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Philosophy and Life: Exploring the Great Questions of How to Live by A. C. Grayling
RRP: £25.00£22.19'Grayling brings satisfying order to daunting subjects' Steven Pinker'An enthusiastic thinker who embraces humour, common sense and lucidity' Independent_______________From the eminent philosopher, an authoritative exploration of the great questions of... -
Michael Oakeshott on the Human Condition: Essays by Timothy Fuller by Professor Timothy Fuller 9780865979321
RRP: £10.95£8.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865979321Author Professor Timothy FullerFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Liberty Fund IncPublisher Liberty Fund IncWeight(grams) 436g -
Companion to Marx's Capital, a: The Complete Edition by David Harvey
£23.10In recent years, we have witnessed a surge of interest in Marx's work in the effort to understand the origins of our current predicament. For nearly forty years, David Harvey has written and lectured on Capital, becoming one of the world's most foremost... -
Green Philosophy: How to think seriously about the planet by Roger Scruton
RRP: £14.99£9.80The environment has long been the undisputed territory of the political Left, which has seen the principal threats to the earth as issuing from international capitalism, consumerism and the over-exploitation of natural resources. In Green Philosophy,... -
Essays by Michel Montaigne
RRP: £9.99£7.11Reflections by the creator of the essay form display the humane, skeptical, humorous, and honest views of Montaigne, revealing his thoughts on sexuality, religion, cannibals, intellectuals, and other unexpected themes. Included are such celebrated works... -
The Genealogy of Morals by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche 9781515427261
RRP: £16.99£16.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781515427261Author Friedrich Wilhelm NietzscheFormat HardbackPage Count 118Imprint Wilder PublicationsPublisher Wilder PublicationsWeight(grams)... -
Philosophical Occasions: 1912-1951: 1912-1951 by Ludwig Wittgenstein 9780872201545
RRP: £26.99£22.21An essential resource for students of Wittgenstein, this collection contains faithful, in some cases expanded and corrected, versions of many important pieces never before available in a single volume, including Notes for the 'Philosophical Lecture',... -
The Stoic Challenge: A Philosopher's Guide to Becoming Tougher, Calmer, and More Resilient by William B. Irvine
RRP: £12.99£9.26Some people bounce back in response to setbacks; others break. We often think that these responses are hardwired but this is not the case. William B. Irvine combines key lessons from the ancient Stoics with modern psychological techniques to develop a... -
Radical Wholeness: The Embodied Present and the Ordinary Grace of Being by Philip Sheperd
RRP: £16.99£11.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781623171773Author Philip ShepherdFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint North Atlantic Books,U.S.Publisher North Atlantic Books,U.S.Weight(grams)... -
Derrida: A Very Short Introduction by Dr. Simon Glendinning
RRP: £8.99£6.45Jacques Derrida, the French philosopher, developed his critical technique known as 'deconstruction'. His work is associated with ideas surrounding both post-structuralism and post-modern philosophy, and he was known to have challenged some of the... -
Absolute Recoil: Towards A New Foundation of Dialectical Materialism by Slavoj Zizek 9781784781996
RRP: £26.99£24.98At the outset of the twentieth century, Lenin argued that materialism has to change its form with each new scientific discovery. Today, argues Slavoj Zizek in this major new work, we should apply this stricture to Lenin himself. Philosophical materialism... -
Archive Fever: A Freudian Impression by Deceased Jacques Derrida
RRP: £21.00£17.76In Archive Fever, Jacques Derrida deftly guides us through an extended meditation on remembrance, religion, time, and technology-fruitfully occasioned by a deconstructive analysis of the notion of archiving. Intrigued by the evocative relationship... -
Images of the Present Time by Alain Badiou
RRP: £30.00£23.29Alain Badiou began the twenty-first century by considering the relationship between philosophy and notions of "the present." In this period of his ongoing annual lecture series, the acclaimed philosopher took up the existential problem of how to be... -
A Spirit of Trust: A Reading of Hegel's <i>Phenomenology</i> by Robert B. Brandom
RRP: £41.95£36.96Forty years in the making, this long-awaited reinterpretation of Hegel's The Phenomenology of Spirit is a landmark contribution to philosophy by one of the world's best-known and most influential philosophers.In this much-anticipated work, Robert Brandom... -
Francis Bacon: The Major Works by Francis Bacon
RRP: £12.99£9.49This authoritative edition was originally published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode. It brings together an extensive collection of Bacon's writing - the major prose in full, together with sixteen other... -
Posthuman Ecologies: Complexity and Process after Deleuze by Rosi Braidotti 9781786608239
RRP: £35.00£32.49The devolved and dispersed character of human agency and moral responsibility in the contemporary condition appears linked with the deepening global trauma of 'inhumanism' as a paradox of the Anthropocene. Reclaiming human agency and accountability... -
Manipulated Man: The Power of Man Over Man, its Ricks and its Limits by Charles Robert
RRP: £26.00£19.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780915138210Author Charles RobertPage Count 256Imprint Pickwick PublicationsPublisher Pickwick Publications -
The Rigor of Angels: Borges, Heisenberg, Kant, and the Ultimate Nature of Reality by William Egginton
RRP: £27.00£19.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593316306Author William EggintonFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc -
Surplus-Enjoyment: A Guide For The Non-Perplexed by Slavoj Žižek 9781350409392
RRP: £12.99£9.79Contemporary life is defined by excess. There must always be more, there is never enough. We need a surplus to what we need to be able to truly enjoy what we have. Slavoj Zizek's guide to surplus (and why it's enjoyable) begins by arguing that what is... -
Night Is Normal, The by Dr. Alicia Britt Chole
RRP: £15.99£11.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781496465153Author Dr. Alicia Britt CholeFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Tyndale House PublishersPublisher Tyndale House Publishers -
Out of the Dark Night: Essays on Decolonization by Achille Mbembe
RRP: £25.00£19.59Achille Mbembe is one of the world's most profound critics of colonialism and its consequences, a major figure in the emergence of a new wave of French critical theory. His writings examine the complexities of decolonization for African subjectivities... -
Supersizing the Mind: Embodiment, Action, and Cognitive Extension by Andy Clark 9780199773688
RRP: £28.49£17.13When historian Charles Weiner found pages of Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman's notes, he saw it as a "record" of Feynman's work. Feynman himself, however, insisted that the notes were not a record but the work itself. In Supersizing the... -
Giften by Leyla Suzan 9781782693178
RRP: £7.99£5.50A BLIGHTED LAND Ever since The Darkening, survival has been a struggle. The people of the Field toil on parched earth, trying to forge a life amid dwindling resources. A GIFT As one of the Giften, Ruthie is a saviour to her isolated community: her... -
Waiting for God by Simone Weil
RRP: £14.99£13.58'You cannot get far in these essays without sensing yourself in the presence of a writer of immense intellectual power and fierce independence of mind.' - Janet Soskice, from the Introduction to the Routledge Classics editionSimone Weil (1909-1943) is... -
New Science by Giambattista Vico
RRP: £12.99£9.09Barely acknowledged in his lifetime, the New Science of Giambattista Vico (1668-1744) is an astonishingly perceptive and ambitious attempt to decipher the history, mythology and laws of the ancient world. Discarding the Renaissance notion of the... -
Chaos, Territory, Art: Deleuze and the Framing of the Earth by Elizabeth Grosz 9780231145190
RRP: £14.99£12.15Instead of treating art as a unique creation that requires reason and refined taste to appreciate, Elizabeth Grosz argues that art-especially architecture, music, and painting-is born from the disruptive forces of sexual selection. She approaches art as... -
Philosophical Posthumanism Francesca Ferrando (New York University, USA) 9781350186019
£30.26The notion of 'the human' is in need of urgent redefinition. At a time of radical bio-technological developments, and in light of the political and environmental imperatives of our age, the term 'posthuman' provides an alternative. The philosophical... -
The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World by Elaine Scarry
RRP: £18.49£13.28Part philosophical meditation, part cultural critique, this profoundly original work explores the nature of physical suffering. Elaine Scarry bases her study on a wide range of sources: literature and art, medical case histories, documents on torture... -
The Happy Body: The Simple Science of Nutrition, Exercise, and Relaxation (Black&White) by Aniela & Jerzy Gregorek 9780982403822
RRP: £19.63£17.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780982403822Author Aniela & Jerzy GregorekFormat PaperbackPage Count 310Imprint Happy Body PressPublisher Happy Body PressWeight(grams) 721g -
Phenomenology by Chad Engelland
RRP: £15.99£10.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262539319Author Chad EngellandFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
Human Nature and the Limits of Science by John Dupre 9780199248063
£45.83John Dupre warns that our understanding of human nature is being distorted by two faulty and harmful forms of pseudo-scientific thinking. Not just in the academic world but increasingly in everyday life, we find one set of experts seeking to explain the... -
Nine Ways of Seeing a Body by Sandra Reeve
RRP: £12.50£10.64This book presents nine lenses through which the body is conventionally viewed. The body as object, the body as subject, the phenomenological body, the contextual body, the interdependent body, the environmental body, the cultural body and, finally, the... -
The Outsider by Albert Camus 9780241458853
RRP: £8.99£6.45'One of those books that marks a reader's life indelibly' William Boyd'A compelling, dreamlike fable' GuardianIn The Outsider, Camus explores the alienation of an individual who refuses to conform to social norms. Meursault, his anti-hero, will not lie... -
Firesong by Vashti Hardy 9780702312250
RRP: £7.99£5.82The exciting conclusion to the Brightstorm twins' trilogy within The Brightstorm Chronicles! Arthur, Maudie, and the rest of the Aurora crew are going on a mission to the Volcanic North, where years before their... -
Human, All Too Human II / Unpublished Fragments from the Period of <I>Human, All Too Human II</I> (Spring 1878-Fall 1879): Volume 4 by Friedrich Nietzsche
RRP: £20.99£18.37Volume 4 of The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche contains two works, Mixed Opinions and Maxims (1879) and The Wanderer and His Shadow (1880), originally published separately, then republished together in the 1886 edition of Nietzsche's works. They... -
Fortunes of Feminism: From State-Managed Capitalism to Neoliberal Crisis by Nancy Fraser
RRP: £12.99£11.01Second Wave feminism emerged as a struggle for women's liberation and took its place alongside other radical movements. But feminism's subsequent immersion in identity politics coincided with a decline in its utopian energies and the rise of... -
Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error by Kathryn Schulz
RRP: £10.99£7.32Being wrong is an inescapable part of being alive. And yet we go through life tacitly assuming (or loudly insisting) that we are right about nearly everything - from our political beliefs to our private memories, from our grasp of scientific fact to the... -
Irrational Man by William Barrett
RRP: £14.99£9.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385031387Author William BarrettFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing GroupPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing... -
Things We Could Design: For More Than Human-Centered Worlds by Ron Wakkary
£34.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262542999Author Ron WakkaryFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
Supersizing the Mind: Embodiment, Action, and Cognitive Extension by Andy Clark 9780195333213
RRP: £98.00£77.00Studies of mind, thought and reason have tended to marginalize the role of bodily form, real-world action, and environmental backdrop. In recent years, both in philosophy and cognitive science, this tendency has been identified and, increasingly,...