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Lions Hans Blumenberg 9780857428264
RRP: £9.99£8.82For distinguished philosopher Hans Blumenberg, lions were a life-long obsession. Lions, translated by Kari Driscoll, collects thirty-two of Blumenberg's philosophical vignettes to reveal that the figure of the lion unites two of his other great... -
The Ethics of Deconstruction: Derrida and Levinas by Simon Critchley
RRP: £23.99£19.81This is an expanded edition of the first book to argue for the ethical turn in Derrida's work. Simon Critchley's first book, The Ethics of Deconstruction, was originally published to great acclaim in 1992. It was the first book to argue for the ethical... -
Between Saying and Doing: Towards an Analytic Pragmatism by Robert B. Brandom 9780199585540
£32.60Between Saying and Doing aims to reconcile pragmatism (in both its classical American and its Wittgensteinian forms) with analytic philosophy. It investigates the relations between the meaning of linguistic expressions and their use. Giving due weight... -
Read My Desire: Lacan Against the Historicists by Joan Copjec 9781781688885
RRP: £19.99£18.70In Read My Desire, Joan Copjec stages a confrontation between the theories of Jacques Lacan and those of Michel Foucault, protagonists of two powerful modern disciplines-psychoanalysis and historicism. Ordinarily, these modes of thinking only cross... -
Isaiah Berlin: An Interpretation of His Thought by John Gray
RRP: £25.00£18.51Isaiah Berlin (1909-1997) was the greatest intellectual historian of the twentieth century. But his work also made an original and important contribution to moral and political philosophy and to liberal theory. In 1921, at the age of eleven, Isaiah... -
Thomas Hobbes: Behemoth by Paul Seaward 9780198701651
RRP: £52.00£51.83Behemoth is Thomas Hobbes's narrative of the English Civil Wars from the beginning of the Scottish revolution in 1637 to the Restoration of the Monarchy in 1660, and is his only composition to address directly the history of the events which formed the... -
Aristotle: Eudemian Ethics by Brad Inwood 9780521121422
RRP: £23.99£16.18Aristotle's Eudemian Ethics has been unjustly neglected in comparison with its more famous counterpart the Nicomachean Ethics. This is in large part due to the fact that until recently no complete translation of the work has been available. But the... -
Ecocriticism on the Edge: The Anthropocene as a Threshold Concept by Timothy Clark
RRP: £26.99£23.44The twenty-first century has seen an increased awareness of the forms of environmental destruction that cannot immediately be seen, localised or, by some, even acknowledged. Ecocriticism on the Edge explores the possibility of a new mode of critical... -
Arguing About Bioethics by Stephen Holland
RRP: £54.99£48.72Arguing About Bioethics is a fresh and exciting collection of essential readings in bioethics, offering a comprehensive introduction to and overview of the field. Influential contributions from established philosophers and bioethicists, such as Peter... -
The Great Philosophers: Plato Professor Bernard Williams 9781399612340
RRP: £5.99£4.50'Courage is knowing what not to fear' Plato'One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors' Without the work of Plato, western thought is, quite literally, unthinkable. No single influence... -
More than Meets the Eye: What Blindness Brings to Art by Georgina Kleege
RRP: £35.49£30.50In the quarter century following the enactment of the Americans with Disabilities Act, art museums, along with other public institutions, were tasked with making their facilities and collections more accessible to people with disabilities. Although blind... -
S Lewis vs the New Atheists by Peter S. Williams 9781842277706
RRP: £14.99£14.85The book will counter the 'new atheist' movement using the arguments of C.S. Lewis, thereby appealing to readers interested in both loci and showing that there is nothing especially 'new' about the new atheism. How might C.S. Lewis, the greatest... -
In Defense of Anarchism by Robert Paul Wolff
RRP: £23.00£18.38In Defense of Anarchism is a 1970 book by the philosopher Robert Paul Wolff, in which the author defends individualist anarchism. He argues that individual autonomy and state authority are mutually exclusive and that, as individual autonomy is... -
The Benjamin Files Fredric Jameson 9781839765575
RRP: £14.99£12.55The Benjamin Files offers a comprehensive new reading of all of Benjamin's major works and a great number of his shorter book reviews, notes and letters. Its premise is that Benjamin was an anti-philosophical, anti-systematic thinker whose conceptual... -
Speech Genres and Other Late Essays by M. M. Bakhtin
RRP: £19.99£17.94Speech Genres and Other Late Essays presents six short works from Bakhtin's Esthetics of Creative Discourse, published in Moscow in 1979. This is the last of Bakhtin's extant manuscripts published in the Soviet Union. All but one of these essays (the one... -
Structuralism and Poststructuralism for Beginners by Donald D. Palmer 9781934389102
RRP: £12.99£11.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781934389102Author Donald D. PalmerFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint For BeginnersPublisher For Beginners -
Applied Ethics by Peter Singer 9780198750673
£45.80The aim of this series is to bring together important recent writings in major areas of philosophical inquiry, selected from a variety of sources, mostly periodicals, which may not be conveniently available to the university student or the general reader... -
The Utopia Experiment Dylan Evans 9781447261308
RRP: £10.99£9.04As read on BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week.Imagine you have survived an apocalypse. Civilization as you knew it is no more. What will life be like and how will you cope?In 2006, Dylan Evans set out to answer these questions. He left his job in a high-tech... -
Politics of Modernism by Raymond Williams 9781844675807
RRP: £16.99£14.13Considered to be the founding father of British cultural theory, Williams was concerned throughout his life to apply a materialist and socialist analysis to all forms of culture, defined generously and inclusively as "structures of feeling." In this... -
Justice: A Reader by Michael J. Sandel 9780195335125
RRP: £38.99£36.59Justice brings together in one indispensable volume essential readings on justice and moral reasoning. With readings from major thinkers from the classical era up to the present, the collection provides a thematic overview of the concept of justice... -
Philosophy 101 by Socrates - An Introduction to Philosophy via Plato`s Apology Peter Kreeft 9781587318306
RRP: £10.00£9.90Philosophy means "the love of wisdom." Kreeft uses the dialogues of Socrates to help the reader grow in that love. He says that no master of the art of philosophizing has ever been more simple, clear, and accessible to beginners as has Socrates. He... -
Other Lives: Mind and World in Indian Buddhism by Sonam Kachru
RRP: £30.00£23.29Human experience is not confined to waking life. Do experiences in dreams matter? Humans are not the only living beings who have experiences. Does nonhuman experience matter? The Buddhist philosopher Vasubandhu, writing during the late fourth and early... -
Solidarity in Conflict: A Democratic Theory by Rochelle DuFord
RRP: £58.00£50.17Democracy has become disentangled from our ordinary lives. Mere cooperation or ethical consumption now often stands in for a robust concept of solidarity that structures the entirety of sociality and forms the basis of democratic culture. How did... -
Not Born Yesterday: The Science of Who We Trust and What We Believe by Hugo Mercier 9780691178707
RRP: £25.00£19.89Why people are not as gullible as we thinkNot Born Yesterday explains how we decide who we can trust and what we should believe-and argues that we're pretty good at making these decisions. In this lively and provocative book, Hugo Mercier demonstrates... -
Life of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola. Oration by Gianfrancesco Pico della Mirandola
RRP: £29.95£24.03The 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,... -
Set Theory and its Philosophy: A Critical Introduction by Michael Potter
£31.60Michael Potter presents a comprehensive new philosophical introduction to set theory. Anyone wishing to work on the logical foundations of mathematics must understand set theory, which lies at its heart. Potter offers a thorough account of cardinal and... -
Aping Mankind Raymond Tallis 9781138640320
RRP: £18.99£17.17Neuroscience has made astounding progress in the understanding of the brain. What should we make of its claims to go beyond the brain and explain consciousness, behaviour and culture? Where should we draw the line? In this brilliant critique Raymond... -
Infinitely Demanding: Ethics of Commitment, Politics of Resistance by Simon Critchley
£16.95The clearest, boldest and most systematic statement of Simon Critchley's influential views on philosophy, ethics, and politics, Infinitely Demanding identifies a massive political disappointment at the heart of liberal democracy. Arguing that what is... -
Climate Matters: Ethics in a Warming World by John Broome 9780393937961
£21.88Esteemed philosopher John Broome avoids the familiar ideological stances on climate change policy and examines the issue through an invigorating new lens. As he considers the moral dimensions of climate change, he reasons clearly through what universal... -
Deep Thought: 42 Fantastic Quotes That Define Philosophy by Gary Cox 9781350066588
RRP: £12.99£9.89Gary Cox guides us through 42 of the most misunderstood, misquoted, provocative and significant quotes in the history of philosophy providing a witty and compelling commentary along the way. This entertaining and illuminating collection of quotes doesn't... -
Christian D. Larson - The Definitive Collection - Volume 1 of 6 by Christian D Larson 9780990964308
RRP: £16.50£15.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780990964308Author Christian D LarsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 516Imprint Shanon AllenPublisher Shanon AllenWeight(grams) 748gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm... -
Aristotle's Ethics by David Bostock 9780198752653
RRP: £52.99£41.68David Bostock presents a fresh critical introduction to one of the great classics of moral philosophy. Aristotle's Nicomachaen Ethics is and deserves to be his most widely studied work, for much of what it has to say is still important for today's debate... -
Mind, Truth and Teleology: An Introduction to Scholastic Philosophy by John Peterson 9783868385557
RRP: £20.95£17.54This book deals with teleology, truth, predication, knowledge and belief, universals, body and mind, soul, and reason. Its approach is integrative, scholastic and analytic. Teleology is required for causality, truth and reason. Where the measure is an... -
Aristotle: Selections by Aristotle 9780915145676
RRP: £29.99£24.52Selections seeks to provide an accurate and readable translation that will allow the reader to follow Aristotle's use of crucial technical terms and to grasp the details of his argument. Unlike anthologies that combine translations by many hands, this... -
Isn't This Fun?: Investigating the Serious Business of Enjoying Ourselves by Michael Foley 9781471154829
RRP: £9.99£6.61Michael Foley, the author of bestselling The Age of Absurdity, wants to understand why he doesn't appear to be experiencing as much 'fun' as everyone else . . . And so, with characteristic wit and humour, Foley sets out to understand what fun really... -
Homo Viator - Introduction to the Metaphysic of Hope Gabriel Marcel 9781587313615
RRP: £16.00£15.77This edition of Marcel's inspiring Homo Viator has been updated to includle fifty pages of new materials available for the first time in English, making this the first English-language edition to conform to the standard French edition. Here,... -
An Education in Judgment: Hannah Arendt and the Humanities by D N Rodowick
RRP: £31.00£26.33Rodowick takes after the theories of Hannah Arendt and argues that thinking is an art we practice with and for each other in our communities. In An Education in Judgment, philosopher D. N. Rodowick makes the definitive case for a philosophical humanistic... -
Aesthetics and Subjectivity by Andrew Bowie 9780719057380
RRP: £25.00£22.38New, completely revised and re-written edition. Offers a detailed but accessible account of the vital German philosophical tradition of thinking about art and the self. Looks at recent historical research and contemporary arguments in philosophy and... -
The Tao of Daily Life: The Mysteries of the Orient Revealed, the Joys of Inner Harmony Found, the Path to Enlightenment Illuminated by Derek Lin 9781585425839
RRP: £12.99£11.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for COVR Award.Book InformationISBN 9781585425839Author Derek LinFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Jeremy P TarcherPublisher Penguin Putnam... -
The Theology of Liberalism: Political Philosophy and the Justice of God by Eric Nelson 9780674240940
RRP: £27.95£22.50One of our most important political theorists pulls the philosophical rug out from under modern liberalism, then tries to place it on a more secure footing.We think of modern liberalism as the novel product of a world reinvented on a secular basis after...