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German Idealism: The Struggle against Subjectivism, 1781-1801 by Frederick C. Beiser
RRP: €41.59Booksplease Price: €33.52One of the very few accounts in English of German idealism, this ambitious work advances and revises our understanding of both the history and the thought of the classical period of German philosophy. As he traces the structure and evolution of idealism... -
Wholeness and the Implicate Order by David Bohm
RRP: €21.41Booksplease Price: €18.60David Bohm was one of the foremost scientific thinkers and philosophers of our time. Although deeply influenced by Einstein, he was also, more unusually for a scientist, inspired by mysticism. Indeed, in the 1970s and 1980s he made contact with both J... -
Walden and Civil Disobedience by Henry Thoreau 9780140390445
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.88Disdainful of America's booming commercialism and industrialism, Henry David Thoreau left Concord, Massachusetts, in 1845 to live in solitude in the woods near Walden Pond. Walden, the account of his stay, conveys at once a naturalist's wonder at the... -
An Introduction to Dialectics Theodor W. Adorno (Frankfurt School) 9780745679440
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €20.02This volume comprises Adorno's first lectures specifically dedicated to the subject of the dialectic, a concept which has been key to philosophical debate since classical times. While discussing connections with Plato and Kant, Adorno concentrates on the... -
A Book Of Surrealist Games by Mel Gooding
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €13.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781570620843Author Alistair BrotchieFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)... -
Essays and Reviews: 1959-2002 by Bernard Williams 9780691168609
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €23.15Bernard 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... -
Wittgenstein and the Philosophy of Language: The Legacy of the Philosophical Investigations by Thomas McNally
RRP: €38.08Booksplease Price: €32.97Throughout his philosophical development, Wittgenstein was more concerned with language than with any other topic. No other philosopher has been as influential on our understanding of the deep problems surrounding language, and yet the true significance... -
The Enlightenment by Norman Hampson
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €13.19Armed with the insights of the scientific revolution, the men of the Enlightenment set out to free mankind from its age-old cocoon of pessimism and superstition and establish a more reasonable world of experiment and progress. Yet by the 1760s, this... -
Modern Social Imaginaries by Charles Taylor
RRP: €23.79Booksplease Price: €19.55One of the most influential philosophers in the English-speaking world, Charles Taylor is internationally renowned for his contributions to political and moral theory, particularly to debates about identity formation, multiculturalism, secularism, and... -
Think: A Compelling Introduction to Philosophy by Simon Blackburn 9780192100245
RRP: €29.14Booksplease Price: €20.46What am I? What is consciousness? What is the difference between past and future? Does the world presuppose a creator? Do we always act out of self-interest? This is a book about the big questions in life: knowledge, consciousness, fate, God, truth,... -
The Visionaries: Arendt, Beauvoir, Rand, Weil and the Salvation of Philosophy Wolfram Eilenberger 9780141998473
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.35'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... -
An Introduction to the Thought of Karl Popper by Roberta Corvi
RRP: €46.40Booksplease Price: €41.13This is a comprehensive introduction to the philosophical and political thought of Karl Popper, now available in English. It is divided into three parts; the first part provides a biography of Popper; the second part looks at his works and recurrent... -
Kant: A Very Short Introduction by Roger Scruton
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.69Kant 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... -
Twilight of Idols and Anti-Christ by Friedrich Nietzsche
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €8.09In 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... -
Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy by Rene Descartes 9780872204201
RRP: €16.65Booksplease Price: €14.02This edition contains Donald Cress's completely revised translation of the Meditations (from the corrected Latin edition) and recent corrections to Discourse on Method, bringing this version even closer to Descartes's original, while maintaining the... -
The Society of Individuals by Norbert Elias 9780826413727
RRP: €32.12Booksplease Price: €26.17Originally published in 1991 and now reissued by Continuum International, this book consists of three sections. The first, written in 1939, was either left out of Elias's most famous book, The Civilizing Process, or was written along with it. Part 2 was... -
The Nietzsche Reader Keith Ansell-Pearson (University of Warwick) 9780631226543
RRP: €20.17Booksplease Price: €18.55The Nietzsche Reader brings together in one volume substantial selections from the entire body of Nietzsche's writings, together with illuminating commentary on Nietzsche's life and importance, and introductions to his major works and philosophical ideas... -
The Essential Schopenhauer: Key Selections from The World As Will and Representation and Other Writings by Arthur Schopenhauer
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.32What is the meaning of life? How should I live? Is there any purpose to the universe? Generations have turned to the great German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer because he tackled the big issues. His influence has extended not only to later philosophers... -
Philosophical Occasions: 1912-1951: 1912-1951 by Ludwig Wittgenstein 9780872201545
RRP: €32.12Booksplease Price: €27.55An essential resource for students of Wittgenstein, this collection contains faithful, in some cases expanded and corrected, versions of many important pieces never before available in a single volume, including Notes for the 'Philosophical Lecture',... -
Disavowal by Alenka Zupančič 9781509561209
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €10.94This book argues that the psychoanalytic concept of disavowal best renders the structure underlying our contemporary social response to traumatic and disturbing events, from climate change to unsettling tectonic shifts in our social tissue. Unlike... -
Spinoza: A Very Short Introduction by Roger Scruton
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €9.00Benedict 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... -
A Short History of Modern Philosophy: From Descartes to Wittgenstein by Roger Scruton
RRP: €21.41Booksplease Price: €18.60Discover for yourself the pleasures of philosophy! Written both for the seasoned student of philosophy as well as the general reader, the renowned writer Roger Scruton provides a survey of modern philosophy. Always engaging, Scruton takes us on a... -
Enquiries concerning Human Understanding and concerning the Principles of Morals by David Hume 9780198245360
Booksplease Price: €47.67David Hume's Treatise of Human Nature, was composed before the author was twenty-six years old, was published in 1739 and 1740. Its importance was not generally recognised at the time. Hume, attributing the failure of his Treatise to the manner of its... -
The End of Enlightenment: Empire, Commerce, Crisis Richard Whatmore 9780241523421
RRP: €35.70Booksplease Price: €24.67'A brilliant and revelatory book about the history of ideas' David Runciman 'Fascinating and important' Ruth Scurr The Enlightenment is popularly seen as the Age of Reason, a key moment in human history when ideals such as freedom, progress, natural... -
Hannah Arendt: A Very Short Introduction by Dana Villa 9780198806981
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €9.21Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) was one of the major intellectual figures of the twentieth century. Born in Konigsberg to secular Jewish parents, she was a student of the two major exponents of Existenz... -
The Work of Mourning by Jacques Derrida
RRP: €30.94Booksplease Price: €28.46Jacques Derrida is, in the words of the New York Times, "perhaps the world's most famous philosopher if not the only famous philosopher." He often provokes controversy as soon as his name is mentioned. But he also inspires the respect that comes from an... -
Timeless Simplicity: Creative Living in a Consumer Society by John Lane
RRP: €14.27Booksplease Price: €10.65This is a book about simplicity - not destitution, parsimoniousness or self-denial, but the restoration of wealth in the midst of an affluence in which we are starving the spirit. It is a book about the advantages of living a less cluttered, less... -
The Ring of Truth: The Wisdom of Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung by Roger Scruton
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.78'The ideal interpreter of the Ring ... a fascinating and valuable study ... absorbing and convincing' Sunday TimesThe Ring of the Nibelung is one of the greatest works of art created in modern times. Roger Scruton's brilliant and passionate exploration... -
Byung-Chul Han: A Critical Introduction by Steven Knepper 9781509560998
RRP: €21.41Booksplease Price: €19.03Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Moral Dilemmas: and Other Topics in Moral Philosophy by Philippa Foot 9780199252848
RRP: €51.75Booksplease Price: €38.25Moral Dilemmas is the second volume of collected essays by the eminent moral philosopher Philippa Foot. It fills the gap between her famous 1978 collection Virtues and Vices (now reissued) and her acclaimed monograph Natural Goodness, published in 2001... -
A Spirit of Trust: A Reading of Hegel's <i>Phenomenology</i> by Robert B. Brandom 9780674976818
RRP: €49.92Booksplease Price: €38.85Forty years in the making, this long-awaited reinterpretation of Hegel's The Phenomenology of Spirit is a landmark contribution to philosophy by one of the world's best-known and most influential philosophers.In this much-anticipated work, Robert Brandom... -
Magisteria: The Entangled Histories of Science & Religion by Nicholas Spencer 9780861547302
RRP: €14.27Booksplease Price: €10.06Most 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... -
Survival is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde Alexis Pauline Gumbs 9780241505717
RRP: €41.65Booksplease Price: €25.79A Guardian and Lit Hub most anticipated book of 2024An exhilarating biography of the iconic poet, essayist and activist Audre Lorde Read these chapters like a collection of poems that speak in chorus in all directions. Understand each word as an... -
Everything, All the Time, Everywhere: How We Became Postmodern by Stuart Jeffries
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €20.12Post-Modernity is the creative destruction that has shattered our present times into fragments. It dynamited modernism which had dominated the western world for most of the 20th century. Post-modernism stood for everything modernism rejected: fun,... -
Dark Ecology: For a Logic of Future Coexistence by Timothy Morton 9780231177535
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €18.34Timothy 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... -
Why It's OK to be Of Two Minds by Jennifer Church
RRP: €26.17Booksplease Price: €23.79Most of us experience the world through competing perspectives. A job or a religion seems important and fulfilling when looked at in one way, but from a different angle they seem tedious or ridiculous. A friend is obtuse from one point of view, wise from... -
Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness: From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Endeavour Peter Moore 9781784743192
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €18.92Bestselling historian Peter Moore traces how Enlightenment ideas were exported from Britain and put into practice in America - where they became the most successful export of all time, the American Dream'Absorbing... fascinating... eloquent' THE... -
Three Critiques, 3-volume Set: Vol. 1: Critique of Pure Reason; Vol. 2: Critique of Practical Reason; Vol. 3: Critique of Judgment by Immanuel Kant 9780872206298
RRP: €83.29Booksplease Price: €70.97"On Critique of Pure Reason : The text rendered by Pluhar is the work of an expert translator. . . the virtues of his text are manifold; his translation exhibits an incontrovertible mastery of both English and German. Equally important is the fact that... -
The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell by Bertrand Russell
RRP: €42.83Booksplease Price: €38.32Bertrand Russell was born in 1872 and died in 1970. One of the most influential figures of the twentieth century, he transformed philosophy and can lay claim to being one of the greatest philosophers of all time. He was a Nobel Prize winner for... -
Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations: A Critical Guide by Dr. Arif Ahmed 9781107641754
RRP: €33.32Booksplease Price: €31.01Published in 1953, Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations had a deeply unsettling effect upon our most basic philosophical ideas concerning thought, sensation and language. Its claim that philosophical questions of meaning necessitate a close...