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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... -
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 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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
Either/Or: A Fragment of Life by Soren Kierkegaard
RRP: €15.46€11.29In 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... -
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... -
Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
RRP: €11.89€8.46'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 thinkers in Western philosophy, and Thus Spoke Zarathustra... -
The Joyous Science by Friedrich Nietzsche
RRP: €13.08€9.25The 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 Aristos by John Fowles
RRP: €15.46€10.82Two years after The Collector had brought him international recognition and a year before he published The Magus, John Fowles set out his ideas on life in The Aristos. The chief inspiration behind them was the fifth century BC philosopher Heraclitus. 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... -
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... -
The History of Philosophy by A. C. Grayling
RRP: €17.84€13.03AUTHORITATIVE 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... -
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... -
The Traitor by Andre Gorz
RRP: €24.98€21.05Autobiography, 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,... -
The Complete Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett by Samuel Beckett
RRP: €23.79€16.01The 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... -
The Heart: An Analysis of Human and Divine Affectivity by Von Hildebrand, Dietrich
RRP: €17.85€17.70This new edition of The Heart (out of print for nearly 30 years) is the flagship volume in a series of Dietrich von Hildebrand's works to be published by St. Augustine's Press in collaboration with the Dietrich von Hildebrand Legacy Project. Founded in... -
Nothing: A Very Short Introduction by Frank Close
RRP: €10.70€7.68What 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... -
The Age of Reason by Jean-Paul Sartre
RRP: €11.89€8.46The 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... -
Hobson-Jobson: The Definitive Glossary of British India by Sir Henry Yule
RRP: €10.70€7.68'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 Existential Counselling Primer (second edition): A concise introduction by Mick Cooper
RRP: €15.46€14.93Part 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... -
At The Existentialist Cafe: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails by Sarah Bakewell
RRP: €15.46€10.82Shortlisted 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... -
The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus 9780141182001
RRP: €11.89€8.46In this profound and moving philosophical statement, Camus poses the fundamental question: If human existence has no meaning, is life worth living?'What I touch, what resists me - that is what I understand'As Camus argues, if there is no God to give... -
Essays in Existential Psychoanalysis: On the Primacy of Authenticity by M. Guy Thompson 9781032551234
RRP: €35.69€32.18In this brilliant and revolutionary collection of 14 major essays that draw from more than 25 years of painstaking research, M. Guy Thompson regales us with a stunning revisioning of conventional psychoanalysis that deepens our understanding of the human... -
Huis Clos and Other Plays by Jean-Paul Sartre
RRP: €13.08€9.25These 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. Lucifer and the Lord, Sartre's favourite among his plays,... -
Taste as Experience: The Philosophy and Aesthetics of Food by Nicola Perullo
RRP: €29.75€22.82Taste 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... -
What Is Existentialism? by Simone de Beauvoir
RRP: €9.51€6.89'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... -
The Way of Man: According to the Teachings of Hasidism by Martin Buber
RRP: €10.70€9.67Martin Buber was one of the most significant religious thinkers of the twentieth century. In this short and remarkable book he presents the essential teachings of Hasidism, the mystical Jewish movement which swept through Eastern Europe in the eighteenth... -
Phenomenology of Perception by Maurice Merleau-Ponty
RRP: €38.07€34.90First published in 1945, Maurice Merleau-Ponty's monumental Phenomenologie de la perception signalled the arrival of a major new philosophical and intellectual voice in post-war Europe. Breaking with the prevailing picture of existentialism and... -
Iron in the Soul by Jean-Paul Sartre
RRP: €17.84€13.03June 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,... -
How to Be an Existentialist: 10th Anniversary Edition by Gary Cox
RRP: €15.46€11.35The 10th anniversary edition of a witty classic about the philosophy of existentialism. It is also a genuine self-help book offering clear advice on how to live according to the principles of existentialism formulated by Nietzsche, Sartre, Camus, and the... -
The Fall by Albert Camus
RRP: €11.89€8.46Introducing 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 Five Senses: A Philosophy of Mingled Bodies by Michel Serres
RRP: €28.55€24.92Marginalized by the scientific age the lessons of the senses have been overtaken by the dominance of language and the information revolution. With The Five Senses Serres traces a topology of human perception, writing against the Cartesian tradition and...