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Art and Technology in Maurice Blanchot Holly Langstaff 9781399515481
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.99Holly Langstaff reappraises the influential French thinker Maurice Blanchot's writing from the 1940s to his late work in the 1980s, demonstrating how Blanchot's exploration of the question of... -
The Desert in Modern Literature and Philosophy: Wasteland Aesthetics by Aidan Tynan 9781474443364
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £21.23Aidan explores the ways in which Nietzsche's warning that 'the desert grows' has been taken up by Heidegger, Derrida and Deleuze in their critiques of modernity, and the desert in literature ranging... -
Philosophy's Higher Education by Nigel Tubbs 9781402023477
Booksplease Price: £90.56At about the age of 13 I began to realise that my formal education was separating itself off from my philosophical education. Of course, at the time I did not know it in this way. I experienced it as... -
At the Existentialist Cafe: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails with Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Others by Sarah Bakewell 9781590518892
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £13.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Kirkus Prize (Nonfiction) 2016.Book InformationISBN 9781590518892Author Sarah BakewellFormat... -
The Desert in Modern Literature and Philosophy: Wasteland Aesthetics by Aidan Tynan
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £90.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474443357Author Aidan TynanFormat HardbackPage Count 216Imprint Edinburgh University... -
Empathy in the Context of Philosophy by Lou Agosta 9780230241831
Booksplease Price: £46.74Integrating continental and Anglo-American traditions, the author exposes empathy as the foundation of the being-with-one-another of human beings. The interpretation of empathy is applied to story... -
Beckett and Philosophy by Richard Lane 9780333918791
Booksplease Price: £46.74Beckett and Philosophy examines and interrogates the relationships between Samuel Beckett's works and contemporary French and German thought. There are two wide-ranging overview chapters by Richard... -
Music with Stanley Cavell in Mind Dr. David LaRocca 9798765111048
Booksplease Price: £102.51Why does Stanley Cavell's philosophical thought matter for music? And how did Cavell's musical practice and appreciation of music give shape to his indelible philosophical claims about cinema, human... -
Embodied Enquiry: Phenomenological Touchstones for Research, Psychotherapy and Spirituality by Les Todres 9780230517752
Booksplease Price: £46.28Drawing on a particular emphasis within the phenomenological tradition as exemplified by Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Eugene Gendlin, this book considers the role of the lived body as a way of knowing... -
Hoelderlin after the Catastrophe - Heidegger -- Adorno -- Brecht by Robert Savage 9781571133205
Booksplease Price: £96.11The first book-length study of Hoelderlin's postwar reception and a case study of Germanistik. Toward the end of the Second World War, the works of the great German poet Friedrich Hoelderlin were... -
The Invention of a People: Heidegger and Deleuze on Art and the Political Janae Sholtz 9781399554220
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £22.60The Invention of a People explores the residual relation between Heidegger's thought and Deleuze's novelty. Contextualising the problematic of a people-to-come within a larger political and... -
The Chattering Mind: A Conceptual History of Everyday Talk by Samuel McCormick
Booksplease Price: £31.37From Plato's contempt for "the madness of the multitude" to Kant's lament for "the great unthinking mass," the history of Western thought is riddled with disdain for ordinary collective life. But it... -
The Ordering of Time: Meditations on the History of Philosophy by George Lucas
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £21.23What exactly is this the history of and how is that history to be understood in relationship to philosophy itself? Can philosophy's history, on any of a number of diverse descriptions, ever be said... -
Cinematic Philosophy by Tal S. Shamir 9783319334721
Booksplease Price: £90.56In this book, Tal S. Shamir sets out to identify cinema as a novel medium for philosophy and an important way of manifesting and developing philosophical thought. The volume presents a comprehensive... -
Philosophy for Counselling and Psychotherapy: Pythagoras to Postmodernism by Alex Howard 9780333750988
Booksplease Price: £45.30This fascinating and thought-provoking book provides much-needed philosophical background for counsellors, therapists and healthcare workers looking for broader, deeper foundations in the struggle to... -
Deleuze and Derrida: Difference and the Power of the Negative by Vernon W. Cisney 9780748696222
RRP: £115.00Booksplease Price: £105.94Jacques Derrida and Gilles Deleuze are still best known for their respective attempts to theoretically formulate non-dialectical conceptions of difference. Now, for the first time, Vernon W. Cisney... -
The Chattering Mind: A Conceptual History of Everyday Talk by Samuel McCormick 9780226677637
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £96.90From Plato's contempt for "the madness of the multitude" to Kant's lament for "the great unthinking mass," the history of Western thought is riddled with disdain for ordinary collective life. But it... -
Embodied Enquiry: Phenomenological Touchstones for Research, Psychotherapy and Spirituality by Les Todres 9780230302303
Booksplease Price: £46.28Drawing on a particular emphasis within the phenomenological tradition as exemplified by Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Eugene Gendlin, this book considers the role of the lived body as a way of knowing... -
The New Nihilism: The Existential Crisis of Our Time Costantino Esposito 9780268207991
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.61In this highly engaging book, Costantino Esposito argues that nihilism is not merely the loss of the classic values of the Western tradition-rather, it presents a critical opportunity to ask... -
Music with Stanley Cavell in Mind Dr. David LaRocca 9798765111086
Booksplease Price: £33.10Why does Stanley Cavell's philosophical thought matter for music? And how did Cavell's musical practice and appreciation of music give shape to his indelible philosophical claims about cinema, human... -
The Hermeneutics of Medicine and the Phenomenology of Health: Steps Towards a Philosophy of Medical Practice by Fredrik Svenaeus 9783031072802
RRP: £99.99Booksplease Price: £45.30This is the first monograph to deal with medicine as a form of hermeneutics, now in a thoroughly revised and updated edition, including a whole new chapter on medical ethics. The book offers a... -
The Heresies of Jan Patocka: Phenomenology, History, and Politics by James Dodd 9780810145863
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £25.04A nuanced reflection on the meaning and resonance of Patocka's philosophy Foregrounding the turbulent political and intellectual scene in Czechoslovakia following the Prague Spring in 1968, James... -
Towards a Geopolitical Image of Thought by Gregg Lambert
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £22.04Drawing from his previous writings on the search for a new image of thought and the vitalist role of 'conceptual personae' in the history of philosophy, Gregg Lambert proposes a new geo-political... -
Levinas in Jerusalem: Phenomenology, Ethics, Politics, Aesthetics by Joelle Hansel 9789048175826
Booksplease Price: £92.41A disciple of Husserl and Heidegger, a contemporary of Sartre and Merleau-Ponty, Levinas entirely renewed the way of thinking ethics in our times. In contrast to the whole tradition of Western... -
On the Ethical Imperatives of the Interregnum: Essays in Loving Strife from Soren Kierkegaard to Cornel West by William V. Spanos 9783319838465
Booksplease Price: £51.20This book is an autobiographical meditation on the way in which the world's population has been transformed into a society of refugees and emigres seeking -indeed, demanding- an alternative way of... -
The Fundamental Field: Thought, Poetics, World by Jeff Malpas
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £16.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474485272Author Jeff MalpasFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Edinburgh University... -
Deleuze and Derrida: Difference and the Power of the Negative by Vernon W. Cisney
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £27.79For the first time, Vernon W. Cisney brings you a scholarly analysis of Jacques Derrida and Gilles Deleuze's contrasting concepts of difference. He distinguishes their responses to Hegel and... -
Return Statements: The Return of Religion in Contemporary Philosophy by Gregg Lambert
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £23.68Gregg Lambert examines two facets of the return to religion in the 21st century: the resurgence of overtly religious themes in contemporary philosophy and the global `post-secular' turn that has been... -
Gilles Deleuze and Metaphysics by Alain Beaulieu 9781498508674
Booksplease Price: £51.70Deleuze remains indifferent to the ambient pathos related to the end of metaphysics and compares the undertakings of destruction, overcoming and deconstruction of metaphysics with the gestures of... -
Performance and Temporalisation: Time Happens by S. Grant 9781349488919
RRP: £114.00Booksplease Price: £112.12Performance and Temporalisation features a collection of scholars and artists writing about the coming forth of time as human experience. Whether drawing, designing, watching performance, being... -
Merleau-Ponty and Nancy on Sense and Being: At the Limits of Phenomenology by Marie-Eve Morin 9781474492430
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.80Marie-Eve Morin proposes a reinterpretation of the philosophy of Merleau-Ponty and Nancy from the perspective of realist and object-oriented tendencies in contemporary philosophy. The realist... -
Karl Loewith's View of History: A Critical Appraisal of Historicism by Berthold P. Riesterer 9789401178396
Booksplease Price: £46.28This brief survey of Professor Karl LOwith's analysis of the modem histori cal consciousness is the outgrowth of a year's study at the University of Heidelberg while Professor L6with was still an... -
Revolt against Modernity: Leo Strauss, Eric Voegelin, and the Search for a Postliberal Order by Ted V. McAllister 9780700608737
Booksplease Price: £34.44Eric Voegelin and Leo Strauss are two of the most provocative and durable political philosophers of this century. Ted McAllister's superbly written study provides the first comprehensive comparison... -
On the Ethical Imperatives of the Interregnum: Essays in Loving Strife from Soren Kierkegaard to Cornel West by William V. Spanos 9783319478708
Booksplease Price: £51.20This book is an autobiographical meditation on the way in which the world's population has been transformed into a society of refugees and emigres seeking -indeed, demanding- an alternative way of... -
Phenomenology for the Twenty-First Century by J. Aaron Simmons 9781137550385
Booksplease Price: £112.02This volume illustrates the relevance of phenomenology to a range of contemporary concerns. Displaying both the epistemological rigor of classical phenomenology and the empirical analysis of more... -
Breaking Light: Toward a Poetics of Opacity in Early Greek Thinking by D. M. Spitzer 9798855807370
Booksplease Price: £94.51Discloses the ways in which opacity and relation in the thought of Thales, Anaximandros, and Anaximenes depart from the predominant understanding of philosophy as clarity.In Breaking Light D. M... -
What is a Thoughtful Life? Kélina Gotman 9781526187567
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £79.50In fresh readings of Theodor W. Adorno, Giorgio Agamben, Hannah Arendt, Judith Butler, Barbara Cassin, Michel Foucault, Werner Hamacher, Martin Heidegger, and many more, Gotman rearticulates the... -
From Conventionalism to Social Authenticity: Heidegger's Anyone and Contemporary Social Theory by Hans Bernhard Schmid 9783319568645
Booksplease Price: £90.86This edited volume offers a new approach to understanding social conventions by way of Martin Heidegger. It connects the philosopher's conceptions of the anyone, everydayness, and authenticity with... -
Planetary Politics: Arendt, Anarchy and the Climate Crisis by Lucy Benjamin 9781399544948
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £81.05Critical political theory has been transformed since the declaration of the Anthropocene in the early 2000s. However, a substantive account of a planetary politics, which begins by understanding... -
Planetary Politics: Arendt, Anarchy and the Climate Crisis Lucy Benjamin 9781399544979
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.99Critical political theory has been transformed since the declaration of the Anthropocene in the early 2000s. However, a substantive account of a planetary politics, which begins by understanding...