Individual Philosophers

In Paul Ricoeur's Renewal of Philosophical Anthropology: Vulnerability, Capability, Justice, Marc de Leeuw contextualizes Ricoeur's work in the largely forgotten tradition of philosophical anthropology. In the book, de Leeuw shows how the original...

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...

In 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...

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...

In Offbeat Philosophers, Lawrence Harvey offers the reader a collection of ten philosophical portraits -- each provides refreshing and provocative insights into thinkers who dared to play a different tune. Often labouring at the margins of mainstream...

Derrida and Africa takes up Jacques Derrida as a figure of thought in relation to Africa, with a focus on Derrida's writings specifically on Africa, which were influenced in part by his childhood in El Biar. From chapters that take up Derrida as Mother...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781538149607Author Robert DelfinoFormat HardbackImprint Rowman & Littlefield PublishersPublisher Rowman & Littlefield

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...

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...

In Kant and Theodicy: A Search for an Answer to the Problem of Evil, George Huxford proves that Kant's engagement with theodicy was career-long and not confined to his short 1791 treatise that dealt explicitly with the subject. Huxford treats Kant's...

Wendy 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781793618498Author Javier P�rez-JaraFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Lexington BooksPublisher Lexington Books

The tragedy of totalitarianism, one of the most important turns in the modern philosophy and history of the West undergirds the intellectual relationship between Martin Heidegger and Hannah Arendt. The rise of totalitarianism caused the disruption of...

Charts Wittgenstein’s intellectual development, personal struggles, and movements from Vienna to Cambridge and Norway, and to the battlegrounds of WWI, where he completed what was destined to become the most influential philosophy book of the 20th...

This 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781666942323Author J Aaron SimmonsFormat HardbackPage Count 292Imprint Lexington Books/Fortress AcademicPublisher Lexington Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398811843Author Frederich NietzscheImprint Sirius EntertainmentPublisher Sirius EntertainmentWeight(grams) 943gDimensions(mm) 205mm * 134mm * 70mm

Adam Smith, in his The Theory of Moral Sentiments, largely left his readers to develop his argument's full implications. Many philosophers famously did so, including Mary Wollstonecraft, Thomas Paine, and John Millar, among others, but less known are...

The death of Socrates may be the most famous unsolved murder in history. Set during the Peloponnesian War, this narrative solves that mystery, revealing for the first time how the philosopher was set up, who did it, and why.The influence of the ancient...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474490504Author James DuttonFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University PressWeight(grams) 156g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474492423Author Marie-Eve MorinFormat HardbackPage Count 264Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University PressWeight(grams) 156g

Aristotle offers a conception of the private and its relationship to the public that suggests a remedy to the limitations of liberalism today, according to Judith A. Swanson. In this fresh and lucid interpretation of Aristotle's political philosophy,...

Michael 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...

Apologies 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 *...

After 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...

Who 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...

A 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781734962901Author Ammar CharaniFormat PaperbackPage Count 394Imprint PHD PublishingPublisher PHD PublishingWeight(grams) 526gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

The 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...

Frequently 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...

Written 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781944482763Author Melissa Cain TravisFormat PaperbackPage Count 370Imprint Roman Roads PressPublisher Roman Roads PressWeight(grams) 426gDimensions(mm)...

Why 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...

This 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...

Apologies 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

On 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...

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...

An 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...

"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...

This 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...