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Graham Harman Reader, The - Including previously unpublished essays Graham Harman 9781803412405
RRP: £30.00£25.85The Graham Harman Reader is the essential compendium of shorter works by one of the most influential philosophers of the twenty-first century. The writings in this volume are split into seven chapters. The first concerns Harman's resistance to both... -
Inference to the Best Explanation by Peter Lipton 9780415242035
RRP: £37.99£33.38How do we go about weighing evidence, testing hypotheses, and making inferences? According to the model of Inference to the Best Explanation, we work out what to infer from the evidence by thinking about what would actually explain that evidence, and we... -
Paracelsus by Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke
RRP: £18.99£12.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556433160Author ParacelsusFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint North Atlantic Books,U.S.Publisher North Atlantic Books,U.S.Weight(grams)... -
The Political Right and Equality: Turning Back the Tide of Egalitarian Modernity by Matthew McManus 9781032310831
RRP: £37.99£33.38McManus presents an intellectual history of the conservative and reactionary tradition, stretching from Aristotle and Filmer to Alexander Dugin and Patrick Deneen. Providing a comprehensive critical genealogy of the intellectual political right, McManus... -
Agonistics: Thinking the World Politically by Chantal Mouffe
£17.13Political conflict in our society is inevitable, and the results are often far from negative. How then should we deal with the intractable differences arising from complex modern culture?In Agonistics, Mouffe develops her philosophy, taking particular... -
Mad Max and Philosophy: Thinking Through the Wasteland by Matthew P. Meyer 9781119870487
RRP: £16.95£11.51Explore the philosophy at the core of the apocalyptic future of Mad Max Beneath the stylized violence and thrilling car crashes, the Mad Max films consider universal questions about the nature of human life, order and anarchy, justice and moral... -
The Essence of Tsongkhapa's Teachings: The Dalai Lama on the Three Prinicipal Aspects Lama His Holiness the Dalai 9781614295693
RRP: £11.99£8.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781614295693Author Lama His Holiness the DalaiFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Wisdom Publications,U.S.Publisher Wisdom Publications,U.S. -
Venice Saved by Simone Weil
RRP: £16.99£15.11Towards the end of her life, the French philosopher and mystic Simone Weil (1909-43) was working on a tragedy, Venice Saved. Appearing here in English for the first time, this play explores the realisation of Weil's own thoughts on tragedy. A figure of... -
René Girard's Mimetic Theory by Wolfgang Palaver 9781611860771
RRP: £25.95£18.68A systematic introduction into the mimetic theory of the French- American literary theorist and philosophical anthropologist Rene Girard, this essential text explains its three main pillars (mimetic desire, the scapegoat mechanism, and the Biblical... -
Philosophy of Music: An Introduction R.A. Sharpe 9781844650019
RRP: £37.99£33.12Philosophy of Music is for anyone who has ever wondered whether or not music means anything or why some music is thought to be more significant than other music. It is a lively and lucid introduction to the aesthetics of music and to the issues that... -
The Black Mirror: Fragments of an Obituary for Life by Raymond Tallis
RRP: £20.00£14.29In this beautifully written personal meditation on life and living, Raymond Tallis reflects on the fundamental fact of existence: that it is finite. Inspired by E. M. Forster's thought that 'Death destroys a man but the idea of it saves him', Tallis... -
Latour-Stengers: An Entangled Flight Philippe Pignarre 9781509555512
RRP: £15.99£14.41Certain great friendships have left their mark in the annals of philosophy - and, without a doubt, the friendship of Bruno Latour and Isabelle Stengers is among them. Although they wrote very few texts together, their intellectual companionship lasted... -
The Not-Two: Logic and God in Lacan by Lorenzo Chiesa 9780262529037
£35.64A philosophical examination of the treatment of logic and God in Lacan's later psychoanalytic theory. In The Not-Two, Lorenzo Chiesa examines the treatment of logic and God in Lacan's later work. Chiesa draws for the most part from Lacan's Seminars of... -
Athens and Jerusalem by Lev Shestov 9780821422205
RRP: £35.00£31.38For more than two thousand years, philosophers and theologians have wrestled with the irreconcilable opposition between Greek rationality (Athens) and biblical revelation (Jerusalem). In Athens and Jersusalem, Lev Shestov-an inspiration for the French... -
The Habits of Racism: A Phenomenology of Racism and Racialized Embodiment by Helen Ngo 9781498534666
RRP: £39.00£34.10The Habits of Racism examines some of the complex questions raised by the phenomenon and experience of racism. Helen Ngo draws on the resources of Merleau-Ponty to show how the conceptual reworking of habit as bodily orientation helps to identify the... -
Getting Back into Place, Second Edition: Toward a Renewed Understanding of the Place-World by Edward S. Casey
RRP: £27.99£24.54What would the world be like if there were no places? Our lives are so place-oriented that we cannot begin to comprehend the loss of locality. Indeed, the space we occupy has much to do with what and who we are. Yet, despite the pervasiveness of place in... -
The Production of Local Knowledge: History and Politics in the Work of Rene Zavaleta Mercado Luis Tapia Mealla 9780857423344
RRP: £30.00£24.85This book offers the first comprehensive examination of the work of Bolivian political thinker Rene Zavaleta (1939 84), whose ideas were a key influence on many of the indigenous activists and ideologues who have transformed Bolivian politics and... -
Inside Jokes: Using Humor to Reverse-Engineer the Mind by Matthew M. Hurley 9780262518697
£35.64An evolutionary and cognitive account of the addictive mind candy that is humor. Some things are funny-jokes, puns, sitcoms, Charlie Chaplin, The Far Side, Malvolio with his yellow garters crossed-but why? Why does humor exist in the first place? Why do... -
Metallica and Philosophy: A Crash Course in Brain Surgery William Irwin (Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania) 9781405163484
RRP: £18.95£16.85Hit the lights and jump in the fire, you're about to enter the School of Rock! Today's lecture will be a crash course in brain surgery. This hard and fast lesson is taught by instructors who graduated from the old school-they actually paid $5.98 for The... -
Key Writings by Elizabeth Lebas
RRP: £24.99£22.01Henri Lefebvre is widely recognized as one of the most influential social theorists of the Twentieth Century. His writings on cities, everyday life, and the production of space have become hugely influential across Cultural Studies, Sociology, Geography... -
The Eucharist in Modern Philosophy by Xavier Tilliette 9780813235967
£32.36The Eucharist in Modern Philosophy is one of the last books written by the renowned Jesuit philosopher Xavier Tilliette (1921-2018), and the first to be translated into English. Jonathan Martin Ciraulo, the translator, also provides an introduction to... -
A Hedonist Manifesto: The Power to Exist by Michel Onfray
RRP: £30.00£23.29Michael Onfray passionately defends the potential of hedonism to resolve the dislocations and disconnections of our melancholy age. In a sweeping survey of history's engagement with and rejection of the body, he exposes the sterile conventions that... -
True Love by Josef Seifert
£11.24From Plato and Aristotle and on to the present, many great philosophers have dealt with the nature of love, which is the most central and profound act of the person. Particularly the philosophy of the twentieth century excelled in this regard, most often... -
The Substance of Style: How the Rise of Aesthetic Value Is Remaking Commerce, Culture, and Consciousness by Virginia Postrel 9780060933852
RRP: £16.99£11.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060933852Author Virginia PostrelFormat PaperbackPage Count 237Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc -
Lectures on Negative Dialectics: Fragments of a Lecture Course 1965/1966 by Theodor W. Adorno 9780745635101
RRP: £18.99£17.13This volume comprises one of the key lecture courses leading up to the publication in 1966 of Adorno's major work, Negative Dialectics. These lectures focus on developing the concepts critical to the introductory section of that book. They show Adorno as... -
Happiness Is Overrated: Simple Lessons on Finding Meaning in Each Moment Cuong Lu 9781645471677
RRP: £16.99£11.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781645471677Author Cuong LuFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications Inc -
Without Proof or Evidence by O. K. Bouwsma
£28.54In Without Proof or Evidence O. K. Bouwsma weaves through the central topics of Western religion: the rationality of religious belief, the nature of Christianity, the promise of eternal life, the definition of faith, and proofs of the existence of God... -
Time and Trauma: Thinking Through Heidegger in the Thirties by Richard Polt 9781786610508
RRP: £43.00£37.48In this important new book, Richard Polt takes a fresh approach to Heidegger's thought during his most politicized period, and works toward a philosophical appropriation of his most valuable ideas. Polt shows how central themes of the 1930s-such as... -
World in My Mind, My Mind in the World: Key Mechanisms of Consciousness in People, Animals and Machines by Igor Aleksander 9781845401023
£12.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845401023Author Igor AleksanderFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Imprint AcademicPublisher Imprint AcademicWeight(grams) 300gDimensions(mm) 210mm *... -
The New Atlantis by Francis Bacon 9781603863360
£5.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781603863360Author Francis BaconFormat PaperbackPage Count 68Imprint Watchmaker PublishingPublisher Watchmaker PublishingWeight(grams) 82gDimensions(mm)... -
The Minister and the Murderer: A Book of Aftermaths by Stuart Kelly 9781847089236
RRP: £10.99£7.54In 1969, James Nelson confessed to murder, served a prison sentence, then applied to be ordained as a minster in the Scottish Church (The Kirk). The case split the church in two, and challenged the institution to consider its most basic functions,... -
Cooperation and Social Justice by Joseph Heath
RRP: £22.99£20.01In six new essays, philosopher and award-winning author Joseph Heath explores the connection between principles of justice and the institutional arrangements required to achieve them. Topics include the significance of status inequality, the question of... -
Self-Confidence: 10 Lessons for Life in the Age of Anxiety by Charles Pepin
RRP: £8.99£6.22An essential read for anyone who has encountered a crisis of confidence. Where does self-confidence come from? How does it work? Why are some people more confident than others? On the surface, these seem like simple... -
Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra: An Edinburgh Philosophical Guide by Douglas Burnham
RRP: £20.99£17.47A step-by-step guide to Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra. Thus Spoke Zarathustra is one of Nietzsche's greatest books, a cross-over text that combines philosophical innovation with literary experimentation. With Zarathustra Nietzsche has attempted a... -
Medieval Philosophy: Essential Readings with Commentary Gyula Klima (Fordham University) 9781405135658
RRP: £33.95£30.15This collection of readings with extensive editorial commentary brings together key texts of the most influential philosophers of the medieval era to provide a comprehensive introduction for students of philosophy. Features the writings of Augustine,... -
The Infinite A.W. Moore 9781138504257
RRP: £35.99£31.94We are all captivated and puzzled by the infinite, in its many varied guises; by the endlessness of space and time; by the thought that between any two points in space, however close, there is always another; by the fact that numbers go on forever; and... -
The Science of Animal Welfare: Understanding What Animals Want by Marian Stamp Dawkins
RRP: £36.49£34.45What is animal welfare? Why has it proved so difficult to find a definition that everyone can agree on? This concise and accessible guide is for anyone who is interested in animals and who has wondered how we can assess their welfare scientifically. It... -
Beast and the Sovereign: Volume 2 by Jacques Derrida
RRP: £26.00£24.85Following on from The Beast and the Sovereign, Volume I, this book extends Jacques Derrida's exploration of the connections between animality and sovereignty. In this second year of the seminar, originally presented in 2002 2003 as the last course he... -
Trauma Survivors' Strategies for Healing: A Workbook to Help You Grow, Rebuild, and Take Back Your Life by Elena Welsh, PhD
RRP: £21.99£14.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781641521338Author Elena WelshFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint Althea PressPublisher Althea PressWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm) 249mm * 201mm * 15mm -
We Are Not Born Submissive: How Patriarchy Shapes Women's Lives by Manon Garcia
RRP: £35.00£21.53A philosophical exploration of female submission, using insights from feminist thinkers-especially Simone de Beauvoir-to reveal the complexities of women's reality and lived experienceWhat role do women play in the perpetuation of patriarchy? On the one...