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History of Philosophy: Vol 2: Medieval Philosophy by Frederick C. Copleston
RRP: $41.98$37.82Copleston, 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
$18.90Heidegger 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: $31.48$23.00'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: $27.28$18.06"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: $68.23$50.84Oxford 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: $20.98$18.04We 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: $14.68$9.74'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... -
The Rosicrucian Enlightenment by Frances Yates 9780415267694
RRP: $35.68$31.96A 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... -
Nietzsche: Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality by Friedrich Nietzsche
RRP: $58.78$55.50Daybreak 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... -
Philosophical Foundations of Neuroscience by Max R. Bennett
RRP: $67.10$60.25The 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: $65.08$50.82This 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: $35.70$23.27Apologies 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: $35.68$29.61Everything 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: $83.98$72.72In 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: $18.88$14.85Immanuel 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
$54.52Apologies 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: $35.68$24.23Apologies 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: $18.88$13.92Why 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: $62.90$56.72A 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: $62.90$55.38More 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: $35.68$24.23Apologies 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: $18.88$13.55`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: $58.78$48.87Skillfully 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: $37.70$33.81Apologies 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
$32.00Apologies 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: $46.20$35.68From 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... -
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke
RRP: $31.48$23.00In 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: $20.98$17.16Our 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
$92.57In 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: $58.80$45.36The 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: $74.53$64.89Derek 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: $75.50$68.61Updated 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: $60.88$49.10Through 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: $37.80$27.22Buckminster 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... -
How to Be a Leader: An Ancient Guide to Wise Leadership by Plutarch 9780691192116
RRP: $31.48$24.93Timeless advice on how to be a successful leader in any fieldThe ancient biographer and essayist Plutarch thought deeply about the leadership qualities of the eminent Greeks and Romans he profiled in his famous-and massive-Lives, including politicians... -
The New Way of the World: On Neoliberal Society by Pierre Dardot
RRP: $27.28$13.97Exploring the genesis of neoliberalism, and the political and economic circumstances of its deployment, Pierre Dardot and Christian Laval dispel numerous common misconceptions. Neoliberalism is neither a return to classical liberalism nor the restoration... -
Carpe Diem Regained: The Vanishing Art of Seizing the Day by Roman Krznaric 9781783524938
RRP: $18.88$13.55Existentialism is backCarpe diem - 'seize the day' - is one of the oldest pieces of life advice in Western history. But its true spirit has been hijacked by ad men and self-help gurus, reduced to the instant hit of one-click online shopping, or slogans... -
Introductions to the Wissenschaftslehre and Other Writings (1797-1800) by Johann Gottlieb Fichte 9780872202399
RRP: $44.08$35.36These selections provide a brief but comprehensive introduction to Fichte's philosophical system and his place in the history of German Idealism. In addition to some of Fichte's most influential texts, such as the First and Second Introductions to the... -
Discourse on the Origin of Inequality by Jean-Jacques Rousseau 9780486434148
RRP: $6.28$4.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486434148Author Elizabeth S. HaldaneFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
An Essay concerning Human Understanding by John Locke 9780199296620
RRP: $31.48$23.00'I must apply my self to Experience; as far as that reaches, I may have certain Knowledge, but no farther.' In An Essay concerning Human Understanding, John Locke sets out his theory of knowledge and how we acquire it. Eschewing doctrines of innate...