History of Western philosophy books

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The Infidel and the Professor: David Hume, Adam Smith, and the Friendship That Shaped Modern Thought

The Infidel and the Professor: David Hume, Adam Smith,...

Author: Dennis C. Rasmussen
ISBN: 9780691192284
Format: Paperback
$34.99

"The story of the greatest of all philosophical friendships-and how it influenced modern thoughtDavid Hume is arguably...  Read More >>

Baudrillard and the Culture Industry: Returning to the First Generation of the Frankfurt School

Baudrillard and the Culture Industry: Returning to the...

Author: Amirhosein Khandizaji
ISBN: 9783319888552
Format: Paperback
$206.97

This book argues for the importance of the theory of the culture industry in today's world. It begins by considering...  Read More >>

Heidegger’s Black Notebooks and the Future of Theology

Heidegger’s Black Notebooks and the Future of Theology...

Author: Mårten Björk ,  Jayne Svenungsson
ISBN: 9783319879048
Format: Paperback
$336.35

This book probes the relationship between Martin Heidegger and theology in light of the discovery of his Black Notebooks,...  Read More >>

Charles Taylor, Michael Polanyi and the Critique of Modernity: Pluralist and Emergentist Directions

Charles Taylor, Michael Polanyi and the Critique of...

Author: Charles W. Lowney II
ISBN: 9783319876658
Format: Paperback
$258.72

This book provides a timely, compelling, multidisciplinary critique of the largely tacit set of assumptions funding...  Read More >>

The Worlds of Positivism: A Global Intellectual History, 1770–1930

The Worlds of Positivism: A Global Intellectual History,...

Author: Johannes Feichtinger ,  Franz L. Fillafer
ISBN: 9783319880990
Format: Paperback
$258.72

Providing a genealogy of scientific governance that is sorely needed in an age of post-truth politics, this volume...  Read More >>

Enlightenment in an Age of Destruction: Intellectuals, World Disorder, and the Politics of Empire

Enlightenment in an Age of Destruction: Intellectuals,...

Author: Christopher Britt ,  Paul Fenn
ISBN: 9783319889894
Format: Paperback
$206.97

This book is about the ways in which modern enlightenment, rather than liberating humanity from tyranny, has subjected...  Read More >>

Ted Honderich on Consciousness, Determinism, and Humanity

Ted Honderich on Consciousness, Determinism, and Humanity...

Author: Gregg D. Caruso
ISBN: 9783319883137
Format: Paperback
$232.85

This collection of original essays brings together a world-class lineup of philosophers to provide the most comprehensive...  Read More >>

Aristotle’s Practical Philosophy: On the Relationship between His Ethics and Politics

Aristotle’s Practical Philosophy: On the Relationship...

Author: Emma Cohen de Lara ,  René Brouwer
ISBN: 9783319878812
Format: Paperback
$194.04

This book is the first collection of essays in English devoted solely to the relationship between Aristotle’s ethics...  Read More >>

Spanish Philosophy of Technology: Contemporary Work from the Spanish Speaking Community

Spanish Philosophy of Technology: Contemporary Work...

Author: Belén Laspra ,  José Antonio López Cerezo
ISBN: 9783319891248
Format: Paperback
$181.10

This volume features essays that detail the distinctive ways authors and researchers in Spanish speaking countries...  Read More >>

Logical Form: Between Logic and Natural Language

Logical Form: Between Logic and Natural Language

Author: Andrea Iacona
ISBN: 9783319892719
Format: Paperback
$103.47

Its central thesis is that there is no such thing as a correct answer to the question of what is logical form: two...  Read More >>

Aristotle on Emotions in Law and Politics

Aristotle on Emotions in Law and Politics

Author: Liesbeth Huppes-Cluysenaer ,  Nuno M.M.S. Coelho
ISBN: 9783319883045
Format: Paperback
$206.97

In this book, experts from the fields of law and philosophy explore the works of Aristotle to illuminate the much-debated...  Read More >>

For the Love of Psychoanalysis: The Play of Chance in Freud and Derrida

For the Love of Psychoanalysis: The Play of Chance in...

Author: Elizabeth Rottenberg
ISBN: 9780823284108
Format: Paperback
$67.95

This book is about what exceeds or resists calculation—in life and in death. Its two parts and nine chapters highlight,...  Read More >>

Machado de Assis and Narrative Theory: Language, Imitation, Art, and Verisimilitude in the Last Six Novels

Machado de Assis and Narrative Theory: Language, Imitation,...

Author: Earl E. Fitz
ISBN: 9781684481132
Format: Hardback
$396.00

Argues that Machado de Assis, hailed as one of Latin American literature's greatest writers, was also a major theoretician...  Read More >>

Varia Socratica: First Series

Varia Socratica: First Series

Author: A. E. Taylor
ISBN: 9780367150716
Format: Hardback
$221.00

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On Obliteration – An Interview with Françoise Armengaud Concerning the Work of Sacha Sosno

On Obliteration – An Interview with Françoise Armengaud...

Author: Emmanuel Levinas ,  Richard A. Cohen
ISBN: 9783035801446
Format: Paperback
$38.81

Emmanuel Levinas’s interview with Françoise Armengaud in 1988 is one of the only statements we have from the philosopher,...  Read More >>

Exzerpte Und Notizen: Februar 1864 Bis Oktober 1868, November 1869, März, April, Juni 1870, Dezember 1872

Exzerpte Und Notizen: Februar 1864 Bis Oktober 1868,...

Author: Teinosuke Otani ,  Timm Graßmann
ISBN: 9783110583694
Format: Hardback
$578.13

"Volume IV/18 publishes for the first time five notebooks and five excerpted volumes by Marx from the period 1864-1868...  Read More >>

The Tomb of the Artisan God: On Plato's Timaeus

The Tomb of the Artisan God: On Plato's Timaeus

Author: Serge Margel ,  Philippe Lynes
ISBN: 9781517906412
Format: Hardback
$211.20

A far-reaching reinterpretation of Plato's Timaeus and its engagement with time, eternity, body, and soul that in...  Read More >>

Rationalität in der Islamischen Theologie: Band I: Die klassische Periode

Rationalität in der Islamischen Theologie: Band I: Die...

Author: Maha El Kaisy-Friemuth ,  Reza Hajatpour
ISBN: 9783110496710
Format: Hardback
$205.83

Since the beginnings of Islam, the relationship between reason and revelation has been a focus of intellectual debate....  Read More >>

A Phenomenological Hermeneutic of Antiblack Racism in The Autobiography of Malcolm X

A Phenomenological Hermeneutic of Antiblack Racism in...

Author: David Polizzi
ISBN: 9781498592338
Format: Hardback
$228.00

The text provides a phenomenological analysis of The Autobiography of Malcolm X taken from the subjective perspective...  Read More >>

Ontology and Perversion: Deleuze, Agamben, Lacan

Ontology and Perversion: Deleuze, Agamben, Lacan

Author: Boštjan Nedoh, Research Assistant, Insti
ISBN: 9781786605511
Format: Hardback
$314.00

This volume represents the first over-arching assessment of perversion as a philosophical category, offering a comparative...  Read More >>

Structural Rationality and Other Essays on Practical Reason

Structural Rationality and Other Essays on Practical...

Author: Julian Nida-Rümelin
ISBN: 9783319955063
Format: Hardback
$168.16

In this book, the author shows that it is necessary to enrich the conceptual frame of the theory of rational choice...  Read More >>

Von der Naturanlage zur Spitzenleistung: Eine Studie zu Pindars Menschenbild

Von der Naturanlage zur Spitzenleistung: Eine Studie...

Author: Christian Vogel
ISBN: 9783110645453
Format: Hardback
$171.51

Welchen Anteil gesteht Pindar in seinen Siegesliedern den Menschen an ihrem Erfolg zu? Das Buch untersucht, welche...  Read More >>

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