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Species of Spaces and Other Pieces by Georges Perec
RRP: £10.99£7.99Georges Perec produced some of the most entertaining and spirited essays of his age. His literary output was amazingly varied in form and style and this generous selection of Perec's non-fictional work also demonstrates his characteristic lightness of... -
Key Writings by Henri Bergson
RRP: £24.99£23.36The twentieth century - with its unprecedented advances in technology and scientific understanding - saw the birth of a distinctively new and 'modern' age. Henri Bergson stood as one of the most important philosophical voices of that tumultuous time. An... -
Form is... Emptiness ...is Form: The Heart Sutra by Robert Wydler Haduch 9783952440926
RRP: £12.00£9.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783952440926Author Robert Wydler HaduchFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Zentrum Fur Zen-BuddhismusPublisher Zentrum Fur Zen-BuddhismusWeight(grams)... -
Locke on Toleration by Richard Vernon 9780521139694
RRP: £23.99£19.99John Locke's Letter Concerning Toleration (1689) is one of the most widely-read texts in the political theory of toleration, and a key text for the liberal tradition. However, Locke also defended toleration more extensively in three subsequent Letters,... -
The Path of the Warrior Ornate Box Set: The Art of War, The Way of the Samurai, The Book of Five Rings by Sun Tzu 9781398815438
RRP: £29.99£21.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398815438Author Sun TzuImprint Arcturus Publishing LtdPublisher Arcturus Publishing Ltd -
On the Soul: and Other Psychological works by Aristotle
RRP: £9.99£7.32'. . . the more honourable animals have been allotted a more honourable soul. . . ' What is the nature of the soul? It is this question that Aristotle sought to answer in De Anima (On the Soul). In doing so he offers a psychological theory that... -
The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves by Matt Ridley 9780007267125
RRP: £10.99£7.46Shortlisted for the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-fiction 2011. Life is on the up. We are wealthier, healthier, happier, kinder, cleaner, more peaceful, more equal and longer-lived than any previous generation. Thanks to the... -
Essays and Aphorisms by Arthur Schopenhauer
RRP: £10.99£7.99One of the greatest philosophers of the nineteenth century, Schopenhauer (1788-1860) believed that human action is determined not by reason but by 'will' - the blind and irrational desire for physical existence. This selection of his writings on... -
A New History of Western Philosophy by Anthony Kenny
RRP: £34.49£25.54This book is no less than a guide to the whole of Western philosophy -- the ideas that have undergirded our civilization for two-and-a-half thousand years. Anthony Kenny tells the story of philosophy from ancient Greece through the Middle Ages and the... -
Colour and Meaning: Art, Science and Symbolism by John Gage
RRP: £24.95£17.35Is colour just a physiological phenomenon? Does it have an effect on feelings? This vividly written book, the sequel to the award-winning Colour and Culture, is ultimately informed by the conviction that the meaning of colour lies in the particular... -
Conservatism: An Anthology of Social and Political Thought from David Hume to the Present by Jerry Z. Muller
RRP: £35.00£28.35At a time when the label "conservative" is indiscriminately applied to fundamentalists, populists, libertarians, fascists, and the advocates of one or another orthodoxy, this volume offers a nuanced and historically informed presentation of what is... -
The Logic Manual by Volker Halbach 9780199587841
RRP: £11.99£11.66The Logic Manual is a clear and concise introduction to logic for beginning philosophy students. It offers a complete introductory course, guiding the reader carefully through the topics in logic that are most important for the study of philosophy. It... -
Absence – On the Culture and Philosophy of the Far East by BC Han
RRP: £12.99£12.11Western thinking has long been dominated by essence, by a preoccupation with that which dwells in itself and delimits itself from the other. By contrast, Far Eastern thought is centred not on essence but on absence. The fundamental topos of Far Eastern... -
Metaphysical Realism and Anti-Realism by J. T. M. Miller
RRP: £17.00£14.72Minimally, metaphysical realists hold that there exist some mind-independent entities. Metaphysical realists also (tend to) hold that we can speak meaningfully or truthfully about mind-independent entities. Those who reject metaphysical realism deny one... -
Aesthetics: A Comprehensive Anthology Steven M. Cahn (CUNY Graduate Centre) 9781118948323
RRP: £37.95£34.62A revised second edition of the bestselling anthology on the major figures and themes in aesthetics and philosophy of art, the ideal resource for a comprehensive introduction to the study of aesthetics Aesthetics: A Comprehensive Anthology offers a... -
Silence: In the Age of Noise by Erling Kagge
RRP: £9.99£7.32From the Norwegian explorer, a stunning meditation on the power of embracing silenceAn author for our noisy times, full of a rare and deeply redemptive languor and perspective' Alain de... -
How to Pray: Reflections & Essays by C. S. Lewis
RRP: £9.99£6.84C. S. Lewis here offers wisdom and lessons that illuminate our private dialogue with God-prayer-in this collection drawn from the breadth of his writings. The revered teacher and bestselling author of such classic Christian works as Mere... -
The Positive Power of Negative Emotions: How harnessing your darker feelings can help you see a brighter dawn by Tim Lomas
RRP: £14.99£10.05The pursuit of happiness is universal. Most of us would like to experience more joy and elation, but when we feel like we are falling short of this ideal, we can often feel downcast. We may even see 'darker' emotional states, like anger and envy, as... -
The Visionaries: Arendt, Beauvoir, Rand, Weil and the Salvation of Philosophy by Wolfram Eilenberger 9780241537374
RRP: £25.00£18.02'The question Eilenberger sets out to answer in this ambitious, enthralling book: what use is philosophy in the middle of a war?' The Sunday TimesThe year is 1933. Hannah Arendt escapes Berlin, seeking refuge among the stateless gathering in Paris... -
Practices for Embodied Living: Experiencing the Wisdom of Your Body by Hillary L.,PhD McBride 9781587436246
RRP: £15.99£11.89In The Wisdom of Your Body, clinical psychologist and award-winning researcher Hillary McBride explored the ways many of us inherit a broken understanding of the body and offered a more compassionate, healthy, and holistic perspective on embodied life... -
What Are Children For?: On Ambivalence and Choice Anastasia Berg 9780861549481
RRP: £20.00£14.29Having children is one of the biggest decisions you’ll make in your life. Increasingly, we aren’t making it at all. Across the developed world, fewer and fewer people are becoming parents, and many see themselves as never doing so. We seek... -
How To Love by Thich Nhat Hanh
RRP: £6.00£4.58How to Love is part of a charming series of books from Zen Master, Thich Nhat Hanh, exploring the essential foundations of mindful meditation and practise. How to Love shows that when we feel closer to our loved ones, we are also more connected to the... -
Knowledge: A Very Short Introduction by Jennifer Nagel
RRP: £8.99£6.65What is knowledge? How does it differ from mere belief? Do you need to be able to justify a claim in order to count as knowing it? How can we know that the outer world is real and not a dream? Questions like these are ancient ones, and the branch of... -
A Monk's Guide to a Clean House and Mind by Shoukei Matsumoto
RRP: £8.99£6.65Cleanliness is next to enlightenment. In this Japanese bestseller a Buddhist monk explains the traditional meditative techniques that will help cleanse not only your house - but your soul.Live clean. Feel calm. Be happy. We remove dust to sweep away our... -
Minima Moralia: Reflections from Damaged Life by Theodor Adorno
RRP: £9.99£8.40Written between 1944 and 1947, Minima Moralia is a collection of rich, lucid aphorisms and essays about life in modern capitalist society. Adorno casts his penetrating eye across society in mid-century America and finds a life deformed by capitalism... -
An Autobiography by M. K. Gandhi
RRP: £10.99£7.99Gandhi's non-violent struggles against racism, violence, and colonialism in South Africa and India had brought him to such a level of notoriety, adulation that when asked to write an autobiography midway through his career, he took it as an opportunity... -
Anti-Oedipus Gilles Deleuze (No current affiliation) 9781780936611
RRP: £24.99£22.76The collaboration of the philosopher Gilles Deleuze and the psychoanalyst Felix Guattari has been one of the most profoundly influential partnerships in contemporary thought. Anti-Oedipus is the first part of their masterpiece, Capitalism and... -
Ethical Theory: 50 Puzzles, Paradoxes, and Thought Experiments Daniel Muñoz 9781032335162
RRP: £24.99£21.81In this new kind of introduction to ethical theory, Daniel Muñoz and Sarah Stroud present 50 of the field’s most exciting puzzles, paradoxes, and thought experiments. Over the course of 11 chapters, the authors cover a huge variety of topics, starting... -
Philebus by Plato
RRP: £12.99£9.34Taking the form of a discussion between the hedonist Philebus, his naive disciple Protarchus and Socrates, Philebus is a compelling consideration of the popular belief that pleasure is the greatest attainable good. Here, Socrates speculates on the... -
The Erotic Phenomenon by Jean-Luc Marion
RRP: £24.00£23.03While humanists have pondered the subject of love to the point of obsessiveness, philosophers have steadfastly ignored it. The word philosophy means "love of wisdom," but the absence of love from philosophical discourse is curiously glaring. In "The... -
Why We Make Things and Why it Matters: The Education of a Craftsman by Peter Korn
RRP: £10.99£7.99Why do we make things? Why do we choose the emotionally and physically demanding work of bringing new objects into the world with creativity and skill? Why does it matter that we make things well? What is the nature of work? And what is the nature of a... -
The Construction of Social Reality by John R. Searle
RRP: £12.99£9.34This short treatise looks at how we construct a social reality from our sense impressions; at how, for example, we construct a "five-pound note" with all that implies in terms of value and social meaning, from the printed piece of paper we see and touch... -
For the Time Being by Annie Dillard
RRP: £14.99£8.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Literary Award (Art of the Essay) 2000.Book InformationISBN 9780375703478Author Annie DillardFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random... -
Why Marx Was Right by Terry Eagleton
RRP: £11.99£10.41One of the foremost Marxist critics of his generation forcefully argues against Marx's irrelevancy "[Eagleton is] a witty, insightful thinker with a penchant for glib asides and wry dashes of humor. It's probably the only book that makes references to... -
Investigative Aesthetics: Conflicts and Commons in the Politics of Truth by Matthew Fuller
RRP: £14.99£12.55Today, artists are engaged in investigation. They probe corruption, state violence, environmental destruction and repressive technologies. At the same time, fields not usually associated with aesthetics make powerful use of it. Journalists and legal... -
A Lover's Discourse: Fragments by Roland Barthes
RRP: £9.99£7.32'May be the most detailed, painstaking anatomy of desire that we are ever likely to see or need again... An ecstatic celebration of love and language' Washington PostThe language we use when we are in love is not a language we speak. It is a language... -
The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work by Alain de Botton 9780141027913
RRP: £12.99£9.34From one of our greatest voices in modern philosophy, author of The Course of Love, The Consolations of Philosophy, Religion for Atheists and The School of Life - a lucid exploration of the state in which most of us spend most of our lives'De Botton's... -
The End of History and the Last Man by Francis Fukuyama
RRP: £14.99£10.95A LANDMARK WORK OF POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY. A GLOBAL BESTSELLER. STILL AS RELEVANT TODAY. With the fall of Berlin Wall in 1989 the threat of the Cold War which had dominated the second half of the twentieth century vanished. And with it the West looked to... -
Logic: A Complete Introduction: Teach Yourself by Siu-Fan Lee
RRP: £14.99£10.05Your complete introduction to logicWhen you see black clouds looming and predict it's going to rain, you're using logic. When you decide that all swans are white because all the swans you've seen are white, that's logic too (even though the conclusion is... -
Diary of a Young Naturalist by Dara McAnulty 9781908213792
RRP: £16.00£10.64Winner of the 2020 Wainwright Prize, Diary of a Young Naturalist chronicles the turning of Dara McAnulty's world, from spring to summer, autumn to winter, on his home patch, at school, in the wild and in his head. Evocative, raw and beautifully written,...