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The Metaphysics of Practice: Writings on Action, Community, and Obligation by Wilfrid Sellars 9780192866820
RRP: €107.10€97.08The Metaphysics of Practice brings together Wilfrid Sellars's writings on topics to do with action, community, and obligation: published essays, manuscripts, and correspondence. Sellars's practical philosophy was absolutely central to his overarching... -
The Philosophy of John Dewey: v. 1 & 2 in 1v by John Dewey
RRP: €42.84€41.92John J. McDermott's anthology, The Philosophy of John Dewey, provides the best general selection available of the writings of America's most distinguished philosopher and social critic. This comprehensive collection, ideal for use in the classroom and... -
A Companion to Descartes Janet Broughton (University of California, Berkeley, USA) 9781444337846
RRP: €48.73€43.90A collection of more than 30 specially commissioned essays, this volume surveys the work of the 17th-century philosopher-scientist commonly regarded as the founder of modern philosophy, while integrating unique essays detailing the context and impact of... -
Elucidating the Tractatus: Wittgenstein's Early Philosophy of Logic and Language by Marie McGinn 9780199244447
€72.24Discussion of Wittgenstein's Tractatus is currently dominated by two opposing interpretations of the work: a metaphysical or realist reading and the 'resolute' reading of Diamond and Conant. Marie McGinn's principal aim in this book is to develop an... -
The Concealed Influence of Custom: Hume's Treatise from the Inside Out by Jay L. Garfield 9780190933401
RRP: €101.15€71.00Jay L. Garfield defends two exegetical theses regarding Hume's Treatise on Human Nature. The first is that Book II is the theoretical foundation of the Treatise. Second, Garfield argues that we cannot understand Hume's project without an appreciation of... -
Between Deleuze and Derrida by Paul Patton 9780826459732
€83.53Gilles Deleuze and Jacques Derrida are the two leading philosophers of French post-structuralism. Both theorists have been widely studied but very little has been done to examine the relation between them. Between Deleuze and Derrida is the first book to... -
The American Philosopher: Conversations with Quine, Davidson, Putnam, Nozick, Danto, Rorty, Cavell, MacIntyre, Kuhn by Giovanna Borradori 9780226066486
RRP: €33.32€32.59In this look at current debates in American philosophy, leading philosophers talk candidly about the changing character of their discipline. In the spirit of Emerson's "The American Scholar", this book explores the identity of the American philosopher... -
Leibniz: Body, Substance, Monad by Daniel Garber 9780199566648
RRP: €127.93€81.09Daniel Garber presents an illuminating study of Leibniz's conception of the physical world. Leibniz's commentators usually begin with monads, mind-like simple substances, the ultimate building-blocks of the Monadology. But Leibniz's apparently idealist... -
New Approaches to Neo-Kantianism by Nicolas de Warren
RRP: €36.88€28.32After the demise of German Idealism, Neo-Kantianism flourished as the defining philosophical movement of Continental Europe from the 1860s until the Weimar Republic. This collection of new essays by distinguished scholars offers a fresh examination of... -
Confrontation: A Conversation with Aude Lancelin Alain Badiou (L'Ecole Normale Superieure) 9780745685700
RRP: €17.84€16.16Everything in their respective positions divides them: Alain Badiou is the thinker of a revitalized communism and Alain Finkielkraut the mournful observer of the loss of values. The two opponents, gathered here for their first-ever debate, have... -
Hermann Cohen: An Intellectual Biography by Frederick C. Beiser 9780198828167
€128.42This book is the first complete intellectual biography of Hermann Cohen (1842-1918) and the only work to cover all his major philosophical and Jewish writings. Frederick C. Beiser pays special attention to all phases of Cohen's intellectual development,... -
Kant's Philosophy of Mathematics: Volume 1, The Critical Philosophy and its Roots by Carl Posy
RRP: €36.88€32.61The late 1960s saw the emergence of new philosophical interest in Kant's philosophy of mathematics, and since then this interest has developed into a major and dynamic field of study. In this state-of-the-art survey of contemporary scholarship on Kant's... -
To Be Human by Jiddu Krishnamurti
RRP: €27.37€17.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781570625961Author J. KrishnamurtiFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)... -
Hegel and Aristotle by Alfredo Ferrarin 9780521037754
RRP: €53.54€45.86Hegel is, arguably, the most difficult of all philosophers. To find a way into his thought interpreters have usually approached him as though he were developing Kantian and Fichtean themes. This book demonstrates in a systematic way that it makes much... -
Eight Philosophers of the Italian Renaissance by Paul Oskar Kristeller 9780804701112
RRP: €23.79€20.87Italian Renaissance thought has been gaining ever-increasing recognition as seminal to the thought of the whole Renaissance period, affecting in many subtle ways the development and understanding of artistic, literary, scientific, and religious movements... -
Popper, Otto Selz and the Rise Of Evolutionary Epistemology by Michel Ter Hark 9780521830744
RRP: €64.26€57.72This book is about Karl Popper's early writings before he began his career as a philosopher. The purpose of the book is to demonstrate that Popper's philosophy of science, with its emphasis on the method of trial and error, is largely based on the... -
The Legacy of Wittgenstein Anthony Kenny (University of Oxford) 9780631150633
RRP: €45.16€39.70The first four essays in this guide are devoted to the study of Wittgenstein's own ideas about philosophy. The remaining six apply his ideas to the work of other thinkers.Book InformationISBN 9780631150633Author Anthony KennyFormat PaperbackPage Count... -
Weimar Thought: A Contested Legacy by Peter E. Gordon 9780691135106
RRP: €57.12€45.22During its short lifespan, the Weimar Republic (1918-33) witnessed an unprecedented flowering of achievements in many areas, including psychology, political theory, physics, philosophy, literary and cultural criticism, and the arts. Leading... -
Order Of Things - Archaeology Of The Human Sciences by Michel Foucault
RRP: €22.61€13.73Apologies 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: €142.80€114.86This 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... -
Berkeley Margaret Atherton 9781405149174
RRP: €24.93€22.02Presents a concise and comprehensive analysis of George Berkeley's thought and the impact of his intellectual contributions to philosophy In this latest addition to the Blackwell Great Minds series, noted scholar of early modern philosophy Margaret... -
Media After Deleuze by David Savat
€35.89Media 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: €124.95€96.90Peter 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... -
The Great Endarkenment: Philosophy for an Age of Hyperspecialization by Elijah Millgram 9780199326020
RRP: €104.72€85.88Human 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... -
Philosophical Letters of David K. Lewis: Volume 2: Mind, Language, Epistemology by David K. Lewis
RRP: €142.80€128.03David 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: €33.31€28.73An 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
€34.77Jacqueline 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: €107.09€106.95A 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: €71.40€64.41This 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... -
Kierkegaard's Journals and Notebooks: Volume 11: Part 1, Loose Papers, 1830-1843 by Soren Kierkegaard 9780691188799
RRP: €168.98€132.16For 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... -
Locke and Cartesian Philosophy by Philippe Hamou 9780198815037
€88.26This 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... -
Kant's Tribunal of Reason: Legal Metaphor and Normativity in the Critique of Pure Reason by Sofie Moller 9781108724050
RRP: €36.88€27.19Kant'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... -
Labyrinths: Explorations in the Critical History of Ideas by Richard Wolin
€35.18Ten essays on issues in philosophy, literary theory and intellectual history. The question of radical imperialism of the postmodern turn, the unstated agenda of neoconservative cultural theory and a discussion of Walter Benjamin's place in cultural... -
Berkeley's "Three Dialogues": A Reader's Guide by Aaron Garrett 9780826493231
€32.61Berkeley'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
€33.58The 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... -
The Political Morality of the Late Scholastics: Civic Life, War and Conscience by Daniel Schwartz
RRP: €36.88€30.29The Late Scholastics, writing in Europe in the Baroque and Early Modern periods, discussed a wide variety of moral questions relating to political life in times of both peace and war. Is it ever permissible to bribe voters? Can tax evasion be morally... -
Memories Cast in Stone: The Relevance of the Past in Everyday Life David E. Sutton 9781859739488
RRP: €42.83€37.71How 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... -
The Frankfurt School: The Critical Theories of Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno Zoltan Tarr 9781412818346
RRP: €54.73€47.75The Frankfurt School refers to a school of neo-Marxist interdisciplinary social theory particular established at the Institute for Social Research at the University of Frankfurt, Germany in 1923. Tarr's investigation focuses on three key issues. The... -
The Cambridge Companion to Galileo by Peter Machamer 9780521588416
RRP: €41.64€36.28Not 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 Stanley Rosen 9781587316753
RRP: €26.18€22.56In 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...