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Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics: Translation, Introduction, Commentary by Sarah Broadie
RRP: £42.99£40.80Amongst the works of Aristotle, the Nicomachean Ethics stands virtually alone in speaking not only to classicists, historians of ideas, and technical philosophers, but to anyone trying to make sense of practical human ideals. In this major new... -
Gardening - Philosophy for Everyone: Cultivating Wisdom Fritz Allhoff (Western Michigan University, The Nanoethics Group, USA) 9781444330212
RRP: £13.95£12.92Philosophy and gardens have been closely connected from the dawn of philosophy, with many drawing on their beauty and peace for philosophical inspiration. Gardens in turn give rise to a broad spectrum of philosophical questions. For the green-fingered... -
Why Philosophy Matters for the Study of Religion-and Vice Versa by Thomas A. Lewis 9780198785255
£21.10Work in philosophy of religion is still strongly marked by an excessive focus on Christianity and, to a lesser extent, Judaism -- almost to the exclusion of other religious traditions. Moreover, in many cases it has been confined to a narrow set of... -
The Cult of Nothingness: The Philosophers and the Buddha by Pamela Vohnson 9780807854495
£50.78The common Western understanding of Buddhism today envisions this major world religion as one of compassion and tolerance. But as Roger-Pol Droit reveals, this view bears little resemblance to one broadly held in the 19th century European philosophical... -
Spinoza: A Life by Steven Nadler
RRP: £39.99£29.75Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677) was one of the most important philosophers of all time; he was also one of the most radical and controversial. The story of Spinoza's life takes the reader into the heart of Jewish Amsterdam in the seventeenth century and, with... -
Race Matters, 25th Anniversary Cornel West 9780807008836
RRP: £13.99£9.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807008836Author Cornel WestFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press -
The German Ideology: Introduction to a Critique of Political Economy by Karl Marx 9780853152170
RRP: £14.00£13.67This edition makes easily accessible the most important parts of Marx's and Engels's major early philosophical work, The German Ideology, a text of key importance for students.Book InformationISBN 9780853152170Author Karl MarxFormat PaperbackPage Count... -
The Essential Emma Goldman-Anarchism, Feminism, Liberation (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition) by Emma Goldman 9781959891079
RRP: £9.95£7.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781959891079Author Emma GoldmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Warbler Press Inc.Publisher Warbler Press Inc.Weight(grams) 209gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
Intentionality: An Essay in the Philosophy of Mind by John R. Searle 9780521273022
RRP: £44.99£38.14John Searle's Speech Acts (1969) and Expression and Meaning (1979) developed a highly original and influential approach to the study of language. But behind both works lay the assumption that the philosophy of language is in the end a branch of the... -
Of Hospitality by Jacques Derrida
RRP: £20.99£17.84These two lectures by Jacques Derrida, "Foreigner Question" and "Step of Hospitality/No Hospitality," derive from a series of seminars on "hospitality" conducted by Derrida in Paris, January 1996. His seminars, in France and in America, have become... -
Choice Theory: A Very Short Introduction by Michael Allingham
RRP: £8.99£6.65We make choices all the time - about trivial matters, about how to spend our money, about how to spend our time, about what to do with our lives. And we are also constantly judging the decisions other people make as rational or irrational. But what kind... -
A Manual for Living by Epictetus
RRP: £10.99£7.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062511119Author EpictetusFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint HarperOnePublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 62gDimensions(mm) 120mm *... -
Logic: The Ancient Art of Reason by Earl Fontainelle 9781904263920
RRP: £6.95£4.86How do you tell what's right from what's wrong? Can you always? What's the difference between deduction, induction and abduction? What are the best techniques for making an argument logically sound? In this fascinating little book, the smallest on its... -
Talking Zen: Reflections on Mind, Myth, and the Magic of Life Alan Watts 9781645470960
RRP: £17.99£12.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781645470960Author Alan WattsFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications Inc -
La Maestria del Amor: Un Libro de la Sabiduria Tolteca, the Mastery of Love, Spanish-Language Edition by Don Miguel Ruiz
RRP: £14.00£10.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781878424532Author Don Miguel RuizFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Amber-Allen Publishing,U.S.Publisher Amber-Allen Publishing,U.S.Weight(grams)... -
Between Philosophy and Social Science: Selected Early Writings by Max Horkheimer 9780262581424
£44.69Max Horkheimer is well known as the director of the Frankfurt Institute for Social Research and as a sometime collaborator with Theodor Adorno, especially on their classic Dialectic of Enlightenment. These essays reveal another side of Horkheimer,... -
The Grand Delusion: What We Know But Don't Believe Steve Hagen 9781614296782
RRP: £15.99£11.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781614296782Author Steve HagenFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Wisdom Publications,U.S.Publisher Wisdom Publications,U.S. -
Radical Happiness: Moments of Collective Joy by Lynne Segal 9781786631558
RRP: £10.99£9.18Why are we so obsessed by the pursuit of happiness? With new ways to measure contentment we are told that we have a right to individual joy. But at what cost? In an age of increasing individualism, we have never been more alone and miserable. But what... -
States of Mind: Experiences at the Edge of Consciousness - An Anthology Mark Haddon 9781781256558
RRP: £9.99£7.32A lively collection of literature, science and art delving into the mysteries of human consciousness, with a new introduction by Mark Haddon, published to coincide with a major exhibition at Wellcome Collection in 2016 "The boundaries which divide... -
Complete Guide To Chi Gung by Daniel Reid 9781570625435
RRP: £27.00£18.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781570625435Author Daniel ReidFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)... -
The Man Without Content by Giorgio Agamben
RRP: £18.99£16.72In this book, one of Italy's most important and original contemporary philosophers considers the status of art in the modern era. He takes seriously Hegel's claim that art has exhausted its spiritual vocation, that it is no longer through art that Spirit... -
Realizing the Profound View His Holiness the Dalai Lama 9781614298403
RRP: £30.00£20.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781614298403Author His Holiness the Dalai LamaFormat HardbackPage Count 480Imprint Wisdom Publications,U.S.Publisher Wisdom Publications,U.S.Weight(grams)... -
The Postcard: From Socrates to Freud and Beyond by Jacques Derrida
RRP: £37.00£36.1717 November 1979You were reading a somewhat retro loveletter, the last in history. But you have not yet received it. Yes, its lack or excess of address prepares it to fall into all hands: a post card, an open letter in which the secret appears, but... -
History of Philosophy: Vol 8: Utilitarianism to Early Analytic Philosophy by Frederick C. Copleston
RRP: £25.00£22.54Copleston, an Oxford Jesuit and specialist in the history of philosophy, first created his history as an introduction for Catholic ecclesiastical seminaries. However, since its first publication (the last volume appearing in the mid-1970s) the series has... -
The Two Fundamental Problems of Ethics by Arthur Schopenhauer 9780199297221
RRP: £9.99£7.32'my philosophy is like Thebes with a hundred gates: one can enter from all sides and through each gate arrive at the direct path to the centre' Schopenhauer's two essays On the Freedom of the Will and On the Basis of Morals form his complete system of... -
The Landmark Herodotus: The Histories by Robert B Strassler 9781400031146
RRP: £32.00£25.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400031146Author HerodotusFormat PaperbackPage Count 1024Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 1451gDimensions(mm) 231mm *... -
Care and Cure: An Introduction to Philosophy of Medicine by Jacob Stegenga
RRP: £24.00£23.03The philosophy of medicine has become a vibrant and complex intellectual landscape, and Care and Cure is the first extended attempt to map it. In pursuing the interdependent aims of caring and curing, medicine relies on concepts, theories, inferences,... -
Summa Contra Gentiles: Book 4: Salvation by Thomas Aquinas 9780268016845
RRP: £28.99£24.96The Summa Contra Gentiles is not merely the only complete summary of Christian doctrine that St. Thomas has written, but also a creative and even revolutionary work of Christian apologetics composed at the precise moment when Christian thought needed to... -
Posterior Analytics: v. 2: Topica by Aristotle
RRP: £24.95£23.60The philosopher's toolkit.Aristotle, great Greek philosopher, researcher, reasoner, and writer, born at Stagirus in 384 BC, was the son of a physician. He studied under Plato at Athens and taught there (367-347); subsequently he spent three... -
Leaving the 20th Century: Incomplete Work of the Situationist International by Christopher Gray 9780946061150
£11.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780946061150Author Christopher GrayFormat PaperbackPage Count 142Imprint Rebel Press,LondonPublisher Rebel Press,London -
Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics: and the Letter to Marcus Herz, February 1772 by Immanuel Kant 9780872205932
RRP: £14.99£12.78This edition of Prolegomena includes Kant's letter of February, 1772 to Marcus Herz, a momentous document in which Kant relates the progress of his thinking and announces that he is now ready to present a critique of pure reason.About the AuthorImmanuel... -
The Fragility of Goodness: Luck and Ethics in Greek Tragedy and Philosophy by Martha C. Nussbaum 9780521794725
RRP: £37.99£30.97This book is a study of ancient views about 'moral luck'. It examines the fundamental ethical problem that many of the valued constituents of a well-lived life are vulnerable to factors outside a person's control, and asks how this affects our appraisal... -
No Truth Without Beauty: God, the Qur'an, and Women's Rights by Leena El-Ali
RRP: £22.99£20.99In this comprehensive open access book, written for readers from any or no religious background, Leena El-Ali does something remarkable. Never before has anyone taken on every last claim relating to Islam and women and countered it not just with Qur'anic... -
The Minority Body: A Theory of Disability by Elizabeth Barnes 9780198822417
RRP: £13.49£11.87Elizabeth Barnes argues compellingly that disability is primarily a social phenomenon-a way of being a minority, a way of facing social oppression, but not a way of being inherently or intrinsically worse off. This is how disability is understood in the... -
The Name of God is Mercy by Pope Francis
RRP: £10.99£8.15The Name of God is Mercy, Pope Francis' exploration on the universal theme of mercy, is a spiritual inspiration to both followers of Christianity and non-Christians around the world.Drawing on his own experience as a priest and shepherd, Pope Francis... -
Camus's The Plague: Philosophical Perspectives by Peg Brand Weiser
RRP: £18.49£16.92La Peste (in English The Plague), originally published in 1947 by the Nobel Prize-winning writer Albert Camus, chronicles the progression of deadly bubonic plague as it spreads through the quarantined Algerian city of Oran. While most discussions of... -
Husserl's Phenomenology by Dan Zahavi 9780804745468
RRP: £19.99£17.45It is commonly believed that Edmund Husserl (1859-1938), well known as the founder of phenomenology and as the teacher of Heidegger, was unable to free himself from the framework of a classical metaphysics of subjectivity. Supposedly, he never abandoned... -
Symposium by Plato 9780872200760
RRP: £11.99£11.11A model of the kind of text one needs for lecture courses: the translation is extremely readable and made even more accessible by intelligent printing decisions (on dividing the text, spacing for clarification, etc.); the notes are kept to a minimum but... -
The Philosophy of Happiness: An Interdisciplinary Introduction by Lorraine L. Besser
RRP: £35.99£31.94Emerging research on the subject of happiness-in psychology, economics, and public policy-reawakens and breathes new life into long-standing philosophical questions about happiness (e.g., What is it? Can it really be measured or pursued? What is its... -
How to Think about War: An Ancient Guide to Foreign Policy by Thucydides
RRP: £13.99£11.59An accessible modern translation of essential speeches from Thucydides's History that takes readers to the heart of his profound insights on diplomacy, foreign policy, and warWhy do nations go to war? What are citizens willing to die for? What justifies...