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Simone Weil: A Very Short Introduction by A. Rebecca Rozelle-Stone 9780192846969
RRP: £8.99£6.45This Very Short Introduction provides an overview of the intriguing and provocative life and ideas of twentieth century French philosopher, mystic, and social activist Simone Weil. Weil was not a typical, systematic philosopher. Despite her short life,... -
The Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle 9780140449495
RRP: £10.99£7.77A profound examination of the nature of happiness by one of the giants of ancient Greek philosophyIn The Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle argues that happiness consists in 'activity of the soul in accordance with virtue' - for example, with moral virtues,... -
The Crooked Timber Of Humanity by Isaiah Berlin
RRP: £20.00£14.29'Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.' Immanuel KantIsaiah Berlin was one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century - an activist of the intellect who marshalled vast erudition and eloquence in defence... -
Slow Down: How Degrowth Communism Can Save the Earth by Kohei Saito 9781399612975
RRP: £22.00£14.56Will green capitalism save the planet? Is it even trying?Not when the very logic of the capitalist system pits it against Earth's life-support systems, as the Japanese philosopher Kohei Saito demonstrates in this astonishing international bestseller... -
Limitarianism: The Case Against Extreme Wealth by Ingrid Robeyns 9780241578193
RRP: £25.00£18.02'The best case I've read for putting an upper limit on the accumulation of wealth' Richard Wilkinson'One of the most talked-about books to the moment ... Limitarianism floats the heretical idea that fixing society isn't just about saving the poorest from... -
Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste by Pierre Bourdieu 9780415567886
RRP: £19.99£18.09No judgement of taste is innocent - we are all snobs. Pierre Bourdieu's Distinction brilliantly illuminates the social pretentions of the middle classes in the modern world, focusing on the tastes and preferences of the French bourgeoisie. First... -
The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse by Charlie Mackesy 9781529105100
RRP: £20.00£15.01A book for all ages, a book for all time. Adapted into the BAFTA and Oscar winning short animated film.Enter the world of Charlie's four unlikely friends, discover their story and their most important life lessons.The boy, the mole, the fox and the horse... -
Philosophy and Life: Exploring the Great Questions of How to Live by A. C. Grayling 9780241993200
RRP: £10.99£7.77'Grayling brings satisfying order to daunting subjects' Steven Pinker'An enthusiastic thinker who embraces humour, common sense and lucidity' Independent_______________From the eminent philosopher, an authoritative exploration of the great questions of... -
What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets by Michael Sandel
RRP: £9.99£7.11What Money Can't Buy is the Top Ten Sunday Times Bestseller from 'the superstar philosopher', Michael SandelShould we financially reward children for good marks? Is it ethical to pay people to donate organs? What about hiring mercenaries to fight our... -
Surging Democracy: Notes on Hannah Arendt's Political Thought by Adriana Cavarero 9781503628137
RRP: £18.99£16.72What does a truly democratic experience of political action look like today? In this provocative new work, Adriana Cavarero weighs in on contemporary debates about the relationship between democracy, happiness, and dissent. Drawing on Arendt's... -
The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson
RRP: £9.99£7.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Locus Awards.Book InformationISBN 9780553580075Author Kim Stanley RobinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 784Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA... -
England: An Elegy by Sir Roger Scruton
RRP: £15.99£12.46In this poignant and personal tribute, Roger Scruton gives an account of England which is both an illuminating analysis of its institutions and culture, and a celebration of its virtues. Covering all aspects of the English inheritance, and informed by... -
The New Leviathans: Thoughts After Liberalism by John Gray
RRP: £20.00£14.29'One of the most important thinkers alive' The Times'Britain's best philosopher' The TelegraphEver since its publication in 1651, Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan has unsettled and challenged how we understand the world. Condemned and vilified by each new... -
The Courage of Hopelessness: Chronicles of a Year of Acting Dangerously by Slavoj Zizek
RRP: £10.99£7.77The maverick philosopher returns to explore today's idealogical, political and economic battles, and asks whether radical change is possibleIn these troubled times, even the most pessimistic diagnosis of our future ends with an uplifting hint that things... -
Sacred Nature: How we can recover our bond with the natural world by Karen Armstrong 9781529114799
RRP: £10.99£7.12'A rich and subtle exploration of the sacredness of nature, filled with a timeless wisdom and deep humanity' Guardian In this hugely powerful book, Karen Armstrong argues that it isn't enough to change our behaviour to avert environmental catastrophe -... -
Orientalism: History, Theory and the Arts by John M. MacKenzie 9780719045783
RRP: £19.99£18.22The Orientalism debate, inspired by the work of Edward Said, has been a major source of cross-disciplinary controversy in recent years. John MacKenzie offers a comprehensive re-evaluation of this vast literature of Orientalism and brings to the subject... -
To Have or To Be? Erich Fromm 9781780936802
RRP: £21.99£19.51To Have Or to Be? is one of the seminal books of the second half of the 20th century. Nothing less than a manifesto for a new social and psychological revolution to save our threatened planet, this book is a summary of the penetrating thought of Eric... -
The Open Society and Its Enemies by Sir Karl Popper
RRP: £19.99£18.69'If in this book harsh words are spoken about some of the greatest among the intellectual leaders of mankind, my motive is not, I hope, to belittle them. It springs rather from my conviction that, if our civilization is to survive, we must break with... -
Marx: A Very Short Introduction by Peter Singer
RRP: £8.99£6.45Karl Marx is one of the most influential philosophers of all time, whose theories have shaped and directed political, economic, and social thought for 150 years. Considering Marx's life and impact, renowned philosopher Peter Singer identifies the central... -
Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power by Byung-Chul Han
RRP: £10.99£8.94Byung-Chul Han, a star of German philosophy, continues his passionate critique of neoliberalism, trenchantly describing a regime of technological domination that, in contrast to Foucault's biopower, has discovered the productive force of the psyche. In... -
Lost in Ideology: Interpreting Modern Political Life by Jason Blakely 9781788216630
RRP: £18.99£17.91Modern political life is a confusing and disorientating terrain of competing ideologies. Jason Blakely offers readers a lively, fresh and insightful guide through the labyrinth of conflicting and competing ideas in order to better understand why ideology... -
Eroticism by Georges Bataille
RRP: £10.99£7.77A philosopher, essayist, novelist, pornographer and fervent Catholic who came to regard the brothels of Paris as his true 'churches', Georges Bataille ranks among the boldest and most disturbing of twentieth-century thinkers. In this influential study he... -
Pragmatism and Idealism: Rorty and Hegel on Representation and Reality by Robert B. Brandom 9780192870216
RRP: £12.99£12.17In this short book, based upon his Spinoza Lectures at the University of Amsterdam, Robert B. Brandom offers a pragmatist approach to representation and reality, drawing on Richard Rorty and Hegel. During the last decade of his life, Rorty emphasized... -
Travels with Epicurus: Meditations from a Greek Island on the Pleasures of Old Age by Daniel Klein 9781780744124
RRP: £7.99£5.50Our society worships at the fountain of youth. Each year, we try to delay the arrival of old age, using everything at our disposal, from extreme exercise and botox to pilates and cosmetic dentistry. But in the process, are we missing out on a distinct... -
Too Late to Awaken: What Lies Ahead When There is No Future? by Slavoj Žižek 9780241651759
RRP: £20.00£14.29The most provocative philosopher of our times returns with a rousing and counterintuitive analysis of our global predicamentWe hear all the time that it's five minutes to global doomsday, so now is our last chance to avert disaster. But what if the only... -
God, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning by Meghan O'Gieblyn
RRP: £14.99£9.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Los Angeles Times Book Prize 2022.Book InformationISBN 9780525562719Author Meghan O'GieblynFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher... -
The Architecture of Happiness by Alain de Botton 9780241970058 [USED COPY]
£17.10THE NUMBER ONE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERFrom one of our greatest voices in modern philosophy, author of The Course of Love, The Consolations of Philosophy and The School of Life, The Architecture of Happiness explores the fascinating hidden links between... -
The Architecture of Happiness by Alain de Botton
RRP: £12.99£9.09THE NUMBER ONE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERFrom one of our greatest voices in modern philosophy, author of The Course of Love, The Consolations of Philosophy and The School of Life, The Architecture of Happiness explores the fascinating hidden links between... -
The Infinite City: Utopian Dreams on the Streets of London by Niall Kishtainy 9780008325855
RRP: £25.00£16.43'Glorious' GUARIDAN 'Vigorous, rigorous and eminently readable' SPECTATOR London is a city of dreamers. A city of possibility and experiment. A city of fervent... -
Why We Think the Things We Think: Philosophy in a Nutshell by Alain Stephen 9781782437840 [USED COPY]
RRP: £7.99£2.13Have you ever found yourself alone with your thoughts? Have you ever been asked if the glass is half full or half empty? Do you wonder what true happiness is or how to attain it? Or maybe nothing really matters if everything is just an illusion or a... -
Why We Think the Things We Think: Philosophy in a Nutshell by Alain Stephen
RRP: £7.99£5.60Have you ever found yourself alone with your thoughts? Have you ever been asked if the glass is half full or half empty? Do you wonder what true happiness is or how to attain it? Or maybe nothing really matters if everything is just an illusion or a... -
A Sense of Belonging: How to find your place in a fractured world Dr Holan Liang 9781780724683
RRP: £12.99£8.60A sense of belonging - being liked, understood, accepted for who we are - is vital for our mental health. Whether it is fitting in at school, struggling to connect with colleagues in a new job, or just feeling out of place in our own family, we all, at... -
The Performer: Art, Life, Politics by Richard Sennett 9780241637647
RRP: £25.00£18.02An exploration of public performance in everyday life, by the leading cultural and social thinkerThe Performer explores the relations between performing in art (particularly music), politics and everyday experience. It focuses on the bodily and physical... -
The Fear of Freedom by Erich Fromm
RRP: £14.99£13.58Erich Fromm sees right to the heart of our contradictory needs for community and for freedom like no other writer before or since. In Fear of Freedom, Fromm warns that the price of community is indeed high, and it is the individual who pays. Fascism and... -
Life Worth Living: A guide to what matters most by Miroslav Volf
RRP: £16.99£12.28What kind of life would be truly worth wanting? What kind of world would be truly worth seeking? How should we live?We are facing a crisis of meaning. Swept up in the obstacles of the day-to-day, the deeper questions of our fundamental purpose linger... -
Self Study: Notes on the Schizoid Condition by David Kishik 9783965580459
RRP: £10.00£7.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783965580459Author David KishikFormat PaperbackPage Count 182Imprint ICI Berlin PressPublisher ICI Berlin PressWeight(grams) 177gDimensions(mm) 178mm *... -
Dialectic of Enlightenment by Theodor Adorno
RRP: £14.99£12.55Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer are the leading figures of the Frankfurt School and this book is their magnum opus. Dialectic of Enlightenment is one of the most celebrated works of modern social philosophy that continues to impress in its wide-ranging... -
The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Social Science by Harold Kincaid 9780190845773
RRP: £40.99£38.28The philosophy of the social sciences considers the underlying explanatory powers of the social (or human) sciences, such as history, economics, anthropology, politics, and sociology. The type of questions covered includes the methodological (the nature... -
On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint by Maggie Nelson
RRP: £10.99£7.77What can freedom really mean?'One of the most electrifying writers at work in America today, among the sharpest and most supple thinkers of her generation' OLIVIA LAINGIn this invigorating, essential book, Maggie Nelson explores how we might think,... -
Memory Makers: The Politics of the Past in Putin's Russia by Jade McGlynn
RRP: £20.00£15.32Why aren't ordinary Russians more outraged by Putin's invasion of Ukraine? Inside the Kremlin's own historical propaganda narratives, Russia's invasion of Ukraine makes complete sense. From its World War II cult to anti-Western conspiracy theories, the...