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  • Gilles Deleuzeby Claire Colebrook

    Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 24.95

    Why think? Not, according to Gilles Deleuze, in order to be clever, but because thinking transforms life. Why read literature? Not for pure entertainment, Deleuze tells us, but because literature can recreate the boundaries of life. With his emphasis on creation, the future and the enhancement of life, along with his crusade against 'common sense',... more...

  • Nietzsche and Islamby Roy Jackson

    Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 49.95

    In the light of current events, particularly the ?post September 11th? debates with much focus on aspects of the ?clash of civilisation? thesis, the issue of Islamic identity is a crucial one. Whilst Friedrich Nietzsche was addressing an audience of a different culture and age, his own originality, creativity, psychological, philological and historical... more...

  • Jean-Luc Nancy and the Thinking of Othernessby Daniele Rugo

    Bloomsbury Publishing 2013; US$ 100.99

    Jean-Luc Nancy and the Thinking of Otherness is the first book in English to provide a sustained account of the relationship between Nancy, Levinas and Heidegger. The work investigates Jean-Luc Nancy's reading of Heidegger, focusing on the question of Being-with. While opening the problem of otherness from within Heidegger, the research articulates... more...

  • Post-Rationalismby Tom Eyers

    Bloomsbury Publishing 2013; US$ 100.99

    Post-Rationalism takes the experimental journal of psychoanalysis and philosophy, Cahiers pour l’Analyse , as its main source. Established by students of Louis Althusser in 1966, the journal has rarely figured in the literature, although it contained the first published work of authors now famous in contemporary critical thought, including Alain... more...

  • The Greeks Who Made Us Who We Areby M.A. Soupios

    McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers 2013; US$ 35.00

    Hellenic contributions to Western Civilization are acknowledged by all, but the details of their endowment are under-appreciated. This volume seeks to disclose two distinctive features of Western culture uniquely attributable to the ancient Greeks: A human-centered worldview that elevated humans to the threshold of divinity and a philosophical temperament... more...

  • Badiouby Ed Pluth

    Wiley 2013; US$ 24.95

    Alain Badiou is one of the leading philosophers in the world today. His ground-breaking philosophy is based on a creative reading of set theory, offering a new understanding of what it means to be human by promoting an “intelligence of change”. Badiou’s philosophical system makes our capacity for revolution and novelty central... more...

  • Plato and His Contemporaries (RLE: Plato)by G C Field

    Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 115.00

    This book helps understand Plato?s writings by describing the circumstances in which they were produced. The author begins with an account of Plato?s life and development and a brief analysis of some of the more difficult points arising from the criticism of Plato?s writings. The remainder of the work considers the total setting ? political, literary... more...

  • Greek Aesthetic Theory (RLE: Plato)by J G Warry

    Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 100.00

    This book provides a clear and informed account of aesthetic and callistic concepts as they occur in the works of Plato and Aristotle. The author illustrates their ideas on art and beauty by close reference to their texts and finds a profound similarity which unites them, revealing many of their differences to be complementary aspects of an essentially... more...

  • Plato: Timaeus and Critias (RLE: Plato)by A E Taylor

    Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 100.00

    Plato?s Timaeus was his only cosmological dialogue and for almost thirteen hundred years it provided the basis in the West for educated people?s general view of the natural world. The author provides a translation of this important work, together with the Critias ? the source of the legendary tale of Atlantis. He has taken particular care to provide... more...

  • Plato: The Man and His Workby A E Taylor

    Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 165.00

    This book provides an introduction to Plato?s work that gives a clear statement of what Plato has to say about the problems of thought and life. In particular, it tells the reader just what Plato says, and makes no attempt to force a system on the Platonic text or to trim Plato?s works to suit contemporary philosophical tastes. The author also gives... more...