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Jews and Gender: Responses to Otto Weininger by Nancy Harrowitz
£83.61International 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: £135.00£117.28This 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: £75.00£67.74Kant'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: £23.00£19.34This 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: £24.00£23.03Phenomenology, 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: £39.99£35.06This 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: £53.99£46.87Unique 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: £30.99£22.85Kant'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
£111.28The 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: £31.00£27.36The 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... -
The Quest for Modernity: Secular Liberal and Left-wing Political Thought in Egypt, 1945-1958 by Roel Meijer
RRP: £89.99£78.09This book analyses the political ideologies of the several highly influential liberal, socialist and communist thinkers, groups and movements which sought to modernize Egypt after World War II. Most of the representatives of these currents intended to... -
Deleuze and Theology by Christopher Ben Simpson
£109.68What can a theologian do with Deleuze? While using philosophy as a resource for theology is nothing new, Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995) presents a kind of limit-case for such a theological appropriation of philosophy: a thoroughly "modern"... -
Kant and the Ethics of Humility: A Story of Dependence, Corruption and Virtue by Jeanine Grenberg
RRP: £90.00£67.65In previous years, philosophers have either ignored the virtue of humility or found it to be in need of radical redefinition. But humility is a central human virtue, and it is the purpose of this book to defend that claim from a Kantian point of view... -
Leibniz and the Rational Order of Nature by Donald Rutherford
RRP: £44.99£38.14This is the most up-to-date and comprehensive interpretation of the philosophy of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716). Amongst its other virtues, it makes considerable use of unpublished manuscript sources. The book seeks to demonstrate the systematic... -
Peirce and the Threat of Nominalism by Paul Forster
RRP: £57.00£51.53Charles Peirce, the founder of pragmatism, was a thinker of extraordinary depth and range - he wrote on philosophy, mathematics, psychology, physics, logic, phenomenology, semiotics, religion and ethics - but his writings are difficult and fragmentary... -
Leading a Human Life: Wittgenstein, Intentionality, and Romanticism Richard Eldridge 9780226203133
RRP: £30.00£29.25This study presents an account of Wittgenstein's "Philosophical Investigations", interpreting the text as displaying the human need to pursue an ideal of expressive freedom within the limits set by culture. The author sees Wittgenstein as a Romantic... -
Nietzsche and Antiquity - His Reaction and Response to the Classical Tradition by Paul Bishop
RRP: £110.00£106.89This volume collects a wide-ranging set of essays examining Friedrich Nietzsche's engagement with antiquity in all its aspects. It investigates Nietzsche's reaction and response to the concept of "classicism," with particular reference to his... -
Deleuze and Evolutionary Theory by Michael James Bennett
RRP: £105.00£95.39Engages with the post-Darwinian biology central to Deleuze and Guattari's ecological form of thought Deleuze and Evolutionary Theory gathers together contributions by many of the central theorists in Deleuze studies who have led the way in breaking down... -
In the Beginning, She Was by Luce Irigaray
RRP: £100.00£75.05In this new book, crucial for understanding her journey, Luce Irigaray goes further than in Speculum and questions the work of the Pre-Socratics at the root of our culture. Reminding us of the story of Ulysses and Antigone, she demonstrates how, from the... -
The Triumph and Tragedy of the Intellectuals: Evil, Enlightenment, and Death Harry Redner 9781412864107
RRP: £135.00£117.28This fourth instalment of Harry Redner's tetralogy on the history of civilization argues that intellectuals have a brilliant past, a dubious present, and possibly no future. He contends that the philosophers of the seventeenth century laid the ground for... -
Adam Ferguson: His Social and Political Thought David Kettler 9781412804752
RRP: £43.99£38.44The thought of Adam Ferguson generated great excitement among many of his philosophic contemporaries in the late eighteenth century, and it continues to inspire the modern reader. This major study by David Kettler is an ideal introduction to Ferguson's... -
The Emergence of Autonomy in Kant's Moral Philosophy by Stefano Bacin
RRP: £30.99£27.40Autonomy is one of the central concepts of contemporary moral thought, and Kant is often credited with being the inventor of individual moral autonomy. But how and why did Kant develop this notion? The Emergence of Autonomy in Kant's Moral Philosophy is... -
Force from Nietzsche to Derrida by Clare Connors
RRP: £39.99£35.06In this book, Clare Connors sets out to answer the question: What is the pervasive character of the world?, tracing a genealogy of the idea of force through the writings of Friedrich Nietzsche, Martin Heidegger, Michel Foucault and Jacques Derrida.About... -
The Drama of History: Ibsen, Hegel, Nietzsche by Kristin Gjesdal
RRP: £74.00£59.26Henrik Ibsen's plays have long beguiled philosophically-oriented readers. From Nietzsche to Adorno to Cavell, philosophers have drawn inspiration from Ibsen. But what of Ibsen's own philosophical orientation? As part of larger European movements to... -
Hume's An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals: A Critical Guide by Esther Engels Kroeker
RRP: £24.99£22.37Hume considered his Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals to be one of his best works. In it he offers his most elegant and approachable account of the origins and scope of morality. With the hope of reaching a broad audience, he argues that... -
Hegel and the Freedom of Moderns by Domenico Losurdo
RRP: £95.00£82.73Available in English for the first time, Hegel and the Freedom of Moderns revives discussion of the major political and philosophical tenets underlying contemporary liberalism through a revolutionary interpretation of G. W. F. Hegel's thought. Domenico... -
Genesis and Validity: The Theory and Practice of Intellectual History. by Martin Jay
RRP: £83.00£50.47There is no more contentious and perennial issue in the history of modern Western thought than the vexed relationship between the genesis of an idea and its claim to validity beyond it. Can ideas or values transcend their temporal origins and overcome... -
Judgement and Sense in Modern French Philosophy: A New Reading of Six Thinkers by Henry Somers-Hall
RRP: £75.00£67.74This book proposes a radical new reading of the development of twentieth-century French philosophy. Henry Somers-Hall argues that the central unifying aspect of works by philosophers including Sartre, Foucault, Merleau-Ponty, Deleuze and Derrida is their... -
Kant's Inferentialism: The Case Against Hume David Landy 9781138062795
RRP: £45.99£40.53Kant's Inferentialism draws on a wide range of sources to present a reading of Kant's theory of mental representation as a direct response to the challenges issued by Hume in A Treatise of Human Nature. Kant rejects the conclusions that Hume draws on the... -
Heidegger in America by Martin Woessner
RRP: £30.99£27.40Heidegger in America explores the surprising legacy of his life and thought in the United States of America. As a critic of modern life, Heidegger often lamented the growing global influence of all things American. However, it was precisely in America... -
How Theology Shaped Twentieth-Century Philosophy by Frank B. Farrell
RRP: £30.99£25.45Medieval theology had an important influence on later philosophy which is visible in the empiricisms of Russell, Carnap, and Quine. Other thinkers, including McDowell, Kripke, and Dennett, show how we can overcome the distorting effects of that... -
Nietzsche and the Becoming of Life by Vanessa Lemm
RRP: £35.00£31.14Throughout his writing career Nietzsche advocated the affirmation of earthly life as a way to counteract nihilism and asceticism. This volume takes stock of the complexities and wide-ranging perspectives that Nietzsche brings to bear on the problem of... -
World and Life as One: Ethics and Ontology in Wittgenstein's Early Thought by Martin Stokhof
RRP: £24.99£21.67This book explores in detail the relation between ontology and ethics in the early work of Ludwig Wittgenstein, notably the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus and, to a lesser extent, the Notebooks 1914-1916. Self-contained and requiring no prior knowledge... -
Time, Technology and Environment: An Essay on the Philosophy of Nature by Marco Altamirano
RRP: £95.00£86.45This book deals with a new concept of nature based on Deleuze and Guattari's theories of time. This book brings Deleuze and Guattari's work into conversation with the philosophy of nature. As the spatial orientation of the philosophy of nature is... -
Deleuze and the Contemporary World Ian Buchanan 9780748623426
RRP: £31.00£25.65This volume joins the pragmatic philosophy of Deleuze to current affairs. The twelve new essays in this volume use a contemporary context to think through and with Deleuze. Engaging the here and now, the contributors use the Deleuzian theoretical... -
Power: Essential Works of Foucault, 1954-1984 by Michel Foucault 9781565847095
RRP: £19.99£13.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781565847095Author Michel FoucaultFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint The New PressPublisher The New PressWeight(grams) 737g -
Reforming Philosophy: A Victorian Debate on Science and Society by Laura J. Snyder 9780226214320
RRP: £26.00£24.85The Victorian period in Britain was an "age of reform." It is therefore not surprising that two of the era's most eminent intellects described themselves as reformers. John Stuart Mill - philosopher, political economist, and Parliamentarian - remains a... -
Recasting Hume and Early Modern Philosophy: Selected Essays by Paul Russell
RRP: £117.50£106.51In this collection of essays, philosopher Paul Russell addresses major figures and central topics of the history of early modern philosophy. Most of these essays are studies on the philosophy of David Hume, one of the great figures in the history of... -
Perfectionism and the Common Good: Themes in the Philosophy of T. H. Green by David O. Brink 9780199228058
RRP: £43.99£36.74David Brink presents a study of T. H. Green's classic Prolegomena to Ethics (1883) and its role in his philosophical thought. Green is one of the two most important figures in the British idealist tradition, and his political writings and activities had... -
Montaigne's Politics: Authority and Governance in the Essais Biancamaria Fontana 9780691131221
RRP: £50.00£44.75Michel de Montaigne (1533-92) is principally known today as a literary figure--the inventor of the modern essay and the pioneer of autobiographical self-exploration who retired from politics in midlife to write his private, philosophical, and apolitical...