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The Rise and Fall of Scottish Common Sense Realism by Douglas McDermid
RRP: $157.50$132.95The 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: $119.70$104.43Giambattista 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: $231.00$230.08Speculative 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: $189.00$150.30In 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: $180.60$129.05The 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: $178.48$155.93This 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... -
Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe: (Un)Timely Meditations by John McKeane
RRP: $178.48$155.09This 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: $189.00$170.16Kant'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: $207.90$180.89This 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 Perennial Scope of Philosophy by Professor Karl Jaspers 9780806529615
RRP: $27.20$20.33Apologies 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 -
Curing Mad Truths: Medieval Wisdom for the Modern Age by Remi Brague 9780268105693
RRP: $58.78$45.74In 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: $73.48$64.03John 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: $73.50$65.67At 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: $20.98$14.93Adopting 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,... -
Philosophy Bites Back by David Edmonds 9780198705963
RRP: $19.93$14.60Philosophy Bites Back is the second book to come out of the hugely successful podcast Philosophy Bites. It presents a selection of lively interviews with leading philosophers of our time, who discuss the ideas and works of some of the most important... -
The Cambridge Companion to Spinoza's Ethics by Olli Koistinen 9780521618601
RRP: $56.68$45.32Since its publication in 1677, Spinoza's Ethics has fascinated philosophers, novelists, and scientists alike. It is undoubtedly one of the most exciting and contested works of Western philosophy. Written in an austere, geometrical fashion, the work... -
The Cambridge Companion to Leibniz by Nicholas Jolley 9780521367691
RRP: $73.48$64.03Gottfried Leibniz was a remarkable thinker who made fundamental contributions not only to philosophy, but also to the development of modern mathematics and science. At the centre of Leibniz's philosophy stands his metaphysics, an ambitious attempt to... -
The Collapse of Mechanism and the Rise of Sensibility: Science and the Shaping of Modernity, 1680-1760 by Stephen Gaukroger 9780199664665
RRP: $100.78$72.72Understanding 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... -
Lines of Flight: For Another World of Possibilities by Felix Guattari 9781472507358
RRP: $105.00$104.24As an analyst, philosopher and militant, Felix Guattari anticipated decentralized forms of political activism that have become increasingly evident around the world since the events of Seattle in 1999. Lines of Flight offers an exciting introduction to... -
The Passion of Michel Foucault by Jim Miller 9780385472401 [USED COPY]
RRP: $42.00$14.20Apologies 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: $178.50$160.86This 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: $23.08$18.90A 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... -
Principles of Non-Philosophy by Francois Laruelle 9781350009097
RRP: $50.38$49.98Principles 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... -
Testimony: A Philosophical Study by Professor C. A. J. Coady 9780198235514
RRP: $128.10$99.06The 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: $46.20$41.14Histories 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... -
Derrida's "Writing and Difference": A Reader's Guide by Sarah Wood 9780826491923
$53.45"Writing and Difference" is widely perceived to be an excellent starting place for those new to Derrida and this "Reader's Guide" is the perfect accompaniment to the study of one of the most important philosophical works of the 20th... -
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: $77.60$69.11This 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... -
Rationalists by Rene Descartes
RRP: $35.68$26.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385095402Author Rene DescartesFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group IncWeight(grams)... -
Late German Idealism: Trendelenburg and Lotze by Frederick C. Beiser
$97.15Frederick C. Beiser presents a study of the two most important idealist philosophers in Germany after Hegel: Adolf Trendelenburg and Rudolf Lotze. Trendelenburg and Lotze dominated philosophy in Germany in the second half of the nineteenth century. They... -
The Cambridge Companion to Locke's 'Essay Concerning Human Understanding' by Lex Newman
RRP: $73.48$56.34First 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: $65.08$53.13The 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,... -
Sex and Character: An Investigation of Fundamental Principles by Otto Weininger
RRP: $130.20$113.32Otto 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,... -
Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Mind: Collected Philosophical Papers, Volume 2 by G. E. M. Anscombe
RRP: $86.00$75.37Anscombe 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: $21.00$20.58Leszek 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: $75.50$66.51A 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... -
Degrees of Knowledge by Jacques Maritain
RRP: $67.20$60.08Maritain argues that there are different 'kinds' and 'orders' of knowledge and, within them, different 'degrees' determined by the nature of the thing to be known and the 'degree of abstraction' involved. The book is divided into two parts: Part one... -
Philosophical Papers by J. L. Austin 9780192830210
RRP: $104.98$87.53The 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... -
Thinking Through the Wissenschaftslehre: Themes from Fichte's Early Philosophy by Daniel Breazeale
$103.26Daniel Breazeale presents a critical study of the early philosophy of J.G. Fichte, and the version of the Wissenschaftslehre or 'doctrine of science' that Fichte developed in Jena between 1794 and 1799. The book is intended to assist serious readers in... -
Dream of Descartes by Jacques Maritain 9780806530864
RRP: $25.10$18.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806530864Author Jacques MaritainFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Philosophical LibraryPublisher Philosophical LibraryWeight(grams) 336g -
Carnap and Twentieth-Century Thought: Explication as Enlightenment by A.W. Carus 9780521130868
RRP: $94.48$80.09Rudolf Carnap (1891-1970) is widely regarded as one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century. Born in Germany and later a US citizen, he was a founder of the philosophical movement known as Logical Empiricism. He was strongly...