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Agency and Autonomy in Kant's Moral Theory: Selected Essays by Andrews Reath 9780199288830
RRP: $81.88$81.39Andrews Reath presents a selection of his best essays on various features of Kant's moral psychology and moral theory, with particular emphasis on his conception of rational agency and his conception of autonomy. The opening essays explore different... -
The Riddle of the World: A Reconsideration of Schopenhauer's Philosophy by Barbara Hannan 9780195378931
RRP: $57.51$52.47This book is an introduction to the philosophy of Arthur Schopenhauer, written in a lively, personal style. Hannan emphasizes the peculiar inconsistencies and tensions in Schopenhauer's thought - he was torn between idealism and realism, and between... -
Essays on Kant's Anthropology by Brian Jacobs 9780521037839
RRP: $77.98$64.86Kant's lectures on anthropology capture him at the height of his intellectual power. They are immensely important for advancing our understanding of Kant's conception of anthropology, its development, and the notoriously difficult relationship between it... -
Carl Schmitt's Critique of Liberalism: Against Politics as Technology by John P. McCormick
RRP: $72.13$61.91This is the first in-depth critical appraisal in English of the political, legal, and cultural writings of Carl Schmitt, perhaps this century's most brilliant critic of liberalism. It offers an assessment of this most sophisticated of fascist theorists... -
Kant's Thinker by Patricia Kitcher 9780199363728
RRP: $83.83$52.47Kant's discussion of the relations between cognition and self-consciousness lie at the heart of the Critique of Pure Reason, in the celebrated transcendental deduction. Although this section of Kant's masterpiece is widely believed to contain important... -
Socrates Meets Hume: The Father of Philosophy Meets the Father of Modern Skepticism by Peter Kreeft
$23.67Kreeft presents a Socratic examination of Hume's Enquiry concerning Human Understanding in relation to the skepticism of Hume, posing questions that challenge the concepts that Hume proposed. Kreeft states that Hume is the "most formidable, serious,... -
Wittgenstein: Meaning and Mind, Volume 3 of an Analytical Commentary on the Philosophical Investigations, Part II: Exegesis 243-247 by P. M. S. Hacker 9780631190646
RRP: $74.00$65.05This third volume of the monumental commentary on Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations covers sections 243-427, which constitute the heart of the book. Like the previous volumes, it consists of philosophical essays and exegesis. The thirteen... -
The Riddle of Hume's Treatise: Skepticism, Naturalism, and Irreligion by Paul Russell 9780199751525
RRP: $101.40$64.68Although it is widely recognized that David Hume's A Treatise of Human Nature (1729-40) belongs among the greatest works of philosophy, there is little aggreement about the correct way to interpret his fundamental intentions. The solution to this riddle... -
Solidarity in the Conversation of Humankind: Ungroundable Liberalism of Richard Rorty by Norman Geras
$27.63What are the sources of solidarity? Do universalist motives have an important place among them? And how are they related to arguments about human nature and about truth?In this new book, Norman Geras engages with the work of Richard Rorty to explore the... -
Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morality: A Critical Guide by Simon May 9780521518802
RRP: $107.25$97.05On the Genealogy of Morality is Nietzsche's most influential, provocative, and challenging work of ethics. In this volume of newly commissioned essays, fourteen leading philosophers offer fresh insights into many of the work's central questions: How did... -
The Blackwell Guide to Hume's Treatise by Saul Traiger 9781405115094
RRP: $64.25$57.60This Guide provides students with the scholarly and interpretive tools they need to understand Hume's A Treatise of Human Nature and its influence on modern philosophy. A student guide to Hume's A Treatise of Human Nature. Focuses on recent... -
Marx, the Young Hegelians, and the Origins of Radical Social Theory: Dethroning the Self by Warren Breckman 9780521003803
RRP: $72.13$61.91This is the first major study of Marx and the Young Hegelians in twenty years. The book offers a new interpretation of Marx's early development, the political dimension of Young Hegelianism, and that movement's relationship to political and intellectual... -
Sartre for Beginners by Donald D. Palmer 9781934389157
RRP: $25.33$19.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781934389157Author Donald D. PalmerFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint For BeginnersPublisher For Beginners -
Nature From Within: Gustav Theodor Fechner And His Psychophysical Worldview by Michael Heidelberger 9780822965473
$106.29Gustav Theodor Fechner (1801-1887) was a German physicist, psychologist, and philosopher, best known to historians of science as the founder of psychophysics, the experimental study of the relation between mental and physical processes. Michael... -
Wittgenstein: A Critical Reader by Hans-Johann Glock
RRP: $68.15$60.90This volume provides a wide-ranging collection of newly-commissioned essays on Wittgenstein by internationally established philosophers.About the AuthorHans-Johann Glock is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Reading. He has been Visiting... -
Nietzsche's Metaphysics of the Will to Power: The Possibility of Value by Tsarina Doyle
RRP: $60.43$44.56Nietzsche's controversial will to power thesis is convincingly rehabilitated in this compelling book. Tsarina Doyle presents a fresh interpretation of his account of nature and value, which sees him defy the dominant conception of nature in the... -
Lyotard and the Inhuman Condition: Reflections on Nihilism, Information and Art by Ashley Woodward
RRP: $46.78$38.04Ashley Woodward demonstrates what a new generation of scholars are just discovering: that Lyotard s incisive work is essential for current debates in the humanities. Lyotard s ideas about the arts and the confrontations between humanist traditions and... -
Peirce on Realism and Idealism by Robert Lane
RRP: $60.43$44.56This book offers a new interpretation of the metaphysics of Charles Peirce (1839-1914), the founder of pragmatism and one of America's greatest philosophers. Robert Lane begins by examining Peirce's basic realism, his belief in a world that is... -
The Raymond Tallis Reader by Raymond Tallis 9780333772720
RRP: $194.98$176.03The Raymond Tallis Reader provides a comprehensive survey of the work of this passionate, perceptive and often controversial thinker. Key selections from Tallis's major works are supplemented by Michael Grant's detailed introduction and linking... -
John Locke's Christianity by Diego Lucci
RRP: $48.73$43.62John Locke's religious interests and concerns permeate his philosophical production and are best expressed in his later writings on religion, which represent the culmination of his studies. In this volume, Diego Lucci offers a thorough analysis and... -
The Feminine and the Sacred by Catherine Clement 9780333969175
RRP: $87.73$87.69Is there anything sacred that can simultaneously be considered strictly feminine? Two of the leaders of European feminist thought investigate stories of African rites, Catholic saints, Jewish traditions and psychological case studies in an overarching... -
Geraud de Cordemoy: Six Discourses on the Distinction between the Body and the Soul by Steven Nadler 9780198713319
$134.78Steven Nadler presents the first English translation of a seminal work in the history of early modern philosophy. Geraud de Cordemoy's Six Discourses on the Distinction Between the Soul and the Body (originally published in French in 1666) offers an... -
Michael Oakeshott's Skepticism by Aryeh Botwinick 9780691147178
RRP: $87.75$68.87The 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... -
Spinoza on Human Freedom: Reason, Autonomy and the Good Life by Matthew J. Kisner 9780521198882
RRP: $175.50$131.92Spinoza was one of the most influential figures of the Enlightenment, but his often obscure metaphysics makes it difficult to understand the ultimate message of his philosophy. Although he regarded freedom as the fundamental goal of his ethics and... -
Spinoza and Medieval Jewish Philosophy by Steven Nadler
RRP: $60.43$44.56Over the last two decades there has been an increasing interest in the influence of medieval Jewish thought upon Spinoza's philosophy. The essays in this volume, by Spinoza specialists and leading scholars in the field of medieval Jewish philosophy,... -
Scottish Philosophy After the Enlightenment by Gordon Graham
RRP: $165.75$151.13Beginning with Sir William Hamilton's revitalization of philosophy in Scotland in the 1830s, this book takes up the theme of George Davie's The Democratic Intellect and explores a century of debates surrounding the identity and continuity of the Scottish... -
Nietzsche's Final Teaching by Michael Allen Gillespie
RRP: $60.45$58.87In the seven and a half years before his collapse into madness, Nietzsche completed Thus Spoke Zarathustra, the best-selling and most widely read philosophical work of all time, as well as six additional works that are today considered required reading... -
Michel De Certeau: Analysing Culture by Ben Highmore 9780826460738
RRP: $74.08$69.85Michel de Certeau is becoming increasingly recognised as a cultural theorist whose methodologies could rival those of Foucault. In this engaging book, Ben Highmore provides a stimulating account of Michel de Certeau's work and its relation to the field... -
Ethics: with The Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect and Selected Letters by Baruch Spinoza 9780872201316
RRP: $87.73$71.37Since their publication in 1982, Samuel Shirley's translations of Spinoza's Ethics and Selected Letters have been commended for their accuracy and readability. Now with the addition of his new translation of Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect... -
A History of Philosophy in the Twentieth Century by Christian Delacampagne 9780801868146
RRP: $51.68$49.35In A History of Philosophy in the Twentieth Century, Christian Delacampagne reviews the discipline's divergent and dramatic course and shows that its greatest figures, even the most unworldly among them, were deeply affected by events of their time... -
Kant and the Laws of Nature by Michela Massimi
RRP: $60.43$38.98Laws of nature play a central role in Kant's theoretical philosophy and are crucial to understanding his philosophy of science in particular. In this volume of new essays, the first systematic investigation of its kind, a distinguished team of scholars... -
Hegel's Logic and Metaphysics by Jacob McNulty
RRP: $146.25$132.09Kant said that logic had not had to take a single step forward since Aristotle, but German Idealists in the following generation made concerted efforts to re-think the logical foundations of philosophy. In this book, Jacob McNulty offers a new... -
Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy by Rene Descartes 9780872204218
RRP: $70.18$57.56This edition contains Donald Cress's completely revised translation of the Meditations (from the corrected Latin edition) and recent corrections to Discourse on Method, bringing this version even closer to Descartes's original, while maintaining the... -
Frege: A Guide for the Perplexed by Edward Kanterian 9780826487643
$54.58This is a guide to the thought and ideas of Gottlob Frege, one of the most important but also perplexing figures in the history of analytic philosophy. Gottlob Frege is regarded as one of the founders of modern logic and analytic philosophy, indeed as... -
This New Yet Unapproachable America: Lectures After Emerson After Wittgenstein by Stanley Cavell 9780226037387
RRP: $37.05$36.08Stanley Cavell is a titan of the academic world; his work in aesthetics and philosophy has shaped both fields in the United States over the past forty years. In this brief yet enlightening collection of lectures, Cavell investigates the work of two of... -
A Hobbes Dictionary by A. P. Martinich 9780631192626
RRP: $70.10$61.76This dictionary provides a comprehensive and cohesive expository account of about one hundred and fifty key concepts covering the entire range of Hobbes's thought, from philosophy, political theory and science, to theology, history and mathematics.About... -
Felix Guattari: An Aberrant Introduction by Gary Genosko 9780826460349
$146.46This is a detailed assessment of the life and work of Felix Guattari, "Mr Anti" as the French press labelled him, the friend of and collaborator with Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Lacan and Antonio Negri, and one of the 20th century's last great... -
Thomas Reid and the Story of Epistemology by Nicholas Wolterstorff 9780521539302
RRP: $72.13$61.91The two great philosophical figures at the culminating point of the Enlightenment are Thomas Reid in Scotland and Immanuel Kant in Germany. Reid was by far the most influential across Europe and the United States well into the nineteenth century. Since... -
Deconstruction and Philosophy: Texts of Jacques Derrida by John Sallis
RRP: $54.60$53.41This volume represents the first sustained effort to relate Derrida's work to the Western philosophical tradition from Plato to Heidegger. Bringing together twelve essays by twelve leading Derridean philosophers and an important paper by Derrida... -
Leibniz on Causation and Agency by Julia Jorati
RRP: $60.43$44.56This book presents a comprehensive examination of Gottfried Leibniz's views on the nature of agents and their actions. Julia Jorati offers a fresh look at controversial topics including Leibniz's doctrines of teleology, the causation of spontaneous...