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Ronald Dworkin by Arthur Ripstein 9780521664127
RRP: $42.56$36.61Ronald Dworkin occupies a distinctive place in both public life and philosophy. In public life, he is a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books and other widely read journals. In philosophy, he has written important and influential works on... -
The Archeology Of Knowledge & The Discourse On Language by Michel Foucault
RRP: $21.93$13.02Apologies 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)... -
Paroxysm: Interviews with Philippe Petit by Jean Baudrillard
$16.95Closely interviewed by the French journalist Philippe Petit, Baudrillard covers a vast range of topics, including Fukuyama, 1989 and the collapse of Communism; Bosnia, the Gulf War, Rwanda and the New World Order; globalization and universalization; the... -
The Philosophy of Enchantment: Studies in Folktale, Cultural Criticism, and Anthropology by R. G. Collingwood 9780199228089
RRP: $92.88$59.95This is the long-awaited publication of a set of writings by the British philosopher, historian, and archaeologist R. G. Collingwood on critical, anthropological, and cultural themes only hinted at in his previously available work. At the centre of the... -
Wittgenstein: Understanding And Meaning: Volume 1 of an Analytical Commentary on the Philosophical Investigations, Part II: Exegesis 1-184 by Gordon P. Baker 9781405199254
RRP: $33.48$29.15This is a much revised and extended new edition of Part II of the first volume of the monumental four-volume Analytical Commentary on the Philosophical Investigations. Takes into account much new material that was unavailable when the first edition was... -
Hobbes, Locke, and Confusion's Masterpiece: An Examination of Seventeenth-Century Political Philosophy by Ross Harrison 9780521017190
RRP: $43.85$36.61In this major 2003 study of the foundations of modern political theory the eminent political philosopher Ross Harrison explains, analyzes, and criticizes the work of Hobbes, Locke, and their contemporaries. He provides a full account of the turbulent... -
The Ordinary Route: Preliminary Studies for the "Philosophical Investigations" by Ludwig Wittgenstein
$23.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061312113Author Ludwig WittgensteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 263Imprint HarperPerennialPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc -
Spirit: Chapter Six of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit by G. W. F. Hegel 9780872205697
RRP: $19.34$16.24This new annotated translation of Chapter Six of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit, the joint product of a group of scholars that included H. S. Harris, George di Giovanni, John W. Burbidge, and Kenneth Schmitz, represents an advance in accuracy and... -
Nietzsche's Free Spirit Works: A Dialectical Reading by Matthew Meyer
RRP: $39.98$32.83Between 1878 and 1882, Nietzsche published what he called 'the free spirit works': Human, All Too Human; Assorted Opinions and Maxims; The Wanderer and His Shadow; Daybreak; and The Gay Science. Often approached as a mere assemblage of loosely connected... -
The Natural and the Human: Science and the Shaping of Modernity, 1739-1841 by Stephen Gaukroger 9780198757634
$78.32Stephen Gaukroger presents an original account of the development of empirical science and the understanding of human behaviour from the mid-eighteenth century. Since the seventeenth century, science in the west has undergone a unique form of cumulative... -
Reflections on the Revolution in France by Edmund Burke 9780872200210
RRP: $50.30$41.13John Pocock's edition of Burke's Reflections is two classics in one: Burke's Reflections and Pocock's reflections on Burke and the eighteenth century.ReviewsPocock is, without question, the leading historian of eighteenth-century British-American... -
Modern Philosophy: An Anthology of Primary Sources by Roger Ariew 9781624668050
RRP: $74.81$61.73The most widely read anthology for the study of modern philosophy, this volume provides key works of philosophers and other leading thinkers of the period, chosen to enhance the reader's understanding of modern philosophy and its relationship to the... -
Wittgenstein on Philosophy, Objectivity, and Meaning by James Conant
RRP: $39.98$32.83This volume of new essays presents groundbreaking interpretations of some of the most central themes of Wittgenstein's philosophy. A distinguished group of contributors demonstrates how Wittgenstein's thought can fruitfully be applied to contemporary... -
Hilary Putnam by Yemima Ben-Menahem 9780521012546
RRP: $34.82$28.24The richness of Putnam's philosophical oeuvre consists not only in the broad spectrum of problems addressed, but also in the transformations and restructuring his positions have undergone over the years. The essays collected in this volume are sensitive... -
Rousseau: A Free Community of Equals by Joshua Cohen 9780199581504
RRP: $48.36$38.89In famously beautiful and laconic prose, Jean-Jacques Rousseau presents us with a forceful picture of a democratic society, in which we live together as free and equal, and our politics focuses on the common good. In Rousseau: A Free Community of Equals... -
Basic Problems of Phenomenology: Winter Semester 1919/1920 by Martin Heidegger 9781441103604
RRP: $41.27$41.18Basic Problems of Phenomenology presents the first English translation of Martin Heidegger's early lecture course from the Winter of 1919/1920, in which he attempts to clarify phenomenology by looking at the phenomenon of life, which he sees as the... -
Hegel's Philosophy of Reality, Freedom, and God by Robert M. Wallace 9780521184366
RRP: $49.01$42.53This book shows that the repeated announcements of the death of Hegel's philosophical system have been premature. Hegel's Philosophy of Freedom, Reality, and God brings to light accomplishments for which Hegel is seldom given credit: unique arguments for... -
Tradition and Modernity: Philosophical Reflections on the African Experience by Kwame Gyekye 9780195112269
RRP: $59.33$41.01This book offers a philosophical interpretation and critical analysis of the African cultural experience in modern times. In their attempt to evolve ways of life appropriate to our modern world culture, says Kwame Gyekye, African people and societies... -
The Rise of Modern Philosophy: A New History of Western Philosophy, Volume 3 by Anthony Kenny 9780198752776
RRP: $43.85$32.51Sir Anthony Kenny's engaging new history of Western philosophy now advances into the modern era. The Rise of Modern Philosophy is the fascinating story of the emergence, from the early sixteenth to the early nineteenth century, of great ideas and... -
Introduction to the History of the Principal Kingdoms & States of Europe by Samuel Pufendorf 9780865975132
RRP: $14.13$12.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865975132Author Samuel PufendorfFormat PaperbackPage Count 716Imprint Liberty Fund IncPublisher Liberty Fund IncWeight(grams) 1215g -
Contemporary Aristotelian Ethics: Alasdair MacIntyre, Martha Nussbaum, Robert Spaemann by Arthur Madigan 9780268207595
RRP: $69.66$60.36This volume provides a thorough introduction to three of the twentieth century’s most influential proponents of Aristotle’s moral philosophy. Arthur Madigan’s Contemporary Aristotelian Ethics examines the work of Alasdair MacIntyre, Martha Nussbaum, and... -
Kant and Modern Political Philosophy by Katrin Flikschuh 9780521073028
RRP: $51.59$42.91Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Transformations: Thinking After Heidegger by Gail Stenstad 9780299215446
RRP: $32.19$27.59How are we to think and act constructively in the face of today's environmental and political catastrophes? Gail Stenstad finds inspiring answers in the thought of German philosopher Martin Heidegger. Rather than simply describing or explaining... -
The Cambridge Companion to Pascal by Nicholas Hammond 9780521006118
RRP: $33.53$27.95Each volume of this series of companions to major philosophers contains specially commissioned essays by an international team of scholars, together with a substantial bibliography, and will serve as a reference work for students and nonspecialists. One... -
Kant: A Biography by Manfred Kuehn 9780521497046
RRP: $154.80$128.66This is the first full-length biography in more than fifty years of Immanuel Kant, one of the giants amongst the pantheon of Western philosophers as well as the one with the most powerful and broad influence on contemporary philosophy. It is well known... -
Nietzsche's 'Thus Spoke Zarathustra': A Critical Guide by Keith Ansell-Pearson
RRP: $96.75$87.38Nietzsche regarded Thus Spoke Zarathustra as his most important philosophical contribution because it proposes solutions to the problems and questions he poses in his later books - for example, his cure for the human disposition to vengefulness and his... -
On the God of the Christians: (And on One or Two Others) by Remi Brague
RRP: $27.09$22.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781587313455Author Remi BragueFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint St Augustine's PressPublisher St Augustine's PressWeight(grams) 370gDimensions(mm) 240mm... -
The Relevance of Romanticism: Essays on German Romantic Philosophy by Dalia Nassar 9780199976218
RRP: $62.55$40.39Since the early 1990s, there has been a resurgence of interest in philosophy between Kant and Hegel, and in early German romanticism in particular. Philosophers have come to recognize that, in spite of significant differences between the contemporary and... -
Selections from Three Works: A Treatise on Laws and God the Lawgiver/A Defence of the Catholic and Apostolic Faith/A Work on the Three Theological Virtues: Faith, Hope and Charity by Francisco Suarez 9780865975163
RRP: $25.74$23.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865975163Author Francisco SuarezFormat HardbackPage Count 1100Imprint Liberty Fund IncPublisher Liberty Fund IncWeight(grams) 1600g -
Hegel and the Challenge of Spinoza: A Study in German Idealism, 1801-1831 by George di Giovanni
RRP: $96.75$87.38Hegel and the Challenge of Spinoza explores the powerful continuing influence of Spinoza's metaphysical thinking in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century German philosophy. George di Giovanni examines the ways in which Hegel's own metaphysics... -
The Essential Leviathan: A Modernized Edition by Thomas Hobbes 9781624665202
RRP: $19.34$16.24This edition of Leviathan is intended to provide the reader with a modestly abridged text that is straightforward and accessible, while preserving Hobbes' main lines of argument and of thought. It is meant for those who wish to focus primarily on the... -
Socrates, Buddha, Confucius, Jesus: From the Great Philosophers, Volume I by Professor Karl Jaspers 9780544311879
RRP: $38.70$23.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780544311879Author Professor Karl JaspersFormat HardbackPage Count 120Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 304gDimensions(mm) 216mm *... -
Sartre on Sin: Between Being and Nothingness by Kate Kirkpatrick
RRP: $42.56$36.78Sartre on Sin: Between Being and Nothingness argues that Jean-Paul Sartre's early, anti-humanist philosophy is indebted to the Christian doctrine of original sin. On the standard reading, Sartre's most fundamental and attractive idea is freedom: he... -
Mathematics of the Transcendental by Alain Badiou 9781474286459
$26.02In Mathematics of the Transcendental, Alain Badiou painstakingly works through the pertinent aspects of category theory, demonstrating their internal logic and veracity, their derivation and distinction from set theory, and the 'thinking of being'. In... -
Hegel's Critique of Metaphysics by Beatrice Longuenesse 9780521844666
RRP: $116.10$94.35Hegel's Science of Logic has received less attention than his Phenomenology of Spirit, but Hegel himself took it to be his highest philosophical achievement and the backbone of his system. The present book focuses on this most difficult of Hegel's... -
Wittgenstein on Mind and Language by David G. Stern 9780195111477
RRP: $95.46$70.61Stern argues that Wittgenstein's views are often much simpler (and more radical) than we have been led to believe. Drawing on ten years of research on the unpublished Wittgenstein papers, Stern investigates what motivated Wittgenstein's philosophical... -
Theoretical Philosophy after 1781 by Immanuel Kant 9780521147644
RRP: $51.59$43.47This volume, originally published in 2002, assembles the historical sequence of writings that Kant published between 1783 and 1796 to popularize, summarize, amplify and defend the doctrines of his masterpiece, the Critique of Pure Reason of 1781. The... -
The Pathologies of Individual Freedom: Hegel's Social Theory by Axel Honneth 9780691118062
RRP: $58.05$45.56This is a penetrating reinterpretation and defense of Hegel's social theory as an alternative to reigning liberal notions of social justice. The eminent German philosopher Axel Honneth rereads Hegel's Philosophy of Right to show how it diagnoses the... -
Saul Kripke by Dr. Arif Ahmed 9780826492623
$37.86Saul Kripke is one of the most important and original post-war analytic philosophers. His work has undeniably had a profound impact on the philosophy of language and the philosophy of mind. Yet, his ideas are amongst the most challenging frequently... -
Heidegger's Temporal Idealism by Mr William D. Blattner 9780521020947
RRP: $77.39$65.57This book is a systematic reconstruction of Heidegger's account of time and temporality in Being and Time. The author locates Heidegger in a tradition of 'temporal idealism' with its sources in Plotinus, Leibniz, and Kant. For Heidegger, time can only be...