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The Beauty of Games by Frank Lantz 9780262048538
RRP: £23.00£14.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262048538Author Frank LantzFormat HardbackPage Count 184Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 303gDimensions(mm) 211mm * 143mm * 18mm -
The History of Philosophy: A Marxist Perspective by Alan Woods
£15.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913026240Author Alan WoodsFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Well Red PublicationsPublisher Well Red Publications -
Emerson's Transcendental Etudes by Stanley Cavell 9780804745437
RRP: £23.99£21.16This book is Stanley Cavell's definitive expression on Emerson. Over the past thirty years, Cavell has demonstrated that he is the most emphatic and provocative philosophical critic of Emerson that America has yet known. The sustained effort of that... -
Islam as Political Religion: The Future of an Imperial Faith Shabbir Akhtar (Independent scholar, USA) 9780415781473
RRP: £43.99£38.44This comprehensive survey of contemporary Islam provides a philosophical and theological approach to the issues faced by Muslims and the question of global secularisation. Engaging with critics of modern Islam, Shabbir Akhtar sets out an agenda of what... -
Kierkegaard: Thinking Christianly in an Existential Mode by Sylvia Walsh 9780199208364
£44.76Soren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) was first and foremost a Christian thinker who is perhaps best known for his devastating attack upon Christendom or the established order of his time. Not since Luther has there been a Protestant thinker who has so... -
The Art of Chinese Philosophy: Eight Classical Texts and How to Read Them by Paul Goldin
RRP: £22.00£17.63A smart and accessible introduction to the most important works of ancient Chinese philosophy-the Analects of Confucius, Mozi, Mencius, Laozi, Zhuangzi, Sunzi, Xunzi, and Han FeiziThis book provides an unmatched introduction to eight of the most... -
Living High and Letting Die: Our Illusion of Innocence by Peter Unger 9780195108590
RRP: £32.99£22.37By contributing a few hundred dollars to a charity like UNICEF, a prosperous person can ensure that fewer poor children die, and that more will live reasonably long, worthwhile lives. Even when knowing this, however, most people send nothing, and almost... -
Substance among Other Categories by Joshua Hoffman 9780521039659
RRP: £30.99£23.80This book revives a neglected but important topic in philosophy: the nature of substance. The belief that there are individual substances, for example, material objects and persons, is at the core of our common-sense view of the world yet many... -
Athens, Still Remains: The Photographs of Jean-Francois Bonhomme by Jacques Derrida
RRP: £21.99£19.49Athens, Still Remains is an extended commentary on a series of photographs of contemporary Athens by the French photographer Jean-Francois Bonhomme. But in Derrida's hands commentary always has a way of unfolding or, better, developing in several... -
A Small Treatise on the Great Virtues by Andre Comte-Sponville 9780805045567
RRP: £14.99£11.66An incisive reassessment of eighteen classic human virtues--including mercy, justice, fidelity, courage, compassion, humility, and simplicity--draws on the timeless wisdom of philosophers ranging from Aristotle to Simone Weil to explain how such virtues... -
On Inequality by Harry G. Frankfurt 9780691167145
RRP: £13.99£11.36Economic inequality is one of the most divisive issues of our time. Yet few would argue that inequality is a greater evil than poverty. The poor suffer because they don't have enough, not because others have more, and some have far too much. So why do... -
A Model of the Universe: Space-Time, Probability, and Decision by Storrs McCall 9780198236221
£40.14Storrs McCall presents an original philosophical theory of the nature of the universe based on a striking new model of its space-time structure. He shows how his model illuminates a broad range of subjects, including causation, probability, quantum... -
Finding an Ending: Reflections on Wagner's Ring by Phillip Kitcher 9780195183603
RRP: £14.99£10.48Few musical works loom as large in Western culture as Richard Wagner's four-part Ring of the Nibelung. In Finding an Ending, two eminent philosophers, Philip Kitcher and Richard Schacht, offer an illuminating look at this greatest of Wagner's... -
Religion and Rational Theology by Immanuel Kant 9780521799980
RRP: £39.99£33.70This volume collects for the first time in a single volume all of Kant's writings on religion and rational theology. These works were written during a period of conflict between Kant and the Prussian authorities over his religious teachings. His final... -
Exploitation as Domination: What Makes Capitalism Unjust by Nicholas Vrousalis 9780192867698
RRP: £76.00£69.10Exploitation is a globally pervasive phenomenon. Slavery, serfdom, and the patriarchy are part of its lineage. Temporary and sex workers, commercial surrogacy, precarious labour contracts, sweatshops, and markets in blood, vaccines or human organs, are... -
Philosophical Occasions: 1912-1951: 1912-1951 by Ludwig Wittgenstein 9780872201545
RRP: £26.99£22.55An essential resource for students of Wittgenstein, this collection contains faithful, in some cases expanded and corrected, versions of many important pieces never before available in a single volume, including Notes for the 'Philosophical Lecture',... -
Practical Reason and Norms by Joseph Raz 9780198268345
RRP: £52.00£40.58Practical Reason and Norms focuses on three problems: In what way are rules normative, and how do they differ from ordinary reasons? What makes normative systems systematic? What distinguishes legal systems, and in what consists their normativity? All... -
Continental Philosophy: A Critical Approach by William R. Schroeder
RRP: £33.95£27.89Continental Philosophy: A Critical Approach is a lucid and wide-ranging introduction to the key figures and philosophical movements of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Includes chapters on Hegel; Marx and Western Marxism; Schopenhauer, Freud, and... -
The Self, the Soul and the Psychology of Good and Evil Ilham Dilman 9780415853453
RRP: £49.99£43.50The way an individual's psychology is intertwined with their morality is the subject of this fascinating book from the pen of the late Ilham Dilman.Dilman convincingly argues that evil, though it cannot be reduced to psychological terms (it is a moral... -
A Companion to the Philosophy of Mind Samuel Guttenplan (Birkbeck College, London) 9780631199960
RRP: £40.95£36.41The philosophy of mind is one of the fastest-growing areas in philosophy, not least because of its connections with related areas of psychology, linguistics and computation. This Companion is an alphabetically arranged reference guide to the subject,... -
Phenomenology of the Icon: Mediating God through the Image by Stephanie Rumpza
RRP: £85.00£76.39How can something finite mediate an infinite God? Weaving patristics, theology, art history, aesthetics, and religious practice with the hermeneutic phenomenology of Hans-George Gadamer and Jean-Luc Marion, Stephanie Rumpza proposes a new answer to this... -
Breathe, You Are Alive by Thich Nhat Hanh 9781888375848
RRP: £15.99£10.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781888375848Author Thich Nhat HanhFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Parallax PressPublisher Parallax PressWeight(grams) 198gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 137mm... -
Perjury and Pardon, Volume I: Volume 1 by Jacques Derrida
RRP: £36.00£30.37An inquiry into the problematic of perjury, or lying, and forgiveness from one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century. "One only ever asks forgiveness for what is unforgivable." From this contradiction begins Perjury and Pardon,... -
The Future of Immortality: Remaking Life and Death in Contemporary Russia by Anya Bernstein 9780691182612
RRP: £22.00£17.63A gripping account of the Russian visionaries who are pursuing human immortalityAs long as we have known death, we have dreamed of life without end. In The Future of Immortality, Anya Bernstein explores the contemporary Russian communities of visionaries... -
Augustine: On the Free Choice of the Will, On Grace and Free Choice, and Other Writings by Peter King 9780521001298
RRP: £25.99£21.89The works translated here deal with two major themes in the thinking of St Augustine (354-430): free will and divine grace. On the one hand, free will enables human beings to make their own choices; on the other hand, God's grace is required for these... -
Value: What Money Can't Buy: A Handbook for Practical Hedonism Stephen Bayley 9781472134905
RRP: £9.99£6.90Since the industrial revolution, when everything ran by clockwork, people have understood how important it is to live in the moment. But over time our world has grown increasingly busy, and we've lost our ability to truly savour each unique experience... -
American Muckraker: Rethinking Journalism for the 21st Century by James O'Keefe 9781637580905
RRP: £28.00£17.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781637580905Author James O'KeefeFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Post Hill PressPublisher Post Hill PressWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 231mm * 157mm... -
A Difference of Opinion: The Autobiography of Jim Sillars by Jim Sillars
RRP: £14.99£14.67Jim Sillars, among the last of his generation's working-class politicians, has had a prominent role in Scottish public life for more than six decades, during which he moved from being a Unionist Labour MP to becoming deputy leader of the SNP and now a... -
Philosophical Papers: Volume 1: Mathematics, Matter and Method by Hilary Putnam
RRP: £30.99£24.88Professor Hilary Putnam has been one of the most influential and sharply original of recent American philosophers in a whole range of fields. His most important published work is collected here, together with several new and substantial studies, in two... -
Unconditional Equals by Anne Phillips
RRP: £35.00£24.00Why equality cannot be conditional on a shared human "nature" but has to be for allFor centuries, ringing declarations about all men being created equal appealed to a shared human nature as the reason to consider ourselves equals. But appeals to natural... -
The Anatomy of Justice: On the Shape, Substance, and Power of Liberal Egalitarianism Regina Schouten 9780198898634
RRP: £77.00£69.99The Anatomy of Justice argues for a reorientation in liberal egalitarian theorizing about justice. Gina Schouten argues that the orientation she propose supports compelling resolutions to longstanding disputes and difficulties internal to egalitarianism... -
America's Philosopher: John Locke in American Intellectual Life by Claire Rydell Arcenas
RRP: £28.00£23.27America's Philosopher examines how John Locke has been interpreted, reinterpreted, and misinterpreted over three centuries of American history. The influence of polymath philosopher John Locke (1632-1704) can still be found in a dizzying range of... -
Indifference and Repetition; or, Modern Freedom and Its Discontents by Frank Ruda 9781531505325
RRP: £25.99£22.49In capitalism human beings act as if they are mere animals. So we hear repeatedly in the history of modern philosophy. Indifference and Repetition examines how modern philosophy, largely coextensive with a particular boost in capitalism's development,... -
Cosmos, Chaos and the World to Come: The Ancient Roots of Apocalyptic Faith by Norman Cohn 9780300090888
RRP: £19.99£19.39All over the world people look forward to a perfect future, when the forces of good will be finally victorious over the forces of evil. Once this was a radically new way of imagining the destiny of the world and of mankind. How did it originate, and what... -
The I in We: Studies in the Theory of Recognition Axel Honneth (Free University, Berlin) 9780745652337
RRP: £18.99£17.13In this volume Axel Honneth deepens and develops his highly influential theory of recognition, showing how it enables us both to rethink the concept of justice and to offer a compelling account of the relationship between social reproduction and... -
A Biography of Ordinary Man: On Authorities and Minorities Francois Laruelle (University of Paris X) 9781509509966
RRP: £19.75£17.50This book is a foundational text for our understanding of Francois Laruelle, one of France's leading thinkers, whose ideas have emerged as an important touchstone for contemporary theoretical discussions across multiple disciplines. One of Laruelle's... -
Beauty in Arabic Culture by D. Behrens Abouseif 9781558761988
£75.12Although beauty, in the pre-modern Arab world, was enjoyed and promoted almost everywhere, Islam does not possess a general theory on aesthetics or a systematic theory of the arts. This is a study of the Arabic discourse on beauty. The author had to... -
Kant: Natural Science by Immanuel Kant 9781107552142
RRP: £39.99£33.77Though Kant is best known for his strictly philosophical works in the 1780s, many of his early publications in particular were devoted to what we would call 'natural science'. Kant's Universal Natural History and Theory of the Heavens (1755) made a... -
The Age of Questions: Or, A First Attempt at an Aggregate History of the Eastern, Social, Woman, American, Jewish, Polish, Bullion, Tuberculosis, and Many Other Questions over the Nineteenth Century, and Beyond by Holly Case
RRP: £28.00£22.14A groundbreaking history of the Big Questions that dominated the nineteenth centuryIn the early nineteenth century, a new age began: the age of questions. In the Eastern and Belgian questions, as much as in the slavery, worker, social, woman, and Jewish... -
The Structure and Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics by R. I. G. Hughes 9780674843929
RRP: £43.95£34.88R. I. G. Hughes offers the first detailed and accessible analysis of the Hilbert-space models used in quantum theory and explains why they are so successful. He goes on to show how the very suitability of Hilbert spaces for modeling the quantum world...