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The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Philosophyby A. S. McGrade
Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 26.00This volume spans a millennium of thought extending from Augustine to Thomas Aquinas and beyond. It includes not only the thinkers of the Latin West but also the profound contributions of Islamic and Jewish thinkers. Supplementary material includes chronological charts and biographies of the major thinkers. more...
Ulysses Unboundby Jon Elster
Cambridge University Press 2000; US$ 35.00This provocative book argues that, very often, people may benefit from being constrained in their options or from being ignorant. more...
Biopolitical Experienceby Claire Blencowe; Dr Claire Blencowe
Palgrave Macmillan 2011; US$ 85.00An original, comprehensive interpretation of Michel Foucault's analysis of biopolitics ? situating biopolitics in the context of embodied histories of subjectivity, affective investments and structures of experience. Going beyond lamentation at the horrors of biopolitical domination, the book develops a positive-critique of biopolitical experience. more...
This Incredible Need to Believeby Julia Kristeva; Beverley Bie Brahic
Columbia University Press 2010; US$ 9.99"Unlike Freud, I do not claim that religion is just an illusion and a source of neurosis. The time has come to recognize, without being afraid of 'frightening' either the faithful or the agnostics, that the history of Christianity prepared the world for humanism." So writes Julia Kristeva in this provocative work, which skillfully upends our entrenched ideas about religion, belief, and the thought and work of a renowned psychoanalyst and critic. With dialogue and essay, Kristeva analyzes our "incredible need to believe"& mdash;the inexorable push toward faith that, for Kristeva, lies at the heart of the psyche and the history of society. Examining the lives, theories, and convictions of Saint Teresa of Avila, Sigmund Freud, Donald Winnicott,... more...
Bounds of Reasonby Emilia Steuerman
Routledge 1999; US$ 41.95This is a highly original yet accessible study of the debate between modernity and postmodernity. It clearly explains and examines the central problem of the debate: whether the use of reason is an emancipatory or enslaving force. more...
Marxism and Human Natureby Sean Sayers
Routledge 1998; US$ 44.95This is an ambitious and wide ranging defence of the Marxist and Hegelian historical approach, engaging with a wide range of work at the heart of the contemporary debate in social and moral philosophy. more...
From Soul to Selfby James Crabbe
Routledge 1999; US$ 45.95From Soul to Self takes the reader on a fascinating journey through philosophy, theology, religious studies, and physiological sciences. more...
Philosophy and Theology in the Middle Agesby G. R. Evans
Routledge 1993; US$ 36.95`Does God exist?' `Is there a purpose to our lives?' `What are human beings?' These are the great questions of philosophy and religion which the medieval theologians addressed themselves. This is an introduction to the surrounding debates more...
Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to the Later Heideggerby George Pattison
Routledge 2000; US$ 29.95This Routledge Philosophy GuideBook offers a clear introduction to Heidegger's notoriously difficult later thought, examining key later influential works concerning the nature of technology, art and thinking. more...
Jean-Paul Sartreby Stephen Priest; Jean-Paul Sartre
Routledge 2000; US$ 39.95This is the first collection of Sartre's key philosophical writings and provides an indispensable resource for all students and readers of his work which has been influential in philosophy, literature and politics. more...









