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Human, All Too Human II / Unpublished Fragments from the Period of <I>Human, All Too Human II</I> (Spring 1878-Fall 1879): Volume 4 by Friedrich Nietzsche
RRP: €24.98€21.86Volume 4 of The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche contains two works, Mixed Opinions and Maxims (1879) and The Wanderer and His Shadow (1880), originally published separately, then republished together in the 1886 edition of Nietzsche's works. They... -
Nietzsche: Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future by Friedrich Nietzsche
RRP: €27.36€23.93Beyond Good and Evil is one of the most scathing and powerful critiques of philosophy, religion, science, politics and ethics ever written. In it, Nietzsche presents a set of problems, criticisms and philosophical challenges that continue both to inspire... -
How To Read Derrida by Penelope Deutscher 9781862077683
RRP: €13.08€8.71'Deconstruction is not neutral. It intervenes' Jacques Derrida An idiosyncratic and highly controversial French philosopher, Jacques Derrida inspired profound changes in disciplines as diverse as law, anthropology, literature and architecture. In... -
The Enlightenment by Norman Hampson
RRP: €17.84€13.03Armed 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... -
From Plato to Wittgenstein: Essays by G.E.M. Anscombe G.E.M. Anscombe 9781845402334
RRP: €21.36€20.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845402334Author G.E.M. AnscombeFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Imprint AcademicPublisher Imprint AcademicWeight(grams) 350gDimensions(mm) 210mm *... -
On Plato's <i>Timaeus</i> by Calcidius
RRP: €35.64€28.63Until the Renaissance, the work of Calcidius offered the medieval West almost the only direct access to Plato's corpus not dispersed in fragments. In the 4th century CE, Calcidius translated into Latin an important section of Plato's Timaeus,... -
Unpopular Essays by Bertrand Russell
RRP: €17.84€16.16A classic collection of Bertrand Russell's more controversial works, reaffirming his staunch liberal values, Unpopular Essays is one of Russell's most characteristic and self-revealing books. Written to "combat... the growth in Dogmatism", on first... -
Twilight of the Idols by Friedrich Nietzsche
RRP: €10.70€7.68`Anyone who wants to gain a quick idea of how before me everything was topsy-turvy should make a start with this work. That which is called idol on the title-page is quite simply that which was called truth hitherto. Twilight of the Idols - in plain... -
The Greek Philosophers: from Thales to Aristotle by W. K. C. Guthrie 9780415522281
RRP: €15.46€14.21With an new foreword by James WarrenLong renowned as one of the clearest and best introductions to ancient Greek philosophy for non-specialists, W.K.C Guthrie's The Greek Philosophers offers us a brilliant insight into the hidden foundations of Greek... -
Ethical Studies by F. H. Bradley
€56.24Ethical Studies, now regarded as a classic, was first published in 1876 to an unenthusiastic reception. Unorthodox and highly polemical, the book was written as a counterblast to the Utilitarianism which then dominated English moral philosophy. The book... -
Hope in the Age of Anxiety by Anthony Scioli 9780195380354
RRP: €43.42€37.01Economic collapse, poverty, disease, natural disasters, the constant threat of community unrest and international terrorism--a quick look at any newspaper is enough to cause almost anyone to feel trapped and desparate. Yet the recent election also... -
Plato and A Platypus Walk into A Bar by Thomas Cathcart
RRP: €20.23€11.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143113874Author Thomas CathcartFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 176gDimensions(mm) 178mm *... -
The Physicist and the Philosopher: Einstein, Bergson, and the Debate That Changed Our Understanding of Time by Jimena Canales 9780691173177
RRP: €26.18€21.13On 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... -
Wagner and Philosophy by Bryan Magee
RRP: €15.46€10.82Wagner was one of the few major composers who studied philosophy seriously. Bryan Magee places the composer's artistic development in the context of the philosophy of his age, and gives us the first detailed and comprehensive study of the close links... -
Reality: A Very Short Introduction by Jan Westerhoff
RRP: €10.70€8.87'What is real?' has been one of the key questions of philosophy since its beginning in antiquity. It is a question that, due to such films as The Matrix, has also made its way into popular culture. But it is not just a question philosophers ask. It is... -
The Undiscovered Self Carl Gustav Jung 9780415854740
RRP: €23.79€21.05Written three years before his death, The Undiscovered Self combines acuity with concision in masterly fashion and is Jung at his very best. Offering clear and crisp insights into some of his major theories, such as the duality of human nature, the... -
Moses Mendelssohn: Philosophical Writings by Moses Mendelssohn 9780521574778
RRP: €46.40€41.36Mendelssohn's Philosophical Writings, published in 1761, bring the metaphysical tradition to bear on the topic of 'sentiments' (defined as knowledge or awareness by way of the senses). Mendelssohn offers a nuanced defence of Leibniz's theodicy and... -
Descartes: A Very Short Introduction by Professor Tom Sorell
RRP: €10.70€7.68Rene Descartes (1596-1650) had a remarkably short working life, and his output was small, yet his contributions to philosophy and science have endured to the present day. He is perhaps best known for his statement 'Cogito, ergo sum'. By a mixture of... -
Philosophy in the Islamic World: A Very Short Introduction by Peter Adamson
RRP: €10.70€7.68In 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... -
Leibniz's Monadology: A New Translation and Guide Lloyd Strickland 9780748693221
RRP: €33.31€26.91This is a fresh translation and in-depth commentary of Leibniz's seminal text, the Monadology. Written in 1714, the Monadology is widely considered to be the classic statement of Leibniz's mature philosophy. In the space of 90 numbered paragraphs,... -
The Plotinus Reader by Plotinus 9781624668944
RRP: €22.60€18.65The Plotinus Reader provides a generous selection of translations from the fifty-four treatises that together make up the Enneads of Plotinus, a central work in the history of philosophy. They were prepared by a team of specialists in ancient philosophy... -
Essays and Aphorisms by Arthur Schopenhauer 9780141395913
RRP: €17.84€13.03One 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... -
Popper Selections by Karl R. Popper 9780691020310
RRP: €41.65€30.32These excerpts from the writings of Sir Karl Popper are an outstanding introduction to one of the most controversial of living philosophers, known especially for his devastating criticisms of Plato and Marx and for his uncompromising rejection of... -
The Rosicrucian Enlightenment by Frances Yates 9780415267694
RRP: €20.22€18.11A history of the role that the occult has played in the formation of modern science and medicine, The Rosicrucian Enlightenment has had a tremendous impact on our understanding of the western esoteric tradition. Beautifully illustrated, it remains one of... -
All Things Shining: Reading the Western Classics to Find Meaning in a Secular Age by Hubert Dreyfus 9781416596165
RRP: €22.61€13.61A sense of certainty and unhesitating confidence is rare in the contemporary world. An unrelenting flow of choices confronts us at nearly every moment of our lives, and if we are honest about it then most of us will admit that we waver in the face of... -
Hobbes: A Very Short Introduction by Richard Tuck
RRP: €10.70€7.68Thomas Hobbes, the first great English political philosopher, has long had the reputation of being a pessimistic atheist, who saw human nature as inevitably evil and proposed a totalitarian state to subdue human failings. In this illuminating study,... -
Ironic Life Richard J. Bernstein (New School University, New York) 9781509505739
RRP: €19.03€17.15"Just as philosophy begins with doubt, so also a life that may be called human begins with irony" so wrote Kierkegaard. While we commonly think of irony as a figure of speech where someone says one thing and means the opposite, the concept of irony has... -
Leibniz: Philosophical Essays by Freiherr von Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
RRP: €30.93€25.05Although 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,... -
Hume: A Very Short Introduction by James A. Harris 9780198849780
RRP: €10.70€7.68David Hume, philosopher, historian, economist, librarian, and essayist, was one of the great figures of the European Enlightenment. Unlike some of his famous contemporaries, however, he was not dogmatically committed to idealised conceptions of reason,... -
Selected Essays by David Hume
RRP: €13.08€9.25In 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 Uses of Pessimism by Roger Scruton
RRP: €13.08€8.71Scruton argues that the tragedies and disasters of the history of the European continent have been the consequences of a false optimism and the fallacies that derive from it. In place of these fallacies, Scruton mounts a passionate defence of both civil... -
After Life Eugene Thacker 9780226793726
RRP: €36.89€35.93Life is one of our most basic concepts, yet when examined directly it proves remarkably contradictory and elusive, encompassing both the broadest and the most specific phenomena. We can see this uncertainty about life in our habit of approaching it as... -
A Discourse on the Method: of Correctly Conducting One's Reason and Seeking Truth in the Sciences by Rene Descartes 9780199540075
RRP: €9.51€6.89'I concluded that I was a substance whose whole essence or nature resides only in thinking, and which, in order to exist, has no need of place and is not dependent on any material thing.' Descartes's A Discourse on the Method of Correctly Conducting... -
Repetition and Philosophical Crumbs by Soren Kierkegaard
RRP: €13.08€9.25'The love of repetition is in truth the only happy love' So says Constantine Constantius on the first page of Kierkegaard's Repetition. Life itself, according to Kierkegaard's pseudonymous narrator, is a repetition, and in the course of this witty,... -
Principles of Philosophy by Rene Descartes 9781604597400
€10.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604597400Author Rene DescartesFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint SMK BooksPublisher SMK BooksWeight(grams) 118gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 4mm -
The Incoherence of the Philosophers, 2nd Edition Abu Hamid Muhammad Al-Ghazali 9780842524667
RRP: €44.63€38.06Although Abu Hamid Muhammad al-Ghazali lived a relatively short life (1058-1111), he established himself as one of the most important thinkers in the history of Islam. The Incoherence of the Philosophers, written after more than a decade of travel and... -
The Niche of Lights Abu Hamid Muhammad Al-Ghazali 9780842523530
RRP: €26.78€22.55Abu Hamid Muhammad al-Ghazali's philosophical explorations covered nearly the entire spectrum of twelfth-century beliefs. Beginning his career as a skeptic, he ended it as a scholar of mysticism and orthodoxy. The Niche of Lights, written near the end of... -
Pragmatism and Other Writings by William James
RRP: €13.08€9.25The writings of William James represent one of America's most original contributions to the history of ideas. Ranging from philosophy and psychology to religion and politics, James composed the most engaging formulation of American pragmatism. ... -
Anne Conway: The Principles of the Most Ancient and Modern Philosophy by Anne Conway 9780521479042
RRP: €34.50€28.32Anne Conway was an extraordinary figure in a remarkable age. Her mastery of the intricate doctrines of the Lurianic Kabbalah, her authorship of a treatise criticising the philosophy of Descartes, Hobbes, and Spinoza, and her scandalous conversion to the... -
The Roots Of Romanticism by Isaiah Berlin
RRP: €22.60€16.20The Roots of Romanticism is the long-awaited text of Isaiah Berlin's most celebrated set of lectures, the Mellon Lectures, delivered in Washington in 1965 and heard since by a much wider audience on BBC radio. For Berli, the Romantics set in train a...