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Gorgias
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. 1986; US$ 7.95?This is an excellent translation. It achieves a very high standard of accuracy and readability, two goals very difficult to attain in combination when it comes to such a master of prose and philosophical argument as Plato. Because of this the book is suitable for courses at all levels in philosophy, from introductory courses on Plato, or problems... more...
Touching for Knowing
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2003; US$ 165.00The dominance of vision is so strong in sighted people that touch is sometimes considered as a minor perceptual modality. However, touch is a powerful tool which contributes significantly to our knowledge of space and objects. Its intensive use by blind persons allows them to reach the same levels of knowledge and cognition as their sighted peers.In... more...
In Defense of Pure Reason
Cambridge University Press 1998; US$ 44.00A comprehensive defence of the rationalist view that insight independent of experience is a genuine basis for knowledge. more...
Nietzsche's Postmoralism
Cambridge University Press 2000; US$ 20.00An important collection of essays offering a full assessment of Nietzsche's contribution to philosophy. more...
Studies on Femininity
Karnac Books 2011; US$ 22.95'In this volume, the reader will find not only papers from different essentialist, constructivist and culture-based standpoints, but will also note the existence of theoretical and clinical intersections where psychoanalysis borders on closely-related disciplines.' Alcira Mariam Alizade from the Foreword more...
Does the Woman Exist?
Other Press 2013; US$ 16.99This book describes how Freud attempted to chart hysteria, yet came to a standstill at the problem of woman and her desire, and of how Lacan continued along this road by creating new conceptual tools. The difficulties and upsets encountered by both men are examined. This lucid presentation of the dialectical process that carries Lacan through the... more...
The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Time
OUP Oxford 2011; US$ 149.99As the study of time has flourished in the physical and human sciences, the philosophy of time has come into its own as a lively and diverse area of academic research. Philosophers investigate not just the metaphysics of time, and our experience and representation of time, but the role of time in ethics and action, and philosophical issues in the sciences... more...
Perception
Taylor and Francis 2000; US$ 20.95Paul Rookes and Jane Willson explain perception and perceptual processes in a way that almost anyone can understand. The study of perception, or how the brain processes information from the senses , has fascinated psychologists and philosophers for a long time. Perception takes the key research areas and presents the arguments and findings in a clear,... more...
The Cambridge Companion to Adorno
Cambridge University Press 2004; US$ 34.00T. W. Adorno (1903 1969) was one of the main philosophers of the first generation of the Frankfurt School of critical theory. An accomplished musician, Adorno first focused on the theory of culture and art. Later he turned to the problem of the self-defeating dialectic of modern reason and freedom. more...









