Filter By
- Book
- Qty in Cart
- Quantity
- Price
- Subtotal
-
The Temptation to Exist by E. M. Cioran 9781611457384
RRP: $21.43$18.54This collection of eleven essays originally appeared in France thirty years ago and created a literary whirlwind on the Left Bank. Cioran writes incisively about Western civilizations, the writer, the novel, mystics, apostles, and philosophers.The... -
Francis Bacon: The Major Works by Francis Bacon
RRP: $25.33$18.97This 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 - the major prose in full, together with sixteen other... -
The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work by Alain de Botton
RRP: $25.33$17.73From 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 which most of us spend most of our lives'De Botton's... -
When Einstein Walked with Goedel: Excursions to the Edge of Thought by Jim Holt 9780374538422
RRP: $39.00$25.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374538422Author Jim HoltFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams)... -
The Stone Reader: Modern Philosophy in 133 Arguments by Peter Catapano 9781631490712
RRP: $62.38$57.31Once solely the province of ivory tower professors and university classrooms, contemporary philosophy was emancipated from its academic closet in 2010, when The Stone was launched in The New York Times. First appearing online, the column has attracted... -
Is God Happy?: Selected Essays by Leszek Kolakowski
RRP: $19.48$13.86'The most esteemed philosopher to have produced a general introduction to his discipline since Bertrand Russell' Independent In these essays, one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century writes about communism and socialism, the problem of... -
On Living and Dying Well by Cicero
RRP: $21.43$15.15In 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,... -
An Answer to the Question: 'What is Enlightenment?' by Immanuel Kant
RRP: $15.58$11.29Immanuel 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 investigates human progress, civilization, morality and why, to... -
Dostoyevsky, or The Flood of Language by Julia Kristeva
RRP: $33.13$26.01Growing 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... -
Basic Writings of Nietzsche by Friedrich Nietzsche
RRP: $37.03$24.88Apologies 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)... -
Avengers Infinity Saga and Philosophy by Robert Arp
RRP: $29.23$21.20In Avengers Infinity Saga and Philosophy, philosophers explore the momentous issues and the fascinating puzzles raised by Marvel's compelling series of movies: Is the Thanos snap truly an answer to overpopulation and famine, or is it simply indefensible... -
A Load of Shit by John Berger 9781912475414
RRP: $9.73$8.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912475414Author John BergerFormat PaperbackPage Count 12Imprint ERISPublisher ERIS -
Distrust that Particular Flavor by William Gibson
RRP: $21.43$15.15Distrust That Particular Flavor - an acclaimed nonfiction collection by William Gibson, bestselling author of Neuromancer'The future's already here: it's just not evenly distributed'William Gibson was writing fiction when he predicted the internet. And... -
Essays in the Metaphysics of Mind by Jaegwon Kim 9780199585878
$193.32Jaegwon 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... -
Things That Bother Me by Galen Strawson
RRP: $27.28$17.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681372204Author Galen StrawsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint The New York Review of Books, IncPublisher The New York Review of Books,... -
Event: Philosophy in Transit by Slavoj Zizek
RRP: $21.43$15.15Probably the most famous living philosopher, Slavoj Zizek explores the concept of 'event', in the second in this new series of easily digestible philosophyWhat is really happening when something happens?In the second in a new series of accessible,... -
The Power of Ideas: Words of Faith and Wisdom by Jonathan Sacks 9781399800020
RRP: $25.33$15.95Britain's most authentically prophetic voice - 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 Lord... -
The Laws by Plato
RRP: $29.23$21.35In 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 a code of conduct for all aspects of life in his ideal... -
The Science of Discworld IV: Judgement Day by Terry Pratchett
RRP: $33.13$23.95The 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 big footnotes (the interleaving chapters) by... -
Essays by Plutarch
RRP: $29.23$21.35One 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 selection from his writings, he offers personal insights... -
A Political Philosophy: Arguments for Conservatism by Roger Scruton
RRP: $29.23$21.35In 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,... -
The Cynic Philosophers: from Diogenes to Julian by Lucian
RRP: $25.33$17.73'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... -
The Mathematics of the Gods and the Algorithms of Men: A Cultural History by Paolo Zellini
RRP: $21.43$13.88Is mathematics a discovery or an invention? Do numbers truly exist? What sort of reality do formulas describe?The complexity of mathematics - its abstract rules and obscure symbols - can seem very distant from the everyday. There are those things that... -
I Am Right, You Are Wrong by Edward De Bono
RRP: $21.43$15.15I 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 confrontational. Whether in large meetings, one-to-one or even... -
Symposium by Plato 9780199540198
RRP: $19.48$13.86In 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 Socrates - each deliver a short speech in praise of love... -
Inciting Joy: Essays by Ross Gay 9781399716291
RRP: $33.13$20.38A 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, especially during life's inevitable hardships.In "We Kin" he thinks about the garden (especially... -
The Three Dimensions of Freedom by Billy Bragg
RRP: $11.70$8.25At 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 argue over who has the right to speak.To protect... -
Jordan Peterson: Critical Responses by Sandra Woien
RRP: $33.13$22.76This is a collection of critical essays regarding the work of Jordan Peterson, a Canadian professor of psychology, clinical psychologist, YouTube personality, and author. Peterson began his career as a teacher at Harvard before receiving worldwide... -
Power Knowledge by Michel Foucault
$21.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780394739540Author Michel FoucaultFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 244gDimensions(mm)... -
The Socrates Express: In Search of Life Lessons from Dead Philosophers by Eric Weiner 9781501129025
RRP: $21.43$15.15The 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 Epicurus to Gandhi, Thoreau to Beauvoir-offers practical... -
Empiricists: Essays by John Locke
RRP: $33.13$25.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385096225Author John LockeFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Bantam Dell Publishing Group, Div of Random House, IncPublisher Random House USA... -
On the Pleasure of Hating by William Hazlitt
RRP: $15.58$11.29Throughout 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... -
On Being Blue by William H. Gass
RRP: $17.53$11.76Apologies 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 Roots Of Romanticism by Isaiah Berlin
RRP: $37.03$26.54The Roots of Romanticism is the long-awaited text of Isaiah Berlin's most celebrated set of lectures, the Mellon Lectures, delivered in Washington in 1965 and heard since by a much wider audience on BBC radio. For Berli, the Romantics set in train a... -
The Present Age: On the Death of Rebellion by Soren Kierkegaard 9780062930859
RRP: $21.43$13.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062930859Author Soren KierkegaardFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Harper PerennialPublisher Harper PerennialWeight(grams) 91g -
Louis C.K. and Philosophy: You Don't Get to Be Bored by Mark Ralkowski 9780812699067
RRP: $48.73$32.60Charlie Rose has called Louis C.K. "the philosopher-king of comedy," and many have detected philosophical profundity in his material. Twenty-five philosophers examine the wisdom of Louis C.K. from a variety of philosophical perspectives. The chapters... -
Screened out by Jean Baudrillard 9781781681558
RRP: $35.08$31.79'Watching the president's Christmas message produces this necropolar, white-mass sensation. Seeing the video broadcast of the Christmas service in the cathedral itself, with these pathetic screens and the young worshippers slumped around them here and... -
Treatise on Toleration by Voltaire
RRP: $19.48$13.86Voltaire'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 tolerance, Treatise on Toleration was written after the... -
Imagining the End: Mourning and Ethical Life by Jonathan Lear
RRP: $48.65$37.99A Washington Post Notable Work of Nonfiction"Imagining the End suggests, in a sober yet hopeful spirit, how mourning, rightly understood, can give meaning to our lives in the disenchanted times in which we find ourselves. In exploring the hopes that have... -
Protagoras and Meno by Plato
RRP: $21.43$15.15Exploring 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 work, the Protagoras, set during the golden age of...