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The Beginning of Western Philosophy: Interpretation of Anaximander and Parmenides by Martin Heidegger
RRP: €46.41€40.60Volume 35 of Heidegger's Complete Works comprises a lecture course given at the University of Freiburg in 1932, five years after the publication of Being and Time. During this period, Heidegger was at the height of his creative powers, which are on full... -
Hegel: The Philosopher of Freedom by Klaus Vieweg 9781503630574
RRP: €38.08€27.97A monumental new biography of a pivotal yet poorly understood pioneer in modern philosophy. When a painter once told Goethe that he wanted to paint the most celebrated man of the age, Goethe directed him to Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. Hegel worked... -
Bad Infinity: Selected Writings by Aria Dean
RRP: €19.64€15.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783956796470Author Aria DeanFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Sternberg PressPublisher Sternberg PressWeight(grams) 289gDimensions(mm) 189mm * 121mm *... -
Utilitarianism by John Stuart Mill 9780486454221
RRP: €4.15€3.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486454221Author John Stuart MillFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Secularism and Religion-Making by Markus Dressler 9780199782925
RRP: €59.49€44.22This book conceives of "religion-making" broadly as the multiple ways in which social and cultural phenomena are configured and reconfigured within the matrix of a world-religion discourse that is historically and semantically rooted in... -
The Question Concerning the Thing: On Kant's Doctrine of the Transcendental Principles by Martin Heidegger 9781783484645
RRP: €35.70€31.75The Question Concerning the Thing presents a full English translation of a lecture course first delivered by Heidegger at Freiburg University during the Winter Semester of 1935-36 (originally published in German as volume 41 of the Gesamtausgabe). ... -
Athens and Jerusalem by Lev Shestov 9780821422205
RRP: €41.65€37.06For 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... -
The Immune System of the Soul: How to Free Your Self from all Forms of Dis-Ease by Mike George 9780957667303
RRP: €10.70€9.44Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Understanding Humanism by Andrew Copson
RRP: €42.83€37.71Understanding Humanism is an easy-to-read and informative overview of the beliefs, practices, and values of humanism as a non-religious worldview. This short and lively book explores humanism both as a broad historical tradition of thought and as a... -
Sexes and Geneologies by Luce Irigaray 9780231070331
RRP: €29.75€23.31In the tradition of Simone de Beauvoir and Julia Kristeva, Luce Irigaray is one of France's most versatile feminist critics. Sexes and Genealogies, a collection of lectures delivered throughout Canada and Europe, introduces her writing to a wider... -
From What Is to What If: Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want by Rob Hopkins 9781645020288
RRP: €21.36€16.54Big ideas that just might save the world. the Guardian A serious book on an important subject. Without imagination, where are we? Sir Quentin Blake What if we took play seriously? What if we considered imagination vital to our health? What if we... -
Nomadic Subjects: Embodiment and Sexual Difference in Contemporary Feminist Theory by Rosi Braidotti
RRP: €33.32€25.94For 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 Art of Being Erich Fromm 9781472146953
RRP: €15.46€10.23How can we realise and actualise love, reason and meaningful, productive work? If the Art of Being - the art of functioning as a whole person - can be considered the supreme goal of life, a breakthrough occurs when we move from narcissistic selfishness... -
Oakeshott on Rome and America by Gene Callahan 9781845406677
€27.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845406677Author Gene CallahanFormat PaperbackPage Count 238Imprint Imprint AcademicPublisher Imprint AcademicWeight(grams) 400g -
Existentialism: A Reconstruction David E. Cooper (University of Durham) 9780631213239
RRP: €36.83€32.67First published in 1990, Existentialism is widely regarded as a classic introductory survey of the topic, and has helped to renew interest in existentialist philosophy. The author places existentialism within the great traditions of philosophy, and... -
Living The Secular Life: New Answers to Old Questions by Phil Zuckerman
RRP: €26.17€17.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143127932Author Phil ZuckermanFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 251g -
Five Senses: A Philosophy of Mingled Bodies by Michel Serres 9780826459855
€47.71Marginalized by the scientific age with its metaphysical and philosophical systems, the lessons of the senses have been overtaken by the dominance of language and the information revolution. Exploring the deleterious effects of the systematic downgrading... -
Bremen and Freiburg Lectures: Insight Into That Which Is and Basic Principles of Thinking by Martin Heidegger
RRP: €38.08€33.57This volume consists of two lecture series given by Heidegger in the 1940s and 1950s. The lectures given in Bremen constitute the first public lectures Heidegger delivered after World War II, when he was officially banned from teaching. Here, Heidegger... -
Jacques the Fatalist by Denis Diderot
RRP: €14.27€9.03'Your Jacques is a tasteless mishmash of things that happen, some of them true, others made up, written without style and served up like a dog's breakfast.' Jacques the Fatalist is Diderot's answer to the problem of existence. If human beings are... -
Way Too Cool: Selling Out Race and Ethics by Shannon Winnubst
RRP: €29.75€23.31Life, liberty, and the pursuit of cool have informed the American ethos since at least the 1970s. Whether we strive for it in politics or fashion, cool is big business for those who can sell it across a range of markets and media. Yet the concept wasn't... -
Hyperdream by Helene Cixous
RRP: €19.03€17.15Hyperdream is a major new novel by celebrated French author Helene Cixous. It is a literary tour de force, returning anew to challenge necessity itself, the most implacable of human certainties: you die in the end - and that's the end. For you, for me. ... -
On Fear by J. Krishnamurti 9780062510143
€13.76This is a collection of the counsellor and teacher, J. Krishnamurti's most profound observations and thoughts on how fear and dependence affect our lives and prevent us from seeing our true selves. Among the many questions Krishnamurti addresses in these... -
Conversion Disorder: Listening to the Body in Psychoanalysis by Jamieson Webster
RRP: €35.70€27.72Conversion disorder-a psychiatric term that names the enigmatic transformation of psychic energy into bodily manifestations-offers a way to rethink the present. With so many people suffering from unexplained bodily symptoms; with so many seeking recourse... -
The Madness of Vision: On Baroque Aesthetics by Christine Buci-Glucksmann
RRP: €78.54€23.80Christine Buci-Glucksmann's The Madness of Vision is one of the most influential studies in phenomenological aesthetics of the baroque. Integrating the work of Merleau-Ponty with Lacanian psychoanalysis, Renaissance studies in optics, and... -
Out of My Head: On the Trail of Consciousness by Tim Parks
RRP: €11.89€8.46Is my experience real?Or just a movie in my head?Am I no more than a super computer? You are your brain, neuroscientists tell us. Everything happens in there. Yet even the most sophisticated brain scan cannot tell us who we are. Nothing in our neurons... -
Hegel and the Infinite: Religion, Politics, and Dialectic by Slavoj Zizek 9780231143356
RRP: €33.32€25.94Catherine Malabou, Antonio Negri, John D. Caputo, Bruno Bosteels, Mark C. Taylor, and Slavoj Zizek join seven others-including William Desmond, Katrin Pahl, Adrian Johnston, Edith Wyschogrod, and Thomas A. Lewis-to apply Hegel's thought to... -
God Created Humanism: The Christian Basis Of Secular Values by Theo Hobson
RRP: €13.08€9.25In 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... -
Gaian Systems: Lynn Margulis, Neocybernetics, and the End of the Anthropocene by Bruce Clarke
RRP: €24.98€21.86A groundbreaking look at Gaia theory's intersections with neocybernetic systems theory Often seen as an outlier in science, Gaia has run a long and varied course since its formulation in the 1970s by atmospheric chemist James Lovelock and microbiologist... -
Critique of Instrumental Reason by Max Horkheimer
€18.12These essays, written between 1949 and 1967, focus on a single theme: the triumph in the twentieth century of the state-bureaucratic apparatus and 'instrumental reason' and the concomitant liquidation of the individual and the basic social institutions... -
Existential Medicine: Essays on Health and Illness by Kevin Aho 9781786604835
RRP: €46.41€42.92Existential Medicine explores the recent impact that the philosophies of existentialism, phenomenology, and hermeneutics have had on the health care professions. A growing body of scholarship drawing primarily on the work of Martin Heidegger and other... -
Theory and Practice by Jacques Derrida
RRP: €36.89€31.33Theory and Practice is a series of nine lectures that Jacques Derrida delivered at the Ecole Normale Superieure in 1976 and 1977. The topic of "theory and practice" was associated above all with Marxist discourse and particularly the influential... -
Philology: The Forgotten Origins of the Modern Humanities by James Turner
RRP: €26.18€21.13Many today do not recognize the word, but "philology" was for centuries nearly synonymous with humanistic intellectual life, encompassing not only the study of Greek and Roman literature and the Bible but also all other studies of language and... -
The Flip: Epiphanies of Mind and the Future of Knowledge by Jeffrey J. Kripal
€18.30"One of the most provocative new books of the year, and, for me, mindblowing." -Michael Pollan, author of The Omnivore's Dilemma and How to Change Your Mind"Kripal makes many sympathetic points about the present spiritual state of America. . . . [He]... -
Epiphanies: An Ethics of Experience by Sophie Grace Chappell 9780192858016
RRP: €48.78€44.89Epiphanies 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... -
The End of Progress: Decolonizing the Normative Foundations of Critical Theory by Amy Allen 9780231173254
RRP: €26.18€20.66While post- and decolonial theorists have thoroughly debunked the idea of historical progress as a Eurocentric, imperialist, and neocolonialist fallacy, many of the most prominent contemporary thinkers associated with the Frankfurt School-Jurgen... -
Life of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola. Oration by Gianfrancesco Pico della Mirandola
RRP: €35.64€28.16The Oration by philosopher Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463-1494), to which later editors added the subtitle On the Dignity of Man, is the most famous text written in Italy at the height of the Renaissance. The Life of Giovanni by Gianfrancesco Pico,... -
Now It Begins Gary Markwick 9780956766885
RRP: €13.03€9.22Gary Markwick has used his incredible insight and experience of the human psyche to provide us with an antidote to the stresses and tensions that beset our lives today. Now it Begins has, at its heart, the simple assertion that once you can let go of... -
Life in Light of Death by James A. Lindsay 9781634310864
RRP: €16.65€9.62Life is short, and it can be sweet. Contemplating death is looking into a mirror that allows us to see these simple facts clearly, as if for the first time. We have every reason to believe that we have but one life to live-and no good reasons to believe... -
Heidegger Among the Sculptors: Body, Space, and the Art of Dwelling by Andrew Mitchell
RRP: €20.22€17.93In the 1950s and 60s, Martin Heidegger turned to sculpture to rethink the relationship between bodies and space and the role of art in our lives. In his texts on the subject-a catalog contribution for an Ernst Barlach exhibition, a speech at a gallery... -
Radical Atheism: Derrida and the Time of Life by Martin Hagglund 9780804700788
RRP: €28.55€23.93Radical Atheism presents a profound new reading of the influential French philosopher Jacques Derrida. Against the prevalent notion that there was an ethical or religious "turn" in Derrida's thinking, Hagglund argues that a radical atheism informs...