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Kant on Freedom, Law, and Happiness by Paul Guyer 9780521654210
RRP: €36.88€32.33Kant 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 Cambridge Companion to Rawls by Samuel Freeman 9780521651677
RRP: €104.72€95.51Each volume of this series of companions to major philosophers contains specially commissioned essays by an international team of scholars and will serve as a reference work for students and nonspecialists. John Rawls is the most significant and... -
The Cambridge Companion to Habermas by Stephen K. White 9780521441209
RRP: €66.64€60.27Jurgen Habermas is unquestionably one of the foremost philosophers writing today. His notions of communicative action and rationality have exerted a profound influence within philosophy and the social sciences. This volume examines the historical and... -
Idealism and Freedom: Essays on Kant's Theoretical and Practical Philosophy by Henry E. Allison 9780521483377
RRP: €53.54€45.39Henry Allison is one of the foremost interpreters of the philosophy of Kant. This new volume collects all his recent essays on Kant's theoretical and practical philosophy. All the essays postdate Allison's two major books on Kant (Kant's Transcendental... -
The Cambridge Companion to Berkeley by Kenneth P. Winkler 9780521450331
RRP: €80.92€72.82George Berkeley is one of the greatest and most influential modern philosophers. In defending the immaterialism for which he is most famous, he redirected modern thinking about the nature of objectivity and the mind's capacity to come to terms with it... -
The Cambridge Companion to Hobbes by Professor Tom Sorell 9780521410199
RRP: €101.15€86.36It was as a political thinker that Thomas Hobbes first came to prominence, and it is as a political theorist that he is most studied today. Yet the range of his writings extends well beyond morals and politics. Hobbes had distinctive views in metaphysics... -
Frege's Theory of Sense and Reference: Its Origin and Scope by Wolfgang Carl 9780521398169
RRP: €42.83€36.79Gottlob Frege has exerted an enormous influence on the evolution of twentieth-century philosophy, yet the real significance of that influence is still very much a matter of debate. This book provides a completely new and systematic account of Frege's... -
The Cambridge Companion to Nietzsche by Bernd Magnus 9780521365864
RRP: €98.77€89.52The significance of Friedrich Nietzsche for twentieth century culture is now no longer a matter of dispute. He was quite simply one of the most influential of modern thinkers. The opening essay of this 1996 Companion provides a chronologically organised... -
Correspondence by Immanuel Kant 9780521354011
RRP: €158.27€136.16This is a most complete English edition of Kant's correspondence. The letters are concerned with philosophical and scientific topics but many also treat personal, historical and cultural matters. On one level the letters chart Kant's philosophical... -
G. E. Moore: Early Philosophical Writings by Thomas Baldwin 9780521190145
€88.69G. E. Moore's fame as a philosopher rests on his ethics of love and beauty, which inspired Bloomsbury, and on his 'common sense' certainties which challenge abstract philosophical theory. Behind this lies his critical engagement with Kant's idealist... -
Freedom and Anthropology in Kant's Moral Philosophy by Patrick R. Frierson 9780521184359
RRP: €47.59€39.58This book offers a comprehensive account of Kant's theory of freedom and his moral anthropology. The point of departure is the apparent conflict between three claims to which Kant is committed: that human beings are transcendentally free, that moral... -
John Locke's Politics of Moral Consensus by Greg Forster 9780521181181
RRP: €47.59€39.58The aim of this book is twofold: to explain the reconciliation of religion and politics in the work of John Locke, and to explore the relevance of that reconciliation for politics in our own time. Confronted with deep social divisions over ultimate... -
The Philosophy of Gottlob Frege by Richard L. Mendelsohn 9780521181198
RRP: €45.21€37.26This analysis of Frege's views on language and metaphysics in On Sense and Reference, arguably one of the most important philosophical essays of the past hundred years, provides a thorough introduction to the function/argument analysis and applies... -
Interpreting Spinoza: Critical Essays by Charlie Huenemann 9780521131308
RRP: €47.59€39.58The philosophy of Spinoza is increasingly recognised as holding a position of crucial importance and influence in early modern thought, and in previous years has been the focus of a rich and growing body of scholarship. In this volume of essays, leading... -
Kant and the Ethics of Humility: A Story of Dependence, Corruption and Virtue by Jeanine Grenberg 9780521131216
RRP: €47.59€39.58Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Locke and the Compass of Human Understanding: A Selective Commentary on the 'Essay' by John W. Yolton 9780521130080
RRP: €46.40€38.41The 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: €41.64€35.81Adam 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: €47.59€39.58This 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: €46.40€38.41This 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: €47.59€39.58Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Wittgenstein & Modern Philos by Justus Hartnack 9780268019365
€134.37Apologies 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: €160.65€138.17This 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: €28.55€28.32How 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
€142.80Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Berkeley's "Three Dialogues": A Reader's Guide by Aaron Garrett 9780826496621
€142.80Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Cambridge Companion to Heidegger's Being and Time by Mark A. Wrathall 9780521895958
RRP: €101.15€84.01The 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: €46.40€38.41Hume'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: €113.05€95.71Immanuel 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: €101.15€80.50Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Hegel's Concept of Action by Michael Quante 9780521826938
RRP: €107.10€85.88This 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: €108.28€92.21In 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: €109.47€98.07Critical 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: €107.10€86.36This 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: €101.15€80.50Maurice 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: €94.00€80.03Rousseau 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: €94.00€80.03Towards 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: €89.25€71.42Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Descartes Embodied: Reading Cartesian Philosophy through Cartesian Science by Daniel Garber 9780521783538
RRP: €89.25€71.42This 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: €70.21€63.30This 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: €89.25€69.79In 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...