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In Praise of Shadows by Jun'ichiro Tanizaki
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $14.73An intimate reflection on Japanese art and architecture from one of the country's greatest novelists.This is an enchanting essay on aesthetics by one of the greatest Japanese novelists. Tanizaki's... -
Ways of Seeing by John Berger 9780141035796
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $18.92Based on the BBC television series, John Berger's Ways of Seeing is a unique look at the way we view art, published as part of the Penguin on Design series in Penguin Modern Classics.'Seeing comes... -
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $18.9240th anniversary edition of the bestselling modern classic: Milan Kundera's iconic novel of love and politics in communist Czechoslovakia.'Shamelessly clever ... Exhilaratingly subversive and funny.'... -
Wabi Sabi: Japanese Wisdom for a Perfectly Imperfect Life by Beth Kempton
RRP: $40.44Booksplease Price: $23.85'A truly transformative read' Sunday Times STYLE'More than ever, we need books like this' Jessica Seaton, Co-Founder of Toast and author of Gather, Cook, FeastA whole new way of looking at the world... -
The Birth of Tragedy: Out of the Spirit of Music by Friedrich Nietzsche
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $17.40Nietzsche's first published book, The Birth of Tragedy is a compelling argument for the necessity of art in lifeThis landmark work of criticism is fuelled by Nietzsche's enthusiasms for Greek... -
The Smile Stealers: The Fine and Foul Art of Dentistry by Richard Barnett
RRP: $59.50Booksplease Price: $43.27This achingly jawdropping book follows the evolution of dentistry throughout the world from the Bronze Age to the present day, presenting captivating and grim illustrations of the tools and... -
The Architecture of Happiness by Alain de Botton
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $21.87THE NUMBER ONE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERFrom one of our greatest voices in modern philosophy, author of The Course of Love, The Consolations of Philosophy and The School of Life, The Architecture of... -
Saving Beauty Byung-Chul Han 9781509515103
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $22.59Beauty today is a paradox. The cult of beauty is ubiquitous but it has lost its transcendence and become little more than an aspect of consumerism, the aesthetic dimension of capitalism. The sublime... -
The Joyous Science by Friedrich Nietzsche
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $21.97The Joyous Science is a liberating voyage of discovery as Nietzsche's realization that 'God is dead' and his critique of morality, the arts and modernity give way to an exhilarating doctrine of... -
One-Way Street and Other Writings by Walter Benjamin
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $18.92Walter Benjamin - philosopher, essayist, literary and cultural theorist - was one of the most original writers and thinkers of the twentieth century. This new selection brings together Benjamin's... -
Ornament and Crime by Adolf Loos
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $18.40Revolutionary essays on design, aesthetics and materialism - from one of the great masters of modern architectureAdolf Loos, the great Viennese pioneer of modern architecture, was a hater of the... -
Divine Beauty: The Invisible Embrace by John O'Donohue
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $16.14In this eagerly awaited follow-up to his international bestsellers Anam Cara and Eternal Echoes, John O'Donohue turns his attention to the subject of beauty - the divine beauty that calls the... -
Football by Professor Mark Yakich
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $20.33Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. When is the "beautiful game" at its most beautiful? How does football function as a lens... -
Why We Make Things and Why it Matters: The Education of a Craftsman by Peter Korn
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $22.51Why do we make things? Why do we choose the emotionally and physically demanding work of bringing new objects into the world with creativity and skill? Why does it matter that we make things well?... -
Investigative Aesthetics: Conflicts and Commons in the Politics of Truth by Matthew Fuller
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $24.80Today, artists are engaged in investigation. They probe corruption, state violence, environmental destruction and repressive technologies. At the same time, fields not usually associated with... -
Either/Or: A Fragment of Life by Soren Kierkegaard
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $25.01In Either/Or, using the voices of two characters - the aesthetic young man of part one, called simply 'A', and the ethical Judge Vilhelm of the second section - Kierkegaard reflects upon the search... -
Women in the Picture: Women, Art and the Power of Looking by Catherine McCormack
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $18.92'Incisive and provocative ... a sensitive and probing critique' The New York Times'Essential reading ... gripping, inspirational, beautifully written and highly thought-provoking' Dr Helen Gorrill,... -
Simone Weil: A Very Short Introduction by A. Rebecca Rozelle-Stone 9780192846969
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $17.54This Very Short Introduction provides an overview of the intriguing and provocative life and ideas of twentieth century French philosopher, mystic, and social activist Simone Weil. Weil was not a... -
Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What One is by Friedrich Nietzsche
RRP: $21.40Booksplease Price: $17.40In late 1888, only weeks before his final collapse into madness, Nietzsche (1844-1900) set out to compose his autobiography, and Ecce Homo remains one of the most intriguing yet bizarre examples of... -
Committed Writings by Albert Camus
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $18.92'To create today means to create dangerously'This new collection contains some of Camus' most brilliant political writing as he reflects on moral responsibility and the role of the artist in the... -
Bosses by Ghislaine Leung 9781916425002
RRP: $28.54Booksplease Price: $20.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916425002Author Ghislaine LeungFormat PaperbackPage Count 10Imprint -
Aesthetics, Method, and Epistemology: Essential Works of Foucault 1954-1984 by Michel Foucault
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $25.01'Foucault leaves no reader untouched or unchanged' Edward SaidAesthetics, the second volume of the complete collection of Michel Foucault's courses, articles and interviews, focuses on the... -
On Color by David Kastan
RRP: $40.44Booksplease Price: $31.75Ranging from Homer to Picasso, and from the Iranian Revolution to The Wizard of Oz, this spirited and radiant book awakens us anew to the role of color in our lives Our lives are saturated by color... -
Beauty: A Very Short Introduction by Roger Scruton
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $17.54Beauty can be consoling, disturbing, sacred, profane; it can be exhilarating, appealing, inspiring, chilling. It can affect us in an unlimited variety of ways. Yet it is never viewed with... -
Disobedient Bodies: Reclaim Your Unruly Beauty by Emma Dabiri 9781800817920
RRP: $19.02Booksplease Price: $14.66An unmissable essay from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Don't Touch My Hair and What White People Can Do Next 'A magnificent text' KATY HESSEL 'This is so sharp, and funny, and will be so... -
The Ring of Truth: The Wisdom of Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung by Roger Scruton
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $21.97'The ideal interpreter of the Ring ... a fascinating and valuable study ... absorbing and convincing' Sunday TimesThe Ring of the Nibelung is one of the greatest works of art created in modern times... -
Whale Song by Margret Grebowicz
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $20.33Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. The sapiens of the sea, whales are the other intelligent, social, and loquacious animal... -
A Short Philosophy of Birds Philippe J. Dubois 9780753554142
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $28.75The greatest wisdom comes from the smallest creaturesThere is so much we can learn from birds. Through twenty-two little lessons of wisdom inspired by how birds live, this charming french book will... -
Sons of the Gods, Children of Earth: Ideology and Literary Form in Ancient Greece by Peter W. Rose 9781501742576
RRP: $47.58Booksplease Price: $35.68In this ambitious and venturesome book, Peter W. Rose applies the insights of Marxist theory to a number of central Greek literary and philosophical texts. He explores major points in the trajectory... -
Introductory Lectures on Aesthetics by G. W. F. Hegel
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $21.97No philosopher has held a higher opinion of art than Hegel, yet nor was any so profoundly pessimistic about its prospects - despite living in the German golden age of Goethe, Mozart and Schiller. For... -
Authenticity: Reclaiming Reality in a Counterfeit Culture by Alice Sherwood
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $17.54'Wide-ranging, witty and fresh ... a stimulating read. Authentic fun'Tim Harford, Financial Times Best Summer Books 2022 'Brilliantly witty, profoundly illuminating, Alice Sherwood is a... -
Studies in the History of the Renaissance by Walter Pater 9780199535071
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $18.71'art comes to you professing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake' In Studies in the History of the Renaissance (1873),... -
Bookshelf by Lydia Pyne
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $20.28Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Every shelf is different and every bookshelf tells a different story. One bookshelf can... -
Aesthetics: A Beginner's Guide Charles Taliaferro 9781851688203
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $16.95What is art? Why do we find some things beautiful but not others? Is it wrong to share MP3s? These are just some of the questions explored by aesthetics, the philosophy of art. In this sweeping... -
Gilles Deleuze Frida Beckman 9781780237312
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $28.04Gilles Deleuze, the person and philosopher, was both singular and multifaceted. Frida Beckman traces Deleuze's remarkable intellectual journey, mapping the encounters from which his life and work... -
Postmodernism: A Very Short Introduction by Christopher Butler
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $17.35Postmodernism has been a buzzword in contemporary society for the last decade. But how can it be defined? In this Very Short Introduction Christopher Butler challenges and explores the key ideas of... -
Signature by Dr. Hunter Dukes
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $20.33Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Why do we sign our names? How can a squiggle both enslave and liberate? Signatures often... -
Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work by Matthew B Crawford
RRP: $45.22Booksplease Price: $30.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143117469Author Matthew B. CrawfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Impr -
Steps Towards a Small Theory of the Visible by John Berger
RRP: $19.02Booksplease Price: $14.26'We live within a spectacle of empty clothes and unworn masks'In this series of remarkable pieces from across his career, John Berger celebrates and dissects the close links between art and society... -
Narcissus in Bloom: An Alternative History of the Selfie Matt Colquhoun 9781914420634
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $19.09Narcissism is the defining pathology of the twenty-first century, but what if it is not self-obsession that defines us but a need for self-transformation? Narcissus in Bloom is a short history of...