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Retrieving Freedom: The Christian Appropriation of Classical Tradition D. C. Schindler 9780268203719
RRP: £35.00£30.74Retrieving Freedom is a provocative, big-picture book, taking a long view of the “rise and fall” of the classical understanding of freedom. In response to the evident shortcomings of the notion of freedom that dominates contemporary discourse, Retrieving... -
On Living and Dying Well by Cicero
RRP: £10.99£7.77In the first century BCE, Marcus Tullius Cicero, orator, statesman, and defender of republican values, created these philosophical treatises on such diverse topics as friendship, religion, death, fate and scientific inquiry. A pragmatist at heart,... -
Plato by Constance C. Meinwald 9780415379113
RRP: £25.99£22.63In this engaging introduction, Constance Meinwald shows how Plato has shaped the landscape of Western philosophy. She provides much-needed historical context, and helps readers grapple with Plato's distinctive use of highly crafted literary masterpieces... -
Disalienation: Politics, Philosophy, and Radical Psychiatry in Postwar France by Camille Robcis 9780226777740
RRP: £31.00£30.19From 1940 to 1945, forty thousand patients died in French psychiatric hospitals. The Vichy regime's "soft extermination" let patients die of cold, starvation, or lack of care. But in Saint-Alban-sur-Limagnole, a small village in central France, one... -
Compelling Reason by C. S. Lewis
RRP: £9.99£6.64'You can only find out the rights and wrongs by Reasoning - never by being rude about your opponent's psychology.' For C. S. Lewis, reason and logic are the sensible way to approach faith and ethics. Much of the 20th century's ills are caused by... -
Promethean Pirate by Jason Reza Jorjani 9781915755018
RRP: £14.50£13.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915755018Author Jason Reza JorjaniFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Arktos MediaPublisher Arktos MediaWeight(grams) 259gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm... -
Explaining Explanation by David-Hillel Ruben 9781612050683
RRP: £36.99£32.53This second edition of David-Hillel Ruben's influential and highly acclaimed book on the philosophy of explanation has been revised and expanded, and the author has made substantial changes in light of the extensive reviews the first edition received... -
Thomas Aquinas: A Portrait by Denys Turner
RRP: £14.99£13.03An illuminating introduction to the elusive Thomas Aquinas-the man and the saint"A marvellous introduction to the thought of the most daring and most important thinker of the Christian Middle Ages. . . . The best single-volume introduction to St. Thomas... -
Science and Philosophy in the Indian Buddhist Classics: The Science of the Mind by His Holiness the Dalai Lama
RRP: £22.50£15.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781614294740Author Jinpa ThuptenFormat HardbackPage Count 550Imprint Wisdom Publications,U.S.Publisher Wisdom Publications,U.S. -
Enlightenment Edinburgh: A Guide by Sheila Szatkowski
RRP: £12.99£8.56During the 18th century, Edinburgh was the intellectual hub of the Western world. Adam Smith, David Hume, Dugald Stewart and Adam Ferguson delivered their diverse tomes on philosophy and political economy. Others such as James Hutton, Joseph Black, Lord... -
Being Realistic about Reasons by T. M. Scanlon 9780198748106
RRP: £22.49£20.37T. M. Scanlon offers a qualified defense of normative cognitivism--the view that there are irreducibly normative truths about reasons for action. He responds to three familiar objections: that such truths would have troubling metaphysical implications;... -
Instituting Thought: Three Paradigms of PoliticalOntology by Roberto Esposito
RRP: £18.99£16.87This new book by the Italian philosopher Roberto Esposito addresses the profound crisis of contemporary politics and examines some of the philosophical approaches that have been used to try to understand and go beyond this crisis. Two approaches have... -
Mandeville’s Fable: Pride, Hypocrisy, and Sociability by Dr Robin Douglass
RRP: £30.00£23.29Why we should take Bernard Mandeville seriously as a philosopherBernard Mandeville's The Fable of the Bees outraged its eighteenth-century audience by proclaiming that private vices lead to public prosperity. Today the work is best known as an early... -
Dancing with the Devil: Why Bad Feelings Make Life Good by Krista K. Thomason 9780197673287
RRP: £18.99£16.32Just as a garden needs worms, we need bad feelings.... We tend to think about bad feelings--feelings like anger, envy, spite, and contempt--as the weeds in life's garden. You may not be able to get rid of them completely, but you're supposed to battle... -
Sailing the Worldly Winds: A Buddhist Way Through the Ups and Downs of Life by Vajragupta
RRP: £11.99£9.19How do we really get on in this world? Tossed around by gain, buffeted by loss, borne aloft by praise, cast down by blame, how can we not be ground under, lose all direction, confidence, and sense of purpose? The Buddha had clear guidance on how to rise... -
Out of Joint: Power, Crisis, and the Rhetoric of Time by Nomi Claire Lazar
RRP: £32.50£31.58How constructions of time shape political beliefs about what is possible-and what is inevitable To secure power in a crisis, leaders must sell deep change as a means to future good. But how could we know the future? Nomi Claire Lazar draws on stories... -
Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital by Vivek Chibber
£23.66Postcolonial theory has become enormously influential as a framework for understanding the Global South. It is also a school of thought popular because of its rejection of the supposedly universalizing categories of the Enlightenment. In this devastating... -
Rome as a Guide to the Good Life: A Philosophical Grand Tour by Scott Samuelson
RRP: £14.99£13.03A unique, portable guidebook that sketches Rome's great philosophical tradition while also providing an engaging travel companion to the city. This is a guidebook to Rome for those interested in both la dolce vita and what the ancient Romans called the... -
ABC of Relativity by Bertrand Russell 9780415473828
RRP: £12.99£11.94First published in 1925, Bertrand Russell's ABC of Relativity was considered a masterwork of its time, contributing significantly to the mass popularisation of science. Authoritative and accessible, it provides a remarkable introductory guide to... -
Coma by Zara Slattery 9781912408665
RRP: £18.99£13.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for The Arts Foundation Futures Awards, Comics Category 2020.Book InformationISBN 9781912408665Author Zara SlatteryFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Myriad... -
The Kalam Cosmological Argument by William L. Craig 9781579104382
RRP: £24.00£17.83Apologies 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)... -
What is Power? by Byung-Chul Han 9781509516100
RRP: £12.99£11.94Power is a pervasive phenomenon yet there is little consensus on what it is and how it should be understood. In this book the cultural theorist Byung-Chul Han develops a fresh and original perspective on the nature of power, shedding new light on this... -
Infinite Way by Joel S. Goldsmith
RRP: £9.99£7.66This Devorss edition is the original 1947 text. Since the beginning of time, human nature has driven people to explore beyond their surroundings. The results have shaped the world not just in terms of geographic boundaries, but also in the context of... -
Activating the Common Good: Reclaiming Control of Our Collective Well-Being by Peter Block 9781523005963
RRP: £26.00£16.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781523005963Author Peter BlockFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Berrett-Koehler PublishersPublisher Berrett-Koehler Publishers -
Radical Botany: Plants and Speculative Fiction by Natania Meeker
RRP: £29.99£26.50Winner, 2019 Science Fiction & Technoculture Studies Book Prize Radical Botany excavates a tradition in which plants participate in the effort to imagine new worlds and envision new futures. Modernity, the book claims, is defined by the idea of all life... -
In the Dark Places of Wisdom by Peter Kingsley 9781890350017
RRP: £14.99£9.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781890350017Author Peter KingsleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Golden Sufi Center,U.S.Publisher Golden Sufi Center,U.S.Dimensions(mm) 229mm * 153mm... -
The Bhagavad-Gita by 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 New Wittgenstein by Alice Crary
RRP: £32.99£29.56This text offers major re-evaluation of Wittgenstein's thinking. It is a collection of essays that presents a significantly different portrait of Wittgenstein. The essays clarify Wittgenstein's modes of philosophical criticism and shed light on the... -
Bit Rot by Douglas Coupland
RRP: £9.99£7.11In Bit Rot, Douglas Coupland explores the different ways in which twentieth-century notions of the future are being shredded, and creates a gem of the digital age. Reading the stories and essays in Bit Rot is like bingeing on Netflix . . . you can't stop... -
Who Gets Believed?: When the Truth Isn’t Enough by Dina Nayeri
RRP: £22.00£15.62The prizewinning author of The Ungrateful Refugee asks who is believed in our society, who is not - and why?'An ambitious and moving exploration of the borders we draw around credible victimhood that will cement Nayeri's position as a master storyteller... -
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... -
From Decision to Heresy: Experiments in Non-Standard Thought by Francois Laruelle
RRP: £26.00£16.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983216902Author Francois LaruelleFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Sequence PressPublisher Sequence Press -
Confessions: Volume I by Augustine
RRP: £24.95£23.39The classic account of crisis and conversion.Aurelius Augustine (AD 354-430), one of the most important figures in the development of western Christianity and philosophy, was the son of a pagan, Patricius of Tagaste, and his Christian wife, Monnica... -
Autobiography by John Robson
RRP: £12.99£9.09One 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... -
Essence of the Bhagavad Gita: A Contemporary Guide to Yoga, Meditation, and Indian Philosophy by Eknath Easwaran
RRP: £11.99£9.00The Bhagavad Gita opens with a crisis - Prince Arjuna despairs on the battlefield, unsure if he should fight his kinsmen in a dreadful war. For Easwaran, the Gita's epic battle represents the war in our own hearts and Arjuna's anguish reflects the human... -
Bob Dylan and Philosophy: It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Thinking) by Cathy Porter 9780812695922
RRP: £12.99£12.39The legions of Bob Dylan fans know that Dylan is not just a great composer, writer, and performer, but a great thinker as well. In Bob Dylan and Philosophy, eighteen philosophers analyze Dylan's ethical positions, political commitments, views on gender... -
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... -
Enquiries concerning Human Understanding and concerning the Principles of Morals by David Hume 9780198245360
£37.16David Hume's Treatise of Human Nature, was composed before the author was twenty-six years old, was published in 1739 and 1740. Its importance was not generally recognised at the time. Hume, attributing the failure of his Treatise to the manner of its... -
Plato's Critique of Impure Reason: On Goodness and Truth in the Republic by D. C. Schindler 9780813228242
RRP: £34.95£32.27Plato's Critique of Impure Reason offers a dramatic interpretation of the Republic, at the center of which lies a novel reading of the historical person of Socrates as the "real image" of the good. Schindler argues that a full response to the attack on...