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Alasdair MacIntyre by Mark C. Murphy 9780521793810
RRP: $34.82$29.41The 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: $63.20$41.53Philosophy 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... -
Freedom to Fail: Heidegger's Anarchy by Peter Trawny 9780745695235
RRP: $12.89$11.55Martin Heidegger is widely regarded as one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth-century, and his seminal text Being and Time is considered one of the most significant texts in contemporary philosophy. Yet his name has also been mired in... -
Principles of Cartesian Philosophy: with Metaphysical Thoughts and Lodewijk Meyer's Inaugural Dissertation by Benedict de Spinoza 9780872204003
RRP: $21.92$18.23With 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... -
The Hermeneutics Reader: Texts of the German Tradition from the Enlightenment to the Present by Kurt Mueller-Vollmer 9780826404022
$56.01Essays 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: $109.65$74.91Michael 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... -
Pocket Pantheon: Figures of Postwar Philosophy by Alain Badiou
RRP: $10.31$8.57In 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... -
Politics and Negation: For an Affirmative Philosophy by Roberto Esposito 9781509536627
RRP: $23.21$20.69For 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
$36.26This 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: $109.65$76.96Spinoza'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... -
The Limits of Disenchantment: Essays on Contemporary European Philosophy by Peter Dews
$27.59In this book Peter Dews explores some of the most urgent problems confronting contemporary European thought: the status of the subject after postmodernism, the ethical and existential dimensions of critical theory, the encounter between psychoanalysis... -
The Cambridge Companion to Malebranche by Steven Nadler 9780521627290 [USED COPY]
RRP: $34.82$14.56The French philosopher and theologian Nicolas Malebranche was one of the most important thinkers of the early modern period. A bold and unorthodox thinker, he tried to synthesize the new philosophy of Descartes with religious Platonism. This is the first... -
The Cambridge Companion to Malebranche by Steven Nadler
RRP: $34.82$29.41The French philosopher and theologian Nicolas Malebranche was one of the most important thinkers of the early modern period. A bold and unorthodox thinker, he tried to synthesize the new philosophy of Descartes with religious Platonism. This is the first... -
The Norton Anthology of Western Philosophy: After Kant: VOLUME 1: THE INTERPRETIVE TRADITION; VOLUME 2: THE ANALYTIC TRADITION by Richard Schacht 9780393929072
RRP: $90.30$83.22Presenting an unparalleled collection of primary texts in two flexible, portable volumes, The Norton Anthology of Western Philosophy also provides the rich editorial apparatus-introductions, headnotes, explanatory annotations, bibliographies-for which... -
Thinking the Impossible: French Philosophy Since 1960 by Gary Gutting 9780199227037
RRP: $51.59$51.35The late 20th century saw a remarkable flourishing of philosophy in France. The work of French philosophers is wide ranging, historically informed, often reaching out beyond the boundaries of philosophy; they are public intellectuals, taken seriously as... -
Lions by Hans Blumenberg
RRP: $25.80$21.90For distinguished philosopher Hans Blumenberg, lions were a life-long obsession. Lions, translated by Kari Driscoll, collects thirty-two of Blumenberg's philosophical vignettes to reveal that the figure of the lion unites two of his other great... -
I Know There Are So Many of You by Alain Badiou 9781509532605
RRP: $12.89$11.55The history of humanity has only just begun. The Neolithic Revolution may have endowed us with unparalleled means of communication, subsistence, and knowledge acquisition. However, it is clear in today's world that inequality, power hierarchies, and... -
Heidegger: A Critical Introduction by Peter Trawny 9781509521760
RRP: $20.63$18.59Martin Heidegger is one of the most influential figures of twentieth-century philosophy but his reputation was tainted by his associations with Nazism. The posthumous publication of the Black Notebooks, which reveal the shocking extent of Heidegger's... -
Nietzsche on Freedom and Autonomy by Ken Gemes 9780199694686
RRP: $57.39$44.56The principal aim of this volume is to elucidate what freedom, sovereignty, and autonomy mean for Nietzsche and what philosophical resources he gives us to re-think these crucial concepts. A related aim is to examine how Nietzsche connects these concepts... -
A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge by George Berkeley 9780915145393
RRP: $14.18$11.61Kenneth Winkler's esteemed edition of Berkeley's Principles is based on the second edition (London, 1734), the last one published in Berkeley's lifetime.Life other members of Hackett's philosophical classics series, it features editorial elements found... -
The Teachers of Gurdjieff by Rafael Lafort 9781883536169
RRP: $19.34$13.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781883536169Author Rafael LefortFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Malor BooksPublisher Malor BooksWeight(grams) 259gDimensions(mm) 217mm * 142mm * 11mm -
The Cambridge Companion to Carnap by Richard Creath
RRP: $39.98$34.61Rudolf Carnap (1891-1970) is increasingly regarded as one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century. He was one of the leading figures of the logical empiricist movement associated with the Vienna Circle and a central figure in the... -
This Is Modern Philosophy: An Introduction by Kurt Smith
RRP: $34.19$29.73Provides students and general readers with a basic understanding of the central concepts, issues, and thinkers of the early modern era of philosophy Is there a world that exists apart from ourselves? If an external world exists, what is its nature? Can... -
Nietzsche on the Decadence and Flourishing of Culture by Andrew Huddleston 9780198823674
RRP: $95.46$68.64In Nietzsche's first book The Birth of Tragedy (1872), cultural renewal is paramount among his concerns. In the person of Richard Wagner, Nietzsche saw someone who might bring together a fragmented and directionless modern society through the creation of... -
Truth and Interpretation – Perspectives on the Philosophy of Donald Davidson by E LePore 9780631169482
RRP: $47.67$42.45Regardless of its particular topic, each of Donald Davidson's essays is part of a comprehensive progrqamme to address questions about language, mind and action, and their interconnections. Themes from this larger programme permeate and bind his work on... -
Use of Pleasure by Michel Foucault
RRP: $23.22$14.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780394751221Author Michel FoucaultFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 255gDimensions(mm) 201mm *... -
Martin Heidegger on Being Human: An Introduction to Sein Und Zeit by Richard Schmitt 9780595121526
RRP: $19.34$15.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780595121526Author Richard SchmittFormat PaperbackPage Count 284Imprint iUniversePublisher iUniverseWeight(grams) 376gDimensions(mm) 219mm * 142mm * 19mm -
The Rebel by Albert Camus
RRP: $21.93$12.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679733843Author Albert CamusFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 232gDimensions(mm)... -
An Atheism that Is Not Humanist Emerges in French Thought by Stefanos Geroulanos
RRP: $32.24$28.47French philosophy changed dramatically in the second quarter of the twentieth century. In the wake of World War I and, later, the Nazi and Soviet disasters, major philosophers such as Kojeve, Levinas, Heidegger, Koyre, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, and... -
Habermas: A Guide for the Perplexed by Lasse Thomassen 9780826487667
$32.83Jurgen Habermas' work ranges across critical theory, epistemology, ethics, aesthetics, the philosophy of science, citizenship and democracy, religion and psychoanalysis, forging new paradigms and engaging with other key thinkers. Habermas: A Guide for... -
Nietzsche contra Rousseau: A Study of Nietzsche's Moral and Political Thought by Keith Ansell-Pearson 9780521575690
RRP: $51.59$42.91Keith Ansell-Pearson's book is an important and very welcome contribution to a neglected area of research: Nietzsche's political thought. Nietzsche is widely regarded as a significant moral philosopher, but his political thinking has often been dismissed... -
David Hume: A Dissertation on the Passions; The Natural History of Religion by Tom L. Beauchamp 9780199575749
RRP: $49.01$45.07David Hume (1711-1776) is one of the greatest of philosophers. Today he probably ranks highest of all British philosophers in terms of influence and philosophical standing. His philosophical work ranges across morals, the mind, metaphysics, epistemology,... -
The Angel of History: Rosenzweig, Benjamin, Scholem by Stephane Moses
RRP: $28.37$24.76In The Angel of History, Moses looks at three Jewish philosophers-Franz Rosenzweig, Walter Benjamin, and Gershom Scholem-who formulated a new vision of history in 1920s Germany by moving away from the spirit of assimilation and the Enlightenment belief... -
What More Philosophers Think by Julian Baggini 9780826493002
RRP: $29.66$29.48Following on from the success of the first edition of "What Philosophers Think", this second edition brings together a collection of interviews with some of the world's most important and influential philosophers and intellectuals and leading... -
Hobbes on Politics and Religion by Laurens van Apeldoorn 9780198803409
$105.33Thomas Hobbes, one of the most important figures in the history of political philosophy, is still widely regarded as a predominantly secular thinker. Yet a great deal of his political thought was motivated by the need to address problems of a... -
Communication and the Evolution of Society by Juergen Habermas 9780807015131
RRP: $27.09$26.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807015131Author Juergen HabermasFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 312g -
Fichte's Foundations of Natural Right: A Critical Guide by Gabriel Gottlieb
RRP: $39.98$29.48Fichte'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... -
Hegel: An Intellectual Biography by Horst Althaus 9780745617817
$77.43This accessible and highly readable book is the first full-length biography of Hegel to be published since the largely outdated treatments of the nineteenth century. Althaus draws on new historical material and scholarly sources about the life and times... -
An Introduction to Kant's Moral Philosophy by Jennifer K. Uleman
RRP: $25.79$22.10Immanuel Kant's moral philosophy is one of the most distinctive achievements of the European Enlightenment. At its heart lies what Kant called the 'strange thing': the free, rational, human will. This introduction explores the basis of Kant's... -
The Cambridge Companion to Hayek by Edward Feser
RRP: $39.98$34.53F. A. Hayek (1899-1992) was among the most important economists and political philosophers of the twentieth century. He is widely regarded as the principal intellectual force behind the triumph of global capitalism, an 'anti-Marx' who did more than any...