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Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, and The Natural History of Religion by David Hume
RRP: $17.14$11.80David Hume is the greatest and also one of the most provocative philosophers to have written in the English language. No philosopher is more important for his careful, critical, and deeply perceptive examination of the grounds for belief in divine powers... -
How To Read Derrida by Penelope Deutscher 9781862077683
RRP: $18.85$12.56'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... -
Reading Philosophy: Selected Texts with a Method for Beginners by Samuel Guttenplan
RRP: $49.66$43.69A 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,... -
Human, All Too Human II / Unpublished Fragments from the Period of 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: $37.72$32.23Volume 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... -
Hope in the Age of Anxiety by Anthony Scioli 9780195380354
RRP: $59.16$58.44Economic 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... -
Nietzsche: Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future by Friedrich Nietzsche
RRP: $39.43$39.19Beyond 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... -
The Routledge Guidebook to Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations by Marie McGinn
RRP: $44.58$38.82Wittgenstein 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... -
From Plato to Wittgenstein: Essays by G.E.M. Anscombe by G. E. M. Anscombe 9781845402334
RRP: $30.79$29.13Apologies 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 *... -
Hobbes's Philosophy of Religion by Thomas Holden 9780192871329
RRP: $102.92$92.85Hobbes's Philosophy of Religion presents a new scholarly interpretation of Hobbes's treatment of religious speech and practice. It argues that the key to Hobbes's treatment of religion is his theory of religious language. According to Hobbes, the proper... -
The Prayers by Soren Kierkegaard
RRP: $19.73$19.28Soren Kierkegaard's influence has been felt in many areas of human thought from theology to psychology. Nearly 100 of his prayers are gathered here, illuminating his own life of prayer and speaking to the concerns of Christians today. The second part of... -
Wittgenstein's Poker by David Edmonds 9780571227358
RRP: $22.28$14.68On 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... -
Descartes: A Very Short Introduction by Professor Tom Sorell
RRP: $15.42$11.06Rene 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... -
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: $17.14$12.20`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... -
The Plotinus Reader by Plotinus 9781624668944
RRP: $32.57$26.30The 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... -
An Answer to the Question: 'What is Enlightenment?' by Immanuel Kant
RRP: $13.71$9.93Immanuel Kant was one of the most influential philosophers in the whole of Europe, who changed Western thought with his examinations of reason and the nature of reality. In these writings he investigates human progress, civilization, morality and why, to... -
The Undiscovered Self by Carl Gustav Jung
RRP: $34.29$30.34Written 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... -
Hope Without Optimism by Terry Eagleton 9780300248678
RRP: $20.57$17.41In a virtuoso display of erudition, thoughtfulness and humour, Terry Eagleton teases apart the concept of hope as it has been (often mistakenly) conceptualised over six millennia, from ancient Greece to today. He distinguishes hope from simple optimism,... -
Think: A Compelling Introduction to Philosophy by Simon Blackburn 9780192100245
RRP: $37.72$26.78What am I? What is consciousness? What is the difference between past and future? Does the world presuppose a creator? Do we always act out of self-interest? This is a book about the big questions in life: knowledge, consciousness, fate, God, truth,... -
All Things Shining: Reading the Western Classics to Find Meaning in a Secular Age by Hubert Dreyfus 9781416596165
RRP: $30.88$20.72A 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... -
Leibniz's Monadology: A New Translation and Guide by Dr. Lloyd Strickland
RRP: $48.01$38.78This 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,... -
A Book Forged in Hell: Spinoza's Scandalous Treatise and the Birth of the Secular Age by Steven Nadler 9780691160184
RRP: $27.43$20.19When it appeared in 1670, Baruch Spinoza's Theological-Political Treatise was denounced as the most dangerous book ever published - "godless," "full of abominations," "a book forged in hell ...by the devil himself." Religious and secular authorities saw... -
Wagner and Philosophy by Bryan Magee
RRP: $22.28$15.59Wagner 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... -
Ironic Life by Richard J. Bernstein 9781509505739
RRP: $27.43$24.72"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... -
On the Genealogy of Morality: A Polemic by Friedrich Nietzsche
RRP: $32.57$26.30This new edition is the product of a collaboration between a Germanist and a philosopher who is also a Nietzsche scholar. The translation strives not only to communicate a sense of Nietzsche's style but also to convey his meaning accurately-and thus to... -
The Uses of Pessimism by Roger Scruton
RRP: $18.85$12.56Scruton 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... -
Repetition and Philosophical Crumbs by Soren Kierkegaard
RRP: $18.85$13.33'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,... -
Hegel and the Hermetic Tradition by Glenn Alexander Magee
RRP: $42.87$36.42Glenn Alexander Magee's pathbreaking book argues that Hegel was decisively influenced by the Hermetic tradition, a body of thought with roots in Greco-Roman Egypt. Magee traces the influence on Hegel of such Hermetic thinkers as Baader, Boehme, Bruno,... -
After Life by Eugene Thacker
RRP: $53.17$51.78Life 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... -
Unended Quest: An Intellectual Autobiography by Sir Karl Popper 9780415285902
RRP: $25.71$23.29At the age of eight, Karl Popper was puzzling over the idea of infinity and by fifteen was beginning to take a keen interest in his father's well-stocked library of books. Unended Quest recounts these moments and many others in the life of one of the... -
The Greatest Minds and Ideas of All Time by Will Durant 9780743235532
RRP: $25.71$16.06In this remarkable little book, Will Durant answers the questions that most people would have wanted to ask him - what are the conclusions he drew from the experience of a long lifetime; what eras, individuals, and achievements stand out as being the... -
The Correspondence Between Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia and Rene Descartes by Princess Elisabeth
RRP: $54.89$53.36Between the years 1643 and 1649, Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia (1618-80) and Rene Descartes (1596-1650) exchanged fifty-eight letters - thirty-two from Descartes and twenty-six from Elisabeth. Their correspondence contains the only known extant... -
The Cosmopolitan Tradition: A Noble but Flawed Ideal by Martha C. Nussbaum
RRP: $30.79$24.49"Profound, beautifully written, and inspiring. It proves that Nussbaum deserves her reputation as one of the greatest modern philosophers."-Globe and Mail"At a time of growing national chauvinism, Martha Nussbaum's excellent restatement of the... -
Lost Enlightenment: Central Asia's Golden Age from the Arab Conquest to Tamerlane by S. Frederick Starr 9780691165851
RRP: $32.57$27.08In this sweeping and richly illustrated history, S. Frederick Starr tells the fascinating but largely unknown story of Central Asia's medieval enlightenment through the eventful lives and astonishing accomplishments of its greatest minds--remarkable... -
Platform Capitalism by Nick Srnicek 9781509504879
RRP: $17.14$15.35What unites Google and Facebook, Apple and Microsoft, Siemens and GE, Uber and Airbnb? Across a wide range of sectors, these firms are transforming themselves into platforms: businesses that provide the hardware and software foundation for others to... -
Sex, Ecology, Spirituality by Ken Wilber
RRP: $70.33$47.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781570627446Author Ken WilberFormat PaperbackPage Count 880Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)... -
Philosophical Investigations by Ludwig Wittgenstein
RRP: $53.09$48.80Philosophical Investigations New editions of the Commentary on Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations from Wiley-Blackwell Wittgenstein: Understanding and Meaning, Volume 1 of An Analytical Commentary on the Philosophical Investigations Part I:... -
The Essence of Nihilism by Emanuele Severino
RRP: $34.31$29.01In 1969, Emanuele Severino underwent a Vatican trial for the 'fundamental incompatibility' between his thought and the Christian doctrine, and was removed from his position as professor of philosophy at the Catholic University in Milan. The Essence of... -
Letters concerning the English Nation by Voltaire 9780199555321
RRP: $17.14$12.20Inspired 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... -
How the French Think: An Affectionate Portrait of an Intellectual People by Sudhir Hazareesingh 9780241961063
RRP: $22.28$15.59WINNER OF THE GRAND PRIX DU LIVRE D'IDEESThe French: serious and frivolous, charming and infuriating, rational and mystical, pessimistic, pleasure-loving - and perhaps more than any other people, intellectual. This original and entertaining book shows... -
Philosophies of India by Heinrich Robert Zimmer 9780691202792
RRP: $37.74$29.83A Princeton Classics edition of an essential work of twentieth-century scholarship on India Since its first publication, Philosophies of India has been considered a monumental exploration of the foundations of Indian philosophy. Based on the copious...