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The Outsider by Albert Camus 9780241458853
RRP: £8.99£6.65'One of those books that marks a reader's life indelibly' William Boyd'A compelling, dreamlike fable' GuardianIn The Outsider, Camus explores the alienation of an individual who refuses to conform to social norms. Meursault, his anti-hero, will not lie... -
Moral Responsibility in Collective Contexts by Tracy Isaacs 9780199782963
RRP: £97.00£85.45Genocide, global warming, organizational negligence, and oppressive social practices are four examples of moral contexts in which the interplay between individuals and collectives complicate how we are to understand moral responsibility. Moral... -
Human Knowledge: Its Scope and Limits by Bertrand Russell
RRP: £16.99£15.62How do we know what we "know"? How did we -as individuals and as a society - come to accept certain knowledge as fact? In Human Knowledge, Bertrand Russell questions the reliability of our assumptions on knowledge. This brilliant and controversial work... -
What Are Biblical Values?: What the Bible Says on Key Ethical Issues by John Collins
RRP: £15.99£15.76What does the Bible actually say about many of today's most contentious moral issues?"For drawing attention to the relevant scriptures and for guidance in recognizing what are and aren't valid interpretations of them, Collins' pertinent brief is beyond... -
Not About Being Good: A Practical Guide to Buddhist Ethics Subhadramati 9781909314016
RRP: £11.99£8.66While there are numerous books on Buddhist meditation and philosophy, there are few books that are entirely devoted to the practice of Buddhist ethics. Here Subhadramati, an experienced teacher of meditation and ethics, communicates clearly both their... -
Pragmatism by John R. Shook
RRP: £15.99£10.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262544610Author John R. ShookFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
Utilitarianism by J. S. Mill
RRP: £31.99£30.33The Oxford Philosophical Texts series consists of authoritative teaching editions of canonical texts in the history of philosophy from the ancient world down to modern times. Each volume provides a clear, well laid out text together with a comprehensive... -
Nine Ways of Seeing a Body by Sandra Reeve
RRP: £12.50£10.80This 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... -
Routledge Philosophy GuideBook to Anscombe's Intention Rachael Wiseman 9780415821872
RRP: £23.99£20.99G. E. M. Anscombe's Intention is a classic of twentieth-century philosophy. The work has been enormously influential despite being a dense and largely misunderstood text. It is a standard reference point for anyone engaging with philosophy of action and... -
Fortunes of Feminism: From State-Managed Capitalism to Neoliberal Crisis by Nancy Fraser
RRP: £12.99£11.17Second Wave feminism emerged as a struggle for women's liberation and took its place alongside other radical movements. But feminism's subsequent immersion in identity politics coincided with a decline in its utopian energies and the rise of... -
Derrida: A Very Short Introduction by Dr. Simon Glendinning
RRP: £8.99£6.65Jacques Derrida, the French philosopher, developed his critical technique known as 'deconstruction'. His work is associated with ideas surrounding both post-structuralism and post-modern philosophy, and he was known to have challenged some of the... -
Civilization and its Discontents by Sigmund Freud
RRP: £14.99£10.95Freud's epoch-making insights revolutionized our perception of who we are, forming the foundation for psychoanalysis. In Civilization and its Discontents he considers the incompatibility of civilization and individual happiness. Focusing on what he... -
Ramana Maharshi And The Path Of Self Knowledge by Arthur Osborne 9781846044083
RRP: £12.99£9.34Introduced to the West by Paul Brunton, Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi (1879-1950) is widely hailed as the greatest Indian saint and sage in modern times, whose teachings continue to influence thousands around the world today. This intimate biography by... -
Bhagavad Gita as it is by Swami S.P. Bhaktivedanta 9781602930001
£13.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781602930001Author A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami PrabhupadaFormat HardbackPage Count 980Imprint Krishna Books IncorporatedPublisher Krishna Books... -
Living with the Himalayan Masters by Rama Swami
RRP: £18.95£14.41"I will tell you how I grew up and how I was trained, about the great sages with whom I lived and what they taught me, not through lectures and books but through experiences," writes Sri Swami Rama in the opening pages of this timeless saga. These... -
Why It's OK to Love Bad Movies by Matthew Strohl
RRP: £19.99£17.69Most people are too busy to keep up with all the good movies they'd like to see, so why should anyone spend their precious time watching the bad ones? In Why It's OK to Love Bad Movies, philosopher and cinematic bottom feeder Matthew Strohl... -
Aristotle: De Anima by Aristotle 9780199243457
RRP: £34.99£33.48The Clarendon Aristotle Series is designed for both students and professionals. It provides accurate translations of selected Aristotelian texts, accompanied by incisive commentaries that focus on philosophical problems and issues, The volumes in the... -
Decoding Schopenhauer's Metaphysics: The key to understanding how it solves the hard problem of consciousness and the paradoxes of quantum mechanics by Bernardo Kastrup
RRP: £9.99£8.82First proposed more than 200 years ago, Schopenhauer's extraordinarily prescient metaphysics if understood along the lines thoroughly elucidated and substantiated in this volume offers powerful answers not only to the paradoxes of quantum mechanics,... -
The Art Of War by Sun Tzu 9781590302255
RRP: £7.99£6.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590302255Author Sun TzuFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)... -
Ethical Studies by F. H. Bradley
£47.26Ethical Studies, now regarded as a classic, was first published in 1876 to an unenthusiastic reception. Unorthodox and highly polemical, the book was written as a counterblast to the Utilitarianism which then dominated English moral philosophy. The book... -
Creative Evolution Henri Bergson 9781138689251
RRP: £51.99£46.54First published in French in 1907, Henri Bergson's L'evolution creatrice is a scintillating and radical work by one of the great French philosophers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This outstanding new translation, the first for over a hundred... -
Home in the World: A Memoir by Amartya Sen
RRP: £12.99£9.34The extraordinary early life in India and England of one of the world's leading public intellectualsWhere is 'home'? For Amartya Sen, home has been many places - Dhaka in modern Bangladesh, the little university town of Santiniketan, where he was raised... -
Philosophy of Mind: A Beginner's Guide by Ian Ravenscroft
RRP: £39.99£37.65Philosophy of Mind: A Beginner's Guide provides the most accessible introduction to the philosophy of mind. Specifically aimed at beginning students with no background knowledge in the subject, Ravenscroft brings together all of the basic concepts and... -
The Meaning of Life and Death: Ten Classic Thinkers on the Ultimate Question Michael Hauskeller (Professor of Philosophy, University of Liverpool, UK) 9781350073647
RRP: £24.99£22.13What is the point of living? If we are all going to die anyway, if nothing will remain of whatever we achieve in this life, why should we bother trying to achieve anything in the first place? Can we be mortal and still live a meaningful life? Questions... -
The Imaginary Museum: A Personal Tour of Contemporary Art featuring ghosts, nudity and disagreements by Ben Eastham
RRP: £7.99£5.59Join the art critic Ben Eastham on a private tour of an extraordinary museum. Let him walk you through a building constructed from memory and filled with a series of bewildering art works, while he delivers a guide comprised of personal... -
Zhuangzi: Ways of Wandering the Way Chris Fraser 9780198889861
RRP: £70.00£63.74Zhuangzi: Ways of Wandering the Way presents a richly detailed, philosophically informed interpretation of the personal and interpersonal ethics found in the Daoist classic Zhuangzi, introducing a unique Daoist approach to ethics focusing on the concept... -
The Beginner's Guide to Zen Buddhism by Jean Smith 9780609804667
RRP: £13.99£10.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780609804667Author Jean SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Crown PublicationsPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 231gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
The Rule of Metaphor: The Creation of Meaning in Language by Paul Ricoeur
RRP: £18.99£16.87Paul Ricoeur is widely regarded as one of the most distinguished philosophers of our time. In The Rule of Metaphor he seeks 'to show how language can extend itself to its very limits, forever discovering new resonances within itself'. Recognizing the... -
Pragmatism and Other Writings by William James
RRP: £10.99£7.99The writings of William James represent one of America's most original contributions to the history of ideas. Ranging from philosophy and psychology to religion and politics, James composed the most engaging formulation of American pragmatism. ... -
How to Flourish: An Ancient Guide to Living Well by Aristotle
RRP: £14.99£10.98Aristotle's essential guide to human flourishing-the Nicomachean Ethics-in a lively new abridged translationAristotle's Nicomachean Ethics is one of the greatest guides to human flourishing ever written, but its length and style have left many readers... -
Encounters with Silence by Karl Rahner 9781890318222
RRP: £9.00£8.04One of the classics of modern spirituality, Encounters with Silence is one of Karl Rahner's most lucid and powerful books. A book of meditations about man's relation with God, it is not a work of dry theology, but rather a book of prayerful reflections... -
Hope in the Age of Anxiety by Anthony Scioli 9780195380354
RRP: £36.49£31.10Economic collapse, poverty, disease, natural disasters, the constant threat of community unrest and international terrorism--a quick look at any newspaper is enough to cause almost anyone to feel trapped and desparate. Yet the recent election also... -
Lost Knowledge of the Imagination by Gary Lachman 9781782504450
RRP: £20.00£13.31The ability to imagine is at the heart of what makes us human. Through our imagination we experience more fully the world both around us and within us. Imagination plays a key role in creativity and innovation.Until the seventeenth century, the human... -
The Original I Ching: An Authentic Translation of the Book of Changes by Margaret J. Pearson
RRP: £15.99£13.62First among the ancient classics, the I Ching or Book of Changes is one of the world's most influential books, comparable to the Bible, the Koran, and the Upanishads.The I Ching's purpose is universal: to provide good counsel to its users in making... -
Matter and Motion by Thomas Nail 9781399525435
RRP: £14.99£12.75Tells a new history of materialism from prehistory to the present that resists stasis, heirarchy and domination Traces a lineage of thinkers who have philosophically integrated ideas of matter, motion, indeterminacy, relationality and process ... -
Why Not Socialism? by G. A. Cohen 9780691143613
RRP: £9.99£8.16Is socialism desirable? Is it even possible? In this concise book, one of the world's leading political philosophers presents with clarity and wit a compelling moral case for socialism and argues that the obstacles in its way are exaggerated. There are... -
The Function of Criticism by Terry Eagleton
£13.98This wide-ranging book argues that criticism emerged in early bourgeois society as a central feature of a "public sphere" in which political, ethical, and literary judgements could mingle under the benign rule of reason. The disintegration of this... -
Irony and Sarcasm by Roger Kreuz
RRP: £14.99£10.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262538268Author Roger KreuzFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 178mm * 127mm * 14mm -
Bad Arguments: 100 of the Most Important Fallacies in Western Philosophy by Robert Arp 9781119167907
RRP: £13.95£13.32A timely and accessible guide to 100 of the most infamous logical fallacies in Western philosophy, helping readers avoid and detect false assumptions and faulty reasoning You'll love this book or you'll hate it. So, you're either with us or against us... -
BioShock and Philosophy: Irrational Game, Rational Book by Luke Cuddy
RRP: £14.95£10.40Considered a sign of the 'coming of age' of video games as an artistic medium, the award-winning BioShock franchise covers vast philosophical ground. BioShock and Philosophy: Irrational Game, Rational Book presents expert reflections by philosophers (and...