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Repetition by Peter Handke
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.65WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE'Repetition made a great and, as I have since learned, lasting impression on me' W. G. SebaldFilip Kobal, an Austrian teenager, is on the trail of his missing... -
Adorno and Heidegger: Philosophical Questions by Iain MacDonald
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $22.35Adorno and Heidegger explores the conflictual history of two important traditions of twentieth-century European thought: the critical theory of Theodor W. Adorno and the ontology of Martin Heidegger... -
Weird Realism - Lovecraft and Philosophy Graham Harman 9781780992525
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.07As Holderlin was to Martin Heidegger and Mallarme to Jacques Derrida, so is H.P. Lovecraft to the Speculative Realist philosophers. Lovecraft was one of the brightest stars of the horror and science... -
On Touching-Jean-Luc Nancy by Jacques Derrida
RRP: $30.81Booksplease Price: $27.68Using the philosophy of Jean-Luc Nancy as an anchoring point, Jacques Derrida in this book conducts a profound review of the philosophy of the sense of touch, from Plato and Aristotle to Jean-Luc... -
An Essay for Ezra: Racial Terror in America by Grant Farred 9781517911805
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $18.68An intensely personal, and philosophical, account of why white America's racial unconscious is not so unconsciousAn Essay for Ezra is a critique of terror that begins but by no means ends with the... -
Challenging the Absolute: Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Europe's Struggle Against Fundamentalism by Simon F. Oliai 9780761865155
Booksplease Price: $94.99Our contemporary world presents a seemingly inexplicable paradox. It is a world where interaction among societies of different cultural traditions has never been easier. A world in which modern... -
The Critique of Nonviolence: Martin Luther King, Jr., and Philosophy by Mark Christian Thompson
RRP: $30.81Booksplease Price: $21.24How does Martin Luther King, Jr., understand race philosophically and how did this understanding lead him to develop an ontological conception of racist police violence? In this important new work,... -
The Comic Self: Toward Dispossession by Timothy C. Campbell 9781517914929
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $22.35A provocative and unconventional call to dispossess the self of itself Challenging the contemporary notion of "self-care" and the Western mania for "self-possession," The Comic Self deploys... -
Engaging Heidegger by Richard Capobianco 9781442612648
RRP: $33.49Booksplease Price: $29.37One of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century, Martin Heidegger was primarily concerned with the 'question of Being.' However, recent scholarship has tended to marginalize the... -
In the Self's Place: The Approach of Saint Augustine by Jean-Luc Marion 9780804762908 [USED COPY]
RRP: $128.64Booksplease Price: $1.42In the Self's Place is an original phenomenological reading of Augustine that considers his engagement with notions of identity in Confessions. Using the Augustinian experience of confessio, Jean-Luc... -
The Way of the Platonic Socrates by S. Montgomery Ewegen
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $22.35Who is Socrates? While most readers know him as the central figure in Plato's work, he is hard to characterize. In this book, S. Montgomery Ewegen opens this long-standing and difficult question once... -
Heidegger: His Life and His Philosophy by Alain Badiou 9780231157971
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $20.78Martin Heidegger was an ordinary Nazi and a loyal member of the provincial petty bourgeoisie. He was also a seminal thinker of the Continental tradition and one of the twentieth century's most... -
New Selected Poems Hans Magnus Enzensberger 9781780372501
RRP: $20.10Booksplease Price: $14.47As well as being Germany's most important poet, Hans Magnus Enzensberger is a provocative cultural essayist and one of Europe's leading political thinkers. No British poet can match him in his range... -
Time of the Magicians: The Great Decade of Philosophy, 1919-1929 by Wolfram Eilenberger
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $14.07AN ECONOMIST, GUARDIAN AND NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR A gripping narrative of the intertwined lives of the four philosophers whose ideas reshaped the twentieth centuryThe year is 1919. Walter... -
Heidegger and the Media David J. Gunkel (Northern Illinois University) 9780745661261
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $17.14The most significant philosopher of Being, Martin Heidegger has nevertheless largely been ignored within communications studies. This book sets the record straight by demonstrating the profound... -
A Philosophy of Boredom by Lars Svendsen 9781861892171
RRP: $24.05Booksplease Price: $20.37Although boredom is something that we have all suffered from at some point in our lives, and has become one of the central preoccupations of our age, very few of us can explain precisely what it is... -
In the Flow by Boris Groys
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $20.09In the early 20th century, art and its institutions came under critique from a new democratic and egalitarian spirit. In an age of secularism and materialism, artworks would be understood as merely... -
Companion to Heidegger's Contributions to Philosophy by Charles E. Scott
RRP: $28.13Booksplease Price: $24.13Companion to Heidegger's Contributions to PhilosophyEdited by Charles E. Scott, Susan Schoenbohm, Daniela Vallega-Neu, and Alejandro VallegaA key to unlocking one of Heidegger's most difficult and... -
Enough Said: What's gone wrong with the language of politics? by Mark Thompson 9780099597681
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $19.48LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2017How do we discuss serious ideas in the age of 24-hour news? What was rhetoric in the past and what should it be now? And what does Islamic State have in common... -
The Subversive Simone Weil: A Life in Five Ideas by Robert Zaretsky 9780226549330
Booksplease Price: $29.47Known as the "patron saint of all outsiders," Simone Weil (1909-43) was one of the twentieth century's most remarkable thinkers, a philosopher who truly lived by her political and ethical ideals. In... -
Heidegger in Ruins: Between Philosophy and Ideology by Richard Wolin
Booksplease Price: $34.89What does it mean when a radical understanding of National Socialism is inextricably embedded in the work of the twentieth century's most important philosopher? "Combines close readings of... -
The Memory of Place: A Phenomenology of the Uncanny by Dylan Trigg 9780821420393
RRP: $36.17Booksplease Price: $31.87From the frozen landscapes of the Antarctic to the haunted houses of childhood, the memory of places we experience is fundamental to a sense of self. Drawing on influences as diverse as... -
The Hand: A Philosophical Inquiry into Human Being by Raymond Tallis
RRP: $44.21Booksplease Price: $39.82What are the origins of human difference? The Hand, which is the first part of a bold philosophical inquiry into the nature of the difference between human beings and other animals, argues that it is... -
Meyer Schapiro’s Critical Debates: Art Through a Modern American Mind by C. Oliver O’Donnell 9780271084657
Booksplease Price: $21.75Described in the New York Times as the greatest art historian America ever produced, Meyer Schapiro was both a close friend to many of the famous artists of his generation and a scholar who engaged... -
Thinking Prayer: Theology and Spirituality amid the Crises of Modernity by Andrew Prevot
RRP: $40.19Booksplease Price: $37.64In Thinking Prayer, Andrew Prevot presents a new, integrated approach to Christian theology and spirituality, focusing on the centrality of prayer to theology in the modern age. Prevot's clear and... -
Continental Divide: Heidegger, Cassirer, Davos by Peter E. Gordon
RRP: $32.09Booksplease Price: $28.07In the spring of 1929, Martin Heidegger and Ernst Cassirer met for a public conversation in Davos, Switzerland. They were arguably the most important thinkers in Europe, and their exchange touched... -
Origins of the Other: Emmanuel Levinas between Revelation and Ethics by Samuel Moyn 9780801473661
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $22.38The French-Jewish thinker Emmanuel Levinas (1906-1995) is today remembered as the central moralist of the twentieth century and remains a major presence in the contemporary humanities. In this book,... -
The Subversive Simone Weil: A Life in Five Ideas by Robert Zaretsky
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $12.40Known as the "patron saint of all outsiders," Simone Weil (1909-43) was one of the twentieth century's most remarkable thinkers, a philosopher who truly lived by her political and ethical ideals. In...