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The New Utopian Politics of Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed by Laurence Davis 9780739110867
RRP: £45.00£39.49The Dispossessed has been described by political thinker Andre Gorz as 'The most striking description I know of the seductions-and snares-of self-managed communist or, in other words, anarchist society.' To date, however, the radical social, cultural,... -
Resistance, Rebellion & Death by Albert Camus
RRP: £10.50£9.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679764014Author Albert CamusFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
The Existence of Space and Time by Ian Hinckfuss 9780198245193
RRP: £45.49£35.64This book is intended as an introduction to the philosophical problems of space and time, suitable for any reader who has an interest in the nature of the universe and who has a secondary-school knowledge of physics and mathematics. In particular, it is... -
Signs by Maurice Merleau-Ponty
RRP: £32.95£29.26Speech is a way of tearing out a meaning from an undivided whole."Thus does Maurice Merleau-Ponty describe speech in this collection of his important writings on the philosophy of expression, composed during the last decade of his life. For him,... -
Questions for Deep Thinkers: 200+ of the Most Challenging Questions You (Probably) Never Thought to Ask by Henry Kraemer 9781507207123
RRP: £14.99£9.68Blending philosophy and humor, here are 250 thought-provoking, challenging, and strange questions-from the profound "what is the meaning of life?" to the playful "is a hotdog a sandwich?" and everything in between.Life is complex, confusing, and weird... -
Now It Begins by Gary Markwick 9780956766885
RRP: £10.95£7.75Gary Markwick has used his incredible insight and experience of the human psyche to provide us with an antidote to the stresses and tensions that beset our lives today. Now it Begins has, at its heart, the simple assertion that once you can let go of... -
Christian D. Larson - The Definitive Collection - Volume 3 of 6 by Christian D Larson 9780990964322
RRP: £16.50£15.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780990964322Author Christian D LarsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 514Imprint Shanon AllenPublisher Shanon AllenWeight(grams) 748g -
Evidence for God from Physics and Philosophy: Extending the Legacy of Monsignor George Lemaitre and St. Thomas Aquinas by Robert J Spitzer
RRP: £15.00£14.87n this book - an expanded version of his 2014 University of Dallas Aquinas Lecture - Father Robert Spitzer audaciously combines the intellectual legacies of two Catholic priests, St. Thomas Aquinas and Monsignor Georges Lemaitre. Living in the thirteenth... -
The Philosophy of Richard Linklater's Before Trilogy: Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, Before Midnight by Hans Maes
RRP: £35.99£31.69Richard Linklater's celebrated Before trilogy chronicles the love of Jesse (Ethan Hawke) and Celine (Julie Delpy) who first meet up in Before Sunrise, later reconnect in Before Sunset and finally experience a fall-out in Before Midnight. Not only do... -
Plural and Conflicting Values by Michael Stocker 9780198240556
£68.11Plural values and conflicting values are often held to be conceptually problematic, threatening the very possibility of ethics, or at least of rational ethics. This book rejects this view. The author first demonstrates why it is so important to... -
Marine Lover of Friedrich Nietzsche by Luce Irigaray 9780231070836
RRP: £25.00£19.59Published in France in 1980, Marine Lover is the first in a trilogy in which Luce Irigaray links the interrogation of the feminine in post-Hegelian philosophy with a pre-Socratic investigation of the elements. Irigaray undertakes to interrogate Nietzche,... -
Phenomenal Consciousness: Understanding the Relation Between Experience and Neural Processes in the Brain by Dimitris Platchias 9781844652495
RRP: £36.99£32.53How can the fine-grained phenomenology of conscious experience arise from neural processes in the brain? How does a set of action potentials (nerve impulses) become like the feeling of pain in one's experience? Contemporary neuroscience is teaching us... -
Survival of the Fireflies by Georges Didi-Huberman
RRP: £16.99£15.07Seeking out the minor lights of friendship in a time of fascism Dante once spoke, in his Divine Comedy, of the miniscule lights, in the twenty-sixth canto of the Inferno, who, contrary to the great lights that shined bright within the sublime circles of... -
Pluralism by William E. Connolly
RRP: £19.99£17.54Over the past two decades, the renowned political theorist William E. Connolly has developed a powerful theory of pluralism as the basis of a territorial politics. In this concise volume, Connolly launches a new defense of pluralism, contending that it... -
Everything and Nothing by Graham Priest
RRP: £17.99£16.04Is it possible for reality as a whole to be part of itself? Can the world appear within itself without thereby undermining the consistency of our thought and knowledge-claims concerning more local matters of fact? This is a question on which Markus... -
John Dewey Between Pragmatism and Constructivism by Larry A. Hickman
RRP: £22.99£20.01Many contemporary constructivists are particularly attuned to Dewey's penetrating criticism of traditional epistemology, which offers rich alternatives for understanding processes of learning and education, knowledge and truth, and experience and culture... -
Wittgenstein by Anthony Kenny 9781405136556
RRP: £31.95£28.29This revised edition of Sir Anthony Kenny's classic work on Wittgenstein contains a new introduction which covers developments in Wittgenstein scholarship since the book was first published. Widely praised for providing a lucid and historically... -
Nihilism Before Nietzsche by Michael Allen Gillespie
RRP: £30.00£29.25In the twentieth century, one often thinks of Nietzsche, nihilism, and the death of God as inextricably connected. However, in this work, Michael Gillespie argues that Nietzsche, in fact, misunderstood nihilism, and that his misunderstanding has misled... -
The Handbook (The Encheiridion) by Epictetus 9780915145690
RRP: £8.99£7.47From the Introduction: "Stoic philosophy, of which Epictetus (c. a.d. 50-130) is a representative, began as a recognizable movement around 300 b.c. Its founder was Zeno of Cytium (not to be confused with Zeno of Elea, who discovered the famous paradoxes)... -
Ethics Within Engineering: An Introduction by Wade L. Robison 9781350340435
RRP: £21.99£20.59Exploring key ethical concerns in the engineering industry, this 2nd edition of Ethics Within Engineering is fully revised and updated to educate a new generation of engineers in ethical decision-making. By focusing on critical issues concerning tracking... -
Talking with Sartre: Conversations and Debates by John Gerassi 9780300159011
£34.00What would it be like to be privy to the mind of one of the twentieth century's greatest thinkers? John Gerassi had just this opportunity; as a child, his mother and father were very close friends with Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, and the... -
The Cambridge Companion to Descartes by John Cottingham
RRP: £34.99£30.49Descartes occupies a position of pivotal importance as one of the founding fathers of modern philosophy; he is, perhaps the most widely studied of all philosophers. In this authoritative collection an international team of leading scholars in Cartesian... -
Verbum: Word and Idea in Aquinas, Volume 2 by Bernard Lonergan 9780802079886
RRP: £35.00£29.05Bernard Lonergan's theological writings have influenced religious scholars ever since the first publication in the 1940s of the series of five articles which make up Verbum: Word and Idea in Aquinas. These articles first appeared in Theological Studies... -
Anarchism by Peter Kropotkin
RRP: £14.49£9.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486419558Author Kropotkin KropotkinFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
The Dash-The Other Side of Absolute Knowing by Rebecca Comay 9780262535359
£26.93An argument that what is usually dismissed as the "mystical shell" of Hegel's thought-the concept of absolute knowledge-is actually its most "rational kernel." This book sets out from a counterintuitive premise: the "mystical... -
Technics and Time, 3: Cinematic Time and the Question of Malaise by Bernard Stiegler
RRP: £24.99£21.67In the first two volumes of Technics and Time, Bernard Stiegler worked carefully through Heidegger's and Husserl's relationship to technics and technology. Here, in volume three, he turns his attention to the prolematic relationship to technics he finds... -
History of Psychology through Symbols: From Reflective Study to Active Engagement. Volume 1: Historic Roots by James Broderick 9780367464608
RRP: £45.99£40.13Volume One of The History of Psychology through Symbols provides a groundbreaking approach by expanding the roots of psychology beyond the Greeks to concurrent events during the same period (800 BCE-200 BCE), defined as the Axial Age by German-Swiss... -
On Conspiracies by Niccolo Machiavelli
RRP: £7.99£5.79Machiavelli is one of the most famous strategists of all time. In this collection he discusses the dangers of conspiracies, and the component parts of an army, vital for gaining and holding power in his day. He also gives advice on tactics and... -
Inquiries into Truth and Interpretation: Philosophical Essays Volume 2 by Donald Davidson 9780199246281
£54.99This book is intended for all philosophers, linguists, and psychologists interested in philosophy; anyone else interested in language and mind.About the AuthorDonald Davidson is Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. Donald... -
Utopia by Saint Thomas More 9780486295831
£4.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486295831Author Sir Thomas MoreFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Quantum Ontology: A Guide to the Metaphysics of Quantum Mechanics by Peter J. Lewis
RRP: £44.49£36.74Metaphysicians should pay attention to quantum mechanics. Why? Not because it provides definitive answers to many metaphysical questions-the theory itself is remarkably silent on the nature of the physical world, and the various interpretations of the... -
Platonic Theology: v.2, Bks.5-8 by Marsilio Ficino 9780674007642
RRP: £29.95£23.66The Platonic Theology is a visionary work and the philosophical masterpiece of Marsilio Ficino (1433-1499), the Florentine scholar-philosopher-magus who was largely responsible for the Renaissance revival of Plato. A student of the Neoplatonic schools of... -
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... -
Logical Investigations Volume 2 by Edmund Husserl 9780415241908
RRP: £37.99£33.78Edmund 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... -
Jacques Derrida: Basic Writings by Barry Stocker
RRP: £37.99£33.78One of the most influential and controversial thinkers of the twentieth-century, Jacques Derrida's ideas on deconstruction have had a lasting impact on philosophy, literature and cultural studies.Jacques Derrida: Basic Writings is the first anthology to... -
Imagination and the Imaginary by Kathleen Lennon
RRP: £49.99£43.50The concept of the imaginary is pervasive within contemporary thought, yet can be a baffling and often controversial term. In Imagination and the Imaginary, Kathleen Lennon explores the links between imagination - regarded as the faculty of creating... -
To Relish the Sublime?: Culture and Self-realization in Postmodern Times by Martin Ryle 9781859844618
£20.49More than 130 years from Matthew Arnold's pronouncement that human beings 'must be compelled to relish the sublime', education in the humanities still relies on the ideal of culture as the means of intellectual development. In this distinctive and... -
In My Father's House: Africa in the Philosophy of Culture by Kwame Anthony Appiah 9780195068528
RRP: £23.49£20.23The beating of Rodney King and the resulting riots in South Central Los Angeles. The violent clash between Hasidim and African-Americans in Crown Heights. The boats of Haitian refugees being turned away from the Land of Opportunity. These are among the... -
Parting Ways: Jewishness and the Critique of Zionism by Judith Butler 9780231146111
RRP: £16.99£13.34Judith Butler follows Edward Said's late suggestion that through a consideration of Palestinian dispossession in relation to Jewish diasporic traditions a new ethos can be forged for a one-state solution. Butler engages Jewish philosophical positions to... -
The Question Concerning Technology in China: An Essay in Cosmotechnics by Yuk Hui
RRP: £17.99£12.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995455009Author Yuk HuiFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Urbanomic Media LtdPublisher Urbanomic Media Ltd