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Philosophy of Love: A Partial Summing-Up by Irving Singer 9780262516174
£28.13The author of the classic philosophical treatment of love reflects on the trajectory, over decades, of his thoughts on love and other topics. In 1984, Irving Singer published the first volume of what would become a classic and much acclaimed trilogy on... -
The Messianic Reduction: Walter Benjamin and the Shape of Time by Peter Fenves
RRP: £21.99£19.19The Messianic Reduction is a groundbreaking study of Walter Benjamin's thought. Fenves places Benjamin's early writings in the context of contemporaneous philosophy, with particular attention to the work of Bergson, Cohen, Husserl, Frege, and Heidegger... -
On Human Rights by James Griffin
RRP: £31.49£25.85What is a human right? How can we tell whether a proposed human right really is one? How do we establish the content of particular human rights, and how do we resolve conflicts between them? These are pressing questions for philosophers, political... -
What Is Philosophy? by Jose Ortega y Gasset 9780393001266
RRP: £18.50£14.89A work powerful and pervading in its implications not only for metaphysics but also for art, political science, and the philosophy of history.Book InformationISBN 9780393001266Author Jose Ortega y GassetFormat PaperbackPage Count 254Imprint WW Norton &... -
Introducing Foucault: A Graphic Guide by Chris Horrocks 9781848310605
RRP: £8.99£4.04Michel Foucault's work was described at his death as 'the most important event of thought in our century'. As a philosopher, historian and political activist, he certainly left behind an enduring and influential body of work, but is this acclaim... -
Between Gaia and Ground: Four Axioms of Existence and the Ancestral Catastrophe of Late Liberalism by Elizabeth A. Povinelli
RRP: £19.99£17.54In Between Gaia and Ground Elizabeth A. Povinelli theorizes the climatic, environmental, viral, and social catastrophe present as an ancestral catastrophe through which that Indigenous and colonized peoples have been suffering for centuries. In this way,... -
Critical Affect: The Politics of Method by Ashley Barnwell 9781474451338
RRP: £20.99£19.25Critical Affect forges a path across the current impasse between critical and post-critical methods in social and cultural theory. It explores the emotional complexity of critique and maps out its enduring value for the turn to affect and ontology... -
Do Morals Matter?: Presidents and Foreign Policy from FDR to Trump by Joseph S. Nye 9780190935962
RRP: £23.49£16.15Americans constantly make moral judgments about presidents and foreign policy. Unfortunately, many of these assessments are poorly thought through. A president is either praised for the moral clarity of his statements or judged solely on the results of... -
Biopower: Foucault and Beyond by Vernon W. Cisney
RRP: £31.00£30.19Michel Foucault's notion of "biopower" has been a highly fertile concept in recent theory, influencing thinkers worldwide across a variety of disciplines and concerns. In The History of Sexuality: An Introduction, Foucault famously employed the term to... -
Srimad Bhagavatam: First Canta: Pt. 1 by S.Bhaktivedanta Prabhupada 9781845990480
£12.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845990480Author Prabhupada A.C. Bhaktivedanta SwamiFormat HardbackPage Count 450Imprint Intermex Publishing LtdPublisher Intermex Publishing... -
Hegel Contra Sociology by Gillian Rose 9781844673544
RRP: £19.99£14.44Gillian Rose is among the twentieth century's most important social philosophers. In perhaps her most significant work, Hegel Contra Sociology, Rose mounts a forceful defence of Hegelian speculative thought. Demonstrating how, in his criticisms of Kant... -
The Language of Symmetry by Benedict Rattigan
RRP: £23.99£20.99The Language of Symmetry is a re-assessment of the structure and reach of symmetry, by an interdisciplinary group of specialists from the arts, humanities, and sciences at Oxford University.It explores, amongst other topics:order and chaos in the... -
Marxism and Ethics: Freedom, Desire, and Revolution by Paul Blackledge
£25.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438439907Author Paul BlackledgeFormat PaperbackPage Count 249Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York... -
After Epistemology by Roy Harris 9780755211807
£16.15After Epistemology analyses the assumptions about language and communication underlying the theory of knowledge developed over three and a half millennia in the Western tradition. In this tradition, knowledge stands opposed on the one hand to ignorance... -
Immanence and Micropolitics: Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, Foucault and Deleuze by Christian Gilliam 9781474441407
RRP: £23.99£21.85Christian Gilliam maps the context and development of immanence and micropolitics, from Sartre to Deleuze. He argues that a philosophy of 'pure' immanence is integral to an alternative understanding of 'the political'; one that re-orients our... -
The Enchiridion: a Stoic's Guide to Contentment and Tranquility by Epictetus. Translated by George Long 9780486851952
RRP: £10.99£7.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486851952Author Epictetus. Translated by George LongFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc. -
Aesthetics by Theodor W. Adorno
RRP: £24.99£21.81This volume of lectures on aesthetics, given by Adorno in the winter semester of 1958-9, formed the foundation for his later Aesthetic Theory, widely regarded as one of his greatest works. The lectures cover a wide range of topics, from an intense... -
Stoic Philosophy Bundle (Books 1 and 2): Featuring Stoicism - Understanding and Practicing the Philosophy of the Stoics & Stoicism - Purpose and Perspectives by Kyle Faber 9781950010431
RRP: £19.95£17.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781950010431Author Kyle FaberFormat PaperbackPage Count 470Imprint Cac Publishing LLCPublisher Cac Publishing LLCWeight(grams) 685gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
The Flip: Epiphanies of Mind and the Future of Knowledge by Jeffrey J. Kripal
£15.38"One of the most provocative new books of the year, and, for me, mindblowing." -Michael Pollan, author of The Omnivore's Dilemma and How to Change Your Mind"Kripal makes many sympathetic points about the present spiritual state of America. . . . [He]... -
Jeremy Bentham by Michael Quinn 9781509521913
RRP: £16.99£15.22Jeremy Bentham - philosopher, theorist of law and of the art of government - was among the most influential figures of the early nineteenth century, and the approach he pioneered - utilitarianism - remains central to the modern world. In this new... -
Cities and Thrones and Powers: Towards a Plotinian Politics by Stephen R L Clark 9781621388555
RRP: £20.00£18.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621388555Author Stephen R L ClarkFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint Angelico PressPublisher Angelico PressWeight(grams) 481gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
Gadamer's Century: Essays in Honor of Hans-Georg Gadamer by Jeff Malpas 9780262632478
£36.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262632478Author Jeff MalpasFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 608g -
The End of Progress: Decolonizing the Normative Foundations of Critical Theory by Amy Allen 9780231173254
RRP: £22.00£17.36While post- and decolonial theorists have thoroughly debunked the idea of historical progress as a Eurocentric, imperialist, and neocolonialist fallacy, many of the most prominent contemporary thinkers associated with the Frankfurt School-Jurgen... -
The Neutral: Lecture Course at the College de France (1977-1978) by Roland Barthes
RRP: £30.00£23.29"I define the Neutral as that which outplays the paradigm, or rather I call Neutral everything that baffles paradigm." With these words, Roland Barthes describes a concept that profoundly shaped his work and was the subject of a landmark series of... -
Aristotle on the Apparent Good: Perception, Phantasia, Thought, and Desire by Jessica Moss 9780198707943
RRP: £36.49£27.95Aristotle holds that we desire things because they appear good to us-a view still dominant in philosophy now. But what is it for something to appear good? Why does pleasure in particular tend to appear good, as Aristotle holds? And how do appearances of... -
The Space that Separates: A Realist Theory of Art by Nick Wilson
RRP: £41.99£36.75The Space that Separates: A Realist Theory of Art radically challenges our assumptions about what art is, what art does, who is doing it, and why it matters. Rejecting the modernist and market-driven misconception that art is only what artists do, Wilson... -
Why We Are Restless: On the Modern Quest for Contentment by Benjamin Storey
RRP: £22.00£17.36A compelling exploration of how our pursuit of happiness makes us unhappyWe live in an age of unprecedented prosperity, yet everywhere we see signs that our pursuit of happiness has proven fruitless. Dissatisfied, we seek change for the sake of... -
Veronica Mars and Philosophy: Investigating the Mysteries of Life (Which is a Bitch Until You Die) by George A. Dunn 9781118843703
RRP: £15.95£10.38Veronica Mars is a kick-ass private investigator, smart and street-wise. But what can her character tell us about larger life issues, such as knowledge and skepticism, trust and friendship, revenge, race, gender, and feminism? What makes her tick? And... -
The Letters of Marsilio Ficino: No. 1 by Arthur Farndell 9780856835162
RRP: £25.00£22.03MARSILIO FICINO of Florence (1433-99) was one of the most influential thinkers of the Renaissance. He put before society a new ideal of human nature, emphasising its divine potential. As teacher and guide to a remarkable circle of men, he made a vital... -
Stay: A History of Suicide and the Arguments Against It by Jennifer Michael Hecht
RRP: £12.99£11.46A leading public critic reminds us of the compelling reasons people throughout time have found to stay alive Worldwide, more people die by suicide than by murder, and many more are left behind to grieve. Despite distressing statistics that show suicide... -
Pluralism: Against the Demand for Consensus by Nicholas Rescher 9780198236016
RRP: £61.00£53.21Nicholas Rescher presents a critical reaction against two currently influential tendencies of thought. On the one hand, he rejects the facile relativism that pervades contemporary social and academic life. On the other hand, he opposes the rationalism... -
On Tyranny: Corrected and Expanded Edition, Including the Strauss-Kojeve Correspondence by Leo Strauss
RRP: £26.00£24.85"On Tyranny" is Leo Strauss' classic reading of Xenophon's dialogue Hiero, or Tyrannicus, in which the tyrant Hiero and the poet Simonides discuss the advantages and disadvantages of exercising tyranny. Included are a translation of the dialogue from its... -
Colin Wilson's 'occult Trilogy': a Guide for Students by Colin Stanley 9781846947063
RRP: £9.99£8.17The 'Occult Trilogy' is the collective label applied to Colin Wilson's three major works on the occult: The Occult (1971); Mysteries: an Investigation into the Occult, the Paranormal and the Supernatural (1978) and Beyond the Occult (1988). They amounted... -
Ethics of the Real: Kant and Lacan by Alenka Zupancic 9781844677870
RRP: £19.99£17.20The idea of Kantian ethics is both simple and revolutionary: it proposes a moral law independent of any notion of a pre-established Good or any 'human inclination' such as love, sympathy or fear. In attempting to interpret such a revolutionary... -
The Soul of the World by Roger Scruton
RRP: £14.99£11.50In The Soul of the World, renowned philosopher Roger Scruton defends the experience of the sacred against today's fashionable forms of atheism. He argues that our personal relationships, moral intuitions, and aesthetic judgments hint at a transcendent... -
Gluttony: The Seven Deadly Sins by Francine Prose 9780195156997
£18.03Part of a series of highly entertaining books on the history of sinning. Eating too much is one of the Western world's greatest problems, but relatively few people would consider it a crime against God. Yet even as gluttony has ceased to be an evil, food... -
Hegel's Philosophy of Nature: Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences (1830), Part II by A. V. Miller 9780199272679
RRP: £52.00£40.98This is a much-needed reissue of the standard English translation of Hegel's Philosophy of Nature, originally published in 1970. The Philosophy of Nature is the second part of Hegel's Encyclopaedia of the Philosophical Sciences, all of which is now... -
The God of the Philosophers by Anthony Kenny 9780198249689
RRP: £48.49£42.23This provocative book examines some of the principal attributes traditionally ascribed to God in western theism, particularly omniscience and omnipotence. From his discussion of a number of related topics, including a comprehensive treatment of the... -
The Stone Reader: Modern Philosophy in 133 Arguments by Peter Catapano
RRP: £19.99£17.37Once solely the province of ivory-tower professors and university classrooms, contemporary philosophy was finally emancipated from its academic closet in 2010, when The Stone was launched in The New York Times. First appearing as an online series, the... -
The Ethics of Virtual and Augmented Reality: Building Worlds by Erick Jose Ramirez 9781032181479
RRP: £39.99£36.43This book offers new ways of thinking about and assessing the impact of virtual reality on its users. It argues that we must go beyond traditional psychological concepts of VR "presence" to better understand the many varieties of virtual experiences.The...