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Essays and Aphorisms by Arthur Schopenhauer
RRP: €13.08€9.25One of the greatest philosophers of the nineteenth century, Schopenhauer (1788-1860) believed that human action is determined not by reason but by 'will' - the blind and irrational desire for physical existence. This selection of his writings on... -
Kierkegaard: A Very Short Introduction by Patrick Gardiner
RRP: €10.70€7.68Soren Kierkegaard (1813-55), one of the most original thinkers of the nineteenth century, wrote widely on religious, psychological, and literary themes. This book shows how Kierkegaard developed his views in emphatic opposition to prevailing... -
The Little Book of Philosophy DK 9780241341179
RRP: €11.89€8.46Learn everything you need to know about the world of philosophy- from the key thinkers to modern concepts in a brand new portable size.To the complete novice learning about philosophy can be daunting - The Little Book of Philosophy changes all that. With... -
The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity: Twelve Lectures Jurgen Habermas (Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt) 9780745608303
RRP: €29.74€26.43The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity: Twelve Lectures. Introduction by Thomas McCarthy, translated by Frederick Lawrence.About the AuthorJurgen Habermas is a German philosopher and sociologist in the tradition of critical theory and pragmatism. He is... -
Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, and The Natural History of Religion by David Hume
RRP: €11.89€8.46David Hume is the greatest and also one of the most provocative philosophers to have written in the English language. No philosopher is more important for his careful, critical, and deeply perceptive examination of the grounds for belief in divine powers... -
How to Think Like a Philosopher: Essential Principles for Clearer Thinking by Julian Baggini 9781783788538
RRP: €13.08€8.71As politics slides toward impulsivity, and outrage bests rationality, how can philosophy help us critically engage with the world? How to Think Like A Philosopher is a revelatory exploration of the methods, tenets and attitudes of thought that guide... -
The Oxford Handbook of The History of Analytic Philosophy by Michael Beaney 9780198747994
€43.32During the course of the twentieth century, analytic philosophy developed into the dominant philosophical tradition in the English-speaking world. In the last two decades, it has become increasingly influential in the rest of the world, from continental... -
The Concept of Anxiety: A Simple Psychologically Oriented Deliberation in View of the Dogmatic Problem of Hereditary Sin by Soren Kierkegaard
RRP: €16.65€13.78First published in 1844, Soren Kierkegaard's concise treatise identified-long before Freud-anxiety as a profound human condition, portraying human existence largely as a constant struggle with our own spiritual identities.About the AuthorSoren... -
Women in Philosophy: What Needs to Change? by Katrina Hutchison 9780199325610
RRP: €43.42€26.62Despite its place in the humanities, the career prospects and numbers of women in philosophy much more closely resemble those found in the sciences and engineering. This book collects a series of critical essays by female philosophers pursuing the... -
Philosophy 1: A Guide Through the Subject by A. C. Grayling
€51.98This is the first volume of a two-volume introduction to and guide through philosophy. It is intended to orientate, assist, and stimulate the reader at every stage in the study of the subject. Eleven extended essays have been specially commissioned from... -
Continental Philosophy: A Critical Approach by William R. Schroeder
RRP: €40.40€33.45Continental Philosophy: A Critical Approach is a lucid and wide-ranging introduction to the key figures and philosophical movements of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Includes chapters on Hegel; Marx and Western Marxism; Schopenhauer, Freud, and... -
Nietzsche: The Birth of Tragedy and Other Writings by Friedrich Nietzsche 9780521639873
RRP: €23.79€20.96The Birth of Tragedy is one of the seminal philosophical works of the modern period. Nietzsche's discussion of the nature of culture, of the conditions under which it can flourish and of those under which it will decline, his analysis of the sources of... -
Think: A Compelling Introduction to Philosophy by Simon Blackburn 9780192100245
RRP: €27.95€19.77What am I? What is consciousness? What is the difference between past and future? Does the world presuppose a creator? Do we always act out of self-interest? This is a book about the big questions in life: knowledge, consciousness, fate, God, truth,... -
The Passion Of The Western Mind: Understanding the Ideas That Have Shaped Our World View by Richard Tarnas 9781845951627
RRP: €23.80€17.48The Passion of the Western Mind is a complete guide to Western civilisation and the philosophical ideas that have shaped our world view. From Plato to Hegel, from Augustine to Nietzsche, from Copernicus to Freud, Richard Tarnas described profound... -
Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals by John Gray 9781803510088
RRP: €11.89€7.97'Powerful and brilliant ... Straw Dogs challenges all our assumptions about what it is to be human, and convincingly shows that most of them are delusions.' J. G. Ballard From Plato to Christianity, from the Enlightenment to Nietzsche, the Western... -
You Kant Make it Up!: Strange Ideas from History's Great Philosophers by Gary Hayden
RRP: €13.08€9.82Drawing on the writings of the great philosophers, You Kant Make it Up sends the reader on thrilling, non-stop tour of their most outrageous and counter-intuitive conclusions. Harry Potter is real. Matter doesn't exist. Dan Brown is better than... -
The Collapse of Mechanism and the Rise of Sensibility: Science and the Shaping of Modernity, 1680-1760 by Stephen Gaukroger 9780199594931
€132.15Understanding the emergence of a scientific culture - one in which cognitive values generally are modelled on, or subordinated to, scientific ones - is one of the foremost historical and philosophical problems with which we are now confronted. The... -
Outlines of the Philosophy of Right by G. W. F. Hegel
RRP: €15.46€10.82What is rational is actual and what is actual is rational. Hegel's Outlines of the Philosophy of Right is one of the greatest works of moral, social, and political philosophy. It contains significant ideas on justice, moral responsibility, family... -
The Strange Life of P.D.Ouspensky by Colin Wilson
RRP: €22.60€20.63One of the most original thinkers of the twentieth century, Pyotr Demianovich Ouspensky was a complex and romantic soul. His work on accessing a higher level of consciousness beyond everyday reality is a valuable legacy well worthy of consideration. This... -
Saints Of The Impossible: Bataille, Weil, And The Politics Of The Sacred by Alexander Irwin 9780816639038
RRP: €24.98€21.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816639038Author Alexander IrwinFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint University of Minnesota PressPublisher University of Minnesota Press -
Ethics by Benedict de Spinoza 9781840221190
RRP: €5.94€4.12Translated by W.H.White and A.K.Stirling. With an Introduction by Don Garrett. Benedict de Spinoza lived a life of blameless simplicity as a lens-grinder in Holland. And yet in his lifetime he was expelled from the Jewish community in Amsterdam as a... -
Spinoza: Theological-Political Treatise by Jonathan Israel
RRP: €29.74€25.92Spinoza's Theological-Political Treatise (1670) is one of the most important philosophical works of the early modern period. In it Spinoza discusses at length the historical circumstances of the composition and transmission of the Bible, demonstrating... -
Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
RRP: €5.94€4.18Translated by Thomas Common. With an Introduction by Nicholas Davey. This astonishing series of aphorisms, put into the mouth of the Persian sage Zarathustra, or Zoroaster, contains the kernel of Nietzsche's thought. 'God is dead', he tells us... -
The Birth of Tragedy by Friedrich Nietzsche
RRP: €10.70€7.68'Yes, what is Dionysian? - This book provides an answer - "a man who knows" speaks in it, the initiate and disciple of his god.' The Birth of Tragedy (1872) is a book about the origins of Greek tragedy and its relevance to the German culture of its... -
Philosophical Investigations Ludwig Wittgenstein (Late of University of Cambridge, UK) 9781405159296
RRP: €30.88€27.37Philosophical Investigations New editions of the Commentary on Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations from Wiley-Blackwell Wittgenstein: Understanding and Meaning, Volume 1 of An Analytical Commentary on the Philosophical Investigations Part I:... -
Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion by David Hume 9780872204027
RRP: €13.08€10.71Hume's brilliant and dispassionate essay Of Miracles has been added in this expanded edition of his Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, which also includes Of the Immortality of the Soul,Of Suicide, and Richard Popkin's illuminating Introduction.Book... -
Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What One is by Friedrich Nietzsche
RRP: €10.70€7.68In late 1888, only weeks before his final collapse into madness, Nietzsche (1844-1900) set out to compose his autobiography, and Ecce Homo remains one of the most intriguing yet bizarre examples of the genre ever written. In this extraordinary work... -
Discourse on Method and the Meditations by Rene Descartes
RRP: €13.08€9.25Rene Descartes was a central figure in the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century. In his Discourse on Method he outlined the contrast between mathematics and experimental sciences, and the extent to which each one can achieve certainty... -
On Art and Life by John Ruskin 9780141018959
RRP: €9.51€6.89Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched... -
Narratology: Introduction to the Theory of Narrative by Mieke Bal 9781442628342
RRP: €30.93€26.76Since its first publication in English in 1985, Mieke Bal's Narratology has become an international classic and the comprehensive introduction to the theory of narrative texts, both literary and non-literary. Providing insights into how readers interpret... -
How to Think Like a Philosopher: Scholars, Dreamers and Sages Who Can Teach Us How to Live by Peter Cave
RRP: €20.22€15.58In showing how the great philosophers of human history lived and thought - and what they thought about - Peter Cave provides an accessible and enjoyable introduction to thinking philosophically and how it can change our everyday lives. With a lightness... -
Archaeology of Knowledge by Michel Foucault 9780415287531
RRP: €20.22€18.11In France, a country that awards its intellectuals the status other countries give their rock stars, Michel Foucault was part of a glittering generation of thinkers, one which also included Sartre, de Beauvoir and Deleuze. One of the great intellectual... -
Why I Am so Clever by Friedrich Nietzsche
RRP: €3.57€2.96'Why do I know a few more things? Why am I so clever altogether?'Self-celebrating and self-mocking autobiographical writings from Ecce Homo, the last work iconoclastic German philosopher Nietzsche wrote before his descent into madness.One of 46 new books... -
Schopenhauer: A Very Short Introduction by Christopher Janaway
RRP: €10.70€7.68Schopenhauer is the most readable of German philosophers. This book gives a succinct explanation of his metaphysical system, concentrating on the original aspects of his thought, which inspired many artists and thinkers including Nietzsche, Wagner,... -
The Meaning of Life: A Very Short Introduction by Terry Eagleton
RRP: €10.70€7.68'Philosophers have an infuriating habit of analysing questions rather than answering them', writes Terry Eagleton, who, in these pages, asks the most important question any of us ever ask, and attempts to answer it. So what is the meaning of life? In... -
On Purpose: Ten Lessons on the Meaning of Life by Ben Hutchinson 9780008588465
RRP: €15.46€9.90Ten brief essays on how reading and meaningfully engaging with literature can help us live better, more purposeful lives. How do we live successfully? How do we live... -
A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume 9780140432442
RRP: €17.84€13.03One of the most significant works of Western philosophy, Hume's Treatise was published in 1739-40, before he was thirty years old. A pinnacle of English empiricism, it is a comprehensive attempt to apply scientific methods of observation to a study of... -
Indian Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction by Sue Hamilton
RRP: €10.70€7.68India has a long, rich, and diverse tradition of philosophical thought, spanning some two and a half millennia and encompassing several major religious traditions. This Very Short Introduction emphasizes the diversity of Indian thought, and is... -
Locke, Berkeley, Hume; Central Themes by Jonathan Bennett 9780198750161
RRP: €70.20€54.82The thoughts of three philosophers on three topics: meaning, causality, and objectivity, are the focus of this study.Book InformationISBN 9780198750161Author Jonathan BennettFormat PaperbackPage Count 372Imprint Oxford University PressPublisher Oxford... -
The Problems of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell 9780192854230
RRP: €12.48€8.85'Is there any knowledge in the world which is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it?' Philosophy is the attempt to answer such ultimate questions, not carelessly and dogmatically, as we might deal with them in ordinary life, but critically,...