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Understanding Plato by David J. Melling 9780192891167
RRP: £42.99£36.19This is the first balanced introduction to Plato's work to bringing Plato himself alive, as well as discussing the importance of his works. In so doing, it allows a better understanding of who he was, what sort of world he inhabited, why his works were... -
The Wisdom of King Solomon: A Contemporary Exploration of Ecclesiastes and the Meaning of Life by Haim Shapira
RRP: £9.99£6.80Ecclesiastes is among the most poetic books of the Old Testament, full of famous and resonant verses: 'Vanity of vanities, all is vanity'; 'A time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance'; 'I have seen all the things that are... -
Acts of Literature by Jacques Derrida
RRP: £41.99£37.15First published in 1992. "Acts of Literature", compiled in close association with Derrida, brings together for the first time a number of Derrida's writings on literary texts on the question of literature. The essays discuss literary figures such as... -
The Animal Side by Jean-Christophe Bailly 9780823234448
RRP: £21.99£19.19The Animal Side is a manifesto on the importance of animals for human thought. It attempts to characterize the importance, for human beings, of the fact that animals exist. Adopting a philosophical and poetic approach, the book seeks to show that... -
Introduction to Symbolic Logic and Its Applications by Rudolf Carnap 9780486604534
RRP: £14.49£9.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486604534Author Rudolf CarnapFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Points of View by A. W. Moore 9780198250623
RRP: £58.00£46.07A. W. Moore argues in this bold and ambitious book that it is possible to think about the world 'from no point of view'. He examines this idea, explains its significance, and considers reasons for thinking that such a thing is not possible. In... -
Capitalism--its Nature and its Replacement: Buddhist and Marxist Insights by Graham Priest
RRP: £36.99£32.53In this third decade of the 21st century, deep problems plague our world. Many people lack adequate nutrition, health care, and education, because-while there is enough wealth for everyone to meet these basic needs-most of it is tightly controlled by... -
What's in it for Me?: Self-Interest and Political Difference by Thomas Prosser
RRP: £30.00£14.33This punchy and provocative book asks a simple but overlooked question: why do we have the political views that we do? Offering a lively and original analysis of five worldviews - conservatism, national populism, liberalism, the new left and social... -
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... -
A Western Approach to ZEN by Christmas Humphreys 9780835605502
RRP: £9.99£8.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780835605502Author Christmas HumphreysFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint Theosophical Publishing House (division of TheosopPublisher Theosophical... -
In Search of Civilization: Remaking a tarnished idea by Dr. John Armstrong
RRP: £12.99£9.09What is civilization? Why do we need it? And what can civilization offer us in an age of irony? The idea of civilization is a complex one, tangled up for years in ideas of colonialism and politics. John Armstrong explores the nature and aims of... -
Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism's Stealth Revolution by Wendy Brown
RRP: £30.00£21.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935408536Author Wendy BrownFormat HardbackPage Count 296Imprint Zone BooksPublisher Zone Books -
Form and Object: A Treatise on Things by Tristan Garcia
RRP: £28.99£23.78This is a shockingly new view of 'things' that will revolutionise contemporary ontological debates about substance. What is a thing? What is an object? Tristan Garcia decisively overturns 100 years of Heideggerian orthodoxy about the supposed derivative... -
Roger Bacon: A Compendium of the Study of Philosophy by Thomas S. Maloney 9780197266342
£70.60Shortly after composing his Opus maius, Opus minus, and Opus tertium (1267) Bacon felt the need once again to call attention to obstacles to the achievement of wisdom placed by the Church, academia, and civil society in the early 1270s. This he did in... -
Twenty Greatest Philosophy Books by James J. Garvey 9780826490544
RRP: £23.99£23.48The essential guide to the top twenty greatest books in philosophy for those who have just never quite found the time to read them. In this witty and engaging book, James Garvey offers an introductory account of the must-read books from the whole history... -
David Bowie and Philosophy: Rebel Rebel by Theodore G. Ammon
RRP: £14.99£9.88The philosophically rich David Bowie is an artist of wide and continuing influence. The theatrical antics of Bowie ushered in a new rock aesthetic, but there is much more to Bowie than mere spectacle. The visual belies the increasing depths of his... -
Individuation in Light of Notions of Form and Information: Volume II: Supplemental Texts by Gilbert Simondon
RRP: £21.99£19.19Unique access to archival material of a major thinker, including presentations, early drafts, and a thorough introduction to the history of the philosophical notion of the individual The second volume of Individuation in Light of Notions of Form and... -
Iris Murdoch, Philosopher by Justin Broackes 9780198701200
RRP: £35.49£27.25Iris Murdoch was a notable philosopher before she was a notable novelist and her work was brave, brilliant, and independent. She made her name first for her challenges to Gilbert Ryle and behaviourism, and later for her book on Sartre (1953), but she had... -
Introducing Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art: A Case-Driven Approach by Professor Darren Hudson Hick
RRP: £21.99£20.59Aesthetics and the philosophy of art are about things in the world - things like the Mona Lisa, but also things like horror movies, things like the ugliest dog in the world, and things like wallpaper. There's a surprising amount of philosophical content... -
Children of Mercury: The Lives of the Painters by Spike Bucklow 9781789145236
RRP: £20.00£14.29Children of Mercury is a bold new account of the lives of pre-modern painters, viewed through the lens of The Seven Ages of Man, a widespread belief made famous in the 'All the world's a stage' speech in Shakespeare's As You Like It. Spike Bucklow... -
J.S. Mill's Political Thought: A Bicentennial Reassessment by Nadia Urbinati
RRP: £28.99£23.80The year 2006 marked the two hundredth anniversary of John Stuart Mill's birth. Though his philosophical reputation has varied greatly, it is now clear that Mill ranks among the most influential modern political thinkers. Despite his enduring influence,... -
The Ethics of War and Peace: An Introduction by Helen Frowe
RRP: £33.99£30.00The Ethics of War and Peace is a lively introduction to one of the oldest but still most relevant ethical debates. Focusing on the philosophical questions surrounding the ethics of modern war, Helen Frowe presents contemporary just war theory in a... -
Art and Imagination: A Study in the Philosophy of Mind by Roger Scruton 9781587310324
RRP: £20.00£19.40This book presents a theory of aesthetic judgment and appreciation in the spirit of modern empiricism. There are three parts: the first deals with questions of philosophical logic, the second with questions in the philosophy of mind, and the third with... -
Kant's Doctrine of Virtue by Mark Timmons
RRP: £24.49£22.10Immanuel Kant's final publication in ethics was The Doctrine of Virtue, Part II of the 1797 The Metaphysics of Morals. This text presents Kant's normative ethical theory. This guide is meant to be read alongside Kant's text, combining accessible... -
Nature, the Artful Modeler: Lectures on Laws, Science, How Nature Arranges the World and How We Can Arrange It Better by Nancy Cartwright
RRP: £17.99£13.80How fixed are the happenings in Nature and how are they fixed? These lectures address what our scientific successes at predicting and manipulating the world around us suggest in answer. One-very orthodox-account teaches that the sciences offer general... -
Three Philosophies and One Reality & NHK Radio Talks by Gudo Wafu Nishijima 9780956299925
RRP: £6.95£5.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956299925Author Gudo Wafu NishijimaFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint Dogen Sangha PublicationsPublisher Dogen Sangha PublicationsWeight(grams) 141g -
Metallica and Philosophy: A Crash Course in Brain Surgery by William Irwin 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... -
Science as Salvation: A Modern Myth and its Meaning by Mary Midgley
RRP: £28.99£25.09What is the role of scientists in society? What should we think when they talk about more than just science? Mary Midgley discusses the high spiritual ambitions which tend to gather around the notion of science.Reviews`Mary Midgley is a philosopher with... -
The Birth of Physics by Michel Serres 9781786606259
RRP: £39.00£36.07The Birth of Physics represents a foundational work in the development of chaos theory from one of the world's most influential living theorists, Michel Serres. Focussing on the largest text still intact to reach us from the Atomists - Lucretius' De... -
AQA Religious Ethics for AS and A2 by Jill Oliphant
RRP: £29.99£27.04Structured directly around the specification of the AQA, this is the definitive textbook for students of Advanced Subsidiary or Advanced Level courses. It covers all the necessary topics for Religious Ethics in an enjoyable student-friendly fashion. Each... -
The Oxford Handbook of Animal Ethics by Tom L. Beauchamp 9780199351978
RRP: £55.00£50.96Humans encounter and use animals in a stunning number of ways. The nature of these animals and the justifiability or unjustifiabilitly of human uses of them are the subject matter of this volume. Philosophers have long been intrigued by animal minds... -
Are We Bodies or Souls?: Revised edition by Richard Swinburne 9780198874959
RRP: £10.49£8.93What are humans? What makes us who we are? Many think that we are just complicated machines, or animals that are different from machines only by being conscious. In Are We Bodies or Souls? Richard Swinburne comes to the defence of the soul and... -
Lenin: A Study on the Unity of His Thought by Georg Lukacs
£13.37Out of the chaos following Lenin's death and the mounting fury against Lukacs and his freshly penned History and Class Consciousness (1923), this book bears an assessment of Lenin as "the only theoretical equal to Marx." Lukacs shows, with unprecedented... -
Ennead: Bk. 7 by Plotinus
RRP: £24.95£23.39Plotinus (204/5-270 CE) was the first and greatest of Neoplatonic philosophers. His writings were edited by his disciple Porphyry, who published them many years after his master's death in six sets of nine treatises each (the Enneads).Plotinus regarded... -
What is Subjectivity? by Jean-Paul Sartre 9781784781378
£15.47In 1961 the prolific French intellectual Jean-Paul Sartre was invited to give a talk at the Gramsci Institute in Rome. In attendance were some of Italy's leading Marxist thinkers such as Enzo Paci, Cesare Luporini, Galvano Della Volpe and Lucio Colletti,... -
The Self and Its Brain: An Argument for Interactionism by Sir John C. Eccles 9780415058988
RRP: £58.99£52.08The relation between body and mind is one of the oldest riddles that has puzzled mankind. That material and mental events may interact is accepted even by the law: our mental capacity to concentrate on the task can be seriously reduced by drugs. Physical... -
Postfoundational Approaches to Qualitative Inquiry by Lisa A. Mazzei 9781032287911
RRP: £37.99£33.38Postfoundational Approaches to Qualitative Inquiry is an edited collection that aims to move beyond a critique and deconstruction of method in order to present an engagement with various postfoundational frameworks and approaches that produce new... -
Atheist Manifesto: The Case Against Christianity, Judaism, and Islam by Michel Onfray 9781611450088
RRP: £14.95£9.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611450088Author Michel OnfrayFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Arcade PublishingPublisher Skyhorse PublishingWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 233mm *... -
Artful Truths: The Philosophy of Memoir by Helena de Bres
RRP: £21.00£20.31Artful Truths offers a concise guide to the fundamental philosophical questions that arise when writing a literary work about your own life. Bringing a philosopher's perspective to a general audience, Helena de Bres addresses what a memoir is, how the... -
The Dispossessed: Karl Marx's Debates on Wood Theft and the Right of the Poor by Daniel Bensaid
RRP: £19.99£17.54Excavating Marx's early writings to rethink the rights of the poor and the idea of the commons in an era of unprecedented privatization The politics of dispossession are everywhere. Troubling developments in intellectual property, genomics, and...