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Contemporary French Philosophy: Modernity and the Persistence of the Subject by Caroline Williams 9780826479228
£33.26French philosophy and cultural theory continue to hold a prestigious and influential position in European thought. One of the central themes of contemporary French philosophy is its concern with the theoretical and political status of the subject, a... -
Philosophy by O'Hear 9780826471321
£29.35In this powerful re-examination of the purpose and direction of philosophy for the next century, Anthony OGAaA-Hear engages with our most pressing questions: Is there knowledge outside of science? Does religion still have meaning and coherence today?... -
Schopenhauer: A Guide for the Perplexed by R. Raj Singh 9780826491411
RRP: £95.00£94.80Arthur Schopenhauer is a widely read, admired and intriguing philosopher whose ideas have had a profound impact on some of the greatest minds of the last two centuries. He is known for his powerful but simple prose-style and a philosophy that tackles... -
Memory of Thought by Alexander Garcia Duttmann 9780826459015
£80.04A reconstruction of aspects of the philosophy of Adorno and Heidegger. This title reconstructs the philosophy of Adorno and Heidegger in the light of the importance that these thinkers attach to two proper names: Auschwitz and Germanien. In Adorno's... -
Think Again: Alain Badiou and the Future of Philosophy by Peter Hallward 9780826459077
RRP: £54.99£54.73Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Heidegger's Way of Thought: Critical and Interpretative Signposts by Theodore Kisiel 9780826457363
£80.04One of the most eminent Heidegger scholars of our time, Theodore Kisiel has found worldwide critical acclaim, his particular strength being to set Heidegger's thinking in the context of his life, time and the history of ideas.This volume brings together... -
Key Writings by Henri Bergson 9780826457295
£100.12Henri Bergson (1859-1941) wrote seminal texts on topics that remain at the heart of current philosophical inquiry, such as time, consciousness, and evolution. His impact on the philosophical, scientific, and literary modernism of the first half of the... -
The Literary Agamben: Adventures in Logopoiesis by William Watkin 9780826443243
£43.02This is the first complete account of all Giorgio Agamben's philosophical work on literature. While Giorgio Agamben is most widely known for his political philosophy, at least a third of his output is dedicated to unique, technical and revelatory... -
America's First Women Philosophers: Transplanting Hegel, 1860-1925 by Dorothy G. Rogers 9780826440259
£38.14This is the first book about the women of the early American idealist movement in philosophy and a chapter is devoted to the life, practical work, and philosophical ideas of each of them. The American idealist movement started in St. Louis, Missouri in... -
Sartre's Ethics of Engagement by T. Storm Heter 9780826426031
£38.14This is a refreshing alternative to the long standing view that Sartre is an extreme individualist, placing him instead at the centre of the debate over civic virtue and democratic participation.Jean-Paul Sartre was one of the most distinctive and... -
Heidegger's Later Writings: A Reader's Guide by Lee Braver 9780826422118
RRP: £100.00£99.72This is a Reader's Guide to the most important and influential essays of Heidegger's later work, crucial to an understanding of his philosophy as a whole.Martin Heidegger is one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century. His later writings... -
The Philosophy of John Dewey by Paul Arthur Schilpp 9780812691023
RRP: £49.99£38.65In this volume the writings of John Dewey are subjected to careful scrutiny by seventeen great thinkers. Some have eulogized, some have reinterpreted--but all have respected the work of that great and germinal mind. For thirty years John Dewey has been... -
American Philosophy from Edwards to Quine by Robert W. Shahan 9780806115948
£19.12The six original essays in this volume, all by distinguised scholars, capture the heart of American Philosophy. Jonathan Edwards is the greatest philosopher-theologian of colonial America. Prior to Emerson, no other thinker remotely approaches Edwards in... -
Dream of Descartes by Jacques Maritain 9780802210586
RRP: £16.95£13.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802210586Author Jacques MaritainFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Philosophical LibraryPublisher Philosophical LibraryWeight(grams) 499g -
Molyneux's Problem: Three Centuries of Discussion on the Perception of Forms by Marjolein Degenaar 9780792339342
£90.27Suppose that a congenitally blind person has learned to distinguish and name a sphere and a cube by touch alone. Then imagine that this person suddenly recovers the faculty of sight. Will he be able to distinguish both objects by sight and to say which... -
Leibniz on Individuals and Individuation: The Persistence of Premodern Ideas in Modern Philosophy by Laurence B. McCullough 9780792338642
RRP: £89.99£89.87Leibniz's earliest philosophy and its importance for his mature philosophy have not been examined in detail, particularly in the level of detail that one can achieve by placing Leibniz's philosophy in the context of the sources for two of the most basic... -
Frege: Sense and Reference One Hundred Years Later by John Biro 9780792337959
RRP: £124.50£72.17Gottlob Frege's brief article "Uber Sinn und Bedeutung" ("On Sense and Reference") has come to be seen, in the century since its publication in 1892, as one of the seminal texts of analytic philosophy. It, along with the rest of... -
The Christianization of Pyrrhonism: Scepticism and Faith in Pascal, Kierkegaard, and Shestov by Jose Raimundo Maia Neto 9780792333814
RRP: £89.99£89.87Augustine's christianization of Plato and Thomas Aquinas's of Aristotle provided the two main foundations of medieval Judeo- Christian philosophy. In The Christianization of Pyrrhonism, Jose R. Maia Neto shows that Greek scepticism played a similar role... -
Continuity and Change in the Development of Russell's Philosophy by Paul J. Hager 9780792326885
RRP: £89.99£89.87The general view of Russell's work amongst philosophers has been that repeat edly, during his long and distinguished career, crucial changes of mind on fun damental points were significant enough to cause him to successively adopt a diversity of... -
Hegel Reconsidered: Beyond Metaphysics and the Authoritarian State by H. Tristram Engelhardt 9780792326298
RRP: £89.99£89.87Much of contemporary philosophy, political theory, and social thought has been shaped directly or indirectly by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, though there is considerable disagreement about how his work should be understood. He has been described both... -
Plato in Renaissance England by Sears Jayne 9780792330608
RRP: £89.99£89.87This book offers a radical reappraisal of the reputation of Plato in England between 1423 and 1603. Using many materials not hitherto available, including evidence of book publishing and book ownership, together with a comprehensive survey of allusions... -
Philosophical Works of Peter Chaadaev by Peter Jakovlevich Chaadaev 9780792312857
RRP: £146.00£72.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780792312857Author Peter Jakovlevich ChaadaevFormat HardbackPage Count 324Imprint Kluwer Academic PublishersPublisher Kluwer Academic Publishers -
Hegel on the Ethical Life, Religion and Philosophy: Studies in Hegel's Philosophy 1793-1807 by A. Wylleman 9780792301028
RRP: £89.99£89.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780792301028Author A. WyllemanFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint SpringerPublisher SpringerWeight(grams) 910g -
Miscellaneous Letters by Edward N. Haas 9780759635173
£23.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780759635173Author Edward N. HaasFormat PaperbackPage Count 476Imprint AuthorHousePublisher AuthorHouseWeight(grams) 1063g -
Descartes Against the Skeptics by Edwin Curley 9780674330238
RRP: £54.95£54.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674330238Author Edwin CurleyFormat HardbackPage Count 259Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 544g -
Descartes and the Passionate Mind by Deborah J. Brown 9780521857284
RRP: £90.00£67.25Descartes is often accused of having fragmented the human being into two independent substances, mind and body, with no clear strategy for explaining the apparent unity of human experience. Deborah Brown argues that, contrary to this view, Descartes did... -
Carnap and Twentieth-Century Thought: Explication as Enlightenment by A.W. Carus 9780521862271
RRP: £105.00£77.49Rudolf Carnap (1891-1970) is widely regarded as one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century. Born in Germany and later a US citizen, he was a founder of the philosophical movement known as Logical Empiricism. He was strongly... -
Aesthetics and Cognition in Kant's Critical Philosophy by Rebecca Kukla 9780521862011
RRP: £90.00£67.65This volume explores the relationship between Kant's aesthetic theory and his critical epistemology as articulated in the Critique of Pure Reason and the Critique of the Power of Judgment. The essays, written specially for this volume, explore core... -
Peirce's Theory of Signs by T.L. Short 9780521843201
RRP: £105.00£77.49In this book, T. L. Short corrects widespread misconceptions of Peirce's theory of signs and demonstrates its relevance to contemporary analytic philosophy of language, mind and science. Peirce's theory of mind, naturalistic but nonreductive, bears on... -
John Locke's Politics of Moral Consensus by Greg Forster 9780521842181
RRP: £90.00£67.65The 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 Cambridge Companion to Carnap by Richard Creath 9780521840156
RRP: £85.00£58.07Rudolf Carnap (1891-1970) is increasingly regarded as one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century. He was one of the leading figures of the logical empiricist movement associated with the Vienna Circle and a central figure in the... -
Stanley Cavell by Richard Eldridge 9780521770255
RRP: £75.00£51.81Contemporary Philosophy in Focus offers a series of introductory volumes on many of the dominant philosophical thinkers of the current age. Stanley Cavell has been one of the most creative and independent of contemporary philosophical voices. At the core... -
Kant and Cosmopolitanism: The Philosophical Ideal of World Citizenship by Pauline Kleingeld 9780521764186
RRP: £90.00£70.19This is the first comprehensive account of Kant's cosmopolitanism, highlighting its moral, political, legal, economic, cultural and psychological aspects. Contrasting Kant's views with those of his German contemporaries and relating them to current... -
Kant's Doctrine of Transcendental Illusion by Michelle Grier 9780521663243
RRP: £90.00£67.65This major study of Kant provides a detailed examination of the development and function of the doctrine of transcendental illusion in his theoretical philosophy. The author shows that a theory of 'illusion' plays a central role in Kant's arguments about... -
The Logical Foundations of Bradley's Metaphysics: Judgment, Inference, and Truth by James Allard 9780521834056
RRP: £90.00£67.25This book is a major contribution to the study of the philosopher F. H. Bradley, the most influential member of the nineteenth-century school of British Idealists. It offers a sustained interpretation of Bradley's Principles of Logic, explaining the... -
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel: Heidelberg Writings: Journal Publications by Georg Wilhelm Fredrich Hegel 9780521833004
RRP: £96.99£82.01This work brings together, for the first time in English translation, Hegel's journal publications from his years in Heidelberg (1816-18), writings which have been previously either untranslated or only partially translated into English. The Heidelberg... -
Freedom and Anthropology in Kant's Moral Philosophy by Patrick R. Frierson 9780521824002
RRP: £90.00£67.25This 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... -
The Cambridge Companion to Kant and Modern Philosophy by Paul Guyer 9780521823036
RRP: £105.00£77.11The philosophy of Immanuel Kant is the watershed of modern thought, which irrevocably changed the landscape of the field and prepared the way for all the significant philosophical movements of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This 2006 volume,... -
Hilary Putnam by Yemima Ben-Menahem 9780521813112
RRP: £75.00£51.81The richness of Putnam's philosophical oeuvre consists not only in the broad spectrum of problems addressed, but also in the transformations and restructuring his positions have undergone over the years. The essays collected in this volume are sensitive... -
Radical Cartesianism: The French Reception of Descartes by Tad M. Schmaltz 9780521811347
RRP: £90.00£67.65This is a book-length study of two of Descartes's most innovative successors, Robert Desgabets and Pierre-Sylvain Regis, and of their highly original contributions to Cartesianism. The focus of the book is an analysis of radical doctrines in the work of...