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Philosophy, Rhetoric, and Thomas Hobbes by Timothy Raylor 9780198829690
€121.21Thomas Hobbes claimed to have founded the discipline of civil philosophy (political science). The claim did not go uncontested and in recent years the relationship of philosophical reasoning to rhetorical persuasion in Hobbes's work has become a... -
Contemporary Philosophy: Philosophy in English since 1945 by Thomas Baldwin
€71.79This accessible and up-to-date survey introduces the central debates of English-language philosophy since 1945. A brief description of philosophical debates during the first half of the twentieth century is followed by extended discussions of some of the... -
The Adventure of French Philosophy by Bruno Bosteels
RRP: €20.22€14.38The 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... -
Introduction to Modernity by Henri Lefebvre 9781844677832
RRP: €30.93€20.91Originally 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 God of Spinoza: A Philosophical Study by Richard Mason 9780521665858
RRP: €47.59€39.58This book is the fullest study in English for many years on the role of God in Spinoza's philosophy. Spinoza has been called both a 'God-intoxicated man' and an atheist, both a pioneer of secular Judaism and a bitter critic of religion. He was born a Jew... -
The Cambridge Companion to Wittgenstein by Hans Sluga 9781107545946
RRP: €41.64€34.25Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) is one of the most important and influential philosophers in modern times, but he is also one of the least accessible. In this volume, leading experts chart the development of his work and clarify the connections between... -
The Oxford Handbook of Hobbes by A. P. Martinich 9780190095338
RRP: €48.78€45.55The 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... -
Deleuze and Derrida: Difference and the Power of the Negative by Vernon W. Cisney
RRP: €34.50€27.82For 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
€59.81Logics 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: €23.79€21.53In 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: €29.75€23.31Histories 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
€32.61"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: €32.12€27.13Descartes' 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: €36.88€32.33The 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... -
Brandom Ronald Loeffler 9780745664200
RRP: €21.41€19.09Robert 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: €36.89€30.52This 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: €43.97€39.16Essays, 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
€60.42Frederick 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: €45.16€39.70This 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: €52.36€43.80Thus 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: €24.93€22.02This 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: €29.75€23.31In 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
€32.61This 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: €23.79€17.35Simone 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: €28.55€18.14Apologies 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: €66.64€60.20J. 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
€34.13Directed 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: €151.73€130.67The 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
€44.22"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: €30.93€26.76On 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: €36.88€30.29Bergson 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: €24.98€20.96This 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: €20.23€11.86Apologies 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: €22.60€18.65"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
€21.53This 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: €23.79€21.05One 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: €82.11€67.07To 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: €36.88€30.29Hegel'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: €20.22€14.51Apologies 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: €47.59€39.58Why 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?...