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On the Gods and the World: Orpheus and the Presocratics in the Derveni Papyrus by Vojtěch Hladký 9780192873156
RRP: £108.00£97.63The Derveni papyrus is a multi-layered and intricate philosophical and religious treatise written in Greek, probably just before 400 BCE. Since its discovery in 1962, the papyrus has attracted the attention of scholars in several areas of Classical... -
The Heart: An Analysis of Human and Divine Affectivity by Von Hildebrand, Dietrich
RRP: £15.00£14.89This new edition of The Heart (out of print for nearly 30 years) is the flagship volume in a series of Dietrich von Hildebrand's works to be published by St. Augustine's Press in collaboration with the Dietrich von Hildebrand Legacy Project. Founded in... -
Stone: An Ecology of the Inhuman by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen
RRP: £19.99£17.81Stone maps the force, vivacity, and stories within our most mundane matter, stone. For too long stone has served as an unexamined metaphor for the "really real": blunt factuality, nature's curt rebuke. Yet, medieval writers knew that stones drop with... -
Syncretism in the West: Pico's 900 Theses (1486) with Text, Translation, and Commentary by S A Farmer 9780866988179
RRP: £32.00£24.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780866988179Author S A FarmerFormat PaperbackPage Count 614Imprint Acmrs PublicationsPublisher Acmrs PublicationsWeight(grams) 889g -
The Atlantis Dialogue: Plato's Original Story of the Lost City and Continent by Plato 9781620355206
RRP: £8.00£6.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781620355206Author PlatoFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Shepard PublicationsPublisher Shepard PublicationsWeight(grams) 82gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm... -
200 Words to Help You Talk About Philosophy Anja Steinbauer 9781786276940
RRP: £9.99£7.00Have you have ever felt at a disadvantage when joining in a conversation on a subject that you aren't confident about? If yes, this new book series is for you. Each book features definitions of two hundred words frequently used to describe and discuss a... -
For a Pragmatics of the Useless by Erin Manning
RRP: £23.99£21.16What has a use in the future, unforeseeably, is radically useless now. What has an effect now is not necessarily useful if it falls through the gaps. In For a Pragmatics of the Useless Erin Manning examines what falls outside the purview of already-known... -
Fear of Knowledge: Against Relativism and Constructivism by Paul Boghossian
RRP: £20.99£17.13The academic world has been plagued in recent years by scepticism about truth and knowledge. Paul Boghossian, in his long-awaited first book, sweeps away relativist claims that there is no such thing as objective truth or knowledge, but only truth or... -
How Good People Make Tough Choices: Resolving the Dilemmas of Ethical Living by Rushworth M Kidder 9780061743993
RRP: £15.99£12.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061743993Author Rushworth M KidderFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)... -
Each Moment Is the Universe: Zen and the Way of Being Time Dainin Katagiri 9781590306079
RRP: £23.00£14.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590306079Author Dainin KatagiriFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)... -
The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam by Mohammad Iqbal
RRP: £19.99£17.81The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam (1930) is Muhammad Iqbal's major philosophic work: a series of profound reflections on the perennial conflict among science, religion, and philosophy, culminating in new visions of the unity of human... -
Between Facts and Norms: Contributions to a Discourse Theory of Law and Democracy by Jurgen Habermas
RRP: £19.99£18.36This is Habermas's long awaited work on law, democracy and the modern constitutional state in which he develops his own account of the nature of law and democracy.About the AuthorJurgen Habermas is a German philosopher and sociologist in the tradition of... -
Aesthetics: The Classic Readings by David E. Cooper 9781119116806
RRP: £28.95£25.86The newly expanded and revised edition of Cooper's popular anthology featuring classic writings on aesthetics, both historical and contemporary The second edition of this bestselling anthology collects essays of canonical significance in aesthetics and... -
The False Prison: A Study of the Development of Wittgenstein's Philosophy. Volume 1 by David Pears 9780198247708
£36.23This is the first of two volumes which describe the development of Wittgenstein's philosophy from the Tracatus to his later writings. Part I of this volume is a survey of the whole of his work; Part II is a detailed examination of the central ideas for... -
Immaterialism: Objects and Social Theory Graham Harman 9781509500970
RRP: £14.99£13.78What objects exist in the social world and how should we understand them? Is a specific Pizza Hut restaurant as real as the employees, tables, napkins and pizzas of which it is composed, and as real as the Pizza Hut corporation with its headquarters in... -
The Meaning of Life: A Reader by E. D. Klemke 9780195327304
£34.26Featuring nine new articles chosen by coeditor Steven M. Cahn, the third edition of E. D. Klemke's The Meaning of Life offers twenty-two insightful selections that explore this fascinating topic. The essays are primarily by philosophers but also include... -
The Diamond Cutter Sutra: A Commentary by Dzogchen Master Khenpo Sodargye by Khenpo Sodargye
RRP: £14.99£10.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781614295860Author Khenpo SodargyeFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Wisdom Publications,U.S.Publisher Wisdom Publications,U.S. -
The Meaning of Conservatism by Roger Scruton 9780333912447
RRP: £99.99£89.87First published in 1980, this contribution to political thought is a statement of the traditional conservative position. Roger Scruton challenges those who would regard themselves as conservatives, and also their opponents.Book InformationISBN... -
Esoterism and Symbol by R. A. Schwaller de Lubicz
RRP: £11.99£6.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780892810147Author R. A. Schwaller de LubiczFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Inner Traditions Bear and CompanyPublisher Inner Traditions Bear and... -
Capitalism: A Conversation in Critical Theory Nancy Fraser (Northwestern University) 9780745671574
RRP: £17.99£16.04In this important new book, Nancy Fraser and Rahel Jaeggi take a fresh look at the big questions surrounding the peculiar social form known as "capitalism," upending many of our commonly held assumptions about what capitalism is and how to subject it to... -
Ideas of Human Nature: An Historical Introduction Roger Trigg (University of Warwick) 9780631214069
RRP: £27.95£24.63Ideas of Human Nature (second edition) presents twelve of the most influential Western thinkers on the topic of human nature. Roger Trigg examines the thinkers in their historical context and discusses their relevance to contemporary controversies.About... -
Vedanta: Heart of Hinduism by Hans Torwesten 9780802132628
RRP: £12.99£12.09Vedanta is the most encompassing and open of the six orthodox systems of Hinduism and is considered the quintessence of Eastern thought and mysticism. An important part of modern intellectual Hinduism, Vedanta is often regarded as a truly universal... -
Sketch for a Theory of the Emotions by Mary Warnock
RRP: £12.99£11.94Although written fairly early in his career, in 1939, Sketch for a Theory of the Emotions is considered to be one of Jean-Paul Sartre's most important pieces of writing. It not only anticipates but argues many of the ideas to be found in his famous Being... -
Bit Rot by Douglas Coupland
RRP: £9.99£7.32In 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... -
The Art of War by Tzu Sun 9780141023816
RRP: £7.99£5.89Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched... -
The Universal Machine by Fred Moten
RRP: £22.99£20.32"Taken as a trilogy, consent not to be a single being is a monumental accomplishment: a brilliant theoretical intervention that might be best described as a powerful case for blackness as a category of analysis."-Brent Hayes Edwards, author of... -
The Intellectual and His People: Staging the People Volume 2 by Jacques Ranciere
£12.57A classic collection of essay by Jacques Ranciere, that focuses on the ways in which radical philosophers understand the people they profess to speak for. The Intellectual and His People engages in an incisive and original way with current political and... -
The Cambridge Companion to German Idealism by Karl Ameriks
RRP: £30.99£25.96This updated edition offers a comprehensive, penetrating, and informative guide to what is regarded as the classical period of German philosophy. Kant, Fichte, Hegel, and Schelling are all discussed in detail, along with contemporaries such as... -
A Companion to the Philosophy of Education Randall Curren (University of Rochester) 9781405140515
RRP: £42.95£38.86A Companion to the Philosophy of Education is a comprehensive guide to philosophical thinking about education. Offers a state-of-the-art account of current and controversial issues in education, including issues pertaining to multiculturalism, special... -
Aristotle's Art of Rhetoric by Aristotle
RRP: £16.00£13.09For more than two thousand years. Aristotle's "Art of Rhetoric" has shaped thought on the theory and practice of rhetoric, the art of persuasive speech. In three sections, Aristotle discusses what rhetoric is, as well as the three kinds of rhetoric... -
Philosophy of Mind: A Contemporary Introduction John Heil 9781138581012
RRP: £37.99£33.64The book is intended as a reader-friendly introduction to issues in the philosophy of mind, including mental-physical causal interaction, computational models of thought, the relation minds bear to brains, and assorted -isms: behaviorism, dualism,... -
Women in Western Political Thought by Susan Moller Okin 9780691158341
RRP: £25.00£19.90In this pathbreaking study of the works of Plato, Aristotle, Rousseau, and Mill, Susan Moller Okin turns to the tradition of political philosophy that pervades Western culture and its institutions to understand why the gap between formal and real gender... -
An Introduction to the Philosophy of Methodology by Kerry E. Howell 9781446202999
RRP: £51.00£47.04This book provides students with a concise introduction to the philosophy of methodology. The book stands apart from existing methodology texts by clarifying in a student-friendly and engaging way distinctions between philosophical positions, paradigms... -
Martin Heidegger by George Steiner 9780226772325
RRP: £23.00£22.13With characteristic lucidity and style, Steiner makes Heidegger's immensely difficult body of work accessible to the general reader. In a new introduction, Steiner addresses language and philosophy and the rise of Nazism. "It would be hard to imagine a... -
The Big Book of Boris by Iain Dale 9781785905483
RRP: £8.99£6.33Boris Johnson, the UK's new Prime Minister, has ruled out holding an early general election. But, as we've seen, anything can happen in today's politics. There are few politicians who could genuinely be described as a phenomenon. Boris Johnson is... -
Spinoza's Ethics by Benedictus de Spinoza 9780691193243
RRP: £22.00£16.82An authoritative edition of George Eliot's elegant translation of Spinoza's greatest philosophical workIn 1856, Marian Evans completed her translation of Benedict de Spinoza's Ethics while living in Berlin with the philosopher and critic George Henry... -
On Evil Terry Eagleton 9780300171259
RRP: £12.99£11.46An impassioned argument for the existence of evil from one of the most respected and influential critics of our day In this witty, accessible study, the prominent Marxist thinker Terry Eagleton launches a surprising defense of the reality of evil,... -
The Secret Lives of Elephants: Birth, Death and Family in the World of the Giants by Hannah Mumby
RRP: £9.99£6.84Elephants are as unique as people. They can be clever and curious or headstrong and impulsive, shy or sociable. Learn to know them as individuals as well as a species in this evocative account of years spent studying elephant behaviour in the wild. ... -
De Caelo by Aristotle 9780198145103
£38.75De CaeloBook InformationISBN 9780198145103Author AristotlePage Count 147Imprint Clarendon PressPublisher Oxford University PressDimensions(mm) 193mm * 130mm * 15mm -
Keep It Together: philosophy for everyday emergencies by Marie Robert
RRP: £9.99£6.90Twelve great thinkers guide you calmly through life's difficult times, and help you to keep it together, even when everything seems to be falling apart. Whether you are dealing with an unexpected breakup, a nightmare social occasion, or the spurious...