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Immigration and Freedom by Chandran Kukathas
RRP: $38.70$30.04A compelling account of the threat immigration control poses to the citizens of free societies Immigration is often seen as a danger to western liberal democracies because it threatens to undermine their fundamental values, most notably freedom and... -
Heidegger's Way of Being by Richard M. Capobianco 9781442630697
RRP: $24.50$20.51In Heidegger's Way of Being, the follow-up to his 2010 book, Engaging Heidegger, Richard Capobianco makes the case clearly and compellingly that the core matter of Heidegger's lifetime of thought was Being as the temporal emergence of all beings and... -
From Romanticism to Critical Theory: The Philosophy of German Literary Theory by Andrew Bowie
RRP: $51.59$45.23From Romanticism to Critical Theory explores the philosophical origins of literary theory via the tradition of German philosophy that began with the Romantic reaction to Kant. It traces the continuation of the Romantic tradition of Novalis, Friedrich... -
Truth and Existence by Jean-Paul Sartre
RRP: $20.64$20.34Truth and Existence, written in response to Martin Heidegger's Essence of Truth, is a product of the years when Sartre was reaching full stature as a philosopher, novelist, playwright, essayist, and political activist. This concise and engaging text not... -
The Lankavatara Sutra: Translation and Commentary by Red Pine 9781619020993
RRP: $24.50$16.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781619020993Author Red PineFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint CounterpointPublisher Counterpoint -
Consequences Of Pragmatism: Essays 1972-1980 by Richard Rorty 9780816610648
RRP: $27.08$23.70Rorty seeks to tie philosophy's past to its future by connecting what he sees as the positive (and neglected) contributions of the American pragmatic philosophers to contemporary European developments. What emerges from his explorations is a revivified... -
The Philosophy of Aristotle by Aristotle 9780451531759
RRP: $11.55$7.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451531759Author AristotleFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint SignetPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 252gDimensions(mm) 171mm * 105mm * 21mm -
Life of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola. Oration by Gianfrancesco Pico della Mirandola
RRP: $38.64$30.52The Oration by philosopher Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463-1494), to which later editors added the subtitle On the Dignity of Man, is the most famous text written in Italy at the height of the Renaissance. The Life of Giovanni by Gianfrancesco Pico,... -
The Lyotard Reader by Jean-Francois Lyotard 9780631163398
RRP: $52.83$46.81Jean-Francois Lyotard was one of the founding members of the College Internationale de philosophie. Ha has taught at Vincennes, Saint Denis and is currently Professor of Philosophy at the University of California at Irvine. Several of his books have... -
Free Will by Derk Pereboom
RRP: $21.93$18.99This Element provides a thorough overview of the free will debate as it currently stands. After distinguishing the main senses of the term 'free will' invoked in that debate, it proceeds to set out the prominent versions of the main positions,... -
Stoic Warriors: The Ancient Philosophy behind the Military Mind by Nancy Sherman 9780195315912
RRP: $19.34$14.74While few soldiers may have read the works of Epictetus or Marcus Aurelius, it is undoubtedly true that the ancient philosophy known as Stoicism guides the actions of many in the military. Soldiers and seamen learn early in their training "to suck it... -
Krishnamacharya by A.G. Mohan 9781590308004
RRP: $27.09$18.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590308004Author A. G. MohanFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)... -
Philosophy of Imagination by Hossein Ziai 9780842524575
RRP: $48.38$47.25Shihab al-Din al-Suhrawardi was born around 1154, probably in Northwestern Iran. Spurred by a dream in which Aristotle appeared to him, he rejected the Avicennan Peripatetic philosophy of his youth and undertook the task of reviving the philosophical... -
The Political Philosophy of the European City: From Polis, through City-State, to Megalopolis? by Ferenc Hörcher 9781793610843
RRP: $38.70$34.42The Political Philosophy of the European City is a courageous and wide-ranging panorama of the political life and thought of the European city. Its novel hypothesis is that modern Western political thought, since the time of Hobbes and Locke,... -
Manifestoes: Provocations of the Modern by Janet Lyon
RRP: $38.69$34.19For more than three hundred years, manifestoes have defined the aims of radical groups, individuals, and parties while galvanizing revolutionary movements. As Janet Lyon shows, the manifesto is both a signal genre of political modernity and one of the... -
Commonwealth by Michael Hardt 9780674060289
$35.54When Empire appeared in 2000, it defined the political and economic challenges of the era of globalization and, thrillingly, found in them possibilities for new and more democratic forms of social organization. Now, with Commonwealth, Michael Hardt and... -
The Myth Of Freedom And The Way Of Meditation by Trungpa Tulku Chogyam Trungpa 9781570629334
RRP: $21.92$14.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781570629334Author Choegyam TrungpaFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)... -
We are the Revolution!: Rudolf Steiner, Joseph Beuys and the Threefold Social Impulse by Ulrich Roesch 9781906999520
RRP: $15.47$12.51Freedom for the spiritual-cultural life, equality and democracy for human rights, initiative and solidarity for the economic sphere! Revolutions happen when society does not change and evolve. Stagnation and resistance create a situation in which a leap... -
The Logical Syntax of Language by Rudolf Carnap 9780812695243
RRP: $34.82$26.10Rudolf Carnap's entire theory of Language structure "came to me," he reports, "like a vision during a sleepless night in January 1931, when I was ill." This theory appeared in The Logical Syntax of Language (1934). Carnap argued that many philosophical... -
The Fragmentary Demand: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Jean-Luc Nancy by Ian James 9780804752701
RRP: $28.37$16.89This introduction to the philosophy of Jean-Luc Nancy gives an overview of his philosophical thought to date and situates it within the broader context of contemporary French and European thinking. The book examines Nancy's philosophy in relation to five... -
Politics of Touch: Sense, Movement, Sovereignty by Erin Manning
RRP: $25.79$22.63Political philosophy has long been bound by traditional thinking about the body and the senses. Through an engagement with the state-centered vocabulary of this discipline, Politics of Touch explores the ways in which sensing bodies continually run up... -
Willful Subjects by Sara Ahmed
RRP: $29.66$25.81In Willful Subjects Sara Ahmed explores willfulness as a charge often made by some against others. One history of will is a history of attempts to eliminate willfulness from the will. Delving into philosophical and literary texts, Ahmed examines the... -
Heidegger's Hut by Adam Sharr
RRP: $23.21$15.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262533669Author Adam SharrFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 191mm * 191mm * 8mm -
Emancipation After Hegel: Achieving a Contradictory Revolution by Todd McGowan 9780231192705
RRP: $32.25$25.27Hegel is making a comeback. After the decline of the Marxist Hegelianism that dominated the twentieth century, leading thinkers are rediscovering Hegel's thought as a resource for contemporary politics. What does a notoriously difficult... -
Our Natural Potential: Beyond Personal Development, the Stages of Enlightenment by David Davidya Buckland 9780995983700
RRP: $19.35$14.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995983700Author David Davidya BucklandFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Davidya PublishingPublisher Davidya PublishingWeight(grams) 227g -
When The Shoe Fits by Osho 9781842930854
RRP: $19.34$12.64This is one of Osho's "classics", although previously little known. He brings his unique perception to the world of Tao, and offers his penetrating and illuminating comments on these original sutras- the wonderful stories of the Taoist mystic, Chuang Tzu... -
The Waltz of Reason: The Entanglement of Mathematics and Philosophy by Karl Sigmund 9781541602694
RRP: $36.12$23.98"Let no one ignorant of geometry enter here," Plato warned would-be philosophers. Mathematician Karl Sigmund agrees.In The Waltz of Reason, he shows how mathematics and philosophy together have shaped our understanding of space, chance, logic,... -
Stoic Lessons: Musonius Rufus' Complete Works by Chuck Chakrapani
RRP: $19.29$16.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780920219447Author Chuck ChakrapaniFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint Stoic Gym PublicationsPublisher Stoic Gym PublicationsWeight(grams)... -
Oil and World Politics: The Real Story of Today's Conflict Zones: Iraq, Afghanistan, Venezuela, Ukraine and More by John Foster 9781459413443
RRP: $23.21$16.71Petroleum is the most valuable commodity in the world and an enormous source of wealth for those who sell it, transport it and transform it for its many uses. As the engine of modern economies and industries, governments everywhere want to assure steady... -
Singular Pasts: The "I" in Historiography by Enzo Traverso 9780231203982
RRP: $118.68$92.63Today, history is increasingly written in the first person. A growing number of historical works include an autobiographical dimension, as if writing about the past required exploring the inner life of the author. Neither traditional history nor... -
Love and the Postmodern Predicament by D C Schindler 9781532648731
RRP: $28.38$21.38Apologies 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)... -
Trigger Warnings: political correctness and the rise of the right by Jeff Sparrow 9781911617075
RRP: $19.34$12.64A timely examination of progressive politics in the era of radical populism. Since 2016, western democracies have experienced a series of political earthquakes, spectacularly upending conventional political wisdom. Everywhere, outsider politicians... -
Apple: Sex, Drugs, Motherhood and the Recovery of the Feminine by Antonella Gambotto-Burke
RRP: $19.34$14.13Woman as comestible. Woman as kingmaker. Woman as oblivion. Why is our culture governed by the principle of separation? Beginning with a devastating exploration of the 1960s, understood up until now as the era of female liberation, free love and the... -
Return To Tibet by Heinrich Harrer
$19.18Heinrich Harrer returns to Tibet - thirty years after the visit described in his bestselling SEVEN YEARS IN TIBET.SEVEN YEARS IN TIBET told of an idyllic life on the 'rooftop of the world', before Harrer was forced to flee from the invading Chinese... -
Philosophy before the Greeks: The Pursuit of Truth in Ancient Babylonia by Marc van de Mieroop
RRP: $32.25$25.27There is a growing recognition that philosophy isn't unique to the West, that it didn't begin only with the classical Greeks, and that Greek philosophy was influenced by Near Eastern traditions. Yet even today there is a widespread assumption that what... -
Actuality of Being: Dzogchen and Tantric Perspectives by Traleg Kyabgon
RRP: $30.95$19.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648332176Author Traleg KyabgonFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Shogam PublicationsPublisher Shogam PublicationsWeight(grams) 360g -
Ruling Passions: A Theory of Practical Reasoning by Simon Blackburn 9780198247852
RRP: $121.26$110.75Simon Blackburn puts forward a compelling original philosophy of human motivation and morality. He maintains that we cannot get clear about ethics until we get clear about human nature. So these are the sorts of questions he addresses: Why do we behave... -
Knowing and Being: Essays by Michael Polanyi by Michael Polanyi 9780226672854
RRP: $36.12$35.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780226672854Author Michael PolanyiFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint University of Chicago PressPublisher The University of Chicago Press -
The Children of Harvey Milk: How LGBTQ Politicians Changed the World by Andrew Reynolds
RRP: $16.76$15.31Part political thriller, part meditation on social change, part love story, The Children of Harvey Milk tells the epic stories of courageous men and women around the world who came forward to make their voices heard during the struggle for equal rights. ... -
Interanimations: Receiving Modern German Philosophy by Robert B. Pippin
RRP: $39.99$38.95In this latest book, renowned philosopher and scholar Robert B. Pippin offers the thought-provoking argument that the study of historical figures is not only an interpretation and explication of their views, but can be understood as a form of philosophy...