Individual Philosophers

Designed 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...

The unabridged version of this definitive work is now available in this highly designed jacketed hardcover with a new introduction by Odysseus Makridis. Published around 380 BCE, Plato's most famous work explores the idea of justness, among other...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385031387Author William BarrettFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing GroupPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing...

Shortlisted 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,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781585102617Author PlatoFormat PaperbackPage Count 364Imprint Focus Publishing/R Pullins & CoPublisher Focus Publishing/R Pullins & CoWeight(grams) 513g

A 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...

Barely 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...

'John Sellars excels at writing short books for a general audience on ancient philosophy. . . A great way into one of the greatest philosophers of all time' Nigel Warburton, Five Books Why has Aristotle had such an astounding influence on the world?...

A 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...

"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...

A 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679783398Author Friedrich NietzscheFormat PaperbackPage Count 896Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 499gDimensions(mm)...

One 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955308789Author Nick LandFormat PaperbackPage Count 680Imprint UrbanomicPublisher Urbanomic Media LtdDimensions(mm) 178mm * 114mm * 32mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060937287Author Martin HeideggerFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)...

Who am I? What's my life's purpose? Where am I going when I die?These questions lie at the heart of all our lives, yet clear answers seem hard to come by. A Complete Guide to the Soul explains that answers can in fact be found in a secret history that...

'The most prescient of British public intellectuals' Pankaj Mishra, Financial TimesUpdated with a new foreword and two new chapters of John Gray's writing.Why is progress a pernicious myth? Why do beliefs that humanity can be improved end in farce or...

The New York Times bestselling author of The Geography of Bliss embarks on a rollicking intellectual journey, following in the footsteps of history's greatest thinkers and showing us how each-from Epicurus to Gandhi, Thoreau to Beauvoir-offers practical...

Nearly two years before his powerful Communist Manifesto, Marx (1818-1883) co-wrote The German Ideology in 1845 with friend and collaborator Friedrich Engels expounding a new political worldview, including positions on materialism, labor, production,...

Persuasion analyzed.Aristotle (384-322 BC), the great Greek thinker, researcher, and educator, ranks among the most important and influential figures in the history of philosophy, theology, and science. He joined Plato's Academy in Athens in 367 and...

An engaging account of how Shaftesbury revolutionized Western philosophyAt the turn of the eighteenth century, Anthony Ashley Cooper, the third Earl of Shaftesbury (1671-1713), developed the first comprehensive philosophy of beauty to be written in...

Apologies 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)...

When he died in 1930 aged 26, Frank Ramsey had already invented one branch of mathematics and two branches of economics, laying the foundations for decision theory and game theory. Keynes deferred to him; he was the only philosopher whom Wittgenstein...

In 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...

From Pulitzer Prize-finalist Steven Nadler, an engaging guide to what Spinoza can teach us about life's big questionsIn 1656, after being excommunicated from Amsterdam's Portuguese-Jewish community for "abominable heresies" and "monstrous deeds," the...

'Consider just this, and give your minds to this alone: whether or not what I say is just' Plato's account of Socrates' trial and death (399 BC) is a significant moment in Classical literature and the life of Classical Athens. In these four dialogues,...

Life is a razor's edge and one has to walk on that path with exquisite care and with pliable wisdom" - J Krishnamurti Between 1948 and the early 1960s, Krishnamurti was easily accessible and many people came to him. On walks, in personal meetings,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845409333Author Patrick WestFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint SocietasPublisher Imprint AcademicWeight(grams) 200gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 135mm * 10mm

Jan Patocka's contribution to phenomenology and the philosophy of history mean that he is considered one of the most important philosophers of the 20th century. Yet, his writing is not widely available in English and the Anglophone world remains...

'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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679724629Author Friedrich NietzscheFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 261gDimensions(mm)...

From the sierras of New Mexico to the streets of New York and LA by night-"a sort of luminous, geometric, incandescent immensity"-Baudrillard mixes apercus and observations with a wicked sense of fun to provide a unique insight into the country that...

Peter Hacker's Insight and Illusion is a thoroughly comprehensive examination of the evolution of Wittgenstein's thought from the Tractatus to his later 'mature' phase. This is a reprint of the revised and corrected 1989 edition, with a new foreword by...

As 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,...

Why we should take Bernard Mandeville seriously as a philosopherBernard Mandeville's The Fable of the Bees outraged its eighteenth-century audience by proclaiming that private vices lead to public prosperity. Today the work is best known as an early...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262047333Author Georges BatailleFormat HardbackPage Count 432Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

What would the ancient Greek philosopher make of the twenty-first-century Google headquarters?A dazzling exploration of the role of ancient philosophy in modern life from the acclaimed writer and thinker.Imagine that Plato came to life in the...

In 1888, philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche moved to Turin. This would be the year in which he wrote three of his greatest works: Twilight of the Idols, The Antichrist, and Ecce Homo; it would also be his last year of writing. He suffered a debilitating...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635901276Author Gilles DeleuzeFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Semiotext (E)Publisher Semiotext (E)Dimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 22mm

The Spirit of Laws is one of the most influential books of all time. This masterpiece of political philosophy was widely read throughout Europe, attracted an especially enthusiastic readership in England, and had a profound effect on the framers of the...