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The Elements of Law Natural and Politic. Part I: Human Nature; Part II: De Corpore Politico: with Three Lives by Thomas Hobbes
RRP: £9.99£7.11`the state of men without civil society (which state we may properly call the state of nature) is nothing else but a mere war of all against all.' Thomas Hobbes was the first great philosopher to write in English. His account of the human condition,... -
Journey To The Heart Of Aikido by Linda Holiday
RRP: £19.99£14.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583946596Author Linda HolidayFormat PaperbackPage Count 376Imprint Blue Snake BooksPublisher North Atlantic Books,U.S.Weight(grams) 594gDimensions(mm)... -
Group Agency: The Possibility, Design, and Status of Corporate Agents by Christian List 9780199679676
RRP: £34.49£23.80Are companies, churches, and states genuine agents? Or are they just collections of individual agents that give a misleading impression of unity? This question is important, since the answer dictates how we should go about explaining the behaviour of... -
Spinoza, the Transindividual by Etienne Balibar
RRP: £21.99£17.97Etienne Balibar, one of the foremost living French philosophers, builds on his landmark work 'Spinoza and Politics' with this exploration of Spinoza's ontology. Balibar situates Spinoza in relation to the major figures of Marx and Freud as a precursor to... -
The Art of Self-Improvement: Ten Timeless Truths by Anna Katharina Schaffner
RRP: £19.99£16.18A brilliant distillation of the key ideas behind successful self-improvement practices throughout history, showing us how they remain relevant today "Schaffner finds more in contemporary self-improvement literature to admire than criticize. . . . [A]... -
Fire in the Dark by Jack Donovan 9780985452384
RRP: £16.00£11.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780985452384Author Jack DonovanFormat PaperbackPage Count 254Imprint Dissonant HumPublisher Dissonant HumWeight(grams) 376gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *... -
Love and Saint Augustine by Hannah Arendt
RRP: £18.00£15.38Hannah Arendt began her scholarly career with an exploration of Saint Augustine's concept of caritas, or neighborly love, written under the direction of Karl Jaspers and the influence of Martin Heidegger. After her German academic life came to a halt in... -
Whisper in the Heart (Ram Dass, Maharajji, Hindu Spirituality): The Ongoing Presence of Neem Karoli Baba by Parvati Markus
RRP: £16.99£13.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647226688Author Parvati MarkusFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Insight EditionsPublisher Insight Editions -
Religion and Science: The Basics by Philip Clayton
RRP: £19.99£17.69Religion and science are arguably the two most powerful social forces in the world today. But where religion and science were once held to be compatible, many people now perceive them to be in conflict. This unique book provides the best available... -
How to Tell a Story: An Ancient Guide to the Art of Storytelling for Writers and Readers by Aristotle
RRP: £14.99£11.23An inviting and highly readable new translation of Aristotle's complete Poetics-the first and best introduction to the art of writing and understanding storiesAristotle's Poetics is the most important book ever written for writers and readers of... -
Pantheologies: Gods, Worlds, Monsters by Mary-Jane Rubenstein
RRP: £22.00£17.36Pantheism is the idea that God and the world are identical-that the creator, sustainer, destroyer, and transformer of all things is the universe itself. From a monotheistic perspective, this notion is irremediably heretical since it suggests divinity... -
The Imaginary Institution of Society: Creativity and Autonomy in the Social-historical World by Cornelius Castoriadis
RRP: £24.99£22.21This is one of the most original and important works of contemporary European thought. First published in France in 1975, it is the major theoretical work of one of the foremost thinkers in Europe. Castoriadis offers a brilliant and far-reaching analysis... -
Kant by Paul Guyer 9780415843454
RRP: £25.99£23.03In this updated edition of his outstanding introduction to Kant, Paul Guyer uses Kant's central conception of autonomy as the key to his thought.Beginning with a helpful overview of Kant's life and times, Guyer introduces Kant's metaphysics and... -
The Private Life: Why We Remain in the Dark by Josh Cohen 9781847085306
RRP: £9.99£6.70The war over private life spreads inexorably. Some seek to expose, invade and steal it, others to protect, conceal and withhold it. Either way, the assumption is that privacy is a possession to be won or lost. But what if what we call private life is the... -
The Joy of Consent: A Philosophy of Good Sex by Manon Garcia 9780674279131
RRP: £23.95£17.46"From the bedroom to the classroom to the courtroom, 'consent' is a key term in our contemporary sexual ethics. In this timely reexamination, Manon Garcia deftly reveals the hidden complexities of consent and proposes how to reconceptualize it as a tool... -
Walden with On the Duty of Civil Disobedience (Reader's Library Classics) by Henry David Thoreau 9781954839182
£11.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781954839182Author Henry David ThoreauFormat PaperbackPage Count 270Imprint Reader's Library ClassicsPublisher Reader's Library ClassicsWeight(grams)... -
Lives of the Eminent Philosophers: by Diogenes Laertius by Pamela Mensch
RRP: £44.49£40.37Lives and the Eminent Philosophers of Diogenes Laertius is a crucial source for much of what we know about the origins of philosophy in Greece. The work covers a larger number of figures and a longer period of time than any other extant ancient source,... -
Malfeasance: Appropriation Through Pollution? by Michel Serres
RRP: £15.99£14.24In this highly original and provocative book, Michel Serres reflects on the relation between nature and culture and analyzes the origins of the world's contemporary environmental problems. He does so through the surprising proposition that our... -
How Do We Know? by James K. Dew Jr.
RRP: £19.99£10.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780830855124Author James K. Dew Jr.Format PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint IVP AcademicPublisher IVP AcademicWeight(grams) 234gDimensions(mm) 227mm * 152mm *... -
Utilitarianism by J. S. Mill
RRP: £31.99£30.33The Oxford Philosophical Texts series consists of authoritative teaching editions of canonical texts in the history of philosophy from the ancient world down to modern times. Each volume provides a clear, well laid out text together with a comprehensive... -
Achieving Our Country: Leftist Thought in Twentieth-Century America by Richard Rorty
RRP: £18.95£15.37Must the sins of America's past poison its hope for the future? Lately the American Left, withdrawing into the ivied halls of academe to rue the nation's shame, has answered yes in both word and deed. In Achieving Our Country, one of America's foremost... -
Sikh Philosophy: Exploring gurmat Concepts in a Decolonizing World by Dr Arvind-Pal Singh Mandair
RRP: £17.99£17.02Sikhism, one of the major spiritual-philosophical traditions of India, is often missing from discussions of cross-cultural philosophy. In this introduction, Arvind-Pal Singh Mandair, an internationally acknowledged expert in Sikh studies, provides the... -
On the Emotions by Richard Wollheim 9780300079746
RRP: £45.00£43.61Leading philosopher Richard Wollheim recruits into service the insights of literature and of psychoanalysis, as well as of philosophy, in this rich and thought-provoking account of the emotions. Starting from the premise that emotions form a distinct... -
Latin Literature: An Anthology by Michael Grant
RRP: £12.99£9.09A classic introduction to Latin literature, with translations of the best passages from Virgil, Livy, Ovid, Seneca and many others.This classic anthology traces the development of Latin literature from the early Republican works of Cicero and Catullus,... -
An Illustrated Brief History of Western Philosophy, 20th Anniversary Edition by Anthony Kenny
RRP: £27.95£24.65In 1998, the first edition of Anthony Kenny's comprehensive history of Western philosophy was published, to be met with immediate praise and critical acclaim. As the first book since Bertrand Russell's 1945 A History of Western Philosophy to offer a... -
Spirit of Mediaeval Philosophy, The by Etienne Gilson
RRP: £22.99£20.41In this book (a translation of his well-known work L'esprit de la philosophie medievale), Etienne Gilson undertakes the task of defining the spirit of mediaeval philosophy. Gilson asks whether we can form the concept of a Christian philosophy and whether... -
A Companion to Plato's Republic by Nicholas P. White 9780915144921
RRP: £15.99£13.36A step by step, passage by passage analysis of the complete Republic. White shows how the argument of the book is articulated, the important interconnections among its elements, and the coherent and carefully developed train of though which motivates its... -
Care and Cure: An Introduction to Philosophy of Medicine by Jacob Stegenga
RRP: £24.00£20.12The 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,... -
Data Loam: Sometimes Hard, Usually Soft. The Future of Knowledge Systems by Johnny Golding
RRP: £34.50£32.29As a reaction to the dominant effect and interpretive authority of the digital, Data Loam combines radical approaches based on positions taken in the international practice of contemporary art. Previously: insistence on indexicality and the instrumental... -
The Highest Poverty: Monastic Rules and Form-of-Life by Giorgio Agamben 9780804784061
RRP: £16.99£14.75What is a rule, if it appears to become confused with life? And what is a human life, if, in every one of its gestures, of its words, and of its silences, it cannot be distinguished from the rule? It is to these questions that Agamben's new book turns... -
Religion: Rereading What Is Bound Together by Michel Serres 9781503631496
RRP: £23.99£21.05With this profound final work, completed in the days leading up to his death, Michel Serres presents a vivid picture of his thinking about religion-a constant preoccupation since childhood-thereby completing Le Grand Recit, the comprehensive explanation... -
Ethical Life: Its Natural and Social Histories by Webb Keane 9780691167732
RRP: £35.00£27.74The human propensity to take an ethical stance toward oneself and others is found in every known society, yet we also know that values taken for granted in one society can contradict those in another. Does ethical life arise from human nature itself? Is... -
The Book of Master Mo by Mo Zi
RRP: £12.99£9.09A key work of ancient Chinese philosophy is brought back to life in Ian Johnston's compelling and definitive translation, new to Penguin Classics. Very little is known about Master Mo, or the school he founded. However, the book containing his... -
The Rationalists by John Cottingham 9780192891907
RRP: £42.99£33.99The seventeenth century saw a fundamental shift in our ways of thinking about ourselves and the universe. The reassuring medieval view of an earth-centred cosmos designed expressly for the benefit of mankind had been steadily eroded; yet at the same time... -
What We See When We Read by Peter Mendelsund
RRP: £17.50£11.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780804171632Author Peter MendelsundFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 510gDimensions(mm) 198mm *... -
Democracy for Realists: Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government by Christopher H. Achen
RRP: £25.00£19.99Democracy for Realists assails the romantic folk-theory at the heart of contemporary thinking about democratic politics and government, and offers a provocative alternative view grounded in the actual human nature of democratic citizens. Christopher... -
The Gift of the Gab: How Eloquence Works by David Crystal
RRP: £11.99£10.15A many-faceted exploration of spoken eloquence: how it works, how it has evolved, and how to tap its remarkable power We all know eloquence when we hear it. But what exactly is it? And how might we gain more of it for ourselves? This entertaining and,... -
Cosmos, Chaos and the World to Come: The Ancient Roots of Apocalyptic Faith by Norman Cohn 9780300090888
RRP: £19.99£19.39All over the world people look forward to a perfect future, when the forces of good will be finally victorious over the forces of evil. Once this was a radically new way of imagining the destiny of the world and of mankind. How did it originate, and what... -
Moral Theory and Anomaly by Professor Tom Sorell 9780631218340
RRP: £38.95£34.20Moral Theory and Anomaly considers and rejects the claim that moral theory is too utopian to apply properly to worldly pursuits like political office holding and business, and too patriarchal and speciesist to generate a theory of justice applicable to... -
Stop Being Reasonable: six stories of how we really change our minds by Eleanor Gordon-Smith 9781912854141
RRP: £14.99£9.80What if you aren't who you think you are? What if you don't really know the people closest to you? And what if your most deeply-held beliefs turn out to be ... wrong? In Stop Being Reasonable, philosopher and journalist Eleanor Gordon-Smith...