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Introducing Political Philosophy: A Graphic Guide by Dave Robinson
RRP: £8.99£6.70Essential illustrated guide to key ideas of political thought. Philosophers have always asked fundamental and disturbing questions about politics. Plato and Aristotle debated the merits of democracy. The origins of society, the state and government... -
God: The Most Unpleasant Character in All Fiction by Dan Barker 9781633888760
RRP: £18.99£13.61What words come to mind when we think of God? Merciful? Just? Compassionate? In fact, the Bible lays out God's primary qualities clearly: jealous, petty, unforgiving, bloodthirsty, vindictive-and worse! Originally conceived as a joint presentation... -
The Minor Gesture by Erin Manning
RRP: £23.99£20.41In this wide-ranging and probing book Erin Manning extends her previous inquiries into the politics of movement to the concept of the minor gesture. The minor gesture, although it may pass almost unperceived, transforms the field of relations. More than... -
Man Meets Dog by Konrad Lorenz 9780415267458
RRP: £12.99£11.94In this wonderful book, the famous scientist and best-selling author, Konrad Lorenz, 'the man who talked with animals', enlightens and entertains us with his illustrated account of the unique relationship between humans and their pets. Displaying... -
An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding by David Hume
RRP: £9.99£7.11'Commit it then to the flames: for it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion.' Thus ends David Hume's Enquiry concerning Human Understanding, the definitive statement of the greatest philosopher in the English language. His arguments in... -
Dialectic of Enlightenment by Theodor Adorno
RRP: £14.99£9.70Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer are the leading figures of the Frankfurt School and this book is their magnum opus. Dialectic of Enlightenment is one of the most celebrated works of modern social philosophy that continues to impress in its wide-ranging... -
Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant 9780199552467
RRP: £13.99£9.75'beauty has purport and significance only for human beings, for beings at once animal and rational' In the Critique of Judgement (1790) Kant offers a penetrating analysis of our experience of the beautiful and the sublime, discussing the objectivity... -
Schopenhauer: A Very Short Introduction by Christopher Janaway
RRP: £8.99£6.45Schopenhauer is the most readable of German philosophers. This book gives a succinct explanation of his metaphysical system, concentrating on the original aspects of his thought, which inspired many artists and thinkers including Nietzsche, Wagner,... -
In Other Words: Essays Towards a Reflexive Sociology by Pierre Bourdieu 9780745606590
RRP: £17.99£16.04Pierre Bourdieu has established himself as one of the leading social thinkers in the world today and his work is increasingly influential throughout the social sciences and humanities. This volume of interviews, lectures and informal talks provides an... -
Alchemy: An Introduction to the Symbolism and the Psychology by Marie-Louise Von Franz 9780919123045
RRP: £19.00£12.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780919123045Author Marie-Louise Von FranzFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Inner City BooksPublisher Inner City BooksWeight(grams) 363g -
Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, Volume 1: Autobiography & Literary Essays by John Stuart Mill 9780865976504
RRP: £10.95£9.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865976504Author John Stuart MillFormat PaperbackPage Count 766Imprint Liberty Fund IncPublisher Liberty Fund IncWeight(grams) 1152g -
A Taste for the Secret by Jacques Derrida 9780745623344
RRP: £15.99£14.41In this series of dialogues, Derrida discusses and elaborates on some of the central themes of his work, such as the problems of genesis, justice, authorship and death. Combining autobiographical reflection with philosophical enquiry, Derrida illuminates... -
Experiencing and the Creation of Meaning by Eugene T. Gendlin
RRP: £29.95£24.13An examination of the relation between concepts and experiencing. This work examines the edge of awareness, where language emerges from non-language. In moving back and forth between what is already verbalized and what is as yet unarticulated, Eugene... -
Human Knowledge: Its Scope and Limits by Bertrand Russell
RRP: £16.99£15.62How do we know what we "know"? How did we -as individuals and as a society - come to accept certain knowledge as fact? In Human Knowledge, Bertrand Russell questions the reliability of our assumptions on knowledge. This brilliant and controversial work... -
Beast and the Sovereign: Volume 2 by Jacques Derrida
RRP: £26.00£24.85Following on from The Beast and the Sovereign, Volume I, this book extends Jacques Derrida's exploration of the connections between animality and sovereignty. In this second year of the seminar, originally presented in 2002 2003 as the last course he... -
Steps to an Ecology of Mind: Collected Essays in Anthropology, Psychiatry, Evolution and Epistemology by Gregory Bateson
RRP: £21.00£18.16Gregory Bateson was a philosopher, anthropologist, photographer, naturalist, and poet, as well as the husband and collaborator of Margaret Mead. With a new foreword by his daughter Mary Katherine Bateson, this classic anthology of his major work will... -
A Parting of the Ways: Carnap, Cassirer, and Heidegger by Michael Friedman 9780812694253
RRP: £17.99£12.30Beginning with a confrontation in 1929 in Switzerland, Michael Friedman examines how the work of three pivotal philosophers evolved and intertwined over several years, ultimately giving rise to two very different schools of thought - analytic philosophy... -
Remarks on Colour by Ludwig Wittgenstein
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... -
Pirate Enlightenment: Buccaneers, Women Traders and Mock Kingdoms in Eighteenth Century Madagascar by David Graeber
RRP: £18.99£13.93'A characteristically radical re-reading of history that places the social and political experiments of pirates at the heart of the European Enlightenment. A brilliant companion volume to the best-selling Dawn of Everything' Amitav GhoshThe Enlightenment... -
The Passions of the Soul and Other Late Philosophical Writings by Rene Descartes 9780199684137
RRP: £10.99£7.77'Those most capable of being moved by passion are those capable of tasting the most sweetness in this life.' Descartes is most often thought of as introducing a total separation of mind and body. But he also acknowledged the intimate union between... -
French Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction by Stephen Gaukroger 9780198829171
RRP: £8.99£6.45French culture is unique in that philosophy has played a significant role from the early-modern period onwards, intimately associated with political, religious, and literary debates, as well as with epistemological and scientific ones. While Latin was... -
The Subversive Simone Weil: A Life in Five Ideas by Robert Zaretsky
RRP: £9.99£8.59Known 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... -
Philosophical Investigations by Ludwig Wittgenstein 9781405159296
RRP: £25.95£23.00Philosophical Investigations New editions of the Commentary on Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations from Wiley-Blackwell Wittgenstein: Understanding and Meaning, Volume 1 of An Analytical Commentary on the Philosophical Investigations Part I:... -
The Dream of Enlightenment: The Rise of Modern Philosophy by Anthony Gottlieb
RRP: £10.99£7.77'This is a blast of fresh air' Jonathan Clark, TLS'Thank goodness for Gottlieb' Daily Telegraph'A joy to read' EconomistThe author of the celebrated The Dream of Reason vividly explains the rise of modern thought from Descartes to RousseauIn a short... -
Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia by David Graeber 9781802061567
RRP: £10.99£7.77'A characteristically radical re-reading of history that places the social and political experiments of pirates at the heart of the European Enlightenment. A brilliant companion volume to the best-selling Dawn of Everything' Amitav GhoshThe Enlightenment... -
Conversations With My Dog: About our journeys and finding the way home by Hannah Gold
RRP: £14.99£10.95Conversations with My Dog by Hannah Gold is a tale for those who love to seek new adventures and the promise of following their dreams, or nose, into the unknown. In a fast-paced world, driven by material achievement and the fear of loss; clarity can... -
Brutalism by Achille Mbembe 9781478025580
RRP: £21.99£18.79In Brutalism, eminent social and critical theorist Achille Mbembe invokes the architectural aesthetic of brutalism to describe our moment, caught up in the pathos of demolition and production on a planetary scale. Just as brutalist architecture creates... -
The Ring of Truth: The Wisdom of Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung by Roger Scruton
RRP: £10.99£7.77'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... -
What is Called Thinking? by Martin Heidegger 9780060905286
RRP: £14.99£10.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060905286Author Martin HeideggerFormat PaperbackPage Count 270Imprint HarperPerennialPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc -
Hegel: A Very Short Introduction by Peter Singer
RRP: £8.99£6.61Many people regard Hegel's work as obscure and extremely difficult, yet his importance and influence are universally acknowledged. Professor Singer eliminates any excuse for remaining ignorant of the outlines of Hegel's philosophy by providing a broad... -
Liberalism: A Counter-History by Domenico Losurdo
£15.60In this definitive historical investigation, Italian author and philosopher Domenico Losurdo argues that from the outset liberalism, as a philosophical position and ideology, has been bound up with the most illiberal of policies: slavery, colonialism,... -
Kierkegaard: A Very Short Introduction by Patrick Gardiner
RRP: £8.99£6.45Soren Kierkegaard (1813-55), one of the most original thinkers of the nineteenth century, wrote widely on religious, psychological, and literary themes. This book shows how Kierkegaard developed his views in emphatic opposition to prevailing... -
Grand Hotel Abyss: The Lives of the Frankfurt School by Stuart Jeffries
RRP: £11.99£7.86In 1923, a group of young radical German thinkers and intellectuals came together to at Victoria Alle 7, Frankfurt, determined to explain the workings of the modern world. Among the most prominent members of what became the Frankfurt School were the... -
Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant
RRP: £39.99£33.77This entirely new translation of Critique of Pure Reason is the most accurate and informative English translation ever produced of this epochal philosophical text. Though its simple and direct style will make it suitable for all new readers of Kant, the... -
Evolution and Conversion: Dialogues on the Origins of Culture by Rene Girard
£21.56Evolution and Conversion explores the main tenets of Rene Girard's thought in a series of dialogues. Here, Girard reflects on the evolution of his thought and offers striking new insights on topics such as violence, religion, desire and literature. His... -
Forms of Enchantment: Writings on Art & Artists by Marina Warner
RRP: £25.00£16.78Art-writing at its most useful should share the dynamism, fluidity and passions of the objects of its enquiry, argues Marina Warner. In this new anthology of some of her most compelling work, she captures the visual experience of the work of several... -
Giambattista Vico: Keys to the "New Science": Translations, Commentaries, and Essays by Giambattista Vico 9780801474729
RRP: £19.99£14.87Giambattista 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... -
Leibniz: A Very Short Introduction by Dr Maria Rosa Antognazza
RRP: £8.99£6.45Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) was a man of extraordinary intellectual creativity who lived an exceptionally rich and varied intellectual life in troubled times. More than anything else, he was a man who wanted to improve the life of his fellow... -
Wittgenstein: A Very Short Introduction by A. C. Grayling
RRP: £8.99£6.45Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) was an extraordinarily original philospher, whose influence on twentieth-century thinking goes well beyond philosophy itself. In this book, which aims to make Wittgenstein's thought accessible to the general non-specialist... -
The Cambridge Companion to Habermas by Stephen K. White
RRP: £30.99£26.77Jurgen Habermas is unquestionably one of the foremost philosophers writing today. His notions of communicative action and rationality have exerted a profound influence within philosophy and the social sciences. This volume examines the historical and...