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Humankind: Solidarity with Non-Human People by Timothy Morton 9781788731003
RRP: $12.89$9.35What is it that makes humans human? As science and technology challenge the boundaries between life and non-life, between organic and inorganic, this ancient question is more timely than ever. Acclaimed Object-Oriented philosopher Timothy Morton invites... -
Deleuze and Guattari's A Thousand Plateaus: A Critical Introduction and Guide by Brent Adkins
RRP: $28.37$23.18Offera a guide to Deleuze and Guattari's masterwork, A Thousand Plateaus. The sheer volume and complexity of Deleuze and Guattari's A Thousand Plateaus can be daunting. What is a rhizome? What is a war machine? What is a body without organs? Brent Adkins... -
Zollikon Senimars: Protocols - Conversations - Letters by Martin Heidegger
RRP: $38.64$26.50This volume allows English-speaking readers to take part in an encounter between the German philosopher, Martin Heidegger and the Swiss psychiatrist Medard Boss. A product of their long friendship, this book chronicles their exchange of ideas. Heidegger... -
On What Matters: Volume Three by Derek Parfit
RRP: $45.78$39.86Derek 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... -
Guidebook Zen Art Motorcycle by Disanto 9780688060695
RRP: $21.92$17.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780688060695Author DisantoPage Count 408Imprint William MorrowPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 452gDimensions(mm) 233mm * 155mm * 28mm -
The Persistence of the Negative: A Critique of Contemporary Continental Theory by Benjamin Noys
RRP: $37.40$30.16Through 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... -
The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick 9780915145287
RRP: $23.21$20.29This Hackett edition, first published in 1981, is an unabridged and unaltered republication of the seventh (1907) edition as published by Macmillan and Company, Limited.From the forward by John Rawls:In the utilitarian tradition Henry Sidgwick... -
Introductions to the Wissenschaftslehre and Other Writings (1797-1800) by Johann Gottlieb Fichte 9780872202399
RRP: $27.08$21.72These 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... -
Dialectical Materialism by Henri Lefebvre
RRP: $24.50$21.10With the aim of widening the scope of Marxist theory, Henri Lefebvre finished Dialectical Materialism just before the beginning of World War II and the Resistance movement against the Vichy regime. As the culmination of Lefebvre's interwar activities,... -
State of Exception by Giorgio Agamben
RRP: $24.51$23.87Two months after the attacks of 9/11, the Bush administration, in the midst of what it perceived to be a state of emergency, authorized the indefinite detention of noncitizens suspected of terrorist activities and their subsequent trials by a military... -
Pierre Bourdieu by Richard Jenkins
RRP: $47.72$41.96This short critical introduction to Pierre Bourdieu's thought is a model of clarity and insight. Where Bourdieu's own writings are often complex, even ambiguous, Richard Jenkins is direct, concise and to the point. He emphasizes Bourdieu's contributions... -
Heretics!: The Wondrous (and Dangerous) Beginnings of Modern Philosophy by Steven Nadler 9780691168692
RRP: $25.80$21.49An entertaining, enlightening, and humorous graphic narrative of the dangerous thinkers who laid the foundation of modern thought This entertaining and enlightening graphic narrative tells the exciting story of the seventeenth-century thinkers who... -
Less Than Nothing: Hegel and the Shadow of Dialectical Materialism by Slavoj Zizek
RRP: $45.15$30.47For the last two centuries, Western philosophy has developed in the shadow of Hegel, an influence each new thinker struggles to escape. As a consequence, Hegel's absolute idealism has become the bogeyman of philosophy, obscuring the fact that he is... -
Existentialism from Dostoevsky to Sartre by Walter Kaufmann 9780452009301
$14.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780452009301Author Walter KaufmannFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Penguin Random House AustraliaPublisher Penguin Random House AustraliaWeight(grams)... -
The Priority of Events: Deleuze's Logic of Sense by Dr. Sean Bowden
RRP: $39.99$36.31Sean Bowden shows you how the Deleuzian event should be understood in terms of the broader metaphysical thesis that fixed things or substances are always secondary with respect to events. He achieves this through a reconstruction of Deleuze's relation to... -
On Certainty by Ludwig Wittgenstein 9780631169406
RRP: $32.19$28.10Written over the last 18 months of his life and inspired by his interest in G. E. Moore's defence of common sense, this much discussed volume collects Wittgenstein's reflections on knowledge and certainty, on what it is to know a proposition for sure... -
Ayn Rand for Beginners by Andrew Bernstein
RRP: $16.76$13.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781934389379Author Andrew BernsteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint For BeginnersPublisher For Beginners -
The Life of the Mind: Thinking: Vols 1&2 by Hannah Arendt 9780156519922
RRP: $28.37$19.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156519922Author Hannah ArendtFormat PaperbackPage Count 521Imprint Mariner Books ClassicsPublisher Mariner Books Classics -
Ludwig Wittgenstein and The Vienna Circle by Friedrich Waismann 9780631134695
RRP: $46.38$40.85This collection contains hitherto unknown letters exchanged between Wittgenstein and the most important of his Cambridge friends and includes editorial notes based on archival material not previously explored. * Incorporates many previously undiscovered... -
Wittgenstein by Severin Schroeder 9780745626161
RRP: $24.50$21.76This book offers a lucid and highly readable account of Wittgenstein's philosophy, framed against the background of his extraordinary life and character. Woven together with a biographical narrative, the chapters explain the key ideas of Wittgenstein's... -
Philosophy of Material Nature: Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science and Prolegomena by Immanuel Kant 9780915145881
RRP: $23.21$18.81This volume combines two of Kant's key works on the metaphysics of nature--the Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics That Will Be Able to Come Forward as Science and Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science--in the preeminent translations of James W... -
Problems in Philosophy: The Limits of Inquiry by Colin McGinn 9781557864758
RRP: $43.80$38.67This advanced introductory text offers a synoptic view of philosophical inquiry, discussing such topics as consciousness, the self, meaning, free will, the a priori, and knowledge. The emphasis is on the fundamental intractability of these questions, and... -
A Precarious Happiness: Adorno and the Sources of Normativity by Peter E. Gordon 9780226828572
RRP: $41.28$35.02A strikingly original account of Theodor Adorno's work as a critique animated by happiness. "Gordon's confidently gripping and persistently subtle interpretation brings a new tone to the debate about Adorno's negativism."-Jurgen Habermas Theodor Adorno... -
The Ontology of the Accident: An Essay on Destructive Plasticity by Catherine Malabou
RRP: $12.89$11.55In the usual order of things, lives run their course and eventually one becomes who one is. Bodily and psychic transformations do nothing but reinforce the permanence of identity. But as a result of serious trauma, or sometimes for no reason at all, a... -
Derrida: A Very Short Introduction by Dr. Simon Glendinning
RRP: $11.60$8.53Jacques Derrida, the French philosopher, developed his critical technique known as 'deconstruction'. His work is associated with ideas surrounding both post-structuralism and post-modern philosophy, and he was known to have challenged some of the... -
Bubbles: Spheres Volume I: Microspherology by Peter Sloterdijk
RRP: $41.28$27.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781584351047Author Peter SloterdijkFormat HardbackPage Count 664Imprint Semiotext (E)Publisher AutonomediaWeight(grams) 1179gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *... -
I am Boundlessness by Ilie Cioara 9781780991979
RRP: $12.89$11.08A practical book on meditation and enlightenment, a must read for any spritual seeker. A less rational and more poetic Eckhart Tolle; Kahlil Gibran meets Krishnamurti. Ilie Cioara's message is original and unique, as he never travelled to India and... -
Anathemas and Admirations by E M Cioran
$15.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611456882Author E M CioranFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Arcade PublishingPublisher Skyhorse PublishingWeight(grams) 438gDimensions(mm) 210mm *... -
Philosophy of Language by Scott Soames 9780691155975
RRP: $28.38$21.92A masterful overview of the philosophy of language from one of its most important thinkersIn this book one of the world's foremost philosophers of language presents his unifying vision of the field-its principal achievements, its most pressing current... -
On What Matters: Two-volume set by Derek Parfit 9780199265923
RRP: $83.85$74.03On What Matters is a major work in moral philosophy. It is the long-awaited follow-up to Derek Parfit's 1984 book Reasons and Persons, one of the landmarks of twentieth-century philosophy. Parfit now presents a powerful new treatment of reasons,... -
Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche 9780679724650
RRP: $16.76$11.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679724650Author Friedrich NietzscheFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)... -
Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future by Friedrich Nietzsche
RRP: $12.89$8.27`What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.' Always provocative, the Friedrich Nietzsche of Beyond Good and Evil (1886) is at once sceptical psychologist and philosopher-seer, passionately unmasking European society with his... -
Heidegger and the Jews: The Black Notebooks by Donatella Di Cesare 9781509503834
RRP: $24.50$21.76Philosophers have long struggled to reconcile Martin Heidegger's involvement in Nazism with his status as one of the greatest thinkers of the twentieth century. The recent publication of his Black Notebooks has reignited fierce debate on the subject... -
The philosophy of Marx by Etienne Balibar
$23.34Written by one of political theory's leading thinkers, The Philosophy of Marx examines all the key areas of Marx's writings in their wider historical and theoretical context-including the concepts of class struggle, ideology, humanism, progress,... -
Foucault's Askesis: An Introduction to the Philosophical Life by Edward F. McGushin 9780810122833
RRP: $38.64$31.64In his renowned courses at the College de France from 1982 to 1984, Michel Foucault devoted his lectures to meticulous readings and interpretations of the works of Plato, Epictetus, Seneca, and Marcus Aurelius, among others. In this his aim was not,... -
The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media by Walter Benjamin
RRP: $25.74$20.86Walter Benjamin's famous "Work of Art" essay sets out his boldest thoughts-on media and on culture in general-in their most realized form, while retaining an edge that gets under the skin of everyone who reads it. In this essay the visual arts of the... -
Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for Everyone and Nobody by Friedrich Nietzsche
RRP: $12.89$9.17'The profoundest book there is, born from the innermost richness of truth, an inexhaustible well into which no bucket descends without coming up with gold and goodness.' Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1885) was Nietzsche's own favourite among all his books... -
Porous Becomings: Anthropological Engagements with Michel Serres by Andreas Bandak 9781478030287
RRP: $33.53$28.43One of the foremost intellectuals of his generation, French philosopher of science Michel Serres (1930-2019) broke free from disciplinary dogmas. His reflections on science, culture, technology, art, and religion have proved foundational to scholars... -
In Search of Being: The Fourth Way to Consciousness by G I Gurdjieff
RRP: $33.54$21.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611800821Author G.I. GurdjieffFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications Inc -
Stoicism Cards: Find Serenity and Strength in a Difficult World by The School of Life 9781915087805
RRP: $19.35$17.17We still pay homage to one of the most relevant philosophies ever devised when we call someone 'stoic' for the way they handle the challenges in their lives with resilience and calm. Originating in Greece around 300 BCE, Stoicism was for many centuries...