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Memories, Dreams, Reflections: An Autobiography by Carl Jung
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €9.64'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 ... -
The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus
RRP: €9.51Booksplease Price: €5.82Throughout 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,... -
Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €7.85'The foremost work on the key democratic task: helping people to identify and challenge the sources of their oppression ... a transformative text' George Monbiot, GuardianArguing that 'education... -
The Trouble With Being Born by E. M. Cioran
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €7.85'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:... -
The Crisis of Narration by Byung-Chul Han 9781509560431
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.27Narratives produce the ties that bind us. They create community, eliminate contingency and anchor us in being. And yet in our contemporary information society, where everything has become arbitrary... -
The Outsider by Albert Camus 9780141198064
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.70'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... -
Ways of Seeing by John Berger 9780141035796
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.46Based 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... -
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €9.4640th 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.'... -
Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.46'Enigmatic, vatic, emphatic, passionate . . . Nietzsche's works together make a unique statement in the literature of European ideas' A. C. GraylingNietzsche was one of the most revolutionary... -
The Little Book of Stoicism: Timeless Wisdom to Gain Resilience, Confidence, and Calmness by Jonas Salzgeber 9783952506905
Booksplease Price: €15.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783952506905Author Jonas SalzgeberFormat PaperbackPage Count 286Imprint -
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity by Judith Butler
RRP: €28.55Booksplease Price: €24.19One of the most talked-about scholarly works of the past fifty years, Judith Butler's Gender Trouble is as celebrated as it is controversial.Arguing that traditional feminism is wrong to look to a... -
The Fall by Albert Camus 9780141187945
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.70A 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... -
The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness by R. D. Laing
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.41The 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... -
Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.46Jean-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... -
Marxist Modernism: Introductory Lectures on Frankfurt School Critical Theory Gillian Rose 9781804290118
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €14.38Marxist Modernism is a comprehensive yet concise and conversational introduction to the Frankfurt School. It is also a new resource from one of the twentieth century's most important philosophers:... -
The Rings of Saturn by W. G. Sebald
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.70'Sebald is the Joyce of the 21st Century' The TimesWhat begins as the record of W. G. Sebald's own journey on foot through coastal East Anglia, from Lowestoft to Bungay, becomes the conductor of... -
The Little Book of Humanism: Universal lessons on finding purpose, meaning and joy by Alice Roberts
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €11.02THE 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... -
Denial of Death by Ernest Becker
RRP: €14.27Booksplease Price: €10.28'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 Plague by Albert Camus
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.46The 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,... -
Philosophy and Life: Exploring the Great Questions of How to Live by A. C. Grayling 9780241993200
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €7.85'Grayling brings satisfying order to daunting subjects' Steven Pinker'An enthusiastic thinker who embraces humour, common sense and lucidity' Independent_______________From the eminent philosopher,... -
Existentialism: A Very Short Introduction by Thomas Flynn
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.14Existentialism was one of the leading philosophical movements of the twentieth century. Focusing on its seven leading figures, Sartre, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Kierkegaard, de Beauvoir, Merleau-Ponty... -
Inward by Yung Pueblo
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.02"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... -
You are Not So Smart: Why Your Memory is Mostly Fiction, Why You Have Too Many Friends on Facebook and 46 Other Ways You're Deluding Yourself by David McRaney
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.21How many of your Facebook friends do you think you know? Would you help a stranger in need? Do you know why you're so in love with your new smartphone? The truth is: you're probably wrong. You are... -
Fear and Trembling: Dialectical Lyric by Johannes De Silentio by Soren Kierkegaard
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.46Kierkegaard's infamous and hugely influential philosophical work on faith, choice and sacrificeIn Fear and Trembling Kierkegaard, writing under the pseudonym Johannes de silentio, expounds his... -
Existentialism and Humanism by Jean-Paul Sartre 9780413776396
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €10.51Over 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... -
The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature by Steven Pinker
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €12.51'A passionate defence of the enduring power of human nature ... both life-affirming and deeply satisfying' Daily TelegraphRecently many people have assumed that we are blank slates shaped by our ... -
The Politics of Experience and The Bird of Paradise by R. D. Laing
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €10.98In 'The Politics of Experience' and the visionary 'Bird of Paradise', R.D. Laing shows how the straitjacket of conformity imposed on us all leads to intense feelings of alienation and a tragic waste... -
Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography by Roland Barthes 9780099225416
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.70Barthes shares his passionate, in-depth knowledge and understanding of photography. ... -
Princes of the Renaissance by Mary Hollingsworth 9781803281261
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €14.02A 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... -
The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World by Elaine Scarry
RRP: €23.19Booksplease Price: €16.86Part 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... -
Huis Clos and Other Plays by Jean-Paul Sartre
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €7.85These three plays, diverse in subject but thematically coherent, illuminate one of Sartre's major philosophical concerns: the struggle to live and act freely in a complex and constricting world... -
The Burnout Society by Byung-Chul Han
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €9.88Our competitive, service-oriented societies are taking a toll on the late-modern individual. Rather than improving life, multitasking, "user-friendly" technology, and the culture of convenience are... -
Feline Philosophy: Cats and the Meaning of Life by John Gray
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.46'Why can't a human be more like a cat? That is the question threaded through this vivid patchwork of philosophy, fiction, history and memoir ... a wonderful mixture of flippancy and profundity,... -
Existentialism For Dummies by Christopher Panza
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €16.96Have you ever wondered what the phrase "God is dead" means? You'll find out in Existentialism For Dummies, a handy guide to Nietzsche, Sartre, and Kierkegaard's favorite philosophy. See how... -
The Fall by Albert Camus
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.70Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie... -
Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away by Rebecca Newberger Goldstein
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €14.52What would the ancient Greek philosopher make of the twenty-first-century Google headquarters?A dazzling exploration of the role of ancient philosophy in modern life from the acclaimed writer and... -
Tertium Organum: A Key to the Enigmas of the World (Aziloth Books) by P. D. Ouspensky 9781909735989
RRP: €13.69Booksplease Price: €12.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909735989Author P. D. OuspenskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint -
In Ascension: Longlisted for The Booker Prize 2023 by Martin MacInnes 9781838956271
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €7.18'Monumental' Telegraph'Magnificent' Guardian'Transcendent' New ScientistLeigh grew up in Rotterdam, drawn to the waterfront as an escape from her unhappy home life and volatile father. Enchanted by... -
Language, Truth and Logic A.J. Ayer 9780141186047
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.98If you can't prove something, it is literally senseless - so argues Ayer in this irreverent and electrifying book. Statements are either true by definition (as in maths), or can be verified by direct... -
Neues Museum Weimar: Van de Velde, Nietzsche and Modernism around 1900 Wolfgang Holler 9783777432786
RRP: €10.65Booksplease Price: €8.04By around 1900 Weimar had already become an arena of Modernism. Around the cult surrounding Friedrich Nietzsche, colourful personalities like Harry Graf Kessler and Elisabeth Foerster-Nietzsche took...