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Outside Ethics by Raymond Geuss
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £39.73Outside Ethics brings together some of the most important and provocative works by one of the most creative philosophers writing today. Seeking to expand the scope of contemporary moral and political... -
Politics and the Imagination by Raymond Geuss
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.02In politics, utopians do not have a monopoly on imagination. Even the most conservative defenses of the status quo, Raymond Geuss argues, require imaginative acts of some kind. In this collection of... -
A Philosopher Looks at Work by Raymond Geuss
Booksplease Price: £13.23Is work as we know it disappearing? And if so why should we care? These questions are explored by Raymond Geuss in this compact but sweeping survey which integrates conceptual analysis, historical... -
Seeing Double by Raymond Geuss 9781509560875
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £44.80The world is never going to make complete sense to us, yet we find that conclusion almost impossible to accept. Can we live, and feel at home, in a world composed at best of incompatible fragments of... -
Not Thinking like a Liberal by Raymond Geuss
RRP: £25.95Booksplease Price: £19.76In a compelling meditation on the ideas that shape our lives, one of the world's most provocative and creative philosophers explains how his eccentric early years influenced his lifelong critique of... -
Seeing Double by Raymond Geuss 9781509560882
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £14.71The world is never going to make complete sense to us, yet we find that conclusion almost impossible to accept. Can we live, and feel at home, in a world composed at best of incompatible fragments of... -
A World without Why by Raymond Geuss 9780691169200
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.69Wishful thinking is a deeply ingrained human trait that has had a long-term distorting effect on ethical thinking. Many influential ethical views depend on the optimistic assumption that, despite... -
Who Needs a World View? by Raymond Geuss
RRP: £31.95Booksplease Price: £27.15One of the world's most provocative philosophers attacks the obsession with comprehensive intellectual systems-the perceived need for a world view.We live in a unitary cosmos created and cared for in... -
History and Illusion in Politics by Raymond Geuss 9780521805964
RRP: £94.00Booksplease Price: £89.69The distinguished political philosopher Raymond Geuss examines critically some of the most widely held and important preconceptions about contemporary politics held in advanced Western societies. In... -
Public Goods, Private Goods by Raymond Geuss
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.02Much political thinking today, particularly that influenced by liberalism, assumes a clear distinction between the public and the private, and holds that the correct understanding of this should... -
A World without Why by Raymond Geuss 9780691155883
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £36.63Wishful thinking is a deeply ingrained human trait that has had a long-term distorting effect on ethical thinking. Many influential ethical views depend on the optimistic assumption that, despite... -
Not Thinking like a Liberal Raymond Geuss 9780674297319
RRP: £19.95Booksplease Price: £17.29"An instant classic....an intellectual feast and an existential feat!" -Cornel West "By intertwining autobiography and conceptual critique, Geuss underlines the idea that in order to gain a critical... -
Philosophy and Real Politics by Raymond Geuss 9780691258690
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.45A trenchant critique of established ideas in political philosophy and a provocative call for changeMany contemporary political thinkers are gripped by the belief that their task is to develop an... -
History and Illusion in Politics by Raymond Geuss 9780521000437
RRP: £23.00Booksplease Price: £21.25The distinguished political philosopher Raymond Geuss examines critically some of the most widely held and important preconceptions about contemporary politics held in advanced Western societies. In... -
Tracks in Chaos: Philosophical Orientation and Political Reflection Raymond Geuss 9781509573431
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £49.05When political action is imperative, we can be tempted to look to philosophy for guiding principles. This project, however, historically has been doomed to fail. Throughout Tracks in Chaos,... -
Morality, Culture, and History: Essays on German Philosophy by Raymond Geuss 9780521635684
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £29.61Raymond Geuss has been a distinctive contributor to the analysis and evaluation of German philosophy and to recent debates in ethics. In this new collection he treats a variety of topics in ethics,... -
The Idea of a Critical Theory: Habermas and the Frankfurt School by Raymond Geuss 9780521284226
RRP: £16.00Booksplease Price: £12.70Habermas and earlier members of the Frankfurt School have presented critical theory as a radically new form of knowledge. It is differentiated from the natural sciences as essentially 'reflective':... -
Changing the Subject: Philosophy from Socrates to Adorno by Raymond Geuss 9780674248359
RRP: £18.95Booksplease Price: £17.08"A history of philosophy in twelve thinkers...The whole performance combines polyglot philological rigor with supple intellectual sympathy, and it is all presented...in a spirit of fun...This bracing... -
Tracks in Chaos: Philosophical Orientation and Political Reflection Raymond Geuss 9781509573448
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £17.03When political action is imperative, we can be tempted to look to philosophy for guiding principles. This project, however, historically has been doomed to fail. Throughout Tracks in Chaos,... -
Morality, Culture, and History: Essays on German Philosophy by Raymond Geuss 9780521632027
RRP: £78.00Booksplease Price: £74.63Raymond Geuss has been a distinctive contributor to the analysis and evaluation of German philosophy and to recent debates in ethics. In this new collection he treats a variety of topics in ethics,... -
Watch Your Words: A Manifesto for the Arts of Speech Gerald Garutti 9781509567294
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.25Never before has humanity done so much talking... But is anyone listening? For that matter, are people ever speaking to each other?We need to acknowledge that speech, as we know it, has never been so... -
Rationality in Politics and its Limits by Terry Nardin 9781138306349
RRP: £50.99Booksplease Price: £48.18The word 'rationality' and its cognates, like 'reason', have multiple contexts and connotations. Rational calculation can be contrasted with rational interpretation. There is the rationality of proof... -
Realism in Political Theory by Rahul Sagar 9780367530587
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.54Over the past decade, an intellectual movement known as "realism" has challenged the reigning orthodoxy in political theory and political philosophy. Realists take issue with what they see as the... -
The Apologetics of Evil: The Case of Iago by Richard Raatzsch
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £32.82This book is a concise philosophical meditation on Iago and the nature of evil, through the exploration of the enduring puzzle found in Shakespeare's Othello. What drives Iago to orchestrate... -
On Social Facts by Margaret Gilbert 9780691020808
RRP: £68.00Booksplease Price: £55.98Are social groups real in any sense that is independent of the thoughts, actions, and beliefs of the individuals making up the group? Using methods of philosophy to examine such longstanding... -
After Kant: The Romans, the Germans, and the Moderns in the History of Political Thought by Michael Sonenscher 9780691245621
RRP: £105.00Booksplease Price: £86.13Tracing the origins of modern political thought through three sets of arguments over history, morality, and freedomIn this wide-ranging work, Michael Sonenscher traces the origins of modern political... -
Adam Smith's America: How a Scottish Philosopher Became an Icon of American Capitalism by Glory M. Liu
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £32.82The unlikely story of how Americans canonized Adam Smith as the patron saint of free marketsOriginally published in 1776, Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations was lauded by America's founders as a... -
What Is Political Philosophy? by Charles Larmore 9780691241562
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £18.57A new understanding of political philosophy from one of its leading thinkersWhat is political philosophy? What are its fundamental problems? And how should it be distinguished from moral philosophy?... -
The Linguistic Moment: From Wordsworth to Stevens by Joseph Hillis Miller 9780691609508
RRP: £68.00Booksplease Price: £65.60This series of readings, explores the functioning of moments in poems when the medium--language--becomes an issue. Originally published in 1985. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest... -
Setting the People Free: The Story of Democracy, Second Edition by John Dunn 9780691180038
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £17.05Why does democracy-as a word and as an idea-loom so large in the political imagination, though it has so often been misused and misunderstood? Setting the People Free starts by tracing the roots of... -
Reading Obama: Dreams, Hope, and the American Political Tradition by James T. Kloppenberg 9780691147468
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £17.05Derided by the Right as dangerous and by the Left as spineless, Barack Obama puzzles observers. In Reading Obama, James T. Kloppenberg reveals the sources of Obama's ideas and explains why his... -
Adam Smith’s America: How a Scottish Philosopher Became an Icon of American Capitalism by Glory M. Liu 9780691240862
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £18.19The unlikely story of how Americans canonized Adam Smith as the patron saint of free marketsOriginally published in 1776, Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations was lauded by America's founders as a... -
What Is Political Philosophy? by Charles Larmore
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £31.30A new understanding of political philosophy from one of its leading thinkersWhat is political philosophy? What are its fundamental problems? And how should it be distinguished from moral philosophy?... -
After Kant: The Romans, the Germans, and the Moderns in the History of Political Thought by Michael Sonenscher
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £39.23Tracing the origins of modern political thought through three sets of arguments over history, morality, and freedomIn this wide-ranging work, Michael Sonenscher traces the origins of modern political... -
Alibis of Empire: Henry Maine and the Ends of Liberal Imperialism by Karuna Mantena 9780691128160
RRP: £62.00Booksplease Price: £51.87Alibis of Empire presents a novel account of the origins, substance, and afterlife of late imperial ideology. Karuna Mantena challenges the idea that Victorian empire was primarily legitimated by... -
Political Legitimacy: Realism in Political Theory and Sociology by Terje Rasmussen
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £38.83This book explores the concept of political legitimacy, the nature of the normative foundation of politics and the state. With particular attention to the broad theoretical approach of political... -
Nietzsche on Time and History by Manuel Dries 9783110190090
RRP: £124.00Booksplease Price: £84.17In 1885 Nietzsche insisted that from now on philosophy was only acceptable 'as the most general form of history, as an attempt somehow to describe Heraclitean becoming and to abbreviate it into signs... -
Actions, Reasons and Reason by Marco Iorio 9783110346015
RRP: £96.50Booksplease Price: £65.74Through the whole history of mankind philosophers have taken pride in being reasonable agents. During the last decades Rudiger Bittner, one of the internationally best renown german philosophers and... -
Walter Benjamin: Self-Reference and Religiosity by Margarete Kohlenbach 9781349432097
Booksplease Price: £92.09Walter Benjamin's work represents one of the most radical and controversial responses to the problems of twentieth-century culture and society. This new interpretation analyzes some of the central... -
Walter Benjamin: Self-Reference and Religiosity by Margarete Kohlenbach 9780333993590
Booksplease Price: £90.56Walter Benjamin's work represents one of the most radical and controversial responses to the problems of twentieth-century culture and society. This new interpretation analyzes some of the central...