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Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant 9780140447477
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $18.40Kant'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... -
Power: The Essential Works of Michel Foucault 1954-1984 by Michel Foucault
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $14.08'Who since Weber, or perhaps even Hobbes, has done as much to show why power is such a profound, elusive and treacherous presence throughout our experience?' The Times Higher EducationThe third and... -
Meditations by Rene Descartes
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $8.07Widely 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,... -
The Soul of Man Under Socialism and Selected Critical Prose by Oscar Wilde
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37Selection includes The Portrait of Mr W.H., Wilde's defence of Dorian Gray, reviews, and the writings from 'Intentions' (1891): 'The Decay of Lying, 'Pen, Pencil, Poison', and 'The Critic as Artist'... -
The History of Sexuality: 2: The Use of Pleasure by Michel Foucault
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37'No brief survey can do justice to the richness, complexity and detail of Foucault's discussion' New York Review of BooksThe second volume of Michel Foucault's pioneering analysis of the changing ... -
Symposium by Plato 9780199540198
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.88In 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... -
Protagoras and Meno by Plato
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.37Exploring the question of what exactly makes good people good, Protagoras and Meno are two of the most enjoyable and accessible of all of Plato's dialogues. Widely regarded as his finest dramatic... -
City of God by Saint Augustine
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $19.67City of God is an enduringly significant work in the history of Christian thought, by one of its central figuresWritten as an eloquent defence of the faith at a time when the Roman Empire was on the... -
Twilight of Idols and Anti-Christ by Friedrich Nietzsche
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $10.65In 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,... -
An Answer to the Question: 'What is Enlightenment?' by Immanuel Kant
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $8.07Immanuel Kant was one of the most influential philosophers in the whole of Europe, who changed Western thought with his examinations of reason and the nature of reality. In these writings he... -
A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There by Aldo Leopold
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.65'One of the most influential books about the natural world ever published' Paul Kingsnorth, Guardian'There are some who can live without wild things, and some who cannot,' begins Aldo Leopold's... -
Gorgias by Plato 9780140449044
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65Taking the form of a dialogue between Socrates, Gorgias, Polus and Callicles, GORGIAS debates perennial questions about the nature of government and those who aspire to public office. Are high moral... -
The Symposium by Plato
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.49'Perhaps the most entertaining work of philosophy ever written ... the first really systematic and serious attempt to say what love is' John Armstrong, GuardianIn the course of a lively drinking... -
The Sickness Unto Death by Soren Kierkegaard
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $8.07Influencing philosophers such as Sartre and Camus, and still strikingly modern in its psychological insights, Kierkegaard's The Sickness Unto Death explores the concept of 'despair' as a symptom of... -
Can the Monster Speak?: Report to an Academy of Psychoanalysts by Paul Preciado 9781913097585
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.05In November 2019, Paul B. Preciado was invited to speak in front of 3,500 psychoanalysts at the Ecole de la Cause Freudienne's annual conference in Paris. Standing up in front of the profession for... -
Ethics in the Real World: 90 Essays on Things That Matter – A Fully Updated and Expanded Edition by Peter Singer
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $16.36Provocative essays on real-world ethical questions from the world's most influential philosopherPeter Singer is often described as the world's most influential philosopher. He is also one of its most... -
Philosophy for Gardeners: Ideas and paradoxes to ponder in the garden Kate Collyns 9780711268210
RRP: $18.76Booksplease Price: $13.24Explore ideas, consider the big questions and learn life lessons in your garden. Gardening is an innately thoughtful as well as practical pastime: planning ahead, imagining how plants will grow,... -
Where I Lived, and What I Lived For by Henry Thoreau
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $8.07Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened,... -
Ethics by Benedict de Spinoza
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.24'The noblest and most lovable of the great philosophers ... ethically he is supreme' Bertrand RussellPublished shortly after his death in 1677, the Ethics is Spinoza's greatest work - a fully... -
Conversations with Goethe by Johann Peter Eckermann
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $16.66A perceptive introduction to the mind of one of German's greatest writers, in a new translation for the first time in 150 years'The best German book there is' Nietzsche By the turn of the nineteenth... -
Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar: Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes by Daniel Klein
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.37Here'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... -
Introductory Lectures on Aesthetics by G. W. F. Hegel
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.37No 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... -
Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society by Raymond Williams 9780006861508
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.84Raymond Williams' seminal exploration of the history of meaning of some of the most important words in the English language. First published in 1976, and expanded in 1983, KEYWORDS reveals... -
Republic Plato 9781853264832
RRP: $8.03Booksplease Price: $6.50Translated by John Llewelyn Davies and David James Vaughan. With an Introduction by Stephen Watt. The ideas of Plato (c429-347BC) have influenced Western philosophers for over two thousand years... -
The World of Sex by Henry Miller
RRP: $8.03Booksplease Price: $6.35In The World of Sex, Henry Miller, one of the most scandalous writers of the 20th century explains his literary project Henry Miller's bold, explicit novels scandalized readers and remade the... -
Reveries of the Solitary Walker by Jean-Jacques Rousseau 9780199563272
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.39'These hours of solitude and meditation are the only time of the day when I am completely myself' Reveries of the Solitary Walker is Rousseau's last great work, the product of his final years of... -
Confabulations by John Berger
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37'Language is a body, a living creature ... and this creature's home is the inarticulate as well as the articulate'. John Berger's work has revolutionized the way we understand visual language. In... -
The Sickness Unto Death: A Christian Psychological Exposition of Edification and Awakening by Anti-Climacus by Soren Kierkegaard
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65One of the most remarkable philosophical works of the nineteenth century, The Sickness Unto Death is also famed for the depth and acuity of its modern psychological insights. Writing under the... -
On the Suffering of the World by Arthur Schopenhauer
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $8.07Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened,... -
How to be Free by Tom Hodgkinson
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65How to be Free is Tom Hodgkinson's manifesto for a liberated life.Modern life is absurd. How can we be free?If you've ever wondered why you bother to go to work, or why so much consumer culture is... -
The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work by Alain de Botton 9780141027913
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37From one of our greatest voices in modern philosophy, author of The Course of Love, The Consolations of Philosophy, Religion for Atheists and The School of Life - a lucid exploration of the state in... -
Selected Writings Of Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson 9780451531865
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $8.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451531865Author Ralph Waldo EmersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Impr -
A Short History of Decay by E.M. Cioran
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65A 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... -
For the Time Being by Annie Dillard
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Literary Award (Art of the Essay) 2000.Book InformationISBN 9780375703478Author Annie Dillard -
Meditations and Other Metaphysical Writings by Rene Descartes
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $11.86One 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... -
This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life by David Foster Wallace
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $18.26How does one keep from going through their comfortable, prosperous adult life unconsciously? How do we get ourselves out of the foreground of our thoughts and achieve compassion? The speech captures... -
On Violence and On Violence Against Women by Jacqueline Rose 9780571332724
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37A blazingly insightful, provocative study of violence against women from the peerless feminist critic. 'To read Rose is to understand that there is no border between us and the world; it is an... -
The Socrates Express: In Search of Life Lessons from Dead Philosophers by Eric Weiner 9781501129025
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $13.33The New York Times bestselling author of The Geography of Bliss embarks on a rollicking intellectual journey, following in the footsteps of history's greatest thinkers and showing us how each-from... -
Nature and Selected Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37Through his writing and his own personal philosophy, Ralph Waldo Emerson unburdened his young country of Europe's traditional sense of history and showed Americans how to be creators of their own... -
Why I Am so Clever by Friedrich Nietzsche
RRP: $5.36Booksplease Price: $4.65'Why do I know a few more things? Why am I so clever altogether?'Self-celebrating and self-mocking autobiographical writings from Ecce Homo, the last work iconoclastic German philosopher Nietzsche...