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The Swerve: How the Renaissance Began by Stephen Greenblatt
RRP: $28.48Booksplease Price: $21.68WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2012Almost six hundred years ago, a short, genial man took a very old manuscript off a library shelf. With excitement, he saw what he had discovered and... -
The Machiavellian Moment: Florentine Political Thought and the Atlantic Republican Tradition by J. G. A. Pocock
RRP: $66.50Booksplease Price: $52.84Originally published in 1975, The Machiavellian Moment remains a landmark of historical and political thought. Celebrated historian J.G.A. Pocock looks at the consequences for modern historical and... -
Aquinas: A Beginner's Guide by Edward Feser 9781851686902
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $14.48One of the most influential philosophers and theologians in the history of Western thought, St Thomas Aquinas established the foundations for much of modern philosophy of religion, and is infamous... -
Marsilio Ficino, Three Books on Life: A Critical Edition and Translation by Carol V Kaske 9780866988223
RRP: $66.50Booksplease Price: $53.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780866988223Author Carol V. KaskeFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint -
The Essays by Francis Bacon
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $17.54One of the major political figures of his time, Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626) served in the court of Elizabeth I and ultimately became Lord Chancellor under James I in 1617. A scholar, wit, lawyer... -
Summer With Montaigne by Antoine Compagnon
RRP: $22.78Booksplease Price: $16.32A few years ago, Antoine Compagnon was asked to host a radio broadcast, every day for an entire summer, on a formidable subject: Michel de Montaigne. From that experience came this engaging and... -
Machiavelli: From Radical to Reactionary by Robert Black 9781789146158
RRP: $37.91Booksplease Price: $28.88'Machiavellian' can signify duplicity and amorality in politics, but Machiavelli himself is far more complex than this cliche. A high-ranking Florentine government official and prolific writer of... -
When I Am Playing With My Cat, How Do I Know She Is Not Playing With Me?: Montaigne and Being in Touch With Life Saul Frampton 9780571234585
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $17.54In the year 1570, at the age of thirty-seven, Michel de Montaigne gave up his job as a magistrate and retired to his chateau to brood on his own private grief - the deaths of his best friends, his... -
The Comedies of Machiavelli: The Woman from Andros; The Mandrake; Clizia by Niccolo Machiavelli 9780872209015
RRP: $37.98Booksplease Price: $28.46Though better known today as a political theorist than as a dramatist, Machiavelli secured his fame as a giant in the history of Italian comedy more than fifty years before Shakespeare's comedies... -
Bacon: Selected Philosophical Works by Francis Bacon 9780872204706
RRP: $34.18Booksplease Price: $28.46The most comprehensive collection available in paperback of Bacon's philosophical and scientific writings, this volume offers Bacon's major works in their entirety, or in substantive selections,... -
Persian Letters: With Related Texts by Montesquieu 9781624661808
RRP: $30.38Booksplease Price: $23.31A classic work of the European Enlightenment--and one of the most popular, if scandalous, in its day--the Persian Letters captures, in an engaging epistolary format, the transformational spirit of... -
Malebranche: Philosophical Selections by Nicolas Malebranche 9780872201521
RRP: $37.98Booksplease Price: $28.46These substantial selections from The Search after Truth , Elucidations of the Search after Truth , Dialogues on Metaphysics , and Treatise on Nature and Grace , provide the student of modern... -
Pensees by Blaise Pascal 9780872207172
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $18.28This eloquent and philosophically astute translation is the first complete English translation based on the Sellier edition of Pascal's manuscript, widely accepted as the manuscript that is closest... -
Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy by René Descartes 9781554815548
RRP: $24.61Booksplease Price: $19.51This volume provides new translations of Rene Descartes's two most important philosophical works. The Discourse offers a concise presentation and defense of Descartes' method of intellectual inquiry... -
The Persian Letters by Montesquieu 9780872204904
RRP: $26.58Booksplease Price: $19.55Based on the 1758 edition, this translation strives for fidelity and retains Montesquieu's paragraphing. George R. Healy's Introduction discusses The Persian Letters as a kind of overture to the... -
Linguistic Behaviour by Jonathan Francis Bennett 9780872200920
RRP: $34.18Booksplease Price: $25.90A reprint of the Cambridge University Press edition of 1976, with new introduction by the author.Reviews. . . advances aggressively through pertinent and lively argument. . . . There are numerous...