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Ideas Have Consequences by Richard M. Weaver
RRP: £18.00£15.40Originally published in 1948, at the height of post-World War II optimism and confidence in collective security, Ideas Have Consequences uses "words hard as cannonballs" to present an unsparing diagnosis of the ills of the modern age. Widely read and... -
The Cambridge Companion to Simone de Beauvoir by Claudia Card 9780521794299
RRP: £30.99£23.95Simone de Beauvoir was a philosopher and writer of notable range and influence whose work is central to feminist theory, French existentialism, and contemporary moral and social philosophy. The essays in this 2003 volume examine all the major aspects of... -
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... -
Philosophy For Dummies Tom Morris 9781119875673
RRP: £17.99£12.54You think, therefore you are. Get a straightforward rundown on philosophy from the ancient world to today If you've ever pondered your existence over your morning coffee or considered the nature of crime and punishment, you're an amateur philosopher... -
The Blue and Brown Books: Preliminary Studies for the 'Philosophical Investigation' Ludwig Wittgenstein (Philosopher) 9780631146605
RRP: £24.95£21.78These works, as the sub-title makes clear, are unfinished sketches for Philosophical Investigations, possibly the most important and influential philosophical work of modern times. The 'Blue Book' is a set of notes dictated to Witgenstein's Cambridge... -
Leibniz and Clarke: A Study of their Correspondence by Ezio Vailati 9780195113990
RRP: £84.00£69.96The correspondence between Leibniz and Samuel Clarke (1715-16) was probably the most famous and influential philosophical exchange of the eighteenth century. It focused on the clash between the Newtonian and Leibnizian world systems, involving disputes... -
Michel Foucault: Key Concepts Dianna Taylor 9781844652358
RRP: £32.99£29.16Michel Foucault was one of the twentieth century's most influential and provocative thinkers. His work on freedom, subjectivity, and power is now central to thinking across an extraordinarily wide range of disciplines, including philosophy, history,... -
The Fourth Way: Teachings of G.I. Gurdjieff by P. D. Ouspensky
RRP: £16.99£11.54Apologies 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)... -
Ubuntu Contributionism: A Blueprint for Human Prosperity by Michael Tellinger 9781920153090
RRP: £23.00£14.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781920153090Author Michael TellingerFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint Zulu Planet PublishersPublisher Zulu Planet PublishersWeight(grams) 402g -
Madness and Civilization by Michel Foucault 9780679721109
£11.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679721109Author Michel FoucaultFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 232gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
The Subversive Simone Weil: A Life in Five Ideas by Robert Zaretsky 9780226549330
RRP: £19.00£16.20Known as the "patron saint of all outsiders," Simone Weil (1909-43) was one of the twentieth century's most remarkable thinkers, a philosopher who truly lived by her political and ethical ideals. In a short life framed by the two world wars, Weil taught... -
A History of Nihilism in the Nineteenth Century: Confrontations with Nothingness by Jon Stewart
RRP: £30.00£25.95Nihilism - the belief that life is meaningless - is frequently associated with twentieth-century movements such as existentialism, postmodernism and Dadaism, and thought to result from the shocking experiences of the two World Wars and the Holocaust. In... -
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume 9789353422868
RRP: £10.00£8.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789353422868Author David HumeFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Lector HousePublisher Lector HouseWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm * 7mm -
The Deleuze Dictionary Adrian Parr 9780748641468
RRP: £28.99£23.78This dictionary is dedicated to the work of Gilles Deleuze, providing an in-depth introduction to a leading figure in continental philosophy. It defines and contextualises more than 150 terms that relate to Deleuze's philosophy: the key terms and... -
Anscombe's Intention: A Guide by John Schwenkler 9780190052034
RRP: £26.49£19.16Written against the background of her controversial opposition to the University of Oxford's awarding of an honorary degree to Harry S. Truman, Elizabeth Anscombe's Intention laid the groundwork she thought necessary for a proper ethical evaluation of... -
Star Wars and Philosophy: More Powerful than You Can Possibly Imagine by Kevin S. Decker 9780812695830
RRP: £14.99£11.66The Star Wars films continue to revolutionize science fiction, creating new standards for cinematographic excellence, and permeating popular culture around the world. The films feature many complex themes ranging from good versus evil and moral... -
Karl Marx: Thoroughly Revised Fifth Edition by Isaiah Berlin
RRP: £22.00£16.93Isaiah Berlin's intellectual biography of Karl Marx has long been recognized as one of the best concise accounts of the life and thought of the man who had, in Berlin's words, a more "direct, deliberate, and powerful" influence on mankind than any other... -
Remarks on Colour Ludwig Wittgenstein (Philosopher) 9780631116417
RRP: £18.95£16.85This book comprises material on colour which was written by Wittgenstein in the last eighteen months of his life. It is one of the few documents which shows him concentratedly at work on a single philosophical issue. The principal theme is the features... -
Humankind: Solidarity with Non-Human People by Timothy Morton 9781788731003
RRP: £10.99£9.86What 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... -
The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick 9780915145287
RRP: £18.99£16.07This 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... -
Witcraft: The Invention of Philosophy in English by Jonathan Ree
RRP: £12.99£9.09'Astonishing ... enjoy its riches slowly, and savour every generous, erudite and undogmatic page' Boyd Tonkin, Financial Times'We English men have wits,' wrote the clergyman Ralph Lever in 1573, and, 'we have also framed unto ourselves a language... -
On the Genealogy of Morals by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche 9780679724629
RRP: £14.99£10.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679724629Author Friedrich NietzscheFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 261gDimensions(mm)... -
On Consolation: Finding Solace in Dark Times by Michael Ignatieff
RRP: £9.99£6.87As read on BBC Radio 4's 'Book of the Week', a timely, moving and profound exploration of how writers, composers and artists have searched for solace while facing loss, tragedy and crisis, from the historian and Booker Prize-shortlisted novelist Michael... -
The Oxford Handbook of Nietzsche by Ken Gemes
£35.00The diversity of Nietzsche's books, and the sheer range of his philosophical interests, have posed daunting challenges to his interpreters. This Oxford Handbook addresses this multiplicity by devoting each of its 32 essays to a focused topic, picked out... -
Gilles Deleuze: An Introduction by Todd May 9780521603843
RRP: £22.99£16.64This book offers a readable and compelling introduction to the work of one of the twentieth century's most important and elusive thinkers. Other books have tried to explain Deleuze in general terms. Todd May organizes his book around a central question... -
Hegel's Aesthetics: Volume 2 by G. W. F. Hegel 9780198244998
RRP: £42.99£28.95This is the first of two volumes of the only English edition of Hegel's Aesthetics, the work in which he gives full expression to his seminal theory of art. The substantial Introduction is his best exposition of his general philosophy of art. In Part I... -
Ludwig Wittgenstein and The Vienna Circle Brian McGuinness (University of Siena) 9780631134695
RRP: £35.95£31.67This 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... -
Essays and Reviews: 1959-2002 by Bernard Williams 9780691168609
RRP: £22.00£17.76Bernard Williams was one of the most important philosophers of the past fifty years, but he was also a distinguished critic and essayist with an elegant style and a rare ability to communicate complex ideas to a wide public. This is the first collection... -
Problems in Philosophy: The Limits of Inquiry Colin McGinn (Rutgers University) 9781557864758
RRP: £33.95£29.98This 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... -
Ayn Rand for Beginners by Andrew Bernstein
RRP: £12.99£9.62Apologies 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 -
Philosophy of Material Nature: Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science and Prolegomena by Immanuel Kant 9780915145881
RRP: £17.99£14.91This 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... -
Another Philosophy of History and Selected Political Writings by Johann Gottfried Herder
RRP: £19.99£16.44Historians of ideas, and students of nationalism in particular, have traced the origins of much of our current vocabulary and ways of thinking about the nation back to Johann Gottfried Herder. This volume provides a clear, readable, and reliable... -
Philosophy and Social Hope by Richard Rorty
RRP: £10.99£7.77Richard Rorty is one of the most provocative figures in recent philosophical, literary and cultural debate. This collection brings together those of his writings aimed at a wider audience, many published in book form for the first time. In these eloquent... -
The Deleuze and Guattari Dictionary by Eugene B. Young 9780826442765
£27.40The Deleuze and Guattari Dictionary is a comprehensive and accessible guide to the world of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, two of the most important and influential thinkers in twentieth-century European philosophy. Meticulously researched and... -
Being Singular Plural by Jean-Luc Nancy 9780804739757
RRP: £23.99£20.84This book, by one of the most innovative and challenging contemporary thinkers, consists of an extensive essay from which the book takes its title and five shorter essays that are internally related to "Being Singular Plural." One of the strongest... -
Bubbles: Spheres Volume I: Microspherology by Peter Sloterdijk
RRP: £32.00£21.61Apologies 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 *... -
Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity--And Why This Harms Everybody by Helen Pluckrose
RRP: £24.95£18.29Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly Bestseller!Times, Sunday Times, and Financial Times Book-of-the-Year Selection! Have you heard that language is violence and that science is sexist? Have you read that certain people shouldn't... -
I Am Boundlessness Ilie Cioara 9781780991979
RRP: £9.99£8.59A 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... -
Ideas That Matter: A Personal Guide for the 21st Century Prof A.C. Grayling 9780753826188
RRP: £12.99£8.60Leading philosopher's guide to the ideas that will shape the 21st century'Ideas are the cogs that drive history, and understanding them is half way to being aboard that powerful juggernaut rather than under its wheels'. This is a book that celebrates... -
Philosophy of Language by Scott Soames 9780691155975
RRP: £22.00£17.36A 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...