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Lectures on Imagination by Paul Ricoeur 9780226820538
RRP: $46.44$39.18Ricoeur's theory of productive imagination in previously unpublished lectures. The eminent philosopher Paul Ricoeur was devoted to the imagination. These previously unpublished lectures offer Ricoeur's most significant and sustained reflections on... -
We Are Not Born Submissive: How Patriarchy Shapes Women's Lives by Manon Garcia 9780691223209
RRP: $24.50$19.08A philosophical exploration of female submission, using insights from feminist thinkers-especially Simone de Beauvoir-to reveal the complexities of women's reality and lived experienceWhat role do women play in the perpetuation of patriarchy? On the one... -
Existentialists and Mystics: Writings on Philosophy and Literature by Iris Murdoch 9780140264920
$22.27Best known as the author of 26 novels, Iris Murdoch was also an accomplished essayist and critic who taught philosophy for many years at Oxford University. This work gathers for the first time in one volume her most influential essays and shorter pieces... -
Embodiment and Experience: The Existential Ground of Culture and Self by Thomas J. Csordas
$34.09Students of culture have been increasingly concerned with the ways in which cultural values are 'inscribed' on the body. These essays go beyond this passive construal of the body to a position in which embodiment is understood as the existential... -
Beyond Immanence: The Theological Vision of Kierkegaard and Barth by Alan J Torrance
RRP: $38.70$24.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802868039Author Alan J TorranceFormat HardbackPage Count 407Imprint William B Eerdmans Publishing CoPublisher William B Eerdmans Publishing... -
Beyond Good and Evil / On the Genealogy of Morality: Volume 8 by Friedrich Nietzsche
RRP: $28.37$24.24Beyond Good and Evil is Nietzsche's first sustained philosophical treatment of issues important to him. Unlike the expository prose of the essayistic period (1872-76), the stylized forays and jabs of the aphoristic period (1878-82), and the... -
The Incorporeal: Ontology, Ethics, and the Limits of Materialism by Elizabeth Grosz 9780231181624
RRP: $38.70$29.95Philosophy has inherited a powerful impulse to embrace either dualism or a reductive monism-either a radical separation of mind and body or the reduction of mind to body. But from its origins in the writings of the Stoics, the first thoroughgoing... -
Political Writings by Theodore Dreiser
RRP: $50.31$43.72Political Writings offers an abundance of newly translated essays by Simone de Beauvoir that demonstrate a heretofore unknown side of her political philosophy. The writings in this volume range from Beauvoir's surprising 1952 defense of the misogynistic... -
Fanon and the Crisis of European Man: An Essay on Philosophy and the Human Sciences by Lewis R. Gordon
RRP: $51.59$45.23As the first book to analyze the work of Fanon as an existential-phenomenological of human sciences and liberation philosopher, Gordon deploys Fanon's work to illuminate how the "bad faith" of European science and civilization have philosophically... -
The Personalism of Edith Stein: A Synthesis of Thomism and Phenomenology by Robert McNamara 9780813237473
RRP: $96.75$78.10Edith Stein's life and thought intersect with many important movements of life and thought in the twentieth century. Through her life and eventual martyrdom, she gave witness to the primacy of truth and faith in the face of political totalitarianism, and... -
Who Needs a World View? by Raymond Geuss
RRP: $41.22$31.82One of the world's most provocative philosophers attacks the obsession with comprehensive intellectual systems-the perceived need for a world view.We live in a unitary cosmos created and cared for in all its details by a benevolent god. That, for... -
Kierkegaard's "Fear and Trembling": A Reader's Guide by Clare Carlisle
$35.42A concise and accessible introduction, this "Reader's Guide" takes students through Kierkegaard's most important work and a key nineteenth century philosophical text. Soren Kierkegaard was without question one of the most important and influential... -
Modern Times: Selected Non-fiction by Jean-Paul Sartre
RRP: $19.34$14.13MODERN TIMES brings together an extraordinary collection of Sartrean gems, many of which have never been translated into English before. From writings on food and sex to a mini portrait of his great friend and rival, Albert Camus, the volume contains an... -
Turning Emotion Inside Out: Affective Life Beyond the Subject by Edward S. Casey
RRP: $45.09$37.13In Turning Emotion Inside Out, Edward S. Casey challenges the commonplace assumption that our emotions are to be located inside our minds, brains, hearts, or bodies. Instead, he invites us to rethink our emotions as fundamentally, although not entirely,... -
The Heidegger Reader by Gunter Figal
RRP: $36.11$30.52The Heidegger Reader brings key texts from the entire course of Heidegger's philosophical career into one volume. Many of the selections, translated here for the first time, offer new insight into Heidegger's thought for both the beginning student and... -
Converts to the Real: Catholicism and the Making of Continental Philosophy by Edward Baring
RRP: $61.86$48.94In the most wide-ranging history of phenomenology since Herbert Spiegelberg's The Phenomenological Movement over fifty years ago, Baring uncovers a new and unexpected force-Catholic intellectuals-behind the growth of phenomenology in the early twentieth... -
A Gabriel Marcel Reader by Gabriel Marcel
RRP: $25.80$25.16French existentialist philosopher Gabriel Marcel (1883-1973) is one of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century. The central themes of his philosophy, which are developed with a blend of realism, concreteness, and common sense, continue to... -
The Quotable Kierkegaard by Soren Kierkegaard 9780691155302
RRP: $28.38$20.96"Why I so much prefer autumn to spring is that in the autumn one looks at heaven--in the spring at the earth."--Soren Kierkegaard The father of existentialism, Soren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) was a philosopher who could write like an angel. With only a... -
Existentialism: A Reconstruction by David E. Cooper
RRP: $39.93$35.41First published in 1990, Existentialism is widely regarded as a classic introductory survey of the topic, and has helped to renew interest in existentialist philosophy. The author places existentialism within the great traditions of philosophy, and... -
The Phenomenology Reader by Tim Mooney 9780415224222
RRP: $61.91$54.45The Phenomenology Reader is the first comprehensive anthology of seminal writings in phenomenology. Carefully selected readings chart phenomenology's most famous thinkers, such as Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre and Derrida, as well as less well known figures... -
The Doctor and the Soul: From Psychotherapy to Logotherapy by Dr Viktor E Frankl
RRP: $21.93$13.12Apologies 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)... -
Plants in Place: A Phenomenology of the Vegetal by Edward S. Casey 9780231213455
RRP: $28.38$21.92Plants are commonly considered immobile, in contrast to humans and other animals. But vegetal existence involves many place-based forms of change: stems growing upward, roots spreading outward, fronds unfurling in response to sunlight, seeds traveling... -
Hegel: The Philosopher of Freedom by Klaus Vieweg 9781503630574
RRP: $46.44$31.13A monumental new biography of a pivotal yet poorly understood pioneer in modern philosophy. When a painter once told Goethe that he wanted to paint the most celebrated man of the age, Goethe directed him to Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. Hegel worked... -
Sartre: A Philosophical Biography by Thomas R. Flynn 9781107476011
RRP: $34.82$29.99Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980) was one of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century. Regarded as the father of existentialist philosophy, he was also a political critic, moralist, playwright, novelist, and author of biographies and short... -
The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology: An Introduction to Phenomenological Philosophy by Edmund Husserl
$39.00The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology, Husserl's last great work, is important both for its content and for the influence it has had on other philosophers. In this book, which remained unfinished at his death, Husserl attempts... -
Philosophy of Existence by Karl Jaspers
RRP: $33.53$28.43Philosophy of Existence was first presented to the public as a series of lectures invited by The German Academy of Frankfurt. In preparing these lectures Jaspers, whom the Nazis had already dismissed from his professorship at Heidelberg, knew that he was... -
Heidegger's 'Being and Time': A Reader's Guide by William Blattner 9781350328099
RRP: $28.37$23.35Heidegger's Being and Time is one of the most influential and controversial philosophical treatises of the 20th century. But what exactly are the ideas that so profoundly impacted Sartre's existentialism, influenced Gadamer's hermeneutics, and... -
We Are Not Born Submissive: How Patriarchy Shapes Women's Lives by Manon Garcia
RRP: $32.25$24.74A philosophical exploration of female submission, using insights from feminist thinkers-especially Simone de Beauvoir-to reveal the complexities of women's reality and lived experienceWhat role do women play in the perpetuation of patriarchy? On the one... -
The Family Idiot: Gustave Flaubert, 1821-1857, An Abridged Edition by Jean-Paul Sartre
RRP: $27.09$26.20An approachable abridgment of Sartre's important analysis of Flaubert. From 1981 to 1994, the University of Chicago Press published a five-volume translation of Jean-Paul Sartre's The Family Idiot: Gustave Flaubert, 1821-1857, a sprawling masterwork by... -
Philosopher of the Heart: The Restless Life of Soren Kierkegaard by Clare Carlisle 9781250798428
RRP: $25.80$17.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250798428Author Clare CarlisleFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USAWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm) 221mm * 142mm * 28mm -
Basic Writings of Nietzsche by Friedrich Nietzsche 9780679600008
RRP: $32.25$21.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679600008Author Friedrich NietzscheFormat HardbackPage Count 864Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 890gDimensions(mm)... -
Tool-Being: Heidegger and the Metaphysics of Objects by Graham Harman
RRP: $38.69$34.57In this groundbreaking work, the author explains Heidegger's famous tool-analysis and then extends it beyond Heidegger's narrower theory of human practical activity to create an ontology of objects themselves. A welcome alternative to the linguistic turn... -
The Meaning of Life and Death: Ten Classic Thinkers on the Ultimate Question by Michael Hauskeller
RRP: $32.24$28.10What is the point of living? If we are all going to die anyway, if nothing will remain of whatever we achieve in this life, why should we bother trying to achieve anything in the first place? Can we be mortal and still live a meaningful life? Questions... -
Heidegger's Hut by Adam Sharr
RRP: $23.21$15.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262533669Author Adam SharrFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 191mm * 191mm * 8mm -
Existential Medicine: Essays on Health and Illness by Kevin Aho 9781786604835
RRP: $47.73$45.68Existential Medicine explores the recent impact that the philosophies of existentialism, phenomenology, and hermeneutics have had on the health care professions. A growing body of scholarship drawing primarily on the work of Martin Heidegger and other... -
Heideggerian Existential Therapy: Philosophical Ideas in Practice by Mo Mandić 9781032378251
RRP: $32.24$28.13Heideggerian Existential Therapy focuses on Martin Heidegger's philosophy in order to provide both a wider accessibility as well as understanding of its relevance to therapeutic practice.This book unveils in great depth the core tenets of Heidegger's... -
The Sickness Unto Death: A New Translation by Soren Kierkegaard 9781324091240
RRP: $27.08$21.87First published in 1849 under the pseudonym "Anti-Climacus," Soren Kierkegaard's The Sickness unto Death endures as a seminal text in the history of theology and moral philosophy, and an essential companion to his earlier works. Beginning with the... -
New Work New Culture: Work we want and a culture that strengthens us by Frithjof Bergmann
RRP: $25.79$21.89The "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... -
Humankind: Solidarity with Non-Human People by Timothy Morton
RRP: $21.92$18.19What is it that makes humans human? As science and technology challenge the boundaries between life and non-life, between organic and inorganic, this ancient question is more timely than ever. Acclaimed Object-Oriented philosopher Timothy Morton invites... -
Heideggerian Marxism by Herbert Marcuse
RRP: $38.69$33.53The Frankfurt School philosopher Herbert Marcuse (1898-1979) studied with Martin Heidegger at Freiburg University from 1928 to 1932 and completed a dissertation on Hegel's theory of historicity under Heidegger's supervision. During these years, Marcuse...