presents a philosophical perspective on an eighteenth-century phenomenon that has had a profound influence on Western culture. A distinguished team of contributors examines the writings of David Hume, Adam Smith,... -
Feminist Interpretations of Soren Kierkegaard by Celine Leon
RRP: £32.95£29.47Unlike many of the major figures in Western philosophy, Kierkegaard explores many issues of interest to feminist theorists today. Moreover, he does so in a style-labyrinthine, many-voiced, multilayered, adverse to authority-that adumbrates ecriture... -
The Rise and Fall of Scottish Common Sense Realism by Douglas McDermid
RRP: £75.00£63.31The Rise and Fall of Scottish Common Sense Realism examines the ways in which five Scottish philosophers - Lord Kames (1696-1782), Thomas Reid (1710-1796), Dugald Stewart (1753-1828), Sir William Hamilton (1788-1856), and James Frederick Ferrier... -
Vico's "New Science": A Philosophical Commentary by Donald Phillip Verene
RRP: £62.00£53.96Giambattista Vico (1668-1744) is best remembered for his major work, the New Science (Scienza nuova), in which he sets forth the principles of humanity and gives an account of the stages common to the development of all societies in their historical life... -
Speculative Realism: Problems and Prospects by Peter Gratton
RRP: £110.00£109.56Speculative realism is one of the most talked-about movements in recent Continental philosophy. It has been discussed widely amongst the younger generation of Continental philosophers seeking new philosophical approaches and promises to form the... -
The Death of Nietzsche's Zarathustra by Paul S. Loeb
RRP: £90.00£71.57In this study of Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Paul S. Loeb proposes a fresh account of the relation between the book's literary and philosophical aspects and argues that the book's narrative is designed to embody and exhibit the truth of eternal... -
Descartes and the Ontology of Everyday Life by Deborah J. Brown
RRP: £86.00£61.45The seventeenth century was a period of extraordinary invention, discovery and revolutions in scientific, social and political orders. It was a time of expansive automation, biological discovery, rapid advances in medical knowledge, of animal trials and... -
After Bataille: Sacrifice, Exposure, Community by Patrick Ffrench
RRP: £84.99£74.25This book maps French intellectual history in the twentieth century through an interpretative engagement with the thought and legacy of Georges Bataille. It highlights the influence of Bataille and the movement of the concept of sacrifice through his...