Filter By
- Book
- Qty in Cart
- Quantity
- Price
- Subtotal
-
Gay Science by Friedrich Nietzsche
RRP: $27.28$18.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780394719856Author Friedrich NietzscheFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)... -
Meditations: The Philosophy Classic by Marcus Aurelius 9780857088468
RRP: $25.18$16.80A deluxe special edition of the ancient classic written by the Roman Emperor known as "The Philosopher" Meditations is a series of personal journals written by Marcus Aurelius, Emperor of Rome from 169 to 180 AD. The last of the "Five Good Emperors," he... -
The Little Book of Philosophy: An Introduction to the Key Thinkers and Theories You Need to Know by Rachel Poulton
RRP: $14.68$10.50If you want to know your Socrates from your Sartre and your Confucius from your Kant, strap in for this whirlwind tour of the highlights of philosophy. Philosophy is a quest for wisdom and knowledge; philosophia in Ancient Greek literally means "love... -
Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu
RRP: $20.98$14.93'Have little thought of self and as few desires as possible'Whether or not Lao Tzu was a historical figure is uncertain, but the wisdom gathered under his name in the fourth century BC is central to the understanding and practice of Taoism. One of the... -
Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche
RRP: $20.98$14.93'One of the greatest books of a very great thinker' Michael TannerBeyond Good and Evil confirmed Nietzsche's position as the towering European philosopher of his age. The work dramatically rejects traditional Western thought with its notions of truth and... -
On the Genealogy of Morals by Friedrich Nietzsche
RRP: $20.98$14.93The 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 Genealogy of Morals was to call attention to his previous... -
A Little History of Philosophy by Nigel Warburton
RRP: $23.08$19.68For readers of E. H. Gombrich's A Little History of the World, an equally irresistible volume that brings history's greatest philosophers to life "A primer in human existence: philosophy has rarely seemed so lucid, so important, so worth doing and so... -
Twilight of Idols and Anti-Christ by Friedrich Nietzsche
RRP: $18.88$13.55In these two devastating late works, Nietzsche offers a powerful attack on the morality and the beliefs of his timeNietzsche's Twilight of the Idols is a 'grand declaration of war' on reason, psychology and theology, which combines highly charged... -
Happy: Why More or Less Everything is Absolutely Fine by Derren Brown
RRP: $23.08$16.32The Sunday Times Bestseller'Really brilliant and just crammed with wisdom and insight. It will genuinely make a difference to me and the way I think about myself.' Stephen Fry___Everyone says they want to be happy. But that's much more easily said than... -
Either/Or: A Fragment of Life by Soren Kierkegaard
RRP: $27.28$19.93In Either/Or, using the voices of two characters - the aesthetic young man of part one, called simply 'A', and the ethical Judge Vilhelm of the second section - Kierkegaard reflects upon the search for a meaningful existence, contemplating subjects as... -
In Praise of Idleness: And Other Essays by Bertrand Russell
RRP: $39.88$35.43Intolerance and bigotry lie at the heart of all human suffering. So claims Bertrand Russell at the outset of In Praise of Idleness, a collection of essays in which he espouses the virtues of cool reflection and free enquiry; a voice of calm in a world of... -
The Conference of the Birds by Farid Attar
RRP: $23.08$16.32Composed in the twelfth century in north-eastern Iran, Attar's great mystical poem is among the most significant of all works of Persian literature. A marvellous, allegorical rendering of the Islamic doctrine of Sufism - an esoteric system concerned with... -
Think: A Compelling Introduction to Philosophy by Simon Blackburn
RRP: $23.08$16.32This is a book about the big questions in life: knowledge, consciousness, fate, God, truth, goodness, justice. It is for anyone who believes there are big questions out there, but does not know how to approach them. Think sets out to explain what they... -
On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays by John Stuart Mill
RRP: $18.88$13.55'it is only the cultivation of individuality which produces, or can produce, well developed human beings' Mill's four essays, 'On Liberty', 'Utilitarianism', 'Considerations on Representative Government', and 'The Subjection of Women' examine the most... -
Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant 9780140447477
RRP: $39.88$28.58Kant's profound and challenging investigation into the nature of human reason is the central text of modern philosophyIn his landmark work Kant argues that reason is the seat of certain concepts that precede experience and make it possible, but we are... -
Ethics by Benedict de Spinoza
RRP: $20.98$14.93'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 cohesive philosophical system that strives to provide a... -
I and Thou by Martin Buber
RRP: $37.78$36.31'The publication of Martin Buber's I and Thou was a great event in the religious life of the West.' Reinhold Niebuhr Martin Buber was a prolific and influential teacher and writer, who taught philosophy at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem from 1939... -
Fear and Trembling by Soren Kierkegaard
RRP: $16.78$12.16Throughout 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, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched... -
Tao Te Ching by Lao-Tzu 9780872202320
RRP: $29.38$24.26This translation captures the terse and enigmatic beauty of the ancient original and resists the tendency toward interpretive paraphrase found in many other editions. Along with the complete translation, Lombardo and Addiss provide one or more key lines... -
On the Suffering of the World by Arthur Schopenhauer
RRP: $14.68$12.16Throughout 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, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched... -
The Philosophy Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained by DK 9780241638668
RRP: $41.98$30.14Get to grips with the concepts that shaped the way we think about ethics, politics, and our place in the universe. Explaining the big ideas and groundbreaking theories of key philosophers in a clear and simple way, The Philosophy Book is the perfect... -
Meditations on First Philosophy: with Selections from the Objections and Replies by Rene Descartes
RRP: $20.98$14.93'It is some years now since I realized how many false opinions I had accepted as true from childhood onwards...I saw that at some stage in my life the whole structure would have to be utterly demolished' In Descartes's Meditations, one of the key... -
The Stars Down to Earth by Theodor Adorno
RRP: $31.48$28.52The Stars Down to Earth shows us a stunningly prescient Adorno. Haunted by the ugly side of American culture industries he used the different angles provided by each of these three essays to showcase the dangers inherent in modern obsessions with... -
The Prophets of Doom by Neema Parvini 9781788361118
RRP: $31.40$30.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788361118Author Neema ParviniFormat PaperbackImprint Imprint AcademicPublisher Imprint AcademicWeight(grams) 250gDimensions(mm) 2100mm * 135mm * 13mm -
The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Colour by Derek H. Brown 9781032569703
RRP: $92.38$81.56From David Hume's famous puzzle about "the missing shade of blue," to current research into the science of colour, the topic of colour is an incredibly fertile region of study and debate, cutting across philosophy of mind, epistemology, metaphysics, and... -
Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals by John Gray 9781803510088
RRP: $20.98$14.07'Powerful and brilliant ... Straw Dogs challenges all our assumptions about what it is to be human, and convincingly shows that most of them are delusions.' J. G. Ballard From Plato to Christianity, from the Enlightenment to Nietzsche, the Western... -
On Liberty and the Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill
RRP: $18.88$13.55A prodigiously brilliant thinker who sharply challenged the beliefs of his age, the political and social radical John Stuart Mill was the most influential English-speaking philosopher of the nineteenth century. Regarded as one of the sacred texts of... -
The Pig that Wants to Be Eaten: And 99+ Other Thought Experiments by Julian Baggini 9781803510477
RRP: $23.08$15.37'Baggini offers us a tempting smorgasbord of some of the most baffling, weird and occasionally downright creepy scenarios ever envisaged... enjoy these mind-boggling tales from the outer limit of thought' Guardian Is it right to eat a pig that wants... -
Kant: A Very Short Introduction by Roger Scruton
RRP: $18.88$13.55Kant is arguably the most influential modern philosopher, but also one of the most difficult. Roger Scruton tackles his exceptionally complex subject with a strong hand, exploring the background to Kant's work and showing why the Critique of Pure Reason... -
Simulacra and Simulation by Jean Baudrillard
RRP: $33.50$27.93The first full-length translation in English of an essential work of postmodernism.The publication of ""Simulacra et Simulation"" in 1981 marked Jean Baudrillard's first important step toward theorizing the postmodern. Moving away... -
The Strange Life of P.D.Ouspensky by Colin Wilson
RRP: $39.88$37.63One of the most original thinkers of the twentieth century, Pyotr Demianovich Ouspensky was a complex and romantic soul. His work on accessing a higher level of consciousness beyond everyday reality is a valuable legacy well worthy of consideration. This... -
Philosophy 101: From Plato and Socrates to Ethics and Metaphysics, an Essential Primer on the History of Thought by Paul Kleinman
RRP: $27.28$17.18Discover the world's greatest thinkers and their groundbreaking notions!Too often, textbooks turn the noteworthy theories, principles, and figures of philosophy into tedious discourse that even Plato would reject. Philosophy 101 cuts out the boring... -
Naming and Necessity by Saul A. Kripke
RRP: $46.10$40.57Naming and Necessity has had a great and increasing influence. It redirected philosophical attention to neglected questions of natural and metaphysical necessity and to the connections between these and theories of naming, and of identity. This seminal... -
Cold Intimacies: The Making of Emotional Capitalism by Eva Illouz
RRP: $31.48$28.52It is commonly assumed that capitalism has created an a-emotional world dominated by bureaucratic rationality; that economic behavior conflicts with intimate, authentic relationships; that the public and private spheres are irremediably opposed to each... -
Introducing Kierkegaard: A Graphic Guide by Dave Robinson
RRP: $18.88$13.92Father of existentialism or the Eeyore of philosophy?Known as the first modern theologian, SorenKierkegaard was a prolific writer of the Danish 'golden age'. A philosopher,poet and social critic, his key concepts of angst, despair, and theimportance of... -
The Birth of Tragedy by Friedrich Nietzsche
RRP: $18.88$13.88'Yes, what is Dionysian? - This book provides an answer - "a man who knows" speaks in it, the initiate and disciple of his god.' The Birth of Tragedy (1872) is a book about the origins of Greek tragedy and its relevance to the German culture of its... -
The Story of Philosophy by Will Durant 9780671739164
RRP: $16.78$10.98This brilliant and concise account of the lives and ideas of the world's great philosophers-Plato, Aristotle, Bacon, Spinoza, Voltaire, Kant, Schopenhauer, Spencer, Nietzsche, Bergson, Croce, Russell, Santayana, James, and Dewey-is "a delight" (The New... -
The Consolations of Philosophy by Alain de Botton
RRP: $27.28$19.09THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLEROne of the most influential voices in modern philosophy - the author of The Course of Love, Religion for Atheists, The Art of Travel and The School of LifeAlain de Botton presents a one-stop shop for solving the... -
Introducing Ethics: A Graphic Guide by Dave Robinson 9781848310087
RRP: $18.88$13.92What is the place of individual choice and consequence in a post-Holocaust world of continuing genocidal ethnic cleansing? Is "identity" now a last-ditch cultural defence of ethnic nationalisms and competing fundamentalisms? In a climate of instant... -
The Crisis in Physics by Christopher Caudwell
RRP: $25.18$16.51Christopher Caudwell's The Crisis in Physics is a stylish and readable analysis of the lines of connection between scientific theories and economic realities. Caudwell provides a trenchant critique of mechanism and positivism. In the words of J. B. S...