Philosophy

Baruch 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...

This is the first single-volume edition and translation of Frege's philosophical writings to include all of his seminal papers and substantial selections from all three of his major works.About the AuthorMichael Beaney is a Lecturer in Philosophy at the...

The fact that we will die, and that our death can come at any time, pervades the entirety of our living. There are many ways to think about and deal with death. Among those ways, however, a good number of them are attempts to escape its grip. In this...

Electrifying when first delivered in 1973, legendary in the years since, Dieter Henrich's lectures on German Idealism were the first contact a major German philosopher had made with an American audience since the onset of World War II. They remain one of...

A monumental and exhilarating history of European thought, from the fall of Rome in the fifth century AD to the Scientific Revolution thirteen centuries later. The Awakening traces the recovery and refashioning of Europe's classical heritage from the...

The planet is sick. Human beings are guilty of damaging it. We have to pay. Today, that is the orthodoxy throughout the Western world. Distrust of progress and science, calls for individual and collective self-sacrifice to 'save the planet' and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683831907Author Radhanath SwamiFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Mandala Publishing GroupPublisher Mandala Publishing Group

Bringing elementary logic out of the academic darkness into the light of day, Paul Tomassi makes logic fully accessible for anyone attempting to come to grips with the complexities of this challenging subject. Including student-friendly exercises,...

In this joyous introduction to the major debates in Western philosophy, we see how cartoons can shed light and humour on life's Big Questions. Topics such as gender, morality and the meaning of life are examined here with a razor wit and eye. Open...

This edition goes beyond others that largely leave readers to their own devices in understanding this cryptic work, by providing an entree into the text that parallels the traditional Chinese way of approaching it: alongside Slingerland's exquisite...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374537203Author John KaagFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncWeight(grams) 250g

Social upheaval in early 20th-century Europe is the historical setting for this seminal study by the Spanish philosopher, Jose Ortega y Gasset. Continuously in print since 1932, Ortega's vision of Western culture as sinking to its lowest common...

Although successive generations of the Frankfurt School have attempted to adapt Critical Theory to new circumstances, the work done by its founding members continues in the twenty-first century to unsettle conventional wisdom about culture, society and...

In Wild Blue Media, Melody Jue destabilizes terrestrial-based ways of knowing and reorients our perception of the world by considering the ocean itself as a media environment-a place where the weight and opacity of seawater transforms how information is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781628451283Author Oswald SpenglerFormat PaperbackPage Count 554Imprint Windham PressPublisher Windham PressWeight(grams) 975gDimensions(mm) 246mm * 189mm *...

As concerns about violence, war, terrorism, sexuality, and embodiment have garnered attention in philosophy, the concept of vulnerability has become a shared reference point in these discussions. As a fundamental part of the human condition,...

A comprehensive manual for living a spiritual life, based on a verse-by-verse commentary on India’s timeless scripture – from the author of its best-selling translation.(The ebook The Bhagavad Gita for Daily Living 9781586381455 includes all three...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486202570Author Miguel De UnamunoFormat PaperbackPage Count 367Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

'Jung's Philosophy' explores some of the controversial philosophical ideas that are both explicit and implicit within Jung's psychology, comparing the philosophical assumptions between this and other psychotherapeutic traditions. Within this book,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935413011Author Shramana ZhiyiFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Kalavinka PressPublisher Kalavinka PressWeight(grams) 245gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

What is art? What counts as an aesthetic experience? Does art have to beautiful? Can one reasonably dispute about taste? What is the relation between aesthetic and moral evaluations? How to interpret a work of art? Can we learn anything from literature,...

This edition of Marcel's inspiring Homo Viator has been updated to includle fifty pages of new materials available for the first time in English, making this the first English-language edition to conform to the standard French edition. Here,...

The teaching of the Buddha's Noble eightfold Path is explored in relation to every aspect of life - a treasury of wisdom and practical guidance. The reader is taken deeper than most introductions while always remaining practical, inspiring and accessible...

Heraclitus is the first English translation of Volume 55 of Martin Heidegger's Gesamtausgabe. This important volume consists of two lecture courses given by Heidegger at the University of Freiburg over the Summers of 1943 and 1944 on the thought of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780942299199Author Jean-Pierre VernantFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Zone BooksPublisher Zone BooksWeight(grams) 794gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781940447117Author John B Cobb JrFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Riverhouse LLCPublisher Riverhouse LLCWeight(grams) 163gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

This collection of essays explores the history, implications, and usefulness of phenomenology for the study of real and virtual places. While the influence of phenomenology on architecture and urban design has been widely acknowledged, its effect on the...

An insightful look at how avant-garde musicians of the postwar period in New York explored the philosophical dimensions of music's ineffability. The Musician as Philosopher explores the philosophical thought of avant-garde musicians in postwar New York:...

This Bible published in the classic King James Version includes center-column references and giant print type allowing for an easy Bible reading experience. Published in Thomas Nelson's exclusive KJV Comfort Print type, which was designed to be the most...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590308325Author Ram DassFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789171494986Author A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami PrabhupadaFormat HardbackPage Count 810Imprint Bhaktivedanta Book TrustPublisher Bhaktivedanta Book Trust

Philosophy has provided us with a wealth of moral and ethical theories. Applied ethics is the study of practical moral issues and our best philosophical theories, and how each can inform the other. Acclaimed philosopher and textbook author Robin Attfield...

In this beautifully written account, Julian Young provides the most comprehensive biography available today of the life and philosophy of the nineteenth-century German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. Young deals with the many puzzles created by the...

What distinguishes fiction from ordinary experience is not a lack of reality but a surfeit of rationality - this was the thesis of Aristotle's Poetics. The rationality of fiction is that appearances are inverted. Fiction overturns the ordinary course...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061351372Author M CurtisFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)...

From the ruins of communism, Boris Groys emerges to provoke our interest in the aesthetic goals pursued with such catastrophic consequences by its founders. Interpreting totalitarian art and literature in the context of cultural history, this brilliant...

This short critical introduction to Pierre Bourdieu's thought is a model of clarity and insight. Where Bourdieu's own writings are often complex, even ambiguous, Richard Jenkins is direct, concise and to the point. He emphasizes Bourdieu's contributions...

It's about learning how to unlock your creativity, how to let language work through you and begin dancing across the page. Emerging out of the Wolf at the Door writing workshops taught in many FWBO centres and elsewhere worldwide, Writing Your Way helps...

For much of the past two centuries, religion has been understood as a universal phenomenon, a part of the "natural" human experience that is essentially the same across cultures and throughout history. Individual religions may vary through time and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780937938874Author Thubten ChodronFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Snow Lion PublicationsPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)...