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The Concept of Law by H. L. A. Hart 9780199644698
RRP: £135.00£100.25Fifty years on from its original publication, HLA Hart's The Concept of Law is widely recognized as the most important work of legal philosophy published in the twentieth century, and remains the starting point for most students coming to the subject for... -
The Language of Fashion by Roland Barthes
RRP: £19.99£18.10Roland Barthes was one of the most widely influential thinkers of the 20th Century and his immensely popular and readable writings have covered topics ranging from wrestling to photography. The semiotic power of fashion and clothing were of perennial... -
Vexed: Ethics Beyond Political Tribes by James Mumford
RRP: £16.99£12.47Across the democratic West, politics has become deeply polarised and profoundly personal. Challenge someone's political views and increasingly you challenge their very being. And yet, do our political tribes even make sense? Look carefully, and on... -
Technology is Not the Problem by Timandra Harkness 9780008503604
RRP: £20.00£13.34We already know how much of our data is collected and used to profile and target us. The real question is why, knowing all this, do we keep going back for more? “Great book” – Matt Ridley, author of How Innovation Works “Essential reading” – Pete... -
The Routledge Handbook of Practical Reason by Ruth Chang 9780367695408
RRP: £43.99£39.44Over the last several decades, questions about practical reason have come to occupy the center stage in ethics and metaethics. The Routledge Handbook of Practical Reason is an outstanding reference source to this exciting and distinctive subject area and... -
Boredom: A Lively History by Peter Toohey
RRP: £11.99£10.41A rich and stimulating exploration of one of our most maligned emotions and how it might actually help us flourish In the first book to argue for the benefits of boredom, Peter Toohey dispels the myth that it's simply a childish emotion or an existential... -
The Uses of Argument by Stephen E. Toulmin 9780521534833
RRP: £26.99£20.64A central theme throughout the impressive series of philosophical books and articles Stephen Toulmin has published since 1948 is the way in which assertions and opinions concerning all sorts of topics, brought up in everyday life or in academic research,... -
Wittgenstein's Poker by David Edmonds 9780571227358
RRP: £12.99£8.80On 25 October 1946, in a crowded room in Cambridge, Ludwig Wittgenstein and Karl Popper came face to face for the first and only time. The encounter lasted only ten minutes, and did not go well. Almost immediately, rumours started to spread around the... -
Michael Oakeshott on the Human Condition: Essays by Timothy Fuller by Professor Timothy Fuller 9780865979321
RRP: £10.95£9.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865979321Author Professor Timothy FullerFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Liberty Fund IncPublisher Liberty Fund IncWeight(grams) 436g -
The Morality of Freedom by Joseph Raz 9780198248071
RRP: £44.49£35.89Ranging over central issues of morals and politics, this book discusses the nature of freedom and authority. It examines the role of value-neutrality, rights, equality, and the prevention of harm in the liberal tradition, and relates them to fundamental... -
Foucault: A Very Short Introduction by Gary Gutting
RRP: £8.99£6.65Born in 1926 in France, Foucault is one of those rare philosophers who has become a cult figure. Over the course of his life he dabbled in drugs, politics, and the Paris SM scene, all whilst striving to understand the deep concepts of identity,... -
Against Democracy: New Preface by Jason Brennan 9780691178493
RRP: £17.99£15.00Most people believe democracy is a uniquely just form of government. They believe people have the right to an equal share of political power. And they believe that political participation is good for us--it empowers us, helps us get what we want, and... -
Naming God: Addressing the Divine in Philosophy, Theology and Scripture by Janet Soskice
RRP: £30.00£24.28Generations of Christians, Janet Soskice demonstrates, once knew God and Christ by hundreds of remarkable names. These included the appellations 'Messiah', 'Emmanuel', 'Alpha', 'Omega', 'Eternal', 'All-Powerful', 'Lamb', 'Lion', 'Goat', 'One', 'Word',... -
The Ego Trick by Julian Baggini 9781847082732
RRP: £9.99£6.90Are you still the person who lived fifteen, ten or five years ago? Fifteen, ten or five minutes ago? Can you plan for your retirement if the you of thirty years hence is in some sense a different person? What and who is the real you? Does it remain... -
Of Grammatology by Jacques Derrida 9781421419954
RRP: £32.50£29.64Jacques Derrida's revolutionary approach to phenomenology, psychoanalysis, structuralism, linguistics, and indeed the entire European tradition of philosophy-called deconstruction-changed the face of criticism. It provoked a questioning of philosophy,... -
Moral Clarity: A Guide for Grown-up Idealists by Susan Neiman 9780099526278
RRP: £16.99£12.28In Moral Clarity, Susan Neiman shows how the philosophical resources of the eighteenth-century Englightenment can help us to construct a politics that does not repeat the mistakes of Marxism or succumb to the temptation of a cynicism that masquerade as... -
A Commentary on Kant's Critique of Judgement H. W. Cassirer 9781138650664
RRP: £47.99£42.53This book expounds Kant's Critique of Judgement by interpreting all the details in the light of what Kant himself declares to be his fundamental problem. Providing an excellent introduction to Kant's third critique, it will be of interest to students of... -
The Thought of Death and the Memory of War by Marc Crepon 9780816680061
RRP: £19.99£17.54War lays bare death and our relation to it. And in the wars-or more precisely the memories of war-of the twentieth century, images of the deaths of countless faceless or nameless others eclipse the singularity of each victim's death as well as the end of... -
30-Second Philosophies: The 50 Most Thought-provoking Philosophies, Each Explained in Half a Minute by Stephen Law
RRP: £10.99£7.54I Think Therefore I Am, Existentialism, Dialectical Materialism? The Socratic Method and Deconstruction? Sure, you know what they all mean. That is, you've certainly heard of them. But do you know enough about them to join a dinner party debate or... -
Critical Theory: A Very Short Introduction by Stephen Eric Bronner
RRP: £8.99£6.82Critical theory emerged in the 1920s from the work of the Frankfurt School, the circle of German-Jewish academics who sought to diagnose -- and, if at all possible, cure -- the ills of society, particularly fascism and capitalism. In this book, Stephen... -
How to be Idle by Tom Hodgkinson
RRP: £10.99£7.99How to be Idle is Tom Hodgkinson's brilliant guide to reclaiming your right to be idle'Well written, funny and with a scholarly knowledge of the literature of laziness, it is both a book to be enjoyed at leisure and to change lives' Sunday TimesAs Oscar... -
Natural Goodness by Philippa Foot 9780199265473
RRP: £41.99£24.67Philippa Foot has for many years been one of the most distinctive and influential thinkers in moral philosophy. Long dissatisfied with the moral theories of her contemporaries, she has gradually evolved a theory of her own that is radically opposed not... -
Unthinking Mastery: Dehumanism and Decolonial Entanglements by Julietta Singh
RRP: £19.99£17.81Julietta 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... -
Hume: A Very Short Introduction by James A. Harris 9780198849780
RRP: £8.99£6.65David Hume, philosopher, historian, economist, librarian, and essayist, was one of the great figures of the European Enlightenment. Unlike some of his famous contemporaries, however, he was not dogmatically committed to idealised conceptions of reason,... -
The Moral Law: Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals by Immanuel Kant
RRP: £12.99£11.94Few books have had as great an impact on intellectual history as Kant's The Moral Law. In its short compass one of the greatest minds in the history of philosophy attempts to identify the fundamental principle 'morality' that governs human action... -
In Praise of Failure: Four Lessons in Humility by Costica Bradatan 9780674970472
RRP: £24.95£19.89Squarely challenging a culture obsessed with success, an acclaimed philosopher argues that failure is vital to a life well lived, curing us of arrogance and self-deception and engendering humility instead.Our obsession with success is hard to overlook... -
Truth - Meaning - Reality by Paul Horwich 9780199268900
£70.71Truth -- Meaning -- Reality presents a fresh approach to philosophy: a broad and unified deflationism that encompasses language, thought, knowledge, reality, and the relations between them. Horwich's story begins with a minimalist view of truth... -
Human Society in Ethics and Politics by Bertrand Russell 9780415487375
RRP: £14.99£13.58First published in 1954, Human Society in Ethics and Politics is Bertrand Russell's last full account of his ethical and political positions relating to both politics and religion. Ethics, he argues, are necessary to man because of the conflict between... -
The Wellness Syndrome Carl Cederstroem (Stockholm University) 9780745655611
RRP: £15.99£14.62Not exercising as much as you should? Counting your calories in your sleep? Feeling ashamed for not being happier? You may be a victim of the wellness syndrome. In this ground-breaking new book, Carl Cederstroem and Andre Spicer argue that the... -
Abductive Analysis: Theorizing Qualitative Research by Iddo Tavory
RRP: £18.00£17.59In Abductive Analysis, Iddo Tavory and Stefan Timmermans provide a new navigational map for constructing empirically based generalizations in qualitative research. They outline an accessible way to think about observations, methods, and theories that... -
KJV Holy Bible: Giant Print with 53,000 Cross References, Deluxe Black Leathersoft, Red Letter, Comfort Print (Thumb Indexed): King James Version Thomas Nelson 9780785215424
RRP: £55.00£39.95This Bible published in the classic King James Version includes center-column references and giant print type allowing for an easy Bible reading experience. This edition is published in large KJV Comfort Print type, which was designed exclusively for... -
Living the Sutras: A Guide to Yoga Wisdom beyond the Mat by Kelly Dinardo
RRP: £15.99£9.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611805499Author Kelly DinardoFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications Inc -
The Power of Logical Thinking: Easy Lessons in the Art of Reasoning-- and Hard Facts about Its Absence in Ou Lives by Marilyn Mach Vos Savant 9780312156275
RRP: £19.99£13.44Argues that Americans must improve their understanding of probability and logic.Book InformationISBN 9780312156275Author Marilyn Mach Vos SavantFormat PaperbackPage Count 203Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 318g -
An Autobiography: 150th Anniversary Edition with an Introduction by Pankaj Mishra by M. K. Gandhi
RRP: £12.99£9.34The life of Gandhi, in his own words150th Anniversary Edition with a New Introduction by Pankaj Mishra'Generations to come will scarce believe that such a one as this walked the earth in flesh and blood' Albert Einstein upon the death of M. K... -
The Sign of Jona by Thomas Merton 9780156028004
RRP: £15.99£15.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156028004Author Merton ThomasFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint HarperOnePublisher HarperOne -
Seeking The Heart Of Wisdom by Joseph Goldstein
RRP: £16.99£12.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781570628054Author Joseph GoldsteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)... -
Mind, Matter and Quantum Mechanics by Henry P. Stapp 9783642434983
RRP: £49.99£39.15"Scientists other than quantum physicists often fail to comprehend the enormity of the conceptual change wrought by quantum theory in our basic conception of the nature of matter," writes Henry Stapp. Stapp is a leading quantum physicist who has given... -
The Great Philosophers: The Lives and Ideas of History's Greatest Thinkers by Stephen Law
RRP: £12.99£8.83Since the beginning of time mankind has struggled with the big questions surrounding our existence. Whilst most people have heard of Socrates, Machiavelli and Nietzsche, many are less clear on their theories and key concepts. In The Great Philosophers,... -
After The Future by Franco Berardi
RRP: £12.00£11.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781849350594Author Franco BerardiFormat PaperbackPage Count 186Imprint AK PressPublisher AK PressWeight(grams) 263g -
50 Ethics Ideas You Really Need to Know by Ben Dupre
RRP: £12.99£7.72Questions of ethics - about how we should act, our responsibilities to one another, the difference between right and wrong - have long been debated by philosophers the world over and form the foundations of government, culture and religion. Here, in...