Individual Philosophers

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646043118Author Amber D. BrowneFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Ulysses PressPublisher Ulysses Press

Portraits of Wittgenstein is a major collection of memoirs and reflections on one of the most influential and yet elusive personalities in the history of modern philosophy, Ludwig Wittgenstein. Featuring a wealth of illuminating and profound insights...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781954357112Author Friedrich NietzscheFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Rogue Scholar PressPublisher Rogue Scholar PressWeight(grams) 327gDimensions(mm)...

Derrida and Foucault offers a major contribution to the interpretation of these two highly influential thinkers. By tracing the moments where Derrida and Foucault's arguments converge but also where they deviate, this book fundamentally recasts our...

'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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Choice Outstanding Academic Titles 2022.Book InformationISBN 9780262045834Author James C. KlaggeFormat HardbackPage Count 264Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911405900Author Sir Thomas BrowneFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Aziloth BooksPublisher Aziloth BooksWeight(grams) 154gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

Hegel's philosophy of history-which most critics view as a theory of inevitable progress toward modern European civilization-is widely regarded as a failure today. In Does History Make Sense? Terry Pinkard argues that Hegel's understanding of historical...

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...

Louis 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...

Eric 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,...

In 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...

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 *...

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...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781803699806Author Stephen LoxtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint New Generation PublishingPublisher New Generation PublishingWeight(grams)...

The 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781956887457Author Carlos VidelaFormat PaperbackPage Count 146Imprint Antelope Hill PublishingPublisher Antelope Hill PublishingWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781734449723Author Ammar CharaniFormat HardbackPage Count 394Imprint PHD PublishingPublisher PHD PublishingWeight(grams) 694gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Pythagoras 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...

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

Surviving fragments of information about Pythagoras (born ca. 570 BCE) gave rise to a growing set of legends about this famous sage and his followers, whose reputations throughout Antiquity and the Middle Ages have never before been studied...

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)...

The wide-ranging work of Rahel Jaeggi, a leading voice of the new generation of critical theorists, demonstrates how core concepts and methodological approaches in the tradition of the Frankfurt School can be updated, stripped of their dubious...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999497890Author Steve E SchmittFormat PaperbackPage Count 342Imprint Wake Up IncPublisher Wake Up IncWeight(grams) 458gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 18mm

In 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...

Patocka's celebrated Introduction is here made available in English for the first time. In addition to introducing Husserl's ideas, this book is also an important work of original philosophy. Patocka ranges over the whole of Husserl's output, from The...

Aaron 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...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781956887389Author Diego FusaroFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Antelope Hill PublishingPublisher Antelope Hill PublishingWeight(grams) 209g

Alain 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780394711065Author Michel FoucaultFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 261gDimensions(mm)...