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Philosophical Profiles brings together ten important essays by Richard Berstein. Each focuses on the work of a thinker or group of thinkers at the center of contemporary developments in philosophy, including Hannah Arendt, John Dewey, Hans-Georg Gadamer,...

Donald Davidson is unquestionably one of America's greatest living philosophers. His influence on Anglo-American philosophy over the last twenty years has been enormous, and his work is an unavoidable reference point in current debates in the philosophy...

Henry Levinson offers a major reinterpretation of the Spanish-born American philosopher George Santayana (1863-1952), which highlights his relationship to the tradition of American pragmatism. He shows that Santayana's role in forming the pragmatist...

For 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780729407380Author James FowlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 177Imprint Voltaire FoundationPublisher Voltaire FoundationWeight(grams) 230g

This title introduces students to the context, key themes and influence of Schopenhauer's major work, a key text in 19th Century German thought. Schopenhauer's "The World as Will and Representation" is widely considered to be one of the most important...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780914417002Author Eugene FreemanFormat HardbackPage Count 412Imprint 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 9780924922398Author Jeffrey F SichaFormat PaperbackPage Count 574Imprint Ridgeview Publishing CompanyPublisher Ridgeview Publishing CompanyWeight(grams)...

When Franz Brentano introduced the concept of intentionality into modern philosophy, he initiated a revolution in philosophical thinking whose effects are still being felt - not least in contemporary developments in the field of cognitive science. Barry...

"Pulling up the Ladder" discusses how Wittgenstein's early philosophy became widely known largely through the efforts of Russell and other empirically-minded British philosophers, and to a lesser extent, the scientifically-oriented German-speaking...

Jean Baudrillard is widely recognized as one of the most important and provocative writers of our age. Variously termed "France's leading philosopher of postmodernism" and "a sharp-shooting Lone Ranger of the post-Marxist left," he might also be called...

Library of Liberal Arts title. Book InformationISBN 9780023078217Author Lewis White BeckFormat PaperbackPage Count 488Imprint PearsonPublisher Pearson Education (US)Weight(grams) 680gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 154mm * 23mm

These previously published essays discuss Nietzsche's influence on Arthur Schnitzler, Carl Sternheim, Georg Kaiser, Robert Musil, and Hermann Hesse. As a Festschrift, it also contains a tribute to Herbert W. Reichert and a bibliography of his writings...

Thomas Reid, contemporary and philosophical foe of David Hume, was the chief figure in the group of philosophers constituting the Scottish school of common sense. Between 1753 and 1762, Reid delivered four ""Philosophical Orations"" at graduation...

Contains the entire First Discourse, contemporary attacks on it, Rousseau's replies to his critics, and his summary of the debate in his preface to Narcissus. A number of these texts have never before been available in English. The First Discourse and...

How have the weapons of the nuclear age changed the rules of international politics? Can co-operation replace coercion as an instrument of security? This book compares the biographies of four dissident intellectuals who grappled with these questions...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788441421530Author Friedrich Wilhelm NietzscheFormat PaperbackImprint Edaf AntillasPublisher Edaf AntillasWeight(grams) 386g

When Rousseau first read his Confessions to a 1770 gathering in Paris, reactions varied from admiration of his candor to doubts about his sanity to outrage. Indeed, Rousseau's intent and approach were revolutionary. As one of the first attempts at...

This edition features reliable, accessible translations; useful editorial materials; and a straightforward presentation of the Objections and Replies, including the objections from Caterus, Arnauld, and Hobbes, accompanied by Descartes' replies, in their...

Marco Altamirano critiques the modern concept of nature to chart a new trajectory for the philosophy of nature. He goes on to deploy conceptual resources excavated from Deleuze, Guattari, Foucault and Leroi-Gourhan to show how technology, which bypasses...

This wide-ranging, multidisciplinary collection of newly commissioned articles brings together distinguished voices in the field of Africana philosophy and African-American social and political thought. Provides a comprehensive critical survey of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780729409629Author Christiane MervaudFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint Voltaire FoundationPublisher Voltaire Foundation

Since the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe, the validity of Marxism and Marxist theory has undergone intense scrutiny both within and outside the academy. In Lukacs After Communism, Eva L. Corredor conducts ten lively and engaging interviews with...

This collection of writings by eminent philosophers explores the controversial career of Jurgen Habermas, whose adherence to the Enlightenment ideals of rationality, humanism, and respect for discourse has set him apart from most postmodernist thinkers...

No text has defined the self-understanding of the present time like Jean-Francois Lyotard's La condition postmoderne, Rapport sur le savoir (1979). But few participants in the dialogue between the moderns and the postmoderns can claim to understand...

Few men in America's intellectual history have sought as much as Irving Babbitt to be a crucible for the cultural values that America, expecially in its ""progressive"" epoch, had no inclination to receive. Over sixty years after his...

Ranging in subject from England's poor laws to the Human Genome Project, The Rhetoric of Eugenics in Anglo-American Thought is one of the first books to look at the history and development of the eugenics movement in Anglo-American culture. Unlike other...

This work offers an introduction to John Paul II's theory of the human person. The development of Karol Wojtyla's theology is developed - from his lesser-known writings such as ""The Lublin Lectures"" - to his more popular writings ""Love and...

Wittgenstein has most often been treated as a thinker whose ideas can be discussed independently of any intellectual tradition. The thrust of these essays, by America's leading authority on Wittgenstein's thought, is to insist on the mutual relevance of...

This book is both a concise and lucid introduction to Nietzsche and an original contribution to critical debates concerning Nietzsche interpretation and reception. This overview takes issue with the prevailing tendency to focus on Nietzsche's later work,...

One of the nation's foremost scholars in the history of ideas explores the impact of Darwin's evolutionary biology on the religious and intellectual thought of the past century.Book InformationISBN 9780807100622Author John C. GreeneFormat PaperbackPage...

In Vodou Cosmology and the Haitian Revolution in the Enlightenment Ideals of Kant and Hegel, Vivaldi Jean-Marie begins with an interpretation of the rise of Vodou practices in Saint-Domingue which is sensitive to the social, spiritual and cultural...

In seeking to defend a form of naturalism that avoids both scientism and the reduction of philosophy to science, Robert Almeder defines philosophy and distinguishes it from the domain of natural science by showing how a good philosophical explanation,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780595139583Author David AppelbaumFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint iUniversePublisher iUniverseWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 205mm * 128mm * 10mm

This carefully edited selection of correspondence includes letters both to - and from - Martin Buber from world-renowned scholars, thinkers, and philosophers. This edition contains the Preface to the German edition, as well as a Biographical Sketch by...

This work contains the autobiographical fragments Buber selected, and also wrote afresh, at Princeton in 1958 and in Jerusalem in 1960, in collaboration with Dr Friedman.Book InformationISBN 9780812691443Author Martin BuberFormat PaperbackPage Count...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812980783Author Bernard-Henri LevyFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 261gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780595180141Author Scott SimonFormat PaperbackPage Count 98Imprint Writers Club PressPublisher Writers Club PressWeight(grams) 186g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780595146291Author Dillard N ThompsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint Authors Choice PressPublisher Authors Choice PressWeight(grams) 168g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780595131242Author Copernicus AgainFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Writers Club PressPublisher Writers Club PressWeight(grams) 268g