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Nature and Value by Akeel Bilgrami
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.21Today, as we confront an unprecedented environmental crisis of our own making, it is more urgent than ever to consider the notion of nature and our place within it. This book brings together essays... -
Beyond the Secular West by Akeel Bilgrami
RRP: £117.00Booksplease Price: £91.46What is the character of secularism in countries that were not pervaded by Christianity, such as China, India, and the nations of the Middle East? To what extent is the secular an imposition of... -
Nature and Value by Akeel Bilgrami 9780231194624
RRP: £117.00Booksplease Price: £91.46Today, as we confront an unprecedented environmental crisis of our own making, it is more urgent than ever to consider the notion of nature and our place within it. This book brings together essays... -
Who's Afraid of Academic Freedom? by Akeel Bilgrami
RRP: £134.00Booksplease Price: £106.53In these seventeen essays, distinguished senior scholars discuss the conceptual issues surrounding the idea of freedom of inquiry and scrutinize a variety of obstacles to such inquiry that they have... -
Beyond the Secular West by Akeel Bilgrami 9780231170819
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.21What is the character of secularism in countries that were not pervaded by Christianity, such as China, India, and the nations of the Middle East? To what extent is the secular an imposition of... -
Who's Afraid of Academic Freedom? by Akeel Bilgrami 9780231168816
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.32In these seventeen essays, distinguished senior scholars discuss the conceptual issues surrounding the idea of freedom of inquiry and scrutinize a variety of obstacles to such inquiry that they have... -
Democratic Culture: Historical and Philosophical Essays by Akeel Bilgrami 9780415864862
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63A collection of essays by distinguished scholars, this book delineates a substantial conception of democracy, the great promise as well as the pitfalls of a democratic mentality and culture. These... -
Noncoercive Threats to Academic, Political, and Economic Freedom Akeel Bilgrami 9780231218566
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.02States and institutions in both conventionally authoritarian and formally democratic societies overtly circumscribe freedom in any number of ways. Yet there are also subtler forms by which... -
Marx, Gandhi and Modernity - Essays Presented to Javeed Alam Akeel Bilgrami 9789382381396
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £33.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789382381396Author Akeel BilgramiFormat HardbackPage Count 328Imprint Tulika BooksPublisher Tulika... -
Noncoercive Threats to Academic, Political, and Economic Freedom Akeel Bilgrami 9780231218559
RRP: £134.00Booksplease Price: £106.23States and institutions in both conventionally authoritarian and formally democratic societies overtly circumscribe freedom in any number of ways. Yet there are also subtler forms by which... -
Belief and Meaning: The Unity and Locality of Mental Content Akeel Bilgrami (Columbia University) 9780631196778
RRP: £36.95Booksplease Price: £35.41Belief and Meaning is a philosophical treatment of intentionality. It offers an original, logical and convincing account of intentional content which is local and contextual and which takes issues... -
If God Is the Answer, What Is the Question? Christopher Insole 9781836432159
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.74You can argue about God forever, and not change your mind. Believers and non-believers often talk at cross purposes, both failing to grasp what is really going on when we argue about God. So where do... -
Politics, Ethics and the Self: Re-reading Gandhi's Hind Swaraj by Rajeev Bhargava 9780367488598
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.08Hind Swaraj by Mahatma Gandhi is arguably the greatest text to have emerged from the anti-colonial movement in India and the first to seriously challenge the cultural and civilizational premises of... -
Reasoning Indian Politics: Philosopher Politicians to Politicians Seeking Philosophy by Narendar Pani 9780367884109
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24This volume examines the multiple forms of reasoning in Indian politics and explores a framework to understand them. In the process, it looks at a series of issues involving the relationship between... -
Donald Davidson: Life and Words by Maria Baghramian 9780415721929
RRP: £58.99Booksplease Price: £54.98Donald Davidson (1917-2003) was one of the most prominent philosophers of the second half of the twentieth century. His thinking about language, mind, and epistemology has shaped the views of several... -
The Philosophy of Reenchantment by Michiel Meijer
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.08This book presents a philosophical study of the idea of reenchantment and its merits in the interrelated fields of philosophical anthropology, ethics, and ontology. It features chapters from leading... -
Chomsky Notebook by Julie Franck 9780231144759
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.70Noam Chomsky applies a rational, scientific approach to disciplines as diverse as linguistics, ethics, and politics. His best-known innovations involve a groundbreaking theory of generative grammar,... -
The Integral Nature of Things: Critical Reflections on the Present Lata Mani 9780415831383
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £31.19The world is an interdependent whole of which everything is an integral, complexly related, part. Yet current ways of thinking, and being, persistently separate social phenomena and the individual... -
Edward Said: Continuing the Conversation by Homi K. Bhabha 9780226532035
Booksplease Price: £21.05In Edward Said: Continuing the Conversation, Edward Said's long-time friends and collaborators continue their dialogue with Said where they left off following his death in the fall of 2003. The... -
Chomsky Notebook by Julie Franck 9780231144742
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £78.81Noam Chomsky applies a rational, scientific approach to disciplines as diverse as linguistics, ethics, and politics. His best-known innovations involve a groundbreaking theory of generative grammar,... -
Boundaries of Toleration by Alfred Stepan 9780231165679
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £23.69How can people of diverse religious, ethnic, and linguistic allegiances and identities live together without committing violence, inflicting suffering, or oppressing each other? In this volume,... -
Humanistic Judgment: Ten Experiments in Reading Benjamin Barasch 9780300269970
Booksplease Price: £30.75A defense of individual judgment as the core of humanistic study Why do some works of art and thought speak to us for generations while the vast majority are quickly forgotten? What insights do we... -
Rise of Saffron Power: Reflections on Indian Politics by Mujibur Rehman 9780367734688
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24This volume looks at the impact of the landmark 2014 elections and the consequent Assembly elections which have transformed the ideological discourse of India. It discusses a variety of topical... -
The Nonviolent Struggle for Indian Freedom, 1905-19 by David Hardiman
Booksplease Price: £32.54Much of the recent surge in writing about the practice of nonviolent forms of resistance has focused on movements that occurred after the end of the Second World War, many of which have been... -
Dilemmas and Connections: Selected Essays by Charles Taylor
Booksplease Price: £29.46There are, always, more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in one's philosophy-and in these essays Charles Taylor turns to those things not fully imagined or avenues not wholly explored in... -
Beyond Liberalism Prabhat Patnaik 9780231216326
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.21Liberalism holds that individual freedom can be realized under capitalism. "Classical liberalism" tends to focus on excessive state interference as the primary threat to freedom. More recent... -
The Political Power of Visual Art: Liberty, Solidarity, and Rights Daniel Herwitz (University of Michigan, USA) 9781350182370
Booksplease Price: £27.79Visual art has a ubiquitous political cast today. But which politics? Daniel Herwitz seeks clarity on the various things meant by politics, and how we can evaluate their presumptions or aspirations... -
The Political Power of Visual Art: Liberty, Solidarity, and Rights by Daniel Herwitz 9781350182387
Booksplease Price: £81.47Visual art has a ubiquitous political cast today. But which politics? Daniel Herwitz seeks clarity on the various things meant by politics, and how we can evaluate their presumptions or aspirations... -
Varieties of Secularism in a Secular Age by Michael Warner 9780674072411
Booksplease Price: £29.46"What does it mean to say that we live in a secular age?" This apparently simple question opens into the massive, provocative, and complex A Secular Age, where Charles Taylor positions secularism as... -
Mind, Reason, and Being-in-the-World: The McDowell-Dreyfus Debate by Joseph K. Schear
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £44.79John McDowell and Hubert L. Dreyfus are philosophers of world renown, whose work has decisively shaped the fields of analytic philosophy and phenomenology respectively. Mind, Reason, and... -
The Awakened Ones: Phenomenology of Visionary Experience by Gananath Obeyesekere 9780231153621
RRP: £134.00Booksplease Price: £107.03While a rational consciousness grasps many truths, Gananath Obeyesekere believes an even richer knowledge is possible through a bold confrontation with the stuff of visions and dreams. Spanning both... -
Open to Reason: Muslim Philosophers in Conversation with the Western Tradition by Souleymane Bachir Diagne 9780231185479
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.75What does it mean to be a Muslim philosopher, or to philosophize in Islam? In Open to Reason, Souleymane Bachir Diagne traces Muslims' intellectual and spiritual history of examining and questioning... -
Open to Reason: Muslim Philosophers in Conversation with the Western Tradition by Souleymane Bachir Diagne
RRP: £68.00Booksplease Price: £54.15What does it mean to be a Muslim philosopher, or to philosophize in Islam? In Open to Reason, Souleymane Bachir Diagne traces Muslims' intellectual and spiritual history of examining and questioning... -
Liberal Education and Its Discontents: The Crisis in the Indian University by Shashikala Srinivasan
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24What explains the peculiar trajectory of the university and liberal education in India? Can we understand the crisis in the university in terms of the idea of education underlying it?This book... -
The Awakened Ones: Phenomenology of Visionary Experience by Gananath Obeyesekere 9780231153638
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.02While a rational consciousness grasps many truths, Gananath Obeyesekere believes an even richer knowledge is possible through a bold confrontation with the stuff of visions and dreams. Spanning both... -
The Crisis of Secularism in India by Anuradha Dingwaney Needham 9780822338468
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.62While secularism has been integral to India's democracy for more than fifty years, its uses and limits are now being debated anew. Signs of a crisis in the relations between state, society, and... -
The Language Animal: The Full Shape of the Human Linguistic Capacity Charles Taylor 9780674303584
RRP: £23.95Booksplease Price: £19.19"We have been given a powerful and often uplifting vision of what it is to be truly human." -John Cottingham, The TabletIn seminal works ranging from Sources of the Self to A Secular Age, Charles... -
The Language Animal: The Full Shape of the Human Linguistic Capacity by Charles Taylor 9780674660205
RRP: £29.95Booksplease Price: £23.85In seminal works ranging from Sources of the Self to A Secular Age, Charles Taylor has shown how we create possible ways of being, both as individuals and as a society. In his new book setting forth... -
A Philosophical Retrospective: Facts, Values, and Jewish Identity by Alan Montefiore 9780231153003
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £36.63As a young lecturer in philosophy and the eldest son of a prominent Jewish family, Alan Montefiore faced two very different understandings of his identity: the more traditional view that an identity... -
Autobiography of an Archive: A Scholar's Passage to India by Nicholas B. Dirks
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.02The decades between 1970 and the end of the twentieth century saw the disciplines of history and anthropology draw closer together, with historians paying more attention to social and cultural...