Modern

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781532654404Author Daniel PaksiFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Pickwick PublicationsPublisher Pickwick PublicationsWeight(grams) 553g

Has postmodern American culture so altered the terrain of medical care that moral confusion and deflated morale multiply faster than both technological advancements and ethical resolutions? The Ethos of Medicine in Postmodern America is an attempt to...

This book investigates various aspects of freedom as developed in the philosophical systems of Kant and Fichte.Freedom, both Kant and Fichte insist, does not mean that we can choose or think independently from all rules or necessity, but rather that we...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956580252Author Alfred Richard OrageFormat PaperbackPage Count 62Imprint Orage PressPublisher Orage PressWeight(grams) 63g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781498109390Author Ralph CudworthFormat PaperbackPage Count 534Imprint Literary Licensing, LLCPublisher Literary Licensing, LLCWeight(grams) 708g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781498057905Author Woodbridge RileyFormat PaperbackPage Count 382Imprint Literary Licensing, LLCPublisher Literary Licensing, LLCWeight(grams) 508g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781498053075Author Herbert SpencerFormat PaperbackPage Count 372Imprint Literary Licensing, LLCPublisher Literary Licensing, LLCWeight(grams) 494g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781498034135Author Francis HutchesonFormat PaperbackPage Count 330Imprint Literary Licensing, LLCPublisher Literary Licensing, LLCWeight(grams) 440g

Sorry no description is available for this book at this time.

'I should have written you after my first reading of The Living Currency; it was already breath-taking and I should have responded. After reading it a few more times, I know it is the best book of our times.' Letter to Pierre Klossowski from Michel...

“Philosophy”, Ludwig Wittgenstein once wrote, “should actually be written only as poetry”. That Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus—Wittgenstein’s master-work, and the only book he published during his lifetime—endures as the definitive modern text on the...

Nature, History, State: 1933-1934 presents the first complete English-language translation of Heidegger's seminar 'On the Essence and Concepts of Nature, History and State', together with full introductory material and interpretive essays by five leading...

Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) is one of the most important early modern thinkers. Though Hobbes is best known for Leviathan (1651) and the theory of absolute sovereignty, his works discuss virtually all the major problems of philosophy as well as science and...

For better or worse, Rorty has shaped the trajectory of academic philosophy. A decade after his passing, his legacy is ever present, especially in context of the growth of the far right, the struggle over the meaning of justice and equity, and the...

In a 1934 speech, marking the Twenty-fifth Reunion of his high school class, Martin Heidegger spoke eloquently of classmates killed in the Great War and called on his audience to recognize that the national rebirth now occuring in Hitler's Germany must...

When careful consideration is given to Nietzsche's critique of Platonism and to what he wrote about Bismarck, Kaiser Wilhelm, and to Germany's place in "international relations" (die Grosse Politik), the philosopher's carefully cultivated...

While the fiction of novelist-philosopher Ayn Rand is extremely popular and enduring, little has been written on it so far. This book consists of essays, most of which are new, by top Rand scholars on Atlas Shrugged, her magnum opus. The essays deal with...

While the fiction of novelist-philosopher Ayn Rand is extremely popular and enduring, little has been written on it so far. This book consists of essays, most of which are new, by top Rand scholars on Atlas Shrugged, her magnum opus. The essays deal with...

This innovative volume presents an account of Nietzsche's claims about noble, life-affirming ways of life, analyzes the source of such claims, and explores the political vision that springs from them. Kirkland elucidates the meaning of Nietzsche's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781396318269Author Oswald SpenglerFormat PaperbackPage Count 514Imprint Forgotten BooksPublisher Forgotten BooksWeight(grams) 744gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781258871093Author Jacques ChevalierFormat HardbackPage Count 374Imprint Literary Licensing, LLCPublisher Literary Licensing, LLCWeight(grams) 667g

Sorry no description is available for this book at this time.

At the time of his death in 2004, Jacques Derrida was arguably the most influential and controversial thinker in contemporary philosophy. But how does one respond to the death of Derrida? How does one mourn for Derrida, who spent thirty years warning of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013275623Author Claus DierksmeierFormat PaperbackPage Count 370Imprint Saint Philip Street PressPublisher Saint Philip Street PressWeight(grams) 216g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780875481128Author Brand BlanshardFormat PaperbackPage Count 504Imprint Open Court Publishing Co ,U.S.Publisher Open Court Publishing Co ,U.S.Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780822954491Author Freiherr von Gottfried Wilhelm LeibnizFormat HardbackPage Count 480Imprint University of Pittsburgh PressPublisher University of...

Now available in English for the first time, Norwegian philosopher Arne Naess's meditation on the art of living is an exhortation to preserve the environment and biodiversity. As Naess approaches his ninetieth year, he offers a bright and bold...

Born in 1901, Paul Weiss has made major contributions to several branches of philosophy, as well as to teaching and scholarly publishing. Alfred North Whitehead remarked: "The danger of philosophical teaching is that it may become dead-alive, but in Paul...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812279085Author Stuart L. CharmeFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint University of Pennsylvania PressPublisher University of Pennsylvania Press

The French-Jewish thinker Emmanuel Levinas (1906-1995) is today remembered as the central moralist of the twentieth century and remains a major presence in the contemporary humanities. In this book, written in lucid and jargon-free prose, Samuel Moyn...

David Owen explores Hume's account of reason and its role in human understanding, seen in the context of other notable accounts by philosophers of the early modern period. Many of the most famous problems that Hume discusses, and many of the positions...

This is a book for people energized by the possibilities of modern intimacy, but who feel unsure about their own romantic lives. Alternative lifestyles such as nonmonogamy, while liberating in theory, can feel remote in practice, as we are fixed in place...

This is a book for people energized by the possibilities of modern intimacy, but who feel unsure about their own romantic lives. Alternative lifestyles such as nonmonogamy, while liberating in theory, can feel remote in practice, as we are fixed in place...

Postmodern thinkers have demonstrated the fragmentation of the Enlightenment understanding of the self, society, and nature; for many, however, the postmodern alternatives--the pursuit of individual self-definition, utter skepticism regarding the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780875480572Author Immanuel KantFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Open Court Publishing Co ,U.S.Publisher Open Court Publishing Co ,U.S.Weight(grams)...

It was the editorial eye of Eliot Deutsch that made the journal Philosophy East and West the voice of comparative philosophy within the Western academy, challenging the entrenched provincialism of Anglo-American philosophy. In these essays, Deutsch's...

Sorry no description is available for this book at this time.

Intended to contribute, in his own words, to a "left-wing critique of Stalinism that would help put some substance back into the revolutionary project here in the West," they are the record of a shared history. At the same time they chart Althusser's...

Philosophy After Lacan: Politics, Science, and Art brings together reflections on contemporary philosophy inspired by and in dialogue with Lacanian theory.Rather than focus on the thinkers who came before Lacan, the editors maintain attention on...

Since its inception in ancient Greece, Western philosophy had undergone two breaks with its past. The first was initiated by Descartes with his "method of doubt" which led to a questioning of the basic assumptions of classical philosophy, the...