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Life and Teaching of the Masters of the Far East: Volume 1 by Baird T. Spalding
RRP: $12.89$8.71Introduction of the Master Emil. Visit to the "Temple of Silence". Astral Projection. Walking on Water. Visit to the Healing Temple. Emil Talks about America. The Snowmen of the Himalayas. New Light on the Teachings of Jesus.Book InformationISBN... -
The Arriere-pays by Yves Bonnefoy
RRP: $24.51$21.41Since the publication of his first book in 1953, Yves Bonnefoy has become one of the most important French poets of the postwar years. At last, we have the long-awaited English translation of his celebrated work "L'Arriere-Pays", which takes us to the... -
Foucault's Last Decade by Stuart Elden 9780745683911
RRP: $70.95$61.57On 26 August 1974, Michel Foucault completed work on Discipline and Punish, and on that very same day began writing the first volume of The History of Sexuality. A little under ten years later, on 25 June 1984, shortly after the second and third volumes... -
Normal Now: Individualism as Conformity by Mark G. E. Kelly 9781509550951
RRP: $20.63$18.59This is a book about what we consider normal. It details how the very concept of normality emerged in the modern era, and how it has changed over the centuries. By the mid-twentieth century, the expansion of norms across various areas of human endeavour... -
Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead: A Summary Study of Srila Vyasadeva's Srimad Bhagavatam, 10th Canto by S. Prabhupada Bhaktivedanta 9781602930070
$20.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781602930070Author A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami PrabhupadaFormat HardbackPage Count 744Imprint Krishna Books IncorporatedPublisher Krishna Books... -
Plotinus by Eyjolfur Kjalar Emilsson
RRP: $33.53$29.19Plotinus (AD 205-270) was the founder of Neoplatonism, whose thought has had a profound influence on medieval philosophy, and on Western philosophy more broadly. In this engaging book, Eyjolfur K. Emilsson introduces and explains the full spectrum of... -
Philosophy of Existence by Karl Jaspers
RRP: $30.95$26.88Philosophy of Existence was first presented to the public as a series of lectures invited by The German Academy of Frankfurt. In preparing these lectures Jaspers, whom the Nazis had already dismissed from his professorship at Heidelberg, knew that he was... -
Works: v. 7 by Philo
RRP: $32.19$30.17Syncretistic exegesis.The philosopher Philo was born about 20 BC to a prominent Jewish family in Alexandria, the chief home of the Jewish Diaspora as well as the chief center of Hellenistic culture; he was trained in Greek as well as Jewish ... -
Philosophy of Logic: Second Edition by W. V. Quine 9780674665637
RRP: $36.06$28.57With his customary incisiveness, W. V. Quine presents logic as the product of two factors, truth and grammar-but argues against the doctrine that the logical truths are true because of grammar or language. Rather, in presenting a general theory of... -
Roger Scruton: The Philosopher on Dover Beach by Mark Dooley 9781847060136
RRP: $28.37$25.08This book presents an intriguing portrait of Roger Scruton and his philosophy. Roger Scruton is one of the outstanding British philosophers of the post-war years. Why then is he at best ignored and at worst reviled? Part of the reason is that he is an... -
Critical Thinking: A Beginner's Guide by Sharon M. Kaye
RRP: $14.18$9.03Critical thinking shows people how to analyze arguments, speeches, and newspaper articles to see which faults the authors are making in their reasoning. It looks at the structure of language to demonstrate rules by which you can identify good analytical... -
Kant in Brazil by Frederick Rauscher
RRP: $42.56$41.31A selection of the best papers written by Brazilian Kant scholars. Kant in Brazil is a collected volume of essays conceived at the 2005 International Kant Congress in Sao Paulo as a way to make accessible to Anglophone Kant scholars some of the best... -
Emmanuel Levinas: Basic Philosophical Writings by Adriaan Theodoor Peperzak
RRP: $21.92$19.44Emmanuel Levinas (1906-1996) has exerted a profound influence on 20th-century continental philosophy. This anthology, including Levinas's key philosophical texts over a period of more than forty years, provides an ideal introduction to his thought and... -
The Classic of Changes: A New Translation of the I Ching as Interpreted by Wang Bi by Richard John Lynn 9780231082952
RRP: $28.38$19.92Used in China as a book of divination and source of wisdom for more than three thousand years, the I Ching has been taken up by millions of English-language speakers in the nineteenth century. The first translation ever to appear in English that includes... -
The Spirit of Zen: A Way of Life, Work, and Art in the Far East by Alan Watts 9780802130563
RRP: $20.64$12.02Alan Watts s The Spirit of Zen was one of the first books to introduce the basic foundation of Zen Buddhism to English-speaking audiences. This volume still stands as one of the most lucid and concise explanations of the origins and defining principles... -
Phenomenology of the Icon: Mediating God through the Image by Stephanie Rumpza
RRP: $109.65$99.33How can something finite mediate an infinite God? Weaving patristics, theology, art history, aesthetics, and religious practice with the hermeneutic phenomenology of Hans-George Gadamer and Jean-Luc Marion, Stephanie Rumpza proposes a new answer to this... -
Essays and Reviews: 1959-2002 by Bernard Williams 9780691168609
RRP: $28.38$22.91Bernard Williams was one of the most important philosophers of the past fifty years, but he was also a distinguished critic and essayist with an elegant style and a rare ability to communicate complex ideas to a wide public. This is the first collection... -
Why Some Things Should Not Be for Sale: The Moral Limits of Markets by Debra Satz 9780199892617
RRP: $33.53$20.87For many, markets are the most efficient way in general to organize production and distribution in a complex economy. But what about those markets we might label noxious--markets in addictive drugs, say, or in sex? In Why Some Things Should Not Be for... -
Michael Oakeshott: Early Political Writings 1925-30: A discussion of some matters preliminary to the study of political philosophy' and 'The philosophical approach to politics: Issue 5 by Michael Oakeshott 9781845400538
$45.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845400538Author Michael OakeshottFormat HardbackPage Count 250Imprint Imprint AcademicPublisher Imprint AcademicWeight(grams) 700g -
Blade Runner 2049: A Philosophical Exploration by Timothy Shanahan
RRP: $47.72$41.96Widely acclaimed upon its release as a future classic, Denis Villeneuve's Blade Runner 2049 is visually stunning, philosophically profound, and a provocative extension of the story in Ridley Scott's Blade Runner. Containing specially commissioned... -
The Mind in Nature by C. B. Martin 9780199575688
RRP: $53.52$53.25What are the most fundamental features of the world? Do minds stand outside the natural order? Is a unified picture of mental and physical reality possible? The Mind in Nature provides a staunchly realist account of the world as a unified system... -
The Crooked Timber of Humanity: Chapters in the History of Ideas - Second Edition by Isaiah Berlin
RRP: $28.38$20.19"Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made."--Immanuel Kant Isaiah Berlin was one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century--an activist of the intellect who marshaled vast erudition and eloquence in defense... -
Tao Te Ching Illustrated: The Way to Goodness and Power by Lao Tzu
RRP: $38.69$25.70No understanding of Chinese civilization is possible without a grasp of Taoism, the philosophy that has shaped not just Chinese spirituality but also art, science and politics. And it was in the Tao Te Ching, written around 300BC, that the fundamental... -
Unconditional Equals by Anne Phillips 9780691226163
RRP: $24.50$19.50Why equality cannot be conditional on a shared human "nature" but has to be for allFor centuries, ringing declarations about all men being created equal appealed to a shared human nature as the reason to consider ourselves equals. But appeals to natural... -
Using Gramsci: A New Approach by Michele Filippini
RRP: $29.66$23.14Thought of as one of the world's greatest political theorists, Antonio Gramsci's writings push readers to interpret and change the world. In Using Gramsci, Michele Filippini enlarges upon his seminal works, disentangling it from the prevailing orthodoxy... -
Why the World Doesn't Seem to Make Sense: An Inquiry into Science, Philosophy & Perception by Steve Hagen 9781591811800
RRP: $25.79$16.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781591811800Author Steve HagenFormat PaperbackPage Count 303Imprint Sentient PublicationsPublisher Sentient PublicationsWeight(grams) 442g -
The Attack of the Blob: Hannah Arendt's Concept of the Social by Hanna Fenichel Pitkin
RRP: $38.70$37.73This study seeks to resolve the paradox of Hannah Arendt's ideas; that she intended her work to liberate and empower and to restore our capacity for concerted political action whilst at the same time developed a metaphor of "the social" as an alien, all... -
The Limits of Moral Obligation: Moral Demandingness and Ought Implies Can by Marcel van Ackeren
RRP: $56.75$49.59This volume responds to the growing interest in finding explanations for why moral claims may lose their validity based on what they ask of their addressees. Two main ideas relate to that question: the moral demandingness objection and the principle... -
Stupidity by Avital Ronell
RRP: $23.21$21.03In Stupidity Avital Ronell explores the fading empire of cognition, modulating stupidity into idiocy, puerility, and the figure of the ridiculous philosopher instituted by Kant. Drawing on a range of writers including Dostoevsky, Schlegel, Musil, and... -
Music and the Ineffable by Vladimir Jankelevitch 9780691090474
RRP: $64.50$50.46Vladimir Jankelevitch left behind a remarkable ?uvre steeped as much in philosophy as in music. His writings on moral quandaries reflect a lifelong devotion to music and performance, and, as a counterpoint, he wrote on music aesthetics and on modernist... -
The Book of Sleep by Haytham El Wardany
RRP: $16.76$14.78Now in paperback, The Book of Sleep is a landmark in contemporary Arabic literature. What is sleep? How can this most unproductive of human states-metaphorically called death's shadow or considered the very pinnacle of indolence-be envisioned as action... -
God Untamed: Out of the Spiritual Comfort Zone by Johannes Hartl 9781910012697
RRP: $16.76$14.20The need for spirituality in the Western world has never been greater. At the same time, churches are losing more and more members. The West is in a deep crisis of faith. How so? Because too often we are content with superficial answers and shallow... -
Reason and Revolution by Herbert Marcuse 9781032533919
RRP: $24.50$22.28Few philosophers have had a more lasting impact on the philosophy of history than Friedrich Hegel. Reason and Revolution is Herbert Marcuse's brilliant interpretation of Hegel's philosophy and the influence it has had on political thought, from the... -
Dispositif: A Cartography by Greg Bird 9780262544337
RRP: $61.92$43.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262544337Author Greg BirdFormat PaperbackPage Count 514Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 709gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 178mm * 33mm -
Conscience: The Origins of Moral Intuition by Patricia S. Churchland
RRP: $28.37$23.17Patricia Churchland, the distinguished founder of neurophilosophy, reaches beyond the familiar argument of nature versus nurture to bring together insights from philosophy and revolutionary research in neuroscience. Scientific research may not be able to... -
Pandora's Book: 401 Philosophical Questions to Help You Lose Your Mind (with answers) by David Birch
RRP: $21.92$18.85Dare to think. Are you inside your body? Does yesterday still exist? Is it possible to have dignified sex? This book is filled with such questions, hundreds of them. Its aim is not to teach or lecture, but to jolt you into thinking for yourself. It asks... -
The World of Image in Islamic Philosophy: Ibn Sina, Suhrawardi, Shahrazuri and Beyond by L. W. C. van Lit 9781474441230
RRP: $37.40$30.16Using an innovative approach, Van Lit looks at the curious idea concerning eschatology proposed by Ibn Sina.Book InformationISBN 9781474441230Author L. W. C. van LitFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh... -
The Mathematics of the Gods and the Algorithms of Men: A Cultural History by Paolo Zellini
RRP: $14.18$9.18Is mathematics a discovery or an invention? Do numbers truly exist? What sort of reality do formulas describe?The complexity of mathematics - its abstract rules and obscure symbols - can seem very distant from the everyday. There are those things that... -
Masochism: Coldness and Cruelty & Venus in Furs by Gilles Deleuze
RRP: $28.38$21.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780942299557Author Gilles DeleuzeFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Zone BooksPublisher Zone BooksWeight(grams) 476gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 150mm * 23mm -
Philology: The Forgotten Origins of the Modern Humanities by James Turner
RRP: $28.38$22.91Many today do not recognize the word, but "philology" was for centuries nearly synonymous with humanistic intellectual life, encompassing not only the study of Greek and Roman literature and the Bible but also all other studies of language and...