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The Philosophy of Gadamer Jean Grondin 9781902683652
RRP: $81.88Booksplease Price: $74.08The ideas of the German philosopher, Hans-Georg Gadamer have had considerable influence both in their own right as the leading modern exposition of philosophical hermeneutics and interpreting the... -
Modality Joseph Melia 9781902683485
RRP: $81.88Booksplease Price: $74.08This introduction to modality places the emphasis on the metaphysics of modality rather than on the formal semetics of quantified modal logic. The text begins by introducing students to the "de... -
The Bible and the Environment: Towards a Critical Ecological Biblical Theology David G. Horrell 9781844657469
RRP: $95.53Booksplease Price: $85.68Environmental issues have in recent years come to the centre stage of political and ethical debate. This is a crucial topic to engage in this series. Moreover, there has long been the charge,... -
Bernard Williams Mark Jenkins 9781902683966
RRP: $81.88Booksplease Price: $74.08From his earliest work on personal identity to his last on the value of truthfulness, the ideas and arguments of Bernard Williams - in the metaphysics of personhood, in the history of philosophy, but... -
Defining Shinto: A Reader Mark W. MacWilliams 9781844658381
RRP: $101.38Booksplease Price: $91.24This book provides key official documents alongside political, religious-philosophical, and historical essays, illustrating how the term "Shinto" has metamorphosed terminologically from... -
Keith Joseph Andrew Denham 9781902683706
RRP: $72.13Booksplease Price: $66.36Hailed by Margaret Thatcher as the founder of modern conservatism, Keith Joseph is commonly ranked among the most influential politicians of the late-20th century. A complex and enigmatic figure... -
The Philosophy of Merleau-Ponty Eric Matthews 9781902683522
RRP: $81.88Booksplease Price: $74.08In this introduction to the life and thought of one of the most important French thinkers of the twentieth-century Eric Matthews shows how Merleau-Ponty has contributed to current debates in... -
The Musical Structure of Plato's Dialogues by J. B. Kennedy 9781844652679
RRP: $93.58Booksplease Price: $84.01J. B. Kennedy argues that Plato's dialogues have an unsuspected musical structure and use symbols to encode Pythagorean doctrines. The followers of Pythagoras famously thought that the cosmos had a... -
White Ink: Interviews on Sex, Text and Politics by Helene Cixous 9781844651375
Booksplease Price: $90.25Helene Cixous is widely regarded as one of the world's most influential feminist writers and thinkers. "White Ink" brings together her most revealing interviews, available in English for... -
Wittgenstein: Key Concepts by Kelly Dean Jolley
RRP: $243.75Booksplease Price: $215.28Wittgenstein's complex and demanding work challenges much that is taken for granted in philosophical thinking as well as in the theorizing of art, theology, science and culture. Each essay in this... -
Gilles Deleuze: Key Concepts Charles J. Stivale 9781844652884
RRP: $72.13Booksplease Price: $65.77Gilles Deleuze is now regarded as one of the most radical philosophers of the twentieth century. His work is hugely influential across a range of subjects, from philosophy to literature, to art,... -
The New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy: Volume 10 by Burt Hopkins
RRP: $163.78Booksplease Price: $145.59The New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy provides an annual international forum for phenomenological research in the spirit of Husserl's groundbreaking work and the... -
Ethics for a Broken World: Imagining Philosophy After Catastrophe Tim Mulgan 9781844654888
RRP: $81.88Booksplease Price: $74.08Imagine living in the future in a world already damaged by humankind, a world where resources are insufficient to meet everyone's basic needs and where a chaotic climate makes life precarious. Then... -
Graffiti in Antiquity Peter Keegan 9781844656073
RRP: $263.25Booksplease Price: $233.55Ancient graffiti - hundreds of thousands of informal, ephemeral texts spanning millennia - offer a patchwork of fragmentary conversations in a variety of languages spread across the Mediterranean... -
Lacan and Religion Aron Dunlap 9781844657049
RRP: $79.93Booksplease Price: $72.42The French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan is one of the most influential intellectuals of the past century. His work is invoked by philosophers, film critics and feminist theorists, but religious... -
Middle Age Christopher Hamilton 9781844651658
RRP: $81.88Booksplease Price: $74.08Middle age, for many, marks a key period for a radical reappraisal of one's life and way of living. The sense of time running out, both from the perspective that one's life has ground to a halt, and... -
Epicureanism Tim O'Keefe 9781844651702
RRP: $81.88Booksplease Price: $74.08The Epicurean school of philosophy was one of the dominant philosophies of the Hellenistic period. Founded by Epicurus of Samos (century 341-270 BCE), it was characterized by an empiricist... -
Money Eric Lonergan 9781844658237
RRP: $79.93Booksplease Price: $73.01Eric Lonergan explores our complex relationship with money. In a provocative and insightful analysis, he argues that few things seem to matter more to us, but few things are as poorly understood... -
Reading Nietzsche: An Analysis of "Beyond Good and Evil" by Douglas Burnham 9781844650750
Booksplease Price: $74.90"Beyond Good and Evil" is a concise and comprehensive statement of Nietzsche's mature philosophy and is an ideal entry point into Nietzsche's work as a whole. Pithy, lyrical and densely complex,... -
Philosophy and Philosophers: An Introduction to Western Philosophy John Shand 9781902683638
RRP: $81.88Booksplease Price: $74.08This revised and updated edition of a standard work provides a clear and authoritative survey of the Western tradition in metaphysics and epistemology from the Presocratics to the present day. Aimed... -
Albert Camus: From the Absurd to Revolt John Foley 9781844651412
RRP: $72.13Booksplease Price: $65.77Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, encompassing philosophy, literature, politics and history, John Foley examines the full breadth of Camus' ideas to provide a comprehensive and rigorous study... -
Confucianism Paul Goldin 9781844651788
RRP: $81.88Booksplease Price: $74.08"Confucianism" presents the history and salient tenets of Confucian thought, and discusses its viability, from both a social and a philosophical point of view, in the modern world. Despite most of... -
Logic and How it Gets That Way Dale Jacquette 9781844656806
RRP: $79.93Booksplease Price: $72.42In this challenging and provocative analysis, Dale Jacquette argues that contemporary philosophy labours under a number of historically inherited delusions about the nature of logic and the... -
Space, Time and Einstein: An Introduction J.B. Kennedy 9781902683676
RRP: $79.93Booksplease Price: $72.42This introduction to one of the liveliest and most popular fields in philosophy is written specifically for a beginning readership with no background in philosophy or science. Step-by-step analyses... -
Wellbeing Mark Vernon 9781844651535
RRP: $81.88Booksplease Price: $74.08The politics of wellbeing and the new science of happiness have shot up the agenda since Martin Seligman coined the phrase "positive psychology". After all, who does not want to live the good life?... -
Smell and the Ancient Senses Mark Bradley 9781844656424
RRP: $72.13Booksplease Price: $65.77From flowers and perfumes to urban sanitation and personal hygiene, smell-a sense that is simultaneously sublime and animalistic-has played a pivotal role in western culture and thought. Greek and... -
Slave Revolts in Antiquity Theresa Urbainczyk 9781844651023
RRP: $81.88Booksplease Price: $74.08Although much has been written on Greek and Roman slavery, slave resistance has typically been dismissed as historically insignificant and those revolts that are documented are portrayed as wholly... -
Martin Heidegger: Key Concepts by Bret W. Davis
RRP: $243.75Booksplease Price: $215.28Heidegger's writings are among the most formidable in recent philosophy. The pivotal concepts of his thought are for many the source of both fascination and frustration. Yet any student of philosophy... -
The Solitary Self: Darwin and the Selfish Gene Mary Midgley 9781844652532
RRP: $81.88Booksplease Price: $74.08Renowned philosopher Mary Midgley explores the nature of our moral constitution to challenge the view that reduces human motivation to self-interest. Midgley argues cogently and convincingly that... -
Introducing Philosophy of Art: In Eight Case Studies Derek Matravers 9781844655373
RRP: $79.93Booksplease Price: $73.98Derek Matravers introduces students to the philosophy of art through a close examination of eight famous works of twentieth-century art. Each work has been selected in order to best illustrate and... -
Central Works of Philosophy v2: Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries by John Shand
Booksplease Price: $92.41Central Works of Philosophy is a major multi-volume collection of essays on the core texts of the Western philosophical tradition. From Plato's Republic to Quine's Word and Object, the five volumes... -
The Problem of Free Will: A Contemporary Introduction Mathew Iredale 9781844655045
RRP: $81.88Booksplease Price: $74.08Do we really have freedom to act, or are we slaves to our genes, environment or culture? Regular TPM columnist Mathew Iredale gets to grips with one of the most intractable issues in philosophy: the... -
Richard Rorty Alan Malachowski 9781902683133
RRP: $72.13Booksplease Price: $65.77Richard Rorty is notorious for contending that the traditional, foundation-building and truth-seeking ambitions of systematic philosophy should be set aside in favour of a more pragmatic,... -
Theories of Scientific Method: An Introduction Robert Nola 9781844650859
RRP: $81.88Booksplease Price: $74.67What is it to be scientific? Is there such a thing as scientific method? And if so, how might such methods be justified? Robert Nola and Howard Sankey seek to provide answers to these fundamental... -
Jurgen Habermas: Key Concepts Barbara Fultner 9781844652372
RRP: $72.13Booksplease Price: $65.77A rare systematic thinker, Habermas has furthered our understanding of modernity, social interaction and linguistic practice, societal institutions, rationality, morality, the law, globalization, and... -
Models and Theories: A Philosophical Inquiry Roman Frigg 9781844654918
RRP: $79.93Booksplease Price: $72.13Models and theories are of central importance in science, and scientists spend substantial amounts of time building, testing, comparing and revising models and theories. It is therefore not... -
The Zizek Dictionary Rex Butler 9781844655823
RRP: $81.88Booksplease Price: $74.08Slavoj Zizek is the most popular and discussed philosopher in the world today. His prolific writings - across philosophy, psychoanalysis, political and social theory, film, music and religion -... -
Understanding Virtue Ethics Stan van Hooft 9781844650453
RRP: $81.88Booksplease Price: $74.08More and more philosophers have advocated varieties of virtue-based ethics that challenge moral theory traditionally founded on moral obligation and the delineation of what is right or wrong in given... -
Understanding Postcolonialism Jane Hiddleston 9781844651610
Booksplease Price: $84.49Postcolonialism offers challenging and provocative ways of thinking about colonial and neocolonial power, about self and other, and about the discourses that perpetuate postcolonial inequality and... -
Love Tony Milligan 9781844655069
RRP: $79.93Booksplease Price: $72.42What is love? What is it to be loved? Can we trust love? Is it overrated? These are just some of the questions Tony Milligan pursues in his novel exploration of a subject that has occupied...