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Humanly Possible: The great humanist experiment in living by Sarah Bakewell 9781529924626
RRP: €13.08€9.25The bestselling, prizewinning author of How to Live and At the Existentialist Cafe explores the great tradition of humanist writers, thinkers, scientists and artists, all trying to understand what it means to be truly human.*** THE NEW YORK TIMES... -
Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals by John Gray
RRP: €20.23€13.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374270933Author John GrayFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncWeight(grams)... -
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
RRP: €11.89€6.6840th anniversary edition of the bestselling modern classic: Milan Kundera's iconic novel of love and politics in communist Czechoslovakia.'Shamelessly clever ... Exhilaratingly subversive and funny.' Independent'A modern classic ... As relevant now as... -
The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus
RRP: €9.51€6.89Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched... -
The Plague by Albert Camus
RRP: €11.89€8.46The 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 claustrophobia follow as they are forced into... -
Inward by Yung Pueblo
RRP: €14.27€9.03"i closed my eyes to look inward and found a universe waiting to be explored" From poet, meditator, and speaker Yung Pueblo, comes a collection of poetry and prose that explores the movement from self-love to unconditional love, the power of letting... -
Process and Reality by Alfred North Whitehead 9780029345702
RRP: €17.84€11.14One of the major philosophical texts of the 20th century, Process and Reality is based on Alfred North Whitehead's influential lectures that he delivered at the University of Edinburgh in the 1920s on process philosophy.Whitehead's master work in... -
Radical Wholeness: The Embodied Present and the Ordinary Grace of Being by Philip Sheperd
RRP: €20.22€13.73Apologies 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)... -
From What Is to What If: Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want by Rob Hopkins
RRP: €14.27€9.52Big 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... -
Spell Of The Sensuous: Perceptions by David Abram
RRP: €16.66€13.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679776390Author David AbramFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 261gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials Into Triumph by Ryan Holiday
RRP: €32.13€18.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781591846352Author Ryan HolidayFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint PortfolioPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 255gDimensions(mm) 185mm * 135mm *... -
Stillness Is the Key by Ryan Holiday
RRP: €30.94€10.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525538585Author Ryan HolidayFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint PortfolioPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 306gDimensions(mm) 185mm * 135mm *... -
The Outsider by Albert Camus 9780141198064
RRP: €10.70€8.14'My mother died today. Or maybe yesterday, I don't know.'In The Outsider (1942), his classic existentialist novel, Camus explores the alienation of an individual who refuses to conform to social norms. Meursault, his anti-hero, will not lie. When his... -
The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness by R. D. Laing
RRP: €13.08€9.25The Divided Self, R.D. Laing's groundbreaking exploration of the nature of madness, illuminated the nature of mental illness and made the mysteries of the mind comprehensible to a wide audience. First published in 1960, this watershed work aimed to make... -
Ways of Seeing by John Berger
RRP: €11.89€8.46Based on the BBC television series, John Berger's Ways of Seeing is a unique look at the way we view art, published as part of the Penguin on Design series in Penguin Modern Classics.'Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it... -
Memories, Dreams, Reflections: An Autobiography by Carl Jung
RRP: €15.46€10.09'I can understand myself only in the light of inner happenings. It is these that make up the singularity of my life, and with these my autobiography deals' Carl Jung An eye-opening biography of one of the most... -
Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre
RRP: €11.89€8.46Jean-Paul Sartre's first published novel, Nausea is both an extended essay on existentialist ideals, and a profound fictional exploration of a man struggling to restore a sense of meaning to his life. This Penguin Modern Classics edition is translated... -
Existentialism and Humanism by Jean-Paul Sartre 9780413776396
RRP: €11.89€9.72Over the past sixty years the writings of Jean-Paul Sartre have probably been more influential in the West than those of any other philosopher and literary figure. In his theoretical writings, Sartre laid the foundation for an original doctrine of... -
Denial of Death by Ernest Becker
RRP: €13.08€9.25'It made me rethink the roots of our deepest fears and insecurities, and why we often disappoint ourselves in how we manifest them' Bill Clinton, Guardian Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1974 and the culmination of a life's work, The Denial of Death... -
The Trouble With Being Born by E. M. Cioran
RRP: €11.89€8.46'Not to be born is undoubtedly the best plan of all. Unfortunately it is within no one's reach.'In The Trouble With Being Born, E. M. Cioran grapples with the major questions of human existence: birth, death, God, the passing of time, how to relate to... -
Happy: Why More or Less Everything is Absolutely Fine by Derren Brown
RRP: €13.08€9.25The Sunday Times Bestseller'Really brilliant and just crammed with wisdom and insight. It will genuinely make a difference to me and the way I think about myself.' Stephen Fry___Everyone says they want to be happy. But that's much more easily said than... -
The Outsider by Albert Camus
RRP: €17.84€13.03Albert Camus' existentialist masterpiece, now in a wonderful new Clothbound Classics editionIn The Outsider, his classic existentialist novel, Camus explores the alienation of an individual who refuses to conform to social norms. Meursault, his... -
Private Eye Annual: 2022 by Ian Hislop 9781901784725
RRP: €15.46€10.82The 2022 Private Eye Annual presents the year's best cartoons, jokes, parodies and topical sketches from the UK's most successful, best-selling satirical news and current affairs magazine. Edited by Ian Hislop and illustrated throughout with cartoons,... -
The Fall by Albert Camus 9780141187945
RRP: €9.51€6.89A philosophical novel described by fellow existentialist Sartre as 'perhaps the most beautiful and the least understood' of his novels, Albert Camus' The Fall is translated by Robin Buss in Penguin Modern Classics.Jean-Baptiste Clamence is a soul in... -
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress by Steven Pinker
RRP: €17.84€13.03THE TOP TEN SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Bristles with pure, crystalline intelligence, deep knowledge and human sympathy' Richard Dawkins Is modernity really failing? Or have we failed to appreciate progress and the ideals that make it possible?If you... -
Walden by Henry David Thoreau
RRP: €9.51€6.89WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY BENJAMIN MARKOVITSIn 1845 Thoreau, a Harvard-educated 28-year-old, went to live by himself in the woods in Massachusetts. He stayed for over two years, living self-sufficiently in a small cabin built with his own hands. Walden is... -
The Poetics of Space by Gaston Bachelard
RRP: €15.46€10.82Beloved and contemplated by philosophers, architects, writers, and literary theorists alike, Bachelard's lyrical, landmark work examines the places in which we place our conscious and unconscious thoughts and guides us through a stream of cerebral... -
Nihilistic Times: Thinking with Max Weber by Wendy Brown
RRP: €23.74€18.77One of America's leading political theorists analyzes the nihilism degrading-and confounding-political and academic life today. Through readings of Max Weber's Vocation Lectures, she proposes ways to counter nihilism's devaluations of both knowledge and... -
The Little Book of Humanism: Universal lessons on finding purpose, meaning and joy by Alice Roberts
RRP: €11.89€8.09THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERWe all want to lead a happy life. Traditionally, when in need of guidance, comfort or inspiration, many people turn to religion. But there has been another way to learn how to live well - the humanist way - and in today's more... -
Courting the Wild Twin by Martin Shaw 9781915294326
RRP: €14.27€9.52'Fabulous.' Dan Richards, author of Holloway 'Terrifically strange and thrilling.' Melissa Harrison, author of All Among the Barley 'A modern-day bard.' Madeline Miller, author of Circe This is a book of literary activism - an antidote to the... -
Princes of the Renaissance by Mary Hollingsworth 9781803281261
RRP: €17.84€13.03A beautifully illustrated history of the Renaissance told through the lives of its most important and influential patrons. 'Exceptionally sumptuous... This vivid history brings to life the vices and virtues of the feuding ruling families of Italy.'... -
Glitch Feminism: A Manifesto by Legacy Russell
RRP: €11.89€7.90The divide between the digital and the real world no longer exists: we are connected all the time. How do we find out who we are within this digital era? Where do we create the space to explore our identity? How can we come together and create... -
The Risk of Freedom: Ethics, Phenomenology and Politics in Jan Patocka by Francesco Tava 9781783483785
RRP: €51.17€48.42The Risk of Freedom presents an in-depth analysis of the philosophy of Jan Patocka, one of the most influential Central European thinkers of the twentieth century, examining both the phenomenological and ethical-political aspects of his work. In... -
Fear and Trembling by Soren Kierkegaard
RRP: €9.51€6.89Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched... -
An Introduction to Husserl's Phenomenology by Jan Patocka 9780812699807
RRP: €21.41€14.64Patocka's celebrated Introduction is here made available in English for the first time. In addition to introducing Husserl's ideas, this book is also an important work of original philosophy. Patocka ranges over the whole of Husserl's output, from The... -
Being and Time: A Revised Edition of the Stambaugh Translation by Martin Heidegger 9781438432762
RRP: €21.67€16.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438432762Author Martin HeideggerFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York... -
Diary of a Young Naturalist by Dara McAnulty 9781908213792
RRP: €19.04€13.83Winner of the 2020 Wainwright Prize, Diary of a Young Naturalist chronicles the turning of Dara McAnulty's world, from spring to summer, autumn to winter, on his home patch, at school, in the wild and in his head. Evocative, raw and beautifully written,... -
WJEC/Eduqas GCSE Drama Study & Revision Guide by Rachel Knightley 9781912820276
RRP: €19.03€17.60Written by an experienced drama teacher, this practical Study & Revision Guide provides essential guidance for the non-examined assessment components of the course as well as for the written exam. // Separate sections are included for Devising Theatre,... -
Introducing Existentialism: A Graphic Guide by Richard Appignanesi
RRP: €10.70€7.24Richard Appignanesi goes on a personal quest of Existentialism in its original state. He begins with Camus' question of suicide: 'Must life have a meaning to be lived?' Is absurdity at the heart of Existentialism? Or is Sartre right: is Existentialism... -
Introducing Kierkegaard: A Graphic Guide by Dave Robinson
RRP: €10.70€7.89Father of existentialism or the Eeyore of philosophy?Known as the first modern theologian, SorenKierkegaard was a prolific writer of the Danish 'golden age'. A philosopher,poet and social critic, his key concepts of angst, despair, and theimportance of...