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Art Of War by Thomas Cleary 9781590300541
RRP: $34.83$23.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590300541Author Thomas ClearyFormat PaperbackPage Count 474Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)... -
Meaning by Stephen R. Schiffer 9780198243670
$44.80What is it for marks or sounds to have meaning, and what is it for someone to mean something in producing them? Answering these and related questions, Schiffer explores communication, speech acts, convention, and the meaning of linguistic items in this... -
Meditations From The Mat: Daily Reflections On The Path Of Yoga by Rolf Gates
RRP: $21.92$17.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385721547Author Rolf GatesFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Bantam Books IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 556gDimensions(mm) 189mm *... -
Before Boas: The Genesis of Ethnography and Ethnology in the German Enlightenment by Han F. Vermeulen
RRP: $46.44$37.68The history of anthropology has been written from multiple viewpoints, often from perspectives of gender, nationality, theory, or politics. Before Boas delves deeper into issues concerning anthropology's academic origins to present a groundbreaking study... -
Nine Ways of Seeing a Body by Sandra Reeve
RRP: $16.13$13.73This book presents nine lenses through which the body is conventionally viewed. The body as object, the body as subject, the phenomenological body, the contextual body, the interdependent body, the environmental body, the cultural body and, finally, the... -
Thomas Aquinas: A Very Short Introduction by Fergus Kerr
RRP: $11.60$8.32Thomas Aquinas, an Italian Catholic priest in the early thirteeth century, is considered to be one of the great Christian thinkers who had, and who still has, a profound influence on Western thought. He was a controversial figure who was exposed and... -
Philosophical Progress: In Defence of a Reasonable Optimism by Daniel Stoljar 9780198849773
$36.40Many people believe that philosophy makes no progress. Members of the general public often find it amazing that philosophers exist in universities at all, at least in research positions. Academics who are not philosophers often think of philosophy either... -
The Zizek Reader by Edmund Wright 9780631212010
RRP: $54.12$47.38The Zizek Reader - which includes a Foreword by Zizek and a new, previously unpublished essay on cyberspace - provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the flamboyant work of a figure who has been variously described as 'one of the most... -
The Psychology and Philosophy of Eugene Gendlin: Making Sense of Contemporary Experience by Eric R. Severson 9781032280042
RRP: $38.69$34.37This book brings together a collection of essays written by scholars inspired by Eugene Gendlin's work, particularly those interested in thinking with and beyond Gendlin for the sake of a global community facing significant crises. The contributors take... -
Universals by James Porter Moreland 9781902683232
RRP: $49.01$43.06Things are particulars and their qualities are universals, but do universals have an existence distinct from the particular things describable by those terms? And what must be their nature if they do? This book provides a careful and assured survey of... -
The Invention of Autonomy: A History of Modern Moral Philosophy by Jerome B. Schneewind
RRP: $45.14$38.34This remarkable book is the most comprehensive study ever written of the history of moral philosophy in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Its aim is to set Kant's still influential ethics in its historical context by showing in detail what the... -
Asimov's Foundation and Philosophy by Joshua Heter 9781637700303
RRP: $23.21$15.87Isaac Asimov's Foundation is the most influential science-fiction epic of all time. Published as a series of books and short stories from the 1940s to the 1980s, the series has impacted most subsequent science fiction, and influenced sciences like... -
Turning Confusion Into Clarity by Yongey Mingyur
RRP: $29.67$19.57Apologies 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)... -
Chi Self-Massage: The Taoist Way of Rejuvenation by Mantak Chia 9781594771101
RRP: $14.18$10.57The Western concept of massage primarily concerns muscle manipulation. In the practice of Chi Massage, internal energy, or Chi, is manipulated to strengthen and rejuvenate the sense organs--eyes, ears, nose, tongue, teeth, and skin--and the internal... -
The Temptation to Exist by E. M. Cioran 9781611457384
RRP: $14.18$11.76This collection of eleven essays originally appeared in France thirty years ago and created a literary whirlwind on the Left Bank. Cioran writes incisively about Western civilizations, the writer, the novel, mystics, apostles, and philosophers.The... -
De Inventione; De Optimo Genere Oratorum; Topica by Marcus Tullius Cicero
RRP: $32.19$30.17Three rhetorical treatises.Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 106-43 BC), Roman lawyer, orator, politician and philosopher, of whom we know more than of any other Roman, lived through the stirring era that saw the rise, dictatorship, ... -
True Detective and Philosophy: A Deeper Kind of Darkness by William Irwin 9781119280781
RRP: $16.71$11.07Investigating the trail of philosophical leads in HBO's chilling True Detective series, an elite team of philosophers examine far-reaching riddles including human pessimism, Rust's anti-natalism, the problem of evil, and the 'flat circle'. The first book... -
Reading Philosophy: Selected Texts with a Method for Beginners by Samuel Guttenplan
RRP: $37.35$32.86A key introductory philosophy textbook, making use of an innovative, interactive technique for reading philosophical texts Reading Philosophy: Selected Texts with a Method for Beginners, Second Edition, provides a unique approach to reading philosophy,... -
The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms: Volume 2: Mythical Thought by Ernst Cassirer 9780300000382
$36.78The Symbolic Forms has long been considered the greatest of Cassirer's works. Into it he poured all the resources of his vast learning about language and myth, religion, art, and science-the various creative symbolizing activities and constructions... -
The Philosophy Foundation: The Philosophy Shop (Paperback) Ideas, activities and questions toget people, young and old, thinking philosophically by Peter Worley 9781781352649
RRP: $24.50$19.98Edited by Peter Worley with chapters by: Harry Adamson, Peter Adamson, Alfred Archer, Saray Ayala, Grant Bartley, David Birch, Peter Cave, Miriam Cohen Christofidis, Philip Cowell, James Davy, Andrew Day, Georgina Donati, Claire Field, Berys Gaut, Morag... -
The Shape of Things: a Philosophy of Design by Vilem Flusser
$23.53This title includes an introduction by Martin Pawley. This book presents for the first time in English an array of essays on design by the seminal media critic and philosopher Vilem Flusser. It puts forward the view that our future depends on design. In... -
What We Think About When We Think About Football by Simon Critchley
RRP: $11.60$8.32What do we think about when we think about football? Football is about so many things: memory, history, place, social class, gender (especially masculinity, but increasingly femininity too), family identity, tribal identity, national identity, the nature... -
The Racial Contract by Charles W. Mills
RRP: $25.79$22.63The Racial Contract puts classic Western social contract theory, deadpan, to extraordinary radical use. With a sweeping look at the European expansionism and racism of the last five hundred years, Charles W. Mills demonstrates how this peculiar and... -
Law, Legislation and Liberty: A new statement of the liberal principles of justice and political economy by F. A. Hayek
RRP: $25.79$23.34With a new foreword by Paul Kelly 'I regard Hayek's work as a new opening of the most fundamental debate in the field of political philosophy' - Sir Karl Popper 'This promises to be the crowning work of a scholar who has devoted a lifetime to thinking... -
The Unknowable in Early Modern Thought: Natural Philosophy and the Poetics of the Ineffable by Kevin Killeen 9781503635852
RRP: $33.53$26.88Early modern thought was haunted by the unknowable character of the fallen world. The sometimes brilliant and sometimes baffling fusion of theological and scientific ideas in the era, as well as some of its greatest literature, responds to this sense... -
Human, All Too Human II / Unpublished Fragments from the Period of <I>Human, All Too Human II</I> (Spring 1878-Fall 1879): Volume 4 by Friedrich Nietzsche
RRP: $27.08$23.70Volume 4 of The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche contains two works, Mixed Opinions and Maxims (1879) and The Wanderer and His Shadow (1880), originally published separately, then republished together in the 1886 edition of Nietzsche's works. They... -
The Life Intense: A Modern Obsession by Tristan Garcia
RRP: $23.21$19.18Our lives today are oppressed by the demand that we live, feel and experience with ever greater intensity. From flavours and smells to sex, drugs and extreme sports, we are in constant pursuit of some new, unheard-of intensity. Tristan Garcia argues that... -
Radical Enlightenment: Philosophy and the Making of Modernity 1650-1750 by Jonathan I. Israel
RRP: $70.95$61.52Arguably the most decisive shift in the history of ideas in modern times was the complete demolition during the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries - in the wake of the Scientific Revolution - of traditional structures of authority, scientific... -
Epicureanism: A Very Short Introduction by Catherine Wilson
RRP: $11.60$8.32Epicureanism is commonly associated with a carefree view of life and the pursuit of pleasures, particularly the pleasures of the table. However it was a complex and distinctive system of philosophy that emphasized simplicity and moderation, and... -
Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment by Patricia Hill Collins 9780415964722
RRP: $25.79$22.82In spite of the double burden of racial and gender discrimination, African-American women have developed a rich intellectual tradition that is not widely known. In Black Feminist Thought, originally published in 1990, Patricia Hill Collins set out to... -
One Swallow Does Not Make a Summer by Aristotle
RRP: $10.31$7.47'One swallow does not make a summer; neither does one day. Similarly neither can one day, or a brief space of time, make a man blessed and happy'What does it mean to be a good person? Ranging over eternal questions of right and wrong, pleasure and... -
Beast and the Sovereign: Volume 2 by Jacques Derrida
RRP: $33.54$32.06Following on from The Beast and the Sovereign, Volume I, this book extends Jacques Derrida's exploration of the connections between animality and sovereignty. In this second year of the seminar, originally presented in 2002 2003 as the last course he... -
Classical Philosophy: A history of philosophy without any gaps, Volume 1 by Peter Adamson
RRP: $29.66$22.05Classical Philosophy is the first of a series of books in which Peter Adamson aims ultimately to present a complete history of philosophy, more thoroughly but also more enjoyably than ever before. In short, lively chapters, based on the popular History... -
Nietzsche: Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future by Friedrich Nietzsche
RRP: $29.66$25.94Beyond Good and Evil is one of the most scathing and powerful critiques of philosophy, religion, science, politics and ethics ever written. In it, Nietzsche presents a set of problems, criticisms and philosophical challenges that continue both to inspire... -
Philosophy in the Islamic World: A Very Short Introduction by Peter Adamson
RRP: $11.60$8.32In the history of philosophy, few topics are so relevant to today's cultural and political landscape as philosophy in the Islamic world. Yet, this remains one of the lesser-known philosophical traditions. In this Very Short Introduction, Peter Adamson... -
How To Read Derrida by Penelope Deutscher 9781862077683
RRP: $14.18$9.44'Deconstruction is not neutral. It intervenes' Jacques Derrida An idiosyncratic and highly controversial French philosopher, Jacques Derrida inspired profound changes in disciplines as diverse as law, anthropology, literature and architecture. In... -
Seva: Sikh wisdom for living well by doing good by Jasreen Mayal Khanna
RRP: $16.76$11.73'Demystifies the Sikh way of living a good life in seven simple steps' Vogue India Think of any scene of disaster and you'll find Sikh volunteers rallying to the site to perform seva - pronounced 'say-va', meaning selfless service - feeding migrant... -
The ABCs of Socialism by Bhaskar Jacobin
RRP: $11.60$9.55The remarkable run of self-proclaimed "democratic socialist" Bernie Sanders for president of the United States has prompted-for the first time in decades and to the shock of many-a national conversation about socialism. A New York Times poll in late... -
Hermit: A memoir of finding freedom in a wild place by Jade Angeles Fitton
RRP: $24.50$17.56'I never imagined that the wind would blow me here, to a kind of isolation I have never experienced... There is never anything out here but my shadow, that no one treads on any more'When Jade's partner leaves the barn that they moved into just weeks... -
The Book Of Five Rings by Miyamoto Musashi 9781590309841
RRP: $23.21$14.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590309841Author Miyamoto MusashiFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams) 294g