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Adorno's Positive Dialectic by Yvonne Sherratt 9780521038881
RRP: £30.99£23.80This book offers an interpretation of the work of Theodor Adorno. In contrast to the conventional view that Adorno's is in essence a critical philosophy, Yvonne Sherratt traces systematically a utopian thesis that pervades all the major aspects of... -
Kant and the Power of Imagination by Jane Kneller 9780521851435
RRP: £90.00£67.25In this book Jane Kneller focuses on the role of imagination as a creative power in Kant's aesthetics and in his overall philosophical enterprise. She analyzes Kant's account of imaginative freedom and the relation between imaginative free play and human... -
Relativism in Contemporary American Philosophy: Macintyre, Putnam, and Rorty by Timothy Mosteller 9780826418913
£38.14Relativism about knowledge or truth has always provoked the ire of philosophers. Ever since Protagoras declared in antiquity that "man is the measure of all things", relativism has been repeatedly attacked. Recently, however, Alasdair MacIntyre... -
Freedom and Religion in Kant and his Immediate Successors: The Vocation of Humankind, 1774-1800 by George di Giovanni 9780521099813
RRP: £36.99£28.78The theologians of the late German Enlightenment saw in Kant's Critique of Pure Reason a new rational defence of their Christian faith. In fact, Kant's critical theory of meaning and moral law totally subverted the spirit of that faith. This challenging... -
What Is Philosophy? by C. P. Ragland 9780300087949
£18.10In this stimulating book, six leading philosophers-Karl-Otto Apel, Robert Brandom, Karsten Harries, Martha Nussbaum, Barry Stroud, and Allen Wood-consider the nature of philosophy. Although each of them has a unique perspective, they all seem to agree... -
Philosophical Fragments: Johannes Climacus by Robert L. Perkins 9780865544406
RRP: £49.95£47.82For the first time in English the world community of scholars is systematically assembling and presenting the results of recent research in the vast literature of Soren Kierkegaard. Based on the definitive English edition of Kierkegaard's works by... -
Jose Ortega y Gasset: Proceedings of the Espectador Universal International Interdisciplinary Conference by Nora De Marval-McNair 9780313258961
£65.53These essays examine the contribution of Ortega y Gasset, reflecting his own diversity of interests with topics on philosophy, history, literature, esthetics, language and art. The collection draws together scholars from a variety of disciplines in an... -
The Persistence of Romanticism: Essays in Philosophy and Literature by Richard Eldridge 9780521800464
RRP: £75.00£57.67These challenging essays in this volume, first published in 2001, defend Romanticism against its critics. They argue that Romantic thought, interpreted as the pursuit of freedom in concrete contexts, remains a central and exemplary form of both artistic... -
Kant and the Metaphysics of Causality by Eric Watkins 9780521835671
RRP: £95.00£72.57This is a book about Kant's views on causality as understood in their proper historical context. Specifically, Eric Watkins argues that a grasp of Leibnizian and anti-Leibnizian thought in eighteenth-century Germany helps one to see how the critical Kant... -
Twentieth Century German Philosophy by Paul Gorner 9780192893093
RRP: £56.99£44.97This book offers an historical and critical account of some of the main philosophical movements and of the major German philosophers of the twentieth century. In an accessible way, Gorner takes the reader through the principal representatives: Husserl's... -
Cartesian Reflections: Essays on Descartes's Philosophy by John Cottingham 9780199226979
RRP: £96.00£81.43John Cottingham explores central areas of Descartes's rich and wide-ranging philosophical system, including his accounts of thought and language, of freedom and action, of our relationship to the animal domain, and of human morality and the conduct of... -
Nietzsche and Modern Times: A Study of Bacon, Descartes, and Nietzsche by Laurence Lampert 9780300065107
£33.30This book explores the character of modernity through a consideration of Bacon, Descartes, and Nietzsche. It argues that Bacon and Descartes, in their positive claims for science, played the fundamental role in the development of the modern world view;... -
Why: II: II by John Weyland 9780759668140
£14.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780759668140Author John WeylandFormat PaperbackPage Count 456Imprint AuthorHousePublisher AuthorHouseWeight(grams) 493g -
Cosmos and Consciousness: Quantum Computers, Superstrings, Programming, Egypt, Quarks, Mind Body Problem, and Turing Machines by Stephen Blaha 9780972079556
RRP: £19.95£15.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780972079556Author Stephen BlahaFormat HardbackPage Count 292Imprint Janus Associates Inc.Publisher Janus Associates Inc. -
Judging Appearances: A Phenomenological Study of the Kantian sensus communis by Edward Eugene Kleist 9780792363101
£45.37Kant's Critique of Judgment accounts for the sharing of a common world, experienced affectively, by a diverse human plurality. In order to appreciate Kant's project, Judging Appearances retrieves the connection between appearance and judgment in the... -
Hegel on Ethics and Politics by Robert B. Pippin 9780521818148
RRP: £105.00£72.57This series makes available in English some important work by German philosophers on major figures in the German philosophical tradition. The volumes will provide critical perspectives on philosophers of great significance to the Anglo-American... -
Adorno's Positive Dialectic by Yvonne Sherratt 9780521813938
RRP: £90.00£67.25This book offers an interpretation of the work of Theodor Adorno. In contrast to the conventional view that Adorno's is in essence a critical philosophy, Yvonne Sherratt traces systematically a utopian thesis that pervades all the major aspects of... -
Anne Conway: A Woman Philosopher by Sarah Hutton 9780521835473
RRP: £90.00£67.65This 2004 book was the first intellectual biography of one of the very first English women philosophers. At a time when very few women received more than basic education, Lady Anne Conway wrote an original treatise of philosophy, her Principles of the... -
Husserl and Heidegger on Human Experience by Pierre Keller 9780521633420
RRP: £90.00£67.65In this 1999 book Pierre Keller examines the distinctive contributions, and the respective limitations, of Husserl's and Heidegger's approach to fundamental elements of human experience. He shows how their accounts of time, meaning, and personal identity... -
The Virtues of Freedom: Selected Essays on Kant by Paul Guyer 9780198755654
RRP: £40.49£29.84The essays collected in this volume by Paul Guyer, one of the world's foremost Kant scholars, explore Kant's attempt to develop a morality grounded on the intrinsic and unconditional value of the human freedom to set our own ends. When regulated by the... -
Lyotard, Beckett, Duras, and the Postmodern Sublime by Andrew Slade 9780820478623
RRP: £50.30£40.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780820478623Author Andrew SladeFormat HardbackPage Count 136Imprint Peter Lang Publishing IncPublisher Peter Lang Publishing IncWeight(grams) 410g -
Newton and Empiricism by Zvi Biener 9780199337095
RRP: £105.00£80.32This is the first volume of original commissioned papers on the subject of Newton and empiricism. The chapters, contributed by a leading team of both established and younger international scholars, explore the nature and extent of Newton's relationship... -
The Well-Ordered Universe: The Philosophy of Margaret Cavendish by Deborah Boyle 9780190234805
RRP: £88.00£73.28The prolific Margaret Cavendish (1623-1673) published books on natural philosophy as well as stories, plays, poems, orations, allegories, and letters. Her mature philosophical system offered a unique panpsychist theory of Nature as composed of a... -
The Philosophy of Elizabeth Anscombe by Roger Teichmann 9780199299331
RRP: £100.00£97.63One of the most important philosophers of recent times, Elizabeth Anscombe wrote books and articles on a wide range of topics, including the ground-breaking monograph Intention. Her work is original, challenging, often difficult, always insightful; but... -
Argument and Persuasion in Descartes' Meditations by David Cunning 9780199380305
RRP: £34.49£26.91Descartes' Meditations on First Philosophy has proven to be not only one of the canonical texts of Western philosophy, but also the site of a great deal of interpretive activity in scholarship on the history of early modern philosophy over the last two... -
Foucault on Freedom by Johanna Oksala 9780521847797
RRP: £90.00£67.25Freedom and the subject were guiding themes for Michel Foucault throughout his philosophical career. In this clear and comprehensive analysis of his thought, Johanna Oksala identifies the different interpretations of freedom in his philosophy and... -
Philosophical-Political Profiles by Jurgen Habermas 9780745669878
£18.09"At the hands of a minor talent, profiles are often flat, two-dimensional outlines of a thinker s intellectual physiognomy. At the hands of a master like Jurgen Habermas, they can become something far more substantial and profound. With astonishing... -
Nelson Goodman and the Case for a Kalological Aesthetics by Dr. Nikolaos Gkogkas 9780230573550
RRP: £44.99£44.97Based on Nelson Goodman's conception of language and of pragmatically inherited meaning, this book looks at the arts as systems of particular symbols. The author offers an approach to kalology as a metaphysical implication of symbological functioning... -
Heidegger and Asian Thought by Graham Parkes 9780824810641
RRP: £75.00£70.69Section I deals with problems presented by several Sanskrit works, namely the lower limit of the date of the original Harivamsa, Kalapriyanatha mentioned in Bhavabhuti's plays the identification of the date of Dhananjaya the author of the Dvisandhana... -
The Cambridge Companion to Pascal by Nicholas Hammond 9780521809245
RRP: £75.00£55.72Each 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 nonspecialists. One... -
The Non-Philosophy of Gilles Deleuze by Gregg Lambert 9780826459565
£70.19This text takes up Deleuze's most powerful argument on the task of contemporary philosophy in the West. Deleuze argues that it is only through a creative engagement with the forms of non-philosophy - notably modern art, literature and cinema - that... -
The New Sartre by Nik Farrell Fox 9780826461841
RRP: £49.99£49.85Jean Paul Sartre is still widely regarded as FranceEs most famous and influential philosopher. Yet, to many, his work has been superseded by the work of subsequent poststructuralist and postmodernist philosophers such as Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida,... -
The Philosophy of Richard Rorty by Randall E. Auxier 9780812696417
RRP: £92.99£70.94Richard Rorty was a seminal figure in philosophy, transforming the discipline during the last quarter of the 20th century and setting it on a new path for the 21st. An early, implacable critic of the widespread preoccupation with questions of truth,... -
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel: Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences in Basic Outline, Part 1, Science of Logic by Georg Wilhelm Fredrich Hegel 9780521829144
RRP: £99.99£85.35Hegel's Encyclopaedia Logic constitutes the foundation of the system of philosophy presented in his Encyclopaedia of the Philosophical Sciences. Together with his Science of Logic, it contains the most explicit formulation of his enduringly influential... -
Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals: A Commentary by Jens Timmermann 9780521862820
RRP: £90.00£67.25The Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals is Kant's central contribution to moral philosophy, and has inspired controversy ever since it was first published in 1785. Kant champions the insights of 'common human understanding' against what he sees as... -
Nietzsche: A Guide for the Perplexed by R.Kevin Hill 9780826489241
RRP: £95.00£94.80Continuum'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 difficult to... -
Idealist Political Philosophy: Pluralism and Conflict in the Absolute Idealist Tradition by Colin Tyler 9780826446831
£38.14The central claim of this book is that previous scholars have not appreciated the depths and complexities of the relationships between British idealist radicalism and the earlier idealist tradition of Kant, Fichte, Hegel and Carlyle. Colin Tyler explores... -
Newton as Philosopher by Andrew Janiak 9780521862868
RRP: £90.00£67.25Newton's philosophical views are unique and uniquely difficult to categorise. In the course of a long career from the early 1670s until his death in 1727, he articulated profound responses to Cartesian natural philosophy and to the prevailing mechanical... -
Wittgenstein and Religion by D. Phillips 9780333523780
RRP: £89.99£89.87A collection of essays which explores the significance of Wittgenstein for the Philosophy of Religion. Explorations of central notions in Wittgenstein's later philosophy are brought to bear on the clash between belief and atheism; understanding religious... -
Processes and Boundaries of the Mind: Extending the Limit Line by Yair Neuman 9780306481215
£72.17How is it that the world is conceived as exclusively populated by objects (e.g. books, cars, numbers, and people) while cognition is first and foremost a dynamic process? Inquiring into the 'reified universe', Dr. Neuman explores questions of mind,...