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Way Of Zen by Alan W. Watts
RRP: £13.99£9.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375705106Author Alan WattsFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 238gDimensions(mm) 202mm * 131mm... -
Formations of the Secular: Christianity, Islam, Modernity by Talal Asad
RRP: £21.99£19.19Opening with the provocative query "what might an anthropology of the secular look like?" this book explores the concepts, practices, and political formations of secularism, with emphasis on the major historical shifts that have shaped secular... -
Parmenides by Martin Heidegger
RRP: £16.99£15.07Parmenides, a lecture course delivered by Martin Heidegger at the University of Freiburg in 1942-1943, presents a highly original interpretation of ancient Greek philosophy. A major contribution to Heidegger's provocative dialogue with the pre-Socratics,... -
The Prince (Collins Classics) by Niccolo Machiavelli 9780007420070
RRP: £2.99£2.47HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'We have declared before that it is not only expedient but necessary for a prince to take care his foundations be good, otherwise his fabric will be sure to... -
Ten Things Video Games Can Teach Us: (about life, philosophy and everything) by Jordan Erica Webber
RRP: £10.99£7.78WOULD YOU KILL ONE PERSON TO SAVE FIVE OTHERS?If you could upload all of your memories into a machine, would that machine be you? Is it possible we're all already artificial intelligences, living inside a simulation?These sound like questions from a... -
The Awakening of Intelligence by J. Krishnamurti 9780060648343
RRP: £19.99£12.68This work provides a wide-ranging introduction to the philosophy of Krishnamurti. Krishnamurti examines such issues as the role of the teacher and tradition, the need for awareness of "cosmic consciousness", the problem of good and evil, and methods of... -
The Manual for Self Realization: 112 Meditations of the Vijnana Bhairava Tantra by Swami Lakshmanjoo 9780981622842
RRP: £22.50£16.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780981622842Author Swami LakshmanjooFormat PaperbackPage Count 358Imprint Universal Shaiva FellowshipPublisher Universal Shaiva FellowshipWeight(grams) 476g -
Believing Bullshit: How Not to Get Sucked into an Intellectual Black Hole by Stephen Law 9781616144111
RRP: £14.99£11.70This book identifies eight key mechanisms that can transform a set of ideas into a psychological flytrap. The author suggests that, like the black holes of outer space, from which nothing, not even light, can escape, our contemporary cultural... -
Speaking Being: Werner Erhard, Martin Heidegger, and a New Possibility of Being Human Bruce Hyde (Australian National University) 9781119549901
RRP: £34.99£23.78Speaking Being: Werner Erhard, Martin Heidegger, and a New Possibility of Being Human is an unprecedented study of the ideas and methods developed by the thinker Werner Erhard. In this book, those ideas and methods are revealed by presenting in full an... -
Everything You Need You Have: How to Feel at Home in Yourself Gerad Kite 9781780722597
RRP: £12.99£8.83Drawing on the principles of ancient Chinese philosophy and his extensive experience of helping people of all ages and walks of life, Gerad Kite offers a life-changing promise - a route to a state of being that is more authentic, expansive and liberating... -
Waiting for God by Simone Weil
RRP: £14.99£13.58'You cannot get far in these essays without sensing yourself in the presence of a writer of immense intellectual power and fierce independence of mind.' - Janet Soskice, from the Introduction to the Routledge Classics editionSimone Weil (1909-1943) is... -
Habermas: A Very Short Introduction by James Gordon Finlayson
RRP: £8.99£6.65This book gives a clear and readable overview of the philosophical work of Jurgen Habermas, the most influential German philosopher alive today, who has commented widely on subjects such as Marxism, the importance and effectiveness of communication, the... -
The Jewish State: The Historic Essay that Led to the Creation of the State of Israel by Alan Dershowitz
£6.71Originally published in 1896 as Der Judenstaat, The Jewish State has taken its place among the likes of The Communist Manifesto and Common Sense as polemic writings which have changed modern history. Theodor Herzl's advocacy for a separate, independent... -
The Condition of Postmodernity: An Enquiry into the Origins of Cultural Change David Harvey (Institute of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Queen Charlotte's Hospital, UK) 9780631162940
RRP: £28.95£25.07In this new book, David Harvey seeks to determine what is meant by the term in its different contexts and to identify how accurate and useful it is as a description of contemporary experience.About the AuthorDavid Harvey is Professor of Geography at the... -
Everything, All the Time, Everywhere: How We Became Postmodern by Stuart Jeffries
RRP: £20.00£17.09Post-Modernity is the creative destruction that has shattered our present times into fragments. It dynamited modernism which had dominated the western world for most of the 20th century. Post-modernism stood for everything modernism rejected: fun,... -
How To Raise an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
RRP: £16.99£12.47**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**How do we talk to our children about racism?How do we teach children to be antiracist? How are kids at different ages experiencing race? How are racist structures impacting children? How can we inspire our children to avoid... -
Fanged Noumena: Collected Writings 1987-2007 by Nick Land 9780955308789
RRP: £27.00£18.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955308789Author Nick LandFormat PaperbackPage Count 680Imprint UrbanomicPublisher Urbanomic Media LtdDimensions(mm) 178mm * 114mm * 32mm -
A More Complete Beast by Jack Donovan 9780985452377
RRP: £12.00£7.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780985452377Author Jack DonovanFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Dissonant HumPublisher Dissonant HumWeight(grams) 145gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 133mm * 7mm -
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus: A New Translation by Ludwig Wittgenstein 9781324092438
RRP: £19.99£16.97“Philosophy”, Ludwig Wittgenstein once wrote, “should actually be written only as poetry”. That Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus—Wittgenstein’s master-work, and the only book he published during his lifetime—endures as the definitive modern text on the... -
The Disappearance of Moral Knowledge by Dallas Willard
RRP: £41.99£36.75Based on an unfinished manuscript by the late philosopher Dallas Willard, this book makes the case that the 20th century saw a massive shift in Western beliefs and attitudes concerning the possibility of moral knowledge, such that knowledge of the moral... -
Private Censorship by J.P. Messina 9780197581902
RRP: £22.99£19.56Concerns about censorship have once again reached a fever pitch across the liberal West. In other historical periods, such concerns may have marked reactions to book bans and burnings. Often, they followed prosecutions and subsequent jailtime for things... -
Thinking Through Technology: The Path Between Engineering and Philosophy by Carl Mitcham 9780226531984
RRP: £27.00£26.47What does it mean to think about technology philosophically? Why try? These are the issues that Carl Mitcham addresses in this work, a comprehensive, critical introduction to the philosophy of technology and a discussion of its sources and uses. Tracing... -
Cleaning by Kenya Hara 9783037787328
RRP: £30.00£20.95Cleanliness is a core value of societies around the globe. So much so that cleaning seems to be an inherent part of human nature and how we interact with and domesticate our environment. This book explores the concept of cleaning in all its various... -
Dangerous Illusions: How Religion Deprives Us Of Happiness Vitaly Malkin 9781911350286
RRP: £25.00£17.63Based on 10 years of dedicated research, Dangerous Illusions is a battle cry for the human race to throw off religion in favour of logic and reason. In this committed and passionate book, author Vitaly Malkin - a philanthropist, business man and... -
How to Think Politically: Sages, Scholars and Statesmen Whose Ideas Have Shaped the World by James Bernard Murphy
RRP: £14.99£11.11'A wonderful introduction to history's most influential scribblers' - Steven Pinker What is truly at stake in politics? Nothing less than how we should live, as individuals and as communities. This book goes beyond the surface headlines, the fake news... -
On Consolation: Finding Solace in Dark Times by Michael Ignatieff 9781529053777
RRP: £16.99£12.47'This erudite and heartfelt survey reminds us that the need for consolation is timeless, as are the inspiring words and examples of those who walked this path before us.' - Toronto StarAs read on BBC Radio 4's 'Book of the Week', a timely, moving and... -
Polemos: The Dawn of Pagan Traditionalism by Askr Svarte 9781952671012
£24.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781952671012Author Askr SvarteFormat HardbackPage Count 404Imprint Prav PublishingPublisher Prav PublishingWeight(grams) 612gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *... -
Spinoza's Ethics: An Edinburgh Philosophical Guide by Beth Lord
RRP: £16.99£14.32Everything you need to know about Spinoza's Ethics in one volume. The Ethics presents a complete metaphysical, epistemological and ethical world-view that is immensely inspiring. However, it is also an extremely difficult text to read. This book takes... -
Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic by Simon Winchester 9780008484422
RRP: £10.99£7.46‘A delightful compendium of the kind of facts you immediately want to share with anyone you encounter’ New York Times ‘An ebullient, irrepressible spirit invests this book. It is erudite and sprightly’Sunday Times From the creation of the first... -
The Dangerous Life and Ideas of Diogenes the Cynic by Jean-Manuel Roubineau 9780197666357
RRP: £14.99£13.09An engaging look at the founder of one of the most important philosophical schools of ancient Greece. The ancient philosopher Diogenes--nicknamed "The Dog" and decried by Plato as a "Socrates gone mad"--was widely praised and idealized as much as he... -
Spinoza by Michael Della Rocca
RRP: £23.99£20.99Renowned for his metaphysics, Spinoza made significant contributions to understanding the human mind, the emotions, moral philosophy, and political philosophy.Beginning with an overview of Spinoza's life, Michael Della Rocca carefully unpacks and... -
The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry Into a Category of Bourgeois Society Jurgen Habermas (Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt) 9780745610771
RRP: £17.99£16.29This major work retraces the emergence and development of the Bourgeois public sphere - that is, a sphere which was distinct from the state and in which citizens could discuss issues of general interest. In analysing the historical transformations of... -
Cold Intimacies: The Making of Emotional Capitalism Eva Illouz (The Hebrew University of Jersalem) 9780745639055
RRP: £14.99£13.78It is commonly assumed that capitalism has created an a-emotional world dominated by bureaucratic rationality; that economic behavior conflicts with intimate, authentic relationships; that the public and private spheres are irremediably opposed to each... -
How Should One Read a Book? Virginia Woolf 9781786277527
RRP: £7.99£5.78'Where are we to begin? How are we to bring order into this multitudinous chaos and so get the deepest and widest pleasure from what we read?'Published for the first time as a standalone volume, Virginia Woolf's short, impassioned essay, How Should One... -
The Schelling Reader by Daniel Whistler
RRP: £33.99£32.82F.W.J. Schelling (1775-1854) stands alongside J.G. Fichte and G.W.F. Hegel as one of the great philosophers of the German idealist tradition. The Schelling Reader introduces students to Schelling's philosophy by guiding them through the first ever... -
Michel Foucault: Key Concepts Dianna Taylor 9781844652358
RRP: £32.99£29.39Michel Foucault was one of the twentieth century's most influential and provocative thinkers. His work on freedom, subjectivity, and power is now central to thinking across an extraordinarily wide range of disciplines, including philosophy, history,... -
Toward a Concrete Philosophy: Heidegger and the Emergence of the Frankfurt School by Mikko Immanen 9781501752377
RRP: £108.00£93.40Toward a Concrete Philosophy explores the reactions of Theodor Adorno, Max Horkheimer, and Herbert Marcuse to Martin Heidegger prior to their dismissal of him once he turned to the Nazi party in 1933. Mikko Immanen provides a fascinating glimpse of the... -
Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition by Frances Yates 9780415278492
RRP: £16.99£15.62Giordano Bruno is known as the Prophet of the New Age, and his vision of an infinite universe grounded in science is increasingly celebrated. One of the principal forces behind his rediscovery was the great British historian Frances Yates. In calling... -
Theosophy: An Introduction to the Supersensible Knowledge of the World and the Destination of Man by Rudolf Steiner 9781855842540
RRP: £25.00£20.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781855842540Author Rudolf SteinerFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint SteinerBooks, IncPublisher Anthroposophic Press Inc -
Tool-Being: Heidegger and the Metaphysics of Objects Graham Harman 9780812694444
RRP: £29.99£20.19In this groundbreaking work, the author explains Heidegger's famous tool-analysis and then extends it beyond Heidegger's narrower theory of human practical activity to create an ontology of objects themselves. A welcome alternative to the linguistic turn...