Individual Philosophers

Alain Badiou is perhaps the world's most significant living philosopher. In his annual seminars on major topics and pivotal figures, Badiou developed vital aspects of his thinking on a range of subjects that he would go on to explore in his influential...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780394711065Author Michel FoucaultFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 261gDimensions(mm)...

An influential thinker on the concept of singularity and its implications on politics, theology, economics, psychoanalysis, and literature For readers versed in critical theory, German and comparative literature, or media studies, a new book by Samuel...

Who has not found themselves scrolling endlessly on screens and wondered: Am I living or distracting myself from living? In Emergency, Break Glass adapts Friedrich Nietzsche's passionate quest for meaning into a world overwhelmed by "content." Written...

How do we make ourselves a Whiteheadian proposition? This question exposes the multivalent connections between postmodern thought and Whitehead's philosophy, with particular attention to his understanding of propositions. Edited by Roland Faber,...

By way of a sustained interrogation of Zarathustra's doctrine of self-overcoming, Francesca Cauchi lays bare the asceticism underlying the prescriptive injunctions set forth in the first two parts of Thus Spoke Zarathustra. These injunctions fall under...

Alain Badiou is perhaps the world's most significant living philosopher. In his annual seminars on major topics and pivotal figures, Badiou developed vital aspects of his thinking on a range of subjects that he would go on to explore in his influential...

In this work, Kathleen V. Wider discusses Jean-Paul Sartre's analysis of consciousness in Being and Nothingness in light of recent work by analytic philosophers, psychologists, and neuroscientists. She brings together phenomenological and scientific...

On the Study Methods of Our Time remains a key text for anyone interested in the development's of Vico's thought and serves as a concise introduction to his work. Scholars and students in such disciplines as the history of philosophy, intellectual...

Martin Heidegger was a captivating and controversial philosopher, known for his highly original and challenging philosophical concepts, as well as his association with - and sympathy for - the Nazi Party during World War II.Providing an introduction to...

The Letter to Strahan is an ostensible letter that Adam Smith wrote on the last days, death, and character of his closest friend, the philosopher David Hume, and published alongside Hume's autobiography, My Own Life, in 1777. Other than his two books, it...

Emmanuel Levinas's interview with Francoise Armengaud in 1988 is one of the only statements we have from the philosopher, who became influential in various disciplines through his ethics that focuses on the fine arts specifically. Presented in English...

Hanjo Berressem establishes the notion of a schizoanalytic ecology as the most consistent conceptual spine of Felix Guattari's work. To look at a situation ecologically means to analyze and administer it with the practical aim of creating a space in...

"The heart of history, for Heidegger, is not a sequence of occurrences but the eruption of significance at critical junctures that bring us into our own by making all being, including our being, into an urgent issue. In emergency, being emerges."-from...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781734653304Author Harbert RiceFormat PaperbackPage Count 126Imprint Embudo Valley PressPublisher Embudo Valley PressWeight(grams) 177gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

This volume stages a series of encounters between the French philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy and leading scholars of his work along four major themes of Nancy's thought: sense, experience, existence, and Christianity. In doing so, the volume seeks to remind...

Frequently cited and just as often disputed, Elizabeth Anscombe's "Modern Moral Philosophy" (1958) and "The First Person" (1975) are touchstones of twentieth-century analytic philosophy. Though the arguments Anscombe advances in these papers are familiar...

Deleuze shows that Stoicism is a philosophical operation that turns the history of thought inside out. Deleuze dramatizes the story of ancient philosophy as a rivalry of four types of thinkers: the subverting pre-Socratics, the ascending Plato, the...

James Bahoh proposes a new methodology for explaining Heidegger's philosophy: diagenic analysis'. This approach solves a set of interpretive problems that have stymied previous approaches to his difficult later work and led to substantial inconsistencies...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781498295581Author Sotiris MitralexisFormat PaperbackPage Count 366Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780735220829Author Edith HallFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 255gDimensions(mm) 215mm * 141mm *...

"Margaret Cavendish (1623-1673) is a fascinating figure who is getting increasing attention by historians of philosophy these days, and for good reason. . . . She's an interesting advocate of a vitalist tradition emphasizing the inherent activity of...

This study spans, in a single monograph, the entire life and work of the Russian philosopher Lev Shestov (1866-1938). It offers keys to understanding his thought, while also tracing the historical itinerary of his work. Shestov's thought is not only...

Alfarabi (ca. 870-950) founded the great tradition of Aristotelian/Platonic political philosophy in medieval Islamic and Arabic culture. In this second volume of political writings, Charles E. Butterworth presents translations of Alfarabi's Political...

Russell Duvernoy develops 'resonances' between the metaphysics of Whitehead and Deleuze with regard to effects on attention and affect. The implications of these lead to an altered existential orientation, described by Duvernoy as ecological attunement...

Ludwig Wittgenstein's work has been widely interpreted and appropriated by subsequent philosophers, as well as by scholars from areas as diverse as anthropology, cultural studies, literary theory, sociology, law, and medicine. The Grammar of Politics...

The most radical philosophy of law of our time. Gilles Deleuze has provided the most fascinating account of law of the twentieth century. Yet it is hidden in a just a few clues dispersed throughout his work and no complete reconstruction of it has ever...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789553727Author Stephen LoxtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 270Imprint New Generation PublishingPublisher New Generation PublishingWeight(grams) 298g

Bakhtin and Voloshinov argued that dialogue is the intersubjective basis of consciousness, and of the creativity which makes historical changes in consciousness possible. The multiple dialogical relationships give every subject, who has developed through...

Becoming-animal is a key concept for Deleuze and Guattari; the ambiguous idea of the animal as human and nonhuman life infiltrates all of Deleuze's work. These 14 essays apply Deleuze's work to analysing television, film, music, art, drunkenness,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780473386030Author Roger PetersFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint Quaternary ImprintPublisher Quaternary ImprintWeight(grams) 483gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Radically revises Nietzsche's ethical and political views by controversially interpreting his philosophy as phenomenological Closely analyses the often-disregarded middle period works by Nietzsche, including The Gay Science, Daybreak and Human, All...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780767920346Author Amir D. AczelFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Broadway Books (A Division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc)Publisher...

Aquinas's discussions of moral issues are extensive, and range well beyond the narrowly defined set of issues in the modern tradition of moral philosophy. This volume explores the ethical dimensions of a wide selection of philosophical and theological...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913751036Author EpictetusFormat PaperbackPage Count 50Imprint Aziloth BooksPublisher Aziloth BooksWeight(grams) 59gDimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 3mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorDieter Schoenecker, Siegen University, Germany; Hyeongjoo Kim, Chung-Ang University, Seoul, Republic of Korea.Book InformationISBN 9783111355696Author Hyeongjoo...

Wittgenstein's May-June 1913 critique of Russell's multiple-relation theory of judgement (or MRTJ) marked a crucial turning point in the lives of two great twentieth-century thinkers. It was also a watershed moment within the history of analytic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262039963Author Frances CannonFormat HardbackPage Count 184Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 229mm * 178mm * 17mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781532642067Author Michael BennettFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams)...

A compelling collection of the life-changing writings of William JamesWilliam James-psychologist, philosopher, and spiritual seeker-is one of those rare writers who can speak directly and powerfully to anyone about life's meaning and worth, and whose...