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The Quest for Modernity: Secular Liberal and Left-wing Political Thought in Egypt, 1945-1958 by Roel Meijer
RRP: €107.09€92.93This 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
€130.52What 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: €107.10€80.50In 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: €53.54€45.39This 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 Amongst its other virtues, it makes considerable use of unpublished manuscript sources.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: €67.83€61.32Charles 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: €35.70€34.81This 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: €130.90€127.20This 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: €124.95€113.51Engages 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: €119.00€89.31In 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: €160.65€139.56This 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: €52.35€45.74The 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: €36.88€32.61Autonomy 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... -
The Drama of History: Ibsen, Hegel, Nietzsche by Kristin Gjesdal
RRP: €88.06€70.52Henrik 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: €29.74€26.62Hume 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: €113.05€98.45Available 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: €98.77€60.06There 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: €89.25€80.61This 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: €54.73€48.23Kant'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: €36.88€32.61Heidegger 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: €36.88€30.29Medieval 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: €41.65€37.06Throughout 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: €29.74€25.79This 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: €113.05€102.88This 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: €36.89€30.52This 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... -
Walter Benjamin and the Idea of Natural History by Eli Friedlander 9781503637702
RRP: €29.74€25.79In this incisive new work, Eli Friedlander demonstrates that Walter Benjamin's entire corpus, from early to late, comprises a rigorous and sustained philosophical questioning of how human beings belong to nature. Across seemingly heterogeneous writings,... -
Reforming Philosophy: A Victorian Debate on Science and Society by Laura J. Snyder 9780226214320
RRP: €30.94€29.57The 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... -
History Russian Philosophy V2 V.V. Zenkovsky 9781138971820
RRP: €47.59€41.72First published in 2003. This is volume II in the history of Russian philosophy, written in 1953, it takes in the work of Vladimir Solovyov, V.D. Kudryatsev, Nesmelov, Tareyev, M.I. Karinski, Fyodorov, as well as the twentieth century moves into... -
Recasting Hume and Early Modern Philosophy: Selected Essays by Paul Russell
RRP: €139.83€126.75In 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... -
Eight Philosophers of the Italian Renaissance by Paul Oskar Kristeller 9780804701112
RRP: €23.79€20.87Italian Renaissance thought has been gaining ever-increasing recognition as seminal to the thought of the whole Renaissance period, affecting in many subtle ways the development and understanding of artistic, literary, scientific, and religious movements... -
Perfectionism and the Common Good: Themes in the Philosophy of T. H. Green by David O. Brink 9780199228058
RRP: €52.35€43.72David 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: €59.50€53.25Michel 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... -
The Legacy of Wittgenstein Anthony Kenny (University of Oxford) 9780631150633
RRP: €45.16€39.70The first four essays in this guide are devoted to the study of Wittgenstein's own ideas about philosophy. The remaining six apply his ideas to the work of other thinkers.Book InformationISBN 9780631150633Author Anthony KennyFormat PaperbackPage Count... -
Kant on Laws by Eric Watkins
RRP: €36.88€32.61This book focuses on the unity, diversity, and centrality of the notion of law as it is employed in Kant's theoretical and practical philosophy. Eric Watkins argues that, by thinking through a number of issues in various historical, scientific, and... -
Hobbes: A Biography by A. P. Martinich 9780521039345
RRP: €47.59€37.38Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) is recognized as one of the fathers of modern philosophy and political theory. In his own time he was as famous for his work in physics, geometry, and religion. He associated with some of the greatest writers, scientists, and... -
Heidegger and the Measure of Truth by Denis McManus 9780198748120
RRP: €38.07€34.93Denis McManus presents a new interpretation of Martin Heidegger's early vision of our subjectivity and of the world we inhabit. Heidegger's 'fundamental ontology' allows us to understand the creature that thinks as also one which acts, moves, even... -
Kant on Reflection and Virtue by Melissa Merritt
RRP: €36.88€27.19There can be no doubt that Kant thought we should be reflective: we ought to care to make up our own minds about how things are and what is worth doing. Philosophical objections to the Kantian reflective ideal have centred on concerns about the excessive... -
The Grace and Severity of the Ideal: John Dewey and the Transcendent by Victor Kestenbaum
RRP: €35.70€34.81In this book, Victor Kestenbaum calls into question the oft-repeated assumption that John Dewey's pragmatism has no place for the transcendent. Kestenbaum demonstrates that, far from ignoring the transcendent ideal, Dewey's works - on education, ethics,... -
Seeing Wittgenstein Anew by William Day
RRP: €34.50€28.32Seeing Wittgenstein Anew is a collection which examines Ludwig Wittgenstein's remarks on the concept of aspect-seeing, showing that it was not simply one more topic of investigation in Wittgenstein's later writings but rather a pervasive and guiding... -
The Raymond Tallis Reader by Raymond Tallis 9780333772713
€107.42The Raymond Tallis Reader provides a comprehensive survey of the work of this passionate, perceptive and often controversial thinker. Key selections from Tallis's major works are supplemented by Michael Grant's detailed introduction and linking... -
Old Whigs: Burke, Lincoln, and the Politics of Prudence by Greg Weiner
RRP: €21.41€14.64The virtue of prudence suffuses the writings of Edmund Burke and Abraham Lincoln, yet the demands of statecraft compelled both to take daring positions against long odds: Burke against the seemingly inexorable march of the French Revolution, Lincoln...