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Way to Wisdom: An Introduction to Philosophy by Karl Jaspers
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $14.89One of the founders of existentialism, the eminent philosopher Karl Jaspers here presents for the general reader an introduction to philosophy. In doing so, he also offers a lucid summary of his own philosophical thought. In Jaspers' view, the source of... -
The Dore Bible Illustrations by Gustave Dore 9780486230047
RRP: $27.08Booksplease Price: $18.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486230047Author Gustave DoreFormat PaperbackPage Count 241Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Arendt Dana Villa 9781138939004
RRP: $32.24Booksplease Price: $28.59Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) was a philosopher and political theorist of astonishing range and originality and one of the leading thinkers of the twentieth century. A former student of Martin Heidegger and Karl Jaspers, she fled Nazi Germany to Paris in... -
The Myths We Live By by Mary Midgley 9780415610247
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $21.35With a new Introduction by the author'An elegant and sane little book. - The New StatesmanMyths, as Mary Midgley argues in this powerful book, are everywhere. In political thought they sit at the heart of theories of human nature and the social contract;... -
Knowledge and Belief: An Introduction to the Logic of the Two Notions by Jaakko Hintikka 9781904987086
Booksplease Price: $15.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904987086Author Jaakko HintikkaFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint Kings College PublicationsPublisher Kings College PublicationsWeight(grams)... -
Undoing Gender by Judith Butler
RRP: $60.62Booksplease Price: $54.05Undoing Gender constitutes Judith Butler's recent reflections on gender and sexuality, focusing on new kinship, psychoanalysis and the incest taboo, transgender, intersex, diagnostic categories, social violence, and the tasks of social transformation. In... -
Avatar and Philosophy: Learning to See by George A. Dunn
RRP: $19.29Booksplease Price: $13.52James Cameron's critically acclaimed movie Avatar was nominated for nine Academy Awards and received countless accolades for its breath-taking visuals and use of 3D technology. But beyond its cinematic splendour, can Avatar also offer us insights into... -
A Theory of Justice: Original Edition by John Rawls 9780674017726
RRP: $43.80Booksplease Price: $35.72John Rawls aims to express an essential part of the common core of the democratic tradition-justice as fairness-and to provide an alternative to utilitarianism, which had dominated the Anglo-Saxon tradition of political thought since the nineteenth... -
Liquid Love: On the Frailty of Human Bonds Zygmunt Bauman (Universities of Leeds and Warsaw) 9780745624891
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $17.58This book is about the central figure of our contemporary, 'liquid modern' times - the man or woman with no bonds, and particularly with none of the fixed or durable bonds that would allow the effort of self-definition and self-assertion to come to a... -
So, You Think You're Clever?: Taking on The Oxford and Cambridge Questions John Farndon 9781848319325
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.97From the ever-curious mind that brought you the bestselling Do You Think You're Clever? comes a brand-new trip to the far reaches of the intellectual universe, courtesy of even more notoriously provocative Oxbridge interview questions.How would you... -
The Life of Forms in Art by Henri Focillon
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $20.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780942299571Author Henri FocillonFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Zone BooksPublisher Zone BooksWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 152mm * 15mm -
The Undiscovered Self Carl Gustav Jung 9780415854740
RRP: $30.95Booksplease Price: $26.20Written three years before his death, The Undiscovered Self combines acuity with concision in masterly fashion and is Jung at his very best. Offering clear and crisp insights into some of his major theories, such as the duality of human nature, the... -
Moses Mendelssohn: Philosophical Writings by Moses Mendelssohn 9780521574778
RRP: $52.89Booksplease Price: $47.65Mendelssohn's Philosophical Writings, published in 1761, bring the metaphysical tradition to bear on the topic of 'sentiments' (defined as knowledge or awareness by way of the senses). Mendelssohn offers a nuanced defence of Leibniz's theodicy and... -
Historical Dictionary of Logic by Harry J. Gensler 9780810855311
RRP: $129.00Booksplease Price: $106.28This one-volume encyclopedia of logic introduces the central concepts of the field in a series of brief, non-technical, cross-referenced dictionary entries. The 352 alphabetically arranged entries give a clear, basic introduction to a very broad range of... -
Radical Hope: Ethics in the Face of Cultural Devastation by Jonathan Lear 9780674027466
RRP: $28.32Booksplease Price: $20.78Shortly before he died, Plenty Coups, the last great Chief of the Crow Nation, told his story-up to a certain point. "When the buffalo went away the hearts of my people fell to the ground," he said, "and they could not lift them up again. After this... -
On Identity Amin Maalouf 9781860467295
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.97The notion of identity - personal, religious, ethnic or national - is one that has given rise to heated passions and crimes throughout the history of mankind. What it is that makes each one of us unique and dissimilar to any other individual has been one... -
The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce 9781420957723
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $10.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781420957723Author Ambrose BierceFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint Digireads.comPublisher Digireads.comWeight(grams) 263gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *... -
Neo-Aristotelian Perspectives on Formal Causation by Ludger Jansen 9780367723361
RRP: $54.17Booksplease Price: $48.83This is the first volume of essays devoted to Aristotelian formal causation and its relevance for contemporary metaphysics and philosophy of science. The essays trace the historical development of formal causation and demonstrate its relevance for... -
Bhagavad Gita As It Is [Hindi Language Pocket edition] by A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Booksplease Price: $14.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789382716464Author A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami PrabhupadaFormat HardbackPage Count 992Imprint Bhaktivedanta Book TrustPublisher Bhaktivedanta Book... -
The Lily of the Field and the Bird of the Air: Three Godly Discourses by Soren Kierkegaard 9780691180830
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $11.29A masterful new translation of one of Kierkegaard's most engaging worksIn the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus tells his followers to let go of earthly concerns by considering the lilies of the field and the birds of the air. Soren Kierkegaard's short... -
On Literature, Culture, and Religion: Irving Babbitt Irving Babbitt 9781412804998
RRP: $67.07Booksplease Price: $60.94Irving Babbitt was a giant of American criticism. His writings from the 1890s to the 1930s helped advance American criticism and scholarship to international esteem. More than seventy years after his death his intellectual staying power remains... -
Things Merely Are: Philosophy in the Poetry of Wallace Stevens by Simon Critchley
RRP: $54.17Booksplease Price: $45.14This book is an invitation to read poetry. Simon Critchley argues that poetry enlarges life with a range of observation, power of expression and attention to language that eclipses any other medium. In a rich engagement with the poetry of Wallace... -
A Brief History of Thought: A Philosophical Guide to Living by Luc Ferry 9781847672872
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERFrom the timeless wisdom of ancient Greece through to Christianity, the Enlightenment, existentialism and postmodernism, A Brief History of Thought brilliantly and accessibly explains the enduring teachings of philosophy -... -
The Urge: our history of addiction by Carl Erik Fisher
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26Millions of us suffer from addiction, including psychiatrist and recovering alcoholic Carl Erik Fisher. But where does this centuries-old behaviour come from and how should we treat it? As a young doctor, Carl Erik Fisher came face to face with his own... -
Israel Biblical Sites Travel Guide by Fink 9781944601270
Booksplease Price: $41.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781944601270Author FinkFormat PaperbackPage Count 666Imprint Selah Book PressPublisher Selah Book PressWeight(grams) 875gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 34mm -
Critique Of Cynical Reason by Peter Sloterdijk 9780816615865
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $26.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816615865Author Peter SloterdijkFormat PaperbackPage Count 600Imprint University of Minnesota PressPublisher University of Minnesota PressDimensions(mm)... -
After Finitude: An Essay on the Necessity of Contingency by Quentin Meillassoux 9781441173836
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $21.92This book is now available for the first time in paperback, the remarkable debut of a former student of Alain Badiou. Quentin Meillassoux, a former student of Alain Badiou, is considered to be one of the most talented and exciting new voices in... -
A Terribly Serious Adventure: Philosophy at Oxford 1900-60 by Nikhil Krishnan
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $14.58A Telegraph Best Summer Book of 2023 A New York Times 'Critics' Pick' Book of 2023 What are the limits of language? How to bring philosophy closer to everyday life? What is a good human being? These were among the questions that philosophers... -
Other Selves: Philosophers on Friendship by Michael Pakaluk
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $20.96"Friendship, that pervasive, everyday, and subtle matter of our most intimate personal life, has rarely been accorded its due. Michael Pakaluk has retrieved the thoughts of our greatest thinkers on the subject and collected them into a handsome and handy... -
Modern French Philosophy by Vincent Descombes 9780521296724
RRP: $51.60Booksplease Price: $45.76This is a critical introduction to modern French philosophy, commissioned from one of the liveliest contemporary practitioners and intended for an English-speaking readership. The dominant 'Anglo-Saxon' reaction to philosophical development in France has... -
Recognition: A Chapter in the History of European Ideas by Axel Honneth 9781108819305
RRP: $28.38Booksplease Price: $21.93The idea that we are mutually dependent on the recognition of our peers is at least as old as modernity. Across Europe, this idea has been understood in different ways from the very beginning, according to each country's different cultural and political... -
Srimad Bhagavatam: First Canta: Pt. 1 by S.Bhaktivedanta Prabhupada 9781845990480
Booksplease Price: $17.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845990480Author Prabhupada A.C. Bhaktivedanta SwamiFormat HardbackPage Count 450Imprint Intermex Publishing LtdPublisher Intermex Publishing... -
Bhagavad Gita As It Is [Tamil language] by A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada 9789382176855
Booksplease Price: $20.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789382176855Author A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami PrabhupadaFormat HardbackPage Count 948Imprint Bhaktivedanta Book TrustPublisher Bhaktivedanta Book... -
The Special Theory of Relativity by David Bohm 9780415404259
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $16.60In these inspiring lectures David Bohm explores Albert Einstein's celebrated Theory of Relativity that transformed forever the way we think about time and space. Yet for Bohm the implications of the theory were far more revolutionary both in scope and... -
Spirit of Cricket: Reflections on Play and Life Mike Brearley 9781472133984
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $18.77If someone were to say 'it's not tennis', or 'not football' of shabby behaviour in any walk of life, he or she would not be understood. If they said 'it's not cricket', they probably would be (though less reliably than a century ago). Is there some... -
Faith And Delusion by Father Nikita Grigoriev 9781426969539
Booksplease Price: $21.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781426969539Author Father Nikita GrigorievFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Trafford PublishingPublisher Trafford PublishingWeight(grams)... -
The Open Society and its Enemies: The Spell of Plato by Sir Karl Popper
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $21.35Written in political exile during the Second World War and first published in 1945, Karl Popper's The Open Society and Its Enemies is one of the most influential books of the twentieth century. Hailed by Bertrand Russell as a 'vigorous and profound... -
The Middle Length Sayings: Majjhima-Nikaya: New Translation Bhikkhu Bodhi 9780861710720
RRP: $96.75Booksplease Price: $71.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780861710720Author Bhikkhu BodhiFormat HardbackPage Count 1424Imprint Wisdom Publications,U.S.Publisher Wisdom Publications,U.S. -
Immanuel Kant: Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics: That Will Be Able to Come Forward as Science: With Selections from the Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant 9780521535359
RRP: $33.54Booksplease Price: $30.86Kant is the central figure of modern philosophy. He sought to rebuild philosophy from the ground up, and he succeeded in permanently changing its problems and methods. This revised edition of the Prolegomena, which is the best introduction to the... -
Oxford IB Diploma Programme: Philosophy: Being Human Course Companion by Nancy Le Nezet 9780198392835
RRP: $69.65Booksplease Price: $61.70The most comprehensive coverage of the core content Being Human, this course book will help learners grasp complex philosophical ideas and develop the crucial thinking skills. Developed directly with the IB, dedicated assessment support straight from the...