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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...

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...

With the clarity that James deemed obligatory, Some Problems of Philosophy outlines his theory of perception. The early chapters expose the defects of intellectualism and monism and the advantages of empiricism and pluralism. The novelty that enters into...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865974760Author John MillarFormat HardbackPage Count 316Imprint Liberty Fund IncPublisher Liberty Fund IncWeight(grams) 720g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865975125Author Samuel PufendorfFormat HardbackPage Count 716Imprint Liberty Fund IncPublisher Liberty Fund IncWeight(grams) 1365g

Gilles Deleuze is among the twentieth century's most important philosophers of difference. Reading and appreciating his work requires an unusual degree of openness and willingness to enter a complicated but extremely rich system of thought. His oeuvre is...

This anthology of the central writings of the analytical tradition is widely regarded as the most useful such volume for teaching purposes. Clustered around issues in the philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, and metaphysics, many of the pieces...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781585100859Author Baruch SpinozaFormat PaperbackPage Count 458Imprint Focus Publishing/R Pullins & CoPublisher Focus Publishing/R Pullins &...

The Early Heidegger and Medieval Philosophy is a major interpretive study of Heidegger's complex relationship to medieval philosophy. S. J. McGrath's contribution is historical and biographical as well as philosophical, examining how the enthusiastic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780394713403Author Michel FoucaultFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 414gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307277251Author Alain De BottonFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 283gDimensions(mm) 202mm...

Exploring the interrelationship between war and politics, a series of lectures by the late French philosopher traces the evolution of a new understanding of society and its relation to war, revealing war as the permanent basis of all institutions of...

Fifty years after the appearance of The Dialectical Imagination, his pioneering history of the Frankfurt School, Martin Jay reflects on what may be living and dead in its legacy. Rather than treating it with filial piety as a fortress to be defended, he...

G W F Hegel's so-called speculative logic was revolutionary since it attacked the basic laws of Aristotelian logic -- the laws of contradiction and excluded middle -- which stood as the foundation for the field for well over a millennium. He replaced...

Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) is known in the English-speaking world principally for the wager (an argument that it is rational to do what will affect belief in God and irrational not to), and, more generally, for the Pensees, a collection of philosophical...