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The Enneads by John Dillon
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $16.03Regarded as the founder of Neo-Platonism, Plotinus (AD 204-70) was the last great philosopher of antiquity, producing 0works that proved in many ways a precursor to Renaissance thought. Plotinus was... -
Dialogues and Essays by Seneca
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.51'No man is crushed by misfortune unless he has first been deceived by prosperity.' In these dialogues and essays the Stoic philosopher Seneca outlines his thoughts on how to live in a troubled... -
On Friendship by Michel de Montaigne
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $7.77Throughout 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,... -
Inciting Joy: Essays by Ross Gay 9781399716017
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $11.95'Punchy and compassionate' OBSERVERA collection of gorgeously written and timely pieces in which prize-winning poet and author Ross Gay considers the joy we incite when we care for each other,... -
Phaedrus by Plato 9780140449747
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43Phaedrus is widely recognized as one of Plato's most profound and beautiful works. It takes the form of a dialogue between Socrates and Phaedrus and its ostensible subject is love, especially... -
The John Michell Reader: Writings and Rants of a Radical Traditionalist by John Michell 9781620554159
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $13.47A countercultural icon of the 1960s, John Michell (1933-2009) was perhaps best known for his books on sacred geometry, Earth mysteries, and unusual phenomena. He was also beloved and reviled for his... -
Like Love: Essays and Conversations by Maggie Nelson 9781911717027
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $19.21A CAREER-SPANNING COLLECTION OF INSPIRING, REVELROUS ESSAYS ABOUT ART AND ARTISTS'Like Love may be one of the most movingly specific, the most lovingly unruly celebrations of the ethics of friendship... -
Anecdotes of the Cynics by 9780241251461
RRP: $5.16Booksplease Price: $4.48'It's you who are the dogs...'What makes us happy? For over 800 years the Cynic philosophers of ancient Greece and Rome argued that the answer lay in a simple, self-sufficient life.About the... -
Pure Immanence: Essays on A Life by Gilles Deleuze
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $20.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781890951252Author Gilles DeleuzeFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint -
The Voronezh Notebooks by Osip Mandelstam
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $15.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590179109Author Andrew DavisFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint < -
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $16.03In 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... -
![Plato's "Symposium" by Seth Benardete](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/169174/8483556/9780226042756__11934.1742973537.jpg?c=1 "Plato's "Symposium" by Seth Benardete")
Plato's "Symposium" by Seth Benardete
RRP: $17.42Booksplease Price: $17.35Plato, Allan Bloom wrote, is "the most erotic of philosophers," and his Symposium is one of the greatest works on the nature of love ever written. This new edition brings together the English... -
The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice by Christopher Hitchens
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $9.34In this frank and damning expose of the Teresa cult, Hitchens details the nature and limits of one woman's mission to help the world's poor. He probes the source of the heroic status bestowed upon an... -
No Judgement: On Being Critical by Lauren Oyler 9780349016504
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $18.82A brilliant and addictive collection of brand-new essays on modern culture - from 'the pre-eminent and most widely read critic of her generation' The Times Included as a 2024 highlight in the... -
Fanged Noumena: Collected Writings 1987-2007 by Nick Land 9780955308789
RRP: $34.83Booksplease Price: $23.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955308789Author Nick LandFormat PaperbackPage Count 680Imprint -
In Praise of Shadows: Vintage Design Edition Junichiro Tanizaki 9781784875572
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $14.72A fully illustrated, beautifully produced edition of Junichiro Tanizaki's wise and evocative essay on Japanese culture. 'We find beauty not in the thing itself but in the patterns of shadows, the... -
Unto This Last and Other Writings by John Ruskin
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91First and foremost an outcry against injustice and inhumanity, Unto this Last is also a closely argued assault on the science of political economy, which dominated the Victorian period. Ruskin was a... -
Letters from a Stoic: Epistulae Morales Ad Lucilium by Seneca 9780141395852
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $12.90Selected from the Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium, Seneca's Letters from a Stoic are a set of 'essays in disguise' from one of the most insightful philosophers of the Silver Age of Roman literature... -
The Puzzle of God by Peter Vardy
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.55Peter Vardy's much acclaimed introduction to the study of ideas about God - now revised and updated. A clear, well-written guide to philosophical thinking about God. Starting with the... -
The Hedgehog And The Fox: An Essay on Tolstoy's View of History by Isaiah Berlin
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.35'Brilliant. Searching and profound' E.H. Carr, Times Literary Supplement'When reading Isaiah Berlin we breathe an altogether different air' New York Review of Books'Beautifully written' W. H. Auden,... -
Having and Being Had by Eula Biss 9780571346431
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91'A major achievement.' CLAUDIA RANKINE'Endlessly absorbing.' SINEAD GLEESON 'A probing tour of capitalism and class.' MAGGIE NELSON'Exhilarating.' JENNY OFFILLA personal reckoning with the... -
Art Matters by Neil Gaiman
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $7.95Seize the day in the name of art. This creative call to arms from the mind of Neil Gaiman combines his extraordinary words with deft and striking illustrations by Chris Riddell. 'Like a bedtime story... -
The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson 9780679783220
RRP: $27.09Booksplease Price: $21.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679783220Author Ralph Waldo EmersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 880Impr -
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius 9780141018829
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $6.31Throughout 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,... -
Plato Respublica by S. R. Slings
Booksplease Price: $47.52This is the first edition of Plato's Republic to be based on an exhaustive examination of all the textual evidence - manuscripts, including papyri; quotations and allusions in ancient authors;... -
The Power of Words by Simone Weil
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $7.73'There are certain words which possess, in themselves, when properly used, a virtue which illumines and lifts up towards the good'The philosopher and activist Simone Weil was one of the most... -
The World Beyond Your Head: How to Flourish in an Age of Distraction by Matthew Crawford
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91From 'one of the most influential thinkers of our time' (Sunday Times): how to respond to today's demands on our attentionIn this brilliant follow-up to The Case for Working with Your Hands, Matthew... -
The History of Sexuality: 3: The Care of the Self by Michel Foucault
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91'Bristles with provocative insights into the tangled liaisons of sex and self' Times Higher EducationIn the third volume of his acclaimed examination of sexuality in modern Western society,... -
Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant 9780140447477
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $17.71Kant'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... -
The Power of Ideas: Words of Faith and Wisdom Jonathan Sacks 9781399800013
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $19.54Britain's most authentically prophetic voice - The Daily Telegraph'The choice with which humankind is faced is between the idea of power and the power of ideas.'From his appointment as Chief Rabbi in... -
Gorgias by Plato
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $9.02The struggle which Plato has Socrates recommend to his interlocutors in Gorgias - and to his readers - is the struggle to overcome the temptations of worldly success and to concentrate on genuine... -
The History of Sexuality: 4: Confessions of the Flesh by Robert Hurley 9780241389614
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.56The final major work by one of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth centuryIn the fourth and final volume of his far-reaching and influential study of human sexuality, Foucault turns his... -
Against the Tide: The Best of Roger Scruton's Columns, Commentaries and Criticism by Roger Scruton
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $19.83'His moral courage shines through from the start.' - Sunday Telegraph The definitive edition of the late Sir Roger Scruton's philosophical and political essays and reviews, now collected in one... -
The Republic by Plato 9781857150988
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.43Although Plato's celebrated work of philosophy describes a society which to some seems the ideal human community and to others like a totalitarian nightmare, it also raises enduring questions about... -
Symposium by Plato 9780199540198
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $8.66In 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... -
The Case for Working with Your Hands: Or Why Office Work is Bad for Us and Fixing Things Feels Good by Matthew Crawford
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $11.08It's time to rethink our attitudes to work.For too long we have convinced ourselves that the only jobs worth doing involve sitting at a desk. Generations of school-leavers head for university lacking... -
Essays by Plutarch
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.25One of the greatest essayists of the Graeco-Roman world, Plutarch (c. AD 46 -120) used an encyclopedic knowledge of the Roman Empire to produce a compelling and individual voice. In this superb... -
Ethics by Benedict de Spinoza 9781840221190
RRP: $7.73Booksplease Price: $6.30Translated by W.H.White and A.K.Stirling. With an Introduction by Don Garrett. Benedict de Spinoza lived a life of blameless simplicity as a lens-grinder in Holland. And yet in his lifetime he was... -
The Symposium by Plato 9780141023847
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $7.77Throughout 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,... -
Contingency, Hegemony and Universality: Contemporary Dialogues on the Left by Slavoj Zizek
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $10.98What is the contemporary legacy of Gramsci's notion of Hegemony? How can universality be reformulated now that its spurious versions have been so thoroughly criticized? In this ground-breaking...