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Combining phenomenology and psychoanalysis in highly innovative ways, this book seeks to undo the binary opposition between appearance and Being that has been in place since Plato's parable of the cave. It is, essentially, an essay on what could be...

This is the first major work in English to explore at length the meaning, context, aims, and vital importance of Thomas Hobbes's concepts of the law of nature and the right of nature. Hobbes remains one of the most challenging and controversial of early...

Thought's Footing is an enquiry into the relationship between the ways things are and the way we think and talk about them. It is also a study of Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations: Charles Travis develops his account of certain key themes into...

This book, the first English translation of what many consider to be the most original work of Chinese philosophy produced in the twentieth century, draws from Buddhist and Confucian philosophy to develop a critical inquiry into the relation between the...

For 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...

This volume provides English translations of texts that form the essential background to Kant's Critique of Pure Reason. Presenting the projects of Kant's predecessors and contemporaries in eighteenth-century Germany, it enables readers to understand the...

Simon Blackburn presents a selection of his philosophical essays from 1995 to 2010. He offers engaging and illuminating discussions of various problems which arise when such familiar notions as representation, truth, reason, and assertion are applied in...

Science and technology studies, cultural anthropology and cultural studies deal with the complex relations between material, symbolic, technical and political practices. In a Deleuzian approach these relations are seen as produced in heterogeneous...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781871871500Author George FranklFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Open Gate PressPublisher Open Gate Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780197599327Author Peg Brand WeiserFormat HardbackPage Count 216Imprint Oxford University Press, USAPublisher Oxford University Press, USA

The most complete edition yet published of Wittgenstein's 1929 lecture includes a never-before published first draft and makes fresh claims for its significance in Wittgenstein's oeuvre. The first available print publication of all known drafts of...

In 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,...

Louis Althusser remained until his death in 1990 the most controversial of the "master thinkers" who emerged from the turbulent Parisian intellectual scene of the 1960s. The publication of his bestselling posthumous "autobiography", L'avenir dure...

In this book, one of the world's foremost philosophers of language presents his unifying vision of the field - its principal achievements, its most pressing current questions, and its most promising future directions. In addition to explaining the...

One of the most widely-read thinkers writing today, Slavoj Zizeks work can be both thrilling and perplexing in equal measure. Zizek: A Guide for the Perplexed is the most up-to-date guide available for readers struggling to master the ideas of this...

When Kierkegaard died at the age of forty-two, the papers found in his desk included Johannes Climacus, probably written in the winter of 1842-43. The book is a novel, as well as a work of philosophy, which tells the tale of what happens to the young...

This book studies the philosophical work of George Santayana and the nature of his work's relationship with that of American philosopher William James. James is consistently dismissive of “the ‘all is vanity’ state of mind,” which arguably represents the...

Hermann Lotze was a key figure in the philosophy of the second half of the 19th century, influencing practically all leading philosophical schools of the late 19th and the early 20th century: (i) the neo-Kantians; (ii) Brentano and his school of...

By reversing the usual order of Kantian interpretation, Donald Wilson begins with Kant’s applied moral philosophy and uses this later work to offer a radically new account of his views. Through an “inner freedom” model, Wilson connects and explains...

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This book defends the controversial view that Nietzsche is a metaphysician against a long-standing tendency to sever Nietzsche from metaphysical philosophy. Remhof presents a metametaphysical treatment of Nietzsche’s writings to show that for Nietzsche...

This is the first book to offer a systematic comparison of the philosophies of Albert Camus and Frantz Fanon. It shows how the ethical, political, and psychological outlooks of these two influential thinkers can further our understandings of how to bring...

Christopher Hookway has been influential in promoting engagement with pragmatist and naturalist perspectives from classical and contemporary American philosophy. This book reflects on Hookway’s work on the American philosophical tradition and its...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781032364094Author Christopher WatkinImprint Taylor & Francis LtdPublisher Taylor & Francis Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781032386164Author Japhy WilsonImprint Taylor & Francis LtdPublisher Taylor & Francis Ltd

Drawing on the work of major philosophers in 18th and 19th-century German idealism, Thomas Raysmith critically examines G. W. F. Hegel’s justification that philosophy has a history. Contrary to Kant’s claims, Hegel not only considered philosophy as a...

Through a series of case studies, the book thoroughly investigates the pragmatic elements of “new pragmatism”, which inherits the legacy of classical pragmatism and combines the topics and methods of analytic philosophy.

This book explores the impact of the year 1929 on the development of Wittgenstein’s thought. The contributors generate important new insights for understanding Wittgenstein’s philosophy and his place in the history of analytic philosophy.

This volume looks to core ideas defining Goethe’s work and his influence on his contemporaries and inheritors. Contributions to this volume explore his impact through ideas of organic and aesthetic formation; methods of biology, reason, becoming, and...

Western thinking on sexuality has historically affirmed not only a binary division between two sexes, each of which is defined by unique fixed attributes that delineate its essence, but also a privileging of the masculine over the feminine and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781350238787Author Katerina MihaylovaFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint Bloomsbury AcademicPublisher Bloomsbury AcademicWeight(grams) 454g

The acclaimed philosopher Peter Sloterdijk offers a magisterial and profound investigation into the vicissitudes of historical change and the nature of modernity.

The book is a comprehensive treatise on luck, including a unified treatment of its anthropology, its history, its philosophy, its, mathematics, and its managements in practical affairs. It thus includes a synoptic and integrated treatment of all major...

Suppressed for centuries, the ideas of French philosopher Émilie Du Châtelet's are ever relevant today... Just as the Enlightenment was gaining momentum throughout Europe, philosopher Émilie Du Châtelet broke through the many barriers facing women at the...

This volume collects 19 of the author’s essays on eighteenth-century accounts of self-consciousness, personal identity and related issues, covering over a hundred years of a philosophical debate that has shaped the way in which these topics are...

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An innovative collection of comedic stories by the original “Renaissance man.”Leon Battista Alberti (1404–1472) was among the most famous figures of the Italian Renaissance. His extraordinary range of abilities as a writer, architect, art theorist, and...

Hegel's Philosophy of Nature constitutes the second part of his mature philosophical system presented in the Encyclopaedia of the Philosophical Sciences, and covers an exceptionally broad spectrum of themes and issues, as Hegel considers the content and...

Dieses Buch versammelt neuere Forschungsbeiträge zur rechtlichen Diskussion um die Gleichstellung der Frau im 18. Jahrhundert.Book InformationISBN 9783662694169Author Isabel KarremannFormat HardbackPage Count 360Imprint J.B. MetzlerPublisher...

The contemporaries of Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi (1743-1819) openly acknowledged his towering importance. Both Fichte and Hegel praised him in the same breath with Kant as having launched the philosophical revolution they sought to complete. Yet for more...