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The Discovery of Things: Aristotle's Categories and Their Context by Wolfgang-Rainer Mann
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £78.51Aristotle's Categories can easily seem to be a statement of a naive, pre-philosophical ontology, centered around ordinary items. Wolfgang-Rainer Mann argues that the treatise, in fact, presents a... -
A Theory of the Aphorism: From Confucius to Twitter by Andrew Hui
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £32.82An engaging look at the aphorism, the shortest literary form, across time, languages, and culturesAphorisms-or philosophical short sayings-appear everywhere, from Confucius to Twitter, the Buddha to... -
Poetry at Stake: Lyric Aesthetics and the Challenge of Technology by Carrie Noland
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £41.96Taking seriously Guillaume Apollinaire's wager that twentieth-century poets would one day "mechanize" poetry as modern industry has mechanized the world, Carrie Noland explores poetic attempts to... -
Augustine's Confessions: A Biography by Garry Wills
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.23From Pulitzer Prize-winner Garry Wills, the story of Augustine's ConfessionsIn this brief and incisive book, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Garry Wills tells the story of the Confessions--what... -
Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature: Thirtieth-Anniversary Edition by Richard Rorty 9780691178158
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £16.93When it first appeared in 1979, Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature hit the philosophical world like a bombshell. In it, Richard Rorty argued that, beginning in the seventeenth century, philosophers... -
Art of the Modern Age: Philosophy of Art from Kant to Heidegger by Jean-Marie Schaeffer 9780691144368
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £34.35This is a sweeping and provocative work of aesthetic theory: a trenchant critique of the philosophy of art as it developed from the eighteenth century to the early twentieth century, combined with a... -
Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference - New Edition by Dipesh Chakrabarty
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £26.93First published in 2000, Dipesh Chakrabarty's influential Provincializing Europe addresses the mythical figure of Europe that is often taken to be the original site of modernity in many histories of... -
The Wounded Animal: J. M. Coetzee and the Difficulty of Reality in Literature and Philosophy by Stephen Mulhall
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £36.63In 1997, the Nobel Prize-winning novelist J. M. Coetzee, invited to Princeton University to lecture on the moral status of animals, read a work of fiction about an eminent novelist, Elizabeth... -
Ernst Cassirer: The Last Philosopher of Culture by Edward Skidelsky
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.21This is the first English-language intellectual biography of the German-Jewish philosopher Ernst Cassirer (1874-1945), a leading figure on the Weimar intellectual scene and one of the last and finest... -
Sequel to History: Postmodernism and the Crisis of Representational Time by Elizabeth Deeds Ermarth
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £41.96Sequel to History offers a comprehensive definition of postmodernism as a reformation of time. Elizabeth Deeds Ermarth uses a diversified theoretical approachdrawing on post-structuralism, feminism,... -
Outside Ethics by Raymond Geuss
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £37.43Outside Ethics brings together some of the most important and provocative works by one of the most creative philosophers writing today. Seeking to expand the scope of contemporary moral and political... -
The Faith of a Heretic: Updated Edition by Walter A. Kaufmann
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £18.57Originally published in 1959, The Faith of a Heretic is the most personal statement of the beliefs of Nietzsche biographer and translator Walter Kaufmann. A first-rate philosopher in his own right,... -
A Theory of the Aphorism: From Confucius to Twitter by Andrew Hui 9780691210759
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £17.05An engaging look at the aphorism, the shortest literary form, across time, languages, and culturesAphorisms-or short philosophical sayings-appear everywhere, from Confucius to Twitter, the Buddha to... -
Arendt and Heidegger: The Fate of the Political by Dana R. Villa 9780691044002
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £41.96Theodor Adorno once wrote an essay to "defend Bach against his devotees." In this book Dana Villa does the same for Hannah Arendt, whose sweeping reconceptualization of the nature and value of... -
The Enlightenment: History of an Idea - Updated Edition by Vincenzo Ferrone 9780691161457
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £36.93In this concise and powerful book, one of the world's leading historians of the Enlightenment provides a bracing and clarifying new interpretation of this watershed period. Arguing that philosophical... -
Utopia/Dystopia: Conditions of Historical Possibility by Michael D. Gordin 9780691146980
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £31.30The concepts of utopia and dystopia have received much historical attention. Utopias have traditionally signified the ideal future: large-scale social, political, ethical, and religious spaces that... -
The Enlightenment: History of an Idea - Updated Edition by Vincenzo Ferrone 9780691175768
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £18.57In this concise and powerful book, one of the world's leading historians of the Enlightenment provides a bracing and clarifying new interpretation of this watershed period. Arguing that philosophical... -
Socratic Citizenship by Dana R. Villa
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £36.63Many critics bemoan the lack of civic engagement in America. Tocqueville's "nation of joiners" seems to have become a nation of alienated individuals, disinclined to fulfill the obligations of... -
Hegel and the Spirit: Philosophy as Pneumatology by Alan M. Olson 9780691146690
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £34.35Hegel and the Spirit explores the meaning of Hegel's grand philosophical category, the category of Geist, by way of what Alan Olson terms a pneumatological thesis. Hegel's philosophy of spirit,... -
Essays and Reviews: 1959-2002 by Bernard Williams 9780691168609
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.67Bernard Williams was one of the most important philosophers of the past fifty years, but he was also a distinguished critic and essayist with an elegant style and a rare ability to communicate... -
The Tao of Architecture by Amos lh Tiao Chang 9780691175713
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.90Frank Lloyd Wright first noted the affinity between modern Western architecture and the philosophy of the ancient Chinese writer Laotzu. In this classic work, Amos Ih Tiao Chang expands on that idea,... -
Anthropos Today: Reflections on Modern Equipment by Paul Rabinow 9780691115665
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.02The discipline of anthropology is, at its best, characterized by turbulence, self-examination, and inventiveness. In recent decades, new thinking and practice within the field has certainly reflected... -
Heidegger and Classical Thought by Aaron Turner 9781438499055
RRP: £27.50Booksplease Price: £24.15Explores Martin Heidegger's rich and profound engagement with ancient philosophy and literature and demonstrates both his essential place within the discourse of classical studies and the fundamental... -
The Flame of Eternity: An Interpretation of Nietzsche's Thought by Krzysztof Michalski
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.40The Flame of Eternity provides a reexamination and new interpretation of Nietzsche's philosophy and the central role that the concepts of eternity and time, as he understood them, played in it... -
Chan Insights and Oversights: An Epistemological Critique of the Chan Tradition Bernard Faure 9780691029023
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £41.96For many people attracted to Eastern religions (particularly Zen Buddhism), Asia seems the source of all wisdom. As Bernard Faure examines the study of Chan/Zen from the standpoint of postmodern... -
Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist by Walter A. Kaufmann 9780691160269
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £17.65This classic is the benchmark against which all modern books about Nietzsche are measured. When Walter Kaufmann wrote it in the immediate aftermath of World War II, most scholars outside Germany... -
Philosophical Myths of the Fall by Stephen Mulhall 9780691133928
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.21Did post-Enlightenment philosophers reject the idea of original sin and hence the view that life is a quest for redemption from it? In Philosophical Myths of the Fall, Stephen Mulhall identifies and... -
Utopian Generations: The Political Horizon of Twentieth-Century Literature by Nicholas Brown 9780691122120
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £38.93Utopian Generations develops a powerful interpretive matrix for understanding world literature--one that renders modernism and postcolonial African literature comprehensible in a single framework,... -
The Translation Zone: A New Comparative Literature by Emily Apter 9780691049977
Booksplease Price: £42.60Translation, before 9/11, was deemed primarily an instrument of international relations, business, education, and culture. Today it seems, more than ever, a matter of war and peace. In The... -
Local Histories/Global Designs: Coloniality, Subaltern Knowledges, and Border Thinking by Walter D. Mignolo
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £27.03Local Histories/Global Designs is an extended argument about the "coloniality" of power by one of the most innovative Latin American and Latino scholars. In a shrinking world where sharp dichotomies,... -
Ernst Junger's Philosophy of Technology: Heidegger and the Poetics of the Anthropocene by Vincent Blok 9780367888749
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £41.80This book examines the work of Ernst Junger and its effect on the development of Martin Heidegger's influential philosophy of technology. Vincent Blok offers a unique treatment of Junger's philosophy... -
Dilthey: Philosopher of the Human Studies by Rudolf A. Makkreel 9780691020976
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £79.60The philosopher and historian of culture Wilhelm Dilthey (1833-1911) has had a significant and continuing influence on twentieth-century Continental philosophy and in a broad range of scholarly... -
Plato's Fable: On the Mortal Condition in Shadowy Times by Joshua Mitchell 9780691124384
RRP: £62.00Booksplease Price: £49.59This book is an exploration of Plato's Republic that bypasses arcane scholarly debates. Plato's Fable provides refreshing insight into what, in Plato's view, is the central problem of life: the... -
Being Numerous: Poetry and the Ground of Social Life by Oren Izenberg 9780691148663
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £31.30"Because I am not silent," George Oppen wrote, "the poems are bad." What does it mean for the goodness of an art to depend upon its disappearance? In Being Numerous, Oren Izenberg offers a new way to... -
Kierkegaard's Concept of Despair by Michael Theunissen 9780691163123
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.21The literature on Kierkegaard is often content to paraphrase. By contrast, Michael Theunissen articulates one of Kierkegaard's central ideas, his theory of despair, in a detailed and comprehensible... -
Neuroscience and Education: A Philosophical Appraisal Clarence Joldersma 9780815381983
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £36.66This volume makes a philosophical contribution to the application of neuroscience in education. It frames neuroscience research in novel ways around educational conceptualizing and practices, while... -
Life Is Short: An Appropriately Brief Guide to Making It More Meaningful by Dean Rickles
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.34Why life's shortness-more than anything else-is what makes it meaningfulDeath might seem to render pointless all our attempts to create a meaningful life. Doesn't meaning require transcending death... -
The Essays of Erich Neumann, Volume 2: Creative Man: Five Essays by Erich Neumann 9780691614038
Booksplease Price: £53.02This selection of essays by one of C. G. Jung's favorite and most creative students explores important connections between analytical psychology and the study of literature and art. Originally... -
Mind and Nature: Selected Writings on Philosophy, Mathematics, and Physics by Hermann Weyl 9780691135458
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £41.96Hermann Weyl (1885-1955) was one of the twentieth century's most important mathematicians, as well as a seminal figure in the development of quantum physics and general relativity. He was also an... -
Nietzsche, Godfather of Fascism?: On the Uses and Abuses of a Philosophy by Jacob Golomb 9780691007106
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £32.82Nietzsche, the Godfather of Fascism? What can Nietzsche have in common with this murderous ideology? Frequently described as the "radical aristocrat" of the spirit, Nietzsche abhorred mass culture...