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Preludes to Pragmatism: Toward a Reconstruction of Philosophy by Philip Kitcher 9780199899555
RRP: $132.60$92.76Over the last two decades the distinguished philosopher Philip Kitcher has started to make a serious case for pragmatism as the source of a new life in contemporary philosophy. There are some, like Kitcher, who view today's analytic philosophy as mired... -
Infinite Resignation: On Pessimism Eugene Thacker 9781912248193
RRP: $29.23$19.11The 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... -
Heine: 'On the History of Religion and Philosophy in Germany' by Terry P. Pinkard 9780521678506
RRP: $56.53$50.35This volume presents a colourful and entertaining overview of German intellectual history by a central figure in its development. Heinrich Heine (1797-1856), famous poet, journalist, and political exile, studied with Hegel and was personally acquainted... -
An Introduction to Philosophy by Jacques Maritain 9780826477170
$51.54Jacques Maritain (1882-1973) was a Neo-Thomist philosopher who taught in France and the United States and was French Ambassador to the Vatican from 1945-48. A Protestant who became a Roman Catholic through association with Leon Bloy, he devoted himself... -
Bhagavad Gita - The Divine Song: A New Translation and Commentary by Rory B Mackay 9780993267574
$25.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993267574Author Rory B MackayFormat PaperbackPage Count 378Imprint Blue Star PublishingPublisher Blue Star Publishing -
Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche 9780679724650
RRP: $25.33$16.77Apologies 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)... -
Dialogue/2 Chief World Systems by Galileo Galilei
RRP: $29.23$19.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375757662Author GalileoFormat PaperbackPage Count 640Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 522gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
Perfect Wisdom: The Short Prajnaparamita Texts by Edward Conze 9780946672288
RRP: $31.10$24.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780946672288Author Edward ConzeFormat PaperbackPage Count 284Imprint Buddhist Publishing GroupPublisher Buddhist Publishing GroupWeight(grams) 421g -
Why is There Something Rather Than Nothing?: Questions from Great Philosophers by Leszek Kolakowski
RRP: $21.43$15.15Can 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... -
The Cult of Nothingness: The Philosophers and the Buddha by Pamela Vohnson 9780807854495
RRP: $107.25$97.31The common Western understanding of Buddhism today envisions this major world religion as one of compassion and tolerance. But as Roger-Pol Droit reveals, this view bears little resemblance to one broadly held in the 19th century European philosophical... -
Critical Phenomenology: An Introduction by Magri
RRP: $35.08$31.28Phenomenology 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... -
Nietzsche: Life as Literature by Alexander Nehamas
RRP: $58.40$51.42More than eighty years after his death, Nietzsche's writings and his career remain disquieting, disturbing, obscure. His most famous views-the will to power, the eternal recurrence, the UEbermensch, the master morality-often seem incomprehensible or,... -
Instant Philosophy: Key Thinkers, Theories, Discoveries and Concepts Gareth Southwell 9781787394209
RRP: $29.23$19.11Instant 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... -
Derrida: A Biography Benoit Peeters 9780745656151
RRP: $48.75$33.89This biography of Jacques Derrida (1930-2004) tells the story of a Jewish boy from Algiers, excluded from school at the age of twelve, who went on to become the most widely translated French philosopher in the world - a vulnerable, tormented man who,... -
Advaita Made Easy Dennis Waite 9781780991849
RRP: $9.73$9.13Who 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... -
The Laws of Manu by Wendy Doniger
RRP: $29.23$21.35The Laws of Manu form a towering work of Hindu philosophy. Composed by many Brahmin priests, this is an extraordinary, encyclopaedic representation of human life in the world, and how it should be lived. Manu encompasses topics as wide-ranging as the... -
Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for Everyone and Nobody by Friedrich Nietzsche
RRP: $19.48$13.86'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... -
Berkeley: Philosophical Writings by Desmond M. Clarke 9780521707626
RRP: $60.43$50.41George Berkeley (1685-1753) was a university teacher, a missionary, and later a Church of Ireland bishop. The over-riding objective of his long philosophical career was to counteract objections to religious belief that resulted from new philosophies... -
Philosophy in the Islamic World: A history of philosophy without any gaps, Volume 3 by Peter Adamson
RRP: $56.53$42.51The latest in the series based on the popular History of Philosophy podcast, this volume presents the first full history of philosophy in the Islamic world for a broad readership. It takes an approach unprecedented among introductions to this subject, by... -
Utilitarianism by J. S. Mill
RRP: $62.38$59.14The Oxford Philosophical Texts series consists of authoritative teaching editions of canonical texts in the history of philosophy from the ancient world down to modern times. Each volume provides a clear, well laid out text together with a comprehensive... -
Wittgenstein Severin Schroeder (Lady Margaret Hall and Christ Church, University of Oxford, University of Reading) 9780745626161
RRP: $37.03$32.90This 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... -
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: $21.43$17.55A 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,... -
Nietzsche: A Philosophical Biography by Rudiger Safranski
RRP: $43.88$37.26No other modern philosopher has proved as influential as Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) and none is as poorly understood. In the first new biography in decades, Rudiger Safranski, one of the foremost living Nietzsche scholars, re-creates the anguished... -
Introductions to the Wissenschaftslehre and Other Writings (1797-1800) by Johann Gottlieb Fichte 9780872202399
RRP: $40.93$33.56These 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... -
A Dialogue on Personal Identity and Immortality by John Perry 9780915144532
RRP: $25.33$21.57Perry'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 Rene Descartes 9781853264702
RRP: $9.73$6.84Translated 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... -
The Long Life by Helen Small 9780199592562
$73.71The Long Life invites the reader to range widely from the writings of Plato through to recent philosophical work by Derek Parfit, Bernard Williams, and others, and from Shakespeare's King Lear through works by Thomas Mann, Balzac, Dickens, Beckett,... -
Leibniz: Dissertation on Combinatorial Art by Massimo Mugnai 9780198837954
RRP: $156.00$140.73Leibniz 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... -
The Persistence of the Negative: A Critique of Contemporary Continental Theory by Benjamin Noys
RRP: $56.53$45.59Through a series of incisive readings of leading theoretical figures of affirmationism -- Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze, Bruno Latour, Antonio Negri and Alain Badiou -- Benjamin Noys contests the tendency of recent theory to rely on affirmation, and... -
History of Philosophy: Vol 9: 19th and 20th Century French Philosophy by Frederick C. Copleston
RRP: $48.75$42.49Copleston, 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... -
The Evolution of Modern Metaphysics: Making Sense of Things by A. W. Moore 9780521616553
RRP: $74.08$65.46This book is concerned with the history of metaphysics since Descartes. Taking as its definition of metaphysics 'the most general attempt to make sense of things', it charts the evolution of this enterprise through various competing conceptions of its... -
The Relevance of Phenomenology to the Philosophy of Language and Mind Sean D. Kelly 9781138997202
RRP: $93.58$81.53This work discusses philosophical problems of perceptual content, the content of deomonstrative thoughts, and the unity of proposition. By demonstrating a connection between phenomenology and analysis, Kelly suggests ways in which they can be fruitfully... -
On the Basis of Morality by Arthur Schopenhauer 9780872204423
RRP: $35.08$29.07This edition originally published by Berghahn Books.Schopenhauer's treatise on ethics is presented here in E. F. J. Payne's definitive translation, based on the Hubscher edition (Wiesbaden, 1946-1950). This edition includes an Introduction by David... -
Kant: An Introduction by C. D. Broad 9780521292658
RRP: $77.98$64.86A critical and detailed introduction to Kant's philosophy, with particular reference to the Critique of Pure Reason. Since Broad's death there have been many publications on Kant but Broad's 1978 book still finds a definite place between the very general... -
Political Philosophy by Steven B. Smith
RRP: $43.88$42.28Who ought to govern? Why should I obey the law? How should conflict be controlled? What is the proper education for a citizen and a statesman? These questions probe some of the deepest and most enduring problems that every society confronts, regardless... -
Freud and the Non-European by Edward W. Said
$31.57Using 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... -
The Awakening: A History of the Western Mind AD 500 - 1700 by Charles Freeman 9781789545630
RRP: $31.20$21.92A monumental and exhilarating history of European thought, from the fall of Rome in the fifth century AD to the Scientific Revolution thirteen centuries later. The Awakening traces the recovery and refashioning of Europe's classical heritage from... -
Antoine Arnauld and Pierre Nicole: Logic or the Art of Thinking by Antoine Arnauld
RRP: $60.43$53.66Antoine Arnauld and Pierre Nicole were philosophers and theologians associated with Port-Royal Abbey, a centre of the Catholic Jansenist movement in seventeenth-century France. Their enormously influential Logic or the Art of Thinking, which went through... -
Immanuel Kant: Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics: That Will Be Able to Come Forward as Science: With Selections from the Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant 9780521535359
RRP: $48.73$40.83Kant is the central figure of modern philosophy. He sought to rebuild philosophy from the ground up, and he succeeded in permanently changing its problems and methods. This revised edition of the Prolegomena, which is the best introduction to the... -
Philosophy for Beginners by Richard Osborne 9781934389027
RRP: $23.38$20.16Apologies 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