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Advancing Conversations: Srecko Horvat-Subversion by Srecko Horvat 9781785354960
RRP: €7.13€6.51In 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... -
Ludwig Wittgenstein by Miles Hollingworth
RRP: €39.26€33.83After his intellectual biography of Saint Augustine of Hippo, Miles Hollingworth now turns his attention to one of Augustine's greatest modern admirers: The Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein. Wittgenstein's influence on post-war philosophical... -
Nietzsche's Kind of Philosophy: Finding His Way by Richard Schacht
RRP: €47.60€40.45A holistic reading of Nietzsche's distinctive thought beyond the "death of God." In Nietzsche's Kind of Philosophy, Richard Schacht provides a holistic interpretation of Friedrich Nietzsche's distinctive thinking, developed over decades of engagement... -
The Ego And Its Hyperstate - A Psychoanalytically Informed Dialectical Analysis of Self-Interest by Eliot Rosenstock
RRP: €11.89€10.42The Ego And Its Hyperstate is a unified theory of psychological and ethical egoism which posits self-interest. The dialectical dream theory sets its sights against capitalist notions of the self-interest contra the other, not simply with moralism, but... -
The Eric Voegelin Reader: Politics, History, Consciousness by Dr Charles R Embry
RRP: €41.59€34.25Eric Voegelin (1901-1985) was one of the most original philosophers of our time, working throughout his life to account for the endemic political violence of the twentieth century, in an effort variously referred to as a philosophy of politics, history,... -
Unbecoming Human: Philosophy of Animality After Deleuze by Felice Cimatti
RRP: €24.98€20.46The animality of human beings is completely unknown. Being human means to be something other than an animal, to not be an animal. Felice Cimatti, with reference to the work of Gilles Deleuze, explores what human animality looks like. He shows that... -
No Morality, No Self: Anscombe's Radical Skepticism by James Doyle
RRP: €43.97€34.71Frequently 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... -
Leibnizing: A Philosopher in Motion by Richard Halpern 9780231211154
RRP: €29.75€22.82Why read Leibniz today? Can we still learn from him and not just about him? This book argues that Leibniz offers a powerful, productive model for transdisciplinary thinking that can push back against the narrowness of the humanities today.Richard Halpern... -
Indigenising Anthropology with Guattari and Deleuze by Barbara Glowczewski
RRP: €30.93€25.06This collection of essays charts the intellectual trajectory of Barbara Glowczewski, an anthropologist who has worked with Warlpiri people since 1979. She shows how the ways in which Aboriginal people actualise virtualities of their Dreaming space-time... -
Walter Benjamin Reimagined: A Graphic Translation of Poetry, Prose, Aphorisms, and Dreams by Frances Cannon
RRP: €27.37€18.71Apologies 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 -
The Lesser Existences: Etienne Souriau, an Aesthetics for the Virtual by David Lapoujade
RRP: €20.22€17.54On the complex aesthetics and ontology at work in Etienne Souriau's unique oeuvre In this concise but expansive exegesis of the philosophical aesthetics of Etienne Souriau, philosopher David Lapoujade provides a lucid introduction to many of the key... -
The Habermas-Rawls Debate by James Gordon Finlayson 9780231164115
RRP: €35.70€27.16Jurgen 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... -
Fichte: Foundations of Transcendental Philosophy (Wissenschaftslehre) nova methodo (1796-99) by Johann Gottlieb Fichte
RRP: €57.12€49.23"This work is a model of what a philosophical text should be."-Reinhard Lauth "Breazeale's translation is fluent, precise, and perhaps most important of all . . . it is readable. . . . This is an excellent translation by the ranking Fichte scholar... -
Stratagem of the Corpse: Dying with Baudrillard, a Study of Sickness and Simulacra by Gary J Shipley 9781839980718
RRP: €29.75€27.73This book is unique in its dedicated tackling of the subject of death in the work of Jean Baudrillard. Through new readings of his work, the book makes so patently clear the importance of Baudrillard's tendency to poeticize, his core indebtedness to... -
Singularity: Politics and Poetics by Samuel Weber
RRP: €35.69€31.40An 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... -
John Rawls: The Path to a Theory of Justice by Andrius Galisanka
RRP: €49.92€39.25An engaging account of the titan of political philosophy and the development of his most important work, A Theory of Justice, coming at a moment when its ideas are sorely needed.It is hard to overestimate the influence of John Rawls on political... -
On the Study Methods of Our Time by Giambattista Vico
RRP: €29.74€25.26On 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... -
Felix Guattari's Schizoanalytic Ecology by Professor of American Studies Hanjo Berressem
RRP: €24.98€22.36Hanjo 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... -
A New German Idealism: Hegel, Zizek, and Dialectical Materialism by Adrian Johnston
RRP: €29.75€22.82In 2012, philosopher and public intellectual Slavoj Zizek published what arguably is his magnum opus, the one-thousand-page tome Less Than Nothing: Hegel and the Shadow of Dialectical Materialism. A sizable sequel appeared in 2014, Absolute Recoil:... -
Malebranche: Theological Figure, Being 2 by Alain Badiou 9780231174794
RRP: €26.18€20.22Alain 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... -
Philosophical Letters, Abridged by Margaret Cavendish
RRP: €29.74€23.63"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... -
Propositions in the Making: Experiments in a Whiteheadian Laboratory by Roland Faber 9781793612564
RRP: €101.15€93.78How 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,... -
Malebranche: Theological Figure, Being 2 by Alain Badiou
RRP: €35.70€27.16Alain 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... -
The Political Writings: "Selected Aphorisms" and Other Texts by Alfarabi
RRP: €33.31€28.16Alfarabi (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... -
Nietzsche's Conscience: Six Character Studies from the "Genealogy" by Aaron Ridley
RRP: €42.84€36.88Aaron Ridley explores Nietzsche's mature ethical thought as expressed in his masterpiece On the Genealogy of Morals. Taking seriously the use that Nietzsche makes of human types, Ridley arranges his book thematically around the six characters who loom... -
Affect and Attention After Deleuze and Whitehead: Ecological Attunement by Russell J Duvernoy
RRP: €24.98€20.46Russell 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... -
Lev Shestov: The Philosophy and Works of a Tragic Thinker by Andrea Oppo 9781644694671
RRP: €109.47€102.64This 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... -
Art as Language: Wittgenstein, Meaning, and Aesthetic Theory by Garry L. Hagberg
RRP: €40.46€34.90Art as Language systematically considers the implications of the pervasive belief that art is a language or functions like language. This insightful book clarifies the similarities and differences between expression in speech and expression in art, and... -
Heidegger's Ontology of Events by James Bahoh
RRP: €24.98€20.46James 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... -
Cinema without Reflection: Jacques Derrida's Echopoiesis and Narcissim Adrift by Akira Mizuta Lippit 9781517900045
RRP: €10.71€9.23Cinema without Reflection traces an implicit film theory in Jacques Derrida's oeuvre, especially in his frequent invocation of the myth of Echo and Narcissus. Derrida's reflections on the economies of image and sound that reverberate in this story, along... -
The Emergency of Being: On Heidegger's "Contributions to Philosophy" by Professor Richard Polt
RRP: €40.46€34.90"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... -
Five Groundbreaking Moments in Heidegger's Thinking by Kenneth Maly
RRP: €28.55€25.67Five 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, Beitrage zur Philosophie (Vom Ereignis) [Contributions to Philosophy (From... -
Meaning and Interpretation: Wittgenstein, Henry James, and Literary Knowledge by Garry L. Hagberg
RRP: €20.22€17.54'What is the meaning of a word?' In this thought-provoking book, Hagberg demonstrates how this question-which initiated Wittgenstein's later work in the philosophy of language-is significant for our understanding not only of linguistic meaning but of the... -
Schelling's Naturalism: Space, Motion and the Volition of Thought by Ben Woodard
RRP: €33.31€26.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474438186Author Ben WoodardFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University PressWeight(grams)... -
The Grammar of Politics: Wittgenstein and Political Philosophy by Cressida J. Heyes
RRP: €42.84€36.88Ludwig 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... -
Speaking through the Mask: Hannah Arendt and the Politics of Social Identity by Norma Claire Moruzzi 9780801437854
RRP: €91.63€78.36Hannah Arendt was famously resistant to both psychoanalysis and feminism. Nonetheless, psychoanalytic feminist theory can offer a new interpretive strategy for deconstructing her equally famous opposition between the social and the political. ... -
Max Stirner on the Path of Doubt by Lawrence S. Stepelevich 9781793636881
RRP: €101.15€93.78Max Stirner on the Path of Doubt examines Stirner's incisive criticism of his contemporaries during the period from the death of Hegel, in 1831, to the 1848 German Revolution. Stirner's work, mainly the Ego and His Own, considered each of the major... -
Deleuze and the Animal by Colin Gardner
RRP: €36.89€30.52Becoming-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,... -
Pythagoras the Master: Philolaus, Presocratic Follower by Carol Dunn 9781584209485
RRP: €15.46€10.82Pythagoras was one of the great geniuses of the West and yet, apart from his famous Pythagorean theorem, he is virtually unknown. If we rely on modern scholars and academics, argues Carol Dunn, we find that his long-forgotten legacy is misunderstood and... -
Kant’s Humorous Writings: An Illustrated Guide by Noël Carroll
RRP: €77.35€67.32While 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...