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Oxford University Press is proud to present the third volume in a new annual series, presenting a selection of the best current work in the history of philosophy. Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy focuses on the seventeenth and eighteenth...

Common sense philosophy was one of eighteenth-century Scotland's most original intellectual products. It developed as a viable alternative to modern philosophical scepticism, known as the 'Ideal Theory' or 'the way of ideas'. The nine specially written...

The ideas of the German philosopher and mathematician Gottlob Frege lie at the root of the analytical movement in philosophy. Frege and Other Philosophers comprises all of Professor Dummett's published and previously unpublished essays on Frege, with the...

Terence Penelhum has since the 1950s been a leading contributor to studies of the thought of David Hume; he now presents a selection of the best of his essays on Hume, most of them quite recent, three of them previously unpublished. The central themes of...

`Modern' philosophy in the West is said to have begun with Bacon and Descartes. Their methodological and metaphysical writings, in conjunction with the discoveries that marked the seventeenth-century scientific revolution, are supposed to have interred...

The revival of Leibniz studies in the past twenty-five years has cast important new light on both the context and content of Leibniz's philosophical thought. Where earlier English-language scholarship understood Leibniz's philosophy as issuing from his...

The revival of Leibniz studies in the past twenty-five years has cast important new light on both the context and content of Leibniz's philosophical thought. Where earlier English-language scholarship understood Leibniz's philosophy as issuing from his...

The past decade has seen a rapid growth in interest in Descartes' thought, and especially in the relationship between his philosophical and scientific work. The essays in this volume, none of which has been published in English before (three have been...

Jan Wolenski and Sandra Lapointe Polish philosophy goes back to the 13th century, when Witelo, famous for his works in optics and the metaphysics of light, lived and worked in Silesia. Yet, Poland's academic life only really began after the University...

This book is a collection of papers given at the International Conference "Levinas in Jerusalem" held at the Hebrew University in May 2002. It gives an overview of the most fecund areas of research in Levinas scholarship. The authors, world...

Cet ouvrage, qui est la these de doctorat d'Etat que j'ai soutenue devant l'Universite de Provence aAix-en-Provence le 30 juin 1988, mais alaquelle j'ai toutefois apporte posterieurement certaines rectifications, a pour objet la comparaison structurale...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845401610Author James J. S. FosterFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Imprint AcademicPublisher Imprint AcademicWeight(grams) 300g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845407919Author Andre Santos CamposFormat HardbackPage Count 220Imprint Imprint AcademicPublisher Imprint AcademicWeight(grams) 600gDimensions(mm) 234mm...

This book explores the work of German philosopher and social theorist Jurgen Habermas. It provides a context for the emergence of his critical theory and key influences. The text explores Habermas's key aspirations of the enlightenment project and the...

Volume I: From the Puritans through Transcendentalism. Volume I: From the St. Louis Hegelians through C. I. LewisBook InformationISBN 9781603841375Author Elizabeth FlowerFormat HardbackPage Count 1024Imprint Hackett Publishing Co, IncPublisher Hackett...

This new, second edition of the popular college textbook offers the beginning philosophy student a comprehensive introduction to several aspects of one of the most influential schools of thought in the twentieth century. Professor Klemke begins by...

Anthropology's Interrogation of Philosophy from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Century presents and discusses key aspects of the German tradition of philosophical anthropology from the eighteenth to the twentieth century, centering on the concept of...

In Portraits of American Philosophy eight of America's leading philosophers offer autobiographical narratives, reminding us that the life of a scholar is both a personal struggle and an adventure in ideas. Selected from the prestigious John Dewey...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788787564588Author Oleg KoefoedFormat PaperbackPage Count 394Imprint NSU PressPublisher NSU Press

A groundbreaking volume introduces the unique feminist thought of the longstanding Italian group known as Diotima Introducing Anglophone readers to a potent strain of Italian feminism known to French, Spanish, and German audiences but as yet...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788787564991Author Ingerid S. StraumeFormat PaperbackPage Count 273Imprint NSU PressPublisher NSU Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865975187Author Christian ThomasiusFormat HardbackPage Count 659Imprint Liberty Fund IncPublisher Liberty Fund IncWeight(grams) 1238g

An encounter between philosophy and journalism recurs across the modern philosophical tradition. Images of reporters and newspaper readers, messengers and town criers, announcements and rumors populate the work of such thinkers as Kierkegaard, Nietzsche,...

Composed of ten original essays written with the goal of exploring the thought of one of the most significant German philosophers of the 20th century, namely, Josef Pieper (1904-1997), this book is the only systematic treatment of his expansive...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788857504278Author Mauro CarboneFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Mimesis InternationalPublisher Mimesis International

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783515094054Author Jan PalkoskaFormat HardbackPage Count 171Imprint Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbHPublisher Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden...

Our world has evolved in such a way that we can no longer reduce it to just a market - it has also become an "agora", where philosophers exchange world-views in order to understand one another. Europe has lost its position at the centre of the world and...

"Levinas and the Greek Heritage" shows that throughout his career, Emmanuel Levinas always admired and recognized his profound debt to Plato and to the philosophical tradition he initiated, which have been largely transmitted to us by the Neoplatonists,...

Vladimir Solov'ev (1853-1900- is regarded as the most original and systematic of the Russian philosophers in the 19th century. He has once again become the subject of international scholarly attention both in Slavic countries and the West. This volume...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781557785398Author Lowell KleimanFormat PaperbackPage Count 626Imprint Paragon House PublishersPublisher Paragon House PublishersWeight(grams) 1148g

Martin Heidegger's Being and Time can be broadly termed a transcendental inquiry into the structures that make human experience possible. Such an inquiry reveals the conditions that render human experience intelligible. Using Being and Time as a model, I...

This volume provides a highly needed, comprehensive analysis of Kant's views on proofs for God's existence and explains the radical turns of Kant's accounts. In the "Theory of Heavens" (1755), Kant intended to harmonize the Newtonian laws of motion with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788857507613Author Mauro CarboneFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint Mimesis InternationalPublisher Mimesis International

From Italy to Mexico, and all the way to Japan, then returning to the United States. By spanning the annus mirabilis which has witnessed the centenary of Merleau-Ponty's birth celebrated everywhere, Chiasmi International has captured some of its most...

Spirit's Gift is the first book in English devoted to the philosophy of Claude Bruaire (1936-1982). Its focus is the notion of gift, a notion that has recently been the subject of lively debate involving Jacques Derrida, Jean-Luc Marion, Marcel Mauss,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780854482030Author Norman RyderFormat HardbackPage Count 600Imprint The Swedenborg SocietyPublisher The Swedenborg Society

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780268204426Author Roberto AlejandroFormat HardbackPage Count 392Imprint University of Notre Dame PressPublisher University of Notre Dame Press

These selections provide a brief but comprehensive introduction to Fichte's philosophical system and his place in the history of German Idealism. In addition to some of Fichte's most influential texts, such as the First and Second Introductions to the...

In The Persistence of the Sacred in Modern Thought, Chris L. Firestone, Nathan A. Jacobs, and thirteen other contributors examine the role of God in the thought of major European philosophers from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century. The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865976276Author Francis HutchesonFormat HardbackImprint Liberty Fund IncPublisher Liberty Fund Inc