Transforming the Hermeneutic Context - From Nietzsche to Nancy by Gayle L. Ormiston (Editor); Alan D. Schrift (Editor)
$12.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy | Series: SUNY Series, Intersections: Philosophy and Critical Theory Ser. | Reading Level: good
This book presents contemporary analyses of interpretation by some of the most prominent figures in contemporary philosophy and literary criticism. These essays question and transform traditional statements on the aims, methods, and techniques of interpretation. The essays demonstrate how contemporar ...Show more
Moral Perception and Particularity by Lawrence A. Blum
$14.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy | Reading Level: very good
Most contemporary moral philosophy is concerned with issues of rationality, universality, impartiality, and principle. By contrast Laurence Blum is concerned with the psychology of moral agency. The essays in this collection examine the moral import of emotion, motivation, judgment, perception, and grou ...Show more
Weber by Donald G MacRae
$10.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Modern Masters Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Persons - Human and Divine by Peter van Inwagen (Editor); Dean Zimmerman (Editor)
$55.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy | Reading Level: near fine
The nature of persons is a perennial topic of debate in philosophy, currently enjoying something of a revival. In this volume for the first time metaphysical debates about the nature of human persons are brought together with related debates in philosophy of religion and theology. Fifteen specially writ ...Show more
Plutarch's Morals - Ethical Essays by Plutarch; Arthur Richard Shilleto
$25.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Bohn's Classical Library | Reading Level: very good
Spinoza's Short Treatise on God, Man & His Well-Being translated and edited with an introduction and and commentary and a Life of Spinoza by A Wolf
$40.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy | Reading Level: good
Spinoza's Tractatus de Intellectus Emendatione by Harold H Joachim
$40.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy | Reading Level: good-very good
Dancing in Chains - Narrative and Memory in Political Theory by Joshua Foa Dienstag
$20.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy | Reading Level: very good
Philosophy is often depicted as generically distinct from literature, myth, and history, as a discipline that eschews narration and relies exclusively on abstract reason. This book takes issue with that assumption, arguing instead that political philosophers have commonly presented their readers with a ...Show more
The Wisdom of the Liminal - Evolution and Other Animals in Human Becoming by Celia Deane-Drummond
$25.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy | Reading Level: very good
A sophisticated theological anthropology that takes into account evolutionary theories and our relationships to other animals In this book Celia Deane-Drummond charts a new direction for theological anthropology in light of what is now known about the evolutionary trajectories of humans and other anima ...Show more
Subverting the Leviathan - Reading Thomas Hobbes As a Radical Democrat by James R Martel
$30.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy | Reading Level: very good
In Leviathan, Thomas Hobbes's landmark work on political philosophy, James Martel argues that although Hobbes pays lip service to the superior interpretive authority of the sovereign, he consistently subverts this authority throughout the book by returning it to the reader. Martel demonstrates that Hobb ...Show more
In Sensible Judgement by Max Deutscher
$65.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy | Reading Level: near fine
Taking its bearings from classic texts including Plato, Kant, Hegel and Arendt this thoughtful and intriguing book provides philosophical reflection on what it is to judge and what judgement achieves alongside, and sometimes in competition with, thinking and willing. Opening with the landmark Mabo High ...Show more