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Zizek: A Very Critical Introduction by Marcus Pound 9780802860019
RRP: $23.21$19.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802860019Author Marcus PoundFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint William B Eerdmans Publishing CoPublisher William B Eerdmans Publishing CoWeight(grams)... -
From Empiricism to Expressivism: Brandom Reads Sellars by Robert B. Brandom 9780674187283
RRP: $46.38$37.87The American philosopher Wilfrid Sellars ranks as one of the leading twentieth-century critics of empiricism-a philosophical approach to knowledge that seeks to ground it in human sense experience. Sellars stood in the forefront of a recoil within... -
Altered Reading: Levinas and Literature by Jill Robbins
RRP: $36.12$35.33How might the ethical philosophy of the renowned French thinker Emmanuel Levinas relate to literature? Because his philosophy addresses the very opening of ethical experience, it cannot be applied readily as a critical method to literary texts. Yet... -
Adorno and Existence by Peter E. Gordon
RRP: $33.48$26.63From the beginning to the end of his career, the philosopher Theodor W. Adorno sustained an uneasy but enduring bond with existentialism. His attitude overall was that of unsparing criticism, verging on polemic. In Kierkegaard he saw an early paragon for... -
Nietzsche on Art and Life by Daniel Came 9780199545964
$102.22Nietzsche was not interested in the nature of art as such, or in providing an aesthetic theory of a traditional sort. For he regarded the significance of art to lie not in l'art pour l'art, but in the role that it might play in enabling us positively to... -
Greeks and Barbarians by Thomas Harrison 9780748612710
RRP: $39.99$37.53How did the Greeks view foreign peoples? This book considers what the Greeks thought of foreigners and their religions, cultures and politics, and what these beliefs and opinions reveal about the Greeks. The Greeks were occasionally intrigued by the... -
The Teleology of Reason: A Study of the Structure of Kant's Critical Philosophy by Courtney D. Fugate 9783110481587
RRP: $29.03$23.81This work argues that teleological motives lie at the heart of Kant's critical philosophy and that a precise analysis of teleological structures can both illuminate the basic strategy of its fundamental arguments and provide a key to understanding its... -
The Cambridge Companion to Deleuze by Daniel W. Smith
RRP: $39.98$32.77Gilles Deleuze (1925-95) was an influential and provocative twentieth-century thinker who developed and presented an alternative to the image of thought found in traditional philosophy. This volume offers an extensive survey of Deleuze's philosophy by... -
Badiou and Politics by Bruno Bosteels
RRP: $33.53$29.53Badiou and Politics offers a much-anticipated interpretation of the work of the influential French philosopher Alain Badiou. Countering ideas of the philosopher as a dogmatic, absolutist, or even mystical thinker enthralled by the force of the event as a... -
The Cambridge Companion to Brentano by Dale Jacquette 9780521007658
RRP: $39.98$34.53Franz Brentano (1838-1917) led an intellectual revolution that sought to revitalize German-language philosophy and to reverse its post-Kantian direction. His philosophy laid the groundwork for philosophy of science as it came to fruition in the Vienna... -
Adorno: Disenchantment and Ethics by J. M. Bernstein 9780521003094
RRP: $55.46$47.88Theodor W. Adorno is best known for his contributions to aesthetics and social theory. Critics have always complained about the lack of a practical, political or ethical dimension to Adorno's philosophy. In this highly original contribution to the... -
Wittgenstein: Comparisons and Context by P. M. S. Hacker 9780198823353
RRP: $36.75$33.89Wittgenstein: Comparisons and Context is a collection of P. M. S. Hacker's papers on Wittgenstein and Wittgensteinian themes written over the last decade. It presents Hacker's own (Wittgensteinian) conception of philosophy, and defends it against... -
Metaphysical elements of Justice by Immanuel Kant 9780872204188
RRP: $14.18$11.61A revision of the Library of Liberal Arts edition of 1965.This volume offers the complete text of Kant's Metaphysics of Morals, Part I, translated by John Ladd, along with Ladd's illuminating Introduction to the first edition, expanded to include... -
Skepticism: A Contemporary Reader by Keith DeRose 9780195118278
RRP: $118.67$101.65Recently, new life has been breathed into the ancient philosophical topic of scepticism. It has been the subject of some of the best and most provocative work in contemporary philosophy by both today's top epistemologists and also by the world's leading... -
The Cambridge Companion to Bertrand Russell by Nicholas Griffin
RRP: $45.14$39.33Bertrand Russell ranks as one of the giants of twentieth-century philosophy. Through his books, journalism, correspondence and political activity he exerted a profound influence on modern thought. This companion centers on Russell's contributions to... -
Adam Smith and the Virtues of Enlightenment by Charles L. Griswold
RRP: $39.98$35.05Charles Griswold has written a comprehensive philosophical study of Smith's moral and political thought. Griswold sets Smith's work in the context of the Enlightenment and relates it to current discussions in moral and political philosophy. Smith's... -
Philosophy, Ethics and Politics by Ricoeur 9781509534517
RRP: $21.92$19.63In this series of interviews and dialogues which took place between 1981 and 2003, Paul Ricoeur addresses some of the central questions of political philosophy and ethics: justice, violence, war, the environmental crisis, the question of evil, ethical... -
The Novum Organum by Francis Bacon 9780812692457
RRP: $36.11$32.73This is a new classroom edition of Bacon's great work of 1620, a founding document of empiricism and scientific method. It features an introduction and notes to help the reader.Book InformationISBN 9780812692457Author Francis BaconFormat PaperbackPage... -
Hist of Sexuality 3 Care of Self by Michel Foucault
RRP: $21.93$13.07Apologies 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)... -
Bernard Williams by Alan Thomas 9780521665551
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Heidegger's Analytic: Interpretation, Discourse and Authenticity in Being and Time by Professor Taylor Carman 9780521038935
RRP: $47.72$39.13Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Oxford Handbook of Hume by Paul Russell 9780190095390
RRP: $57.39$53.64The Scottish philosopher David Hume (1711-1776) is widely regarded as the greatest and most significant English-speaking philosopher and often seen as having had the most influence on the way philosophy is practiced today in the West. His reputation is... -
Deleuze: History and Science by Manuel DeLanda 9780982706718
RRP: $21.54$16.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780982706718Author Manuel DeLandaFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Atropos PressPublisher Atropos PressWeight(grams) 221g -
Mill's On Liberty: A Critical Guide by C. L. Ten 9780521182805
RRP: $39.98$32.83John Stuart Mill's essay On Liberty, published in 1859, has had a powerful impact on philosophical and political debates ever since its first appearance. This volume of essays covers the whole range of problems raised in and by the essay, including the... -
Hegelian-Lacanian Variations on Late Modernity: Spectre of Madness by Alireza Taheri
RRP: $42.56$37.62The current rise in new religions and the growing popularity of New Ageism is concomitant with an increasingly anti-philosophical sentiment marking our contemporary situation. More specifically, it is philosophical and psychoanalytic reason that has lost... -
Cognition and Commitment in Hume's Philosophy by Don Garrett 9780195159592
RRP: $47.07$32.83It is widely believed that Hume often wrote carelessly and contradicted himself, and that no unified, sound philosophy emerges from his writings. Don Garrett demonstrates that such criticisms of Hume are without basis. Offering fresh and trenchant... -
A Confusion of the Spheres: Kierkegaard and Wittgenstein on Philosophy and Religion by Genia Schonbaumsfeld 9780199581962
RRP: $57.39$44.56Cursory allusions to the relation between Kierkegaard and Wittgenstein are common in the philosophical literature, but there has been little in the way of serious and comprehensive commentary on the relationship of their ideas. Genia Schoenbaumsfeld... -
A Rousseau Dictionary by Nicholas Dent
RRP: $42.51$37.59The social, educational and political writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau have become enormously influential in the 200 years since his death. But the breadth as well as the depth of Rousseau's achievement - he was amongst other things a creative writer... -
Anatomy of Misremembering: Von Balthasar's Response to Philosophical Modernity. Volume 1: Hegel by Cyril O'Regan
RRP: $49.01$46.56This compelling work is the most comprehensive and sophisticated account to date of the relationship between Hans Urs von Balthasar-a Swiss theologian and Catholic priest-and the German philosopher Georg Hegel. While underscoring the depth and breadth of... -
Kant's Dialectic by Jonathan Bennett 9781316506073
RRP: $25.79$21.18Jonathan Bennett's analysis of the second half of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason, in which Kant concerns himself with topics such as substance, the nature of the self, the cosmos, freedom and the existence of God, continues to be an engaging and... -
The Oxford Handbook of British Philosophy in the Eighteenth Century by James A. Harris 9780198776659
$45.15Philosophy in eighteenth-century Britain was diverse, vibrant, and sophisticated. This was the age of Hume and Berkeley and Reid, of Hutcheson and Kames and Smith, of Ferguson and Burke and Wollstonecraft. Important and influential works were published... -
The Cambridge Companion to Darwin by Jonathan Hodge
RRP: $45.14$38.38The naturalist and geologist Charles Darwin (1809-82) ranks as one of the most influential scientific thinkers of all time. In the nineteenth century his ideas about the history and diversity of life - including the evolutionary origin of humankind -... -
The Beatles and Philosophy: Nothing You Can Think that Can't Be Thunk by Michael Baur 9780812696066
RRP: $16.76$16.29The most popular musical group of all time, the Beatles also brought serious thought to the bubble gum-scented world of pop and rock music, with adventurous, profound, and sometimes mysterious lyrics that veered from the deliberate absurdity of "I Am the... -
Locke: A Biography by Roger Woolhouse 9780521817868
RRP: $127.71$49.73This is the first comprehensive biography of John Locke to be published in nearly a half century. Setting Locke's life within exciting historical and intellectual contexts, which included the English Civil War, religious persecution, and the Glorious... -
A Finite Thinking by Jean-Luc Nancy
RRP: $36.11$31.66This book is a rich collection of philosophical essays radically interrogating key notions and preoccupations of the phenomenological tradition. While using Heidegger's Being and Time as its permanent point of reference and dispute, this collection also... -
Philosophy and Revolution: From Kant to Marx by Stathis Kouvelakis 9781786635785
$26.03In this ambitious and original study, Stathis Kouvelakis paints a rich panorama of the key intellectual and political figures in the effervescence of German thought before the 1848 revolutions. He shows how the attempt to chart a moderate, reformist path... -
Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals: An Introduction by Sally Sedgwick 9780521604161
RRP: $38.69$34.40Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Kant and the Fate of Autonomy: Problems in the Appropriation of the Critical Philosophy by Karl Ameriks 9780521786140
RRP: $47.72$40.96It has been argued that Kant's all-consuming efforts to place autonomy at the center of philosophy have had, in the long-run, the unintended effect of leading to the widespread discrediting of philosophy and of undermining the notion of autonomy itself... -
Early Modern German Philosophy (1690-1750) by Corey W. Dyck
RRP: $45.14$38.89Early Modern German Philosophy (1690-1750) makes some of the key texts of early German thought available in English, in most cases for the first time. The translations range from texts by the most important figures of the period, including Christian... -
Origin of the Distinction of Ranks: Or An Inquiry into the Circumstances Which Give Rise to Influence & Authority in the Different Members of Society by John Millar
RRP: $14.13$11.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865974777Author John MillarFormat PaperbackPage Count 316Imprint Liberty Fund IncPublisher Liberty Fund IncWeight(grams) 552g