Blackwell Online - Books : Philosophy

Existentialism, Film Noir, and Hard-Boiled Fiction

18 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Stephen Faison

£58.95 18 Nov 2008 Cambria Press

Ethics

18 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Noel Stewart

£15.99 18 Nov 2008 Paperback Blackwell Publishers

Presents an introduction to moral philosophy. This book explains the arguments for and against the rival moral theories of Utilitarianism, Kant, Divine Command Theory and Virtue Ethics. It analyzes the conflicting advice various moral theories offer regarding three controversial areas of life, namely euthanasia, abortion and animal rights.

Ethics

18 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

An Introduction to Moral Philosophy

By Noel Stewart

£50.00 18 Nov 2008 Hardback Blackwell Publishers

Scales of Justice

17 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Reimagining Political Space in a Globalizing World

By Nancy Fraser

£15.99 17 Nov 2008 Paperback Blackwell Publishers

Interrogating struggles over globalization, this book presents the theory of justice for a post-Westphalian world. This book introduces representation as a third, 'political', dimension of justice, which permits us to re-conceive scale and scope as questions of justice.

Why is the Human on Earth?

16 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Mark Ballabon

£12.95 16 Nov 2008 Hardback Eminent Productions Ltd (EPL)

What is the Good Life?

16 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Luc Ferry

£28.50 16 Nov 2008 Hardback The University of Chicago Press

In What Is the Good Life? Luc Ferry argues that the question of the meaning of life, on which much philosophical debate throughout the centuries rested, has not vanished, but rather is posed differently today. Ferry points out the pressures in our secularized world that tend to reduce the idea of a successful life or "good life" to one of wealth, career satisfaction, and prestige. Without deserting the secular presuppositions of our world, he shows that we can give ourselves this richer sense of life's possibilities. The "good life" consists of harmonizing life's different forces in a way that enables one to achieve a sense of personal satisfaction in the realization of one's creative abilities.

New Essays on the Knowability Paradox

16 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Joe Salerno

£40.00 16 Nov 2008 Hardback Oxford University Press

The knowability paradox suggests that wherever there is empirical ignorance there is also logically unknowable truth. This volume presents the original papers in which this notorious problem was first set out, nineteen new papers seeking to resolve it, and a helpful introduction. It will be the definitive resource for study of the paradox.

Wittgenstein's Notes on Logic

16 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Michael Potter

£35.00 16 Nov 2008 Hardback Oxford University Press

Michael Potter shows, for the first time, that Wittgenstein's early Notes on Logic are a work of philosophical and historical importance. Using a challenging blend of biography and philosophy, he draws new conclusions about the nature of the Notes, the genesis of the Tractatus, and Wittgenstein's working methods.

Messy Morality

16 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The Challenge of Politics

By C.A.J. Coady

£14.99 16 Nov 2008 Hardback Oxford University Press

Tony Coady explores the challenges that morality poses to politics. He steers a course between realism, which rejects morality in politics, and moralism, which has a distorting influence on a realistic political morality; he seeks to rehabilitate the concept of ideals; and he discusses the contentious topics of 'dirty hands' and lying in politics.

Problems of Consciousness

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Rex Welshon

£15.99 15 Nov 2008 Paperback Acumen Publishing Ltd

Liam Wins the Game, Sometimes

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

A Story About Losing with Grace

By Jane Whelen Banks

£6.99 15 Nov 2008 Hardback Jessica Kingsley Publishers

'Liam loves playing games. His favourite game is 'Woof Woof' which he loves to play with Daddy. When Liam collects all the bones and Daddy loses, he says 'Good game Liam'. When Daddy wins, he gets to shout 'Woof Woof - I win!'. Liam does not like it when he doesn't win'.

The Call of Conscience

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Heidegger and Levinas, Rhetoric and the Euthanasia Debate

By Michael J. Hyde

£25.50 15 Nov 2008 Paperback University of South Carolina Press

Considers the relationship between the phenomenon of conscience and the practice of rhetoric as it relates to the controversial issues of euthanasia. This study investigates how the practice of rhetoric becomes a voice of conscience and influences the moral standards of individuals and communities.

Chinese Philosophy

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

New Directions and Interdisciplinary Perspectives

By Karyn Lai

£19.99 15 Nov 2008 Paperback John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Presents the distinctive insights of Chinese philosophy and their relevance to contemporary issues in a range of areas: moral philosophy, social and political philosophy, metaphysics, epistemology, environmental ethics, medicine and psychological health.

When Tengu Talk

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Hirata Atsutane's Ethnography of the Other World

By Wilburn Hansen

£44.50 15 Nov 2008 Hardback University of Hawai'i Press

Hirata Atsutane has been the subject of numerous studies that focus on his importance to nationalist politics and Japanese intellectual and social history. This book focuses on "Senkyo ibun" (1822), a work on Atsutane's interviews with a 14-year-old Edo street urchin named Tengu Kozo Torakichi who claimed to be an apprentice tengu.

The Image of Law

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Deleuze, Bergson, Spinoza

By Alexandre Lefebvre

£25.50 15 Nov 2008 Paperback Stanford University Press

Examines law through the thought of Gilles Deleuze. This book activates Deleuze's key themes - his critique of dogmatic thought, theory of time, and concept of the encounter - within the context of adjudication in order to claim that judgment has an inherent, and not an accidental or willful, creativity.

The Image of Law

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Deleuze, Bergson, Spinoza

By Alexandre Lefebvre

£59.50 15 Nov 2008 Hardback Stanford University Press

The Ethics of Emmanuel Levinas

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Diane Perpich

£55.50 15 Nov 2008 Hardback Stanford University Press

Levinas' thought is distanced from traditional ethical enterprises, especially from normative ethics. This title re-reads central ethical concepts in Levinas' thought (alterity, the face, and responsibility).

Radical Atheism

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Derrida and the Time of Life

By Martin Hagglund

£19.50 15 Nov 2008 Paperback Stanford University Press

Presents a reading of the influential French philosopher Jacques Derrida. Against the prevalent notion that there was an ethical or religious 'turn' in Derrida's thinking, this title argues that a radical atheism informs Derrida's work from beginning to end.

Chinese Philosophy A-Z

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Mou Bo

£40.00 15 Nov 2008 Hardback Edinburgh University Press

A concise alphabetic guide to the main concepts, figures, topics and important movements of thought that have shaped Chinese philosophy over the last three thousand years.

Derrida and Lacan

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Another Writing

By Michael Lewis

£65.00 15 Nov 2008 Hardback Edinburgh University Press

This book provides readers with a fresh look at both Derridean deconstruction and Lacanian theory from a perspective that is informed by recent trends in twentieth century thought.

Chinese Philosophy A-Z

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Mou Bo

£11.99 15 Nov 2008 Paperback Edinburgh University Press

A concise alphabetic guide to the main concepts, figures, topics and important movements of thought that have shaped Chinese philosophy over the last three thousand years.

The peculiar life of Sundays

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Miller, Stephen, 1941-

£18.95 15 Nov 2008 Hardback Harvard U Pr

A study of the changing role of religion in Western culture. It focuses on the Sunday lives of a number of prominent British and American writers - and what they have had to say about Sunday. It also examines such observant Christians as George Herbert, Samuel Johnson, Edmund Burke, Hannah More, and Jonathan Edwards.

Mill's Radical Liberalism

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

An Essay in Retrieval

By Jonathan Riley

£58.00 15 Nov 2008 Hardback Taylor & Francis Ltd

Presents an interpretation and contemporary defence of Mill's political philosophy. Based on the argument of "On Liberty", this book indicates the debates about Mill's liberalism. It contains a summary of the argument, and explores the alternative forms of liberalism that have emerged such as the doctrines of Green, Bosanquet and Berlin.

Idea and Ontology

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

An Essay in Early Modern Metaphysics of Ideas

By Marc A. Hight

£46.95 15 Nov 2008 Hardback Pennsylvania State University Press

Shows how, though the conception of ideas changed over time, the ontological status of ideas remained a central part of the discussion about ideas and influenced how even later thinkers like Locke, Berkeley, and Hume thought about them.

Morality and Our Complicated Form of Life

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Feminist Wittgensteinian Metaethics

By Peg O'Connor

£46.95 15 Nov 2008 Hardback Pennsylvania State University Press

Moral philosophy, like much of philosophy generally, has been bedeviled by an obsession with seeking a secure epistemological foundation and with dichotomies between mind and body, fact and value, nature and normativity. This title develops an approach to the grounding of ethics (metaethics) that looks at interconnected nature of social practices.

Structure and Being

15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

A Theoretical Framework for a Systematic Philosophy

By Lorenz B. Puntel

£63.95 15 Nov 2008 Hardback Pennsylvania State University Press

Intends to resurrect systematic philosophy as a useful part of the theoretical enterprise. This book contributes to the reconciliation of analytic and continental philosophy by insisting upon clarity and precision, as the former does, while aiming for comprehensiveness, as the latter often does.

Military Ethics

14 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Anthony Coady, Igor Primoratz

£140.00 14 Nov 2008 Hardback Ashgate Publishing Group

Developments such as the 'new wars' or the growing privatisation of warfare, and the ever more sophisticated military technology, present the military with difficult ethical challenges. This book gives a hearing to the main ethical approaches to war: just war theory, consequentialism, and pacifism.

Richard Rorty

14 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Neil Gascoigne

£15.99 14 Nov 2008 Paperback Blackwell Publishers

Presents a comprehensive introduction Richard Rorty's work.

The Philosophy of Language

14 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By A.P. Martinich

£595.00 14 Nov 2008 Hardback Taylor & Francis Ltd

What do meaning and 'truth' mean? What is the relationship between words and the world? How is language able to express knowledge, belief, and other mental states? These are the kind of questions that have been addressed by philosophers of language since ancient times. This book intends to make sense of the subject's vast literature and research.

The Undiscovered Dewey

14 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Religion, Morality, and the Ethos of Democracy

By Professor Melvin L. Rogers

£26.50 14 Nov 2008 Hardback University Presses of California, Columbia and Princeton

Moral Selves, Evil Selves

14 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The Social Psychology of Conscience

By Steven Hitlin

£42.50 14 Nov 2008 Hardback Palgrave Macmillan

Selfhood is a pressing contemporary philosophical issue. This book highlights the moral aspect of 'the self', examining the variety of neurological, psychological, and social processes that enter into the development of moral orientations.

Aesthetics and the Work of Art

14 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Adorno, Kafka, Richter

By De Bolla, Peter

£50.00 14 Nov 2008 Hardback Palgrave Macmillan

Explores the interfaces between art and aesthetics in dialogue with a philosophical text, a piece of literary writing, and a major contemporary painting.

Starting with Nietzsche

13 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Ullrich Haase

£12.99 13 Nov 2008 Paperback Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.

Presents an introduction to Nietzsche, guiding the student through the key concepts of his work by examining the overall development of his ideas. Covering the key concepts of Nietzsche's work, this book provides an introduction to the development of and motivation behind the ideas that are embodied in his key works.

Starting with Nietzsche

13 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Ullrich Haase

£50.00 13 Nov 2008 Hardback Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.

From Text to Action

13 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Essays in Hermeneutics II

By Paul Ricoeur, Kathleen Blamey, John B. Thompson

£15.99 13 Nov 2008 Paperback Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.

Paul Ricoeur (1913-2005) was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Chicago and the University of Paris X, Nanterre, and a leading figure in twentieth-century French philosophy. This book offers a companion to Ricoeur's classic text, "The Conflict of Interpretations".

Outside the Subject

13 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Emmanuel Levinas

£12.99 13 Nov 2008 Paperback Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.

Emmanuel Levinas was one of the most important and influential European thinkers of the twentieth century. This book contains essays that explore his project of revising the phenomenological picture of the world in light of our experience of other persons.

Kant's Critical Philosophy

13 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The Doctrine of the Faculties

By Gilles Deleuze

£9.99 13 Nov 2008 Paperback Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.

Emphasises on Kant's own view of philosophy. This book presents an overview of the whole of the "Critical Philosophy". It contains seminal works by some of the finest minds in contemporary thought, including Adorno, Badiou, Derrida, Heidegger and Deleuze.

Thomas White and the Blackloists

13 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Between Politics and Theology During the English Civil War

By Stefania Tutino

£55.00 13 Nov 2008 Hardback Ashgate Publishing Group

Explores the question of the intersection between politics and religion during the 1640s and 1650s in a historiographical context in which the manifold and complex link between the language of natural law and the language of theology in the history of English Republicanism is being taken into a account by a number of scholars.

The Choice of Hercules

13 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Pleasure, Duty and the Good Life in the 21st Century

By A.C. Grayling

£7.99 13 Nov 2008 Paperback Orion Publishing Co

Duty or Pleasure? The new bestseller from one of Britain's most pre-eminent, and arguably best known, philosophers

Remembering Socrates

13 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Philosophical Essays

By Lindsay Judson, Vassilis Karasmanis

£17.50 13 Nov 2008 Paperback Oxford University Press

Lindsay Judson and Vassilis Karasmanis present a selection of philosophical papers assessing the legacy and continuing relevance of Socrates' thought 2,400 years after his death. The collection demonstrates the vitality as well as the diversity of Socratic studies, and will interest philosophers, historians of philosophy, and classicists.

A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and

13 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Edmund Burke

£6.99 13 Nov 2008 Paperback Oxford University Press

Anti-externalism

13 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Joseph Mendola

£45.00 13 Nov 2008 Hardback Oxford University Press

Internalism about the mind is the view that your thoughts and sensations are constituted by conditions inside your skin. Externalism denies this, and over the past thirty years has become the dominant view in philosophy of mind. Joseph Mendola argues that the externalist theories are false and develops a viable internalist alternative.

Conceiving the Empire

13 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

China and Rome Compared

By Fritz-Heiner Mutscher, Achim Mittag

£85.00 13 Nov 2008 Hardback Oxford University Press

A collection of essays, by a team of experts in Sinology and Classical Studies, exploring the mental images and symbolical representations of 'empire' that developed in the two most powerful political entities of antiquity: China and Rome.

Kierkegaard

13 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Thinking Christianly in an Existential Mode

By Sylvia Walsh

£16.99 13 Nov 2008 Paperback Oxford University Press

Kierkegaard was a Christian thinker perhaps best known for his devastating attack upon Christendom or the established order of his time. Sylvia Walsh explores his understanding of Christianity and the existential mode of thinking theologically appropriate to it in the context of the intellectual, cultural, and socio-political milieu of his time.

Kierkegaard

13 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Thinking Christianly in an Existential Mode

By Sylvia Walsh

£50.00 13 Nov 2008 Hardback Oxford University Press

Timaeus and Critias

13 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Plato

£8.99 13 Nov 2008 Paperback Oxford University Press

In Timaeus Plato attempts to describe and explain the structure of the universe: the creator god, the elements, the lower gods, the stars, and men. The companion piece, Critias, is the origin of the story of Atlantis, the lost empire defeated by ancient Athenians. This is the clearest translation yet of these crucial ancient texts.

Complexity

12 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

5 Questions

By Carlos Gershenson

£14.00 12 Nov 2008 Paperback Automatic Press / VIP

Die Philosophie Bei Johnny Cash

12 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By John Huss, David Werther

£14.99 12 Nov 2008 Paperback John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Reality, Spirituality and Modern Man

12 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By David Hawkins

£13.99 12 Nov 2008 Paperback Axial Publishing

Describes how to discern not only truth from falsehood but also the illusion of appearance from the actual core of inner reality. This book explains how to differentiate perception from essence and thereby enables the reader to resolve the ambiguities and classical riddles that have challenged mankind for centuries.

Fuzzy Logic

12 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Theory, Programming and Applications

£85.99 12 Nov 2008 Hardback Nova Science Publishers Inc

Fuzzy logic is a form of multi-valued logic derived from fuzzy set theory to deal with reasoning that is approximate rather than precise. This book covers the research in this field.

Contemporary Ethical Issues

12 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

A Personal Perspective

By Walter G. Jeffko

£18.99 12 Nov 2008 Paperback Prometheus Books

A collection of essays, which explore contemporary ethical problems from a personalistic perspective influenced by the Scottish philosopher John Macmurray (1891-1976).

What I Know

12 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Jan R. Adams, MD

£13.50 12 Nov 2008 Hardback Adams Publishing LLC

Tells the story of the author's patient, who died in the late-postoperative period.

Disputed Questions on Virtue

12 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Saint Thomas Aquinas

£35.00 12 Nov 2008 Hardback Hackett Publishing Co, Inc

Features introduction and commentary by Jeffrey Hause.

Disputed Questions on Virtue

12 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Saint Thomas Aquinas

£12.95 12 Nov 2008 Paperback Hackett Publishing Co, Inc

Features introduction and commentary by Jeffrey Hause.

Zhuangzi - The Essential Texts

12 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

With Translations from Traditional Commentaries

By Zhuangzi

£29.95 12 Nov 2008 Hardback Hackett Publishing Co, Inc

A translation of over two-thirds of the classic Daoist text "Zhuangzi" (Chuang Tzu), including the complete inner chapters and selections from the outer and miscellaneous chapters, as well as judicious selections from 2000 years of traditional Chinese commentaries.

Zhuangzi - The Essential Texts

12 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

With Translations from Traditional Commentaries

By Zhuangzi

£11.95 12 Nov 2008 Paperback Hackett Publishing Co, Inc

Inquiry into the Original of Our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue

12 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Revised Edition

By Francis Hutcheson, W. Leidhold

£8.95 12 Nov 2008 Paperback Liberty Fund Inc.,U.S.

Features an inquiry written as a critical response to the work of Bernard Mandeville and as a defense of the ideas of Anthony Ashley Cooper, Lord Shaftesbury. This seminal text of the Scottish Enlightenment consists of two treatises exploring our aesthetic and our moral abilities.

Inquiry into the Original of Our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue

12 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Revised Edition

By Francis Hutcheson, W. Leidhold

£13.95 12 Nov 2008 Hardback Liberty Fund Inc.,U.S.

Popper

10 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

£22.50 10 Nov 2008 Paperback Taylor & Francis Ltd

Austin

10 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

£22.50 10 Nov 2008 Paperback Taylor & Francis Ltd

Richard Rorty

07 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Neil Gascoigne

£15.99 07 Nov 2008 Paperback Blackwell Publishers

Presents a comprehensive introduction Richard Rorty's work.

Richard Rorty

07 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Neil Gascoigne

£50.00 07 Nov 2008 Hardback Blackwell Publishers

Presents a comprehensive introduction Richard Rorty's work.

Morality

06 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

An Anthropological Perspective

By Jarrett Zigon

£16.99 06 Nov 2008 Paperback Berg Publishers

Offers an account of anthropological approaches to the question of morality. This book combines theory with practical case studies for student use. It is suitable for both undergraduate students and researchers.

Morality

06 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

An Anthropological Perspective

By Jarrett Zigon

£55.00 06 Nov 2008 Hardback Berg Publishers

Tragedy and Citizenship

06 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Barker, Derek Wai Ming.

£30.00 06 Nov 2008 Hardback State University of New York Press

A study of attitudes toward tragedy in both democratic and nondemocratic political theory.

Onto-Ethologies

06 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Brett Buchanan

£37.50 06 Nov 2008 Hardback State University of New York Press

Examines the significance of animal environments in contemporary continental thought.

Jacques Derrida's Ghost

06 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Appelbaum, David.

£27.50 06 Nov 2008 Hardback State University of New York Press

A spirited reading of Derridas view of ethics as transcendental and performative.

Aiming at Virtue in Plato

06 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Iakovos Vasiliou

£55.00 06 Nov 2008 Hardback Cambridge University Press

Innovative study of Plato's ethics, focussing on the concept of virtue. Includes detailed readings of the most important texts.

Emerging Visions of the Aesthetic Process

06 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

In Psychology, Semiology, and Philosophy

By Gerald C. Cupchik, Janos Laszlo

£22.99 06 Nov 2008 Paperback Cambridge University Press

This book is about aesthetic processes and play from the perspectives of psychologists, philosophers and semiologists.

Citizens and Politics

06 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Perspectives from Political Psychology

By James H. Kuklinski

£33.00 06 Nov 2008 Paperback Cambridge University Press

This volume brings together some of the research on citizen decision making.

Contexts

06 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Meaning, Truth, and the Use of Language

By Stefano Predelli

£16.99 06 Nov 2008 Paperback Oxford University Press

Stefano Predelli comes to the defence of the traditional 'formal' approach to natural-language semantics, arguing that it has been misrepresented not only by its critics, but also by its foremost defenders. Contexts will make invigorating reading for all philosophers of language and many linguists.

Future people : a moderate consequentialist account of our obligations to future generations

06 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

A Moderate Consequentialist Account of Our Obligations to Future Generations

By Mulgan, Tim.

£19.99 06 Nov 2008 Hardback Oxford U Pr, N Y

Tim Mulgan develops an original theory of our obligations to future generations, based on a new rule-consequentialist account of the morality of individual reproduction. He brings together several different contemporary philosophical issues, including the demands of morality and international justice.

Understanding people : normativity and rationalizing explanation

06 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Normativity and Rationalizing Explanation

By Millar, Alan, Ph. D.

£19.99 06 Nov 2008 Hardback Oxford U Pr, N Y

Alan Millar examines our understanding of why people think and act as they do. Controversially he argues that all propositional attitudes of the sort we ascribe to people have a normative dimension, that normative considerations are indispensable to our understanding of each other, and that normativity is linked to reasons.

Self

06 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Ancient and Modern Insights About Individuality, Life, and Death

By Richard Sorabji

£12.50 06 Nov 2008 Paperback Oxford University Press

Richard Sorabji presents a brilliant exploration of the history of our understanding of the self, which has remained elusive and mysterious throughout the spectacular development of human knowledge of the outside world. He ranges from ancient to contemporary thought, Western and Eastern, to reveal and assess the insights of a variety of thinkers.

Enlightenment Contested

06 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Philosophy, Modernity, and the Emancipation of Man 1670-1752

By Jonathan I. Israel

£19.99 06 Nov 2008 Paperback Oxford University Press

In this magisterial survey of the Enlightenment, Jonathan Israel returns to the primary texts to offer a major new reinterpretation of the nature and development of the important currents in philosophical thinking, arguing that supposed national enlightenments are of less significance than the rift between conservative and radical thought.

Thoughts

06 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Papers on Mind, Meaning, and Modality

By Stephen Yablo

£25.00 06 Nov 2008 Paperback Oxford University Press

In these twelve essays Stephen Yablo presents a modern-day examination of Cartesian themes in the metaphysics of mind, including mental/physical dualism, the possibility of disembodied existence, conceivability as a guide to possibility, the nature of solipsistic content, and how the mind affects the course of physical events.

Thoughts

06 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Papers on Mind, Meaning, and Modality

By Stephen Yablo

£50.00 06 Nov 2008 Hardback Oxford University Press

Conceiving the Empire

06 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

China and Rome Compared

By Fritz-Heiner Mutscher, Achim Mittag

£85.00 06 Nov 2008 Hardback Oxford University Press

Kierkegaard

06 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Thinking Christianly in an Existential Mode

By Sylvia Walsh

£16.99 06 Nov 2008 Paperback Oxford University Press

Kierkegaard

06 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Thinking Christianly in an Existential Mode

By Sylvia Walsh

£50.00 06 Nov 2008 Hardback Oxford University Press

Supersizing the Mind

06 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Embodiment, Action, and Cognitive Extension

By Andy Clark

£18.99 06 Nov 2008 Hardback Oxford University Press

What is embodiment and why does it matter for understanding the mind? Can the machinery of mind extend beyond the head? With a substantial Foreword by David Chalmers, Supersizing the Mind is essential reading for all those interested in embodied cognition, the extended mind, and the likely shape of twenty-first century cognitive scientific explanation.

Reading Bernard Williams

05 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Callcut Daniel Callcut, Daniel

£18.99 05 Nov 2008 Paperback Taylor & Francis Ltd

Examines the astonishing scope of Bernard Williams philosophy from metaphysics and philosophy of mind to ethics, political philosophy and the history of philosophy. This book discusses Williams' challenge to contemporary moral philosophy and his criticisms of 'absolute' theories of morality; reason and rationality; and, the good life.

Reading Bernard Williams

05 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Callcut Daniel Callcut Daniel

£65.00 05 Nov 2008 Hardback Taylor & Francis Ltd

Examines the astonishing scope of Bernard Williams' philosophy from metaphysics and philosophy of mind to ethics, political philosophy and the history of philosophy. This book discusses Williams' challenge to contemporary moral philosophy and his criticisms of 'absolute' theories of morality; reason and rationality; and the good life.

The Philosopher and the Wolf

03 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Mark Rowlands

£17.99 03 Nov 2008 Hardback Granta Books

Charts the relationship between the author, a rootless philosopher, and Brenin, his well-travelled wolf.

Responsibility, God and Society: Theological Ethics in Dialogue: Festschrift Roger Burggraeve

01 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By De Tavernier, J. Schotsmans, P. Selling, J. a.

£59.89 01 Nov 2008 Paperback Peeters

Religion and class in America : culture, history, and politics

01 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Mirola, William A. McCloud, Sharon (Ed ).

£67.58 01 Nov 2008 Hardback Brill Academic Pubs

Drawing on a wide range of theoretical and methodological approaches, this book compiles fresh data to revitalize a long overdue discussion about how class matters in the study of religion by examining the many ways class interacts with the theologies, practices, beliefs, and affiliations that constitute American religion, yesterday and today.

Votives, places and rituals in Etruscan religion : studies in honor of Jean MacIntosh Turfa

01 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Gleba, Margarita Becker, Hilary (Ed ).

£109.34 01 Nov 2008 Hardback Brill Academic Pubs

By considering votive, mortuary and secular rituals, the volume offers a contribution to the continued study of Etruscan culture and gathers new material, interpretations and approaches to the less emphasized areas of Etruscan religion.

The enigmatic reality of time : Aristotle, Plotinus, and today

01 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Wagner, Michael F., 1952-

£104.40 01 Nov 2008 Hardback Brill Academic Pubs

This book integrates interdsciplinary work with philosophical analyses to explain facets of the perennial question of time's nature and existence, both in its contemporary and its original classical contexts, and it explains the two most influential investigations of the topic in classical Western thought: Aristotle's and Plotinus'.

The works in logic by Bosniac authors in Arabic

01 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Ljubovic, Amir, 1945-

£84.62 01 Nov 2008 Hardback Brill Academic Pubs

The book offers and explains the hypothesis that the end of the 13th century does not denote the "final stage" and the stage of decay of Arabic logic as the "Aristotelian logic" continues its life and development in the following period in Bosnia and Herzegovina - either as a subject within the educational system, or as general propaedeutics for each scientific thought - where it had skilled interpreters. The book proves that the people of Bosnia and Herzegovina used almost the same way to compose writings in the field of logic: one in Latin within West-European cultural and theological tradition, and the others in Arabic, within Arabic-Islamic tradition.

Synchronicity : multiple perspectives on meaningful coincidence

01 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Multiple Perspectives on Meaningful Coincidence

By Storm, Lance

£13.99 01 Nov 2008 Paperback Pari Publishing, IT/Natl Book Network

Synchronicity is a series of essays that extend and develop Carl Jung's notion of meaningful coincidence. It explores links to telepathy, parapsychology and the I Ching. It asks if there can be connections that lie beyond everyday causality and the way the inner world of thoughts and dreams can mirror or anticipate events in the outer world.

Futuro del Budismo, El

01 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Rinpoche, Sogyal

£5.47 01 Nov 2008 Paperback Urano

Yo Soy Un Extrao Bucle

01 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Hofstadter, Douglas R.

£18.10 01 Nov 2008 Paperback TusQuets

Legitimation Ethischer Entscheidungen Im Recht: Interdisziplinare Untersuchungen

01 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

£70.88 01 Nov 2008 Hardback Springer

Mit Regelungen zu Fragen der modernen Medizin und Biotechnologie werden Entscheidungen getroffen, die das SelbstverstAndnis einer Gesellschaft oft grundlegend berA1/4hren. Auf unbestrittene, ausdifferenzierte, rechtliche oder ethische Standards kann dabei kaum zurA1/4ckgegriffen werden. Zugleich stellt der stAndige Fortschritt von Wissenschaft und Praxis die EffektivitAt rechtsfArmiger Entscheidungsverfahren auf die Probe.

Dieser interdisziplinAre Band wendet sich der Frage zu, wie diese ethisch-rechtlichen Herausforderungen in nationalen Rechtsordnungen, auf der Ebene der EuropAischen Union und im Bereich des VAlkerrechts in demokratisch oder anderweitig legitimer Weise bewAltigt werden.

Grundlagen Und Grenzen Des Folterverbotes in Verschiedenen Rechtskreisen: Eine Analyse Anhand Der Deutschen, Israelischen Und Pa

01 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Weilert, Katarina Weilert, Anja Katarina

£76.37 01 Nov 2008 Hardback Springer

Das absolute Verbot der Folter, wesentlicher Bestandteil der groAen internationalen MenschenrechtsvertrAge des 20. Jahrhunderts, ist in jA1/4ngster Zeit in die Diskussion geraten. Die vorliegende Arbeit untersucht die Reichweite des Folterverbotes zunAchst auf der Ebene des VAlkerrechts und sodann in verschiedenen Rechtskreisen am Beispiel der deutschen, israelischen und pakistanischen Rechtsvorschriften. Besondere Aufmerksamkeit wird dabei der Frage nach der ZulAssigkeit von Folter zum Zwecke der Gefahrenabwehr gewidmet. Es werden im Rahmen dieser Untersuchung neben der Darstellung der Rechtslage insbesondere auch die Auswirkungen des jeweiligen historisch-kulturell bedingten VerstAndnisses der MenschenwA1/4rde auf das Folterverbot analysiert.

Aoeber Kurz Oder Lang: Bildunterschriften

01 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Strouhal, Ernst

£32.94 01 Nov 2008 Paperback Springer

a žAoeber kurz oder lang" enthAlt eine Vielzahl von Essays Ernst Strouhala (TM)s aus den letzten Jahren, die sich der Themen Literatur, Spiel, Kunst, Politik und Reise annehmen. Auf unterschiedliche Art und Weise tragen die Texte, die sich programmatisch als a žBildunterschriften" verstehen, dem zusehends beliebigen a žiconic turn" in den Medien und Kulturwissenschaften Rechnung, und reflektieren diesen kritisch. Auch wenn sich der Blick des Autors jeweils am Detail des Bildes und der Quelle entwickelt, so gilt das Interesse der Gegenwart. Das Spektrum des Bandes ist weit: Es reicht von der Begegnung des Autors mit Defoes Robinson, A1/4ber Fragonard und die Kunst der RAtselmacher bis Arnold SchAnberg, Marcel Duchamp und Bert Brecht.

Die Entgrenzung der Verantwortung : Neitzsche, Dostojewskij, Levinas

01 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Pfeuffer, Silvio.

£68.68 01 Nov 2008 Hardback Walter de Gruyter

Kaiser Julian Apostata und die philosophische Reaktion gegen das Christentum

01 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

£59.89 01 Nov 2008 Hardback Walter de Gruyter

Rhythmus beim fruehen Nietzsche

01 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

By Fuenther, Friederike Felicitas.

£47.25 01 Nov 2008 Hardback Walter de Gruyter

Stoizismus in der europaeischen Philosophie, Literatur, Kunst und Politik

01 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

£174.18 01 Nov 2008 Hardback Walter de Gruyter