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A Brief History Of Everything by Ken Wilber
RRP: $35.08$23.67Apologies 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)... -
Bayle, Jurieu, and the Dictionnaire Historique et Critique by Mara Van der Lugt
$226.22Bayle, Jurieu and the Dictionnaire Historique et Critique presents a new study of Pierre Bayle's Dictionnaire Historique et Critique (1696), with special reference to Bayle's polemical engagement with the theologian Pierre Jurieu. While recent years have... -
Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind by Wilfrid Sellars 9780674251557
RRP: $58.40$46.14The most important work by one of America's greatest twentieth-century philosophers, Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind is both the epitome of Wilfrid Sellars' entire philosophical system and a key document in the history of philosophy. First... -
Spinoza: Freedom's Messiah by Ian Buruma 9780300248920
RRP: $33.13$28.49Ian Buruma explores the life and death of Baruch Spinoza, the Enlightenment thinker whose belief in freedom of thought and speech resonates in our own time Baruch (Benedictus) Spinoza (1632–1677) was a radical free thinker who led a life guided by... -
On What Matters: Volume Three by Derek Parfit
RRP: $73.11$63.49Derek Parfit presents the third volume of On What Matters, his landmark work of moral philosophy. Parfit develops further his influential treatment of reasons, normativity, the meaning of moral discourse, and the status of morality. He engages with his... -
Language, Truth and Logic by A. J. Ayer 9780486200101
$13.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486200101Author A. J. AyerFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams) 181g -
Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion by David Hume 9780872204027
RRP: $21.43$17.55Hume'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... -
Talking Philosophy: Dialogues with Fifteen Leading Philosophers by Bryan Magee 9780192854179
RRP: $40.93$33.19This book consists of fifteen dialogues between Bryan Magee and some of the outstanding thinkers of the twentieth century. It is based on a highly successful BBC television series which had enormous impact. The informality and clarity of the... -
Before Boas: The Genesis of Ethnography and Ethnology in the German Enlightenment by Han F. Vermeulen
RRP: $62.40$56.96The history of anthropology has been written from multiple viewpoints, often from perspectives of gender, nationality, theory, or politics. Before Boas delves deeper into issues concerning anthropology's academic origins to present a groundbreaking study... -
The Temptation to Exist by E. M. Cioran 9781611457384
RRP: $21.43$17.59This collection of eleven essays originally appeared in France thirty years ago and created a literary whirlwind on the Left Bank. Cioran writes incisively about Western civilizations, the writer, the novel, mystics, apostles, and philosophers.The... -
The Portable Enlightenment Reader by Isaac Kramnick
RRP: $25.33$18.51The 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... -
The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms: Volume 2: Mythical Thought by Ernst Cassirer 9780300000382
$55.59The Symbolic Forms has long been considered the greatest of Cassirer's works. Into it he poured all the resources of his vast learning about language and myth, religion, art, and science-the various creative symbolizing activities and constructions... -
The Shape of Things: a Philosophy of Design by Vilem Flusser
$35.31This title includes an introduction by Martin Pawley. This book presents for the first time in English an array of essays on design by the seminal media critic and philosopher Vilem Flusser. It puts forward the view that our future depends on design. In... -
Irrational Man by William Barrett
RRP: $29.23$19.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385031387Author William BarrettFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing GroupPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing... -
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: $120.88$102.18"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... -
Leibniz's Monadology: A New Translation and Guide Lloyd Strickland 9780748693221
RRP: $54.58$44.09This is a fresh translation and in-depth commentary of Leibniz's seminal text, the Monadology. Written in 1714, the Monadology is widely considered to be the classic statement of Leibniz's mature philosophy. In the space of 90 numbered paragraphs,... -
The Nietzsche Reader Keith Ansell-Pearson (University of Warwick) 9780631226543
RRP: $33.05$31.59The 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... -
Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy by Rene Descartes 9780872204201
RRP: $27.28$23.07This 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... -
John Locke: An Essay concerning Human Understanding by John Locke 9780198245957
RRP: $62.38$59.92This paperback edition reproduces the complete text of the Essay as prepared by professor Nidditch for The Clarendon Edition of the Works of John Locke. The Register of Formal Variants and the Glossary are omitted and Professor Nidditch has written a... -
Forms of Enchantment: Writings on Art & Artists by Marina Warner 9780500295960
RRP: $39.00$26.81An anthology of compelling essays by Marina Warner, one of our pre-eminent writers and critics. Art-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... -
Descartes: A Very Short Introduction by Professor Tom Sorell
RRP: $17.53$12.58Rene Descartes (1596-1650) had a remarkably short working life, and his output was small, yet his contributions to philosophy and science have endured to the present day. He is perhaps best known for his statement 'Cogito, ergo sum'. By a mixture of... -
Writing and Difference by Jacques Derrida 9780415253833
RRP: $33.13$29.68In 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... -
Schopenhauer: Parerga and Paralipomena : Volume 2: Short Philosophical Essays by Arthur Schopenhauer
RRP: $68.23$55.38With the publication of Parerga and Paralipomena in 1851, there finally came some measure of the fame that Schopenhauer thought was his due. Described by Schopenhauer himself as 'incomparably more popular than everything up till now', Parerga is a... -
Habermas: A Very Short Introduction by James Gordon Finlayson
RRP: $17.53$12.58This book gives a clear and readable overview of the philosophical work of Jurgen Habermas, the most influential German philosopher alive today, who has commented widely on subjects such as Marxism, the importance and effectiveness of communication, the... -
Saint Foucault: Towards a Gay Hagiography by David M. Halperin 9780195111279
RRP: $43.86$29.72`My work has had nothing to do with gay liberation,' Michel Foucault reportedly told an admirer in 1975. And indeed there is scarcely more than a passing mention of homosexuality in Foucault's scholarly writings. So why has Foucault, who died of AIDS in... -
A Book Of Surrealist Games by Mel Gooding
RRP: $33.13$22.50Apologies 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)... -
Archive Fever: A Freudian Impression by Deceased Jacques Derrida
RRP: $40.95$34.63In 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... -
The Infidel and the Professor: David Hume, Adam Smith, and the Friendship That Shaped Modern Thought by Dennis C. Rasmussen 9780691192284
RRP: $33.13$26.62The story of the greatest of all philosophical friendships-and how it influenced modern thoughtDavid Hume is arguably the most important philosopher ever to have written in English, but during his lifetime he was attacked as "the Great Infidel" for his... -
On Consolation: Finding Solace in Dark Times by Michael Ignatieff 9781529053777
RRP: $33.13$23.95'This erudite and heartfelt survey reminds us that the need for consolation is timeless, as are the inspiring words and examples of those who walked this path before us.' - Toronto StarAs read on BBC Radio 4's 'Book of the Week', a timely, moving and... -
A Beginner's Guide to Descartes's Meditations Gareth Southwell (Independent Scholar) 9781405158558
RRP: $33.05$29.64A 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... -
Basic Writings: Martin Heidegger by Martin Heidegger
RRP: $35.08$31.28Few 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... -
The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays by M. M. Bakhtin
RRP: $54.58$47.85These essays reveal Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975)-known in the West largely through his studies of Rabelais and Dostoevsky-as a philosopher of language, a cultural historian, and a major theoretician of the novel. The Dialogic Imagination presents, in... -
The Waste Books by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
RRP: $33.13$22.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780940322509Author Georg Christoph LichtenbeFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)... -
Foucault: The Birth of Power Stuart Elden (Durham University) 9781509507269
RRP: $37.03$32.90Michel Foucault's The Archaeology of Knowledge was published in March 1969; Discipline and Punish in February 1975. Although only six years apart, the difference in tone is stark: the former is a methodological treatise, the latter a call to arms. What... -
Things That Bother Me by Galen Strawson
RRP: $27.28$16.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681372204Author Galen StrawsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint The New York Review of Books, IncPublisher The New York Review of Books,... -
Militant Modernism Owen Hatherley 9781846941764
RRP: $19.48$16.75"Militant Modernism" argues for a Modernism of everyday life, immersed in questions of socialism, sexual politics and technology. It features new readings of some familiar names - Bertolt Brecht, Le Corbusier, Vladimir Mayakovsky - and much more on the... -
The Signature of the World: What is Deleuze and Guattari's Philosophy? by Eric Alliez 9780826456212
$76.26The Signature of the World focuses on one of the most influential works of contemporary philosophy: What is Philosophy? by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, their last joint work after Anti-Oedipus and A Thousand Plateaus. It sets What is Philosophy? in... -
Plantinga's 'Warranted Christian Belief': Critical Essays with a Reply by Alvin Plantinga by Dieter Schoenecker 9783110577587
RRP: $35.10$29.07Alvin Plantinga's Warranted Christian Belief has very quickly become one of the most influential books in philosophy of religion. In this collection of essays, German philosophers, theologians and a mathematician deal critically with several aspects of... -
Ethics, Exegesis and Philosophy: Interpretation after Levinas by Richard A. Cohen 9780521047166
RRP: $72.13$57.23The reputation and influence of Emmanuel Levinas (1906-96) has grown powerfully. Well known in France in his lifetime, he has since his death become widely regarded as a major European moral philosopher profoundly shaped by his Jewish background. A pupil... -
The Enneagram of G. I. Gurdjieff: Mathematics, Metaphysics, Music, and Meaning by Christian Wertenbaker
$28.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781930337947Author Christian WertenbakerFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Codhill PressPublisher Codhill PressWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...