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Platonism and Naturalism: The Possibility of Philosophy by Lloyd P. Gerson
RRP: $103.35$88.76In his third and concluding volume, Lloyd P. Gerson presents an innovative account of Platonism, the central tradition in the history of philosophy, in conjunction with Naturalism, the "anti-Platonism" in antiquity and contemporary philosophy. Gerson... -
The Paradoxes of Delusion: Wittgenstein, Schreber, and the Schizophrenic Mind by Louis A. Sass
RRP: $54.58$46.14Insanity-in clinical practice as in the popular imagination-is seen as a state of believing things that are not true and perceiving things that do not exist. Most schizophrenics, however, do not act as if they mistake their delusions for reality. In a... -
Thinking in Time: An Introduction to Henri Bergson by Suzanne Guerlac
RRP: $54.58$46.14"Under the aegis of time Suzanne Guerlac displaces matter, intuition, memory, and vitalism of the early twentieth century into the wake of poststructuralism and the dilemmas of nature and culture here and now. This book is a landmark for anyone working... -
Heidegger's Being: The Shimmering Unfolding by Richard Capobianco
RRP: $54.58$46.14In Heidegger's Being: The Shimmering Unfolding, the eminent Heidegger scholar Richard Capobianco draws on many new texts and sources to highlight in fresh ways the beauty and spiritual resonance of Martin Heidegger's thinking about Being. As in his... -
Making Sense in Common: A Reading of Whitehead in Times of Collapse by Isabelle Stengers
RRP: $44.83$38.22A leading philosopher seeks to recover "common sense" as a meeting place to reconcile science and philosophy With her previous books on Alfred North Whitehead, Isabelle Stengers not only secured a reputation as one of the premier philosophers of our... -
Hegel in A Wired Brain by Slavoj Zizek
RRP: $68.25$51.13Slavoj Zizek gives us a reading of a philosophical giant that changes our way of thinking about our new posthuman era. No ordinary study of Hegel, Hegel in a Wired Brain investigates what he might have had to say about the idea of the 'wired brain' -... -
Think Least of Death: Spinoza on How to Live and How to Die by Steven Nadler 9780691233956
RRP: $29.23$23.13From Pulitzer Prize-finalist Steven Nadler, an engaging guide to what Spinoza can teach us about life's big questionsIn 1656, after being excommunicated from Amsterdam's Portuguese-Jewish community for "abominable heresies" and "monstrous deeds," the... -
Emancipation After Hegel: Achieving a Contradictory Revolution by Todd McGowan 9780231192705
RRP: $48.75$37.40Hegel is making a comeback. After the decline of the Marxist Hegelianism that dominated the twentieth century, leading thinkers are rediscovering Hegel's thought as a resource for contemporary politics. What does a notoriously difficult... -
The Production of Subjectivity: Marx and Philosophy by Jason Read
RRP: $68.23$52.01Louis Althusser argued that Marx initiated a transformation of philosophy, a new way of doing philosophy. This book follows that provocation to examine the way in which central Marxist concepts and problems from primitive accumulation to real abstraction... -
In Emergency, Break Glass: What Nietzsche Can Teach Us About Joyful Living in a Tech-Saturated World by Nate Anderson 9781324004790
RRP: $35.08$28.14Who 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... -
Aristotle for Everybody by Mortimer J. Adler
$21.98Aristotle (384 - 322 B.C.) taught logic to Alexander the Great and, by virtue of his philosophical works, to every philosopher since, from Marcus Aurelius, to Thomas Aquinas, to Mortimer J. Adler. Now Adler instructs the world in the "uncommon common... -
Philosopher of the Heart: The Restless Life of Soren Kierkegaard by Clare Carlisle 9781250798428
RRP: $39.00$26.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250798428Author Clare CarlisleFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USAWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm) 221mm * 142mm * 28mm -
Basic Writings of Nietzsche by Friedrich Nietzsche 9780679600008
RRP: $48.75$32.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679600008Author Friedrich NietzscheFormat HardbackPage Count 864Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 890gDimensions(mm)... -
Henri Bergson by Vladimir Jankelevitch
RRP: $50.68$42.98Appearing here in English for the first time, Vladimir Jankelevitch's Henri Bergson is one of the two great commentaries written on Henri Bergson. Gilles Deleuze's Bergsonism renewed interest in the great French philosopher but failed to consider... -
Heidegger's Life and Thought: A Tarnished Legacy by Mahon O'Brien 9781786613837
RRP: $37.03$35.35Martin 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... -
A Terribly Serious Adventure: Philosophy and War at Oxford, 1900-1960 by Nikhil Krishnan
RRP: $56.53$35.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525510604Author Nikhil KrishnanFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 612gDimensions(mm)... -
Metaphysical Exile: On J.M. Coetzee's Jesus Fictions by Robert Pippin 9780197565940
RRP: $109.20$98.65Nobel Prize-winning novelist J.M. Coetzee's "Jesus" fictions constitute a trilogy of novels that have appeared over the last decade. They stand out from his earlier work in their difficulty, and in the central role they accord philosophy--in part through... -
Wittgenstein's Critique of Russell's Multiple Relation Theory of Judgement by James R. Connelly 9781785277405
RRP: $156.00$146.60Wittgenstein'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... -
Reading Lacan by Jane Gallop 9780801494437
RRP: $66.30$60.20The influence of the French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan has extended into nearly every field of the humanities and social sciences-from literature and film studies to anthropology and social work. yet Lacan's major text, Ecrits, continues to perplex and... -
100 Philosophers: The Wisdom of the World's Great Thinkers by Lesley Levene
RRP: $19.48$12.97A definitive treasury of philosophers from around the world, from ancient times to the modern day. A must-read for anyone wanting answers to the most important questions, from those that have dared to ask them. This essential introduction to world... -
On Obliteration - An Interview with Francoise Armengaud Concerning the Work of Sacha Sosno by Emmanuel Levinas
RRP: $29.25$29.00Emmanuel 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... -
Basic Writings of Kant by Immanuel Kant
RRP: $33.13$25.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375757334Author Immanuel KantFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 425gDimensions(mm) 201mm... -
Think Least of Death: Spinoza on How to Live and How to Die by Steven Nadler 9780691183848
RRP: $68.25$51.46From Pulitzer Prize-finalist Steven Nadler, an engaging guide to what Spinoza can teach us about life's big questionsIn 1656, after being excommunicated from Amsterdam's Portuguese-Jewish community for "abominable heresies" and "monstrous deeds," the... -
The Principles of Deleuzian Philosophy by Professor of Philosophy Koichiro Kokubun
RRP: $40.93$33.52What gives us the right to speak of a Deleuzian philosophy, a philosophy at first sight concerned solely with interpreting other philosophers and writers? Koichiro Kokubun focuses on Deleuze's method of 'free indirect discourse' to locate and explicate... -
Lacan: Anti-Philosophy 3 by Alain Badiou 9780231171489
RRP: $54.60$41.65Alain Badiou is arguably the most significant philosopher in Europe today. Badiou's seminars, given annually on major conceptual and historical topics, constitute an enormously important part of his work. They served as laboratories for his thought and... -
Contradiction in Motion: Hegel's Organic Concept of Life and Value by Songsuk Susan Hahn
RRP: $142.35$120.41"Everything is contradictory," Hegel declares in Science of Logic. In this analysis of one of the most difficult and neglected topics in Hegelian studies, Songsuk Susan Hahn tackles the status of contradiction in Hegel's thought. Properly philosophical... -
Diary of a Philosophy Student: Volume 3, 1926-30 by Simone de Beauvoir 9780252045646
RRP: $95.55$89.51Written between the age of eighteen and twenty-one, the entries in the third volume of Diary of a Philosophy Student take readers into Simone de Beauvoir's thoughts while illuminating the people and ideas swirling around her. The pages offer rare... -
The Incomplete Project of Schizoanalysis: Collected Essays on Deleuze and Guattari by Ian Buchanan
RRP: $50.68$41.07'If all we do is bring to light what we already know, then what is the point of what we are doing?'This has been Ian Buchanan's guiding motto throughout his academic career and continues to inform his reading of Deleuze and Guattari. In these twenty... -
Aristotle's Way: How Ancient Wisdom Can Change Your Life by Edith Hall 9780735220829
RRP: $35.10$22.56Apologies 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 *... -
Deleuze and Time by Robert W Luzecky
RRP: $175.50$142.90A multi-disciplinary analysis of Deleuze's theory of temporality Offers detailed historical analyses of Deleuze's theory of time in relation to the views of other key figures in Western philosophy Provides a fascinating analyses of the relationship... -
Reading Wittgenstein with Anscombe, Going On to Ethics by Cora Diamond 9780674051683
RRP: $72.05$56.88In Reading Wittgenstein with Anscombe, Going On to Ethics, Cora Diamond follows two major European philosophers as they think about thinking, as well as about our ability to respond to thinking that has miscarried or gone astray. Acting as both witness... -
The Liberal Self: John Stuart Mill's Moral and Political Theory by Wendy Donner 9780801499876
RRP: $83.85$78.80Wendy Donner contends here that recent commentators on John Stuart Mill's thought have focused on his notions of right and obligation and have not paid as much attention to his notion of the good. Mill, she maintains, rejects the quantitative hedonism of... -
Making Sense of Myth: Conversations with Luc Brisson by Gerard Naddaf 9780228020714
$63.92To most, myths are merely fantastic stories. But for Luc Brisson, one of the great living Plato scholars, myth is a key factor in what it means to be human – a condition of life for all. Essential and inescapable, myth offers a guide for living, forming... -
Making Sense of Myth: Conversations with Luc Brisson by Gerard Naddaf 9780228020707
$208.90To most, myths are merely fantastic stories. But for Luc Brisson, one of the great living Plato scholars, myth is a key factor in what it means to be human – a condition of life for all. Essential and inescapable, myth offers a guide for living, forming... -
Normativity, Meaning and Philosophy: Essays on Wittgenstein by Hans-Johann Glock 9781839983467
RRP: $156.00$146.60This is a collection of essays on Wittgenstein and Wittgensteinian themes that appeared between 1996 and 2019. It is divided into three parts, with a common trajectory laid out in a substantial introduction. The first part links meaning, necessity and... -
The Classic Friedrich Nietzsche Collection by Frederich Nietzsche 9781398811843
RRP: $77.98$48.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398811843Author Frederich NietzscheImprint Sirius EntertainmentPublisher Sirius EntertainmentWeight(grams) 129g -
The Political Philosophy of Montaigne by David Lewis Schaefer 9780801497414
RRP: $70.20$64.33This provocative book provides a comprehensive interpretation of Montaigne's Essays as a work of political philosophy. David Lewis Schaefer diverges from the prevailing view, which prizes the Essays as an example of authentic literary self-portrayal but... -
Kantian Ethics Almost without Apology by Marcia W. Baron
RRP: $81.90$70.16A reappraisal on the emphasis on duty in Immanuel Kant's ethics is long overdue. Marcia W. Baron evaluates and for the most part defends Kantian ethics against two frequent criticisms: that duty plays too large a role, leaving no room for the... -
Primary "Ousia": An Essay on Aristotle's Metaphysics Z and H by Michael Loux
RRP: $68.25$58.81Michael J. Loux here presents a fresh reading of two of the most important books of the Metaphysics, Books Z and H, in which Aristotle presents his mature theory of primary substances (ousiai). Focusing on the interplay of Aristotle's early and late... -
Advancing Conversations: Srecko Horvat-Subversion by Srecko Horvat 9781785354960
RRP: $11.68$10.67In a world dominated by capitalism which is dangerously sliding into a new kind of fascism, Srecko Horvat's new book explores the concept of subverting the dominant paradigm in politics, technology and love. Drawing from his own experience of...