May 2008 Philosophy
Spirit Of The Age Hegel And The Fate Of Thinking
$38.50 (Paperback book / Re.Press )
‘It belongs to the weakness of our time not to be able to bear the greatness, the immensity of the claims made by the human spirit, to feel crushed before them, and to flee from them faint-hearted.’ (Hegel’s Lectures on...
Neuroarthistory: From Aristotle To Pliny To Baxandall And Zeki
$59.95 (Hardcover book / Yale Univ Pr )
This provocative book offers a fascinating account of neuroarthistory, one of the newest and most exciting fields in the human sciences. In recent decades there has been a dramatic increase in our knowledge of the visual... More »
Subjectivity And Otherness A Philosophical Reading Of Lacan
$32.95 (Paperback book / Mit Press )
Countering the call by some "pro-Lacanians" for an end to the exegesis of Lacan's work - and the dismissal by "anti-Lacanians" of Lacan as impossibly impenetrable - Subjectivity and Otherness argues for Lacan as a "parad... More »
Critique Of Pure Reason
$26.95 (Paperback book / Penguin Books )
Kant's Critique of Pure Reason (1781) is the central text of modern philosophy. It brings together the two opposing schools of philosophy: rationalism, which grounds all our knowledge in reason, and empiricism, which tra... More »
Experiments In Ethics
$39.95 (Hardcover book / Harvard Univ Pr )
In the past few decades, scientists of human nature--including experimental and cognitive psychologists, neuroscientists, evolutionary theorists, and behavioral economists--have explored the way we arrive at moral judgme... More »
Nihilism And Emancipation Ethics Politics And Law
$28.95 (Paperback book / Columbia Univ Pr )
daring marriage of philosophical theory and practical politics, this collection is the first of Gianni Vattimo's many books to combine his intellectual pursuits with his public and political life. Vattimo is a paradoxica... More »