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Husserl and Mathematics by Mirja Hartimo
RRP: £75.00£67.74Husserl 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: £30.99£25.45For 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: £90.00£75.52Spontaneity - 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: £61.00£55.04In 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: £27.99£24.14An 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: £62.00£53.56Why 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: £134.00£105.11This 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: £43.99£38.44Originally 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: £30.99£26.77This 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: £37.99£33.38The 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 by Gary Shapiro
RRP: £39.00£37.63We 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
£42.24There 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: £75.00£67.74The 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: £98.99£82.44This 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
£19.00George 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: £30.99£25.45Spinoza'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: £39.95£29.25Apologies 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 by Andrea Staiti
RRP: £22.99£20.66Edmund 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: £25.51£22.22Apologies 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: £30.00£24.17Kant 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: £85.00£67.65Widely 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: £90.00£63.31Soren 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: £45.00£40.59Against 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... -
Kierkegaard on Faith and Love by Sharon Krishek
RRP: £56.99£51.12Kierkegaard's writings are interspersed with remarkable stories of love, commonly understood as a literary device that illustrates the problematic nature of aesthetic and ethical forms of life, and the contrasting desirability of the life of faith... -
George Berkeley: Eighteenth-Century Responses: Volume I by David Berman
RRP: £37.99£33.78The 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... -
The Powers of Pure Reason: Kant and the Idea of Cosmic Philosophy by Alfredo Ferrarin
RRP: £31.00£30.19The Critique of Pure Reason Kant's First Critique is one of the most studied texts in intellectual history, but as Alfredo Ferrarin points out in this radically original book, most of that study has focused only on very select parts. Likewise, Kant's... -
Phenomenology and Deconstruction: v. 4: Solitude by Robert Denoon Cumming
RRP: £32.00£31.11In this final volume of Robert Denoon Cumming's four-volume history of the phenomenological movement, Cumming examines the bearing of Heidegger's philosophy on his original commitment to Nazism and on his later inability to face up to the implication of... -
Abnormal: Lectures at the College de France 1974-1975 by Michel Foucault
RRP: £25.00£15.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312424053Author Michel FoucaultFormat PaperbackPage Count 374Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 211mm *... -
The Spinoza-Machiavelli Encounter: Time and Occasion by Vittorio Morfino
RRP: £90.00£81.97Vittorio Morfino draws out the implications of the dynamic Spinoza Machiavelli encounter by focusing on the concepts of causality, temporality and politics. This allows him to think through the relationship between ontology and politics, leading to an... -
Nietzsche Awakens!: A Modern Life Re-imagined by Farid Younes
RRP: £11.99£8.00Farid Younes makes his home in Byblos, a coastal town in northern Lebanon. He lived through both the Lebanese and now the Syrian civil wars. Like all Lebanese, he has plenty of "serious" in his life. The need for him and other Lebanese is to... -
Badiou and Plato: An Education by Truths by A. J. Bartlett
RRP: £105.00£95.39An interrogation of Plato's entire work using the concepts and categories of Alain Badiou This is the first book to critically address and draw consequences from Badiou's claim that his work is a 'Platonism of the multiple' and that philosophy today... -
Deleuze and Philosophy by Constantin V. Boundas
RRP: £110.00£99.88Deleuze 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 Agamben... -
The Nietzsche Reader by Keith Ansell-Pearson
RRP: £93.95£82.47"The Nietzsche Reader" brings together in one volume substantial selections from the entire body of Nietzsche's writings, together with illuminating commentary on Nietzsche's life and importance, and introductions to his major works and... -
Descartes on Forms and Mechanisms by Helen Hattab
RRP: £57.00£51.13The modern view of causation can be traced back to the mechanistic science of Descartes, whose rejection of Aristotelian physics, with its concept of substantial forms, in favor of mechanical explanations was a turning-point in the history of philosophy... -
Kant's Metaphysics of Morals: A Critical Guide by Lara Denis
RRP: £90.00£63.31Immanuel Kant's Metaphysics of Morals (1797), containing the Doctrine of Right and Doctrine of Virtue, is his final major work of practical philosophy. Its focus is not rational beings in general but human beings in particular, and it presupposes and... -
Latin American Philosophy from Identity to Radical Exteriority by Alejandro Arturo Vallega
RRP: £27.99£24.14While recognizing its origins and scope, Alejandro A. Vallega offers a new interpretation of Latin American philosophy by looking at its radical and transformative roots. Placing it in dialogue with Western philosophical traditions, Vallega examines... -
Leibniz's Metaphysics: Its Origins and Development by Christia Mercer
RRP: £37.99£34.83This book offers a major reassessment of Leibniz's metaphysics. Christia Mercer has exposed the underlying doctrines of Leibniz's philosophy. By analysing Leibniz's early works she demonstrates that the metaphysics of pre-established harmony developed... -
Reforming Philosophy: A Victorian Debate on Science and Society by Laura J. Snyder
RRP: £80.00£77.01A philosophically and historically sensitive account of the engagement of the major protagonists of Victorian British philosophy, "Reforming Philosophy" considers the controversies between William Whewell and John Stuart Mill on the topics of... -
Humanism in Personology: Allport, Maslow, and Murray by Salvatore R. Maddi
RRP: £43.99£38.44Through 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... -
Philosophy on the Border by Robin May Schott
RRP: £28.99£23.35This anthology is inspired by the conviction that the big questions of human existence, including matters of love and hate, responsibility and war, matter to us both as individuals and as citizens of a global order. Hence, these questions ought to matter...