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Modlib-Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
£16.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679601753Author Friedrich NietzscheFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm)... -
Leviathan: With selected variants from the Latin edition of 1668 by Thomas Hobbes 9780872201774
RRP: £17.99£14.58Designed to meet the needs of both student and scholar, this edition of Leviathan offers a brilliant introduction by Edwin Curley, modernized spelling and punctuation of the text, and the inclusion, along with historical and interpretive notes, of the... -
Simply Philosophy by DK
RRP: £9.99£6.52A clear, simple, graphic-led introduction to philosophy.Are you short of time but hungry for knowledge? This philosophy book proves that sometimes less is more. Bold graphics and easy-to-understand explanations make it the most accessible guide to... -
The Awakening: A History of the Western Mind AD 500 - 1700 by Charles Freeman 9781789545630
RRP: £16.00£11.24A monumental and exhilarating history of European thought, from the fall of Rome in the fifth century AD to the Scientific Revolution thirteen centuries later. The Awakening traces the recovery and refashioning of Europe's classical heritage from... -
The Incoherence of the Philosophers by Abu Hamid Muhammed Al-Ghazali 9780842524667
RRP: £37.50£31.98Although 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... -
History of Philosophy: Vol 2: Medieval Philosophy by Frederick C. Copleston
RRP: £19.99£18.01Copleston, an Oxford Jesuit and specialist in the history of philosophy, first created his history as an introduction for Catholic ecclesiastical seminaries. However, since its first publication (the last volume appearing in the mid-1970s) the series has... -
How To Read Heidegger by Mark A. Wrathall 9781862077669
£9.00Heidegger is perhaps the most influential, yet least readily understood, philosopher of the last century. Mark A. Wrathall unpacks Heidegger's dense prose and guides the reader through Heidegger's early concern with the nature of human existence and his... -
How to Think Politically: Sages, Scholars and Statesmen Whose Ideas Have Shaped the World by James Bernard Murphy
RRP: £14.99£10.95'A wonderful introduction to history's most influential scribblers' - Steven Pinker What is truly at stake in politics? Nothing less than how we should live, as individuals and as communities. This book goes beyond the surface headlines, the fake news... -
How to Read Like a Parasite: Why the Left Got High on Nietzsche by Daniel Tutt 9781914420627
RRP: £12.99£8.60"Beautifully written and bursting with spirit, How to Read Like a Parasite is destined to be vital reading." - Matthew McManus, author of Nietzsche and the Politics of Reaction How to Read Like a Parasite overturns the whitewashed and defanged... -
The Oxford Companion to Philosophy by Ted Honderich
RRP: £32.49£24.21Oxford University Press presents a major new edition of the definitive philosophical reference work for readers at all levels. For ten years the original volume has served as a stimulating introduction for general readers and as an indispensable guide... -
Malign Velocities: Accelerationism and Capitalism by Benjamin Noys 9781782793007
RRP: £9.99£8.59We are told our lives are too fast, subject to the accelerating demand that we innovate more, work more, enjoy more, produce more, and consume more. That's one familiar story. Another, stranger, story is told here: of those who think we haven't gone fast... -
Candide and Other Stories by Voltaire 9780199535613
RRP: £6.99£4.64'If this is the best of all possible worlds, then what must the others be like?' Young Candide is tossed on a hilarious tide of misfortune, experiencing the full horror and injustice of this 'best of all possible worlds' - the Old and the New - before... -
Nietzsche: Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality by Friedrich Nietzsche
RRP: £27.99£24.27Daybreak marks the arrival of Nietzsche's 'mature' philosophy and is indispensable for an understanding of his critique of morality and 'revaluation of all values'. This volume presents the distinguished translation by R. J. Hollingdale, with a new... -
The Rosicrucian Enlightenment by Frances Yates 9780415267694
RRP: £16.99£15.22A 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... -
Philosophical Foundations of Neuroscience by Max R. Bennett
RRP: £31.95£28.69The second edition of the seminal work in the field-revised, updated, and extended In Philosophical Foundations of Neuroscience, M.R. Bennett and P.M.S. Hacker outline and address the conceptual confusions encountered in various neuroscientific and... -
Locke: A Biography by Roger Woolhouse
RRP: £30.99£24.20This is the first comprehensive biography of John Locke to be published in nearly a half century. Setting Locke's life within exciting historical and intellectual contexts, which included the English Civil War, religious persecution, and the Glorious... -
I Think, Therefore I Draw: Understanding Philosophy Through Cartoons by Thomas Cathcart 9780143133032
RRP: £17.00£11.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143133032Author Thomas CathcartFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 221gDimensions(mm) 176mm *... -
Spinoza's Ethics: An Edinburgh Philosophical Guide by Beth Lord
RRP: £16.99£14.10Everything you need to know about Spinoza's Ethics in one volume. The Ethics presents a complete metaphysical, epistemological and ethical world-view that is immensely inspiring. However, it is also an extremely difficult text to read. This book takes... -
German Philosophy 1760-1860: The Legacy of Idealism by Terry P. Pinkard
RRP: £39.99£34.63In the second half of the eighteenth century, German philosophy came for a while to dominate European philosophy. It changed the way in which not only Europeans, but people all over the world, conceived of themselves and thought about nature, religion,... -
Introducing Kant: A Graphic Guide by Christopher Kul-Want
RRP: £8.99£7.07Immanuel Kant laid the foundations of modern Western thought. Every subsequent major philosopher owes a profound debt to Kant's attempts to delimit human reason as an appropriate object of philosophical enquiry. And yet, Kant's relentless systematic... -
Ecological Literacy: Education and the Transition to a Postmodern World by David W. Orr
£25.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791408742Author David W. OrrFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York... -
The Waste Books by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
RRP: £16.99£11.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780940322509Author Georg Christoph LichtenbeFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)... -
Introducing Nietzsche: A Graphic Guide by Laurence Gane 9781848310094
RRP: £8.99£6.63Why must we believe that God is dead? Can we accept that traditional morality is just a 'useful mistake'? Did the principle of 'the will to power' lead to the Holocaust? What are the limitations of scientific knowledge? Is human evolution complete or... -
The Moral Powers – A Study of Human Nature by PMS Hacker
RRP: £29.95£27.01A milestone in the study of value in human life and thought, written by one of the world’s preeminent living philosophers The Moral Powers: A Study of Human Nature is a philosophical investigation of the moral potentialities and sensibilities of human... -
Nietzsche: Life as Literature by Alexander Nehamas
RRP: £29.95£26.37More than eighty years after his death, Nietzsche's writings and his career remain disquieting, disturbing, obscure. His most famous views-the will to power, the eternal recurrence, the UEbermensch, the master morality-often seem incomprehensible or,... -
The Fourth Way: Teachings of G.I. Gurdjieff by P. D. Ouspensky
RRP: £16.99£12.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780394716725Author P. D. OuspenskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 329gDimensions(mm)... -
Twilight of the Idols by Friedrich Nietzsche
RRP: £8.99£6.45`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... -
Marxism and the Philosophy of Science: A Critical History by Helena Sheehan
RRP: £27.99£23.27Skillfully deploying a large cast of characters, Sheehan retraces the development of Marxist philosophy of science through detailed and highly readable accounts of the debates that have characterized it. Approaching Marxism from the perspective of the... -
The Philosophical Writings of Edgar Saltus: The Philosophy of Disenchantment & The Anatomy of Negation by Chip Smith
RRP: £17.95£16.10Apologies 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 History of Philosophy: A Marxist Perspective by Alan Woods
£15.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913026240Author Alan WoodsFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Well Red PublicationsPublisher Well Red Publications -
The Murder of Professor Schlick: The Rise and Fall of the Vienna Circle by David Edmonds
RRP: £22.00£16.99From the author of Wittgenstein's Poker and Would You Kill the Fat Man?, the story of an extraordinary group of philosophers during a dark chapter in Europe's historyOn June 22, 1936, the philosopher Moritz Schlick was on his way to deliver a lecture at... -
Spinoza's Political Psychology: The Taming of Fortune and Fear by Justin Steinberg 9781107141308
RRP: £90.00£81.03Spinoza's Political Psychology advances a novel, comprehensive interpretation of Spinoza's political writings, exploring how his analysis of psychology informs his arguments for democracy and toleration. Justin Steinberg shows how Spinoza's political... -
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke
RRP: £14.99£10.95In An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, first published in 1690, John Locke (1632-1704) provides a complete account of how we acquire everyday, mathematical, natural scientific, religious and ethical knowledge. Rejecting the theory that some... -
Philosophy of Care by Boris Groys
RRP: £9.99£8.17Our current culture is dominated by the ideology of creativity. One is supposed to create the new and not to care about the things as they are. This ideology legitimises the domination of the "creative class" over the rest of the population that is... -
What Does It All Mean?: A Very Short Introduction to Philosophy by Nagel
£44.08In this lucid and accessible book, Thomas Nagel explores the central questions of philosophy thoughtfully, clearly, and with humour. He demonstrates that philosophy is an indispensable key to understanding our lives, and far from being an arcane academic... -
The Philosophers' Library: Books that Shaped the World by Dr. Adam Ferner
RRP: £28.00£21.60The Philosophers' Library features the most important philosophy manuscripts and books as stepping stones to take your through the history of philosophy. By cataloguing the history of philosophy via its key works, this book reflects the physical results... -
On What Matters: Volume Three by Derek Parfit
RRP: £35.49£30.90Derek Parfit presents the third volume of On What Matters, his landmark work of moral philosophy. Parfit develops further his influential treatment of reasons, normativity, the meaning of moral discourse, and the status of morality. He engages with his... -
The Blackwell Companion to Consciousness by Susan Schneider
RRP: £35.95£32.67Updated and revised, the highly-anticipated second edition of The Blackwell Companion to Consciousness offers a collection of readings that together represent the most thorough and comprehensive survey of the nature of consciousness available today. *... -
The Persistence of the Negative: A Critique of Contemporary Continental Theory by Benjamin Noys
RRP: £28.99£23.38Through a series of incisive readings of leading theoretical figures of affirmationism -- Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze, Bruno Latour, Antonio Negri and Alain Badiou -- Benjamin Noys contests the tendency of recent theory to rely on affirmation, and... -
Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth by R.Buckminster Fuller 9783037781265
RRP: £18.00£12.96Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983) was an architect, engineer, geometrician, cartographer, philosopher, futurist, inventor of the famous geodesic dome, and one of the most brilliant thinkers of his time. For more than five decades, he set forth his...