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At a time where the relevance of the social sciences is under threat, this innovative book offers a speculative experimentation on the philosophy and methodology of the social sciences to rethink what 'relevance' is, and to cultivate a new ethos of...

An 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,...

Moderately Modern wears its thesis on its sleeve. Modern men and women, those thoroughly imbued with modernity's ideas, hopes, and projects, need to moderate themselves. They need to rein themselves in, they need to think and act beyond their comfort...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781636160788Author Jackie Vernon-ThompsonFormat HardbackPage Count 210Imprint Opportune Independent Publishing Co.Publisher Opportune Independent Publishing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781989785249Author Marcus EpictetusFormat HardbackPage Count 178Imprint Kontakt DigitalPublisher Kontakt DigitalWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

For more than fifty years, Yi-Fu Tuan has carried the study of humanistic geography - what John K. Wright early in the twentieth century called geosophy, a blending of geography and philosophy - to new heights, offering with each new book a fresh and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780931779534Author Hiram CrespoFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint Humanist PressPublisher Humanist PressWeight(grams) 231gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604501063Author Henri Louis BergsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint ARC ManorPublisher ARC ManorWeight(grams) 150gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 6mm

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780825447341Author Joshua PorterFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Kregel Publications,U.S.Publisher Kregel Publications,U.S.Weight(grams)...

This Element explores the relationship between phenomenology and mathematics. Its focus is the mathematical thought of Edmund Husserl, founder of phenomenology, but other phenomenologists and phenomenologically-oriented mathematicians, including Weyl,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780880101158Author Jochen BockemuhlFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint SteinerBooks, IncPublisher Anthroposophic Press Inc

Challenging the normalization of a capitalist reality in which environmental destruction and catastrophe have become 'second nature', Towards a Critical Theory of Nature offers a bold new theoretical understanding of the current crisis via the work of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438488967Author Kenneth LibermanFormat PaperbackPage Count 510Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York...

Walter Lowrie's classic, bestselling translation of Soren Kierkegaard's most important and popular books remains unmatched for its readability and literary quality. Fear and Trembling and The Sickness Unto Death established Kierkegaard as the father of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781551526027Author Francois CaillatFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Arsenal Pulp PressPublisher Arsenal Pulp PressWeight(grams) 210g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781953035202Author Graham HarmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 382Imprint Punctum BooksPublisher Punctum BooksWeight(grams) 376gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm *...

In this comprehensive introduction, Albert Spencer presents a new story of the origins and development of American pragmatism, from its emergence through the interaction of European and Indigenous American cultures to its contemporary status as a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781515435037Author David HumeFormat HardbackPage Count 116Imprint A & D PublishingPublisher A & D PublishingWeight(grams) 345gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Marginalized by the scientific age with its metaphysical and philosophical systems, the lessons of the senses have been overtaken by the dominance of language and the information revolution. Exploring the deleterious effects of the systematic downgrading...

Although Martin Heidegger is nearly as notorious as Friedrich Nietzsche for embracing the death of God, the philosopher himself acknowledged that Christianity accompanied him at every stage of his career. In Heidegger's Confessions, Ryan Coyne isolates a...

This concise and accessible textbook examines German philosopher Martin Heidegger's entire body of work through the lens of his first and best-known book, Being and Time. An influential, twentieth-century scholar, Heidegger is often studied by opposing...

How are the unjustified dominations of women and other humans connected to the unjustified domination of animals and nonhuman nature? What are the characteristics of oppressive conceptual frameworks and systems of unjustified domination? How does an...

Many contemporary constructivists are particularly attuned to Dewey's penetrating criticism of traditional epistemology, which offers rich alternatives for understanding processes of learning and education, knowledge and truth, and experience and culture...

This title explores Derrida's major work through readings of key passages by such leading scholars as Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, J. Hillis Miller and Avital Ronnell. With new readings from twenty-one internationally renowned scholars, "Reading Derrida's...

For all of Robert Louis Stevenson’s achievements in fiction, many of his contemporaries thought of him primarily as an essayist. His essays, known for their intellectual substance, emotional force, and stylistic vitality, were widely considered the best...

Words 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...

Overcoming Onto-theology is a stunning collection of essays by Merold Westphal, one of America's leading continental philosophers of religion, in which Westphal carefully explores the nature and the structure of a postmodern Christian philosophy. Written...

Augustine of Hippo, indisputably one of the most important figures for the study of memory, is credited with establishing memory as the inner source of selfhood and locus of the search for God. Yet, those who study memory in Augustine have never before...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983298212Author Peter HarrisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 306Imprint Transformative Studies InstitutePublisher Transformative Studies...

Classic Writings for a Phenomenology of Practice features examples of newly translated classic phenomenological texts that have been largely forgotten or misunderstood. The writings are unique in that they speak to the practice of doing phenomenological...

What would it be like to be privy to the mind of one of the twentieth century's greatest thinkers? John Gerassi had just this opportunity; as a child, his mother and father were very close friends with Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, and the...

Pragmatism-a pluralistic philosophy with kinships to phenomenology, Gestalt psychology, and embodied cognitive science-is resurging across disciplines. It has growing relevance to literary studies, the arts, and religious scholarship, along with branches...

Beginning in 1949, the German novelist and essayist Ernst Junger began a correspondence with the philosopher Martin Heidegger that lasted until Heidegger's death in 1975. This volume contains the first English translation of their complete...

In Negative Certainties, renowned philosopher Jean-Luc Marion challenges some of the most fundamental assumptions we have developed about knowledge: that it is categorical, predicative, and positive. Following Descartes, Kant, and Heidegger, he looks...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590565964Author Aph KoFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Lantern Books,USPublisher Lantern Books,US

Phenomenological Interpretations of Aristotle, the text of a lecture course presented at the University of Freiburg in the winter of 1921-22, was first published in 1985 as volume 61 of Heidegger's collected works. Preceding Being and Time, the work...

This volume explores what phenomenology adds to the enterprise of anthropology, drawing on and contributing to a burgeoning field of social science research inspired by the phenomenological tradition in philosophy. Essays by leading scholars ground their...

Explores the deployment of racial thinking and racial formations in the visual culture of the pre-modern world. The capacious visual archive studied in this volume includes a trove of materials such as annotated or illuminated manuscripts, Renaissance...

This book discusses a subject of particular resonance today when belief - religious and otherwise - can shape the modern world. Complex theories are brought to life by Grayling's skill and accessible style. A book on scepticism from Anthony Grayling is...