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Time of the Magicians: The Great Decade of Philosophy, 1919-1929 by Wolfram Eilenberger
RRP: £12.99£9.09AN ECONOMIST, GUARDIAN AND NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR A gripping narrative of the intertwined lives of the four philosophers whose ideas reshaped the twentieth centuryThe year is 1919. Walter Benjamin flees his overbearing father to scrape a living... -
The Laszlo Chronicle: A Global Thinker's Journey from Systems to Consciousness and the Akashic Field by Gyorgyi Szabo
RRP: £16.99£15.72This study analyses the fifty year evolution of Ervin Laszlo's contribution to science and philosophy. It records the major turning points in his thinking and discusses who and what influenced this evolution and with what result. Laszlo's search for... -
Locke: A Very Short Introduction by John Dunn
RRP: £8.99£6.45John Locke (1632-1704) one of the greatest English philosophers of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century, argued in his masterpiece, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, that our knowledge is founded in experience and reaches us... -
The One: Descartes, Plato, Kant by Alain Badiou 9780231194129
RRP: £30.00£22.82Alain Badiou's 1983-1984 lecture series on "the One" is the earliest of his seminars that he has chosen to publish. It focuses on the philosophical concept of oneness in the works of Descartes, Plato, and Kant-a crucial foil for his signature... -
Original Thinking by Glenn Aparicio Parry
RRP: £20.00£14.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583948903Author Glenn Aparicio ParryFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint North Atlantic Books,U.S.Publisher North Atlantic Books,U.S.Weight(grams)... -
Russell: A Very Short Introduction by A. C. Grayling
RRP: £8.99£6.45Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) is one of the most famous and important philosophers of the twentieth century. In this account of his life and work A.C. Grayling introduces both his technical contributions to logic and philosophy, and his wide-ranging views... -
Introduction to the Reading of Hegel: Lectures on the "Phenomenology of Spirit" by Alexandre Kojeve
RRP: £22.99£19.60Lectures on the "Phenomenology of Spirit" "This collection of Kojeve's thoughts about Hegel constitutes one of the few important philosophical books of the twentieth century-a book, knowledge of which is requisite to the full awareness of our situation... -
Foucault, Health and Medicine by Robin Bunton
RRP: £52.99£46.03The reception of Michel Foucault's work in the social sciences and humanities has been phenomenal. Foucault's concepts and methodology have encouraged new approaches to old problems and opened up new lines of enquiry. This book assesses the contribution... -
Reassessing Foucault: Power, Medicine and the Body by Colin Jones 9780415183413
RRP: £37.99£33.38Though Foucault is now widely taught in universities, his writings are notoriously difficult. Reassessing Foucault critically examines the implications of his work for students and researchers in a wide range of areas in the social and human sciences... -
The Racial Contract by Charles W. Mills 9780801484636
RRP: £24.99£21.23A very important book.... The Racial Contract has the potential to radically challenge many of us to reevaluate how we think about social contract theory. As well, to take the arguments that Mills makes is to be prepared to rethink about the concept of... -
On What Matters: Volume One by Derek Parfit 9780199681037
RRP: £25.49£21.98On What Matters is a major work in moral philosophy. It is the long-awaited follow-up to Derek Parfit's 1984 book Reasons and Persons, one of the landmarks of twentieth-century philosophy. In this first volume Parfit presents a powerful new treatment of... -
Great Minds on Small Things: The Philosophers' Guide to Everyday Life by Matthew Qvortrup 9780715654965
RRP: £12.99£8.63Three centuries ago, Voltaire published his Dictionnaire philosophique, taking in such idiosyncratic topics as adultery, mountains, nakedness, and others besides. In 1957, another French philosopher of more recent vintage, Roland Barthes, mused in his... -
A Spirit of Trust: A Reading of Hegel's <i>Phenomenology</i> by Robert B. Brandom
RRP: £41.95£34.58Forty 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... -
Foucault - The Key Ideas: Foucault on philosophy, power, and the sociology of knowledge: a concise introduction by Paul Oliver
RRP: £10.99£7.40Foucault - The Key Ideas is a concise introduction to the life, works and ideas of this ground-breaking modern philosopher. This book will not only guide you through the events of Foucault's life and help you to understand his most complex ideas with... -
A Philosophical Daybook: Post-critical Investigations by William H. Poteat 9780826207487
RRP: £40.95£38.44According to Poteat, our literate culture has not been achieved without a price. He argues that the reverence paid to the printed word has attenuated our ability to respond to the world. This journal attempts to outline a set of values based on a greater... -
Hannah Arendt: A Very Short Introduction by Dana Villa 9780198806981
RRP: £8.99£6.45Very 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... -
Prison notebooks: Selections by Antonio Gramsci 9780853152804
RRP: £25.00£23.67This volume was the first selection published from the Antonio Gramsci's "Prison Nobebooks" to be made available in Britain, and was originally published in the early 1970s. It contains most of the key writings by Gramsci, including the text of "The... -
Inquiry and Essays by Thomas Reid 9780915145850
RRP: £19.99£16.09Reid's previously published writings are substantial, both in quantity and quality. This edition attempts to make these writings more readily available in a single volume. Based upon Hamilton's definitive two volume 6th edition, this edition is suitable... -
Heidegger: A Very Short Introduction by Michael Inwood
RRP: £8.99£6.45Martin Heidegger, considered by some to be the greatest charlatan ever to claim the title of 'philosopher', by some as an apologist for Nazism, and by others as an acknowledged leader in continental philosophy, is probably the most divisive thinker of... -
Imperium: The Philosophy of History and Politics by Francis Parker Yockey
RRP: £19.15£17.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615505978Author Francis Parker YockeyFormat PaperbackPage Count 568Imprint Invictus BooksPublisher Invictus BooksWeight(grams) 581gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
Leibniz: Philosophical Essays by Freiherr von Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
RRP: £25.99£20.62Although Leibniz's writing forms an enormous corpus, no single work stands as a canonical expression of his whole philosophy. In addition, the wide range of Leibniz's work--letters, published papers, and fragments on a variety of philosophical,... -
Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy by Rene Descartes 9780872204201
RRP: £12.99£10.79This 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... -
On the Plurality of Worlds by David Lewis
RRP: £29.95£27.01This book is a defense of modal realism; the thesis that our world is but one of a plurality of worlds, and that the individuals that inhabit our world are only a few out of all the inhabitants of all the worlds. Lewis argues that the philosophical... -
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... -
The Utilitarianism by John Stuart Mill
RRP: £7.99£6.52This expanded edition of John Stuart Mill's Utilitarianism includes the text of his 1868 speech to the British House of Commons defending the use of capital punishment in cases of aggravated murder. The speech is significant both because its topic... -
Archetype of the Apocalypse: Divine Vengeance, Terrorism, and the End of the World by Edward F. Edinger
RRP: £21.99£16.66The collective belief in the End of the World, as described in the Biblical Book of Revelation, can be seen in public reaction to terrorist outrages such as those of Sept. 11, in the preoccupation with disasters, in the obsession with UFO's and the... -
Perpetual Peace and Other Essays: A Philosophical Essay by Immanuel Kant 9780915145478
RRP: £17.99£14.58TABLE OF CONTENTS:Introduction. Bibliography. A Note on the Text.1. Idea for a Universal History with a Cosmopolitan Intent (1784) 2. An Answer to the Question: What Is Enlightenment? (1784) 3. Speculative Beginning of Human History (1786) 4. On the... -
The Philosophy of Claude Lefort: Interpreting the Political by Bernard Flynn
RRP: £49.95£40.46From the beginning, the French philosopher Claude Lefort has set himself the task of interpreting the political life of modern society - and over time he has succeeded in elaborating a distinctive conception of modern democracy that is linked to both... -
The Murdochian Mind by Silvia Caprioglio Panizza 9781032272986
RRP: £43.99£39.44Iris Murdoch was a philosopher and novelist of extraordinary breadth and originality whose work defies simple categorisation. Her philosophical writing engages with an astonishingly wide range of figures, from Plato and Kant to Sartre and Heidegger, and... -
The Portable Nietzsche by Friedrich Nietzsche
RRP: £16.99£12.28The works of Friedrich Nietzsche have fascinated readers around the world ever since the publication of his first book more than a hundred years ago. As Walter Kaufmann, one of the world's leading authorities on Nietzsche, notes in his introduction, "Few... -
Introduction to Metaphysics by Martin Heidegger
RRP: £16.99£14.61This new edition of one of Heidegger's most important works features a revised and expanded translators' introduction and an updated translation, as well as the first English versions of Heidegger's draft of a portion of the text and of his later... -
Impossible Exchange by Jean Baudrillard
RRP: £15.99£13.71Working his way through the various spheres and systems of everyday life-the political, the juridical, the economical, the aesthetic, the biological, among others-he finds that they are all characterized by the same non-equivalence, and hence the same... -
America's Philosopher: John Locke in American Intellectual Life by Claire Rydell Arcenas
RRP: £28.00£23.27America's Philosopher examines how John Locke has been interpreted, reinterpreted, and misinterpreted over three centuries of American history. The influence of polymath philosopher John Locke (1632-1704) can still be found in a dizzying range of... -
Critique of Practical Reason by Immanuel Kant 9780872206175
RRP: £23.99£19.11With this volume, Werner Pluhar completes his work on Kant's three Critiques, an accomplishment unique among English language translators of Kant. At once accurate, fluent, and accessible, Pluhar's rendition of the Critique of Practical Reason meets the... -
The Voice of Reason: Essays in Objectivist Thought by Ayn Rand
£14.42Between 1961, when she gave her first talk at the Ford Hall Forum in Boston, and 1981, when she gave the last talk of her life in New Orleans, Ayn Rand spoke and wrote about topics as varied as education, medicine, Vietnam, and the death of Marilyn... -
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle by Michael Swanton
RRP: £18.99£12.75The most important written work in English before the Norman Conquest, newly translated.Made up of annals written in the monasteries of Winchester, Canterbury, Peterborough, Abingdon, and Worcester, The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle marks the beginning of the... -
A Brief History Of Everything by Ken Wilber
RRP: £17.99£12.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611804522Author Ken WilberFormat PaperbackPage Count 376Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)... -
A Life Worth Living: Albert Camus and the Quest for Meaning by Robert Zaretsky
RRP: £18.95£14.43In his Nobel Prize acceptance speech, Albert Camus declared that a writer's duty is twofold: "the refusal to lie about what one knows and the resistance against oppression." These twin obsessions help explain something of Camus' remarkable character,... -
Principles of Moral & Christian Philosophy, in 2 Volumes by George Turnbull 9780865974548
RRP: £33.95£28.99This two-volume treatise is important for its wide range of insights about the nature of the human mind, the foundations of morals, and the relationship between morality and religion.About the AuthorGeorge Turnbull (1698-1748) furthered the Enlightenment... -
Nietzsche and Psychotherapy by Manu Bazzano
RRP: £36.99£30.85Drawing on over a century of international Nietzschean scholarship, this groundbreaking book discusses some of the unexplored psychological reaches of Nietzsche's thought, as well as their implications for psychotherapeutic practice.Nietzsche's...