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Meditations by Marcus Aurelius 9781474620949
RRP: £8.99£2.79How to live a better life. One of the most important books on Western philosophy - a powerful and inspirational guide for the complicated world of today'Refreshing and restorative' GUARDIAN'An ancient work of spiritual reflection which remains a powerful... -
The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus
RRP: £7.99£5.79Throughout 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 Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
RRP: £9.99£6.7040th 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... -
Dostoevsky, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche & Kafka by William Hubben 9780684825892
RRP: £19.99£11.48How four of Europe's most mysterious and fascinating writers shaped the modern mind.Dostoevsky, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and Kafka were all outsiders in their societies, unable to fit into the accepted nineteenth-century categories of theology,... -
Phenomenology of Spirit by G. W. F. Hegel
RRP: £27.99£24.01This brilliant study of the stages in the mind's necessary progress from immediate sense-consciousness to the position of a scientific philosophy includes an introductory essay and a paragraph-by-paragraph analysis of the text to help the reader... -
The Fall by Albert Camus
RRP: £9.99£7.11Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-SmithCelebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they... -
The Blood of Others Simone de Beauvoir 9780241696453
RRP: £9.99£8.08Potent and vividly emotional, Simone de Beauvoir's captivating novel questions freedom and individual responsibility in the face of brutality'These carefree faces, on which we allowed our smiles to spread, were for others the mask of tragedy.'Jean... -
On the Meaning of Life by Will Durant 9780973769807
RRP: £14.95£11.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780973769807Author Will DurantFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint Promethean PressPublisher Promethean PressWeight(grams) 182g -
Hobson-Jobson: The Definitive Glossary of British India by Sir Henry Yule
RRP: £8.99£6.45'A glossary of colloquial Anglo-Indian words and phrases, and of kindred terms, etymological, historical, geographical and discursive.' Hobson-Jobson is a unique work of maverick scholarship. Compiled in 1886 by two India enthusiasts, it documents the... -
The Outsider by Albert Camus 9780141198064
RRP: £8.99£6.45'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... -
Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre 9780811220309
RRP: £11.99£9.06Nausea is the story of Antoine Roquentin, a French writer who is horrified at his own existence. In impressionistic, diary form he ruthlessly catalogs his every feeling and sensation. His thoughts culminate in a pervasive, overpowering feeling of nausea... -
Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre
RRP: £9.99£7.11Jean-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... -
The Plague by Albert Camus
RRP: £9.99£7.11The 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... -
The Fall by Albert Camus 9780141187945
RRP: £7.99£5.79A 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... -
Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
RRP: £9.99£7.11'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 thinkers in Western philosophy, and Thus Spoke Zarathustra... -
The Outsider by Albert Camus
RRP: £14.99£10.95Albert 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... -
The Trouble With Being Born by E. M. Cioran
RRP: £9.99£7.11'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... -
Existentialism and Humanism by Jean-Paul Sartre 9780413776396
RRP: £9.99£8.17Over 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... -
The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness by R. D. Laing
RRP: £10.99£7.77The 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... -
Either/Or: A Fragment of Life by Soren Kierkegaard
RRP: £12.99£9.49In Either/Or, using the voices of two characters - the aesthetic young man of part one, called simply 'A', and the ethical Judge Vilhelm of the second section - Kierkegaard reflects upon the search for a meaningful existence, contemplating subjects as... -
Being and Time: A Revised Edition of the Stambaugh Translation by Martin Heidegger 9781438432762
RRP: £18.21£14.18Apologies 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... -
Works of Love by Soren Kierkegaard 9780061713279 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99£7.10One of Kierkegaard's central writings, "Works of Love" is a profound and indispensable examination of the human heart. 'Deep within every man', Kierkegaard writes, 'there lies the dread of being alone in the world, forgotten by God, overlooked among the... -
Works of Love by Soren Kierkegaard
RRP: £10.99£7.25One of Kierkegaard's central writings, "Works of Love" is a profound and indispensable examination of the human heart. 'Deep within every man', Kierkegaard writes, 'there lies the dread of being alone in the world, forgotten by God, overlooked among the... -
Essays on Heidegger and Others: Philosophical Papers by Richard Rorty 9780521358781
RRP: £22.99£17.40Richard Rorty's collected papers, written during the 1980s and now published in two volumes, take up some of the issues which divide Anglo-Saxon analytic philosophers and contemporary French and German philosophers and offer something of a compromise -... -
The Joyous Science by Friedrich Nietzsche
RRP: £10.99£7.77The Joyous Science is a liberating voyage of discovery as Nietzsche's realization that 'God is dead' and his critique of morality, the arts and modernity give way to an exhilarating doctrine of self-emancipation and the concept of eternal recurrence... -
The History of Philosophy by A. C. Grayling
RRP: £14.99£10.95AUTHORITATIVE AND ACCESSIBLE, THIS LANDMARK WORK IS THE FIRST SINGLE-VOLUME HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY SHARED FOR DECADES'A cerebrally enjoyable survey, written with great clarity and touches of wit' Sunday Times The story of philosophy is an epic tale: an... -
The Complete Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett by Samuel Beckett
RRP: £19.99£13.45The present volume gathers all of Beckett's texts for theatre, from 1955 to 1984. It includes both the major dramatic works and the short and more compressed texts for the stage and for radio.'He believes in the cadence, the comma, the bite of word on... -
Introducing Existentialism: A Graphic Guide by Richard Appignanesi
RRP: £8.99£6.08Richard 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... -
The Age of Reason by Jean-Paul Sartre
RRP: £9.99£7.11The first volume in his Roads to Freedom trilogy, Jean-Paul Sartre's The Age of Reason is a philosophical novel exploring existentialist notions of freedom, translated by Eric Sutton with an introduction by David Caute in Penguin Modern Classics.Set in... -
The Traitor by Andre Gorz
RRP: £20.99£20.62Autobiography, philosophical inquiry, confession-The Traitor is an unclassifiable and unforgettable book from one of France's most inspiring social critics. Written when Andre Gorz was 32 and rising to prominence in the Parisian existentialist milieu,... -
Papers and Journals by Soren Kierkegaard
RRP: £16.99£12.28One of the greatest thinkers of the nineteenth century, Soren Kierkegaard (1814-55) often expressed himself through pseudonyms and disguises. Taken from his personal writings, these private reflections reveal the development of his own thought and... -
The Existential Counselling Primer (second edition): A concise introduction by Mick Cooper
RRP: £12.99£12.55Part of the PCCS Books bestselling Primers in Counselling series, The Existential Counselling Primer is a concise summary of the philosophical origins of existentialist therapy, existentialist understandings of what it is to be human, and how both inform... -
What Is Existentialism? by Simone de Beauvoir
RRP: £7.99£5.79'It is possible for man to snatch the world from the darkness of absurdity'How should we think and act in the world? These writings on the human condition by one of the twentieth century's great philosophers explore the absurdity of our notions of good... -
Taste as Experience: The Philosophy and Aesthetics of Food by Nicola Perullo
RRP: £25.00£19.59Taste as Experience puts the pleasure of food at the center of human experience. It shows how the sense of taste informs our preferences for and relationship to nature, pushes us toward ethical practices of consumption, and impresses upon us the... -
Fear and Trembling by Soren Kierkegaard
RRP: £7.99£5.79Throughout 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 Sickness Unto Death: A Christian Psychological Exposition of Edification and Awakening by Anti-Climacus by Soren Kierkegaard
RRP: £9.99£7.11One of the most remarkable philosophical works of the nineteenth century, The Sickness Unto Death is also famed for the depth and acuity of its modern psychological insights. Writing under the pseudonym Anti-Climacus, Kierkegaard explores the concept of... -
At The Existentialist Cafe: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails by Sarah Bakewell
RRP: £12.99£9.09Shortlisted for the PEN Hessell-Tiltman PrizeParis, near the turn of 1932-3. Three young friends meet over apricot cocktails at the Bec-de-Gaz bar on the rue Montparnasse. They are Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir and their friend Raymond Aron, who... -
Iron in the Soul by Jean-Paul Sartre
RRP: £14.99£10.95June 1940 was the summer of defeat for the French soldiers, deserted by their officers, utterly demoralized, awaiting the Armistice. Day by day, hour by hour, Iron in the Soul unfolds what men thought and felt and did as France fell. Men who shrugged,... -
Existentialism: A Very Short Introduction by Thomas Flynn
RRP: £8.99£6.45Existentialism 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 and Camus, this Very Short Introduction provides a clear... -
Nothing: A Very Short Introduction by Frank Close
RRP: £8.99£6.45What is 'nothing'? What remains when you take all the matter away? Can empty space - a void - exist? This Very Short Introduction explores the science and the history of the elusive void: from Aristotle who insisted that the vacuum was impossible, via...