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The World Beyond Your Head: How to Flourish in an Age of Distraction by Matthew Crawford
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.34From '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 Crawford investigates the challenge of mastering one's... -
The History of Sexuality: 3: The Care of the Self by Michel Foucault
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.34'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, Foucault investigates the Golden Age of Rome to reveal a ... -
The Power of Ideas: Words of Faith and Wisdom Jonathan Sacks 9781399800013
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £17.19Britain'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 1991, through to his death in November 2020, Rabbi... -
The History of Sexuality: 4: Confessions of the Flesh by Robert Hurley 9780241389614
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.27The 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 attention to early Christianity, exploring how ancient... -
Brief Notes on the Art and Manner of Arranging One's Books by Georges Perec
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.04'A problem of space first of all, then a problem of order'One of the most singular and extravagant imaginations of the twentieth century, the novelist and essayist Georges Perec was a true original who delighted in wordplay, puzzles, taxonomies and... -
No Judgement: On Being Critical by Lauren Oyler 9780349016511
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £10.88A 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 Observer, Stylist, the Skinny, BBC Online and the Independent... -
Against the Tide: The Best of Roger Scruton's Columns, Commentaries and Criticism by Roger Scruton
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.32'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 volume. The philosopher Roger Scruton was the leading... -
Spinoza: Practical Philosophy by Gilles Deleuze 9780872862180
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.64Spinoza's theoretical philosophy is one of the most radical attempts to construct a pure ontology, with a single infinite substance, and all beings as the modes of being his substance. This book, which presents Spinoza's main ideas in dictionary form,... -
The Republic by Plato 9781857150988
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.23Although 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 politics, art, education and the general conduct of life... -
All Life is Problem Solving by Patrick Camiller
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £35.19'Never before has there been so many and such dreadful weapons in so many irresponsible hands.' - Karl Popper, from the PrefaceAll Life is Problem Solving is a stimulating and provocative selection of Popper's writings on his main preoccupations during... -
Man Alone with Himself by Friedrich Nietzsche
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £5.99Friedrich Nietzsche was one of the most revolutionary thinkers in Western philosophy. Here he sets out his subversive views in a series of aphorisms on subjects ranging from art to arrogance, boredom to passion, science to vanity, rejecting conventional... -
The Case for Working with Your Hands: Or Why Office Work is Bad for Us and Fixing Things Feels Good by Matthew Crawford
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02It'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 the skills to fix or even understand the most basic... -
Consolation of Philosophy by Ancius Boethius 9781513207711
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781513207711Author Ancius BoethiusFormat HardbackPage Count 154Imprint Mint EditionsPublisher Mint Editions -
The Coronation: Essays from the Covid Moment Charles Eisenstein 9781645021780
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £9.80'A necessary and brave read.' Paul Kingsnorth Hope and isolation, courage and division, withdrawal and reunion - how can we find meaning as we emerge from the troubled time of Covid? Renowned social philosopher and best-selling author Charles... -
Contingency, Hegemony and Universality: Contemporary Dialogues on the Left by Slavoj Zizek
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.88What 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 project, Judith Butler, Ernesto Laclau and Slavoj Zizek... -
On Living and Dying Well by Cicero
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02In the first century BCE, Marcus Tullius Cicero, orator, statesman, and defender of republican values, created these philosophical treatises on such diverse topics as friendship, religion, death, fate and scientific inquiry. A pragmatist at heart,... -
Notes on Suicide by Simon Critchley
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.74Suicide is everywhere. It haunts history and current events. It haunts our own networks of friends and family. The spectre of suicide looms large, but the topic is taboo because any meaningful discussion must at the very least consider that the answer to... -
Fair or Foul: The Lady Macbeth Guide to Ambition Stefan Stern 9781800183186
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.40Fair 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 'illness' of ambition achieve the highest goals?Stefan... -
On Being Blue by William H. Gass
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590177181Author William H. GassFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)... -
The Praise of Folly: Updated Edition by Desiderius Erasmus 9780691165646
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.41Desiderius Erasmus (1466-1536) was a Dutch humanist, scholar, and social critic, and one of the most important figures of the Renaissance. The Praise of Folly is perhaps his best-known work. Originally written to amuse his friend Sir Thomas More, this... -
Three Critics of the Enlightenment: Vico, Hamann, Herder by Isaiah Berlin
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.75This 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 skin of its critics and giving a sympathetic account of... -
The Myth Of Sisyphus by Albert Camus 9780525564454
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £9.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Nobel Prize 1957.Book InformationISBN 9780525564454Author Albert CamusFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA Inc -
The Silence of Animals: On Progress and Other Modern Myths by John Gray
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02The 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 silence as their birthright'Why do humans seek meaning... -
The Birth of Tragedy by Friedrich Nietzsche
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.65'Yes, what is Dionysian? - This book provides an answer - "a man who knows" speaks in it, the initiate and disciple of his god.' The Birth of Tragedy (1872) is a book about the origins of Greek tragedy and its relevance to the German culture of its... -
David Bowie and Philosophy: Rebel Rebel Theodore G. Ammon 9780812699210
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.13The philosophically rich David Bowie is an artist of wide and continuing influence. The theatrical antics of Bowie ushered in a new rock aesthetic, but there is much more to Bowie than mere spectacle. The visual belies the increasing depths of his... -
Parmenides by Plato 9780872203280
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.08"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, and still manages to make sense of the dialogue as a... -
Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future by Friedrich Nietzsche
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.96`What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.' Always provocative, the Friedrich Nietzsche of Beyond Good and Evil (1886) is at once sceptical psychologist and philosopher-seer, passionately unmasking European society with his... -
A Political Philosophy: Arguments for Conservatism by Roger Scruton
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.23In this timely new edition of his classic book A Political Philosophy, celebrated conservative philosopher Roger Scruton interrogates contemporary values, virtues and morality. What principles should govern our relations to animals, the nation state,... -
Writings 1997-2003 by Cybernetic Culture Research Unit (CCRU) 9780995455061
RRP: £23.00Booksplease Price: £14.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995455061Author CCRUFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Urbanomic Media LtdPublisher Urbanomic Media Ltd -
An Inconvenient Apocalypse: Environmental Collapse, Climate Crisis, and the Fate of Humanity by Wes Jackson 9780268203665
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £14.00Confronting 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 contraction. For decades, our world has understood that we... -
For Marx by Louis Althusser
Booksplease Price: £20.60This is the work in which Louis Althusser formulated some of his most influential ideas. For Marx, first published in France in 1968, has come to be regarded as the founding text of the school of "structuralist Marxism" which was presided over by the... -
Nasty, Brutish, and Short: Adventures in Philosophy with Kids by Scott Hershovitz
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.96'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 ShapeA funny, wise guide to the art of thinking, and... -
Confessions of a Sinner by Saint Augustine
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.04Throughout 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, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched... -
The Cynic Philosophers: from Diogenes to Julian by Lucian
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.27'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 founding in the fifth century BC and for over 800 years, the... -
Dostoyevsky, or The Flood of Language by Julia Kristeva
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.23Growing up in Bulgaria, Julia Kristeva was warned by her father not to read Dostoyevsky. "Of course, and as usual," she recalls, "I disobeyed paternal orders and plunged into Dosto. Dazzled, overwhelmed, engulfed." Kristeva would go on to become one of... -
Essays in the Metaphysics of Mind by Jaegwon Kim 9780199585878
RRP: £63.00Booksplease Price: £61.82Jaegwon Kim presents a selection of his essays from the last two decades. The volume includes three new essays, on an agent-centered first-person account of action explanation, the concepts of realization and their bearings on the mind-body problem, and... -
The Power Of Ideas by Isaiah Berlin
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.56'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 civilisation' - Isaiah Berlin, Two Concepts of Liberty,... -
On the Pleasure of Hating by William Hazlitt 9780141018928 [USED COPY]
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £2.26Throughout 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, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched... -
For the Time Being by Annie Dillard
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.88Apologies 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 DillardFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random... -
Basic Writings of Nietzsche by Friedrich Nietzsche
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £12.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679783398Author Friedrich NietzscheFormat PaperbackPage Count 896Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 499gDimensions(mm)...