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Violence and the Mimetic Unconscious, Volume 2: The Affective Hypothesis by Nidesh Lawtoo 9781611864656
Booksplease Price: €46.47Representations of violence have subliminal contagious effects, but what kind of unconscious captures this imperceptible affective dynamic in the digital age? In volume two of a Janus-faced... -
A Theory of the Aphorism: From Confucius to Twitter by Andrew Hui
RRP: €47.60Booksplease Price: €40.88An 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... -
Sick Souls, Healthy Minds: How William James Can Save Your Life by John Kaag 9780691192161
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €19.37From the celebrated author of American Philosophy: A Love Story and Hiking with Nietzsche, a compelling introduction to the life-affirming philosophy of William JamesIn 1895, William James, the... -
Joyce's Nietzschean Ethics by Sam Slote 9781349474059
Booksplease Price: €55.07The first book-length treatment of James Joyce's work through the lens of Friedrich Nietzsche's thought, Slote argues that the range of styles Joyce deploys has an ethical dimension. This... -
Nietzsche: An Approach by Janko Lavrin 9781138870598
RRP: €58.30Booksplease Price: €54.30Janko Lavrin's influential biography of Friedrich Nietzsche, originally published in 1948, analyses the bond between Nietzsche's personal fate on the one hand and the trend of his thought on the... -
Post-Politics in Context Ali Riza Taskale 9781138543478
RRP: €60.68Booksplease Price: €57.33As disciplines, Politics and International Relations remain dominated by ideas drawn from traditions of liberal internationalism and political realism in which political imagination is preoccupied... -
From Shakespeare to Existentialism: Essays on Shakespeare and Goethe; Hegel and Kierkegaard; Nietzsche, Rilke and Freud; Jaspers, Heidegger, and Toynbee by Walter A. Kaufmann
RRP: €53.55Booksplease Price: €43.59A companion volume to his Critique of Religion and Philosophy, this book offers Walter Kaufmann's critical interpretations of some of the great minds in Western philosophy, religion, and literature... -
My Own Private Germany: Daniel Paul Schreber's Secret History of Modernity Eric L. Santner 9780691026275
RRP: €47.60Booksplease Price: €40.88In November 1893, Daniel Paul Schreber, recently named presiding judge of the Saxon Supreme Court, was on the verge of a psychotic breakdown and entered a Leipzig psychiatric clinic. He would spend... -
Outside Ethics by Raymond Geuss
RRP: €53.55Booksplease Price: €47.28Outside 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... -
A Theory of the Aphorism: From Confucius to Twitter by Andrew Hui 9780691210759
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €22.10An 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: €61.88Booksplease Price: €52.66Theodor 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... -
Eugenio Montale's Poetry: A Dream in Reason's Presence by Glauco Cambon 9780691613857
RRP: €53.55Booksplease Price: €43.59Glauco Cambon draws on twenty-five years of commitment to Montale's poetry and prose for this extended critical analysis. Originally published in 1983. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest... -
Not in the Heavens: The Tradition of Jewish Secular Thought by David Biale
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €28.19Not in the Heavens traces the rise of Jewish secularism through the visionary writers and thinkers who led its development. Spanning the rich history of Judaism from the Bible to today, David Biale... -
Heidegger's Children: Hannah Arendt, Karl Loewith, Hans Jonas, and Herbert Marcuse by Richard Wolin 9780691168616
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €28.19Martin Heidegger is perhaps the twentieth century's greatest philosopher, and his work stimulated much that is original and compelling in modern thought. A seductive classroom presence, he attracted... -
Force from Nietzsche to Derrida by Clare Connors
RRP: €54.73Booksplease Price: €51.27In this book, Clare Connors sets out to answer the question: What is the pervasive character of the world?, tracing a genealogy of the idea of force through the writings of Friedrich Nietzsche,... -
Sick Souls, Healthy Minds: How William James Can Save Your Life by John Kaag
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €13.74From the author of American Philosophy: A Love Story, a compelling introduction to the life-affirming philosophy of William JamesIn 1895, William James, the father of American philosophy, delivered a... -
Ernst Junger's Philosophy of Technology: Heidegger and the Poetics of the Anthropocene by Vincent Blok 9780367888749
RRP: €54.73Booksplease Price: €51.27This 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... -
Nietzsche: A Philosophical Biography by Rudiger Safranski
RRP: €26.78Booksplease Price: €26.16No other modern philosopher has proved as influential as Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) and none is as poorly understood. In the first new biography in decades, Rudiger Safranski, one of the... -
Force from Nietzsche to Derrida Clare Connors 9781906540722
RRP: €113.04Booksplease Price: €107.91In this book, Clare Connors sets out to answer the question: What is the pervasive character of the world?, tracing a genealogy of the idea of force through the writings of Friedrich Nietzsche,... -
The Dionysian Vision of the World by Mark Daniel Cohen
RRP: €14.27Booksplease Price: €12.39Before the world knew of the thinker who "philosophizes with a hammer," there was a young, passionate thinker who was captivated by the two forces found within Greek art: Dionysus and Apollo. In this... -
French Literary Fascism: Nationalism, Anti-Semitism, and the Ideology of Culture by David Carroll
RRP: €61.88Booksplease Price: €52.66This is the first book to provide a sustained critical analysis of the literary-aesthetic dimension of French fascism--the peculiarly French form of what Walter Benjamin called the fascist... -
Aristotle's De Motu Animalium by Martha C. Nussbaum
RRP: €57.12Booksplease Price: €48.11Available for the first time in paperback, this volume contains text with translation of De Motu Animalium, Aristotle's attempt to lay the groundwork for a general theory of the explanation of animal... -
Eco-Republic: What the Ancients Can Teach Us about Ethics, Virtue, and Sustainable Living by Melissa Lane 9780691151243
Booksplease Price: €81.80An ecologically sustainable society cannot be achieved without citizens who possess the virtues and values that will foster it, and who believe that individual actions can indeed make a difference... -
The Jewess Pallas Athena: This Too a Theory of Modernity by Barbara Hahn 9780691171470
RRP: €35.70Booksplease Price: €31.81"The Jewess Pallas Athena"--a line from a poem by Paul Celan. It is a provocative phrase, cutting across cultures and traditions. But it poses questions: How to reconstruct a culture that has been... -
Nietzsche, Wagner, Europe by Martine Prange 9783110481631
RRP: €21.42Booksplease Price: €15.47Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) supported the unification of Europe and reflected on this like few other philosophers before or after him. Many of his works are concerned with the present state and... -
Nietzsche, Wagner, Europe by Martine Prange 9783110315097
RRP: €192.19Booksplease Price: €131.73Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) supported the unification of Europe and reflected on this like few other philosophers before or after him. Many of his works are concerned with the present state and... -
The Mind's Provisions: A Critique of Cognitivism by Vincent Descombes
RRP: €47.60Booksplease Price: €40.88Vincent Descombes brings together an astonishingly large body of philosophical and anthropological thought to present a thoroughgoing critique of contemporary cognitivism and to develop a powerful... -
Rescuing Socrates: How the Great Books Changed My Life and Why They Matter for a New Generation by Roosevelt Montas 9780691200392
RRP: €35.70Booksplease Price: €30.00A Dominican-born academic tells the story of how the Great Books transformed his life-and why they have the power to speak to people of all backgroundsWhat is the value of a liberal education?... -
E.M.Foster: Perils of Humanism by Frederick Campbell Crews 9780691623221
RRP: €38.08Booksplease Price: €34.53Each of E. M. Forster's five novels-The Longest journey, Where Angels Fear to Tread, Room with a View. Howards End, and A Passage to India-is here analyzed within the framework of Forster's cultural... -
Joyce's Nietzschean Ethics by Sam Slote 9781137366221
Booksplease Price: €55.62The first book-length treatment of James Joyce's work through the lens of Friedrich Nietzsche's thought, Slote argues that the range of styles Joyce deploys has an ethical dimension. This... -
Charred Lullabies: Chapters in an Anthropography of Violence by E. V. Daniel
RRP: €53.55Booksplease Price: €46.33How does an ethnographer write about violence? How can he make sense of violent acts, for himself and for his readers, without compromising its sheer excess and its meaning-defying core? How can he... -
Sustaining Affirmation: The Strengths of Weak Ontology in Political Theory by Stephen K. White
RRP: €49.98Booksplease Price: €49.60In light of many recent critiques of Western modernity and its conceptual foundations, the problem of adequately justifying our most basic moral and political values looms large. Without recourse to... -
Why Tolerate Religion?: Updated Edition by Brian Leiter
Booksplease Price: €25.70This provocative book addresses one of the most enduring puzzles in political philosophy and constitutional theory--why is religion singled out for preferential treatment in both law and public... -
Emerson: The Roots of Prophecy by Evelyn Barish 9780691604442
RRP: €53.55Booksplease Price: €43.95Evelyn Barish began this book partly to inquire into a silence--Ralph Waldo Emerson's failure to discuss or mourn his father, who died when the boy was seven years old. As she probed the meaning of... -
Rescuing Socrates: How the Great Books Changed My Life and Why They Matter for a New Generation by Roosevelt Montas 9780691224398
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €14.27A Dominican-born academic tells the story of how the Great Books transformed his life-and why they have the power to speak to people of all backgroundsWhat is the value of a liberal education?... -
Impossible Engineering: Technology and Territoriality on the Canal du Midi by Chandra Mukerji
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €28.19The Canal du Midi, which threads through southwestern France and links the Atlantic to the Mediterranean, was an astonishing feat of seventeenth-century engineering--in fact, it was technically... -
The Novel Art: Elevations of American Fiction after Henry James by Mark McGurl
RRP: €61.88Booksplease Price: €52.66Once upon a time there were good American novels and bad ones, but none was thought of as a work of art. The Novel Art tells the story of how, beginning with Henry James, this began to change... -
Walter Kaufmann: Philosopher, Humanist, Heretic by Stanley Corngold 9780691211534
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €29.14The first complete account of the ideas and writings of a major figure in twentieth-century intellectual lifeWalter Kaufmann (1921-1980) was a charismatic philosopher, critic, translator, and poet... -
Cuba and the Tempest: Literature and Cinema in the Time of Diaspora by Eduardo Gonzalez 9780807856833
Booksplease Price: €49.86In a unique analysis of Cuban literature inside and outside the country's borders, Eduardo Gonzalez looks closely at the work of three important contemporary Cuban authors: Guillermo Cabrera Infante... -
Satiric Inheritance: Rabelais to Sterne by Michael A. Seidel 9780691643052
RRP: €130.90Booksplease Price: €102.49Arguing that satiric potential is latent in virtually all dispensation, succession, and inheritance narratives, Michael Seidel suggests a new and comprehensive understanding of satire's place in the...