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Denial of Death by Ernest Becker
RRP: €14.39Booksplease Price: €8.71'It made me rethink the roots of our deepest fears and insecurities, and why we often disappoint ourselves in how we manifest them' Bill Clinton, Guardian Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1974 and... -
The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €7.04'One of the great American prose stylists of our time.' New York Times'Auster really does possess the wand of the enchanter.' New York Review of BooksThe New York Trilogy is perhaps the most... -
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €12.61The phenomenal international bestseller that shows us how to stop trying to predict everything - and take advantage of uncertaintyWhat have the invention of the wheel, Pompeii, the Wall Street Crash,... -
Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence by James Bridle
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €11.74'Heady, exhilarating, often astonishing' New York Times 'Iridescently original, deeply disorientating and yet somehow radically hopeful ... worth reading and rereading' Brian Eno 'Be prepared to... -
The Fabric of Reality by David Deutsch
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €11.08An extraordinary and challenging synthesis of ideas uniting Quantum Theory, and the theories of Computation, Knowledge and Evolution, Deutsch's extraordinary book explores the deep connections... -
The Flip: Who You Really Are and Why It Matters by Jeffrey J. Kripal
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €9.54'Mindblowing' Michael PollanWhy do we know so much more about the cosmos than our own consciousness? Are there limits to the scientific method? Why do we assume that only science, mathematics and... -
Tertium Organum: A Key to the Enigmas of the World (Aziloth Books) by P. D. Ouspensky 9781909735989
RRP: €13.80Booksplease Price: €12.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909735989Author P. D. OuspenskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint -
Against Method by Paul K. Feyerabend
RRP: €20.39Booksplease Price: €14.78Paul 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... -
Truth: A Guide for the Perplexed by Simon Blackburn
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €11.08This important book is about truth, and the enemies of truth, and the wars that are fought between them. As Simon Blackburn says in his introduction, "the ground is complicated, strewn with abandoned... -
The Hidden Half: The Unseen Forces That Influence Everything by Michael Blastland
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €11.08Why does one smoker die of lung cancer but another live to 100? The answer is 'The Hidden Half' - those random, unknowable variables that mess up our attempts to comprehend the world.We humans are... -
The Soul of the Marionette: A Short Enquiry into Human Freedom by John Gray
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €8.54TLS BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2016'Gray must be one of the best read of contemporary philosophers, trawling insouciantly through high-, middle- and low-brow literature with the sharp-eyed eclecticism of a... -
The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge by Peter L. Berger
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €9.54A general and systematic account of the role of knowledge in society aimed to stimulate both critical discussion and empirical investigations.This book is concerned with the sociology of 'everything... -
A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume 9780140432442
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €12.61One of the most significant works of Western philosophy, Hume's Treatise was published in 1739-40, before he was thirty years old. A pinnacle of English empiricism, it is a comprehensive attempt to... -
Meditations on First Philosophy: with Selections from the Objections and Replies by Rene Descartes
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €9.61'It is some years now since I realized how many false opinions I had accepted as true from childhood onwards...I saw that at some stage in my life the whole structure would have to be utterly... -
Knowledge: A Very Short Introduction by Jennifer Nagel
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €9.28What is knowledge? How does it differ from mere belief? Do you need to be able to justify a claim in order to count as knowing it? How can we know that the outer world is real and not a dream? ... -
Do Design: Why Beauty is Key to Everything by Alan Moore 9781907974281
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €11.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907974281Author Alan MooreFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint -
The Construction of Social Reality by John R. Searle
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €11.08This short treatise looks at how we construct a social reality from our sense impressions; at how, for example, we construct a "five-pound note" with all that implies in terms of value and social... -
Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant 9780140447477
RRP: €22.79Booksplease Price: €16.36Kant's profound and challenging investigation into the nature of human reason is the central text of modern philosophyIn his landmark work Kant argues that reason is the seat of certain concepts that... -
Technic and Magic: The Reconstruction of Reality Federico Campagna (Independent Scholar, UK) 9781350044029
RRP: €32.39Booksplease Price: €27.11We take for granted that only certain kind of things exist - electrons but not angels, passports but not nymphs. This is what we understand as 'reality'. But in fact, 'reality' varies with each era... -
Meditations by Rene Descartes
RRP: €9.59Booksplease Price: €7.22Widely regarded as the father of modern Western philosophy, Descartes sought to look beyond established ideas and create a thought system based on reason. In this profound work he meditates on doubt,... -
Travels in the Scriptorium by Paul Auster 9780571232567
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €9.54An old man sits in a room, with a single door and window, a bed, a desk and a chair. Each day he awakes with no memory, unsure of whether or not he is locked into the room. Attached to the few... -
The Immortalization Commission: The Strange Quest to Cheat Death by John Gray
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €11.08John Gray's The Immortalization Commission: The Strange Quest to Cheat Death raises vital questions about the 'truths' science can offer, the technology we are still exploiting for immortality - and... -
Aesthetics, Method, and Epistemology: Essential Works of Foucault 1954-1984 by Michel Foucault
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €12.61'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... -
An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding by David Hume
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €9.61'Commit it then to the flames: for it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion.' Thus ends David Hume's Enquiry concerning Human Understanding, the definitive statement of the greatest... -
Confessions Of A Philosopher Bryan Magee 9780753804711
RRP: €20.39Booksplease Price: €15.07In this inspirational book Bryan Magee tells the story of his discovery of philosophy, and in doing so introduces the subject to his reader. Experiences of everyday life provide discussion of... -
Symposium by Plato 9780199540198
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €8.84In his celebrated masterpiece, Symposium, Plato imagines a high-society dinner-party in Athens in 416 BC at which the guests - including the comic poet Aristophanes and, of course, Plato's mentor... -
Living for Pleasure: An Epicurean Guide to Life by Emily A. Austin
RRP: €22.79Booksplease Price: €14.53If we all want happiness and pleasure so much, then why are we so bad at getting it? Pleasure feels amazing! Anxiety, however, does not. The Ancient Greek Philosopher Epicurus rolled these two... -
Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar: Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes by Daniel Klein
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €9.29Here's an accusation - Sherlock Holmes never deduced anything. When it comes to language, it all depends on what your definition of 'is' is. And one for the existentialists - you haven't lived... -
Unflattening by Nick Sousanis
RRP: €26.34Booksplease Price: €21.59The primacy of words over images has deep roots in Western culture. But what if the two are inextricably linked, equal partners in meaning-making? Written and drawn entirely as comics, Unflattening... -
The New York Trilogy: Faber Modern Classics by Paul Auster 9780571322800
Booksplease Price: €17.90The New York Trilogy is perhaps the most astonishing work by one of America's most consistently astonishing writers. The Trilogy is three cleverly interconnected novels that exploit the elements of... -
The Grain Of The Voice by Roland Barthes
RRP: €19.19Booksplease Price: €14.96In these interviews, given between 1962 and 1980, Barthes speaks about the development of his thought, explaining why and how he wrote his many books, paying tributes to philosophers, linguists,... -
Mythologies by Roland Barthes
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €11.35'Barthes' purpose is to tear away masks and demystify the signs, signals and symbols of the language of mass culture' The TimesIn this magnificent and often surprising collection of essays Barthes... -
A Short History of Decay by E.M. Cioran
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €9.54A Short History of Decay (1949) is E. M. Cioran's nihilistic and witty collection of aphoristic essays concerning the nature of civilization in mid 20th-century Europe. Touching upon man's need to... -
Classical Indian Philosophy: A history of philosophy without any gaps, Volume 5 by Peter Adamson
RRP: €16.19Booksplease Price: €12.55Peter Adamson and Jonardon Ganeri present a lively introduction to one of the world's richest intellectual traditions: the philosophy of classical India. They begin with the earliest extant... -
Meditations and Other Metaphysical Writings by Rene Descartes
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €11.08One of the foundation-stones of modern philosophy, Rene Descartes' Meditations and Other Metaphysical Writings is translated from the Latin with an introduction by Desmond M. Clarke in Penguin... -
Epistemic Injustice: Power and the Ethics of Knowing by Miranda Fricker
RRP: €39.59Booksplease Price: €34.07Epistemic Injustice explores the idea that there is a distinctively epistemic kind of injustice - injustice which consists in a wrong done to someone specifically in their capacity as a knower... -
The Philosophy of Freedom: The Basis for a Modern World Conception by Rudolf Steiner
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €13.86Are we free, whether we know it or not? Or is our sense of freedom merely an illusion? Rudolf Steiner tackles this age-old problem in a new way. He shows that by taking account of our own activity of... -
The Ego Trick by Julian Baggini 9781847082732
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €8.77Are you still the person who lived fifteen, ten or five years ago? Fifteen, ten or five minutes ago? Can you plan for your retirement if the you of thirty years hence is in some sense a different... -
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €14.92In An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, first published in 1690, John Locke (1632-1704) provides a complete account of how we acquire everyday, mathematical, natural scientific, religious and... -
The Language Animal: The Full Shape of the Human Linguistic Capacity by Charles Taylor 9780674660205
RRP: €35.94Booksplease Price: €28.62In seminal works ranging from Sources of the Self to A Secular Age, Charles Taylor has shown how we create possible ways of being, both as individuals and as a society. In his new book setting forth...