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Women and Human Development: The Capabilities Approach by Martha C. Nussbaum
RRP: £24.99£19.57In this major book Martha Nussbaum, one of the most innovative and influential philosophical voices of our time, proposes a kind of feminism that is genuinely international, argues for an ethical underpinning to all thought about development planning and... -
Critique of Black Reason by Achille Mbembe
RRP: £20.99£18.37In Critique of Black Reason eminent critic Achille Mbembe offers a capacious genealogy of the category of Blackness-from the Atlantic slave trade to the present-to critically reevaluate history, racism, and the future of humanity. Mbembe teases out the... -
Lack and Transcendence: The Problem of Death and Life in Psychotherapy, Existentialism, and Buddhism by David R. Loy 9781614295235
RRP: £17.99£12.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781614295235Author David R. LoyFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint Wisdom Publications,U.S.Publisher Wisdom Publications,U.S. -
How to Think Like a Roman Emperor: The Stoic Philosophy of Marcus Aurelius by Donald Robertson 9781250196620
RRP: £21.99£18.15"This book is a wonderful introduction to one of history's greatest figures: Marcus Aurelius. His life and this book are a clear guide for those facing adversity, seeking tranquility and pursuing excellence." --Ryan Holiday, bestselling author of The... -
Clouds Over Qingcheng Mountain: A Practice Guide to Daoist Health Cultivation by Wang Yun
RRP: £24.99£19.63Immersing the mind with the concepts of the Daoist path of health and immortality, Clouds over Qingcheng Mountain invokes the sacred birthplace of one of China's mystical mountains that has stimulated both mind and body for generations.Whilst the first... -
The Coronation: Essays from the Covid Moment by Charles Eisenstein
RRP: £14.99£9.80'A necessary and brave read.' Paul Kingsnorth Hope and isolation, courage and division, withdrawal and reunion - how can we find meaning as we emerge from the troubled time of Covid? Renowned social philosopher and best-selling author Charles... -
Lives of Eminent Philosophers: v.2 by Diogenes Laertius
RRP: £24.95£23.39Examined lives.Diogenes Laertius, author of a work on Greek philosophy, lived probably in the earlier half of the third century, his ancestry and birthplace being unknown. He was an Epicurean philosopher, but his work is not philosophical. The title ... -
A User's Guide to Capitalism and Schizophrenia: Deviations from Deleuze and Guattari by Brian Massumi 9780262631433
£35.64A User's Guide to Capitalism and Schizophrenia is a playful and emphatically practical elaboration of the major collaborative work of the French philosophers Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari. When read along with its rigorous textual notes, the book... -
Clear Bright Future: A Radical Defence of the Human Being by Paul Mason
RRP: £10.99£7.77'Thrilling, brilliant, radical ... an admirable defence of humans against machines' GuardianA passionate defence of humanity and a work of radical optimism from the international bestselling author of PostcapitalismHow do we preserve what makes us human... -
The Philosophical Foundations of Early German Romanticism by Manfred Frank
£29.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791459485Author Manfred FrankFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York... -
Freedom Evolves by Daniel C. Dennett
RRP: £10.99£7.77Daniel C. Dennett's Freedom Evolves tackles the most important question of human existence - is there really such a thing as free will? How can humans make genuinely independent choices if we are just a cluster of cells and genes in a world determined... -
If You Should Fail: A Book of Solace by Joe Moran
RRP: £9.99£6.52'There is an honesty and a clarity in Joe Moran's book If You Should Fail that normalises and softens the usual blows of life that enables us to accept and live with them rather than be diminished/wounded by them' Julia Samuel, author of Grief Works and... -
Introducing Political Philosophy: A Policy-Driven Approach by Andrew Walton
RRP: £31.99£30.33Introducing Political Philosophy is a thought-provoking introduction that invites readers to consider and analyse the philosophical controversies that underpin several prominent areas of political debate. The opening chapter familiarises students with... -
Joyful Path of Good Fortune: The Complete Buddhist Path to Enlightenment by Geshe Kelsang Gyatso 9781910368527
RRP: £17.95£12.92A clear and comprehensive explanation of the entire path to enlightenment. We all have the potential for self-transformation, and a limitless capacity for the growth of good qualities, but to fulfil this potential we need to know what to do along every... -
In Search of Being: The Fourth Way to Consciousness by G I Gurdjieff
RRP: £26.00£16.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611800821Author G.I. GurdjieffFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications Inc -
Anger and Forgiveness: Resentment, Generosity, Justice by Martha C. Nussbaum
RRP: £15.99£11.61Anger is not just ubiquitous, it is also popular. Many people think it is impossible to care sufficiently for justice without anger at injustice. Many believe that it is impossible for individuals to vindicate their own self-respect or to move beyond an... -
The Ceiling Outside: The Science and Experience of the Disrupted Mind by Noga Arikha
RRP: £20.00£13.35As her mother slips into the fog of dementia, a philosopher grapples with the unbreakable links between our bodies and our sense of self. Vanessa wakes from a coma having forgotten ten years of her life. Toussaint, is haunted by voices. Thomas no longer... -
Here and There: Sites of Philosophy by Stanley Cavell
RRP: £24.95£20.29The first posthumous collection from the writings of Stanley Cavell, shedding new light on the distinctive vision and intellectual trajectory of an influential American philosopher.For Stanley Cavell, philosophy was a matter of responding to the voices... -
The Interpretation of Cultures by Clifford Geertz 9780465093557
£28.20In The Interpretation of Cultures, the most original anthropologist of his generation moved far beyond the traditional confines of his discipline to develop an important new concept of culture. This groundbreaking book, winner of the 1974 Sorokin Award... -
The Practical Self by Prof Anil Gomes 9780198864905
RRP: £70.00£63.74We are self-conscious creatures thrown into a world which is not of our making. What is the connection between being self-conscious and being related to an objective world? Descartes and Kant, in different ways and with different emphases, argued that... -
The Force of Nonviolence: The Ethical in the Political by Judith Butler
RRP: £14.99£12.55Judith Butler's new book shows how an ethic of nonviolence must be connected to a broader political struggle for social equality. Further, it argues that nonviolence is often misunderstood as a passive practice that emanates from a calm region of the... -
Guerrilla Metaphysics: Phenomenology and the Carpentry of Things by Graham Harman 9780812694567
RRP: £24.99£16.72In Guerrilla Metaphysics, Graham Harman develops further the object-oriented philosophy first proposed in Tool-Being. Today's fashionable philosophies often treat metaphysics as a petrified relic of the past, and hold that future progress requires an... -
Modern Culture by Roger Scruton
RRP: £16.99£13.16What do we mean by 'culture'? This word, purloined by journalists to denote every kind of collective habit, lies at the centre of contemporary debates about the past and future of society. In this thought-provoking book, Roger Scruton argues for the... -
Path Of Compassion by Thich Nhat Hanh 9781937006136
RRP: £15.99£10.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781937006136Author Thich Nhat HanhFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Parallax PressPublisher Parallax PressWeight(grams) 323gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 137mm... -
The Italian Far Right from 1945 to the Russia-Ukraine Conflict by Nicola Guerra 9781032566252
RRP: £36.99£32.53The Italian Far Right from 1945 to the Russia-Ukraine Conflict provides a comprehensive account of the postwar parliamentary and extra parliamentary far right in Italy. This book explores the ideology, movements and activism of the extreme right and neo-... -
Introduction to Phenomenology: Focus on Methodology by Cheryl Tatano Beck 9781544319551
RRP: £54.00£50.14Phenomenology is a challenging method for many students to understand and apply. Introduction to Phenomenology: Focus on Methodology breaks down the history, methodology, and application so students can more easily write proposals and conduct... -
Hegel's Science of Logic: A Critical Rethinking in Thirty Lectures by Richard Dien Winfield 9781442219342
RRP: £125.00£109.35This text provides a truly comprehensive guide to one of the most important and challenging works of modern philosophy. The systematic complexity of Hegel's radical project in the Science of Logic prevents many from understanding and appreciating its... -
The Dalai Lama Quotes Book by Travis Hellstrom
RRP: £14.99£9.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781578266401Author Travis HellstromFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Hatherleigh Press,U.S.Publisher Hatherleigh Press,U.S. -
The Mind's I: Fantasies And Reflections On Self & Soul by Daniel C. Dennett 9780465030910
£21.59With contributions from Jorge Luis Borges, Richard Dawkins, John Searle, and Robert Nozick, The Mind's I explores the meaning of self and consciousness through the perspectives of literature, artificial intelligence, psychology, and other disciplines. In... -
Epistemology: A Contemporary Introduction to the Theory of Knowledge by Robert Audi
RRP: £47.99£42.21Epistemology, or "the theory of knowledge," is concerned with how we know what we know, what justifies us in believing what we believe, and what standards of evidence we should use in seeking truths about the world and human experience. This... -
Quiet the Mind by Matthew Johnstone
RRP: £9.99£8.91In a world where finding even ten minutes to 'do nothing' can be difficult, the benefits of meditation can be profound. Meditation is simply a way of giving our brains a well-deserved break and can actually help our brains to function healthily and... -
The Value of Life: An Introduction to Medical Ethics by John Harris
RRP: £36.99£32.53First published in 1985. Medical ethics is a vitally important subject and currently a highly controversial one. Recent cases have highlighted both the intellectual and moral challenges posed by the dilemmas of modern medicine and their significance for... -
The Machiavellian Moment: Florentine Political Thought and the Atlantic Republican Tradition by J. G. A. Pocock
RRP: £32.00£25.16Originally published in 1975, The Machiavellian Moment remains a landmark of historical and political thought. Celebrated historian J.G.A. Pocock looks at the consequences for modern historical and social consciousness arising from the ideal of the... -
We Hear Only Ourselves: Utopia, Memory, and Resistance by Bill Cashmore 9781803415802
RRP: £8.99£7.81We Hear Only Ourselves is a study of utopia and its contradictions. If a future beyond capitalism cannot be imagined, what is the place of utopia today? The answer, Cashmore argues, lies beyond either idle speculation or merely hopeful optimism. We Hear... -
Stone: An Ecology of the Inhuman by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen
RRP: £19.99£17.54Stone maps the force, vivacity, and stories within our most mundane matter, stone. For too long stone has served as an unexamined metaphor for the "really real": blunt factuality, nature's curt rebuke. Yet, medieval writers knew that stones drop with... -
Blackface by Professor Ayanna Thompson
RRP: £9.99£7.67A New Statesman essential non-fiction book of 2021 Featured in Book Riot's 12 best nonfiction books about Black identity and history A Times Higher Education Book of the Week 2022 Finalist for the Prose Awards (Media and Cultural Studies category) ... -
Zen Way of Recovery, The: An Illuminated Path Out of the Darkness of Addiction by Laura Burges
RRP: £19.99£13.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781645471202Author Laura BurgesFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications Inc -
Dialogue on the Infinity of Love by Tullia D'Aragona 9780226136394
RRP: £21.00£20.31First published in Venice in 1547, this work casts a woman rather than a man as the main disputant on the ethics of love. Tullia d'Aragona argued that the only moral form of love between a woman and a man is one that recognizes both the sensual and the... -
Seneca's Letters from a Stoic by Lucius Seneca 9780486811246
RRP: £10.99£7.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486811246Author Lucius SenecaFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Living With a Wild God: A Non-Believer's Search for the Truth about Everything by Barbara Ehrenreich 9781847084101
RRP: £9.99£6.70Barbara Ehrenreich is an acclaimed social critic on both sides of the Atlantic, renowned for her trenchant, witty polemics, her pieces of journalism, and her trademark intelligence. She writes with unparalleled precision, insight and a rationalist's...