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The Natural and the Human: Science and the Shaping of Modernity, 1739-1841 by Stephen Gaukroger 9780198757634
£60.71Stephen 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... -
Before and after Hegel: A Historical Introduction to Hegel's Thought by Tom Rockmore 9780872206472
RRP: £16.99£14.13In this engaging and accessible introduction to Hegel's theory of knowledge, Tom Rockmore brings together the philosopher's life, his thought, and his historical moment--without, however, reducing one to another. Laying out the philosophical tradition of... -
Reflections on the Revolution in France by Edmund Burke 9780872200210
RRP: £38.99£31.88John 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: £57.99£47.85The 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... -
Hilary Putnam by Yemima Ben-Menahem 9780521012546
RRP: £26.99£21.89The 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... -
The Cambridge History of Philosophy in the Nineteenth Century (1790-1870) by Allen W. Wood
RRP: £54.99£46.58The latest volume in the Cambridge Histories of Philosophy series, The Cambridge History of Philosophy in the Nineteenth Century (1790-1870) brings together twenty-nine leading experts in the field and covers the years 1790-1870. Their twenty-eight... -
Rousseau: A Free Community of Equals by Joshua Cohen 9780199581504
RRP: £37.49£30.15In 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: £31.99£31.92Basic 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: £37.99£32.97This 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: £45.99£31.79This 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: £33.99£25.20Sir 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... -
Kant on Self-Knowledge and Self-Formation: The Nature of Inner Experience by Katharina T. Kraus
RRP: £24.99£22.37As the pre-eminent Enlightenment philosopher, Kant famously calls on all humans to make up their own minds, independently from the constraints imposed on them by others. Kant's focus, however, is on universal human reason, and he tells us little about... -
The Rational Kernel of the Hegelian Dialectic by Alain Badiou 9780980819762
RRP: £14.00£9.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780980819762Author Alain BadiouFormat PaperbackPage Count 138Imprint re.pressPublisher re.pressWeight(grams) 185g -
Michael Oakeshott's Skepticism by Aryeh Botwinick 9780691147178
RRP: £45.00£35.32The English philosopher Michael Oakeshott (1901-1990) is known as a conservative who rejected philosophically ambitious rationalism and the grand political ideologies of the twentieth century on the grounds that no human ideas have ultimately reliable... -
Introduction to the History of the Principal Kingdoms & States of Europe by Samuel Pufendorf 9780865975132
RRP: £10.95£9.98Apologies 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: £54.00£46.79This 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: £39.99£33.26Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Transformations: Thinking After Heidegger by Gail Stenstad 9780299215446
RRP: £24.95£20.94How 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: £25.99£21.22Each 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: £120.00£99.74This 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... -
On the God of the Christians - (and on one or two others) Remi Brague 9781587313455
RRP: £21.00£17.76Apologies 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: £48.49£31.31Since 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... -
Truth and Interpretation – Perspectives on the Philosophy of Donald Davidson by E LePore 9780631169482
RRP: £36.95£32.91Regardless 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... -
Kant's Philosophical Revolution: A Short Guide to the Critique of Pure Reason by Yirmiyahu Yovel 9780691180526
RRP: £30.00£23.29A short, clear, and authoritative guide to one of the most important and difficult works of modern philosophyPerhaps the most influential work of modern philosophy, Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason is also one of the hardest to read, since it... -
The Essential Leviathan: A Modernized Edition by Thomas Hobbes 9781624665202
RRP: £14.99£12.59This 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... -
Bertrand Russell by A. J. Ayer 9780226033433
RRP: £33.00£32.05With extraordinary concision and clarity, A. J. Ayer gives an account of the major incidents of Bertrand Russell's life and an exposition of the whole range of his philosophy. "Ayer considers Russell to be, except possibly for Wittgenstein, the most... -
Selected Exaggerations: Conversations and Interviews 1993 - 2012 Peter Sloterdijk ( Karlsruhe School of Design) 9780745691664
RRP: £17.99£16.04Peter Sloterdijk's reputation as one of the most original thinkers of our time has grown steadily since the early 1980s. This volume of over thirty conversations and interviews spanning two decades illuminates the multiple interconnections of his life... -
Sartre on Sin: Between Being and Nothingness by Kate Kirkpatrick
RRP: £32.99£28.51Sartre 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
RRP: £19.99£19.71In 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... -
Rediscovering Values: Coming to Terms with Postmodernism Hugh Mercer Curtler 9780765600608
RRP: £25.99£22.63The author's primary purpose in this short book is to clearly define the nature of value and restore it to a central place in discussions of ethical and aesthetic problems. He begins the book with a broad cultural perspective on the issue of... -
Hegel's Critique of Metaphysics by Beatrice Longuenesse 9780521844666
RRP: £90.00£73.14Hegel'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: £74.00£54.74Stern 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: £39.99£33.70This 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... -
Saul Kripke by Dr. Arif Ahmed 9780826492623
£29.35Saul 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: £59.99£50.83This 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... -
Stranger from Abroad: Hannah Arendt, Martin Heidegger, Friendship and Forgiveness by Daniel Maier-Katkin 9780393068337
RRP: £41.50£33.59Shaking up the content and method by which generations of students had studied Western philosophy, Martin Heidegger sought to ennoble man's existence in relation to death. Yet in a time of crisis, he sought personal advancement, becoming the most... -
Voltaire: Philosophical Letters: Or, Letters Regarding the English Nation by Voltaire 9780872208827
RRP: £35.99£29.52In his Philosophical Letters, Voltaire provides a pungent and often satirical assessment of the religion, politics, science, and arts of the England he observed during his nearly three-year exile. In addition to the Letters, this edition provides a... -
Kant and the Claims of Taste by Paul Guyer
RRP: £75.99£64.69Kant and the Claims of Taste, published here for the first time in paperback in a revised version, has become, since its initial publication in 1979, the standard commentary on Kant's aesthetic theory. The book offers a detailed account of Kant's views... -
French Philosophy, 1572-1675 by Desmond M. Clarke 9780198822448
£28.70Desmond M. Clarke presents a thematic history of French philosophy from the middle of the sixteenth century to the beginning of Louis XIV's reign. While the traditional philosophy of the schools was taught throughout this period by authors who have faded... -
Rudolf Steiner Speaks to the British: Lectures and Addresses in England and Wales by Rudolf Steiner 9781855840478
RRP: £15.99£13.33As demonstrated in this book, Rudolf Steiner had the ability to speak to the British in a very lively an d direct way. This volume provides readers with a fuller pic ture of Steiner''s work in Britain and his approach to esoter ic ideas whilst here...