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The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion by Victor E. Marsden 9781593640200
€17.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781593640200Author Victor E. MarsdenFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Liberty Bell PublicationsPublisher Liberty Bell PublicationsWeight(grams)... -
Spinoza: Practical Philosophy by Gilles Deleuze 9780872862180
RRP: €11.89€8.03Spinoza's theoretical philosophy is one of the most radical attempts to construct a pure ontology, with a single infinite substance, and all beings as the modes of being his substance. This book, which presents Spinoza's main ideas in dictionary form,... -
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen J. Greenblatt 9780393343403
RRP: €10.70€10.21In the winter of 1417, a short, genial, cannily alert man in his late thirties plucked a very old manuscript off a dusty shelf in a remote monastery, saw with excitement what he had discovered, and ordered that it be copied. He was Poggio Bracciolini,... -
Critique of Dialectical Reason: v. 2 by Jean-Paul Sartre
RRP: €34.50€29.30Does history produce discernible meaning? Are human struggles intelligible? These questions form the starting-point for the second volume of Sartre's Critique of Dialectical Reason. Drafted in 1958 and published in France in 1985, this magisterial work... -
The Essence of Christianity by Ludwig Feuerbach 9780486454214
RRP: €11.89€7.63Apologies 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)... -
Meditations: The Philosophy Classic by Marcus Aurelius 9780857088468
RRP: €14.27€8.12A deluxe special edition of the ancient classic written by the Roman Emperor known as "The Philosopher" Meditations is a series of personal journals written by Marcus Aurelius, Emperor of Rome from 169 to 180 AD. The last of the "Five Good Emperors," he... -
The Little Book of Philosophy: An Introduction to the Key Thinkers and Theories You Need to Know by Rachel Poulton
RRP: €8.32€5.95If you want to know your Socrates from your Sartre and your Confucius from your Kant, strap in for this whirlwind tour of the highlights of philosophy. Philosophy is a quest for wisdom and knowledge; philosophia in Ancient Greek literally means "love... -
Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu
RRP: €11.89€8.46'Have little thought of self and as few desires as possible'Whether or not Lao Tzu was a historical figure is uncertain, but the wisdom gathered under his name in the fourth century BC is central to the understanding and practice of Taoism. One of the... -
Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche
RRP: €11.89€8.46'One of the greatest books of a very great thinker' Michael TannerBeyond Good and Evil confirmed Nietzsche's position as the towering European philosopher of his age. The work dramatically rejects traditional Western thought with its notions of truth and... -
A Little History of Philosophy by Nigel Warburton
RRP: €13.08€11.15For readers of E. H. Gombrich's A Little History of the World, an equally irresistible volume that brings history's greatest philosophers to life "A primer in human existence: philosophy has rarely seemed so lucid, so important, so worth doing and so... -
Think: A Compelling Introduction to Philosophy by Simon Blackburn
RRP: €14.27€10.03This is a book about the big questions in life: knowledge, consciousness, fate, God, truth, goodness, justice. It is for anyone who believes there are big questions out there, but does not know how to approach them. Think sets out to explain what they... -
Happy: Why More or Less Everything is Absolutely Fine by Derren Brown
RRP: €13.08€9.25The Sunday Times Bestseller'Really brilliant and just crammed with wisdom and insight. It will genuinely make a difference to me and the way I think about myself.' Stephen Fry___Everyone says they want to be happy. But that's much more easily said than... -
On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays by John Stuart Mill
RRP: €10.70€7.68'it is only the cultivation of individuality which produces, or can produce, well developed human beings' Mill's four essays, 'On Liberty', 'Utilitarianism', 'Considerations on Representative Government', and 'The Subjection of Women' examine the most... -
Gay Science by Friedrich Nietzsche
RRP: €15.46€10.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780394719856Author Friedrich NietzscheFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)... -
Twilight of Idols and Anti-Christ by Friedrich Nietzsche
RRP: €10.70€7.68In these two devastating late works, Nietzsche offers a powerful attack on the morality and the beliefs of his timeNietzsche's Twilight of the Idols is a 'grand declaration of war' on reason, psychology and theology, which combines highly charged... -
I and Thou by Martin Buber
RRP: €21.41€21.18'The publication of Martin Buber's I and Thou was a great event in the religious life of the West.' Reinhold Niebuhr Martin Buber was a prolific and influential teacher and writer, who taught philosophy at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem from 1939... -
The Conference of the Birds by Farid Attar
RRP: €13.08€9.25Composed in the twelfth century in north-eastern Iran, Attar's great mystical poem is among the most significant of all works of Persian literature. A marvellous, allegorical rendering of the Islamic doctrine of Sufism - an esoteric system concerned with... -
Either/Or: A Fragment of Life by Soren Kierkegaard
RRP: €15.46€11.29In Either/Or, using the voices of two characters - the aesthetic young man of part one, called simply 'A', and the ethical Judge Vilhelm of the second section - Kierkegaard reflects upon the search for a meaningful existence, contemplating subjects as... -
Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant 9780140447477
RRP: €22.60€16.20Kant's profound and challenging investigation into the nature of human reason is the central text of modern philosophyIn his landmark work Kant argues that reason is the seat of certain concepts that precede experience and make it possible, but we are... -
On the Genealogy of Morals by Friedrich Nietzsche
RRP: €11.89€8.46The companion book to Beyond Good and Evil, the three essays included here offer vital insights into Nietzsche's theories of morality and human psychology.Nietzsche claimed that the purpose of The Genealogy of Morals was to call attention to his previous... -
Ethics by Benedict de Spinoza
RRP: €11.89€8.46'The noblest and most lovable of the great philosophers ... ethically he is supreme' Bertrand RussellPublished shortly after his death in 1677, the Ethics is Spinoza's greatest work - a fully cohesive philosophical system that strives to provide a... -
The Prophets of Doom by Neema Parvini 9781788361118
RRP: €17.79€17.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788361118Author Neema ParviniFormat PaperbackImprint Imprint AcademicPublisher Imprint AcademicWeight(grams) 250gDimensions(mm) 2100mm * 135mm * 13mm -
Tao Te Ching by Lao-Tzu 9780872202320
RRP: €16.65€14.08This translation captures the terse and enigmatic beauty of the ancient original and resists the tendency toward interpretive paraphrase found in many other editions. Along with the complete translation, Lombardo and Addiss provide one or more key lines... -
Works of Love by Soren Kierkegaard
RRP: €13.08€8.63One of Kierkegaard's central writings, "Works of Love" is a profound and indispensable examination of the human heart. 'Deep within every man', Kierkegaard writes, 'there lies the dread of being alone in the world, forgotten by God, overlooked among the... -
On Liberty and the Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill
RRP: €10.70€7.68A prodigiously brilliant thinker who sharply challenged the beliefs of his age, the political and social radical John Stuart Mill was the most influential English-speaking philosopher of the nineteenth century. Regarded as one of the sacred texts of... -
Essays on Heidegger and Others: Philosophical Papers by Richard Rorty 9780521358781
RRP: €27.36€20.71Richard Rorty's collected papers, written during the 1980s and now published in two volumes, take up some of the issues which divide Anglo-Saxon analytic philosophers and contemporary French and German philosophers and offer something of a compromise -... -
The Stars Down to Earth by Theodor Adorno
RRP: €17.84€16.16The Stars Down to Earth shows us a stunningly prescient Adorno. Haunted by the ugly side of American culture industries he used the different angles provided by each of these three essays to showcase the dangers inherent in modern obsessions with... -
The Story of Philosophy by Will Durant 9780671739164
RRP: €9.51€8.33This brilliant and concise account of the lives and ideas of the world's great philosophers-Plato, Aristotle, Bacon, Spinoza, Voltaire, Kant, Schopenhauer, Spencer, Nietzsche, Bergson, Croce, Russell, Santayana, James, and Dewey-is "a delight" (The New... -
Philosophy 101: From Plato and Socrates to Ethics and Metaphysics, an Essential Primer on the History of Thought by Paul Kleinman
RRP: €15.46€9.73Discover the world's greatest thinkers and their groundbreaking notions!Too often, textbooks turn the noteworthy theories, principles, and figures of philosophy into tedious discourse that even Plato would reject. Philosophy 101 cuts out the boring... -
Hobbes: A Biography by A. P. Martinich 9780521495837
RRP: €117.81€81.67Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) is recognized as one of the fathers of modern philosophy and political theory. In his own time he was as famous for his work in physics, geometry, and religion. He associated with some of the greatest writers, scientists, and... -
The Philosophy Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained by DK 9780241638668
RRP: €23.79€17.08Get to grips with the concepts that shaped the way we think about ethics, politics, and our place in the universe. Explaining the big ideas and groundbreaking theories of key philosophers in a clear and simple way, The Philosophy Book is the perfect... -
The Consolations of Philosophy by Alain de Botton
RRP: €15.46€10.82THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLEROne of the most influential voices in modern philosophy - the author of The Course of Love, Religion for Atheists, The Art of Travel and The School of LifeAlain de Botton presents a one-stop shop for solving the... -
The Crisis in Physics Christopher Caudwell 9781786634603
RRP: €14.27€11.54Christopher Caudwell's The Crisis in Physics is a stylish and readable analysis of the lines of connection between scientific theories and economic realities. Caudwell provides a trenchant critique of mechanism and positivism. In the words of J. B. S... -
21st-Century Statecraft: Reconciling Power, Justice and Meta-Geopolitical Interests by Nayef Al-Rodhan 9780718895754
RRP: €37.19€36.54From civilisational frontier risks associated with new challenges like disruptive technologies, to the shifting nature of great-power conflicts and subversion, the 21stcentury requires a new approach to statecraft. In 21st-Century Statecraft, Professor... -
Minds, Brains, and Computers: An Historical Introduction to the Foundations of Cognitive Science Robert Cummins (University of Arizona) 9781557868770
RRP: €49.92€44.90Minds, Brains, and Computers presents a vital resource -- the most comprehensive interdisciplinary selection of seminal papers in the foundations of cognitive science, from leading figures in artificial intelligence, linguistics, philosophy, psychology,... -
Kant: A Very Short Introduction by Roger Scruton
RRP: €10.70€7.68Kant is arguably the most influential modern philosopher, but also one of the most difficult. Roger Scruton tackles his exceptionally complex subject with a strong hand, exploring the background to Kant's work and showing why the Critique of Pure Reason... -
Spinoza: A Very Short Introduction by Roger Scruton
RRP: €10.70€7.68Benedict de Spinoza (1632-77) was at once the father of the Enlightenment and the last sad guardian of the medieval world. In his brilliant synthesis of geometrical method, religious sentiment, and secular science, he attempted to reconcile the... -
Giambattista Vico: Keys to the "New Science": Translations, Commentaries, and Essays by Giambattista Vico 9780801474729
RRP: €21.41€16.95Giambattista Vico: Keys to the "New Science" brings together in one volume translations, commentaries, and essays that illuminate the background of Giambattista Vico's major work. Thora Ilin Bayer and Donald Phillip Verene have collected a series of... -
Aphorisms on Love and Hate Friedrich Nietzsche 9780141397900
RRP: €3.57€2.96'We must learn to love, learn to be kind, and this from our earliest youth ... Likewise, hatred must be learned and nurtured, if one wishes to become a proficient hater'This volume contains a selection of Nietzsche's brilliant and challenging aphorisms,... -
Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction by Edward Craig 9780198861775
RRP: €10.70€7.68How ought we to live? What really exists? How do we know? This Very Short Introduction discusses some of the key questions philosophy engages with. Edward Craig explores important themes in ethics, and the nature of knowledge and the self, through...