Philosophy

'Brimming with ideas and insights, this is a welcome, important and clear-eyed view of how understanding the past can help us better prepare for the future' - Peter Frankopan, bestselling author of The Earth Transformed and The Silk Roads'Enlightening...

For the medieval period that was witness to a legion of political and natural disasters, the rise and fall of empires across the globe and one of the most devastating and greatest pandemics human kind has ever experienced, the fourteenth century was...

This book provides a clear and comprehensive introduction to contemporary bioethics. It also presents provocative, philosophically informed arguments on current bioethical issues. Holland engages with debates ranging from the more familiar such as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615505978Author Francis Parker YockeyFormat PaperbackPage Count 568Imprint Invictus BooksPublisher Invictus BooksWeight(grams) 581gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9786500690767Author Sun TzuFormat PaperbackPage Count 70Imprint Cartaxo PressPublisher Cartaxo PressWeight(grams) 104g

For the last twenty years, John Corvino has traversed the US responding to moral and religious arguments against same-sex relationships. In this timely book, he shares that experience - addressing the standard objections to homosexuality and offering...

One of the greatest philosophical works of all time, in a new translation for the twenty-first century'The final philosopher to perform the most profound surgery on philosophy ... concise yet exceptionally clear' Ai WeiweiWidely regarded as one of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780942299113Author Georges BatailleFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Zone BooksPublisher Zone BooksWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 13mm

Since the book's first publication in 1988, Alain Badiou's Being and Event has established itself of one of the most important and controversial works in contemporary philosophy and its author as one of the most influential thinkers of our time. Being...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611808391Author A. H. AlmaasFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications Inc

Plato, Allan Bloom wrote, is "the most erotic of philosophers," and his Symposium is one of the greatest works on the nature of love ever written. This new edition brings together the English translation of the renowned Plato scholar and translator, Seth...

For decades, scholars have been calling into question the universality of disciplinary objects and categories. The coherence of defined autonomous categories-such as religion, science, and art-has collapsed under the weight of postmodern critiques,...

Written by Dr Roy Jackson, who is Course Leader in Religion, Philosophy and Ethics at the University of Gloucestershire, Nietzsche: A Complete Introduction is designed to give you everything you need to succeed, all in one place. It covers the key areas...

Writing Philosophical Autoethnography is the result of Alec Grant's vision of bringing the disciplines of philosophy and autoethnography together. This is the first volume of narrative autoethnographic work in which invited contributing authors were...

For much of his life Pascal (1623-62) worked on a magnum opus which was never published in its intended form. Instead, he left a mass of fragments, some of them meant as notes for the Apologie. These were to become known as the Pensees, and they occupy a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611801217Author Yongey Mingyur RinpocheFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)...

After darkness, there is always lightIn a time of increasing uncertainty, Rethink offers a guide to a much-needed global 'reset moment', with leading international figures giving us glimpses of a better future after the pandemic. Each contribution...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788360753Author Edward DuttonFormat PaperbackImprint Imprint AcademicPublisher Imprint AcademicWeight(grams) 320gDimensions(mm) 235mm * 156mm * 13mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307949301Author Lao TzuFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 624gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 216mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780645498073Author Philipp MainlanderFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Irukandji PressPublisher Irukandji Media Pty LtdWeight(grams) 360g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781774378670Author PlatoFormat HardbackPage Count 492Imprint Royal ClassicsPublisher Royal ClassicsWeight(grams) 889gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 32mm

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955958281Author Owen BarfieldFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint Barfield Press UKPublisher Barfield Press UKWeight(grams) 315g

The term ars erotica refers to the styles and techniques of lovemaking with the honorific title of art. But in what sense are these practices artistic and how do they contribute to the aesthetics and ethics of self-cultivation in the art of living? In...

Have you ever found yourself alone with your thoughts? Have you ever been asked if the glass is half full or half empty? Do you wonder what true happiness is or how to attain it? Or maybe nothing really matters if everything is just an illusion or a...

Logical, lucid, and direct, Technological Slavery radically reinvigorates and reforms the intellectual foundations of an age-old and resurgent world-view: "Progress" is a myth. Wild nature and humanity are fundamentally incompatible with technological...

In this frank and damning expose of the Teresa cult, Hitchens details the nature and limits of one woman's mission to help the world's poor. He probes the source of the heroic status bestowed upon an Albanian nun whose only declared wish was to serve God...

Written for a wide range of readers in environmental science, philosophy, and policy-oriented programs The Routledge Companion to Environmental Ethics is a landmark, comprehensive reference work in this interdisciplinary field. Not merely a review of...

This book rethinks the Christianisation of the late Roman empire as a crisis of knowledge, pointing to competitive cultural re-assessment as a major driving force in the making of the Constantinian and post-Constantinian state. Emperor Julian's writings...

Evolution and Conversion explores the main tenets of Rene Girard's thought in a series of dialogues. Here, Girard reflects on the evolution of his thought and offers striking new insights on topics such as violence, religion, desire and literature. His...

This expanded edition of John Stuart Mill's Utilitarianism includes the text of his 1868 speech to the British House of Commons defending the use of capital punishment in cases of aggravated murder. The speech is significant both because its topic...

Georges Perec produced some of the most entertaining and spirited essays of his age. His literary output was amazingly varied in form and style and this generous selection of Perec's non-fictional work also demonstrates his characteristic lightness of...

From the ethicist the New Yorker calls "the most influential living philosopher," a new way of thinking about living ethically"Singer's argument is powerful, provocative and, I think, basically right. The world would be a better place if we were as...

No other country and no other period has produced a tradition of major aesthetic debate to compare with that which unfolded in German culture from the 1930s to the 1950s. In Aesthetics and Politics the key texts of the great Marxist controversies over...

Rethinking the great literary prophets whose ministry ran from the eighth to the sixth centuries BCE-Amos, Hosea, First Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Second Isaiah, and Job-Thinking about the Prophets examines their often-shocking teachings in light of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780664266356Author Reinhold NiebuhrFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Westminster/John Knox Press,U.S.Publisher Westminster/John Knox Press,U.S...

Robert Nozick's Anarchy, State, and Utopia is a powerful, philosophical challenge to the most widely held political and social positions of our age -- liberal, socialist and conservative. "Individuals have rights," Nozick writes in his opening sentence,...

This book is a three-part journey into the rabbit hole we call the nature of reality. Its ultimate destination is a plausible, living validation of transcendence. Each of its three parts is like a turn of a spiral, exploring recurring ideas through the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780994160218Author Adrian AndersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 50Imprint Threshold PublishingPublisher Threshold PublishingDimensions(mm) 244mm * 170mm * 3mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781640323070Author George MullerFormat PaperbackPage Count 54Imprint Innovative Eggz LLCPublisher Innovative Eggz LLCWeight(grams) 91gDimensions(mm) 234mm *...