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The Political Morality of the Late Scholastics: Civic Life, War and Conscience by Daniel Schwartz 9781108492454
RRP: $175.50$158.01The Late Scholastics, writing in Europe in the Baroque and Early Modern periods, discussed a wide variety of moral questions relating to political life in times of both peace and war. Is it ever permissible to bribe voters? Can tax evasion be morally... -
How Theology Shaped Twentieth-Century Philosophy by Frank B. Farrell 9781108491716
RRP: $175.50$158.01Medieval theology had an important influence on later philosophy which is visible in the empiricisms of Russell, Carnap, and Quine. Other thinkers, including McDowell, Kripke, and Dennett, show how we can overcome the distorting effects of that... -
Herder's Naturalist Aesthetics by Rachel Zuckert 9781108483070
RRP: $175.50$158.01In this book, Rachel Zuckert provides the first overarching account of Johann Gottfried Herder's complex aesthetic theory. She guides the reader through Herder's texts, showing how they relate to eighteenth- and nineteenth-century European philosophy of... -
The Philosophical Progress of Hume's Essays by Margaret Watkins 9781108476270
RRP: $175.50$158.01For those open to the possibility that philosophical thought can improve life, David Hume's Essays: Moral, Political, and Literary have something to say. In the first comprehensive study of the Essays, Margaret Watkins engages closely with these... -
Nietzsche's Free Spirit Works: A Dialectical Reading by Matthew Meyer 9781108474177
RRP: $175.50$158.01Between 1878 and 1882, Nietzsche published what he called 'the free spirit works': Human, All Too Human; Assorted Opinions and Maxims; The Wanderer and His Shadow; Daybreak; and The Gay Science. Often approached as a mere assemblage of loosely connected... -
Nietzsche's Metaphilosophy: The Nature, Method, and Aims of Philosophy by Paul S. Loeb 9781108422253
RRP: $175.50$158.01Recent Anglophone scholarship has successfully shown that Nietzsche's thought makes important contributions to a wide range of contemporary philosophical debates. In so doing, however, scholarship has lost sight of another important feature of... -
Heidegger's Moral Ontology by James D. Reid 9781108422185
RRP: $175.50$158.01Heidegger's Moral Ontology offers the first comprehensive account of the ethical issues that underwrite Heidegger's efforts to develop a novel account of human existence. Drawing from a wide array of source materials from the period leading up to the... -
Hobbes's On the Citizen: A Critical Guide by Robin Douglass 9781108421980
RRP: $175.50$158.01This is the first book-length study in English of Thomas Hobbes's On the Citizen. It aims to show that On the Citizen is a valuable and distinctive philosophical work in its own right, and not merely a stepping-stone toward the more famous Leviathan. The... -
Interpreting Bergson: Critical Essays by Alexandre Lefebvre 9781108421157
RRP: $163.78$147.62Bergson 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,... -
Moral Philosophy in Eighteenth-Century Britain: God, Self, and Other by Colin Heydt 9781108421096
RRP: $181.33$163.16The long eighteenth century is a crucial period in the history of ethics, when our moral relations to God, ourselves and others were minutely examined and our duties, rights and virtues systematically and powerfully presented. Colin Heydt charts the... -
Kant on Reality, Cause, and Force: From the Early Modern Tradition to the Critical Philosophy by Tal Glezer 9781108420693
RRP: $175.50$158.01Kant's category of reality is an often overlooked element of his Critique of Pure Reason. Tal Glezer shows that it nevertheless belongs at the core of Kant's mature critical philosophy: it captures an issue that motivated his critical turn, shaped his... -
Nietzsche's Metaphysics of the Will to Power: The Possibility of Value by Tsarina Doyle 9781108417280
RRP: $175.50$158.01Nietzsche's controversial will to power thesis is convincingly rehabilitated in this compelling book. Tsarina Doyle presents a fresh interpretation of his account of nature and value, which sees him defy the dominant conception of nature in the... -
Peirce on Realism and Idealism by Robert Lane 9781108415224
RRP: $175.50$158.01This book offers a new interpretation of the metaphysics of Charles Peirce (1839-1914), the founder of pragmatism and one of America's greatest philosophers. Robert Lane begins by examining Peirce's basic realism, his belief in a world that is... -
The Imagination in German Idealism and Romanticism by Gerad Gentry 9781107197701
RRP: $175.50$158.01For philosophers of German idealism and early German romanticism, the imagination is central to issues ranging from hermeneutics to transcendental logic and from ethics to aesthetics. This volume of new essays brings together, for the first time,... -
Interpreting Dilthey: Critical Essays by Eric S. Nelson 9781107132993
RRP: $175.50$158.79In this wide-ranging and authoritative volume, leading scholars engage with the philosophy and writings of Wilhelm Dilthey, a key figure in nineteenth-century thought. Their chapters cover his innovative philosophical strategies and explore how they can... -
Herder's Hermeneutics: History, Poetry, Enlightenment by Kristin Gjesdal 9781107112865
RRP: $175.50$158.01Through a detailed study of Herder's Enlightenment thought, especially his philosophy of literature, Kristin Gjesdal offers a new and sometimes provocative reading of the historical origins and contemporary challenges of modern hermeneutics. She shows... -
Hegel's Philosophy of Spirit: A Critical Guide by Marina F. Bykova 9781107195547
RRP: $175.50$158.79The essays in this volume address topics prominent in current debates about Hegel's Philosophy of Spirit, which originally appeared as the third part of his Encyclopaedia of the Philosophical Sciences (1817, 1827, 1830). Together, a group of... -
Kantian Ethics, Dignity and Perfection by Dr. Paul Formosa 9781107189249
RRP: $181.33$163.16In this volume Paul Formosa sets out a novel approach to Kantian ethics as an ethics of dignity by focusing on the Formula of Humanity as a normative principle distinct from the Formula of Universal Law. By situating the Kantian conception of dignity... -
Kant and his German Contemporaries: Volume 2, Aesthetics, History, Politics, and Religion by Daniel O. Dahlstrom 9781107178168
RRP: $175.50$158.79Kant's philosophical achievements have long overshadowed those of his German contemporaries, often to the point of concealing his contemporaries' influence upon him. This volume of new essays draws on recent research into the rich complexity of... -
Kant's Lectures on Metaphysics: A Critical Guide by Courtney D. Fugate 9781107176980
RRP: $175.50$163.76Kant divided his course of lectures on metaphysics into six parts: a section entitled 'prolegomena' followed by chapters on ontology, cosmology, empirical psychology, rational psychology, and natural theology. This volume's ten chapters, written by... -
Hegel on Second Nature in Ethical Life by Andreja Novakovic 9781107175969
RRP: $175.50$158.01What does it take to be subjectively free in an objectively rational social order? In this book Andreja Novakovic offers a fresh interpretation of Hegel's account of ethical life by focusing on his concept of habit or 'second nature'. Novakovic addresses... -
Kant's Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason: A Critical Guide by Gordon Michalson 9781107018525
RRP: $175.50$158.01Kant's Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason was written late in his career. It presents a theory of 'radical evil' in human nature, touches on the issue of divine grace, develops a Christology, and takes a seemingly strong interest in the issue... -
John Searle by Joshua Rust 9780826497529
$57.23This book offers a concise and accessible introduction to his work and thought, ideal for students coming to his philosophy for the first time. John Searle is one of the most important and influential analytic philosophers working today. He has made... -
Essays in Honor of Burleigh Wilkins: From History to Justice by Aleksandar Jokic 9780820451619
RRP: $106.28$93.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780820451619Author Aleksandar JokicFormat HardbackPage Count 363Imprint Peter Lang Publishing IncPublisher Peter Lang Publishing IncWeight(grams) 640g -
Seeing Wittgenstein Anew by William Day 9780521838436
RRP: $105.30$95.36Seeing Wittgenstein Anew is a collection which examines Ludwig Wittgenstein's remarks on the concept of aspect-seeing, showing that it was not simply one more topic of investigation in Wittgenstein's later writings but rather a pervasive and guiding... -
The Cambridge Companion to Dewey by Molly Cochran 9780521874564
RRP: $165.75$150.15John Dewey (1859-1952) was a major figure of the American cultural and intellectual landscape in the first half of the twentieth century. While not the originator of American pragmatism, he was instrumental to its articulation as a philosophy and the... -
Saul Kripke by Alan Berger 9780521858267
RRP: $167.68$151.85This collection of essays on Saul Kripke and his philosophy is the first and only collection of essays to examine both published and unpublished writings by Kripke. Its essays, written by distinguished philosophers in the field, present a broader picture... -
The Cambridge History of Philosophy in the Nineteenth Century (1790-1870) by Allen W. Wood 9780521772730
RRP: $185.23$159.45The latest volume in the Cambridge Histories of Philosophy series, The Cambridge History of Philosophy in the Nineteenth Century (1790-1870) brings together twenty-nine leading experts in the field and covers the years 1790-1870. Their twenty-eight... -
Kant's Doctrine of Right: A Commentary by B. Sharon Byrd 9780521196642
$189.46Published in 1797, the Doctrine of Right is Kant's most significant contribution to legal and political philosophy. As the first part of the Metaphysics of Morals, it deals with the legal rights which persons have or can acquire, and aims at providing... -
Kant and Rational Psychology by Corey W. Dyck 9780199688296
RRP: $171.60$156.39Corey W. Dyck presents a new account of Kant's criticism of the rational investigation of the soul in his monumental Critique of Pure Reason, in light of its eighteenth-century German context. When characterizing the rational psychology that is Kant's... -
Michel Foucault: Sesh Porjayer Tattavabhana by Pradip Kumar Bose 9780199494552
RRP: $31.18$28.76This new Bangla book discusses Michel Foucault's political and philosophical thoughts in the last decade of his career. The author argues that this decade was one of his most restless, creative, and fascinating. He discusses and analyses Foucauldian... -
Austin's Way with Skepticism: An Essay on Philosophical Method by Mark Kaplan 9780198824855
$144.63J. L. Austin is famous for writing as if he thought it a condition, on the adequacy of what we say while doing epistemology, that it accord faithfully with what we would say in ordinary circumstances. A durable consensus formed after Austin's death that... -
Kant on Mind, Action, and Ethics by Julian Wuerth 9780199587629
RRP: $189.15$172.05In this book Julian Wuerth offers a radically new interpretation of Kant's theories of mind, action, and ethics. As the author of a Copernican revolution in philosophy, Kant grounded his philosophy in his positive theory of the mind, which remains an... -
American Philosophy before Pragmatism by Russell B. Goodman 9780199577545
RRP: $113.10$102.88Russell B. Goodman tells the story of the development of philosophy in America from the mid-18th century to the late 19th century. The key figures in this story, Jonathan Edwards, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, the writers of The Federalist, and... -
Scottish Philosophy in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries by Gordon Graham 9780199560684
$210.44A History of Scottish Philosophy is a series of collaborative studies, each volume being devoted to a specific period. Together they provide a comprehensive account of the Scottish philosophical tradition, from the centuries that laid the foundation of... -
Descartes and Cartesianism: Essays in Honour of Desmond Clarke by Stephen Gaukroger 9780198779643
RRP: $154.05$139.97This volume is a collection of original essays dealing with Cartesian themes and problems, especially as these arise in connection with Cartesian natural science and the theory of perception, agency, mentality, divinity, and the passions. It focuses in... -
Kant's Transcendental Deduction by Alison Laywine 9780198748922
RRP: $169.65$154.65In this book, Alison Laywine takes up the mystery of the Transcendental Deduction in Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason. What is it supposed to accomplish and how? She collects evidence from the Critique and his other writings to determine what Kant... -
Manifest Reality: Kant's Idealism and his Realism by Lucy Allais 9780198747130
$169.07At the heart of Immanuel Kant's critical philosophy is an epistemological and metaphysical position he calls transcendental idealism; the aim of this book is to understand this position. Despite the centrality of transcendental idealism in Kant's... -
Mill's Progressive Principles by David O. Brink 9780198744399
RRP: $62.38$57.23In Mill's Progressive Principles David Brink provides a systematic reconstruction and assessment of John Stuart Mill's contributions to the utilitarian and liberal traditions, examining his first principles and their application to issues of... -
Kantian Ethics: Value, Agency, and Obligation by Robert Stern 9780198722298
RRP: $193.05$175.52This volume presents a selection of Robert Stern's work on the theme of Kantian ethics. It begins by focusing on the relation between Kant's account of obligation and his view of autonomy, arguing that this leaves room for Kant to be a realist about...