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Letters and Other Texts by Gilles Deleuze
RRP: $23.21$15.66Apologies 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 -
Philosophy: Who Needs It (Centenary Edition) by Ayn Rand
RRP: $12.89$8.10Apologies 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 Last Man Takes LSD: Foucault and the End of Revolution by Daniel Zamora
$23.34In May 1975, Michel Foucault took LSD in the desert in southern California. He described it as the most important event of his life which would lead him to completely rework his History of Sexuality. His focus now would not be on power relations but on... -
For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition) by Ayn Rand 9780451163080
RRP: $10.31$6.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451163080Author Ayn RandFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Dutton / SignetPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 113gDimensions(mm) 171mm * 106mm *... -
Herbert Marcuse, Philosopher of Utopia: A Graphic Biography by Nick Thorkelson 9780872867857
RRP: $15.47$11.08"I believe that Marcuse's ideas can be as valuable today as they were fifty years ago."-Angela Y. Davis, from the forewordHerbert Marcuse was one of the twentieth century's most unlikely pop stars: a celebrity philosopher. In the 1960s, his argument for... -
Conversations with Roger Scruton by Mark Dooley
RRP: $21.92$15.84A candid and personal insight into the life and work of the philosopher and writer Roger Scruton, by his intellectual biographer Mark Dooley. This book reveals what life was like for Roger Scruton growing up in High Wycombe, how he survived Cambridge... -
Changing the Subject: Philosophy from Socrates to Adorno by Raymond Geuss 9780674248359
RRP: $24.45$19.39"A history of philosophy in twelve thinkers...The whole performance combines polyglot philological rigor with supple intellectual sympathy, and it is all presented...in a spirit of fun...This bracing and approachable book [shows] that there is life in... -
Nietzsche, the Aristocratic Rebel: Intellectual Biography and Critical Balance-Sheet by Domenico Losurdo
RRP: $83.85$56.88Perhaps no philosopher is more of a conundrum than Nietzsche, the solitary rebel, poet, wayfarer, anti-revolutionary Aufklarer and theorist of aristocratic radicalism. His accusers identify in his 'superman' the origins of Nazism, and thus issue an... -
Wittgenstein's Artillery: Philosophy as Poetry by James C Klagge
RRP: $55.47$47.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Choice Outstanding Academic Titles 2022.Book InformationISBN 9780262045834Author James C. KlaggeFormat HardbackPage Count 264Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press... -
Spinoza, the Transindividual by Etienne Balibar
RRP: $28.37$23.18Etienne Balibar, one of the foremost living French philosophers, builds on his landmark work 'Spinoza and Politics' with this exploration of Spinoza's ontology. Balibar situates Spinoza in relation to the major figures of Marx and Freud as a precursor to... -
It's Been a Good Life by Janet J. Asimov 9781573929684
RRP: $25.79$19.47New one-volume autobiography spans Asimov's life for the first time! As one of the most gifted and prolific writers of the twentieth century, Isaac Asimov became legendary for his inexhaustible creativity, wide-ranging intellectual curiosity, and... -
How to Be Authentic: Simone de Beauvoir and the Quest for Fulfillment by Skye C Cleary 9781250271358
RRP: $36.11$21.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250271358Author Skye C ClearyFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint St. Martin's EssentialsPublisher St. Martin's EssentialsWeight(grams)... -
Martin Heidegger's Changing Destinies: Catholicism, Revolution, Nazism by Guillaume Payen
$51.73A portrait of Martin Heidegger as a man and a philosopher In this biography of Martin Heidegger (1889-1976), now available in English, historian Guillaume Payen synthesizes the connections between the German philosopher's life and work. Critically, but... -
The Shadow of God: Kant, Hegel, and the Passage from Heaven to History by Michael Rosen
RRP: $39.93$31.39A bold and beautifully written exploration of the "afterlife" of God, showing how apparently secular habits of mind in fact retain the structure of religious thought.Once in the West, our lives were bounded by religion. Then we were guided out of the... -
Mandeville’s Fable: Pride, Hypocrisy, and Sociability by Dr Robin Douglass
RRP: $38.70$29.44Why 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... -
Individuation in Light of Notions of Form and Information by Gilbert Simondon
RRP: $30.95$26.84A long-awaited translation on the philosophical relation between technology, the individual, and milieu of the living From Democritus's atomism to Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, from Aristotle's reflections on the individual to Husserl's call for a... -
Tao Te Ching by Lao zi 9780399512988
$9.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399512988Author Witter BynnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint G P Putnam's SonsPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 102gDimensions(mm) 207mm *... -
Lacan: Anti-Philosophy 3 by Alain Badiou
RRP: $25.80$20.05Alain Badiou is arguably the most significant philosopher in Europe today. Badiou's seminars, given annually on major conceptual and historical topics, constitute an enormously important part of his work. They served as laboratories for his thought and... -
An Event, Perhaps: A Biography of Jacques Derrida by Peter Salmon
RRP: $12.89$8.57Who was Jacques Derrida? For some, he is responsible, at least in part, for the contemporary crisis of truth. For the far right, he is one of the architects of Cultural Marxism. To his academic critics, he reduced French philosophy to 'little more than... -
Be Not Afraid of Life: In the Words of William James by William James
RRP: $32.25$25.26A compelling collection of the life-changing writings of William JamesWilliam James-psychologist, philosopher, and spiritual seeker-is one of those rare writers who can speak directly and powerfully to anyone about life's meaning and worth, and whose... -
What Do I Know?: Essential Essays by Michel de Montaigne 9781782278818
RRP: $19.34$12.64A selection of Michel de Montaigne's most profound, searching essays, in a new translation and stunning hardback edition featuring an introduction by Yiyun Li 'I myself am the subject of my book'. So wrote Montaigne in the introductory note to his... -
Ask a Philosopher: Answers to Your Most Important – and Most Unexpected – Questions by Ian Olasov
RRP: $12.90$8.77The perfect gift for the smart thinker in your life.For several years Ian Olasov has set up 'Ask-a-Philosopher' booths around New York City, answering questions from passersby. Now in this book he offers answers to the real-life questions on people's... -
In Search of Isaiah Berlin: A Literary Adventure by Henry Hardy
RRP: $14.18$10.51The compelling story of a decades-long collaboration between social and political theorist Isaiah Berlin and his editor, Henry Hardy, who made it his vocation to bring Berlin's huge body of work into print. Isaiah Berlin was one of the greatest... -
The Socratic Method of Psychotherapy by James Overholser
RRP: $38.70$29.44As the field of psychotherapy focuses more on treatment manuals and the regimented nature of clinical research, the practice risks losing the subtle nuances that guide the interactive fluidity of therapy sessions. Can clinicians combat this loss by... -
Recovering the Later Georg Lukács: A Study on the Unity of His Thought by Matthew J. Smetona
$95.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262545372Author Matthew J. SmetonaFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
The Will To Power by Friedrich Nietzsche 9780394704371
RRP: $20.63$14.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780394704371Author Friedrich NietzscheFormat PaperbackPage Count 608Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)... -
The Theory of Rene Girard: A Very Simple Introduction by Carly Osborn
RRP: $12.90$9.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780646960425Author Carly OsbornFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint Australian Girard SeminarPublisher Australian Girard SeminarWeight(grams)... -
Confucius from the Heart by Yu Dan
RRP: $11.60$8.32Simply written, and with a view to taking the wisdom of Confucius out of the hands of the academics and the philosophers and making it accessible to the general reader, Confucius From the Heart gives us a contemporary Confucius, one who can teach us how... -
The Pocket Epicurean by John Sellars 9780226798646
RRP: $15.48$12.22A short, smart guide to living the good life through the teachings of Epicurus. As long as there has been human life, we've searched for what it means to be happy. More than two thousand years ago, the Greek philosopher Epicurus came to his own... -
Thinking and Being by Irad Kimhi
RRP: $48.96$38.62Opposing a long-standing orthodoxy of the Western philosophical tradition running from ancient Greek thought until the late nineteenth century, Frege argued that psychological laws of thought-those that explicate how we in fact think-must be... -
Spinoza's Ethics by Benedictus de Spinoza 9780691193243
RRP: $28.38$20.52An authoritative edition of George Eliot's elegant translation of Spinoza's greatest philosophical workIn 1856, Marian Evans completed her translation of Benedict de Spinoza's Ethics while living in Berlin with the philosopher and critic George Henry... -
Henry at Work: Thoreau on Making a Living by John Kaag
RRP: $28.38$21.92What Thoreau can teach us about working-why we do it, what it does to us, and how we can make it more meaningfulHenry at Work invites readers to rethink how we work today by exploring an aspect of Henry David Thoreau that has often been overlooked:... -
Hegel in A Wired Brain by Slavoj Zizek 9781350264045
RRP: $18.05$13.89Slavoj Zizek gives us a reading of a philosophical giant that changes our way of thinking about the new posthuman era. No ordinary study of Hegel, this work investigates what he might have had to say about the idea of the 'wired brain' - what happens... -
On the Genealogy of Morals by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche 9780679724629
RRP: $19.34$15.43Apologies 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)... -
The Socrates Express: In Search of Life Lessons from Dead Philosophers by Eric Weiner 9781501129025
$15.92The 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... -
Heidegger's Being: The Shimmering Unfolding by Richard Capobianco 9781487551377
RRP: $21.92$19.01In Heidegger's Being: The Shimmering Unfolding, the eminent Heidegger scholar Richard Capobianco draws on many new texts and sources to highlight in fresh ways the beauty and spiritual resonance of Martin Heidegger's thinking about Being. As in his... -
The Life and Philosophy of Elizabeth Anscombe by John Haldane 9781788360043
$29.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788360043Author John HaldaneFormat PaperbackPage Count 350Imprint Imprint AcademicPublisher Imprint AcademicWeight(grams) 350gDimensions(mm) 210mm *... -
Philosophy of the Encounter: Later Writing, 1978-1987 by Louis Althusser
RRP: $29.66$24.88In the late 1970s and 1980s, Louis Althusser endured a period of intense mental instability during which he murdered his wife and was committed to a psychiatric hospital. Spanning this deeply troubling period, this fourth and final volume of political... -
Beautiful Souls: The Courage and Conscience of Ordinary People in Extraordinary Times by Eyal Press 9781250024084
RRP: $20.64$13.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250024084Author Press EyalFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USA -
The Schelling Reader by Daniel Whistler
RRP: $43.85$42.00F.W.J. Schelling (1775-1854) stands alongside J.G. Fichte and G.W.F. Hegel as one of the great philosophers of the German idealist tradition. The Schelling Reader introduces students to Schelling's philosophy by guiding them through the first ever...