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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... -
Logics of Worlds: Being and Event II by Alain Badiou 9780826494702
£50.26Logics of Worlds is the long-awaited sequel to Alain Badiou's much-heralded masterpiece, Being and Event. Tackling the questions that had been left open by Being and Event, and answering many of his critics in the process, Badiou supplements his... -
The Woods Vladimir Bibikhin 9781509525874
RRP: £19.99£18.09In our modern, urbanized societies, our engagement with the natural world often seems distant and superficial. Human life is now far removed from its prehistoric origins, when humans dwelt deep within the forests and depended on them for their survival... -
After Hegel: German Philosophy, 1840-1900 by Frederick C. Beiser 9780691173719
RRP: £25.00£19.59Histories 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... -
Husserl: A Guide for the Perplexed by Matheson Russell 9780826485946
£27.40"Continuum's Guides" for the Perplexed are clear, concise and accessible introductions to thinkers, writers and subjects that students and readers can find especially challenging. Concentrating specifically on what it is that makes the subject... -
The Cambridge Companion to Descartes' Meditations by David Cunning
RRP: £26.99£22.80Descartes' enormously influential Meditations seeks to prove a number of theses: that God is a necessary existent; that our minds are equipped to track truth and avoid error; that the external world exists and provides us with information to preserve our... -
The Cambridge Companion to Adorno by Tom Huhn
RRP: £30.99£27.17The great German philosopher and aesthetic theorist Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno (1903-69) was one of the main philosophers of the first generation of the Frankfurt School of critical theory. An accomplished musician, Adorno first focused on the theory of... -
Knowledge and Human Interests by Jurgen Habermas 9780745604596
RRP: £24.99£21.81Habermas describes Knowledge and Human Interests as an attempt to reconstruct the prehistory of modern positivism with the intention of analysing the connections between knowledge and human interests. Convinced of the increasing historical and social... -
Brandom Ronald Loeffler 9780745664200
RRP: £17.99£16.04Robert Brandom is one of the most renowned contemporary American philosophers, discussed widely in analytic as well as continental philosophical communities on both sides of the Atlantic. His innovative approach to language and rationality combines the... -
Deleuze: A Philosophy of the Event: together with The Vocabulary of Deleuze by Francois Zourabichvili
RRP: £31.00£25.65This is a new translation of two essential works on Deleuze, written by one of his contemporaries. From the publication of "Deleuze: A Philosophy of the Event" to his untimely death in 2006, Francois Zourabichvili was regarded as one of the most... -
Rorty and His Critics Robert Brandom (University of Pittsburgh) 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 Genesis of Neo-Kantianism, 1796-1880 by Frederick C. Beiser 9780198769989
£50.77Frederick C. Beiser tells the story of the emergence of neo-Kantianism from the late 1790s until the 1880s. He focuses on neo-Kantianism before official or familiar neo-Kantianism, i.e., before the formation of the various schools of neo-Kantianism in... -
Wittgenstein: Meaning and Mind, Volume 3 of an Analytical Commentary on the Philosophical Investigations, Part II: Exegesis 243-247 P. M. S. Hacker (University of Oxford) 9780631190646
RRP: £37.95£33.36This third volume of the monumental commentary on Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations covers sections 243-427, which constitute the heart of the book. Like the previous volumes, it consists of philosophical essays and exegesis. The thirteen... -
What Is Nietzsche's Zarathustra?: A Philosophical Confrontation by Heinrich Meier
RRP: £44.00£36.81Thus Spoke Zarathustra is Nietzsche's most famous and most puzzling work, one in which he makes the greatest use of poetry to explore the questions posed by philosophy. But in order to understand the movement of this drama, we must first understand the... -
Kant Allen W. Wood (Stanford University) 9780631232827
RRP: £20.95£18.50This lucid survey takes readers on a thought-provoking tour through the life and work of Immanuel Kant. Offers an excellent introduction to the broad range of Kant's philosophical thought. Provides an exposition of Kant's major philosophical works,... -
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... -
Bentham: A Guide for the Perplexed by Philip Schofield 9780826495907
£27.40This book provides a concise and coherent overview of Jeremy Bentham, the widely read and studied political philosopher - ideal for undergraduates who require more than just a simple introduction to his work and thought. Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832),... -
Gravity and Grace by Simone Weil 9780803298002
RRP: £15.99£14.07Simone Weil, the French philosopher, political activist, and religious mystic, was little known when she died young in 1943. Four years later the philosopher-farmer Gustave Thibon compiled La pesanteur et la grace from the notebooks she left in his... -
Fat Wednesday: Wittgenstein on Aspects by John Verdi
RRP: £23.99£15.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781589880542Author John VerdiFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Paul Dry Books, IncPublisher Paul Dry Books, IncWeight(grams) 448g -
In Other Words: Transpositions of Philosophy in J.M. Coetzee's 'Jesus' Trilogy by Stephen Mulhall 9780192869715
RRP: £56.00£50.59J. M. Coetzee's 'Jesus' Trilogy extends and intensifies his long-term interest in engaging with a wide range of texts, themes and assumptions that help constitute the history of Western European philosophy. In this commentary, Stephen Mulhall extends his... -
Deconstruction Reframed by Floyd Merrell 9781557531506
£28.68Directed chiefly toward scholars in literary criticism and theory, Peircean semiotics, and, more generally, philosophy, this book is, by the nature of its broad focus, more descriptive than critical, synthetic rather than overtly prescriptive. Beginning... -
Ramsey's Legacy by Hallvard Lillehammer 9780199279555
RRP: £127.50£109.81The Cambridge philosopher Frank Ramsey (1903-1930) died tragically young, but had already established himself as one of the most brilliant minds of the twentieth century. Besides groundbreaking work in philosophy, particularly in logic, language, and... -
On Nietzsche by Georges Bataille 9780826477088
£37.16"Georges Bataille (1897-1962) was an essayist, poet, novelist and philosopher of excess. His philosophy emerges from the aesthetic avant-garde of the 1920s and 30s, when he was associated with the surrealist movement, and has since been explored by... -
On the Most Ancient Wisdom of the Italians: Unearthed from the Origins of the Latin Language by Giambattista Vico 9780801495113
RRP: £25.99£22.49On the Most Ancient Wisdom of the Italians, originally published in 1710, is widely regarded as Vico's most significant work after the New Science and the Autobiography. Subtitled "The Book of Metaphysics," it was one of three planned volumes of a larger... -
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,... -
Classics of Analytic Philosophy by Robert R. Ammerman 9780872201019
RRP: £20.99£17.61This anthology of the central writings of the analytical tradition is widely regarded as the most useful such volume for teaching purposes. Clustered around issues in the philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, and metaphysics, many of the pieces... -
Hist of Sexuality 3 Care of Self by Michel Foucault
RRP: £17.00£9.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780394741550Author Michel FoucaultFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 232gDimensions(mm)... -
Wittgenstein: Conversations, 1949-51 by O. K. Bouwsma 9780872200081
RRP: £18.99£15.67"Remarkable how well Bouwsma understood Wittgenstein's approach to philosophical problems and how intelligently he was able to recount Wittgenstein's discussions. The bits about sensation are especially good. And the asides about the other... -
The Problems of Contemporary Philosophy: A Critical Guide for the Unaffiliated by Paul Livingston 9780745670300
£18.09This accessible new book provides a clear and wide-ranging introduction to the defining problems of contemporary philosophy. Its unique feature is to focus on problems that cut across the established divide between analytic and continental philosophical... -
Not Saved: Essays After Heidegger Peter Sloterdijk ( Karlsruhe School of Design) 9780745696997
RRP: £19.99£17.69One can rightly say of Peter Sloterdijk that each of his essays and lectures is also an unwritten book. That is why the texts presented here, which sketch a philosophical physiognomy of Martin Heidegger, should also be characterized as a collected... -
The Morality of Happiness by Julia Annas 9780195096521
RRP: £69.00£56.36To understand ancient ethics we must exmaine the basic structure of ancient ethical theory. Here, Julia Annas brings together the results of a wide-ranging study of ancient ethical philosophy, and makes it easily accessible to anyone with an interest in... -
Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit: A Critical Guide by Dean Moyar 9780521182775
RRP: £30.99£25.45Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit, first published in 1807, is a work with few equals in systematic integrity, philosophical originality and historical influence. This collection of essays, contributed by leading Hegel scholars, examines all aspects of the... -
Basic Writings by Martin Heidegger
RRP: £16.99£12.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061627019Author Martin HeideggerFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 354gDimensions(mm)... -
Leibniz and China: A Commerce of Light by Franklin Perkins 9780521048224
RRP: £39.99£33.26Why was Leibniz so fascinated by Chinese philosophy and culture? What specific forms did his interest take? How did his interest compare with the relative indifference of his philosophical contemporaries and near-contemporaries such as Spinoza and Locke?... -
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... -
Where Thought Hesitates: Gregory Bateson and the Double Bind by Tiziano Possamai
RRP: £19.99£19.24In 1956, together with his research group, the anthropologist Gregory Bateson published a theory that was to revolutionize the way of conceiving mental illness. Over the years, the central concept of this theory, the double bind, proved effective in an... -
On Art, Religion, and the History of Philosophy: Introductory Lectures by G. W. F. Hegel 9780872203709
RRP: £16.99£14.13A reprint, with new Introduction, of the Harper Torch edition of 1970.The famous introductory lectures collected in this volume represent the distillation of Hegel's mature views on the three most important activities of spirit, and have the further... -
Iris Murdoch and the Search for Human Goodness by Maria Antonaccio 9780226021133
RRP: £33.00£32.05A noted philosopher and one of the most gifted and prolific novelists of the twentieth century, Iris Murdoch has anticipated and shaped many of the issues central to current ethics. These include the relation between human identity and ideas of the good,... -
Descartes: A Biography by Desmond M. Clarke 9780521823012
RRP: £46.00£40.49Rene 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... -
The Cambridge Companion to Frege by Tom Ricketts 9780521624794
RRP: £34.99£28.40Gottlob Frege (1848-1925) was unquestionably one of the most important philosophers of all time. He trained as a mathematician, and his work in philosophy started as an attempt to provide an explanation of the truths of arithmetic, but in the course of...