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Critical Reading and Writing for Postgraduates by Mike Wallace
RRP: £22.99£18.74Reading critically, and writing using critical techniques, are crucial skills you need to apply to your academic work. If you need to engage with published (or unpublished) literature such as essays, dissertations or theses, research papers or oral... -
Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World by Timothy Morton
RRP: £21.99£15.21Having set global warming in irreversible motion, we are facing the possibility of ecological catastrophe. But the environmental emergency is also a crisis for our philosophical habits of thought, confronting us with a problem that seems to defy not only... -
The Conspiracy Against The Human Race: A Contrivance of Horror by Thomas Ligotti
RRP: £16.99£11.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143133148Author Thomas LigottiFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
Critical Thinking: Your Essential Guide by Tom Chatfield 9781529718522
RRP: £17.99£15.27What is critical thinking? How do you apply it in your assessments? How do you build a good argument or find evidence? Critical thinking is a set of techniques. You just need to learn them. This is your personal toolkit for demystifying critical... -
Twilight of Idols and Anti-Christ by Friedrich Nietzsche
RRP: £8.99£6.45In these two devastating late works, Nietzsche offers a powerful attack on the morality and the beliefs of his timeNietzsche's Twilight of the Idols is a 'grand declaration of war' on reason, psychology and theology, which combines highly charged... -
Introducing Ethics: A Graphic Guide by Dave Robinson 9781848310087
RRP: £8.99£6.63What is the place of individual choice and consequence in a post-Holocaust world of continuing genocidal ethnic cleansing? Is "identity" now a last-ditch cultural defence of ethnic nationalisms and competing fundamentalisms? In a climate of instant... -
Dialectics of Revolution by Kevin B Anderson
RRP: £19.99£13.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781988832753Author Kevin B AndersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 254Imprint Daraja PressPublisher Daraja PressWeight(grams) 1000g -
The Democracy of Suffering: Life on the Edge of Catastrophe, Philosophy in the Anthropocene by Todd Dufresne
RRP: £23.99£18.66In The Democracy of Suffering philosopher Todd Dufresne provides a strikingly original exploration of the past, present, and future of this epoch, the Anthropocene, demonstrating how the twin crises of reason and capital have dramatically remade the... -
Love in the Western World by Denis De Rougemont
RRP: £35.00£27.21In this classic work, often described as "The History of the Rise, Decline, and Fall of the Love Affair," Denis de Rougemont explores the psychology of love from the legend of Tristan and Isolde to Hollywood. At the heart of his ever-relevant inquiry is... -
Heidegger in Question: The Art of Existing by Robert Bernasconi 9781538150344
RRP: £25.00£22.43Robert Bernasconi explores in the context of Heidegger's thought a number of questions of far-reaching concern: what is the role of literary examples within philosophy? Is art dead? What is the relation of art to nature? Is there a place for the idea of... -
Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma by Claire Dederer
RRP: £20.00£12.69***BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK***'Funny, lively and convivial... how rare and nourishing this sort of roaming thought is and what a joy to read' MEGAN NOLAN, SUNDAY TIMES'An exhilarating, shape-shifting exploration of the perilous boundaries between art... -
Unpopular Essays by Bertrand Russell
RRP: £14.99£14.21A classic collection of Bertrand Russell's more controversial works, reaffirming his staunch liberal values, Unpopular Essays is one of Russell's most characteristic and self-revealing books. Written to "combat... the growth in Dogmatism", on first... -
What If Culture Was Nature All Along? by Vicki Kirby
RRP: £28.99£23.38A collection of essays that rethinks what constitutes materiality. These efforts are encapsulated by a rewriting of the Derridean axiom, 'there is no outside text' as 'there is no outside nature'.Book InformationISBN 9781474437394Author Vicki KirbyFormat... -
The Little Book of Philosophy by DK
RRP: £9.99£7.11Learn everything you need to know about the world of philosophy- from the key thinkers to modern concepts in a brand new portable size.To the complete novice learning about philosophy can be daunting - The Little Book of Philosophy changes all that. With... -
Critical Theory: A Very Short Introduction by Stephen Eric Bronner
RRP: £10.49£7.44Critical theory emerged in the 1920s from the work of the Frankfurt School, the circle of German-Jewish academics who sought to diagnose -- and, if at all possible, cure -- the ills of society, particularly fascism and capitalism. In this book, Stephen... -
On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint by Maggie Nelson
RRP: £10.99£7.77What can freedom really mean?'One of the most electrifying writers at work in America today, among the sharpest and most supple thinkers of her generation' OLIVIA LAINGIn this invigorating, essential book, Maggie Nelson explores how we might think,... -
The Decay of Lying by Oscar Wilde
RRP: £7.99£5.79'Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life'The two works brought together here, 'The Decay of Lying' and 'The Critic as Artist', are Oscar Wilde's wittiest and most profound writings on aesthetics, in which he proposes that criticism is the... -
What IS Sex? by Alenka Zupancic
RRP: £23.00£14.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262534130Author Alenka ZupancicFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 13mm -
Weird Realism; Lovecraft and Philosophy by Graham Harman 9781780992525
RRP: £14.99£13.63As Holderlin was to Martin Heidegger and Mallarme to Jacques Derrida, so is H.P. Lovecraft to the Speculative Realist philosophers. Lovecraft was one of the brightest stars of the horror and science fiction magazines, but died in poverty and relative... -
Starry Speculative Corpse by Eugene Thacker 9781782798910
RRP: £10.99£9.81Could it be that the more we know about the world, the less we understand it? Could it be that, while everything has been explained, nothing has meaning? Extending the ideas presented in his book In The Dust of This Planet, Eugene Thacker explores these... -
The Dream of Enlightenment: The Rise of Modern Philosophy by Anthony Gottlieb
RRP: £10.99£7.77'This is a blast of fresh air' Jonathan Clark, TLS'Thank goodness for Gottlieb' Daily Telegraph'A joy to read' EconomistThe author of the celebrated The Dream of Reason vividly explains the rise of modern thought from Descartes to RousseauIn a short... -
Mothers: An Essay on Love and Cruelty by Jacqueline Rose
RRP: £10.99£7.32From one of the most important contemporary thinkers we have, a compelling, forceful tract about women and motherhood that demands immediate attention. Moving commandingly between pop cultural references such as Roald Dahl's 'Matilda' to observations... -
Evolution and Conversion: Dialogues on the Origins of Culture by Rene Girard
£21.56Evolution and Conversion explores the main tenets of Rene Girard's thought in a series of dialogues. Here, Girard reflects on the evolution of his thought and offers striking new insights on topics such as violence, religion, desire and literature. His... -
Thomas Paine's Rights of Man: A Biography by Christopher Hitchens
RRP: £9.99£6.70Thomas Paine is one of the greatest political advocates in history. Declaration of the Rights of Man, first published in 1791, is the key to his reputation. Inspired by his outrage at Edmund Burke's attack on the uprising of the French people, Paine's... -
The Transversal Thought of Gilles Deleuze: Encounters and Influences by Bill Ross 9781903083321
RRP: £13.99£11.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903083321Author Bill RossFormat PaperbackPage Count 179Imprint Clinamen Press LtdPublisher Clinamen Press Ltd -
The Moral Law: Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals by Immanuel Kant
RRP: £12.99£12.48Few books have had as great an impact on intellectual history as Kant's The Moral Law. In its short compass one of the greatest minds in the history of philosophy attempts to identify the fundamental principle 'morality' that governs human action... -
The Postcard: From Socrates to Freud and Beyond by Jacques Derrida
£37.8417 November 1979You were reading a somewhat retro loveletter, the last in history. But you have not yet received it. Yes, its lack or excess of address prepares it to fall into all hands: a post card, an open letter in which the secret appears, but... -
Hume by Don Garrett 9780415283342
RRP: £25.99£23.70Beginning with an overview of Hume's life and work, Don Garrett introduces in clear and accessible style the central aspects of Hume's thought. These include Hume's lifelong exploration of the human mind; his theories of inductive inference and... -
Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche 9780895267108
RRP: £13.99£8.03For Nietzsche the Age of Greek Tragedy was indeed a tragic age. He saw in it the rise and climax of values so dear to him that their subsequent drop into catastrophe (in the person of Socrates - Plato) was clearly foreshadowed as though these were events... -
The Limit of the Useful by Georges Bataille
RRP: £32.00£19.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262047333Author Georges BatailleFormat HardbackPage Count 432Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
Assemblage Theory by Manuel DeLanda
RRP: £21.99£17.97Manuel DeLanda provides the first detailed overview of the assemblage theory found in germ in Deleuze and Guattari's writings. Through a series of case studies DeLanda shows how the concept can be applied to economic, linguistic, and military... -
Context Changes Everything: How Constraints Create Coherence by Alicia Juarrero
RRP: £43.00£29.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262545662Author Alicia JuarreroFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
Happy Lives and the Highest Good: An Essay on Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics by Gabriel Richardson Lear
RRP: £35.00£33.21Gabriel Richardson Lear presents a bold new approach to one of the enduring debates about Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics: the controversy about whether it coherently argues that the best life for humans is one devoted to a single activity, namely... -
In the Dust of This Planet by Eugene Thacker 9781846946769
RRP: £11.99£10.62"Thacker's discourse on the intersection of horror and philosophy is utterly original and utterly captivating..." Thomas Ligotti, author of The Conspiracy Against the Human Race The world is increasingly unthinkable, a world of planetary disasters,... -
Introduction to the Reading of Hegel: Lectures on the "Phenomenology of Spirit" by Alexandre Kojeve
RRP: £22.99£19.60Lectures on the "Phenomenology of Spirit" "This collection of Kojeve's thoughts about Hegel constitutes one of the few important philosophical books of the twentieth century-a book, knowledge of which is requisite to the full awareness of our situation... -
Against Method by Paul K. Feyerabend
RRP: £21.99£18.42Paul Feyerabend's globally acclaimed work, which sparked and continues to stimulate fierce debate, examines the deficiencies of many widespread ideas about scientific progress and the nature of knowledge. Feyerabend argues that scientific advances can... -
Introducing Empiricism: A Graphic Guide by Dave Robinson
RRP: £7.99£3.42Our knowledge comes primarily from experience - what our senses tell us. But is experience really what it seems?The experimental breakthroughs in 17th-century science of Kepler, Galileo and Newton informed the great British empiricist tradition, which... -
Sartre on Violence: Curiously Ambivalent by Ronald E. Santoni
RRP: £29.95£26.39From "Materialism and Revolution" (1946) through Hope Now (1980), Jean-Paul Sartre was deeply engaged with questions about the meaning and justifiability of violence. In the first comprehensive treatment of Sartre's views on the subject, Ronald Santoni... -
Dante's Broken Hammer by Graham Harman
RRP: £8.99£6.03It is well known that Dante s poetic works interpret love as themoving force of the universe: as embodied in his muse Beatrice fromLa Vita Nuova onward, as well as the much holier persons inhabitingParadiso. Likewise, if love is the ultimate form of... -
Art As Experience by John Dewey
RRP: £17.99£12.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399531972Author John DeweyFormat PaperbackPage Count 371Imprint Perigee Books,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 301g