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The Philosophical Hitchcock: "Vertigo" and the Anxieties of Unknowingness by Robert B Pippin
RRP: £19.00£18.50On the surface, The Philosophical Hitchcock: Vertigo and the Anxieties of Unknowingness, is a close reading of Alfred Hitchcock's 1958 masterpiece Vertigo. This, however, is a book by Robert B. Pippin, one of our most penetrating and creative... -
Ethics in the Conflicts of Modernity: An Essay on Desire, Practical Reasoning, and Narrative by Alasdair MacIntyre 9781316629604
RRP: £21.99£17.97Alasdair MacIntyre explores some central philosophical, political and moral claims of modernity and argues that a proper understanding of human goods requires a rejection of these claims. In a wide-ranging discussion, he considers how normative and... -
Letter to D – A Love Story by A Gorz
RRP: £9.99£7.00'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... -
The Last Man Takes LSD: Foucault and the End of Revolution Daniel Zamora 9781839761393
£18.37In May 1975, Michel Foucault took LSD in the desert in southern California. He described it as the most important event of his life which would lead him to completely rework his History of Sexuality. His focus now would not be on power relations but on... -
The Ecological Thought by Timothy Morton
RRP: £21.95£17.90In this passionate, lucid, and surprising book, Timothy Morton argues that all forms of life are connected in a vast, entangling mesh. This interconnectedness penetrates all dimensions of life. No being, construct, or object can exist independently from... -
Egress: On Mourning, Melancholy and Mark Fisher Matt Colquhoun 9781912248872
RRP: £12.99£8.83Egress is the first book to consider the legacy and work of the writer, cultural critic and cult academic Mark Fisher.Narrated in orbit of his death as experienced by a community of friends and students in 2017, it analyses Fisher's philosophical... -
Are We Bodies or Souls? by Richard Swinburne
RRP: £16.99£12.28What are humans? What makes us who we are? Many think that we are just complicated machines, or animals that are different from machines only by being conscious. In Are We Bodies or Souls? Richard Swinburne comes to the defence of the soul and... -
Of Arcs and Circles: Insights from Japan on Gardens, Nature, and Art by Marc Peter Keane
RRP: £13.99£9.50From his vantage point as a garden designer and writer based in Kyoto, Marc Peter Keane examines the world around him and delivers astonishing insights through an array of narratives. How the names of gardens reveal their essential meaning. A new... -
Zen Master Yunmen: His Life and Essential Sayings by Urs App
RRP: £17.99£16.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611805598Author Urs AppFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications Inc -
Have You Read George's Podcast? by George the Poet
RRP: £25.00£17.03'There's something special about it: the storytelling is unique, so exciting, so kinetic. Even though it's in your ears, you feel like you're walking along with George.' -- Candice Carty-Williams'Have You Read George's Podcast? is a collection of the... -
Aristotle's Politics by Aristotle
RRP: £14.00£13.96One of the fundamental works of Western political thought, Aristotle's masterwork is the first systematic treatise on the science of politics. For almost three decades, Carnes Lord's justly acclaimed translation has served as the standard English edition... -
The Kalam Cosmological Argument by William L. Craig 9781579104382
RRP: £24.00£18.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781579104382Author William L. CraigFormat PaperbackPage Count 226Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams)... -
Russell: A Very Short Introduction by A. C. Grayling
RRP: £8.99£6.65Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) is one of the most famous and important philosophers of the twentieth century. In this account of his life and work A.C. Grayling introduces both his technical contributions to logic and philosophy, and his wide-ranging views... -
Ethics: The Art of Character by Gregory Beabout 9781904263937
RRP: £6.95£4.86What is a good life, and how is it related to a happy one? What are virtues, and how do they affect the nature of friendships? Ethicists Gregory Beabout and Mike Hannis describe various approaches, ancient and modern, to those timeless questions: "What... -
Politics of the Everyday by Ezio Manzini
RRP: £15.99£15.63Each of us develops and enacts strategies for living our everyday lives. These may confirm the general tendency towards new forms of connected solitude, in which we work, travel and live alone, yet feel sociable mainly by means of technology. ... -
Instant Philosophy: Key Thinkers, Theories, Discoveries and Concepts Gareth Southwell 9781787394209
RRP: £14.99£10.05Instant Philosophy pulls together all the pivotal philosophical knowledge and thought into one concise volume. Each page contains a discrete 'cheat sheet', which tells you the most important facts in bite-sized chunks, meaning you can become an expert in... -
Discourses: v. 2: Bks.III-IV by Epictetus
RRP: £24.95£23.76From slave to sage.Epictetus was a crippled Greek slave of Phrygia during Nero's reign (AD 54-68) who heard lectures by the Stoic Musonius before he was freed. Expelled with other philosophers by the emperor Domitian in 89 or 92, he settled ... -
The Bhagavad-Gita: A New Translation Georg Feuerstein, PhD 9781611800388
RRP: £32.00£21.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611800388Author Georg Feuerstein, PhDFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)... -
The Superhumanities: Historical Precedents, Moral Objections, New Realities by Professor Jeffrey J. Kripal
RRP: £28.00£23.27A bold challenge to rethink the humanities as intimately connected to the superhuman and to "decolonize reality itself." What would happen if we reimagined the humanities as the superhumanities? If we acknowledged and celebrated the... -
Zen in Japanese Culture: A Visual Journey through Art, Design, and Life Gavin Blair 9780789213457
RRP: £24.99£17.63A visual journey through Zen's influence on Japanese life, from calligraphy to the martial arts Formed by a convergence of the Buddha's teachings with Taoism and local tradition, Zen has had a profound impact on the art and culture of Japan. As a... -
Anywhere or Not at All: The Philosophy of Contemporary Art by Peter Osborne 9781781680940
£23.94Winner of the 2014 Annual Book Prize of the Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present (USA).Contemporary art is the object of inflated and widely divergent claims. But what kind of discourse can open it up effectively to critical analysis?... -
The Mirror of Yoga: Awakening the Intelligence of Body and Mind Richard Freeman 9781590309445
RRP: £19.99£13.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590309445Author Richard FreemanFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)... -
John Rawls: His Life and Theory of Justice by Thomas Pogge 9780195136371
RRP: £36.49£36.44John Rawls was one of the most important political philosophers of our time, and promises to be an enduring figure over the coming decades. His Theory of Justice (1971) has had a profound impact across philosophy, politics, law, and economics... -
The Oxford Handbook of Biblical Studies by J. W. Rogerson 9780199237777
£41.09The Oxford Handbooks series is a major new initiative in academic publishing. Each volume offers an authoritative and up-to-date survey of original research in a particular subject area. Specially commissioned essays from leading figures in the... -
One Beat More: Existentialism and the Gift of Mortality Kevin Aho 9781509546909
RRP: £15.99£14.62A keen athlete in his late forties, philosophy professor Kevin Aho hadn't given much thought to his own mortality, until he suffered a sudden heart attack that left him fighting for his life. Confronted with death for the first time, he realized that the... -
Autobiography by John Robson
RRP: £12.99£9.34One of the greatest prodigies of his era, John Stuart Mill (1806-73) was studying arithmetic and Greek by the age of three, as part of an astonishingly intense education at his father's hand. Intellectually brilliant, fearless and profound, he became a... -
Posthuman Glossary by Rosi Braidotti
£46.23If art, science, and the humanities have shared one thing, it was their common engagement with constructions and representations of the human. Under the pressure of new contemporary concerns, however, we are experiencing a "posthuman condition"; the... -
The Cambridge Introduction to Mikhail Bakhtin by Ken Hirschkop
RRP: £19.99£17.13In this introduction to Mikhail Bakhtin, Ken Hirschkop presents a compact, readable, detailed, and sophisticated exposition of all of Bakhtin's important works. Using the most up-to-date sources and the new, scholarly editions of Bakhtin's texts,... -
Animal Theologians by Andrew Linzey 9780197655559
RRP: £25.99£21.99Many people who have thought about God have not thought about animals, or about the relationship between the two. But among those who have are some of the most celebrated religious thinkers, including Michel de Montaigne, Thomas Tryon, John Wesley, John... -
What is Philosophy of Mind? Tom McClelland 9781509538775
RRP: £14.99£14.18We all have minds, but what exactly is a mind? Is your mind the same thing as your brain? How does what's happening in your mind cause your behaviour? Can you know what's going on in other people's minds? Can you even be sure what's going on in your own?... -
Hegel's Aesthetics: Volume 2 by G. W. F. Hegel 9780198244998
RRP: £42.99£29.17This is the first of two volumes of the only English edition of Hegel's Aesthetics, the work in which he gives full expression to his seminal theory of art. The substantial Introduction is his best exposition of his general philosophy of art. In Part I... -
Marvel Select Thor: Goddess Of Thunder by Jason Aaron 9781804910207
RRP: £9.99£7.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804910207Author Jason AaronFormat PaperbackPage Count 164Imprint Panini BooksPublisher Panini Publishing Ltd -
Simulation and Similarity: Using Models to Understand the World by Michael Weisberg 9780190265120
RRP: £47.49£33.71In the 1950s, John Reber convinced many Californians that the best way to solve the state's water shortage problem was to dam up the San Francisco Bay. Against massive political pressure, Reber's opponents persuaded lawmakers that doing so would lead to... -
Existentialism from Dostoevsky to Sartre by Walter Kaufmann 9780452009301
£11.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780452009301Author Walter KaufmannFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Penguin Random House AustraliaPublisher Penguin Random House AustraliaWeight(grams)... -
Path Of Compassion by Thich Nhat Hanh 9781937006136
RRP: £15.99£11.09Apologies 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... -
What God Would Have Known: How Human Intellectual and Moral Development Undermines Christian Doctrine J. L. Schellenberg 9780198912323
RRP: £30.00£25.95Classical Christian ideas loom large in philosophy of religion today. But arguments against Christian doctrine have been neglected. J. L. Schellenberg's new book remedies this neglect. And it does so in a novel way, by linking facts about human... -
Logic for Philosophy by Theodore Sider 9780199575589
RRP: £23.99£22.37Logic for Philosophy is an introduction to logic for students of contemporary philosophy. It is suitable both for advanced undergraduates and for beginning graduate students in philosophy. It covers (i) basic approaches to logic, including proof theory... -
The Philosophy of 'As If' by H. Vaihinger
RRP: £19.99£17.69Hans Vaihinger (1852-1933) was an important and fascinating figure in German philosophy in the early twentieth century, founding the well-known journal Kant-Studien. Yet he was overshadowed by the burgeoning movements of phenomenology and analytical... -
Nature by Ralph Waldo Emerson
RRP: £7.99£5.98Originally published anonymously, Nature was the first modern essay to recommend the appreciation of the outdoors as an all-encompassing positive force. Emerson's writings were recognized as uniquely American in style and content, and launched the idea... -
History of Philosophy: Vol 2: Medieval Philosophy by Frederick C. Copleston
RRP: £19.99£18.29Copleston, 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...