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Locke and the Compass of Human Understanding: A Selective Commentary on the 'Essay' by John W. Yolton 9780521130080
RRP: $81.88$67.79The Essay Concerning Human Understanding is John Locke's most important work, and through this selective commentary, first published in 1970, Professor Yolton concentrates our attention on the more interesting and controversial of the doctrines in it... -
Adam Smith's Marketplace of Life by James R. Otteson 9780521016568
RRP: $73.48$63.19Adam Smith wrote two books, one about economics and the other about morality. His Wealth of Nations argues for a largely free-market economy, while his Theory of Moral Sentiments argues that human morality develops out of a mutual sympathy that people... -
Locke's Philosophy of Language by Walter R. Ott 9780521036016
RRP: $83.98$69.85This book examines John Locke's claims about the nature and workings of language. Walter Ott proposes an interpretation of Locke's thesis in which words signify ideas in the mind of the speaker, and argues that rather than employing such notions as sense... -
Substance and Individuation in Leibniz by J. A. Cover 9780521073035
RRP: $81.88$67.79This book offers a sustained re-evaluation of the most central and perplexing themes of Leibniz's metaphysics. In contrast to traditional assessments that view the metaphysics in terms of its place among post-Cartesian theories of the world, Jan Cover... -
Descartes and the Passionate Mind by Deborah J. Brown 9780521088091
RRP: $83.98$69.85Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Wittgenstein & Modern Philos by Justus Hartnack 9780268019365
$237.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780268019365Author Justus HartnackFormat HardbackImprint University of Notre Dame PressPublisher University of Notre Dame Press -
Spinoza: Metaphysical Themes by Olli I. Koistinen 9780195128154
RRP: $283.50$243.83This collection of previously unpublished essays on Spinoza provides a representative sample of new and interesting research on the philosopher. Spinoza's philosophy still has an underserved reputation for being obscure and incomprehensible. In these... -
Starting with Derrida by Sean Gaston 9780826497864
RRP: $50.38$49.98How does one start with Derrida? In this exciting and accessible book, Sean Gaston presents a new kind of introduction to Jacques Derrida, arguably the most important and influential European thinker of the last century. Derrida claimed that 'However old... -
Alain Badiou: Live Theory by Oliver Feltham 9780826496928
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Berkeley's "Three Dialogues": A Reader's Guide by Aaron Garrett 9780826496621
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The Cambridge Companion to Heidegger's Being and Time by Mark A. Wrathall 9780521895958
RRP: $178.50$148.26The Cambridge Companion to Heidegger's 'Being and Time' contains seventeen chapters by leading scholars of Heidegger. It is a useful reference work for beginning students, but also explores the central themes of Being and Time with a depth that will be... -
Space and the Self in Hume's Treatise by Marina Frasca-Spada 9780521891622
RRP: $81.88$67.79Hume's discussion of the idea of space in his Treatise on Human Nature is fundamental to an understanding of his treatment of such central issues as the existence of external objects, the unity of the self, the relation between certainty and belief, and... -
The Cambridge Companion to Kant's Critique of Pure Reason by Paul Guyer 9780521883863
RRP: $199.50$168.90Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason, first published in 1781, is one of the landmarks of Western philosophy, a radical departure from everything that went before and an inescapable influence on all philosophy since its publication. This Companion is... -
The Cambridge Companion to Hegel and Nineteenth-Century Philosophy by Frederick C. Beiser 9780521831673
RRP: $178.50$142.07Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Hegel's Concept of Action by Michael Quante 9780521826938
RRP: $189.00$151.56This book is an important gateway through which professional analytic philosophers and their students can come to understand the significance of Hegel's philosophy for contemporary theory of action. As such it will contribute to the erosion of the... -
Kant on the Human Standpoint by Beatrice Longuenesse 9780521834780
RRP: $191.08$162.73In this collection of essays Beatrice Longuenesse considers the three aspects of Kant's philosophy, his epistemology and metaphysics of nature, his moral philosophy and his aesthetic theory, under one unifying standpoint: Kant's conception of our... -
The Cambridge Companion to Critical Theory by Fred Rush 9780521816601
RRP: $193.18$173.06Critical Theory constitutes one of the major intellectual traditions of the twentieth century, and is centrally important for philosophy, political theory, aesthetics and theory of art, the study of modern European literatures and music, the history of... -
Hegel, Nietzsche, and Philosophy: Thinking Freedom by Will Dudley 9780521812504
RRP: $189.00$152.40This challenging study explores the theme of freedom in the philosophy of Hegel and Nietzsche. In the first half Will Dudley sets Hegel's Philosophy of Right within a larger systematic account and deploys the Logic to interpret it. The author shows that... -
The Cambridge Companion to Merleau-Ponty by Professor Taylor Carman 9780521809894
RRP: $178.50$142.07Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908-61) was described by Paul Ricoeur as 'the greatest of the French phenomenologists'. The essays in this volume examine the full scope of Merleau-Ponty's philosophy, from his central and abiding concern with the nature of... -
Rousseau: The Sentiment of Existence by David P. Gauthier 9780521809764
RRP: $165.88$141.23Rousseau is often portrayed as an educational and social reformer whose aim was to increase individual freedom. In this volume David Gauthier examines Rousseau's evolving notion of freedom, where he focuses on a single quest: can freedom and the... -
Descartes' System of Natural Philosophy by Stephen Gaukroger 9780521808972
RRP: $165.88$141.23Towards the end of his life, Descartes published the first four parts of a projected six-part work, The Principles of Philosophy. This was intended to be the definitive statement of his complete system of philosophy, dealing with everything from... -
Daniel Dennett by Andrew Brook 9780521803946
RRP: $157.50$126.04Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Descartes Embodied: Reading Cartesian Philosophy through Cartesian Science by Daniel Garber 9780521783538
RRP: $157.50$126.04This volume collects some of the seminal essays on Descartes by Daniel Garber, one of the pre-eminent scholars of early-modern philosophy. A central theme unifying the volume is the interconnection between Descartes' philosophical and scientific... -
Kant's Critique of Pure Reason: Background Source Materials by Eric Watkins 9780521781626
RRP: $123.90$111.70This volume provides English translations of texts that form the essential background to Kant's Critique of Pure Reason. Presenting the projects of Kant's predecessors and contemporaries in eighteenth-century Germany, it enables readers to understand the... -
Reading Sartre by Joseph S. Catalano 9780521766463
RRP: $157.50$123.17In this volume, Joseph Catalano offers an in-depth exploration of Jean-Paul Sartre's four major philosophical writings: Being and Nothingness, Saint Genet: Actor and Martyr, The Critique of Dialectical Reason, and The Family Idiot. These works have been... -
Wittgenstein: Biography and Philosophy by James C. Klagge 9780521803977
RRP: $157.50$125.20This 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... -
The Innovations of Idealism by Rudiger Bubner 9780521662628
RRP: $113.38$101.43This collection of essays, first published in German in 1995, has been written by the foremost representative of the hermeneutical approach in German philosophy. It offers a quite original interpretation of the tradition of German Idealist thought -... -
Kant on Freedom, Law, and Happiness by Paul Guyer 9780521652780
RRP: $149.10$133.79Kant is often portrayed as the author of a rigid system of ethics in which adherence to a formal and universal principle of morality - the famous categorical imperative - is an end itself, and any concern for human goals and happiness a strictly... -
The Divided Self of William James by Richard M. Gale 9780521642699
RRP: $178.50$152.40This book offers a powerful interpretation of the philosophy of William James. It focuses on the multiple directions in which James's philosophy moves and the inevitable contradictions that arise as a result. The first part of the book explores a range... -
The Cambridge Companion to Hannah Arendt by Dana R. Villa 9780521641982
RRP: $157.50$133.79Hannah Arendt was one of the foremost political thinkers of the twentieth century, and her particular interests have made her one of the most frequently cited thinkers of our time. This Companion examines the primary themes of her multi-faceted work,... -
Heidegger and the Ground of Ethics: A Study of Mitsein by Frederick A. Olafson 9780521638791
RRP: $69.28$59.60Written by one of the pre-eminent interpreters of Heidegger, this book is an important statement about the basis of human sociability that is a major contribution to the continuing debates about Heidegger in particular, and ethics in general. Existential... -
Kant and the Reach of Reason: Studies in Kant's Theory of Rational Systematization by Nicholas Rescher 9780521667913
RRP: $54.58$45.97The essays collected in this volume have a strong thematic and interpretative unity. Their underlying concern is with the overall nature of Kant's philosophical system, and thus with his deepest intentions and basic commitments. The book falls into three... -
Fichte's Transcendental Philosophy: The Original Duplicity of Intelligence and Will by Gunter Zoller 9780521591607
RRP: $180.58$159.83This is the first book in English on the major works of the German philosopher Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762-1814). It examines the transcendental theory of self and world from the writings of Fichte's most influential period (1794-1800), and considers in... -
Heidegger's Temporal Idealism by Mr William D. Blattner 9780521620673
RRP: $180.58$160.67This book is a systematic reconstruction of Heidegger's account of time and temporality in Being and Time. The author locates Heidegger in a tradition of 'temporal idealism' with its sources in Plotinus, Leibniz, and Kant. For Heidegger, time can only be... -
Nietzsche's Dangerous Game: Philosophy in the Twilight of the Idols by Daniel W. Conway 9780521573719
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Heidegger and the Ground of Ethics: A Study of Mitsein by Frederick A. Olafson 9780521630948
RRP: $180.58$159.83Written by one of the pre-eminent interpreters of Heidegger, this book is an important statement about the basis of human sociability that is a major contribution to the continuing debates about Heidegger in particular, and ethics in general. Existential... -
Wittgenstein Reads Weininger by David G. Stern 9780521532600
RRP: $54.58$45.97Otto Weininger was one of the most controversial and widely read authors of fin-de-siecle Vienna. He was both condemned for his misogyny, self-hatred, anti-semitism and homophobia, as well as praised for his uncompromising and outspoken approach to... -
Nietzsche, Philosophy and the Arts by Salim Kemal 9780521522724
RRP: $94.48$80.09Nietzsche's writings have shaped much contemporary reflection on the relation between philosophy and art. This book brings together a number of distinguished contributors to examine his aesthetic account of the origins and ends of philosophy. They... -
Comte after Positivism by Robert C. Scharff 9780521474887
RRP: $170.08$151.56This 1996 book provides a detailed, systematic reconsideration of the neglected nineteenth-century positivist Auguste Comte. Apart from offering an accurate account of what Comte actually wrote, the book argues that Comte's positivism has never had... -
The Cambridge Companion to Kierkegaard by Alastair Hannay 9780521471510
RRP: $178.50$144.12Each volume of this series of Companions to major philosophers contains specially-commissioned essays by an international team of scholars, together with a substantial bibliography, and will serve as a reference work for students and non-specialists. The...