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Fichte's Theory of Subjectivity by Frederick Neuhouser 9780521399388
RRP: $84.00Booksplease Price: $77.99This is the first book in English to elucidate the central issues in the work of Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762-1814), a figure crucial to the movement of philosophy from Kant to German idealism. The... -
Reification: A New Look at an Old Idea by Axel Honneth 9780199898053
Booksplease Price: $78.25In the early 20th century, Marxist theory was enriched and rejuvenated by adopting the concept of reification, introduced by the Hungarian theorist Georg Lukacs to identify and denounce the... -
Nietzsche: The Birth of Tragedy and Other Writings by Friedrich Nietzsche 9780521630160
RRP: $109.20Booksplease Price: $101.62The Birth of Tragedy is one of the seminal philosophical works of the modern period. Nietzsche's discussion of the nature of culture, of the conditions under which it can flourish and of those under... -
Political Uses of Utopia: New Marxist, Anarchist, and Radical Democratic Perspectives by S. Chrostowska 9780231179584
RRP: $281.40Booksplease Price: $179.87Utopia has long been banished from political theory, framed as an impossible-and possibly dangerous-political ideal, a flawed social blueprint, or a thought experiment without any practical import... -
Nietzsche: The Birth of Tragedy and Other Writings by Friedrich Nietzsche 9780521639873
RRP: $44.10Booksplease Price: $39.88The Birth of Tragedy is one of the seminal philosophical works of the modern period. Nietzsche's discussion of the nature of culture, of the conditions under which it can flourish and of those under... -
Theory and Practice in Kant and Kierkegaard by Ulrich Knappe 9783110177893
RRP: $214.20Booksplease Price: $145.93This work investigates crucial aspects of Kant's epistemology and ethics in relation to Kierkegaard's thinking. The challenge is taken up of developing a systematic reconstruction of Kant's and... -
Liberal Realism: A Realist Theory of Liberal Politics by Matt Sleat 9781526122810
RRP: $63.00Booksplease Price: $58.46Political realism has recently moved to the centre of debates in contemporary political theory. In this monograph, Matt Sleat presents the first comprehensive overview of the resurgence of interest... -
Liberal Realism: A Realist Theory of Liberal Politics Matt Sleat 9780719088902
RRP: $178.50Booksplease Price: $157.92Political realism has recently moved to the centre of debates in contemporary political theory. In this monograph, Matt Sleat presents the first comprehensive overview of the resurgence of interest... -
Hegel's Idealism: The Satisfactions of Self-Consciousness by Robert B. Pippin
RRP: $58.80Booksplease Price: $48.13This is the most important book on Hegel to have appeared in the past ten years. Robert Pippin offers a completely new interpretation of Hegel's idealism, which focuses on Hegel's appropriation and... -
The Sources of Normativity by Christine M. Korsgaard 9780521559607
RRP: $56.70Booksplease Price: $43.87Ethical concepts are, or purport to be, normative. They make claims on us: they command, oblige, recommend, or guide. Or at least when we invoke them, we make claims on one another; but where does... -
Reification: A New Look At An Old Idea by Axel Honneth 9780195320466
Booksplease Price: $102.08In the early 20th century, Marxist theory was enriched and rejuvenated by adopting the concept of reification, introduced by the Hungarian theorist Georg Lukacs to identify and denounce the... -
Aesthetic Ideology by Paul De Man 9780816622047
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $34.59An important reconsideration of ideology by one of this century's most eminent theorists.This long-awaited volume by one of the major figures of twentieth-century thought represents perhaps the most... -
The Greeks and Their Histories: Myth, History, and Society Hans-Joachim Gehrke 9781009011150
RRP: $48.28Booksplease Price: $46.98In this concise but stimulating book on history and Greek culture, Hans-Joachim Gehrke continues to refine his work on 'intentional history', which he defines as a history in the self-understanding... -
The Philosopher: Habermas and Us Philipp Felsch 9781509567690
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $32.03Jurgen Habermas is the voice of a generation. One of the world's most influential philosophers and Germany's greatest living intellectual, he has shaped debates, both academic and public, for more... -
The Poverty of Our Freedom: Essays 2012 - 2019 Axel Honneth (Free University, Berlin) 9781509556335
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $37.57There is no normative concept more appealing today than the idea of individual freedom. Political party manifestos are drawn up, legal reforms are defended, military interventions are undertaken,... -
Political Judgement: Essays for John Dunn by Richard Bourke 9781108436540
RRP: $79.80Booksplease Price: $78.62From Plato to Max Weber, the attempt to understand political judgement took the form of a struggle to define the relationship between politics and morals. This book by leading international scholars... -
Difference and Alterity in La Boetie, Montaigne, Spinoza and Mendelssohn Willi Goetschel 9781399545501
RRP: $199.50Booksplease Price: $179.40This book redirects our attention to a group of thinkers whose project of rethinking difference and alterity assumes new critical significance at the current juncture. Reaching from the Renaissance... -
Political Judgement: Essays for John Dunn by Richard Bourke 9780521764988
RRP: $228.90Booksplease Price: $220.69From Plato to Max Weber, the attempt to understand political judgement took the form of a struggle to define the relationship between politics and morals. This book by leading international scholars... -
Philosophy and the Good Life: Reason and the Passions in Greek, Cartesian and Psychoanalytic Ethics by John Cottingham
RRP: $54.60Booksplease Price: $51.66Can philosophy enable us to lead better lives through a systematic understanding of our human nature? John Cottingham's thought-provoking 1998 study examines the contrasting approaches to this... -
A Philosophy of Culture: The Scope of Holistic Pragmatism by Morton White 9780691123981
RRP: $73.50Booksplease Price: $60.94In this book, one of America's leading philosophers offers a sweeping reconsideration of the philosophy of culture in the twentieth century. Morton White argues that the discipline is much more... -
Thinking about Property: From Antiquity to the Age of Revolution by Peter Garnsey 9780521876773
RRP: $197.40Booksplease Price: $188.98This book explores ancient 'foundational' texts relating to property and their reception by later thinkers in their various contexts up to the early nineteenth century. The texts include Plato's... -
Philosophy and the Good Life: Reason and the Passions in Greek, Cartesian and Psychoanalytic Ethics by John Cottingham 9780521473101
RRP: $163.80Booksplease Price: $149.29Can philosophy enable us to lead better lives through a systematic understanding of our human nature? John Cottingham's thought-provoking 1998 study examines the contrasting approaches to this... -
A History of Modern French Literature: From the Sixteenth Century to the Twentieth Century by Christopher Prendergast 9780691157726
RRP: $100.80Booksplease Price: $86.58An accessible and authoritative new history of French literature, written by a highly distinguished transatlantic group of scholars This book provides an engaging, accessible, and exciting new... -
Thinking about Property: From Antiquity to the Age of Revolution by Peter Garnsey 9780521700238
Booksplease Price: $67.45This book explores ancient 'foundational' texts relating to property and their reception by later thinkers in their various contexts up to the early nineteenth century. The texts include Plato's... -
Hope Without Optimism by Terry Eagleton 9780300248678
RRP: $25.18Booksplease Price: $21.95In a virtuoso display of erudition, thoughtfulness and humour, Terry Eagleton teases apart the concept of hope as it has been (often mistakenly) conceptualised over six millennia, from ancient Greece... -
Art's Emotions: Ethics, Expression and Aesthetic Experience Damien Freeman 9781844655120
RRP: $88.18Booksplease Price: $83.35Despite the very obvious differences between looking at Manet's Woman with a Parrot and listening to Elgar's Cello Concerto, both experiences provoke similar questions in the thoughtful aesthete: why... -
A History of Modern French Literature: From the Sixteenth Century to the Twentieth Century Christopher Prendergast 9780691271392
RRP: $63.00Booksplease Price: $52.94An accessible and authoritative new history of French literature, written by a highly distinguished transatlantic group of scholarsThis book provides an engaging, accessible, and exciting new history... -
Anatomy of Failure: Philosophy and Political Action by Oliver Feltham 9781441158642
Booksplease Price: $66.19Modern liberalism begins in the forgetting of the English Revolution. Anatomy of Failure seeks to right that wrong by exploring the concept of political action, playing its history against its... -
Political Uses of Utopia: New Marxist, Anarchist, and Radical Democratic Perspectives by S. Chrostowska
RRP: $73.50Booksplease Price: $60.94Utopia has long been banished from political theory, framed as an impossible-and possibly dangerous-political ideal, a flawed social blueprint, or a thought experiment without any practical import... -
The Invention of God by Thomas Romer 9780674504974
RRP: $75.50Booksplease Price: $64.18Who invented God? When, why, and where? Thomas Roemer seeks to answer these questions about the deity of the great monotheisms-Yhwh, God, or Allah-by tracing Israelite beliefs and their context from... -
Secret Reports on Nazi Germany: The Frankfurt School Contribution to the War Effort by Franz Neumann 9780691134130
RRP: $109.20Booksplease Price: $94.61During the Second World War, three prominent members of the Frankfurt School--Franz Neumann, Herbert Marcuse, and Otto Kirchheimer--worked as intelligence analysts for the Office of Strategic... -
Praxis and Revolution: A Theory of Social Transformation by Eva von Redecker
RRP: $63.00Booksplease Price: $52.94The concept of revolution marks the ultimate horizon of modern politics. It is instantiated by sites of both hope and horror. Within progressive thought, "revolution" often perpetuates entrenched... -
After Savagery: Gaza, Genocide, and the Illusion of Western Civilization by Hamid Dabashi 9798888904916
RRP: $105.00Booksplease Price: $81.71Written during a genocide, After Savagery reveals the ethical bankruptcy of "Western philosophy" and how it undergirds the erasure of the colonized. The death toll in Gaza continues to rise a...