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The Conspiracy Against The Human Race: A Contrivance of Horror by Thomas Ligotti
RRP: €20.39Booksplease Price: €14.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143133148Author Thomas LigottiFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint -
On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint by Maggie Nelson
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €11.35What 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... -
Critical Theory: A Very Short Introduction by Stephen Eric Bronner
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €7.69Critical 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,... -
Critical Reading and Writing for Postgraduates by Mike Wallace
Booksplease Price: €50.81Reading 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 If you need to engage with published (or unpublished) literature such as... -
Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma by Claire Dederer
RRP: €24.00Booksplease Price: €14.99***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,... -
Materialism by Terry Eagleton
RRP: €14.39Booksplease Price: €13.03A brilliant introduction to the philosophical concept of materialism and its relevance to contemporary science and culture In this eye-opening, intellectually stimulating appreciation of a... -
Infinite Resignation: On Pessimism Eugene Thacker 9781912248193
RRP: €20.39Booksplease Price: €16.36The author of the contemporary classic, In the Dust of This Planet, is back with another raw and unsettling look at the human condition. Comprised of aphorisms, fragments, and observations both... -
Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist by Walter A. Kaufmann 9780691160269
RRP: €26.40Booksplease Price: €21.18This classic is the benchmark against which all modern books about Nietzsche are measured. When Walter Kaufmann wrote it in the immediate aftermath of World War II, most scholars outside Germany... -
Assemblage Theory Manuel DeLanda 9781474413633
RRP: €27.59Booksplease Price: €22.91Manuel 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... -
Aesthetics: A Very Short Introduction by Bence Nanay
RRP: €10.79Booksplease Price: €8.06Aesthetics is a branch of philosophy that explores the nature of art, beauty, and taste. It doesn't just consider traditional artistic experiences such as artworks in a museum or an opera... -
The Dream of Enlightenment: The Rise of Modern Philosophy by Anthony Gottlieb
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €11.08'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... -
Introduction to the Reading of Hegel: Lectures on the "Phenomenology of Spirit" by Alexandre Kojeve
RRP: €26.39Booksplease Price: €22.44Lectures 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... -
Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World by Timothy Morton
RRP: €22.79Booksplease Price: €16.21Having 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,... -
In the Dust of This Planet - Horror of Philosophy vol. 1 Eugene Thacker 9781846946769
RRP: €14.39Booksplease Price: €10.37"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... -
Weird Realism - Lovecraft and Philosophy Graham Harman 9781780992525
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €12.60As 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... -
Lacan by Professor Fredric Jameson 9781784783983
RRP: €24.00Booksplease Price: €17.46Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Fire Alarm: Reading Walter Benjamin's 'on the Concept of History' by Michael Lowy 9781784786410
Booksplease Price: €17.09Revolutionary critic of the philosophy of progress, nostalgic of the past yet dreaming of the future, romantic partisan of materialism - Walter Benjamin is in every sense of the word an... -
I, Me, Mine: Back to Kant, and Back Again by Beatrice Longuenesse 9780198822721
RRP: €35.39Booksplease Price: €32.39Beatrice Longuenesse presents an original exploration of our understanding of ourselves and the way we talk about ourselves. In the first part of the book she discusses contemporary analyses of our... -
The Ecological Thought by Timothy Morton
RRP: €26.34Booksplease Price: €22.62In this passionate, lucid, and surprising book, Timothy Morton argues that all forms of life are connected in a vast, entangling mesh. This interconnectedness penetrates all dimensions of life. No... -
On the Suffering of the World Arthur Schopenhauer 9781913462031
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €12.60Edited and with an introduction by Eugene Thacker, On the Suffering of the World comprises a core selection of Schopenhauer's later writings, gathered together for the first time in print. These... -
The Philosophy of Neo-Noir by Mark T. Conard 9780813192178
RRP: €30.00Booksplease Price: €27.59Film noir is a classic genre characterized by visual elements such as tilted camera angles, skewed scene compositions, and an interplay between darkness and light. Common motifs include crime and... -
Hegel and the Hermetic Tradition by Glenn Alexander Magee
RRP: €31.19Booksplease Price: €26.93Glenn Alexander Magee's pathbreaking book argues that Hegel was decisively influenced by the Hermetic tradition, a body of thought with roots in Greco-Roman Egypt. Magee traces the influence on Hegel... -
How To Read Hume by Simon Blackburn 9781847080332
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €9.54'Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man.' David Hume David Hume is generally recognized as the United Kingdom's greatest philosopher, as well as a notable historian and... -
Tentacles Longer Than Night - Horror of Philosophy vol. 3 Eugene Thacker 9781782798897
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €9.62Our contemporary horror stories are written in a world where there seems little faith, lost hope, and no salvation. All that remains is the fragmentary and occasionally lyrical testimony of the human... -
Read My Desire: Lacan Against the Historicists by Joan Copjec 9781781688885
RRP: €23.99Booksplease Price: €22.03In Read My Desire, Joan Copjec stages a confrontation between the theories of Jacques Lacan and those of Michel Foucault, protagonists of two powerful modern disciplines-psychoanalysis and... -
How to Philosophize with a Hammer and Sickle: Nietzsche and Marx for the Twenty-First Century Jonas Ceika 9781913462499
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €9.62Modernity has been defined by humanity's capacity for self-destruction. In this timely and explosive book, philosopher and YouTuber Jonas Ceika (aka Cuck Philosophy) re-invigorates socialism for... -
Power and Resistance: Foucault, Deleuze, Derrida, Althusser Yoshiyuki Sato 9781839763519
RRP: €23.99Booksplease Price: €17.09The "structuralist" theories of power show that the subject is produced and reproduced by the investment of power: but how then can we think of the subject's resistance to power? Based on this... -
Carpe Diem Regained: The Vanishing Art of Seizing the Day by Roman Krznaric 9781783524938
RRP: €10.79Booksplease Price: €8.80Existentialism is backCarpe diem - 'seize the day' - is one of the oldest pieces of life advice in Western history. But its true spirit has been hijacked by ad men and self-help gurus, reduced to the... -
Introducing Ethics: A Graphic Guide by Dave Robinson 9781848310087
RRP: €10.79Booksplease Price: €7.84What 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... -
The Benjamin Files Fredric Jameson 9781839765575
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €12.50The Benjamin Files offers a comprehensive new reading of all of Benjamin's major works and a great number of his shorter book reviews, notes and letters. Its premise is that Benjamin was an... -
Infinitely Full of Hope: Fatherhood and the Future in an Age of Crisis and Disaster Tom Whyman 9781913462253
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €9.62A philosophical memoir about becoming a father in an increasingly terrible world. Can I hope the child growing in my partner's womb will have a good-enough life? For Kant, philosophy boiled down... -
Critical Luxury Studies: Art, Design, Media by John Armitage 9781474425827
RRP: €28.79Booksplease Price: €26.45John Armitage and Joanne Roberts present a groundbreaking examination of the relations between historical and, crucially, contemporary ideas of luxury. This volume gives you a technocultural focus on... -
The Quest For Hermes Trismegistus: From Ancient Egypt to the Modern World by Gary Lachman 9780863157981
RRP: €24.00Booksplease Price: €16.80From the sands of Alexandria via the Renaissance palaces of the Medicis, to our own times, this spiritual adventure story traces the profound influence of Hermes Trismegistus -- the 'thrice-great... -
The Tomb of the Artisan God: On Plato's Timaeus by Serge Margel
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €16.27A far-reaching reinterpretation of Plato's Timaeus and its engagement with time, eternity, body, and soul that in its original French edition profoundly influenced Derrida The Tomb of the Artisan God... -
How to Think: An Essential Guide to Being Critical by Tom Chatfield
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €17.09This is a book about thinking. Engaging and down-to-earth, it captures the habits and practices that are fundamental to clear thinking and effective study. In his warm and friendly style, Tom... -
Modern Times: Temporality in Art and Politics by Jacques Ranciere
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €9.46In this book Jacques Ranciere radicalises his critique of modernism and its postmodern appendix. He contrasts their unilinear and exclusive time with the interweaving of temporalities at play in... -
Starry Speculative Corpse - Horror of Philosophy vol. 2 Eugene Thacker 9781782798910
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €9.62Could 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 melancholy science: An Introduction to the Thought of Theodor W. Adorno by Gillian Rose
Booksplease Price: €30.35The Melancholy Science is Gillian Rose's investigation into Theodor Adorno's work and legacy. Rose uncovers the unity discernable among the many fragments of Adorno's oeuvre, and argues that his... -
Dark Deleuze by Andrew Culp
RRP: €10.80Booksplease Price: €9.74French philosopher Gilles Deleuze is known as a thinker of creation, joyous affirmation, and rhizomatic assemblages. In this short book, Andrew Culp polemically argues that this once-radical canon of... -
Think Critically by Tom Chatfield
Booksplease Price: €9.65Critical thinking is an essential 21st century skill. Think Critically gives you simple, direct guidance on how to effectively assess and critique the world around you. Understand the nature of...