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Philosophy and the Real World: Introduction to Karl Popper by Bryan Magee 9780875484365
RRP: $20.63$17.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780875484365Author Brian MageeFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Open Court Publishing Co ,U.S.Publisher Open Court Publishing Co ,U.S. -
The Philosophy of Samuel Beckett by John Calder 9780714542836
RRP: $12.89$9.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780714542836Author John CalderFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Calder Publications LtdPublisher Alma Books Ltd -
Return of the Primitive: the Anti-Industrial Revolution: The Anti-Industrial Revolution by Peter Schwartz 9780452011847
$18.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780452011847Author Ayn RandFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Penguin Putnam IncPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 255gDimensions(mm) 202mm *... -
Pragmatism and Idealism: Rorty and Hegel on Representation and Reality by Robert B. Brandom 9780192870216
RRP: $15.47$14.58In this short book, based upon his Spinoza Lectures at the University of Amsterdam, Robert B. Brandom offers a pragmatist approach to representation and reality, drawing on Richard Rorty and Hegel. During the last decade of his life, Rorty emphasized... -
The Ecstasy of Communication by Jean Baudrillard
RRP: $19.34$12.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781584350576Author Jean BaudrillardFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Semiotext (E)Publisher AutonomediaWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *... -
Zizek: A Critical Introduction by Sarah Kay 9780745622088
$20.87Zizek is hailed as the most significant interdisciplinary thinker of modern times. His work is a powerful, often explosive combination of Lacanian psychoanalysis and philosophy which tests key psychoanalytical concepts against the ideas of major European... -
Deleuze's Difference and Repetition: An Edinburgh Philosophical Guide by Henry Somers-Hall
RRP: $24.50$20.19This is the essential toolkit for anyone approaching Deleuze for the first time. "Difference and Repetition" (first published in 1968) is widely accepted as Gilles Deleuze's most important work of philosophy and one of the most significant texts of... -
The Banality of Heidegger by Jean-Luc Nancy 9780823275939
RRP: $30.95$26.33Heidegger and Nazism: Ever since the philosopher's public involvement in state politics in 1933, his name has necessarily been a part of this unsavory couple. After the publication in 2014 of the private Black Notebooks, it is now unambiguously part of... -
Principles of Human Knowledge and Three Dialogues by George Berkeley
RRP: $14.18$10.02One of the greatest British philosophers, Bishop Berkeley (1685-1753) was the founder of the influential doctrine of Immaterialism - the belief that there is no reality outside the mind, and that the existence of material objects depends upon their being... -
Modlib-Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
$21.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679601753Author Friedrich NietzscheFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm)... -
The Illusions of Postmodernism by Terry Eagleton
RRP: $38.64$34.33In this brilliant critique, Terry Eagleton explores the origins and emergence of postmodernism, revealing its ambivalences and contradictions. Above all he speaks to a particular kind of student, or consumer, of popular "brands" of postmodern thought... -
Husserl's Legacy: Phenomenology, Metaphysics, and Transcendental Philosophy by Dan Zahavi
RRP: $32.88$27.84Dan Zahavi offers an in-depth and up-to-date analysis of central and contested aspects of the philosophy of Edmund Husserl, the founder of phenomenology. What is ultimately at stake in Husserl's phenomenological analyses? Are they primarily to be... -
Mapping Michel Serres by Niran Abbas 9780472030590
$48.31International scholars shed new light on the work of renowned French philosopher, Michel Serres.About the AuthorThe work of Michel Serres - including the books Hermes, The Parasite, The Natural Contract, Genesis, The Troubadour of Knowledge, and... -
Ideas That Matter: A Personal Guide for the 21st Century by A. C. Grayling
RRP: $16.76$11.09Leading philosopher's guide to the ideas that will shape the 21st century'Ideas are the cogs that drive history, and understanding them is half way to being aboard that powerful juggernaut rather than under its wheels'. This is a book that celebrates... -
Writers and Missionaries: Essays on the Radical Imagination by Adam Shatz
RRP: $32.25$26.19Through a close reading of the lives and works of some of the greatest intellectuals of recent times, Adam Shatz asks: do writers have an ethical imperative to question injustice? How can one remain a dispassionate thinker when involved in the cut and... -
Profane Illumination: Walter Benjamin and the Paris of Surrealist Revolution by Margaret Cohen
RRP: $34.83$31.11Margaret Cohen's encounter with Walter Benjamin, one of the twentieth century's most influential cultural and literary critics, has produced a radically new reading of surrealist thought and practice. Cohen analyzes the links between Breton's surrealist... -
Ideas Have Consequences by Richard M. Weaver
RRP: $23.22$19.87Originally published in 1948, at the height of post-World War II optimism and confidence in collective security, Ideas Have Consequences uses "words hard as cannonballs" to present an unsparing diagnosis of the ills of the modern age. Widely read and... -
Ubuntu Contributionism: A Blueprint for Human Prosperity by Michael Tellinger 9781920153090
RRP: $29.67$18.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781920153090Author Michael TellingerFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint Zulu Planet PublishersPublisher Zulu Planet PublishersWeight(grams) 402g -
Materialism by Terry Eagleton
RRP: $15.47$13.09A brilliant introduction to the philosophical concept of materialism and its relevance to contemporary science and culture In this eye-opening, intellectually stimulating appreciation of a fascinating school of philosophy, Terry Eagleton makes a powerful... -
All The World An Icon by Tom Cheetham
RRP: $21.92$14.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583944554Author Tom CheethamFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint North Atlantic Books,U.S.Publisher North Atlantic Books,U.S.Weight(grams)... -
Singer and His Critics by Dale Jamieson
RRP: $48.96$43.03This is the first book devoted to the work of Peter Singer, one of the leaders of the practical ethics movement, and one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century.About the AuthorDale Jamieson is Henry L. Luce Professor in Human... -
Foucault and Neoliberalism by Daniel Zamora 9781509501779
RRP: $21.92$18.85Michel Foucault's death in 1984 coincided with the fading away of the hopes for social transformation that characterized the postwar period. In the decades following his death, neoliberalism has triumphed and attacks on social rights have become... -
The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays by M. M. Bakhtin
RRP: $38.69$34.04These 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... -
Locke: A Biography by Roger Woolhouse
RRP: $39.98$31.22This is the first comprehensive biography of John Locke to be published in nearly a half century. Setting Locke's life within exciting historical and intellectual contexts, which included the English Civil War, religious persecution, and the Glorious... -
Reading Dewey: Interpretations for a Postmodern Generation by Larry A. Hickman
RRP: $27.08$23.19John Dewey (1859-1952), hailed during his lifetime as "America's Philosopher," is now recognized as one of the seminal thinkers of the twentieth century. His critical work ranged more broadly than that of either of his contemporaries, Martin Heidegger... -
Michel Foucault: Key Concepts by Dianna Taylor
RRP: $42.56$37.62Michel Foucault was one of the twentieth century's most influential and provocative thinkers. His work on freedom, subjectivity, and power is now central to thinking across an extraordinarily wide range of disciplines, including philosophy, history,... -
Everything, All the Time, Everywhere: How We Became Postmodern by Stuart Jeffries
RRP: $25.80$21.71Post-Modernity is the creative destruction that has shattered our present times into fragments. It dynamited modernism which had dominated the western world for most of the 20th century. Post-modernism stood for everything modernism rejected: fun,... -
Introducing Kant: A Graphic Guide by Christopher Kul-Want
RRP: $11.60$9.12Immanuel Kant laid the foundations of modern Western thought. Every subsequent major philosopher owes a profound debt to Kant's attempts to delimit human reason as an appropriate object of philosophical enquiry. And yet, Kant's relentless systematic... -
The Blue and Brown Books: Preliminary Studies for the 'Philosophical Investigation' by Ludwig Wittgenstein
RRP: $32.19$28.10These works, as the sub-title makes clear, are unfinished sketches for Philosophical Investigations, possibly the most important and influential philosophical work of modern times. The 'Blue Book' is a set of notes dictated to Witgenstein's Cambridge... -
A History of Nihilism in the Nineteenth Century: Confrontations with Nothingness by Jon Stewart
$39.14Nihilism - the belief that life is meaningless - is frequently associated with twentieth-century movements such as existentialism, postmodernism and Dadaism, and thought to result from the shocking experiences of the two World Wars and the Holocaust. In... -
The Waste Books by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
RRP: $21.92$14.89Apologies 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)... -
Heaven in Disorder by Slavoj Zizek
RRP: $16.76$11.13As we emerge (though perhaps only temporarily) from the pandemic, other crises move center stage: outrageous inequality, climate disaster, desperate refugees, mounting tensions of a new cold war. The abiding motif of our time is relentless chaos. ... -
The Philosophy of Isaiah Berlin by Johnny Lyons
RRP: $33.53$27.37'I gradually came to the conclusion that I should prefer a field in which one could hope to know more at the end of one's life than when one had begun.' So thought Isaiah Berlin toward the end of the Second World War, when he decided to bid farewell to... -
Derrida: Deconstruction from Phenomenology to Ethics by Christina Howells 9780745611686
RRP: $21.92$19.63This book is an unusually readable and lucid account of the development of Derrida's work, from his early writings on phenomenology and structuralism to his most recent interventions in debates on psychoanalysis, ethics and politics. Christina Howells... -
The Fourth Way: Teachings of G.I. Gurdjieff by P. D. Ouspensky
RRP: $21.92$14.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780394716725Author P. D. OuspenskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 329gDimensions(mm)... -
The History of Philosophy: A Marxist Perspective by Alan Woods
$19.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913026240Author Alan WoodsFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Well Red PublicationsPublisher Well Red Publications -
Dawn: Thoughts on the Presumptions of Morality, Volume 5 by Friedrich Nietzsche 9780804780056
RRP: $28.37$24.24Dawn is the most recent volume to appear in the first complete, critical, and annotated English edition of all of Nietzsche's work. The edition, organized originally by Ernst Behler and Bernd Magnus, is a translation of the celebrated Kritische... -
John Stuart Mill: A Very Short Introduction by Gregory Claeys 9780198749998
RRP: $11.60$8.32Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring John Stuart Mill (1806-73) is widely regarded as the leading liberal philosopher, economist, and political theorist of nineteenth century Britain. In his lifetime he was best known for his System... -
Philosophy For Dummies by Tom Morris
RRP: $23.21$16.18You think, therefore you are. Get a straightforward rundown on philosophy from the ancient world to today If you've ever pondered your existence over your morning coffee or considered the nature of crime and punishment, you're an amateur philosopher... -
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke
RRP: $19.34$14.13In An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, first published in 1690, John Locke (1632-1704) provides a complete account of how we acquire everyday, mathematical, natural scientific, religious and ethical knowledge. Rejecting the theory that some...