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At 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...

The 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 for a contemporary audience.You will discover the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590174937Author Jean-Paul SartreFormat PaperbackPage Count 592Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)...

HarperCollins 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 Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 BC-AD 65) is one of the most...

Through a close reading of the lives and works of some of the greatest intellectuals of recent times, Adam Shatz asks: do writers have an ethical imperative to question injustice? How can one remain a dispassionate thinker when involved in the cut and...

So 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 attention to all the unforbidden pleasures freely...

A compelling collection of the life-changing writings of William JamesWilliam James-psychologist, philosopher, and spiritual seeker-is one of those rare writers who can speak directly and powerfully to anyone about life's meaning and worth, and whose...

This 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...

Do you want to know what life has in store? It's all here in this book. All the little things we learn in the course of our lives. A page a year, from nought to a hundred.5: You learn that boys and girls fall in love. Incredible!13: When will your...

Erasmus 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. Praise of Folly, written to amuse his friend Sir...

Answer Life's Questions with A New Perspective"...200 questions that can truly impact your life in positive ways...to help us bring meaning and exploration back into our daily lives." -Dr. Bernie Siegel, author of Love, Medicine, and MiraclesFilled with...

A brilliantly wide-ranging essay collection from the author of My Struggle, spanning literature, philosophy, art and how our daily and creative lives intertwine.In the Land of the Cyclops is Karl Ove Knausgaard's first collection of essays to be...

Over 150 of the world's leading scientists and thinkers offer their choice of the ideas, strategies and arguments that will help all of us understand our world, and its future, better. Includes contributions from:Richard Dawkins, Stephen Pinker, Daniel...

In a philosophical erotic narrative, an essay on poetry, and in poems Georges Bataille pursues his guiding concept, the impossible. The narrator engages in a journey, one reminiscent of the Grail quest; failing, he experiences truth. He describes a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789358484441Author Bertrand RussellFormat HardbackPage Count 794Imprint Happy Hour BooksPublisher Happy Hour Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262535151Author Ingo FarinFormat PaperbackPage Count 376Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 229mm * 178mm * 19mm

'To read through A Barthes Reader is finally to be left with the image of Barthes as one of the great public teachers of our time' New RepublicEdited by Susan Sontag, A Roland Barthes Reader offers a definitive selection of works by the French...

One of the greatest British philosophers, Bishop Berkeley (1685-1753) was the founder of the influential doctrine of Immaterialism - the belief that there is no reality outside the mind, and that the existence of material objects depends upon their being...

In the frenzied final years of the Weimar Republic, amid economic collapse and mounting political catastrophe, Walter Benjamin emerged as the most original practicing literary critic and public intellectual in the German-speaking world. Volume 2 of the...

"Let no one ignorant of geometry enter here," Plato warned would-be philosophers. Mathematician Karl Sigmund agrees.In The Waltz of Reason, he shows how mathematics and philosophy together have shaped our understanding of space, chance, logic,...

Stranger Things and Philosophy is an important book, the first of its kind to examine the fantastical world of this award-winning, widely beloved, phenomenal show with a philosophical lens. This is important precisely because the show rests so heavily...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789083301808Author Darius ForouxFormat PaperbackPage Count 226Imprint North Eagle PublishingPublisher North Eagle PublishingWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm)...

Lydia Davis returns with a timeless collection of essays on literature and language.'Precise, concentrated, lyrical. No one writes like Lydia Davis, and everyone should read her' Hanif Kureishi'A writer as mighty as Kafka, as subtle as Flaubert, and as...

Comparative biographies of distinguished Greeks and Romans.Plutarch (Plutarchus), ca. AD 45-120, was born at Chaeronea in Boeotia in central Greece, studied philosophy at Athens, and, after coming to Rome as a teacher in philosophy, was given consular...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781991152336Author Derek SiversFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Hit MediaPublisher Hit MediaWeight(grams) 150gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 8mm

The 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156261005Author Erich HellerFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Harper PerennialPublisher Harper PerennialWeight(grams) 494gDimensions(mm) 217mm *...

Proclus' Elements of Theology is a concise summa of the Neoplatonic system in its fully developed form; and for the student of late Greek thought second in importance only to the Enneads of Plotinus. Professor Dodds has provided a critical text based on...

Entre Nous is a major collection of essays representing the culmination of Emmanuel Levinas's philosophy. Bringing together his most important work in a single volume the book reveals the development of his thought over nearly forty years of committed...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789355223746Author Lucius Annaeus SenecaFormat PaperbackPage Count 370Imprint Classy PublishingPublisher Classy Publishing

Better Call Saul and Philosophy: I Think Therefore I Scam is a collection of twenty-three essays exploring the philosophical themes in the hit television show Better Call Saul, a prequel to the TV show Breaking Bad. The sixth and final season of...

When Brian Doyle passed away at the age of sixty after a bout with brain cancer, he left behind a cult-like following of devoted readers who regard his writing as one of the best-kept secrets of the twenty- first century. Doyle writes with a delightful...

From the early Dark Ages to the Renaissance it was widely believed that the language spoken in the Garden of Eden was a perfect language, expressing all possible things, and that all current languages were its decadent descendants. This is an...

In this moving and engaging book by one of France’s few female rabbis and leader of the country’s Liberal Jewish Movement, Delphine Horvilleur recounts eleven stories of loss, mourning, and consolation, collected during years spent caring for the dying...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781640320925Author Friedrich NietzscheFormat HardbackPage Count 84Imprint Innovative Eggz LLCPublisher Innovative Eggz LLCWeight(grams) 308gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781939773180Author Dietrich Von HildebrandFormat PaperbackPage Count 102Imprint Hildebrand PressPublisher Hildebrand PressWeight(grams) 82gDimensions(mm)...

'The most prescient of British public intellectuals' Pankaj Mishra, Financial TimesUpdated with a new foreword and two new chapters of John Gray's writing.Why is progress a pernicious myth? Why do beliefs that humanity can be improved end in farce or...

Leading philosopher's guide to the ideas that will shape the 21st century'Ideas are the cogs that drive history, and understanding them is half way to being aboard that powerful juggernaut rather than under its wheels'. This is a book that celebrates...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262581424Author Max HorkheimerFormat PaperbackPage Count 440Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

Britain'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...