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Freedom and Religion in Kant and his Immediate Successors: The Vocation of Humankind, 1774-1800 by George Di Giovanni 9780521844512
RRP: €124.95€92.21The 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... -
Content and Modality: Themes from the Philosophy of Robert Stalnaker by Judith Thomson 9780199282807
RRP: €163.63€117.98Eleven distinguished philosophers have contributed specially written essays on a set of topics much debated in recent years, including physicalism, qualia, semantic competence, conditionals, presuppositions, two-dimensional semantics, and the relation... -
Eliot to Derrida: The Poverty of Interpretation by Rosario Forlenza 9780312125585
RRP: €53.54€53.51'...a book which should be read by all students contemplating enrolment for a university course in modern English or European literary studies.' - Roy Harris, Times Higher Education Supplement Eliot to Derrida is a sardonic portrait of the cult of the... -
John Stuart Mill and the Art of Life by Ben Eggleston 9780199931972
RRP: €38.07€34.36The "Art of Life" is John Stuart Mill's name for his account of practical reason. In this volume, eleven leading scholars elucidate this fundamental, but widely neglected, element of Mill's thought. Mill divides the Art of Life into three... -
Truth, Language, and History: Philosophical Essays Volume 5 by Donald Davidson 9780198237563
RRP: €136.85€120.61Truth, Language, and History is the much-anticipated final volume of Donald Davidson's philosophical writings. In four groups of essays, Davidson continues to explore the themes that occupied him for more than fifty years: the relations between language... -
A History of Russian Philosophy 1830-1930: Faith, Reason, and the Defense of Human Dignity by G. M. Hamburg 9780521884501
RRP: €130.90€110.94The great age of Russian philosophy spans the century between 1830 and 1930 - from the famous Slavophile-Westernizer controversy of the 1830s and 1840s, through the 'Silver Age' of Russian culture at the beginning of the twentieth century, to the... -
Philosophical Writings by George B. Berkeley 9780837110561
€67.07This edition provides texts from the full range of Berkeley's contributions to philosophy, and sets them in their historical and philosophical contexts.Book InformationISBN 9780837110561Author George B. BerkeleyFormat HardbackPage Count 278Imprint... -
Kant's Search for the Supreme Principle of Morality by Samuel J. Kerstein 9780521810890
RRP: €107.10€80.03At 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... -
The Cambridge Companion to Bertrand Russell by Nicholas Griffin 9780521631785
RRP: €124.95€96.90Bertrand Russell ranks as one of the giants of twentieth-century philosophy. Through his books, journalism, correspondence and political activity he exerted a profound influence on modern thought. This companion centers on Russell's contributions to... -
Spinoza and Spinozism by Stuart Hampshire 9780199279531
RRP: €142.80€114.86Among the great thinkers of modern times, only Spinoza (1632-77) created a complete system of philosophy that rivals Plato's. Few other thinkers have felt so strongly 'the desire to have a unitary view of the world and of man's place within it' - a... -
Causality and Mind: Essays on Early Modern Philosophy by Nicholas Jolley 9780199669554
RRP: €117.81€110.08Causality and Mind presents seventeen of Nicholas Jolley's essays on early modern philosophy, which focus on two main themes. One theme is the continuing debate over the nature of causality in the period from Descartes to Hume. Jolley shows that, despite... -
The Will to Reason: Theodicy and Freedom in Descartes by C. P. Ragland 9780190264451
RRP: €109.48€87.20Offering an original perspective on the central project of Descartes' Meditations, this book argues that Descartes' free will theodicy is crucial to his refutation of skepticism. A common thread runs through Descartes' radical First Meditation doubts,... -
Collected Works, Volume I: Scientific Rationality, the Human Condition, and 20th Century Cosmologies by Adolf Grunbaum 9780199989928
RRP: €97.58€77.98Adolf Grunbaum is one of the giants of 20th century philosophy of science. This volume is the first of three collecting his most essential and highly influential work. The essays collected in this first volume focus on three related areas. They discuss... -
Philosophical and Political Writings by Manfred Stassen 9780826415110
€45.39With an introduction by Manfred Stassen, this collection of articles by Martin Heidegger covers many topics over many years. They cover his anti-semitism, his relationship with Nazism, his work on phenomenology and essays on his groundbreaking notions of... -
Wittgenstein's 'Tractatus Logico-philosophicus': A Reader's Guide by Roger M. White 9780826486172
RRP: €119.00€118.67Wittgenstein's Tractatus - the only book he actually published within his lifetime - was an immensely important work which changed the direction of philosophy in the first half of the twentieth century. Higlighting the importance of the nature of... -
Contemporary French Philosophy: Modernity and the Persistence of the Subject by Caroline Williams 9780826479228
€39.58French 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 in the New Century (Continuum Compact) Anthony O'Hear 9780826471321
€34.93In 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: €113.05€112.81Arthur 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
€95.25A 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: €65.44€65.13Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Heidegger's Way of Thought: Critical and Interpretative Signposts by Theodore Kisiel 9780826457363
€95.25One 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
€119.14Henri 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
€51.19This 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
€45.39This 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
€45.39This 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: €119.00€118.67This 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: €59.49€45.99In 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
€22.75The 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: €20.17€15.54Apologies 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
€107.42Suppose 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: €107.09€106.95Leibniz'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: €148.16€85.88Gottlob 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: €107.09€106.95Augustine'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: €107.09€106.95The 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: €107.09€106.95Much 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: €107.09€106.95This 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: €173.74€86.36Apologies 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: €107.09€106.95Apologies 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
€28.25Apologies 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: €65.39€65.08Apologies 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