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The British Moralists and the Internal 'Ought': 1640-1740 by Stephen L. Darwall 9780521457828
RRP: £39.99£33.26This 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: £38.00£37.15A 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
£8.96Apologies 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
£13.30Apologies 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... -
Immanuel Kant's <i>Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals</i>: A Commentary by Dieter Schonecker 9780674430136
RRP: £35.95£28.96A defining work of moral philosophy, Kant's Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals has been influential to an extent far beyond what its modest length (roughly 75 pages) might suggest. It is also a famously difficult work, concerned with propounding... -
Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit by Ludwig Siep 9781009018760
RRP: £30.99£27.40Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Kierkegaard and Socrates: A Study in Philosophy and Faith by Jacob Howland
RRP: £24.99£20.94This volume is a study of the relationship between philosophy and faith in Soren Kierkegaard's Philosophical Fragments. It is also the first book to examine the role of Socrates in this body of writings, illuminating the significance of Socrates for... -
Meaning by Paul Horwich 9780198238249
RRP: £39.49£33.99What is meaning? Paul Horwich presents an original philosophical theory, demonstrates its richness, and defends it against all comers. At the core of his theory is the idea, made famous by Wittgenstein, that the meaning of a word derives from its use;... -
Wittgenstein's "Philosophical Investigations": A Reader's Guide by Dr. Arif Ahmed 9780826492647
£25.45This is the ideal companion to study of this most influential and challenging of texts. Ludwig Wittgenstein's "Philosophical Investigations" is a hugely important piece of philosophical writing, one frequently encountered by students of... -
Badiou and Philosophy by Dr. Sean Bowden
RRP: £31.00£28.69This title presents a range of critical engagements with the work of Alain Badiou. This collection of 13 essays directly addresses the work of Alain Badiou, focusing specifically on the philosophical content of his work and the various connections he... -
Kant's Critique of Taste: The Feeling of Life by Katalin Makkai
RRP: £22.99£20.66Immanuel Kant's Critique of Judgment is widely recognized as a founding document of modern aesthetics, but its legacy has fallen into disrepute. In this book Katalin Makkai calls for the rediscovery of Kant's aesthetics, showing that its centerpiece, his... -
Early Modern Philosophy: Essential Readings with Commentary by A. P. Martinich 9781405135672
RRP: £33.95£30.38Part of the Blackwell Readings in the History of Philosophy series, this survey of early modern philosophy focuses on the key texts and philosophers of the period whose beliefs changed the course of western thought. Assembles the key texts from the... -
Prophet for a Dark Age: A Companion to the Works of Rene Guenon by Graham Rooth
RRP: £34.95£32.09Rene Guenon is a major figure for anyone who recognises a need to rediscover the spiritual roots from which Western society has become so comprehensively alienated. Immersing himself in the search for spiritual truth, he chose Islam as the vehicle for... -
Other Minds: Critical Essays 1969-1994 by Thomas Nagel 9780195132465
RRP: £72.00£50.84Over the past twenty-five years, Thomas Nagel has played a major role in the philosophico-biological debate on subjectivity and consciousness. This extensive collection of published essays and reviews offers Nagel's opinionated views on the philosophy of... -
Between Two Worlds: A Reading of Descartes's Meditations by John Carriero
RRP: £35.00£28.14Between Two Worlds is an authoritative commentary on--and powerful reinterpretation of--the founding work of modern philosophy, Descartes's Meditations. Philosophers have tended to read Descartes's seminal work in an occasional way, examining its... -
The Imagination in German Idealism and Romanticism by Gerad Gentry
RRP: £30.99£25.45For philosophers of German idealism and early German romanticism, the imagination is central to issues ranging from hermeneutics to transcendental logic and from ethics to aesthetics. This volume of new essays brings together, for the first time,... -
Introducing the German Idealists: Mock Interviews with Kant, Hegel, and Others by Professor Robert C. Solomon 9780915145034
RRP: £8.99£7.47Mock interviews with Kant, Hegel, Fichte, Schelling, Reinhold, Jacobi, Schlegel, and a letter from Schopenhauer.About the AuthorRobert C. Solomon, (1942-2007), was Quincy Lee Centennial Professor of Business and Philosophy and Distinguished Teaching... -
History Russian Philosophy V2 by V V Zenkovsky
RRP: £39.99£35.06First published in 2003. This is volume II in the history of Russian philosophy, written in 1953, it takes in the work of Vladimir Solovyov, V.D. Kudryatsev, Nesmelov, Tareyev, M.I. Karinski, Fyodorov, as well as the twentieth century moves into... -
Wittgenstein: Biography and Philosophy by James C. Klagge
RRP: £38.99£32.28This collection of essays deals with the relationship between Wittgenstein's life and his philosophy. The first two essays reflect on general problems inherent in philosophical biography itself. The essays that follow draw on recently published letters... -
Transcendental Ontology: Essays in German Idealism by Markus Gabriel 9780567057808
£38.14Transcendental Ontology in German Idealism: Schelling and Hegel sheds remarkable light on a question central to post-Kantian philosophy: after the Copernican Revolution in philosophy, what can philosophy say about the world or reality as such? What... -
Michel Foucault: Genealogy as Critique by Rudi Visker
£17.29The reception of Michel Foucault's work has often been divided between two unsatisfactory alternatives. On the one had there are those who admire the detail of his concrete analysis, but wonder how the political and ethical commitments they seem to rely... -
Moral Psychology with Nietzsche by Brian Leiter
RRP: £77.00£50.47Brian Leiter defends a set of radical ideas from Nietzsche: there is no objectively true morality, there is no free will, no one is ever morally responsible, and our conscious thoughts and reasoning play almost no significant role in our actions and how... -
Hume, Passion, and Action by Elizabeth S. Radcliffe 9780199573295
£73.17David Hume's theory of action is well known for several provocative theses, including that passion and reason cannot be opposed over the direction of action. Elizabeth S. Radcliffe defends an original interpretation of Hume's views on passion, reason,... -
Leo Strauss on Hegel by Leo Strauss
£38.03In the winter of 1965, Leo Strauss taught a seminar on Hegel at the University of Chicago. While Strauss did not consider himself a Hegelian nor write about Hegel at any length, his writings contain intriguing references to the philosopher, particularly... -
Genealogy of the Tragic: Greek Tragedy and German Philosophy by Joshua Billings 9780691176369
RRP: £30.00£27.39Why did Greek tragedy and "the tragic" come to be seen as essential to conceptions of modernity? And how has this belief affected modern understandings of Greek drama? In Genealogy of the Tragic, Joshua Billings answers these and related questions by... -
Kant and his German Contemporaries: Volume 2, Aesthetics, History, Politics, and Religion by Daniel O. Dahlstrom
RRP: £30.99£27.40Kant's philosophical achievements have long overshadowed those of his German contemporaries, often to the point of concealing his contemporaries' influence upon him. This volume of new essays draws on recent research into the rich complexity of... -
After Finitude: An Essay on the Necessity of Contingency by Quentin Meillassoux 9780826496744
RRP: £45.00£44.98Quentin Meillassouxs remarkable debut makes a strikingly original contribution to contemporary French philosophy and is set to have a significant impact on the future of Continental philosophy. Written in a style that marries great clarity of expression... -
The Accessible Hegel by Michael Allen Fox 9781591022589
RRP: £25.00£22.89Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel was one of the most influential philosophers of the 19th century. Unfortunately, his work is notoriously difficult to understand. There is thus a need for a clear presentation of his major philosophical contributions to help... -
The Philosophy of John Norris by W. J. Mander 9780199230303
RRP: £83.00£68.85Best known today as one of the earliest critics of John Locke, John Norris (1657-1711) incorporated ideas of Augustine, Malebranche, Plato, the Cambridge Platonists, and the scholastics into an original synthesis that was highly influential on the... -
Wittgenstein on Freud and Frazer by Frank Cioffi 9780521626248
RRP: £39.99£33.26What is it that troubles and preoccupies us about the anxieties and anguishes of social and private life? Have advances in the disciplines of psychoanalysis, psychology or the social sciences in general ministered to our needs in these areas? In this... -
Spatial Representation: Problems in Philosophy and Psychology by Naomi Eilan 9780198238874
£48.66Spatial Representation presents original, specially written essays by leading psychologists and philosophers on a fascinating set of topics at the intersection of these two disciplines. They address such questions as these: Do the extraordinary... -
Leo Strauss on Hegel by Leo Strauss 9780226816784
RRP: £31.00£30.19In the winter of 1965, Leo Strauss taught a seminar on Hegel at the University of Chicago. While Strauss neither considered himself a Hegelian nor wrote about Hegel at any length, his writings contain intriguing references to the philosopher,... -
Richard Rorty by Charles Guignon 9780521804899
RRP: £23.99£20.37Arguably the most influential of all contemporary English-speaking philosophers, Richard Rorty has transformed the way many inside and outside philosophy think about the discipline and the traditional ways of practising it. Drawing on a wide range of... -
The Fox Boy: The Story of an Abducted Child by Peter Walker 9780747558057 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99£2.29Mutual kidnapping between the Maori and the English inhabitants in New Zealand had dated back to the 1760s. In 1869, After an English defeat in battle in the Taranaki forest, one Maori boy, aged five, was captured and adopted by the Prime Minister... -
The Mystery of Being by Gabriel Marcel 9781015405493
RRP: £25.95£22.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781015405493Author Gabriel MarcelFormat HardbackPage Count 244Imprint Legare Street PressPublisher Legare Street PressWeight(grams) 517g -
Why We are Not Nietzscheans by Luc Ferry 9780226244815
RRP: £28.00£27.39"To think with Nietzsche against Nietzsche." Thus the editors describe the strategy adopted in this volume to soften the destructive effects of Nietzsche's "philosophy with a hammer" on French philosophy since the 1960s. Frustrated by the infinite... -
Foucault on Freedom by Johanna Oksala 9780521122948
RRP: £33.99£28.38Freedom and the subject were guiding themes for Michel Foucault throughout his philosophical career. In this clear and comprehensive analysis of his thought, Johanna Oksala identifies the different interpretations of freedom in his philosophy and... -
The Cambridge Companion to Oakeshott by Efraim Podoksik 9780521147927
RRP: £30.99£26.83Michael 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... -
Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations: A Critical Guide by Dr. Arif Ahmed 9780521886130
RRP: £52.99£47.61Published in 1953, Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations had a deeply unsettling effect upon our most basic philosophical ideas concerning thought, sensation and language. Its claim that philosophical questions of meaning necessitate a close... -
Cognition and Commitment in Hume's Philosophy by Don Garrett 9780195097214
£34.63It 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...