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The Affirmation of Life: Nietzsche on Overcoming Nihilism by Bernard Reginster
RRP: €30.88€24.56Among all the great thinkers of the past two hundred years, Nietzsche continues to occupy a special place--not only for a broad range of academics but also for members of a wider public, who find some of their most pressing existential concerns addressed... -
The Plague by Albert Camus 9780241458877
RRP: €11.89€8.46'A story for our, and all, times' Guardian The Plague is Albert Camus's world-renowned fable of fear and courageThe townspeople of Oran are in the grip of a deadly plague, which condemns its victims to a swift and horrifying death. Fear, isolation and... -
The Place of Michael Oakeshott in Contemporary Western and Non-Western Thought by Noel O'Sullivan 9781845409265
€27.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845409265Author Noel O'SullivanFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Imprint AcademicPublisher Imprint AcademicWeight(grams) 300gDimensions(mm) 234mm *... -
The German Ideology: Introduction to a Critique of Political Economy by Karl Marx 9780853152170
RRP: €16.66€16.02This edition makes easily accessible the most important parts of Marx's and Engels's major early philosophical work, The German Ideology, a text of key importance for students.Book InformationISBN 9780853152170Author Karl MarxFormat PaperbackPage Count... -
At the Existentialist Cafe: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails with Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Others by Sarah Bakewell 9781590518892
RRP: €23.74€14.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Kirkus Prize (Nonfiction) 2016.Book InformationISBN 9781590518892Author Sarah BakewellFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Other Press LLCPublisher Other... -
The Sinthome: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book XXIII Jacques Lacan 9781509510009
RRP: €65.45€56.80"Ten times, an elderly grey-haired man gets up on the stage. Ten times puffing and sighing. Ten times slowly tracing out strange multi-coloured arabesques that interweave, curling with the meanders of his speech, by turns fluid and uneasy. A whole crowd... -
Materialist Phenomenology: A Philosophy of Perception by Professor Manuel DeLanda 9781350263956
RRP: €27.36€25.56Bringing together phenomenology and materialism, two perspectives seemingly at odds with each other, leading international theorist, Manuel DeLanda, has created an entirely new theory of visual perception. Engaging the scientific (biology, ecological... -
The Heidegger Reader by Gunter Figal
RRP: €29.74€25.79The Heidegger Reader brings key texts from the entire course of Heidegger's philosophical career into one volume. Many of the selections, translated here for the first time, offer new insight into Heidegger's thought for both the beginning student and... -
Rethinking Existentialism by Jonathan Webber 9780198866763
€32.97bIn iRethinking Existentialism/i, Jonathan Webber articulates an original interpretation of existentialism as the ethical theory that human freedom is the foundation of all other values./b Offering an original analysis of classic literary and... -
The American Pragmatists by Cheryl Misak 9780198709374
€40.73Cheryl Misak presents a history of the great American philosophical tradition of pragmatism, from its inception in the Metaphysical Club of the 1870s to the present day. This ambitious new account identifies the connections between traditional American... -
Surfing Uncertainty: Prediction, Action, and the Embodied Mind by Andy Clark
RRP: €21.41€19.39How 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... -
Love: A Very Short Introduction by Ronald de Sousa
RRP: €10.70€7.68Although there are many kinds of love, erotic love has been celebrated in art and poetry as life's most rewarding and exalting experience, worth living and dying for and bringing out the best in ourselves. And yet it has excused, and even been thought to... -
Surfing Uncertainty: Prediction, Action, and the Embodied Mind by Andy Clark 9780190217013
RRP: €36.88€32.33In 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,... -
A Companion to Phenomenology and Existentialism Hubert L. Dreyfus (University of California, Berkeley) 9781405191135
RRP: €46.35€41.89A Companion to Phenomenology and Existentialism is a complete guide to two of the dominant movements of philosophy in the twentieth century. Written by a team of leading scholars, including Dagfinn Follesdal, J. N. Mohanty, Robert Solomon, Jean-Luc... -
Provocations: Spiritual Writings of Kierkegaard by Soren Kierkegaard 9780874866438
RRP: €17.84€11.76The most accessible Kierkegaard reader ever "In a culture awash in religious silliness, Kierkegaard's bracing metaphors expose our mediocrities and energize us with a clarified sense of what it means to follow Jesus." -Eugene Peterson, author,... -
Ecology of the Brain: The phenomenology and biology of the embodied mind by Thomas Fuchs 9780199646883
€65.09Present day neuroscience places the brain at the centre of study. But what if researchers viewed the brain not as the foundation of life, rather as a mediating organ? Ecology of the Brain addresses this very question. It considers the human body as a... -
Hoelderlin's Hymns "Germania" and "The Rhine" by Martin Heidegger 9780253014214
RRP: €46.41€40.60Martin Heidegger's 1934-1935 lectures on Friedrich Hoelderlin's hymns "Germania" and "The Rhine" are considered the most significant among Heidegger's lectures on Hoelderlin. Coming at a crucial time in his career, the text... -
Existentialists and Mystics: Writings on Philosophy and Literature by Iris Murdoch 9780140264920
€19.62Best known as the author of 26 novels, Iris Murdoch was also an accomplished essayist and critic who taught philosophy for many years at Oxford University. This work gathers for the first time in one volume her most influential essays and shorter pieces... -
Existentialism from Dostoevsky to Sartre by Walter Kaufmann 9780452009301
€13.19Apologies 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)... -
Existentialism: All That Matters David Cerbone 9781473601437
RRP: €11.89€8.09WHAT DO YOU HAVE TO DO TO BE AN INDIVIDUAL?That is the question at the heart of existentialism and it informs this book's exploration of the existentialist tradition in 19th and 20th century philosophy.Existentialism: All That Matters considers each of... -
Subaltern Social Groups: A Critical Edition of Prison Notebook 25 by Antonio Gramsci
RRP: €35.70€27.72Antonio Gramsci is widely celebrated as the most original political thinker in Western Marxism. Among the most central aspects of his enduring intellectual legacy is the concept of subalternity. Developed in the work of scholars such as Gayatri Spivak... -
Understand Existentialism: Teach Yourself Mel Thompson 9781444110623
RRP: €15.46€10.23Is 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... -
Philosophical Occasions: 1912-1951: 1912-1951 by Ludwig Wittgenstein 9780872201545
RRP: €32.12€26.43An 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',... -
Walden with On the Duty of Civil Disobedience (Reader's Library Classics) by Henry David Thoreau 9781954839182
€13.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781954839182Author Henry David ThoreauFormat PaperbackPage Count 270Imprint Reader's Library ClassicsPublisher Reader's Library ClassicsWeight(grams)... -
This Sex Which Is Not One by Luce Irigaray
RRP: €28.55€24.80"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... -
Can the Subaltern Speak?: Reflections on the History of an Idea by Rosalind Morris 9780231143851
RRP: €29.75€23.31Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak's original essay "Can the Subaltern Speak?" transformed the analysis of colonialism through an eloquent and uncompromising argument that affirmed the contemporary relevance of Marxism while using deconstructionist methods to... -
American Philosophy: A Love Story by John Kaag 9780374537203
RRP: €13.08€9.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374537203Author John KaagFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncWeight(grams) 250g -
Splinters in Your Eye: Frankfurt School Provocations by Martin E. Jay
RRP: €23.79€19.54Although successive generations of the Frankfurt School have attempted to adapt Critical Theory to new circumstances, the work done by its founding members continues in the twenty-first century to unsettle conventional wisdom about culture, society and... -
Emotion by Carolyn Price
RRP: €20.22€18.11Emotion is at the centre of our personal and social lives. To love or to hate, to be frightened or grateful is not just a matter of how we feel on the inside: our emotional responses direct our thoughts and actions, unleash our imaginations, and... -
The Ecological Thought by Timothy Morton
RRP: €26.12€20.97In this passionate, lucid, and surprising book, Timothy Morton argues that all forms of life are connected in a vast, entangling mesh. This interconnectedness penetrates all dimensions of life. No being, construct, or object can exist independently from... -
Recursivity and Contingency by Yuk Hui 9781786600530
RRP: €46.41€42.92This book employs recursivity and contingency as two principle concepts to investigate into the relation between nature and technology, machine and organism, system and freedom. It reconstructs a trajectory of thought from an Organic condition of... -
The Humanist Movement in Modern Britain: A History of Ethicists, Rationalists and Humanists by Callum G. Brown
RRP: €23.79€19.68Humanists have been a major force in British life since the turn of the 20th century. Here, leading historians of religious non-belief Callum Brown, David Nash, and Charlie Lynch examine how humanist organisations brought ethical reform and rationalism... -
How to Be Authentic: Simone de Beauvoir and the Quest for Fulfillment by Skye C Cleary 9781250271358
RRP: €33.31€19.05Apologies 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)... -
Heidegger and the Roots of Existential Psychotherapy by Hans W. Cohn 9780826455093
€38.41Anyone interested in modern philosophy is familiar with the name of Martin Heidegger, but there is a serious gap in even the most complete accounts of his life and thought. This is Heidegger s association with, and influence on, the discipline of... -
Heideggerian Existential Therapy: Philosophical Ideas in Practice Mo Mandic 9781032378251
RRP: €29.74€25.95Heideggerian Existential Therapy focuses on Martin Heidegger's philosophy in order to provide both a wider accessibility as well as understanding of its relevance to therapeutic practice.This book unveils in great depth the core tenets of Heidegger's... -
Homemaking: Radical Nostalgia and the Construction of a South Asian Diaspora by Anindya Raychaudhuri 9781783482634
RRP: €41.65€38.66Is it possible to think of a counter-hegemonic, progressive nostalgia that celebrates and helps sustain the marginalised? What might such a nostalgia look like, and what political importance might it have?Homemaking: Radical Nostalgia and the... -
Cecil Beaton by Imperial War Museums
RRP: €15.46€10.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorImperial War Museums is a British national museum organization with branches at five locations in the United Kingdom, three of which are in London. Its museums... -
A Derrida Reader: Between the Blinds by Jacques Derrida 9780231066594
RRP: €41.65€31.99Jacques Derrida is one of the most prolific and influential contemporary French intellectuals. Twenty-two essays and excerpts from Derrida's writings over the last twenty-five years are gathered in this accessible introduction, A Derrida Reader. The... -
Alienation by Rahel Jaeggi 9780231151993
RRP: €26.18€20.66The Hegelian-Marxist idea of alienation fell out of favor after the postmetaphysical rejection of humanism and essentialist views of human nature. In this book Rahel Jaeggi draws on the Hegelian philosophical tradition, phenomenological analyses grounded... -
Becoming Beauvoir: A Life by Kate Kirkpatrick
€44.93"One is not born a woman, but becomes one", Simone de Beauvoir A symbol of liberated womanhood, Simone de Beauvoir's unconventional relationships inspired and scandalised her generation. A philosopher, writer, and feminist icon, she won prestigious...