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Nietzsche and Schiller: Untimely Aesthetics by Nicholas Martin 9780198159131
€106.18Nietzsche's Die Geburt der Tragodie and Schiller's Asthetische Briefe are two texts which make a vital contribution to the history of aesthetic and cultural theory. This is the first work to make a comparative study of the texts, bringing a mutually... -
Walter Benjamin and the Idea of Natural History by Eli Friedlander 9781503637702
RRP: €29.74€25.79In this incisive new work, Eli Friedlander demonstrates that Walter Benjamin's entire corpus, from early to late, comprises a rigorous and sustained philosophical questioning of how human beings belong to nature. Across seemingly heterogeneous writings,... -
The Cambridge History of Philosophy of the Scientific Revolution by David Marshall Miller
€125.00The early modern era produced the Scientific Revolution, which originated our present understanding of the natural world. Concurrently, philosophers established the conceptual foundations of modernity. This rich and comprehensive volume surveys and... -
Japanese Mind: Essentials of Japanese Philosophy and Culture by Charles A. Moore 9780824800772
RRP: €28.50€27.14A collection of essays that provide insight into Japanese culture. This book is a great buy for anyone interested in Japan.Book InformationISBN 9780824800772Author Charles A. MooreFormat PaperbackPage Count 367Imprint University of Hawai'i PressPublisher... -
A Hobbes Dictionary A. P. Martinich (University of Texas, Austin) 9780631192626
RRP: €42.78€37.69This 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... -
Humor and the Good Life in Modern Philosophy: Shaftesbury, Hamann, Kierkegaard by Lydia B. Amir 9781438449364
RRP: €32.96€29.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438449364Author Lydia B. AmirFormat PaperbackPage Count 403Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York... -
No Spiritual Investment in the World: Gnosticism and Postwar German Philosophy by Willem Styfhals 9781501731006
RRP: €36.89€32.56Throughout the twentieth century, German writers, philosophers, theologians, and historians turned to Gnosticism to make sense of the modern condition. While some saw this ancient Christian heresy as a way to rethink modernity, most German intellectuals... -
History Russian Philosophy V2 V.V. Zenkovsky 9781138971820
RRP: €47.59€41.72First 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... -
Daniel Dennett: Reconciling Science and Our Self-conception by Matthew Elton
€23.79Daniel Dennett is one of the most influential thinkers at the interface between philosophy and science. This book is the first comprehensive examination of Dennett's ideas on the nature of thought, consciousness, free will, and the significance of... -
Weltschmerz: Pessimism in German Philosophy, 1860-1900 by Frederick C. Beiser 9780198768715
RRP: €102.34€95.58Weltschmerz is a study of the pessimism that dominated German philosophy in the second half of the nineteenth century. Pessimism was essentially the theory that life is not worth living. This theory was introduced into German philosophy by Schopenhauer,... -
French Philosophy Since 1945: Problems, Concepts, Inventions: Postwar French Thought, Volume IV by Etienne Balibar 9781565848825
RRP: €51.16€34.81The fourth and final volume of The New Press Postwar French Thought series provides a fresh map and analysis for understanding the history of ideas since 1945. This anthology collects the writings of celebrated philosophers along with work by thinkers... -
What is a Human Being?: A Heideggerian View by Frederick A. Olafson 9780521479370
RRP: €42.83€36.79This broad, ambitious study is about human nature, but human nature treated in a way quite different from the scientific account that influences so much of contemporary philosophy. Drawing on certain basic ideas of Heidegger the author presents an... -
Kant's Reform of Metaphysics: The Critique of Pure Reason Reconsidered by Karin de Boer
RRP: €95.19€85.87Scholarly debates on the Critique of Pure Reason have largely been shaped by epistemological questions. Challenging this prevailing trend, Kant's Reform of Metaphysics is the first book-length study to interpret Kant's Critique in view of his efforts to... -
Deconstruction and Philosophy: Texts of Jacques Derrida by John Sallis
RRP: €33.32€32.59This 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... -
Saul Kripke by Alan Berger
RRP: €36.88€31.86This collection of essays on Saul Kripke and his philosophy is the first and only collection of essays to examine both published and unpublished writings by Kripke. Its essays, written by distinguished philosophers in the field, present a broader picture... -
Being and Reason: An Essay on Spinoza's Metaphysics by Martin Lin
RRP: €90.44€63.32In Being and Reason, Martin Lin offers a new interpretation of Spinoza's core metaphysical doctrines with attention to how and why, in Spinoza, metaphysical notions are entangled with cognitive, logical, and epistemic ones. For example, according to... -
Kantian Ethics: Value, Agency, and Obligation by Robert Stern
RRP: €39.85€36.51This volume presents a selection of Robert Stern's work on the theme of Kantian ethics. It begins by focusing on the relation between Kant's account of obligation and his view of autonomy, arguing that this leaves room for Kant to be a realist about... -
The Beast and the Sovereign: v. 1 by Jacques Derrida
RRP: €95.20€91.64When he died in 2004, Jacques Derrida left behind a vast legacy of unpublished material, much of it in the form of written lectures. With "The Beast and the Sovereign, Volume I", the University of Chicago Press inaugurated an ambitious series, edited by... -
John Searle by Barry Smith 9780521797047
RRP: €34.50€29.06From his groundbreaking book Speech Acts to his most recent studies of consciousness, freedom and rationality John Searle has been a dominant and highly influential figure amongst contemporary philosophers. This systematic introduction to the full range... -
Descartes: An Analytic and Historical Introduction by Georges Dicker 9780195380323
RRP: €51.75€35.88A solid grasp of the main themes and arguments of the seventeenth-century philosopher Rene Descartes is essential for understanding modern thought, and a necessary entree to the work of the Empiricists and Immanuel Kant. It is also crucial to the study... -
Badiou Reframed by Alex Ling
€24.95He has been regarded with suspicion by some, as an anti-postmodernist who dared to write about unfashionable concepts such as truth and meaning. But in recent years, the philosopher Alain Badiou has risen in prominence, pioneering new ways to produce,... -
Heidegger: The Man and the Thinker Thomas Sheehan 9781412810845
RRP: €54.73€47.75Many people consider Martin Heidegger the most important German philosopher of the twentieth century. He is indisputably controversial and influential. Athough much has been written about Heidegger, this may be the best single volume covering his life,... -
The Blackwell Guide to Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit Kenneth R. Westphal (University of Kent, UK) 9781405131100
RRP: €38.02€34.14Providing a groundbreaking collective commentary, by an international group of leading philosophical scholars, Blackwell's Guide to Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit transforms and expands our understanding and appreciation of one of the most challenging... -
Heidegger on Ontotheology: Technology and the Politics of Education by Iain Thomson 9780521616591
RRP: €27.36€23.28Heidegger 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... -
Kant's Theory of Knowledge by Justus Hartnack 9780872205062
RRP: €20.22€16.81A reprint of the Macmillan edition of 1968.While most interpretive studies of the Critique of Pure Reason are either too scholarly or too superficial to be of practical use to students, Hartnack has achieved a concise comprehensive analysis of the work... -
Husserl Search For Certitude Leszek Kolakowski 9781890318291
€9.52[Husserl] better than anybody, compelled us to realize the painful dilemma of knowledge: either consistent empiricism, with its relativistic, skeptical results (a standpoint which many regard discouraging, inadmissible, and in fact ruinous for culture)... -
Henry Sidgwick - Eye of the Universe: An Intellectual Biography by Bart Schultz 9780521829670
RRP: €124.95€111.66Henry Sidgwick was one of the great intellectual figures of nineteenth-century Britain. He was first and foremost a great moral philosopher, whose masterwork The Methods of Ethics is still widely studied today. He also wrote on economics, politics,... -
The Constitution of the Human Being: From the Posthumous Works, Volumes 11 and 12 by John Cutting
€56.56Max Scheler (1874-1928) was one of the major philosophers of the 20th Century. He was one of the three original phenomenologists - along with Husserl and Heidegger - who set the scene for phenomenological, existential and life philosophy, which dominated... -
Kierkegaard's Journals and Notebooks: Volume 10, Journals NB31-NB36 by Soren Kierkegaard 9780691178981
RRP: €168.98€132.88For over a century, the Danish thinker Soren Kierkegaard (1813-55) has been at the center of a number of important discussions, concerning not only philosophy and theology, but also, more recently, fields such as social thought, psychology, and... -
Nietzsche: The Man and his Philosophy by R. J. Hollingdale 9780521640916
RRP: €123.76€105.09Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Another Mother: Diotima and the Symbolic Order of Italian Feminism by Cesare Casarino
RRP: €26.17€22.84A groundbreaking volume introduces the unique feminist thought of the longstanding Italian group known as Diotima Introducing Anglophone readers to a potent strain of Italian feminism known to French, Spanish, and German audiences but as yet unavailable... -
Philosophical Essays in Memory of Edmund Husserl by Marvin Farber 9780674282681
€65.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674282681Author Marvin FarberFormat HardbackPage Count 340Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 658g -
Kant's Critique of Taste: The Feeling of Life by Katalin Makkai
RRP: €27.36€24.59Immanuel 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... -
Self and World by Quassim Cassam 9780198238959
€47.90Self and World is an exploration of the nature of self-awareness. Quassim Cassam challenges the widespread and influential view that we cannot be introspectively aware of ourselves as objects in the world. In opposition to the views of many empiricist... -
On ne nait pas femme: on le devient: The Life of a Sentence by Bonnie Mann 9780190608811
RRP: €98.77€79.78This collection of essays takes up the most famous feminist sentence ever written, Simone de Beauvoir's "On ne nait pas femme: on le devient," finding in it a flashpoint that galvanizes feminist thinking and action in multiple dimensions. Since... -
Descartes and the First Cartesians by Roger Ariew 9780199563517
€112.32Descartes and the First Cartesians adopts the perspective that we should not approach Rene Descartes as a solitary thinker, but as a philosopher who constructs a dialogue with his contemporaries, so as to engage them and elements of his society into his... -
Lions Hans Blumenberg 9780857428264
RRP: €11.89€10.22For distinguished philosopher Hans Blumenberg, lions were a life-long obsession. Lions, translated by Kari Driscoll, collects thirty-two of Blumenberg's philosophical vignettes to reveal that the figure of the lion unites two of his other great... -
Thomas Reid on Mind, Knowledge, and Value by Rebecca Copenhaver 9780198733676
€122.43This volume offers a fresh view of the work of Thomas Reid, a leading figure in the history of eighteenth-century philosophy. A team of leading experts in the field explore the significance of Reid's thought in his time and ours, focusing in particular... -
Philosophy: Traditional and Experimental Readings by Ron Mallon 9780199775255
RRP: €140.41€67.06Recently, the fields of empirical and experimental philosophy have generated tremendous excitement, due to unexpected results that have challenged philosophical dogma. Responding to this trend, Philosophy: Traditional and Experimental Readings is the... -
Civilizing Money: Hume, his Monetary Project, and the Scottish Enlightenment George Caffentzis 9780745341521
RRP: €27.36€21.35'Capitalist critique and proletarian reasoning fit for our time' - Peter Linebaugh Taking the Scottish Enlightenment philosopher David Hume as its subject, this book breaks new ground in focusing its lens on a little-studied aspect of Hume's thinking:...