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Introducing Machiavelli: A Graphic Guide by Patrick Curry
RRP: $18.88$8.48Illustrated 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... -
Giambattista Vico: Keys to the "New Science": Translations, Commentaries, and Essays by Giambattista Vico 9780801474729
RRP: $41.98$31.23Giambattista Vico: Keys to the "New Science" brings together in one volume translations, commentaries, and essays that illuminate the background of Giambattista Vico's major work. Thora Ilin Bayer and Donald Phillip Verene have collected a series of... -
Leibniz: A Very Short Introduction by Dr Maria Rosa Antognazza
RRP: $18.88$13.55Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) was a man of extraordinary intellectual creativity who lived an exceptionally rich and varied intellectual life in troubled times. More than anything else, he was a man who wanted to improve the life of his fellow... -
The World as Will and Representation, Vol. 2 by Arthur Schopenhauer
RRP: $52.48$34.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486217628Author Arthur SchopenhauerFormat PaperbackPage Count 694Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Of the Abuse of Words by John Locke
RRP: $16.78$12.16John Locke was one of the greatest figures of the Enlightenment, whose assertion that reason is the key to knowledge changed the face of philosophy. These writings on thought, ideas, perception, truth and language are some of the most influential in the... -
The Myths We Live By by Mary Midgley 9780415610247
RRP: $35.68$31.96With a new Introduction by the author'An elegant and sane little book. - The New StatesmanMyths, as Mary Midgley argues in this powerful book, are everywhere. In political thought they sit at the heart of theories of human nature and the social contract;... -
Nasty, Brutish, and Short: Adventures in Philosophy with Kids by Scott Hershovitz
RRP: $23.08$16.32'Witty and learned ... Hershovitz intertwines parenting and philosophy, recounting his spirited arguments with his kids about infinity, morality, and the existence of God' Jordan Ellenberg, author of ShapeA funny, wise guide to the art of thinking, and... -
The Virtues: A Very Short Introduction by Craig A. Boyd
RRP: $18.88$13.55From the philosophy of Aristotle and Confucius, to Thomas Aquinas' Summa Theologiae, to the paintings of Raphael, Botticelli and many more, fascination with the virtues has endured and evolved to fit a wide range of cultural, religious, and philosophical... -
Between Past and Future by Hannah Arendt
RRP: $39.90$24.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143104810Author Hannah ArendtFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Penguin ClassicsPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 210gDimensions(mm) 196mm *... -
The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau 9780140442014
RRP: $23.08$15.41'Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains'These are the famous opening words of a treatise that has not ceased to stir debate since its publication in 1762. Rejecting the view that anyone has a natural right to wield authority over others,... -
Life is Real Only Then, When 'I Am': All and Everything Third Series by George Gurdjieff
RRP: $23.08$16.32This is one of the few records published by Gurdjieff in which he offers guidance to his 'community of seekers', the pupils from many countries who joined him in Paris and New York.The first section is mainly autobiographical, relating material crucial... -
Plato’s Pragmatism: Rethinking the Relationship between Ethics and Epistemology by Nicholas R. Baima
RRP: $83.98$73.63Plato's Pragmatism offers the first comprehensive defense of a pragmatist reading of Plato. According to Plato, the ultimate rational goal is not to accumulate knowledge and avoid falsehood but rather to live an excellent human life. The book contends... -
Metamodernism: The Future of Theory by Jason Ananda Josephson Storm
RRP: $56.70$56.43For decades, scholars have been calling into question the universality of disciplinary objects and categories. The coherence of defined autonomous categories-such as religion, science, and art-has collapsed under the weight of postmodern critiques,... -
Works of Love by Soren Kierkegaard
RRP: $23.08$15.23One of Kierkegaard's central writings, "Works of Love" is a profound and indispensable examination of the human heart. 'Deep within every man', Kierkegaard writes, 'there lies the dread of being alone in the world, forgotten by God, overlooked among the... -
Nietzsche: A Complete Introduction: Teach Yourself by Roy Jackson
RRP: $27.28$18.06Written by Dr Roy Jackson, who is Course Leader in Religion, Philosophy and Ethics at the University of Gloucestershire, Nietzsche: A Complete Introduction is designed to give you everything you need to succeed, all in one place. It covers the key areas... -
The Politics and Poetics of Everyday Life by Kristin Ross
RRP: $41.98$34.21The texts in this volume represent Kristin Ross's attempt to think the question of the everyday across a range of discourses, practices and knowledges, from philosophy to history, from the visual arts to popular fiction, all the way to the forms taken by... -
Star Trek and Philosophy: The Wrath of Kant by Kevin S. Decker 9780812696493
RRP: $48.28$36.48Take a trip on the Starship Enterprise before the "Star Trek" film teleports itself into cinemas. The spirit of exploration that characterizes "Star Trek"'s various television and cinematic incarnations is also the driving force behind philosophical... -
On Art and Life by John Ruskin
RRP: $16.78$12.16Throughout 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... -
Ecce Homo: How To Become What You Are by Friedrich Nietzsche
RRP: $18.88$13.88'I am not a man, I am dynamite.' Ecce Homo is an autobiography like no other. Deliberately provocative, Nietzsche subverts the conventions of the genre and pushes his philosophical positions to combative extremes, constructing a genius-hero whose life... -
The Enlightenment by Norman Hampson
RRP: $31.48$23.00Armed with the insights of the scientific revolution, the men of the Enlightenment set out to free mankind from its age-old cocoon of pessimism and superstition and establish a more reasonable world of experiment and progress. Yet by the 1760s, this... -
Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What One is by Friedrich Nietzsche
RRP: $18.88$13.55In 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... -
A Nietzsche Reader by Friedrich Nietzsche
RRP: $20.98$14.93The literary career of Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) spanned less than twenty years, but no area of intellectual inquiry was left untouched by his iconoclastic genius. The philosopher who announced the death of God in The Gay Science (1882) and went on... -
Archaeology of Knowledge by Michel Foucault 9780415287531
RRP: $35.68$31.96In 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... -
Storytelling and Collective Psychology: Ancient wisdom, Modern life and the Work of Derren Brown by Darren Kelsey 9783030936594
RRP: $52.48$36.48This book examines the work of psychological illusionist Derren Brown to understand the significance of storytelling and ancient philosophy in our society. Reflecting on the social disconnection and political polarisation of recent times, Darren Kelsey... -
Why I am So Wise by Friedrich Nietzsche
RRP: $16.78$12.16Throughout 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... -
Is Gender Fluid?: A primer for the 21st century by Sally Hines
RRP: $27.28$18.06The Big Idea shortlisted for series design in the British Design and Production AwardsWhen we are born, we are each assigned a gender based on our physical anatomy. But why is it that some people experience such dissonance between their biological sex... -
Spinoza: Practical Philosophy by Gilles Deleuze 9780872862180
RRP: $20.98$14.18Spinoza's theoretical philosophy is one of the most radical attempts to construct a pure ontology, with a single infinite substance, and all beings as the modes of being his substance. This book, which presents Spinoza's main ideas in dictionary form,... -
Evil in Modern Thought: An Alternative History of Philosophy by Susan Neiman
RRP: $46.20$35.36Evil threatens human reason, for it challenges our hope that the world makes sense. For eighteenth-century Europeans, the Lisbon earthquake was manifest evil. Today we view evil as a matter of human cruelty, and Auschwitz as its extreme incarnation... -
A Secular Age by Charles Taylor
RRP: $46.10$38.33A New York Times Notable Book of the YearA Times Literary Supplement Book of the YearA Globe and Mail Best Book of the YearA Publishers Weekly Best Book of the YearA Tablet Best Book of the YearWinner of a Christianity Today Book Award"One finds big... -
A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume 9780140432442
RRP: $31.48$23.00One 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... -
Principles of Human Knowledge and Three Dialogues by George Berkeley 9780199555178
RRP: $18.88$13.55Berkeley's idealism started a revolution in philosophy. As one of the great empiricist thinkers he not only influenced British philosophers from Hume to Russell and the logical positivists in the twentieth century, he also set the scene for the... -
A History of Irish Thought by Thomas Duddy 9780415206938
RRP: $75.58$67.39The first complete introduction to the subject ever published, A History of Irish Thought presents an inclusive survey of Irish thought and the history of Irish ideas against the backdrop of current political and social change in Ireland.Clearly written... -
A Beginner's Guide to Descartes's Meditations by Gareth Southwell 9781405158558
RRP: $35.60$31.92A concise and readable guide to Descartes's Meditations geared toward beginner philosophy students (at A-level, or on undergraduate degree courses) and general readers. Offers clear explanations of the central themes and ideas, terminology, and arguments... -
Kierkegaard's Writings, XIV, Volume 14: Two Ages: The Age of Revolution and the Present Age A Literary Review by Soren Kierkegaard 9780691072265
RRP: $220.50$168.78After deciding to terminate his authorship with the pseudonymous Concluding Unscientific Postscript, Kierkegaard composed reviews as a means of writing without being an author. Two Ages, here presented in a definitive English text, is simultaneously a... -
Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics: and the Letter to Marcus Herz, February 1772 by Immanuel Kant 9780872205932
RRP: $31.48$25.83This edition of Prolegomena includes Kant's letter of February, 1772 to Marcus Herz, a momentous document in which Kant relates the progress of his thinking and announces that he is now ready to present a critique of pure reason.About the AuthorImmanuel... -
The Religion of the Future by Roberto Mangabeira Unger 9781784787301
RRP: $60.88$51.39How can we live in such a way that we die only once? How can we organize a society that gives us a better chance to be fully alive? How can we reinvent religion so that it liberates us instead of consoling us? These questions stand at the center of... -
The Meaning of Life: A Very Short Introduction by Terry Eagleton
RRP: $18.88$13.55'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... -
Hume by Don Garrett 9780415283342
RRP: $54.58$47.52Beginning 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... -
Women Philosophers in Nineteenth-Century Britain by Alison Stone 9780192874719
RRP: $163.80$148.85Many women wrote philosophy in nineteenth-century Britain, and they wrote across the full range of philosophical topics. Yet these important women thinkers have been left out of the philosophical canon and many of them are barely known today. The aim of... -
Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist by Walter A. Kaufmann 9780691160269
RRP: $46.20$33.75This classic is the benchmark against which all modern books about Nietzsche are measured. When Walter Kaufmann wrote it in the immediate aftermath of World War II, most scholars outside Germany viewed Nietzsche as part madman, part proto-Nazi, and...