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A Companion to Simone de Beauvoir by Nancy Bauer 9781118796023
RRP: €153.45€133.54Winner 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: €157.02€136.58Jon 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: €46.35€41.17This 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: €107.10€96.43God 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: €59.49€51.77This 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 Casper Bruun Jensen 9780857456571
RRP: €33.26€26.87This 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... -
Habermas: Introduction and Analysis by David Ingram 9780801476013
RRP: €33.31€28.73The 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: €57.11€49.75This 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: €78.54€67.75The 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: €117.81€102.03Dialectic 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 Thomas Szasz 9780765802170
RRP: €160.65€139.56The 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: €160.65€139.56The 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: €71.40€61.82Richard 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: €124.95€113.51The 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: €124.95€113.51This 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: €124.95€113.51The 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: €124.95€113.51This 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: €124.95€113.51Exploring 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: €36.89€34.14Deleuze 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: €130.90€118.86This 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: €65.45€56.80One 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: €41.65€36.74Martin 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: €65.45€57.27This 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: €65.45€57.27Peter 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... -
Confrontation: A Conversation with Aude Lancelin by Alain Badiou 9780745685694
RRP: €59.50€51.78Everything in their respective positions divides them: Alain Badiou is the thinker of a revitalized communism and Alain Finkielkraut the mournful observer of the loss of values. The two opponents, gathered here for their first-ever debate, have... -
Controversies: Politics and Philosophy in our Time by Alain Badiou 9780745682167
RRP: €61.88€53.79Alain Badiou was born in 1937 in Rabat and Jean-Claude Milner in 1941 in Paris. They were both involved in the "Red Years" at the end of the Sixties and both were Maoists, but while Badiou was focusing all his attention on China, Milner was... -
The Problems of Contemporary Philosophy: A Critical Guide for the Unaffiliated by Paul Livingston 9780745670294
RRP: €65.45€56.80This accessible new book provides a clear and wide-ranging introduction to the defining problems of contemporary philosophy. Its unique feature is to focus on problems that cut across the established divide between analytic and continental philosophical... -
Sloterdijk by Jean-Pierre Couture 9780745663807
RRP: €65.45€57.27This is the first English-language introduction to Peter Sloterdijk, the distinguished German philosopher and controversial public intellectual. Sloterdijk, in the tradition of Nietzsche and Heine, is an iconoclast who uses humour and biting critique to... -
Brandom by Ronald Loeffler 9780745664194
RRP: €65.45€57.27Robert Brandom is one of the most renowned American philosophers today, discussed widely in analytic as well as continental philosophical communities on both sides of the Atlantic. His innovative neo-pragmatist approach to linguistic communication... -
Wilfrid Sellars: Naturalism with a Normative Turn by James O'Shea 9780745630021
RRP: €65.45€56.80The work of the American philosopher Wilfrid Sellars continues to have a significant impact on the contemporary philosophical scene. His writings have influenced major thinkers such as Rorty, McDowell, Brandom, and Dennett, and many of Sellars basic... -
Contemporary Metaethics: An Introduction by Alexander Miller 9780745646589
RRP: €71.40€62.30This new edition of Alexander Miller s highly readable introduction to contemporary metaethics provides a critical overview of the main arguments and themes in twentieth- and twenty-first-century contemporary metaethics. Miller traces the development of... -
Nietzsche: A Re-examination Irving M. Zeitlin (University of Toronto) 9780745612911
RRP: €22.60€20.08In this book Irving Zeitlin re-examines the work of this important philosopher and considers how we should assess Nietzsche's claims today.About the AuthorIrving Zeitlin is the author of many books including Jesus and the Judaism of His Time (Polity,... -
Kant: The Three Critiques by Andrew Ward 9780745626192
RRP: €65.45€56.80Immanuel Kants three critiques the Critique of Pure Reason, the Critique of Practical Reason and the Critique of Judgment are among the pinnacles of Western Philosophy. This accessible study grounds Kants philosophical position in the context of his... -
Can Modernity Survive? Agnes Heller (New School for Social Research) 9780745607986
RRP: €59.50€51.78Can Modernity Survive? displays the full range of Heller's formidable talents for social and philosophical analysis. The papers collected together here provide an integrated statement of her distinctive position concerning the fate of humankind as we... -
Descartes by Andre Gombay 9780631233459
RRP: €97.52€84.81A bold and insightful departure from related texts, Descartes goes beyond the categorical associations placed on the philosopher's ideas, and explores the subtleties of his beliefs. * An elegant, compelling and insightful introduction to Descartes' life... -
Descartes by Andre Gombay 9780631233466
RRP: €29.69€25.92A bold and insightful departure from related texts, Descartes goes beyond the categorical associations placed on the philosopher's ideas, and explores the subtleties of his beliefs. * An elegant, compelling and insightful introduction to Descartes' life... -
Kant by Allen W. Wood 9780631232810
RRP: €109.42€94.93This lucid survey takes readers on a thought--provoking tour through the life and work of Immanuel Kant. * Offers an excellent introduction to the broad range of Kant's philosophical thought. * Provides an exposition of Kant's major philosophical works,... -
Adorno and Critical Theory Hauke Brunkhorst 9780708315286
RRP: €21.41€16.42In this volume the author, Hauke Brunkhorst, not only emphasizes the well-known links between Adorno and the dialectical thinking of Hegel and Marx, but also the connection between Adorno and Kant. The book sheds light on Adorno's negative dialectic... -
Marx After Marxism: The Philosophy of Karl Marx Tom Rockmore (Duquesne University) 9780631231905
RRP: €41.59€36.69Marx After Marxism encourages readers to understand Karl Marx in new ways, unencumbered by political Marxist interpretations that have long dominated the discussions of both Marxists and non-Marxists. This volume gives a broad and accessible account of... -
An Introduction to Hegel: Freedom, Truth and History by Stephen Houlgate 9780631230625
RRP: €129.65€112.60This classic introduction to one of the most influential modern thinkers, G.W.F. Hegel (1770-1831) has been made even more comprehensive through the addition of four new chapters. This is the new edition of a classic introduction to Hegel. It enables...