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Adam Smith and the Virtues of Enlightenment by Charles L. Griswold
RRP: £30.99£27.17Charles 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 Paul Ricoeur (Professor Emeritus at the University of Paris X and at the University of Chicago) 9781509534517
RRP: £16.99£15.22In 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... -
Jacques Ranciere: History, Politics, Aesthetics by Gabriel Rockhill
RRP: £23.99£20.84The French philosopher Jacques Ranciere has influenced disciplines from history and philosophy to political theory, literature, art history, and film studies. His research into nineteenth-century workers' archives, reflections on political equality,... -
The Essential Berkeley and Neo-Berkeley Professor David Berman (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) 9781350214729
RRP: £19.99£17.73The Essential Berkeley and Neo-Berkeley is an introduction to the life and work of one of the most significant thinkers in the history of philosophy and a penetrating philosophical assessment of his lasting legacy. Written in clear and user-friendly... -
Descartes: A Biography by Desmond M. Clarke
RRP: £30.99£23.25Rene 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 Novum Organum by Francis Bacon 9780812692457
RRP: £27.99£24.82This 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... -
Genesis and Validity: The Theory and Practice of Intellectual History. by Martin Jay 9780812224962
RRP: £31.00£27.36There 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... -
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: £36.99£30.33Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Oxford Handbook of Hume by Paul Russell 9780190095390
RRP: £44.49£41.58The 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: £16.70£12.89Apologies 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: £30.99£25.45John 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... -
Cognition and Commitment in Hume's Philosophy by Don Garrett 9780195159592
RRP: £36.49£25.45It 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... -
Life's Philosophy: Reason and Feeling in a Deeper World by Arne Naess 9780820332529
£23.69Norwegian 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... -
Wittgenstein and His Interpreters: Essays in Memory of Gordon Baker Guy Kahane (Uehiro Center for Practical Ethics, Oxford, UK) 9781118592601
RRP: £22.95£20.14Comprising 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... -
A Confusion of the Spheres: Kierkegaard and Wittgenstein on Philosophy and Religion by Genia Schonbaumsfeld 9780199581962
RRP: £44.49£34.54Cursory 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... -
Anatomy of Misremembering: Von Balthasar's Response to Philosophical Modernity. Volume 1: Hegel by Cyril O'Regan
RRP: £37.99£35.36This 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: £19.99£16.42Jonathan 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
£35.00Philosophy 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: £34.99£29.75The 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 -... -
Fichte's Foundations of Natural Right: A Critical Guide by Gabriel Gottlieb
RRP: £30.99£22.85Fichte's Foundations of Natural Right (1796/97) was one of the most influential books in nineteenth-century philosophy. It was read carefully by Schelling, Hegel, and Marx, and initiated a tradition in German philosophy that considers human subjectivity... -
Locke: A Biography by Roger Woolhouse 9780521817868
RRP: £99.00£38.55This 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... -
Fallible Man: Philosophy of the Will by Paul Ricoeur 9780823211517
RRP: £27.99£24.14The most accessible of Ricoeur's early texts, Fallible Man offers an introduction to phenomenological method.About the AuthorPaul Ricoeur (1913-2005) was among the most respected philosophers of the twentieth century. He was awarded the Kyoto Prize in... -
Philosophy and Revolution: From Kant to Marx by Stathis Kouvelakis 9781786635785
£20.18In 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
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Kant and the Fate of Autonomy: Problems in the Appropriation of the Critical Philosophy by Karl Ameriks 9780521786140
RRP: £36.99£31.75It 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: £34.99£30.15Early 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... -
The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill: Essays on Ethics, Religion & Society: v. 10 by John Stuart Mill 9780865976573
RRP: £10.95£9.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865976573Author John Stuart MillFormat PaperbackPage Count 578Imprint Liberty Fund IncPublisher Liberty Fund IncWeight(grams) 1024g -
Alasdair MacIntyre by Mark C. Murphy 9780521793810
RRP: £26.99£22.80The contribution to contemporary philosophy of Alasdair MacIntyre is enormous. His writings on ethics, political philosophy, philosophy of religion, philosophy of the social sciences and the history of philosophy have established him as one of the... -
After Herder: Philosophy of Language in the German Tradition by Michael N. Forster 9780199659388
RRP: £48.99£32.19Philosophy of language has for some time now been the very core of the discipline of philosophy. But where did it begin? Frege has sometimes been identified as its father, but in fact its origins lie much further back, in a tradition that arose in... -
The Letters of Marsilio Ficino: 10 by Language Department, School of Economic Science 9780856835001
RRP: £25.00£22.03This series is the first English translation of the letters of the philosopher priest who helped to shape the Renaissance worldview. This volume spans the seventeen months from April 1491 to September 1492. This is a crucial period for Marsilio Ficino... -
Greeks and Barbarians by Thomas Harrison 9780748612710
RRP: £31.00£29.09How 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 Hermeneutics Reader: Texts of the German Tradition from the Enlightenment to the Present by Kurt Mueller-Vollmer 9780826404022
£43.42Essays discuss reason and understanding, interpretation, language, meaning, the human sciences, social sciences, and general hermeneutic theory.Book InformationISBN 9780826404022Author Kurt Mueller-VollmerFormat PaperbackPage Count 394Imprint Continuum... -
The Cambridge Companion to Oakeshott by Efraim Podoksik 9780521764674
RRP: £85.00£58.07Michael Oakeshott (1901-1990) was one of the leading British philosophers of the twentieth century. He has been influential particularly as a political philosopher, but his work reflects a range of philosophical interests that have more gradually come to... -
Principles of Cartesian Philosophy: with Metaphysical Thoughts and Lodewijk Meyer's Inaugural Dissertation by Benedict de Spinoza 9780872204003
RRP: £16.99£14.13With meticulous scholarship and an accurate, highly readable translation, this volume sheds light not only on Spinoza's debt to Descartes but also on the development of Spinoza's own thought.Appearing for the first time in English translation, Lodewijk... -
Pocket Pantheon: Figures of Postwar Philosophy by Alain Badiou
RRP: £7.99£6.64In Pocket Pantheon Alain Badiou, one of today's leading political and philosophical minds, invites readers to engage with some of the great thinkers of the postwar Western tradition such as Lacan, Sartre and Foucault. Drawing on his own encounters with... -
Nietzsche's Jewish Problem: Between Anti-Semitism and Anti-Judaism by Robert C. Holub 9780691167558
RRP: £35.00£27.74For more than a century, Nietzsche's views about Jews and Judaism have been subject to countless polemics. The Nazis infamously fashioned the philosopher as their anti-Semitic precursor, while in the past thirty years the pendulum has swung in the... -
Politics and Negation: For an Affirmative Philosophy Roberto Esposito (University of Naples) 9781509536627
RRP: £17.99£16.04For some while we have been witnessing a series of destructive phenomena which seem to indicate a full-fledged return to the negative on the world stage - from terrorism and armed conflict to the threat of environmental catastrophe. At the same time,... -
The Inward Morning: A Philosophical Exploration in Journal Form by Henry Bugbee 9780820320717
£27.78This text blends East and West, nature and culture, the personal and the universal.Book InformationISBN 9780820320717Author Henry BugbeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint University of Georgia PressPublisher University of Georgia PressWeight(grams)... -
Nature and Necessity in Spinoza's Philosophy by Don Garrett 9780195307771
RRP: £85.00£59.66Spinoza's guiding commitment to the thesis that nothing exists or occurs outside of the scope of nature and its necessary laws makes him one of the great seventeenth-century exemplars of both philosophical naturalism and explanatory rationalism. Nature...