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On the Meaning of Life by John Cottingham 9780415248006
RRP: £37.99£33.38The question 'What is the meaning of life?' is one of the most fascinating, oldest and most difficult questions human beings have ever posed themselves. In an increasingly secularized culture, it remains a question to which we are ineluctably and... -
Good Thinking: Why Flawed Logic Puts Us All at Risk and How Critical Thinking Can Save the World by David Robert Grimes
RRP: £15.95£10.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781615197934Author David Robert GrimesFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint ExperimentPublisher ExperimentWeight(grams) 381gDimensions(mm) 201mm * 140mm *... -
The Bhagavad Gita for Daily Living, Volume 3: A Verse-by-Verse Commentary: Chapters 13-18 To Love Is to Know Me by Eknath Easwaran 9781586381370
RRP: £21.99£15.23A comprehensive manual for living a spiritual life, based on a verse-by-verse commentary on India's timeless scripture - from the author of its best-selling translation. (The ebook The Bhagavad Gita for Daily Living 9781586381455 includes all three... -
Integral Vision: A Very Short Introduction by Ken Wilber 9781611806427
RRP: £9.99£6.80Apologies 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 -
Curating As Ethics by Jean-Paul Martinon
RRP: £20.99£18.37A new ethics for the global practice of curating Today, everyone is a curator. What was once considered a hallowed expertise is now a commonplace and global activity. Can this new worldwide activity be ethical and, if yes, how? This book argues that... -
The Kingdom and the Glory: For a Theological Genealogy of Economy and Government by Giorgio Agamben
RRP: £21.99£19.19Why has power in the West assumed the form of an "economy," that is, of a government of men and things? If power is essentially government, why does it need glory, that is, the ceremonial and liturgical apparatus that has always accompanied it? In the... -
The Banality of Evil: Hannah Arendt and 'The Final Solution' by Bernard J. Bergen 9780847692101
RRP: £42.00£36.93This highly original book is the first to explore the political and philosophical consequences of Hannah Arendt's concept of 'the banality of evil,' a term she used to describe Adolph Eichmann, architect of the Nazi 'final solution.' According to Bernard... -
Critique on the Couch: Why Critical Theory Needs Psychoanalysis by Amy Allen
RRP: £22.00£17.36Does critical theory still need psychoanalysis? In Critique on the Couch, Amy Allen offers a cogent and convincing defense of its ongoing relevance.Countering the overly rationalist and progressivist interpretations of psychoanalysis put forward by... -
Recognition: A Chapter in the History of European Ideas by Axel Honneth 9781108819305
RRP: £20.99£15.75The idea that we are mutually dependent on the recognition of our peers is at least as old as modernity. Across Europe, this idea has been understood in different ways from the very beginning, according to each country's different cultural and political... -
Political Theory: A Beginner's Guide by Pete Woodcock 9781509531349
RRP: £16.99£15.22Is democracy the best form of government? What does it mean to be 'free'? Why should we obey the government? In this highly accessible and engaging new introductory textbook, Pete Woodcock examines all these questions and more in a compact outline of... -
Was Jesus God? by Richard Swinburne
RRP: £9.49£7.19The orderliness of the universe and the existence of human beings already provides some reason for believing that there is a God - as argued in Richard Swinburne's earlier book Is There a God ? Swinburne now claims that it is probable that the main... -
Marxism and Epistemology: Bachelard, Canguilhem, Foucault by Dominique Lecourt
RRP: £16.99£16.41When this book was first published in English in 1975, the previous forty years had seen the emergence of a new tradition in the philosophy of the sciences, or 'epistemology' in France. The founder of this tradition was Gaston Bachelard. Rather than... -
A Collection of Ranter Writings: Spiritual Liberty and Sexual Freedom in the English Revolution by Nigel Smith
RRP: £28.99£18.80The Ranters - like the Levellers and the Diggers - were a group of religious libertarians who flourished during the English Civil War (1642-1651), a period of social and religious turmoil which saw, in the words of the historian Christopher Hill, 'the... -
Weltschmerz: Pessimism in German Philosophy, 1860-1900 by Frederick C. Beiser
RRP: £29.49£27.15Weltschmerz is a study of the pessimism that dominated German philosophy in the second half of the nineteenth century. Pessimism was essentially the theory that life is not worth living. This theory was introduced into German philosophy by Schopenhauer,... -
Absence of Myth: Writings on Surrealism by Georges Bataille 9781844675609
RRP: £16.99£14.55For Bataille, the absence of myth had itself become the myth of the modern age. In a world that had lost the secret of its cohesion, Bataille saw surrealism as both a symptom and a beginning of an attempt to address this loss. His writings on this theme... -
The Second Sexism: Discrimination Against Men and Boys by David Benatar
RRP: £28.95£25.07Does sexism against men exist? What it looks like and why we need to take it seriously This book draws attention to the "second sexism," where it exists, how it works and what it looks like, and responds to those who would deny that it exists... -
LEGO and Philosophy: Constructing Reality Brick By Brick by William Irwin 9781119193975
RRP: £14.95£9.78How profound is a little plastic building block? It turns out the answer is "very"! 22 chapters explore philosophy through the world of LEGO which encompasses the iconic brick itself as well as the animated televisions shows, feature films, a vibrant... -
The Zen Mama: Your guilt-free guide to raising brave, kind children by Sarah Ivens
RRP: £12.99£4.11Let go of parenting expectations and fears to raise courageous, confident children.The Zen Mama philosophy is that mother and child complement each other in adventures and experiences, always putting safety first but without getting caught up in the... -
Black Utopia: The History of an Idea from Black Nationalism to Afrofuturism by Alex Zamalin
RRP: £22.00£17.36Within the history of African American struggle against racist oppression that often verges on dystopia, a hidden tradition has depicted a transfigured world. Daring to speculate on a future beyond white supremacy, black utopian artists and thinkers... -
Pre-reflective Consciousness: Sartre and Contemporary Philosophy of Mind by Sofia Miguens
RRP: £41.99£36.75Pre-reflective Consciousness: Sartre and Contemporary Philosophy of Mind delves into the relationship between the current analytical debates on consciousness and the debates that took place within continental philosophy in the twentieth century and in... -
Heidegger's Later Philosophy by Julian Young 9780521006095
RRP: £15.99£13.90Heidegger's later philosophy has often been regarded as a lapse into unintelligible mysticism. While not ignoring its deep and difficult complexities, Julian Young's book explains in simple and straightforward language just what it is all about. It... -
Spectrum of Consciousness by Ken Wilber 9780835606950
RRP: £16.99£14.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780835606950Author Ken WilberFormat PaperbackPage Count 385Imprint Quest Books,U.S.Publisher Quest Books,U.S.Weight(grams) 1g -
Reasons First by Mark Schroeder 9780198868224
£34.91In the last five decades, ethical theory has been preoccupied by a turn to reasons. The vocabulary of reasons has become a common currency not only in ethics, but in epistemology, action theory, and many related areas. It is now common, for example, to... -
The Pleasure in Drawing by Jean-Luc Nancy
RRP: £19.99£17.54Originally written for an exhibition Jean-Luc Nancy curated at the Museum of Fine Arts in Lyon in 2007, this book addresses the medium of drawing in light of the question of form-of form in its formation, as a formative force, as a birth to form. In this... -
Oriental Mythology: The Masks of God, Volume 2 by Joseph Campbell
RRP: £27.00£17.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781608687282Author Joseph CampbellFormat HardbackPage Count 576Imprint New World LibraryPublisher New World Library -
Oxford Handbook of Reasons and Normativity by Daniel Star
£43.02The Oxford Handbook of Reasons and Normativity maps a central terrain of philosophy, and provides an authoritative guide to it. Few concepts have received as much attention in recent philosophy as the concept of a reason to do or believe something. And... -
The Quotable Kierkegaard by Soren Kierkegaard 9780691155302
RRP: £22.00£16.89"Why I so much prefer autumn to spring is that in the autumn one looks at heaven--in the spring at the earth."--Soren Kierkegaard The father of existentialism, Soren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) was a philosopher who could write like an angel. With only a... -
The Human Touch: Our Part in the Creation of a Universe by Michael Frayn
RRP: £10.99£7.32What would that universe be like if human beings were not here to observe it? Would there be still be numbers, or scientific laws? Would the universe even be vast, without our tininess to give it scale? The author of award winning novels (such as Spies),... -
From Empedocles to Wittgenstein: Historical Essays in Philosophy by Anthony Kenny 9780199550821
RRP: £93.00£69.96From Empedocles to Wittgenstein is a collection of fifteen historical essays in philosophy, written by Sir Anthony Kenny in the early years of the 21st century. In the main they are concerned with four of the great philosophers whom he most esteems,... -
Being Singular Plural by Jean-Luc Nancy 9780804739757
RRP: £23.99£20.84This book, by one of the most innovative and challenging contemporary thinkers, consists of an extensive essay from which the book takes its title and five shorter essays that are internally related to "Being Singular Plural." One of the strongest... -
The Music of Life: Biology beyond the Genome by Denis Noble 9780199295739
£31.60What is Life? Decades of research have resulted in the full mapping of the human genome - three billion pairs of code whose functions are only now being understood. The gene's eye view of life, advocated by evolutionary biology, sees living bodies as... -
The Cultural Defense of Nations: A Liberal Theory of Majority Rights by Liav Orgad 9780198806912
£40.25Never in human history has so much attention been paid to human movement. Global migration yields demographic shifts of historical significance, profoundly shaking up world politics as has been seen in the refugee crisis, the Brexit referendum, and the... -
Why Liberalism Works: How True Liberal Values Produce a Freer, More Equal, Prosperous World for All by Deirdre Nansen McCloskey
RRP: £22.50£19.35An insightful and passionately written book explaining why a return to Enlightenment ideals is good for the world "Beginning with the simple but fertile idea that people should not push other people around, Deirdre McCloskey presents an elegant defense... -
Existentialism: A Reconstruction by David E. Cooper
RRP: £30.95£27.45First published in 1990, Existentialism is widely regarded as a classic introductory survey of the topic, and has helped to renew interest in existentialist philosophy. The author places existentialism within the great traditions of philosophy, and... -
The Who and Philosophy by Rocco J. Gennaro 9781498514477
RRP: £95.00£83.12The Who were one of the most memorable and influential of the 1960s British Invasion bands-memorable because of their loudness and because they destroyed instruments during performances, and influential because of their success in crafting "Power Pop"... -
Critique Of Cynical Reason by Peter Sloterdijk 9780816615865
RRP: £23.99£21.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816615865Author Peter SloterdijkFormat PaperbackPage Count 600Imprint University of Minnesota PressPublisher University of Minnesota PressDimensions(mm)... -
Critique and Praxis by Bernard E. Harcourt 9780231195737
RRP: £25.00£20.59Critical philosophy has always challenged the division between theory and practice. At its best, it aims to turn contemplation into emancipation, seeking to transform society in pursuit of equality, autonomy, and human flourishing. Yet today's critical... -
The Voyage and the Messenger: Iran and Philosophy by Henry Corbin 9781556432699
RRP: £16.99£12.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556432699Author Henry CorbinFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint North Atlantic Books,U.S.Publisher North Atlantic Books,U.S.Weight(grams)... -
Seinfeld and Philosophy: A Book about Everything and Nothing by William Irwin 9780812694093
RRP: £19.99£15.23This entertaining but thought provoking collection uses "Seinfeld" episodes to introduce readers to important concepts in philosophy. Some essays are devoted to single characters, asking questions such as "Did Jerry, like Socrates, lead an examined... -
Cinema/Politics/Philosophy by Nico Baumbach 9780231184236
RRP: £25.00£19.59Almost fifty years ago, Jean-Louis Comolli and Jean Narboni published the manifesto "Cinema/Ideology/Criticism," helping to set the agenda for a generation of film theory that used cinema as a means of critiquing capitalist ideology. In recent decades,...