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Fair or Foul: The Lady Macbeth Guide to Ambition Stefan Stern 9781800183186
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $16.42Fair or Foul considers different aspects of ambition and its place in our lives. It asks: what does success mean? When is enough enough? And is Lady Macbeth right to suggest that only those with the... -
Three Critics of the Enlightenment: Vico, Hamann, Herder by Isaiah Berlin
RRP: $38.00Booksplease Price: $28.60This book brings together three major studies from Isaiah Berlin's central intellectual project - to explain the opposition to the excessively scientistic French Enlightenment by getting under the... -
The Silence of Animals: On Progress and Other Modern Myths by John Gray
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $17.54The powerful, beautiful and chilling sequel to the bestselling Straw Dogs'By nature volatile and discordant, the human animal looks to silence for relief from being itself while other creatures enjoy... -
Parmenides by Plato 9780872203280
RRP: $32.28Booksplease Price: $24.61"Gill's and Ryan's Parmenides is, simply, superb: the Introduction, more than a hundred pages long, is transparently clear, takes the reader meticulously through the arguments, avoids perverseness,... -
A Political Philosophy: Arguments for Conservatism by Roger Scruton
RRP: $32.28Booksplease Price: $23.83In this timely new edition of his classic book A Political Philosophy, celebrated conservative philosopher Roger Scruton interrogates contemporary values, virtues and morality. What principles... -
An Inconvenient Apocalypse: Environmental Collapse, Climate Crisis, and the Fate of Humanity by Wes Jackson 9780268203665
RRP: $34.18Booksplease Price: $29.75Confronting harsh ecological realities and the multiple cascading crises facing our world today, An Inconvenient Apocalypse argues that humanity's future will be defined not by expansion but by... -
Nasty, Brutish, and Short: Adventures in Philosophy with Kids by Scott Hershovitz
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $15.11'Witty and learned ... Hershovitz intertwines parenting and philosophy, recounting his spirited arguments with his kids about infinity, morality, and the existence of God' Jordan Ellenberg, author of... -
Confessions of a Sinner by Saint Augustine
RRP: $15.18Booksplease Price: $11.44Throughout 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,... -
The Decay of Lying by Oscar Wilde
RRP: $15.18Booksplease Price: $11.44'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... -
The Cynic Philosophers: from Diogenes to Julian by Lucian
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $17.54'Poverty does not consist in the want of money,' I answered, 'nor is begging to be deplored. Poverty consists in the desire to have everything, and through violent means if necessary'From their... -
The Power Of Ideas by Isaiah Berlin 9780712665544
RRP: $37.98Booksplease Price: $28.94'Over a hundred years ago, the German poet Heine warned the French not to underestimate the power of ideas: philosophical concepts nurtured in the stillness of a professor's study could destroy a... -
On the Pleasure of Hating by William Hazlitt
RRP: $15.18Booksplease Price: $11.44Throughout 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,... -
The Laws by Plato
RRP: $28.48Booksplease Price: $19.97In the Laws, Plato describes in fascinating detail a comprehensive system of legislation in a small agricultural utopia he named Magnesia. His laws not only govern crime and punishment, but also form... -
On Truth and Untruth: Selected Writings by Friedrich Nietzsche
RRP: $17.08Booksplease Price: $13.28"We continue to live within the intellectual shadow cast by Nietzsche."-New York Times Book Review Reissued for the age of "fake news," On Truth and Untruth charts Nietzsche's evolving thinking on... -
The News: A User's Manual by Alain de Botton
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $15.11THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLERFrom 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 -... -
Dostoyevsky Reads Hegel in Siberia and Bursts into Tears by Laszlo F. Foldenyi
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $23.37An exemplary collection of work from one of the world's leading scholars of intellectual history "Foeldenyi . . . stage[s] a broad metaphysical melodrama between opposites that he pursues throughout... -
On Suicide by David Hume
RRP: $15.18Booksplease Price: $11.44Throughout 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,... -
The Science of Discworld IV: Judgement Day by Terry Pratchett
RRP: $32.28Booksplease Price: $24.21The fourth book in the Science of Discworld series, and this time around dealing with THE REALLY BIG QUESTIONS, Terry Pratchett's brilliant new Discworld story Judgement Day is annotated with very... -
On Liberty by John Stuart Mill 9780141046945
RRP: $15.18Booksplease Price: $11.44In one of the most influential philosophical works ever writen, John Stuart Mill explores the risks and responsibilities of liberty. Examining the tyranny that can come both from government and from... -
Imagining the End: Mourning and Ethical Life Jonathan Lear 9780674297333
RRP: $32.21Booksplease Price: $26.39A Washington Post Notable Work of Nonfiction A Chronicle of Higher Education Best Scholarly Book "A deeply insightful and thought-enriching work by one of the most original philosophers writing today... -
Fallen Leaves: Last Words on Life, Love, War, and God by Will Durant
RRP: $34.18Booksplease Price: $22.55Praised as a "revelatory" book by The Wall Street Journal, this is the last and most personal work of Pulitzer Prize-winning author and historian Will Durant, discovered thirty-two years after his... -
I Am Right, You Are Wrong by Edward De Bono 9780241257517
RRP: $32.28Booksplease Price: $25.00I Am Right, You Are Wrong is THE classic work about choice in business and in life from world-renowned writer and philosopher Edward de Bono.Most of our everyday decision-making tends to be... -
Black and Female by Tsitsi Dangarembga
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $17.54'A woman's defiant fight to write.' ObserverBeing categorised as black and female does not constrain my writing. Writing assures me that I am more the merely blackness and femaleness. Writing assures... -
Raven Smith's Trivial Pursuits by Raven Smith
RRP: $17.08Booksplease Price: $13.28'Instagram's answer to David Sedaris.' ST STYLE MAGAZINE 'Irresistibly readable' DOLLY ALDERTON 'You'll laugh... -
Core of the Yoga Sutras: The Definitive Guide to the Philosophy of Yoga by B. K. S. Iyengar
RRP: $28.48Booksplease Price: $20.63The latest work from B.K.S. Iyengar, the world's most respected yoga teacher. Foreword from His Holiness the Dalai Lama. B.K.S. Iyengar has devoted his life to the practice and... -
The Portable Enlightenment Reader by Isaac Kramnick
RRP: $36.08Booksplease Price: $26.66The Age of Enlightenment of the 18th century, also called the Age of Reason, was so named for an intellectual movement that shook the foundations of Western civilization. In championing radical ideas... -
The Nature of the Gods by Marcus Tullius Cicero
RRP: $22.78Booksplease Price: $17.29`My present intention is to clear myself of any suspicion of partiality by presenting the views of the generality of philosophers concerning the nature of the gods.' Cicero's philosophical works... -
Intact: A Defence of the Unmodified Body by Clare Chambers 9780141992501
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $17.54'A must-read for psychotherapists, doctors and everyone else who enjoys connecting ideas' Philippa Perry'Compassionate and challenging, warmly human and coolly rigorous. . . I am now thinking afresh... -
Theaetetus by Plato 9780199646166
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $18.58'What exactly is knowledge?' The Theaetetus is a seminal text in the philosophy of knowledge, and is acknowledged as one of Plato's finest works. Cast as a conversation between Socrates and a... -
Prophet (Wisehouse Classics Edition) by Kahlil Gibran 9789176371121
RRP: $9.50Booksplease Price: $9.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789176371121Author Kahlil GibranFormat PaperbackPage Count 46Imprint -
Why I am So Wise by Friedrich Nietzsche
RRP: $15.18Booksplease Price: $11.44Throughout 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,... -
Treatise on Toleration Voltaire 9780241236628
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $15.11Voltaire's Treatise on Toleration is one of the most important essays on religious tolerance and freedom of thought A powerful, impassioned case for the values of freedom of conscience and religious... -
Zizek's Jokes: (Did you hear the one about Hegel and negation?) by Slavoj Zizek
RRP: $28.48Booksplease Price: $18.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262535304Author Slavoj ZizekFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint < -
The Three Dimensions of Freedom by Billy Bragg
RRP: $17.08Booksplease Price: $11.15At a time when opinion trumps facts and truth is treated as nothing more than another perspective, free speech has become a battleground. While authoritarians and algorithms threaten democracy, we... -
The Book of Tea by Okakura Kakuzo 9780983610601
RRP: $34.18Booksplease Price: $25.90The original 1906 edition of The Book of Tea is one of the classic texts found on the desks of artists, poets, teaists and Zen Buddhists around the world. The book has been re-designed and expanded... -
We Have Only This Life To Live Jean-Paul Sartre 9781590174937
RRP: $51.30Booksplease Price: $35.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590174937Author Jean-Paul SartreFormat PaperbackPage Count 592Imprint
Letters from a Stoic (Collins Classics) by Lucius Seneca 9780008425043
RRP: $15.18Booksplease Price: $12.05HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. No man can live a happy life, or even a supportable life, without the study of wisdom ...
Unforbidden Pleasures by Adam Phillips
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $17.54So much has been written about forbidden pleasures. What about pleasures that are unforbidden? Society is fascinated by taboo - we spend our lives chasing illicit pleasures - but nobody pays much...
Francis Bacon: The Major Works by Francis Bacon
RRP: $26.58Booksplease Price: $19.48This authoritative edition was originally published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode. It brings together an extensive collection of Bacon's writing...
Praise of Folly by Desiderius Erasmus
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $17.46Erasmus of Rotterdam (c. 1466-1536) is one of the greatest figures of the Renaissance humanist movement, which abandoned medieval pieties in favour of a rich new vision of the individual's potential...