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Feline Philosophy: Cats and the Meaning of Life by John Gray
RRP: $21.43$15.15'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,... -
On the Shortness of Life by Seneca 9781781399576
$10.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781399576Author SenecaFormat PaperbackPage Count 38Imprint Benediction ClassicsPublisher Benediction ClassicsWeight(grams) 73gDimensions(mm) 234mm *... -
Meditations and Other Metaphysical Writings by Rene Descartes
RRP: $19.48$13.86One 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 Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844: and the Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx
RRP: $21.43$15.58Communism as a political movement attained global importance after the Bolsheviks toppled the Russian Czar in 1917. After that time the works of Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, especially the influential Communist Manifesto (1848), enjoyed an... -
The Fourfold Remedy: Epicurus and the Art of Happiness by John Sellars
RRP: $15.58$11.29What do we really need in order to live a happy life? An Epicurean antidote to anxietyOver two thousand years ago the Greek philosopher Epicurus offered a seemingly simple answer: all we really want is pleasure. Today we tend to associate the word... -
Republic (Collins Classics) by Plato 9780008480080
RRP: $5.83$4.56HarperCollins 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... -
How to Be: Life Lessons from the Early Greeks by Adam Nicolson
RRP: $48.75$24.73A 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... -
Reaction Formation: Dialogism, Ideology, and Capitalist Culture: The Creation of the Modern Unconscious by Jonathan Hall
RRP: $58.50$38.77Bakhtin and Voloshinov argued that dialogue is the intersubjective basis of consciousness, and of the creativity which makes historical changes in consciousness possible. The multiple dialogical relationships give every subject, who has developed through... -
Essays: The Philosophy Classic by Michel De Montaigne 9780857089335
RRP: $21.43$15.21An essential companion to the most relevant works of Michel de Montaigne Essays: The Philosophy Classic delivers a carefully curated collection of thought-provoking works by sixteenth-century thinker Michel De Montaigne. Exploring topics as diverse as... -
Essays and Aphorisms by Arthur Schopenhauer
RRP: $21.43$15.15One 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... -
Wittgenstein's Remarks on Colour: A Commentary and Interpretation by Andrew Lugg 9781839985324
RRP: $48.75$45.44The book is a first detailed discussion of Ludwig Wittgenstein's Remarks on Colour, a compilation of writings on the subject from the last fifteen months of his life. The origin and significance of the remarks are explained along with a remark-by-remark... -
On the Aesthetic Education of Man by Friedrich Schiller 9780141396965
RRP: $21.43$15.15'Man defines himself by his deeds - and what kind of image of man do we see in the mirror of our present times?' The poet and dramatist Friedrich Schiller was also a profound philosopher, who described his work On the Aesthetic Education of Man as 'the... -
What is Called Thinking? by Martin Heidegger 9780060905286
RRP: $29.23$19.95Apologies 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 Art of Rhetoric by Aristotle
RRP: $19.48$14.22For 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:... -
Marx: A Very Short Introduction by Peter Singer
RRP: $17.53$12.89Karl Marx is one of the most influential philosophers of all time, whose theories have shaped and directed political, economic, and social thought for 150 years. Considering Marx's life and impact, renowned philosopher Peter Singer identifies the central... -
David Sylvian as a Philosopher by Leonardo Vittorio Arena 9788869770029
RRP: $8.78$7.74David Sylvian may be seen as a philosopher, accordingly to the postmodern spirit, who invalidates identity, while preserving it at the level of "non-sound", in a troubled relationship between the ego and the others. His most recent songs have been... -
Walden and Civil Disobedience by Henry Thoreau 9780140390445
RRP: $19.48$13.86Disdainful of America's booming commercialism and industrialism, Henry David Thoreau left Concord, Massachusetts, in 1845 to live in solitude in the woods near Walden Pond. Walden, the account of his stay, conveys at once a naturalist's wonder at the... -
The Agony of Polemos by Carlos Videla
$33.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781956887457Author Carlos VidelaFormat PaperbackPage Count 146Imprint Antelope Hill PublishingPublisher Antelope Hill PublishingWeight(grams)... -
A Nietzsche Reader by Friedrich Nietzsche
RRP: $19.48$13.86The literary career of Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) spanned less than twenty years, but no area of intellectual inquiry was left untouched by his iconoclastic genius. The philosopher who announced the death of God in The Gay Science (1882) and went on... -
From Alienation to Forms of Life: The Critical Theory of Rahel Jaeggi by Amy Allen
RRP: $54.50$48.61The wide-ranging work of Rahel Jaeggi, a leading voice of the new generation of critical theorists, demonstrates how core concepts and methodological approaches in the tradition of the Frankfurt School can be updated, stripped of their dubious... -
Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance: 40th Anniversary Edition by Robert M. Pirsig
RRP: $21.43$12.97Acclaimed 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... -
Dialogues and Letters by Lucius Annaeus Seneca
RRP: $19.48$13.86A major writer and a leading figure in the public life of Rome, Seneca (c. 4BC-AD 65) ranks among the most eloquent and influential masters of Latin prose. This selection explores his thoughts on philosophy and the trials of life. In the Consolation to... -
Love in the Void: Where God Finds Us by Simone Weil
RRP: $17.53$13.40Simone Weil, the great mystic and philosopher for our age, shows where anyone can find God.Why is it that Simone Weil, with her short, troubled life and confounding insights into faith and doubt, continues to speak to today's spiritual seekers? Was it... -
The Analects by Confucius
RRP: $21.43$13.65Formed in a time of great unrest in ancient China, The Analects is vital to an understanding of Chinese history and thought, and, 2,500 years on, it remains startlingly relevant to contemporary life.Complete and unabridged. Part of the Macmillan... -
On Truth and Untruth: Selected Writings by Friedrich Nietzsche
RRP: $17.53$11.74"We continue to live within the intellectual shadow cast by Nietzsche."-New York Times Book Review Reissued for the age of "fake news," On Truth and Untruth charts Nietzsche's evolving thinking on truth, which has exerted a powerful... -
Plato of Athens: A Life in Philosophy by Robin Waterfield
RRP: $42.88$30.44The first ever biography of the founder of Western philosophy Considered by many to be the most important philosopher ever, Plato was born into a well-to-do family in wartime Athens at the end of the fifth century BCE. In his teens, he honed his... -
How to Think Like a Woman: Four Women Philosophers Who Taught Me How to Love the Life of the Mind by Regan Penaluna
RRP: $33.13$22.58As a young woman growing up in a small, religious community, Regan Penaluna daydreamed about the big questions: Who are we and what is this strange world we find ourselves in? In college she discovered philosophy and fell in love with its rationality,... -
Analytic Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction by Michael Beaney 9780198778028
RRP: $17.53$12.89Originating in the pioneering work of Gottlob Frege, Bertrand Russell, G. E. Moore, and Ludwig Wittgenstein in the four decades around the turn of the twentieth century, analytic philosophy established itself in various forms in the 1930s. After the... -
Neglected or Misunderstood: Introducing Theodor Adorno by Stuart Walton 9781785353826
RRP: $35.08$30.01While Theodor Adorno has continued to be influential since his death in 1969, his very centrality has led to the left simplifying his ideas while the right placed him at the center of a myriad of wild conspiracy theories, all of them filed under the... -
New Science by Giambattista Vico
RRP: $25.33$17.73Barely acknowledged in his lifetime, the New Science of Giambattista Vico (1668-1744) is an astonishingly perceptive and ambitious attempt to decipher the history, mythology and laws of the ancient world. Discarding the Renaissance notion of the... -
Time of the Magicians: The Great Decade of Philosophy, 1919-1929 by Wolfram Eilenberger
RRP: $25.33$17.73AN ECONOMIST, GUARDIAN AND NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR A gripping narrative of the intertwined lives of the four philosophers whose ideas reshaped the twentieth centuryThe year is 1919. Walter Benjamin flees his overbearing father to scrape a living... -
A Spirit of Trust: A Reading of Hegel's <i>Phenomenology</i> by Robert B. Brandom
RRP: $81.80$67.43Forty years in the making, this long-awaited reinterpretation of Hegel's The Phenomenology of Spirit is a landmark contribution to philosophy by one of the world's best-known and most influential philosophers.In this much-anticipated work, Robert Brandom... -
Heidegger: A Very Short Introduction by Michael Inwood
RRP: $17.53$12.58Martin Heidegger, considered by some to be the greatest charlatan ever to claim the title of 'philosopher', by some as an apologist for Nazism, and by others as an acknowledged leader in continental philosophy, is probably the most divisive thinker of... -
The Free World: A Cultural History of the Cold War by Louis Menand
RRP: $58.50$53.98Shortlisted for the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize 2022 Longlisted for the 2021 National Book Award for Nonfiction The Cold War was not just a contest of power. It was also about ideas,... -
Witcraft: The Invention of Philosophy in English by Jonathan Ree
RRP: $25.33$17.73'Astonishing ... enjoy its riches slowly, and savour every generous, erudite and undogmatic page' Boyd Tonkin, Financial Times'We English men have wits,' wrote the clergyman Ralph Lever in 1573, and, 'we have also framed unto ourselves a language... -
Spinoza's Religion: A New Reading of the Ethics by Clare Carlisle 9780691224190
RRP: $37.03$28.84A bold reevaluation of Spinoza that reveals his powerful, inclusive vision of religion for the modern ageSpinoza is widely regarded as either a God-forsaking atheist or a God-intoxicated pantheist, but Clare Carlisle says that he was neither. In... -
The Great Philosophers: Wittgenstein by Peter Hacker
RRP: $9.73$7.41'Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself' WittgensteinWittgenstein overturned centuries of philosophical reflection on the nature of 'the inner', of our subjective experience and of our knowledge of self and others. Traditional conceptions of... -
The Portable Nietzsche by Friedrich Nietzsche
RRP: $33.13$23.95The works of Friedrich Nietzsche have fascinated readers around the world ever since the publication of his first book more than a hundred years ago. As Walter Kaufmann, one of the world's leading authorities on Nietzsche, notes in his introduction, "Few... -
Impossible Exchange by Jean Baudrillard
RRP: $31.18$26.73Working his way through the various spheres and systems of everyday life-the political, the juridical, the economical, the aesthetic, the biological, among others-he finds that they are all characterized by the same non-equivalence, and hence the same... -
The Communist Manifesto & Selected Writings by Karl Marx
RRP: $21.43$13.65Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure. This edition contains the most salient extracts from...