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Life Death by Jacques Derrida
RRP: £36.00£33.99One of Jacques Derrida's richest and most provocative works, Life Death challenges and deconstructs one of the most deeply rooted dichotomies of Western thought: life and death. Here Derrida rethinks the traditional philosophical understanding of the... -
Heideggerian Marxism by Herbert Marcuse
RRP: £29.99£25.99The Frankfurt School philosopher Herbert Marcuse (1898-1979) studied with Martin Heidegger at Freiburg University from 1928 to 1932 and completed a dissertation on Hegel's theory of historicity under Heidegger's supervision. During these years, Marcuse... -
Being with the Dead: Burial, Ancestral Politics, and the Roots of Historical Consciousness by Hans Ruin
RRP: £23.99£20.41Philosophy, Socrates declared, is the art of dying. This book underscores that it is also the art of learning to live and share the earth with those who have come before us. Burial, with its surrounding rituals, is the most ancient documented... -
The Devil's Pleasure Palace: The Cult of Critical Theory and the Subversion of the West by Michael Walsh 9781594039270
RRP: £11.99£11.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781594039270Author Michael WalshFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Encounter Books,USAPublisher Encounter Books,USA -
The Hand: A Philosophical Inquiry into Human Being by Raymond Tallis
RRP: £31.00£28.55What are the origins of human difference? The Hand, which is the first part of a bold philosophical inquiry into the nature of the difference between human beings and other animals, argues that it is the result of a complex sequence of events which began... -
Merleau-Ponty's Philosophy of Nature by Ted Toadvine 9780810125995
RRP: £29.95£24.13In our time, Ted Toadvine observes, the philosophical question of nature is almost entirely forgotten - obscured in part by a myopic focus on solving 'environmental problems' without asking how these problems are framed. But an 'environmental crisis',... -
Universality and Identity Politics by Todd McGowan
RRP: £30.00£22.82The great political ideas and movements of the modern world were founded on a promise of universal emancipation. But in recent decades, much of the Left has grown suspicious of such aspirations. Critics see the invocation of universality as a form of... -
History and Its Limits: Human, Animal, Violence by Dominick LaCapra
RRP: £27.99£23.66Dominick LaCapra's History and Its Limits articulates the relations among intellectual history, cultural history, and critical theory, examining the recent rise of "Practice Theory" and probing the limitations of prevalent forms of humanism. LaCapra... -
Object-Oriented Philosophy: The Noumenon's New Clothes by Peter Wolfendale
RRP: £22.50£14.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957529595Author Peter WolfendaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint UrbanomicPublisher Urbanomic Media Ltd -
The Thing: A Phenomenology of Horror by Dylan Trigg 9781782790778
RRP: £11.99£10.95What is the human body? Both the most familiar and unfamiliar of things, the body is the centre of experience but also the site of a prehistory anterior to any experience. Alien and uncanny, this other side of the body has all too often been overlooked... -
Second Philosophy: A Naturalistic Method by Penelope Maddy 9780199273669
£43.17Many philosophers these days consider themselves naturalists, but it's doubtful any two of them intend the same position by the term. In this book, Penelope Maddy describes and practises a particularly austere form of naturalism called 'Second... -
The Philosophy of (Erotic) Love by Professor Robert C. Solomon
£39.10What does philosophy know of love? From Plato on, philosophers have struggled to pin love to the dissecting table and view it in the cold light of logic. Yet, as Arthur Danto writes in the foreword to this volume, "how incorrigibly stiff philosophy is... -
To Relish the Sublime?: Culture and Self-realization in Postmodern Times by Martin Ryle 9781859844618
RRP: £18.99£16.10More than 130 years from Matthew Arnold's pronouncement that human beings 'must be compelled to relish the sublime', education in the humanities still relies on the ideal of culture as the means of intellectual development. In this distinctive and... -
Technics and Time, 3: Cinematic Time and the Question of Malaise by Bernard Stiegler
RRP: £27.99£24.16In the first two volumes of Technics and Time, Bernard Stiegler worked carefully through Heidegger's and Husserl's relationship to technics and technology. Here, in volume three, he turns his attention to the prolematic relationship to technics he finds... -
The History of Beyng by Martin Heidegger
RRP: £40.00£34.32The History of Beyng belongs to a series of Martin Heidegger's reflections from the 1930s that concern how to think about being not merely as a series of occurrences, but as essentially historical or fundamentally as an event. Beginning with... -
Fanon, Phenomenology and Psychology by Leswin Laubscher
RRP: £35.99£31.69Fanon, Phenomenology, and Psychology is the first edited collection dedicated to exploring the explicitly phenomenological foundations underlying Frantz Fanon's most important insights. Featuring contributions from many of the world's leading scholars on... -
The Michel Henry Reader by Scott Davidson
RRP: £34.95£28.00From beginning to end, the philosophy of Michel Henry offers an original and profound reflection on life. Henry challenges the conventional understanding of life as a set of natural processes and a general classification of beings. Maintaining that our... -
The Attention Economy: Labour, Time and Power in Cognitive Capitalism by Claudio Celis Bueno 9781783488247
RRP: £42.00£40.69The attention economy is a notion that explains the growing value of human attention in societies characterised by post-industrial modes of production. In a world in which information and knowledge become central to the valorisation process of capital,... -
Life Death by Jacques Derrida 9780226826448
RRP: £22.00£21.22The seventh in our series of Derrida's seminars, Life Death provides interdisciplinary reflections on the relationship of life and death-now in paperback. One of Jacques Derrida's most provocative works, Life Death deconstructs a deeply rooted dichotomy... -
Technics and Time, 2: Disorientation by Bernard Stiegler
RRP: £27.99£23.66Disorientation is the first publication in English of the second volume of Technics and Time, in which French philosopher Bernard Stiegler engages in a close dialogue with Husserl, Derrida, and other philosophers who have devoted their energies to... -
Fear and Trembling and The Sickness Unto Death by Soren Kierkegaard 9780691158310
RRP: £12.99£9.89Walter Lowrie's classic, bestselling translation of Soren Kierkegaard's most important and popular books remains unmatched for its readability and literary quality. Fear and Trembling and The Sickness Unto Death established Kierkegaard as the father of... -
Eco-Deconstruction: Derrida and Environmental Philosophy by Matthias Fritsch
RRP: £29.99£25.99Eco-Deconstruction marks a new approach to the degradation of the natural environment, including habitat loss, species extinction, and climate change. While the work of French philosopher Jacques Derrida (1930-2004), with its relentless interrogation of... -
Graham Harman Reader, The - Including previously unpublished essays by Graham Harman
RRP: £30.00£25.85The Graham Harman Reader is the essential compendium of shorter works by one of the most influential philosophers of the twenty-first century. The writings in this volume are split into seven chapters. The first concerns Harman's resistance to both... -
True Love by Josef Seifert
£11.24From Plato and Aristotle and on to the present, many great philosophers have dealt with the nature of love, which is the most central and profound act of the person. Particularly the philosophy of the twentieth century excelled in this regard, most often... -
Understanding Beliefs by Nils J. Nilsson 9780262526432
RRP: £15.99£10.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262526432Author Nils J. NilssonFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 178mm * 127mm * 11mm -
Bios: Biopolitics and Philosophy by Timothy Campbell
RRP: £21.99£18.79Roberto Esposito is one of the most prolific and important exponents of contemporary Italian political theory. Bios-his first book to be translated into English-builds on two decades of highly regarded thought, including his thesis that the modern... -
Heidegger and the Environment by Casey Rentmeester 9781783482337
RRP: £37.00£35.41In the past few decades, it has become clear that the Western world's relation to nature has led to environmental degradation so wide-ranging that it threatens the existence of human civilizations as we have come to know them. The onset of anthropogenic... -
Mindfulness by Martin Heidegger
RRP: £25.99£24.16Written in 1938/9, Mindfulness (translated from the German Besinnung) is Martin Heidegger's second major being-historical treatise. Here, Heidegger develops some of his key concepts and themes including truth, nothingness, enownment, art and Be-ing and... -
The Psychology of Man's Possible Evolution by Ouspensky
£8.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780394719436Author P. D. OuspenskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 79gDimensions(mm) 184mm *... -
The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z by Ayn Rand 9780452010512
£18.41A prolific writer, bestselling novelist, and world-renowned philosopher, Ayn Rand defined a full system of thought--from epistemology to aesthetics. Her writing is so extensive and the range of issues she covers so... -
Life in the World Unseen by Anthony Borgia 9781544858302
RRP: £21.25£16.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781544858302Author Anthony BorgiaFormat PaperbackPage Count 138Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent... -
Pragmatism: The Classic Writings by Charles Sanders Peirce 9780915145379
RRP: £15.99£13.06A reprint of the New American Library edition of 1970.Book InformationISBN 9780915145379Author H. S. ThayerFormat PaperbackPage Count 383Imprint Hackett Publishing Co, IncPublisher Hackett Publishing Co, IncWeight(grams) 426g -
Bizarre-Privileged Items in the Universe - The Logic of Likeness by Paul North
RRP: £30.00£23.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942130468Author Paul NorthFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Zone BooksPublisher Zone BooksWeight(grams) 638gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 165mm * 30mm -
The Paradox of Intention: Reaching the Goal by Giving Up the Attempt to Reach It by Marvin C. Shaw 9781555401108
£16.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781555401108Author Marvin C. ShawFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Scholars PressPublisher Oxford University Press IncDimensions(mm) 164mm * 231mm * 13mm -
Rage and Time: A Psychopolitical Investigation by Peter Sloterdijk 9780231145237
RRP: £25.00£19.18While ancient civilizations worshipped strong, active emotions, modern societies have favored more peaceful attitudes, especially within the democratic process. We have largely forgotten the struggle to make use of thymos, the part of the soul that,... -
Surfing Uncertainty: Prediction, Action, and the Embodied Mind by Andy Clark 9780190217013
RRP: £29.49£24.93In this ground-breaking work, philosopher and cognitive scientist Andy Clark turns a common view of the human mind upside down. In stark opposition to familiar models of human cognition, Surfing Uncertainty explores exciting new theories in neuroscience,... -
Empiricism and Subjectivity: An Essay on Hume's Theory of Human Nature by Gilles Deleuze 9780231068130
RRP: £25.00£19.18At last available in paperback, this book anticipates and explains the post-structuralist turn to empiricism. Presenting a challenging reading of David Hume's philosophy, the work is invaluable for understanding the progress of Deleuze's thought.At last... -
decolonizing trans/gender 101 by B Binaohan 9780993793516
RRP: £8.00£7.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993793516Author B BinaohanFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Biyuti PublishingPublisher Biyuti PublishingWeight(grams) 200gDimensions(mm) 216mm *... -
Our Broad Present: Time and Contemporary Culture by Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht 9780231163613
RRP: £22.00£16.99Considering a range of present-day phenomena, from the immediacy effects of literature to the impact of hypercommunication, globalization, and sports, Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht notes an important shift in our relationship to history and the passage of time... -
Strictly Christmas Spirit by Helen Buckley 9781781895108
RRP: £8.99£5.29From disco balls to Christmas baubles ... Ex-dancer Emily Williams turned her back on the sparkle of popular dancing show Strictly Dancing with Celebs to help those in need. Now the only dancing she does is teaching lonely pensioners to waltz, and the...