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How to Be a Leader: An Ancient Guide to Wise Leadership by Plutarch 9780691192116
RRP: £14.99£11.87Timeless advice on how to be a successful leader in any fieldThe ancient biographer and essayist Plutarch thought deeply about the leadership qualities of the eminent Greeks and Romans he profiled in his famous-and massive-Lives, including politicians... -
The New Way of the World: On Neoliberal Society by Pierre Dardot
RRP: £12.99£6.65Exploring the genesis of neoliberalism, and the political and economic circumstances of its deployment, Pierre Dardot and Christian Laval dispel numerous common misconceptions. Neoliberalism is neither a return to classical liberalism nor the restoration... -
Carpe Diem Regained: The Vanishing Art of Seizing the Day by Roman Krznaric 9781783524938
RRP: £8.99£6.20Existentialism is backCarpe diem - 'seize the day' - is one of the oldest pieces of life advice in Western history. But its true spirit has been hijacked by ad men and self-help gurus, reduced to the instant hit of one-click online shopping, or slogans... -
Introductions to the Wissenschaftslehre and Other Writings (1797-1800) by Johann Gottlieb Fichte 9780872202399
RRP: £20.99£16.84These selections provide a brief but comprehensive introduction to Fichte's philosophical system and his place in the history of German Idealism. In addition to some of Fichte's most influential texts, such as the First and Second Introductions to the... -
Discourse on the Origin of Inequality by Jean-Jacques Rousseau 9780486434148
RRP: £2.99£2.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486434148Author Elizabeth S. HaldaneFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
An Essay concerning Human Understanding by John Locke 9780199296620
RRP: £14.99£10.95'I must apply my self to Experience; as far as that reaches, I may have certain Knowledge, but no farther.' In An Essay concerning Human Understanding, John Locke sets out his theory of knowledge and how we acquire it. Eschewing doctrines of innate... -
The Cambridge Companion to Kant by Paul Guyer
RRP: £34.99£29.60The fundamental task of philosophy since the seventeenth century has been to determine whether the essential principles of both knowledge and action can be discovered by human beings unaided by an external agency. No one philosopher contributed more to... -
Heretics!: The Wondrous (and Dangerous) Beginnings of Modern Philosophy by Steven Nadler 9780691168692
RRP: £20.00£16.66An entertaining, enlightening, and humorous graphic narrative of the dangerous thinkers who laid the foundation of modern thought This entertaining and enlightening graphic narrative tells the exciting story of the seventeenth-century thinkers who... -
On Becoming God: Late Medieval Mysticism and the Modern Western Self by Ben Morgan
RRP: £59.00£48.25Do we have to conceive of ourselves as isolated individuals, inevitably distanced from other people and from whatever we might mean when we use the word God? On Becoming God offers an innovative approach to the history of the modern Western self by... -
Less Than Nothing: Hegel and the Shadow of Dialectical Materialism by Slavoj Zizek
RRP: £35.00£23.62For the last two centuries, Western philosophy has developed in the shadow of Hegel, an influence each new thinker struggles to escape. As a consequence, Hegel's absolute idealism has become the bogeyman of philosophy, obscuring the fact that he is... -
Unpopular Essays by Bertrand Russell
RRP: £14.99£13.58A classic collection of Bertrand Russell's more controversial works, reaffirming his staunch liberal values, Unpopular Essays is one of Russell's most characteristic and self-revealing books. Written to "combat... the growth in Dogmatism", on first... -
Wittgenstein by Severin Schroeder 9780745626161
RRP: £18.99£16.87This book offers a lucid and highly readable account of Wittgenstein's philosophy, framed against the background of his extraordinary life and character. Woven together with a biographical narrative, the chapters explain the key ideas of Wittgenstein's... -
Philosophy of Material Nature: Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science and Prolegomena by Immanuel Kant 9780915145881
RRP: £17.99£14.58This volume combines two of Kant's key works on the metaphysics of nature--the Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics That Will Be Able to Come Forward as Science and Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science--in the preeminent translations of James W... -
Problems in Philosophy: The Limits of Inquiry by Colin McGinn 9781557864758
RRP: £33.95£29.98This advanced introductory text offers a synoptic view of philosophical inquiry, discussing such topics as consciousness, the self, meaning, free will, the a priori, and knowledge. The emphasis is on the fundamental intractability of these questions, and... -
Love: A History by Simon May 9780300187748
RRP: £16.99£14.61An illuminating exploration of how love has been shaped, idolized, and misconstrued by the West over three millennia, and how we might differently conceive it Love-unconditional, selfless, unchanging, sincere, and totally accepting-is worshipped today as... -
Nietzsche: Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Robert Pippin
RRP: £20.99£18.44Nietzsche regarded 'Thus Spoke Zarathustra' as his most important work, and his story of the wandering Zarathustra has had enormous influence on subsequent culture. Nietzsche uses a mixture of homilies, parables, epigrams and dreams to introduce some of... -
Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature: Thirtieth-Anniversary Edition by Richard Rorty 9780691178158
RRP: £18.99£15.19When it first appeared in 1979, Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature hit the philosophical world like a bombshell. In it, Richard Rorty argued that, beginning in the seventeenth century, philosophers developed an unhealthy obsession with the notion of... -
Introducing Postmodernism: A Graphic Guide by Richard Appignanesi 9781840468496
RRP: £8.99£6.63What connects Marliyn Monroe, Disneyworld, "The Satanic Verses" and cyber space? Answer: Postmodernism. But what exactly is postmodernism? This Graphic Guide explains clearly the maddeningly enigmatic concept that has been used to define the world's... -
Philosophical Method: A Very Short Introduction by Timothy Williamson 9780198810001
RRP: £8.99£6.45What are philosophers trying to achieve? How can they succeed? Does philosophy make progress? Is it in competition with science, or doing something completely different, or neither? Timothy Williamson tackles some of the key questions surrounding... -
Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity--And Why This Harms Everybody by Helen Pluckrose
RRP: £24.95£18.44Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly Bestseller!Times, Sunday Times, and Financial Times Book-of-the-Year Selection! Have you heard that language is violence and that science is sexist? Have you read that certain people shouldn't... -
A Shock to Thought: Expression after Deleuze and Guattari by Brian Massumi
RRP: £37.99£33.38A Shock to Thought brings together essays that explore Deleuze and Guattari's philosophy of expression in a number of contemporary contexts. It will be of interest to all those in philosophy, cultural studies and art theory. The volume also contains an... -
The Second Coming by Franco Berardi 9781509534845
RRP: £14.99£11.22We have entered the gateway to the apocalypse. This theological concept is the best metaphor to describe the world in which we are already living. Chaos is all around us: political folly, economical delirium, ecological catastrophe, intellectual... -
On What Matters: Two-volume set by Derek Parfit 9780199265923
RRP: £65.00£57.39On What Matters is a major work in moral philosophy. It is the long-awaited follow-up to Derek Parfit's 1984 book Reasons and Persons, one of the landmarks of twentieth-century philosophy. Parfit now presents a powerful new treatment of reasons,... -
Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche 9780679724650
RRP: £12.99£8.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679724650Author Friedrich NietzscheFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)... -
Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of Mind, Second Edition by B McLaughlin
RRP: £35.95£33.99A timely collection of debates concerning the major themes and topics in philosophy of mind, fully updated with new topics covering the latest developments in the field Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of Mind provides a lively and engaging... -
Infinite Resignation by Eugene Thacker
RRP: £14.99£9.80The author of the contemporary classic, In the Dust of This Planet, is back with another raw and unsettling look at the human condition. Comprised of aphorisms, fragments, and observations both philosophical and personal, Thacker's new book traces the... -
Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for Everyone and Nobody by Friedrich Nietzsche
RRP: £9.99£7.11'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... -
Fear and Trembling: Dialectical Lyric by Johannes De Silentio by Soren Kierkegaard 9780141395883
RRP: £14.99£10.95In Fear and Trembling, Soren Kierkegaard's infamous and controversial work made a lasting impression on both modern Protestant theology and existentialist philosophers such as Sartre and Camus. This Penguin Classics edition is translated from the Danish... -
Critical Phenomenology: An Introduction by Magri
RRP: £17.99£16.04Phenomenology is one of the leading movements in twentieth-century philosophy and continues to exert a strong influence on many contemporary philosophical traditions and investigations. In recent years, phenomenological insights have been increasingly... -
Instant Philosophy: Key Thinkers, Theories, Discoveries and Concepts by Gareth Southwell
RRP: £14.99£9.80Instant Philosophy pulls together all the pivotal philosophical knowledge and thought into one concise volume. Each page contains a discrete 'cheat sheet', which tells you the most important facts in bite-sized chunks, meaning you can become an expert in... -
Wilhelm Dilthey: Selected Works, Volume VI: Ethical and World-View Philosophy by Wilhelm Dilthey 9780691195575
RRP: £48.00£36.91This book completes a landmark six-volume translation of the major writings of Wilhelm Dilthey (1833-1911), a philosopher and historian of culture who continues to have a significant influence on philosophy, hermeneutics, and the theory of the human... -
Cosmopolis: Hidden Agenda of Modernity by Stephen E. Toulmin 9780226808383
RRP: £23.00£22.13In the 17th century, a vision arose which was to captivate the Western imagination for the next 300 years: the vision of Cosmopolis, a society as rationally ordered as the Newtonian view of nature. While fueling extraordinary advances in all fields of... -
Barthes: A Very Short Introduction by Jonathan Culler
RRP: £8.99£6.45This acclaimed short study, originally published in 1983, and now thoroughly updated, elucidates the varied theoretical contributions of Roland Barthes (1915-80), the 'incomparable enlivener of the literary mind' whose lifelong fascination was with the... -
Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind by Wilfrid Sellars 9780674251557
RRP: £29.95£23.19The most important work by one of America's greatest twentieth-century philosophers, Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind is both the epitome of Wilfrid Sellars' entire philosophical system and a key document in the history of philosophy. First... -
The Collected Works of Spinoza, Volume II by Benedictus de Spinoza 9780691167633
RRP: £48.00£37.91The Collected Works of Spinoza provides, for the first time in English, a truly satisfactory edition of all of Spinoza's writings, with accurate and readable translations, based on the best critical editions of the original-language texts, done by a... -
History of Philosophy: Vol 10: Russian Philosophy by Frederick C. Copleston
RRP: £22.99£20.51Copleston, an Oxford Jesuit and specialist in the history of philosophy, first created his history as an introduction for Catholic ecclesiastical seminaries. However, since its first publication (the last volume appearing in the mid-1970s) the series has... -
A Little Manual for Knowing by Esther Lightcap Meek 9781610977845
RRP: £15.00£11.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781610977845Author Esther Lightcap MeekFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams)... -
Advaita Made Easy by Dennis Waite
RRP: £4.99£4.68Who are you? What happens when you die? Is there a God? Is the universe created? Advaita is a teaching with a tradition of thousands of years which provides totally reasonable answers to all such questions. This essential introduction from the acclaimed... -
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding: with Hume's Abstract of A Treatise of Human Nature and A Letter from a Gentleman to His Friend in Edinburgh by David Hume 9780872202290
RRP: £9.99£8.02A landmark of Enlightenment thought, Hume's An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding is accompanied here by two shorter works that shed light on it: A Letter from a Gentleman to His Friend in Edinburgh, Hume's response to those accusing him of atheism,... -
I Think, Therefore I Laugh: The Flip Side of Philosophy by John Allen Paulos 9780231119153
RRP: £18.95£14.57The preeminent explicator of mathematical logic to non-mathematicians, John Allen Paulos is familiar to general readers not only from his bestselling books but also from his media appearances, including The David Letterman Show and National Public...