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Suspension of Belief by Daniel Vazquez 9781009500739
Booksplease Price: £56.13This Element offers a systematic outline of ancient conceptions and uses of suspension of belief (understood broadly) while engaging with contemporary philosophy. It discusses the notion of epochē... -
Perception, Sensibility, and Moral Motivation in Augustine: A Stoic-Platonic Synthesis by Sarah Catherine Byers 9781107017948
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £90.57This book argues that Augustine assimilated the Stoic theory of perception into his theories of motivation, affectivity, therapy for the passions and moral progress. Using his sermons to elucidate... -
The Other Platonist Beginning: Heidegger and Neoplatonism Emile Alexandrov 9781803744735
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £36.45This book founds an other Platonist beginning by repositioning Plato and Neoplatonism in Heidegger’s history of metaphysics. This beginning begins with Plato and culminates in Heidegger. By... -
Porphyry: To Gaurus on How Embryos are Ensouled and On What is in Our Power by Porphyry 9781472557872
Booksplease Price: £40.38Concerning embryos, Porphyry takes an original view on issues that had been left undecided by his teacher Plotinus and earlier by the doctor Galen. What role is played in the development of the... -
Non-Being in Ancient Thought Dmitri Nikulin 9780197781616
RRP: £64.00Booksplease Price: £59.08Being has been at the forefront of philosophical debate from its very beginnings, whereas non-being has been considered derivative of being and an obstacle for thought. Dmitri Nikulin argues that... -
Platonist Contemplative Asceticism: Practice and Principle by Eric Fallick 9780359773015
RRP: £8.93Booksplease Price: £8.54Platonist Contemplative Asceticism: Practice and Principle is a collection of essays, pieces, and translations that provides an account of how to understand and practice the Platonist path to... -
On Theology and Theurgy Porphyry of Tyre 9780674302471
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £14.96Porphyry of Tyre (c. 234-305) was not only the biographer of his teacher Plotinus, and the editor of his Enneads, but an important Platonist philosopher in his own right. On Theology and Theurgy... -
Solitude: A Philosophical Encounter by Philip Koch 9780812692433
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £28.84What is the proper place of solitude in human existence? Some philosophers have claimed that solitude is our truest, most ultimate metaphysically deepest state of being. Others have maintained the... -
Hermeneutics, Religion, and Ethics by Hans-Georg Gadamer 9780300178302
Booksplease Price: £24.15In the years shortly before and after the publication of his classic Truth and Method (1960), the eminent German philosopher Hans-Georg Gadamer returned often to questions surrounding religion and... -
Faith and Philosophy: The Historical Impact by D. G. Leahy
RRP: £35.99Booksplease Price: £32.89This title was first published in 2003. This work examines how Christian faith has historically impacted the notion of Nous or divine mind in Western thought up to and including the present... -
Faith and Philosophy: The Historical Impact: The Historical Impact by D. G. Leahy 9781138724983
RRP: £125.00Booksplease Price: £110.40This title was first published in 2003. This work examines how Christian faith has historically impacted the notion of Nous or divine mind in Western thought up to and including the present... -
On Dionysius the Areopagite, Volume 2: Vol. 2 by Marsilio Ficino
RRP: £29.95Booksplease Price: £25.90In 1490/92 Marsilio Ficino, the Florentine scholar-philosopher-magus who was largely responsible for the Renaissance revival of Plato, made new translations of, with running commentaries on, two... -
The Concept of Contraction in Giordano Bruno's Philosophy Leo Catana 9781138264823
RRP: £55.99Booksplease Price: £49.89Through the concept of contraction, Giordano Bruno (1548-1600) endeavoured to explain the relationship of God to his Creation in a way that conformed with his pantheistic view of nature as well as... -
Ancient Philosophical Poetics by Malcolm Heath 9780521198790
RRP: £75.00Booksplease Price: £71.97What is poetry? Why do human beings produce and consume it? What effects does it have on them? Can it give them insight into truth, or is it dangerously misleading? This book is a wide-ranging study... -
Common to Body and Soul: Philosophical Approaches to Explaining Living Behaviour in Greco-Roman Antiquity by Richard A. H. King 9783110183337
RRP: £174.00Booksplease Price: £118.59The volume presents essays on the philosophical explanation of the relationship between body and soul in antiquity from the Presocratics to Galen, including papers on Parmenides on thinking (E... -
God and the Between William Desmond (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium) 9781405162333
RRP: £40.95Booksplease Price: £38.26An original work which rethinks the question of God in a constructive spirit, drawing its conclusions by considering ideas received from both philosophy and religion. Makes an important new... -
Themistius: On Aristotle Metaphysics 12 by Dr Yoav Meyrav 9781350127241
Booksplease Price: £102.21This is the only commentary on Aristotle’s theological work, Metaphysics, Book 12, to survive from the first six centuries CE – the heyday of ancient Greek commentary on Aristotle. Though the Greek... -
A Less Familiar Plato: From Phaedo to Philebus by Kevin Corrigan 9781009324854
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £81.13In this book, Kevin Corrigan sheds light on aspects of Plato's thought that are less familiar to contemporary readers. He reveals a Plato who believes in Forms but is not essentialist, who develops a... -
Suspension of Belief by Daniel Vazquez 9781009013994
RRP: £18.00Booksplease Price: £16.52This Element offers a systematic outline of ancient conceptions and uses of suspension of belief (understood broadly) while engaging with contemporary philosophy. It discusses the notion of epoche... -
Themistius: On Aristotle Metaphysics 12 by Dr Yoav Meyrav 9781350189294
Booksplease Price: £33.84This is the only commentary on Aristotle's theological work, Metaphysics, Book 12, to survive from the first six centuries CE - the heyday of ancient Greek commentary on Aristotle. Though the Greek... -
From the Knowledge Argument to Mental Substance: Resurrecting the Mind by Howard Robinson 9781107087262
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £86.14This book presents a strong case for substance dualism and offers a comprehensive defense of the knowledge argument, showing that materialism cannot accommodate or explain the 'hard problem' of... -
Heidegger's Temporal Idealism by Mr William D. Blattner 9780521620673
RRP: £89.00Booksplease Price: £84.67This book is a systematic reconstruction of Heidegger's account of time and temporality in Being and Time. The author locates Heidegger in a tradition of 'temporal idealism' with its sources in... -
The Aporetic Tradition in Ancient Philosophy by George E. Karamanolis 9781107110151
RRP: £94.00Booksplease Price: £89.99Ancient philosophers from an otherwise diverse range of traditions were connected by their shared use of aporia - translated as puzzlement rooted in conflicts of reasons - as a core tool in... -
Heidegger's Temporal Idealism by Mr William D. Blattner 9780521020947
RRP: £62.00Booksplease Price: £56.38This book is a systematic reconstruction of Heidegger's account of time and temporality in Being and Time. The author locates Heidegger in a tradition of 'temporal idealism' with its sources in... -
Productive Knowledge in Ancient Philosophy: The Concept of Technê by Thomas Kjeller Johansen 9781108485845
RRP: £83.00Booksplease Price: £79.36This work investigates how ancient philosophers understood productive knowledge or technê and used it to explain ethics, rhetoric, politics and cosmology. In eleven chapters leading scholars set out... -
Late Ancient Platonism in Eighteenth-Century German Thought by Leo Catana 9783030205133
Booksplease Price: £75.80This work synthesizes work previously published in leading journals in the field into a coherent narrative that has a distinctive focus on Germany while also being aware of a broader European... -
Late Ancient Platonism in Eighteenth-Century German Thought by Leo Catana 9783030205102
Booksplease Price: £75.80This work synthesizes work previously published in leading journals in the field into a coherent narrative that has a distinctive focus on Germany while also being aware of a broader European... -
Genealogy of Nihilism by Conor Cunningham
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £40.94This text re-reads Western history in the light of nihilistic logic, which pervades two millennia of Western thought. From Parmenides to Alain Badiou, via Plotinus, Avicenna, Duns Scotus, Ockham,... -
Rereading Ancient Philosophy: Old Chestnuts and Sacred Cows by Verity Harte 9781107194977
RRP: £97.00Booksplease Price: £92.64This book revisits, and sheds fresh light on, some key texts and debates in ancient philosophy. Its twin targets are 'Old Chestnuts' - well-known passages in the works of ancient philosophers about... -
God and the Between by William Desmond 9781405162326
RRP: £89.95Booksplease Price: £79.77An original work which rethinks the question of God in a constructive spirit, drawing its conclusions by considering ideas received from both philosophy and religion. Makes an important new... -
What Matters Most: Conversations on the Art of Living by Anthony Morgan
Booksplease Price: £20.45The ancient Greek philosopher Plotinus insisted that philosophy should be concerned with nothing less than "what matters most". This collection of philosophical conversations seeks to honour... -
Hummingbird Sleep: Poems, 2009-2011 by Coleman Barks 9780820345048
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £15.62The poems inHummingbird Sleep move associatively between Coleman Barks's personal experience and his extensive reading, weaving together a wild and eclectic range of material. A discussion of... -
Plato Revived: Essays on Ancient Platonism in Honour of Dominic J. O'Meara by Filip Karfik 9783110324402
RRP: £156.50Booksplease Price: £107.24The essays compiled in this volume individually address the varied forms in which the revival of Platonism manifested itself in ancient philosophy. It pays special attention to the issues of unity... -
Central Works of Philosophy v1: Ancient and Medieval John Shand 9781844650132
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £35.87This collection of essays showcases the most important and influential philosophical works of the ancient and medieval period, roughly from 600 BC to AD 1600. Each chapter takes a particular work of... -
Time, Being and Becoming: Cognitive Models of Innovation and Creation in English by Maciej Litwin 9783631658680
RRP: £37.45Booksplease Price: £34.26Cognitive linguistics provides tools to discuss identity as a process. Identity depends on the underlying conceptualisation of the present, while innovation and creation are borderline phenomena in... -
Time and Soul: From Aristotle to St Augustine by Johannes Zachhuber 9783110692723
RRP: £24.00Booksplease Price: £16.75Can time exist independently of consciousness? In antiquity this question was often framed as an enquiry into the relationship of time and soul. Aristotle cautiously suggested that time could not... -
The Art of Losing Control: A Philosopher's Search for Ecstatic Experience by Jules Evans
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Since the Enlightenment, western culture has written off ecstatic experience as a form of mental illness. But why should rationality be considered the highest part of human nature when we are capable... -
Contemplation: The Movements of the Soul by Kevin Hart 9780231213462
RRP: £68.00Booksplease Price: £61.80What is contemplation? How is it distinct from meditation? Is contemplation essentially religious or mystical? What should one contemplate, and how? Are there different styles of contemplation, and... -
Ancient Philosophy of the Self by Pauliina Remes 9789048179275
RRP: £129.99Booksplease Price: £112.12Pauliina Remes and Juha Sihvola In the course of history, philosophers have given an impressive variety of answers to the question, "What is self?" Some of them have even argued that there... -
A New Perspective on Antisthenes: Logos, Predicate and Ethics in his Philosophy Piet Meijer 9781041175063
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £41.39Antisthenes (c. 445- c. 365 BC), was a prominent follower of Socrates and bitter rival of Plato. In this revisionary account of his philosophy in all its aspects, P. A. Meijer claims that Plato and...