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Leibniz's Discourse on Metaphysics: A New Translation and Commentary by Christopher Johns 9781474457781
RRP: $52.48$48.53The first English translation based on the Akademie Edition, its 'variant apparatus' and Leibniz's handwritten manuscript making this the closest English edition to Leibniz's original Includes explanatory translator's notes and an extensive... -
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius 9781474620949
RRP: $18.88$5.86How to live a better life. One of the most important books on Western philosophy - a powerful and inspirational guide for the complicated world of today'Refreshing and restorative' GUARDIAN'An ancient work of spiritual reflection which remains a powerful... -
Memories, Dreams, Reflections: An Autobiography by Carl Jung
RRP: $27.28$17.81'I can understand myself only in the light of inner happenings. It is these that make up the singularity of my life, and with these my autobiography deals' Carl Jung An eye-opening biography of one of the most... -
Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values by Robert M. Pirsig
RRP: $23.08$16.32An odyssey into life's challenging philosophical questions during an unforgettable summer motorcycle trip, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance transformed a generation and continues to inspire millions.One of the most influential books written in... -
Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance: 40th Anniversary Edition by Robert M. Pirsig
RRP: $23.08$14.39Acclaimed as one of the most exciting books in the history of American letters, this modern epic became an instant bestseller upon publication in 1974, transforming a generation and continuing to inspire millions. A narration of a summer motorcycle trip... -
Meditations: The Annotated Edition by Marcus Aurelius 9781541673854
RRP: $52.50$34.40Marcus Aurelius Antoninus was the sixteenth emperor of Rome -- and by far the most powerful and wealthy man in the world. Yet he was also an intensely private person, with a rich interior life and deep reservoirs of personal insight. He collected his... -
Gay Science by Friedrich Nietzsche
RRP: $27.28$18.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780394719856Author Friedrich NietzscheFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)... -
Aristotle's Way: How Ancient Wisdom Can Change Your Life by Edith Hall
RRP: $23.08$16.32'Wonderful and timely ... Hugely recommended' STEPHEN FRYWhat do you and an ancient philosopher have in common? It turns out much more than you might think... Aristotle was an extraordinary thinker yet he was preoccupied by an ordinary question: how to... -
Critique of Dialectical Reason: v. 2 by Jean-Paul Sartre
RRP: $60.88$51.39Does history produce discernible meaning? Are human struggles intelligible? These questions form the starting-point for the second volume of Sartre's Critique of Dialectical Reason. Drafted in 1958 and published in France in 1985, this magisterial work... -
The Agony of Eros: Volume 1 by Byung-Chul Han
RRP: $29.38$16.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262533379Author Byung-Chul HanFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 178mm * 114mm * 6mm -
Meditations: The Annotated Edition by Marcus Aurelius
RRP: $31.48$25.22Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 CE) was the sixteenth emperor of Rome-and the most powerful man in the world. Yet he was also an intensely private person, with a rich interior life and one of the wisest minds of his generation. He collected his... -
Philosophy: Who Needs It (Centenary Edition) by Ayn Rand
RRP: $20.98$13.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451138934Author Ayn RandFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint SignetPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 171mm * 108mm * 21mm -
The School of Life: An Emotional Education by Alain de Botton
RRP: $23.08$16.32THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Give the gift of inspiration: an essential guide to living wisely and well, no matter what challenges the world throws at you - from Alain de Botton, the bestselling author of The Consolations of Philosophy, The Art of Travel... -
We Are Free to Change the World: Hannah Arendt’s Lessons in Love and Disobedience by Lyndsey Stonebridge 9781787332522
RRP: $46.20$33.64This bold new take on the life and ideas of political philosopher Hannah Arendt explores her lessons for living in an age of uncertainty.'Compelling and original' OBSERVER'Invigorating and insightful' FINANCIAL TIMESBorn in the first decade of the last... -
Letters from a Stoic: The Ancient Classic by Seneca
RRP: $25.18$16.80DISCOVER THE ENDURING LEGACY OF ANCIENT STOICISM Since Roman antiquity, Lucius Annaeus Seneca's Letters have been one of the greatest expressions of Stoic philosophy. In a highly accessible and timeless way, Seneca reveals the importance of cultivating... -
Walden by Henry David Thoreau
RRP: $16.78$12.16WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY BENJAMIN MARKOVITSIn 1845 Thoreau, a Harvard-educated 28-year-old, went to live by himself in the woods in Massachusetts. He stayed for over two years, living self-sufficiently in a small cabin built with his own hands. Walden is... -
The Complete Works: Handbook, Discourses, and Fragments by Epictetus
RRP: $31.50$28.25The complete surviving works of Epictetus, the most influential Stoic philosopher from antiquity. "Some things are up to us and some are not." Epictetus was born into slavery around the year 50 CE, and, upon being granted his freedom, he set himself up... -
The Complete Essays by Michel Montaigne
RRP: $46.20$33.64Michel de Montaigne was one of the most influential figures of the Renaissance, singlehandedly responsible for popularising the essay as a literary form. This Penguin Classics edition of The Complete Essays is translated from the French and edited with... -
Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant 9780140447477
RRP: $39.88$28.58Kant's profound and challenging investigation into the nature of human reason is the central text of modern philosophyIn his landmark work Kant argues that reason is the seat of certain concepts that precede experience and make it possible, but we are... -
Twilight of Idols and Anti-Christ by Friedrich Nietzsche
RRP: $18.88$13.55In these two devastating late works, Nietzsche offers a powerful attack on the morality and the beliefs of his timeNietzsche's Twilight of the Idols is a 'grand declaration of war' on reason, psychology and theology, which combines highly charged... -
Ancient Greek Philosophers by Editors of Canterbury Classics 9781684125531
RRP: $41.98$29.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781684125531Author Editors of Canterbury ClassicsFormat HardbackPage Count 992Imprint Silver Dolphin BooksPublisher Silver Dolphin BooksWeight(grams)... -
God is Dead. God Remains Dead. And We Have Killed Him. by Friedrich Nietzsche
RRP: $16.78$12.16'We have left dry land and put out to sea! We have burned the bridge behind us - what is more, we have burned the land behind us!'Nietzsche's devastating demolition of religion would have seismic consequences for future generations. With God dead, he... -
This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life by David Foster Wallace
RRP: $31.48$20.85How does one keep from going through their comfortable, prosperous adult life unconsciously? How do we get ourselves out of the foreground of our thoughts and achieve compassion? The speech captures Wallace's electric intellect as well as his grace in... -
How to Be: Life Lessons from the Early Greeks by Adam Nicolson 9780008490829
RRP: $23.08$15.23A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR What is the nature of things? Must I think my own way through the world? What is justice? How can I be me? How should we treat each other? Before the... -
Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu 9781529083477
RRP: $23.08$15.77Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching is the source of Zen Buddhism, and is probably the most broadly influential spiritual text in human history.Complete & Unabridged. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, cloth-bound, pocket-sized classics... -
Socrates' Way: Seven Keys to Using Your Mind to the Utmost by Ronald Gross 9781585421923
RRP: $39.88$30.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781585421923Author Ronald GrossFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Jeremy P TarcherPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 1g -
Philosophy 101: From Plato and Socrates to Ethics and Metaphysics, an Essential Primer on the History of Thought by Paul Kleinman
RRP: $27.28$17.18Discover the world's greatest thinkers and their groundbreaking notions!Too often, textbooks turn the noteworthy theories, principles, and figures of philosophy into tedious discourse that even Plato would reject. Philosophy 101 cuts out the boring... -
The Joyous Science by Friedrich Nietzsche
RRP: $23.08$16.32The Joyous Science is a liberating voyage of discovery as Nietzsche's realization that 'God is dead' and his critique of morality, the arts and modernity give way to an exhilarating doctrine of self-emancipation and the concept of eternal recurrence... -
The Analects by Confucius 9780140443486
RRP: $20.98$14.93'The Master said, "If a man sets his heart on benevolence, he will be free from evil"'The Analects are a collection of Confucius's sayings brought together by his pupils shortly after his death in 497 BC. Together they express a philosophy, or a moral... -
What is Called Thinking? by Martin Heidegger 9780060905286
RRP: $31.48$19.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060905286Author Martin HeideggerFormat PaperbackPage Count 270Imprint HarperPerennialPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc -
The Great Philosophers: Turing by Andrew Hodges
RRP: $12.58$9.24From WW2 code-breaker to Artificial Intelligence - a fascinating account of the remarkable Alan Turing.Alan Turing's 1936 paper On Computable Numbers was a landmark of twentieth-century thought. It not only provided the principle of the post-war... -
Meditations and Other Metaphysical Writings by Rene Descartes
RRP: $20.98$14.93One of the foundation-stones of modern philosophy, Rene Descartes' Meditations and Other Metaphysical Writings is translated from the Latin with an introduction by Desmond M. Clarke in Penguin Classics.Descartes was prepared to go to any lengths in his... -
The Philosophy Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained by DK 9780241638668
RRP: $41.98$30.14Get to grips with the concepts that shaped the way we think about ethics, politics, and our place in the universe. Explaining the big ideas and groundbreaking theories of key philosophers in a clear and simple way, The Philosophy Book is the perfect... -
Feline Philosophy: Cats and the Meaning of Life by John Gray
RRP: $23.08$16.32'Why can't a human be more like a cat? That is the question threaded through this vivid patchwork of philosophy, fiction, history and memoir ... a wonderful mixture of flippancy and profundity, astringency and tenderness, wit and lament' Jane O'Grady,... -
The First and Last Freedom by J. Krishnamurti
RRP: $31.48$23.00If truth can set us free, where do we find it? In The First and Last Freedom, Krishnamurti argues that we will not find truth in formal institutions, nor in organised religions and their dogmas, nor in any guru or outside authority; for, according to... -
Republic (Collins Classics) by Plato 9780008480080
RRP: $6.28$4.91HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Plato's Republic has influenced Western philosophers for centuries, with its main focus on what makes a well-balanced society and individual.About the... -
The Art of Rhetoric by Aristotle 9780198724254
RRP: $20.98$14.93For all men are persuaded by considerations of where their interest lies... Aristotle's Art of Rhetoric is the earliest systematic treatment of the subject, and it remains among the most incisive works on rhetoric that we possess. In it, we are asked:... -
Republic by Plato
RRP: $18.88$14.03Republic is the central work of the Western world's most famous philosopher. Essentially an inquiry into morality, Republic also contains crucial arguments and insights into many other areas of philosophy. It is also a literary masterpiece: the... -
Essays and Aphorisms by Arthur Schopenhauer
RRP: $23.08$16.32One of the greatest philosophers of the nineteenth century, Schopenhauer (1788-1860) believed that human action is determined not by reason but by 'will' - the blind and irrational desire for physical existence. This selection of his writings on... -
Philosophers Who Changed History by DK 9780241656822
RRP: $52.50$35.85This visual celebration of the world's most celebrated thinkers tells the fascinating stories of their lives and pioneering ideas.Philosophers Who Changed History places well-known philosophers in their historical and cultural context, showing you how...