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Hermann Hesse's Fictions of the Self: Autobiography and the Confessional Imagination by Eugene L. Stelzig 9780691606316
RRP: $115.50Booksplease Price: $97.73This masterful synthesis of criticism and biography surveys all of Hermann Hesse's major works and many of his minor ones in relation to the intricate psychological design of his entire life history... -
Nietzsche's Great Politics by Hugo Drochon 9780691166346
RRP: $105.00Booksplease Price: $88.12Nietzsche's impact on the world of culture, philosophy, and the arts is uncontested, but his political thought remains mired in controversy. By placing Nietzsche back in his late-nineteenth-century... -
With the World at Heart: Studies in the Secular Today by Thomas A. Carlson
Booksplease Price: $56.03What is the role of love in opening and sustaining the temporal worlds we inhabit? One of the leading scholars in philosophy and the history of religious thought, Thomas A. Carlson here traces this... -
History of Philosophy: Vol 7: 18th and 19th Century German Philosophy by Frederick C. Copleston
Booksplease Price: $61.26Copleston, an Oxford Jesuit and specialist in the history of philosophy, first created his history as an introduction for Catholic ecclesiastical seminaries. However, since its first publication (the... -
Permanent Crisis: The Humanities in a Disenchanted Age by Paul Reitter
Booksplease Price: $39.12Leads scholars and anyone who cares about the humanities into more effectively analyzing the fate of the humanities and digging into the very idea of the humanities as a way to find meaning and... -
Deep Refrains: Music, Philosophy, and the Ineffable by Michael Gallope 9780226483559
Booksplease Price: $245.57We often say that music is ineffable, that it does not refer to anything outside of itself. But if music, in all its sensuous flux, does not mean anything in particular, might it still have a special... -
Deep Refrains: Music, Philosophy, and the Ineffable by Michael Gallope
Booksplease Price: $65.88We often say that music is ineffable, that it does not refer to anything outside of itself. But if music, in all its sensuous flux, does not mean anything in particular, might it still have a special... -
The Jester and the Sages: Mark Twain in Conversation with Nietzsche, Freud, and Marx by Forrest G. Robinson 9780826219527
RRP: $83.90Booksplease Price: $77.09The Jester and the Sages approaches the life and work of Mark Twain by placing him in conversation with three eminent philosophers of his time - Friedrich Nietzsche, Sigmund Freud, and Karl Marx... -
Merleau-Ponty and the Human Animal Relation: From Eros to Environmental Responsibility Chandler D. Rogers 9781399544375
RRP: $189.00Booksplease Price: $171.74Contemporary environmental crises and general feelings of estrangement from the earth and its creatures can be traced, at least in part, to deficiencies in intimacy. This book begins from... -
Germany's New Conservatism: Its History and Dilemma in the Twentieth Century by Klemens von Klemperer 9780691622644
RRP: $84.00Booksplease Price: $72.14This is at once a chapter in the history of ideas and, by reason of its focus on the Weimar Republic, a case study. The author first offers a stimulating approach to a definition of that much abused... -
Dialectical Readings: Three Types of Interpretations by Stephen N. Dunning 9780271025582
Booksplease Price: $78.52Interpretation pervades human thinking. Whether perception or experience, spoken word or written theory, whatever enters our consciousness must be interpreted in order to be understood. Every area of... -
Kant and the Possibility of Progress: From Modern Hopes to Postmodern Anxieties by Paul Wilford
RRP: $109.20Booksplease Price: $90.34Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) transformed the philosophical, cultural, and religious landscape of modern Europe. Emphasizing the priority of practical reason and moral autonomy, Kant's radically original... -
Nietzsche-Archiv by Klassik Stiftung Weimar 9783422987166
RRP: $27.30Booksplease Price: $24.91Englische Ausgabe Die Villa Silberblick, in der Friedrich Nietzsche geistig umnachtet seine letzten Lebensjahre verbrachte, war ursprunglich ein burgerliches Wohnhaus. Nietzsches Schwester Elisabeth... -
Reversibility – Politics under Conditions of Uncertainty Harmut Behr 9780228020844
RRP: $191.10Booksplease Price: $148.05Western modernity is characterized by instrumental relations between humans and nature, as well as between humans themselves, that have caused irreversible environmental and social exploitation and... -
Mood and Trope: The Rhetoric and Poetics of Affect by John Brenkman
Booksplease Price: $56.03In Mood and Trope, John Brenkman introduces two provocative propositions to affect theory: that human emotion is intimately connected to persuasion and figurative language; and that literature,... -
Seven Ways of Looking at Pointless Suffering: What Philosophy Can Tell Us about the Hardest Mystery of All Scott Samuelson 9780226845654
RRP: $33.60Booksplease Price: $30.98A reflection on the role of suffering in human existence. It's right there in the Book of Job: "Man is born unto trouble as the sparks fly upward." Suffering is an inescapable part of the human... -
Seven Ways of Looking at Pointless Suffering: What Philosophy Can Tell Us about the Hardest Mystery of All by Scott Samuelson
Booksplease Price: $48.78It's right there in the Book of Job: "Man is born unto trouble as the sparks fly upward." Suffering is an inescapable part of the human condition--which leads to a question that has proved just as... -
The Sacred Life of Modernist Literature: Immanence, Occultism, and the Making of the Modern World by Allan Kilner-Johnson 9781350255302
Booksplease Price: $222.52Probing the relationship between modernist literary experimentation and several key strands of occult practice which emerged in Europe from roughly 1894 to 1944, this book sets the work of leading... -
Why Nietzsche Still?: Reflections on Drama, Culture, and Politics by Alan D. Schrift 9780520218529
RRP: $60.90Booksplease Price: $56.66"Why Nietzsche still?" These essays by a distinguished group of contributors suggest a number of answers. They show that Nietzsche still has a great deal to say to those who read him with an eye... -
Modern German Thought from Kant to Habermas - An Annotated German-Language Reader by Henk de Berg
Booksplease Price: $70.39The first book that presents key original texts from the modern German philosophical tradition to English-language students and scholars of German, with introductions, commentaries, and annotations... -
Complaint: Grievance among Friends by Avital Ronell
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $35.03"It is not, nor it cannot come to good. But break, my heart, for I must hold my tongue." Thus spoke Hamlet, one of the great kvetchers of literature. Every day, gripers challenge our patience and... -
Philosophies of Art and Beauty: Selected Readings in Aesthetics from Plato to Heidegger by Albert Hofstadter
Booksplease Price: $56.66This anthology is remarkable not only for the selections themselves, among which the Schelling and the Heidegger essays were translated especially for this volume, but also for the editors' general... -
Mood and Trope: The Rhetoric and Poetics of Affect by John Brenkman 9780226673127
RRP: $163.80Booksplease Price: $158.40In Mood and Trope, John Brenkman introduces two provocative propositions to affect theory: that human emotion is intimately connected to persuasion and figurative language; and that literature,... -
Philology of the Flesh by John T Hamilton 9780226572826
Booksplease Price: $74.30As the Christian doctrine of Incarnation asserts, "the Word became Flesh." Yet, while this metaphor is grounded in Christian tradition, its varied functions far exceed any purely theological import... -
The Enemy's House Divided by Robert Eden 9781469614625
Booksplease Price: $79.30Originally published in 1924 and available here in English for the first time, The Enemy's House Divided is Charles de Gaulle's analysis of the major errors that led the Germans to disaster in World... -
Jean-Paul Sartre by Christine Daigle
RRP: $199.48Booksplease Price: $190.43A critical figure in twentieth-century literature and philosophy, Jean-Paul Sartre changed the course of critical thought, and claimed a new, important role for the intellectual. Christine Daigle... -
The Sacred Life of Modernist Literature: Immanence, Occultism, and the Making of the Modern World by Allan Kilner-Johnson 9781350255340
Booksplease Price: $66.19Probing the relationship between modernist literary experimentation and several key strands of occult practice which emerged in Europe from roughly 1894 to 1944, this book sets the work of leading... -
Apollo, Dionysus, and the bermensch at Sinai by Rinat Harash 9798897831029
Booksplease Price: $206.70The biblical account of the events at Sinai and the figure of Moses is a foundational narrative of both Jewish and Western civilization, yet it has traditionally been analyzed only within a religious... -
Jean-Paul Sartre Christine Daigle (Brock University, Canada) 9780415435659
RRP: $50.38Booksplease Price: $49.43A critical figure in twentieth-century literature and philosophy, Jean-Paul Sartre changed the course of critical thought, and claimed a new, important role for the intellectual. Christine Daigle... -
Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book For All And None; Translated By Thomas Common by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche 9789353361433
RRP: $35.70Booksplease Price: $33.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789353361433Author Friedrich NietzschePage Count 330Imprint -
Revolution in Bavaria, 1918-1919: The Eisner Regime and the Soviet Republic by Allan Mitchell
RRP: $105.00Booksplease Price: $88.12The tangled affairs in Bavaria at the close of World War I constitute a unique and important part of the early Weimar Republic. This study of the 1918 revolution, based on archival sources such as... -
A Philosophy of Hope Lars Svendsen 9781789149432
RRP: $31.40Booksplease Price: $24.70In this book Lars Svendsen embarks on a profound exploration of the nature of hope, asking what exactly hope is and how it differs from related phenomena such as wishful thinking. He argues that hope... -
The Non-Modern Crisis of the Modern University Bret Leraul 9780810146846
RRP: $50.38Booksplease Price: $44.39A landmark work of critical theory about the Western university from the Southern Cone Renowned Chilean philosopher Willy Thayer's La crisis no moderna de la universidad moderna, first published in... -
Prophets of Extremity: Nietzsche, Heidegger, Foucault, Derrida by Allan Megill 9780520060289
RRP: $60.90Booksplease Price: $56.66In this book, the author presents an interpretation of four thinkers: Nietzsche, Heidegger, Foucault, and Derrida. In an attempt to place these thinkers within the wider context of the... -
Fredric Jameson: The Project of Dialectical Criticism by Robert T. Tally
RRP: $56.68Booksplease Price: $48.91Fredric Jameson is the most important Marxist critic in the world today. While consistently operating at the cutting edge of literary and cultural studies, Jameson has remained committed to seemingly... -
Plato in L.A. - Artists' Visions Donatien Grau 9781606065747
RRP: $46.18Booksplease Price: $42.36No thinker in the West has had a wider and more sustained influence than the ancient Greek philosopher Plato. From philosophy to drama, religion to politics, it is difficult to find a current... -
The Philosopher's Gaze: Modernity in the Shadows of Enlightenment by David Michael Levin
RRP: $111.30Booksplease Price: $90.36David Michael Levin's ongoing exploration of the moral character and enlightenment-potential of vision takes a new direction in The Philosopher's Gaze. Levin examines texts by Descartes, Husserl,... -
Punishment: Theory and Practice by Mark Tunick 9780520077379
RRP: $111.30Booksplease Price: $100.07What actions should be punished? Should plea-bargaining be allowed? How should sentencing be determined? In this original, penetrating study, Mark Tunick explores not only why society punishes... -
Nietzsche on Love by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche 9781734452570
RRP: $18.80Booksplease Price: $15.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781734452570Author Friedrich NietzscheFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Impr -
Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche 9781513219936
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $22.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781513219936Author Friedrich NietzscheFormat HardbackPage Count 168Impri