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German Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction by Andrew Bowie
RRP: €10.70€7.68German philosophy remains the core of modern philosophy. Without Kant, Frege, Wittgenstein, and Husserl there would be no Anglo-American 'analytical' style of philosophy. Moreover, without Kant, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, and Heidegger, the 'Continental... -
Philosophy in the Islamic World: A history of philosophy without any gaps, Volume 3 by Peter Adamson 9780198818618
RRP: €15.46€11.29The 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... -
The World as Will and Representation, Vol. 2 by Arthur Schopenhauer
RRP: €29.74€19.33Apologies 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: €9.51€6.89John 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... -
Second Treatise of Government and A Letter Concerning Toleration by John Locke
RRP: €13.08€9.25'Man being born...to perfect freedom...hath by nature a power...to preserve his property, that is, his life, liberty and estate.' Locke's Second Treatise of Government (1689) is one of the great classics of political philosophy, widely regarded as the... -
Life is Real Only Then, When 'I Am': All and Everything Third Series by George Gurdjieff
RRP: €13.08€9.25This 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... -
The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau 9780140442014
RRP: €13.08€8.37'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,... -
David Hume: A Treatise of Human Nature: Volume 1: Texts by David Fate Norton 9780199596331
RRP: €45.21€39.23David and Mary Norton present the definitive scholarly edition of one of the greatest philosophical works ever written. This first volume contains the critical text of David Hume's Treatise of Human Nature (1739/40), followed by the short Abstract (1740)... -
The Equality of the Sexes: Three Feminist Texts of the Seventeenth Century by Desmond M. Clarke 9780199673513
€54.50Desmond M. Clarke presents new translations of three of the first feminist tracts to support explicitly the equality of the sexes. The alleged inferiority of women's nature and the corresponding roles that women were (in)capable of exercising in society... -
Between Past and Future by Hannah Arendt
RRP: €22.61€13.34Apologies 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 *... -
Nietzsche: A Complete Introduction: Teach Yourself Roy Jackson 9781444790573
RRP: €15.46€10.23Written 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... -
Ars Erotica: Sex and Somaesthetics in the Classical Arts of Love by Richard Shusterman
RRP: €32.12€27.61The term ars erotica refers to the styles and techniques of lovemaking with the honorific title of art. But in what sense are these practices artistic and how do they contribute to the aesthetics and ethics of self-cultivation in the art of living? In... -
A Secular Age by Charles Taylor
RRP: €26.12€22.16A 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... -
The Politics and Poetics of Everyday Life by Kristin Ross
RRP: €23.79€19.85The 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... -
A New Stoicism: Revised Edition by Lawrence C. Becker 9780691177212
RRP: €26.18€20.66What would stoic ethics be like today if stoicism had survived as a systematic approach to ethical theory, and if it had coped successfully with the challenges of modern philosophy and experimental science? What would stoic ethics be like today if... -
Star Trek and Philosophy: The Wrath of Kant by Kevin S. Decker 9780812696493
RRP: €27.36€20.67Take 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... -
Discourse on Metaphysics and Other Essays by Freiherr von Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 9780872201323
RRP: €14.27€11.63Discourse on Metaphysics and Other Essays contains complete translations of the two essays that constitute the best introductions to Leibniz's complex thought: Discourse on Metaphysics of 1686 and Monadology of 1714. These are supplemented with two... -
Introducing Kierkegaard: A Graphic Guide by Dave Robinson 9781848315150
RRP: €10.70€7.97Father of existentialism or the Eeyore of philosophy?Known as the first modern theologian, SorenKierkegaard was a prolific writer of the Danish 'golden age'. A philosopher,poet and social critic, his key concepts of angst, despair, and theimportance of... -
Is Gender Fluid?: A primer for the 21st century by Sally Hines
RRP: €15.46€10.23The 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... -
Metamodernism: The Future of Theory by Jason Ananda Josephson Storm
RRP: €32.13€31.98For 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,... -
A Nietzsche Reader by Friedrich Nietzsche
RRP: €11.89€8.46The 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... -
Mind: A Brief Introduction by John R. Searle
RRP: €42.83€30.52"The philosophy of mind is unique among contemporary philosophical subjects," writes John Searle, "in that all of the most famous and influential theories are false." One of the world's most eminent thinkers, Searle dismantles these theories as he... -
Principles of Human Knowledge and Three Dialogues by George Berkeley 9780199555178
RRP: €10.70€7.68Berkeley'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... -
Introducing Ethics: A Graphic Guide by Dave Robinson 9781848310087
RRP: €10.70€7.24What is the place of individual choice and consequence in a post-Holocaust world of continuing genocidal ethnic cleansing? Is "identity" now a last-ditch cultural defence of ethnic nationalisms and competing fundamentalisms? In a climate of instant... -
The Portable Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson
RRP: €11.89€10.42Philosopher John Dewey called Ralph Waldo Emerson "the one citizen of the New World fit to have his name uttered in the same breath with that of Plato."Through his writing and his own personal philosophy, Emerson unburdened his young country of Europe's... -
A Beginner's Guide to Descartes's Meditations Gareth Southwell (Independent Scholar) 9781405158558
RRP: €20.17€18.09A 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... -
The Religion of the Future by Roberto Mangabeira Unger 9781784787301
RRP: €34.50€29.81How 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... -
Nasty, Brutish, and Short: Adventures in Philosophy with Kids by Scott Hershovitz 9780241448793
RRP: €23.80€17.48'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... -
Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist by Walter A. Kaufmann 9780691160269
RRP: €26.18€21.13This 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... -
The Philosophical Writings of Edgar Saltus: The Philosophy of Disenchantment & The Anatomy of Negation by Chip Smith
RRP: €21.36€18.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780988553644Author Chip SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 370Imprint Underworld AmusementsPublisher Underworld AmusementsWeight(grams) 494gDimensions(mm)... -
The Wholeness of Nature: Goethe's Way of Science by Henri Bortoft
RRP: €23.80€16.08The scientific work of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) represents a style of learning and understanding which is largely ignored today. Modern science tends to break objects down in a purely analytical way; by contrast, Goethe was interested in... -
The Portable Nietzsche by Friedrich Nietzsche
RRP: €20.22€14.61The works of Friedrich Nietzsche have fascinated readers around the world ever since the publication of his first book more than a hundred years ago. As Walter Kaufmann, one of the world's leading authorities on Nietzsche, notes in his introduction, "Few... -
Leibniz: A Very Short Introduction by Dr Maria Rosa Antognazza
RRP: €10.70€7.68Gottfried 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 Proper Study Of Mankind: An Anthology of Essays by Isaiah Berlin
RRP: €29.75€21.44'He becomes everyman's guide to everything exciting in the history of ideas' New York Review of BooksIsaiah Berlin was one of the leading thinkers of the twentieth century, and one of the finest writers. The Proper Study Of Mankind selects some of his... -
Rousseau: A Very Short Introduction Robert Wokler (, formerly Senior Lecturer in Political Science, Yale University) 9780192801982
RRP: €10.70€7.68One of the most profound thinkers of modern history, Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-78) was a central figure of the European Enlightenment. He was also its most formidable critic, condemning the political, economic, theological, and sexual trappings of... -
Mill's On Liberty: A Critical Guide by C. L. Ten 9780521873567
RRP: €107.10€80.03John Stuart Mill's essay On Liberty, published in 1859, has had a powerful impact on philosophical and political debates ever since its first appearance. This volume of essays covers the whole range of problems raised in and by the essay, including the... -
What Does It All Mean?: A Very Short Introduction to Philosophy by Thomas Nagel 9780195174373
€50.53In this cogent and accessible introduction to philosophy, the distinguished author of Mortal Questions and The View From Nowhere sets forth the central problems of philosophical inquiry for the beginning student. Arguing that the best way to learn about... -
The Philosophy of Schopenhauer by Bryan Magee 9780198237228
RRP: €58.30€47.02This is a revised and enlarged version of Bryan Magee's widely praised study of Schopenhauer, the most comprehensive book on this great philosopher. It contains a brief biography of Schopenhauer, a systematic exposition of his thought, and a critical... -
Nasty, Brutish, and Short: Adventures in Philosophy with Kids by Scott Hershovitz
RRP: €13.08€9.25'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... -
Utilitarianism and Other Essays by Jeremy Bentham
RRP: €13.08€9.25One of the most important nineteenth-century schools of thought, Utilitarianism propounds the view that the value or rightness of an action rests in how well it promotes the welfare of those affected by it, aiming for 'the greatest happiness of the...