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1	Discourse on Method and Related Writings more books like this by Rene Descartes, Desmond M Clarke (Notes by) add to wishlist This is the second of a new two-volume edition of the works of Descartes in Penguin Classics. This volume is designed for students who approach Descartes from the point of view of his philosophy of science. It includes "Discourse on Method", the most accessible and well-known of his discussions of scientific method; the first seven chapters of the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.00! \| SVS
2	Descartes: Selected Philosophical Writings more books like this by Rene Descartes add to wishlist Based on the new and much acclaimed two-volume Cambridge edition of The Philosophical Writings of Descartes by Cottingham, Stoothoff and Murdoch, this anthology of essential texts contains the most important and widely studied of those writings, including the Discourse and Meditations and substantial extracts from the Regulae, Optics, Principles, ... see all copies from $7.65! new only from $7.65! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Foundations for a Sociology of the Everyday more books like this by Henri Lefebvre, John Moore (Translator), Michel Trebitsch (Preface by) add to wishlist "We have before us a mature work, firm and rigorous in its expression, resolute in its theoretical ambition, and with few equivalents in the rest of Lefebvre's output. It can be read as a veritable 'discourse on method' in sociology - in particular, because it aspires to restore a properly philosophical rigour to the latter. And it determined a ... see all copies from $15.50! new only from $15.50! \| SVS
4	French Theory: How Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze, & Co. Transformed the Intellectual Life of the United States more books like this by Francois Cusset, Jeff Fort (Translator), Josephine Berganza add to wishlist "A great story, full of twists and turns. . . . Careers made and ruined, departments torn apart, writing programs turned into sensitivity seminars, political witch hunts, public opprobrium, ignorant media attacks, the whole ball of wax. Read it and laugh or read it and weep. I can hardly wait for the movie." --Stanley Fish, "Think Again, New York ... see all copies from $12.72! new only from $18.15! \| SVS
5	Writing and Difference more books like this by Professor Jacques Derrida add to wishlist In the 1960s a radical concept emerged from the great French thinker Jacques Derrida. He called the new process 'deconstruction'. Rewriting the ways in which we use language and literature, deconstruction affected every form of intellectual thought, from literary criticism to popular culture. It also criticized the entire tradition of Western ... see all copies from $7.50! new only from $16.37! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Discourse on Method Discourse on Method more books like this by Rene Descartes add to wishlist Part of the "Everyman" series which has been re-set with wide margins for notes and easy-to-read type. Each title includes a themed introduction by leading authorities on the subject, life-and-times chronology of the author, text summaries, annotated reading lists and selected criticism and notes. see all copies from $2.75! new only from $24.94!
7	Essential Foucault more books like this by Michel Foucault, Nikolas S Rose, Paul Rabinow (Editor) add to wishlist Few philosophers have had as significant an impact on contemporary thought as Michel Foucault. Rabinow has collected the best pieces from his three-volume set into a one-volume anthology. see all copies from $12.98! new only from $14.38! \| first editions \| SVS
8	The Columbia History of Twentieth-Century French Thought more books like this by Professor Lawrence D Kritzman (Editor), M. B. DeBevoise (Translator), Brian J Reilly add to wishlist With more than two hundred entries by leading intellectuals in the French- and English-speaking world, this new volume presents the authoritative guide to twentieth-century French thought. Unrivaled in its scope and depth, "The Columbia History of Twentieth-Century French Thought" covers and critiques the intellectual figures, movements, and ... see all copies from $14.95! new only from $29.50! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Modern French Philosophy more books like this by Professor Vincent Descombes add to wishlist This is a critical introduction to modern French philosophy, commissioned from one of the liveliest contemporary practitioners and intended for an English-speaking readership. The dominant 'Anglo-Saxon' reaction to philosophical development in France has for some decades been one of suspicion, occasionally tempered by curiosity but more often ... see all copies from $15.00! new only from $31.10! \| SVS
10	Difference and repetition more books like this by Professor Gilles Deleuze add to wishlist Since its publication in 1968, "Difference and Repetition", an exposition of the critique of identity, has come to be considered a contemporary classic in philosophy and one of Deleuze's most important works. The text follows the development of two central concepts, those of pure difference and complex repetition. It shows how the two concepts are ... see all copies from $16.00! new only from $16.00! \| SVS
11 view cover	The Party of Humanity: Essays in the French Enlightenment more books like this by Professor Peter Gay add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $16.10! \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Creative Fidelity more books like this by Gabriel Marcel add to wishlist This important collection of lectures and essays was regarded by Gabriel Marcel as the best introduction to his thought. Outstanding in the richness of its analyses and in its application of Marcel's "concrete approach" to philosophical problems, Creative Fidelity not only deals with the perennial Marcellian themes of faith, fidelity, belief, ... see all copies from $7.00! new only from $23.76! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Generation Existential: Heidegger's Philosophy in France 1927-1961 more books like this by Ethan Kleinberg add to wishlist When we think of Heidegger's influence in France, we tend to focus on such contemporary thinkers as Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, and Jean-Francois Lyotard. In Generation Existential, Ethan Kleinberg shifts the focus to the initial reception of Heidegger's philosophy in France by those who first encountered it. Kleinberg explains the appeal of ... see all copies from $15.45! new only from $16.95! \| first editions
14 view cover	Gilles Deleuze: An Introduction more books like this by Todd May add to wishlist This book offers a readable and compelling introduction to the work of one of the twentieth century's most important and elusive thinkers. Other books have tried to explain Deleuze in general terms. Todd May organizes his book around a central question at the heart of Deleuze's philosophy: how might we live? The author then goes on to explain how ... see all copies from $23.97! new only from $23.97! \| SVS
15 view cover	Acting Out more books like this by Bernard Stiegler, David Barison (Translator), Daniel Ross (Translator) add to wishlist "Acting Out" is the first appearance in English of two short books published by Bernard Stiegler in 2003. In "How I Became a Philosopher", he outlines his transformation during a five-year period of incarceration for armed robbery. Isolated from what had been his world, Stiegler began to conduct a kind of experiment in phenomenological research. ... see all copies from $14.78! new only from $14.78! \| SVS
16 view cover	Logic of sense more books like this by Professor Gilles Deleuze add to wishlist Since its first publication, Logic of Sense has become a famous work of philosophical criticism, Working from Stoic philosophy to Lewis Carroll's literary and logical paradoxes and on to psychoanalysis, Deleuze seeks to determine the status of meaning and meaninglessness. Deleuze's exploration takes the reader through a series of inquiries with ... see all copies from $11.50! new only from $20.42! \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	Two Regimes of Madness: Texts and Interviews 1975-1995 more books like this by Professor Gilles Deleuze add to wishlist This title features texts and interviews from the period that saw the publication of Deleuze's major works. Covering the last twenty years of Gilles Deleuze's life (1975-1995), the texts and interviews gathered in this volume complete those collected in "Desert Islands and Other Texts" (1953-1974). This period saw the publication of his major ... see all copies from $4.95! new only from $21.49!
18 view cover	Poststructuralism, Politics and Education more books like this by Michael Peters add to wishlist Using a theoretical and historical investigation, this study presents a poststructuralist critique of subject-centred reason against the background of the modernity/postmodernity and "information society" debates. see all copies from $12.00! new only from $32.00! \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Downcast Eyes: Denigration of Vision in 20th-Century French more books like this by Professor Martin Jay add to wishlist Long considered 'the noblest of the senses', vision has increasingly come under critical scrutiny by a wide range of thinkers who question its dominance in Western culture. These critics of vision, especially prominent in twentieth-century France, have challenged its allegedly superior capacity to provide access to the world. They have also ... see all copies from $18.70! new only from $28.95! \| SVS
20 view cover	Conditions more books like this by Alain Badiou add to wishlist This is the first complete English translation of the work that immediately followed Badiou's magnum opus, "Being and Event" in which Badiou provides an overview of what he sees as the four great conditions of philosophy - this book is therefore central to an understanding of Badiou's whole philosophical project.Alain Badiou is without doubt the ... see all copies from $17.81! new only from $21.13! \| SVS
21 view cover	After Finitude: An Essay on the Necessity of Contingency more books like this by Quentin Meillassoux, Ray Brassier (Translator), Alain Badiou (Preface by) add to wishlist This book is now available for the first time in paperback, the remarkable debut of a former student of Alain Badiou. Quentin Meillassoux, a former student of Alain Badiou, is considered to be one of the most talented and exciting new voices in contemporary French philosophy. Quentin Meillassoux's remarkable debut makes a strikingly original ... see all copies from $18.45! new only from $18.45!
22 view cover	Introducing Rousseau more books like this by Dave Robinson, Oscar Zarate (Illustrator) add to wishlist "I am like no one else in the whole world..." Defiant, Jean-Jacques Rousseau begins his Confessions, an autobiography of incomparable psychological insight. He was a musician, poet, novelist and botanist, but above all, Rousseau was a philosopher who always denied being one. Rousseau's thesis - that civilisation corrupts and increases inequality - ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.00! \| SVS
23	Utopian Pessimist: The Life and Thought of Simone Weil more books like this by David McLellan add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $11.99! \| first editions
24	Watchdogs: Philosophers and the Established Order more books like this by Professor Paul Nizan, Paul Fittingoff (Translator) add to wishlist see all copies from $2.65! first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	Collected philosophical papers more books like this by Emmanuel Levinas, A Lingis (Translator) add to wishlist This collection, now available in an affordable paperback edition, contains eleven of the most significant articles written by Emmanuel Levinas. One of the most important philosophers of the phenomenological-existential tradition, Levinas further explored and developed each of his theses in the classic philosophical work Otherwise than Being, or, ... see all copies from $10.99! new only from $28.69! \| first editions \| SVS

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