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Daimon Life: Heidegger and Life-Philosophy by David Farrell Krell
RRP: $39.88$34.36"Daimon Life is life-enchancing. To read it is to become richer in wor(l)d." -John LlewelynDisclosure of Martin Heidegger's complicity with the National Socialist regime in 1933-34 has provoked virulent debate about the relationship between his politics... -
A Little Happier: Notes for reassurance by Derren Brown
RRP: $18.88$13.55Brilliant . . . crammed with wisdom and insight.' Stephen Fry on HappyIn A Little Happier Derren Brown draws out the essential discoveries from his international bestseller Happy to help you lead your happiest life.Life is hard, messy and complex. But if... -
Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion by David Hume 9780872204027
RRP: $20.98$16.84Hume's brilliant and dispassionate essay Of Miracles has been added in this expanded edition of his Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, which also includes Of the Immortality of the Soul,Of Suicide, and Richard Popkin's illuminating Introduction.Book... -
Introducing Empiricism: A Graphic Guide by Dave Robinson
RRP: $16.78$4.75Our knowledge comes primarily from experience - what our senses tell us. But is experience really what it seems?The experimental breakthroughs in 17th-century science of Kepler, Galileo and Newton informed the great British empiricist tradition, which... -
The Grasshopper: Games, Life and Utopia by Bernard Suits
RRP: $62.90$50.67In the mid twentieth century the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein famously asserted that games are indefinable; there are no common threads that link them all. "Nonsense," said the sensible Bernard Suits: "playing a game is a voluntary attempt to overcome... -
Anscombe's Intention: A Guide by John Schwenkler 9780190052034
$55.88Written 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... -
Heidegger by John Richardson
RRP: $54.58$47.52Martin Heidegger is one of the twentieth century's most influential, but also most cryptic and controversial philosophers. His early fusion of phenomenology with existentialism inspired Sartre and many others, and his later critique of modern rationality... -
The West: A New History in 14 Lives by Naoise Mac Sweeney
RRP: $46.20$33.64*A BBC RADIO 4 Book of the Week*'A fantastic achievement' Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk Roads'Bright, expansive, and iconoclastic, this deliciously witty book has the potential to upset the applecart of "Western Civilisation" itself... Magnificent'... -
The Order of Things by Michel Foucault 9780415267373
RRP: $35.68$31.96When one defines "order" as a sorting of priorities, it becomes beautifully clear as to what Foucault is doing here. With virtuoso showmanship, he weaves an intensely complex history of thought. He dips into literature, art, economics and even biology in... -
Spinoza: A Very Short Introduction by Roger Scruton
RRP: $18.88$13.55Benedict 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... -
Spinoza, Life and Legacy by Prof Jonathan I. Israel 9780198857488
RRP: $83.98$75.24A biography of the boldest and most unsettling of the early modern philosophers, Spinoza, which examines the man's life, relationships, writings, and career, while also forcing us to rethink how we previously understood Spinoza's reception in his own... -
At The Existentialist Cafe: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails by Sarah Bakewell
RRP: $27.28$19.09Shortlisted for the PEN Hessell-Tiltman PrizeParis, near the turn of 1932-3. Three young friends meet over apricot cocktails at the Bec-de-Gaz bar on the rue Montparnasse. They are Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir and their friend Raymond Aron, who... -
Aesthetics, Method, and Epistemology: Essential Works of Foucault 1954-1984 by Michel Foucault
RRP: $27.28$19.09'Foucault leaves no reader untouched or unchanged' Edward SaidAesthetics, the second volume of the complete collection of Michel Foucault's courses, articles and interviews, focuses on the philosophy, literature and art which informed his engagement with... -
The West: A New History of an Old Idea by Naoíse Mac Sweeney 9780753558935
RRP: $27.28$19.09*A BBC RADIO 4 Book of the Week*'A fantastic achievement' Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk Roads'Bright, expansive, and iconoclastic, this deliciously witty book has the potential to upset the applecart of "Western Civilisation" itself... Magnificent'... -
In Praise Of Love by Alain Badiou
RRP: $20.98$14.93A new century, new threats to love . . . Love without risks is like war without deaths - but, today, love is threatened by an alliance of liberalism and hedonism. Caught between consumerism and casual sexual encounters devoid of passion, love -... -
Introducing Descartes: A Graphic Guide by Dave Robinson
RRP: $18.88$14.07Rene Descartes is famous as the philosopher who was prepared to doubt everything- even his own physical existence. Most people know that he said 'I think, therefore I am', even if they are not always sure what he really meant by it. Introducing Descartes... -
Heidegger in Question: The Art of Existing by Robert Bernasconi 9781538150344
RRP: $52.50$47.10Robert Bernasconi explores in the context of Heidegger's thought a number of questions of far-reaching concern: what is the role of literary examples within philosophy? Is art dead? What is the relation of art to nature? Is there a place for the idea of... -
Reading Sartre by Joseph S. Catalano
RRP: $56.68$47.88In this volume, Joseph Catalano offers an in-depth exploration of Jean-Paul Sartre's four major philosophical writings: Being and Nothingness, Saint Genet: Actor and Martyr, The Critique of Dialectical Reason, and The Family Idiot. These works have been... -
Signature Derrida by Jacques Derrida
RRP: $50.40$49.20Throughout his long career, Jacques Derrida had a close, collaborative relationship with "Critical Inquiry" and its editors. He saved some of his most important essays for the journal, and he relished the ensuing arguments and polemics that stemmed from... -
Nietzsche: A Very Short Introduction by Michael Tanner
RRP: $18.88$13.55The philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) was almost wholly neglected during his sane life, which came to an abrupt end in 1889. Since then he has been appropriated as an icon by an astonishingly diverse spectrum of people, whose interpretations... -
Key Writings by Henri Bergson
RRP: $52.48$50.95The twentieth century - with its unprecedented advances in technology and scientific understanding - saw the birth of a distinctively new and 'modern' age. Henri Bergson stood as one of the most important philosophical voices of that tumultuous time. An... -
Foucault: A Very Short Introduction by Gary Gutting
RRP: $18.88$13.55Born in 1926 in France, Foucault is one of those rare philosophers who has become a cult figure. Over the course of his life he dabbled in drugs, politics, and the Paris SM scene, all whilst striving to understand the deep concepts of identity,... -
The Three Ecologies by Felix Guattari
RRP: $48.28$47.75Extending the definition of ecology to encompass social relations and human subjectivity as well as environmental concerns, The Three Ecologies argues that the ecological crises that threaten our planet are the direct result of the expansion of a new... -
The Beast and the Sovereign: Volume I by Jacques Derrida
RRP: $54.60$52.19When he died in 2004, Jacques Derrida left behind a vast legacy of unpublished material, much of it in the form of written lectures. With "The Beast and the Sovereign, Volume I", the University of Chicago Press inaugurated an ambitious series, edited by... -
Freedom and History and Other Essays: An Introduction to the Thought of Richard McKeon by Richard P. McKeon 9780226560298
$61.43This volume of essays is an important introduction to the thought of one of the twentieth century's most significant yet underappreciated philosophers, Richard McKeon. The originator of philosophical pluralism, McKeon made extraordinary contributions to... -
Logic of Sense by Gilles Deleuze
RRP: $48.28$45.11Logic of Sense is one of Deleuze's seminal works. First published in 1969, shortly after Difference and Repetition, it prefigures the hybrid style and methods he would use in his later writing with Felix Guattari. In an early review Michel Foucault wrote... -
Continental Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction by Simon Critchley
RRP: $18.88$13.88Simon Critchley's Very Short Introduction shows that Continental philosophy encompasses a distinct set of philosophical traditions and practices, with a compelling range of problems all too often ignored by the analytic tradition. He discusses the ideas... -
Harry Potter and Philosophy: If Aristotle Ran Hogwarts by David Baggett
RRP: $33.58$25.98In 'Harry Potter and Philosophy', 17 philosophical experts unlock some of Hogwarts' secret panels, and uncover surprising insights that are enlightening both for wizards and the most discerning mugglesBook InformationISBN 9780812694550Author David... -
Magisteria: The Entangled Histories of Science & Religion by Nicholas Spencer 9780861547302
RRP: $25.18$16.80Most things you 'know' about science and religion are myths or half-truths that grew up in the last years of the nineteenth century and remain widespread today. 'A deeply researched history of the interplay between the two ways of understanding the... -
Postmodernism: A Very Short Introduction by Christopher Butler
RRP: $18.88$13.88Postmodernism has been a buzzword in contemporary society for the last decade. But how can it be defined? In this Very Short Introduction Christopher Butler challenges and explores the key ideas of postmodernists, and their engagement with theory,... -
Phenomenology of Spirit by G. W. F. Hegel
RRP: $58.78$29.19This brilliant study of the stages in the mind's necessary progress from immediate sense-consciousness to the position of a scientific philosophy includes an introductory essay and a paragraph-by-paragraph analysis of the text to help the reader... -
Controverting Kierkegaard by K. E. Løgstrup 9780198874768
RRP: $126.00$113.67This is the first English edition of a major work by the Danish philosopher and theologian K. E. Logstrup (1905-81). It is the culmination of his critical engagement with Kierkegaardianism, which had begun almost 20 years earlier. In this text, Logstrup... -
The Portable Enlightenment Reader by Isaac Kramnick
RRP: $27.28$19.93The Age of Enlightenment of the 18th century, also called the Age of Reason, was so named for an intellectual movement that shook the foundations of Western civilization. In championing radical ideas such as individual liberty and an empirical appraisal... -
Desert Islands: and Other Texts, 1953-1974 by Gilles Deleuze
RRP: $37.78$26.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781584350187Author Gilles DeleuzeFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint Semiotext (E)Publisher AutonomediaWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *... -
The Human Condition: Second Edition by Hannah Arendt
RRP: $44.10$33.41The past year has seen a resurgence of interest in the political thinker Hannah Arendt, "the theorist of beginnings," whose work probes the logics underlying unexpected transformations-from totalitarianism to revolution. A work of striking... -
The Visionaries: Arendt, Beauvoir, Rand, Weil and the Salvation of Philosophy by Wolfram Eilenberger 9780241537374
RRP: $52.50$37.84'The question Eilenberger sets out to answer in this ambitious, enthralling book: what use is philosophy in the middle of a war?' The Sunday TimesThe year is 1933. Hannah Arendt escapes Berlin, seeking refuge among the stateless gathering in Paris... -
In Kant's Wake: Philosophy in the Twentieth Century by Tom Rockmore 9781405125710
RRP: $65.00$57.65In Kant's Wake evaluates the four main trends in philosophy in the twentieth century - Marxism, Anglo-American analytic, American pragmatism, and continental philosophy - and argues that all four evolved in reaction to Kant's fascinating and demanding... -
Understanding Foucault: A Critical Introduction by Tony Schirato 9781446252352
RRP: $94.48$77.15"An outstandingly good introduction to Foucault's work: lucid, measured, well organised, and covering this complex and in many ways heterogeneous body of work with remarkable thoroughness and ease." - Professor John Frow, University of Melbourne ... -
Dark Ecology: For a Logic of Future Coexistence by Timothy Morton 9780231177535
RRP: $42.00$32.63Timothy Morton argues that ecological awareness in the present Anthropocene era takes the form of a strange loop or Moebius strip, twisted to have only one side. Deckard travels this oedipal path in Blade Runner (1982) when he learns that he might be the... -
King Solomon's Ring by Konrad Lorenz 9780415267472
RRP: $35.68$31.96Solomon, the legend goes, had a magic ring which enabled him to speak to the animals in their own language. Konrad Lorenz was gifted with a similar power of understanding the animal world. He was that rare beast, a brilliant scientist who could write...