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Worrying: A Literary and Cultural History by Francis O'Gorman 9781501320323
£17.18Worrying: A Literary and Cultural History suggests a unique approach to the inner life and its ordinary pains. Francis O'Gorman charts the emergence of our contemporary idea of worry in the Victorian era and its establishment, after the First World War,... -
A Commentary on Jean-Paul Sartre's "Critique of Dialectical Reason" by Joseph S. Catalano 9780226097015
RRP: £19.00£18.50Sartre's Critique of Dialectical Reason ranks with Being and Nothingness as a work of major philosophical significance, but it has been largely neglected. The first volume, published in 1960, was dismissed as a Marxist work at a time when structuralism... -
Anti-matter: Michel Houellebecq and Depressive Realism by Ben Jeffery 9781846949227
RRP: £9.99£8.17Michel Houellebecq, author of five novels including Atomised and Platform, has become possibly the world's most famous literary pessimist. His work declares that life is painful and disappointing, death is terrifying, and the human condition is a nasty... -
Heidegger for Beginners by Eric C. Lemay 9781934389133
RRP: £13.99£11.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781934389133Author Eric LemayFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint For BeginnersPublisher For Beginners -
Archaism and Actuality: Japan and the Global Fascist Imaginary by Harry Harootunian 9781478025221
RRP: £24.99£21.67In Archaism and Actuality eminent Marxist historian Harry Harootunian explores the formation of capitalism and fascism in Japan as a prime example of the uneven development of capitalism. He applies his theorization of subsumption to examine how... -
Phenomenology and System by H.S. Harris 9780872202818
RRP: £17.99£14.91A distillation of the author's masterful Hegel's Ladder, this lucid introduction to Hegel's thought articulates the conceptual unity of the Phenomenology as well as the structure of Hegel's system and the place of the Phenomenology within it.About the... -
Homo Viator; Introduction to a Metaphysic of Hope by Gabriel 1889-1973 Marcel 9781013744709
RRP: £33.95£28.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013744709Author Gabriel 1889-1973 MarcelFormat HardbackPage Count 276Imprint Hassell Street PressPublisher Hassell Street PressWeight(grams)... -
Beckett, Derrida, and the Event of Literature by Asja Szafraniec
RRP: £25.99£22.46The late Jacques Derrida's notion of literature is explored in this new study. Starting with Derrida's self-professed inability to comment on the work of Samuel Beckett, whom Derrida nevertheless considered one of the most interesting and exemplary... -
Wittgenstein: Understanding and Meaning: Volume 1 of an Analytical Commentary on the Philosophical Investigations, Part I: Essays by Gordon P. Baker 9781405199247
RRP: £27.95£24.65This is a much revised and extended new edition of Part I of the first volume of the monumental four-volume Analytical Commentary on the Philosophical Investigations. Takes into account much new material that was unavailable when the first edition was... -
Introducing Continental Philosophy: A Graphic Guide by Christopher Kul-Want
RRP: £8.99£6.70What makes philosophy on the continent of Europe so different and exciting? And why does it have such a reputation for being 'difficult'?Continental philosophy was initiated amid the revolutionary ferment of the 18th century, philosophers such as Kant... -
Reproduction, Race, and Gender in Philosophy and the Early Life Sciences by Susanne Lettow 9781438449487
RRP: £26.97£23.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438449487Author Susanne LettowFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York... -
The New Cambridge Companion to Nietzsche by Tom Stern 9781316613863
RRP: £30.99£25.59Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) remains one of the most challenging, influential and controversial figures in the history of philosophy. The New Cambridge Companion to Nietzsche provides a comprehensive and up-to-date guide to his most difficult ideas,... -
Representation and Reality in Wittgenstein's Tractatus by Jose L. Zalabardo
RRP: £29.49£27.15Jose L. Zalabardo puts forward a new interpretation of central ideas in Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus concerning the structure of reality and our representations of it in thought and language. He shows the origins of Wittgenstein's... -
An Inquiry Into The Original Of Our Ideas Of Beauty And Virtue by Francis Hutcheson 9781975798291
RRP: £7.24£6.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781975798291Author Francis HutchesonFormat PaperbackPage Count 106Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent... -
Correspondence & Occasional Writings of Francis Hutcheson by Francis Hutcheson
RRP: £10.95£8.98In light of the fact that Francis Hutcheson (1694-1746) was one of the most influential philosophers of the Scottish Enlightenment, it is remarkable that there has never been an edition of his correspondence. Hutcheson's epistolary offerings include... -
The Many Faces of Realism by Hilary Putnam 9780812690439
£16.09"The first two lectures place the alternative I defend -- a kind of pragmatic realism -- in a historical and metaphysical context. Part of that context is provided by Husserl's remark that the history of modern philosophy begins with Galileo -- that is,... -
A Contemporary in Dissent: Johann Georg Hamann as a Radical Enlightener by Oswald Bayer 9780802866707
RRP: £20.99£16.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802866707Author Oswald BayerFormat PaperbackPage Count 234Imprint William B Eerdmans Publishing CoPublisher William B Eerdmans Publishing CoWeight(grams)... -
Descartes: A Biography by Desmond M. Clarke
RRP: £30.99£23.25Rene Descartes is best remembered today for writing 'I think, therefore I am', but his main contribution to the history of ideas was his effort to construct a philosophy that would be sympathetic to the new sciences that emerged in the seventeenth... -
Lessons on the Analytic of the Sublime by Jean-Francois Lyotard 9780804722421
RRP: £25.99£22.25Philosophical aesthetics has seen an amazing revival over the past decade, as a radical questioning of the very grounds of Western epistemology has revealed that some antinomies of aesthetic experience-and in particular of the limits of the... -
Wittgenstein: Mind and Will: Volume 4 of an Analytical Commentary on the Philosophical Investigations Part I: Essays by P. M. S. Hacker
RRP: £36.95£32.51This 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... -
Modernity and Its Discontents: Making and Unmaking the Bourgeois from Machiavelli to Bellow by Steven B. Smith 9780300240238
RRP: £47.00£45.47Steven B. Smith examines the concept of modernity, not as the end product of historical developments but as a state of mind. He explores modernism as a source of both pride and anxiety, suggesting that its most distinctive characteristics are the... -
The Best of All Possible Worlds: A Story of Philosophers, God, and Evil in the Age of Reason by Steven Nadler
RRP: £25.00£19.59In the spring of 1672, German philosopher and mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz arrived in Paris, home of France's two greatest philosopher-theologians of the period, Antoine Arnauld and Nicolas de Malebranche. The meeting of these three men... -
Nietzsche's Moral Psychology by Mark Alfano
RRP: £30.99£25.45Nietzsche, a trained philologist, frequently urges his readers to interpret him carefully. In this book, Mark Alfano combines detailed close reading with digital methods (corpus analysis and semantic network visualization) to reframe our understanding of... -
Roger Scruton: The Philosopher on Dover Beach by Mark Dooley 9781847060136
RRP: £21.99£19.67This book presents an intriguing portrait of Roger Scruton and his philosophy. Roger Scruton is one of the outstanding British philosophers of the post-war years. Why then is he at best ignored and at worst reviled? Part of the reason is that he is an... -
The Whys of a Philosophical Scrivener by Martin Gardner 9780312206826
RRP: £19.99£15.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312206826Author Martin GardnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint St. Martins Press-3PLPublisher St. Martins Press-3PLWeight(grams) 717g -
Addresses to the German Nation by Johann Gottlieb Fichte 9781603849340
RRP: £18.99£15.67In the winter of 1807, while Berlin was occupied by French troops, the philosopher Johann Gottlieb Fichte presented fourteen public lectures that have long been studied as a major statement of modern nationalism. Yet Fichte's Addresses to the German... -
Philosophical Letters of David K. Lewis: Volume 1: Causation, Modality, Ontology by David K. Lewis
RRP: £132.50£119.50David Kellogg Lewis (1941-2001) was one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century. He made significant contributions to almost every area of analytic philosophy including metaphysics, philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, and... -
Basic Writings of Nietzsche by Friedrich Nietzsche 9780679600008
RRP: £25.00£19.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679600008Author Friedrich NietzscheFormat HardbackPage Count 864Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 890gDimensions(mm)... -
Kant's Tribunal of Reason: Legal Metaphor and Normativity in the Critique of Pure Reason by Sofie Moller 9781108724050
RRP: £30.99£22.85Kant'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... -
The Adventure of French Philosophy by Bruno Bosteels
RRP: £16.99£14.10The Adventure of French Philosophy is essential reading for anyone interested in what Badiou calls the "French moment" in contemporary thought.Badiou explores the exceptionally rich and varied world of French philosophy in a number of groundbreaking... -
Philosophical Remarks by Ludwig Wittgenstein
RRP: £33.95£29.98When in May 1930, the Council of Trinity College, Cambridge, had to decide whether to renew Wittgenstein's research grant, it turned to Bertrand Russell for an assessment of the work Wittgenstein had been doing over the past year. His verdict: The... -
Introduction to Modernity by Henri Lefebvre 9781844677832
RRP: £25.99£17.72Originally published in 1962, when Lefebvre was beginning his career as a lecturer in sociology at the University of Strasbourg, it established his position in the vanguard of a movement which was to culminate in the events of May 1968. A classic... -
The Philosophy of Thomas Reid: A Collection of Essays by John Haldane 9781405109055
RRP: £25.00£21.82Thomas Reid was one of the greatest philosophers of the eighteenth century and a contemporary of Kant's. This volume is part of a new wave of international interest in Reid from a new generation of scholars. The volume opens with an introduction to... -
Wittgenstein: Meaning and Mind (Volume 3 of an Analytical Commentary on the Philosophical Investigations), Part 1: Essays by P. M. S. Hacker 9781118951804
RRP: £72.95£62.86Wittgenstein: Meaning and Mind is the third volume of a four-volume analytical commentary on Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations, consisting of two parts. Part 1 is a sequence of fifteen essays that examine in detail all the major topics... -
Rorty and His Critics by Robert Brandom 9780631209829
RRP: £36.95£32.91Essays, written by thirteen of the most distinguished living philosophers, together with Rorty's substantial replies to each, and other new material by him, offer by far the most thorough and thoughtful discussion of the work of the thinker who has been... -
The Oxford Handbook of Hobbes by A. P. Martinich 9780190095338
RRP: £40.99£38.28The Oxford Handbook of Hobbes collects twenty-six newly commissioned, original chapters on the philosophy of the English thinker Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679). Best known today for his important influence on political philosophy, Hobbes was in fact a wide... -
The Essential Berkeley and Neo-Berkeley by David Berman
RRP: £19.99£17.73The Essential Berkeley and Neo-Berkeley is an introduction to the life and work of one of the most significant thinkers in the history of philosophy and a penetrating philosophical assessment of his lasting legacy. Written in clear and user-friendly... -
Altered Reading: Levinas and Literature by Jill Robbins
RRP: £28.00£27.39How might the ethical philosophy of the renowned French thinker Emmanuel Levinas relate to literature? Because his philosophy addresses the very opening of ethical experience, it cannot be applied readily as a critical method to literary texts. Yet... -
Heidegger and Unconcealment: Truth, Language, and History by Mark A. Wrathall
RRP: £24.99£20.61This book includes ten essays that trace the notion of unconcealment as it develops from Heidegger's early writings to his later work, shaping his philosophy of truth, language and history. 'Unconcealment' is the idea that what entities are depends on... -
Deleuze and Derrida: Difference and the Power of the Negative by Vernon W. Cisney
RRP: £28.99£23.38For the first time, Vernon W. Cisney brings you a scholarly analysis of Jacques Derrida and Gilles Deleuze's contrasting concepts of difference. He distinguishes their responses to Hegel and Nietzsche. He finds that Deleuze formulates an affirmative...