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Nietzsche and Psychotherapy by Manu Bazzano
RRP: €44.02€36.71Drawing 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... -
Selected Essays by David Hume
RRP: €13.08€9.25In his writings, David Hume set out to bridge the gap between the learned world of the academy and the marketplace of polite society. This collection, drawing largely on his Essays Moral, Political, and Literary (1776 edition), which was even more... -
Before Boas: The Genesis of Ethnography and Ethnology in the German Enlightenment by Han F. Vermeulen
RRP: €42.84€38.07The 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: €13.08€11.32This 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... -
Human Dignity: A Way of Living by Peter Bieri 9780745689012
RRP: €17.84€11.66Dignity is humanity s most prized possession. We experience the loss of dignity as a terrible humiliation: when we lose our dignity we feel deprived of something without which life no longer seems worth living. But what exactly is this trait that we... -
Madness and Civilization by Michel Foucault
RRP: €20.22€18.11In this classic account of madness, Michel Foucault shows once and for all why he is one of the most distinguished European philosophers since the end of World War II. Madness and Civilization,Foucault's first book and his finest accomplishment, will... -
The Zizek Reader by Edmund Wright 9780631212010
RRP: €49.92€43.71The Zizek Reader - which includes a Foreword by Zizek and a new, previously unpublished essay on cyberspace - provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the flamboyant work of a figure who has been variously described as 'one of the most... -
Of The Social Contract and Other Political Writings by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
RRP: €13.08€9.25'Man was born free, and everywhere he is in chains.' These are the famous opening words of a treatise that has stirred vigorous debate ever since its first publication in 1762. Rejecting the view that anyone has a natural right to wield authority over... -
How to Live a Good Life: A Guide to Choosing Your Personal Philosophy by Massimo Pigliucci
RRP: €17.84€11.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525566144Author Massimo PigliucciFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA Inc -
The Shape of Things: a Philosophy of Design by Vilem Flusser
€29.36This 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... -
On Consolation: Finding Solace in Dark Times by Michael Ignatieff
RRP: €11.89€8.18As read on BBC Radio 4's 'Book of the Week', a timely, moving and profound exploration of how writers, composers and artists have searched for solace while facing loss, tragedy and crisis, from the historian and Booker Prize-shortlisted novelist Michael... -
The Infidel and the Professor: David Hume, Adam Smith, and the Friendship That Shaped Modern Thought by Dennis C. Rasmussen 9780691177014
RRP: €29.75€23.30The story of the greatest of all philosophical friendships--and how it influenced modern thought David Hume is widely regarded as the most important philosopher ever to write in English, but during his lifetime he was attacked as "the Great Infidel" for... -
The World and Us by Roberto Mangabeira Unger 9781804292655
RRP: €41.65€34.51In The World and Us, Roberto Mangabeira Unger sets out to reinvent philosophy. His central theme is our transcendence - everything in our existence points beyond itself - and its relation to our finitude: everything that surrounds us, and we ourselves,... -
Meditations on First Philosophy by Rene Descartes 9781453611920
RRP: €7.08€6.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781453611920Author Rene DescartesFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint CreateSpacePublisher CreateSpaceWeight(grams) 122gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 133mm * 6mm -
Practices of the Self and Spiritual Practices: Michel Foucault and the Eastern Christian Discourse by Kristina Stoeckl 9780802872265
RRP: €23.79€15.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802872265Author Kristina StoecklFormat PaperbackPage Count 207Imprint William B Eerdmans Publishing CoPublisher William B Eerdmans Publishing Co -
Philosophy of Physics: Quantum Theory by Tim Maudlin 9780691183527
RRP: €29.75€22.82A sophisticated and original introduction to the philosophy of quantum mechanics from one of the world's leading philosophers of physicsIn this book, Tim Maudlin, one of the world's leading philosophers of physics, offers a sophisticated, original... -
Deleuze: The Clamor of Being by Alain Badiou 9780816631407
RRP: €23.79€20.43This volume draws on a five-year correspondence undertaken by Badiou and Deleuze near the end of Deleuze''s life, when the two put aside long-standing political and philosophical differences to exchange ideas about similar problems in their work'Book... -
Humanism: A Very Short Introduction by Stephen Law
RRP: €10.70€7.87Religion is currently gaining a much higher profile. The number of faith schools is increasingly, and religious points of view are being aired more frequently in the media. As religion's profile rises, those who reject religion, including humanists,... -
Is God Happy?: Selected Essays by Leszek Kolakowski
RRP: €11.89€8.46'The most esteemed philosopher to have produced a general introduction to his discipline since Bertrand Russell' Independent In these essays, one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century writes about communism and socialism, the problem of... -
Descartes: A Very Short Introduction by Professor Tom Sorell
RRP: €10.70€7.68Rene 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... -
The Inhuman: Reflections on Time by Jean-Francois Lyotard 9780745612386
RRP: €21.41€19.09In this major study, now available in paperback, Lyotard develops his analysis of the phenomenon of postmodernity, and examines the philosophy of Kant, Heidegger, Adorno and Derrida. Lyotard claims that it is the task of literature, philosophy and the... -
A Short History of Modern Philosophy: From Descartes to Wittgenstein by Roger Scruton
RRP: €20.22€18.11Discover 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... -
A Different Order of Difficulty: Literature After Wittgenstein by Karen Zumhagen-Yekple
RRP: €33.32€32.59Is the point of philosophy to transmit beliefs about the world, or can it sometimes have higher ambitions? In this bold study, Karen Zumhagen-Yekple makes a critical contribution to the "resolute" program of Wittgenstein scholarship, revealing his... -
Hannah Arendt: For Love of the World by Elisabeth Young-Bruehl 9780300105889
RRP: €23.79€23.55This highly acclaimed, prize-winning biography of one of the foremost political philosophers of the twentieth century is here reissued in a trade paperback edition for a new generation of readers. In a new preface the author offers an account of writings... -
On Consolation: Finding Solace in Dark Times by Michael Ignatieff 9781529053777
RRP: €20.22€14.61'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... -
The Anti-Christ by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche 9781451574814
RRP: €9.25€8.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451574814Author Friedrich Wilhelm NietzscheFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace... -
A Book Of Surrealist Games by Mel Gooding
RRP: €20.22€13.73Apologies 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)... -
Think: A Compelling Introduction to Philosophy by Simon Blackburn 9780192100245
RRP: €26.17€18.58What 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,... -
Leibniz's Monadology: A New Translation and Guide by Dr. Lloyd Strickland
RRP: €33.31€26.91This 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,... -
Foucault: The Birth of Power by Professor Stuart Elden 9781509507269
RRP: €22.60€20.08Michel 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... -
Irrational Man by William Barrett
RRP: €17.84€11.66Apologies 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... -
Things That Bother Me by Galen Strawson
RRP: €16.65€10.95Apologies 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 by Owen Hatherley 9781846941764
RRP: €11.89€10.22"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 Affirmation of Life: Nietzsche on Overcoming Nihilism by Bernard Reginster
RRP: €30.88€24.06Among all the great thinkers of the past two hundred years, Nietzsche continues to occupy a special place--not only for a broad range of academics but also for members of a wider public, who find some of their most pressing existential concerns addressed... -
On the Genealogy of Morality: A Polemic by Friedrich Nietzsche
RRP: €22.60€18.24This new edition is the product of a collaboration between a Germanist and a philosopher who is also a Nietzsche scholar. The translation strives not only to communicate a sense of Nietzsche's style but also to convey his meaning accurately-and thus to... -
Repetition and Philosophical Crumbs by Soren Kierkegaard
RRP: €13.08€9.25'The love of repetition is in truth the only happy love' So says Constantine Constantius on the first page of Kierkegaard's Repetition. Life itself, according to Kierkegaard's pseudonymous narrator, is a repetition, and in the course of this witty,... -
Prophet for Our Times: The Life & Teachings of Peter Deunov by David Lorimer
€15.86'The whole world bows down before me; I bow down before the Master Peter Deunov' - Albert EinsteinPeter Deunov (Beinsa Dounov), who lived in Bulgaria from 1864 to 1944, was a great and inspired teacher of the Perennial Wisdom, that essential thread of... -
Hegel and the Hermetic Tradition by Glenn Alexander Magee
RRP: €29.74€25.26Glenn Alexander Magee's pathbreaking book argues that Hegel was decisively influenced by the Hermetic tradition, a body of thought with roots in Greco-Roman Egypt. Magee traces the influence on Hegel of such Hermetic thinkers as Baader, Boehme, Bruno,... -
Unended Quest: An Intellectual Autobiography by Sir Karl Popper 9780415285902
RRP: €17.84€16.16At the age of eight, Karl Popper was puzzling over the idea of infinity and by fifteen was beginning to take a keen interest in his father's well-stocked library of books. Unended Quest recounts these moments and many others in the life of one of the... -
The Jamesian Mind by Sarin Marchetti 9781032159799
RRP: €52.35€46.93William James (1842-1910) is widely regarded as the founding figure of modern psychology and one of the most important philosophers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Renowned for his philosophical theory of pragmatism and memorable turns of...