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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... -
The Foucault Reader by Michel Foucault
RRP: £12.99£9.09'The most innovative and influential French thinker of the contemporary era' GuardianThis is the ideal introduction to one of the most significant and radical philosophers of the past century. It includes detailed excerpts from all of Foucault's major... -
The Enlightenment: The Pursuit of Happiness 1680-1790 by Ritchie Robertson
RRP: £18.99£14.01'The best single-volume study of the Enlightenment that we have' Literary ReviewThe Enlightenment is one of the formative periods of Western history, yet more than 300 years after it began, it remains controversial. It is often seen as the fountainhead... -
Russian Revolution, The Paper by Chris Culpin
£20.72Covering popular topics and containing sharply focused material, Longman History in Depth is ideal for AS/A Level or higher Still students of all abilities. Introduces students to each topis through a narrative supported by charts, maps, timelines,... -
Isaac Newton by James Gleick 9780007163182
RRP: £10.99£7.25From one of the best writers on science, a remarkable portrait of Isaac Newton. The man who changed our understanding of the universe, of science, and of faith. Isaac Newton was the chief architect of the modern world. He answered the ancient... -
A Philosopher Looks at Science by Nancy Cartwright
RRP: £9.99£8.17What is science and what can it do? Nancy Cartwright here takes issue with three common images of science: that it amounts to the combination of theory and experiment; that all science is basically reducible to physics; and that science and the natural... -
Free Will: A Very Short Introduction by Thomas Pink
RRP: £8.99£6.45Every day we seem to make and act upon all kinds of free choices - some of them trivial, and some so consequential that they may change the course of our life, or even the course of history. But are these choices really free? Or are we compelled to act... -
The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau 9780140442014
RRP: £10.99£7.34'Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains'These are the famous opening words of a treatise that has not ceased to stir debate since its publication in 1762. Rejecting the view that anyone has a natural right to wield authority over others,... -
Basic Writings: Martin Heidegger by Martin Heidegger
RRP: £17.99£16.04Few philosophers have had more influence on the shape of western philosophy after 1900 than Martin Heidegger. Basic Writings offers a full range of this profound and controversial thinker's writings in one volume, including: The Origin of the Work of... -
Lectures on the History of Political Philosophy by John Rawls
RRP: £25.95£20.62This last book by the late John Rawls, derived from written lectures and notes for his long-running course on modern political philosophy, offers readers an account of the liberal political tradition from a scholar viewed by many as the greatest... -
Isolated Self: Truth & Untruth in Soren Kierkegaard's 'On the Concept of Irony' by K. Brian Soderquist
RRP: £28.99£22.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788763540650Author K. Brian SoderquistFormat PaperbackPage Count 247Imprint Museum Tusculanum PressPublisher Museum Tusculanum PressWeight(grams)... -
Intention by G. E. M. Anscombe
RRP: £27.95£21.70Intention is one of the masterworks of twentieth-century philosophy in English. First published in 1957, it has acquired the status of a modern philosophical classic. The book attempts to show in detail that the natural and widely accepted picture of... -
Why Iris Murdoch Matters by Gary Browning
RRP: £25.99£22.61In Why Iris Murdoch Matters Gary Browning draws on as yet unpublished archival material to present an unrivalled overview of Murdoch's work and thought. Browning argues for Murdoch's position amongst the key theorists of modern life, and discusses in... -
Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius by Ray Monk
RRP: £16.99£12.28'Monk's energetic enterprise is remarkable for the interweaving of the philosophical and the emotional aspects of Wittgenstein's life' Sunday Times'Ray Monk's reconnection of Wittgenstein's philosophy with his life triumphantly carries out the... -
Theodor Adorno: A Very Short Introduction by Andrew Bowie
RRP: £8.99£6.45bVery Short Introductionsb: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring /b T.W. Adorno (1903-69) was a German philosopher and social and cultural theorist. His work has come to be seen as increasingly relevant to understanding the pathologies of contemporary society... -
Mastery: The Keys to Success and Long-Term Fulfillment by George Leonard 9780452267565
RRP: £19.00£12.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780452267565Author George LeonardFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 125gDimensions(mm) 178mm * 127mm * 11mm -
After Finitude: An Essay on the Necessity of Contingency by Quentin Meillassoux 9781441173836
RRP: £22.99£17.07This book is now available for the first time in paperback, the remarkable debut of a former student of Alain Badiou. Quentin Meillassoux, a former student of Alain Badiou, is considered to be one of the most talented and exciting new voices in... -
Virtue Ethics: An Introduction by Richard Taylor 9781573929431
RRP: £15.99£11.95In this fresh evaluation of Western ethics, noted philosopher Richard Taylor argues that philosophy must return to the classical notion of virtue as the basis of ethics. To ancient Greek and Roman philosophers, ethics was chiefly the study of how... -
The Transversal Thought of Gilles Deleuze: Encounters and Influences by Bill Ross 9781903083321
RRP: £13.99£11.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903083321Author Bill RossFormat PaperbackPage Count 179Imprint Clinamen Press LtdPublisher Clinamen Press Ltd -
Walden and Civil Disobedience by Henry Thoreau 9780140390445
RRP: £9.99£7.11Disdainful 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... -
Rawls 'A Theory of Justice' and Its Critics by Chandran Kukathas 9780745602820
RRP: £15.99£15.61John Rawls's A Theory of Justice has been enormously influential in philosophy, political theory, welfare economics and jurisprudence. This book is a systematic study of Rawls's work. It provides a clear and concise account of Rawls's ideas, situates... -
The Enlightenment by Norman Hampson
RRP: £14.99£10.95Armed 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... -
Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What One is by Friedrich Nietzsche
RRP: £8.99£6.45In late 1888, only weeks before his final collapse into madness, Nietzsche (1844-1900) set out to compose his autobiography, and Ecce Homo remains one of the most intriguing yet bizarre examples of the genre ever written. In this extraordinary work... -
A Nietzsche Reader by Friedrich Nietzsche
RRP: £9.99£7.11The literary career of Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) spanned less than twenty years, but no area of intellectual inquiry was left untouched by his iconoclastic genius. The philosopher who announced the death of God in The Gay Science (1882) and went on... -
The Enlightenment: A Very Short Introduction by John Robertson
RRP: £8.99£6.45A foundational moment in the history of modern European thought, the Enlightenment continues to be a reference point for philosophers, scholars and opinion-formers. To many it remains the inspiration of our commitments to the betterment of the human... -
Timeless Simplicity: Creative Living in a Consumer Society by John Lane
RRP: £11.99£8.84This 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 Birth of the Clinic by Michel Foucault
RRP: £16.99£15.22In this remarkable book Michel Foucault, one of the most influential thinkers of recent times, calls us to look critically at specific historical events in order to uncover new layers of significance. In doing so, he challenges our assumptions not only... -
The Death Penalty, Volume II: Volume II by Jacques Derrida
RRP: £39.00£32.79In the first volume of his extraordinary analysis of the death penalty, Jacques Derrida began a journey toward an ambitious end: the first truly philosophical argument against the death penalty. Exploring an impressive breadth of thought, he traced a... -
A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume 9780140432442
RRP: £14.99£10.95One of the most significant works of Western philosophy, Hume's Treatise was published in 1739-40, before he was thirty years old. A pinnacle of English empiricism, it is a comprehensive attempt to apply scientific methods of observation to a study of... -
Spinal Catastrophism: A Secret History by Thomas Moynihan
RRP: £16.99£12.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913029562Author Thomas MoynihanFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Urbanomic Media LtdPublisher Urbanomic Media Ltd -
Writing and Difference by Jacques Derrida 9780415253833
RRP: £16.99£15.22In the 1960s a radical concept emerged from the great French thinker Jacques Derrida. Read the book that changed the way we think; read Writing and Difference, the classic introduction.Reviews'Perhaps the world's most famous philosopher.' -New York... -
Principles of Human Knowledge and Three Dialogues by George Berkeley 9780199555178
RRP: £8.99£6.45Berkeley's idealism started a revolution in philosophy. As one of the great empiricist thinkers he not only influenced British philosophers from Hume to Russell and the logical positivists in the twentieth century, he also set the scene for the... -
Meditations by Rene Descartes
RRP: £7.99£5.79Widely regarded as the father of modern Western philosophy, Descartes sought to look beyond established ideas and create a thought system based on reason. In this profound work he meditates on doubt, the human soul, God, truth and the nature of existence... -
Archive Fever: A Freudian Impression by Deceased Jacques Derrida
RRP: £21.00£17.76In Archive Fever, Jacques Derrida deftly guides us through an extended meditation on remembrance, religion, time, and technology-fruitfully occasioned by a deconstructive analysis of the notion of archiving. Intrigued by the evocative relationship... -
A Beginner's Guide to Descartes's Meditations by Gareth Southwell 9781405158558
RRP: £16.95£15.20A concise and readable guide to Descartes's Meditations geared toward beginner philosophy students (at A-level, or on undergraduate degree courses) and general readers. Offers clear explanations of the central themes and ideas, terminology, and arguments... -
Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics: and the Letter to Marcus Herz, February 1772 by Immanuel Kant 9780872205932
RRP: £14.99£12.30This edition of Prolegomena includes Kant's letter of February, 1772 to Marcus Herz, a momentous document in which Kant relates the progress of his thinking and announces that he is now ready to present a critique of pure reason.About the AuthorImmanuel... -
Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, 1: 1913-1926 by Walter Benjamin 9780674013551
RRP: £28.95£22.84Walter Benjamin was one of the most original and important critical voices of the twentieth century, but until now only a few of his writings have been available in English. Harvard University Press has now undertaken to publish a significant portion of... -
Love in the Void: Where God Finds Us by Simone Weil
RRP: £8.99£7.16Simone Weil, the great mystic and philosopher for our age, shows where anyone can find God.Why is it that Simone Weil, with her short, troubled life and confounding insights into faith and doubt, continues to speak to today's spiritual seekers? Was it... -
Words by Jean-Paul Sartre
RRP: £10.99£7.77After his father's early death Jean-Paul Sartre was brought up at his grandfather's home in a world even then eighty years out of date. In Words Sartre recalls growing up within the confines of French provincialism in the period before the First World... -
Bertrand Russell by A. J. Ayer 9780226033433
RRP: £33.00£32.05With extraordinary concision and clarity, A. J. Ayer gives an account of the major incidents of Bertrand Russell's life and an exposition of the whole range of his philosophy. "Ayer considers Russell to be, except possibly for Wittgenstein, the most...