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A Terribly Serious Adventure: Philosophy at Oxford 1900-60 by Nikhil Krishnan 9781800812383
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year 2023 A New York Times 'Critics' Pick' Book of 2023 'A real achievement' New Statesman 'Beautifully portrays - and exemplifies - the combined wit and... -
Isaiah Berlin and his Philosophical Contemporaries by Johnny Lyons 9783030731809
RRP: £109.99Booksplease Price: £70.88This book sets out to identify the nature and implications of a proper understanding of pluralism in a original and illuminating way. Isaiah Berlin believed that a recognition of pluralism is vital... -
The Poet's Mistake by Erica McAlpine
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £26.73What our tendency to justify the mistakes in poems reveals about our faith in poetry-and about how we readKeats mixed up Cortez and Balboa. Heaney misremembered the name of one of Wordsworth's lakes... -
Writing and Madness: (Literature/Philosophy/Psychoanalysis) by Shoshana Felman
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36Writing and Madness is Shoshana Felman's most influential work of literary theory and criticism. Exploring the relations between literature, philosophy, and psychoanalysis through brilliant studies... -
Sign Levels: Language and Its Evolutionary Antecedents by D. S. Clarke 9781402030796
Booksplease Price: £90.56Since the revolution in philosophic method that began about a century ago, the focus of philosophic attention has been on language as used both in daily conversation and in specialized institutional... -
Two Studies in the Greek Atomists by David Furley
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £32.82The two studies, "Indivisible Magnitudes," and "Aristotle and Epicurus on Voluntary Action," explain two doctrines in the philosophy of Epicurus, first by a detailed examination of the ancient Greek... -
Epistemic Angst: Radical Skepticism and the Groundlessness of Our Believing by Duncan Pritchard 9780691167237
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £32.82Epistemic Angst offers a completely new solution to the ancient philosophical problem of radical skepticism--the challenge of explaining how it is possible to have knowledge of a world external to us... -
Personal Impressions: Updated Edition by Isaiah Berlin 9780691157702
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £20.82In this collection of remarkable biographical portraits, the great essayist and intellectual historian Isaiah Berlin brings to life a wide range of prominent twentieth-century thinkers, politicians,... -
Epistemic Angst: Radical Skepticism and the Groundlessness of Our Believing by Duncan Pritchard 9780691183435
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.21Epistemic Angst offers a completely new solution to the ancient philosophical problem of radical skepticism-the challenge of explaining how it is possible to have knowledge of a world external to us... -
Speech and Performance in Shakespeare's Sonnets and Plays by David Schalkwyk 9780521036337
RRP: £41.00Booksplease Price: £40.09David Schalkwyk offers a sustained reading of Shakespeare's sonnets in relation to his plays. He argues that the language of the sonnets is primarily performative rather than descriptive, and bases... -
Sign Levels: Language and Its Evolutionary Antecedents by David S. Clarke 9781402016509
Booksplease Price: £90.56Since the revolution in philosophic method that began about a century ago, the focus of philosophic attention has been on language as used both in daily conversation and in specialized institutional... -
Ordinary Literature Philosophy: Lacanian Literary Performatives between Austin and Ranciere by Jernej Habjan 9781350267404
Booksplease Price: £34.47The first extended Lacanian reading of J. L. Austin's ordinary language philosophy, this book examines how it has been received in the continental tradition by Jacques Derrida and Judith Butler,... -
Science and Scepticism by John W. N. Watkins 9780691612188
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £49.59This book contains important technical innovations, including comparative measures for the testable content, depth, and unity of scientific theories. Originally published in 1984. The Princeton... -
History Man: The Life of R. G. Collingwood by Fred Inglis 9780691150055
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £27.03This is the first biography of the last and greatest British idealist philosopher, R. G. Collingwood (1889-1943), a man who both thought and lived at full pitch. Best known today for his philosophies... -
Speech Acts in Blake’s Milton by Brian Russell Graham
RRP: £50.99Booksplease Price: £45.63Using a framework based on J. L. Austin's understanding of performative speech and Angela Esterhammer's work on how things are done with words in Milton's and Blake's poetry, this study provides an... -
Speech Acts in Blake’s Milton by Brian Russell Graham 9781032379197
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £20.14Using a framework based on J. L. Austin's understanding of performative speech and Angela Esterhammer's work on how things are done with words in Milton's and Blake's poetry, this study provides an... -
Just Silences: The Limits and Possibilities of Modern Law by Marianne Constable 9780691133775
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £34.35Is the Miranda warning, which lets an accused know of the right to remain silent, more about procedural fairness or about the conventions of speech acts and silences? Do U.S. laws about Native... -
Philosophical Essays, Volume 1: Natural Language: What It Means and How We Use It by Scott Soames 9780691136813
RRP: £58.00Booksplease Price: £48.37The two volumes of Philosophical Essays bring together the most important essays written by one of the world's foremost philosophers of language. Scott Soames has selected thirty-one essays spanning... -
The Athenian Revolution: Essays on Ancient Greek Democracy and Political Theory by Josiah Ober
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £36.63Where did "democracy" come from, and what was its original form and meaning? Here Josiah Ober shows that this "power of the people" crystallized in a revolutionary uprising by the ordinary citizens... -
Language and Thought by John L. Pollock 9780691614267
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £40.43Most philosophical theories of language have assumed that statements (products of assertion) and propositions (objects of belief) are the same things. John L. Pollock denies this, maintaining that... -
Social Conventions: From Language to Law Andrei Marmor 9780691162232
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £18.57Social conventions are those arbitrary rules and norms governing the countless behaviors all of us engage in every day without necessarily thinking about them, from shaking hands when greeting... -
Social Conventions: From Language to Law by Andrei Marmor 9780691140902
RRP: £58.00Booksplease Price: £48.07Social conventions are those arbitrary rules and norms governing the countless behaviors all of us engage in every day without necessarily thinking about them, from shaking hands when greeting... -
Interpreting Modern Philosophy by James Daniel Collins 9780691619927
RRP: £70.00Booksplease Price: £59.78James Collins probes the meaning and methods of historical interpretation in philosophy by analyzing the creative reciprocity between the modern source thinkers--the great classical philosophers from... -
New Work on Speech Acts by Daniel Fogal 9780198738831
RRP: £117.50Booksplease Price: £114.91Speech-act theory is the interdisciplinary study of the wide range of things we do with words. Originally stemming from the influential work of twentieth-century philosophers, including J. L. Austin... -
Berkeley's Common Sense and Science by Marek Tomecek 9781433128073
RRP: £67.15Booksplease Price: £60.13The topic of George Berkeley and common sense is challenging: Berkeley claims that matter does not exist and at the same time he writes a whole book (Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous) on... -
Stanley Cavell and Literary Skepticism by Michael Fischer 9780226251400
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £77.30Stanley Cavell's work is distinctive not only in its importance to philosophy but also for its remarkable interdisciplinary range. Cavell is read avidly by students of film, photography, painting,... -
The Philosophy of Language by A. P. Martinich 9780199795147
RRP: £142.99Booksplease Price: £86.93What is meaning? How is linguistic communication possible? What is the nature of language? What is the relationship between language and the world? How do metaphors work? The Philosophy of Language,... -
The Liar: An Essay on Truth and Circularity by Jon Barwise 9780195059441
RRP: £78.00Booksplease Price: £56.13This monograph purports to provide a solution to semantical paradoxes like the Liar. The authors base this solution on J. L. Austin's idea of truth, which is fundamental to situation semantics. They... -
Class Acts: Derrida on the Public Stage by Michael Naas
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £14.75Class Acts examines two often neglected aspects of Jacques Derrida's work as a philosopher, his public presentations at lectures and conferences and his teaching, along with the question of the... -
Class Acts: Derrida on the Public Stage by Michael Naas 9780823298396
RRP: £76.00Booksplease Price: £67.40Class Acts examines two often neglected aspects of Jacques Derrida's work as a philosopher, his public presentations at lectures and conferences and his teaching, along with the question of the... -
Performativity by James Loxley 9780415329255
RRP: £115.00Booksplease Price: £110.39Do our writings and our utterances reflect or describe our world, or do they intervene in it? Do they, perhaps, help to make it? If so, how? Within what limits, and with what implications?... -
Revolution of the Ordinary: Literary Studies After Wittgenstein, Austin, and Cavell by Toril Moi
Booksplease Price: £26.68This radically original book argues for the power of ordinary language philosophy a tradition inaugurated by Ludwig Wittgenstein and J. L. Austin, and extended by Stanley Cavell to transform literary... -
Performativity by James Loxley
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £23.54Do our writings and our utterances reflect or describe our world, or do they intervene in it? Do they, perhaps, help to make it? If so, how? Within what limits, and with what implications?... -
Stanley Cavell and Literary Skepticism Michael Fischer 9780226251417
Booksplease Price: £26.68Stanley Cavell's work is distinctive not only in its importance to philosophy but also for its remarkable interdisciplinary range. Cavell is read avidly by students of film, photography, painting,... -
Fictions in Autobiography: Studies in the Art of Self-Invention by Paul John Eakin
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £44.30Investigating autobiographical writing of Mary McCarthy, Henry James, Jean-Paul Sartre, Saul Friedlander, and Maxine Hong Kingston, this book argues that autobiographical truth is not a fixed but an... -
Postmodern Belief: American Literature and Religion since 1960 by Amy Hungerford 9780691145754
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £36.63How can intense religious beliefs coexist with pluralism in America today? Examining the role of the religious imagination in contemporary religious practice and in some of the best-known works of... -
The Linguistic Moment: From Wordsworth to Stevens by Joseph Hillis Miller 9780691609508
RRP: £68.00Booksplease Price: £65.60This series of readings, explores the functioning of moments in poems when the medium--language--becomes an issue. Originally published in 1985. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest... -
Narrating Reality: Austen, Scott, Eliot by Harry E. Shaw
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £21.66Narrating Reality offers a provocative and original critique of nineteenth-century British realist fiction and our ways of understanding it. Paying close attention to the role of the narrator, Harry... -
The Exchange of Words: Speech, Testimony, and Intersubjectivity by Richard Moran 9780190882907
RRP: £33.99Booksplease Price: £24.69The capacity to speak is not only the ability to pronounce words, but the socially-recognized capacity to make one's words count in various ways. We rely on this capacity whenever we tell another... -
Oxford Pragmatism: Ryle and Austin's Debt Cheryl Misak 9780198875888
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £27.40Oxford Pragmatism uncovers and explores the unrecognized impact of American pragmatism on the Oxford linguistic philosophy that thrived from the 1930s to the 1950s, made famous by Gilbert Ryle and J...