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The Stoic Challenge: A Philosopher's Guide to Becoming Tougher, Calmer, and More Resilient by William B. Irvine 9780393652499
RRP: £20.99£17.75Some people bounce back in response to setbacks; others break. We often think that these responses are hardwired but this is not the case. William B. Irvine combines key lessons from the ancient Stoics with modern psychological techniques to develop a... -
A Dialogue on Personal Identity and Immortality by John Perry 9780915144532
RRP: £12.99£10.79Perry's excellent dialogue makes a complicated topic stimulating and accessible without any sacrifice of scholarly accuracy or thoroughness. Professionals will appreciate the work's command of the issues and depth of argument, while students will find... -
Key Philosophical Writings by Descartes 9781853264702
RRP: £4.99£3.46Translated by Elizabeth S. Haldane and G.R.T. Ross. Edited with an Introduction by Enrique Chavez-Arvizo. Rene Descartes (1569-1650), the 'father' of modern philosophy, is without doubt one of the greatest thinkers in history: his genius lies at the... -
A Companion to Schopenhauer by Bart Vandenabeele 9781119144809
RRP: £33.95£30.38A Companion to Schopenhauer provides a comprehensive guide to all the important facets of Schopenhauer's philosophy. The volume contains 26 newly commissioned essays by prominent Schopenhauer scholars working in the field today. A thoroughly... -
Leibniz: Dissertation on Combinatorial Art by Massimo Mugnai 9780198837954
RRP: £64.00£57.67Leibniz published the Dissertation on Combinatorial Art in 1666. This book contains the seeds of Leibniz's mature thought, as well as many of the mathematical ideas that he would go on to further develop after the invention of the calculus. It is in the... -
Introduction to Positive Thinking by Frederick Ferre 9780872200500
RRP: £11.99£9.52Contents:IntroductionSelected Bibliography Works by Comte in English Translation Works about Comte in EnglishI. The Nature and Importance of the Positive PhilosophyII. The Classification of the Positive SciencesIndexBook InformationISBN... -
The Norton Introduction to Philosophy by Gideon Rosen 9780393624427
£69.11The Second Edition of this ground-breaking collection gives students all the tools they need to understand and engage with major philosophical issues. Students are presented with clear yet thorough topic introductions, historical context, reading guides... -
Freud and the Non-European by Edward W. Said
RRP: £10.99£9.60Using an impressive array of material from literature, archaeology and social theory, Edward Said explores the profound implications of Freud's Moses and Monotheism for Middle-East politics today. The resulting book reveals Said's abiding interest in... -
Philosophy for Beginners by Richard Osborne 9781934389027
RRP: £11.99£11.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781934389027Author Richard OsborneFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint For BeginnersPublisher For Beginners -
Why is There Something Rather Than Nothing?: Questions from Great Philosophers by Leszek Kolakowski
RRP: £10.99£7.77Can nature make us happy? How can we know anything? What is justice? Why is there evil in the world? What is the source of truth? Is it possible for God not to exist? Can we really believe what we see? There are questions that have intrigued the world's... -
Dispositif: A Cartography by Greg Bird 9780262544337
RRP: £48.00£33.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262544337Author Greg BirdFormat PaperbackPage Count 514Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 709gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 178mm * 33mm -
History of Philosophy: Vol 9: 19th and 20th Century French Philosophy by Frederick C. Copleston
RRP: £25.00£21.79Copleston, 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... -
Kant and the Problem of Metaphysics, Fifth Edition, Enlarged by Martin Heidegger
RRP: £17.99£15.55Since its original publication in 1929, Martin Heidegger's provocative book on Kant's Critique of Pure Reason has attracted much attention both as an important contribution to twentieth-century Kant scholarship and as a pivotal work in Heidegger's own... -
Posthumous Writings by Gottlob Frege
RRP: £28.95£25.07This volume contains all of Frege's extant unpublished writings on philosophy and logic other than his correspondence, written at various stages of his career.About the AuthorFriedrich Ludwig Gottlob Frege was a German philosopher, logician, and... -
Three Critics of the Enlightenment: Vico, Hamann, Herder by Isaiah Berlin
RRP: £20.00£14.69This book brings together three major studies from Isaiah Berlin's central intellectual project - to explain the opposition to the excessively scientistic French Enlightenment by getting under the skin of its critics and giving a sympathetic account of... -
Genius: A Very Short Introduction by Andrew Robinson
RRP: £8.99£6.45Homer, Leonardo da Vinci, Mozart, Shakespeare, and Tolstoy; Curie, Darwin, Einstein, Galileo, and Newton. What do these world-famous artists and scientists have in common?- apart from the fact that their achievements predate our own time by a century or... -
In Spite of Plato by Adriana Cavarero 9780745615721
RRP: £16.99£15.22This book makes an important intervention in contemporary feminist theory. Cavarero takes four figures from ancient Greek texts and reinterprets them using theories of sexual difference.Reviews"Now, with the publication, in an excellent translation, of... -
The Failures of Philosophy: A Historical Essay by Stephen Gaukroger
RRP: £20.00£15.54The first book to address the historical failures of philosophy-and what we can learn from themPhilosophers are generally unaware of the failures of philosophy, recognizing only the failures of particular theories, which are then remedied with other... -
The Rise of Modern Philosophy: A New History of Western Philosophy, Volume 3 by Anthony Kenny
RRP: £13.99£10.15Sir Anthony Kenny's engaging new history of Western philosophy now advances into the modern era. The Rise of Modern Philosophy is the fascinating story of the emergence, from the early sixteenth to the early nineteenth century, of great ideas and... -
Collected Papers on Mathematics, Logic, and Philosophy by Gottlob Frege 9780631127284
RRP: £44.95£39.66A magnificent collection of work by the father of analytical philosophy Gottlob Frege is widely considered one of the most influential minds in the history of philosophy, having spent a lifetime delving into the nuances of language and mathematics... -
Dancing Wu Li Masters by Gary Zukav 9780060959685
RRP: £17.99£11.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060959685Author Gary ZukavFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint HarperOnePublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncDimensions(mm) 210mm * 15mm * 3mm -
The Principle of Hope: Volume 1 by Ernst Bloch 9780262521994
£71.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262521994Author Ernst BlochFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 862gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 33mm -
Kierkegaard After MacIntyre: Essays on Freedom, Narrative, and Virtue by John J. Davenport 9780812694390
RRP: £34.99£30.96The 1990s saw a revival of interest in Kierkegaard's thought, affecting the fields of theology, social theory, and literary and cultural criticism. The resulting discussions have done much to discredit the earlier misreadings of Kierkegaard's works. This... -
The Democratic Paradox by Chantal Mouffe
RRP: £10.99£7.25From the theory of 'deliberative democracy' to the politics of the 'third way', the present Zeitgeist is characterized by attempts to deny what Chantal Mouffe contends is the inherently conflictual nature of democratic politics. Far from being signs of... -
Philosophy in the Modern World: A New History of Western Philosophy, Volume 4 by Anthony Kenny 9780199546374
£26.94Sir Anthony Kenny tells the fascinating story of the development of philosophy in the modern world, from the early nineteenth century to the late twentieth century. Alongside (and intertwined with) extraordinary scientific advances, cultural changes, and... -
Interanimations: Receiving Modern German Philosophy by Robert B. Pippin
RRP: £31.00£30.19In this latest book, renowned philosopher and scholar Robert B. Pippin offers the thought-provoking argument that the study of historical figures is not only an interpretation and explication of their views, but can be understood as a form of philosophy... -
The Perfection of Freedom: Schiller, Schelling, and Hegel between the Ancients and the Moderns by D. C. Schindler 9780227176436
RRP: £44.25£41.10The Perfection of Freedom seeks to respond to the impoverished conventional notion of freedom through a recovery of an understanding rich with possibilities yet all but forgotten in contemporary thought. This understanding, developed in different but... -
Towards Speculative Realism: Essays and Lectures by Graham Harman 9781846943942
RRP: £9.99£8.59These writings chart Harman's rise from Chicago sportswriter to co-founder of one of Europe's most promising philosophical movements: Speculative Realism. In 1997, Graham Harman was an obscure graduate student covering Chicago sporting events for a... -
The Sense of the Past: Essays in the History of Philosophy by Bernard Williams 9780691134086
£37.14Before his death in 2003, Bernard Williams planned to publish a collection of historical essays, focusing primarily on the ancient world. This posthumous volume brings together a much wider selection, written over some forty years. His legacy lives on in... -
Adam Smith: His Life, Thought, and Legacy by Ryan Patrick Hanley 9780691154053
RRP: £40.00£31.94Adam Smith (1723-90) is perhaps best known as one of the first champions of the free market and is widely regarded as the founding father of capitalism. From his ideas about the promise and pitfalls of globalization to his steadfast belief in the... -
Postmodernism and the Enlightenment: New Perspectives in Eighteenth-Century French Intellectual History by Daniel Gordon
RRP: £39.99£35.06Why is postmodernist discourse so biased against the Enlightenment? Indeed, postmodern theory challenges the validity of the rational basis of modern historical scholarship and the Enlightenment itself. Rather than avoiding this conflict, the... -
Kant's Transcendental Idealism: An Interpretation and Defense by Henry E. Allison 9780300102666
RRP: £30.00£27.70This landmark book is now reissued in a new edition that has been vastly rewritten and updated to respond to recent Kantian literature. It includes a new discussion of the Third Analogy, a greatly expanded discussion of Kant's Paralogisms, and entirely... -
The Theory of Moral Sentiments by Adam Smith 9780865970120
RRP: £10.95£9.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865970120Author Adam SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 422Imprint Liberty Fund IncPublisher Liberty Fund IncWeight(grams) 682g -
The Inner Touch: Archaeology of a Sensation by Daniel Heller-Roazen 9781890951771
RRP: £22.00£17.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Winner, 2008 Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies. 2008 and Winner, 2008 Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary... -
Hegel by Frederick Beiser 9780415312080
RRP: £23.99£20.99Hegel (1770-1831) is one of the major philosophers of the nineteenth century. Many of the major philosophical movements of the twentieth century - from existentialism to analytic philosophy - grew out of reactions against Hegel. He is also one of the... -
Figures of Southeast Asian Modernity by Joshua Barker 9780824837419
RRP: £24.95£23.42We live in a world populated not just by individuals but by figures, those larger-than-life people who in some way express and challenge our conventional understandings of social types. This innovative and collaborative work takes up the wide range of... -
Meditations on First Philosophy by Rene Descartes
RRP: £10.99£8.76Descartes's Meditations on First Philosophy, the fundamental and originating work of the modern era in Western philosophy, is presented here in Donald Cress's completely revised edition of his well-established translation, bringing this version even... -
Happiness and Contemplation by Josef Pieper 9781890318314
RRP: £12.00£10.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781890318314Author Josef PieperFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint St Augustine's PressPublisher St Augustine's PressWeight(grams) 178gDimensions(mm)... -
Changing the Subject: Philosophy from Socrates to Adorno by Raymond Geuss 9780674248359
RRP: £18.95£15.03"A history of philosophy in twelve thinkers...The whole performance combines polyglot philological rigor with supple intellectual sympathy, and it is all presented...in a spirit of fun...This bracing and approachable book [shows] that there is life in... -
The Elements of Law Natural and Politic. Part I: Human Nature; Part II: De Corpore Politico: with Three Lives by Thomas Hobbes
RRP: £9.99£7.29`the state of men without civil society (which state we may properly call the state of nature) is nothing else but a mere war of all against all.' Thomas Hobbes was the first great philosopher to write in English. His account of the human condition,...