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Kierkegaard on Faith and Love by Sharon Krishek
RRP: €67.82€60.83Kierkegaard'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: €45.21€40.20The 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: €36.89€35.93The 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, Volume Four: Solitude Robert Denoon Cumming 9780226123738
RRP: €38.08€37.02In 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: €29.75€18.03Apologies 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: €107.10€97.54Vittorio 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... -
Badiou and Plato: An Education by Truths by A. J. Bartlett
RRP: €124.95€113.51An 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: €130.90€118.86Deleuze 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: €111.80€98.14"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: €67.83€60.84The 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: €107.10€75.34Immanuel 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: €33.31€28.73While 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: €45.21€41.45This 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: €95.20€91.64A 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: €52.35€45.74Through 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: €34.50€27.79This 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... -
Return to Philosophy by Thomas Molnar
RRP: €160.65€139.56From its earliest beginnings and through much of its history, the philosophical enterprise has rooted its intellectual procedures in common sense. Ordinary discourse is what the pre-Socratic thinkers did at the dawn of speculation. The same approach was... -
Anatomy of Failure: Philosophy and Political Action by Oliver Feltham
€38.44Modern liberalism begins in the forgetting of the English Revolution. Anatomy of Failure seeks to right that wrong by exploring the concept of political action, playing its history against its philosophy. The 1640s are a period of institutional... -
Hegel's Ontology of Power: The Structure of Social Domination in Capitalism by Arash Abazari
RRP: €95.19€85.87Recent attempts to revitalize Hegel's social and political philosophy have tended to be doubly constrained: firstly, by their focus on Hegel's Philosophy of Right; and secondly, by their broadly liberal interpretive framework. Challenging that trend,... -
The Cambridge Companion to Frege by Tom Ricketts
RRP: €124.95€94.09Gottlob Frege (1848-1925) was unquestionably one of the most important philosophers of all time. He trained as a mathematician, and his work in philosophy started as an attempt to provide an explanation of the truths of arithmetic, but in the course of... -
Freedom, Action, and Motivation in Spinoza's "Ethics" by Noa Naaman-Zauderer
RRP: €47.59€41.72The present volume posits the themes of freedom, action, and motivation as the central principles that drive Spinoza's Ethics from its first part to its last. It assembles essays by internationally leading scholars who provide different, sometimes... -
Heidegger's Social Ontology: The Phenomenology of Self, World and Others by Nicolai K. Knudsen
RRP: €89.25€80.61Many critics and commentators hold that Heidegger had next to nothing to say about human sociality. In this book, Nicolai Knudsen rectifies this popular misconception. Drawing on his influential philosophy of mind, his philosophy of action and his... -
The Cambridge Companion to Wittgenstein by Hans Sluga
RRP: €113.04€102.28Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) is one of the most important and influential philosophers in modern times, but he is also one of the least accessible. In this volume, leading experts chart the development of his work and clarify the connections between... -
Kant's Dialectic by Jonathan Bennett
RRP: €89.25€76.51Jonathan Bennett's analysis of the second half of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason, in which Kant concerns himself with topics such as substance, the nature of the self, the cosmos, freedom and the existence of God, continues to be an engaging and... -
Fichte's Social and Political Philosophy: Property and Virtue by Dr. David James
RRP: €107.10€78.84In this study of Fichte's social and political philosophy, David James offers an interpretation of Fichte's most famous writings in this area, including his Foundations of Natural Right and Addresses to the German Nation, centred on two main themes:... -
Hobbes Today: Insights for the 21st Century by S. A. Lloyd
RRP: €124.95€102.73Hobbes Today: Insights for the 21st Century brings together an impressive group of political philosophers, legal theorists and political scientists to investigate the many ways in which the work of Thomas Hobbes, the famed seventeenth-century English... -
The Philosophy of Seyyed Hossein Nasr by Lewis Hahn
RRP: €84.48€57.07Seyyed Hossein Nasr, a Persian Sufist is the subject of volume 28 in the "Library of Living Philosophers" series. As in the other volumes of the series, the subject discusses his life and philosophical development in an intellectual autobiography. This... -
We Have Never Been Postmodern: Theory at the Speed of Light by Professor Steve Redhead
RRP: €107.10€97.54Is it possible that various disciplines, theorists and cultural commentators have been hurtling down a blind alley in the last thirty years, searching for the holy grail of the postmodern? What if, after all, we have never have been postmodern? Or what... -
Grounding Cosmopolitanism: From Kant to the Idea of a Cosmopolitan Constitution by Garrett Wallace Brown
RRP: €124.95€113.51This book explores Kant's cosmopolitanism and the normative requirements consistent with a Kantian based cosmopolitan constitution. Topics such as cosmopolitan law, cosmopolitan right, the laws of hospitality, a Kantian federation of states, a... -
Hearing Things: Voice and Method in the Writing of Stanley Cavell Timothy Gould 9780226305639
RRP: €35.70€34.81What does philosophy have to do with the human voice? Has contemporary philosophy banished the "voice" from the field of legitimate investigation? This text examines these questions through the philosopher most responsible for formulating them, Stanley... -
Interpreting Cassirer: Critical Essays by Simon Truwant
RRP: €95.19€85.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781108496483Author Simon TruwantFormat HardbackPage Count 282Imprint Cambridge University PressPublisher Cambridge University Press -
The Experience of Nothingness by Michael Novak
RRP: €52.35€45.74In The Experience of Nothingness, Michael Novak has two objectives. First, he shows the paths by which the experience of nothingness is becoming common among all those who live in free societies. Second, he details the various experiences that lead to... -
Philosophy, Ethics and Politics by Ricoeur
RRP: €59.50€51.78In this series of interviews and dialogues which took place between 1981 and 2003, Paul Ricoeur addresses some of the central questions of political philosophy and ethics: justice, violence, war, the environmental crisis, the question of evil, ethical... -
The Scottish Enlightenment: Human Nature, Social Theory and Moral Philosophy: Essays in Honour of Christopher J. Berry R. J. W. Mills 9781474467322
RRP: €30.93€25.06Examines the achievements and legacy of the Scottish Enlightenment, drawing inspiration from the work of Christopher Berry Focuses on key Scottish Enlightenment ideas: political economy, the science of human nature, self-interest, commerce, politics... -
Kierkegaard on Self, Ethics, and Religion: Purity or Despair by Roe Fremstedal
RRP: €89.25€81.09Many of Soren Kierkegaard's most controversial and influential ideas are more relevant than ever to contemporary debates on ethics, philosophy of religion and selfhood. Kierkegaard develops an original argument according to which wholeheartedness... -
Volume 11, Tome II: Kierkegaard's Influence on Philosophy: Francophone Philosophy by Dr. Jon Stewart
RRP: €59.49€51.77Kierkegaard's relation to the field of philosophy is a particularly complex and disputed one. He rejected the model of philosophical inquiry that was mainstream in his day and was careful to have his pseudonymous authors repeatedly disassociate... -
Herder's Hermeneutics: History, Poetry, Enlightenment by Kristin Gjesdal
RRP: €36.88€27.19Through a detailed study of Herder's Enlightenment thought, especially his philosophy of literature, Kristin Gjesdal offers a new and sometimes provocative reading of the historical origins and contemporary challenges of modern hermeneutics. She shows... -
The Chicago Pragmatists and American Progressivism by Andrew Feffer
RRP: €88.06€77.17Founded in 1894 at a peak of social and industrial turmoil, the Chicago school of pragmatist philosophy is emblematic of the progressive spirit of early twentieth-century America. The Chicago pragmatists under the leadership of John Dewey pursued a close... -
The Rhetoric of Cultural Dialogue: Jews and Germans from Moses Mendelssohn to Richard Wagner and Beyond by Jeffrey S. Librett
RRP: €41.65€37.06In this groundbreaking work, the author effects the first extended rhetorical-philosophical reading of the historically problematic relationship between Jews and Germans, based on an analysis of texts from the Enlightenment through Modernism by Moses... -
Idolatry and Representation: The Philosophy of Franz Rosenzweig Reconsidered by Leora Batnitzky
RRP: €35.70€27.72Although Franz Rosenzweig is arguably the most important Jewish philosopher of the twentieth century, his thought remains little understood. Here, Leora Batnitzky argues that Rosenzweig's redirection of German-Jewish ethical monotheism anticipates and...