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The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £5.05Throughout 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 Burnout Society by Byung-Chul Han
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £7.96Our 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 producing disorders that range from depression to... -
Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.30Jean-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: A Very Short Introduction by Thomas Flynn
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.19Existentialism 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... -
The Risk of Freedom: Ethics, Phenomenology and Politics in Jan Patocka by Francesco Tava 9781783483785
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £37.68The 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... -
Existentialism and Humanism by Jean-Paul Sartre 9780413776396
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.36Over 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 Politics of Experience and The Bird of Paradise by R. D. Laing
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02In '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 of human potential. He throws into question the notion... -
Existentialism For Dummies by Christopher Panza
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.00Have 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 existentialist ideas have influenced everything from film and... -
Tertium Organum: A Key to the Enigmas of the World (Aziloth Books) by P. D. Ouspensky 9781909735989
RRP: £10.80Booksplease Price: £9.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909735989Author P. D. OuspenskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Aziloth BooksPublisher Aziloth BooksWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *... -
Waiting for God by Simone Weil
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £13.79'You cannot get far in these essays without sensing yourself in the presence of a writer of immense intellectual power and fierce independence of mind.' - Janet Soskice, from the Introduction to the Routledge Classics editionSimone Weil (1909-1943) is... -
Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others by Sara Ahmed
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £15.22In this groundbreaking work, Sara Ahmed demonstrates how queer studies can put phenomenology to productive use. Focusing on the "orientation" aspect of "sexual orientation" and the "orient" in "orientalism," Ahmed examines what it means for bodies to be... -
The Question Concerning the Thing: On Kant's Doctrine of the Transcendental Principles by Martin Heidegger 9781783484645
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £24.92The Question Concerning the Thing presents a full English translation of a lecture course first delivered by Heidegger at Freiburg University during the Winter Semester of 1935-36 (originally published in German as volume 41 of the Gesamtausgabe). ... -
On the Heights of Despair by E.M. Cioran 9780226106717
Booksplease Price: £24.09This work shows E.M. Cioran's first grappling with themes he would return to in his mature works: despair and decay, absurdity and alienation, futility and the irrationality of existence. It also presents Cioran as a connoisseur of apocalypse, a... -
Reality+: Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophy by David J. Chalmers
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.27From one of our leading thinkers, a dazzling philosophical journey through virtual worldsIn the coming decades, the technology that enables virtual and augmented reality will improve beyond recognition. Within a century, world-renowned philosopher David... -
How to Write a Phenomenological Dissertation: A Step-by-Step Guide by Katarzyna Peoples 9781544328362
RRP: £36.99Booksplease Price: £31.30Conducting phenomenological research for dissertations can be an involved and challenging process, and writing it up is often the most challenging part. How to Write a Phenomenological Dissertation gives students practical, applied advice on how to... -
Phenomenology of Perception by Maurice Merleau-Ponty
RRP: £33.99Booksplease Price: £29.43First 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... -
Existentialists and Mystics: Writings on Philosophy and Literature by Iris Murdoch 9780140264920
Booksplease Price: £14.69Best known as the author of 26 novels, Iris Murdoch was also an accomplished essayist and critic who taught philosophy for many years at Oxford University. This work gathers for the first time in one volume her most influential essays and shorter pieces... -
At The Existentialist Cafe: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails by Sarah Bakewell
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.27Shortlisted 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... -
Hegel: The Phenomenology of Spirit: Translated with introduction and commentary by Michael Inwood 9780198899648
RRP: £26.49Booksplease Price: £23.00G. W. F. Hegel's first masterpiece, the Phenomenology of Spirit, is one of the great works of philosophy. It remains, however, one of the most challenging and mysterious books ever written. Michael Inwood presents this central work to the modern reader... -
In Ascension: Longlisted for The Booker Prize 2023 by Martin MacInnes 9781838956271
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.17'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 the undersea world of her childhood, she excels in... -
The Poetics of Space by Gaston Bachelard
RRP: £19.00Booksplease Price: £11.29Beloved 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... -
Crafting Phenomenological Research Mark D. Vagle 9781032303833
RRP: £38.99Booksplease Price: £33.99Crafting Phenomenological Research, Third Edition, continues to demonstrate its award-winning quality, clearly establishing itself as the leading international resource for those interested in a concise introduction to phenomenological research in... -
Between Man and Man by Martin Buber
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.71Scholar, theologian and philosopher, Martin Buber is one of the twentieth century's most influential thinkers. He believed that the deepest reality of human life lies in the relationship between one being and another. Between Man and Man is the classic... -
The Essence of Truth: On Plato's Cave Allegory and Theaetetus by Martin Heidegger
Booksplease Price: £20.44The Essence of Truth is an examination of the most fundamental theme in Heidegger's philosophy: the difference between truth as 'the unhiddenness of beings' and truth as 'the correctness of propositions'. Based on a course of lectures delivered at the... -
Being and Time: A Revised Edition of the Stambaugh Translation by Martin Heidegger 9781438432762
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £15.54Apologies 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... -
Spell Of The Sensuous: Perceptions by David Abram
RRP: £19.00Booksplease Price: £10.93Apologies 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 *... -
Last Chance: Roads to Freedom IV by Jean-Paul Sartre 9781847065513
Booksplease Price: £26.82This is the first English translation of Sartre's unfinished fourth volume of "Roads to Freedom", exploring the interrelations of politics, responsibility; friendship and freedom - themes central to Sartrean existentialism. "Last... -
Phenomenology of Spirit by G. W. F. Hegel
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £23.99This 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... -
Jacques the Fatalist by Denis Diderot
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.00'Your Jacques is a tasteless mishmash of things that happen, some of them true, others made up, written without style and served up like a dog's breakfast.' Jacques the Fatalist is Diderot's answer to the problem of existence. If human beings are... -
The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus 9780141182001
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.30In 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... -
The Blood of Others Simone de Beauvoir 9780241696453
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.17Potent 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... -
Heidegger Explained: From Phenomenon to Thing by Graham Harman 9780812696172
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £15.18Martin Heidegger's (1889-1976) influence has long been felt not just in philosophy, but also in such fields as art, architecture, and literary studies. Yet his difficult terminology has often scared away interested readers lacking an academic background... -
The Worlds of Existentialism: A Critical Reader by Maurice Friedman 9781573922760
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £24.47Maurice Friedman's masterly anthology still stands apart decades after its original publication. It has become established as a classic - the most comprehensive collection of existentialist writing ever assembled. This edition includes a special preface... -
Earthly Engagements: Reading Sartre after the Holocene by Matthew C. Ally 9781793638687
RRP: £92.00Booksplease Price: £72.66Earthly Engagements: Reading Sartre after the Holocene brings together scholars from the Sartre studies community to think through the planetary ecological crisis. Edited by Matthew C. Ally and Damon Boria, the collection explores ways in which Sartre’s... -
Haunted Experience: Being, Loss, Memory by Julian Wolfreys 9781911193029
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £18.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911193029Author Julian WolfreysFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Triarchy PressPublisher Triarchy PressWeight(grams) 368g -
Ontology-The Hermeneutics of Facticity by Martin Heidegger
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.71First published in 1988 as volume 63 of his Collected Works, Ontology-The Hermeneutics of Facticity is the text of Heidegger's lecture course at the University of Freiburg during the summer of 1923. In these lectures, Heidegger reviews and makes critical... -
The Transparency Society by Byung-Chul Han 9780804794602
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.01Transparency is the order of the day. It is a term, a slogan, that dominates public discourse about corruption and freedom of information. Considered crucial to democracy, it touches our political and economic lives as well as our private lives. Anyone... -
Supplements: From the Earliest Essays to Being and Time and Beyond by Martin Heidegger 9780791455067
Booksplease Price: £21.89A comprehensive anthology of Heidegger's early essays.This indispensable volume adds for the first time a comprehensive anthology of the most important of Martin Heidegger's recently discovered early essays. Translated by preeminent Heidegger scholars,... -
Great Apes by Patrick Marmion 9781786824738
Booksplease Price: £9.99Originally a novel by Will Self, Great Apes is a hilarious, disturbing and dazzlingly original take on man's place in the evolutionary chain.When Turner Prize-winning artist Simon Dykes wakes up one morning after a wild night out, he finds his world has... -
Loss, Grief and Existential Awareness: An Integrative Approach Mai-Britt Guldin 9781032812786
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £24.20Loss, Grief and Existential Awareness introduces the Integrated Process Model (IPM), a new interdisciplinary and interprofessional model for grief research, education, and accompaniment that distinguishes and integrates five dimensions of grief:...