Individual Philosophers

Reading Wiredu is the first comprehensive overview of the philosophical thought of Kwasi Wiredu. Born in Ghana in 1931, Wiredu, an important observer and critic of philosophy generally, remains an original and penetrating African thinker. Interrelating...

Butterworth richly deserves to be congratulated for providing advanced students and scholars with authoritative, reliable, and readable translations of Alfarabi's important political writings. Choice Alfarabi (ca. 870-950) founded the great tradition...

In these newly commissioned essays, leading Whitehead scholars ask a range of important questions about Whitehead's first year of philosophy lectures. Do these lectures challenge or confirm previous understandings of Whitehead's published works? What is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474451123Author Professor of Philosophy Peter S FoslFormat HardbackPage Count 392Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474423601Author Markus P J BohlmannFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University PressWeight(grams)...

Jurgen Habermas and John Rawls are perhaps the two most renowned and influential figures in social and political philosophy of the second half of the twentieth century. In the 1990s, they had a famous exchange in the Journal of Philosophy. Quarreling...

Jon Roffe shows how Empiricism and Subjectivity is the precursor for some of Deleuze's most well-known philosophical innovations. For those already familiar with Deleuze, he emphasises its novelty within his corpus. And, for all readers, he shows how it...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474455237Author Adriel M TrottFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University PressWeight(grams) 1640g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780980119077Author Rick SpauldingFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint Wrightwood PressPublisher Wrightwood PressWeight(grams) 159g

The nature and theoretical underpinnings of ethics have been an intellectual driving force animating the pursuits of great scholars. In The Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals (1785) Immanuel Kant, one of the most powerful philosophical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438490496Author Ingo FarinFormat HardbackPage Count 377Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York...

While Kant is commonly regarded as one of the most austere philosophers of all time, this book provides quite a different perspective of the founder of transcendental philosophy. Kant is often thought of as being boring, methodical, and humorless. Yet...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781953730688Format PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Antelope Hill PublishingPublisher Antelope Hill PublishingWeight(grams) 140g

This book provides answers to two sorts of questions. It explores, on the one hand, how and what sociological ideas were developed in the Scottish Enlightenment. And, on the other hand, how the ideas of the Scottish Enlightenment would emerge and develop...

William James was an acknowledged master of phenomenal description. He gave us the "stream of consciousness" that "flows," and the newborn's mental life as a "blooming, buzzing confusion." But in Consciousness Is Motor, Alexander Klein shows that James...

Erotics of Deconstruction takes advantage of over a decade of publications from Derrida's seminars to creatively demonstrate the deep material range of deconstruction and emphasise its under-recognised erotic nature. It activates psychoanalysis without...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438496405Author Lambert ZuidervaartFormat PaperbackPage Count 219Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438499413Author Svetozar Y. MinkovFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798855800111Author Georges TamerFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York...

Fredric Jameson's The Years of Theory introduces the major themes of French theory, including existentialism, structuralism, poststructuralism, semiotics, feminism, psychoanalysis, and Marxism. In a series of accessible lectures, Jameson places this...

Recounts KojÈve’s key role in the pivotal exchange of ideas between Eastern and Western European intellectuals in the early twentieth century This book shines critical new light on the story of Alexandre KojÈve’s intellectual origins and his role in the...

In the latter half of the seventeenth century, Spinoza effected a reversal in the relationship between philosophy, politics, and religion, thereby laying the foundation for modern democracy. This shift, and his plea for philosophical critique, did not...

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...

Bill Ross demonstrates the relation between Gilles Deleuze's philosophy of difference and the conceptual foundations of contemporary physics through careful engagements with the theory of relativity, quantum physics and chaos and complexity theory. Ross...