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The Life Inside: A Memoir of Prison, Philosophy and Family by Andy West
RRP: €20.22€14.61'Tense and intimate... an education.' Geoff Dyer'Written with sensitivity and humanity... a remarkable insight into prison life.' Amanda Brown'Authentic, fascinating and deeply moving.' Terry Waite'Enriching, sobering and at times heartrending... a... -
Imagining the End: Mourning and Ethical Life by Jonathan Lear
RRP: €29.69€23.18A Washington Post Notable Work of Nonfiction"Imagining the End suggests, in a sober yet hopeful spirit, how mourning, rightly understood, can give meaning to our lives in the disenchanted times in which we find ourselves. In exploring the hopes that have... -
Protagoras and Meno by Plato
RRP: €13.08€9.25Exploring the question of what exactly makes good people good, Protagoras and Meno are two of the most enjoyable and accessible of all of Plato's dialogues. Widely regarded as his finest dramatic work, the Protagoras, set during the golden age of... -
Killing in War by Jeff McMahan 9780199603572
RRP: €23.79€20.38Killing a person is in general among the most seriously wrongful forms of action, yet most of us accept that it can be permissible to kill people on a large scale in war. Does morality become more permissive in a state of war? Jeff McMahan argues that... -
Why Good People Do Bad Things: Understanding Our Darker Selves by James Hollis
RRP: €15.46€15.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592403417Author James HollisFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Gotham BooksPublisher Gotham BooksDimensions(mm) 203mm * 147mm * 18mm -
The Power of Cute by Simon May 9780691181813
RRP: €19.03€17.60An exploration of cuteness and its immense hold on us, from emojis and fluffy puppies to its more uncanny, subversive expressionsCuteness has taken the planet by storm. Global sensations Hello Kitty and Pokemon, the works of artists Takashi Murakami and... -
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius 9781474620949
RRP: €10.70€4.18How to live a better life. One of the most important books on Western philosophy - a powerful and inspirational guide for the complicated world of today'Refreshing and restorative' GUARDIAN'An ancient work of spiritual reflection which remains a powerful... -
Twilight of the Idols by Friedrich Nietzsche
RRP: €10.70€7.68`Anyone who wants to gain a quick idea of how before me everything was topsy-turvy should make a start with this work. That which is called idol on the title-page is quite simply that which was called truth hitherto. Twilight of the Idols - in plain... -
Dawn: Thoughts on the Presumptions of Morality, Volume 5 by Friedrich Nietzsche 9780804780056
RRP: €26.17€22.36Dawn is the most recent volume to appear in the first complete, critical, and annotated English edition of all of Nietzsche's work. The edition, organized originally by Ernst Behler and Bernd Magnus, is a translation of the celebrated Kritische... -
No More Secrets, No More Lies: A Handbook to Starseed Awakening by Patricia Cori 9789895377343
RRP: €22.60€15.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789895377343Author Patricia CoriFormat PaperbackPage Count 268Imprint Patricia CoriPublisher Patricia CoriWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *... -
Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future by Friedrich Nietzsche
RRP: €11.89€7.63`What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.' Always provocative, the Friedrich Nietzsche of Beyond Good and Evil (1886) is at once sceptical psychologist and philosopher-seer, passionately unmasking European society with his... -
Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for Everyone and Nobody by Friedrich Nietzsche
RRP: €11.89€8.46'The profoundest book there is, born from the innermost richness of truth, an inexhaustible well into which no bucket descends without coming up with gold and goodness.' Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1885) was Nietzsche's own favourite among all his books... -
Making Monsters: The Uncanny Power of Dehumanization by David Livingstone Smith
RRP: €29.69€23.18Shortlisted for the Nayef Al-Rodhan Book Prize.A leading scholar explores what it means to dehumanize others-and how and why we do it."I wouldn't have accepted that they were human beings. You would see an infant who's just learning to smile, and it... -
Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya on Divine Wisdom and the Problem of Evil by Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
RRP: €23.79€16.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911141396Author Ibn Qayyim al-JawziyyaFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint The Islamic Texts SocietyPublisher The Islamic Texts SocietyWeight(grams) 520g -
Tragedy Since 9/11: Reading a World out of Joint by Jennifer Wallace 9781350035621
RRP: €28.55€25.00From the trauma of September 11th, through the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, to the aftermath of the Arab Spring and the environmental warning signs of climate change, this book reflects on the crises and terrifying events of the early 21st century... -
Might is Right: or the Survival of the Fittest by Ragnar Redbeard 9781682040232
RRP: €11.76€10.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781682040232Author Ragnar RedbeardFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Metal-Inex IncPublisher Metal-Inex IncWeight(grams) 200gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm... -
Adventure Time and Philosophy: The Handbook for Heroes by Nicolas Michaud 9780812698589
RRP: €17.84€12.94Adventure Time and Philosophy is a monster-beating, wild ride of philosophical mayhem. One of the deepest and most thoughtful television shows ever to assault human brain waves, Adventure Time shows us what the world could be like, challenging everything... -
Why Honor Matters by Tamler Sommers 9780465098873
RRP: €22.60€19.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780465098873Author Tamler SommersFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Basic Civitas BooksPublisher INGRAM PUBLISHER SERVICES USWeight(grams)... -
Being Better: Stoicism for a World Worth Living in by Kai Whiting
RRP: €19.03€13.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781608686933Author Kai WhitingFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint New World LibraryPublisher New World Library -
The Devil: A New Biography by Philip C. Almond 9781350274259
RRP: €19.03€15.97It is often said that the devil has all the best tunes. He also has as many names as he has guises. Lucifer, Mephistopheles, Beelzebub (in Christian thought), Ha-Satan or the Adversary (in Jewish scripture) and Iblis or Shaitan (in Islamic tradition) has... -
Mephistopheles: The Devil in the Modern World by Jeffrey Burton Russell
RRP: €30.93€26.23Mephistopheles is the fourth and final volume of a critically acclaimed history of the concept of the Devil. The series constitutes the most complete historical study ever made of the figure that has been called the second most famous personage in... -
The Philosopher At The End Of The Universe: Philosophy Explained Through Science Fiction Films by Mark Rowlands
RRP: €19.03€13.82'It's Schopenhauer and the will. It's Plato, it's Hume, Baudrillard and the concept of the Nietzschean superman!' Keanu Reeves on The MatrixThe Philosopher at the End of the Universe allows anyone to understand basic philosophical concepts from the... -
Dark Matters: Pessimism and the Problem of Suffering by Mara van der Lugt
RRP: €35.70€27.63An 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... -
Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil by Alain Badiou
RRP: €14.27€11.54Ethical 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... -
On Evil by Terry Eagleton
RRP: €15.46€13.64An 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,... -
Irrationality: A History of the Dark Side of Reason by Justin E. H. Smith 9780691178677
RRP: €29.75€23.30A 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... -
Lucifer: The Devil in the Middle Ages by Jeffrey Burton Russell
RRP: €32.12€27.19Evil is an intrinsically fascinating topic. In Lucifer, Jeffrey Burton Russell continues his compelling study of the personification of evil in the figure of the Devil. The previous two volumes in this remarkable tertalogy-The Devil and Satan-trace the... -
Beyond Good and Evil / On the Genealogy of Morality: Volume 8 by Friedrich Nietzsche
RRP: €26.17€22.36Beyond Good and Evil is Nietzsche's first sustained philosophical treatment of issues important to him. Unlike the expository prose of the essayistic period (1872-76), the stylized forays and jabs of the aphoristic period (1878-82), and the... -
Superheroes and Philosophy: Truth, Justice, and the Socratic Way by Tom Morris
RRP: €17.84€11.76The comic book naratives of superheroes wrestle with profound and disturbing issues in original ways: the definitions of good and evil, the limits of violence as an effective means, the perils of enforcing justice outside the law, the metaphysics of... -
Nietzsche as Philosopher by Arthur C. Danto
RRP: €33.32€25.42Few philosophers are as widely read or as widely misunderstood as Friedrich Nietzsche. When Danto's classic study was first published in 1965, many regarded Nietzsche as a brilliant but somewhat erratic thinker. Danto, however, presented a radically... -
Everyday Evils: A psychoanalytic view of evil and morality by Coline Covington
RRP: €55.92€48.75Everyday Evils takes a psychoanalytic look at the evils committed by "ordinary" people in different contexts - from the Nazi concentration camps to Stockholm Syndrome to the atrocities publicized by Islamic State - and presents new perspectives on how... -
How To Be Good: What Socrates Can Teach Us About the Art of Living Well by Massimo Pigliucci
RRP: €23.80€15.89What Socrates's greatest failure says about a 2,000-year-old question: is it possible to teach ourselves and others to become better people? Can we make ourselves into better human beings? Can we help others do the same? And can we get the leaders of our... -
Satan: The Early Christian Tradition by Jeffrey Burton Russell
RRP: €33.31€28.16"Russell has complete mastery of his material, and the book's sweep is grand: a tour of the first five centuries of Christian intellectual history with the spotlight on the villain instead of the hero.... Satan is a valuable introduction to the... -
Responsibility And Judgment by Hannah Arendt
RRP: €20.22€14.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805211627Author Hannah ArendtFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Schocken BooksPublisher Schocken BooksWeight(grams) 357gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 133mm *... -
Reframing Providence: New Perspectives from Aquinas on the Divine Action Debate by Simon Maria Kopf 9780192874986
RRP: €107.10€97.08The doctrine of providence, which states that God guides his creation, has been widely conceived in action terms in recent theological scholarship. A telling example is the so-called divine action debate, which is largely based on two principles: (i)... -
War: An Enquiry by A. C. Grayling
RRP: €13.08€11.15A renowned philosopher challenges long-held views on just wars, ethical conduct during war, why wars occur, how they alter people and societies, and more For residents of the twenty-first century, a vision of a future without warfare is almost... -
Chorology: On Beginning in Plato's Timaeus by John Sallis 9780253046666
RRP: €20.22€17.54This excellent work... deserves the serious consideration of all who are interested in contemporary philosophy as well as those who concern themselves with ancient philosophy, especially Plato." -Review of MetaphysicsIn Chorology, John Sallis takes up... -
Cain's Act by Massimo Recalcati
RRP: €14.27€9.44An urgent, stirring reflection on violence and morality. "Recalcati explores the most fundamental of questions-for Cain, Abel, and every human being: can we believe in love?"-La Stampa What lies at the foundation of human history and life in a... -
Economics of Good and Evil: The Quest for Economic Meaning from Gilgamesh to Wall Street by Tomas Sedlacek 9780199322183
RRP: €17.84€13.03Tomas Sedlacek has shaken the study of economics as few ever have. Named one of the "Young Guns" and one of the "five hot minds in economics" by the Yale Economic Review, he serves on the National Economic Council in Prague, where his provocative writing... -
The Quest for Character: What the Story of Socrates and Alcibiades Teaches Us about Our Search for Good Leaders by Massimo Pigliucci
RRP: €33.32€19.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541646971Author Massimo PigliucciFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Basic BooksPublisher Basic BooksWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 148mm *...