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Living Currency by Pierre Klossowski
RRP: $38.98$29.85'I should have written you after my first reading of The Living Currency; it was already breath-taking and I should have responded. After reading it a few more times, I know it is the best book of our times.' Letter to Pierre Klossowski from Michel... -
The Revolt of the Masses by Jose Ortega y Gasset 9780393310955
RRP: $25.33$18.84Social upheaval in early 20th-century Europe is the historical setting for this seminal study by the Spanish philosopher, Jose Ortega y Gasset. Continuously in print since 1932, Ortega's vision of Western culture as sinking to its lowest common... -
An Introduction to the Philosophy of Spinoza by Henry E. Allison
RRP: $46.78$37.13Aimed at those new to studying Spinoza, this book provides a comprehensive introduction to his thought, placing it in its historical and philosophical contexts, and assessing its critical reception. In addition to providing an analysis of Spinoza's... -
Subjectivity and Otherness: A Philosophical Reading of Lacan by Lorenzo Chiesa 9780262532945
$69.50The evolution of the concept of subjectivity in the works of Jacques Lacan. Countering the call by some "pro-Lacanians" for an end to the exegesis of Lacan's work-and the dismissal by "anti-Lacanians" of Lacan as impossibly... -
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke 9780872202160
RRP: $27.28$23.07Includes generous selections from the Essay, topically arranged passages from the replies to Stillingfleet, a chronology, a bibliography, a glossary, and an index based on the entries that Locke himself devised.About the AuthorJohn Locke (1632-1704) was... -
The Continental Philosophy Reader by Richard Kearney 9780415095266
RRP: $77.98$69.15The Continental Philosophy Reader is the first comprehensive anthology of classic writings from the major figures in European thought. The Reader is divided into three sections: From Phenomenology to Hermeneutics From Marxism to Critical Theory From... -
Reveries of the Solitary Walker by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
RRP: $19.48$13.86After a period of forced exile and solitary wandering brought about by his radical views on religion and politics, Jean-Jacques Rousseau returned to Paris in 1770. Here, in the last two years of his life, he wrote his final work, the Reveries. In this... -
Being and Event by Alain Badiou
$49.82Since the book's first publication in 1988, Alain Badiou's Being and Event has established itself of one of the most important and controversial works in contemporary philosophy and its author as one of the most influential thinkers of our time. Being... -
Utilitarianism by J. S. Mill
RRP: $62.38$59.14The Oxford Philosophical Texts series consists of authoritative teaching editions of canonical texts in the history of philosophy from the ancient world down to modern times. Each volume provides a clear, well laid out text together with a comprehensive... -
Cinema II: The Time-Image Gilles Deleuze (No current affiliation) 9781472512604
RRP: $44.83$41.89Gilles Deleuze was one of the most influential figures in twentieth-century philosophy, whose master-works, Difference and Repetition and - with Felix Guattari - A Thousand Plateaus and Anti-Oedipus have become one of the most widely-influential bodies... -
Theodor Adorno: A Very Short Introduction by Andrew Bowie
RRP: $17.53$12.58bVery 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... -
Unended Quest: An Intellectual Autobiography by Sir Karl Popper 9780415285902
RRP: $29.23$26.48At 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... -
John Stuart Mill: A Very Short Introduction by Gregory Claeys 9780198749998
RRP: $17.53$12.58Very 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... -
Derrida: A Biography Benoit Peeters 9780745656151
RRP: $48.75$33.89This biography of Jacques Derrida (1930-2004) tells the story of a Jewish boy from Algiers, excluded from school at the age of twelve, who went on to become the most widely translated French philosopher in the world - a vulnerable, tormented man who,... -
Judaism and Modernity by Gillian Rose
RRP: $40.93$39.39Judaism and Modernity: Philosophical Essays challenges the philosophical presentation of Judaism as the sublime 'other' of modernity. Here, Gillian Rose develops a philosophical alternative to deconstruction and post-modernism by critically re-engaging... -
Lenin Walked on the Moon: The Mad History of Russian Cosmism by Michel Eltchaninoff
RRP: $29.23$19.11How a Soviet cosmic dream is becoming a modern reality Cheating death and raising the dead. Creating life. Freeing the spirit. Colonising space. These projects, of which some have been achieved and some will soon, have a shared Russian history,... -
The Ecstasy of Communication Jean Baudrillard 9781584350576
RRP: $29.23$19.11Apologies 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 *... -
The Philosophy of Samuel Beckett by John Calder 9780714542836
RRP: $19.48$15.48Apologies 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 -
Modlib-Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
$33.50Apologies 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)... -
Aporias by Jacques Derrida 9780804722520
RRP: $37.03$32.60"My death-is it possible?" That is the question asked, explored, and analyzed in Jacques Derrida's new book. "Is my death possible?" How is this question to be understood? How and by whom can it be asked, can it be quoted, can it be an appropriate... -
Intensive Science and Virtual Philosophy by Manuel DeLanda
$35.28First published 10 years ago, Manuel DeLanda's Intensive Science and Virtual Philosophy rapidly established itself as a landmark text in contemporary continental thought. DeLanda here draws on the realist philosophy of Gilles Deleuze to the domain of... -
The Illusions of Postmodernism Terry Eagleton (University of Manchester) 9780631203230
RRP: $58.40$51.89In 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... -
Manifesto for Philosophy by Norman Madarasz 9780791442203
RRP: $48.32$47.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791442203Author Norman MadaraszFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York... -
Writers and Missionaries: Essays on the Radical Imagination by Adam Shatz
RRP: $48.75$40.13Through 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... -
Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil of Slavery by Quobna Ottobah Cugoano 9780140447507
RRP: $19.48$18.02Born in present-day Ghana, Quobna Ottobah Cugoano was kidnapped at the age of thirteen and sold into slavery by his fellow Africans in 1770; he worked in the brutal plantation chain gangs of the West Indies before being freed in England. His "Thoughts... -
The Great Philosophers: An Introduction to Western Philosophy by Bryan Magee 9780192893222 [USED COPY]
RRP: $27.28$4.15Beginning with the death of Socrates in 399 BC, and following the story through the centuries to recent figures such as Bertrand Russell and Wittgenstein, Bryan Magee's conversations with fifteen contemporary writers and philosophers provide an... -
The Great Philosophers: An Introduction to Western Philosophy by Bryan Magee 9780192893222
RRP: $27.28$19.01Beginning with the death of Socrates in 399 BC, and following the story through the centuries to recent figures such as Bertrand Russell and Wittgenstein, Bryan Magee's conversations with fifteen contemporary writers and philosophers provide an... -
The Nietzschean Self: Moral Psychology, Agency, and the Unconscious by Paul Katsafanas 9780198837107
$59.92Nietzsche's works are replete with discussions of moral psychology, but to date there has been no systematic analysis of his account. How does Nietzsche understand human motivation, deliberation, agency, and selfhood? How does his account of the... -
Untying the Gordian Knot: Process, Reality, and Context by Timothy E. Eastman 9781793639189
RRP: $68.25$60.35In Untying the Gordian Knot: Process, Reality, and Context, Timothy E. Eastman proposes a new creative synthesis, the Logoi framework-which is radically inclusive and incorporates both actuality and potentiality-to show how the fundamental notions of... -
All the World an Icon: Henry Corbin and the Angelic Function of Beings Tom Cheetham 9781583944554
RRP: $33.13$22.50Apologies 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)... -
Leibniz: Philosophical Essays by Freiherr von Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
RRP: $50.68$41.05Although 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,... -
The Enlightenment by Norman Hampson
RRP: $29.23$21.35Armed 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... -
Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, 3: 1935-1938 by Walter Benjamin 9780674019812
RRP: $56.45$50.60Radical critic of a European civilization plunging into darkness, yet commemorator of the humane traditions of the old bourgeoisie--such was Walter Benjamin in the later 1930s. This volume, the third in a four-volume set, offers twenty-seven brilliant... -
Singer and His Critics Dale Jamieson (Carleton College) 9781557869098
RRP: $74.00$65.05This 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... -
"What Is an Apparatus?" and Other Essays by Giorgio Agamben
RRP: $31.18$27.77The three essays collected in this book offer a succinct introduction to Agamben's recent work through an investigation of Foucault's notion of the apparatus, a meditation on the intimate link of philosophy to friendship, and a reflection on... -
Foucault and Neoliberalism by Daniel Zamora 9781509501779
RRP: $33.13$27.12Michel 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 Animal That Therefore I Am by Jacques Derrida
RRP: $52.63$45.47The Animal That Therefore I Am is the long-awaited translation of the complete text of Jacques Derrida's ten-hour address to the 1997 Cerisy conference entitled "The Autobiographical Animal," the third of four such colloquia on his work. The book was... -
Is God Happy?: Selected Essays by Leszek Kolakowski
RRP: $19.48$13.86'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... -
Deleuze and Guattari's A Thousand Plateaus: A Critical Introduction and Guide by Brent Adkins
RRP: $42.88$35.04Offera a guide to Deleuze and Guattari's masterwork, A Thousand Plateaus. The sheer volume and complexity of Deleuze and Guattari's A Thousand Plateaus can be daunting. What is a rhizome? What is a war machine? What is a body without organs? Brent Adkins... -
Foucault - The Key Ideas: Foucault on philosophy, power, and the sociology of knowledge: a concise introduction by Paul Oliver
RRP: $21.43$14.43Foucault - 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...