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The Book of Delights: The life-affirming New York Times bestseller by Ross Gay
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $10.45A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERAs Heard on NPR's This American Life'The delights he extols here (music, laughter, generosity, poetry, lots of nature) are bulwarks against casual cruelties . . ... -
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius 9780140449334
RRP: $17.08Booksplease Price: $10.39'Their icy blasts are refreshing and restorative. They tell you the worst. And having heard the worst, you feel less bad' Blake MorrisonWritten in Greek by the only Roman emperor who was also a... -
The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus
RRP: $15.18Booksplease Price: $9.29Throughout 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,... -
In Praise of Shadows by Jun'ichiro Tanizaki
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $11.76An intimate reflection on Japanese art and architecture from one of the country's greatest novelists.This is an enchanting essay on aesthetics by one of the greatest Japanese novelists. Tanizaki's... -
The Trouble With Being Born by E. M. Cioran
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $12.54'Not to be born is undoubtedly the best plan of all. Unfortunately it is within no one's reach.'In The Trouble With Being Born, E. M. Cioran grapples with the major questions of human existence:... -
The Complete Essays by Michel Montaigne
RRP: $41.80Booksplease Price: $32.15Michel de Montaigne was one of the most influential figures of the Renaissance, singlehandedly responsible for popularising the essay as a literary form. This Penguin Classics edition of The Complete... -
Conversations on Love: with Philippa Perry, Dolly Alderton, Roxane Gay, Stephen Grosz, Esther Perel, and many more by Natasha Lunn
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $16.00*THE TOP 10 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*'This book might just change your life' Sunday Times'Wise, wonderful, moving and brilliant... will leave your heart in a much better place' StylistAfter years of... -
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius 9780141395869
RRP: $28.48Booksplease Price: $23.62Originally written only for his personal consumption, Marcus Aurelius's Meditations has become a key text in the understanding of Roman Stoic philosophy. This Penguin Classics edition is translated... -
Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $15.11'Enigmatic, vatic, emphatic, passionate . . . Nietzsche's works together make a unique statement in the literature of European ideas' A. C. GraylingNietzsche was one of the most revolutionary... -
Letters from a Stoic (Collins Classics) by Lucius Seneca
RRP: $7.58Booksplease Price: $7.16HarperCollins 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 ... -
The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows by John Koenig
RRP: $28.48Booksplease Price: $22.33A truly original book in every sense of the word, The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows poetically defines emotions that we all feel but don't have the words to express, until now-from the creator of the... -
Letters from a Stoic: Epistulae Morales Ad Lucilium by Seneca
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $13.89'It is philosophy that has the duty of protecting us ... without it no one can lead a life free of fear or worry'For several years of his turbulent life, in which he was dogged by ill health, exile... -
The Doors of Perception: And Heaven and Hell by Aldous Huxley
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $10.22Discover this profound account of Huxley's famous experimentation with mescalin that has influenced writers and artists for decades. ... -
The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life by David Brooks
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $16.97DEBUTED AT NO.1 ON THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER LISTNO.1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE SOCIAL ANIMALAre you on your first or second mountain? Is life about you - or others? About success - or something... -
Discourses and Selected Writings by Epictetus
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $15.11The Discourses/Fragments/Enchiridion'I must die. But must I die bawling?'Epictetus, a Greek Stoic and freed slave, ran a thriving philosophy school in Nicopolis in the early second century AD. His... -
On the Genealogy of Morals by Friedrich Nietzsche
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $15.11The companion book to Beyond Good and Evil, the three essays included here offer vital insights into Nietzsche's theories of morality and human psychology.Nietzsche claimed that the purpose of The... -
The Puzzle of Ethics by Peter Vardy 9780006281443
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $15.18A guide to the complex subject of ethics explained in clear and entertaining language. This new edition is fully revised and updated. This popular introduction to the subject of ethics... -
Be Water, My Friend: The True Teachings of Bruce Lee by Shannon Lee
RRP: $28.48Booksplease Price: $21.68Bruce Lee's daughter illuminates her father's most powerful life philosophies, and how we can apply his teachings to our daily lives'Empty your mind; be formless, shapeless like water'Bruce Lee is a... -
Aphorisms on Love and Hate Friedrich Nietzsche 9780141397900
RRP: $7.60Booksplease Price: $6.59'We must learn to love, learn to be kind, and this from our earliest youth ... Likewise, hatred must be learned and nurtured, if one wishes to become a proficient hater'This volume contains a... -
On the Shortness of Life by Seneca 9780141018812
RRP: $15.18Booksplease Price: $11.44Timeless advice on the art of living well, from the celebrated Penguin Great Ideas seriesThe writings of the ancient Roman philosopher Seneca offer powerful insights into stoicism, morality and the... -
Meditations (Collins Classics) by Marcus Aurelius 9780008425029
RRP: $7.58Booksplease Price: $7.16HarperCollins 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... -
The Joyous Science by Friedrich Nietzsche
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $17.54The Joyous Science is a liberating voyage of discovery as Nietzsche's realization that 'God is dead' and his critique of morality, the arts and modernity give way to an exhilarating doctrine of... -
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison Michel Foucault 9780241386019
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $17.54'Imaginative, illuminating and innovative' The New York Times Book ReviewThe grisly spectacle of public executions and torture of centuries ago has been replaced by the penal system in western... -
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius 9781857150551
RRP: $32.28Booksplease Price: $26.73Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (a.d. 121 180) succeeded his adoptive father as emperor of Rome in a.d. 161 and Meditations remains one of the greatest works of spiritual and ethical reflection ever... -
Ethics by Benedict de Spinoza
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $18.58'The noblest and most lovable of the great philosophers ... ethically he is supreme' Bertrand RussellPublished shortly after his death in 1677, the Ethics is Spinoza's greatest work - a fully... -
Eroticism by Georges Bataille
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $15.11A philosopher, essayist, novelist, pornographer and fervent Catholic who came to regard the brothels of Paris as his true 'churches', Georges Bataille ranks among the boldest and most disturbing of... -
The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves by Matt Ridley 9780007267125
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $14.97Shortlisted for the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-fiction 2011. Life is on the up. We are wealthier, healthier, happier, kinder, cleaner, more peaceful, more equal and... -
The Portable Hannah Arendt by Hannah Arendt
RRP: $32.28Booksplease Price: $23.62Although Hannah Arendt is considered one of the major contributors to social and political thought in the twentieth century, this is the first general anthology of her writings. This volume includes... -
Republic by Plato 9780872201361
RRP: $28.48Booksplease Price: $24.68The revised edition of Grube's classic translation follows and furthers Grube's noted success in combining fidelity to Plato's text with natural readability, while reflecting the fruits of new... -
The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $17.54A condensed guide to life, Nassim Nicholas Taleb's The Bed of Procrustes is an invaluable collection of aphorisms to help you navigate the modern world.Second edition, revised and expandedWhy are we... -
Truth: A Guide for the Perplexed by Simon Blackburn
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $17.54This important book is about truth, and the enemies of truth, and the wars that are fought between them. As Simon Blackburn says in his introduction, "the ground is complicated, strewn with abandoned... -
Conditions of Love: The Philosophy of Intimacy by John Armstrong
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $17.54Raises one of the deepest and most puzzling questions we can put to ourselves ' What is Love?'Drawing on writers and thinkers as diverse as Plato, Tolstoy, Freud and Stendhal, John Armstrong explores... -
The History of Sexuality: 1: The Will to Knowledge by Michel Foucault
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $17.54'A brilliant display of fireworks, attacking the widespread and banal notion that "in the beginning" sexual activity was guilt-free and delicious, being repressed and blighted only by the gloom... -
Rameau's Nephew, and Other Works by Denis Diderot 9780872204867
RRP: $28.48Booksplease Price: $17.01This 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... -
On Free Choice of the Will by Augustine 9780872201880
RRP: $26.58Booksplease Price: $19.55Translated with an uncanny sense for the overall point of Augustine's doctrine. In short, a very good translation. The Introduction is admirably clear.--Paul Vincent Spade, Indiana UniversityAbout... -
A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume 9780140432442
RRP: $28.48Booksplease Price: $19.97One of the most significant works of Western philosophy, Hume's Treatise was published in 1739-40, before he was thirty years old. A pinnacle of English empiricism, it is a comprehensive attempt to... -
The Right to Sex: The Sunday Times Bestseller by Amia Srinivasan 9781526612540
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $15.49A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER BLACKWELL'S BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021 Essential lessons on the world we live in, from one of our greatest young thinkers - a guide to what everybody is talking about today ... -
Fanged Noumena: Collected Writings 1987-2007 by Nick Land 9780955308789
RRP: $51.30Booksplease Price: $35.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955308789Author Nick LandFormat PaperbackPage Count 680Imprint -
I Hate Men by Pauline Harmange
RRP: $15.18Booksplease Price: $12.05The feminist book they tried to ban in France 'A delightful book' Roxane Gay Women, especially feminists and lesbians, have long been accused of hating men. Our instinct is to... -
Committed Writings by Albert Camus
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $15.11'To create today means to create dangerously'This new collection contains some of Camus' most brilliant political writing as he reflects on moral responsibility and the role of the artist in the...