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The Devil's Pleasure Palace: The Cult of Critical Theory and the Subversion of the West by Michael Walsh 9781594039270
RRP: $15.47$10.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781594039270Author Michael WalshFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Encounter Books,USAPublisher Encounter Books,USA -
An Introduction to Karl Marx by Jon Elster
RRP: $25.79$20.68A concise and comprehensive introduction to Marx's social, political and economic thought for the beginning student. Jon Elster surveys in turn each of the main themes of marxist thought: methodology, alienation, economics, exploitation, historical... -
Analogia Entis: Metaphysics: Original Structure and Universal Rhythm by Erich Przywara 9780802868596
RRP: $63.20$54.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802868596Author Erich PrzywaraFormat PaperbackPage Count 628Imprint William B Eerdmans Publishing CoPublisher William B Eerdmans Publishing... -
How Colonialism Preempted Modernity in Africa by Olufemi Taiwo
RRP: $32.24$28.47Why hasn't Africa been able to respond to the challenges of modernity and globalization? Going against the conventional wisdom that colonialism brought modernity to Africa, Olufemi Taiwo claims that Africa was already becoming modern and that colonialism... -
Fear of Knowledge: Against Relativism and Constructivism by Paul Boghossian 9780199287185
RRP: $98.04$66.51Relativist and constructivist conceptions of truth and knowledge have become orthodoxy in vast stretches of the academic world in recent times. In his long-awaited first book, Paul Boghossian critically examines such views and exposes their fundamental... -
The Sophistic Movement by G.B. Kerferd 9780521283571
RRP: $51.59$42.91This book offers an introduction to the Sophists of fifth-century Athens and a new overall interpretation of their thought. Since Plato first animadverted on their activities, the Sophists have commonly been presented as little better than intellectual... -
Being with the Dead: Burial, Ancestral Politics, and the Roots of Historical Consciousness by Hans Ruin
RRP: $28.37$24.76Philosophy, Socrates declared, is the art of dying. This book underscores that it is also the art of learning to live and share the earth with those who have come before us. Burial, with its surrounding rituals, is the most ancient documented... -
Storming Heaven - Second Edition: Class Composition and Struggle in Italian Autonomist Marxism by Steve Wright
RRP: $33.53$21.90Storming Heaven is the only book which looks at Italian workerist theory and practice, from its origins in the anti-Stalinist left of the 1950s to its heyday twenty years later. It focuses on the theme of workerism, or 'operaismo', which includes the... -
An Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind by E. J. Lowe
RRP: $38.69$34.40In this book Jonathan Lowe offers a lucid and wide-ranging introduction to the philosophy of mind. Using a problem-centred approach designed to stimulate as well as instruct, he begins with a general examination of the mind-body problem and moves on to... -
The Brain Abstracted: Simplification in the History and Philosophy of Neuroscience by M. Chirimuuta 9780262548045
RRP: $61.92$42.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262548045Author M. ChirimuutaFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
Fashion Aesthetics and Ethics: Past and Present by Louise Wallenberg 9781350198524
RRP: $33.53$28.64How are aesthetics and ethics related to the practical realities of the global fashion industry? Both have played an important role in academic fashion studies to this point, but they are most often discussed in the context of abstract phenomena such as... -
Epistemic Explanations: A Theory of Telic Normativity, and What it Explains by Ernest Sosa 9780198856467
RRP: $44.49$38.27Epistemic Explanations develops an improved virtue epistemology and uses it to explain several epistemic phenomena. Part I lays out a telic virtue epistemology that accommodates varieties of knowledge and understanding particularly pertinent to the... -
The Hand: A Philosophical Inquiry into Human Being by Raymond Tallis
RRP: $39.99$37.53What are the origins of human difference? The Hand, which is the first part of a bold philosophical inquiry into the nature of the difference between human beings and other animals, argues that it is the result of a complex sequence of events which began... -
Philosophy of Religion: The Basics by Samuel Lebens
RRP: $25.79$22.82This book introduces students and other interested readers to the philosophy of religion-a vibrant and growing field of academic philosophy. Readers will be guided through an exploration of classic and contemporary arguments for and against theism. In... -
Doing Valuable Time by Calhoun
RRP: $32.24$29.05Doing Valuable Time explores the human concern with expending our life's time well. We pursue what we take to be valuable, strive to live meaningfully, judge whether our present circumstances are good enough, and have standards for what we are willing to... -
Food Philosophy: An Introduction by David M. Kaplan 9780231167918
RRP: $38.70$30.04Food is a challenging subject. There is little consensus about how and what we should produce and consume. It is not even clear what food is or whether people have similar experiences of it. On one hand, food is recognized as a basic need, if not a basic... -
Philosophy of Childhood Today: Exploring the Boundaries by Brock Bahler 9781498542623
RRP: $55.47$48.74Although philosophy of childhood has always played some part in philosophical discourse, its emergence as a field of postmodern theory follows the rise, in the late nineteenth century, of psychoanalysis, for which childhood is a key signifier. Then in... -
Civilization and the Culture of Science: Science and the Shaping of Modernity, 1795-1935 by Stephen Gaukroger
RRP: $30.95$28.46How did science come to have such a central place in Western culture? How did cognitive values-and subsequently moral, political, and social ones-come to be modelled around scientific values? In Civilization and the Culture of Science, Stephen Gaukroger... -
The Cambridge Companion to Jung by Polly Young-Eisendrath
RRP: $39.98$32.64This second edition represents a wide-ranging critical introduction to the psychology of Carl Jung, one of the founders of psychoanalysis. Including two new essays and thorough revisions of most of the original chapters, it constitutes a radical... -
Cain's Act by Massimo Recalcati
RRP: $15.47$10.23An urgent, stirring reflection on violence and morality. "Recalcati explores the most fundamental of questions-for Cain, Abel, and every human being: can we believe in love?"-La Stampa What lies at the foundation of human history and life in a... -
I and Thou by Martin Buber 9781774641651
RRP: $8.97$8.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781774641651Author Martin BuberFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Must Have BooksPublisher Must Have BooksWeight(grams) 186gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm... -
Returning to Reality: Christian Platonism for our Times by Paul Tyson 9780718893859
RRP: $26.77$25.70Could it be that we have lost touch with some basic human realities in our day of high-tech efficiency, frenetic competition, and ceaseless consumption? Have we turned from the moral, the spiritual, and even the physical realities that make our lives... -
The Portable Edmund Burke by Edmund Burke 9780140267600
$19.57The intellectual wellspring of modern political conservatism, Edmund Burke is also considered a significant figure in aesthetic theory and cultural studies. As a member of the House of Commons during the late eighteenth century, Burke shook Parliament... -
The Original I Ching: An Authentic Translation of the Book of Changes by Margaret J. Pearson
RRP: $20.63$17.04First among the ancient classics, the I Ching or Book of Changes is one of the world's most influential books, comparable to the Bible, the Koran, and the Upanishads.The I Ching's purpose is universal: to provide good counsel to its users in making... -
The Logic of Scientific Discovery by Sir Karl Popper
RRP: $116.09$101.25Described by the philosopher A.J. Ayer as a work of 'great originality and power', this book revolutionized contemporary thinking on science and knowledge. Ideas such as the now legendary doctrine of 'falsificationism' electrified the scientific... -
Batman and Ethics by Mark D. White 9781119038023
RRP: $24.45$16.41Batman has been one of the world's most beloved superheroes since his first appearance in Detective Comics #27 in 1939. Clad in his dark cowl and cape, he has captured the imagination of millions with his single-minded mission to create a better world... -
The Philosophy of Schopenhauer by Dale Jacquette 9781844650095
RRP: $49.01$43.06Dale Jacquette charts the development of Schopenhauer's ideas from the time of his early dissertation on The Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason through the two editions of his magnum opus The World as Will and Representation to his later... -
The Zen Teachings by Bodhidharma 9780865473997
$12.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865473997Author BodhidharmaFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint North Point PressPublisher North Point Press -
Logical Investigations Volume 2 by Edmund Husserl 9780415241908
RRP: $49.01$43.58Edmund Husserl is the founder of phenomenology and the Logical Investigations is his most famous work. It had a decisive impact on twentieth century philosophy and is one of few works to have influenced both continental and analytic philosophy.This is... -
Responsibility from the Margins by David Shoemaker 9780198801184
$42.87David Shoemaker presents a new pluralistic theory of responsibility, based on the idea of quality of will. His approach is motivated by our ambivalence to real-life cases of marginal agency, such as those caused by clinical depression, dementia,... -
How We Became Our Data: A Genealogy of the Informational Person by Colin Koopman
RRP: $33.54$27.99We are now acutely aware, as if all of the sudden, that data matters enormously to how we live. How did information come to be so integral to what we can do? How did we become people who effortlessly present our lives in social media profiles and who are... -
Respecting Truth: Willful Ignorance in the Internet Age by Lee McIntyre
RRP: $47.72$41.96Throughout history, humans have always indulged in certain irrationalities and held some fairly wrong-headed beliefs. But in his newest book, philosopher Lee McIntyre shows how we've now reached a watershed moment for ignorance in the modern era, due to... -
Bald: 35 Philosophical Short Cuts by Simon Critchley
RRP: $24.50$20.87"A genial exercise in public philosophy" (Kirkus, starred review) from one of the world's best-known popular philosophers"Simon Critchley is an international treasure-that rare and real philosopher who embraces Rousseau's 'feeling of existence,' David... -
Every Thing Must Go: Metaphysics Naturalized by James Ladyman 9780199573097
RRP: $54.17$43.85Every Thing Must Go argues that the only kind of metaphysics that can contribute to objective knowledge is one based specifically on contemporary science as it really is, and not on philosophers' a priori intuitions, common sense, or simplifications of... -
Christianity and Criminal Law by Mark Hill Qc 9780367495787
RRP: $51.59$45.23This collection, by leading legal scholars, judges and practitioners, together with theologians and church historians, presents historical, theological, philosophical and legal perspectives on Christianity and criminal law. Following a Preface by Lord... -
When Philosophers Rule: Ficino on Plato's Republic, Laws and Epinomis by Arthur Farndell 9780856832574
RRP: $24.45$21.87Searching for a definition of good government, this commentary from Marsilio Ficino examines three Platonic dialogues that have had a profound effect on Western statesmen and jurists. A leading scholar of the Italian Renaissance-who translated all the... -
The Cambridge Handbook of Artificial Intelligence by Keith Frankish
RRP: $34.82$29.93Artificial intelligence, or AI, is a cross-disciplinary approach to understanding, modeling, and creating intelligence of various forms. It is a critical branch of cognitive science, and its influence is increasingly being felt in other areas, including... -
Physics by Aristotle 9780486813516
RRP: $11.60$9.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486813516Author Aristotle AristotleFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Boethius: The Consolations of Music, Logic, Theology, and Philosophy by Henry Chadwick 9780198265498
$98.30The Consolations of Philosophy by Boethius, whose English translators include King Alfred, Geoffrey Chaucer, and Queen Elizabeth I, ranks among the most remarkable books to be written by a prisoner awaiting the execution of a tyrannical death sentence... -
Herophilus: The Art of Medicine in Early Alexandria: Edition, Translation and Essays by Herophilus 9780521041782
RRP: $49.01$45.70Herophilus, a contemporary of Euclid, practiced medicine in Alexandria in the third century B.C., and seems to have been the first Western scientist to dissect the human body. He made especially impressive contributions to many branches of anatomy and...