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Correspondence & Occasional Writings of Francis Hutcheson by Francis Hutcheson
RRP: €13.03€10.69In 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: €23.79€22.90In 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: €20.22€16.81A 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: €39.27€38.14A 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: €54.74€48.18Rene 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: €41.64€33.80Gottlob 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... -
The Cambridge Companion to Rorty by David Rondel
RRP: €32.12€25.74This 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... -
The Philosophy of Thomas Reid: A Collection of Essays John Haldane (University of St Andrews) 9781405109055
RRP: €29.75€25.97Thomas Reid was one of the greatest philosophers of the eighteenth century and a contemporary of Kant's. This volume is part of a new wave of international interest in Reid from a new generation of scholars. The volume opens with an introduction to... -
The False Prison: Volume Two by David Pears 9780198244868
RRP: €52.94€49.60This 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... -
Heretics!: The Wondrous (and Dangerous) Beginnings of Modern Philosophy by Steven Nadler 9780691168692
RRP: €23.80€20.41An entertaining, enlightening, and humorous graphic narrative of the dangerous thinkers who laid the foundation of modern thought This entertaining and enlightening graphic narrative tells the exciting story of the seventeenth-century thinkers who... -
Badiou and Politics by Bruno Bosteels
RRP: €30.93€27.24Badiou 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 Phenomenology of Mind by G. W. F. Hegel 9780486432519
RRP: €17.84€13.03Apologies 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
€30.29Continuum'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... -
Aspects of Hobbes by Noel Malcolm 9780199275403
RRP: €54.73€44.84Noel 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... -
Schopenhauer Robert J. Wicks (University of Auckland) 9781405134804
RRP: €30.88€26.89This 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... -
Spinoza's Ethics: A Critical Guide by Yitzhak Y. Melamed
€30.29Spinoza's Ethics, published in 1677, is considered his greatest work and one of history's most influential philosophical treatises. This volume brings established scholars together with new voices to engage with the complex system of philosophy proposed... -
Last Writings on the Phiosophy of Psychology: Preliminary Studies for Part II of Philosophical Investigations, Volume 1 Ludwig Wittgenstein (Philosopher) 9780631171218
RRP: €41.59€36.69This first volume of Wittgenstein's Last Writings on the Philosophy of Psychology was written between October 1948 and March 1949, when the philosopher had moved to Dublin and was having one of his most fruitful working periods. He then finished work... -
Meditations, Objections, and Replies by Rene Descartes 9780872207981
RRP: €17.84€14.98This edition features reliable, accessible translations; useful editorial materials; and a straightforward presentation of the Objections and Replies, including the objections from Caterus, Arnauld, and Hobbes, accompanied by Descartes' replies, in their... -
Twentieth-Century Analytic Philosophy by Avrum Stroll 9780231112215
RRP: €33.32€25.94Analytic philosophy is difficult to define since it is not so much a specific doctrine as a loose concatenation of approaches to problems. As well as having strong ties to scientism -the notion that only the methods of the natural sciences give rise to... -
Rock Your Light: Lessons for Lightworkers and Spiritual Straight Talk to Make Shit Happen by Tracey Spencer 9780648792710
RRP: €20.22€14.85Apologies 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 -
Quine: A Guide for the Perplexed by Gary Kemp 9780826484871
€32.61Continuum'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 Conception of Freedom: A Developmental and Critical Analysis by Henry E. Allison
RRP: €55.92€40.06Although 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... -
The Cambridge Companion to Quine by Roger F. Gibson, Jr.
RRP: €36.88€31.86W. 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: €29.74€23.82Sir 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... -
The Archeology Of Knowledge & The Discourse On Language by Michel Foucault
RRP: €20.23€11.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780394711065Author Michel FoucaultFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 261gDimensions(mm)... -
John Stuart Mill: A Biography by Nicholas Capaldi 9780521620246
RRP: €95.20€50.52Nicholas 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: €45.21€33.26Sally 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... -
Not Yet: Reconsidering Ernst Bloch by Jamie Owen Daniel
RRP: €22.60€21.24Ernst 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... -
Irigaray by Rachel Jones (University of Dundee) 9780745651057 [USED COPY]
RRP: €21.41€14.43The work of French Philosopher Luce Irigaray has exerted a profound influence on feminist thinking of recent decades and provides a far-reaching challenge to western philosophy's entrenched patriarchal norms. This book guides the reader through... -
Practices of the Self and Spiritual Practices: Michel Foucault and the Eastern Christian Discourse by Kristina Stoeckl 9780802872265
RRP: €23.79€19.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802872265Author Kristina StoecklFormat PaperbackPage Count 207Imprint William B Eerdmans Publishing CoPublisher William B Eerdmans Publishing Co -
Theoretical Writings: Alain Badiou by Alain Badiou 9780826493248
RRP: €65.44€65.13Alain Badiou is arguable the most important and original philosopher working in France today. Swimming against the tide of postmodern orthodoxy, Badiou's work revitalizes philosophy's perennial attempt to provide a systematic theory of truth. This volume... -
Philosophy and the Spontaneous Philosophy of the Scientists by Louis Althusser 9781844677894
RRP: €24.98€20.56Intended to contribute, in his own words, to a "left-wing critique of Stalinism that would help put some substance back into the revolutionary project here in the West," they are the record of a shared history. At the same time they chart Althusser's... -
Zizek: A Very Critical Introduction by Marcus Pound 9780802860019
RRP: €21.41€17.41Apologies 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)... -
The Cambridge Companion to Brentano by Dale Jacquette 9780521007658
RRP: €36.88€31.86Franz 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... -
Nietzsche's Voice by Henry Staten
RRP: €33.31€28.73Henry 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... -
Adorno and Existence by Peter E. Gordon
RRP: €30.88€24.56From 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
€94.30Nietzsche 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... -
The Teleology of Reason: A Study of the Structure of Kant's Critical Philosophy by Courtney D. Fugate 9783110481587
RRP: €26.78€21.47This 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... -
Institution and Passivity: Course Notes from the College de France (1954-1955) by Maurice Merleau-Ponty
RRP: €39.21€33.28Institution 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... -
Adorno: Disenchantment and Ethics by J. M. Bernstein 9780521003094
RRP: €51.16€44.17Theodor 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...