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Utopia/Dystopia: Conditions of Historical Possibility by Michael D. Gordin 9780691146980
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £32.82The 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... -
A Theory of the Aphorism: From Confucius to Twitter by Andrew Hui
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £34.35An 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: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.28From 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... -
Post-Politics in Context Ali Riza Taskale 9781138543478
RRP: £50.99Booksplease Price: £48.18As 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: £45.00Booksplease Price: £36.63A 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: £40.00Booksplease Price: £34.35In 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: £45.00Booksplease Price: £39.73Outside 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: £20.00Booksplease Price: £18.57An 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: £44.25Theodor 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: £45.00Booksplease Price: £36.63Glauco 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... -
Nietzsche: An Approach by Janko Lavrin 9781138870598
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63Janko 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... -
Sick Souls, Healthy Minds: How William James Can Save Your Life by John Kaag
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.55From 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: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.08This 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... -
Not in the Heavens: The Tradition of Jewish Secular Thought by David Biale
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.69Not 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: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.69Martin 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... -
Joyce's Nietzschean Ethics by Sam Slote 9781349474059
Booksplease Price: £46.28The 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... -
Force from Nietzsche to Derrida by Clare Connors
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.08In 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: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.41Before 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... -
Force from Nietzsche to Derrida Clare Connors 9781906540722
RRP: £94.99Booksplease Price: £90.68In 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,... -
Nietzsche: A Philosophical Biography by Rudiger Safranski
RRP: £22.50Booksplease Price: £22.07No 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... -
The Mind's Provisions: A Critique of Cognitivism by Vincent Descombes
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £34.35Vincent 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: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.21A 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: £32.00Booksplease Price: £29.02Each 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... -
French Literary Fascism: Nationalism, Anti-Semitism, and the Ideology of Culture by David Carroll
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £44.25This 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: £48.00Booksplease Price: £40.43Available 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: £68.74An 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: £30.00Booksplease Price: £26.73"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... -
Charred Lullabies: Chapters in an Anthropography of Violence by E. V. Daniel
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £38.93How 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: £42.00Booksplease Price: £41.68In 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
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £17.05This 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: £45.00Booksplease Price: £36.93Evelyn 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: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.11A 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?... -
Joyce's Nietzschean Ethics by Sam Slote 9781137366221
Booksplease Price: £46.74The 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... -
Impossible Engineering: Technology and Territoriality on the Canal du Midi by Chandra Mukerji
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.69The 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: £52.00Booksplease Price: £44.25Once 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... -
Agonistic Democracy: Rethinking Political Institutions in Pluralist Times by Marie Paxton
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24Agonistic Democracy explores how theoretical concepts from agonistic democracy can inform institutional design in order to mediate conflict in multicultural, pluralist societies.Drawing on the work... -
Walter Kaufmann: Philosopher, Humanist, Heretic by Stanley Corngold
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £35.15The 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... -
Literature as System: Essays Toward the Theory of Literary History by Claudio Guillen 9780691620527
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £66.64Writing in the tradition of Ortega y Gasset's History as a System and Saussure's linguistic model, Claudio Guillen proposes a structural approach to literary history. Originally published in 1971. ... -
New French Thought: Political Philosophy by Mark Lilla 9780691605678
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £36.63The past fifteen years in France have seen a remarkable flourishing of new work in political philosophy. This anthology brings into English for the first time essays by some of the best young French... -
Nietzsche, Wagner, Europe by Martine Prange 9783110481631
RRP: £18.00Booksplease Price: £13.00Friedrich 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...