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Everything, Beautiful: A Guide to Finding the Hidden Beauty in the World by Ella Frances Sanders
RRP: $25.71$18.78From 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... -
One Beat More: Existentialism and the Gift of Mortality by Kevin Aho 9781509546909
RRP: $27.43$24.72A 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: $43.72$37.70On 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... -
Philosophy in the Islamic World: A history of philosophy without any gaps, Volume 3 by Peter Adamson 9780198818618
RRP: $20.57$15.51The 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... -
Ethics 101: From Altruism and Utilitarianism to Bioethics and Political Ethics, an Exploration of the Concepts of Right and Wrong by Brian Boone 9781507204931
RRP: $22.28$19.33Explore the mysteries of morality and the concept of right and wrong with this accessible, engaging guide featuring basic facts along with an overview of modern-day issues ranging from business ethics and bioethics to political and social ethics.Ethics... -
The Forbidden Universe: The Occult Origins of Science and the Search for the Mind of God by Lynn Picknett
RRP: $18.85$12.69Were the first scientists hermetic philosophers? What do these occult origins of modern science tell us about the universe today? The Forbidden Universe reveals the secret brotherhood that defined the world, and perhaps discovered the mind of God.All... -
Lust: The Seven Deadly Sins by Simon Blackburn 9780195162004
RRP: $31.72$23.35Lust, says Simon Blackburn, is furtive, headlong, always sizing up opportunities. It is a trail of clothing in the hallway, the trashy cousin of love. But be that as it may, the aim of this delightful book is to rescue lust "from the denunciations of old... -
A Philosophical Daybook: Post-critical Investigations by William H. Poteat 9780826207487
RRP: $70.24$65.94According to Poteat, our literate culture has not been achieved without a price. He argues that the reverence paid to the printed word has attenuated our ability to respond to the world. This journal attempts to outline a set of values based on a greater... -
Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition by Frances Yates 9780415278492
RRP: $29.14$26.79Giordano Bruno is known as the Prophet of the New Age, and his vision of an infinite universe grounded in science is increasingly celebrated. One of the principal forces behind his rediscovery was the great British historian Frances Yates. In calling... -
Eastern Philosophy: Teach Yourself: A guide to the wisdom and traditions of thought of India and the Far East by Mel Thompson 9781444157598
$21.22Eastern Philosophy examines key ideas that developed within the ancient civilisations of India and China. It presents a range of philosophies that both inform discussion of personal, moral and social issues and address the fundamental questions about the... -
Anti-Education by Friedrich Nietzsche
RRP: $17.14$11.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590178942Author Friederich NietzscheFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)... -
The Physicist and the Philosopher: Einstein, Bergson, and the Debate That Changed Our Understanding of Time by Jimena Canales 9780691173177
RRP: $37.74$29.83On April 6, 1922, in Paris, Albert Einstein and Henri Bergson publicly debated the nature of time. Einstein considered Bergson's theory of time to be a soft, psychological notion, irreconcilable with the quantitative realities of physics. Bergson, who... -
Leibniz: Philosophical Essays by Freiherr von Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
RRP: $44.58$35.37Although Leibniz's writing forms an enormous corpus, no single work stands as a canonical expression of his whole philosophy. In addition, the wide range of Leibniz's work--letters, published papers, and fragments on a variety of philosophical,... -
How To Read Wittgenstein by Ray Monk
RRP: $17.14$11.49Though 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... -
Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy by Rene Descartes 9780872204201
RRP: $22.28$18.51This edition contains Donald Cress's completely revised translation of the Meditations (from the corrected Latin edition) and recent corrections to Discourse on Method, bringing this version even closer to Descartes's original, while maintaining the... -
Serendipities: Language And Lunacy by Umberto Eco
RRP: $17.14$11.66The extraordinary historical consequences of errors and fictional inventions.SERENDIPITIES is an iconoclastic, dazzlingly erudite and witty demonstration, by one of the world's most brilliant thinkers, of how myths and lunacies can produce historical... -
Unsettled Thoughts: A Theory of Degrees of Rationality by Julia Staffel
RRP: $111.49$100.45How should thinkers cope with uncertainty? What makes their degrees of belief rational, and how should they reason about uncertain matters? In epistemology, recent research has attempted to answer these questions by developing formal models of ideally... -
How To Read Jung by David Tacey 9781862077263
RRP: $22.28$14.68'The world today hangs by a thin thread, and that thread is the psyche of man' C. G. Jung Jung was the original anti-psychiatrist, who believed that the real patient was not the suffering individual, but a sick and ailing Western civilization. He was... -
Perpetual Peace and Other Essays: A Philosophical Essay by Immanuel Kant 9780915145478
RRP: $30.86$25.01TABLE OF CONTENTS:Introduction. Bibliography. A Note on the Text.1. Idea for a Universal History with a Cosmopolitan Intent (1784) 2. An Answer to the Question: What Is Enlightenment? (1784) 3. Speculative Beginning of Human History (1786) 4. On the... -
The Portable Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson
RRP: $17.14$12.20Philosopher 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... -
The Portable Nietzsche by Friedrich Nietzsche
RRP: $29.14$21.06The 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... -
Introducing Marx: A Graphic Guide by Rius
RRP: $15.42$11.49Compact INTRODUCING guide to the influential philosopher, sociologist and economist. INTRODUCING MARX - A GRAPHIC GUIDE explores the life of the most famous Socialist figure, from his early years to meeting Engels in1842. It provides a readable,... -
Contingency, Hegemony and Universality: Contemporary Dialogues on the Left by Slavoj Zizek
RRP: $20.57$16.64What is the contemporary legacy of Gramsci's notion of Hegemony? How can universality be reformulated now that its spurious versions have been so thoroughly criticized? In this ground-breaking project, Judith Butler, Ernesto Laclau and Slavoj Zizek... -
The Essence of Christianity by Ludwig Feuerbach 9780486454214
RRP: $17.14$11.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486454214Author Ludwig FeuerbachFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
The Joy of Missing Out: The Art of Self-Restraint in an Age of Excess by Svend Brinkmann 9781509531578
RRP: $22.28$14.75'Because you're worth it', proclaims the classic cosmetics ad. 'Just do it!' implores the global sports retailer. Everywhere we turn, we are constantly encouraged to experience as much as possible, for as long as possible, in as many ways as possible... -
The I in We: Studies in the Theory of Recognition by Axel Honneth
RRP: $32.57$28.94In this volume Axel Honneth deepens and develops his highly influential theory of recognition, showing how it enables us both to rethink the concept of justice and to offer a compelling account of the relationship between social reproduction and... -
Critique of Practical Reason by Immanuel Kant 9780872206175
RRP: $41.15$32.78With this volume, Werner Pluhar completes his work on Kant's three Critiques, an accomplishment unique among English language translators of Kant. At once accurate, fluent, and accessible, Pluhar's rendition of the Critique of Practical Reason meets the... -
On Suicide by David Hume
RRP: $13.71$9.93Throughout 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... -
The ego and his own: The case of the individual against authority by Max Stirner
RRP: $22.28$14.55The Ego and His Own, the seminal defence of individualism, coloured the thinking of Friedrich Nietzsche, Max Ernst, Henrik Ibsen and Victor Serge, among many others, some of whom would vigorously deny any such influence in later years. Less reticent... -
Meaning by Stephen R. Schiffer 9780198243670
RRP: $57.45$52.63What is it for marks or sounds to have meaning, and what is it for someone to mean something in producing them? Answering these and related questions, Schiffer explores communication, speech acts, convention, and the meaning of linguistic items in this... -
Philosophy of Time: A Contemporary Introduction by Sean Enda Power
RRP: $61.73$55.04As a growing area of research, the philosophy of time is increasingly relevant to different areas of philosophy and even other disciplines. This book describes and evaluates the most important debates in philosophy of time, under several subject areas:... -
Philosophy in the Islamic World: A Very Short Introduction by Peter Adamson
RRP: $15.42$11.06In the history of philosophy, few topics are so relevant to today's cultural and political landscape as philosophy in the Islamic world. Yet, this remains one of the lesser-known philosophical traditions. In this Very Short Introduction, Peter Adamson... -
Essays and Aphorisms by Arthur Schopenhauer 9780141395913
RRP: $25.71$18.78One 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... -
Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson: All and Everything by George Gurdjieff
RRP: $34.31$25.20BEELZEBUB'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... -
On Friendship by Michel de Montaigne
RRP: $13.71$9.93Throughout 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... -
Selected Essays by David Hume
RRP: $18.85$13.33In his writings, David Hume set out to bridge the gap between the learned world of the academy and the marketplace of polite society. This collection, drawing largely on his Essays Moral, Political, and Literary (1776 edition), which was even more... -
The Story of Philosophy: A History of Western Thought by James Garvey
RRP: $22.28$12.88The Story of Philosophy sees philosophy for what it is: a passionate, exhilarating quest for human understanding that cannot be reduced to dry categories or simple definitions. It's a story with plot twists, a murder, accidental discoveries, disastrous... -
The Yoga of Jesus: Understanding the Hidden Teachings of the Gospels by Paramahansa Yogananda 9780876125564
RRP: $27.43$17.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780876125564Author Paramahansa YoganandaFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Self-Realization Fellowship,U.S.Publisher Self-Realization Fellowship,U.S... -
Kama Sutra: The First Unabridged Modern Translation of the Classic Indian Text by Vatsyayana Mallanaga 9780892814923
RRP: $44.60$29.90This definitive volume is the first modern translation of Vatsyayana's Kama Sutra to include two essential commentaries: the Jayamangala of Yashodhara and the modern Hindi commentary by Devadatta Shastri. Alain Danilou spent four years comparing versions... -
Lost Knowledge of the Imagination by Gary Lachman 9781782504450
RRP: $34.31$24.51The ability to imagine is at the heart of what makes us human. Through our imagination we experience more fully the world both around us and within us. Imagination plays a key role in creativity and innovation.Until the seventeenth century, the human...