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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781399502894Author Rok BenčinFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press

Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) was a German philosopher and a proponent of pessimistic philosophy. Deeply cynical of love and the want for children, he believed humans are all mere animals – just far more unhappy, because of our self-awareness.The...

The trajectory of Friedrich Nietzsche's thought has long presented a difficulty for the study of his philosophy. How did the young Nietzsche-classicist and ardent advocate of Wagner's cultural renewal-become the philosopher of Will to Power and the...

The philosophical activity of modern Germany represents a peak in the history of philosophy beginning from Thales in ancient Greece. This book attempts to reconsider the conventional image of 19th-century German philosophy. To this end, it illuminates a...

First published in 1961, Perception and the Physical World contends that there are insuperable difficulties for the Representative and Phenomenalist theories. Unreflective common sense thinks of sense-perception as a direct grasping of the nature of the...

This 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 complexity of the...

First published in 1926, Personality and Reality is the analysis of the place and function of mind and God. The author argues that the conception of a supreme Self is required for the interpretation of the Universe, just like the requirement of the...

Walter Benjamin (1896-1940) has been called by Hannah Arendt the "greatest critic of the century." While an increasing number of Anglo-American literary critics draw upon Benjamin's writings in their own works, their colleagues in the philosophical...

This volume features 19 original chapters on Adam Smith’s conception of modernity. The contributions demonstrate the relevance of Smith as the great interpreter of modernity 250 years after the publication of The Wealth of Nations.The chapters in Part 1...

This volume collects the most substantial correspondence and documents relating to Wittgenstein's long association with Cambridge between the years 1911 and his death in 1951, including the letters he exchanged with his most illustrious Cambridge...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781587313752Author John DeelyFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint St Augustine's PressPublisher St Augustine's PressWeight(grams) 470gDimensions(mm) 227mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781587312274Author Stanley RosenFormat HardbackImprint St. Augustine's PressPublisher St. Augustine's PressWeight(grams) 1157g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781587310157Author Roger PouivetFormat HardbackPage Count 138Imprint St Augustine's PressPublisher St Augustine's PressWeight(grams) 368gDimensions(mm)...

This book examines the significance of Kant's moral philosophy in contemporary philosophical debates. It argues that Kant's philosophy can still serve as a guide to navigate the turbulence of a globalized world in which we are faced by an imprescriptible...

This 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 philosophersCritically analyses the concept of rationalismFocuses principally on the golden age of...

"Realism for the 21st Century" is a collection of thirty essays from John Deely - a major figure in contemporary semiotics and an authority on scholastic realism and the works of Charles Sanders Peirce. The volume tracks Deely's development as a...

Wittgenstein presents a concise, comprehensive, and systematic treatment of Ludwig Wittgenstein's thought from his early work, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, to the posthumous publication of On Certainty, notes written just prior to his death. * A...

A reading of Blanchot's idea of the disaster in relation to contemporary fiction of the United Kingdom and Ireland A comprehensive examination of a central, but undefined, aspect of Maurice Blanchot's deeply influential thought, the disaster Sustains...

This book offers new perspectives on the theoretical elements of the Opus postumum, Kant's project of a final work which remained unknown until eighty years after his death. The contributors read the OP as a central work in establishing the relation...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865976184Author Mary Catherine MoranFormat PaperbackPage Count 392Imprint Liberty Fund IncPublisher Liberty Fund IncWeight(grams) 634g

The French-Jewish thinker Emmanuel Levinas (1906-1995) is today remembered as the central moralist of the twentieth century and remains a major presence in the contemporary humanities. In this book, written in lucid and jargon-free prose, Samuel Moyn...

Modernism as a Philosophical Problem, 2e presents a new interpretation of the negative and critical self-understanding characteristic of much European high culture since romanticism and especially since Nietzsche, and answers the question of why the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592219896Author Fabien Eboussi BoulagaFormat PaperbackPage Count 254Imprint Africa Research & PublicationsPublisher Africa World PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781585101122Author Baruch SpinozaFormat HardbackPage Count 458Imprint Focus Publishing/R Pullins & CoPublisher Focus Publishing/R Pullins &...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802137296Author Sian MilesFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press

The history of humanity has only just begun. The Neolithic Revolution may have endowed us with unparalleled means of communication, subsistence, and knowledge acquisition. However, it is clear in today's world that inequality, power hierarchies, and...

This book is mainly concerned with elaborating an account of the unique theoretical essence and activities of philosophy. What manner of civilization should modern humans forge? On what developmental path should a nation embark? What lifestyle should...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781509525959Author Stuart EldenFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Polity PressPublisher Polity PressWeight(grams) 152g

In modern, urbanized societies, our engagement with the natural environment often seems controlled and distant, reduced to strolls through city parks or walks along well-trodden paths. Human life is now far removed from its prehistoric origins, when...

"There's nothing available that I know of that comes as close to representing the range of Royce's works. . . . " -- John H LavelyReviewsThere's nothing available that I know of that comes as close to representing the range of Royce's works. . . . ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865976221Author George TurnbullFormat PaperbackPage Count 504Imprint Liberty Fund IncPublisher Liberty Fund IncWeight(grams) 796g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865975156Author Hugo GrotiusFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Liberty Fund IncPublisher Liberty Fund IncWeight(grams) 644g

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781620324455Author Eugen Rosenstock-HuessyFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Argo BooksPublisher Argo BooksWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

The authors of The Longing for Home explore the notion that home is both a place and a conditon of the spirit. While a person may have a place that is home, he or she may also be nostalgic for an inner spiritual home which beckons even as it lies beyond...

In three comprehensive volumes, Logic of the Future presents a fullpanorama of Charles S. Peirce’s important late writings. Among themost influential American thinkers, Peirce took his existential graphs tobe his greatest contribution to human thought...

In three comprehensive volumes, Logic of the Future presents a fullpanorama of Charles S. Peirce’s important late writings. Among themost influential American thinkers, Peirce took his existential graphs tobe his greatest contribution to human thought...

"Remarkable how well Bouwsma understood Wittgenstein's approach to philosophical problems and how intelligently he was able to recount Wittgenstein's discussions. The bits about sensation are especially good. And the asides about the other...

Human, All Too Human (1878) is often considered the start of Friedrich Nietzsche's mature period. A complex work that explores many themes to which Nietzsche later returned, it marks a significant departure from his previous thinking. Here Nietzsche...

Jonathan Swift and Philosophy is the first book to analyse and interpret Swift's writing from a philosophical angle. By placing key texts of Swift in their philosophical and cultural contexts and providing background to their history of ideas, it...