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Nietzsche's New Seas: Explorations in Philosophy, Aesthetics and Politics by Michael Allen Gillespie
RRP: £30.00£29.25Nietzsche's New Seas makes available for the first time in English a representative sample of the best recent Nietzsche scholarship from Germany, France, and the United States. Michael Allen Gillespie and Tracy B. Strong have brought together scholars... -
Order Of Things - Archaeology Of The Human Sciences by Michel Foucault
RRP: £19.00£12.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679753353Author Michel FoucaultFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 283gDimensions(mm)... -
Kant on Practical Justification: Interpretive Essays by Mark Timmons 9780195395686
RRP: £120.00£96.52This volume of new essays provides a comprehensive and structured examination of Kantian accounts of practical justification. This examination serves as a starting point for a focused investigation of the Kantian approach to justification in practical... -
Nature, History, State: 1933-1934 by Gregory Fried 9781441116178
RRP: £23.99£23.93Nature, History, State: 1933-1934 presents the first complete English-language translation of Heidegger's seminar 'On the Essence and Concepts of Nature, History and State', together with full introductory material and interpretive essays by five leading... -
Kantian Ethics, Dignity and Perfection by Dr. Paul Formosa
RRP: £30.99£22.85In this volume Paul Formosa sets out a novel approach to Kantian ethics as an ethics of dignity by focusing on the Formula of Humanity as a normative principle distinct from the Formula of Universal Law. By situating the Kantian conception of dignity... -
Media After Deleuze by David Savat
£30.16Media pervade and saturate the world around us. From the proliferation of social media, to crowdsourcing, big data, games, and more traditional media such as television, radio, and print, media provide the framework for our engagement with the world and... -
Wittgenstein and Analytic Philosophy: Essays for P. M. S. Hacker by Hans-Johann Glock 9780199213238
RRP: £105.00£81.43Peter Hacker is one of the most notable interpreters of Wittgenstein's work, a powerful and sophisticated exponent of Wittgensteinian ideas, and a distinguished historian of the analytic tradition. Thirteen leading philosophers and Wittgenstein scholars... -
Spinoza: Political Treatise by Baruch Spinoza 9780872205444
RRP: £17.99£14.91The Political Treatise, Spinoza's final work, is a largely theoretical inquiry into the fundamental principles of political philosophy. This edition offers an exceptional translation by Samuel Shirley and a prefatory essay by Douglas Den Uyl that... -
The Great Endarkenment: Philosophy for an Age of Hyperspecialization by Elijah Millgram 9780199326020
RRP: £88.00£72.17Human beings have always been specialists, but over the past two centuries division of labor has become deeper, ubiquitous, and much more fluid. The form it now takes brings in its wake a series of problems that are simultaneously philosophical and... -
The Grace and Severity of the Ideal: John Dewey and the Transcendent by Victor Kestenbaum
RRP: £30.00£29.25In this book, Victor Kestenbaum calls into question the oft-repeated assumption that John Dewey's pragmatism has no place for the transcendent. Kestenbaum demonstrates that, far from ignoring the transcendent ideal, Dewey's works - on education, ethics,... -
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... -
Philosophical Letters of David K. Lewis: Volume 2: Mind, Language, Epistemology by David K. Lewis
RRP: £120.00£107.59David Kellogg Lewis (1941-2001) was one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century. He made significant contributions to almost every area of analytic philosophy including metaphysics, philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, and... -
Georg Simmel and the Disciplinary Imaginary by Elizabeth S. Goodstein
RRP: £29.99£24.14An internationally famous philosopher and best-selling author during his lifetime, Georg Simmel has been marginalized in contemporary intellectual and cultural history. This neglect belies his pathbreaking role in revealing the theoretical significance... -
Reflecting Subjects: Passion, Sympathy, and Society in Hume's Philosophy by Jacqueline Taylor 9780198801429
£29.22Jacqueline Taylor offers an original reconstruction of Hume's social theory, which examines the passions and imagination in relation to institutions such as government and the economy. Reflecting Subjects begins with a close examination of Hume's use of... -
Nietzsche's Gay Science: Dancing Coherence by M. Langer 9780230580695
RRP: £89.99£89.87A step by step illumination of the intricacy, 'logic', and importance of one of Nietzsche's richest and most complex works. In a clear and accessible manner the author explains the interconnectedness of The Gay Science's seemingly unrelated sections... -
Controverting Kierkegaard by K. E. Løgstrup 9780198874768
RRP: £60.00£54.13This is the first English edition of a major work by the Danish philosopher and theologian K. E. Logstrup (1905-81). It is the culmination of his critical engagement with Kierkegaardianism, which had begun almost 20 years earlier. In this text, Logstrup... -
What Is Meaning? by Scott Soames
RRP: £22.00£17.36The tradition descending from Frege and Russell has typically treated theories of meaning either as theories of meanings (propositions expressed), or as theories of truth conditions. However, propositions of the classical sort don't exist, and truth... -
Kierkegaard's Journals and Notebooks: Volume 11: Part 1, Loose Papers, 1830-1843 by Soren Kierkegaard 9780691188799
RRP: £142.00£111.06For 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... -
Old Whigs: Burke, Lincoln, and the Politics of Prudence by Greg Weiner
RRP: £17.99£12.30The virtue of prudence suffuses the writings of Edmund Burke and Abraham Lincoln, yet the demands of statecraft compelled both to take daring positions against long odds: Burke against the seemingly inexorable march of the French Revolution, Lincoln... -
Hobbes: A Biography by A. P. Martinich 9780521039345
RRP: £39.99£31.45Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) is recognized as one of the fathers of modern philosophy and political theory. In his own time he was as famous for his work in physics, geometry, and religion. He associated with some of the greatest writers, scientists, and... -
Locke and Cartesian Philosophy by Philippe Hamou 9780198815037
£74.17This volume presents twelve original essays, by an international team of scholars, on the relation of John Locke's thought to Descartes and to Cartesian philosophers such as Malebranche, Clauberg, and the Port-Royal authors. The essays, preceded by a... -
Walter Benjamin: An Introduction to His Work and Thought by Uwe Steiner
RRP: £23.00£22.13Seven decades after his death, German Jewish writer, philosopher, and literary critic Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) continues to fascinate readers and influence academic writing, both stylistically and conceptually. Here Uwe Steiner offers a comprehensive... -
Genesis and Trace: Derrida Reading Husserl and Heidegger by Paola Marrati
RRP: £23.99£20.84In this study, Paola Marrati approaches-in an extremely insightful, rigorous, and well-argued way-the question of the philosophical sources of Derrida's thought through a consideration of his reading of both Husserl and Heidegger. A central focus of the... -
Berkeley's "Three Dialogues": A Reader's Guide by Aaron Garrett 9780826493231
£27.40Berkeley's Three Dialogues is a key text in the history of philosophy - the dialogues are, with the exception of Hume's, arguably the most important philosophical dialogues written in English. As such, this is a hugely exciting, yet challenging, piece of... -
Enlightenment Shadows by Genevieve Lloyd 9780198748236
£28.22The idea of the Enlightenment has become a touchstone for emotive and often contradictory articulations of contemporary western values. Enlightenment Shadows is a study of the place of Enlightenment thought in intellectual history and of its continued... -
Memories Cast in Stone: The Relevance of the Past in Everyday Life by David E. Sutton
RRP: £35.99£31.69How does the past matter in the present? How is a feeling of 'ownership' of the past expressed in people's everyday lives? Should continuity with the distant past be seen as simply a nationalist fiction or is it transformed by local historical... -
Kant's Theory of Knowledge by Justus Hartnack 9780872205062
RRP: £16.99£14.13A 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... -
The Cambridge Companion to Galileo by Peter Machamer 9780521588416
RRP: £34.99£30.49Not only a hero of the scientific revolution, but after his conflict with the church, a hero of science, Galileo is today rivalled in the popular imagination only by Newton and Einstein. But what did Galileo actually do, and what are the sources of the... -
Question Of Being – Reversal Of Heidegger by Stanley Rosen 9781587316753
RRP: £22.00£18.96In this book, Rosen enters into a debate with Heidegger in order to provide a justification for metaphysics. Rosen presents a fresh interpretation of metaphysics that opposes the traditional doctrines attacked by Heidegger, on the one hand, and by... -
Kierkegaard: A Biography by Alastair Hannay 9780521560771
RRP: £99.00£54.17Written by one of the world's preeminent authorities on Kierkegaard, this 2001 biography was the first to reveal the delicate imbrication of Kierkegaard's life and thought. To grasp the importance and influence of Kierkegaard's thought far beyond his... -
The Natural Goodness of Man: On the System of Rousseau's Thought by Arthur M. Melzer 9780226519791
RRP: £23.00£22.13The true key to all the perplexities of the human condition, Rousseau boldly claims, is the "natural goodness of man." It is also the key to his own notoriously contradictory writings, which, he insists, are actually the disassembled parts of a rigorous... -
Fichte's Moral Philosophy by Owen Ware 9780190086596
RRP: £86.00£61.45Owen Ware here develops and defends a novel interpretation of Fichte's moral philosophy as an ethics of wholeness. While virtually forgotten for most of the twentieth century, Fichte's System of Ethics (1798) is now recognized by scholars as a... -
Deleuzian Intersections in Science, Technology and Anthropology by Casper Bruun Jensen 9781845456146
RRP: £99.00£80.47Science and technology studies, cultural anthropology and cultural studies deal with the complex relations between material, symbolic, technical and political practices. In a Deleuzian approach these relations are seen as produced in heterogeneous... -
Monads, Composition, and Force: Ariadnean Threads through Leibniz's Labyrinth by Richard T. W. Arthur 9780198812869
£100.84Leibniz's monads have long been a source of fascination and puzzlement. If monads are merely immaterial, how can they alone constitute reality? In Monads, Composition and Force, Richard T. W. Arthur takes seriously Leibniz's claim of introducing monads... -
Hegel and the Transformation of Philosophical Critique by William F. Bristow 9780199645275
RRP: £38.99£31.25William F. Bristow presents an original and illuminating study of Hegel's hugely influential but notoriously difficult Phenomenology of Spirit. Hegel describes the method of this work as a 'way of despair', meaning thereby that the reader who undertakes... -
The A to Z of Feminist Philosophy by Catherine Villanueva Gardner 9780810868397
RRP: £45.00£39.49Having only emerged in the past few decades, Feminist Philosophy is rapidly developing its own thrust in areas of particular importance to feminism-and women more generally-while also reevaluating and reshaping most other fields of philosophy, from... -
Adorno: A Guide for the Perplexed by Alex Thomson 9780826474209
£32.28One of the most influential philosophers and cultural theorists of the twentieth century, Theodor Adorno poses a considerable challenge to students. His works can often seem obscure and impenetrable, particularly for those with little knowledge of the... -
Kant's Doctrine of Transcendental Illusion by Michelle Grier 9780521039727
RRP: £37.99£30.33This major study of Kant provides a detailed examination of the development and function of the doctrine of transcendental illusion in his theoretical philosophy. The author shows that a theory of 'illusion' plays a central role in Kant's arguments about... -
Simone Weil: An Introduction to Her Thought by John Hellman 9781498200851
RRP: £17.00£13.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781498200851Author John HellmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams)... -
Humor and the Good Life in Modern Philosophy: Shaftesbury, Hamann, Kierkegaard by Lydia B. Amir 9781438449364
RRP: £27.70£24.44Apologies 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...