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The Humean Mind by Angela Coventry
RRP: £43.99£38.44David Hume (1711-1776) is widely acknowledged as one of the most important philosophers in the English language, with his work continuing to exert major influence on philosophy today. His empiricism, naturalism, and psychology of the mind and the... -
Rousseau as Author: Consecrating One's Life to the Truth by Christopher Kelly
RRP: £28.00£27.39For Rousseau, "consecrating one's life to the truth" (his personal credo) meant publicly taking responsibility for what one published and only publishing what would be of public benefit. Christopher Kelly argues that this commitment is central to... -
The Last Years of Karl Marx: An Intellectual Biography by Marcello Musto
RRP: £83.00£72.11An innovative reassessment of the last writings and final years of Karl Marx. In the last years of his life, Karl Marx expanded his research in new directions-studying recent anthropological discoveries, analyzing communal forms of ownership in... -
Dream Notes by Theodor W. Adorno
RRP: £12.99£11.94"Dreams are as black as death." -Theodor W. Adorno Adorno was fascinated by his dreams and wrote them down throughout his life. He envisaged publishing a collection of them although in the event no more than a few appeared in his lifetime. Dream Notes... -
Diary of a Philosophy Student: Volume 1, 1926-27 by Simone de Beauvoir
£40.43Simone de Beauvoir, still a teen, began a diary while a philosophy student at the Sorbonne. Written in 1926-27-before Beauvoir met Jean-Paul Sartre-the diaries reveal previously unknown details about her life and times and offer critical insights into... -
Edmund Husserl: Philosopher of Infinite Tasks by Maurice Natanson
£43.84The product of many years of reflection on phenomenology, this book is a comprehensive and creative introduction to the philosophy of Edmund Husserl. Natanson uses Husserl's later work as a clue to the meaning of his entire intellectual career, showing... -
Adventures in Philosophy at Notre Dame by Kenneth M. Sayre
RRP: £29.99£26.50Adventures in Philosophy at Notre Dame recounts the fascinating history of the University of Notre Dame's Department of Philosophy, chronicling the challenges, difficulties, and tensions that accompanied its transition from an obscure outpost of... -
Political Writings by Simone de Beauvoir
RRP: £43.00£37.90Political Writings offers an abundance of newly translated essays by Simone de Beauvoir that demonstrate a heretofore unknown side of her political philosophy. The volume traces nearly three decades of Beauvoir's leftist political engagement, from... -
A Journey to Point Omega: Autobiography from 1964 by Josef Pieper
RRP: £23.00£19.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781587314049Author Josef PieperFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint St. Augustine's PressPublisher St. Augustine's Press -
Yours Faithfully, Bertrand Russell: A Lifelong Fight for Peace, Justice, and Truth in Letters to the Editor by Bertrand Russell
RRP: £37.99£26.02This comprehensive volume captures one of the twentieth century's greatest philosopher's lifelong battle with the forces of injustice, ignorance, and cruelty - a crusade not always welcomed by his own government, which twice imprisoned him. Russell used... -
The Life of William Robertson: Minister, Historian, and Principal by Jeffrey R. Smitten
RRP: £90.00£81.97This is the first biography to see William Robertson as both a man and a central Enlightenment figure. Drawing extensively on his unpublished correspondence, and foregrounding Robertson's religious outlook, Jeffrey R. Smitten gives us offers a more... -
Karl Marx, Anthropologist by Thomas C. Patterson
RRP: £135.00£117.28After being widely rejected in the late 20th century the work of Karl Marx is now being reassessed by many theorists and activists. Karl Marx, Anthropologist explores how this most influential of modern thinkers is still highly relevant for Anthropology... -
Jiddu Krishnamurti World Philosopher Revised Edition by C V Williams 9780987596116
£34.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780987596116Author C V WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 880Imprint Sydney School of Arts and HumanitiesPublisher Sydney School of Arts and... -
Arendt and America by Richard H. King
RRP: £80.00£77.01German political philosopher Hannah Arendt (1906-75) fled from the Nazis to New York in 1941, and during the next thirty years in America she penned her best-known and most influential works, such as The Human Condition, The Origins of Totalitarianism,... -
The Machiavellian Enterprise: A Commentary on "The Prince" by Leo Paul De Alvarez 9780875809960
RRP: £14.99£12.31De Alvarez discovers a neglected argument in Machiavelli's masterpiece that encompasses much more than the education of a prince for the salvation of Italy. Building on a wealth of insight, he shows how Machiavelli, the "first political philosopher to... -
Krishnamurti in America: New Perspectives on the Man and his Message by David Edmund Moody 9781734227826
RRP: £24.95£20.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781734227826Author David Edmund MoodyFormat PaperbackPage Count 364Imprint Alpha Centauri PressPublisher Alpha Centauri PressWeight(grams)... -
Spinoza: Freedom's Messiah Ian Buruma 9780300281866
RRP: £11.99£10.19Ian Buruma explores the life and death of Baruch Spinoza, the Enlightenment thinker whose belief in freedom of thought and speech resonates in our own time “An elegant, relevant biography of a vital thinker.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Baruch... -
Herald of a Restless World: How Henri Bergson Brought Philosophy to the People Emily Herring 9781529371956
RRP: £24.99£21.24As heard on Radio 4's Free ThinkingHenri Bergson, the French philosopher who defined individual creativity and transformed twentieth-century thought. At the dawn of the twentieth century, Henri Bergson became the most famous philosopher on earth. Where... -
Leibniz in His World: The Making of a Savant Audrey Borowski 9780691260747
RRP: £30.00£25.50A sweeping intellectual biography that restores the Enlightenment polymath to the intellectual, scientific, and courtly worlds that shaped his early life and thoughtDescribed by Voltaire as “perhaps a man of the most universal learning in Europe,”... -
The Rigor of Angels: Borges, Heisenberg, Kant, and the Ultimate Nature of Reality William Egginton 9781805337652
RRP: £25.00£21.25A poet, a physicist, and a philosopher explore the greatest enigmas of the universe in this scintillatingly original book about the limits of human knowledge Argentine poet Jorge Luis Borges was madly in love when his life was shattered by painful... -
Story of a Communist: A Memoir Antonio Negri 9781912475377
RRP: £25.00£21.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912475377Author Antonio NegriFormat PaperbackPage Count 720Imprint ERISPublisher ERIS -
Parfit: A Philosopher and His Mission to Save Morality David Edmonds 9780691225241
RRP: £14.99£12.15From the bestselling coauthor of Wittgenstein's Poker, an entertaining and illuminating biography of a brilliant philosopher who tried to rescue morality from nihilismDerek Parfit (1942-2017) is the most famous philosopher most people have never heard of... -
Marx & Engels: A Biographical Introduction Ernesto Che Guevara 9781644212912
RRP: £12.99£11.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781644212912Author Ernesto Che GuevaraFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S. -
Story of a Communist: A Memoir Antonio Negri 9781916809918
RRP: £35.00£29.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916809918Author Antonio NegriFormat HardbackPage Count 720Imprint ERISPublisher ERIS -
Major Corrections: An Intellectual Biography of Sebastiano Timpanaro Tom Geue 9781804293775
RRP: £25.00£21.25Sebastiano Timpanaro (1923-2000) was one of the most original leftist thinkers of the 20th century. His thought spans a unique range of subjects, from materialism to classical philology, from the Enlightenment to Freud, from science to socialism, from... -
Herald of a Restless World: How Henri Bergson Brought Philosophy to the People Emily Herring 9781529371918
RRP: £25.00£21.25Henri Bergson, the French philosopher who defined individual creativity and transformed twentieth-century thought. At the dawn of the twentieth century, Henri Bergson became the most famous philosopher on earth. Where prior thinkers sketched out a... -
Herald of a Restless World: How Henri Bergson Brought Philosophy to the People Emily Herring 9781529371925
RRP: £16.99£14.44Henri Bergson, the French philosopher who defined individual creativity and transformed twentieth-century thought. At the dawn of the twentieth century, Henri Bergson became the most famous philosopher on earth. Where prior thinkers sketched out a... -
Secrets of the Golden Age Prince: Francis Bacon Elizabeth Clare Prophet 9781609884383
RRP: £25.00£14.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781609884383Author Elizabeth Clare ProphetFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint Summit University Press,U.S.Publisher Summit University Press,U.S... -
Edward de Bono: Love Laterally Sarah Tucker 9781913641467
RRP: £19.99£17.82Edward de Bono, polymath, writer, and philosopher, spent his life showing people how to use their brains creatively, to disrupt traditional ideas and ways of doing things. He mixed socially with powerful people, but he never stopped challenging their... -
The Best of All Possible Worlds: A Life of Leibniz in Seven Pivotal Days Michael Kempe 9781324093947
RRP: £22.00£18.70Benjamin Franklin, Leonardo da Vinci, Aristotle, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. These individuals share the venerable title of polymath—or, more colloquially, “Renaissance man.” Compared to his peers, though, Leibniz has all but disappeared from collective...