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The Professor of Forgetting by Greg Delanty 9780807180143
RRP: $20.58$17.78The Professor of Forgetting, a new collection from the acclaimed Irish poet Greg Delanty, swings back and forth on the fulcrum of what we call "now" and confronts our notion of how time passes. From the very first poem, "Going Nowhere Fast," which... -
On What Matters: Two-volume set by Derek Parfit 9780199265923
RRP: $83.85$74.03On What Matters is a major work in moral philosophy. It is the long-awaited follow-up to Derek Parfit's 1984 book Reasons and Persons, one of the landmarks of twentieth-century philosophy. Parfit now presents a powerful new treatment of reasons,... -
Zig Zag ZEN: Buddhism and Psychedelics by Alex Grey 9780907791621
RRP: $25.79$18.01Buddhism and psychedelic exploration share a common concern: the liberation of the mind. This new edition of Zig Zag Zen: Buddhism and Psychedelics has substantially evolved from the landmark anthology that launched the first serious inquiry into the... -
Why Human Nature Matters: Between Biology and Politics by Dr Matteo Mameli 9781350189751
$31.10Does human nature constrain social and political change, or do social and political changes transform human nature? Why Human Nature Matters argues that the answer to both questions is 'yes'. This philosophical account offers new tools for connecting... -
The Madness of Knowledge: On Wisdom, Ignorance and Fantasies of Knowing by Steven Connor
$35.51Many human beings have considered the powers and the limits of human knowledge, but few have wondered about the power that the idea of knowledge has over us. Steven Connor's The Madness of Knowledge is the first book to investigate this emotional inner... -
Tragedy Since 9/11: Reading a World out of Joint by Jennifer Wallace 9781350035621
RRP: $30.95$25.61From the trauma of September 11th, through the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, to the aftermath of the Arab Spring and the environmental warning signs of climate change, this book reflects on the crises and terrifying events of the early 21st century... -
Heart Of Sufism by Hazrat Inayat Khan 9781570624025
RRP: $30.96$23.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781570624025Author H.J. WitteveenFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)... -
Happiness and Contemplation by Josef Pieper 9781890318314
RRP: $15.48$13.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781890318314Author Josef PieperFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint St Augustine's PressPublisher St Augustine's PressWeight(grams) 178gDimensions(mm)... -
Provocations: Spiritual Writings of Kierkegaard by Soren Kierkegaard 9780874866438
RRP: $19.34$12.75The most accessible Kierkegaard reader ever "In a culture awash in religious silliness, Kierkegaard's bracing metaphors expose our mediocrities and energize us with a clarified sense of what it means to follow Jesus." -Eugene Peterson, author,... -
Paintings and the Past: Philosophy, History, Art by Ivan Gaskell
RRP: $51.59$45.23This book is an exploration of how art-specifically paintings in the European manner-can be mobilized to make knowledge claims about the past. No type of human-made tangible thing makes more complex and bewildering demands in this respect than paintings... -
Epistulae Morales: v. 1: Letters I-LXV by Lucius Annaeus Seneca
RRP: $32.19$30.17Meditative missives.Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, born at Corduba (Cordova) ca. 4 BC, of a prominent and wealthy family, spent an ailing childhood and youth at Rome in an aunt's care. He became famous in rhetoric, philosophy, money-making, and imperial service... -
Four Texts on Socrates: Plato's "Euthyphro", "Apology of Socrates", and "Crito" and Aristophanes' "Clouds" by Thomas G. West 9780801485749
RRP: $15.47$14.11Widely adopted for classroom use, this book offers translations of four major works of ancient Greek literature which treat the life and thought of Socrates, focusing particularly on his trial and defense (three dialogues by Plato: Euthyphro, Apology of... -
The Class Matrix: Social Theory after the Cultural Turn by Vivek Chibber
RRP: $39.93$31.50An influential sociologist revives materialist explanations of class, while accommodating the best of rival cultural theory.Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, analysis of class and other basic structures of capitalism was sidelined by theorists... -
Architecture’s Theory by Catherine Ingraham
RRP: $41.28$26.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262544979Author Catherine IngrahamFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
Diotima's Children: German Aesthetic Rationalism from Leibniz to Lessing by Frederick C. Beiser 9780199694655
RRP: $51.59$41.72Diotima's Children is a re-examination of the rationalist tradition of aesthetics which prevailed in Germany in the late seventeenth and eighteenth century. It is partly an historical survey of the central figures and themes of this tradition But it is... -
The Art of War by Sun Tzu - Classic Collector's Edition: Includes the Classic Giles and Full Length Translations by Sun Tzu 9781934255155
RRP: $19.61$17.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781934255155Author Shawn ConnersFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Special Edition BooksPublisher Special Edition BooksWeight(grams) 331gDimensions(mm)... -
Aristotle Ethica Eudemia by R. R. Walzer 9780198145752
$70.94BLWith new text and full apparatus criticus The Eudemian Ethics was one of two ethical treatises which Aristotle wrote on the subject of ethica or `matters to do with character'. Although the two works cover much the same ground, the Nicomachean... -
World Risk Society by Ulrich Beck 9780745622217
RRP: $23.21$20.69This major new book draws together key essays by one of Europe's leading social and political theorists.About the AuthorUlrich Beck is Professor of Sociology at the Ludwig-Maximilian University in Munich.Reviews"Full of ideas and insights and thus... -
A Brief History of Equality by Thomas Piketty
RRP: $30.90$22.42A New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceA Public Books Best Book of the Year"An opportunity for readers to see Piketty bring his larger argument about the origins of inequality and his program for fighting it into high relief."-Nicholas Lemann, New... -
Autonomy and the Challenges to Liberalism: New Essays by John Christman 9780521839518
RRP: $125.12$106.31In recent years the concepts of individual autonomy and political liberalism have been the subjects of intense debate, but these discussions have occurred largely within separate academic disciplines. Autonomy and the Challenges to Liberalism contains... -
Letter to D – A Love Story by A Gorz
RRP: $12.89$8.77'You're 82 years old. You've shrunk six centimetres, you only weigh 45 kilos yet you're still beautiful, graceful and desirable' - so begins Andre Gorz's 'open love letter' to the woman he has lived with for 58 years and who lies dying next to him. As... -
Ecology of the Brain: The phenomenology and biology of the embodied mind by Thomas Fuchs 9780199646883
$70.56Present day neuroscience places the brain at the centre of study. But what if researchers viewed the brain not as the foundation of life, rather as a mediating organ? Ecology of the Brain addresses this very question. It considers the human body as a... -
Meditations on First Philosophy by Rene Descartes
RRP: $14.18$11.61Descartes's Meditations on First Philosophy, the fundamental and originating work of the modern era in Western philosophy, is presented here in Donald Cress's completely revised edition of his well-established translation, bringing this version even... -
The Quest For Hermes Trismegistus: From Ancient Egypt to the Modern World by Gary Lachman 9780863157981
RRP: $25.80$18.43From the sands of Alexandria via the Renaissance palaces of the Medicis, to our own times, this spiritual adventure story traces the profound influence of Hermes Trismegistus -- the 'thrice-great one', as he was often called -- on the western mind. For... -
Lectures on Logic by Immanuel Kant 9780521546911
RRP: $51.59$43.56Kant's views on logic and logical theory play an important part in his critical writings, especially the Critique of Pure Reason. However, since he published only one short essay on the subject, we must turn to texts derived from his logic lectures to... -
Philosophy and Terry Pratchett by Jacob M. Held 9781137360151
RRP: $32.24$28.10Philosophy and Terry Pratchett is the first attempt by philosophers to explore themes in Sir Terry Pratchett's writings. It will appeal to both specialists and fans of Pratchett with serious essays written in a manner accessible to anyone who enjoys, or... -
The Philosophical Writings of Descartes: Volume 1 by Rene Descartes 9780521288071
RRP: $50.30$44.84Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Evidence and Inquiry: A Pragmatic Reconstruction of Epistemology by Susan Haack 9781591026891
RRP: $21.92$21.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781591026891Author Susan HaackFormat PaperbackPage Count 425Imprint Prometheus BooksPublisher Prometheus BooksWeight(grams) 155g -
Critical Realism: an Introduction to Roy Bhaskar's Philosophy by Andrew Collier 9780860916024
RRP: $25.79$22.61The work of Roy Bhaskar has had far-reaching effects in the philosophy of science and for political and moral theories of human emancipation. It shows how to overcome the atomistic and narrowly human-centered approaches which have dominated European... -
The Age of Questions: Or, A First Attempt at an Aggregate History of the Eastern, Social, Woman, American, Jewish, Polish, Bullion, Tuberculosis, and Many Other Questions over the Nineteenth Century, and Beyond by Holly Case
RRP: $36.12$28.12A groundbreaking history of the Big Questions that dominated the nineteenth centuryIn the early nineteenth century, a new age began: the age of questions. In the Eastern and Belgian questions, as much as in the slavery, worker, social, woman, and Jewish... -
The Ethics of Identity by Kwame Anthony Appiah
RRP: $45.15$35.78Race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, gender, sexuality: in the past couple of decades, a great deal of attention has been paid to such collective identities. They clamor for recognition and respect, sometimes at the expense of other things we value... -
Beast and Man: The Roots of Human Nature by Mary Midgley 9780415289870
RRP: $21.92$19.63Philosophers have traditionally concentrated on the qualities that make human beings different from other species. In Beast and Man Mary Midgley, one of our foremost intellectuals, stresses continuities. What makes people tick? Largely, she asserts, the... -
Know Thyself: The Value and Limits of Self-Knowledge by Mitchell S. Green
RRP: $28.37$24.95Know Thyself: The Value and Limits of Self-Knowledge takes the reader on tour of the nature, value, and limits of self-knowledge. Mitchell S. Green calls on classical sources like Plato and Descartes, 20th-century thinkers like Freud, recent developments... -
Bhagavad Gita by Anonymous 9780140449181
RRP: $15.48$9.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780140449181Author AnonymousFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Penguin ClassicsPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 142gDimensions(mm) 198mm * 130mm... -
As Wide as the World Is Wise: Reinventing Philosophical Anthropology by Michael Jackson
RRP: $38.70$30.04Philosophy and anthropology have long debated questions of difference: rationality versus irrationality, abstraction versus concreteness, modern versus premodern. What if these disciplines instead focused on the commonalities of human experience? Would... -
The Routledge Guidebook to Heidegger's Being and Time by Anthony Gottlieb
RRP: $33.53$29.19The Routledge Guidebook to Heidegger's Being and Time examines the work of one of the most controversial thinkers of the twentieth century. Heidegger's writings are notoriously difficult, requiring careful reading. This book analyses his first major... -
J. G. Fichte: Foundation of the Entire Wissenschaftslehre and Related Writings, 1794-95 by Daniel Breazeale
RRP: $38.04$35.54The Wissenschaftslehre or "doctrine of science" was the great achievement of the German idealist philosopher J. G. Fichte. Daniel Breazeale presents accessible new translation of three works in which Fichte developed this philosophical system. The... -
The Godless Gospel: Was Jesus A Great Moral Teacher? by Julian Baggini
RRP: $12.89$8.64In The Godless Gospel, Julian Baggini challenges our assumptions about Jesus - and the Christian values he promotes - by focusing solely on his teachings in the Gospel. Stripping away the religious elements, Baggini finds that Jesus's words amount to a... -
The Common Good by Robert B. Reich
RRP: $19.34$12.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525436379Author Robert B. ReichFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. Knopf -
Assemblage Theory and Method by Ian Buchanan
RRP: $30.95$27.34What do we mean by 'assemblage' in contemporary theory? The constant and seemingly limitless expansion of the concept's range of applications begs the question, if any and every kind of collection of things is an assemblage, then what advantage is there...