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From Plato to Postmodernism: The Story of Western Culture Through Philosophy, Literature and Art by Christopher Watkin 9780715638286
$81.98From Plato to Postmodernism presents the cultural history of the West in one concise volume. Nearly four thousand years of Western history are woven together into an unfolding story in which we see how movements and individuals contributed to the... -
Ancient Philosophy, Mystery, and Magic: Empedocles and Pythagorean Tradition by Peter Kingsley 9780198150817
RRP: $140.40$108.65Empedocles played a crucial role in the development of western culture; yet little is known or understood about this man, who lived in Sicily in the fifth-century BC. This is mainly becuase his teaching has been reconstructed by modern shcolars first and... -
Introducing Machiavelli: A Graphic Guide by Patrick Curry 9781848311756
RRP: $17.53$7.88Illustrated guide to the crucial Italian philosopher and author of The Prince. 'Machiavellian' is a popular byword for treachery and opportunism. Machiavelli's classic book on statecraft, The Prince, published over 400 years ago, remains controversial to... -
Choosing Freedom: A Kantian Guide to Life by Karen Stohr
RRP: $35.08$25.25An exploration of everything Kant's philosophy can teach us about being the best people we can be, from using our human reasoning to its fullest potential to being affably drunk at dinner parties. Immanuel Kant is well known as one of the towering... -
Marxism and the Philosophy of Science: A Critical History by Helena Sheehan
$55.34Skillfully deploying a large cast of characters, Sheehan retraces the development of Marxist philosophy of science through detailed and highly readable accounts of the debates that have characterized it. Approaching Marxism from the perspective of the... -
Philosophy of Care by Boris Groys
RRP: $19.48$15.93Our current culture is dominated by the ideology of creativity. One is supposed to create the new and not to care about the things as they are. This ideology legitimises the domination of the "creative class" over the rest of the population that is... -
What Does It All Mean?: A Very Short Introduction to Philosophy by Nagel
$81.45In this lucid and accessible book, Thomas Nagel explores the central questions of philosophy thoughtfully, clearly, and with humour. He demonstrates that philosophy is an indispensable key to understanding our lives, and far from being an arcane academic... -
The Murder of Professor Schlick: The Rise and Fall of the Vienna Circle by David Edmonds
RRP: $42.90$33.85From the author of Wittgenstein's Poker and Would You Kill the Fat Man?, the story of an extraordinary group of philosophers during a dark chapter in Europe's historyOn June 22, 1936, the philosopher Moritz Schlick was on his way to deliver a lecture at... -
Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth by R.Buckminster Fuller 9783037781265
RRP: $35.10$24.28Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983) was an architect, engineer, geometrician, cartographer, philosopher, futurist, inventor of the famous geodesic dome, and one of the most brilliant thinkers of his time. For more than five decades, he set forth his... -
Philosophical Method: A Very Short Introduction by Timothy Williamson 9780198810001
RRP: $17.53$12.58What 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... -
Carpe Diem Regained: The Vanishing Art of Seizing the Day by Roman Krznaric 9781783524938
RRP: $17.53$12.13Existentialism 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... -
Continental Philosophy since 1750: The Rise and Fall of the Self by Professor Robert C. Solomon 9780192892027
RRP: $83.83$70.57The explosion of creative and speculative philosophy that emerged in Europe in the second half of the eighteenth century is a thrilling intellectual adventure story, as well as an essential chapter in the history of philosophy. The main theme of this... -
Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature: Thirtieth-Anniversary Edition by Richard Rorty 9780691178158
RRP: $37.03$30.26When 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... -
The I in We: Studies in the Theory of Recognition Axel Honneth (Free University, Berlin) 9780745652337
RRP: $37.03$32.90In this volume Axel Honneth deepens and develops his highly influential theory of recognition, showing how it enables us both to rethink the concept of justice and to offer a compelling account of the relationship between social reproduction and... -
How to Be a Leader: An Ancient Guide to Wise Leadership by Plutarch 9780691192116
RRP: $29.23$23.69Timeless 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: $25.33$13.36Exploring 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... -
History of Philosophy: Vol 2: Medieval Philosophy by Frederick C. Copleston
RRP: $38.98$35.12Copleston, 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... -
Marx's Lost Aesthetic: Karl Marx and the Visual Arts by Margaret A. Rose 9780521369794
RRP: $76.03$62.95This book offers an original and challenging study of Marx's contact with the visual arts, aesthetic theories, and art policies in nineteenth-century Europe. It differs from previous discussions of Marxist aesthetic theory in looking at Marx's views from... -
German Philosophy 1760-1860: The Legacy of Idealism by Terry P. Pinkard
RRP: $77.98$67.53In the second half of the eighteenth century, German philosophy came for a while to dominate European philosophy. It changed the way in which not only Europeans, but people all over the world, conceived of themselves and thought about nature, religion,... -
Fourteen Lessons in Yogi Philosophy by Yogi Ramacharaka
RRP: $25.25$15.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997414837Author Yogi RamacharakaFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Bamboo Leaf PressPublisher Bamboo Leaf PressWeight(grams) 140g -
Discourse on the Origin of Inequality by Jean-Jacques Rousseau 9780486434148
RRP: $5.83$4.45Apologies 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)... -
Barthes: A Very Short Introduction by Jonathan Culler
RRP: $17.53$12.89This 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... -
Hegel's Aesthetics: Volume 2 by G. W. F. Hegel 9780198244998
RRP: $83.83$56.45This is the first of two volumes of the only English edition of Hegel's Aesthetics, the work in which he gives full expression to his seminal theory of art. The substantial Introduction is his best exposition of his general philosophy of art. In Part I... -
Existentialism by Mary Warnock 9780198880523
RRP: $103.33$79.13Existentialism enjoyed great popularity in the 1940s and 1950s, and has probably had a greater impact upon literature than any other kind of philosophy. The common interest which unites Existentialist philosophers is their interest in human freedom... -
Problems in Philosophy: The Limits of Inquiry Colin McGinn (Rutgers University) 9781557864758
RRP: $66.20$58.46This 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... -
The Nietzsche Reader Keith Ansell-Pearson (University of Warwick) 9780631226543
RRP: $33.05$31.59The Nietzsche Reader brings together in one volume substantial selections from the entire body of Nietzsche's writings, together with illuminating commentary on Nietzsche's life and importance, and introductions to his major works and philosophical ideas... -
The Moral Powers – A Study of Human Nature by PMS Hacker
RRP: $58.40$52.67A milestone in the study of value in human life and thought, written by one of the world’s preeminent living philosophers The Moral Powers: A Study of Human Nature is a philosophical investigation of the moral potentialities and sensibilities of human... -
Philosophy of Material Nature: Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science and Prolegomena by Immanuel Kant 9780915145881
RRP: $35.08$29.07This 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... -
Philosophy of Life: German Lebensphilosophie 1870-1920 by Prof Frederick C. Beiser
RRP: $117.00$105.55Philosophy of Life explores the intellectual movement called Lebensphilosophie, which flourished in Germany from 1870 until 1920. Author Frederick C. Beiser focuses on its most prominent members: Friedrich Nietzsche, Wilhelm Dilthey, and Georg Simmel... -
Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity--And Why This Harms Everybody by Helen Pluckrose
RRP: $48.65$35.67Wall 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... -
Founders of Western Philosophy: Thales to Hume by Michael S Berliner 9780996010177
RRP: $38.57$34.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996010177Author Michael S BerlinerFormat PaperbackPage Count 602Imprint Ayn Rand InstitutePublisher Ayn Rand InstituteWeight(grams) 871g -
The Scientists: A History of Science Told Through the Lives of Its Greatest Inventors by John Gribbin 9780812967883
RRP: $39.00$27.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812967883Author John GribbinFormat PaperbackPage Count 672Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 556gDimensions(mm) 201mm *... -
Leisure the Basis of Culture by Josef Pieper
RRP: $35.00$29.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865972100Author Josef PieperFormat HardbackPage Count 137Imprint Liberty Fund IncPublisher Liberty Fund IncWeight(grams) 298g -
Enquiries concerning Human Understanding and concerning the Principles of Morals by David Hume 9780198245360
$72.46David Hume's Treatise of Human Nature, was composed before the author was twenty-six years old, was published in 1739 and 1740. Its importance was not generally recognised at the time. Hume, attributing the failure of his Treatise to the manner of its... -
Schiller as Philosopher: A Re-Examination by Frederick Beiser 9780199532315
RRP: $91.63$69.50Fred Beiser, renowned as one of the world's leading historians of German philosophy, presents a brilliant new study of Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805), rehabilitating him as a philosopher worthy of serious attention. Beiser shows, in particular, that... -
Aesthetics and Subjectivity by Andrew Bowie 9780719057380
RRP: $48.75$42.96New, completely revised and re-written edition. Offers a detailed but accessible account of the vital German philosophical tradition of thinking about art and the self. Looks at recent historical research and contemporary arguments in philosophy and... -
The Cambridge Companion to Kant by Paul Guyer
RRP: $68.23$55.67The 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... -
Love: A History by Simon May 9780300187748
RRP: $33.13$28.49An 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... -
The Cambridge Companion to Maimonides by Kenneth Seeskin 9780521525787
RRP: $68.23$58.68One aim of this series is to dispel the intimidation readers feel when faced with the work of difficult and challenging thinkers. Moses ben Maimon, also known as Maimonides (1138-1204), represents the high point of Jewish rationalism in the middle ages... -
Philosophical Foundations of Neuroscience by Max R. Bennett
RRP: $62.30$55.95The second edition of the seminal work in the field-revised, updated, and extended In Philosophical Foundations of Neuroscience, M.R. Bennett and P.M.S. Hacker outline and address the conceptual confusions encountered in various neuroscientific and...