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On Film Stephen Mulhall 9781138796850
RRP: $41.27Booksplease Price: $40.24The first edition of Stephen Mulhall's acclaimed On Film was a study of the four Alien films, and made the highly original and controversial argument that films themselves can philosophise. In its... -
Philosophical Myths of the Fall by Stephen Mulhall 9780691133928
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $34.48Did post-Enlightenment philosophers reject the idea of original sin and hence the view that life is a quest for redemption from it? In Philosophical Myths of the Fall, Stephen Mulhall identifies and... -
Stanley Cavell: Philosophy's Recounting of the Ordinary by Stephen Mulhall 9780198238508
Booksplease Price: $84.79Stephen Mulhall presents the first full-length philosophical study of the work of Stanley Cavell, best known for his highly influential contributions to the fields of film studies, Shakespearian... -
Inheritance and Originality: Wittgenstein, Heidegger, Kierkegaard by Stephen Mulhall 9780199265497
Booksplease Price: $78.69What might it mean to think of philosophy as being in the condition of modernism -- in which its relation to its own past, and hence its sense of its own future, has become an undismissable problem?... -
The Great Riddle: Wittgenstein and Nonsense, Theology and Philosophy by Stephen Mulhall 9780198801627
Booksplease Price: $40.66Can we talk meaningfully about God? The theological movement known as Grammatical Thomism affirms that religious language is nonsensical, because the reality of God is beyond our capacity for... -
The Great Riddle: Wittgenstein and Nonsense, Theology and Philosophy by Stephen Mulhall 9780198755326
Booksplease Price: $82.60Can we talk meaningfully about God? The theological movement known as Grammatical Thomism affirms that religious language is nonsensical, because the reality of God is beyond our capacity for... -
On Being in the World (Routledge Revivals): Wittgenstein and Heidegger on Seeing Aspects Stephen Mulhall 9781138024526
RRP: $54.17Booksplease Price: $51.20On Being in the World, first published in 1990, illumines a neglected but important area of Wittgenstein's philosophy, revealing its pertinence to the central concerns of contemporary analytic... -
In Other Words: Transpositions of Philosophy in J.M. Coetzee's 'Jesus' Trilogy by Stephen Mulhall 9780192869715
RRP: $76.11Booksplease Price: $70.94J. M. Coetzee's 'Jesus' Trilogy extends and intensifies his long-term interest in engaging with a wide range of texts, themes and assumptions that help constitute the history of Western European... -
The Wounded Animal: J. M. Coetzee and the Difficulty of Reality in Literature and Philosophy by Stephen Mulhall
RRP: $58.05Booksplease Price: $50.22In 1997, the Nobel Prize-winning novelist J. M. Coetzee, invited to Princeton University to lecture on the moral status of animals, read a work of fiction about an eminent novelist, Elizabeth... -
The Cavell Reader Stephen Mulhall (Essex University; All Souls College, Oxford) 9780631197430
RRP: $52.83Booksplease Price: $50.45A personal glimpse inside the mind of a leading philosopher The Cavell Reader is an introduction to one of the 20th century's most influential American philosophers. Stanley Cavell was well-known for... -
Liberals and Communitarians Stephen Mulhall (Essex University; All Souls College, Oxford) 9780631198192
RRP: $46.38Booksplease Price: $38.09This is a substantially updated edition of the established guide to this key debate in modern political philosophy.About the AuthorStephen Mulhall is Reader Philosophy at Essex University and a... -
The Self and its Shadows: A Book of Essays on Individuality as Negation in Philosophy and the Arts by Professor Stephen Mulhall 9780198748229
Booksplease Price: $52.35Stephen Mulhall presents a series of multiply interrelated essays which together make up an original study of selfhood (subjectivity or personal identity). He explores a variety of articulations (in... -
The Ascetic Ideal: Genealogies of Life-Denial in Religion, Morality, Art, Science, and Philosophy by Stephen Mulhall 9780192896889
RRP: $117.39Booksplease Price: $113.42In The Ascetic Ideal, Stephen Mulhall shows how areas of cultural life that seem to be either essentially unconnected to evaluative commitments (science and philosophy) or to involve non-moral values... -
The Self and its Shadows: A Book of Essays on Individuality as Negation in Philosophy and the Arts by Professor Stephen Mulhall 9780199661787
Booksplease Price: $122.81Stephen Mulhall presents a series of multiply interrelated essays which together make up an original study of selfhood (subjectivity or personal identity). He explores a variety of articulations (in... -
The Ascetic Ideal: Genealogies of Life-Denial in Religion, Morality, Art, Science, and Philosophy by Stephen Mulhall 9780198966999
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $31.36In The Ascetic Ideal, Stephen Mulhall shows how areas of cultural life that seem to be either essentially unconnected to evaluative commitments (science and philosophy) or to involve non-moral values... -
Wittgenstein's Private Language: Grammar, Nonsense, and Imagination in Philosophical Investigations, 243-315 by Professor Stephen Mulhall 9780199556748
Booksplease Price: $50.58Stephen Mulhall presents a detailed critical commentary on sections 243-315 of Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations: the famous remarks on 'private language'. In so doing, he makes detailed... -
Joss Whedon as Philosopher by Dean Kowalski 9780739196656
Booksplease Price: $124.68In this book, Dean Kowalski argues that filmmakers can "do" philosophy when creating a fictional narrative film, and utilizes a careful and extensive analysis of Joss Whedon's fictive creations-Buffy... -
Blade Runner by Amy Coplan
RRP: $52.88Booksplease Price: $52.34Ridley Scott's Blade Runner is widely regarded as a "masterpiece of modern cinema" and is regularly ranked as one of the great films of all time. Set in a dystopian future where the line between... -
Heidegger, Authenticity and the Self: Themes From Division Two of Being and Time by Denis McManus
RRP: $64.49Booksplease Price: $59.97Though Heidegger's Being and Time is often cited as one of the most important philosophical works of the last hundred years, its Division Two has received relatively little attention. This... -
Michael Fried and Philosophy: Modernism, Intention, and Theatricality by Mathew Abbott 9780367667191
RRP: $61.91Booksplease Price: $57.78This volume brings philosophers, art historians, intellectual historians, and literary scholars together to argue for the philosophical significance of Michael Fried's art history and criticism. It... -
The Routledge Guidebook to Heidegger's Being and Time by Anthony Gottlieb
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $34.74The Routledge Guidebook to Heidegger's Being and Time examines the work of one of the most controversial thinkers of the twentieth century. Heidegger's writings are notoriously difficult, requiring... -
Must We Mean What We Say?: A Book of Essays by Stanley Cavell 9781107534230
RRP: $27.09Booksplease Price: $25.67In this classic collection of wide-ranging and interdisciplinary essays, Stanley Cavell explores a remarkably broad range of philosophical issues from politics and ethics to the arts and philosophy... -
Reading Cavell Alice Crary (New School University, New York, USA) 9780415346399
RRP: $54.17Booksplease Price: $51.20Alongside Richard Rorty, Hilary Putnam and Jacques Derrida, Stanley Cavell is arguably one of the best-known philosophers in the world. This state-of-the-art collection explores the work of this... -
Must We Mean What We Say?: A Book of Essays by Stanley Cavell
RRP: $113.52Booksplease Price: $108.09In this classic collection of wide-ranging and interdisciplinary essays, Stanley Cavell explores a remarkably broad range of philosophical issues from politics and ethics to the arts and philosophy... -
Philosophy of Religion in the Twenty-First Century by Professor D. Z. Phillips 9780333801758
Booksplease Price: $117.21This book offers the rare opportunity to assess, within a single volume, the leading schools of thought in contemporary philosophy of religion. Their exponents seek to meet objections made to their... -
Language Lost and Found: On Iris Murdoch and the Limits of Philosophical Discourse by Niklas Forsberg 9781501306815
Booksplease Price: $52.62Language Lost and Found takes as its starting-point Iris Murdoch's claim that "we have suffered a general loss of concepts." By means of a thorough reading of Iris Murdoch's philosophy in the light... -
Iris Murdoch: A Reassessment by A. Rowe 9780230003446
RRP: $116.09Booksplease Price: $104.13This book is an eclectic mix of essays that reposition Murdoch's work in relation to current debates in philosophy, theology, literature, gender and sexuality, and authorship. The essays refine,... -
Thinking After Heidegger David Wood 9780745616230
Booksplease Price: $24.01In Thinking After Heidegger, David Wood takes up the challenge posed by Heidegger - that after the end of philosophy we need to learn to think. But what if we read Heidegger with the same respectful... -
New Takes in Film-Philosophy by Havi Carel 9780230250291
Booksplease Price: $61.42This collection displays a range of approaches and contemporary developments in the expanding field of film-philosophy. The essays explore central issues surrounding the conjunction of film and... -
Television with Stanley Cavell in Mind by David LaRocca 9781804130186
RRP: $161.25Booksplease Price: $143.85This collection of new work on the philosophical importance of television starts from a model for reading films proposed by Stanley Cavell, whereby film in its entirety—actors and production... -
Kierkegaard's "Fear and Trembling": A Reader's Guide by Clare Carlisle 9781847064615
Booksplease Price: $39.00A concise and accessible introduction, this "Reader's Guide" takes students through Kierkegaard's most important work and a key nineteenth century philosophical text. Soren Kierkegaard was without... -
Philosophy of Religion in the Twenty-First Century by Professor D. Z. Phillips 9781349421336
Booksplease Price: $116.82This book offers the rare opportunity to assess, within a single volume, the leading schools of thought in contemporary philosophy of religion. Their exponents seek to meet objections made to their... -
Heidegger on Death: A Critical Theological Essay George Pattison 9781409466956
RRP: $68.36Booksplease Price: $64.36This book examines the question of death in the light of Heidegger's paradigmatic discussion in Being and Time. Although Heidegger's own treatment deliberately refrains from engaging theological... -
Human Nature: The Categorial Framework P. M. S. Hacker (University of Oxford, UK) 9781444332483
RRP: $38.64Booksplease Price: $35.87This major study examines the most fundamental categories in terms of which we conceive of ourselves, critically surveying the concepts of substance, causation, agency, teleology, rationality, mind,... -
The Routledge Companion to Philosophy and Film by Paisley Livingston
RRP: $78.68Booksplease Price: $74.16The Routledge Companion to Philosophy and Film is the first comprehensive volume to explore the main themes, topics, thinkers and issues in philosophy and film. The Companion features sixty... -
Stanley Cavell: Skepticism, Subjectivity, and the Ordinary by Espen Hammer 9780745623580
Booksplease Price: $25.43Stanley Cavell is a leading figure in American philosophy and one of the most exhilarating and wide-ranging intellectuals of our time. In this book Espen Hammer offers a lucid and thorough account of... -
The Fate of Wonder: Wittgenstein's Critique of Metaphysics and Modernity by Kevin Cahill 9780231158008
RRP: $79.98Booksplease Price: $63.92Kevin M. Cahill reclaims one of Ludwig Wittgenstein's most passionately pursued endeavors: to reawaken a sense of wonder around human life and language and its mysterious place in the world... -
The Idea of Evil Peter Dews (University of Essex, UK) 9781405117043
RRP: $45.09Booksplease Price: $42.39This timely book by philosopher Peter Dews explores the idea of evil, one of the most problematic terms in the contemporary moral vocabulary. Surveys the intellectual debate on the nature of evil... -
Edmund Husserl: Founder of Phenomenology by Dermot Moran 9780745621227
RRP: $23.21Booksplease Price: $21.97Dermot Moran provides a lucid, engaging, and critical introduction to Edmund Husserl's philosophy, with specific emphasis on his development of phenomenology. This book is a comprehensive guide to... -
Edmund Husserl: Founder of Phenomenology by Dermot Moran 9780745621210
Booksplease Price: $79.14Dermot Moran provides a lucid, engaging, and critical introduction to Edmund Husserl's philosophy, with specific emphasis on his development of phenomenology. This book is a comprehensive guide to...