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The Cambridge Companion to Mill by John Skorupski
RRP: €41.64€36.28John 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 Theodor W. Adorno (Frankfurt School) 9781509510450
RRP: €41.65€37.21At 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: €11.89€8.46Adopting 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 Cambridge Companion to Leibniz by Nicholas Jolley 9780521367691
RRP: €41.64€36.28Gottfried 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... -
Heraclitus Seminar by Martin Heidegger
€33.87In 1966-67 Martin Heidegger and Eugen Fink conducted an extraordinary seminar on the fragments of Heraclitus. Heraclitus Seminar records those conversations, documenting the imaginative and experimental character of the multiplicity of interpretations... -
The Gay Science (the Joyful Wisdom) by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche 9781420934212
RRP: €11.89€10.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781420934212Author Friedrich Wilhelm NietzscheFormat PaperbackPage Count 174Imprint Digireads.comPublisher Digireads.comWeight(grams) 263gDimensions(mm)... -
The Collapse of Mechanism and the Rise of Sensibility: Science and the Shaping of Modernity, 1680-1760 by Stephen Gaukroger 9780199664665
RRP: €57.11€41.21Understanding 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: €59.50€59.07As 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 Threefold Cord: Mind, Body, and World by Hilary Putnam
RRP: €29.75€25.22What is the relationship between our perceptions and reality? What is the relationship between the mind and the body? These are questions with which philosophers have grappled for centuries, and they are topics of considerable contemporary debate as well... -
Understanding John Dewey: Nature and Co-operative Intelligence by James Campbell 9780812692853
€27.27"This beautifully written work is the best general introduction to Dewey's philosophy. The exposition is greatly enriched by Campbell's provision of the historical context of Dewey's aims and enquiries". -- James Gouinlock Emory University "Understanding... -
True Purposes in Hegel's Logic by Edgar Maraguat
RRP: €101.15€91.15This 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: €13.08€10.71A 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: €72.59€56.13The 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... -
Carl Schmitt: A Biography Reinhard Mehring (Heidelberg University of Education (Padagogische Hochschule Heidelberg)) 9780745652245
RRP: €71.40€63.01Carl Schmitt is one of the most widely read and influential German thinkers of the twentieth century. His fundamental works on friend and enemy, legality and legitimacy, dictatorship, political theology and the concept of the political are read today... -
Derrida's "Writing and Difference": A Reader's Guide by Sarah Wood 9780826491923
€30.29"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... -
The Transcendence of the EGO: An Existentialist Theory of Consciousness by Jean-Paul Sartre 9780809015450
RRP: €22.61€13.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780809015450Author Jean-Paul SartreFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Hill & Wang Inc.,U.S.Publisher Hill & Wang Inc.,U.S. -
A Companion to the Enlightenment by John W. Yolton 9780631196884 [USED COPY]
RRP: €111.80€4.09The Companion focusses on the international intellectual movement of the Enlightenment, and the individuals who shaped it. A number of substantial essays survey the main topics of dictionaries, encyclopedias, art, music and theatre, while central... -
A Companion to the Enlightenment John W. Yolton (University of Florida at Tampa; University of Chicago) 9780631196884
RRP: €111.80€98.14The Companion focusses on the international intellectual movement of the Enlightenment, and the individuals who shaped it. A number of substantial essays survey the main topics of dictionaries, encyclopedias, art, music and theatre, while central... -
Native American Wisdom by Kent Nerburn 9780931432781
RRP: €17.26€11.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780931432781Author Kent NerburnFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint New World LibraryPublisher New World LibraryWeight(grams) 227g -
Profane Illumination: Walter Benjamin and the Paris of Surrealist Revolution by Margaret Cohen
RRP: €32.13€25.06Margaret Cohen's encounter with Walter Benjamin, one of the twentieth century's most influential cultural and literary critics, has produced a radically new reading of surrealist thought and practice. Cohen analyzes the links between Breton's surrealist... -
Late German Idealism: Trendelenburg and Lotze by Frederick C. Beiser
€55.05Frederick 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: €41.64€31.93First 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: €36.88€29.56The 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,... -
The Attack of the Blob: Hannah Arendt's Concept of the Social by Hanna Fenichel Pitkin
RRP: €35.70€34.81This study seeks to resolve the paradox of Hannah Arendt's ideas; that she intended her work to liberate and empower and to restore our capacity for concerted political action whilst at the same time developed a metaphor of "the social" as an alien, all... -
Bergson Leszek Kolakowski 9781890318116
RRP: €11.90€11.66Leszek 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... -
Before Tomorrow: Epigenesis and Rationality Catherine Malabou (Kingston University London) 9780745691510
RRP: €21.41€19.09Is contemporary continental philosophy making a break with Kant? The structures of knowledge, taken for granted since Kant s Critique of Pure Reason, are now being called into question: the finitude of the subject, the phenomenal given, a priori... -
In Quest of the Ordinary: Lines of Skepticism and Romanticism by Stanley Cavell 9780226098180
RRP: €28.56€27.41These lectures by one of the most influential and original philosophers of the twentieth century constitute a sustained argument for the philosophical basis of romanticism, particularly in its American rendering. Through his examination of such authors... -
Without Alibi by Jacques Derrida 9780804744119
RRP: €28.55€24.80This book brings together for the first time five recent essays by Jacques Derrida, which advance his reflections on many issues: lying, perjury, forgiveness, confession, the profession of faith, and, most recently, cruelty, sovereignty, and capital... -
Philosophical Papers by J. L. Austin 9780192830210
RRP: €59.49€49.60The 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
€58.51Daniel 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... -
Remarks on the Philosophy of Psychology, Volume II Ludwig Wittgenstein (Philosopher) 9780631130628
RRP: €42.78€37.69A 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... -
Dream of Descartes by Jacques Maritain 9780806530864
RRP: €14.22€10.67Apologies 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: €53.54€45.39Rudolf 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... -
Jacques Derrida: Basic Writings by Barry Stocker
RRP: €45.21€40.20One of the most influential and controversial thinkers of the twentieth-century, Jacques Derrida's ideas on deconstruction have had a lasting impact on philosophy, literature and cultural studies.Jacques Derrida: Basic Writings is the first anthology to... -
Stanley Cavell by Richard Eldridge 9780521779722
RRP: €32.12€27.13Contemporary Philosophy in Focus offers a series of introductory volumes on many of the dominant philosophical thinkers of the current age. Stanley Cavell has been one of the most creative and independent of contemporary philosophical voices. At the core... -
St Petersburg Dialogues: Or Conversations on the Temporal Government of Providence by Joseph de Maistre 9780773559448
RRP: €46.41€40.07Written and set on the banks of the Neva, St Petersburg Dialogues is a startlingly relevant analysis of the human prospect in the twenty-first century. As the literary critic George Steiner has remarked, "the age of the Gulag and of Auschwitz, of... -
Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Mind: Collected Philosophical Papers, Volume 2 G. E. M. Anscombe (University of Cambridge, UK) 9780631133094
RRP: €48.73€42.71Anscombe 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... -
Representation and Reality in Wittgenstein's Tractatus by Jose L. Zalabardo
RRP: €35.09€32.31Jose 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... -
The Jamesian Mind Sarin Marchetti 9781032159799
RRP: €52.35€46.93William James (1842-1910) is widely regarded as the founding figure of modern psychology and one of the most important philosophers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Renowned for his philosophical theory of pragmatism and memorable turns of... -
The Method of Equality: Interviews with Laurent Jeanpierre and Dork Zabunyan Jacques Ranciere 9780745680637
RRP: €21.41€19.09The development of Ranciere's philosophical work, from his formative years through the political and methodological break with Louis Althusser and the lessons of May 68, is documented here, as are the confrontations with other thinkers, the controversies...