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Philosophy: The Classics by Nigel Warburton 9780415534666
RRP: $46.78$40.93Now in its fourth edition, Philosophy: The Classics is a brisk and invigorating tour through the great books of western philosophy. In his exemplary clear style, Nigel Warburton introduces and assesses thirty-two philosophical classics from Plato's... -
Philosophy of Education: An Anthology Randall Curren (University of Rochester) 9781405130233
RRP: $64.25$57.60Philosophy of Education: An Anthology brings together the essential historical and contemporary readings in the philosophy of education. The readings have been selected for their philosophical merit, their focus on important aspects of educational... -
After Writing: On the Liturgical Cosummation of Philosophy Catherine Pickstock (University of Cambridge) 9780631206729
RRP: $85.70$74.92After Writing provides a significant contribution to the growing genre of works which offers a challenge to modern and postmodern accounts of Christianity.About the AuthorCatherine Pickstock is a Research Fellow at Emmanuel College, Cambridge... -
Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson: All and Everything by George Gurdjieff
RRP: $39.00$28.65BEELZEBUB'S TALES TO HIS GRANDSON is Gurdjieff's world-famous cosmological epic. It examines human life on Earth from the viewpoint of beings belonging to a distant world, led by the 'all-wise Beelzebub'. Through this cosmological allegory - rich in... -
The Two Fundamental Problems of Ethics by Arthur Schopenhauer 9780199297221
RRP: $19.48$13.86'my philosophy is like Thebes with a hundred gates: one can enter from all sides and through each gate arrive at the direct path to the centre' Schopenhauer's two essays On the Freedom of the Will and On the Basis of Morals form his complete system of... -
Nietzsche: On the Genealogy of Morality and Other Writings by Friedrich Nietzsche
RRP: $40.93$35.28Friedrich Nietzsche is one of the most influential thinkers of the past 150 years and On the Genealogy of Morality (1887) is his most important work on ethics and politics. A polemical contribution to moral and political theory, it offers a critique of... -
Evidence and Faith: Philosophy and Religion since the Seventeenth Century by Charles Taliaferro 9780521790277
RRP: $185.25$141.51Charles Taliaferro has written a dynamic narrative history of philosophical reflection on religion from the seventeenth century to the present, with an emphasis on shifting views of faith and the nature of evidence. The book begins with the movement... -
How to Be: Life Lessons from the Early Greeks by Adam Nicolson
RRP: $48.75$23.93A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR What is the nature of things? Must I think my own way through the world? What is justice? How can I be me? How should we treat each other? Before the... -
Ecce Homo: How To Become What You Are by Friedrich Nietzsche
RRP: $17.53$12.58'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... -
Man, Son of Man: In the Stanzas of Dzyan by Sri Madhava Ashish
RRP: $31.18$25.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780835609371Author Sri Madhava AshishFormat PaperbackPage Count 366Imprint Quest Books,U.S.Publisher Quest Books,U.S.Weight(grams) 1g -
Disney and Philosophy: Truth, Trust, and a Little Bit of Pixie Dust Richard Brian Davis (Tyndale University College in Toronto) 9781119538318
RRP: $27.20$18.68Take a magic carpet ride through Disney's wonderful world of films and entertainment experiences, and discover the wisdom within its most popular and enduring stories Philosophy begins in wonder, and there's no question that Disney's immersive worlds and... -
Introducing Descartes: A Graphic Guide by Dave Robinson 9781848311725 [USED COPY]
RRP: $17.53$3.47Rene Descartes is famous as the philosopher who was prepared to doubt everything- even his own physical existence. Most people know that he said 'I think, therefore I am', even if they are not always sure what he really meant by it. Introducing Descartes... -
Introducing Descartes: A Graphic Guide by Dave Robinson
RRP: $17.53$13.07Rene Descartes is famous as the philosopher who was prepared to doubt everything- even his own physical existence. Most people know that he said 'I think, therefore I am', even if they are not always sure what he really meant by it. Introducing Descartes... -
Heidegger Explained: From Phenomenon to Thing by Graham Harman 9780812696172
RRP: $38.98$29.70Martin Heidegger's (1889-1976) influence has long been felt not just in philosophy, but also in such fields as art, architecture, and literary studies. Yet his difficult terminology has often scared away interested readers lacking an academic background... -
How to Think Like a Philosopher: Essential Principles for Clearer Thinking by Julian Baggini
RRP: $33.13$22.76The Sunday Times bestselling author of How the World Thinks shares his twelve key principles for a more humane and balanced approach to thinking in this vital new book. -- Pay attention. As politics slides toward impulsivity, and outrage bests... -
On War Carl Von Clausewitz 9781857151213
RRP: $48.75$35.14ON WAR is the most significant attempt in Western history to understand war, both in its internal dynamics and as an instrument of policy. Since the work's first appearance in 1832 it has been read throughout the world, and has stimulated generations of... -
Wittgenstein's Poker by David Edmonds 9780571227358
RRP: $25.33$16.69On 25 October 1946, in a crowded room in Cambridge, Ludwig Wittgenstein and Karl Popper came face to face for the first and only time. The encounter lasted only ten minutes, and did not go well. Almost immediately, rumours started to spread around the... -
On the Genealogy of Morals: A Polemic. By way of clarification and supplement to my last book Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche
RRP: $19.48$13.86`Reason, seriousness, mastery over the emotions, the whole murky affair which goes by the name of thought, all the privileges and showpieces of man: what a high price has been paid for them! How much blood and horror is at the bottom of all "good... -
Paracelsus by Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke
RRP: $37.03$24.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556433160Author ParacelsusFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint North Atlantic Books,U.S.Publisher North Atlantic Books,U.S.Weight(grams)... -
On War by Carl von Clausewitz 9781853264825
RRP: $9.73$6.75Translated by J.J. Graham, revised by F.N. Maude Abridged and with an Introduction by Louise Willmot. On War is perhaps the greatest book ever written about war. Carl von Clausewitz, a Prussian soldier, had witnessed at first hand the immense... -
A Little Manual for Knowing by Esther Lightcap Meek 9781610977845
RRP: $29.25$19.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781610977845Author Esther Lightcap MeekFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams)... -
Assemblage Theory Manuel DeLanda 9781474413633
RRP: $42.88$35.04Manuel DeLanda provides the first detailed overview of the assemblage theory found in germ in Deleuze and Guattari's writings. Through a series of case studies DeLanda shows how the concept can be applied to economic, linguistic, and military... -
Albert Camus: A Very Short Introduction by Oliver Gloag
RRP: $17.53$12.58Few would question that Albert Camus (1913-1960), novelist, playwright, philosopher and journalist, is a major cultural icon. His widely quoted works have led to countless movie adaptions, graphic novels, pop songs, and even t-shirts. In this Very... -
I Think, Therefore I Laugh: The Flip Side of Philosophy by John Allen Paulos 9780231119153
RRP: $36.95$27.34The preeminent explicator of mathematical logic to non-mathematicians, John Allen Paulos is familiar to general readers not only from his bestselling books but also from his media appearances, including The David Letterman Show and National Public... -
How To Read Wittgenstein by Ray Monk
RRP: $19.48$13.07Though Wittgenstein wrote on the same subjects that dominate the work of other analytic philosophers - the nature of logic, the limits of language, the analysis of meaning - he did so in a peculiarly poetic style that separates his work sharply from that... -
Being and Time Martin Heidegger 9780631197706
RRP: $48.65$43.25A knowledge of Heidegger's Sein und Zeit is essential for anyone who wishes to understand a great deal of recent continental work in theology as well as philosophy. Yet until this translation first appeared in 1962, this fundamental work of one of the... -
The Routledge Guidebook to Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations by Marie McGinn
RRP: $50.68$44.13Wittgenstein is one of the most important and influential twentieth-century philosophers in the western tradition. In his Philosophical Investigations he undertakes a radical critique of analytical philosophy's approach to both the philosophy of language... -
Nietzsche in Italy by Guy de Pourtales 9781782277286
RRP: $19.48$13.07For fifteen years, after his first visit to the country in1876, Nietzsche was repeatedly and irresistibly drawn back to Italy's climate and lifestyle. It was there that he composed his most famous works, including Thus Spake Zarathustra and Ecce Homo. ... -
The Cave And The Light by Arthur Herman
RRP: $44.85$29.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553385663Author Arthur HermanFormat PaperbackPage Count 704Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 488gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
Reading Philosophy: Selected Texts with a Method for Beginners Samuel Guttenplan (Birkbeck College, London) 9781119094678
RRP: $56.45$49.67A key introductory philosophy textbook, making use of an innovative, interactive technique for reading philosophical texts Reading Philosophy: Selected Texts with a Method for Beginners, Second Edition, provides a unique approach to reading philosophy,... -
The Stoic Challenge: A Philosopher's Guide to Becoming Tougher, Calmer, and More Resilient by William B. Irvine
RRP: $25.33$17.67Some people bounce back in response to setbacks; others break. We often think that these responses are hardwired but this is not the case. William B. Irvine combines key lessons from the ancient Stoics with modern psychological techniques to develop a... -
Self-Constitution: Agency, Identity, and Integrity by Christine M. Korsgaard
RRP: $61.41$53.00Christine M. Korsgaard presents an account of the foundation of practical reason and moral obligation. Moral philosophy aspires to understand the fact that human actions, unlike the actions of the other animals, can be morally good or bad, right or wrong... -
Philosophy In The Flesh by George Lakoff
$54.58What are human beings like? How is knowledge possible? What is truth? Where do moral values come from? Questions like these have stood at the centre of Western philosophy for centuries. In addressing them, philosophers have made certain fundamental... -
Custom and Reason in Hume: A Kantian Reading of the First Book of the Treatise by Henry E. Allison 9780199532889
$215.38Henry Allison examines the central tenets of Hume's epistemology and cognitive psychology, as contained in the Treatise of Human Nature. Allison takes a distinctive two-level approach. On the one hand, he considers Hume's thought in its own terms and... -
Everything, Beautiful: A Guide to Finding the Hidden Beauty in the World by Ella Frances Sanders
RRP: $29.23$21.35From the New York Times bestselling author of Lost in Translation comes an illustrated manifesto and an interactive guide to reclaiming the wonder of the everyday through mindful activities, creative exercises and heart-warming stories.In a world that... -
Introduction to the Reading of Hegel: Lectures on the "Phenomenology of Spirit" by Alexandre Kojeve
RRP: $40.93$35.82Lectures on the "Phenomenology of Spirit" "This collection of Kojeve's thoughts about Hegel constitutes one of the few important philosophical books of the twentieth century-a book, knowledge of which is requisite to the full awareness of our situation... -
Letters concerning the English Nation by Voltaire 9780199555321
RRP: $19.48$13.86Inspired by Voltaire's two-year stay in England (1726-8), this is one of the key works of the Enlightment. Exactly contemporary with Gulliver's Travels and The Beggar's Opera, Voltaire's controversial pronouncements on politics, philosophy, religion, and... -
Dancing Wu Li Masters by Gary Zukav 9780060959685
RRP: $35.08$22.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060959685Author Gary ZukavFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint HarperOnePublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncDimensions(mm) 210mm * 15mm * 3mm -
One Beat More: Existentialism and the Gift of Mortality Kevin Aho 9781509546909
RRP: $31.18$28.10A keen athlete in his late forties, philosophy professor Kevin Aho hadn't given much thought to his own mortality, until he suffered a sudden heart attack that left him fighting for his life. Confronted with death for the first time, he realized that the... -
On What Matters: Volume One by Derek Parfit 9780199681037
RRP: $52.63$45.24On What Matters is a major work in moral philosophy. It is the long-awaited follow-up to Derek Parfit's 1984 book Reasons and Persons, one of the landmarks of twentieth-century philosophy. In this first volume Parfit presents a powerful new treatment of...