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Spirit of Laws by Charles de Secondat,Baron de Montesquieu
RRP: $33.13$27.38The 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... -
Existentialism from Dostoevsky to Sartre by Walter Kaufmann 9780452009301
$21.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780452009301Author Walter KaufmannFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Penguin Random House AustraliaPublisher Penguin Random House AustraliaWeight(grams)... -
The Last Man Takes LSD: Foucault and the End of Revolution Daniel Zamora 9781839761393
$35.28In 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... -
Martin Heidegger's Path of Thinking by Otto Poggeler 9781573923446
RRP: $68.25$63.36This book offers a rich introduction to Heidegger that reveals Poggeler's sound scholarship and philosophical criticism.Book InformationISBN 9781573923446Author Otto PoggelerFormat PaperbackPage Count 313Imprint Humanity BooksPublisher Prometheus Books -
Mandeville’s Fable: Pride, Hypocrisy, and Sociability by Dr Robin Douglass
RRP: $58.50$45.42Why 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... -
Conversations with Roger Scruton by Mark Dooley
RRP: $33.13$23.95A 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... -
Spinoza, the Transindividual by Etienne Balibar
RRP: $42.88$35.04Etienne 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: $38.98$30.07New 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... -
Encountering China: Michael Sandel and Chinese Philosophy by Michael J. Sandel
RRP: $48.65$38.79In the West, Harvard philosopher Michael Sandel is a thinker of unusual prominence. In China, he's a phenomenon, greeted by vast crowds. China Daily reports that he has acquired a popularity "usually reserved for Hollywood movie stars." China Newsweek... -
How to Be Authentic: Simone de Beauvoir and the Quest for Fulfillment by Skye C Cleary 9781250271358
RRP: $54.58$31.22Apologies 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 Guillaume Payen 9780300228328
RRP: $78.00$75.17A 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... -
On the Genealogy of Morals by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche 9780679724629
RRP: $29.23$21.86Apologies 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)... -
Individuation in Light of Notions of Form and Information by Gilbert Simondon
RRP: $42.88$38.20A 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... -
Lacan: Anti-Philosophy 3 by Alain Badiou
RRP: $39.00$30.99Alain 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... -
In Search of Isaiah Berlin: A Literary Adventure by Henry Hardy
RRP: $21.43$16.34The 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 Shadow of God: Kant, Hegel, and the Passage from Heaven to History by Michael Rosen
RRP: $60.35$48.40A 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... -
Think Least of Death: Spinoza on How to Live and How to Die by Steven Nadler 9780691183848
RRP: $68.25$54.09From 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... -
Changing the Subject: Philosophy from Socrates to Adorno by Raymond Geuss 9780674248359
RRP: $36.95$29.97"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... -
What Do I Know?: Essential Essays by Michel de Montaigne 9781782278818
RRP: $29.23$19.11A 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: $19.50$13.26The 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... -
The Socratic Method of Psychotherapy by James Overholser
RRP: $58.50$45.42As 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... -
Portraits of Wittgenstein: Abridged Edition F.A. Flowers III 9781350046634
RRP: $81.88$72.77Portraits of Wittgenstein is a major collection of memoirs and reflections on one of the most influential and yet elusive personalities in the history of modern philosophy, Ludwig Wittgenstein. Featuring a wealth of illuminating and profound insights... -
The Theory of Rene Girard: A Very Simple Introduction by Carly Osborn
RRP: $19.50$13.69Apologies 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: $17.53$12.58Simply 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... -
Spinoza's Ethics by Benedictus de Spinoza 9780691193243
RRP: $42.90$32.06An 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... -
Hegel in A Wired Brain by Slavoj Zizek 9781350264045
RRP: $27.28$21.53Slavoj 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... -
From Alienation to Forms of Life: The Critical Theory of Rahel Jaeggi by Amy Allen
RRP: $54.50$47.78The 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... -
Heidegger's Being: The Shimmering Unfolding by Richard Capobianco 9781487551377
RRP: $31.18$27.77In 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... -
Philosophy of the Encounter: Later Writing, 1978-1987 by Louis Althusser
RRP: $44.83$40.27In 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... -
The Life and Philosophy of Elizabeth Anscombe by John Haldane 9781788360043
$45.55Apologies 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 *... -
Beautiful Souls: The Courage and Conscience of Ordinary People in Extraordinary Times by Eyal Press 9781250024084
RRP: $31.20$20.16Apologies 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: $66.28$63.49F.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... -
Aristotle for Everybody by Mortimer J. Adler
$20.03Aristotle (384 - 322 B.C.) taught logic to Alexander the Great and, by virtue of his philosophical works, to every philosopher since, from Marcus Aurelius, to Thomas Aquinas, to Mortimer J. Adler. Now Adler instructs the world in the "uncommon common... -
Platonism and Naturalism: The Possibility of Philosophy by Lloyd P. Gerson
RRP: $95.55$83.79In his third and concluding volume, Lloyd P. Gerson presents an innovative account of Platonism, the central tradition in the history of philosophy, in conjunction with Naturalism, the "anti-Platonism" in antiquity and contemporary philosophy. Gerson... -
The Paradoxes of Delusion: Wittgenstein, Schreber, and the Schizophrenic Mind by Louis A. Sass
RRP: $48.73$42.26Insanity-in clinical practice as in the popular imagination-is seen as a state of believing things that are not true and perceiving things that do not exist. Most schizophrenics, however, do not act as if they mistake their delusions for reality. In a... -
Kant and Mysticism: Critique as the Experience of Baring All in Reason's Light by Stephen R. Palmquist 9781793604668
RRP: $68.25$60.35What is happening when someone has a mystical experience, such as "feeling at one with the universe" or "hearing God's voice?" Does philosophy provide tools for assessing such claims? Which claims can be dismissed as delusions and which ones convey... -
Heidegger's Being: The Shimmering Unfolding by Richard Capobianco
RRP: $50.68$43.86In 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... -
Thinking in Time: An Introduction to Henri Bergson by Suzanne Guerlac
RRP: $48.73$42.26"Under the aegis of time Suzanne Guerlac displaces matter, intuition, memory, and vitalism of the early twentieth century into the wake of poststructuralism and the dilemmas of nature and culture here and now. This book is a landmark for anyone working... -
Making Sense in Common: A Reading of Whitehead in Times of Collapse by Isabelle Stengers
RRP: $40.93$35.82A leading philosopher seeks to recover "common sense" as a meeting place to reconcile science and philosophy With her previous books on Alfred North Whitehead, Isabelle Stengers not only secured a reputation as one of the premier philosophers of our... -
The Limit of the Useful by Georges Bataille
RRP: $62.40$40.19Apologies 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