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Freedom and Reason in Kant, Schelling, and Kierkegaard by Michelle Kosch 9780199289110
RRP: €111.86€96.43Michelle Kosch's book traces a complex of issues surrounding moral agency - how is moral responsibility consistent with the possibility of theoretical explanation? is moral agency essentially rational agency? can autonomy be the foundation of ethics? -... -
German Philosophy of Language: From Schlegel to Hegel and beyond by Michael N. Forster 9780199604814
RRP: €133.88€96.90Michael Forster here presents a ground-breaking study of German philosophy of language in the nineteenth century (and beyond). His previous book, After Herder, showed that the eighteenth-century philosopher J.G. Herder played the fundamental role in... -
Propositions, Functions, and Analysis: Selected Essays on Russell's Philosophy by Peter Hylton 9780199543625
RRP: €44.02€35.22The work of Bertrand Russell had a decisive influence on the emergence of analytic philosophy, and on its subsequent development. The essays collected in this volume, by one of the leading authorities on Russell's philosophy, all aim at recapturing and... -
Kant and the Reach of Reason: Studies in Kant's Theory of Rational Systematization by Nicholas Rescher 9780521661003
RRP: €89.25€57.00The 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... -
Lectures on Anthropology by Immanuel Kant 9780521771610
RRP: €145.18€123.37Kant was one of the inventors of anthropology, and his lectures on anthropology were the most popular and among the most frequently given of his lecture courses. This volume contains the first translation of selections from student transcriptions of the... -
Political Physics: Deleuze, Derrida and the Body Politic by John Protevi 9780485006193
RRP: €119.00€118.67Political Physics analyses the work of two of the most influential thinkers of our time - Jacques Derrida and Gilles Deleuze. The book takes the reader on a transversal journey, crossing the boundaries of philosophy and science.Political Physics explores... -
The Radical Empiricism of William James. by John Daniel Wild 9780313226410
€57.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780313226410Author John Daniel WildFormat HardbackPage Count 430Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO -
Fairness in Practice: A Social Contract for a Global Economy by Aaron James 9780199344567
RRP: €46.99€32.02If the global economy seems unfair, how should we understand what a fair global economy would be? What ideas of fairness, if any, apply, and what significance do they have for policy and law? Working within the social contract tradition, this book argues... -
Faith and Freedom: Moses Mendelssohn's Theological-Political Thought by Michah Gottlieb 9780195398946
RRP: €95.20€75.34Two major interpretations of Mendelssohn's achievements have attained prominence in recent works. One interpretation, defended most recently by David Sorkin and Edward Breuer, casts Mendelssohn as a Jewish traditionalist who uses the language of... -
Descartes' Meditations: A Critical Guide by Karen Detlefsen 9780521111607
RRP: €107.10€67.46Descartes' Meditations, one of the most influential works in western philosophy, continues to provoke discussion and debate. This volume of original essays by leading established and emerging early modern scholars ranges over all six of the Meditations... -
The Kantian Sublime and the Revelation of Freedom by Robert R. Clewis 9780521516686
RRP: €107.10€80.50In this book Robert R. Clewis shows how certain crucial concepts in Kant's aesthetics and practical philosophy - the sublime, enthusiasm, freedom, empirical and intellectual interests, the idea of a republic - fit together and deepen our understanding of... -
The Cambridge Companion to Hayek by Edward Feser 9780521849777
RRP: €101.15€75.81F. A. Hayek (1899-1992) was among the most important economists and political philosophers of the twentieth century. He is widely regarded as the principal intellectual force behind the triumph of global capitalism, an 'anti-Marx' who did more than any... -
Quine: A Guide for the Perplexed by Gary Kemp 9780826484864
RRP: €119.00€118.67Continuum's "Guides for the Perplexed" are clear, concise and accessible introductions to thinkers, writers and subjects that students and readers can find especially challenging. Concentrating specifically on what it is that makes the subject... -
Qualitative Freedom - Autonomy in Cosmopolitan Responsibility by Claus Dierksmeier 9781013275630
RRP: €63.01€55.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013275630Author Claus DierksmeierFormat HardbackPage Count 370Imprint Saint Philip Street PressPublisher Saint Philip Street PressWeight(grams) 216g -
Scepticism in the Enlightenment by Richard H. Popkin 9780792346432
RRP: €107.09€106.95Starting with Richard Popkin's essay of 1963, `Scepticism in the Enlightenment', a new investigation into philosophical scepticism of the period was launched. The late Giorgio Tonelli and the late Ezequiel de Olaso examined in great detail the kinds of... -
Exercises in Constructive Imagination by Ermanno Bencivenga 9780792367024
RRP: €107.09€106.95Philosophy in this century has often self-consciously presented itself as aiming at the destruction or deconstruction of the philosophical tradition or even of theorizing as such. The basis for such self-description may well be a deep-seated anxiety... -
A History of Philosophy in America: 1720-2000 by Bruce Kuklick 9780199260164
RRP: €51.16€50.25Here at last is an American counterpart to Bertrand Russell's History of Western Philosophy. The eminent historian Bruce Kuklick tells the fascinating story of the growth of philosophical thinking in the USA, in the context of the intellectual and social... -
Rousseau: A Free Community of Equals by Joshua Cohen 9780199581498
RRP: €116.62€84.56In famously beautiful and laconic prose, Jean-Jacques Rousseau presents us with a forceful picture of a democratic society, in which we live together as free and equal, and our politics focuses on the common good. In Rousseau: A Free Community of Equals... -
Interpreting Heidegger: Critical Essays by Daniel O. Dahlstrom 9780521764940
RRP: €107.10€80.50This volume of essays by internationally prominent scholars interprets the full range of Heidegger's thought and major critical interpretations of it. It explores such central themes as hermeneutics, facticity and Ereignis, conscience in Being and Time,... -
Philosophy in Russia: From Herzen to Lenin and Berdyaev by Frederick C. Copleston 9780855325770
€48.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780855325770Author Frederick C. CoplestonFormat HardbackPage Count 462Imprint Search Press LtdPublisher Search Press LtdWeight(grams) 156g -
Kant's Search for the Supreme Principle of Morality by Samuel J. Kerstein 9780521009270
RRP: €36.88€28.32At the core of Kant's ethics lies the claim that if there is a supreme principle of morality then it cannot be a principle based on utilitarianism or Aristotelian perfectionism or the Ten Commandments. The only viable candidate for such a principle is... -
Women Philosophers of the Seventeenth Century by Jacqueline Broad 9780521812955
RRP: €107.10€80.03In this rich and detailed study of early modern women's thought, Jacqueline Broad explores the complexity of women's responses to Cartesian philosophy and its intellectual legacy in England and Europe. She examines the work of thinkers such as Mary... -
Abstract Labour: A Critique by Jim Cohen 9780333513811
RRP: €53.54€53.51These five philosophical essays are designed to constitute a unified whole, in both their critical and their constructive dimensions. Vincent addresses the crisis of meaning, the repetitiousness of technological processes and mechanisms and the declining... -
A Confusion of the Spheres: Kierkegaard and Wittgenstein on Philosophy and Religion by Genia Schonbaumsfeld 9780199229826
RRP: €121.98€84.56Cursory allusions to the relation between Kierkegaard and Wittgenstein are common in philosophical literature, but there has been little in the way of serious and comprehensive commentary on the relationship of their ideas. Genia Schoenbaumsfeld closes... -
Wilfrid Sellars: Fusing the Images by Jay F. Rosenberg 9780199214556
RRP: €130.90€111.38Wilfrid Sellars was and remains one of the most prominent and important twentieth-century philosophers: his writings played a key role in shaping the philosophical agenda in the English-speaking world during the second half of the 20th century, and they... -
Hobbes Today: Insights for the 21st Century by S. A. Lloyd 9780521169783
RRP: €44.02€30.29Hobbes Today: Insights for the 21st Century brings together an impressive group of political philosophers, legal theorists and political scientists to investigate the many ways in which the work of Thomas Hobbes, the famed seventeenth-century English... -
The Transient and the Absolute: An Interpretation of the Human Condition and of Human Endeavor by Mordecai Roshwald 9780313309366
€99.06The two principles of the Transient and the Absolute are fundamental to man's self-perception. While we perceive ourselves as transient biological phenomena, with a limited span of existence, we also view ourselves as immaterial creatures whose... -
Language, Science, and Action: Korzybski's General Semantics--A Study in Comparative Intellectual History by Ross Evans Paulson 9780313237324
€77.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780313237324Author Ross Evans PaulsonFormat HardbackPage Count 163Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO -
Kripke: Names, Necessity, and Identity by Christopher Hughes 9780198241072
RRP: €133.88€128.03Saul Kripke, in a series of classic writings of the 1960s and 1970s, changed the face of metaphysics and philosophy of language. Christopher Hughes offers a careful exposition and critical analysis of Kripke's central ideas about names, necessity, and... -
Empiricism at the Crossroads: The Vienna Circle's Protocol-Sentence Debate Revisited by Thomas Uebel 9780812696400
RRP: €76.15€57.48Rather than a monolithic movement of naive empiricists, the Vienna Circle represented a discussion forum for what were sometimes compatible, sometimes conflicting philosophical approaches to empirical evidence. The Circle's protocol-sentence debate here... -
Reflecting Subjects: Passion, Sympathy, and Society in Hume's Philosophy by Jacqueline Taylor 9780198729525
RRP: €88.06€59.39Jacqueline 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... -
Kant's Idea for a Universal History with a Cosmopolitan Aim by Amelie Ocksenberg Rorty 9780521874632
RRP: €107.10€80.50Lively debates about narratives of historical progress, the conditions for international justice, and the implications of globalisation have prompted a renewed interest in Kant's Idea for a Universal History with a Cosmopolitan Aim. The essays in this... -
Hegel's Phenomenology of Self-Consciousness: Text and Commentary by Leo Rauch 9780791441589
€30.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791441589Author Leo RauchFormat PaperbackPage Count 236Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York... -
Everyman Revived: The Common Sense of Michael Polanyi by Drusilla Scott 9780802840790
RRP: €23.79€16.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802840790Author Drusilla ScottFormat PaperbackPage Count 228Imprint William B Eerdmans Publishing CoPublisher William B Eerdmans Publishing... -
Themes in Hume: The Self, the Will, Religion by Terence Penelhum 9780199266357
RRP: €61.88€61.36Terence Penelhum presents a selection of the best of his essays on Hume, most of them quite recent, and three of them not published elsewhere. The central themes of the book are selfhood, the will, and religious belief. Penelhum argues that Hume's... -
The Philosophy and Politics of Bruno Bauer by Douglas Moggach 9780521819770
RRP: €89.25€62.13This is a comprehensive study in English of Bruno Bauer, a leading Hegelian philosopher of the 1840s. Inspired by the philosophy of Hegel, Bauer led an intellectual revolution that influenced Marx and shaped modern secular humanism. In the process he... -
Leibniz and China: A Commerce of Light by Franklin Perkins 9780521830249
RRP: €107.10€80.03Why was Leibniz so fascinated by Chinese philosophy and culture? What specific forms did his interest take? How did his interest compare with the relative indifference of his philosophical contemporaries and near-contemporaries such as Spinoza and Locke?... -
Francis Bacon and the Transformation of Early-Modern Philosophy by Stephen Gaukroger 9780521801546
RRP: €89.25€61.65This ambitious and important book, first published in 2001, provides a truly general account of Francis Bacon as a philosopher. It describes how Bacon transformed the values that had underpinned philosophical culture since antiquity by rejecting the... -
Essays on Kant's Anthropology by Brian Jacobs 9780521790383
RRP: €107.10€80.50Kant's lectures on anthropology capture him at the height of his intellectual power. They are immensely important for advancing our understanding of Kant's conception of anthropology, its development, and the notoriously difficult relationship between it... -
Philosophy and Memory Traces: Descartes to Connectionism by John Sutton 9780521591942
RRP: €124.95€92.21Philosophy and Memory Traces defends two theories of autobiographical memory. One is a bewildering historical view of memories as dynamic patterns in fleeting animal spirits, nervous fluids which rummaged through the pores of brain and body. The other is...