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Imagining the End: Mourning and Ethical Life by Jonathan Lear
RRP: £24.95£19.48A 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: £10.99£7.77Exploring 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... -
Plato's "Symposium" by Seth Benardete
£14.13Plato, 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 translation of the renowned Plato scholar and translator, Seth... -
Principles of Human Knowledge and Three Dialogues by George Berkeley
RRP: £10.99£7.77One 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... -
Ideas That Matter: A Personal Guide for the 21st Century by A. C. Grayling
RRP: £12.99£8.18Leading 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... -
Writers and Missionaries: Essays on the Radical Imagination by Adam Shatz
RRP: £25.00£16.43Through 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... -
All the Things Left Unsaid: Confessions of Love and Regret by Michael Harding 9781529379204
RRP: £9.99£6.48NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER'A beautiful book of great tenderness, love of life, and wisdom' JOSEPH O'CONNORFor almost fifty years, Michael Harding has been crafting words in a bid to express himself and to explore truths about the human condition. But even... -
Better Call Saul and Philosophy by Joshua Heter
RRP: £17.99£12.30Better 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... -
On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long If You Know How to Use It by Lucius Annaeus Seneca
RRP: £15.00£9.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143036326Author SenecaFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 96gDimensions(mm) 182mm * 112mm * 9mm -
The Sickness Unto Death by Soren Kierkegaard
RRP: £7.99£5.79Influencing philosophers such as Sartre and Camus, and still strikingly modern in its psychological insights, Kierkegaard's The Sickness Unto Death explores the concept of 'despair' as a symptom of the human condition and describes man's struggle to fill... -
We the Parasites by A. V. Marraccini 9781915812186
RRP: £12.99£8.94In her debut book, A. V. Marraccini explores how we inhabit works of art, and how our sense of longing informs and changes our relationship to them. Intertwining fig wasps, Updike, Genet, Twombly, Rilke, jewel heists, and a vividly rendered panoply of... -
Heaven in Disorder by Slavoj Zizek
RRP: £12.99£8.63As we emerge (though perhaps only temporarily) from the pandemic, other crises move center stage: outrageous inequality, climate disaster, desperate refugees, mounting tensions of a new cold war. The abiding motif of our time is relentless chaos. ... -
Aristotle Politica by Aristotle
£29.84Aristotle PoliticaBook InformationISBN 9780198145158Author Sir David RossFormat HardbackPage Count 292Imprint Clarendon PressPublisher Oxford University PressWeight(grams) 378gDimensions(mm) 193mm * 128mm * 20mm -
All the Things Left Unsaid by Michael Harding
RRP: £14.99£10.95'Powerful and profound' Deirdre Purcell'A beautiful book of great tenderness, love of life, and wisdom learned the tough way' Joseph O'ConnorFor almost fifty years, Michael Harding has been crafting words in a bid to express himself and to explore truths... -
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke
RRP: £14.99£10.95In 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 ethical knowledge. Rejecting the theory that some... -
Black and Female by Tsitsi Dangarembga
RRP: £10.99£7.32'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 me I am.This paradigm shifting essay collection weaves... -
The Nature of the Gods by Marcus Tullius Cicero
RRP: £10.99£7.77`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 are now exciting renewed interest, in part because he... -
Ethics in the Real World: 82 Brief Essays on Things That Matter by Peter Singer 9780691178479
RRP: £14.99£12.61Peter Singer is often described as the world's most influential philosopher. He is also one of its most controversial. The author of important books such as Animal Liberation, Practical Ethics, Rethinking Life and Death, and The Life You Can Save, he... -
The News: A User's Manual by Alain de Botton
RRP: £10.99£7.77THE 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 - an accessible and eye-opening exploration of our... -
Philosophical Dictionary by Francois Voltaire 9780140442571
RRP: £14.99£13.67Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary, first published in 1764, is a series of short, radical essays - alphabetically arranged - that form a brilliant and bitter analysis of the social and religious conventions that then dominated eighteenth-century French... -
Anathemas and Admirations by E M Cioran
£12.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611456882Author E M CioranFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Arcade PublishingPublisher Skyhorse PublishingWeight(grams) 438gDimensions(mm) 210mm *... -
Consciousness and Its Place in Nature: Does Physicalism Entail Panpsychism? by Galen Strawson 9781845400590
£20.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845400590Author Anthony FreemanFormat PaperbackPage Count 282Imprint Imprint AcademicPublisher Imprint AcademicWeight(grams) 400gDimensions(mm) 210mm *... -
Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future by Friedrich Nietzsche
RRP: £9.99£6.41`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... -
Lives of Eminent Philosophers: v.2 by Diogenes Laertius
RRP: £24.95£22.92Examined lives.Diogenes Laertius, author of a work on Greek philosophy, lived probably in the earlier half of the third century, his ancestry and birthplace being unknown. He was an Epicurean philosopher, but his work is not philosophical. The title ... -
The Coronation: Essays from the Covid Moment by Charles Eisenstein
RRP: £14.99£9.50'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... -
How to Be a Stoic by Massimo Pigliucci
RRP: £19.99£12.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541644533Author Massimo PigliucciFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Basic BooksPublisher Basic BooksWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 140mm *... -
Here and There: Sites of Philosophy by Stanley Cavell
RRP: £24.95£19.88The first posthumous collection from the writings of Stanley Cavell, shedding new light on the distinctive vision and intellectual trajectory of an influential American philosopher.For Stanley Cavell, philosophy was a matter of responding to the voices... -
Hegel's Science of Logic: A Critical Rethinking in Thirty Lectures by Richard Dien Winfield 9781442219342
RRP: £119.00£109.35This text provides a truly comprehensive guide to one of the most important and challenging works of modern philosophy. The systematic complexity of Hegel's radical project in the Science of Logic prevents many from understanding and appreciating its... -
This Will Make You Smarter by John Brockman
RRP: £14.99£10.95Over 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... -
Wilhelm Dilthey: Selected Works, Volume VI: Ethical and World-View Philosophy by Wilhelm Dilthey 9780691195575
RRP: £48.00£36.91This book completes a landmark six-volume translation of the major writings of Wilhelm Dilthey (1833-1911), a philosopher and historian of culture who continues to have a significant influence on philosophy, hermeneutics, and the theory of the human... -
RuPaul's Drag Race and Philosophy: Sissy That Thought by Hendrik Kempt
RRP: £14.99£9.88As RuPaul has said, this is the Golden Age of Drag-and that's chiefly the achievement of RuPaul's Drag Race, which in its eleventh year is more popular than ever, and has now become fully mainstream in its appeal. The show has an irresistible allure for... -
Why is There Something Rather Than Nothing?: Questions from Great Philosophers by Leszek Kolakowski
RRP: £10.99£7.77Can nature make us happy? How can we know anything? What is justice? Why is there evil in the world? What is the source of truth? Is it possible for God not to exist? Can we really believe what we see? There are questions that have intrigued the world's... -
On Decline: Stagnation, Nostalgia, and Why Every Year is the Worst One Ever by Andrew Potter
RRP: £9.99£6.75A Winnipeg Free Press Top Read of 2021 What if David Bowie really was holding the fabric of the universe together? The death of David Bowie in January 2016 was a bad start to a year that got a lot worse: war in Syria, the Zika virus, terrorist... -
The Call of the Tribe: Essays by Mario Vargas Llosa
RRP: £18.99£12.48In The Call of the Tribe, Mario Vargas Llosa surveys the readings that have shaped the way he thinks and has viewed the world over the past fifty years. The Nobel Laureate maps out the liberal thinkers who helped him develop a new body of ideas after the... -
Ethics in the Real World: 82 Brief Essays on Things That Matter by Peter Singer 9780691172477
RRP: £22.00£16.99Peter Singer is often described as the world's most influential philosopher. He is also one of its most controversial. The author of important books such as Animal Liberation, Practical Ethics, Rethinking Life and Death, and The Life You Can Save, he... -
Tiny Buddha: Simple Wisdom for Life's Hard Questions by Lori Deschene
RRP: £12.99£11.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781573245067Author Lori DescheneFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Conari Press,U.S.Publisher Conari Press,U.S. -
Three Critics of the Enlightenment: Vico, Hamann, Herder by Isaiah Berlin
RRP: £20.00£14.69This 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... -
Philosophy: Who Needs It (Centenary Edition) by Ayn Rand
RRP: £9.99£6.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451138934Author Ayn RandFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint SignetPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 171mm * 108mm * 21mm -
The Failures of Philosophy: A Historical Essay by Stephen Gaukroger
RRP: £20.00£15.54The first book to address the historical failures of philosophy-and what we can learn from themPhilosophers are generally unaware of the failures of philosophy, recognizing only the failures of particular theories, which are then remedied with other... -
Marx: Towards the Centre of Possibility by Kojin Karatani
RRP: £19.99£16.90Originally published in 1974, Kojin Karatani's Marx: Towards the Centre of Possibility has been among his most enduring and pioneering works in critical theory. Written at a time when the political sequences of the New Left had collapsed into crisis and...