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The Minority Body: A Theory of Disability by Elizabeth Barnes 9780198822417
RRP: €16.05€14.13Elizabeth Barnes argues compellingly that disability is primarily a social phenomenon-a way of being a minority, a way of facing social oppression, but not a way of being inherently or intrinsically worse off. This is how disability is understood in the... -
The Yoga of the Bhagavad Gita: An Introduction to India's Universal Science of God-Realization by Paramahansa Yogananda 9780876120330
RRP: €19.03€13.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780876120330Author Paramahansa YoganandaFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Self-Realization Fellowship,U.S.Publisher Self-Realization Fellowship,U.S... -
The Rationalists by John Cottingham 9780192891907
RRP: €51.16€40.45The seventeenth century saw a fundamental shift in our ways of thinking about ourselves and the universe. The reassuring medieval view of an earth-centred cosmos designed expressly for the benefit of mankind had been steadily eroded; yet at the same time... -
The Awakening: A History of the Western Mind AD 500 - 1700 Charles Freeman 9781789545623
RRP: €35.70€24.93A 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 the... -
Kant's Transcendental Idealism: An Interpretation and Defense by Henry E. Allison 9780300102666
RRP: €35.70€33.43This 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 Prayers by Soren Kierkegaard
RRP: €19.04€16.47Soren Kierkegaard's influence has been felt in many areas of human thought from theology to psychology. Nearly 100 of his prayers are gathered here, illuminating his own life of prayer and speaking to the concerns of Christians today. The second part of... -
The Sea by David Farrell Krell 9781350080539
€32.11Humankind has a profound and complex relationship with the sea, a relationship that is extensively reflected in biology, psychology, religion, literature and poetry. The sea cradles and soothes us, we visit it often for solace and inspiration, it is... -
Philosophy and the Adventure of the Virtual by Keith Ansell-Pearson
RRP: €49.97€43.73With the development of new technologies and the Internet, the notion of the virtual has grown increasingly important. In this lucid collection of essays, Pearson bridges the continental-analytic divide in philosophy, bringing the virtual to centre stage... -
Spinoza by Michael Della Rocca
RRP: €28.55€24.98Renowned for his metaphysics, Spinoza made significant contributions to understanding the human mind, the emotions, moral philosophy, and political philosophy.Beginning with an overview of Spinoza's life, Michael Della Rocca carefully unpacks and... -
Philosophies of Art and Beauty: Selected Readings in Aesthetics from Plato to Heidegger by Albert Hofstadter
RRP: €30.94€30.05This anthology is remarkable not only for the selections themselves, among which the Schelling and the Heidegger essays were translated especially for this volume, but also for the editors' general introduction and the introductory essays for each... -
Nietzsche: Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Robert Pippin
RRP: €24.98€21.94Nietzsche 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... -
The Elements of Law Natural and Politic. Part I: Human Nature; Part II: De Corpore Politico: with Three Lives by Thomas Hobbes
RRP: €11.89€8.46`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,... -
Myth and Meaning by Claude Levi-Strauss 9780802063489
RRP: €14.27€13.02Ever since the rise of science and the scientific method in the seventeenth century, we have rejected mythology as the product of superstitious and primitive minds. Only now are we coming to a fuller appreciation of the nature and role of myth in human... -
Bob Dylan and Philosophy: It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Thinking) by Cathy Porter 9780812695922
RRP: €15.46€14.70The legions of Bob Dylan fans know that Dylan is not just a great composer, writer, and performer, but a great thinker as well. In Bob Dylan and Philosophy, eighteen philosophers analyze Dylan's ethical positions, political commitments, views on gender... -
What is Philosophy of Mind? Tom McClelland 9781509538775
RRP: €17.84€16.64We all have minds, but what exactly is a mind? Is your mind the same thing as your brain? How does what's happening in your mind cause your behaviour? Can you know what's going on in other people's minds? Can you even be sure what's going on in your own?... -
An Illustrated Brief History of Western Philosophy, 20th Anniversary Edition Anthony Kenny (University of Oxford) 9781119452799
RRP: €33.26€29.33In 1998, the first edition of Anthony Kenny's comprehensive history of Western philosophy was published, to be met with immediate praise and critical acclaim. As the first book since Bertrand Russell's 1945 A History of Western Philosophy to offer a... -
La Mettrie: Machine Man and Other Writings by Julien Offray de La Mettrie 9780521478496
RRP: €39.26€34.78Julien Offray de La Mettrie (1709-51), author of Machine Man (1747), was the most uncompromising of the materialists of the eighteenth century, and the provocative title of his work ensured it a succes de scandale in his own time. It was however a... -
The Sense of the Past: Essays in the History of Philosophy by Bernard Williams 9780691134086
RRP: €41.65€33.49Before 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... -
Kierkegaard After MacIntyre: Essays on Freedom, Narrative, and Virtue John J. Davenport 9780812694390
RRP: €41.64€27.39The 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... -
What Does It All Mean?: A Very Short Introduction to Philosophy by Thomas Nagel 9780195052923
RRP: €45.21€45.08Most people think about philosophical problems without realizing it: What really exists? Can we know anything? Is anything really right or wrong? Does life have any meaning? Is death the end of everything? These problems have been written about for... -
Culture and the Death of God by Terry Eagleton 9780300212334
RRP: €14.27€12.08New observations on the persistence of God in modern times and why "authentic" atheism is so very hard to come by How to live in a supposedly faithless world threatened by religious fundamentalism? Terry Eagleton, formidable thinker and renowned cultural... -
Essays -- Moral Political & Literary, 2nd Edition by David Hume
RRP: €13.03€11.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865970564Author David HumeFormat PaperbackPage Count 684Imprint Liberty Fund IncPublisher Liberty Fund IncWeight(grams) 1167g -
Pragmatism by John R. Shook
RRP: €19.03€13.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262544610Author John R. ShookFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
History of Philosophy Volume 10: Russian Philosophy Frederick Copleston 9780826469045
RRP: €27.36€24.41Copleston, 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... -
Aristotle by Christopher Shields 9780415622493
RRP: €30.93€27.41In this extensively revised new edition of his excellent guidebook, Christopher Shields introduces the whole of Aristotle's philosophy, showing how his powerful conception of human nature shaped much of his thinking on the nature of the soul and the... -
Autobiography by John Robson
RRP: €15.46€10.82One of the greatest prodigies of his era, John Stuart Mill (1806-73) was studying arithmetic and Greek by the age of three, as part of an astonishingly intense education at his father's hand. Intellectually brilliant, fearless and profound, he became a... -
Meditations on First Philosophy by Rene Descartes 9780872201927 [USED COPY]
RRP: €13.08€2.78Descartes'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... -
Meditations on First Philosophy by Rene Descartes
RRP: €13.08€10.71Descartes'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... -
Orderley Chaos: The Mandala Principle by Trungpa Tulku Chogyam Trungpa 9780877736363
RRP: €17.84€16.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780877736363Author Trungpa Tulku Chogyam TrungpaFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications... -
Solar Politics Oxana Timofeeva 9781509549658
RRP: €11.89€10.65This book is a philosophical essay on the sun. It draws on Georges Bataille's theories of the solar economy and solar violence and demonstrates their relevance to a world affected by the COVID-19 pandemic and climate change. The sun, which, since... -
On the Genealogy of Morals by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche 9780679724629
RRP: €17.84€13.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679724629Author Friedrich NietzscheFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 261gDimensions(mm)... -
Doubt: A History by Jennifer Hecht 9780060097950
€13.51Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Introducing Logic: A Graphic Guide by Dan Cryan 9781848310124
RRP: €10.70€7.97Logic is the backbone of Western civilization, holding together its systems of philosophy, science and law. Yet despite logic's widely acknowledged importance, it remains an unbroken seal for many, due to its heavy use of jargon and mathematical... -
Hume by Don Garrett 9780415283342
RRP: €30.93€26.93Beginning with an overview of Hume's life and work, Don Garrett introduces in clear and accessible style the central aspects of Hume's thought. These include Hume's lifelong exploration of the human mind; his theories of inductive inference and... -
Kierkegaard's Writings IV, Part II: Either/Or by Soren Kierkegaard
RRP: €49.98€37.87Soren Kierkegaard, the nineteenth-century Danish philosopher rediscovered in the twentieth century, is a major influence in contemporary philosophy, religion, and literature. He regarded Either/Or as the beginning of his authorship, although he had... -
Ethics: with The Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect and Selected Letters by Baruch Spinoza 9780872201309
RRP: €20.22€16.81Since their publication in 1982, Samuel Shirley's translations of Spinoza's Ethics and Selected Letters have been commended for their accuracy and readability. Now with the addition of his new translation of Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect... -
Philosophy of Psychology: An Introduction Kengo Miyazono 9781509515486
RRP: €21.41€19.09Are we rational creatures? Do we have free will? Can we ever know ourselves? These and other fundamental questions have been discussed by philosophers over millennia. But recent empirical findings in psychology and neuroscience suggest we should... -
The Essential Kierkegaard by Soren Kierkegaard 9780691019406
RRP: €41.65€26.99This is the most comprehensive anthology of Soren Kierkegaard's works ever assembled in English. Drawn from the volumes of Princeton's authoritative Kierkegaard's Writings series by editors Howard and Edna Hong, the selections represent every major... -
Passions of Our Time by Julia Kristeva
RRP: €35.70€33.07Julia Kristeva is a true polymath, an intellectual of astonishingly wide range whose erudition and insight have been brought to bear on psychoanalysis, literary criticism, gender and sex, and cultural critique. Passions of Our Time showcases recent... -
Hume's Abject Failure: The Argument Against Miracles by John Earman 9780195127386
RRP: €52.94€36.68By situating Hume's famous work Of Miracles (which notoriously argues against the possiblity of miracles) in the context of the 18th-century debate on miracles, Earman shows that Hume's argument is largely unoriginal, and largely without merit where it...