Conversations in Philosophy II
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Jonathan Rée and James Wood return for a second series, examining the literary qualities of philosophical works, and the philosophical qualities of literary works, from Montaigne to Kafka – with a particular focus on the ways in which the idea of personality has troubled and informed writers across the centuries.
Some texts from upcoming Conversations in Philosophy episodes are no longer in print, and should be sought elsewhere. Where available, we have selected the most precise and affordable editions. However, some titles are only available via print-on-demand and we recommend you allow up to five weeks for your book to arrive, including:
- Alciphron in Focus by George Berkeley
- Political Writings by Immanuel Kant
- The Fight and Other Writings by William Hazlitt
- The Philosophy of Alain Locke
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Michel de Montaigne was one of the most influential figures of the Renaissance, singlehandedly responsible for popularising the essay as a literary form. This Penguin Classics edition of The Complete Essays is translated from the French and…
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'I must apply my self to Experience; as far as that reaches, I may have certain Knowledge, but no farther.'…
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Alciphron, or the Minute Philosopher (1732) is Berkeley's main work of philosophical theology and a crucial source of his views on meaning and language. This edition contains the four most important dialogues and a selection of critical…
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David Hume is the greatest and also one of the most provocative philosophers to have written in the English language. No philosopher is more important for his careful, critical, and deeply perceptive examination of the grounds for belief in…
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One of the key figures of the French Enlightenment, Denis Diderot was a passionate critic of conventional morality, society and religion. Among his greatest and most well-known works, these two dialogues are dazzling examples of his radical…
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The original edition of Kant: Political Writings was first published in 1970, and has long been established as the principal English-language edition of this important body of writing. In this new, expanded edition, two important texts…
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This brilliant study of the stages in the mind's necessary progress from immediate sense-consciousness to the position of a scientific philosophy includes an introductory essay and a paragraph-by-paragraph analysis of the text to help the…
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Hazlitt is one of the greatest masters of English prose style and this new selection demonstrates the variety and richness of his writing. The volume includes classic pieces of drama and literature criticism, such as his essays on…
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"In this densely imbricated volume Derrida pursues his devoted, relentless dismantling of the philosophical tradition, the tradition of Plato, Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, Husserl, Heidegger—each dealt with in one or more of the essays.…
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A collection of Kafka's greatest short fiction, translated by Michael HofmannKafka's masterpiece of unease and black humour, Metamorphosis, the story of an ordinary man transformed into an insect, is brought together in this collection…
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