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Here I'm Alive: The Spirit of Music in Psychoanalysis by Adam Blum
RRP: $51.46$39.14Here I'm Alive explores the musical foundation of being human from a psychoanalytic perspective.Writing in collaboration, three psychoanalytic clinicians develop a fresh vision of the essential role of music in psychical life. Through an... -
Surfing Uncertainty: Prediction, Action, and the Embodied Mind by Andy Clark
RRP: $29.14$25.92How is it that thoroughly physical material beings such as ourselves can think, dream, feel, create and understand ideas, theories and concepts? How does mere matter give rise to all these non-material mental states, including consciousness itself? An... -
Understand Existentialism: Teach Yourself by Mel Thompson
RRP: $22.28$14.75Is this the right book for me?Understand Existentialism breaks down a complex mode of thought into more manageable sections, enabling you to get to grips with the key concepts within the movement. Chart the origins and development of existentialism in a... -
Documenting the Past in Medieval Puglia, 1130-1266 by Paul Oldfield 9780192870902
RRP: $130.36$118.53Documenting the Past in Medieval Puglia, 1130-1266 explores the production of historical memory in the region of Puglia after it was subsumed within the new Kingdom of Sicily in 1130. It assesses the significance of the apparent disappearance of more... -
Saved By Beauty by Roger Housden 9780307587749
RRP: $25.73$20.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307587749Author Roger HousdenFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 244gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
This Sex Which Is Not One by Luce Irigaray
RRP: $46.30$39.19"The publication of these two translations is an event to be celebrated by feminists of all persuasions." Women's Review of Books In This Sex Which Is Not One, Luce Irigaray elaborates on some of the major themes of Speculum of the Other Woman, her... -
Humanism: A Beginner's Guide (updated edition) by Peter Cave
RRP: $17.14$12.20Life does not become empty and meaningless in a godless universe. This is the contention at the heart of humanism, the philosophy concerned with making sense of the world through reason, experience and shared human values. In this thought-provoking... -
Capitalism and Desire: The Psychic Cost of Free Markets by Todd McGowan
RRP: $51.46$39.83Despite creating vast inequalities and propping up reactionary world regimes, capitalism has many passionate defenders-but not because of what it withholds from some and gives to others. Capitalism dominates, Todd McGowan argues, because it mimics the... -
Time Driven: Metapsychology and the Splitting of the Drive by Adrian Johnston 9780810122055
RRP: $51.37$42.08Elaborating the fundamental concept of Trieb, or drive, Freud outlines two basic types of conflict that at once disturb and organize mental life; the conflict between drives and reality; and the conflict between the drives themselves (as in amorous Eros... -
Think Like a Feminist: The Philosophy Behind the Revolution by Carol Hay 9781324020271
RRP: $17.14$13.36Think Like a Feminist is an irreverent yet rigorous primer that unpacks over two hundred years of feminist thought. In a time when the word feminism triggers all sorts of responses, many of them conflicting and misinformed, Professor Carol Hay provides... -
Dissemblage: Machinic Captialism and Molecular Revolution by Gerald Raunig
RRP: $30.88$20.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781570274060Author Gerald RaunigFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Minor CompositionsPublisher Autonomedia -
God Created Humanism: The Christian Basis Of Secular Values by Theo Hobson
RRP: $18.85$13.33In this compelling account of the origins and evolution of our secular worldview, Theo Hobson shows how Christian values continue to underpin our public morality, how faith remains indispensable to Western humanism, and how atheistic humanism represents... -
Introducing Derrida: A Graphic Guide by Jeff Collins
RRP: $15.42$11.49Brilliant illustrated guide to the best-known and most controversial continental philosopher of the latter 20th century. Jacques Derrida is the most famous philosopher of the late 20th century. Yet Derrida has undermined the rules of philosophy, rejected... -
Epiphanies: An Ethics of Experience by Sophie Grace Chappell 9780192858016
RRP: $65.16$60.14Epiphanies is a philosophical exploration of epiphanies, peak experiences, 'wow moments', or ecstasies as they are sometimes called. What are epiphanies, and why do so many people so frequently experience them? Are they just transient phenomena in our... -
Dissolving the Ego Realizing the Self: Contemplations from the Teachingsof David R. Hawkins, M.D., Ph.D. by Jeffrey Scott
RRP: $30.86$22.21How does one traverse the spiritual landscape to move beyond suffering to experience the peace and love of God, to transcend illusion and realize the state of enlightenment? In this collection of inspiring passages from David R. Hawkins's work, the... -
Life lessons from Kierkegaard by Robert Ferguson
RRP: $18.85$13.22The School of Life offers radical ways to help us raid the treasure trove of human knowledge' Independent on Sunday Soren Kierkegaard was a Danish philosopher, theologian, literary stylist and social critic. Born in 1813 in Copenhagen, his philosophical... -
In-Between: Latina Feminist Phenomenology, Multiplicity, and the Self by Mariana Ortega
$44.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438459769Author Mariana OrtegaFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York... -
Foucault at the Movies by Patrice Maniglier 9780231167079
RRP: $37.74$29.14Michel Foucault's work on film, although not extensive, compellingly illustrates the power of bringing his unique vision to bear on the subject and offers valuable insights into other aspects of his thought. Foucault at the Movies brings together all of... -
Athens and Jerusalem by Lev Shestov 9780821422205
RRP: $68.61$59.56For more than two thousand years, philosophers and theologians have wrestled with the irreconcilable opposition between Greek rationality (Athens) and biblical revelation (Jerusalem). In Athens and Jersusalem, Lev Shestov-an inspiration for the French... -
Jacques Lacan, Past and Present: A Dialogue by Alain Badiou 9780231165112
RRP: $29.14$22.88In this dialogue, Alain Badiou shares the clearest, most detailed account to date of his profound indebtedness to Lacanian psychoanalysis. He explains in depth the tools Lacan gave him to navigate the extremes of his other two philosophical "masters,"... -
Sartre Explained: From Bad Faith to Authenticity by David Detmer
$30.00Jean-Paul Sartre is perhaps the most famous of the existentialists, and by far the most famous philosopher of the post-war era. Sartre was a highly prolific writer and thinker, and delving into his novels, plays, stories, essays, and memoirs can be... -
The Basic Problems of Phenomenology, Revised Edition by Martin Heidegger
RRP: $41.15$35.70A lecture course that Martin Heidegger gave in 1927, The Basic Problems of Phenomenology continues and extends explorations begun in Being and Time. In this text, Heidegger provides the general outline of his thinking about the fundamental problems of... -
Nomadic Subjects: Embodiment and Sexual Difference in Contemporary Feminist Theory by Rosi Braidotti
RRP: $48.03$36.64For more than fifteen years, Nomadic Subjects has guided discourse in continental philosophy and feminist theory, exploring the constitution of contemporary subjectivity, especially the concept of difference within European philosophy and political... -
The Animal That Therefore I Am by Jacques Derrida
RRP: $46.30$39.19The Animal That Therefore I Am is the long-awaited translation of the complete text of Jacques Derrida's ten-hour address to the 1997 Cerisy conference entitled "The Autobiographical Animal," the third of four such colloquia on his work. The book was... -
Solitary Confinement: Social Death and Its Afterlives by Lisa Guenther
RRP: $41.15$35.01Prolonged solitary confinement has become a widespread and standard practice in U.S. prisons-even though it consistently drives healthy prisoners insane, makes the mentally ill sicker, and, according to the testimony of prisoners, threatens to reduce... -
Exact Thinking in Demented Times: The Vienna Circle and the Epic Quest for the Foundations of Science by Karl Sigmund
RRP: $42.88$28.78Inspired by Albert Einstein's theory of relativity and Bertrand Russell and David Hilbert's pursuit of the fundamental rules of mathematics, some of the most brilliant minds of the generation came together in post-World War I Vienna to present the latest... -
Pragmatism as Transition: Historicity and Hope in James, Dewey, and Rorty by Colin Koopman 9780231148740
RRP: $144.09$110.74Pragmatism is America's best-known native philosophy. It espouses a practical set of beliefs and principles that focus on the improvement of our lives. Yet the split between classical and contemporary pragmatists has divided the tradition against itself... -
Infinite Distraction by Dominic Pettman 9781509502271
RRP: $27.43$24.72It is often argued that contemporary media homogenize our thoughts and actions, without us being fully aware of the restrictions they impose. But what if the problem is not that we are all synchronized to the same motions or moments, but rather... -
Flight Ways: Life and Loss at the Edge of Extinction by Thom van Dooren
RRP: $51.46$46.98A leading figure in the emerging field of extinction studies, Thom van Dooren puts philosophy into conversation with the natural sciences and his ethnographic encounters to vivify the cultural and ethical significance of modern-day extinctions. Unlike... -
Glad to the Brink of Fear: A Portrait of Ralph Waldo Emerson by James Marcus 9780691254333
RRP: $42.88$32.76An engaging reassessment of the celebrated essayist and his relevance to contemporary readersMore than two centuries after his birth, Ralph Waldo Emerson remains one of the presiding spirits in American culture. Yet his reputation as the starry-eyed... -
Documentality: Why It Is Necessary to Leave Traces by Maurizio Ferraris
RRP: $65.18$56.00This books ushers in a new way of talking about social phenomena. It develops an ontology of social objects on the basis of the claim that registration or inscription-the leaving of a trace to be called up later-is what is most fundamental to them. In... -
Speculative Taxidermy: Natural History, Animal Surfaces, and Art in the Anthropocene by Giovanni Aloi
RRP: $48.03$36.64Taxidermy, once the province of natural history and dedicated to the pursuit of lifelike realism, has recently resurfaced in the world of contemporary art,culture, and interior design. In Speculative Taxidermy, Giovanni Aloi offers a comprehensive... -
The Perils of the One by Stathis Gourgouris
RRP: $51.46$39.14From the earliest times, societies have been seduced by the temptation of unitary thinking. Recognizing the vulnerability of existence, people and cultures privilege regimes that confer authority on a single entity, a sovereign ruler, a transcendental... -
Formations of the Secular: Christianity, Islam, Modernity by Talal Asad
RRP: $41.15$35.28Opening with the provocative query "what might an anthropology of the secular look like?" this book explores the concepts, practices, and political formations of secularism, with emphasis on the major historical shifts that have shaped secular... -
Phenomenology and the Theological Turn: The French Debate by Dominique Janicaud 9780823220533
RRP: $51.44$44.58Phenomenology and the "Theological Turn" brings together the debate over Janicaud's critique of the "theological turn" represented by the works of Emmanuel Levinas, Paul Ricoeur, Jean-Luc Marion, Jean-Francois Courtine, Jean-Louis Chretien, and Michel... -
More Posthuman Glossary by Professor Rosi Braidotti
RRP: $37.72$30.88The notion of the posthuman continues to both intrigue and confuse, not least because of the huge number of ideas, theories and figures associated with this term. More Posthuman Glossary provides a way in to the dizzying array of posthuman concepts,... -
My Secret Book by Francesco Petrarca
RRP: $51.37$39.78Francesco Petrarca (1304-1374), one of the greatest of Italian poets, was also the leading spirit in the Renaissance movement to revive literary Latin, the language of the Roman Empire, and Greco-Roman culture in general. My Secret Book (Secretum)... -
Contributions to Philosophy (Of the Event) by Martin Heidegger
RRP: $77.19$66.67Martin Heidegger's Contributions to Philosophy reflects his famous philosophical "turning." In this work, Heidegger returns to the question of being from its inception in Being and Time to a new questioning of being as event. Heidegger opens up the... -
Hegel in A Wired Brain by Slavoj Zizek 9781350264045
RRP: $24.00$18.47Slavoj 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... -
Philosophers on Art from Kant to the Postmodernists: A Critical Reader by Christopher Kul-Want
RRP: $51.46$39.14Here, for the first time, Christopher Kul-Want brings together twenty-five texts on art written by twenty philosophers. Covering the Enlightenment to postmodernism, these essays draw on Continental philosophy and aesthetics, the Marxist intellectual...