Philosophy

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590308967Author Lao TzuFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)...

This concise, easy to read guide provides the perfect foundation to mindfulness, setting you on the path to peace and tranquillity.'The monk who taught the world mindfulness' - TIME'Hyde's book delivers a profound vision: The simple magic of the human...

In this brilliant critique, Terry Eagleton explores the origins and emergence of postmodernism, revealing its ambivalences and contradictions. Above all he speaks to a particular kind of student, or consumer, of popular "brands" of postmodern thought...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781614298403Author His Holiness the Dalai LamaFormat HardbackPage Count 480Imprint Wisdom Publications,U.S.Publisher Wisdom Publications,U.S.Weight(grams)...

"My death-is it possible?" That is the question asked, explored, and analyzed in Jacques Derrida's new book. "Is my death possible?" How is this question to be understood? How and by whom can it be asked, can it be quoted, can it be an appropriate...

From the frozen landscapes of the Antarctic to the haunted houses of childhood, the memory of places we experience is fundamental to a sense of self. Drawing on influences as diverse as Merleau-Ponty, Freud, and J. G. Ballard, The Memory of Place charts...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780911005134Author Gaston BachelardFormat PaperbackImprint Dallas Institute of Humanities & CulturePublisher Dallas Institute of Humanities & Culture

This book is designed to explain the technical ideas that are taken for granted in much contemporary philosophical writing. Notions like 'denumerability', 'modal scope distinction', 'Bayesian conditionalization', and 'logical completeness' are usually...

Derek Parfit presents the third volume of On What Matters, his landmark work of moral philosophy. Parfit develops further his influential treatment of reasons, normativity, the meaning of moral discourse, and the status of morality. He engages with his...

First published 10 years ago, Manuel DeLanda's Intensive Science and Virtual Philosophy rapidly established itself as a landmark text in contemporary continental thought. DeLanda here draws on the realist philosophy of Gilles Deleuze to the domain of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780861713943Author John Daido LooriFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Wisdom Publications,U.S.Publisher Wisdom Publications,U.S.

This unique volume offers an odyssey through the ideas of the Stoics in three particular ways: first, through the historical trajectory of the school itself and its influence; second, through the recovery of the history of Stoic thought; third, through...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262537179Author Nolen GertzFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 178mm * 127mm * 14mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781589880702Author Eva BrannFormat PaperbackPage Count 169Imprint Paul Dry Books, IncPublisher Paul Dry Books, IncWeight(grams) 202g

Led Zeppelin, who bestrode the world of rock like a colossus, have continually grown in popularity and influence since their official winding up in 1980. They exasperated critics and eluded classification, synthesizing blues, rock, folk, rockabilly,...

Jan Patocka's contribution to phenomenology and the philosophy of history mean that he is considered one of the most important philosophers of the 20th century. Yet, his writing is not widely available in English and the Anglophone world remains...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781570628993Author Eva WongFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)...

Heidegger and Nazism: Ever since the philosopher's public involvement in state politics in 1933, his name has necessarily been a part of this unsavory couple. After the publication in 2014 of the private Black Notebooks, it is now unambiguously part of...

Alexandre Kojeve (1902-1968) was an important and provocative thinker. Born in Russia, he spent most of his life in France. His interpretation of Hegel and his notorious declaration that history had come to an end exerted great influence on French...

Philosophy has inherited a powerful impulse to embrace either dualism or a reductive monism-either a radical separation of mind and body or the reduction of mind to body. But from its origins in the writings of the Stoics, the first thoroughgoing...

Featuring long-awaited selections from Robert M. Pirsig's unpublished writings, from before and after Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, an original collection illuminating the central theme of Pirsig's thought: "Quality""The ultimate goal in the...

Showing how science is limited by its dominant mode of investigation, Lincoln and Guba propose an alternative paradigm-a "naturalistic" rather than "rationalistic" method of inquiry-in which the investigator avoids manipulating research outcomes. A...

A New York Times bestseller! From the author of The Traveler's Gift comes a story of common wisdom based on the remarkable true story of "Jones," a mysterious old man who has a knack for showing up in people's lives at just the right time, providing...

From its use in literary theory, film criticism and the discourse of games design, Salome Voegelin expands 'possible world theory' to think the worlding of sound in music, in art and in the everyday. The modal logic of possible worlds, articulated...

In Moral Clarity, Susan Neiman shows how the philosophical resources of the eighteenth-century Englightenment can help us to construct a politics that does not repeat the mistakes of Marxism or succumb to the temptation of a cynicism that masquerade as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345816023Author Jordan B. PetersonFormat HardbackPage Count 448Imprint Random House CanadaPublisher Random House CanadaWeight(grams) 646gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781734588125Author Rainer Maria RilkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Warbler PressPublisher Warbler PressWeight(grams) 141gDimensions(mm) 198mm *...

Leading philosopher's guide to the ideas that will shape the 21st century'Ideas are the cogs that drive history, and understanding them is half way to being aboard that powerful juggernaut rather than under its wheels'. This is a book that celebrates...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611802795Author Richard FreemanFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250170569Author Roger ScrutonFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint All Points BooksPublisher All Points BooksWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590566978Author Ira van EelenFormat PaperbackPage Count 206Imprint Lantern Books,USPublisher Lantern Books,US

Based 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791442203Author Norman MadaraszFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York...

`A lucid and much-needed account of existential psychotherapy... As well as locating existential psychotherapy within a historical and philosophical context, Hans W Cohn encompasses various therapeutic issues and provides some vivid and sensitive...

The Celts, the old Norse and Germanic people, the Greeks of the time of Homer and Hesiod, and other ancient heroic societies are popularly believed to be tribal warrior cultures, where the light of civilisation had not yet dawned. In fact, this is far...

Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit is probably his most famous work. First published in 1807, it has exercised considerable influence on subsequent thinkers from Feuerbach and Marx to Heidegger, Kojeve, Adorno and Derrida. The book contains many memorable...

In the wake of globalization, cultural forms of expression have become increasingly detached from their places of origin, circulating in a hyper-domain of culture where there is no real difference anymore between indigenous and foreign, near and far, the...

***'An astonishing accomplishment that might be the most important book we ever read, it will change the way you look at what we eat forever.' - Dr Max Pemberton'A wonderfully written guide for anyone who wants to eat better and save the world at the...

In contemporary culture, there is no stronger imperative than to be authentic. But what does authenticity actually mean? Everywhere we turn, we are urged to "live our truth": an element of Western culture that is almost never questioned. Authenticity in...

A panoramic history of rules in the Western worldRules order almost every aspect of our lives. They set our work hours, dictate how we drive and set the table, tell us whether to offer an extended hand or cheek in greeting, and organize the rites of...