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Stranger from Abroad: Hannah Arendt, Martin Heidegger, Friendship and Forgiveness by Daniel Maier-Katkin 9780393068337
RRP: $53.54$43.33Shaking 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... -
What Is Nietzsche's Zarathustra?: A Philosophical Confrontation by Heinrich Meier
RRP: $56.76$47.48Thus Spoke Zarathustra is Nietzsche's most famous and most puzzling work, one in which he makes the greatest use of poetry to explore the questions posed by philosophy. But in order to understand the movement of this drama, we must first understand the... -
Crossing the Postmodern Divide by Albert Borgmann 9780226066271
RRP: $27.09$26.20In this eloquent guide to the meanings of the postmodern era, Albert Borgmann charts the options before us as we seek alternatives to the joyless and artificial culture of consumption. Borgmann connects the fundamental ideas driving his understanding of... -
Kant's Tribunal of Reason: Legal Metaphor and Normativity in the Critique of Pure Reason by Sofie Moller 9781108724050
RRP: $39.98$29.48Kant's Critique of Pure Reason, his main work of theoretical philosophy, frequently uses metaphors from law. In this first book-length study in English of Kant's legal metaphors and their role in the first Critique, Sofie Moller shows that they are... -
Kant and the Claims of Taste by Paul Guyer
RRP: $98.03$83.45Kant 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... -
Jacques Ranciere: History, Politics, Aesthetics by Gabriel Rockhill
RRP: $30.95$26.88The 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,... -
On the Dignity of Man by Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola 9780872203969
RRP: $18.05$15.26Reflecting the broad range of interests of a major Renaissance philosopher and his distinctive brand of syncretism, this anthology offers in their entirety three central works of Pico's. On the Dignity of Man, the quintessential expression of Renaissance... -
Spurs: Nietzsche's Styles/Eperons: Les Styles De Nietzsche by Jacques Derrida
RRP: $39.99$38.95Nietzsche has recently enjoyed much scrutiny from the nouveaux critiques. Jacques Derrida, the leader of that movement, here combines in his strikingly original and incisive fashion questions of sexuality, politics, writing, judgment, procreation, death,... -
The Role of Death in Life: A Multidisciplinary Examination of the Relationship between Life and Death by Conor Cunningham 9780227175729
RRP: $22.58$22.33The relation between life and death is a subject of perennial relevance for all human beings, and indeed, the whole world and the entire universe, in as much as, according to the saying of ancient Greek philosophy, all things that come into being pass... -
Reconceiving Spinoza by Samuel Newlands 9780198817260
$100.12Samuel Newlands provides a sweeping new account of Spinoza's metaphysical system and the way it shapes and is shaped by his moral project. Newlands also shows how Spinoza can be read fruitfully alongside recent developments in contemporary analytic... -
Nietzsche and Asian Thought by Graham Parkes
RRP: $36.12$35.33Friedrich Nietzsche's work has had a significant impact on the intellectual life of non-Western cultures and elicited responses from thinkers outside of the Anglo-American philosophical traditions as well. Bringing together 13 internationally renowned... -
Life and Teaching of the Masters of the Far East: Volume 6 by Baird T. Spalding 9780875166988 [USED COPY]
RRP: $12.89$7.08Thirty-five years after the appearance of Volume 5 of Life & Teaching of the Masters of the Far East, ten dusty cartons were discovered in the DeVorss warehouse, some of which held Spalding manuscripts, paper, letters, photographs, and other materials... -
Life and Teaching of the Masters of the Far East: Volume 6 by Baird T. Spalding
RRP: $12.89$11.31Thirty-five years after the appearance of Volume 5 of Life & Teaching of the Masters of the Far East, ten dusty cartons were discovered in the DeVorss warehouse, some of which held Spalding manuscripts, paper, letters, photographs, and other materials... -
S/oren Kierkegaard: Subjectivity, Irony, & the Crisis of Modernity by Jon Stewart 9780198747703
RRP: $59.97$59.48Soren Kierkegaard: Subjectivity, Irony, and the Crisis of Modernity examines the thought of Soren Kierkegaard, a unique figure, who has inspired, provoked, fascinated, and irritated people ever since he walked the streets of Copenhagen. At the end of his... -
Spinoza and the Stoics by Jon Miller
RRP: $39.98$29.48For many years, philosophers and other scholars have commented on the remarkable similarity between Spinoza and the Stoics, with some even going so far as to speak of 'Spinoza the Stoic'. Until now, however, no one has systematically examined the... -
Becoming Who We Are: Politics and Practical Philosophy in the Work of Stanley Cavell by Andrew Norris 9780190673949
RRP: $123.84$109.33While much literature exists on the work of Stanley Cavell, this is the first monograph on his contribution to politics and practical philosophy. As Andrew Norris demonstrates, though skepticism is Cavell's central topic, Cavell understands it not as an... -
A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia by Gilles Deleuze 9780816614028
$35.59A Thousand Plateaus continues the work Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari began in Anti-Oedipus and has now become established as one of the classic studies of the development of critical theory in the late twentieth century. It occupies an important... -
Kant and the Philosophy of Mind: Perception, Reason, and the Self by Anil Gomes 9780198724957
RRP: $99.33$90.80The essays in this volume explore those aspects of Kant's writings which concern issues in the philosophy of mind. These issues are central to any understanding of Kant's critical philosophy and they bear upon contemporary discussions in the philosophy... -
Wittgenstein and William James by Russell B. Goodman 9780521038874
RRP: $51.59$42.91This 2002 book explores Wittgenstein's long engagement with the work of the pragmatist William James. In contrast to previous discussions Russell Goodman argues that James exerted a distinctive and pervasive positive influence on Wittgenstein's thought... -
The Naked Self: Kierkegaard and Personal Identity by Patrick Stokes 9780198732730
$104.01Across his relatively short and eccentric authorial career, Soren Kierkegaard develops a unique, and provocative, account of what it is to become, to be, and to lose a self, backed up by a rich phenomenology of self-experience. Yet Kierkegaard has been... -
Essential Writings of Rousseau by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
RRP: $28.38$21.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812980387Author Jean-Jacques RousseauFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)... -
Rudolf Steiner Speaks to the British: Lectures and Addresses in England and Wales by Rudolf Steiner 9781855840478
RRP: $20.63$17.20As 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... -
Hegel's Epistemology: A Philosophical Introduction to the Phenomenology of Spirit by Kenneth R. Westphal 9780872206458
RRP: $20.63$17.23Provides a succinct philosophical introduction to Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit for non-specialists and students, focusing on Hegel's unique and insightful theory of knowledge and its relations to 20th-century epistemology.About the AuthorKenneth R... -
Against the Modern World: Traditionalism and the Secret Intellectual History of the Twentieth Century by Mark Sedgwick 9780195152975
RRP: $114.81$74.12Against the Modern World is the first history of Traditionalism, an influential yet surprisingly little-known twentieth century anti-modernist movement. Involving a number of important, yet often secret, religious groups in the West and Islamic world, it... -
Jacques Derrida by James K. A. Smith 9780826462817
$35.35Jacques Derrida: Live Theory is a new introduction to the work of this most influential of contemporary philosophers. It covers Derrida's corpus in its entirety - from his earliest work in phenomenology and the philosophy of language, to his most recent... -
Ontology of Production: Three Essays by Nishida Kitaro
RRP: $25.79$22.63Ontology of Production presents three essays by the influential Japanese philosopher Nishida Kitaro (1870-1945), translated for the first time into English by William Haver. While previous translations of his writings have framed Nishida within Asian or... -
Berkeley's A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge: An Introduction by P. J. E. Kail 9780521173117
RRP: $32.24$27.32George Berkeley's Principles of Human Knowledge is a crucial text in the history of empiricism and in the history of philosophy more generally. Its central and seemingly astonishing claim is that the physical world cannot exist independently of the... -
The Speculative Remark: (One of Hegel's Bons Mots) by Jean-Luc Nancy 9780804737142
RRP: $28.37$24.76This work, by one of the most innovative and challenging of contemporary thinkers, pivots on a Remark added by Hegel in 1831 to the second edition of his Science of Logic. As a model of close reading applied both to philosophical texts and the making of... -
Paradox and Platitude in Wittgenstein's Philosophy by David Pears 9780199550500
$42.63Paradox and Platitude in Wittgenstein's Philosophy is a concise and readable study of five intertwined themes at the heart of Wittgenstein's thought, written by one of his most eminent interpreters. David Pears offers penetrating investigations and lucid... -
Schopenhauer, Philosophy and the Arts by Dale Jacquette 9780521044066
RRP: $65.78$55.50This collection brings together thirteen essays by some of the most respected contemporary scholars of Schopenhauer's aesthetics from a wide spectrum of philosophical perspectives. The dynamics of the empirical will and Will as a thing-in-itself in the... -
Wittgenstein on Logic as the Method of Philosophy: Re-examining the Roots and Development of Analytic Philosophy by Oskari Kuusela 9780198829751
RRP: $104.49$84.53In Wittgenstein on Logic as the Method of Philosophy, Oskari Kuusela examines Wittgenstein's early and late philosophies of logic, situating their philosophical significance in early and middle analytic philosophy with particular reference to Frege,... -
Hegel's Critique of Kant by Sally Sedgwick 9780199698363
RRP: $110.94$76.45Sally 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... -
Locke by Samuel C. Rickless 9781405189361
RRP: $28.32$24.92In a focused assessment of one of the founding members of the liberal tradition in philosophy and a self-proclaimed "Under-Labourer" working to support the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century, the author maps the full range of John Locke's... -
The Cambridge Companion to Dewey by Molly Cochran
RRP: $39.98$32.47John Dewey (1859-1952) was a major figure of the American cultural and intellectual landscape in the first half of the twentieth century. While not the originator of American pragmatism, he was instrumental to its articulation as a philosophy and the... -
Freud, the Reluctant Philosopher by Alfred I. Tauber 9780691145525
RRP: $41.28$31.94Freud began university intending to study both medicine and philosophy. But he was ambivalent about philosophy, regarding it as metaphysical, too limited to the conscious mind, and ignorant of empirical knowledge. Yet his private correspondence and his... -
Heidegger on Ontotheology: Technology and the Politics of Education by Iain Thomson 9780521851152
RRP: $73.53$65.96Heidegger is now widely recognized as one of the most influential and controversial philosophers of the twentieth century, yet much of his later philosophy remains shrouded in confusion and controversy. Restoring Heidegger's understanding of metaphysics... -
The British Moralists and the Internal 'Ought': 1640-1740 by Stephen L. Darwall 9780521457828
RRP: $51.59$42.91This book is a major work in the history of ethics, and provides the first study of early modern British philosophy in several decades. Professor Darwall discerns two distinct traditions feeding into the moral philosophy of the seventeenth and eighteenth... -
Internal Reasons: Contemporary Readings by Kieran Setiya 9780262516402
RRP: $49.02$47.92A collection of the most important recent work on reasons for action and the question "why be moral?" Some of the most challenging questions in philosophical ethics concern the justification of action. Can you have reasons to do something that... -
Cutting God in Half - And Putting the Pieces Together Again A New Approach to Philosophy by Nicholas Maxwell 9780955224027
$11.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955224027Author Nicholas MaxwellFormat PaperbackPage Count 382Imprint Pentire PressPublisher Pentire PressWeight(grams) 560g -
The Philosophy of History by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 9788562022333
$17.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788562022333Author Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint Iap - Information Age Pub. Inc.Publisher Iap - Information Age Pub...