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Heidegger's Ontological Project: On Being and Time John Sallis 9780253070593
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £27.77This long-awaited volume of The Collected Writings of John Sallis presents his lectures on Martin Heidegger's monumental Being and Time.The lectures were presented during the 1985–86 academic year at Loyola University of Chicago and during the fall... -
Descartes: A Beginner's Guide by Harry M. Bracken 9781851687589
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.77The father of modern philosophy, Descartes is still one of the most widely discussed philosophers today. Putting rationalism above all else, he sought to base all knowledge of the world on a single idea: 'I think, therefore I am'. This introduction... -
The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness by R. D. Laing 9780140135374
Booksplease Price: £12.76Presenting case studies of schizophrenic patients, Laing aims to make madness and the process of going mad comprehensible. He also offers an existential analysis of personal alienation.About the AuthorR.D. Laing, one of the best-known psychiatrists of... -
New Work New Culture: Work we want and a culture that strengthens us Frithjof Bergmann 9781789040647
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.10The "job system" for organizing work has only existed for around 200 years - since the industrial revolution. Always problematic, it now approaches collapse, and what follows, either for good or ill, depends on decisions made and executed in... -
Cognitive Phenomenology by Tim Bayne 9780198708032
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £30.51It is widely agreed that there is such a thing as sensory phenomenology and imagistic phenomenology. The central concern of the cognitive phenomenology debate is whether there is a distinctive 'cognitive phenomenology'--that is, a kind of phenomenology... -
The Incident at Antioch / L'Incident d'Antioche: A Tragedy in Three Acts / Tragedie en trois actes by Alain Badiou 9780231157759
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.74The Incident at Antioch is a key play marking Alain Badiou's transition from classical Marxism to a "politics of subtraction" far removed from party and state. Written with striking eloquence and extraordinary poetic richness, and shifting from highly... -
Nietzsche and Philosophy by Gilles Deleuze 9780231056694
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £17.51Nietzsche and Philosophy has long been recognized as one of the most important accounts of Nietzsche's philosophy, acclaimed for its rare combination of scholarly rigour and imaginative interpretation. Yet this is more than a major work on Nietzsche: the... -
Eriugena, Berkeley, and the Idealist Tradition by Stephen Gersh 9780268029692
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £11.78Eriugena, Berkeley and the Idealist Tradition is a collection of original essays presented at an international conference held in Dublin in 2002 and subsequently revised in light of discussions at the conference. As Stephen Gersh and Dermot Moran explain... -
The Empirical Stance: Family and Material Culture, 1500-1800 by Bas C. van Fraassen 9780300103069
Booksplease Price: £28.06What is empiricism and what could it be? Bas C. van Fraassen, one of the world's foremost contributors to philosophical logic and the philosophy of science, here undertakes a fresh consideration of these questions and offers a program for renewal of the... -
Pragmatism`s Evolution – Organism and Environment in American Philosophy by Trevor Pearce
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £29.72In Pragmatism's Evolution, Trevor Pearce demonstrates that the philosophical tradition of pragmatism owes an enormous debt to specific biological debates in the late 1800s, especially those concerning the role of the environment in development and... -
The Domestication of Critical Theory by Michael J. Thompson
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £39.18Critical theory was one of the most vigorous and insightful intellectual traditions of the twentieth-century. At its core was a critique of culture and consciousness tied to instrumental rationality and capitalist economic life. Yet, Michael J. Thompson... -
Philosophical Anthropology by Paul Ricoeur
Booksplease Price: £23.03How do human beings become human? This question lies behind the so-called human sciences. But these disciplines are scattered among many different departments and hold up a cracked mirror to humankind. This is why, in the view of Paul Ricoeur, we need... -
God, Justice, Love, Beauty: Four Little Dialogues by Jean-Luc Nancy
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £19.34The four talks collected here transcribe lectures delivered to an audience of children between the ages of ten and fourteen, under the auspices of the "little dialogues" series at the Montreuil's center for the dramatic arts. Modeled on Walter Benjamin's... -
A Time for Critique by Bernard E. Harcourt
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £21.00In a world of political upheaval, rising inequality, catastrophic climate change, and widespread doubt of even the most authoritative sources of information, is there a place for critique? This book calls for a systematic reappraisal of critical... -
Recreative Minds: Imagination in Philosophy and Psychology by Gregory Currie 9780198238096
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £41.01Recreative Minds develops a philosophical theory of imagination that draws upon recent theories and results in psychology. Ideas about how we read the minds of others have put the concept of imagination firmly back on the agenda for philosophy and... -
Heidegger's Technologies: Postphenomenological Perspectives by Don Ihde
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £24.33Heidegger is the only thinker of his generation whose philosophy of technology is still widely read today. In it, he made three basic claims. First, he asserted that the essence of technology is not technological--that technology is not a neutral... -
Complicated Presence: Heidegger and the Postmetaphysical Unity of Being by Jussi Backman
Booksplease Price: £27.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438456485Author Jussi BackmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 374Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York... -
The Present Alone is Our Happiness: Conversations with Jeannie Carlier and Arnold I. Davidson by Pierre Hadot
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £19.34In this book of brilliantly erudite and precise discussions, Pierre Hadot explains that for the Ancients philosophy was not reducible to the building of a theoretical system: it was above all a choice about how to live one's life. One of the most... -
The Event by Martin Heidegger
Booksplease Price: £35.81Martin Heidegger's The Event offers his most substantial self-critique of his Contributions to Philosophy: Of the Event and articulates what he means by the event itself. Richard Rojcewicz's elegant translation offers the English-speaking reader intimate... -
The Doctor and the Soul: From Psychotherapy to Logotherapy by Dr Viktor E Frankl
RRP: £17.00Booksplease Price: £11.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525567042Author Dr. Viktor E FranklFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 278gDimensions(mm)... -
Functions in Mind: A Theory of Intentional Content by Carolyn Price 9780199242009
Booksplease Price: £53.56Carolyn Price investigates what it means to say that mental states -- thoughts, wishes, perceptual experiences, and so on -- are about things in the world. Her answer to this deep philosophical problem is a novel teleological account of intentional... -
Being and Logos: Reading the Platonic Dialogues by John Sallis
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £28.07"Being and Logos" is . . . a philosophical adventure of rare inspiration. . . . Its power to illuminate the text . . . , its ecumenicity of inspiration, its methodological rigor, its originality, and its philosophical profundity-all together make it one... -
An Inquiry into Analytic-Continental Metaphysics: Truth, Relevance and Metaphysics Jeffrey Bell 9781399508285
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £72.69Jeffrey Bell offers a novel approach to thinking about a number of longstanding problems in metaphysics, issues that have persisted throughout the history of philosophy. By developing a metaphysics of problems, he shows how the history of both the... -
Conversations About Reflexivity Margaret S. Archer 9780415733076
RRP: £53.99Booksplease Price: £46.50" Reflexivity" is defined as the regular exercise of the mental ability, shared by all normal people, to consider themselves in relation to their (social) contexts and vice versa. In addition to this sociological interest, it allows us to hold idle or... -
Martin Heidegger and European Nihilism by Karl Lowith 9780231084079
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £23.48Written by a former student of Heidegger, this book examines the relationship between the philosophy and the politics of a celebrated teacher and the allure that Nazism held out for scholars committed to revolutionary nihilism.Written by a former student... -
Human Virtuality and Digital Life: Philosophical and Psychoanalytic Investigations Richard Frankel 9781138505155
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £27.89Winner of the Gradiva (R) Best Book Award 2022, and the Courage to Dream Book Prize 2023 from the Academy of the American Psychoanalytic Association!This book is a psychoanalytic and philosophical exploration of how the digital is transforming our... -
Laughing and Crying: A Study of the Limits of Human Behavior by Helmuth Plessner 9780810139718
RRP: £34.95Booksplease Price: £34.89First published in German in 1940 and widely recognized as a classic of philosophical anthropology, Laughing and Crying is a detailed investigation of these two particularly significant types of expressive behavior, both in themselves and in relation to... -
Supersizing the Mind: Embodiment, Action, and Cognitive Extension by Andy Clark 9780195333213
RRP: £98.00Booksplease Price: £75.67Studies of mind, thought and reason have tended to marginalize the role of bodily form, real-world action, and environmental backdrop. In recent years, both in philosophy and cognitive science, this tendency has been identified and, increasingly,... -
Things Seen and Unseen by Orion Edgar 9781498202619
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £21.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781498202619Author Orion EdgarFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams) 399gDimensions(mm)... -
The Metaphysics of Relations by Anna Marmodoro 9780198735878
Booksplease Price: £91.21This volume presents thirteen original essays which explore both traditional and contemporary aspects of the metaphysics of relations. It is uncontroversial that there are true relational predications-'Abelard loves Eloise', 'Simmias is taller than... -
Deleuze and Psychology: Philosophical Provocations to Psychological Practices Maria Nichterlein 9781138823686
RRP: £37.99Booksplease Price: £32.87An increasing number of scholars, students and practitioners of psychology are becoming intrigued by the ideas of Gilles Deleuze and of Felix Guattari. This book aims to be a critical introduction to these ideas, which have so much to offer psychology in... -
The Little Frog Awakes: Mindfulness Exercises for Toddlers (and Their Parents) by Eline Snel
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £11.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611809459Author Eline SnelFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications Inc -
Aristotle's Man: Speculations upon Aristotelian Anthropology by Stephen R.L. Clark 9780198245162
RRP: £43.49Booksplease Price: £39.93Words have determinable sense only within a complex of unstated assumptions, and all interpretation must therefore go beyond the given material. This book addresses what is man's place in the Aristotelian world. It also describes man's abilities and... -
Phenomenology of the Alien by Bernhard Waldenfels
Booksplease Price: £33.41Tanja Stahler and Alexander Kozin's elegant translation of Bernhard Waldenfels's Phenomenology of the Alien (Grundmotive einer Phanomenologie des Fremden) introduces the English readership to the philosophy of alien-experience, a multifaceted and... -
Toward a Concrete Philosophy: Heidegger and the Emergence of the Frankfurt School by Mikko Immanen
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £21.57Toward a Concrete Philosophy explores the reactions of Theodor Adorno, Max Horkheimer, and Herbert Marcuse to Martin Heidegger prior to their dismissal of him once he turned to the Nazi party in 1933. Mikko Immanen provides a fascinating glimpse of the... -
The Visible and the Revealed by Jean-Luc Marion 9780823228843
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £27.15In The Visible and the Revealed, Jean-Luc Marion brings together his most significant papers dealing with the relationship between philosophy and theology. Covering the ground from some of his earliest writings on this topic to very recent reflections,... -
Nietzsche and Other Buddhas: Philosophy after Comparative Philosophy by Jason M. Wirth
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £20.84In Nietzche and Other Buddhas, author Jason M. Wirth brings major East Asian Buddhist thinkers into radical dialogue with key Continental philosophers through a series of exercises that pursue what is traditionally called comparative or intercultural... -
The Yield: Kafka's Atheological Reformation by Paul North
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £21.84The Yield is a once-in-a-generation reinterpretation of the oeuvre of Franz Kafka. At the same time, it is a powerful new entry in the debates about the supposed secularity of the modern age. Kafka is one of the most admired writers of the last century,... -
Miscellanies, Volume 2 by Angelo Poliziano
RRP: £29.95Booksplease Price: £23.85An Open Letters Review Best Book of the YearAngelo Poliziano (1454-1494) was one of the great scholar-poets of the Italian Renaissance and the leading literary figure of Florence in the age of Lorenzo de' Medici, "il Magnifico." The poet's Miscellanies,... -
Selected Writings on Media, Propaganda, and Political Communication by Siegfried Kracauer
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £17.50Siegfried Kracauer stands out as one of the most significant theorists and critics of the twentieth century, acclaimed for his analyses of film and popular culture. However, his writing on propaganda and politics has been overshadowed by the works of his...