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The Temporality of Political Obligation Justin Chandler Mueller 9781138486454
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £47.34The Temporality of Political Obligation offers a critique and reconceptualization of the ways in which our political obligations - what we owe to political authorities and communities, and the... -
Time, Life & Memory: Bergson and Contemporary Science by Laurens Landeweerd 9783030568559
Booksplease Price: £75.80This book revitalizes the relevance of the ideas of Henri Bergson (1859-1941) for current developments in exact sciences. It explores the relevance of Bergson's thought for contemporary philosophical... -
Time, Life & Memory: Bergson and Contemporary Science by Laurens Landeweerd 9783030568528
Booksplease Price: £75.80This book revitalizes the relevance of the ideas of Henri Bergson (1859-1941) for current developments in exact sciences. It explores the relevance of Bergson's thought for contemporary philosophical... -
Bergson and History: Transforming the Modern Regime of Historicity by Leon ter Schure 9781438476247
Booksplease Price: £26.07Explores the philosophy of history of Henri Bergson and shows its relevance to contemporary historical thought.Henri Bergson is famous for his explorations of time as duration, yet he rarely referred... -
The Question of Psychological Types: The Correspondence of C. G. Jung and Hans Schmid-Guisan, 1915-1916 by C. G. Jung
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.02In 1915, C. G. Jung and his psychiatrist colleague, Hans Schmid-Guisan, began a correspondence through which they hoped to codify fundamental individual differences of attention and consciousness... -
Bergson Mark Sinclair 9781138219496
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £23.54Henri Bergson (1859-1941) was one of the most celebrated and influential philosophers of the twentieth century. He was awarded in 1928 the Nobel prize for literature for his philosophical work, and... -
The Question of Psychological Types: The Correspondence of C. G. Jung and Hans Schmid-Guisan, 1915-1916 by C. G. Jung 9780691169729
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.28In 1915, C. G. Jung and his psychiatrist colleague, Hans Schmid-Guisan, began a correspondence through which they hoped to codify fundamental individual differences of attention and consciousness... -
What Is the Present? Michael North 9780691271095
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £17.05A provocative new look at concepts of the present, their connection to ideas about time, and their effect on literature, art, and cultureThe problem of the present-what it is and what it means-is one... -
Reenchanted Science: Holism in German Culture from Wilhelm II to Hitler by Anne Harrington 9780691050508
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £42.32By the 1920s in Central Europe, it had become a truism among intellectuals that natural science had "disenchanted" the world, and in particular had reduced humans to mere mechanisms, devoid of higher... -
Speed and Micropolitics: Bodies, Minds, and Perceptions in an Accelerating World by Simon Glezos
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.37This book provides a theoretical framework for understanding the micropolitics of speed; a rich, nuanced, and embodied account of life in an accelerating world. What does it feel like to live in an... -
Selected Works of Miguel de Unamuno, Volume 4: The Tragic Sense of Life in Men and Nations by Miguel de Unamuno
Booksplease Price: £40.93The acknowledged masterpiece of Unamuno expresses the anguish of modern man as he is caught up in the struggle between the dictates of reason and the demands of his own heart.Book InformationISBN... -
The Open Society and Its Enemies by Karl R. Popper
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.74A landmark defense of democracy that has been hailed as one of the most important books of the twentieth centuryOne of the most important books of the twentieth century, The Open Society and Its... -
On the Use of Philosophy: Three Essays by Jacques Maritain 9780691625638
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £26.73In this collection of three beautifully written essays, the distinguished philosopher Jacques Maritain presents his reflections on the role of philosophy in the life of man as a social being. In his... -
Consciousness and the Unconscious: Lectures Delivered at ETH Zurich, Volume II, 1934 by C.G. Jung
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £23.69Jung's lectures on consciousness and the unconscious-in English for the first timeBetween 1933 and 1941, C. G. Jung delivered a series of public lectures at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology... -
What Is the Present? by Michael North 9780691179698
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.02A provocative new look at concepts of the present, their connection to ideas about time, and their effect on literature, art, and cultureThe problem of the present-what it is and what it means-is one... -
Bergsonian Philosophy and Thomism: Collected Works of Jacques Maritain, Volume 1 by Jacques Maritain
RRP: £36.00Booksplease Price: £30.50Published in 1913 as La Philosophie Bergsonienne, this incisive critique of the thought of Henri Bergson was Jacques Maritain's (1882-1973) first book. In it he shows himself already to have an... -
Bergson, Complexity and Creative Emergence by David Kreps 9781349554294
Booksplease Price: £21.20This is a book about evolution from a post-Darwinian perspective. It recounts the core ideas of French philosopher Henri Bergson and his rediscovery and legacy in the poststructuralist critical... -
Bergson, Complexity and Creative Emergence by David Kreps 9781137412195
Booksplease Price: £21.20This is a book about evolution from a post-Darwinian perspective. It recounts the core ideas of French philosopher Henri Bergson and his rediscovery and legacy in the poststructuralist critical... -
Citizens without Sovereignty: Equality and Sociability in French Thought, 1670-1789 by Daniel Gordon
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £36.63In a wide-ranging interpretation of French thought in the years 1670-1789, Daniel Gordon takes us through the literature of manners and moral philosophy, theology and political theory, universal... -
Dilthey: Philosopher of the Human Studies by Rudolf A. Makkreel 9780691020976
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £79.60The philosopher and historian of culture Wilhelm Dilthey (1833-1911) has had a significant and continuing influence on twentieth-century Continental philosophy and in a broad range of scholarly... -
Bergson and the Metaphysics of Media by S. Crocker 9781137324498
Booksplease Price: £46.74What is a medium? Why is there always a middle? Can media produce 'immediacy'? Henri Bergson recognized mediation as the central philosophical problem of modernity. This book traces his influence on... -
On Purpose by Michael Ruse
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.08An accessible history of the idea of purpose in Western thought, from ancient Greece to the presentCan we live without the idea of purpose? Should we even try to? Kant thought we were stuck with it,... -
Fateful Beauty: Aesthetic Environments, Juvenile Development, and Literature, 1860-1960 by Douglas Mao 9780691146614
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £32.82When Oscar Wilde said he had "seen wallpaper which must lead a boy brought up under its influence to a life of crime," his joke played on an idea that has often been taken quite seriously--both in... -
On Purpose by Michael Ruse 9780691172460
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.02A brief, accessible history of the idea of purpose in Western thought, from ancient Greece to the present Can we live without the idea of purpose? Should we even try to? Kant thought we were stuck... -
Citizens without Sovereignty: Equality and Sociability in French Thought, 1670-1789 by Daniel Gordon 9780691629612
RRP: £105.00Booksplease Price: £82.32In a wide-ranging interpretation of French thought in the years 1670-1789, Daniel Gordon takes us through the literature of manners and moral philosophy, theology and political theory, universal... -
Bergson and the Metaphysics of Media by S. Crocker 9781349458967
Booksplease Price: £46.28What is a medium? Why is there always a middle? Can media produce 'immediacy'? Henri Bergson recognized mediation as the central philosophical problem of modernity. This book traces his influence on... -
The Event of Postcolonial Shame by Timothy Bewes 9780691141664
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £41.68In a postcolonial world, where structures of power, hierarchy, and domination operate on a global scale, writers face an ethical and aesthetic dilemma: How to write without contributing to the... -
The Novel of Worldliness: Crebillon, Marivaux, Laclos, Stendhal by Peter Brooks 9780691621883
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £34.35Contending that a search for "realism" distorts the writing of Crebillon, Marivaux, Laclos, and Stendahl, Peter Brooks considers their novels with reference to the manner in which the characters... -
History of Modern Psychology: Lectures Delivered at ETH Zurich, Volume 1, 1933-1934 by C. G. Jung
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.21Jung's lectures on the history of psychology-in English for the first timeBetween 1933 and 1941, C. G. Jung delivered a series of public lectures at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in... -
From Religion to Philosophy: A Study in the Origins of Western Speculation by Francis Cornford 9780691020761
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £41.68In this exploration of the "very first utterance of philosophers," F. M. Cornford showed that the remarkable burst of abstract speculation among pre-Socratic thinkers of the sixth century B.C... -
Cervantes and the Humanist Vision: A Study of Four Exemplary Novels by Alban K. Forcione 9780691613802
RRP: £62.00Booksplease Price: £56.55This book sets the Novelas ejemplares in the mainstream of Christian Humanism and shows that their narrative forms manifest the breadth of the Christian Humanist vision as much as does the more... -
Ernst Cassirer: The Last Philosopher of Culture by Edward Skidelsky
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £28.76This is the first English-language intellectual biography of the German-Jewish philosopher Ernst Cassirer (1874-1945), a leading figure on the Weimar intellectual scene and one of the last and finest... -
Neither Right nor Left: Fascist Ideology in France by Zeev Sternhell 9780691006291
RRP: £62.00Booksplease Price: £49.89"Few books on European history in recent memory have caused such controversy and commotion," wrote Robert Wohl in 1991 in a major review of Neither Right nor Left. Listed by Le Monde as one of the... -
Mass Flourishing: How Grassroots Innovation Created Jobs, Challenge, and Change by Edmund S. Phelps
Booksplease Price: £27.30In this book, Nobel Prize-winning economist Edmund Phelps draws on a lifetime of thinking to make a sweeping new argument about what makes nations prosper--and why the sources of that prosperity are... -
French Film Theory and Criticism, Volume 1: A History/Anthology, 1907-1939. Volume 1: 1907-1929 by Richard Abel
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £39.23These two volumes examine a significant but previously neglected moment in French cultural history: the emergence of French film theory and criticism before the essays of Andre Bazin. Richard Abel... -
The Future of Immortality: Remaking Life and Death in Contemporary Russia by Anya Bernstein 9780691182612
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £18.57A gripping account of the Russian visionaries who are pursuing human immortalityAs long as we have known death, we have dreamed of life without end. In The Future of Immortality, Anya Bernstein... -
The Physicist and the Philosopher: Einstein, Bergson, and the Debate That Changed Our Understanding of Time by Jimena Canales 9780691173177
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.70On April 6, 1922, in Paris, Albert Einstein and Henri Bergson publicly debated the nature of time. Einstein considered Bergson's theory of time to be a soft, psychological notion, irreconcilable with... -
Chinese Narrative: Critical and Theoretical Essays by Andrew H. Plaks 9780691609928
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £44.25Although Chinese narrative, and especially the genres of colloquial fiction, have been subjected to intensive scholarly scrutiny, no comprehensive volume has provided a framework that would permit an... -
Literature as System: Essays Toward the Theory of Literary History by Claudio Guillen 9780691620527
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £63.59Writing 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. ... -
Paul Nizan: Committed Literature in a Conspiratorial World by W. D. Redfern 9780691619989
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £33.80Sartre's friend and sometime rival, Paul Nizan was a prototype of the angry young man. Ideologically a Marxist, politically a Communist, professionally a writer, endowed--Sartre conceded--with a...