Individual Philosophers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781532659911Author Sorin SabouFormat HardbackPage Count 158Imprint Pickwick PublicationsPublisher Pickwick PublicationsWeight(grams) 152g

A reassessment of the controversial, yet still influential nineteenth-century German philosopher that explores the contentious issue of whether he was, as his critics frequently claim, a nihilist. Max Stirner (1806-1856) is often regarded as an enfant...

In the first volume to place Deleuze and Guattari's philosophy in the context of contemporary fascism, international contributors uncover and reflect upon the anti- and non-fascist ethics situated in their framework and that of the scholarship that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781926716480Author Jonathan R CohenFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint 8th House PublishingPublisher 8th House PublishingWeight(grams) 308gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782382748718Author XenophonFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint Les Prairies NumeriquesPublisher Les Prairies NumeriquesWeight(grams) 148g

On Art and Selfhood lies at the intersection of existentialism and the philosophy of art. On the philosophy of art side, it addresses questions about why art matters and how we ought to appreciate it. On the existentialism side, it attends to questions...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781666752762Author Jean-Luc BeauchardFormat PaperbackPage Count 170Imprint Cascade BooksPublisher Cascade BooksWeight(grams) 263g

What can philosophy offer when we suffer from brutal acts of terror and barbarous acts of counter-terror? Is the very grammar of the network of terror and anti-terror moves locked in the same ideology of power and state-ism that demands a deeper...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781498577168Author Will WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 226Imprint Lexington BooksPublisher Lexington BooksWeight(grams) 152g

This book investigates the extent to which various scholarly labels are appropriate for the work of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. As Louis Menand wrote, "Holmes has been called a formalist, a positivist, a utilitarian, a realist, a historicist, a...

The Symbolism of Evil is the final book in Ricoeur's early trilogy on the will. While Freedom and Nature sets aside normative questions altogether and Fallible Man examines the question of what makes the bad will possible, here Ricoeur takes up the...

This book presents a new and radical interpretation of some of Martin Heidegger's most influential texts. The unfamiliar interpretations all seek to question and unframe hasty assessments of the concepts and constellations of thoughts surrounding...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781953725288Author Stephen EvansFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Time Being Media, LLCPublisher Time Being Media, LLCWeight(grams) 281g

In this book, Professor Ramin Jahanbegloo elucidates the central concepts in the moral and political thought of Martin Luther King, Jr., bringing out the subtlety, potency, and universal importance of his concepts of Agape love and non-violence, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781666752779Author Jean-Luc BeauchardFormat HardbackPage Count 170Imprint Cascade BooksPublisher Cascade BooksWeight(grams) 422g

Fallible Man is the second book in Paul Ricoeur's early trilogy on the will and the most accessible of his early writings. While the descriptive approach of Freedom and Nature set aside all normative questions, Fallible Man removes those brackets to...

This book explores Hegel's theory of modality (actuality, possibility, necessity, contingency) through extremely close textual analysis of the "Actuality" chapter of Hegel's Science of Logic. The "Actuality" chapter is the equivalence of Aristotle's...

First published in 1921, Ludwig Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus is one of the most influential-and one of the most obscure-philosophical works of the twentieth century. Duncan Richter's new translation of and commentary on the Tractatus...

Paul Ricoeur and the Lived Body extends the scope of Paul Ricoeur's reflections and analyses of the body as one's own through explorations into the ethical, cultural, and affective dimensions of our corporeal existence. Starting with the fact that each...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781666732252Author Stuart DaltonFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Cascade BooksPublisher Cascade BooksWeight(grams) 445gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Rethinking Sage Philosophy: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on and beyond H. Odera Oruka discusses a variety of aspects of Henry Odera Oruka's sage philosophy project, rethinking it with a view to current demands and recent debates in scholarship across...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798869192288Author EpictetusFormat PaperbackPage Count 34Imprint Natal Publishing, LLCPublisher Natal Publishing, LLCWeight(grams) 45g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781498295604Author Sotiris MitralexisFormat HardbackPage Count 366Imprint Cascade BooksPublisher Cascade BooksWeight(grams) 703g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781666725711Author Stuart DaltonFormat HardbackPage Count 300Imprint Cascade BooksPublisher Cascade BooksWeight(grams) 612g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781532642074Author Michael BennettFormat HardbackPage Count 152Imprint Resource Publications (CA)Publisher Resource Publications (CA)Weight(grams) 372g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798218200435Author Rocco Di PietroFormat PaperbackPage Count 236Imprint Rocco Di PietroPublisher Rocco Di PietroWeight(grams) 322g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781950464487Author Ayn RandFormat PaperbackPage Count 46Imprint OffbeatreadsPublisher OffbeatreadsWeight(grams) 45g

Derrida and Africa: Jacques Derrida as a Figure for African Thought takes up Jacques Derrida as a thought in relation to Africa, with a focus on Derrida's writings specifically on Africa, influenced in part by his childhood in El Biar. From chapters that...

Ontology after Philosophical Psychology addresses the question of William James's continuity of consciousness, with a view to its possible actualizations. In particular, Michela Bella critically delineates James's discourse. In the wake of Darwin's...

This book is about the so called "4S" challenge - how does or can or should someone say something to someone about something? This challenge is getting more intense day by day in our contemporary globalized world, increasingly connected by science and...

An Ironic Approach to the Absolute: Schlegel's Poetic Mysticism brings Friedrich Schlegel's ironic fragments in dialogue with the Dao De Jing and John Ashbery's Flow Chart to argue that poetic texts offer an intuition of the whole because they resist the...

The historical period of the Enlightenment is usually thought of as the high point of philosophical optimism. By breaking the chains of traditional heteronomous morality, the tutelage of dogmatic religion and the oppression of authoritarian politics, the...

This volume contains the key philosophical writings of maverick Enlightenment philosopher Andre-Pierre Le Guay de Premontval (1716-1764). Premontval was a prolific member of the Berlin Academy of Sciences, and in his career as academic he wrote a series...

Throughout his corpus, Kant repeatedly and resolutely denies that there is a duty to promote one's own happiness, and most present-day Kantians seem to agree with him. In Kant, Ought Implies Can, the Principle of Alternate Possibilities, and Happiness,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781420935011Author Friedrich NietzscheFormat PaperbackPage Count 388Imprint Digireads.comPublisher Digireads.comWeight(grams) 567gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Surviving fragments of information about Pythagoras (born ca. 570 BCE) gave rise to a growing set of legends about this famous sage and his followers, whose reputations throughout Antiquity and the Middle Ages have never before been studied...

Originally published in 1954, Hiebel's Novalis was the first critical evaluation in English of the life and works of Novalis (1772-1801), the German Romantic poet of the Blue Flower, since Thomas Carlyle's essay in 1829. This book presents not only a...

Originally published in 1949, this volume contains a skillful analysis of the concepts of Natur and Freiheit and their influence on Keller's ideas in the fields of ethics, aesthetics, and politics, supported by pertinent passages from Keller's work...

This collection of essays surveys a wide range of methods of Platonic interpretation, ranging from the dialogues themselves, to Middle and Neoplatonic interpretations of Plato's writings, to modern uses of Platonism. As a philosophical movement,...

This collection of essays is a sequel to the editors' 1976 volume Studies in Nietzsche and the Classical Tradition. Philosophers, theologians, and literary historians discuss important aspects of Nietzsche's attack on Judaism and Christianity. The book...