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Recursivity and Contingency by Yuk Hui 9781786600530
RRP: £39.00£34.64This book employs recursivity and contingency as two principle concepts to investigate into the relation between nature and technology, machine and organism, system and freedom. It reconstructs a trajectory of thought from an Organic condition of... -
The Beginning of Knowledge by Hans-Georg Gadamer
RRP: £21.99£19.81The Beginning of Knowledge brings together almost all of Gadamer's essays on the Presocratics. In each of the essays Gadamer discusses the origins of knowledge in the western philosophical tradition. Beginning with a hermeneutical and philological... -
Beyond Bad: How obsolete morals are holding us back Chris Paley 9781529327090
RRP: £16.99£11.71'Vital reading' - THE TIMES'Brilliantly unillusioned thinking... It could hardly be more necessary in these all-too-moralistic times' - James Marriott, THE TIMESMorals have held empires together, kept soldiers marching under fire, fed the hungry, passed... -
Head, Heart and Hara: The Soul Centres of West and East by Peter Wilberg 9781904519010
£11.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904519010Author Peter WilbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 164Imprint New Gnosis PublicationsPublisher New Gnosis Publications -
Political Romanticism by Carl Schmitt 9780262691420
£35.64Carl Schmitt (1888-1985), the author of such books as Political Theology and The Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy (both published in English by The MIT Press), was one of the leading political and legal theorists of the twentieth century. His critical... -
Justice, Migration, and Mercy by Michael Blake 9780197682432
RRP: £17.99£15.52Political controversy about migration is becoming more frequent, more heated, and for certain groups, decidedly more urgent. This raises pressing questions not only in the realms of policy-making and public discourse, but also for philosophical accounts... -
The Gift of Death, Second Edition & Literature in Secret by Deceased Jacques Derrida
RRP: £15.00£14.87The Gift of Death, Jacques Derrida's most sustained consideration of religion, explores questions first introduced in his book Given Time about the limits of the rational and responsible that one reaches in granting or accepting death, whether by... -
What Is Philosophy for? by Mary Midgley
RRP: £21.99£19.09Why should anybody take an interest in philosophy? Is it just another detailed study like metallurgy? Or is it similar to history, literature and even religion: a study meant to do some personal good and influence our lives? "Engaging and accessible,... -
The Soul of Civility: Timeless Principles to Heal Society and Ourselves by Alexandra Hudson 9781250277787
RRP: £24.99£16.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250277787Author Alexandra HudsonFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint St. Martin's PressPublisher St. Martin's PressWeight(grams) 454g -
The Portal of the Mystery of Hope by Charles Peguy 9780826479358
£27.40Translated by David L. Schindler, JrIn what is one of the greatest Catholic poetic works of our century, Peguy offers a comprehensive theology ordered around the often-neglected second virtue which is incarnated inhis celebrated image of the 'little girl... -
Walden with On the Duty of Civil Disobedience (Reader's Library Classics) by Henry David Thoreau 9781954839182
£11.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781954839182Author Henry David ThoreauFormat PaperbackPage Count 270Imprint Reader's Library ClassicsPublisher Reader's Library ClassicsWeight(grams)... -
Frantz Fanon, Psychiatry and Politics by Nigel C. Gibson 9781786600943
RRP: £39.00£34.64The revolutionary and psychiatrist Frantz Fanon was a foundational figure in postcolonial and decolonial thought and practice, yet his psychiatric work still has only been studied peripherally. That is in part because most of his psychiatric writings... -
Integral Spirituality by Ken Wilber 9781590305270
RRP: £32.00£20.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590305270Author Ken WilberFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)... -
S Lewis vs the New Atheists by Peter S. Williams 9781842277706
£15.07The book will counter the 'new atheist' movement using the arguments of C.S. Lewis, thereby appealing to readers interested in both loci and showing that there is nothing especially 'new' about the new atheism. How might C.S. Lewis, the greatest... -
The Authority of the State by Leslie Green 9780198273134
RRP: £78.00£60.35The modern state claims supreme authority over the lives of all its citizens. Drawing together political philosophy, jurisprudence, and public choice theory, this book forces the reader to reconsider some basic assumptions about the authority of the... -
How to Do the Right Thing: An Ancient Guide to Treating People Fairly by Seneca
RRP: £14.99£11.03How ancient Stoicism can help teach us to treat others-and ourselves-more fairly and mercifully There are times when we've all felt that we haven't been treated as we deserve-that we've been misjudged, shortchanged, or given a raw deal. And, at one time... -
Responsibility for Justice by Iris Marion Young
RRP: £25.99£16.66When the noted political philosopher Iris Marion Young died in 2006, her death was mourned as the passing of "one of the most important political philosophers of the past quarter-century" (Cass Sunstein) and as an important and innovative thinker working... -
A Source Book in Indian Philosophy by Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan 9780691019581
RRP: £42.00£33.70Here are the chief riches of more than 3,000 years of Indian philosophical thought-the ancient Vedas, the Upanisads, the epics, the treatises of the heterodox and orthodox systems, the commentaries of the scholastic period, and the contemporary writings... -
The Magick of Aleister Crowley: A Handbook of the Rituals of Thelema by Lon Milo DuQuette
RRP: £19.99£15.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781578637881Author Lon Milo DuQuetteFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Red Wheel/WeiserPublisher Red Wheel/WeiserWeight(grams) 1g -
Being 'Good': An Ontological View of Ethics by Karim Lahham 9789948000938
RRP: £7.99£6.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789948000938Author Karim LahhamFormat PaperbackPage Count 30Imprint Tabah FoundationPublisher Tabah FoundationWeight(grams) 41gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm... -
Phenomenology Of Merleau Ponty: A Search For The Limits Of Consciousness by Gary Brent Madison 9780821406441
RRP: £27.99£24.92The first study of its kind to appear in English, The Phenomenology of Merleau-Ponty is a sustained ontological reading of Merleau-Ponty which traces the evolution of his philosophy of being from his early work to his late, unfinished manuscripts and... -
Dark Deleuze by Andrew Culp
RRP: £9.00£8.20French philosopher Gilles Deleuze is known as a thinker of creation, joyous affirmation, and rhizomatic assemblages. In this short book, Andrew Culp polemically argues that this once-radical canon of joy has lost its resistance to the present. Concepts... -
Algorithms for the People: Democracy in the Age of AI by Joshua Simons
RRP: £25.00£19.90How to put democracy at the heart of AI governanceArtificial intelligence and machine learning are reshaping our world. Police forces use them to decide where to send police officers, judges to decide whom to release on bail, welfare agencies to decide... -
Iconology: Image, Text, Ideology by W. J. T. Mitchell 9780226532295
RRP: £23.00£22.13"[Mitchell] undertakes to explore the nature of images by comparing them with words, or, more precisely, by looking at them from the viewpoint of verbal language. . . . The most lucid exposition of the subject I have ever read."-Rudolf Arnheim, Times... -
Dawn of an Era of Wellbeing: New Paths to a Better World by Ervin Laszlo
RRP: £16.95£12.63Humankind is facing monumental challenges-the sustainability of our natural resources, climate change, wealth inequalities, breakdowns in social structures, the impact of artificial intelligence, and of course the threat of pandemics. What we need to... -
A Metaphysics for Freedom by Helen Steward 9780198706465
RRP: £37.99£29.60A Metaphysics for Freedom argues that agency itself-and not merely the special, distinctively human variety of it-is incompatible with determinism. For determinism is threatened just as surely by the existence of powers which can be unproblematically... -
All Things are Nothing to Me: The Unique Philosophy of Max Stirner Jacob Blumenfeld 9781780996639
RRP: £11.99£10.41Max Stirner's The Unique and Its Property (1844) is the first ruthless critique of modern society. In All Things are Nothing to Me, Jacob Blumenfeld reconstructs the unique philosophy of Max Stirner (1806-1856), a figure that strongly influenced-for... -
Does History Make Sense?: Hegel on the Historical Shapes of Justice by Terry Pinkard
RRP: £48.95£39.31Hegel's philosophy of history-which most critics view as a theory of inevitable progress toward modern European civilization-is widely regarded as a failure today. In Does History Make Sense? Terry Pinkard argues that Hegel's understanding of historical... -
Aristotle the Philosopher by J. L. Ackrill 9780192891181
RRP: £52.99£41.68Discusses Aristotle's views on change, natural science, the mind, logic, philosophical method, metaphysics, and ethics, and suggests why the Greek philosopher still provokes controversy.Book InformationISBN 9780192891181Author J. L. AckrillFormat... -
On the Reproduction of Capitalism: Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses by Professor Louis Althusser
RRP: £19.99£19.53Louis Althusser's renowned short text 'Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses' radically transformed the concept of the subject, the understanding of the state and even the very frameworks of cultural, political and literary theory. The text has... -
A Companion to Aristotle Georgios Anagnostopoulos (University of California, San Diego, USA) 9781118592434
RRP: £35.95£32.91The Blackwell Companion to Aristotle provides in-depth studies of the main themes of Aristotle's thought, from art to zoology. The most comprehensive single volume survey of the life and work of AristotleComprised of 40 newly commissioned essays from... -
Schizoanalytic Cartographies by Felix Guattari 9781441167279
RRP: £31.99£31.42Schizoanalytic Cartographies represents Felix Guattari's most important later work and the most systematic and detailed account of his theoretical position and his therapeutic ideas. Guattari sets out to provide a complete account of the conditions... -
Theravada Buddhism by Diana St.Ruth 9781857334340
RRP: £7.99£6.33'Simple Guides Theravada Buddhism" provides a concise and accessible introduction to Theravada Buddhism. Written without bias, this guide presents engaging descriptions of the key concepts, beliefs and practices. Pocket sized and presented in an... -
Battle of Leyte Gulf: The Largest Sea Battle of the Second World War by John Grehan 9781526770394
RRP: £14.99£11.11By early 1944, offensives undertaken by the United States armed forces had driven the Japanese from many of their conquests in the south and central Pacific. The next American move was to sever Tokyo's communications with the remaining Japanese garrisons... -
Blackface by Professor Ayanna Thompson
RRP: £9.99£7.89A New Statesman essential non-fiction book of 2021 Featured in Book Riot's 12 best nonfiction books about Black identity and history A Times Higher Education Book of the Week 2022 Finalist for the Prose Awards (Media and Cultural Studies category) ... -
Dark Matters - A Manifesto for the Nocturnal City Nick Dunn 9781782797487
RRP: £9.99£8.82Dark Matters explores the city at night as a place and time within which escape from the confines of the daytime is possible. More specifically, it is a state of being. There is a long history of nightwalking, often integral to shady worlds of... -
Manuscript Found in Accra by Paulo Coelho
RRP: £9.99£7.26Another incredible novel from the #1 internationally bestselling author of The Alchemist. Centuries before, on the eve of the invasion of Accra, the citizens gathered. A man stood before them and invited the people share their fears that he... -
Intuition of the Instant by Gaston Bachelard
RRP: £21.95£18.66Appearing in English for the first time, Intuition of the Instant-Bachelard's first metaphysical meditation on time and its moral implications-was written in 1932 in the wake of Husserl's lectures on streaming time-consciousness, Heidegger's Being and... -
On Inhumanity: Dehumanization and How to Resist It by David Livingstone Smith
RRP: £18.49£13.28The Rwandan genocide, the Holocaust, the lynching of African Americans, the colonial slave trade: these are horrific episodes of mass violence spawned from racism and hatred. We like to think that we could never see such evils again--that we would stand... -
Philosophy, Politics, and Economics: An Introduction by Gerald Gaus
RRP: £105.00£82.81An updated and expanded edition of the classic introduction to PPE-philosophy, politics, and economics-coauthored by one of the field's pioneersPhilosophy, Politics, and Economics offers a complete introduction to the fundamental tools and concepts of...