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Recovering Bookchin: Social Ecology and the Crises of Our Time by Andy Price
RRP: £18.00£12.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781849354943Author Andy PriceFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint AK PressPublisher AK Press -
Almost Everything: Notes on Hope by Anne Lamott 9780525537441
RRP: £20.00£12.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525537441Author Anne LamottFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Riverhead Books,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 211mm *... -
Capitalism in the 21st Century: Through the Prism of Value by Michael Roberts
RRP: £19.99£13.35Contemporary capitalism is always evolving. From digital technologies to cryptocurrencies, current trends in political economy are much discussed, but often little understood. So where can we turn for clarity? As Michael Roberts and Guglielmo Carchedi... -
The Burdens of Perfection: On Ethics and Reading in Nineteenth-Century British Literature by Andrew H. Miller 9780801477188
RRP: £24.99£18.74Literary criticism has, in recent decades, rather fled from discussions of moral psychology, and for good reasons, too. Who would not want to flee the hectoring moralism with which it is so easily associated-portentous, pious, humorless? But in... -
Regulating Aversion: Tolerance in the Age of Identity and Empire by Wendy Brown
RRP: £30.00£22.82Tolerance is generally regarded as an unqualified achievement of the modern West. Emerging in early modern Europe to defuse violent religious conflict and reduce persecution, tolerance today is hailed as a key to decreasing conflict across a wide range... -
The Importance of What We Care About: Philosophical Essays by Harry G. Frankfurt
RRP: £19.99£16.54This 1988 volume is a collection of thirteen seminal essays on ethics, free will, and the philosophy of mind. The essays deal with such central topics as freedom of the will, moral responsibility, the concept of a person, the structure of the will, the... -
Metaethics: A Contemporary Introduction by Mark van Roojen
RRP: £39.99£35.06Metaethics: A Contemporary Introduction provides a solid foundation in metaethics for advanced undergraduates by introducing a series of puzzles that most metaethical theories address. These puzzles involve moral disagreement, reference, moral... -
When Animals Dream: The Hidden World of Animal Consciousness by David M. Pena-Guzman
RRP: £20.00£15.99A spellbinding look at the philosophical and moral implications of animal dreamingAre humans the only dreamers on Earth? What goes on in the minds of animals when they sleep? When Animals Dream brings together behavioral and neuroscientific research on... -
Faith in a Hard Ground: Essays on Religion, Philosophy and Ethics by G. E. M. Anscombe 9781845401214
RRP: £17.95£16.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845401214Author G.E.M. AnscombeFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Imprint AcademicPublisher Imprint AcademicWeight(grams) 350gDimensions(mm) 210mm *... -
The Animal That Therefore I Am by Jacques Derrida
RRP: £26.99£22.85The Animal That Therefore I Am is the long-awaited translation of the complete text of Jacques Derrida's ten-hour address to the 1997 Cerisy conference entitled "The Autobiographical Animal," the third of four such colloquia on his work. The book was... -
Philebus by Plato 9780872201705
RRP: £10.99£8.76This translation by Dorothea Frede of Plato's dialogue on the nature of pleasure and its relation to thought and knowledge achieves a high standard of readability and fidelity to the Greek text. The volume includes a cogent introduction, notes, and... -
The Conquest of Happiness by Bertrand Russell 9780871406736
RRP: £16.95£10.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780871406736Author Bertrand RussellFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Liveright Publishing CorporationPublisher Liveright Publishing... -
In Search of the Soul: A Philosophical Essay by John Cottingham
RRP: £13.99£11.15How our beliefs about the soul have developed through the ages, and why an understanding of it still matters todayThe concept of the soul has been a recurring area of exploration since ancient times. What do we mean when we talk about finding our soul,... -
Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil by Alain Badiou
RRP: £11.99£9.70Ethical questions dominate current political and academic agendas. While government think-tanks ponder the dilemmas of bio-ethics, medical ethics and professional ethics, respect for human rights and reverence for the Other have become matters of... -
Epistulae Morales: v. 3: Letters XCIII-CXXIV by Lucius Annaeus Seneca
RRP: £24.95£22.92Meditative missives.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 ... -
Problems of Moral Philosophy by Theodor W. Adorno 9780745628653
RRP: £17.99£16.04This volume makes Adorno's lectures on the problems of moral philosophy available for the first time to English-speaking readers. It is one of several volumes of Adorno's unpublished writings which are currently being published in Germany, and which will... -
Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future by Friedrich Nietzsche 9780486298689
RRP: £3.99£2.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486298689Author Friedrich NietzscheFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Dark Matters: Pessimism and the Problem of Suffering by Mara van der Lugt
RRP: £32.00£24.67An intellectual history of the philosophers who grappled with the problem of evil, and the case for why pessimism still holds moral value for us todayIn the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, philosophers engaged in heated debates on the question of... -
On Evil by Terry Eagleton
RRP: £12.99£11.46An impassioned argument for the existence of evil from one of the most respected and influential critics of our day In this witty, accessible study, the prominent Marxist thinker Terry Eagleton launches a surprising defense of the reality of evil,... -
Think Like a Vegan: What everyone can learn from vegan ethics by Emilia A. Leese
RRP: £14.99£9.72According to the latest figures, the number of vegans in the UK has more than quadrupled since 2014, now representing over 1 per cent of the total population. With the rise in plant-based foods and cruelty-free products showing no sign of stopping, Think... -
Global Ethics: An Introduction by Kimberly Hutchings 9781509513956
RRP: £17.99£16.04This revised edition of Kimberly Hutchings's best-selling textbook provides an accessible introduction to the field of Global Ethics for students of politics, international relations and globalization. It offers an overview and assessment of key... -
Rationality and Freedom by Amartya Sen
£33.56Rationality and freedom are among the most profound and contentious concepts in philosophy and the social sciences. In two volumes on rationality, freedom, and justice, the distinguished economist and philosopher Amartya Sen brings clarity and insight to... -
The Instruments of Torture by Michael Kerrigan
RRP: £19.99£18.75From the simple fist and the boot, to the thumbscrew, rack and hallucinogenic drugs, torture has been used throughout history to punish, intimidate or obtain a confession. Long associated with absolute monarchies and totalitarian regimes, since the... -
De Senectute by Marcus Tullius Cicero
RRP: £24.95£22.92Three late dialogues.Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 106-43 BC), Roman lawyer, orator, politician and philosopher, of whom we know more than of any other Roman, lived through the stirring era that saw the rise, dictatorship, and death of Julius Caesar in... -
Creating the Kingdom of Ends by Christine M. Korsgaard
RRP: £34.99£30.73Christine Korsgaard has become one of the leading interpreters of Kant's moral philosophy. She is identified with a small group of philosophers who are intent on producing a version of Kant's moral philosophy that is at once sensitive to its historical... -
Ethics in the Conflicts of Modernity: An Essay on Desire, Practical Reasoning, and Narrative by Alasdair MacIntyre
£40.09Alasdair MacIntyre explores some central philosophical, political and moral claims of modernity and argues that a proper understanding of human goods requires a rejection of these claims. In a wide-ranging discussion, he considers how normative and... -
Setting Health-Care Priorities: What Ethical Theories Tell Us by Torbjorn Tannsjo
RRP: £68.00£53.75With much of the world's population facing restricted access to adequate medical care, how to allocate scarce health-care resources is a pressing question for governments, hospitals, and individuals. How do we decide where funding for health-care... -
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,... -
Irrationality: A History of the Dark Side of Reason by Justin E. H. Smith 9780691178677
RRP: £25.00£19.58A fascinating history that reveals the ways in which the pursuit of rationality often leads to an explosion of irrationalityIt's a story we can't stop telling ourselves. Once, humans were benighted by superstition and irrationality, but then the Greeks... -
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 ... -
Shimmer: Flying Fox Exuberance in Worlds of Peril by Deborah Bird Rose
RRP: £15.99£13.33In this deeply personal book, the last one she wrote before her death in 2018, Deborah Bird Rose explores the shimmer of life - the iridescent pulse of beauty and power, the processes of transition and transformation - that flows across and between... -
Meaning in Life and Why It Matters by Susan Wolf
RRP: £20.00£15.54Most people, including philosophers, tend to classify human motives as falling into one of two categories: the egoistic or the altruistic, the self-interested or the moral. According to Susan Wolf, however, much of what motivates us does not comfortably... -
Moral Vision: An Introduction to Ethics by David McNaughton
RRP: £33.95£29.98This book introduces the reader to ethics by examining a current and important debate. During the last fifty years the orthodox position in ethics has been a broadly non-cognitivist one: since there are no moral facts, moral remarks are best understood,... -
The Sopranos and Philosophy: I Kill Therefore I Am by Richard Greene 9780812695588
RRP: £12.99£8.63Covering everything from Aristotle to ziti, this title explores such topics as: is Tony Soprano a good man?; is Carmella a feminist?; morally speaking who is the worst person on "The Sopranos"; is watching "The Sopranos" harmful to... -
Philosophical Treatises: v. 18: Tusculan Disputations by Marcus Tullius Cicero
RRP: £24.95£22.92Philosophical dialogues of a grieving statesman.Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 106-43 BC), Roman lawyer, orator, politician and philosopher, of whom we know more than of any other Roman, lived through the stirring era that saw the rise, dictatorship, and... -
Religion without God by Ronald M. Dworkin 9780674726826
RRP: £35.95£28.41In his last book, Ronald Dworkin addresses questions that men and women have asked through the ages: What is religion and what is God's place in it? What is death and what is immortality? Based on the 2011 Einstein Lectures, Religion without God is... -
Reasons First by Mark Schroeder 9780198868224
RRP: £32.49£28.41In the last five decades, ethical theory has been preoccupied by a turn to reasons. The vocabulary of reasons has become a common currency not only in ethics, but in epistemology, action theory, and many related areas. It is now common, for example, to... -
Moral Imagination: Essays by David Bromwich 9780691173160
RRP: £20.00£15.54Spanning many historical and literary contexts, Moral Imagination brings together a dozen recent essays by one of America's premier cultural critics. David Bromwich explores the importance of imagination and sympathy to suggest how these faculties may... -
How to Keep Your Cool: An Ancient Guide to Anger Management by Seneca 9780691181950
RRP: £14.99£11.87Timeless wisdom on controlling anger in personal life and politics from the Roman Stoic philosopher and statesman SenecaIn his essay "On Anger" (De Ira), the Roman Stoic thinker Seneca (c. 4 BC-65 AD) argues that anger is the most destructive passion:... -
Bushido: The Soul of Japan by Inazo Nitobe 9781548051938
RRP: £7.50£6.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781548051938Author Inazo NitobeFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...