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The Expulsion of the Other: Society, Perception and Communication Today by Byung-Chul Han 9781509523061
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £10.84The days of the Other are over in this age of excessive communication, information and consumption. What used to be the Other, be it as friend, as Eros or as hell, is now indistinguishable from the self in our narcissistic desire to assimilate everything... -
Republic: Translated from the New Standard Greek Text, with Introduction by Plato 9780872207363
Booksplease Price: £14.95This edition includes a select bibliography, a synopsis of each book, a glossary of terms, a glossary and index of names, and a general index. "Reeve's new translation of Republic is the one to order for students. . . . Reeve draws on his thorough... -
The Enlightenment's Animals: Changing Conceptions of Animals in the Long Eighteenth Century by Nathaniel Wolloch
RRP: £125.00Booksplease Price: £110.70In The Enlightenment's Animals Nathaniel Wolloch takes a broad view of changing conceptions of animals in European culture during the long eighteenth century. Combining discussions of intellectual history, the history of science, the history of... -
Evil: A Very Short Introduction by Luke Russell 9780198819271
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.20Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring We regularly encounter appalling wrongdoing, with the media offering a depressing parade of violent assault, rape, and murder. Yet sometimes even the cynical and world-weary amongst us are taken... -
The Myth of the Framework: In Defence of Science and Rationality by Sir Karl Popper
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £37.99In a career spanning sixty years, Sir Karl Popper has made some of the most important contributions to the twentieth century discussion of science and rationality. The Myth of the Framework is a new collection of some of Popper's most important material... -
The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays by M. M. Bakhtin
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.78These essays reveal Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975)-known in the West largely through his studies of Rabelais and Dostoevsky-as a philosopher of language, a cultural historian, and a major theoretician of the novel. The Dialogic Imagination presents, in... -
Making Sense of Human Rights James Nickel (Arizona State University) 9781405145350
RRP: £27.95Booksplease Price: £25.39This fully revised and extended edition of James Nickel's classic study explains and defends the contemporary conception of human rights. Combining philosophical, legal and political approaches, Nickel explains international human rights law and... -
Trans Figured: On Being a Transgender Person in a Cisgender World by Sophie Grace Chappell 9781509561506
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.63‘I was four and three-quarters when I asked my mother if, from now on, I could please go to school as a girl instead of as a boy …’ In this extraordinary new book, renowned philosopher Sophie Grace Chappell combines personal memoir, philosophical... -
The Music of Life: Biology beyond genes by Denis Noble 9780199228362
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.99What is Life? Decades of research have resulted in the full mapping of the human genome - three billion pairs of code whose functions are only now being understood. The gene's eye view of life, advocated by evolutionary biology, sees living bodies as... -
Philosophical Devices: Proofs, Probabilities, Possibilities, and Sets by David Papineau 9780199651733
Booksplease Price: £20.92This book is designed to explain the technical ideas that are taken for granted in much contemporary philosophical writing. Notions like 'denumerability', 'modal scope distinction', 'Bayesian conditionalization', and 'logical completeness' are usually... -
Culture Counts: Faith and Feeling in a World Besieged by Roger Scruton 9781641772594
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.60What is culture? Why should we preserve it, and how? In this book, renowned philosopher Roger Scruton defends Western culture against its internal critics and external enemies, and argues that rumors of its death are seriously exaggerated. He shows our... -
Mind and Body: Physical Exercises for Mental Well-being; Mental Exercises for Physical Well-being by The School of Life
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £12.99The modern world can present the body as a machine that just needs to be regularly exercised. However, it is a remarkably sensitive organ in which a lot of our pain and hope is stored and that we need to interpret and handle with subtlety. This impact of... -
Philosophy of Language: A Contemporary Introduction William G Lycan 9781138504585
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £37.99Now in its third edition, Philosophy of Language: A Contemporary Introduction introduces students to the main issues and theories in twenty-first-century philosophy of language, focusing specifically on linguistic phenomena. Author William G. Lycan... -
A More Christlike Way: A More Beautiful Faith by Bradley Jersak 9781889973333
RRP: £19.95Booksplease Price: £16.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781889973333Author Bradley JersakFormat PaperbackPage Count 258Imprint Plain Truth MinistriesPublisher Plain Truth MinistriesWeight(grams)... -
The Road Less Travelled And Beyond: Spiritual Growth in an Age of Anxiety by M. Scott Peck
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.78The culmination of a lifetime of counselling, lecturing and writing, M. Scott Peck's major work leads us to a deeper awareness of how to live rich, fulfilling lives in a world fraught with stress, worry and anxiety. Writing with a depth of understanding... -
The Nine Doors of Midgard: A Curriculum of Rune-work by Edred Thorsson 9780971204485
RRP: £16.00Booksplease Price: £15.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780971204485Author Edred ThorssonFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Arcana Europa Media LLCPublisher Arcana Europa Media LLCWeight(grams)... -
Opening the Door of Your Heart: And other Buddhist tales of happiness by Ajahn Brahm
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.11In times of uncertainty, words of comfort are essential, and the stunning overseas sales of this title are testament to its universal appeal. These modern tales of hope, forgiveness, freedom from fear and overcoming pain cleverly relate the timeless... -
Philosophy by Other Means: The Arts in Philosophy and Philosophy in the Arts by Robert B Pippin
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £24.84Throughout his career, Robert B. Pippin has examined the relationship between philosophy and the arts. With his writings on film, literature, and visual modernism, he has shown that there are aesthetic objects that cannot be properly understood unless we... -
Mystic Fire: The Life of Sri Aurobindo by Atulindra Nath Chaturvedi 9789355207784
Booksplease Price: £17.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789355207784Author Atulindra Nath ChaturvediFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Rupa Publications India Pvt. LtdPublisher Rupa Publications India Pvt... -
Revolt Against the Modern World: Politics, Religion, and Social Order in the Kali Yuga by Julius Evola
RRP: £29.95Booksplease Price: £21.36No idea is as absurd as the idea of progress, which together with its corollary notion of the superiority of modern civilization, has created its own "positive" alibis by falsifying history, by insinuating harmful myths in people's minds, and by... -
The Anglican Rosary: Going Deeper with God-Prayers and Meditations with the Protestant Rosary by R L Sather 9781733971027
RRP: £10.70Booksplease Price: £8.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781733971027Author Jenny Lynn EstesFormat PaperbackPage Count 170Imprint Theophany PressPublisher Theophany PressWeight(grams) 236gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
Philosophy as a Way of Life: Spiritual Exercises from Socrates to Foucault Pierre Hadot (College de France) 9780631180333
RRP: £29.95Booksplease Price: £26.18This book presents a history of spiritual exercises from Socrates to early Christianity, an account of their decline in modern philosophy, and a discussion of the different conceptions of philosophy that have accompanied the trajectory and fate of the... -
How to Change the World by John-Paul Flintoff 9781447202325
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.76We all want to live in a better world, but sometimes it feels that we lack the ability or influence to make a difference. John-Paul Flintoff offers a powerful reminder that through the generations, society has been transformed by the actions of... -
The Cartoon Introduction to Philosophy by Michael F. Patton
Booksplease Price: £12.77Philosophy like you've never seen it before. The latest in the celebrated Cartoon Introduction series, The Cartoon Introduction to Philosophy is an authoritative and engaging guide to the fundamental questions about our existence. In this indispensable... -
One-Dimensional Man by Herbert Marcuse
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £16.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807014172Author Herbert MarcuseFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 136mm *... -
Logic: An Aristotelian Approach (Revised) by Mary Michael Spangler 9781620325537
RRP: £34.40Booksplease Price: £27.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781620325537Author Mary Michael SpanglerFormat PaperbackPage Count 284Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams)... -
The Culture Industry: Selected Essays on Mass Culture by Theodor W. Adorno
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.55The creation of the Frankfurt School of critical theory in the 1920s saw the birth of some of the most exciting and challenging writings of the twentieth century. It is out of this background that the great critic Theodor Adorno emerged. His finest... -
In Between Subjects: A Critical Genealogy of Queer Performance by Amelia Jones 9780367533762
RRP: £35.99Booksplease Price: £32.99This volume is a study of the connected ideas of "queer" and "gender performance" or "performativity" over the past several decades, providing an ambitious history and crucial examination of these concepts while questioning their very bases.Addressing... -
Outside in the Teaching Machine Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak 9780415964821
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £20.23Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is one of the most pre-eminent postcolonial theorists writing today and a scholar of genuinely global reputation. This collection, first published in 1993, presents some of Spivak's most engaging essays on works of literature... -
The Moves that Matter: A Chess Grandmaster on the Game of Life by Jonathan Rowson
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.16'A nuanced and witty meditation on confronting the challenges life throws at us all' Oliver Burkeman Jonathan Rowson's competitive success as a chess Grandmaster and work as an applied philosopher have given him a unique perspective on why the great... -
Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity by Richard Rorty 9780521367813
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £18.48In this 1989 book Rorty argues that thinkers such as Nietzsche, Freud, and Wittgenstein have enabled societies to see themselves as historical contingencies, rather than as expressions of underlying, ahistorical human nature or as realizations of... -
A Hut at the Edge of the Village by John Moriarty 9781843518006
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.00There is a radical agency in John Moriarty's work that we as readers don't always spot. As our heads spin with mythological cross-referencing, poetical leaps and the philosophical bent, it is clear that there is nothing domestic, nothing tame, about John... -
Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance: 40th Anniversary Edition by Robert M. Pirsig
Booksplease Price: £7.69Acclaimed as one of the most exciting books in the history of American letters, this modern epic became an instant bestseller upon publication in 1974, transforming a generation and continuing to inspire millions. A narration of a summer motorcycle trip... -
The Warrior's Meditation: The Best-Kept Secret in Self-Improvement, Cognitive Enhancement, and Stress Relief, Taught by a Master of Four Samurai Arts by Richard L Haight 9780999210093
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £10.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999210093Author Richard L HaightFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Shinkaikan Body, Mind, Spirit LLC.Publisher Shinkaikan Body, Mind, Spirit LLC... -
The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick 9780915145287
Booksplease Price: £17.13This Hackett edition, first published in 1981, is an unabridged and unaltered republication of the seventh (1907) edition as published by Macmillan and Company, Limited.From the forward by John Rawls:In the utilitarian tradition Henry Sidgwick... -
The Oxford Companion to Philosophy by Ted Honderich
RRP: £35.99Booksplease Price: £28.40Oxford University Press presents a major new edition of the definitive philosophical reference work for readers at all levels. For ten years the original volume has served as a stimulating introduction for general readers and as an indispensable guide... -
Dawn of the New Everything: A Journey Through Virtual Reality Jaron Lanier 9781784701536
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15Named a Best Book of the Year by the Economist, Wall Street Journal & Vox'The father of virtual reality' (Sunday Times) explains why virtual reality presents the ultimate test for humanity.'Essential reading, not just for VR-watchers but for anyone... -
Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason and the Gap Between Us and Them by Joshua Greene
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Our brains were designed for tribal life, for getting along with a select group of others (Us), and for fighting off everyone else (Them). But modern life has thrust the world's tribes into a shared space, creating conflicts of interest and clashes of... -
The Republic by Plato 9781857150988
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16Although Plato's celebrated work of philosophy describes a society which to some seems the ideal human community and to others like a totalitarian nightmare, it also raises enduring questions about politics, art, education and the general conduct of life... -
Boredom: A Lively History by Peter Toohey
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.99A rich and stimulating exploration of one of our most maligned emotions and how it might actually help us flourish In the first book to argue for the benefits of boredom, Peter Toohey dispels the myth that it's simply a childish emotion or an existential...