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The Principia: The Authoritative Translation and Guide: Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy by Sir Isaac Newton 9780520290884
RRP: $58.50$48.54In his monumental 1687 work, Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, known familiarly as the Principia, Isaac Newton laid out in mathematical terms the principles of time, force, and motion that have guided the development of modern physical... -
Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away by Rebecca Newberger Goldstein
RRP: $29.23$19.11What 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 thinker.Imagine that Plato came to life in the... -
Instant Philosophy: Key Thinkers, Theories, Discoveries and Concepts Gareth Southwell 9781787394209
RRP: $29.23$19.11Instant Philosophy pulls together all the pivotal philosophical knowledge and thought into one concise volume. Each page contains a discrete 'cheat sheet', which tells you the most important facts in bite-sized chunks, meaning you can become an expert in... -
Introducing Philosophy: A Graphic Guide by Dave Robinson 9781840468533
RRP: $17.53$13.07Philosophers have always enjoyed asking awkward and provocative questions, such as:What is the nature of reality?What are human beings really like?What is special about the human mind and consciousness?Are we free to choose who we are and what we do?Can... -
How to Say No: An Ancient Guide to the Art of Cynicism by Diogenes
RRP: $29.23$22.31An entertaining and enlightening collection of ancient writings about the philosophers who advocated simple living and rejected unthinking conformityThe Cynics were ancient Greek philosophers who stood athwart the flood of society's material excess,... -
Dawn: Thoughts on the Presumptions of Morality, Volume 5 by Friedrich Nietzsche 9780804780056
RRP: $40.93$35.82Dawn is the most recent volume to appear in the first complete, critical, and annotated English edition of all of Nietzsche's work. The edition, organized originally by Ernst Behler and Bernd Magnus, is a translation of the celebrated Kritische... -
Introducing the Enlightenment: A Graphic Guide by Lloyd Spencer
RRP: $17.53$13.07"Introducing The Enlightenment" is the essential guide to the giants of the Enlightenment - Voltaire, Diderot, Adam Smith, Samuel Johnson, Immanuel Kant, Benjamin Franklin, and Thomas Jefferson. The Enlightenment of the 18th century was a crucial time in... -
Nihil Unbound: Enlightenment and Extinction by Ray Brassier 9780230522053
RRP: $214.48$213.62This book pushes nihilism to its ultimate conclusion by linking revisionary naturalism in Anglo-American philosophy with anti-phenomenological realism in French philosophy. Contrary to the 'post-analytic' consensus uniting Heidegger and Wittgenstein... -
The Future of Immortality: Remaking Life and Death in Contemporary Russia by Anya Bernstein 9780691182612
RRP: $42.90$33.85A gripping account of the Russian visionaries who are pursuing human immortalityAs long as we have known death, we have dreamed of life without end. In The Future of Immortality, Anya Bernstein explores the contemporary Russian communities of visionaries... -
Introducing Logic: A Graphic Guide by Dan Cryan 9781848310124
RRP: $17.53$13.07Logic is the backbone of Western civilization, holding together its systems of philosophy, science and law. Yet despite logic's widely acknowledged importance, it remains an unbroken seal for many, due to its heavy use of jargon and mathematical... -
Changing the Subject: Philosophy from Socrates to Adorno by Raymond Geuss 9780674248359
RRP: $36.95$29.97"A history of philosophy in twelve thinkers...The whole performance combines polyglot philological rigor with supple intellectual sympathy, and it is all presented...in a spirit of fun...This bracing and approachable book [shows] that there is life in... -
Think Like a Feminist: The Philosophy Behind the Revolution by Carol Hay 9781324020271
RRP: $19.48$14.53Think Like a Feminist is an irreverent yet rigorous primer that unpacks over two hundred years of feminist thought. In a time when the word feminism triggers all sorts of responses, many of them conflicting and misinformed, Professor Carol Hay provides... -
Kant and the Transformation of Natural History by Dr Andrew Cooper 9780192869784
RRP: $117.00$106.33Andrew Cooper presents the first systematic study of Kant's account of natural history. Cooper contends that Kant made a decisive contribution to one of the most explosive and understudied revolutions in the history of science: the addition of time to... -
The Principia: The Authoritative Translation and Guide: Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy by Sir Isaac Newton 9780520290877
RRP: $156.00$123.81In his monumental 1687 work, Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, known familiarly as the Principia, Isaac Newton laid out in mathematical terms the principles of time, force, and motion that have guided the development of modern physical... -
Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand by Leonard Peikoff 9780452011014
RRP: $42.90$26.56THE 25TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION-The definitive statement of Ayn Rand's philosophy as interpreted by her best student and chosen heir. This brilliantly conceived and organized book is Dr. Leonard Peikoff's classic text on the abstract principles and... -
Introducing Empiricism: A Graphic Guide by Dave Robinson
RRP: $15.58$5.67Our knowledge comes primarily from experience - what our senses tell us. But is experience really what it seems?The experimental breakthroughs in 17th-century science of Kepler, Galileo and Newton informed the great British empiricist tradition, which... -
Freedom from Reality: The Diabolical Character of Modern Liberty by D. C. Schindler 9780268102623
RRP: $62.40$52.79It is commonly observed that behind many of the political and cultural issues that we face today there are impoverished conceptions of freedom, which, according to D. C. Schindler, we have inherited from the classical liberal tradition without a... -
What Coleridge Thought by Owen Barfield 9780956942340
$33.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956942340Author Owen BarfieldFormat PaperbackImprint Barfield Press UKPublisher Barfield Press UKWeight(grams) 490g -
Process-relational Philosophy: An Introduction to Alfred North Whitehead by C. Robert Mesle 9781599471327
RRP: $31.18$27.77Process thought is the foundation for studies in many areas of contemporary philosophy, theology, political theory, educational theory, and the religion-science dialogue. It is derived from Alfred North Whitehead's philosophy, known as process theology,... -
Athens and Jerusalem by Lev Shestov 9780821422205
RRP: $68.25$60.72For more than two thousand years, philosophers and theologians have wrestled with the irreconcilable opposition between Greek rationality (Athens) and biblical revelation (Jerusalem). In Athens and Jersusalem, Lev Shestov-an inspiration for the French... -
The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx 9781680922110
RRP: $9.73$8.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781680922110Author Karl MarxFormat PaperbackPage Count 24Imprint 12th Media ServicesPublisher 12th Media ServicesWeight(grams) 50gDimensions(mm) 234mm *... -
Introducing Marxism: A Graphic Guide by Rupert Woodfin 9781848310582
RRP: $17.53$13.07Was Marx himself a 'Marxist'? Was his visionary promise of socialism betrayed by Marxist dictatorship? Is Marxism inevitably totalitarian? What did Marx really say? "Introducing Marxism" provides a fundamental account of Karl Marx's original philosophy,... -
The Beautiful Soul: Aesthetic Morality in the Eighteenth Century by Robert E Norton
RRP: $58.48$51.68For many eighteenth-century European philosophers and writers, the beautiful soul was a symbol of enlightened humanity, carrying with it the possibility that aesthetic beauty and moral goodness would be fused in a new, indivisible unity. In the first... -
The Age of the World Target: Self-Referentiality in War, Theory, and Comparative Work by Rey Chow 9780822337447
RRP: $38.98$34.20Martin Heidegger once wrote that the world had, in the age of modern science, become a world picture. For Rey Chow, the world has, in the age of atomic bombs, become a world target, to be attacked once it is identified, or so global geopolitics,... -
Stoicism - Understanding and Practicing the Philosophy of the Stoics: Your Guide to Wisdom, Freedom, Happiness, and Living the Good Life by Kyle Faber 9781950010257
RRP: $38.90$25.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781950010257Author Kyle FaberFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Cac Publishing LLCPublisher Cac Publishing LLCWeight(grams) 322gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
Fifty Thinkers Who Shaped the Modern World Stephen Trombley 9781782390923
RRP: $25.33$16.69Stephen Trombley's Fifty Thinkers Who Shaped the Modern World traces the development of modern thought through a sequence of accessible profiles of the most influential thinkers in every domain of intellectual endeavour since 1789. No major... -
The Madness of Vision: On Baroque Aesthetics by Christine Buci-Glucksmann
RRP: $128.70$39.00Christine Buci-Glucksmann's The Madness of Vision is one of the most influential studies in phenomenological aesthetics of the baroque. Integrating the work of Merleau-Ponty with Lacanian psychoanalysis, Renaissance studies in optics, and... -
Glad to the Brink of Fear: A Portrait of Ralph Waldo Emerson by James Marcus 9780691254333
RRP: $48.75$35.76An engaging reassessment of the celebrated essayist and his relevance to contemporary readersMore than two centuries after his birth, Ralph Waldo Emerson remains one of the presiding spirits in American culture. Yet his reputation as the starry-eyed... -
The Stoic Life: Emotions, Duties, and Fate by Tad Brennan 9780199217052
RRP: $81.88$69.50Tad Brennan explains how to live the Stoic life - and why we might want to. Stoicism has been one of the main currents of thought in Western civilization for two thousand years: Brennan offers a fascinating guide through the ethical ideas of the original... -
The Stoic Challenge: A Philosopher's Guide to Becoming Tougher, Calmer, and More Resilient by William B. Irvine 9780393652499
RRP: $40.93$32.68Some people bounce back in response to setbacks; others break. We often think that these responses are hardwired but this is not the case. William B. Irvine combines key lessons from the ancient Stoics with modern psychological techniques to develop a... -
Respecting Truth: Willful Ignorance in the Internet Age Lee McIntyre 9781138888814
RRP: $72.13$63.43Throughout history, humans have always indulged in certain irrationalities and held some fairly wrong-headed beliefs. But in his newest book, philosopher Lee McIntyre shows how we've now reached a watershed moment for ignorance in the modern era, due to... -
The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z by Ayn Rand 9780452010512
$35.90A prolific writer, bestselling novelist, and world-renowned philosopher, Ayn Rand defined a full system of thought--from epistemology to aesthetics. Her writing is so extensive and the range of issues she covers so... -
Stoic Philosophy Bundle (Books 1 and 2): Featuring Stoicism - Understanding and Practicing the Philosophy of the Stoics & Stoicism - Purpose and Perspectives by Kyle Faber 9781950010431
RRP: $38.90$35.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781950010431Author Kyle FaberFormat PaperbackPage Count 470Imprint Cac Publishing LLCPublisher Cac Publishing LLCWeight(grams) 685gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
Bios: Biopolitics and Philosophy by Timothy Campbell
RRP: $38.98$34.20Roberto Esposito is one of the most prolific and important exponents of contemporary Italian political theory. Bios-his first book to be translated into English-builds on two decades of highly regarded thought, including his thesis that the modern... -
All Gall Is Divided: The Aphorisms of a Legendary Iconoclast by E M Cioran 9781948924238
RRP: $35.08$19.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948924238Author E M CioranFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Arcade PublishingPublisher Arcade PublishingWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 206mm *... -
Introducing Postmodernism: A Graphic Guide by Richard Appignanesi 9781840468496
RRP: $17.53$13.07What connects Marliyn Monroe, Disneyworld, "The Satanic Verses" and cyber space? Answer: Postmodernism. But what exactly is postmodernism? This Graphic Guide explains clearly the maddeningly enigmatic concept that has been used to define the world's... -
Beauvoir and The Second Sex: Feminism, Race, and the Origins of Existentialism by Margaret A. Simons 9780742512467
RRP: $72.15$59.28In a compelling chronicle of her search to understand Beauvoir's philosophy in The Second Sex, Margaret A. Simons offers a unique perspective on BeauvoirOs wide-ranging contribution to twentieth-century thought. She details the discovery of the origins... -
Pessimism: Philosophy, Ethic, Spirit by Joshua Foa Dienstag
RRP: $68.25$54.09Pessimism claims an impressive following--from Rousseau, Schopenhauer, and Nietzsche, to Freud, Camus, and Foucault. Yet "pessimist" remains a term of abuse--an accusation of a bad attitude--or the diagnosis of an unhappy psychological state. Pessimism... -
Introduction to Philosophy by Martin Heidegger 9780253069207
RRP: $97.50$85.43Introduction to Philosophy (volume 27 of Heidegger's Complete Works) presents Heidegger's lecture course delivered in the winter semester of 1928–1929 at the University of Freiburg, translated into English for the first time by William McNeil. In this... -
Introducing Heidegger: A Graphic Guide by Jeff Collins
RRP: $17.53$13.07Martin Heidegger - philosophy's 'hidden king', or leading exponent of a dangerously misguided secular mysticism. Heidegger has been acclaimed as the most powerfully original philosopher of the twentieth century. Profoundly influential on deconstruction,...