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Towards Speculative Realism: Essays and Lectures by Graham Harman 9781846943942
RRP: £9.99£8.69These writings chart Harman's rise from Chicago sportswriter to co-founder of one of Europe's most promising philosophical movements: Speculative Realism. In 1997, Graham Harman was an obscure graduate student covering Chicago sporting events for a... -
Public Philosophy: Essays on Morality in Politics by Michael J. Sandel
RRP: £25.95£20.96In this book, Michael Sandel takes up some of the hotly contested moral and political issues of our time, including affirmative action, assisted suicide, abortion, gay rights, stem cell research, the meaning of toleration and civility, the gap between... -
Platonism and Naturalism: The Possibility of Philosophy by Lloyd P. Gerson 9781501774249
RRP: £25.99£22.49In his third and concluding volume, Lloyd P. Gerson presents an innovative account of Platonism, the central tradition in the history of philosophy, in conjunction with Naturalism, the "anti-Platonism" in antiquity and contemporary philosophy. Gerson... -
An Outline of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell
RRP: £14.99£13.58In his controversial book An Outline of Philosophy, first published in 1927, Bertrand Russell argues that humanity demands consideration solely as the instrument by which we acquire knowledge of the universe. From our inner-world to the outer-world, from... -
Doorway to Artistry: Attuning Your Philosophy to Enhance Your Creativity by Esther Lightcap Meek 9781666769685
RRP: £26.00£19.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781666769685Author Esther Lightcap MeekFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Cascade BooksPublisher Cascade BooksWeight(grams) 372gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
Love and the Postmodern Predicament by D C Schindler 9781532648731
RRP: £22.00£16.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781532648731Author D C SchindlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams)... -
Critical Theory: The Basics by Martin Shuster 9781032061566
RRP: £16.99£15.22Critical Theory: The Basics brings clarity to a topic that is confusingly bandied about with various meanings today in popular and academic culture.First defined by Max Horkheimer in the 1930s, “critical theory” now extends far beyond its original German... -
Animacies: Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect by Mel Y. Chen
RRP: £22.99£20.01In Animacies, Mel Y. Chen draws on recent debates about sexuality, race, and affect to examine how matter that is considered insensate, immobile, or deathly animates cultural lives. Toward that end, Chen investigates the blurry division between the... -
Integral Vision: A Very Short Introduction Ken Wilber 9781611806427
RRP: £9.99£6.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611806427Author Ken WilberFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications Inc -
Self-Experience: Essays on Inner Awareness by Manuel Garcia-Carpintero 9780198805397
RRP: £110.00£99.41Recent debates on phenomenal consciousness have shown renewed interest for the idea that experience generally includes an experience of the self--a self-experience--whatever else it may present the self with. When a subject has an ordinary experience (as... -
Visual Art and Self-Construction by Katrina Mitcheson
RRP: £20.99£19.25Demonstrates how visual art can work as a powerful technology of the self Asks how we can know a decentred and partly unconscious self, and shows how particular artworks can help us to address this challenge Illustrates how both artists and audience... -
Occidental Eschatology by Jacob Taubes
RRP: £20.99£18.66Occidental Eschatology, originally Jacob Taubes's doctoral thesis and the one book he published in his lifetime, seeks to renegotiate the historical synthesis and spiritual legacy of the West through the study of apocalypticism. Covering the origins of... -
Learning True Love: Practicing Buddhism in a Time of War Sister Chan Khong 9781888375671
RRP: £21.00£13.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781888375671Author Sister Chan KhongFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Parallax PressPublisher Parallax PressWeight(grams) 374gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
We Are Not Born Submissive: How Patriarchy Shapes Women's Lives by Manon Garcia 9780691223209
RRP: £18.99£18.89A philosophical exploration of female submission, using insights from feminist thinkers-especially Simone de Beauvoir-to reveal the complexities of women's reality and lived experienceWhat role do women play in the perpetuation of patriarchy? On the one... -
The Secret of Life...: A poetic trilogy that merrily explores the meaning of everything by P.D. Hodkin 9780957132429
£10.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957132429Author P.D. HodkinFormat PaperbackImprint Horizons New Publishing LtdPublisher Horizons New Publishing Ltd -
The Ethics of Invention: Technology and the Human Future by Sheila Jasanoff 9780393078992
RRP: £21.99£18.55Sheila Jasanoff charts society's embrace of technological solutions and technology's complex interplay with ethics and human rights. She dissects the ways in which we delegate power to technological systems and asks how we might regain control. From GMOs... -
Governing by Debt Maurizio Lazzarato 9781584351634
RRP: £14.99£9.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781584351634Author Maurizio LazzaratoFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Semiotext (E)Publisher AutonomediaDimensions(mm) 178mm * 114mm * 21mm -
Giordano Bruno: Philosopher Heretic by Ingrid D. Rowland
RRP: £18.00£15.40Giordano Bruno (1548-1600) is one of the great figures of early modern Europe, and one of the least understood. Ingrid D. Rowland's biography establishes him once and for all as a peer of Erasmus, Shakespeare, and Galileo - a thinker whose vision of the... -
The Fear Christiana Spens 9781914420450
RRP: £12.99£8.70A philosophical memoir about the deepest and most primal of human emotions, how it controls us all, and how we try to control one another when the stakes are so high. The Fear is a book about what scares us the most, how we live with these threats,... -
Lacan and Deleuze: A Disjunctive Synthesis by Bostjan Nedoh
RRP: £23.99£21.85A reconfiguration of the reception of Deleuze and Lacan in contemporary Continental philosophyIt is often said that Lacan is the most radical representative of structuralism, a thinker of negativity and alienation, whereas Deleuze is pictured as a great... -
Zen in the Art of Archery by Herrigel Eugen 9781941129944
£7.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781941129944Author Herrigel EugenFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint Vigeo PressPublisher Vigeo PressWeight(grams) 91gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 5mm -
The Language Instinct Debate by Geoffrey Sampson 9780826473851
RRP: £54.99£54.73When it was first published in 1997, Geoffrey Sampson's Educating Eve was described as the definitive response to Steven Pinker's The Language Instinct and Noam Chomsky's nativism. In this revised and expanded new edition, Sampson revisits his original... -
Jean-Paul Sartre: Basic Writings Jean-Paul Sartre 9780415213684
RRP: £29.99£26.64Jean-Paul Sartre is one of the most famous philosophers of the twentieth century. The principle founder of existentialism, a political thinker and famous novelist and dramatist, his work has exerted enormous influence in philosophy, literature, politics... -
A New Aristotle Reader by J. L. Ackrill
£62.81In a single volume intended for philosophy students of all levels as well as their teachers, this reader provides modern, accurate translations of the texts necessary for a careful study of most aspects of Aristotle's philosophy. Professor Ackrill has... -
Meditations on First Philosophy by Rene Descartes
RRP: £10.99£9.24Descartes's Meditations on First Philosophy, the fundamental and originating work of the modern era in Western philosophy, is presented here in Donald Cress's completely revised edition of his well-established translation, bringing this version even... -
Star Wars and Philosophy Strikes Back: This Is the Way William Irwin (Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania) 9781119841432
RRP: £16.95£11.68Should droids be free? Should clone troopers? What political and ethical ideas ground resistance and rebellion? What's wrong with the way women are portrayed in Star Wars? Does Han Solo have a philosophical worldview? Was Galen Erso responsible for the... -
Introducing Logic: A Graphic Guide by Dan Cryan 9781848310124
RRP: £8.99£6.70Logic is the backbone of Western civilization, holding together its systems of philosophy, science and law. Yet despite logic's widely acknowledged importance, it remains an unbroken seal for many, due to its heavy use of jargon and mathematical... -
When God Was a Bird: Christianity, Animism, and the Re-Enchantment of the World by Mark I. Wallace 9780823281312
RRP: £25.99£22.842019 NAUTILUS GOLD WINNER In a time of rapid climate change and species extinction, what role have the world's religions played in ameliorating-or causing-the crisis we now face? Religion in general, and Christianity in particular, appears to bear a... -
Forgiveness and Mercy by Jeffrie G. Murphy 9780521395670
RRP: £22.99£19.56This book focuses on the degree to which certain moral and legal doctrines are rooted in specific passions that are then institutionalised in the form of criminal law. A philosophical analysis is developed of the following questions: when, if ever,... -
Pragmatism: A Guide for the Perplexed by Robert B. Talisse 9780826498588
£25.45This is a student's guide to the historical context, key thinkers and central themes of pragmatism, a concept central to American philosophy.The recent revival of interest in pragmatism has reintroduced into mainstream philosophy the insights and... -
Ancient Greek Philosophy: From the Presocratics to the Hellenistic Philosophers Thomas A. Blackson (Arizona State University, USA) 9781444335736
RRP: £26.95£23.43Ancient Greek Philosophy: From the Presocratics to the Hellenistic Philosophers presents a comprehensive introduction to the philosophers and philosophical traditions that developed in ancient Greece from 585 BC to 529 AD. * Provides coverage of the... -
The Ceiling Outside: The Science and Experience of the Disrupted Mind Noga Arikha 9781529385465
RRP: £20.00£13.55As her mother slips into the fog of dementia, a philosopher grapples with the unbreakable links between our bodies and our sense of self. Vanessa wakes from a coma having forgotten ten years of her life. Toussaint, is haunted by voices. Thomas no longer... -
The Probable and the Provable by L. Jonathan Cohen 9780198244127
£118.90The book was planned and written as a single, sustained argument. But earlier versions of a few parts of it have appeared separately. The object of this book is both to establish the existence of the paradoxes, and also to describe a non-Pascalian... -
Recursivity and Contingency by Yuk Hui 9781786600530
RRP: £39.00£34.10This 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... -
Remarks on Colour Ludwig Wittgenstein (Philosopher) 9780631116417
RRP: £18.95£17.11This book comprises material on colour which was written by Wittgenstein in the last eighteen months of his life. It is one of the few documents which shows him concentratedly at work on a single philosophical issue. The principal theme is the features... -
Decolonizing Universalism: A Transnational Feminist Ethic by Serene J. Khader 9780190664206
RRP: £35.99£26.30Decolonizing Universalism argues that feminism can respect cultural and religious differences and acknowledge the legacy of imperialism without surrendering its core ethical commitments. Transcending relativism/ universalism debates that reduce feminism... -
The Essential David Bohm by Lee Nichol 9780415261746
RRP: £36.99£32.53There are few scientists of the twentieth century whose life's work has created more excitement and controversy than that of physicist David Bohm (1917-1992). For the first time in a single volume, The Essential David Bohm offers a comprehensive overview... -
The Exchange of Words: Speech, Testimony, and Intersubjectivity by Richard Moran 9780190882907
RRP: £31.99£22.91The capacity to speak is not only the ability to pronounce words, but the socially-recognized capacity to make one's words count in various ways. We rely on this capacity whenever we tell another person something and expect to be believed, and what we... -
Four-Dimensionalism: An Ontology of Persistence and Time by Theodore Sider
RRP: £41.99£41.74Four-Dimensionalism defends the thesis that the material world is composed of temporal as well as spatial parts. This defense includes a novel account of persistence over time, new arguments in favour of the four-dimensional ontology, and responses to... -
The Class Matrix: Social Theory after the Cultural Turn by Vivek Chibber
RRP: £30.95£24.81An influential sociologist revives materialist explanations of class, while accommodating the best of rival cultural theory.Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, analysis of class and other basic structures of capitalism was sidelined by theorists...