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Freud Jonathan Lear 9780415831802
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £24.38In this fully updated second edition, the author clearly introduces and assesses all of Freud's thought, focusing on those areas of philosophy on which Freud is acknowledged to have had a lasting... -
A Case for Irony by Jonathan Lear 9780674416888
RRP: £25.95Booksplease Price: £22.50In 2001, Vanity Fair declared that the Age of Irony was over. Joan Didion has lamented that the United States in the era of Barack Obama has become an "irony-free zone." Jonathan Lear in his 2006... -
Aristotle: The Desire to Understand by Jonathan Lear 9780521347624
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £24.60This is a 1988 philosophical introduction to Aristotle, and Professor Lear starts where Aristotle himself starts. The first sentence of the Metaphysics states that all human beings by their nature... -
Aristotle and Logical Theory by Jonathan Lear 9780521311786
Booksplease Price: £19.72Aristotle was the first and one of the greatest logicians. He not only devised the first system of formal logic, but also raised many fundamental problems in the philosophy of logic. In this book, Dr... -
Happiness, Death, and the Remainder of Life by Jonathan Lear 9780674006744
RRP: £42.95Booksplease Price: £35.69Separated by millennia, Aristotle and Sigmund Freud gave us disparate but compelling pictures of the human condition. But if, with Jonathan Lear, we scrutinize these thinkers' attempts to explain... -
Therapeutic Action: An Earnest Plea for Irony Jonathan Lear 9781855759947
RRP: £37.99Booksplease Price: £36.28This book argues that properly understood, irony plays a crucial role in therapeutic action. It is written as an invitation to clinicians to renew their own engagement with the fundamental concepts... -
Imagining the End: Mourning and Ethical Life Jonathan Lear 9780674297333
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £13.89A Washington Post Notable Work of Nonfiction A Chronicle of Higher Education Best Scholarly Book "A deeply insightful and thought-enriching work by one of the most original philosophers writing today... -
The Force of Argument: Essays in Honor of Timothy Smiley Jonathan Lear 9781138868496
RRP: £59.99Booksplease Price: £55.84Timothy Smiley has made ground-breaking contributions to modal logic, free logic, multiple-conclusion logic, and plural logic. He has illuminated Aristotle's syllogistic, the ideas of logical form... -
Wisdom Won from Illness: Essays in Philosophy and Psychoanalysis by Jonathan Lear
Booksplease Price: £41.25Wisdom Won from Illness brings into conversation two fields of humane inquiry-psychoanalysis and moral philosophy-that seem to have little to say to each other but which, taken together, form a basis... -
Radical Hope: Ethics in the Face of Cultural Devastation by Jonathan Lear 9780674027466
RRP: £21.95Booksplease Price: £18.49Shortly before he died, Plenty Coups, the last great Chief of the Crow Nation, told his story-up to a certain point. "When the buffalo went away the hearts of my people fell to the ground," he said,... -
Open Minded: Working Out the Logic of the Soul by Jonathan Lear 9780674455344
RRP: £69.95Booksplease Price: £56.93Freud is discredited, so we don't have to think about the darker strains of unconscious motivation anymore. We know what moves our political leaders, so we don't have to look too closely at their... -
Public Things: Democracy in Disrepair by Bonnie Honig 9780823276400
RRP: £56.00Booksplease Price: £50.35In the contemporary world of neoliberalism, efficiency is treated as the vehicle of political and economic health. State bureaucracy, but not corporate bureaucracy, is seen as inefficient, and... -
Public Things: Democracy in Disrepair by Bonnie Honig
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.68In the contemporary world of neoliberalism, efficiency is treated as the vehicle of political and economic health. State bureaucracy, but not corporate bureaucracy, is seen as inefficient, and... -
Bonhoeffer’s New Beginning: Ethics after Devastation by Andrew D. DeCort 9781978701014
Booksplease Price: £33.84Bonhoeffer's New Beginning investigates the ethics of making new beginnings after devastating moral rupture. The work argues that new beginnings must be made in order to sustain the fundamental... -
Hegel, Kant and the Structure of the Object Robert Stern 9780415755139
RRP: £58.99Booksplease Price: £54.98Hegel's holistic metaphysics challenges much recent ontology with its atomistic and reductionist assumptions; Stern offers us an original reading of Hegel and contrasts him with his predecessor, Kant... -
Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Aristotle and the Poetics by Angela Curran
RRP: £125.00Booksplease Price: £110.40Aristotle's Poetics is the first philosophical account of an art form and the foundational text in aesthetics. The Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Aristotle and the Poetics is an accessible guide... -
Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy by Bernard Williams
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £19.94With a new foreword by Jonathan Lear'Remarkably lively and enjoyable...It is a very rich book, containing excellent descriptions of a variety of moral theories, and innumerable and often witty... -
Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy Bernard Williams (Formerly of University of California at Berkeley, USA) 9781138834736
Booksplease Price: £110.39With a new foreword by Jonathan Lear'Remarkably lively and enjoyable...It is a very rich book, containing excellent descriptions of a variety of moral theories, and innumerable and often witty... -
Essays on Aristotle's Poetics by Amelie Oksenberg Rorty
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £39.23Aimed at deepening our understanding of the Poetics, this collection places Aristotle's analysis of tragedy in its larger philosophical context. In these twenty-one essays, philosophers and... -
Emotion, Imagination, and the Limits of Reason Talia Morag 9781138559523
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.38The emotions pose many philosophical questions. We don't choose them; they come over us spontaneously. Sometimes emotions seem to get it wrong: we experience wrongdoing but do not feel anger, feel... -
The Thread of Life by Richard Wollheim 9780300079753
Booksplease Price: £33.01In this distinguished book, first published in 1984, Richard Wollheim offers an original approach to the philosophical understanding of a person. Countering prevailing theories on the nature of... -
Whose Freud?: The Place of Psychoanalysis in Contemporary Culture by Peter Brooks 9780300087451
Booksplease Price: £35.22One hundred years after the publication of The Interpretation of Dreams, Freud remains the most frequently cited author of our culture-and one of the most controversial. To some he is the presiding... -
Reification: A New Look at an Old Idea by Axel Honneth 9780199898053
Booksplease Price: £37.26In the early 20th century, Marxist theory was enriched and rejuvenated by adopting the concept of reification, introduced by the Hungarian theorist Georg Lukacs to identify and denounce the... -
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Framing Peace: Thinking about and Enacting Curriculum as "Radical Hope" by Hans Smits 9781433122415
RRP: £33.50Booksplease Price: £30.86The language of frames suggests the need to rethink self and other in fostering ethical relationships as a foundation for peaceful existence. Educational writers and practitioners from many parts of... -
Republic by Plato 9780872201361
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.27The revised edition of Grube's classic translation follows and furthers Grube's noted success in combining fidelity to Plato's text with natural readability, while reflecting the fruits of new... -
Republic by Plato 9780872201378
RRP: £37.99Booksplease Price: £27.71The revised edition of Grube's classic translation follows and furthers Grube's noted success in combining fidelity to Plato's text with natural readability, while reflecting the fruits of new... -
Kant's Theory of Freedom by Henry E. Allison
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £26.27In his new book the eminent Kant scholar Henry Allison provides an innovative and comprehensive interpretation of Kant's concept of freedom. The author analyzes the concept and discusses the role it... -
City and Soul in Plato's Republic by G. R. F. Ferrari
Booksplease Price: £26.68Tracing a central theme of Plato's Republic, G. R. F. Ferrari reconsiders in this study the nature and purpose of the comparison between the structure of society and that of the individual soul. In... -
Hegel on Philosophy in History by Rachel Zuckert 9781107093416
RRP: £92.99Booksplease Price: £88.80In this volume honouring Robert Pippin, prominent philosophers such as John McDowell, Slavoj Zizek, Jonathan Lear, and Axel Honneth explore Hegel's proposals concerning the historical character of... -
Hegel on Philosophy in History by Rachel Zuckert 9781107472365
Booksplease Price: £32.12In this volume honouring Robert Pippin, prominent philosophers such as John McDowell, Slavoj Zizek, Jonathan Lear, and Axel Honneth explore Hegel's proposals concerning the historical character of... -
Essays on Moral Realism by Geoffrey Sayre-McCord 9780801422409
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £41.76For the greater part of this century, most philosophers and social scientists have eschewed moral realism. According to their view, moral facts cannot be accommodated by a suitably scientific picture... -
Contemporary Irish Poetry and the Climate Crisis Andrew J. Auge 9780367714109
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24Contemporary Irish Poetry and the Climate Crisis addresses what is arguably the most crucial issue of human history through the lens of late-twentieth and early twenty-first-century Irish poetry. The... -
Ironic Life by Richard J. Bernstein 9781509505722
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £44.80"Just as philosophy begins with doubt, so also a life that may be called human begins with irony" so wrote Kierkegaard. While we commonly think of irony as a figure of speech where someone says one... -
Reification: A New Look At An Old Idea by Axel Honneth 9780195320466
Booksplease Price: £48.61In the early 20th century, Marxist theory was enriched and rejuvenated by adopting the concept of reification, introduced by the Hungarian theorist Georg Lukacs to identify and denounce the... -
Ironic Life Richard J. Bernstein (New School University, New York) 9781509505739
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £15.34"Just as philosophy begins with doubt, so also a life that may be called human begins with irony" so wrote Kierkegaard. While we commonly think of irony as a figure of speech where someone says one... -
Concepts and Persons by Michael Lambek 9781487509057
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £20.89The Tanner Lectures are a collection of educational and scientific discussions relating to human values. Conducted by leaders in their fields, the lectures are presented at renowned institutions... -
Hopeful Pessimism Mara van der Lugt 9780691265605
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £17.05Why "hopeful pessimism" is not a contradiction in terms but a powerful source of moral and political commitmentThe climate debate is rife with calls for optimism. While temperatures rise and... -
Essays on Moral Realism by Geoffrey Sayre-McCord 9780801495410
RRP: £33.00Booksplease Price: £21.19For the greater part of this century, most philosophers and social scientists have eschewed moral realism. According to their view, moral facts cannot be accommodated by a suitably scientific picture... -
The Character of Mind: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind by Colin McGinn 9780198752080
Booksplease Price: £64.85Of what nature is the mind? So Colin McGinn starts his first chapter, and this is his guiding question. He pursues the answer with a boldness and provocativeness rarely encountered in philosophical... -
After Jews: Essays on Political Theology, Shoah and the End of Man by Piotr Nowak 9781839981944
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £77.09The basic idea of this book is an attempt to describe and critically interpret the condition of man living in the shadow of the Shoah, in the world "after Jews". The author achieves this by referring...