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The Wisdom of Our Ancestors: Conservative Humanism and the Western Tradition by Graham James McAleer 9780268207427
RRP: £45.00£39.18In The Wisdom of Our Ancestors, the authors mount a powerful defense of Western civilization, sketching a fresh vision of conservatism in the present age. In this book, Graham McAleer and Alexander Rosenthal-Pubul offer a renewed vision of conservatism... -
A Heart Blown Open: The Life and Practice of Junpo Denis Kelly Roshi (revised, 2020) by Keith Martin-Smith 9780578610351
RRP: £13.99£13.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578610351Author Keith Martin-SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 390Imprint Perception PressPublisher Perception PressWeight(grams) 572gDimensions(mm) 229mm... -
Meaning by Michael Polanyi 9780226672953
RRP: £26.00£24.85Published very shortly before his death in February 1976, Meaning is the culmination of Michael Polanyi's philosophic endeavors. With the assistance of Harry Prosch, Polanyi goes beyond his earlier critique of scientific "objectivity" to... -
The Kybalion: The Universe is Mental by Three Initiates 9781722502072
RRP: £10.99£8.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781722502072Author Three InitiatesFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint G&D MediaPublisher G&D Media -
Deleuze's Bergsonism by Craig Lundy
RRP: £23.99£19.51Henri Bergson is widely accepted as one of the most significant thinkers for Gilles Deleuze's work. It is also frequently noted that Deleuze is largely responsible for having revived and contoured the prevailing interest in Bergson's work. Craig Lundy... -
Speaking the Truth about Oneself: Lectures at Victoria University, Toronto, 1982 by Michel Foucault
RRP: £20.00£19.40Now in paperback, this collection of Foucault’s lectures traces the historical formation and contemporary significance of the hermeneutics of the self. Just before the summer of 1982, French philosopher Michel Foucault gave a series of lectures at... -
Ernst Cassirer: The Last Philosopher of Culture by Edward Skidelsky
RRP: £30.00£23.29This is the first English-language intellectual biography of the German-Jewish philosopher Ernst Cassirer (1874-1945), a leading figure on the Weimar intellectual scene and one of the last and finest representatives of the liberal-idealist tradition... -
The Material of Knowledge: Feminist Disclosures by Susan J. Hekman
RRP: £18.99£16.72Susan Hekman believes we are witnessing an intellectual sea change. The main features of this change are found in dichotomies between language and reality, discourse and materiality. Hekman proposes that it is possible to find a more intimate connection... -
Head and Hand in Ancient Greece: Four Studies in the Social Relations of Thought by Benjamin Farrington 9780851246543
£11.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780851246543Author Benjamin FarringtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint Spokesman BooksPublisher Spokesman BooksWeight(grams) 227g -
Aristotle: The Growth and Structure of his Thought by Aristotle
RRP: £26.99£22.80Dr Lloyd writes for those who want to discover and explore Aristotle's work for themselves. He acts as mediator between Aristotle and the modern reader. The book is divided into two parts. The first tells the story of Aristotle's intellectual development... -
Ethics, Humans and Other Animals: An Introduction with Readings by Rosalind Hursthouse 9780415212427
RRP: £39.99£35.06This introductory textbook is ideally suited to newcomers to philosophy and ethical problems.Rosalind Hursthouse carefully introduces the three standard approaches in current ethical theory: utilitarianism, rights, and virtue ethics. She links each... -
Genealogy as Critique: Foucault and the Problems of Modernity by Colin Koopman
RRP: £23.99£20.84Viewing Foucault in the light of work by Continental and American philosophers, most notably Nietzsche, Habermas, Deleuze, Richard Rorty, Bernard Williams, and Ian Hacking, Genealogy as Critique shows that philosophical genealogy involves not only the... -
Hinduism: A Contemporary Philosophical Investigation Shyam Ranganathan 9781138909106
RRP: £36.99£32.53Hinduism: A Contemporary Philosophical Investigation explores Hinduism and the distinction between the secular and religious on a global scale. According to Ranganathan, a careful philosophical study of Hinduism reveals it as the microcosm of... -
On Betrayal by Avishai Margalit 9780674048263
RRP: £35.95£28.96Adultery, treason, and apostasy no longer carry the weight they once did. Yet we constantly see and hear stories of betrayal, and many people have personally experienced a destructive breach of loyalty. Avishai Margalit argues that the tension between... -
Darwin by Tim Lewens 9780415346382
RRP: £25.99£22.63In this invaluable book, Tim Lewens shows in a clear and accessible manner how important Darwin is for philosophy and how his work has shaped and challenged the very nature of the subject.Beginning with an overview of Darwin's life and work, the... -
The Art Of War by Sun Tzu 9781570629044
RRP: £17.99£12.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781570629044Author Sun TzuFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)... -
Contemporary Political Ideologies by Roger Eatwell 9780826451736
RRP: £59.99£59.61This major new text critically assesses the key political ideologies of the 20th century. The 1970s and 1980s witnessed a flowering of new and popular ideologies, such as feminism and ecologism, and a revival of others, notably liberalism. The upheavals... -
Heidegger's Eschatology: Theological Horizons in Martin Heidegger's Early Work by Judith Wolfe 9780198745068
£34.73Heidegger's Eschatology is a ground-breaking account of Heidegger's early engagement with theology, from his beginnings as an anti-Modernist Catholic to his turn towards an undogmatic Protestantism and finally to a resolutely a-theistic philosophical... -
The End of the World: The Science and Ethics of Human Extinction by John Leslie
RRP: £37.99£33.38Are we in imminent danger of extinction? Yes, we probably are, argues John Leslie in his chilling account of the dangers facing the human race as we approach the second millenium. The End of the World is a sobering assessment of the many disasters that... -
Pantheologies: Gods, Worlds, Monsters by Mary-Jane Rubenstein 9780231189460
£36.14Pantheism is the idea that God and the world are identical-that the creator, sustainer, destroyer, and transformer of all things is the universe itself. From a monotheistic perspective, this notion is irremediably heretical since it suggests divinity... -
Moral Error Theory: History, Critique, Defence by Jonas Olson 9780198769972
£35.74Jonas Olson presents a critical survey of moral error theory, the view that there are no moral facts and so all moral claims are false. In Part I (History), he explores the historical context of the debate, and discusses the moral error theories of David... -
Routledge Philosophy GuideBook to Plato and the Trial of Socrates by Thomas C. Brickhouse
RRP: £25.99£22.63Socrates is one of the most influential philosophers in western civilisation, and Plato his most famous pupil. The Euthyphro, Apology of Socrates, Crito and the death scene from the Phaedo are Plato's account of Socrates' trial and execution, and... -
Aesthetics: Problems in the Philosophy of Criticism by Monroe C. Beardsley 9780915145089
RRP: £30.99£25.28This second edition features a new 48-page Afterword--1980 updating Professor Beardsley's classic work.Book InformationISBN 9780915145089Author Monroe C. BeardsleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 678Imprint Hackett Publishing Co, IncPublisher Hackett... -
Integralism: A Manual of Political Philosophy by Thomas Crean
£27.35Integralism is the application to the temporal, political order of the full implications of the revelation of man's supernatural end in Christ and of the divinely established means by which it is to be attained. These implications are identified by means... -
The Divine Milieu by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
RRP: £15.99£9.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060937256Author de Chardin, Pierre TeilhardFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)... -
Alienation by Rahel Jaeggi 9780231151986
RRP: £30.00£23.29The Hegelian-Marxist idea of alienation fell out of favor after the postmetaphysical rejection of humanism and essentialist views of human nature. In this book Rahel Jaeggi draws on the Hegelian philosophical tradition, phenomenological analyses grounded... -
Spinoza Contra Phenomenology: French Rationalism from Cavailles to Deleuze by Knox Peden
RRP: £23.99£20.84Spinoza Contra Phenomenology fundamentally recasts the history of postwar French thought, typically presumed to have been driven by a critique of reason indebted to Nietzsche and Heidegger. Although the reception of phenomenology gave rise to many... -
The Philosophy of Merleau-Ponty Eric Matthews 9781902683522
RRP: £37.99£33.38In this introduction to the life and thought of one of the most important French thinkers of the twentieth-century Eric Matthews shows how Merleau-Ponty has contributed to current debates in philosophy, such as the nature of consciousness, the relation... -
Every Time I Find the Meaning of Life, They Change It: Wisdom of the Great Philosophers on How to Live by Legal Officer Daniel Klein
RRP: £17.00£9.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143129592Author Daniel KleinFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm) 178mm * 127mm *... -
Introducing Buddhism by Charles S. Prebish
RRP: £39.99£35.46Introducing Buddhism is the ideal resource for all students beginning the study of this fascinating religious tradition. It explains the religion's key teachings and traces its historical development and geographical spread of from its foundations up to... -
Pocket Philosophy: Zhuangzi's Butterfly by Alice Brière-Haquet 9781804530672
RRP: £7.99£5.60Zhuangzi (late 4th century BC) was one of China's most significant proponents of Daoism. Daoism is an ancient philosophy that strives for harmony with nature, virtuousness and self-development. Zhuangzi's story of the dreaming philosopher and the... -
Desert Screen: War at the Speed of Light by Paul Virilio 9780826479341
RRP: £32.99£31.77Desert Screen is a vision of future war, in which Paul Virilio identifies the Gulf War as a turning-point in history, the last industrial and the first information war. Virilio argues that we live in a world of global sptio-temporal collapse, a world... -
Between Naturalism and Religion: Philosophical Essays by Jurgen Habermas 9780745638256
RRP: £18.99£17.27Two countervailing trends mark the intellectual tenor of our age - the spread of naturalistic worldviews and religious orthodoxies. Advances in biogenetics, brain research, and robotics are clearing the way for the penetration of an objective scientific... -
A Road to Sacred Creation: Rudolf Steiner's Perspectives on Technology by Rudolf Steiner 9781621482611
RRP: £35.00£29.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621482611Author Rudolf SteinerFormat PaperbackPage Count 392Imprint Biodynamic Farming & Gardening AssociationPublisher Biodynamic Farming &... -
The Structure of Time by W. H. Newton-Smith
RRP: £32.99£29.16Originally published in 1980. What is time? How is its structure determined? The enduring controversy about the nature and structure of time has traditionally been a diametrical argument between those who see time as a container into which events are... -
Sensible Life: A Micro-ontology of the Image by Emanuele Coccia
RRP: £20.99£18.37We like to imagine ourselves as rational beings who think and speak, yet to live means first and foremost to look, taste, feel, or smell the world around us. But sensibility is not just a faculty: We are sensible objects both to ourselves and to others,... -
The Centered Mind: What the Science of Working Memory Shows Us About the Nature of Human Thought by Peter Carruthers 9780198801320
£31.23The Centered Mind offers a new view of the nature and causal determinants of both reflective thinking and, more generally, the stream of consciousness. Peter Carruthers argues that conscious thought is always sensory-based, relying on the resources of... -
The Philosophy of the Present by George Herbert Mead 9781573929486
RRP: £11.99£8.92George Herbert Mead (1863-1931) had a powerful influence on the development of American pragmatism in the twentieth century. He also had a strong impact on the social sciences. This classic book represents Mead's philosophy of experience, so central to... -
Object-Oriented Feminism by Katherine Behar
RRP: £20.99£18.37The essays in Object-Oriented Feminism explore OOF: a feminist intervention into recent philosophical discourses-like speculative realism, object-oriented ontology (OOO), and new materialism-that take objects, things, stuff, and matter as primary... -
Imperium: Structures and Affects of Political Bodies by Frederic Lordon
£19.99What should we do with the ideals of internationalism, the withering away of state and horizontality? Probably start by thinking seriously about them. That is to say, about their conditions of possibility (or impossibility), rather than sticking to the...