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The First Person Singular by Alphonso Lingis
RRP: £27.95£22.56Alphonso Lingis' singular works of philosophy are not so much written as performed, and in ""The First Person Singular"" the performance is characteristically brilliant, a consummate act of philosophical reckoning. Lingis' subject here, aptly enough, is... -
In Defense of Common Sense: Lorenzo Valla's Humanist Critique of Scholastic Philosophy by Lodi Nauta 9780674032699
£40.96One of the leading humanists of Quattrocento Italy, Lorenzo Valla (ca. 1406-1457) has been praised as a brilliant debunker of medieval scholastic philosophy. In this book Lodi Nauta seeks a more balanced assessment, presenting us with the first... -
Alienation by Rahel Jaeggi 9780231151986
£23.29The Hegelian-Marxist idea of alienation fell out of favor after the postmetaphysical rejection of humanism and essentialist views of human nature. In this book Rahel Jaeggi draws on the Hegelian philosophical tradition, phenomenological analyses grounded... -
Thinking in the World by Jill Bennett
£30.16Engaging with contemporary issues responsibly and creatively can become a very abstract activity. We can sometimes find ourselves talking in terms of theories and philosophies which bear very little resemblance to how life is actually lived and... -
An Invitation to Feminist Ethics by Hilde Lindemann 9780190059316
RRP: £23.00£20.79Feminist ethics addresses how power, through gender, affects moral practice and theory. This enterprise is more important than ever before in an age of sharpened attention and concern for feminist issues and injustices. Yet the number of terms which have... -
Wittgenstein and Phenomenology by Oskari Kuusela
RRP: £39.99£35.06This volume of new essays explores the relationship between the thought of Wittgenstein and the key figures of phenomenology: Husserl, Heidegger, Levinas, Merleau-Ponty and Sartre. It is the first book to provide an overview of how Wittgenstein's... -
The Fourfold: Reading the Late Heidegger by Andrew J. Mitchell 9780810130760
RRP: £34.95£29.82Heidegger's later thought is a thinking of things, so argues Andrew J. Mitchell in The Fourfold. Heidegger understands these things in terms of what he names "the fourfold"-a convergence of relationships bringing together the earth, the sky, divinities,... -
The Conflict Of Interpretations: Essays In Hermeneutics by Paul Ricoeur
RRP: £29.95£27.09This collection brings together twenty-two essays by Paul Ricoeur under the topics of structuralism, psychoanalysis, hermeneutics, and religion. In dramatic conciseness, the essays illuminate the work of one of the leading philosophers of the day. Those... -
Hegel's Idea of a Phenomenology of Spirit by Michael Forster
RRP: £60.00£57.55Hegel's "Phenomenology of Spirit" has acquired a paradoxical reputation as one of the most important and most impenetrable and inconsistent philosophical works. In this study Michael N. Forster advances his own reading of Hegel's text. His approach... -
Crossing the Rubicon: The Borderlands of Philosophy and Theology by Emmanuel Falque
£23.32In France today, philosophy-phenomenology in particular-finds itself in a paradoxical relation to theology. Some debate a "theological turn." Others disavow theological arguments as if such arguments would tarnish their philosophical integrity, while... -
The Return of Nature: On the Beyond of Sense by John Sallis
£19.19John Sallis dismantles the traditional conception of nature in this book of imagination and the cosmos. In the thought of Emerson, Hegel, and Schelling, Sallis discerns the seeds of an understanding of nature that goes against the modern technological... -
Frithjof Schuon and the Perennial Philosophy by Harry Oldmeadow 9781935493099
RRP: £22.95£16.13This is the first comprehensive study of the intellectual and spiritual message of world-renowned philosopher Frithjof Schuon (1907-1998), the foremost spokesman of the "Perennialist" or "Traditionalist" school of comparative religious thought. Intended... -
Political Concepts: A Critical Lexicon by Adi Ophir
£30.74Deciding what is and what is not political is a fraught, perhaps intractably opaque matter. Just who decides the question; on what grounds; to what ends-these seem like properly political questions themselves. Deciding what is political and what is not... -
Role Playing and Identity: The Limits of Theatre as Metaphor by Bruce Wilshire
£20.41"[Wilshire] establishes a phenomenology of theatre, a theory of enactment, and a theory of appearance, none of which American theatre . . . has ever had." -Performing Arts Journal" . . . Wilshire makes unique contributions to understanding major aspects... -
Place and Phenomenology by Janet Donohoe 9781786600301
£39.64This cross-disciplinary book uses phenomenological method and description to explore questions of place, underscoring the significance of phenomenology for place and place for phenomenology. The book brings together prominent scholars in phenomenology... -
Exploring the Meaning of Life: An Anthology and Guide by Joshua W. Seachris
RRP: £45.95£40.51Much more than just an anthology, this survey of humanity's search for the meaning of life includes the latest contributions to the debate, a judicious selection of key canonical essays, and insightful commentary by internationally respected philosophers... -
Kierkegaard: Existence and Identity in a Post-Secular World by Alastair Hannay 9781350144682
£24.11In his perceptive and provocative new book, Alastair Hannay contests two prejudices that have dogged the appreciation of Soren Kierkegaard's writings. These are that to grasp their contemporary impact, the religious focus must be referred to his personal... -
Notes to Literature by Theodor W. Adorno 9780231069137
RRP: £30.00£27.39-- Susan SontagBook InformationISBN 9780231069137Author Theodor W. AdornoFormat PaperbackPage Count 350Imprint Columbia University PressPublisher Columbia University Press -
The Madness of Vision: On Baroque Aesthetics by Christine Buci-Glucksmann 9780821420935
£21.67Christine Buci-Glucksmann's The Madness of Vision is one of the most influential studies in phenomenological aesthetics of the baroque. Integrating the work of Merleau-Ponty with Lacanian psychoanalysis, Renaissance studies in optics, and... -
Experience Embodied: Early Modern Accounts of the Human Place in Nature by Anik Waldow
RRP: £85.00£61.85Anik Waldow develops an account of embodied experience that extends from Descartes' conception of the human body as firmly integrated into the causal play of nature, to Kant's understanding of anthropology as a discipline that provides us with guidance... -
True Freedom: Spinoza's Practical Philosophy by Brent Adkins 9780739139400
£38.76True Freedom: Spinoza's Practical Philosophy is a straightforward presentation of Spinoza's philosophy focused on the issue of how one might live. The book is unique among recent Spinoza scholarship in the way in which it centers on the ethical component... -
The Political Philosophy of Fenelon by Ryan Patrick Hanley
£29.60Fenelon was a nuanced and influential diagnostician of the ills of European society, one who carefully analysed phenomena as wide-ranging and complex as egocentrism, authoritarianism, and imperialism. Despite his influence there has been to date no... -
The Rigor of Things: Conversations with Dan Arbib by Jean-Luc Marion
£26.50In a series of conversations, Jean-Luc Marion reconstructs a career's path in the history of philosophy, theology, and phenomenology. Discussing such concepts as the event, the gift, and the saturated phenomenon, Marion elaborates the rigor displayed by... -
Feminist Experiences: Foucauldian and Phenomenological Investigations by Johanna Oksala 9780810132405
RRP: £32.95£27.10Feminist Experiences develops and defends a distinctive understanding of feminist philosophy as social critique. Feminist philosophy is essentially a political endeavor, Johanna Oksala argues, aiming to expose, analyze, and ultimately change gendered... -
Being and Truth by Martin Heidegger 9780253020826
£22.49In these lectures, delivered in 1933-1934 while he was Rector of the University of Freiburg and an active supporter of the National Socialist regime, Martin Heidegger addresses the history of metaphysics and the notion of truth from Heraclitus to Hegel... -
The Philosophy of Body by Michael A Proudfoot
RRP: £22.75£19.97This timely collection brings together new discussions of the body from seven leading contributors with a wide variety of philosophical outlooks. The papers deal with the role of the body in the concept of the self, in perceptions, intention and action,... -
Poetics of Imagining: Modern and Post-modern by Richard Kearney 9780823218721
£30.74What is Imagination? What is the relationship between aesthetics and ethics in a contemporary civilization dominated by the image? How can we reconcile the right to imagine with the right to justice? Are the claims of artistic creativity and moral... -
Adorno and Heidegger: Philosophical Questions by Iain MacDonald
RRP: £25.00£19.52Adorno and Heidegger explores the conflictual history of two important traditions of twentieth-century European thought: the critical theory of Theodor W. Adorno and the ontology of Martin Heidegger. As is well known, there has been little productive... -
Force of Imagination: The Sense of the Elemental by John Sallis
£19.19Force of ImaginationThe Sense of the ElementalJohn SallisA bold and original investigation into how imagination shapes thought and feeling."This is a bold new direction for the author, one that he takes in an arresting and convincing manner. . . . a... -
Feminist Phenomenology and Medicine by Kristin Zeiler 9781438450063
RRP: £26.97£23.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438450063Author Kristin ZeilerFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York... -
Corpus II: Writings on Sexuality by Jean-Luc Nancy
£22.49In this outstanding new collection, philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy takes up his perennial themes-community, embodiment, being-with, literature, politics, sense, and meaning-as part of a deep and mature appreciation of the fact that we are richly, joyfully,... -
Deleuze and the Body by Laura Guillaume
RRP: £28.99£23.38Deleuze and the Body puts the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze to work to trace the multiple lines of thought and affect that inhabit the ideas and attitudes to the body. It analyses how bodies are formed in certain relationships: to power, to creativity and... -
Matter and Memory by Henri Bergson 9780486434155
£11.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486434155Author Henri BergsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Fenelon: Moral and Political Writings by Ryan Patrick Hanley
RRP: £41.99£35.89Fenelon is arguably one of the most neglected major philosophers of early modernity. His political masterwork was the most-read book in eighteenth-century France after the Bible, and yet today even specialists rarely engage his work directly. This... -
The Brain-Eye: New Histories of Modern Painting by Eric Alliez 9781783480685
£48.10A detailed and inventive study of the thinking at work in modern painting, drawing on a formidable body of scholarly evidence to challenge modernist and phenomenological readings of art history, The Brain-Eye presents a series of interlinked 'case... -
This Incredible Need to Believe by Julia Kristeva 9780231147842
£39.12"Unlike Freud, I do not claim that religion is just an illusion and a source of neurosis. The time has come to recognize, without being afraid of 'frightening' either the faithful or the agnostics, that the history of Christianity prepared the world for... -
What Is Philosophy? by Giorgio Agamben
£15.07In attempting to answer the question posed by this book's title, Giorgio Agamben does not address the idea of philosophy itself. Rather, he turns to the apparently most insignificant of its components: the phonemes, letters, syllables, and words that... -
Phenomenal Concepts and Phenomenal Knowledge: New Essays on Consciousness and Physicalism by Torin Alter 9780195171655
£70.36Consciousness has long been regarded as the biggest stumbling block for the view that the mind is physical. This volume collects thirteen new papers on this problem by leading philosophers including Torin Alter, Ned Block, David Chalmers, Daniel Dennett,... -
The Reinvention of Social Practices: Essays on Felix Guattari by Gary Genosko 9781786605061
£36.07The Reinvention of Social Practices shows the relevance of Felix Guattari's thought for the analysis of contemporary social and cultural encounters, ranging across an alternative 'skateboard' school, informatic subjugations, urban ecological dilemmas,... -
Pragmatism and Feminism: Reweaving the Social Fabric by Charlene Haddock Seigfried
RRP: £30.00£29.25Though many pioneering feminists were deeply influenced by American pragmatism, their contemporary followers have generally ignored that tradition because of its marginalization by a philosophical mainstream intent on neutral analyses devoid of...