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Leibniz Nicholas Jolley 9781138391345
RRP: £22.99£20.47Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) was hailed by BertrandRussell as 'one of the supreme intellects of all time'. A towering figurein seventeenth-century philosophy, he was the author of a complexsystem of thought that has been championed and satirized... -
The Linguistic Turn: Essays in Philosophical Method by Richard Rorty 9780226725697
RRP: £30.00£29.25The Linguistic Turn provides a rich and representative introduction to the entire historical and doctrinal range of the linguistic philosophy movement. In two retrospective essays titled "Ten Years After" and "Twenty-Five Years After," Rorty shows how... -
Early Greek Philosophy, Volume I: Beginnings and Early Ionian Thinkers by Glenn W. Most
RRP: £24.95£23.76A major new edition of the so-called Presocratics.The fragments and testimonia of the early Greek philosophers (often labeled the 'Presocratics') have always been not only a fundamental source for understanding archaic Greek culture and ancient... -
The Empire of Chance: How Probability Changed Science and Everyday Life by Gerd Gigerenzer 9780521398381
RRP: £30.99£25.10The Empire of Chance tells how quantitative ideas of chance transformed the natural and social sciences, as well as daily life over the last three centuries. A continuous narrative connects the earliest application of probability and statistics in... -
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn 9780226458113
RRP: £42.00£40.41A good book may have the power to change the way we see the world, but a great book actually becomes part of our daily consciousness, pervading our thinking to the point that we take it for granted, and we forget how provocative and challenging its ideas... -
Primitive Man As Philosopher Paul Radin 9781590177686
RRP: £17.99£12.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590177686Author Paul RadinFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams) 500gDimensions(mm)... -
Modern Social Imaginaries by Charles Taylor
RRP: £20.99£18.30One of the most influential philosophers in the English-speaking world, Charles Taylor is internationally renowned for his contributions to political and moral theory, particularly to debates about identity formation, multiculturalism, secularism, and... -
Path Of Yoga by Georg Feuerstein, PhD 9781590308837
RRP: £19.99£13.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590308837Author Georg Feuerstein, PhDFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)... -
Cha Dao: The Way of Tea, Tea as a Way of Life by Solala Towler
RRP: £17.99£17.69In China, the art and practice of drinking tea is about much more than merely soaking leaves in a cup of hot water. The tradition is rooted in Daoism, and emerged from a philosophy that honoured living a life of grace and gratitude, balance and harmony,... -
Nietzsche by Richard Schacht
RRP: £53.99£47.27Few philosophers have been as widely misunderstood as Nietzsche. His detractors and followers alike have often fundamentally misinterpreted him, distorting his views and intentions and criticizing or celebrating him for reasons removed from the views he... -
Language, Cognition, and Human Nature by Steven Pinker 9780190259280
RRP: £22.49£18.37Language, Cognition, and Human Nature collects together for the first time much of Steven Pinker's most influential scholarly work on language and cognition. Pinker's seminal research explores the workings of language and its connections to cognition,... -
Seeing Clearly: A Buddhist Guide to Life by Nicolas Bommarito
RRP: £18.49£14.01Many of us, even on our happiest days, struggle to quiet the constant buzz of anxiety in the background of our minds. All kinds of worries--worries about losing people and things, worries about how we seem to others--keep us from peace of mind... -
Nietzsche, Politics and Modernity by David Owen 9780803977679
RRP: £50.99£44.60Written in a clear and engaging style, this text demonstrates Nietzsche's significance as a philosopher and as a political theorist by highlighting his critique of liberalism (in both its philosophical and political forms) and by elaborating the form of... -
The Meaning of Human Existence by Edward O. Wilson 9780871401007
RRP: £18.99£16.43Searching for meaning in what Nietzsche called "the rainbow colours" around the outer edges of knowledge and imagination, Edward O. Wilson bridges science and philosophy to create a twenty-first-century treatise on human existence. Once criticised for... -
Consciousness Josh Weisberg ( University of Houston) 9780745653457
RRP: £15.99£14.41Each of us, right now, is having a unique conscious experience. Nothing is more basic to our lives as thinking beings and nothing, it seems, is better known to us. But the ever-expanding reach of natural science suggests that everything in our world is... -
Sick Souls, Healthy Minds: How William James Can Save Your Life by John Kaag 9780691192161
RRP: £18.99£15.12From the celebrated author of American Philosophy: A Love Story and Hiking with Nietzsche, a compelling introduction to the life-affirming philosophy of William JamesIn 1895, William James, the father of American philosophy, delivered a lecture entitled... -
Alasdair MacIntyre: An Intellectual Biography by Emile Perreau-Saussine
RRP: £83.00£72.11This award-winning biography, now available for the first time in English, presents an illuminating introduction to Alasdair MacIntyre and locates his thinking in the intellectual milieu of twentieth-century philosophy. Winner of the prestigious 2005... -
Fichte: Addresses to the German Nation by Johann Gottlieb Fichte 9780521444040
RRP: £72.99£64.16This is the first translation of Fichte's addresses to the German nation for almost 100 years. The series of 14 speeches, delivered whilst Berlin was under French occupation after Prussia's disastrous defeat at the Battle of Jena in 1806, is widely... -
Who Are You, Really? – A Philosopher`s Inquiry into the Nature and Origin of Persons by Joshua Rasmussen
RRP: £24.99£22.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781514003947Author Joshua RasmussenFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint IVP AcademicPublisher IVP AcademicWeight(grams) 1504gDimensions(mm) 9mm * 6mm * 1mm -
Omnisubjectivity: An Essay on God and Subjectivity by Linda Trinkaus Zagzebski 9780197682098
RRP: £22.99£19.56Linda Trinkaus Zagzebski here explains and defends the idea that the God of the monotheistic religions does not only know all objective facts, but he also perfectly grasps the conscious states of all conscious beings from their own point of view. She... -
Speculative Realism: An Introduction by Graham Harman
RRP: £17.99£17.67On April 27, 2007, the first Speculative Realism (SR) workshop was held at Goldsmiths, University of London, featuring four young philosophers whose ideas were loosely allied. Over the ensuing decade, the ideas of SR spread from philosophy to the arts,... -
Willing Slaves of Capital: Spinoza and Marx on Desire by Frederic Lordon
£17.41Why do people work for other people? This seemingly naive question is more difficult to answer than one might at first imagine, and it lies at the heart of Lordon's Willing Slaves of Capital. To complement Marx's partial answers, especially in the... -
Romantic Science and the Experience of Self: Transatlantic Crosscurrents from William James to Oliver Sacks Martin Halliwell 9781138340558
RRP: £32.99£29.16First published in 1999, this volume follows the work of five influential figures in twentieth-century transatlantic intellectual history. The work forms the basis for this engaging interdisciplinary study of romantic science. In this book, Martin... -
Epictetus: A Stoic and Socratic Guide to Life by A. A. Long
RRP: £31.49£27.18The philosophy of Epictetus, a freed slave in the Roman Empire, has been profoundly influential on Western thought: it offers not only stimulating ideas but practical guidance in living one's life. A. A. Long, a leading scholar of later ancient... -
One World Now: The Ethics of Globalization by Peter Singer
RRP: £12.99£11.46One World Now seamlessly integrates major developments of the past decade into Peter Singer's classic text on the ethics of globalization, One World. Singer, often described as the world's most influential philosopher, here addresses such essential... -
Phantasmagoria: Spirit Visions, Metaphors, and Media into the Twenty-first Century by Marina Warner
RRP: £17.99£15.92Phantasmagoria explores ideas of spirit and soul since the Enlightenment; it traces metaphors that have traditionally conveyed the presence of immaterial forces, and reveals how such pagan and Christian imagery about ethereal beings is embedded in a... -
The Oxford Handbook of the History of Ethics by Roger Crisp 9780198744405
£35.60Philosophical ethics consists in the human endeavour to answer rationally the fundamental question of how we should live. The Oxford Handbook of the History of Ethics explores the history of philosophical ethics in the western tradition from Homer until... -
Scepticism and Naturalism: Some Varieties by P. F. Strawson
RRP: £22.99£20.16By the time of his death in 2006, Sir Peter Strawson was regarded as one of the world's most distinguished philosophers. Unavailable for many years, Scepticism and Naturalism is a profound reflection on two classic philosophical problems by a philosopher... -
The Healing Self: Supercharge your immune system and stay well for life by Dr Deepak Chopra 9781846045714
£8.28Heal yourself from the inside outOur immune systems can no longer be taken for granted. Current trends in public healthcare are disturbing: our increased air travel allows newly mutated bacteria and viruses to spread across the globe,... -
Privacy: A Very Short Introduction by Raymond Wacks
RRP: £8.99£6.65Some would argue that scarcely a day passes without a new assault on our privacy. In the wake of the whistle-blower Edward Snowden's revelations about the extent of surveillance conducted by the security services in the United States, Britain, and... -
The Seven Spiritual Laws Of Success For Parents: Guiding your Children to success and Fulfilment by Deepak Chopra
RRP: £14.99£10.95`Deepak Chopra`s thoughts on spirituality and child rearing are original, profound and fascinating' BENJAMIN SPOCK, MD Deepak Chopra`s Seven Spiritual Laws of Success have touched a chord around the globe because of their simplicity and trust. This... -
What Do I Know?: Essential Essays by Michel de Montaigne 9781782278818
RRP: £14.99£10.06A selection of Michel de Montaigne's most profound, searching essays, in a new translation and stunning hardback edition featuring an introduction by Yiyun Li 'I myself am the subject of my book'. So wrote Montaigne in the introductory note to his... -
A Philosopher Looks at Work by Raymond Geuss
RRP: £9.99£8.40Is work as we know it disappearing? And if so why should we care? These questions are explored by Raymond Geuss in this compact but sweeping survey which integrates conceptual analysis, historical reflection, autobiography and social commentary. Geuss... -
Introducing Swedenborg: Correspondences by Gary Lachman 9780854482160
RRP: £8.95£6.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780854482160Author Gary LachmanFormat HardbackPage Count 88Imprint The Swedenborg SocietyPublisher The Swedenborg Society -
The Joy of Secularism: 11 Essays for How We Live Now by George Levine 9780691156026
RRP: £25.00£19.90The case for a thoughtful secularism from some of today's most distinguished scientists, philosophers, and writersCan secularism offer us moral, aesthetic, and spiritual satisfaction? Or does the secular view simply affirm a dog-eat-dog universe? At a... -
Philosophical Perspectives on Infinity by Graham Oppy 9780521860673
RRP: £90.00£67.65This book is an exploration of philosophical questions about infinity. Graham Oppy examines how the infinite lurks everywhere, both in science and in our ordinary thoughts about the world. He also analyses the many puzzles and paradoxes that follow in... -
Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche: Or the Realm of Shadows by Henri Lefebvre
£19.13Henri Lefebvre saw Marx as an 'unavoidable, necessary, but insufficient starting point', and always insisted on the importance of Hegel to understanding Marx. Metaphilosophy also suggested the significance he ascribed to Nietzsche, in the 'realm of... -
Capitalism and Desire: The Psychic Cost of Free Markets by Todd McGowan
RRP: £30.00£23.69Despite creating vast inequalities and propping up reactionary world regimes, capitalism has many passionate defenders-but not because of what it withholds from some and gives to others. Capitalism dominates, Todd McGowan argues, because it mimics the... -
Simple Heuristics That Make Us Smart by Gerd Gigerenzer 9780195143812
RRP: £52.00£40.43Simple Heuristics That Make Us Smart invites readers to embark on a new journey into a land of rationality that differs from the familiar territory of cognitive science and economics. Traditional views of rationality tend to see decision makers as... -
The Age of Nothing: How We Have Sought To Live Since The Death of God Peter Watson 9780753828106
RRP: £14.99£10.45The closing months of 2008 saw the world's nations united in financial uncertainty. Amid endless reports of collapsing stock markets, failed banks, fiscal fraud and snowballing unemployment, THE AGE OF NOTHING offers a compelling insight into the demise...