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Abnormal: Lectures at the College de France, 1974-1975
Paperback,
26/08/2016,
£23.99
£21.59
Michel Foucault remains the essential philosopher of the modern world
Dialectic of Enlightenment
Paperback,
26/08/2016,
£12.99
£11.69
A classic of twentieth-century thought, charting how reason regressed back into myth and superstition
Cambridge Companion to Kant's Critique of Pure Reason
Paperback,
14/06/2010,
£25.99
£23.39
The first collective commentary in English on Kant's landmark 1871 publication.
Fifty Thinkers Who Shaped the Modern World
Hardback,
01/11/2012,
£19.99
£17.99
Fifty Thinkers Who Shaped the Modern World profiles fifty landmark philosophers, scientists, political and social theorists as well as spiritual leaders whose ideas have defined the age we live in. It offers a crisp analysis of their key ideas, and in some cases a re-evaluation of their importance as we proceed into the 21st century.
Gilles Deleuze
Hardback,
29/04/1993,
£99.99
£89.99
This work offers a key to understanding the works of Gilles Deleuze, a major figure in the intellectual history of the late-20th century
Voltaire in Love
Paperback,
06/10/2011,
£9.99
£8.99
The meeting of Voltaire, successful financier, famous poet and troublemaker, and the enchanting amateur physicist and countess Emilie du Chatelet, was a meeting of both hearts and minds. In the Chateau de Cirey, the two brilliant intellects scandalised the French aristocracy with their passionate love affair.
Tetralogue: I'm Right, You're Wrong
Paperback,
05/01/2017,
£7.99
£7.19
Four people with radically different views meet on a train and talk about what they believe. Each starts off convinced that he or she is right; then doubts creep in. Timothy Williamson uses a fictional conversation to explore the philosophical debate over whether one point of view can be right and the other wrong. He invites the reader to decide.
Arts, Pedagogy and Cultural Resistance: New Materialisms
Paperback,
11/11/2015,
£32.95
£29.66
This collection demonstrates how physical objects, materials, space and environments teach us, and redefines practice with theory (praxis) as a more-than-human network. The contributions illustrate how the materials, process, pedagogies and theories of Arts making question and disrupt the many forms of cultural dominance that exist in our society.
Truth: Ideas in Profile
Paperback,
02/03/2017,
£8.99
£8.09
The world's leading thinker on truth explains what it is and why it matters in every important aspect of life
Philosophy Book
Hardback,
31/01/2011,
£18.99
£17.09
A guide to more than 2,000 years of thought. It covers the topics ranging from moral ethics to philosophies of religion.
Mind in the Cave: Consciousness and the Origins of Art
Paperback,
05/04/2004,
£16.95
£15.26
The author combines a lifetime of anthropological research with the most recent neurological insights in this text. Illuminating glimpses into the ancient mind are interwoven with the self-evolving story of modern-day cave discoveries and research.
Caliban's Reason: Introducing Afro-Caribbean Philosophy
Paperback,
13/04/2000,
£32.99
£29.69
An introductory guide to Afro-Caribbean philosophy, tracing the roots of Afro-Caribbean thought to traditional African philosophy and to the Christian and Enlightenment traditions of Western Europe.
View from Nowhere
Paperback,
27/04/1989,
£27.99
£25.19
Much philosophical debate has attempted to reconcile the human capacity to view the world both objectively and subjectively. Thomas Nagel's book tackles this fundamental issue, arguing that our divided nature is the root of a whole range of philosophical problems.
Moral Philosophers: An Introduction to Ethics
Paperback,
08/01/1998,
£33.99
£30.59
Adopting a historical approach to moral philosophy, this text introduces the thoughts of some of the major ethical philosophers of the past. It treats each as a coherent and comprehensive ethical theory, presented as an attempt to surmount some of the deficiencies of its predecessors.
Ethics, Killing and War
Paperback,
09/02/1995,
£32.99
£29.69
Richard Norman looks at issues concerning the justification for war and thereby examines the possibility and nature of rational moral argument.
Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety
Paperback,
17/09/1987,
£8.99
£8.09
Explores man's quest for psychological security, examining our efforts to find spiritual and intellectual certainty in the realms of religion and philosophy. This title underlines the importance of our search for stability in an age where human life seems particularly vulnerable and uncertain.
Aesthetics, Method, and Epistemology: Essential Works of Foucault 1954-1984: v. 2
Paperback,
30/03/2000,
£14.99
£13.49
Presents a collection of Michel Foucault's articles, interviews and seminars. This work focuses primarily upon the philosophy, literature and other works of the imagination which have informed Foucault's particular engagement with ethics and power and includes Foucault's arresting commentaries on the work of de Sade, Rousseau, Marx, and Nietzsche.
Virtuous Educational Research: Conversations on Ethical Practice
Paperback,
14/06/2016,
£43.95
£39.56
This book, built around a set of conversations with the author, aims to illuminate the lived reality of educational research. It explores the experience of research and asks what qualities are needed to face its challenges. Other books present lists of what to do and what not to do. Here, we find out what really happens - and why.
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