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Back to the Truth: 5000 Years of Advaita by Waite Dennis 9781905047611
RRP: $25.79$22.41Advaita 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,... -
Phantasmagoria: Spirit Visions, Metaphors, and Media into the Twenty-first Century by Marina Warner
RRP: $23.21$20.54Phantasmagoria 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 Art of Wandering: The Writer as Walker by Merlin Coverley
RRP: $16.76$11.09The Art of Wandering is a history of that curious hybrid, the writer as walker. From the Ancient world to the modern day, the role of the walker continues to evolve, from philosopher and pilgrim, vagrant and visionary, to experimentalist and radical... -
The Oxford Handbook of the History of Ethics by Roger Crisp 9780198744405
$45.92Philosophical 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... -
Philosophy in the Hellenistic and Roman Worlds: A history of philosophy without any gaps, Volume 2 by Peter Adamson 9780198728023
RRP: $37.40$28.02Peter Adamson offers an accessible, humorous tour through a period of eight hundred years when some of the most influential of all schools of thought were formed: from the third century BC to the sixth century AD. He introduces us to Cynics and Skeptics,... -
Why Climate Breakdown Matters by Dr Rupert Read
RRP: $28.37$23.34Climate change and the destruction of the earth is the most urgent issue of our time. We are hurtling towards the end of civilisation as we know it. With an unflinching honest approach, Rupert Read asks us to face up to the fate of the planet. This is a... -
What Do I Know?: Essential Essays by Michel de Montaigne 9781782278818
RRP: $19.34$12.64A 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... -
Everything, All the Time, Everywhere: How We Became Postmodern by Stuart Jeffries 9781788738231
$15.87But where do these ideas come from and how have they impacted on the world? In his brilliant history of a dangerous idea, Stuart Jeffries tells a narrative that starts in the early 1970s and continue to today. He tells this history through a riotous... -
The Ahuman Manifesto: Activism for the End of the Anthropocene by Patricia MacCormack
RRP: $32.24$28.61We are in the midst of a growing ecological crisis. Developing technologies and cultural interventions are throwing the status of "human" into question. It is against this context that Patricia McCormack delivers her expert justification for the... -
Philosophical Perspectives on Infinity by Graham Oppy 9780521860673
RRP: $116.10$87.27This 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... -
Capitalism and Desire: The Psychic Cost of Free Markets by Todd McGowan
RRP: $38.70$30.56Despite 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... -
The True Life by Alain Badiou 9781509514892
RRP: $12.89$11.55'I'm 79 years old. So why on earth should I concern myself with speaking about youth?' This is the question with which renowned French philosopher Alain Badiou begins his passionate plea to the young. Today young people, at least in the West, are on the... -
Simple Heuristics That Make Us Smart by Gerd Gigerenzer 9780195143812
RRP: $67.08$52.15Simple 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... -
Nelson Goodman by Daniel Cohnitz
RRP: $42.56$37.62Nelson Goodman's distinctive contributions to such diverse areas of philosophy as epistemology, metaphysics, semiotics, logic, philosophy of language, science, and art, and his engagement with the work of Rudolf Carnap and other prominent figures in the... -
On What Matters: Volume Two by Derek Parfit 9780199681044
$36.44On What Matters is a major work in moral philosophy. It is the long-awaited follow-up to Derek Parfit's 1984 book Reasons and Persons, one of the landmarks of twentieth-century philosophy. Parfit now presents a powerful new treatment of reasons,... -
Who Is Man? by Abraham Joshua Heschel
RRP: $25.79$21.08One of the world's most illustrious and influential theologians here confronts one of the crucial philosophical and religious questions of our time: the nature and role of man. In these three lectures, originally delivered in somewhat different form as... -
The Cosmos of Soul: A Wake-up Call for Humanity by Patricia Cori 9789895377305
RRP: $21.92$15.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789895377305Author Patricia CoriFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Patricia CoriPublisher Patricia CoriWeight(grams) 304gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *... -
Think Like a Feminist: The Philosophy Behind the Revolution by Carol Hay 9781324020271
RRP: $12.89$9.61Think Like a Feminist is an irreverent yet rigorous primer that unpacks over two hundred years of feminist thought. In a time when the word feminism triggers all sorts of responses, many of them conflicting and misinformed, Professor Carol Hay provides... -
Fellow Creatures: Our Obligations to the Other Animals by Christine M. Korsgaard 9780198753858
RRP: $34.82$29.41Christine M. Korsgaard presents a compelling new view of humans' moral relationships to the other animals. She defends the claim that we are obligated to treat all sentient beings as what Kant called "ends-in-themselves". Drawing on a theory of the good... -
Foragers, Farmers, and Fossil Fuels: How Human Values Evolve by Ian Morris
RRP: $25.80$20.50Most people in the world today think democracy and gender equality are good, and that violence and wealth inequality are bad. But most people who lived during the 10,000 years before the nineteenth century thought just the opposite. Drawing on... -
Sport, Technology and the Body: The Nature of Performance by Tara Magdalinski
RRP: $58.04$50.67What is the nature of athletic performance? This book offers an answer to this fascinating question by considering the relationship between sport, technology and the body. Specifically, it examines cultural resistance to the enhancement of athletes and... -
The Deepest Peace: Contemplations from a Season of Stillness by Zenju Earthlyn Manuel
RRP: $19.34$12.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781946764669Author Zenju Earthlyn ManuelFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Parallax PressPublisher Parallax Press -
Logical Reasoning: A First Course by Fairouz Kamareddine 9780954300678
RRP: $22.58$20.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780954300678Author Fairouz KamareddineFormat PaperbackPage Count 406Imprint College PublicationsPublisher College PublicationsWeight(grams) 567g -
Chakras for Beginners: A Guide to Balancing Your Chakra Energies by David Pond 9781567185379
RRP: $18.05$11.87Energize your life though your chakras with this beginners' guide to the wheels of life. By learning about your chakra system, you can perceive your own blocks and develop guidelines for relieving entanglements.Book InformationISBN 9781567185379Author... -
Living Off Landscape: or the Unthought-of in Reason by Francois Jullien 9781786603388
RRP: $38.70$34.42Is it only through vision that we can perceive a landscape? Is the space opened by the landscape truly an expanse cut off by the horizon? Do we observe a landscape in the way that we watch a 'show'? What, ultimately, does it mean to 'look'? In this... -
A Third University Is Possible by la paperson
RRP: $11.61$10.29A Third University is Possible unravels the intimate relationship between the more than 200 US land grant institutions, American settler colonialism, and contemporary university expansion. Author la paperson cracks open uncanny connections between Indian... -
Roger Bacon: A Compendium of the Study of Philosophy by Thomas S. Maloney 9780197266342
$91.07Shortly after composing his Opus maius, Opus minus, and Opus tertium (1267) Bacon felt the need once again to call attention to obstacles to the achievement of wisdom placed by the Church, academia, and civil society in the early 1270s. This he did in... -
Peirce on Signs: Writings on Semiotic by Charles Sanders Peirce by James Hoopes 9780807843420
RRP: $70.95$64.65Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914) is rapidly becoming recognized as the greatest American philosopher. At the center of his philosophy was a revolutionary model of the way human beings think. Peirce, a logician, challenged traditional models by... -
Of Arcs and Circles: Insights from Japan on Gardens, Nature, and Art by Marc Peter Keane
RRP: $18.05$11.95From 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... -
Ask a Philosopher: Answers to Your Most Important – and Most Unexpected – Questions by Ian Olasov
RRP: $12.90$8.77The perfect gift for the smart thinker in your life.For several years Ian Olasov has set up 'Ask-a-Philosopher' booths around New York City, answering questions from passersby. Now in this book he offers answers to the real-life questions on people's... -
Trump and a Post-Truth World by Ken Wilber
RRP: $18.05$11.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611805611Author Ken WilberFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)... -
Society Against the State - Essays in Political Anthropology by Pierre Clastres
RRP: $25.80$19.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780942299014Author Pierre ClastresFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Zone BooksPublisher Zone BooksWeight(grams) 374gDimensions(mm) 228mm * 153mm * 18mm -
Vulnerability in Resistance by Judith Butler
RRP: $30.95$26.88Vulnerability and resistance have often been seen as opposites, with the assumption that vulnerability requires protection and the strengthening of paternalistic power at the expense of collective resistance. Focusing on political movements and cultural... -
Evolutionary Mind: Conversations on Science, Imagination & Spirit by Rupert Sheldrake
RRP: $18.05$14.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780974935973Author Rupert SheldrakeFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Monkfish Book Publishing CompanyPublisher Monkfish Book Publishing... -
The Origins of Unfairness: Social Categories and Cultural Evolution by Cailin O'Connor 9780198789970
$43.87In almost every human society some people get more and others get less. Why is inequity the rule in these societies? In The Origins of Unfairness, philosopher Cailin O'Connor firstly considers how groups are divided into social categories, like gender,... -
The Art of War by Sun Tzu 9781441339850
RRP: $10.31$6.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781441339850Author Sun TzuFormat HardbackPage Count 112Imprint Peter Pauper PressPublisher Peter Pauper PressWeight(grams) 522gDimensions(mm) 198mm * 119mm... -
The Political Possibility of Sound: Fragments of Listening by Salome Voegelin 9781501312168
RRP: $37.40$33.31The essay is the perfect format for a crisis. Its porous and contingent nature forgives a lack of formality, while its neglect of perfection and virtuosity releases the potential for the incomplete and the unrealizable. These seven essays on The... -
Philosophy Bites Again by Nigel Warburton
RRP: $16.76$12.04Philosophy Bites Again is a brand new selection of interviews from the popular podcast of the same name. It offers engaging and thought-provoking conversations with leading philosophers on a selection of major philosophical issues that affect our lives... -
Valences of the Dialectic by Fredric Jameson 9781844674633
RRP: $46.43$33.35After half a century exploring dialectical thought, renowned cultural critic Fredric Jameson presents a comprehensive study of a misunderstood yet vital strain in Western philosophy. The dialectic, the concept of the evolution of an idea through... -
How to Philosophize with a Hammer and Sickle: Nietzsche and Marx for the 21st-Century Left by Jonas Ceika
RRP: $14.18$9.55Modernity has been defined by humanity's capacity for self-destruction. In this timely and explosive book, philosopher and YouTuber Jonas Ceika (aka Cuck Philosophy) re-invigorates socialism for the 21st century. Leaving behind its past associations...