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Kant's Critique of Pure Reason: An Orientation to the Central Theme by Anthony Savile 9781405120401
RRP: £81.95£71.27This fresh orientation to "Kant's Critique of Pure Reason" presents his central theme, the development of his Transcendental Idealism, as a ground-breaking response to perceived weaknesses in his predecessors' accounts of experiential knowledge... -
The Blackwell Guide to Descartes' Meditations by Stephen Gaukroger 9781405118750
RRP: £89.95£78.47Consisting of twelve newly commissioned essays and enhanced by William Molyneux's famous early translation of the Meditations, this volume touches on all the major themes of one of the most influential texts in the history of philosophy. * Situates the... -
The Blackwell Guide to Hume's Treatise by Saul Traiger 9781405115087
RRP: £98.95£86.13This Guide provides students with the scholarly and interpretive tools they need to understand Hume's "A Treatise of Human Nature" and its influence on modern philosophy. A student guide to Hume's "A Treatise of Human Nature", this... -
Wittgenstein's Method: Neglected Aspects by Gordon P. Baker 9781405117579
RRP: £88.95£77.62This is a collection of the key articles written by renowned Wittgenstein scholar, G.P. Baker, on Wittgenstein's later philosophy, published posthumously. * Following Baker's death in 2002, the volume has been edited by collaborator and partner,... -
McDowell and His Critics by Cynthia MacDonald 9781405106245
RRP: £40.95£35.89The most comprehensive discussion available of the work of philosopher, John McDowell. Contains newly commissioned papers by distinguished philosophers on McDowell's work, along with substantial replies to each by McDowell himself. The contributors are... -
McDowell and His Critics by Cynthia MacDonald 9781405106238
RRP: £96.95£84.42The most comprehensive discussion available of the work of philosopher, John McDowell. * Contains newly commissioned papers by distinguished philosophers on McDowell's work, along with substantial replies to each by McDowell himself. * The contributors... -
Wittgenstein: Meaning and Judgement by Michael Luntley 9781405102421
RRP: £36.95£32.51In this important study, Michael Luntley offers a compelling reading of Wittgenstein's account of meaning and intentionality, based upon a unifying theme in the early and later philosophies. A compelling reading of Wittgenstein's account of meaning and... -
Wittgenstein: Understanding and Meaning: Volume 1 of an Analytical Commentary on the Philosophical Investigations, Part I: Essays by Gordon P. Baker 9781405101769
RRP: £42.95£37.97This is a new edition of the first volume of G.P.Baker and P.M.S. Hacker's definitive reference work on Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations. New edition of the first volume of the monumental four-volume Analytical Commentary on the... -
Anti-Badiou: The Introduction of Maoism into Philosophy by Francois Laruelle 9781350009080
RRP: £33.99£30.09In a new paperback edition, this compelling and highly original book represents a confrontation between two of the most radical thinkers at work in France today: Alain Badiou and the author, Francois Laruelle. At face value, the two have much in... -
The Quest for Modernity: Secular Liberal and Left-wing Political Thought in Egypt, 1945-1958 by Roel Meijer 9781138869875
RRP: £29.99£26.64This book analyses the political ideologies of the several highly influential liberal, socialist and communist thinkers, groups and movements which sought to modernize Egypt after World War II. Most of the representatives of these currents intended to... -
Causation and Modern Philosophy by Keith Allen 9781138809741
RRP: £53.99£46.87This volume brings together a collection of new essays by leading scholars on the subject of causation in the early modern period, from Descartes to Lady Mary Shepherd. Aimed at researchers, graduate students and advanced undergraduates, the volume... -
The Emotions and Cultural Analysis by Dr Ana Marta Gonzalez 9781138273115
RRP: £49.99£43.50Amidst prevailing debates that construe rationality and emotionality as polar opposites, this book explores the manner in which emotions shape not only prevailing conceptions of rationality, but also culture in general terms, making room for us to speak... -
Theory and Practice in the Eighteenth Century: Writing Between Philosophy and Literature by Alexander Dick 9781138663626
RRP: £47.99£41.81Brings together scholars who use literary interpretation and discourse analysis to read 18th-century British philosophy in its historical context. This work analyses how the philosophers of the Enlightenment viewed their writing; and, how their... -
Transcending Subjects: Augustine, Hegel, and Theology by Geoffrey Holsclaw 9781119163084
RRP: £72.95£62.86Transcending Subjects: Augustine, Hegel and Theology engages the seminal figures of Hegel and Augustine around the theme of subjectivity, with consideration toward the theology and politics of freedom.Book InformationISBN 9781119163084Author Geoffrey... -
Wittgenstein: Opening Investigations by Michael Luntley 9781118978399
RRP: £86.95£75.52In this provocatively compelling new book, Michael Luntley offers a revolutionary reading of the opening section of Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations Critically engages with the most recent exegetical literature on Wittgenstein and other... -
A Companion to Simone de Beauvoir by Nancy Bauer 9781118796023
RRP: £128.95£112.22Winner of the 2018 Choice award for Outstanding Academic Title! The work of Simone de Beauvoir has endured and flowered in the last two decades, thanks primarily to the lasting influence of The Second Sex on the rise of academic discussions of gender,... -
A Companion to Kierkegaard by Dr. Jon Stewart 9781118783818
RRP: £131.95£114.77Jon Stewart, one of the world s leading experts on the work of Soren Kierkegaard, has here compiled the most comprehensive single-volume overview of Kierkegaard studies currently available. * Includes contributions from an international array of... -
A Companion to Rationalism by Alan Nelson 9781118360620
RRP: £38.95£34.60This book is a wide-ranging examination of rationalist thought in philosophy from ancient times to the present day. * Written by a superbly qualified cast of philosophers * Critically analyses the concept of rationalism * Focuses principally on the... -
Kant and the Question of Theology by Chris Firestone 9781107116818
RRP: £90.00£81.03God is a problematic idea in Kant's terms, but many scholars continue to be interested in Kantian theories of religion and the issues that they raise. In these new essays, scholars both within and outside Kant studies analyse Kant's writings and his... -
Newton's Third Rule and the Experimental Argument for Universal Gravity by Mary Domski 9781032020365
RRP: £49.99£43.50This book provides a reading of Newton's argument for universal gravity that is focused on the evidence-based, "experimental" reasoning that Newton associates with his program of experimental philosophy. It highlights the richness and... -
Deleuzian Intersections: Science, Technology, Anthropology by Casper Bruun Jensen 9780857456571
RRP: £27.95£22.58This is an excellent edited collection that points to new lines of inquiry in the areas explored. The editors must congratulate themselves in pulling together a fine body of work. JRAI To consider anew the relation of science and humanities beyond the... -
Lions by Hans Blumenberg 9780857428264
RRP: £9.99£8.59For distinguished philosopher Hans Blumenberg, lions were a life-long obsession. Lions, translated by Kari Driscoll, collects thirty-two of Blumenberg's philosophical vignettes to reveal that the figure of the lion unites two of his other great... -
Habermas: Introduction and Analysis by David Ingram 9780801476013
RRP: £27.99£24.14The work of Jurgen Habermas (b. 1929) has been highly influential both in philosophy and across many disciplines in the social sciences. David Ingram here provides an accessible introduction to Habermas's complex thought as it has evolved from 1953 to... -
Vanishing Matter and the Laws of Motion: Descartes and Beyond by Peter Anstey 9780815371915
RRP: £47.99£41.81This volume explores the themes of vanishing matter, matter and the laws of nature, the qualities of matter, and the diversity of the debates about matter in the early modern period. Chapters are unified by a number of interlocking themes which together... -
The Romance of Individualism in Emerson and Nietzsche by David Mikics 9780821414965
RRP: £66.00£56.93The great American thinker Ralph Waldo Emerson and the influential German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, though writing in different eras and ultimately developing significantly different philosophies, both praised the individual's wish to be... -
Dialectic of Enlightenment by Max Horkheimer 9780804736329
RRP: £99.00£85.74Dialectic of Enlightenment is undoubtedly the most influential publication of the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory. Written during the Second World War and circulated privately, it appeared in a printed edition in Amsterdam in 1947. "What we had set... -
Words to the Wise: A Medical-Philosophical Dictionary by Thomas Szasz 9780765802170
RRP: £135.00£117.28The human mind abhors the absence of explanation, but full understanding is never possible. Human understanding is likely to be incomplete at best and, more often, utterly fallacious. To make matters worse, it is likely to be supported as truth and... -
On Enlightenment by David Stove 9780765801364
RRP: £135.00£117.28The idea of enlightenment entails liberty, equality, rationalism, secularism, and the connection between knowledge and well being. In spite of the setbacks of revolutionary violence, mass murder, and two world wars, the spread of enlightenment values is... -
Richard Rorty: Critical Dialogues by Matthew Festenstein 9780745621654
RRP: £60.00£51.95Richard Rorty is one of the most influential and provocative figures in contemporary intellectual life. He argues that many of philosophya s traditional concerns are redundant, and that the goal of inquiry should not be truth but human betterment. In... -
Hume's Sceptical Enlightenment by Ryu Susato 9780748699803
RRP: £105.00£95.39The Scottish philosopher and historian David Hume (1711-1776) has often been regarded as a key Enlightenment thinker. However, his image has been long contested between those who consider him a conservative and those who see him as a key liberal thinker... -
Lyotard and the Inhuman Condition: Reflections on Nihilism, Information and Art by Ashley Woodward 9780748697243
RRP: £105.00£95.39This book offers an incisive argument for the contemporary importance of Lyotard in light of posthuman trends. Jean Francois Lyotard was one of the leading French philosophers of his generation, whose wide ranging and highly original contributions to... -
Deleuze and Derrida: Difference and the Power of the Negative by Vernon W. Cisney 9780748696222
RRP: £105.00£95.39The first scholarly comparative analysis of Jacques Derrida and Gilles Deleuze's philosophies of difference Jacques Derrida and Gilles Deleuze are best known for their respective attempts to theoretically formulate non-dialectical conceptions of... -
Deleuze: A Philosophy of the Event: together with The Vocabulary of Deleuze by Francois Zourabichvili 9780748645626
RRP: £105.00£95.39This is a new translation of two essential works on Deleuze, written by one of his contemporaries. From the publication of "Deleuze: A Philosophy of the Event" to his untimely death in 2006, Francois Zourabichvili was regarded as one of the... -
Deleuze and Sex by Frida Beckman 9780748642618
RRP: £105.00£95.39Exploring central aspects of the role of sexuality in Deleuze's philosophy For Deleuze, sexuality is a force that can capture as well as liberate life. Its flows tend to be repressed and contained in specific forms at the same time as they retain... -
Deleuze and Philosophy by Constantin V. Boundas 9780748624805
RRP: £31.00£28.69Deleuze and Philosophy provides an exploration of the continuing philosophical relevance of Gilles Deleuze. This collection of essays uses Deleuze to move between thinkers such as Plato, Aristotle, Husserl, Hume, Locke, Kant, Foucault, Badiou and... -
Deleuze and the Contemporary World by Ian Buchanan 9780748623419
RRP: £110.00£99.88This volume joins the pragmatic philosophy of Deleuze to current affairs. The twelve new essays in this volume use a contemporary context to think through and with Deleuze. Engaging the here and now, the contributors use the Deleuzian theoretical... -
Not Saved: Essays After Heidegger by Peter Sloterdijk 9780745696980
RRP: £55.00£47.73One can rightly say of Peter Sloterdijk that each of his essays and lectures is also an unwritten book. That is why the texts presented here, which sketch a philosophical physiognomy of Martin Heidegger, should also be characterized as a collected... -
Freedom to Fail: Heidegger's Anarchy by Peter Trawny 9780745695228
RRP: £35.00£30.87Martin Heidegger is widely regarded as one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth-century, and his seminal text Being and Time is considered one of the most significant texts in contemporary philosophy. Yet his name has also been mired in... -
An Introduction to Dialectics by Theodor W. Adorno 9780745693118
RRP: £55.00£48.13This volume comprises Adorno's first lectures specifically dedicated to the subject of the dialectic, a concept which has been key to philosophical debate since classical times. While discussing connections with Plato and Kant, Adorno concentrates on the... -
Selected Exaggerations: Conversations and Interviews 1993 - 2012 by Peter Sloterdijk 9780745691657
RRP: £55.00£48.13Peter Sloterdijk s reputation as one of the most original thinkers of our time has grown steadily since the early 1980s. This volume of over thirty conversations and interviews spanning two decades illuminates the multiple interconnections of his life...