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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... -
The Lives of Eminent Philosophers: v.1 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 is... -
The History of Sexuality: 4: Confessions of the Flesh by Robert Hurley
RRP: £25.00£17.62The final major work by one of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth centuryFoucault's History of Sexuality changed the way we think about power, selfhood and sexuality forever. Arguing that sexuality is profoundly shaped by the power structures... -
Truth: The Search for Wisdom in the Postmodern Age by John D. Caputo
RRP: £10.99£7.77What is 'truth' in today's freewheeling, pluralistic world, without certainties or fixed ideas? Does it lie in the Reason of Descartes and Kant? Is it Derrida's idea of an event, still being made? Or, according to Nietzsche, an ensemble of fictions?... -
For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition) by Ayn Rand 9780451163080
RRP: £7.99£5.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451163080Author Ayn RandFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Dutton / SignetPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 113gDimensions(mm) 171mm * 106mm *... -
Towards Speculative Realism: Essays and Lectures by Graham Harman 9781846943942
RRP: £9.99£8.99These writings chart Harman's rise from Chicago sportswriter to co-founder of one of Europe's most promising philosophical movements: Speculative Realism. In 1997, Graham Harman was an obscure graduate student covering Chicago sporting events for a... -
One Long River of Song: Notes on Wonder by Brian Doyle
RRP: £14.99£9.32When 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... -
Religio Medici And Urne-Buriall by Sir Thomas Browne
RRP: £13.99£9.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590174883Author Sir Thomas BrowneFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)... -
Moral Essays: v. 1: De Providentia De Constantiade Ira De Cementia by Lucius Annaeus Seneca
RRP: £24.95£22.92Topics in Stoicism.Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, born at Corduba (Cordova) ca. 4 BC, of a prominent and wealthy family, spent an ailing childhood and youth at Rome in an aunt's care. He became famous in rhetoric, philosophy, money-making, and imperial service... -
Praise of Folly by Desiderius Erasmus
RRP: £9.99£7.11Erasmus 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... -
Meditations (Collins Classics) by Marcus Aurelius
RRP: £6.99£4.80HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Our life is what our thoughts make it The extraordinary writings of Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180), the only Roman emperor to have also been a... -
Phaedrus by Plato
RRP: £11.99£9.52"A superb translation that captures the rhetorical brilliance of the Greek. . . . The translation is faithful in the very best sense: it reflects both the meaning and the beauty of the Greek text. . . . The footnotes are always helpful, never obtrusive... -
Philosophy and Social Hope by Richard Rorty
RRP: £10.99£7.77Richard Rorty is one of the most provocative figures in recent philosophical, literary and cultural debate. This collection brings together those of his writings aimed at a wider audience, many published in book form for the first time. In these eloquent... -
Bit Rot by Douglas Coupland
RRP: £9.99£7.11In Bit Rot, Douglas Coupland explores the different ways in which twentieth-century notions of the future are being shredded, and creates a gem of the digital age. Reading the stories and essays in Bit Rot is like bingeing on Netflix . . . you can't stop... -
Adventure Time and Philosophy: The Handbook for Heroes by Nicolas Michaud 9780812698589
RRP: £14.99£10.87Adventure Time and Philosophy is a monster-beating, wild ride of philosophical mayhem. One of the deepest and most thoughtful television shows ever to assault human brain waves, Adventure Time shows us what the world could be like, challenging everything... -
The Virus in the Age of Madness by Bernard-Henri Levy
RRP: £11.99£10.62A trenchant look at how the coronavirus reveals the dangerous fault lines of contemporary society As seen on CNN's Fareed Zakaria GPS: "A stirring alarm addressed to an unsettled world." (Kirkus Reviews) Forget the world that came before. The author of... -
Who Gets Believed?: When the Truth Isn’t Enough by Dina Nayeri
RRP: £22.00£15.62The prizewinning author of The Ungrateful Refugee asks who is believed in our society, who is not - and why?'An ambitious and moving exploration of the borders we draw around credible victimhood that will cement Nayeri's position as a master storyteller... -
From Decision to Heresy: Experiments in Non-Standard Thought by Francois Laruelle
RRP: £26.00£17.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983216902Author Francois LaruelleFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Sequence PressPublisher Sequence Press -
Postmodern Geographies: The Reassertion of Space in Critical Social Theory by Edward W. Soja 9781844676699
RRP: £11.99£7.86Postmodern Geographies stands as the cardinal broadcast and defence of theory's "spatial turn." From the suppression of space in modern social science and the disciplinary aloofness of geography to the spatial returns of Foucault and Lefebvre and the... -
Zizek's Jokes: (Did you hear the one about Hegel and negation?) by Slavoj Zizek
RRP: £14.99£9.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262535304Author Slavoj ZizekFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 191mm * 127mm * 11mm -
The Truth about the Truth: De-confusing and Re-constructing the Postmodern World by Walt Anderson 9780874778014
£17.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780874778014Author Walt AndersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint TarcherPerigeePublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 235mm *... -
Practical Rationality, Learning and Convention: Essays in the Philosophy of Education by Christopher Winch 9781839981913
RRP: £80.00£75.18This collection of articles by one of the leading philosophers of education in the English-speaking world takes up themes in the philosophy of language, epistemology and the philosophy of learning to shed light on philosophical puzzles concerning... -
Maxims by Francoi de La Rochefoucauld
RRP: £10.99£7.77The philosophy of La Rochefoucauld, which influenced French intellectuals as diverse as Voltaire and the Jansenists, is captured here in more than 600 penetrating and pithy aphorisms.About the AuthorLa Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) was a French classical... -
The Elements of Theology: A Revised Text with Translation, Introduction, and Commentary by Proclus 9780198140979
RRP: £30.49£28.04Proclus' 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... -
An Inconvenient Apocalypse: Environmental Collapse, Climate Crisis, and the Fate of Humanity by Wes Jackson 9780268203665
RRP: £20.99£15.35Confronting 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... -
Be Not Afraid of Life: In the Words of William James by William James
RRP: £25.00£19.58A 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... -
In Praise of Forgetting: Historical Memory and Its Ironies by David Rieff 9780300227109
RRP: £13.99£12.81A leading contrarian thinker explores the ethical paradox at the heart of history's wounds The conventional wisdom about historical memory is summed up in George Santayana's celebrated phrase, "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat... -
Meno by Plato 9780915144242
RRP: £7.99£6.52About G.M.A Grube's translations of Plato: "Unmistakably superior: more lucid, more accurate, more readable. Above all, they're lucidly adorned, unpretentious, and in translating Plato that counts a good deal. The prose is, as English prose, persuasive,... -
The Athenian Constitution by Aristotle
RRP: £24.95£22.92Government of state and self.Aristotle, great Greek philosopher, researcher, reasoner, and writer, born at Stagirus in 384 BC, was the son of a physician. He studied under Plato at Athens and taught there (367-347); subsequently he spent three years ... -
Marx and Human Nature: Refutation of a Legend by Norman Geras 9781784782351
RRP: £12.99£11.31In this passionate and polemical classic work, Norman Geras argues that the view that Marx broke with all conceptions of human nature in 1845 is wrong. Rather, his later writings are informed by an idea of a specifically human nature that fulfills both... -
Glad to the Brink of Fear: A Portrait of Ralph Waldo Emerson by James Marcus 9780691254333
RRP: £25.00£19.10An engaging reassessment of the celebrated essayist and his relevance to contemporary readersMore than two centuries after his birth, Ralph Waldo Emerson remains one of the presiding spirits in American culture. Yet his reputation as the starry-eyed... -
Rameau's Nephew, and Other Works by Denis Diderot 9780872204867
RRP: £14.99£12.30This anthology features unabridged translations of Diderot's best work as a literary artist, including those writings that embody his most original and influential ideas.About the AuthorJacques Barzun is Professor Emeritus of History, Columbia University... -
The Pocket Epicurean by John Sellars 9780226798646
RRP: £12.00£9.47A short, smart guide to living the good life through the teachings of Epicurus. As long as there has been human life, we've searched for what it means to be happy. More than two thousand years ago, the Greek philosopher Epicurus came to his own... -
An Introduction to Political Philosophy: Ten Essays by Leo Strauss by Leo Strauss
RRP: £39.95£28.88A reissue of the 1975 edition, with four added essays, this collection offers a clear introduction to Strauss' views regarding the nature of political philosophy, its chief contemporary antagonists, its classical forms, and its modern version. It gives... -
The Voronezh Notebooks by Osip Mandelstam
RRP: £11.99£8.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590179109Author Andrew DavisFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint NYRB PoetsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams) 110gDimensions(mm)... -
Make Good Art by Neil Gaiman
RRP: £12.99£9.17From the bestselling author of the acclaimed novel AMERICAN GODS and the prize-winning THE OCEAN AT THE END OF THE LANE.In May 2012, Neil Gaiman delivered the commencement address at Philadelphia's University of the Arts, in which he shared his thoughts... -
The Trouble with Being Born by E M Cioran
RRP: £14.95£9.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611457407Author E M CioranFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Arcade PublishingPublisher Skyhorse PublishingWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 208mm *... -
Dark Deleuze by Andrew Culp
RRP: £9.00£7.76French philosopher Gilles Deleuze is known as a thinker of creation, joyous affirmation, and rhizomatic assemblages. In this short book, Andrew Culp polemically argues that this once-radical canon of joy has lost its resistance to the present. Concepts... -
The Spirit of Terrorism by Jean Baudrillard
RRP: £10.99£9.20Baudrillard sees the power of the terrorists as lying in the symbolism of slaughter-not merely the reality of death, but in a sacrifice that challenges the whole system. Where previously the old revolutionary sought to conduct a struggle between real... -
Waiting for God by Simone Weil 9780061718960
RRP: £15.99£11.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061718960Author Simone WeilFormat PaperbackImprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 159g