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The Leviathan in the State Theory of Thomas Hobbes: Meaning and Failure of a Political Symbol by Carl Schmitt
RRP: £23.00£22.13One of the most significant political philosophers of the twentieth century, Carl Schmitt is a deeply controversial figure who has been labeled both a Nazi sympathizer and a modern-day Thomas Hobbes. First published in 1938, "The Leviathan in the State... -
Philosophy of Social Science: A New Introduction by Nancy Cartwright
RRP: £28.99£23.44This is a much-needed new introduction to a field that has been transformed in recent years by exciting new subjects, ideas, and methods. It is designed both for students with central interests in philosophy and those planning to concentrate on the... -
The Socratic Method of Psychotherapy by James Overholser
RRP: £30.00£23.29As the field of psychotherapy focuses more on treatment manuals and the regimented nature of clinical research, the practice risks losing the subtle nuances that guide the interactive fluidity of therapy sessions. Can clinicians combat this loss by... -
Now and Zen: Notes from a Buddhist Monastery: with Illustrations by Eiyu Murakoshi
RRP: £9.99£6.72'In Japan we have an expression, 'Float like Cloud, Flow like Water'. Its meaning is: to live free and unconstrained'In this short introduction to Zen Buddhism, a practising Japanese monk shares the many lessons he has learned from life inside a temple... -
Eastern Philosophy: The Basics Victoria S. Harrison 9781138215788
RRP: £19.99£17.96Eastern Philosophy: The Basics is an essential introduction to major Indian and Chinese philosophies, both past and present. Exploring familiar metaphysical and ethical questions from the perspectives offered by a range of eastern philosophies, including... -
All Incomplete by Stefano Harney
RRP: £23.00£15.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781570273780Author Stefano HarneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 182Imprint Minor CompositionsPublisher Autonomedia -
Maori Philosophy: Indigenous Thinking from Aotearoa Dr Georgina Stewart 9781350101654
RRP: £17.99£16.30Covering the symbolic systems and worldviews of the Indigenous peoples of Aotearoa, New Zealand, this book is a concise introduction to Maori philosophy. It addresses core philosophical issues including Maori notions of the self, the world, epistemology,... -
Property Is Theft: A Pierre Joseph Proudhon Reader by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon 9781849350242
RRP: £25.00£17.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781849350242Author Pierre-Joseph ProudhonFormat PaperbackPage Count 826Imprint AK PressPublisher AK PressWeight(grams) 1120g -
Let's Talk About Love: Why Other People Have Such Bad Taste by Carl Wilson 9781441166777
£40.61For his 2007 critically acclaimed 33 1/3 series title, Let's Talk About Love, Carl Wilson went on a quest to find his inner Celine Dion fan and explore how we define ourselves by what we call good and bad, what we love and what we hate. At once... -
Foucault at the Movies by Patrice Maniglier 9780231167079
RRP: £22.00£17.36Michel Foucault's work on film, although not extensive, compellingly illustrates the power of bringing his unique vision to bear on the subject and offers valuable insights into other aspects of his thought. Foucault at the Movies brings together all of... -
Terrorist's Creed: Fanatical Violence and the Human Need for Meaning by Roger Griffin 9780230241299
£35.61Terrorist's Creed casts a penetrating beam of empathetic understanding into the disturbing and murky psychological world of fanatical violence, explaining how the fanaticism it demands stems from the profoundly human need to imbue existence with meaning... -
Mind, Body, Soul Journal: Discover a sense of purpose and live your best life by Andrea Hayes 9780717183470
RRP: £18.99£14.22This timeless journal, beautifully illustrated with pages for monthly journaling, is an indispensable companion if you want to live a more focused, positive life. A practical workbook designed to help you find more meaning and fulfilment amidst the... -
Mind in Life: Biology, Phenomenology, and the Sciences of Mind by Evan Thompson
RRP: £26.95£22.14How is life related to the mind? The question has long confounded philosophers and scientists, and it is this so-called explanatory gap between biological life and consciousness that Evan Thompson explores in Mind in Life.Thompson draws upon sources as... -
Myth and Meaning by Claude Levi-Strauss 9780802063489
RRP: £11.99£11.11Ever since the rise of science and the scientific method in the seventeenth century, we have rejected mythology as the product of superstitious and primitive minds. Only now are we coming to a fuller appreciation of the nature and role of myth in human... -
The Oxford Handbook of International Political Theory by Chris Brown
RRP: £40.99£40.49International Political Theory (IPT) focuses on the point where two fields of study meet - International Relations and Political Theory. It takes from the former a central concern with the 'international' broadly defined; from the latter it takes a... -
The Philosophy of Social Science: An Introduction by Martin Hollis
RRP: £29.99£25.45This textbook by Martin Hollis offers an exceptionally clear and concise introduction to the philosophy of social science. It examines questions which give rise to fundamental philosophical issues. Are social structures better conceived of as systems of... -
Irrevocable: A Philosophy of Mortality by Alphonso Lingis 9780226556932
RRP: £26.00£24.85In his latest book, the prolific writer and thinker Alphonso Lingis brings interdisciplinarity and lyrical philosophizing to the weight of reality, the weight of things, and the weight of life itself. Drawing from philosophy, anthropology, psychology,... -
Play the O'Kelly Sicilian by Andrew Martin 9781781946244
RRP: £17.99£13.15The O'Kelly variation of the Sicilian Defence (1 e4 c5 2 Nf3 a6) is a wonderful system for those who enjoy playing Sicilian positions but don't want to get bogged down in heavy theory. The O'Kelly relies far more on an understanding of general strategic... -
Pandemic! 2: Chronicles of a Time Lost Slavoj Zizek (Institute of Sociology, Ljubljana in Slovenia) 9781509549078
RRP: £14.99£10.05What do sex doll sales, locust swarms and a wired-brain pig have to do with the coronavirus pandemic? Everything-according to that "Giant of Lubliana," the inimitable Slovenian philosopher Slavoj i ek. In this exhilarating sequel to his acclaimed... -
Critical Theory by Max Horkheimer 9780826400833
£75.11These essays, written in the 1930s and 1940s, represent a first selection in English from the major work of the founder of the famous Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt. Horkheimer's writings are essential to an understanding of the intellectual... -
Health, Healing, and Beyond: Yoga and the Living Tradition of T. Krishnamacharya by T. K. V. Desikachar 9780865477520
RRP: £15.99£10.95The much-sought-after, greatly beloved exploration of the work of Krishnamacharya, teacher of many of twentieth-century yoga's greatest and most influential exponents, "Health, Healing, and Beyond "is filled with deep wisdom an indispensable... -
Think Least of Death: Spinoza on How to Live and How to Die by Steven Nadler 9780691183848
RRP: £35.00£27.95From Pulitzer Prize-finalist Steven Nadler, an engaging guide to what Spinoza can teach us about life's big questionsIn 1656, after being excommunicated from Amsterdam's Portuguese-Jewish community for "abominable heresies" and "monstrous deeds," the... -
Knowing What To Do: Imagination, Virtue, and Platonism in Ethics by Sophie Grace Chappell 9780198798859
£35.74Sophie Grace Chappell develops a picture of what philosophical ethics can be like, once set aside from the idealising and reductive pressures of conventional moral theory. Her question is 'How are we to know what to do?', and the answer she defends is... -
Bushido: The Soul of Japan by Inazo Nitobe
RRP: £7.99£5.98'What Japan was she owed to the samurai. They were not only the flower of the nation, but its root as well.'Inazo Nitobe's book, the most influential ever written on Bushido, or the samurai Way of the Warrior, argues that the philosophy of Bushido is the... -
An Introduction to Non-Classical Logic: From If to Is by Graham Priest 9780521670265
RRP: £35.99£31.33This revised and considerably expanded 2nd edition brings together a wide range of topics, including modal, tense, conditional, intuitionist, many-valued, paraconsistent, relevant, and fuzzy logics. Part 1, on propositional logic, is the old... -
Mad Men and Philosophy: Nothing Is as It Seems by William Irwin
RRP: £15.95£14.38A look at the philosophical underpinnings of the hit TV show, Mad Men With its swirling cigarette smoke, martini lunches, skinny ties, and tight pencil skirts, Mad Men is unquestionably one of the most stylish, sexy, and irresistible shows on television... -
Hegel: The Philosopher of Freedom by Klaus Vieweg 9781503630574
RRP: £32.00£24.28A monumental new biography of a pivotal yet poorly understood pioneer in modern philosophy. When a painter once told Goethe that he wanted to paint the most celebrated man of the age, Goethe directed him to Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. Hegel worked... -
Back to the Truth - 5000 years of Advaita Dennis Waite 9781905047611
RRP: £19.99£17.63Advaita is a spiritual philosophy based on the Upanishads, older than most other religious systems we know about but also the most logical and scientific in its approach. The literal meaning is "Not two". There is only one truth - but, it has to be said,... -
Freedom Without Violence by Dustin Ells Howes
RRP: £41.99£37.28There is a long tradition in western political thought suggesting that violence is necessary to defend freedom. But nonviolence and civil disobedience have played an equally long and critical role in establishing democratic institutions. Freedom... -
Alasdair MacIntyre: An Intellectual Biography by Émile Perreau-Saussine 9780268203269
RRP: £23.99£20.84This 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... -
Notebooks, 1914 - 1916 Ludwig Wittgenstein (Philosopher) 9780631124993
RRP: £28.95£25.46A glimpse inside one of the world's greatest philosophical minds Ludwig Wittgenstein is considered one of the greatest philosophers of the 20th century. While much of the notes written during his most productive years were destroyed, several remain;... -
In Search of a Better World: Lectures and Essays from Thirty Years by Sir Karl Popper 9780415135481
RRP: £37.99£33.38'I want to begin by declaring that I regard scientific knowledge as the most important kind of knowledge we have', writes Sir Karl Popper in the opening essay of this book, which collects his meditations on the real improvements science has wrought in... -
Map Reading: The Nobel Lecture and Other Writings by Abdulrazak Gurnah
RRP: £9.99£7.32'One of the world's most prominent postcolonial writers ... He has consistently and with great compassion penetrated the effects of colonialism and its effects on the lives of uprooted and migrating individuals' Anders Olsson, chairman of the Nobel... -
Understanding the Christianity–Evolution Relationship by Michael Ruse 9781009277280
RRP: £14.99£12.55The relationship between science and religion is a topic that runs rife with misconceptions, misunderstandings and debates. Are science and religion always in conflict? Is Darwin's theory of evolution through natural selection atheistic? How does history... -
Creepiness Adam Kotsko 9781782798460
RRP: £9.99£8.82A specter is haunting contemporary television-the specter of creepiness. In our everyday lives, we try to avoid creepiness at every cost, shunning creepy people and recoiling in horror at the idea that we ourselves might be creeps. And yet when we sit... -
Emotion: The Basics Michael Brady 9781138081390
RRP: £19.99£17.96While human beings might be rational animals, they are emotional animals as well. Emotions play a central role in all areas of our lives and if we are to have a proper understanding of human life and activity, we ought to have a good grasp of the... -
Regulating Aversion: Tolerance in the Age of Identity and Empire by Wendy Brown
RRP: £30.00£23.29Tolerance is generally regarded as an unqualified achievement of the modern West. Emerging in early modern Europe to defuse violent religious conflict and reduce persecution, tolerance today is hailed as a key to decreasing conflict across a wide range... -
The Unforgettable and the Unhoped For by Jean-Louis Chretien 9780823221936
RRP: £31.00£27.57In this first English translation of an important work, a leading phenomenologist unfolds the ideas of memory and loss, of the immemorable, and of hope, as he opens a phenomenological path to the heart of classical thought. He stands with Levinas,... -
The Prince (Hero Classics) by Niccolo Machiavelli
RRP: £8.99£6.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915054821Author Niccolo MachiavelliFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint HeroPublisher Legend Press Ltd -
Commentary on Aristotle`s Nicomachean Ethics Thomas Aquinas 9781883357511
RRP: £36.00£35.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781883357511Author Thomas AquinasFormat PaperbackPage Count 700Imprint Dumb Ox Books,USPublisher Dumb Ox Books,USWeight(grams) 1034gDimensions(mm) 236mm *...