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A Foucault Primer: Discourse, Power and the Subject by Alec McHoul 9780814755235
€101.69In such seminal works as Madness and Civilization, Discipline and Punish, and The History of Sexuality, the late philosopher Michel Foucault explored what our politics, our sexuality, our societal conventions, and our changing notions of truth told us... -
The Modern Turn by Michael Rohlf 9780813230054
RRP: €89.25€78.14What is the modern turn in philosophy? In other words, what are the features that make modern philosophy distinctively "modern" in contrast with the pre-modern philosophy from which it emerged - for example, medieval scholasticism, Renaissance... -
The Modernist as Philosopher: Selected Writings of Marcel Hebert by C. J. T. Talar 9780813218793
RRP: €89.25€76.78Roman Catholic Modernism, in France, was prominently represented by scholars whose interests were, in significant measure, historical. Notable examples are Louis Duchesne, Alfred Loisy, and Albert Houtin. Where philosophy was concerned, Maurice Blondel,... -
Georg Simmel and the Disciplinary Imaginary by Elizabeth S. Goodstein 9780804798365
RRP: €138.04€119.74An internationally famous philosopher and best-selling author during his lifetime, Georg Simmel has been marginalized in contemporary intellectual and cultural history. This neglect belies his pathbreaking role in revealing the theoretical significance... -
Being Given: Toward a Phenomenology of Givenness by Jean-Luc Marion 9780804734103
RRP: €138.04€119.74Along with Husserl's Ideas and Heidegger's Being and Time, Being Given is one of the classic works of phenomenology in the twentieth century. Through readings of Kant, Husserl, Heidegger, Derrida, and twentieth-century French phenomenology (e.g.,... -
Being Singular Plural by Jean-Luc Nancy 9780804739740
RRP: €117.81€102.03This book, by one of the most innovative and challenging contemporary thinkers, consists of an extensive essay from which the book takes its title and five shorter essays that are internally related to "Being Singular Plural." One of the... -
Genesis and Trace: Derrida Reading Husserl and Heidegger by Paola Marrati 9780804739153
RRP: €117.81€102.03In this study, Paola Marrati approaches-in an extremely insightful, rigorous, and well-argued way-the question of the philosophical sources of Derrida's thought through a consideration of his reading of both Husserl and Heidegger. A central focus of the... -
Technics and Time, 1: The Fault of Epimetheus by Bernard Stiegler 9780804730402
RRP: €138.04€119.74What is a technical object? At the beginning of Western philosophy, Aristotle contrasted beings formed by nature, which had within themselves a beginning of movement and rest, and man-made objects, which did not have the source of their own production... -
Generation Existential: Heidegger's Philosophy in France, 1927-1961 by Ethan Kleinberg 9780801473821
RRP: €36.89€32.56When we think of Heidegger's influence in France, we tend to focus on such contemporary thinkers as Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, and Jean-Francois Lyotard. In Generation Existential, Ethan Kleinberg shifts the focus to the initial reception of... -
The Concept of Other in Latin American Liberation: Fusing Emancipatory Philosophic Thought and Social Revolt by Eugene Gogol 9780739103319
RRP: €59.50€52.55In this exciting new study, Eugene Gogol interweaves three strands that form the intellectual bedrock for the concept of the Other in the Latin American context: Hegel's dialectic of negativity, Marx's humanism, and autochthonal emancipatory thought... -
The Concept of Other in Latin American Liberation: Fusing Emancipatory Philosophic Thought and Social Revolt by Eugene Gogol 9780739103302
RRP: €148.75€130.13In this exciting new study, Eugene Gogol interweaves three strands that form the intellectual bedrock for the concept of the Other in the Latin American context: Hegel's dialectic of negativity, Marx's humanism, and autochthonal emancipatory thought... -
Public Philosophy and Political Science: Crisis and Reflection by E. Robert Statham 9780739102930
RRP: €113.05€98.91The crisis of western civilization is a crisis of public philosophy. This is the charge of Public Philosophy and Political Science, a stunning new collection of essays edited by E. Robert Statham Jr. Vividly cataloging the decay of the moral and... -
Kierkegaard's Journals and Notebooks, Volume 9: Journals NB26-NB30 by Soren Kierkegaard 9780691172415
RRP: €168.98€132.88For over a century, the Danish thinker Soren Kierkegaard (1813-55) has been at the center of a number of important discussions, concerning not only philosophy and theology, but also, more recently, fields such as social thought, psychology, and... -
A Philosophy of Culture: The Scope of Holistic Pragmatism by Morton White 9780691123981
RRP: €38.08€29.46In this book, one of America's leading philosophers offers a sweeping reconsideration of the philosophy of culture in the twentieth century. Morton White argues that the discipline is much more important than is often recognized, and that his version of... -
The Wager of Lucien Goldmann: Tragedy, Dialectics, and a Hidden God by Mitchell Cohen 9780691628134
RRP: €57.12€44.74In The Wager of Lucien Goldmann, Mitchell Cohen provides the first full-length study of this major figure of postwar French intellectual life and champion of socialist humanism. While many Parisian leftists staunchly upheld Marxism's "scientificity" in... -
The Structure and Form of the French Enlightenment, Volume 2: Esprit Revolutionnaire by Ira O. Wade 9780691616476
RRP: €77.35€60.58The author describes the influence on the Enlightenment of the intellectual currents that had been active in France, particularly the historical and humanistic esprit critique and the scientific esprit moderne. The second volume probes the writings of... -
Intellectual Development of Voltaire by Ira O. Wade 9780691621586
RRP: €124.95€98.48In this comprehensive study of Voltaire's intellectual development, he provides the first full treatment of the effect of the English experience on Voltaire, the diversity of activity at Cirey, and the relation of Voltaire's thought to 17th- and... -
The Battle of the Gods and Giants: The Legacies of Descartes and Gassendi, 1655-1715 by Thomas M. Lennon 9780691604909
RRP: €71.40€56.05By the mid-1600s, the commonsense, manifest picture of the world associated with Aristotle had been undermined by skeptical arguments on the one hand and by the rise of the New Science on the other. What would be the scientific image to succeed the... -
The Mind of Kierkegaard by James Daniel Collins 9780691612904
RRP: €53.55€42.03This introductory overview of Kierkegaard's writings summarizes their central arguments and places them in their historical context. Originally published in 1984. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make... -
Philosophy of Mathematics in the Twentieth Century: Selected Essays by Charles Parsons 9780674728066
RRP: €68.96€55.18In this illuminating collection, Charles Parsons surveys the contributions of philosophers and mathematicians who shaped the philosophy of mathematics over the course of the past century.Parsons begins with a discussion of the Kantian legacy in the work... -
The Everlasting Check: Hume on Miracles by Alexander George 9780674289246
RRP: €42.78€34.46A touchstone of the Enlightenment dispute between rationality and religious belief, David Hume's essay "Of Miracles" has elicited much commentary from proponents and critics ever since it was published over 250 years ago. Alexander George's... -
Twentieth-Century Analytic Philosophy by Avrum Stroll 9780231112208
RRP: €109.48€85.45Analytic philosophy is difficult to define since it is not so much a specific doctrine as a loose concatenation of approaches to problems. As well as having strong ties to scientism -the notion that only the methods of the natural sciences give rise to... -
The Enchantment of Words: Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus by Denis McManus 9780199288021
€87.55Recent years have seen a great revival of interest in Wittgenstein's early masterpiece, the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. The Enchantment of Words is a study of that book, offering novel readings of all its major themes and shedding light on issues in... -
Propositions, Functions, and Analysis: Selected Essays on Russell's Philosophy by Peter Hylton 9780199286355
€65.80The work of Bertrand Russell had a decisive influence on the emergence of analytic philosophy, and on its subsequent development. The essays collected in this volume, by one of the leading authorities on Russell's philosophy, all aim at recapturing and... -
Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy Volume 1 by Daniel Garber 9780199267910
€56.24Oxford University Press is proud to announce an annual volume presenting a selection of the best new work in the history of philosophy. Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy will focus on the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries - the period that... -
Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy Volume 1 by Daniel Garber 9780199267903
€62.02This is the first edition of an annual volume to present a selection of the best new work in the history of philosophy. The series focuses on the 17th and 18th centuries - the period that begins, very roughly, with Descartes and his contemporaries and... -
Inspirations from Kant: Essays by Leslie Stevenson 9780199778225
€74.15These essays on Kant's theoretical philosophy, besides deriving inspiration from him, bring insights from contemporary analytical philosophy to bear in interpreting some of his most deep and difficult themes. The topics covered include representation and... -
Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy Volume IV by Daniel Garber 9780199550418
€45.51Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy is an annual series, presenting a selection of the best current work in the history of early modern philosophy. It focuses on the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries - the extraordinary period of intellectual... -
Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy Volume 3 by Daniel Garber 9780199203932
€58.04Oxford 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 in the Scottish Enlightenment by C. B. Bow 9780198783909
RRP: €94.01€87.20Common 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... -
Frege and Other Philosophers by Sir Michael Dummett 9780198248705
€82.78The 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... -
Themes in Hume: The Self, the Will, Religion by Terence Penelhum 9780198238980
€82.78Terence 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... -
The Rise of Modern Philosophy: The Tension between the New and Traditional Philosophies from Machiavelli to Leibniz by Professor Tom Sorell 9780198236054
€58.04`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... -
Leibniz: Nature and Freedom by Donald Rutherford 9780195143751
€47.29The 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... -
Leibniz: Nature and Freedom by Donald Rutherford 9780195143744
€49.09The 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... -
Essays on the Philosophy and Science of Rene Descartes by Stephen Voss 9780195075519
€51.47The 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... -
The Golden Age of Polish Philosophy: Kazimierz Twardowski's Philosophical Legacy by Sandra Lapointe 9789048184965
€110.29Jan 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... -
Levinas in Jerusalem: Phenomenology, Ethics, Politics, Aesthetics by Joelle Hansel 9789048175826
€110.12This 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... -
Le Tractatus de Wittgenstein et l' Ethique de Spinoza: Etude de Comparaison Structurale by Markus Aenishanslin 9783034896931
€57.93Cet 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... -
Scottish Philosophy in America by James J. S. Foster 9781845401610
€21.17Apologies 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