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"All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses, his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind." Karl Marx might have been thinking of punk rock when he...

Apologies 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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781640320932Author Friedrich NietzscheFormat PaperbackPage Count 84Imprint Innovative Eggz LLCPublisher Innovative Eggz LLCWeight(grams) 141gDimensions(mm)...

What does feminism have to say to the Anthropocene? How does the concept of the Anthropocene impact feminism? This book is a daring and provocative response to the masculinist and techno-normative approach to the Anthropocene so often taken by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780971663589Author Brian GeorgeFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Untimely BooksPublisher Untimely BooksWeight(grams) 531gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

"A genial exercise in public philosophy" (Kirkus, starred review) from one of the world's best-known popular philosophers"Simon Critchley is an international treasure-that rare and real philosopher who embraces Rousseau's 'feeling of existence,' David...

Frank Herbert's Dune is the biggest-selling science fiction story of all time; the original book and its numerous sequels have transported millions of readers into the alternate reality of the Duniverse. Dune and Philosophy raises intriguing questions...

Provocative essays on real-world ethical questions from the world's most influential philosopherPeter 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...

In Doctor Who and Philosophy, a team of mostly human philosophers (who are also fans) looks at the deeper issues raised by the Doctor's mind-blowing adventures. They discuss, among other topics, the Doctor's philosophy of science, the ethics of a...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800319721Author Marcus AureliusFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint HeroPublisher Legend Press LtdWeight(grams) 500g

The new bestseller from one of Britain's most pre-eminent philosophers and arguably the best known, A.C. GraylingEveryone wishes to live a life that is satisfying and fulfilling, in which there is achievement and pleasure, and which has the respect of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789358484472Author Bertrand RussellPage Count 794Imprint Happy Hour BooksPublisher Happy Hour Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789994800490Author Marcien TowaFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Denden, LLCPublisher Denden, LLCWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 7mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807008836Author Cornel WestFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press

A selection of the best papers written by Brazilian Kant scholars. Kant in Brazil is a collected volume of essays conceived at the 2005 International Kant Congress in Sao Paulo as a way to make accessible to Anglophone Kant scholars some of the best...

Is 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781596052802Author Ralph Waldo EmersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 68Imprint Cosimo ClassicsPublisher Cosimo ClassicsWeight(grams) 82gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Science fiction writer Philip K. Dick (1928--1982) is the giant imagination behind so much recent popular culture--both movies directly based on his writings, such as Blade Runner (based on the novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?), Total Recall,...

"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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486298238Author John Gough NicholsFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

From trailblazing political activist Angela Y. Davis, a major new collection of essays and interviews that argue for a radical rethinking of our prison systemsAn icon of revolutionary politics, Angela Y. Davis has been at the forefront of collective...

As cartoonist, author, public speaker, blogger, and periscoper, Scott Adams has had best-sellers in several different fields: his Dilbert cartoons, his meditations on the philosophy of Dilbert, his works on how to achieve success in business and all...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781619490949Author Ralph Waldo EmersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 36Imprint Empire BooksPublisher Empire BooksWeight(grams) 64gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

As 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910010365Author Peter BlegvadFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint UniformbooksPublisher Uniformbooks

The Man in the High Castle is an Amazon TV show, based on the Philip K. Dick novel, about an "alternate present" (beginning in the 1960s) in which Germany and Japan won World War II, with the former Western US occupied by Japan, the former Eastern U.S...

A short guide to living well by understanding better what you really value—and what to do when your goals conflictWhat do you want out of life? To make a lot of money—or work for justice? To run marathons—or sing in a choir? To have children—or travel...

Voltaire'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...

The 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375757334Author Immanuel KantFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 425gDimensions(mm) 201mm...

These 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...

Apologies 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)...

A. C. Grayling's lucid and stimulating books, based on the idea that philosophy should engage with the world and make itself useful, are immensely popular. The Challenge of Things joins earlier collections like The Reason of Things and Thinking of...

Apologies 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 *...

Aristotle Ars RhetoricaBook InformationISBN 9780198145578Author Sir David RossFormat HardbackPage Count 220Imprint Oxford University PressPublisher Oxford University PressDimensions(mm) 194mm * 131mm * 19mm

In the posthumously published Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, the Enlightenment philosopher David Hume attacked many of the traditional arguments for the existence of God, expressing the belief that religion is founded on ignorance and irrational...

When Brian Doyle died of brain cancer at the age of sixty, he left behind dozens of books -- fiction and nonfiction, as well as hundreds of essays -- and a cult-like following who regarded his writing on spirituality as one of the best-kept secrets of...

Originally 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062236814Author Aldous HuxleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 305Imprint Harper PerennialPublisher Harper PerennialWeight(grams) 249g