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Stanley Cavell by Richard Eldridge 9780521779722
RRP: $54.60Booksplease Price: $51.23Contemporary Philosophy in Focus offers a series of introductory volumes on many of the dominant philosophical thinkers of the current age. Stanley Cavell has been one of the most creative and... -
Stanley Cavell by Richard Eldridge 9780521770255
RRP: $146.25Booksplease Price: $140.34Contemporary Philosophy in Focus offers a series of introductory volumes on many of the dominant philosophical thinkers of the current age. Stanley Cavell has been one of the most creative and... -
An Introduction to the Philosophy of Art by Richard Eldridge 9781107041691
RRP: $134.55Booksplease Price: $125.39An Introduction to the Philosophy of Art is a clear and compact survey of philosophical theories of the nature and value of art, including in its scope literature, painting, sculpture, music, dance,... -
An Introduction to the Philosophy of Art by Richard Eldridge 9781107614444
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $48.17An Introduction to the Philosophy of Art is a clear and compact survey of philosophical theories of the nature and value of art, including in its scope literature, painting, sculpture, music, dance,... -
Literature, Life, and Modernity by Richard Eldridge 9780231144544
RRP: $107.25Booksplease Price: $98.34Richard Eldridge explores the ability of dense and formally interesting literature to respond to the complexities of modern life. Beyond simple entertainment, difficult modern works cultivate... -
Werner Herzog: Filmmaker and Philosopher by Richard Eldridge 9781350100152
Booksplease Price: $58.66Werner Herzog has produced some of the most powerful, haunting, and memorable images ever captured on film. Both his fiction films and his documentaries address fundamental issues about nature,... -
Werner Herzog: Filmmaker and Philosopher by Richard Eldridge 9781350091672
Booksplease Price: $176.73Werner Herzog has produced some of the most powerful, haunting, and memorable images ever captured on film. Both his fiction films and his documentaries address fundamental issues about nature,... -
The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Literature by Richard Eldridge 9780199965496
Booksplease Price: $136.19The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Literature contains twenty-three newly commissioned essays by major philosophers and literary scholars that investigate literature as a form of attention to... -
Anticipations of Freedom: Engaging Stanley Cavell Richard Eldridge 9780197841747
Booksplease Price: $183.09Stanley Cavell's critical-aesthetic way of doing philosophy charts a unique path between dogmatic doctrinalism and dull despair in response to the alienations that trouble modern divided life. His... -
Beyond Representation: Philosophy and Poetic Imagination by Richard Eldridge 9780521480796
RRP: $175.50Booksplease Price: $168.56The essays in this 1996 volume explore the ways in which traditional philosophical problems about self-knowledge, self-identity, and value have migrated into literature since the Romantic and... -
The Persistence of Romanticism: Essays in Philosophy and Literature by Richard Eldridge 9780521800464
RRP: $152.10Booksplease Price: $145.53These challenging essays in this volume, first published in 2001, defend Romanticism against its critics. They argue that Romantic thought, interpreted as the pursuit of freedom in concrete contexts,... -
Beyond Representation: Philosophy and Poetic Imagination by Richard Eldridge 9780521175005
RRP: $68.25Booksplease Price: $67.82The essays in this 1996 volume explore the ways in which traditional philosophical problems about self-knowledge, self-identity, and value have migrated into literature since the Romantic and... -
Anticipations of Freedom: Engaging Stanley Cavell Richard Eldridge 9780197841754
RRP: $44.83Booksplease Price: $43.91Stanley Cavell's critical-aesthetic way of doing philosophy charts a unique path between dogmatic doctrinalism and dull despair in response to the alienations that trouble modern divided life. His... -
The Persistence of Romanticism: Essays in Philosophy and Literature by Richard Eldridge 9780521804813
RRP: $70.20Booksplease Price: $65.91These challenging essays in this volume, first published in 2001, defend Romanticism against its critics. They argue that Romantic thought, interpreted as the pursuit of freedom in concrete contexts,... -
Leading a Human Life: Wittgenstein, Intentionality, and Romanticism Richard Eldridge 9780226203133
Booksplease Price: $59.34This study presents an account of Wittgenstein's "Philosophical Investigations", interpreting the text as displaying the human need to pursue an ideal of expressive freedom within the limits set by... -
Images of History: Kant, Benjamin, Freedom, and the Human Subject by Richard Eldridge 9780190605322
Booksplease Price: $185.06Developing work in the theories of action and explanation, Eldridge argues that moral and political philosophers require accounts of what is historically possible, while historians require rough... -
Images of History: Kant, Benjamin, Freedom, and the Human Subject by Richard Eldridge 9780190847364
Booksplease Price: $79.13Developing work in the theories of action and explanation, Eldridge argues that moral and political philosophers require accounts of what is historically possible, while historians require rough... -
The Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter: A Play in One Act, by 9780573628887
Booksplease Price: $26.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573628887Author Richard EldridgeFormat PaperbackPage Count 18Imprint -
The Meaning of Life in Romantic Poetry and Poetics by Ross Wilson 9780415809139
RRP: $99.43Booksplease Price: $93.95This volume brings together an impressive range of established and emerging scholars to investigate the meaning of 'life' in Romantic poetry and poetics. This investigation involves sustained... -
Philosophical Romanticism Nikolas Kompridis 9780415256445
RRP: $81.88Booksplease Price: $77.40Philosophical Romanticism is one of the first books to address the relationship between philosophy and romanticism, an area which is currently undergoing a major revival. This collection of... -
The Apologetics of Evil: The Case of Iago by Richard Raatzsch
RRP: $74.10Booksplease Price: $64.00This 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... -
Art and its Objects by Richard Wollheim 9781107534414
RRP: $40.95Booksplease Price: $39.80Richard Wollheim's classic reflection on art considers central questions regarding expression, representation, style, the significance of the artist's intention and the essentially historical nature... -
Art and its Objects by Richard Wollheim 9781107113800
RRP: $152.10Booksplease Price: $146.11Richard Wollheim's classic reflection on art considers central questions regarding expression, representation, style, the significance of the artist's intention and the essentially historical nature... -
German Idealism: Contemporary Perspectives Espen Hammer (University of Essex, UK) 9780415373050
RRP: $81.88Booksplease Price: $77.40This outstanding collection of specially commissioned chapters examines German idealism from several angles and assesses the renewed interest in the subject from a wide range of fields. Including... -
Hegel on the Modern Arts by Benjamin Rutter 9781107499669
Booksplease Price: $62.63Debates over the 'end of art' have tended to obscure Hegel's work on the arts themselves. Benjamin Rutter opens this study with a defence of art's indispensability to Hegel's conception of modernity;... -
An Introduction to Art Criticism: Histories, Strategies, Voices by Kerr Houston
RRP: $134.53Booksplease Price: $122.21Understand the Complexities of Art Criticism in a Straightforward and Readable Manner An Introduction to Art Criticism offers a thorough overview of art criticism as it has been practiced since the... -
Stanley Cavell and Literary Studies: Consequences of Skepticism by Bernard Rhie 9781441129451
Booksplease Price: $72.97This title offers a groundbreaking and timely collection that draws out the full implications of Stanley Cavell's writings and ideas for literary studies. "Stanley Cavell and Literary Studies" is a... -
The Relevance of Romanticism: Essays on German Romantic Philosophy by Dalia Nassar 9780199976218
Booksplease Price: $106.74Since the early 1990s, there has been a resurgence of interest in philosophy between Kant and Hegel, and in early German romanticism in particular. Philosophers have come to recognize that, in spite... -
Cinema and Anachronism: The Mummy, the Crystal, the Atlas Daniele Dottorini 9781666941999
Booksplease Price: $196.81In this book, Daniele Dottorini establishes a starting point toward a theory of the anachronism of cinematic images through an exploration of existing films, theories, and discourses concerning the... -
Walter Benjamin: A Philosophical Portrait by Eli Friedlander 9780674061699
RRP: $89.60Booksplease Price: $74.70Walter Benjamin is often viewed as a cultural critic who produced a vast array of brilliant and idiosyncratic pieces of writing with little more to unify them than the feeling that they all bear the... -
Not Thinking like a Liberal Raymond Geuss 9780674297319
RRP: $38.90Booksplease Price: $33.72"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... -
Wittgenstein and the Creativity of Language by Sebastian Sunday Greve 9781349580736
Booksplease Price: $57.62This volume is the first to focus on a particular complex of questions that have troubled Wittgenstein scholarship since its very beginnings. The authors re-examine Wittgenstein's fundamental... -
Wittgenstein and Natural Religion by Gordon Graham 9780198713975
Booksplease Price: $151.71Gordon Graham presents a radically innovative study of Wittgenstein's philosophy, in relation to the age-old impulse to connect ordinary human life with the transcendent reality of God. He offers an... -
Thoreau's Importance for Philosophy by Rick Anthony Furtak 9780823239306
RRP: $103.35Booksplease Price: $92.14The philosophical significance of Henry David Thoreau's life and writings is far from settled. Although his best-known book, Walden, is admired as a classic work of American literature, it has not... -
Place and Experience: A Philosophical Topography by Jeff Malpas
RRP: $93.58Booksplease Price: $82.86The first edition of Place and Experience established Jeff Malpas as one of the leading philosophers and thinkers of place and space and provided a creative and refreshing alternative to prevailing... -
The Critical Imagination by James Grant 9780199661794
Booksplease Price: $151.71The Critical Imagination is a study of metaphor, imaginativeness, and criticism of the arts. Since the eighteenth century, many philosophers have argued that appreciating art is rewarding because it... -
Literature and the Human: Criticism, Theory, Practice by Andy Mousley 9780415614672
RRP: $93.58Booksplease Price: $87.34Why does literature matter? What is its human value? Historical approaches to literature have for several decades prevailed over the idea that literary works can deepen our understanding of... -
The Sublime Reader Robert R. Clewis 9781350030169
Booksplease Price: $80.42This is the first English-language anthology to provide a compendium of primary source material on the sublime. The book takes a chronological approach, covering the earliest ancient traditions up... -
The Politics of Perception and the Aesthetics of Social Change by Jason Miller
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $41.73In both politics and art in recent decades, there has been a dramatic shift in emphasis on representation of identity. Liberal ideals of universality and individuality have given way to a concern... -
Becoming Who We Are: Politics and Practical Philosophy in the Work of Stanley Cavell by Andrew Norris 9780190673949
Booksplease Price: $214.73While much literature exists on the work of Stanley Cavell, this is the first monograph on his contribution to politics and practical philosophy. As Andrew Norris demonstrates, though skepticism is...