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Intelligent Virtue by Julia Annas
RRP: £41.99£25.45Intelligent Virtue presents a distinctive new account of virtue and happiness as central ethical ideas. Annas argues that exercising a virtue involves practical reasoning of a kind which can illuminatingly be compared to the kind of reasoning we find in... -
Brilliant Orange: The Neurotic Genius of Dutch Football by David Winner
RRP: £12.99£9.09The Netherlands has been one of the world's most distinctive and sophisticated football cultures. From the birth of Total Football in the sixties, through two decades of World Cup near misses to the exiles who remade clubs like AC Milan, Barcelona,... -
Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do? by Michael J. Sandel
RRP: £10.99£7.77Michael Sandel's Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do? invites readers of all ages and political persuasions on a journey of moral reflection, and shows how reasoned debate can illuminate our lives.Is it always wrong to lie?Should there be limits to... -
Prior Analytics by Aristotle 9780872200647
RRP: £20.99£17.21"This volume is an impressive tour de force. It is state-of-the-art Aristotle: it employs the most recent philological, philosophical, and logical advances which since the 1970's at least have rendered previous translations and commentaries obsolete. The... -
Works: v. 5 by Philo
RRP: £24.95£23.39Syncretistic exegesis.The philosopher Philo was born about 20 BC to a prominent Jewish family in Alexandria, the chief home of the Jewish Diaspora as well as the chief center of Hellenistic culture; he was trained in Greek as well as Jewish ... -
The Messages We Send: Social Signals and Storytelling by G. R. F. Ferrari 9780198798422
£44.26G. R. F. Ferrari offers a new framework for understanding different ways in which we communicate with each other. He explores the idea of "intimations": social interactions that approach outright communication but do not quite reach it. The metaphor from... -
Time of the Magicians: The Great Decade of Philosophy, 1919-1929 by Wolfram Eilenberger
RRP: £12.99£9.09AN ECONOMIST, GUARDIAN AND NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR A gripping narrative of the intertwined lives of the four philosophers whose ideas reshaped the twentieth centuryThe year is 1919. Walter Benjamin flees his overbearing father to scrape a living... -
Philosophy: The Basics by Nigel Warburton 9780415693165
RRP: £19.99£17.69'Philosophy: The Basics deservedly remains the most recommended introduction to philosophy on the market. Warburton is patient, accurate and, above all, clear. There is no better short introduction to philosophy.' - Stephen Law, author of The Philosophy... -
Mill's On Liberty: A Critical Guide by C. L. Ten 9780521873567
RRP: £90.00£67.25John Stuart Mill's essay On Liberty, published in 1859, has had a powerful impact on philosophical and political debates ever since its first appearance. This volume of essays covers the whole range of problems raised in and by the essay, including the... -
Understanding Ignorance: The Surprising Impact of What We Don't Know by Daniel R. DeNicola 9780262536035
£22.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of 2018 PROSE Award Winner, Philosophy 2018.Book InformationISBN 9780262536035Author Daniel R. DeNicolaFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT... -
Out of the Dark Night: Essays on Decolonization by Achille Mbembe
RRP: £25.00£19.59Achille Mbembe is one of the world's most profound critics of colonialism and its consequences, a major figure in the emergence of a new wave of French critical theory. His writings examine the complexities of decolonization for African subjectivities... -
From Deep Learning to Rational Machines: What the History of Philosophy Can Teach Us about the Future of Artificial Intelligence by Cameron J. Buckner 9780197653302
RRP: £22.99£19.56This book provides a framework for thinking about foundational philosophical questions surrounding the use of deep artificial neural networks ("deep learning") to achieve artificial intelligence. Specifically, it links recent breakthroughs to classic... -
Shame and Necessity, Second Edition by Bernard Williams 9780520256439
RRP: £25.00£19.59We tend to suppose that the ancient Greeks had primitive ideas of the self, of responsibility, freedom, and shame, and that now humanity has advanced from these to a more refined moral consciousness. Bernard Williams' original and radical book questions... -
Getting Right with Tao: A Contemporary Spin on the Tao Te Ching by Ron Hogan 9780982473986
£7.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780982473986Author Ron HoganFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Channel V BooksPublisher Channel V BooksWeight(grams) 128g -
Everything in Everything: Anaxagoras's Metaphysics by Anna Marmodoro 9780190611972
RRP: £93.00£69.96Anaxagoras of Clazomenae (Vth century BCE) is best known in the history of philosophy for his stance that there is a share of everything in everything. He puts forward this theory of extreme mixture as a solution to the problem of change he and his... -
The Art of Power by Thich Nhat Hanh
RRP: £9.99£6.64Turning our conventional understanding of power on its head, world-renowned Zen master, spiritual leader, and national bestselling author Thich Nhat Hanh reveals how true power comes from within. What we seek, we already have. Whether we want it or not,... -
Convoluted Universe: Book Five by Dolores Cannon 9781940265292
RRP: £16.99£15.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781940265292Author Dolores CannonFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Ozark Mountain PublishingPublisher Ozark Mountain PublishingWeight(grams) 1g -
The History of Sexuality: 4: Confessions of the Flesh by Robert Hurley 9780241389614
RRP: £12.99£9.09The final major work by one of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth centuryIn the fourth and final volume of his far-reaching and influential study of human sexuality, Foucault turns his attention to early Christianity, exploring how ancient... -
Routledge Philosophy GuideBook to Kripke and Naming and Necessity by Harold W. Noonan
RRP: £25.99£22.63Saul Kripke is one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century. His most celebrated work, Naming and Necessity, makes arguably the most important contribution to the philosophy of language and metaphysics in recent years. Asking... -
Unthinking Mastery: Dehumanism and Decolonial Entanglements by Julietta Singh
RRP: £19.99£17.54Julietta Singh challenges the drive toward the mastery over self and others by showing how the forms of self-mastery advocated by anticolonial thinkers like Fanon and Gandhi unintentionally reproduced colonial logic, thereby leading her to argue for a... -
The Case of Wagner / Twilight of the Idols / The Antichrist / Ecce Homo / Dionysus Dithyrambs / Nietzsche Contra Wagner: Volume 9 by Friedrich Nietzsche 9781503612549
RRP: £20.99£18.37The year 1888 marked the last year of Friedrich Nietzsche's intellectual career and the culmination of his philosophical development. In that final productive year, he worked on six books, all of which are now, for the first time, presented in English in... -
Gay Science by Friedrich Nietzsche 9780486841687
RRP: £8.49£5.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486841687Author Friedrich NietzscheFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Confessions by Edmund Augustine
RRP: £9.99£6.76'Give me chastity and continence, but not yet'The son of a pagan father and a Christian mother, Saint Augustine spent his early years torn between conflicting world-views. The Confessions, written when he was in his forties, recounts how, slowly and... -
Designing in Dark Times by Virginia Tassinari
£16.77The architectural historian and critic Kenneth Frampton 'never recovered' from the force of Hannah Arendt's teaching at The New School in New York. The philosopher Richard J. Bernstein considers her the most perceptive political theorist and observer of... -
Hinduism For Dummies by Amrutur V. Srinivasan
RRP: £18.99£13.15Your hands-on guide to one of the world's major religions The dominant religion of India, "Hinduism" refers to a wide variety of religious traditions and philosophies that have developed over thousands of years. Today, the United States is home to... -
Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, 3: 1935-1938 by Walter Benjamin 9780674019812
RRP: £28.95£23.30Radical critic of a European civilization plunging into darkness, yet commemorator of the humane traditions of the old bourgeoisie--such was Walter Benjamin in the later 1930s. This volume, the third in a four-volume set, offers twenty-seven brilliant... -
Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, 4: 1938-1940 by Walter Benjamin
RRP: £26.95£21.81"Every line we succeed in publishing today...is a victory wrested from the powers of darkness." So wrote Walter Benjamin in January 1940. Not long afterward, he himself would fall prey to those powers, a victim of suicide following a failed attempt to... -
The Philosophy of Schopenhauer by Bryan Magee 9780198237228
RRP: £48.99£39.51This is a revised and enlarged version of Bryan Magee's widely praised study of Schopenhauer, the most comprehensive book on this great philosopher. It contains a brief biography of Schopenhauer, a systematic exposition of his thought, and a critical... -
Science and Poetry by Mary Midgley 9780415378482
RRP: £19.99£17.69Science, according to the received wisdom of the day, can answer any question we choose to put to it - even the most fundamental about ourselves, our behaviour and our cultures. But for Mary Midgley it can never be the whole story, as it cannot truly... -
The Relevance of Phenomenology to the Philosophy of Language and Mind by Sean Dorrance Kelly 9781138997202
RRP: £47.99£41.81This work discusses philosophical problems of perceptual content, the content of deomonstrative thoughts, and the unity of proposition. By demonstrating a connection between phenomenology and analysis, Kelly suggests ways in which they can be fruitfully... -
Master Thomas Aquinas and the Fullness of Life by John F Boyle
£12.14Professor John F. Boyle's lecture, Master Thomas Aquinas and the Fullness of Life, is a piece that combines a profoundly personal element - the experience of someone who has chosen St. Thomas as his own teacher and master - with the learnedness of one of... -
Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 1: The Revised Oxford Translation by Aristotle
RRP: £55.00£44.51The Oxford Translation of Aristotle was originally published in 12 volumes between 1912 and 1954. It is universally recognized as the standard English version of Aristotle. This revised edition contains the substance of the original Translation, slightly... -
Environmental Ethics: A Very Short Introduction by Robin Attfield 9780198797166
RRP: £8.99£6.45Environmental ethics is a relatively new branch of philosophy, which studies the values and principles involved in combatting environmental problems such as pollution, loss of species and habitats, and climate change. As our environment faces evermore... -
Poetics: WITH On the Sublime AND On Style by Aristotle
RRP: £24.95£23.39Classic criticism.This volume brings together the three most influential ancient Greek treatises on literature.Aristotle's Poetics contains his treatment of Greek tragedy: its history, nature, and conventions, with details on poetic diction. Stephen... -
The Art Of Living And Dying by Osho
RRP: £12.99£8.60In order to embrace life fully, you have to accept the reality of death. No one author or commentator comes close to examining this most significant of events with the depth, the clarity, the compassion and, above all, the humour of OshoAbout the... -
The Moral Universe John Bengson 9780198914693
RRP: £25.00£23.27The Moral Universe marks an importance advance in metaethical thinking, offering the most sustained and sophisticated development of nonnaturalistic moral realism to date. Employing a novel philosophical method, it addresses central questions in... -
Rediscovering Values: Coming to Terms with Postmodernism: Coming to Terms with Postmodernism by Hugh Mercer Curtler
RRP: £25.99£22.63The author's primary purpose in this short book is to clearly define the nature of value and restore it to a central place in discussions of ethical and aesthetic problems. He begins the book with a broad cultural perspective on the issue of... -
Utilitarianism and Other Essays by Jeremy Bentham
RRP: £10.99£7.77One of the most important nineteenth-century schools of thought, Utilitarianism propounds the view that the value or rightness of an action rests in how well it promotes the welfare of those affected by it, aiming for 'the greatest happiness of the... -
De Anima (On the Soul) by Aristotle
RRP: £10.99£7.77For the Pre-Socratic philosophers the soul was the source of movement and sensation, while for Plato it was the seat of being, metaphysically distinct from the body that it was forced temporarily to inhabit. Plato's student Aristotle was determined to... -
Drinking Molotov Cocktails with Gandhi by Mark Boyle
RRP: £10.95£6.98More than ever, people across the planet want deep and meaningful change. From those campaigning for social justice and ecological sustainability, to those who want to protect animals, indigenous cultures and those in poverty, millions are realising that...