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Bernard Williams by Alan Thomas
RRP: €74.97€67.12This volume provides a systematic overview and comprehensive assessment of Bernard Williams' contribution to moral philosophy, a field in which Williams was one of the most influential of contemporary philosophers. The seven essays, which were specially... -
Fact and Fiction by Bertrand Russell
RRP: €23.79€21.05This collection of Bertrand Russell's essays is available in paperback for the first time since its publication in 1961. Its first section deals with the books which influenced Russell in his youth. The works of Shelley, Turgenev, Ibsen and Gibbon are... -
Longing For Home by Leroy S. Rouner
RRP: €98.77€86.29The 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... -
The Sacrality of the Secular: Postmodern Philosophy of Religion by Bradley B. Onishi
RRP: €73.78€57.38Through a bold and historically rooted vision for the future of philosophy of religion, The Sacrality of the Secular maps new and compelling possibilities for a nonsecularist secularity. In recent decades, philosophers in the continental tradition have... -
What a Philosopher is: Becoming Nietzsche by Laurence Lampert
RRP: €57.12€55.20The 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... -
Phenomenology and Deconstruction, Volume Three: Breakdown in Communication Robert Denoon Cumming 9780226123714
RRP: €47.60€45.87Philosophers are committed to objective understanding, but the history of philosophy demonstrates how frequently one philosopher misunderstands another. The most notorious such breakdown in communication in twentieth-century philosophy was between... -
Hobbes and Modern Political Thought by James Griffith
RRP: €34.50€32.02Reveals the Hobbesian origins of contemporary political concerns, especially the relationships between state, individual and lawYves Charles Zarka shows you how Hobbes established the framework for modern political thought. Discover the origin of... -
Anti-Badiou: The Introduction of Maoism into Philosophy by Francois Laruelle
RRP: €53.55€40.50This compelling and highly original book represents a confrontation between two of the most radical thinkers at work in France today: Alain Badiou and the author, Francois Laruelle. At face value, the two have much in common: both espouse a position... -
Hume's Sceptical Enlightenment by Ryu Susato
RRP: €34.50€32.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474474597Author Ryu SusatoFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University PressWeight(grams)... -
Heidegger, Strauss, and the Premises of Philosophy: On Original Forgetting by Richard L. Velkley
RRP: €95.20€91.17In this groundbreaking work, Richard L. Velkley examines the complex philosophical relationship between Martin Heidegger and Leo Strauss. Velkley argues that both thinkers provide searching analyses of the philosophical tradition's origins in radical... -
The Cambridge Companion to Brentano by Dale Jacquette
RRP: €89.25€78.16Franz Brentano (1838-1917) led an intellectual revolution that sought to revitalize German-language philosophy and to reverse its post-Kantian direction. His philosophy laid the groundwork for philosophy of science as it came to fruition in the Vienna... -
Nietzsche on Conflict, Struggle and War by James S. Pearson
RRP: €89.25€80.61Nietzsche controversially valorizes struggle and war as necessary ingredients of human flourishing. In this book, James S. Pearson reconstructs Nietzsche's rationale for placing such high value on relations of conflict. In doing so, Pearson reveals how... -
Being Guilty: Freedom, Responsibility, and Conscience in German Philosophy from Kant to Heidegger by Guy Elgat
RRP: €83.30€75.85What can guilt, the painful sting of the bad conscience, tell us about who we are as human beings? How can it be explained or justified? Being Guilty seeks to answer these questions through an examination of the views of Kant, Schelling, Schopenhauer,... -
Kant and the Claims of the Empirical World: A Transcendental Reading of the Critique of the Power of Judgment by Ido Geiger
RRP: €89.25€80.61Kant announces that the Critique of the Power of Judgment will bring his entire critical enterprise to an end. But it is by no means agreed upon that it in fact does so and, if it does, how. In this book, Ido Geiger argues that a principal concern of the... -
Hegel's Philosophy of Nature: Volume I Edited by M J Petry Georg Wilhelm Freidrich Hegel 9781138870925
RRP: €57.11€49.75The second part of Hegel's Encyclopaedia of the Philosophical Sciences in outline. Translated, and with an introduction by, MJ Petry.Book InformationISBN 9781138870925Author Georg Wilhelm Freidrich HegelFormat PaperbackPage Count 392Imprint... -
The Cambridge Companion to Gadamer by Robert Dostal
RRP: €89.25€81.09Hans-Georg Gadamer (1900-2002) is widely recognized as the leading exponent of philosophical hermeneutics. The essays in this volume examine Gadamer's biography, the core of hermeneutical theory, and the significance of his work for ethics, aesthetics,... -
Kant's Theory of Normativity: Exploring the Space of Reason by Konstantin Philipps Pollok
RRP: €36.88€28.32Konstantin Pollok offers the first book-length analysis of Kant's theory of normativity that covers foundational issues in theoretical and practical philosophy as well as aesthetics. Interpreting Kant's 'critical turn' as a normative turn, he argues that... -
Kant's Empirical Psychology by Patrick R. Frierson
RRP: €107.10€94.55Throughout his life, Kant was concerned with questions about empirical psychology. He aimed to develop an empirical account of human beings, and his lectures and writings on the topic are recognizable today as properly 'psychological' treatments of human... -
Leibniz and Clarke: Correspondence: Correspondence by Roger Ariew
RRP: €36.88€29.61For this new edition, Roger Ariew has adapted Samuel Clarke's edition of 1717, modernizing it to reflect contemporary English usage. Ariew's introduction places the correspondence in historical context and discusses the vibrant philosophical climate of... -
Imre Lakatos and the Guises of Reason by John Kadvany
RRP: €28.55€25.28The Hungarian emigre Imre Lakatos (1922-1974) earned a worldwide reputation through the influential philosophy of science debates involving Thomas Kuhn, Paul Feyerabend, and Sir Karl Popper. In Imre Lakatos and the Guises of Reason John Kadvany shows... -
Husserl's Phenomenology by Dan Zahavi
RRP: €98.77€85.81It is commonly believed that Edmund Husserl (1859-1938), well known as the founder of phenomenology and as the teacher of Heidegger, was unable to free himself from the framework of a classical metaphysics of subjectivity. Supposedly, he never abandoned... -
Deleuze and Sex by Frida Beckman
RRP: €36.89€34.14Exploring central aspects of the role of sexuality in Deleuze's philosophy For Deleuze, sexuality is a force that can capture as well as liberate life. Its flows tend to be repressed and contained in specific forms at the same time as they retain... -
Kant's Moral and Legal Philosophy by Karl Ameriks
RRP: €107.10€72.58This volume brings to English readers the finest postwar German-language scholarship on Kant's moral and legal philosophy. Examining Kant's relation to predecessors such as Hutcheson, Wolff, and Baumgarten, it clarifies the central issues in each of... -
The Cambridge Companion to Foucault by Gary Gutting
RRP: €113.05€92.21For Michel Foucault, philosophy was a way of questioning the allegedly necessary truths that underpin the practices and institutions of modern society. He carried this out in a series of deeply original and strikingly controversial studies on the origins... -
The Cambridge Companion to Logical Empiricism by Alan Richardson
RRP: €101.15€78.16If there is a movement or school that epitomizes analytic philosophy in the middle of the twentieth century, it is logical empiricism. Logical empiricists created a scientifically and technically informed philosophy of science, established mathematical... -
Hobbes on Resistance: Defying the Leviathan by Susanne Sreedhar
RRP: €67.83€60.84Hobbes's political theory has traditionally been taken to be an endorsement of state power and a prescription for unconditional obedience to the sovereign's will. In this book, Susanne Sreedhar develops a novel interpretation of Hobbes's theory of... -
Leibniz, God and Necessity by Michael V. Griffin
RRP: €107.10€81.19Leibniz states that 'metaphysics is natural theology', and this is especially true of his metaphysics of modality. In this book, Michael V. Griffin examines the deep connection between the two and the philosophical consequences which follow from it... -
Leo Strauss on Moses Mendelssohn Leo Strauss 9780226922782
RRP: €53.55€51.90Moses Mendelssohn (1729-86) was the leading Jewish thinker of the German Enlightenment and the founder of modern Jewish philosophy. His writings, especially his attempt during the Pantheism Controversy to defend the philosophical legacies of Spinoza and... -
Freedom and the End of Reason: On the Moral Foundation of Kant's Critical Philosophy Richard L. Velkley 9780226155173
RRP: €30.94€29.57In Freedom and the End of Reason, Richard L. Velkley offers an influential interpretation of the central issue of Kant's philosophy and an evaluation of its position within modern philosophy's larger history. He persuasively argues that the whole of... -
Practical Philosophy from Kant to Hegel: Freedom, Right, and Revolution by James A. Clarke
RRP: €95.19€85.87Scholarship on Kant's practical philosophy has often overlooked its reception in the early days of post-Kantian philosophy and German Idealism. This volume of new essays illuminates that reception and how it informed the development of practical... -
Jews and Gender: Responses to Otto Weininger by Nancy Harrowitz
€99.50International scholars examine the legacy of a turn-of-the-century self-hating Austrian JewBook InformationISBN 9781566392488Author Nancy HarrowitzFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Temple University Press,U.S.Publisher Temple University Press,U.S. -
Merleau-Ponty in Contemporary Context: Philosophy and Politics in the Twenty-First Century by Douglas Low
RRP: €160.65€139.56This volume presents the work of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, a great philosopher and social theorist of mid-twentieth century, as a viable alternative to both modernism and postmodernism. Douglas Low argues that Merleau-Ponty's philosophy offers explanations... -
Kant on Freedom, Nature and Judgment: The Territory of the Third Critique by Kristi Sweet
RRP: €89.25€80.61Kant's Critique of Judgment seems not to be an obviously unified work. Unlike other attempts to comprehend it as a unity, which treat it as serving either practical or theoretical interests, Kristi Sweet's book posits it as examining a genuinely... -
Exercises in the Elements - Essays, Speeches, Notes Josef Pieper 9781587312311
RRP: €27.37€23.01This title, which at first sight seems curious, shows Pieper's philosophical work as rooted in the basics. He takes his inspiration from Plato - and his Socrates - and Thomas Aquinas. With them, he is interested in philosophy as pure theory, the... -
Kant and Phenomenology by Tom Rockmore
RRP: €28.56€27.41Phenomenology, together with Marxism, pragmatism, and analytic philosophy, dominated philosophy in the twentieth century-and Edmund Husserl is usually thought to have been the first to develop the concept. His views influenced a variety of important... -
Beyond Autonomy in Eighteenth-Century British and German Aesthetics by Karl Axelsson
RRP: €47.59€41.72This volume re-examines traditional interpretations of the rise of modern aesthetics in eighteenth-century Britain and Germany. It provides a new account that connects aesthetic experience with morality, science, and political society. In doing so, it... -
Adam Ferguson: Philosophy, Politics and Society by Eugene Heath
RRP: €64.25€55.78Unique among the leading figures of the Scottish Enlightenment, Ferguson saw two eighteenth-century revolutions, the American and the French. This monograph contains a set of essays that analyse Ferguson's philosophical, political and sociological... -
Kant on Reality, Cause, and Force: From the Early Modern Tradition to the Critical Philosophy by Tal Glezer
RRP: €36.88€27.19Kant's category of reality is an often overlooked element of his Critique of Pure Reason. Tal Glezer shows that it nevertheless belongs at the core of Kant's mature critical philosophy: it captures an issue that motivated his critical turn, shaped his... -
The Bloomsbury Dictionary of Eighteenth-Century German Philosophers by Heiner F. Klemme
€132.42The Bloomsbury Dictionary of Eighteenth-Century German Philosophers is a landmark work. Covering one of the most innovative centuries for philosophical investigation, it features more than 650 entries on the eighteenth-century philosophers, theologians,... -
The Anthropological Turn: The Human Orientation of Karl Rahner by Anton Losinger
RRP: €36.89€32.56The form and content of the study of theology in the present, modern epoch are marked by a vast quantity and variety of the most diverse and, in part, the most divergent points of departure. The classical unity and perspicuity of the world of theological...