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Genesis and Validity: The Theory and Practice of Intellectual History. by Martin Jay 9780812224962
RRP: $39.99$35.29There is no more contentious and perennial issue in the history of modern Western thought than the vexed relationship between the genesis of an idea and its claim to validity beyond it. Can ideas or values transcend their temporal origins and overcome... -
Derrida and the End of History by Professor Stuart Sim 9781840460940 [USED COPY]
RRP: $5.15$2.89Derrida's critique of Fukuyama's claim that history "as we know it" has ended is highlighted as one of his most valuable contributions to the postmodern cultural debate. This book places Derrida's rejection of Fukuyama's claim within the context of a... -
Ramsey's Legacy by Hallvard Lillehammer 9780199279555
RRP: $164.48$141.65The 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
$47.94"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... -
The Problems of Contemporary Philosophy: A Critical Guide for the Unaffiliated by Paul Livingston 9780745670300
$23.34This 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... -
Modernity and Its Discontents: Making and Unmaking the Bourgeois from Machiavelli to Bellow by Steven B. Smith 9780300240238
RRP: $60.63$58.66Steven 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... -
Not Yet: Reconsidering Ernst Bloch by Jamie Owen Daniel
RRP: $24.50$23.36Ernst Bloch (1885-1977) is now recognized as a philosopher and cultural critic of the greatest importance, his subtle and profound developments of utopian Marxism as influential for the student New Left of the 1960s and 1970s as they were for the leftist... -
The Morality of Happiness by Julia Annas 9780195096521
RRP: $89.01$72.70To 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... -
Descartes: A Biography by Desmond M. Clarke
RRP: $39.98$29.99Rene 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... -
Institution and Passivity: Course Notes from the College de France (1954-1955) by Maurice Merleau-Ponty
RRP: $42.51$36.66Institution and Passivity is based on course notes for classes taught at the Bibliotheque Nationale de Paris. Philosophically, this collection connects the issue of passive constitution of meaning with the dimension of history, furthering discussions and... -
Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit: A Critical Guide by Dean Moyar 9780521182775
RRP: $39.98$32.83Hegel'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... -
Leibniz and China: A Commerce of Light by Franklin Perkins 9780521048224
RRP: $51.59$42.91Why 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?... -
Where Thought Hesitates: Gregory Bateson and the Double Bind by Tiziano Possamai
RRP: $25.79$24.82In 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... -
Nietzsche's Voice by Henry Staten
RRP: $36.11$31.14Henry Staten adopts an innovative "psychodialectical" approach to Nietzsche, drawn from Nietzsche's own doctrine that philosophical thought is governed by drives and instincts that-for Nietzsche as for Freud-are fundamentally sexual in nature. Staten... -
The Cambridge Companion to Rorty by David Rondel
RRP: $34.82$28.74This Companion provides a systematic introductory overview of Richard Rorty's philosophy. With chapters from an interdisciplinary group of leading scholars, the volume addresses virtually every aspect of Rorty's thought, from his philosophical views on... -
Descartes: A Biography by Desmond M. Clarke 9780521823012
RRP: $59.34$52.23Rene 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: $45.14$36.64Gottlob 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... -
Fichte: Early Philosophical Writings by Johann Gottlieb Fichte
RRP: $50.31$44.53"This work is a model of what a philosophical text should be."-Reinhard Lauth "Breazeale's translation is fluent, precise, and perhaps most important of all... it is readable.... This is an excellent translation by the ranking Fichte scholar working in... -
The Cambridge Companion to Descartes' Meditations by David Cunning
RRP: $34.82$29.41Descartes' 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 False Prison: Volume Two by David Pears 9780198244868
RRP: $57.39$53.77This is the second of two volumes which describe the development of Wittgenstein's philosophy from the "Notebooks" and the "Tractatus" to "Philosophical Investigations" and his other later writings. This volume covers his... -
The Phenomenology of Mind by G. W. F. Hegel 9780486432519
RRP: $19.34$12.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486432519Author Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Nietzsche: A Guide for the Perplexed by R.Kevin Hill 9780826489258
$32.83Continuum'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... -
Kant's Analytic by Jonathan Bennett 9781316506059
RRP: $25.79$21.21This engaging and instructive analysis of the first half of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason continues to be valuable to both practiced Kant scholars and newcomers. Jonathan Bennett examines the arguments and themes of Kant's work in relation to those of... -
Kant's Conception of Freedom: A Developmental and Critical Analysis by Henry E. Allison
RRP: $60.62$43.42Although a good deal has been written about Kant's conception of free will in recent years, there has been no serious attempt to examine in detail the development of his views on the topic. This book endeavours to remedy the situation by tracing Kant's... -
Aspects of Hobbes by Noel Malcolm 9780199275403
RRP: $59.33$48.61Noel Malcolm, one of the world's leading experts on Thomas Hobbes, presents a set of extended essays on a wide variety of aspects of the life and work of this giant of early modern thought. Malcolm offers a succinct introduction to Hobbes's life and... -
The Human Person: A Beginner's Thomistic Psychology by Steven J. Jensen
RRP: $45.09$40.24The Human Person presents a brief introduction to the human mind, the soul, immortality, and free will. While delving into the thought of Thomas Aquinas, it addresses contemporary topics, such as skepticism, mechanism, animal language research, and... -
Schopenhauer by Robert J. Wicks 9781405134804
RRP: $33.48$29.15This innovative volume presents an insightful philosophical portrait of the life and work of Arthur Schopenhauer. Focuses on the concept of the sublime as it clarifies Schopenhauer's aesthetic theory, moral theory and asceticism Explores the... -
Not Saved: Essays After Heidegger by Peter Sloterdijk
RRP: $25.79$22.82One 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... -
Without Alibi by Jacques Derrida 9780804744119
RRP: $30.95$26.88This 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... -
Rock Your Light: Lessons for Lightworkers and Spiritual Straight Talk to Make Shit Happen by Tracey Spencer 9780648792710
RRP: $21.92$16.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648792710Author Tracey SpencerFormat PaperbackPage Count 198Imprint The Kind PressPublisher The Kind Press -
Life's Philosophy: Reason and Feeling in a Deeper World by Arne Naess 9780820332529
$31.49Norwegian philosopher Arne Naess' meditation on the art of living is an exhortation to preserve the environment and biodiversity. Now in his nineties, Naess offers a bright and bold perspective on the power of feelings to move us away from ecological and... -
Quine: A Guide for the Perplexed by Gary Kemp 9780826484871
$35.35Continuum'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... -
Wittgenstein: Meaning and Mind (Volume 3 of an Analytical Commentary on the Philosophical Investigations), Part 2: Exegesis, Section 243-427 by P. M. S. Hacker 9781118951750
RRP: $94.11$81.61WITTGENSTEIN MEANING AND MIND Wittgenstein: Meaning and Mind, Part II - Exegesis 243-427 explores and clarifies the patterns, developments, and conclusions of Wittgenstein's arguments in 243-427 of Philosophical Investigations. Each numbered remark in... -
The Rational Kernel of the Hegelian Dialectic by Alain Badiou 9780980819762
RRP: $18.06$12.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780980819762Author Alain BadiouFormat PaperbackPage Count 138Imprint re.pressPublisher re.pressWeight(grams) 185g -
The Cambridge Companion to Quine by Roger F. Gibson, Jr.
RRP: $39.98$34.53W. V. Quine (1908-2000) was quite simply the most distinguished analytic philosopher of the later half of the twentieth century. His celebrated attack on the analytic/synthetic tradition heralded a major shift away from the views of language descended... -
Newton: Philosophical Writings by Andrew Janiak 9781107615939
RRP: $32.24$26.35Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727) left a voluminous legacy of writings. Despite his influence on the early modern period, his correspondence, manuscripts, and publications in natural philosophy remain scattered throughout many disparate editions. In this... -
Nietzsche's Moral Psychology by Mark Alfano
RRP: $39.98$32.83Nietzsche, 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... -
Wittgenstein and His Interpreters: Essays in Memory of Gordon Baker by Guy Kahane 9781118592601
RRP: $29.61$25.98Comprising specially commissioned essays from some of the most significant contributors to the field, this volume provides a uniquely authoritative and thorough survey of the main lines of Wittgenstein scholarship over the past 50 years, tracing the... -
John Stuart Mill: A Biography by Nicholas Capaldi 9780521620246
RRP: $103.20$54.76Nicholas Capaldi's biography of John Stuart Mill traces the ways in which Mill's many endeavours are related and explores the significance of Mill's contribution to metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, social and political philosophy, the philosophy of... -
Hegel's Critique of Kant: From Dichotomy to Identity by Sally Sedgwick 9780198708056
RRP: $49.01$36.06Sally Sedgwick presents a fresh account of Hegel's critique of Kant's theoretical philosophy. She argues that Hegel offers a compelling critique of and alternative to the conception of cognition that Kant defended in his 'Critical' period. The book...