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Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe: (Un)Timely Meditations by John McKeane
RRP: £84.99£73.85This book focuses on Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe's oeuvre within a timely framework, and on the counterpoint to this, being organized around areas of Lacoue-Labarthe's oeuvre that appear to be untimely in their relation to narratives of the period.Book... -
Kant's Tribunal of Reason: Legal Metaphor and Normativity in the Critique of Pure Reason by Sofie Moller
RRP: £90.00£81.03Kant's Critique of Pure Reason, his main work of theoretical philosophy, frequently uses metaphors from law. In this first book-length study in English of Kant's legal metaphors and their role in the first Critique, Sofie Moller shows that they are... -
Emerson's Transcendental Etudes by Stanley Cavell
RRP: £108.00£93.80This book is Stanley Cavell's definitive expression on Emerson. Over the past thirty years, Cavell has demonstrated that he is the most emphatic and provocative philosophical critic of Emerson that America has yet known. The sustained effort of that... -
The Indivisible Remainder by Slavoj Zizek 9781844675814
RRP: £17.99£14.36The feature which distinguishes the great works of materialist thought, from Lucretius' De rerum natura through Capital to the writings of Lacan, is their unfinished character: again and again they tackle their chosen problem. Schelling's Weltalter... -
Truth and Hope by P. T. Geach 9780268042158
RRP: £21.99£19.19In this collection of essays, which were first delivered as lectures at the International Academy of Philosophy in the Principality of Liechtenstein in 1998, distinguished philosopher Peter Geach confronts some of the most difficult issues in philosophy... -
Curing Mad Truths: Medieval Wisdom for the Modern Age by Remi Brague 9780268105693
RRP: £29.99£21.78In his first book composed in English, Remi Brague maintains that there is a fundamental problem with modernity: we no longer consider the created world and humanity as intrinsically valuable. Curing Mad Truths, based on a number of Brague's lectures to... -
The Cambridge Companion to Mill by John Skorupski
RRP: £34.99£30.49John Stuart Mill (1806-73) ranks among the very greatest thinkers of the nineteenth century. His impact through his books, journalism, correspondence, and political activity on modern culture and thought has been immense, and his continuing importance... -
Correspondence: 1939 - 1969 by Theodor W Adorno
RRP: £35.00£31.27At first glance, Theodor W. Adorno's critical social theory and Gershom Scholem's scholarship of Jewish mysticism could not seem farther removed from one another. To begin with, they also harbored a mutual hostility. But their first conversations in 1938... -
Postmodernism: A Beginner's Guide by Kevin Hart
RRP: £9.99£7.11Adopting the role of tour guide, award-winning writer Kevin Hart leads the reader through the pitfalls, conundrums and complexities that characterize postmodernism, while providing an overview of the many different approaches (philosophical, cultural,... -
The Collapse of Mechanism and the Rise of Sensibility: Science and the Shaping of Modernity, 1680-1760 by Stephen Gaukroger 9780199664665
RRP: £47.99£34.63Understanding the emergence of a scientific culture - one in which cognitive values generally are modelled on, or subordinated to, scientific ones - is one of the foremost historical and philosophical problems with which we are now confronted. The... -
The Passion of Michel Foucault by Jim Miller 9780385472401 [USED COPY]
RRP: £20.00£6.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385472401Author James MillerFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing GroupPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group... -
True Purposes in Hegel's Logic by Edgar Maraguat
RRP: £85.00£76.60This book addresses a key issue in Hegel's philosophical legacy - his account of purposiveness and teleology - that has often been wrongly criticised and misunderstood. In a re-examination of Hegel's account of purposiveness and teleology, Edgar Maraguat... -
Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous by George Berkeley
RRP: £10.99£9.00A model of what an edition of a philosohic text for an introductory level should be. Introduction does an admirable job of putting Berkeley's thought in the intellectual context of its time. --Gary C. HatfieldReviewsA model of what an edition of a... -
Testimony: A Philosophical Study by Professor C. A. J. Coady 9780198235514
RRP: £61.00£47.17The role of testimony in the getting of reliable belief or knowledge is a central but neglected epistemological issue. Western philosophical tradition has paid scant attention to the individual thinker's reliance upon the word of others; yet we are in... -
After Hegel: German Philosophy, 1840-1900 by Frederick C. Beiser 9780691173719
RRP: £22.00£17.36Histories of German philosophy in the nineteenth century typically focus on its first half--when Hegel, idealism, and Romanticism dominated. By contrast, the remainder of the century, after Hegel's death, has been relatively neglected because it has been... -
The Perennial Scope of Philosophy by Professor Karl Jaspers 9780806529615
RRP: £12.95£9.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806529615Author Professor Karl JaspersFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint Philosophical LibraryPublisher Philosophical LibraryWeight(grams) 295g -
Sex and Character: An Investigation of Fundamental Principles by Otto Weininger
RRP: £67.00£58.17Otto Weininger's controversial book Sex and Character, first published in Vienna in 1903, is a prime example of the conflicting discourses central to its time: antisemitism, scientific racism and biologism, misogyny, the cult and crisis of masculinity,... -
Wittgenstein: Mind and Will: Volume 4 of an Analytical Commentary on the Philosophical Investigations Part II: Exegesis 428-693 by P. M. S. Hacker
RRP: £36.95£32.91This fourth and final volume of the monumental commentary on Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations covers pp 428-693 of the book. Like the previous volumes, it consists of philosophical essays and exegesis.About the AuthorP. M. S. Hacker is Fellow... -
An Historical View of the English Government: From the Settlement of the Saxons in Britain to the Revolution in 1688 by John Millar 9780865974456
£16.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865974456Author John MillarFormat PaperbackPage Count 889Imprint Liberty Fund IncPublisher Liberty Fund IncWeight(grams) 1213g -
The Cambridge Companion to Locke's 'Essay Concerning Human Understanding' by Lex Newman
RRP: £34.99£26.83First published in 1689, John Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding is widely recognised as among the greatest works in the history of Western philosophy. The Essay puts forward a systematic empiricist theory of mind, detailing how all ideas and... -
The Cambridge Companion to Hegel and Nineteenth-Century Philosophy by Frederick C. Beiser
RRP: £30.99£25.57The Cambridge Companion to Hegel and Nineteenth-Century Philosophy examines Hegel within his broader historical and philosophical contexts. Covering all major aspects of Hegel's philosophy, the volume provides an introduction to his logic, epistemology,... -
Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Mind: Collected Philosophical Papers, Volume 2 by G. E. M. Anscombe
RRP: £40.95£35.89Anscombe on thought, experience, sensation, and the ethics of virtue Gertrude Elizabeth Margaret Anscombe is one of analytical philosophy's most prominent figures, the founder of consequentialism, and a leading mind in the field of virtue ethics... -
Bergson by Leszek Kolakowski 9781890318116
RRP: £10.00£9.80Leszek Kolakowski shows how Henri Bergson sought to reconcile Darwin's theory with his own beliefs about the nature of the universe. Bergson believed that time could be thought of in two different ways: as an abstract measuring device used for practical... -
Remarks on the Philosophy of Psychology V2 by L Wittgenstein 9780631130628
RRP: £35.95£31.67A significant body of work from a 20th Century philosopherRemarks on the Philosophy of Psychology is an English translation of Ludwig Wittgenstein's writings on topics such as sensation and expectation. Wittgenstein was an Austrian-British philosopher... -
Philosophical Papers by J. L. Austin 9780192830210
RRP: £49.99£41.68The influence of J. L. Austin on contemporary philosophy was substantial during his lifetime, and has grown greatly since his death, at the height of his powers, in 1960. Philosophical Papers, first published in 1961, was the first of three volumes of... -
The Cambridge Companion to Hobbes by Professor Tom Sorell
RRP: £30.99£26.83It was as a political thinker that Thomas Hobbes first came to prominence, and it is as a political theorist that he is most studied today. Yet the range of his writings extends well beyond morals and politics. Hobbes had distinctive views in metaphysics... -
The Information Bomb by Paul Virilio 9781844670598
RRP: £13.99£13.93"Civilization or the militarization of science?"With this typically hyperbolic and provocative question as a starting point, Paul Virilio explores the dominion of techno-science, cyberwar and the new information technologies over our lives ... and deaths... -
Interpreting Bergson: Critical Essays by Alexandre Lefebvre
RRP: £30.99£25.45Bergson was a pre-eminent European philosopher of the early twentieth century and his work covers all major branches of philosophy. This volume of essays is the first collection in twenty years in English to address the whole of Bergson's philosophy,... -
Hitler's Philosophers by Yvonne Sherratt
RRP: £14.99£13.03A gripping account of the philosophers who supported Hitler's rise to power and those whose lives were wrecked by his regime Hitler had a dream to rule the world, not only with the gun but also with his mind. He saw himself as a... -
Kant's Philosophical Revolution: A Short Guide to the Critique of Pure Reason by Yirmiyahu Yovel 9780691204574
RRP: £20.00£15.89A short, clear, and authoritative guide to one of the most important and difficult works of modern philosophy Perhaps the most influential work of modern philosophy, Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason is also one of the hardest to read, since it... -
Kant's Ethical Thought by Allen W. Wood 9780521648363
RRP: £34.99£30.09This is a major new study of Kant's ethics that will transform the way students and scholars approach the subject in future. Allen Wood argues that Kant's ethical vision is grounded in the idea of the dignity of the rational nature of every human being... -
Principles of Non-Philosophy by Francois Laruelle 9781350009097
RRP: £23.99£23.80Principles of Non-Philosophy is a treatise on the method, axioms and objectives of non-philosophy and represents Francois Laruelle's mature philosophy. As well as presenting the method and principles of non-philosophy, it includes a history of the... -
Last Writings on the Philosophy of Psychology: The Inner and the Outer, 1949 - 1951, Volume 2 by Ludwig Wittgenstein 9780631189565
RRP: £33.95£29.98In the last years of his life, from 1949 to 1951, Wittgensteina s writings focused upon knowledge and certainty (collected together in On Certainty), upon colour concepts (in Remarks on Colour) and upon the relation between the "inner" and... -
Metaphilosophy by Henri Lefebvre
£24.20In Metaphilosophy, Henri Lefebvre works through the implications of Marx's revolutionary thought for philosophy. Metaphilosophy is conceived as a transformation of philosophy, developing it into a programme of radical worldwide change. The book... -
The Philosophy of Leibniz by Bertrand Russell 9780851247427
RRP: £16.00£15.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780851247427Author Bertrand RussellFormat PaperbackPage Count 408Imprint Spokesman BooksPublisher Spokesman Books -
(Per)versions of Love and Hate by Renata Salecl
£17.14Why, when we are desperately in love, do we endlessly block union with our love object? Why do we often destroy what we love most? Why do we search out the impossible object? Is it that we desire things because they are unavailable, and therefore, to... -
Disparities by Slavoj Zizek 9781350066564
£17.13The concept of disparity has long been a topic of obsession and argument for philosophers but Slavoj Zizek would argue that what disparity and negativity could mean, might mean and should mean for us and our lives has never been more hotly debated. ... -
The Essential Ken Wilber by Ken Wilber 9781570623790
RRP: £23.00£15.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781570623790Author Ken WilberFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)... -
The Spinoza-Machiavelli Encounter: Time and Occasion by Vittorio Morfino 9781474474528
RRP: £21.99£17.97Vittorio Morfino draws out the implications of the dynamic Spinoza Machiavelli encounter by focusing on the concepts of causality, temporality and politics. This allows him to think through the relationship between ontology and politics, leading to an... -
Voltaire: Philosophical Letters: Or, Letters Regarding the English Nation by Voltaire 9780872208810
RRP: £11.99£9.77In his Philosophical Letters, Voltaire provides a pungent and often satirical assessment of the religion, politics, science, and arts of the England he observed during his nearly three-year exile. In addition to the Letters, this edition provides a...