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Adorno and Existence by Peter E. Gordon
RRP: €30.88Booksplease Price: €26.78From the beginning to the end of his career, the philosopher Theodor W. Adorno sustained an uneasy but enduring bond with existentialism. His attitude overall was that of unsparing criticism, verging... -
Weimar Thought: A Contested Legacy by Peter E. Gordon 9780691135113
RRP: €35.70Booksplease Price: €30.36During its short lifespan, the Weimar Republic (1918-33) witnessed an unprecedented flowering of achievements in many areas, including psychology, political theory, physics, philosophy, literary and... -
Walter Benjamin: The Pearl Diver Peter E. Gordon 9780300216868
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €17.90An accessible and authoritative biography of Walter Benjamin that guides the reader through the complexity of his intellectual legacy and the turbulence of his time Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) is... -
Continental Divide: Heidegger, Cassirer, Davos by Peter E. Gordon
RRP: €28.50Booksplease Price: €24.93In the spring of 1929, Martin Heidegger and Ernst Cassirer met for a public conversation in Davos, Switzerland. They were arguably the most important thinkers in Europe, and their exchange touched... -
Weimar Thought: A Contested Legacy by Peter E. Gordon 9780691135106
RRP: €61.88Booksplease Price: €50.29During its short lifespan, the Weimar Republic (1918-33) witnessed an unprecedented flowering of achievements in many areas, including psychology, political theory, physics, philosophy, literary and... -
Adorno and Music: Critical Variations by Peter E. Gordon 9780822363934
RRP: €14.27Booksplease Price: €12.39A special issue of New German Critique The posthumous publication of Theodor W. Adorno's works on music continues to reveal the special relationship between music and philosophy in his thinking... -
The Routledge Companion to the Frankfurt School by Peter E. Gordon 9780367659714
RRP: €59.49Booksplease Price: €54.78The portentous terms and phrases associated with the first decades of the Frankfurt School - exile, the dominance of capitalism, fascism - seem as salient today as they were in the early twentieth... -
Migrants in the Profane: Critical Theory and the Question of Secularization by Peter E. Gordon
Booksplease Price: €64.31A beautifully written exploration of religion's role in a secular, modern politics, by an accomplished scholar of critical theory"Rich in historical background, illuminating in its comparative... -
A Precarious Happiness: Adorno and the Sources of Normativity by Peter E. Gordon 9780226828572
RRP: €38.08Booksplease Price: €33.68A strikingly original account of Theodor Adorno's work as a critique animated by happiness. "Gordon's confidently gripping and persistently subtle interpretation brings a new tone to the debate about... -
The Cambridge History of Modern European Thought: Volume 2, The Twentieth Century by Peter E. Gordon 9781107483804
RRP: €52.36Booksplease Price: €48.54The Cambridge History of Modern European Thought is an authoritative and comprehensive exploration of the themes, thinkers and movements that shaped our intellectual world in the late-eighteenth and... -
Adorno's Aesthetic Theory at Fifty by Peter Gordon
RRP: €14.27Booksplease Price: €12.39It has been fifty years since Theodor Adorno's Aesthetic Theory was first published in 1970, a year after his death. The work appeared at a historical moment when political tension on the left was at... -
An Essay on Man: An Introduction to a Philosophy of Human Culture by Ernst Cassirer
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €17.54One of the twentieth century's greatest philosophers presents the results of his lifetime study of man's cultural achievementsAn Essay on Man is an original synthesis of contemporary knowledge, a... -
The Cambridge History of Modern European Thought: Volume 1, The Nineteenth Century by Warren Breckman 9781107483767
RRP: €52.36Booksplease Price: €48.54The Cambridge History of Modern European Thought is an authoritative and comprehensive exploration of the themes, thinkers and movements that shaped our intellectual world in the late-eighteenth and... -
The Cambridge History of Modern European Thought 2 Volume Paperback Set by Warren Breckman
Booksplease Price: €94.13The Cambridge History of Modern European Thought is an authoritative and comprehensive exploration of the themes, thinkers and movements that shaped our intellectual world from the late eighteenth... -
The Trace of God: Derrida and Religion by Edward Baring
RRP: €80.92Booksplease Price: €71.91Derrida's writings on the question of religion have played a crucial role in the transformation of scholarly debate across the globe. The Trace of God provides a compact introduction to this debate... -
The Trace of God: Derrida and Religion by Edward Baring 9780823262106
RRP: €28.55Booksplease Price: €26.70Derrida's writings on the question of religion have played a crucial role in the transformation of scholarly debate across the globe. The Trace of God provides a compact introduction to this debate... -
Authoritarianism: Three Inquiries in Critical Theory by Wendy Brown
Booksplease Price: €23.94Across the Euro-Atlantic world, political leaders have been mobilizing their bases with nativism, racism, xenophobia, and paeans to "traditional values," in brazen bids for electoral support. How are... -
The Modernist Imagination: Intellectual History and Critical Theory by Warren Breckman 9780857453075
RRP: €42.84Booksplease Price: €37.00"This volume illustrates what it means to do intellectual history and demonstrates why intellectual history remains important, especially in the context of...the 'political history of ideas'... -
Dreamland of Humanists: Warburg, Cassirer, Panofsky, and the Hamburg School Emily Levine 9780226061689
RRP: €95.20Booksplease Price: €92.34Called by Heinrich Heine a city of dull and culturally limited merchants where poets only go to die, Hamburg would seem an improbable setting for a major new intellectual movement. Yet it was there,... -
Things Need to Get Better: Conversations with Stefan Muller-Doohm and Roman Yos Jürgen Habermas 9781509567270
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €22.67In this book Jurgen Habermas offers a wide-ranging reflection on his life and work and on the factors that shaped the development of his thought. He discusses the motives behind his work, the... -
Vladimir Jankelevitch and the Question of Forgiveness by Alan Udoff 9780739176672
Booksplease Price: €101.92The essays focus on the work of Vladimir Jankelevitch as a moral philosopher, particularly that aspect of his work dealing with the question of forgiveness. They treat topics such as the place of... -
After the Death of God: Secularization as a Philosophical Challenge from Kant to Nietzsche by Espen Hammer 9780226838496
RRP: €109.48Booksplease Price: €106.31A fresh history of nineteenth-century philosophy's many ideas about secularization. The secularization thesis, which held that religious belief would gradually yield to rationality, has been... -
Formations of Belief: Historical Approaches to Religion and the Secular by Philip Nord
RRP: €53.55Booksplease Price: €43.59For decades, scholars and public intellectuals have been predicting the demise of religion in the face of secularization. Yet religion is undergoing an unprecedented resurgence in modern life-and... -
The Vicissitudes of Nature: From Spinoza to Freud Richard J. Bernstein (New School University, New York) 9781509555208
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €21.29The relation between humans and nature is at the core of the great existential threats of our time, from climate change, extreme weather, and environmental destruction to devastating pandemics. We... -
Thinking in the Past Tense: Eight Conversations by Alexander Bevilacqua 9780226601205
Booksplease Price: €31.75The study of intellectual history might be second only to the novel in the number of mournful obituaries it has received over the years. But--if the vibrancy on display in Thinking in the Past Tense... -
Thinking in the Past Tense: Eight Conversations Alexander Bevilacqua 9780226601175
RRP: €80.92Booksplease Price: €78.60The study of intellectual history might be second only to the novel in the number of mournful obituaries it has received over the years. But--if the vibrancy on display in Thinking in the Past Tense... -
When Spinoza Met Marx: Experiments in Nonhumanist Activity by Tracie Matysik
RRP: €38.08Booksplease Price: €33.68Explores concepts that bring together the thinking of Spinoza and Marx. Karl Marx was a fiery revolutionary theorist who heralded the imminent demise of capitalism, while Spinoza was a contemplative... -
Karl Marx: Thoroughly Revised Fifth Edition by Isaiah Berlin
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €23.92Isaiah Berlin's intellectual biography of Karl Marx has long been recognized as one of the best concise accounts of the life and thought of the man who had, in Berlin's words, a more "direct,... -
Max Weber at 100: Legacies and Prospects Joshua Derman 9780197604922
RRP: €76.16Booksplease Price: €74.91The year 2020 marked the centennial of the death of Max Weber, the German sociologist, scholar of world religions, economic historian, social philosopher, and theoretician of modern political life... -
Making Spirit Matter: Neurology, Psychology, and Selfhood in Modern France by Larry Sommer McGrath 9780226699790
RRP: €109.48Booksplease Price: €105.37The connection between mind and brain has been one of the most persistent problems in modern Western thought; even recent advances in neuroscience haven't been able to solve it satisfactorily... -
Heidegger's Black Notebooks: Responses to Anti-Semitism by Peter Trawny 9780231180450
RRP: €33.32Booksplease Price: €28.19The 2014 publication of the first three volumes of Martin Heidegger's Black Notebooks, the philosopher's private writings from the war years, sparked international controversy. While Heidegger's... -
Heidegger's Black Notebooks: Responses to Anti-Semitism by Peter Trawny
RRP: €119.00Booksplease Price: €93.43The 2014 publication of the first three volumes of Martin Heidegger's Black Notebooks, the philosopher's private writings from the war years, sparked international controversy. While Heidegger's... -
Making Spirit Matter: Neurology, Psychology, and Selfhood in Modern France by Larry Sommer McGrath
Booksplease Price: €37.33The connection between mind and brain has been one of the most persistent problems in modern Western thought; even recent advances in neuroscience haven't been able to solve it satisfactorily... -
Jewish Culture between Canon and Heresy by David Biale 9781503634343
RRP: €27.36Booksplease Price: €24.23This career-spanning anthology from prominent Jewish historian David Biale brings over a dozen of his key essays together for the first time. These pieces, written between 1974 and 2016, are all... -
The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms, Volume 1: Language Ernst Cassirer 9781032474298
RRP: €40.45Booksplease Price: €37.12"The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms is a milestone in twentieth century philosophy. Promoting a philosophical vision informed by Kant, it incorporates the philosophical advances achieved in the... -
The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms, Volume 3: Phenomenology of Cognition Ernst Cassirer 9781032474311
RRP: €40.45Booksplease Price: €37.12"In his Phenomenology of Cognition, Cassirer provides a comprehensive and systematic account of the dynamic process involved in the whole of human culture as it progresses from the world of myth and... -
The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms, Volume 3: Phenomenology of Cognition Ernst Cassirer 9781138907249
RRP: €96.38Booksplease Price: €85.61"In his Phenomenology of Cognition, Cassirer provides a comprehensive and systematic account of the dynamic process involved in the whole of human culture as it progresses from the world of myth and... -
The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms, Volume 2: Mythical Thinking by Ernst Cassirer 9781032474304
RRP: €40.45Booksplease Price: €38.72"The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms is one of the landmarks of twentieth century philosophy. Drawing from the influential work of Wilhelm Dilthey, it transformed neo-Kantianism into a new robust... -
History and Its Limits: Human, Animal, Violence by Dominick LaCapra
RRP: €33.31Booksplease Price: €19.60Dominick LaCapra's History and Its Limits articulates the relations among intellectual history, cultural history, and critical theory, examining the recent rise of "Practice Theory" and probing the... -
The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms, Volume 1: Language Ernst Cassirer 9781138907133
RRP: €96.38Booksplease Price: €85.01"The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms is a milestone in twentieth century philosophy. Promoting a philosophical vision informed by Kant, it incorporates the philosophical advances achieved in the...