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Forms of Enchantment: Writings on Art & Artists by Marina Warner 9780500295960
RRP: £20.00£13.75An anthology of compelling essays by Marina Warner, one of our pre-eminent writers and critics. Art-writing at its most useful should share the dynamism, fluidity and passions of the objects of its enquiry, argues Marina Warner. In this new anthology of... -
Without Criteria: Kant, Whitehead, Deleuze, and Aesthetics by Steven Shaviro 9780262517973
£27.00A Deleuzian reading of Whitehead and a Whiteheadian reading of Deleuze open the possibility of a critical aesthetics of contemporary culture. In Without Criteria, Steven Shaviro proposes and explores a philosophical fantasy: imagine a world in which... -
A Voice of One's Own: a story about confidence and self-belief by The School of Life
RRP: £15.00£11.08A beautifully photographic therapeutic novel which teaches us about our own emotions through a young woman's journey of self-discovery. This is a novel with a striking mission at its heart: not just to tell us a story but to show us - through the... -
The Stoic Guide to a Happy Life: 53 Brief Lessons for Living by Massimo Pigliucci
RRP: £14.99£11.11'Bursting with practical wisdom and engaging stories ... a Stoicism 2.0 for twenty-first century happiness' Skye Cleary 'A bold, contemporary updating of Stoicism for the present day' John Sellars, author of Lessons in StoicismLearn how to survive life's... -
Seneca's Letters from a Stoic by Lucius Seneca 9780486811246
RRP: £10.99£7.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486811246Author Lucius SenecaFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Aspiration: The Agency of Becoming by Agnes Callard 9780190085148
RRP: £30.49£22.37Becoming someone is a learning process; and what we learn is the new values around which, if we succeed, our lives will come to turn. Agents transform themselves in the process of, for example, becoming parents, embarking on careers, or acquiring a... -
Descartes: A Very Short Introduction by Professor Tom Sorell
RRP: £8.99£6.65Rene Descartes (1596-1650) had a remarkably short working life, and his output was small, yet his contributions to philosophy and science have endured to the present day. He is perhaps best known for his statement 'Cogito, ergo sum'. By a mixture of... -
JERSEY: SECRETS OF THE SEA by Paul Darroch 9781912020935
£12.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912020935Author Paul DarrochFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Seaflower BooksPublisher Ex Libris Press -
Colonialism and Neocolonialism by Jean-Paul Sartre 9780415378468
RRP: £14.99£13.58Nearly forty years after its first publication in French, this collection of Sartre's writings on colonialism remains a supremely powerful, and relevant, polemical work. Over a series of thirteen essays Sartre brings the full force of his remarkable... -
The Letters of Marsilio Ficino Volume 11: (Book XII) by Language Department of the School of Economic Science, London 9780856835193
RRP: £30.00£27.55This volume and its companions contain the first English translation of the letters written by the philosopher-priest who helped to shape the changes that we associate with the Renaissance. The letters in this eleventh volume cover the period from autumn... -
On Literature, Culture, and Religion: Irving Babbitt Irving Babbitt 9781412804998
RRP: £45.99£40.53Irving Babbitt was a giant of American criticism. His writings from the 1890s to the 1930s helped advance American criticism and scholarship to international esteem. More than seventy years after his death his intellectual staying power remains... -
The Bhagavad Gita by Stephen Mitchell
RRP: £15.99£11.79The Bhagavad Gita, or 'Song of the Spirit', is the best known book of India's national epic The Mahabharata. Based on a dialogue between Bhagavan Krishna and Prince Arjuna on the eve of a great battle, it is held to be the essence of Hindu spirituality,... -
The World of Sex by Henry Miller
RRP: £5.99£4.56In The World of Sex, Henry Miller, one of the most scandalous writers of the 20th century explains his literary project Henry Miller's bold, explicit novels scandalized readers and remade the literature of his day. In this uncompromising literary... -
The Logic of the Body by Matthew A. Lapine
RRP: £24.99£19.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683594253Author Matthew A. LapineFormat PaperbackPage Count 440Imprint Faithlife CorporationPublisher Faithlife CorporationWeight(grams)... -
Schopenhauer: Parerga and Paralipomena : Volume 2: Short Philosophical Essays by Arthur Schopenhauer
RRP: £34.99£28.40With the publication of Parerga and Paralipomena in 1851, there finally came some measure of the fame that Schopenhauer thought was his due. Described by Schopenhauer himself as 'incomparably more popular than everything up till now', Parerga is a... -
Bring Me the Rhinoceros: And Other Zen Koans That Will Save Your Life John Tarrant 9781590306185
RRP: £16.99£11.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590306185Author John TarrantFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)... -
Selves: An Essay in Revisionary Metaphysics by Galen Strawson 9780198250067
RRP: £110.00£103.17What is the self? Does it exist? If it does exist, what is it like? It's not clear that we even know what we're asking about when we ask these large, metaphysical questions. The idea of the self comes very naturally to us, and it seems rather important,... -
Spinoza's Religion: A New Reading of the Ethics by Clare Carlisle
RRP: £35.00£27.95A bold reevaluation of Spinoza that reveals his powerful, inclusive vision of religion for the modern ageSpinoza is widely regarded as either a God-forsaking atheist or a God-intoxicated pantheist, but Clare Carlisle says that he was neither. In... -
On Extinction: Beginning Again At The End by Ben Ware 9781788739993
RRP: £14.99£12.75On Extinction takes us on a breathtaking philosophical journey through desperate territory. As we face 'the end of all things', Ben Ware argues we must face our apocalyptic future without flinching. In fact, extinction is the very lens through which we... -
Seeing Double by Raymond Geuss 9781509560882
RRP: £15.99£14.81The world is never going to make complete sense to us, yet we find that conclusion almost impossible to accept. Can we live, and feel at home, in a world composed at best of incompatible fragments of meaning?This is the theme that runs through this... -
Fear of a Black Consciousness by Lewis R. Gordon
RRP: £20.00£14.29'Expansive . . . reminds us that the ultimate aim of Black freedom quests is, indeed, universal liberation' Angela Y. Davis'There is a movement from a suffering black consciousness to a liberatory Black consciousness in which revelation of the dirty... -
The Weirdness of the World by Eric Schwitzgebel
RRP: £28.00£20.57How all philosophical explanations of human consciousness and the fundamental structure of the cosmos are bizarre-and why that's a good thingDo we live inside a simulated reality or a pocket universe embedded in a larger structure about which we know... -
Escapism by Yi-fu Tuan
RRP: £27.50£24.50In prehistoric times, our ancestors began building shelters and planting crops in order to escape from nature's harsh realities. Today, we flee urban dangers for the safer, reconfigured world of suburban lawns and parks. According to geographer Yi-Fu... -
Dante's Path: Vulnerability and the Spiritual Journey by Richard Schaub Phd 9780692276853
RRP: £24.99£19.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692276853Author Richard Schaub PhdFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Florence PressPublisher Florence PressWeight(grams) 376gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
The Oxford Handbook of Political Theory John S Dryzek (Professor of Social and Political Theory, Australian National University) 9780199548439
RRP: £34.99£34.29Long recognized as one of the main branches of political science, political theory has in recent years burgeoned in many different directions. Close textual analysis of historical texts sits alongside more analytical work on the nature and normative... -
Healing With Form, Energy, And Light by Tenzin Wangyal
RRP: £15.99£10.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781559391764Author Tenzin WangyalFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Snow Lion PublicationsPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)... -
Holism: A Shopper's Guide Jerry Fodor 9780631181934
RRP: £36.95£32.76The main question addressed in this book is whether individuation of the contents of thoughts and linguistic expressions is inherently holistic. The authors consider arguments that are alleged to show that the meaning of a scientific hypothesis depends... -
All Things Shining: Reading the Western Classics to Find Meaning in a Secular Age by Hubert Dreyfus 9781416596165
RRP: £19.00£11.72A sense of certainty and unhesitating confidence is rare in the contemporary world. An unrelenting flow of choices confronts us at nearly every moment of our lives, and if we are honest about it then most of us will admit that we waver in the face of... -
Dostoyevsky, or The Flood of Language by Julia Kristeva
RRP: £16.99£13.65Growing up in Bulgaria, Julia Kristeva was warned by her father not to read Dostoyevsky. "Of course, and as usual," she recalls, "I disobeyed paternal orders and plunged into Dosto. Dazzled, overwhelmed, engulfed." Kristeva would go on to become one of... -
Nothing to be Frightened Of by Julian Barnes
RRP: £10.99£7.99'I don't believe in God, but I miss Him.' Julian Barnes' new book is, among many things, a family memoir, an exchange with his philosopher brother, a meditation on mortality and the fear of death, a celebration of art, an argument with and about God, and... -
Sex, Ecology, Spirituality: The Spirit of Evolution, Second Edition Ken Wilber 9781570627446
RRP: £41.00£27.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781570627446Author Ken WilberFormat PaperbackPage Count 880Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)... -
Empathy: Why It Matters, And How To Get It by Roman Krznaric
RRP: £14.99£10.95Influential popular philosopher Roman Krznaric argues our brains are wired for social connection: empathy is at the heart of who we are. It's an essential, transforming quality we must develop for the 21st Century. Through encounters with actors,... -
Saint Foucault: Towards a Gay Hagiography by David M. Halperin 9780195111279
RRP: £22.49£15.24`My work has had nothing to do with gay liberation,' Michel Foucault reportedly told an admirer in 1975. And indeed there is scarcely more than a passing mention of homosexuality in Foucault's scholarly writings. So why has Foucault, who died of AIDS in... -
Diverging Time: The Politics of Modernity in Kant, Hegel, and Marx by David Carvounas 9780739103739
RRP: £39.00£34.10Temporal divergence creates a need for new narratives and paradigms. In Diverging Time David Carvounas supports this assertion through detailed expository and diagnostic readings of Kant, Hegel, and Marx. He focuses on their contribution to our... -
Affirming Divergence: Deleuze's Reading of Leibniz by Alex Tissandier 9781474455886
RRP: £23.99£21.85Alex Tissandier traces Leibniz's ambiguous status for Deleuze to explain two key ideas in Deleuzian philosophy: a concept of difference that is not reducible to a relation of contradiction and an account of the genesis of the world that does not... -
Zhuangzi: The Essential Writings: With Selections from Traditional Commentaries by Zhuangzi 9780872209114
RRP: £19.99£16.69Ideal for students and scholars alike, this edition of Zhuangzi (Chuang Tzu) includes the complete Inner Chapters, extensive selections from the Outer and Miscellaneous Chapters, and judicious selections from two thousand years of traditional Chinese... -
The Yoga-Sutra of Patanjali: A New Translation with Commentary by Chip Hartranft
RRP: £9.99£7.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611807028Author Chip HartranftFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications Inc -
On The Abolition Of All Polictical Simone Weil 9781590177815
RRP: £9.99£6.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590177815Author Simone WeilFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams) 120gDimensions(mm)... -
Combining by Nora Bateson 9781913743857
RRP: £30.00£23.70In 'Combining', Nora Bateson invites us into an ecology of communication where nothing stands alone, and every action sets off a chain of incalculable consequences. She challenges conventional fixes for our problems, highlighting the need to tackle... -
Supersizing the Mind: Embodiment, Action, and Cognitive Extension by Andy Clark 9780195333213
RRP: £98.00£77.00Studies of mind, thought and reason have tended to marginalize the role of bodily form, real-world action, and environmental backdrop. In recent years, both in philosophy and cognitive science, this tendency has been identified and, increasingly,...