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Mental Illness by Tim Thornton
RRP: £17.00£14.72The very idea of mental illness is contested. Given its differences from physical illnesses, is it right to count it, and particular mental illnesses, as genuinely medical as opposed to moral matters? One debate concerns its value-ladenness, which has... -
Spinoza's 'Ethics': An Introduction by Steven Nadler
RRP: £32.99£28.38Spinoza's Ethics is one of the most remarkable, important, and difficult books in the history of philosophy: a treatise simultaneously on metaphysics, knowledge, philosophical psychology, moral philosophy, and political philosophy. It presents, in... -
Comradely Greetings: The Prison Letters of Nadya and Slavoj by Nadezhda Tolokonnikova
£13.57"We are the rebels asking for the storm, and believing that truth is only to be found in an endless search ... Two years of prison for Pussy Riot is our tribute to a destiny that gave us sharp ears, allowing us to sound the note A when everyone else is... -
But Is It Art?: An Introduction to Art Theory by Cynthia A. Freeland
RRP: £13.99£10.69In today's art world many strange, even shocking, things qualify as art. In this book, Cynthia Freeland explains why innovation and controversy are valued in the arts, weaving together philosophy and art theory with many fascinating examples. She... -
Bios: Biopolitics and Philosophy by Timothy Campbell
RRP: £19.99£17.81Roberto Esposito is one of the most prolific and important exponents of contemporary Italian political theory. Bios-his first book to be translated into English-builds on two decades of highly regarded thought, including his thesis that the modern... -
Should You Judge This Book By Its Cover?: 100 Fresh Takes On Familiar Sayings And Quotations Julian Baggini 9781847081551
RRP: £9.99£6.80Another rapid-fire selection of short, stimulating and entertaining capsules of philosophy from the master of the genre. This time Baggini applies his philosophical scalpel to famous sayings, proverbs and pieces of homespun wisdom. Should you really do... -
Foundations of Natural Right by J. G. Fichte 9780521575911
RRP: £40.99£35.33In the history of philosophy, Fichte's thought marks a crucial transitional stage between Kant and post-Kantian philosophy. Fichte radicalized Kant's thought by arguing that human freedom, not external reality, must be the starting point of all... -
The Emotions: A Philosophical Exploration by Peter Goldie 9780199253043
RRP: £45.49£31.79Peter Goldie opens the path to a deeper understanding of our emotional lives through a lucid philosophical exploration of this surprisingly neglected topic. He illuminates the phenomena of emotion by drawing not only on philosophy but also on literature... -
Japan's Pacific War: Personal Accounts of the Emperor's Warriors by Peter Williams 9781526796127
RRP: £25.00£17.62'I had no qualms fighting the Australians, just as I have killed without remorse any of the Emperor's enemies: the British, the Americans and the Dutch', so admits Takahiro Sato in this ground-breaking oral history of Japan's Pacific War. Thanks to... -
What If Culture Was Nature All Along? Vicki Kirby 9781474437394
RRP: £28.99£23.38A collection of essays that rethinks what constitutes materiality. These efforts are encapsulated by a rewriting of the Derridean axiom, 'there is no outside text' as 'there is no outside nature'.Book InformationISBN 9781474437394Author Vicki KirbyFormat... -
F. P. Ramsey: Philosophical Papers by F. P. Ramsey 9780521376211
RRP: £39.99£33.26Frank Ramsey was the greatest of the remarkable generation of Cambridge philosophers and logicians which included G. E. Moore, Bertrand Russell, Ludwig Wittgenstein and Maynard Keynes. Before his tragically early death in 1930 at the age of twenty-six,... -
The Twenty-Five Years of Philosophy: A Systematic Reconstruction by Eckart Forster
RRP: £24.95£21.19Kant declared that philosophy began in 1781 with his Critique of Pure Reason. In 1806 Hegel announced that philosophy had now been completed. Eckart Foerster examines the reasons behind these claims and assesses the steps that led in such a short time... -
Summa Contra Gentiles: Book 3: Providence, Part II by Thomas Aquinas
RRP: £27.99£24.14The Summa Contra Gentiles is not merely the only complete summary of Christian doctrine that St. Thomas has written, but also a creative and even revolutionary work of Christian apologetics composed at the precise moment when Christian thought needed to... -
The Cambridge Companion to Heidegger by Charles B. Guignon
RRP: £34.99£28.66Martin Heidegger is now widely recognized as one of the greatest philosophers of the twentieth century. He transformed mainstream philosophy by defining its central task as asking the 'question of being'. His thought has contributed to the turn to... -
The Ethics of Emmanuel Levinas by Diane Perpich 9780804759434
RRP: £21.99£19.49Too often, Levinas's thought is distanced from traditional ethical enterprises, especially from normative ethics. It is put into the service of directly normative ends such as a call for respect for women or disadvantaged social groups, or for new... -
Thought in Action: Expertise and the Conscious Mind by Barbara Gail Montero 9780198822424
£29.72How does thinking affect doing? There is a widely held view--both in academia and in the popular press--that thinking about what you are doing, as you are doing it, hinders performance. Once you have acquired the ability to putt a golf ball, play an... -
Seneca: De Clementia by Susanna Braund 9780199607808
RRP: £49.49£49.40Soon after Nero's accession in 54 CE, his tutor, the philosopher Seneca, addressed to his young pupil an essay called De Clementia in which he offered advice on how to behave in his new role. This is the first full philological edition of the De... -
Selected Writings on Aesthetics by Johann Gottfried Herder 9780691115955
RRP: £109.00£85.87A seminal figure in the philosophy of history, culture, and language, Johann Gottfried Herder (1744-1803) also produced some of the most important and original works in the history of aesthetic theory. A student of Kant, he spent much of his life... -
Thought in the Act: Passages in the Ecology of Experience by Erin Manning
RRP: £21.99£19.49"Every practice is a mode of thought, already in the act. To dance: a thinking in movement. To paint: a thinking through color. To perceive in the everyday: a thinking of the world's varied ways of affording itself." -from Thought in the ActCombining... -
Anaesthetics of Existence: Essays on Experience at the Edge by Cressida J. Heyes
RRP: £19.99£17.54"Experience" is a thoroughly political category, a social and historical product not authored by any individual. At the same time, "the personal is political," and one's own lived experience is an important epistemic resource. In Anaesthetics of... -
Aristotle's Ethics James O. Urmson (Corpus Christi College, Oxford) 9780631159469
RRP: £36.95£32.76Aristotle's ethical writings are among the world's greatest, but are easily misunderstood by the inexperienced. Professor Urmson, after 50 years of study, provides a clear account of the main doctrines in an easily intelligible way and without dwelling... -
What is Intergenerational Justice? Axel Gosseries 9781509525720
RRP: £14.99£13.58Can people alive now have duties to future generations, the unborn millions? If so, what do we owe them? What does "justice" mean in an intergenerational context, both between people who will coexist at some point, and between generations that will never... -
The Life Intense: A Modern Obsession by Tristan Garcia
RRP: £17.99£14.87Our lives today are oppressed by the demand that we live, feel and experience with ever greater intensity. From flavours and smells to sex, drugs and extreme sports, we are in constant pursuit of some new, unheard-of intensity. Tristan Garcia argues that... -
Georges Bataille: Phenomenology and Phantasmatology by Rodolphe Gasche
RRP: £23.99£21.24This book investigates what Bataille, in "The Pineal Eye," calls mythological representation: the mythological anthropology with which this unusual thinker wished to outflank and undo scientific (and philosophical) anthropology. Gasche probes that... -
The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Philosophy by Frank Jackson 9780199234769
£46.02Oxford Handbooks offer authoritative and up-to-date surveys of original research in a particular subject area. Specially commissioned essays from leading figures in the discipline give critical examinations of the progress and direction of debates... -
The Pornographic Age by Alain Badiou 9781350014794
£18.36Offering a piercing indictment of what we have let ourselves become, this short, critical work is a damning critique of the current age and of the democratic systems that characterize it. Alain Badiou argues that any truly radical politics must begin... -
Hobbes's Philosophy of Religion by Thomas Holden 9780192871329
RRP: £74.00£67.31Hobbes's Philosophy of Religion presents a new scholarly interpretation of Hobbes's treatment of religious speech and practice. It argues that the key to Hobbes's treatment of religion is his theory of religious language. According to Hobbes, the proper... -
Cratylus by Plato 9780872204164
RRP: £17.99£15.13"It is. . . remarkable that Reeve's is the first new English translation since Fowler's Loeb edition of 1926. Fortunately, Reeve has done an excellent job. His version is not slavishly literal but is in general very accurate. It is also very clear and... -
Michel Serres: Figures of Thought by Christopher Watkin
RRP: £27.99£22.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474405744Author Christopher WatkinFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press -
Louis C.K. and Philosophy: You Don't Get to Be Bored by Mark Ralkowski 9780812699067
RRP: £24.99£16.72Charlie Rose has called Louis C.K. "the philosopher-king of comedy," and many have detected philosophical profundity in his material. Twenty-five philosophers examine the wisdom of Louis C.K. from a variety of philosophical perspectives. The chapters... -
The New Wittgenstein by Alice Crary
RRP: £32.99£29.56This text offers major re-evaluation of Wittgenstein's thinking. It is a collection of essays that presents a significantly different portrait of Wittgenstein. The essays clarify Wittgenstein's modes of philosophical criticism and shed light on the... -
A History of Islamic Philosophy by Majid Fakhry
RRP: £38.00£30.41The first comprehensive survey of Islamic philosophy from the seventh century to the present, this classic discusses Islamic thought and its effect on the cultural aspects of Muslim life. Fakhry shows how Islamic philosophy has followed from the earliest... -
The Discovery of the Mind: The Greek Origins of European Thought by Bruno Snell 9781621380337
£14.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621380337Author Bruno SnellFormat PaperbackPage Count 342Imprint Angelico PressPublisher Angelico PressWeight(grams) 503gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *... -
The Nonhuman Turn by Richard Grusin
RRP: £21.99£19.49Edited by Richard Grusin of the Center for 21st Century Studies, this is the first book to name and characterize-and therefore consolidate-a wide array of current critical, theoretical, and philosophical approaches to the humanities and social sciences... -
Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals: with On a Supposed Right to Lie because of Philanthropic Concerns by Immanuel Kant
RRP: £12.99£11.23This expanded edition of James Ellington's preeminent translation includes Ellington's new translation of Kant's essay Of a Supposed Right to Lie Because of Philanthropic Concerns in which Kant replies to one of the standard objections to his moral... -
Philosophy for A2: Ethics and Philosophy of Mind Michael Lacewing 9781138837874
RRP: £39.99£35.73Philosophy for A2 is an engaging textbook for the new AQA A2 Philosophy syllabus. Structured closely around the AQA specification this textbook covers the two units, Ethics and Philosophy of Mind, in a comprehensive and student-friendly way. All of the... -
The Case of the Speluncean Explorers: Nine New Opinions by Peter Suber
RRP: £36.99£32.53The Case of the Speluncean Explorers, written in 1949 by Lon Fuller, is the first famous fictitious legal case of all time. Describing a case of trapped travellers who are forcd to cannibalize one of their team, it is used on courses in philosophy of law... -
The Decomposition of Man: Identity, Technocracy, and the Church by James Kalb 9781621389224
RRP: £17.00£16.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621389224Author James KalbFormat PaperbackPage Count 228Imprint Angelico PressPublisher Angelico PressWeight(grams) 295g -
From Individual to Collective Intentionality: New Essays by Sara Rachel Chant 9780199936502
RRP: £92.00£81.03Many of the things we do, we do together with other people. Think of carpooling and playing tennis. In the past two or three decades it has become increasingly popular to analyze such collective actions in terms of collective intentions. This volume... -
On the Basis of Morality by Arthur Schopenhauer 9780872204423
RRP: £17.99£15.13This edition originally published by Berghahn Books.Schopenhauer's treatise on ethics is presented here in E. F. J. Payne's definitive translation, based on the Hubscher edition (Wiesbaden, 1946-1950). This edition includes an Introduction by David...