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Lives of the Eminent Philosophers: Compact Edition by Diogenes Laertius
RRP: £15.99£13.73Everyone wants to live a meaningful life. Long before our own day of self-help books offering twelve-step programs and other guides to attain happiness, the philosophers of ancient Greece explored the riddle of what makes a life worth living, producing a... -
Citizens: How to Break Open Our World and Unleash the Power of Everyone by Jon Alexander
RRP: £20.00£12.86MCKINSEY TOP 5 RECOMMENDED READ 'An underground hit' - Best Politics Books, Financial Times 'Jon has one of the few big ideas that's easily applied' - Sam Conniff, Be More Pirate 'A wonderful guide to how to be human in the 21st Century' - Ece... -
Generation Left by Keir Milburn
RRP: £9.99£8.95Increasingly age appears to be the key dividing line in contemporary politics. Young people across the globe are embracing left-wing ideas and supporting figures such as Corbyn and Sanders. Where has this 'Generation Left' come from? How can it change... -
Radical Wholeness: The Embodied Present and the Ordinary Grace of Being by Philip Sheperd
RRP: £16.99£11.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781623171773Author Philip ShepherdFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint North Atlantic Books,U.S.Publisher North Atlantic Books,U.S.Weight(grams)... -
Jean-Paul Sartre by Christine Daigle 9780415435659
RRP: £19.99£17.69A critical figure in twentieth-century literature and philosophy, Jean-Paul Sartre changed the course of critical thought, and claimed a new, important role for the intellectual. Christine Daigle sets Sartre's thought in context, and considers a number... -
The Pecking Order: Social Hierarchy as a Philosophical Problem by Niko Kolodny
RRP: £45.95£36.69A trenchant case for a novel philosophical position: that our political thinking is driven less by commitments to freedom or fairness than by an aversion to hierarchy.Niko Kolodny argues that, to a far greater extent than we recognize, our political... -
The Dream of the Cosmos: A Quest for the Soul by Anne Baring
RRP: £38.00£18.02The Dream of the Cosmos is the story of a multi-layered quest to understand the causes of human suffering and to reconnect with a deeper reality than the one we inhabit in this physical dimension of experience. It seeks to answer the questions: "Who are... -
Happy Dog, Happy You: A positive guide to a joyful relationship with your dog by Verity Hardcastle
RRP: £16.99£11.54Want to raise a calm, happy and fulfilled dog?Award-winning groomer, TV personality and experienced dog handler Verity Hardcastle has compiled everything you need to know in this comprehensive dog-care manual: from choosing a breed, to practical diet and... -
Confabulations by John Berger
RRP: £10.99£7.77'Language is a body, a living creature ... and this creature's home is the inarticulate as well as the articulate'. John Berger's work has revolutionized the way we understand visual language. In this new book he writes about language itself, and how it... -
The Poverty of Our Freedom: Essays 2012 - 2019 by Axel Honneth 9781509556335
RRP: £18.99£16.87There is no normative concept more appealing today than the idea of individual freedom. Political party manifestos are drawn up, legal reforms are defended, military interventions are undertaken, even decisions in personal relationships are justified -... -
Essays by Michel Montaigne
RRP: £9.99£7.11Reflections by the creator of the essay form display the humane, skeptical, humorous, and honest views of Montaigne, revealing his thoughts on sexuality, religion, cannibals, intellectuals, and other unexpected themes. Included are such celebrated works... -
The Zen Buddhist Philosophy of D. T. Suzuki: Strengths, Foibles, Intrigues, and Precision by Rossa O Muireartaigh
RRP: £17.99£17.02D.T. Suzuki (1870-1966) reached global fame for his writings on Zen Buddhism. In this introduction to his theories of self, knowledge, and the world, Suzuki is presented as a Buddhist philosopher in his own right. Beginning with a biography of his... -
The Philosophy of Money by Georg Simmel 9780415610117
RRP: £19.99£18.69With a new foreword by Charles Lemert'Its greatness...lies in ceaseless and varied use of the money form to unearth and conceptually reveal incommensurabilities of all kinds, in social reality fully as much as in thought itself.' - Fredric JamesonIn The... -
Being Happy by Epicurus
RRP: £7.99£5.79'It is impossible to live the pleasant life without also living sensibly, nobly and justly'The ancient Greek philosopher and teacher Epicurus argued that pleasure - not sensual hedonism, but the absence of pain or fear - is the highest goal of life. His... -
Satanic Rituals by Anton Szandor La Vey 9780380013920
RRP: £7.99£5.50The Satanic Bible was written by Anton LaVey in 1969. It is a collection of essays, observations and basic Satanic rituals, and outlines LaVey's Satanic ideology. It contains the core principles of LaVeyan Satanism and is considered the foundation of the... -
The Religion of Tomorrow: A Vision for the Future of the Great Traditions - More Inclusive, More Comprehensive, More Complete by Ken Wilber
RRP: £32.00£21.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611805727Author Ken WilberFormat PaperbackPage Count 816Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications Inc -
Trouble with Strangers: A Study of Ethics by Terry Eagleton
RRP: £26.95£23.43TROUBLE WITH STRANGERS 'Written in Eagleton's very readable, clear and witty style, this book may achieve the unthinkable: bridging the gap between academic High Thought and popular philosophy manuals.'Slavoj Zi ek 'This is a fine book. It is hugely... -
Self-Constitution: Agency, Identity, and Integrity by Christine M. Korsgaard
RRP: £31.49£27.18Christine M. Korsgaard presents an account of the foundation of practical reason and moral obligation. Moral philosophy aspires to understand the fact that human actions, unlike the actions of the other animals, can be morally good or bad, right or wrong... -
How Not to Kill Yourself: Portrait of a Suicidal Mind by Clancy Martin 9780861540488
RRP: £18.99£13.61'Illuminating, riveting, and - for those of us who are suffering, or know people who are - potentially life-savingly helpful.' Scott Stossel The last time Clancy Martin tried to kill himself was in his basement with a dog leash. He didn't write a note... -
Ways of Being Alive by Baptiste Morizot 9781509547210
RRP: £17.99£16.04The ecological crisis is a very real crisis for the many species that face extinction, but it is also a crisis of sensibility - that is, a crisis in our relationships with other living beings. We have grown accustomed to treating other living beings as... -
In the Dust of This Planet by Eugene Thacker 9781846946769
RRP: £11.99£10.15"Thacker's discourse on the intersection of horror and philosophy is utterly original and utterly captivating..." Thomas Ligotti, author of The Conspiracy Against the Human Race The world is increasingly unthinkable, a world of planetary disasters,... -
The Mystical Element in Heidegger's Thought by John D. Caputo 9780823211531
RRP: £31.00£27.36This book is a model of philosophical and Heideggerian scholarship. Avoiding the extremes of abject worship and facile refutation, it moves into the heart of the later Heideggers work. Not only is Caputo faithful to the texts, but he is reflective and... -
Losing Ourselves: Learning to Live without a Self by Jay L. Garfield 9780691220574
RRP: £13.99£11.42Why you don't have a self-and why that's a good thingIn Losing Ourselves, Jay Garfield, a leading expert on Buddhist philosophy, offers a brief and radically clear account of an idea that at first might seem frightening but that promises to liberate us... -
The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge by Jean-Francois Lyotard 9780719014505
RRP: £14.99£11.12Many definitions of postmodernism focus on its nature as the aftermath of the modern industrial age when technology developed. This book extends that analysis to postmodernism by looking at the status of science, technology, and the arts, the... -
Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work by Matthew B Crawford
RRP: £17.00£9.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143117469Author Matthew B. CrawfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 187gDimensions(mm) 197mm *... -
An Introduction to the Theory of Knowledge by Noah Lemos 9781108724401
RRP: £32.99£29.23Now revised and containing three new chapters, this book provides a clear and accessible introduction to epistemology, or the theory of knowledge. It discusses some of the main theories of justification, including foundationalism, coherentism,... -
Computability and Randomness by Andre Nies 9780199652600
RRP: £55.00£54.72The interplay between computability and randomness has been an active area of research in recent years, reflected by ample funding in the USA, numerous workshops, and publications on the subject. The complexity and the randomness aspect of a set of... -
Remarkable Minds: A Celebration of the Reith Lectures by BBC Radio 4
RRP: £12.99£8.60IDEAS THAT HAVE THE POWER TO CHANGE THE WORLDThe best of an extraordinary 70 year archive, gathered in one volume for the first time. The prestigious BBC Reith Lectures have been enriching the world with new ideas since 1948. Every year, a world-leading... -
Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes 9780141395098
RRP: £12.99£9.23'The life of man, solitary, poore, nasty, brutish, and short' Written during the chaos of the English Civil War, Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan asks how, in a world of violence and horror, can we stop ourselves from descending into anarchy? Hobbes' case for a... -
The Divine Feminine Tao Te Ching: A New Translation and Commentary by Rosemarie Anderson
RRP: £12.99£8.18The first translation of the ancient classic that reveals the feminine nature of the Tao* Restores the feminine essence of the Tao Te Ching as well as the simplicity and poetic undertones of the chapters * Offers commentary for each of the 81 chapters... -
For F*ck's Sake: Why Swearing is Shocking, Rude, and Fun by Rebecca Roache 9780190665067
RRP: £16.99£12.28Why do we love to swear so much? Why do we get so offended when others do it? With wit and insight, philosopher Rebecca Roache seeks answers to these and other puzzling questions about bad language. When someone swears at you, it can sting. Likewise,... -
The Corpus Hermeticum (Royal Collector's Edition) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket) by Hermes Trismegistus 9781774378458
£30.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781774378458Author Hermes TrismegistusFormat HardbackPage Count 90Imprint Royal ClassicsPublisher Royal ClassicsWeight(grams) 304gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
Kant: The Metaphysics of Morals by Immanual Kant
RRP: £25.99£22.61The Metaphysics of Morals is Kant's final major work in moral philosophy. In it, he presents the basic concepts and principles of right and virtue and the system of duties of human beings as such. The work comprises two parts: the Doctrine of Right... -
Freedom from Fear: An Incomplete History of Liberalism by Alan S. Kahan 9780691191287
RRP: £38.00£30.01A provocative new history of liberalism that also provides a road map for today's liberalsFreedom from Fear offers a striking new account of the dominant political and social theory of our time: liberalism. In a pathbreaking reframing of the historical... -
Custom and Reason in Hume: A Kantian Reading of the First Book of the Treatise by Henry E. Allison 9780199532889
£110.45Henry Allison examines the central tenets of Hume's epistemology and cognitive psychology, as contained in the Treatise of Human Nature. Allison takes a distinctive two-level approach. On the one hand, he considers Hume's thought in its own terms and... -
Empire by Michael Hardt 9780674006713
RRP: £27.95£23.65Imperialism as we knew it may be no more, but Empire is alive and well. It is, as Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri demonstrate in this bold work, the new political order of globalization. It is easy to recognize the contemporary economic, cultural, and... -
The Philosophy of Design by Glenn Parsons
RRP: £16.99£15.22The Philosophy of Design is an introduction to the fundamental philosophical issues raised by the contemporary practice of design. The first book to systematically examine design from the perspective of contemporary philosophy, it offers a broad... -
Everything, Beautiful: A Guide to Finding the Hidden Beauty in the World by Ella Frances Sanders
RRP: £14.99£10.95From the New York Times bestselling author of Lost in Translation comes an illustrated manifesto and an interactive guide to reclaiming the wonder of the everyday through mindful activities, creative exercises and heart-warming stories.In a world that... -
Introduction to the Reading of Hegel: Lectures on the "Phenomenology of Spirit" by Alexandre Kojeve
RRP: £20.99£18.37Lectures on the "Phenomenology of Spirit" "This collection of Kojeve's thoughts about Hegel constitutes one of the few important philosophical books of the twentieth century-a book, knowledge of which is requisite to the full awareness of our situation... -
I Drink Therefore I Am: A Philosopher's Guide to Wine by Roger Scruton
RRP: £16.99£13.16Here Scruton explains the connection between good wine and serious thought with a heady mix of humour and philosophy. We are familiar with the medical opinion that a daily glass of wine is good for the health and also the rival opinion that any more...