Individual Philosophers

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) 322gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

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

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...

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,...

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...

Hilary Putnam's Philosophical Naturalism: Making Philosophy Matter for Life emphasizes both the nature of Hilary Putnam's link to the Neopositivist tradition and his progressive critical departure from it. Massimo Dell'Utri argues that one of the main...

Reading Ricoeur through Law, edited by Marc de Leeuw, George H. Taylor, and Eileen Brennan, is the first collection of essays solely focused on Ricoeur's thinking about law, bringing together both established and emerging scholars to offer a systematic...

Five Groundbreaking Moments in Heidegger’s Thinking presents a fresh interpretation of some of Heidegger’s most difficult but important works, including his second major work, Beiträge zur Philosophie (Vom Ereignis) [Contributions to Philosophy (From...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785276835Author Peter HackerFormat HardbackPage Count 250Imprint Anthem PressPublisher Anthem PressWeight(grams) 153g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785276743Author Andrew LuggFormat HardbackPage Count 250Imprint Anthem PressPublisher Anthem PressWeight(grams) 153g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781722503826Author EpictetusFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint G&D MediaPublisher G&D Media

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845409128Author Andreas RahmatianFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Imprint AcademicPublisher Imprint AcademicWeight(grams) 350gDimensions(mm) 210mm *...

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...

Contemporary Perspectives on Vladimir Jankelevitch: On What Cannot Be Touched performs a cross-disciplinary theoretical analysis of the philosophy of Vladimir Jankelevitch. An international group of contributors, including both established and emerging...

Richard Rorty, perhaps the most important philosopher of the past century, refused to write meaningfully about experience due to his postmodern inclination to associate experience with a belief in objectivity and foundational truths. Richard Rorty and...

Beyond Justice as Fairness: Rethinking Rawls from a Cross-Cultural Perspective by Paul Nnodim explores the three foundational topics in Rawls’s theories of justice (social justice, multiculturalism, and global justice) while deconstructing ideas of...

African American Philosophy and African American Philosophers have played a central role in understanding and also shaping what it means to be black in America. Some of their conclusions were reactions to the mistreatment they received from the majority...

In the final year of his long life, eminent Thomist philosopher Jacques Maritain prepared a final book for publication: a collection of previously unpublished writings entitled Approaches san entraves, later translated into English as Untrammeled...

The number of open and controversial questions in contemporary Heidegger research continues to be a source of scholarly dialogue. There are important questions that concern the development, as it were, of his thought and the differences and similarities...

Nalin Ranasinghe has a strong affection for the Socrates he finds in four of Plato's most influential dialogues. This engagingly humane book traces Plato's struggle to simultaneously understand and convey the erotic presence of Socrates. Most...

"I shall here present my life," writes Descartes in Discourse on Method, "as in a painting" and my method "as a fable." Through the Eyes of Descartes demonstrates how a Cartesian aesthetics is interwoven in his thought. It brings together a variety of...

"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...

Octavio Paz: Ontology and Surrealism discusses poet Octavio Paz (1914–1998), one of Mexico´s most controversial intellectuals. Over several decades, Paz has been celebrated for his impact on literature and culture as a poet as well as an essayist, and he...

Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morals has become a central text for understanding the thinker and his impact on moral philosophy. Yet his account of the rise of political society and its relation to morality has generally been overlooked, in large part...

While some see the comic as trivial, fit mainly for amusement or distraction, Soren Kierkegaard disagrees. This book examines Kierkegaard's earnest understanding of the nature of the comic and how even the triviality of comic jest is deeply tied to...

Hegel's Transcendental Ontology argues that Hegel presents the kernel of his metaphysics, in the Doctrine of the Concept, the final part of his Science of Logic. The Concept has three moments: universality (a process through which conceptual content of...

Moral and political convictions never stand alone. They are always connected to an underlying view of mankind. Liberalism, which currently predominates, is connected to a focus on the free individual. Marxism thinks of man in terms of class struggle,...

"I shall here present my life," writes Descartes in Discourse on Method, "as in a painting" and my method "as a fable." Through the Eyes of Descartes demonstrates how a Cartesian aesthetics is interwoven in his thought. It brings together a variety of...

A vital and timely contribution to the growing scholarship on the political thought of Alain Badiou Is inattention to questions of race more than just incidental to Alain Badiou’s philosophical system? Universal Emancipation reveals a crucial weakness in...