Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology Books
Edinburgh University Press The Imagination in Humes Philosophy
Book SynopsisThe prominence of the imagination in David Hume's philosophy has been recognised by generations of readers. In this rich study, Timothy Costelloe gives us the most complete picture yet of Hume's view of imagination and its place in his philosophy.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press The Imagination in Humes Philosophy
Book SynopsisThe prominence of the imagination in David Hume's philosophy has been recognised by generations of readers. In this rich study, Timothy Costelloe gives us the most complete picture yet of Hume's view of imagination and its place in his philosophy.
£27.54
Edinburgh University Press Politics Ontology and Ethics in Spinoza
Book SynopsisAlexandre Matheron is considered one of the most important interpreters of Spinoza's philosophy in the 20th century. These 20 essays, translated into English for the first time,focus on ontology, knowledge, politics and ethics in Spinoza, his predecessors and his contemporaries.
£90.25
Edinburgh University Press Politics Ontology and Knowledge in Spinoza
Book SynopsisAlexandre Matheron is considered one of the most important interpreters of Spinoza's philosophy in the 20th century. These 20 essays, translated into English for the first time,focus on ontology, knowledge, politics and ethics in Spinoza, his predecessors and his contemporaries.
£29.45
Edinburgh University Press Virginia Woolf and BeingintheWorld
Book SynopsisBreaking fresh ground in Woolfian scholarship, this study presents a timely and compelling interpretation of Virginia Woolf's textual treatment of the relationship between self and world from the perspective of the philosophy of Martin Heidegger.
£27.54
Edinburgh University Press Heidegger and the Groundwork of Evental Ontology
Book SynopsisJames Bahoh proposes a new methodology for explaining Heidegger's philosophy that solves a set of interpretive problems in his difficult later work and led to substantial inconsistencies in the scholarship. Bahoh reconstructs Heidegger's concept of event in relation to his theories of history, truth, difference, ground and time-space.
£94.50
Edinburgh University Press Evil in the Western Philosophical Tradition
Book SynopsisGavin Rae analyses the history of Western conceptions of evil, showing it to be remarkably complex, differentiated and contested. He traces the problem of evil from early and Medieval Christian philosophy to modern philosophy, German Idealism, post-structuralism and contemporary analytic philosophy and secularisation.
£94.50
Edinburgh University Press The Figure of This World
Book SynopsisMathew Abbott argues that Agamben's thought is misunderstood when read in terms of critical theory or traditional political philosophy. He shows instead that it engages in political ontology: studying the political stakes of the question of being.
£22.79
Edinburgh University Press The Ethics of Political Resistance
Book SynopsisWhat and how should individuals resist in political situations? Chris Henry brings together Althusser, Badiou and Deleuze in order to offer a new idea of political practice He develops a structural ontology that gives rise to non-idealist, non-dogmatic, yet ethical practices of resistance against the return of classical ontological dualities.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Language and Process
Book SynopsisMichael Halewood uses ideas from analytic philosophy, continental philosophy and social theory to look at how language relates to the world, and the world to language. He primarily draws on the work of Alfred North Whitehead, and incorporating the ideas of Gilles Deleuze, John Dewey and Luce Irigaray, to view the world as 'in process'.
£19.94
Edinburgh University Press DeleuzeS Philosophical Lineage II
Book SynopsisFrom Lucretius to Schelling to Foucault, this book looks at 16 philosophers, writers and artists whose work influenced the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze. Each chapter introduces the thinker in question, explains the context in which Deleuze draws their work and discusses how it contributed to the development of Deleuze's own ideas.
£27.54
Edinburgh University Press Gilles Deleuzes Luminous Philosophy
Book SynopsisEngaging the whole body of Deleuze's work, including less rehearsed texts such as The Actual and the Virtual, Lucretius and the Simulacrum and his lectures on Spinoza, Hanjo Berressem traces the 'line of light' that runs through Deleuze's thought.
£94.50
Edinburgh University Press Felix Guattaris Schizoanalytic Ecology
Book SynopsisHanjo Berressem establishes the notion of a schizoanalytic ecology as the most consistent conceptual spine of Felix Guattari's work. He covers the whole range of Guattari's solo work andthe books co-authored with Gilles Deleuze, primarily a rigorous explication and analysis of 'Schizoanalytic Cartographies'.
£94.50
Edinburgh University Press SchellingS Ontology of Powers
Book SynopsisCharlotte Alderwick presents Schelling's ontology as fundamentally power-based. She demonstrates that this ontology enables his unique conception of human freedom outlined in the 'Freedom' essay and can usefully problematise and supplement contemporary work on power-based ontologies.Trade Review"Schelling is a contemporary metaphysician. Immediately involving his philosophy of nature in twenty-first-century powers ontologies, Alderwick's avowedly big picture", post-tribal philosophising compellingly reminds us why it is important that Schellingians engage with contemporary problems. She thus exemplifies a philosophy contemporary not by the auto-amputation of resource but when its history shows us the future through it."" -Iain Hamilton Grant, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, UWE Bristol
£19.94
Edinburgh University Press HolderlinS Philosophy of Nature
Book SynopsisThis collection of 15 essays by distinguished international scholars reconsiders whatFriedrich Hlderlin's work reveals about the impulses toward form and formlessness in nature and the role that poetry plays in creating Holderlin's 'harmonious opposition'.
£94.50
Edinburgh University Press HolderlinS Philosophy of Nature
Book SynopsisThis collection of 15 essays by distinguished international scholars reconsiders what Friedrich Holderlin's work reveals about the impulses toward form and formlessness in nature and the role that poetry plays in creating Holderlin's 'harmonious opposition'.
£20.89
Edinburgh University Press Aristotle on the Matter of Form
Book SynopsisAdriel M. Trott argues for an interdependent relationship of form and matter in Aristotle's metaphysics. Responding to feminist critiques from Judith Butler and Luce Irigary, she She finds resources for thinking the female's contribution and the female on its own terms and not as the contrary to form, or the male.
£94.50
Edinburgh University Press SpinozaS Philosophy of Ratio
Book SynopsisThese essays explore the surprisingly varied dimensions of ratio:an unacknowledged keystone of Spinoza's thought. They take you from Spinoza's geometrical diagrams to his concepts of mind, body, the emotions and the cosmos.
£22.79
Edinburgh University Press Monsters in Ancient Philosophy
Book SynopsisAmazons and giants, snakes and gorgons, centaurs and gryphons: monsters abounded in the ancient world. Del Lucchese grapples with the concept of monstrosity, showing how ancient philosophers explored metaphysics, ontology, theology and politics to respond to the challenge of radical otherness in nature and in thought.
£94.50
Edinburgh University Press NietzscheS Gay Science
Book SynopsisRobert Miner attends closely to the rhymes and aphorisms that make up The Gay Science and make it so quotable yet so frequently misunderstood. Tracking Nietzsche's mixture of subtle argumentation, memorable images and provocative rhetoric, he opens up multiple ways of interpreting the text and applying it to our own circumstances.
£95.00
Edinburgh University Press Poststructuralist Agency
Book SynopsisGavin Rae shows that the problematic status of agency caused by the poststructuralist decentring of the subject is a central concern for poststructuralist thinkers. He shows how this plays out in the thinking of Deleuze, Derrida and Foucault, and find the best explanation of agency for the founded subject in the work of Castoriadis.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press The Harvard Lectures of Alfred North Whitehead
Book SynopsisThis volume finally recreates the first philosophy lectures given by Alfred North Whitehead by transcribing notes and sketches by W. P. Bell, W. E. Hocking and Louise Heath taken at the time.
£999.99
Edinburgh University Press SpinozaS Political Philosophy
Book SynopsisRiccardo Caporali examines of all of Spinoza's works while addressing the challenges imposed by the historical circumstances at the time. Focusing on Spinoza's constant preoccupation with the relationship between metaphysics and politics, Caporali shows that it takes different forms in his various major works.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Architectural Materialisms
Book SynopsisThis book gathers 14 architects, designers, performing artists, film makers, media theorists, philosophers, mathematicians and programmers. They all argue that matter in contemporary posthuman times has to be rethought in its rich internal dynamism and its multifaceted context.
£999.99
Edinburgh University Press We Ourselves
Book SynopsisThroughout the history of human societies, the question of 'we' has always entailed the question of 'us and them'. Tristan Garcia's looks at the history of how people have imagined themselves in their societies. All in all, this work is a rigorous engagement with the history of humanity's attempts at being collectively.
£94.50
Edinburgh University Press Spinoza the Epicurean
Book SynopsisBy radically re-reading the 'Theological Political Treatise', Dimitris Vardoulakis argues that Spinoza's Epicurean influence has profound implications for his conception of politics and ontology. This reconsideration of Spinoza's political project, set within a historical context, lays the ground for an alternative genealogy of materialism.
£24.69
Edinburgh University Press Indexicalism
Book SynopsisProposes a radical new metaphysics where reality is not substantive but indexical.
£95.00
Edinburgh University Press Collected Essays in Speculative Philosophy
Book SynopsisThis collection of essays by James Bradley (1947-2012)showcases his unique vision: a speculative cosmology of the Trinity, drawing on the vast history of Western philosophy.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press A Continental Guide to Philosophy
Book SynopsisWhat is real? How can we know what is real? How might we live authentically? These are the three fundamental questions about metaphysics, epistemology, and ethics. John Macready guides you through these questions by reading three pairs of philosophers and texts: Plato and Descartes; Hume and Kant, and Nietzsche and Arendt.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press A Continental Guide to Philosophy
Book SynopsisWhat is real? How can we know what is real? How might we live authentically? These are the three fundamental questions about metaphysics, epistemology, and ethics. John Macready guides you through these questions by reading three pairs of philosophers and texts: Plato and Descartes; Hume and Kant, and Nietzsche and Arendt.
£16.14
Edinburgh University Press MerleauPonty and Nancy on Sense and Being
Book SynopsisMarie-Eve Morin proposes a reinterpretation of the philosophy of Merleau-Ponty and Nancy from the perspective of realist and object-oriented tendencies in contemporary philosophy. She shows how they avoid the danger, inherent in the phenomenological approach, of reducing being to sense.Trade Review"This book performs work that has not yet been done and that is really very important in understanding French phenomenology, its legacy, and its relation to Nancy, a key contemporary thinker. Written with extraordinary rigour, it is a major contribution to thinking about philosophical materialism and realism in the wake of phenomenology and deconstruction." -Ian James, University of Cambridge
£18.99
Boydell & Brewer Ltd Kant in Brazil
Book SynopsisA selection of the best papers written by Brazilian Kant scholars. Kant in Brazil is a collected volume of essays conceived at the 2005 International Kant Congress in Sao Paulo as a way to make accessible to Anglophone Kant scholars some of the best work on Kant produced by Brazilian scholars. The availability of this material in English for the first time will promote interaction between North American and Brazilian scholars as well as enable Anglophone readers worldwide to incorporate excellent but previously neglected work into their own debates about Kant. The book contains an editor's introduction providing an overview of the institutional structure of Kant studies in Brazil. The essays that follow, translated from Portuguese, include a survey of the history of Kant studies in Brazil over the past two centuries as well as interpretive essays that span the corpus of Kant's work in theoretical philosophy, ethics, political philosophy, history, aesthetics, and teleology. Various styles of philosophy are put into practice as well: analytical, philological, reflective, comparative, displaying the broad and diverse nature of Brazilian philosophy. Frederick Rauscher isassociate professor of philosophy at Michigan State University. Daniel Omar Perez is professor of philosophy at the Pontifical Catholic University of Parana, Brazil.
£29.69
Enchanted Lion Books The World In A Second
Book SynopsisInspired by the question, "What are they doing right at this moment on the other side of the world?" this book focuses on natural and human events happening all over the world in the same second. Talking about the world and how it's so different in places but also so similar and shared, so incredible and surprising, the books takes us to New York, Chicago, Mexico, Portugal, Angola, Turkey, Greece, Italy, Hungry, Brazil, and South Africa, among others.So, while you sit turning the pages of this book, things are happening everywhere. Somewhere, a wave is reaching the shore. Elsewhere, an orange falls from a tree. In yet other places, there's a traffic jam, a stuck elevator, and someone's going to sleep. Inevitably, a book is coming to an end as another is beginning. Time is always in a hurry, never, ever stopping, and yet as you focus on these lovely illustrations, which stand as true evocations of place, time begins to slow down and, for moments, it even feels as if time has stopped, and you are transported out of the flow of time and into the wholeness and purity of a moment. A moment of bird flight; a moment of daydreaming while washing the dishes; a moment of wondering how something felt and what came next.Isabel Minhós Martins is a Portuguese author and publisher whose words are found in works of poetry, children's books, magazines, comic books, and scripts for animations. She is also the publisher of Planeta Tangerina, a Portuguese publishing company. Several of her books have already been published by the Tate.Bernardo Carvalho is an illustrator and graphic designer from Lisbon whose work has been honored with multiple awards.Trade ReviewA Boston Globe Best Book of 2015 Even as Martins' spare text describes the action with poetic restraint via Miller-Lachmann's translation ("In an island barbershop, a man bids farewell to his mustache"), Carvalho's double-page spreads invite readers to linger to understand each of the 23 stories. [...] The book's extra-large trim is the perfect format for this mesmerizing vision of a thrillingly expansive world." -- STARRED REVIEW, Kirkus Reviews “The concept is at once immensely simple and also incredibly complex, the understanding that your own life is just one of many being lived at the very same time. . . Perfect to start discussions about time and place and even time zones, this picture book allows children to think in a bigger way about their world, diversity and their own place.” --Waking Brain Cells “this contemplative thought experiment joins recent books like Bob Graham’sThe Silver Button and Clotilde Perrin’s At the Same Moment, Around the World in encouraging children to consider the many things that can occur in the space of a single moment in time.” – Publishers Weekly “This book is perfect for every primary classroom. It makes for a gratifying read aloud and shared story time.” – Literary Fusions “So very many things can happen in just one short second, all around the world, and this beautiful book shows us the magic of such 'insignificant' occurrences and how fascinating they can be . . . A book to make children think--and appreciate the enormity of our planet.” – Kids’ Book Review “Thoughtful and thought-provoking text and large, colorful illustrations sprawling two pages take readers to 23 different stops throughout the world in one-second pauses. Beginning in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and ending in Florianopolis, Brazil, readers have the chance to see what is happening at the exact same point in time . . . the book encourages reflection about the importance of a second in someone’s life.” – The International Literacy Association “Each moment leaps to life with vividly colored illustrations that spread across two pages and capture time and place with remarkably evocative detail and varied, exquisite composition . . . The central magic of this book lies in the sophisticated, elaborate treatment of an idea that sounds like it was plucked from a child’s daydream.” – The Boston Globe “As with that deceptively simple poetic form, only a handful of syllables appear on each page of this handsome book, and most relate to small, quotidian things. Yet the overall effect is sweeping and dramatic. Through the clear lines of Bernardo Carvalho’s color-saturated illustrations, we travel from country to country, seeing what’s happening at the exact same moment.” – Wall Street Journal “a series of snapshots that, together, form a profound impression of the enormity and connectivity of our frenetic world . . . some of the second-long events will lead to dramatic discussions about what happens next, while others are more quietly profound. Highly recommended for any primary school child.” – Readings BookstoreA Boston Globe Best Book of 2015 Even as Martins' spare text describes the action with poetic restraint via Miller-Lachmann's translation ("In an island barbershop, a man bids farewell to his mustache"), Carvalho's double-page spreads invite readers to linger to understand each of the 23 stories. [...] The book's extra-large trim is the perfect format for this mesmerizing vision of a thrillingly expansive world." -- STARRED REVIEW, Kirkus Reviews The concept is at once immensely simple and also incredibly complex, the understanding that your own life is just one of many being lived at the very same time. . . Perfect to start discussions about time and place and even time zones, this picture book allows children to think in a bigger way about their world, diversity and their own place.” --Waking Brain Cells this contemplative thought experiment joins recent books like Bob Graham’sThe Silver Button and Clotilde Perrin’s At the Same Moment, Around the World in encouraging children to consider the many things that can occur in the space of a single moment in time.” Publishers Weekly This book is perfect for every primary classroom. It makes for a gratifying read aloud and shared story time.” Literary Fusions So very many things can happen in just one short second, all around the world, and this beautiful book shows us the magic of such 'insignificant' occurrences and how fascinating they can be . . . A book to make children think--and appreciate the enormity of our planet.” Kids’ Book Review Thoughtful and thought-provoking text and large, colorful illustrations sprawling two pages take readers to 23 different stops throughout the world in one-second pauses. Beginning in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and ending in Florianopolis, Brazil, readers have the chance to see what is happening at the exact same point in time . . . the book encourages reflection about the importance of a second in someone’s life.” The International Literacy Association Each moment leaps to life with vividly colored illustrations that spread across two pages and capture time and place with remarkably evocative detail and varied, exquisite composition . . . The central magic of this book lies in the sophisticated, elaborate treatment of an idea that sounds like it was plucked from a child’s daydream.” The Boston Globe As with that deceptively simple poetic form, only a handful of syllables appear on each page of this handsome book, and most relate to small, quotidian things. Yet the overall effect is sweeping and dramatic. Through the clear lines of Bernardo Carvalho’s color-saturated illustrations, we travel from country to country, seeing what’s happening at the exact same moment.” Wall Street Journal a series of snapshots that, together, form a profound impression of the enormity and connectivity of our frenetic world . . . some of the second-long events will lead to dramatic discussions about what happens next, while others are more quietly profound. Highly recommended for any primary school child.” Readings Bookstore
£12.59
Mockingbird Press The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus: A Roman Slave
£999.99
Patsy Stanley Sound Energies
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£14.25
Imprint Academic The Life and Philosophy of Elizabeth Anscombe
Book SynopsisThis volume in the St Andrews series contains a collection of essays from leading authors regarding the work of Elizabeth Anscombe, in particular issues in mind and metaphysics, and can be considered a partner work to 2016''s The Moral Philosophy of Elizabeth Anscombe (also published by Imprint Academic Ltd.).
£23.47
Imprint Academic Microgenetic Theory and Process Thought
Book SynopsisThe chapters in this volume attempt to establish some foundational principles of a theory of the mind/brain grounded in evolutionary and process theory. From this standpoint, the book discusses some main problems in philosophical psychology, including the nature and origins of the mind/brain state, experience and consciousness, feeling, subjective time and free will. The approach that of microgenesis holds that formative phases in the generation of the mental state are the primary focus of explanation, not the assumed properties of logical solids. For microgenesis, the process leading to a conscious end point is, together with the final content, part of an epochal state, the outcome of which, an act, object or word, incorporates earlier segments of that series, such as value, meaning and belief.
£999.99
Imprint Academic Lady Mary Shepherd: Selected Writings
Book SynopsisThe philosophical writings of Lady Mary Shepherd (17771847) reveal an astute and lively intellect. In An Essay upon the Relation of Cause and Effect (1824) and Essays on the Perception of an External Universe, and Other Subjects Connected with the Doctrine of Causation (1827), Shepherd engaged critically with the views of Hume, Berkeley, Reid, Stewart, de Condillac, and others, but she also presented an original and carefully argued philosophical system of her own. Highly regarded in her day, Shepherd''s work faded into obscurity after her death; this collection of selections from her writings is intended to bring her work back into focus for students and scholars. Selections include her writings about causation, knowledge of the external world, mathematical and physical induction, belief in miracles and God, and mind and body. This volume also includes an 1828 essay Shepherd published on vision.
£999.99
Rudolf Steiner Press Evil
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£14.99
Springer International Publishing AG The Reality of the Social World
Book SynopsisThis book offers a collection of contributions on medieval, early modern, and contemporary perspectives on social ontology.
£94.99
De Gruyter Willensfreiheit
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£23.70
Walter de Gruyter Dunkle Metaphysik
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£101.96
Philipp Reclam Jun Verlag GmbH Grundelegung Zur Metaphysik
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£7.60
Evangelische Verlagsanstalt Kunst Philosophie Transzendenz
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£26.10
Harrassowitz Beitrage Zur Islamischen Mystik Und Metaphysik
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£999.99
Herder Verlag GmbH Übersetzung Des Hl. Thomas von Aquino
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£36.10
Verlag Vittorio Klostermann Martin Heidegger, Parmenides (Wintersemester
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£44.10
Verlag Vittorio Klostermann Martin Heidegger, Ontologie. Hermeneutik Der
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£30.60
