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Imaginative Moods: Aesthetics, Religion, Philosophy by Dorthe Jørgensen
€37.69Following modern and postmodern philosophy’s critique of metaphysics, experiences of transcendence are often considered ‘aesthetic’ rather than ‘metaphysical.’ However, aesthetics is mostly identified with the study of art, and aesthetic phenomena are... -
Philosophy of Science: The Central Issues by J. A. Cover
€84.03Both an anthology and an introductory textbook, Philosophy of Science: The Central Issues offers instructors and students a comprehensive anthology of fifty-two primary texts by leading philosophers in the field and provides extensive editorial... -
Time in the Ditch: American Philosophy and the McCarthy Era by John McCumber
€46.93In Time in the Ditch, John McCumber explores the effects of McCarthyism on American philosophy in the 1940s and 1950 and the possibility that the political pressures of the McCarthy era skewed the development of the discipline. Why was silence maintained... -
Humanism in Personology: Allport, Maslow, and Murray by Paul T. Costa, Jr.
RRP: €160.65€139.56Through analysis of the lives and theories of the three major exponents of humanism, Allport, Maslow, and Murray, the authors have marshaled some compelling arguments for an alternative to the extreme behaviorism of Skinner and the logical positivism of... -
Poetic Inclination: Ethics, History, Philosophy by Dorthe Jørgensen
€37.69Philosophy originates in wonder that generates sensitive thinking, also called ‘aesthetic thinking’—an expanded mode of thought that bridges and dissolves contradictions. This book questions the disregard for such thinking in modern society, including... -
Marx After Marxism: The Philosophy of Karl Marx by Tom Rockmore
RRP: €127.27€110.10Marx 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... -
George Berkeley: Eighteenth-Century Responses: Volume II by David Berman
RRP: €34.50€30.33The material reprinted in this two-volume set, first published in 1989, covers the first eighty-five years in responses to George Berkeley's writings. David Berman identifies several key waves of eighteenth-century criticism surrounding Berkeley's... -
Continuous Creation: A Biological Concept of the Nature of Matter by Wilfred Branfield
€60.62Originally published in 1950, this book challenged the basis of our beliefs about the relation of life to matter. Already aware that chalk, limestone and coal seams are the residues of ancient life, the author suggests that this knowledge may also be... -
Philosophical Melancholy and Delirium: Hume's Pathology of Philosophy Donald W. Livingston 9780226487175
RRP: €47.60€46.35This is a study of the Scottish philosopher David Hume, which seeks to revise understanding of Hume's thought by investigating the distinction he made between "true" and "false" philosophy. The text traces this distinction through all Hume's writings,... -
Hope Now: The 1980 Interviews Jean-Paul Sartre 9780226476315
RRP: €27.37€26.33In March of 1980, Le Nouvel Observateur published the final interviews between the philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, then blind and debilitated, and his young assistant, Benny Levy. Readers immediately denounced the interviews as distorted and fraudulent for... -
Sartre, Foucault and Historical Reason: v. 2: Poststructuralist Mapping of History by Thomas R. Flynn
RRP: €38.08€37.02Sartre and Foucault were two of the most prominent and at times mutually antagonistic philosophical figures of the twentieth century. And nowhere are the antithetical natures of their existentialist and poststructuralist philosophies more apparent than... -
Nietzsche and the Drama of Historiobiography by Roberto Alejandro
RRP: €38.08€34.05In this extraordinary contribution to Nietzsche studies, Robert Alejandro offers an original interpretation of Friedrich Nietzsche's philosophy viewed as a complete whole. Alejandro painstakingly traces the different ways in which Nietzsche reconfigured... -
Post-Everything: An Intellectual History of Post-Concepts by Herman Paul
RRP: €35.70€21.44Postmodern, postcolonial and post-truth are broadly used terms. But where do they come from? When and why did the habit of interpreting the world in post-terms emerge? And who exactly were the 'post boys' responsible for this?Post-everything examines why... -
The Philosophies of America Reader: From the Popol Vuh to the Present by Dr Kim Díaz
RRP: €46.40€44.20The Philosophies of America Reader brings together an unparalleled selection of original and translated readings spanning several eras and American traditions. Addressing perennial questions of philosophy and new questions arising in a variety of... -
Kant's Early Critics on Freedom of the Will by Joerg Noller
RRP: €94.00€89.86This book offers translations of early critical reactions to Kant's account of free will. Spanning the years 1784-1800, the translations make available, for the first time in English, works by little-known thinkers including Pistorius, Ulrich,... -
Hobbes's On the Citizen: A Critical Guide by Robin Douglass
RRP: €36.88€27.19This is the first book-length study in English of Thomas Hobbes's On the Citizen. It aims to show that On the Citizen is a valuable and distinctive philosophical work in its own right, and not merely a stepping-stone toward the more famous Leviathan. The... -
Cassirer and Heidegger in Davos: The Philosophical Arguments by Simon Truwant
RRP: €89.25€80.61The 1929 encounter between Ernst Cassirer and Martin Heidegger in Davos, Switzerland is considered one of the most important intellectual debates of the twentieth century and a founding moment of continental philosophy. At the same time, many... -
Husserl and Mathematics by Mirja Hartimo
RRP: €89.25€80.61Husserl and Mathematics explains the development of Husserl's phenomenological method in the context of his engagement in modern mathematics and its foundations. Drawing on his correspondence and other written sources, Mirja Hartimo details Husserl's... -
The Philosophical Progress of Hume's Essays by Margaret Watkins
RRP: €36.88€30.29For those open to the possibility that philosophical thought can improve life, David Hume's Essays: Moral, Political, and Literary have something to say. In the first comprehensive study of the Essays, Margaret Watkins engages closely with these... -
Kant on Freedom and Spontaneity by Kate A. Moran
RRP: €107.10€89.87Spontaneity - understood as an action of the mind or will that is not determined by a prior external stimulus - is a theme that resonates throughout Immanuel Kant's theoretical and practical philosophy. Though spontaneity and the concomitant notion of... -
Kant's Defense of Common Moral Experience: A Phenomenological Account by Jeanine Grenberg
RRP: €72.59€65.50In this book, Jeanine Grenberg argues that everything important about Kant's moral philosophy emerges from careful reflection upon the common human moral experience of the conflict between happiness and morality. Through careful readings of both the... -
Critique of Journalistic Reason: Philosophy and the Time of the Newspaper by Tom Vandeputte
RRP: €33.31€28.73An encounter between philosophy and journalism recurs across the modern philosophical tradition. Images of reporters and newspaper readers, messengers and town criers, announcements and rumors populate the work of such thinkers as Kierkegaard, Nietzsche,... -
Hypocrisy and the Philosophical Intentions of Rousseau: The Jean-Jacques Problem by Matthew D Mendham
RRP: €73.78€63.74Why did Rousseau fail-often so ridiculously or grotesquely-to live up to his own principles? In one of the most notorious cases of hypocrisy in intellectual history, this champion of the joys of domestic life immediately rid himself of each of his five... -
Points...: Interviews, 1974-1994 by Jacques Derrida
RRP: €159.46€125.08This volume collects twenty-three interviews given over the course of the last two decades by Jacques Derrida. It illustrates the extraordinary breadth of his concerns, touching upon such subjects as the teaching of philosophy, sexual difference and... -
The Case for Modern Liberalism by Charles Frankel
RRP: €52.35€45.74Originally published in 1955 as The Case for Modern Man, this book challenges the reader to believe in the essence of the modern temperament: the belief in the human mastery of destiny. It remains a brilliant answer to pessimists who try to frighten... -
Comte after Positivism by Robert C. Scharff
RRP: €36.88€31.86This 1996 book provides a detailed, systematic reconsideration of the neglected nineteenth-century positivist Auguste Comte. Apart from offering an accurate account of what Comte actually wrote, the book argues that Comte's positivism has never had... -
Hume's Philosophy of Human Nature by John Laird
RRP: €45.21€39.72The essence of Hume's eighteenth-century philosophy was that all the sciences were 'dependent on the science of man', and that the foundations of any such science need to rest on experience and observation. This title, first published in 1932, examines... -
Nietzsche's Earth: Great Events, Great Politics Gary Shapiro 9780226394459
RRP: €46.41€44.78We have Nietzsche to thank for some of the most important accomplishments in intellectual history, but as Gary Shapiro shows in this unique look at Nietzsche's thought, the nineteenth-century philosopher actually anticipated some of the most pressing... -
Understanding Pictures by Dominic Lopes
€50.27There are many ways to picture the world - Australian `x-ray' pictures, cubist collages, Amerindian split-style figures, and pictures in two-point perspective each draw attention to different features of what they represent. The premise of Understanding... -
Fichte's System of Ethics: A Critical Guide by Stefano Bacin
RRP: €89.25€80.61The System of Ethics was published at the height of Fichte's academic career and marks the culmination of his philosophical development in Jena. Much more than a treatise on ethics narrowly construed, the System of Ethics presents a unified synthesis of... -
Encounters of Consequence: Jewish Philosophy in the Twentieth Century and Beyond by Michael Oppenheim
RRP: €117.80€98.10This book provides an introduction and deeper analysis of the situation of Jewish philosophy in the last century and beyond. It charts Jewish philosophy's engagement with modernity and post-modernity along two overlapping axes; underlying issues and... -
Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous (1713) by George Berkeley
€22.61George Berkeley's Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous is one of the most challenging and beloved classics of modern philosophy. The heart of the work is the dispute between materialism and idealism, two fundamentally opposed metaphysical... -
Spinoza's Political Psychology: The Taming of Fortune and Fear by Justin Steinberg
RRP: €36.88€30.29Spinoza's Political Psychology advances a novel, comprehensive interpretation of Spinoza's political writings, exploring how his analysis of psychology informs his arguments for democracy and toleration. Justin Steinberg shows how Spinoza's political... -
Malebranche's First and Last Critics: Simon Foucher and Dortous De Mairan by Richard A Watson
RRP: €47.54€34.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780809319725Author Richard A WatsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 121Imprint Southern Illinois University PressPublisher Southern Illinois University... -
Husserl's Transcendental Phenomenology: Nature, Spirit, and Life Andrea Staiti (Boston College, Massachusetts) 9781107638679
RRP: €27.36€24.59Edmund Husserl (1859-1938) is regarded as the founder of transcendental phenomenology, one of the major traditions to emerge in twentieth-century philosophy. In this book Andrea Staiti unearths and examines the deep theoretical links between Husserl's... -
The Gathering of Reason by John Sallis
RRP: €30.36€26.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791464540Author John SallisFormat PaperbackPage Count 215Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York... -
Kant on Sublimity and Morality by Joshua Rayman
RRP: €35.70€28.76Kant on Sublimity and Morality provides an argument to the essential moral significance of the Kantian sublime and situates this argument within the history of the relationship between sublimity and morality.Book InformationISBN 9780708321256Author... -
The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Reid by Terence Cuneo
RRP: €101.15€80.50Widely acknowledged as the principal architect of Scottish common sense philosophy, Thomas Reid is increasingly recognized today as one of the finest philosophers of the eighteenth century. Combining a sophisticated response to the skeptical and idealist... -
Kierkegaard's 'Concluding Unscientific Postscript': A Critical Guide by Rick Anthony Furtak
RRP: €107.10€75.34Soren Kierkegaard's Concluding Unscientific Postscript has provoked a lively variety of divergent interpretations for a century and a half. It has been both celebrated and condemned as the chief inspiration for twentieth-century existential thought, as a... -
German Idealism and the Concept of Punishment by Jean-Christophe Merle
RRP: €53.55€48.30Against the background of early modernism - a period that justified punishment by general deterrence - Kant is usually thought to represent a radical turn towards retributivism. For Kant, and later for Fichte and Hegel, a just punishment respects the...