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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 *... -
Edmund Burke: The Visionary who Invented Modern Politics by Jesse Norman
RRP: £12.99£8.48Longlisted for the Orwell Prize and the Samuel Johnson prize for non-fiction; both conservative and subversive, Burke's beliefs have never been more relevant, as MP Jesse Norman explains. Philosopher, statesman, and founder of modern... -
Under the Hornbeams: A true story of life in the open by Emma Tarlo 9780571379804
RRP: £18.99£12.83'Reading it feels like slowing down to take a breath' - EVENING STANDARD'Open-air theatre between two covers, powered by strength of character and beautiful writing.' - NICHOLAS CRANE'A stunning book. Soulful and honest, it is a riveting, original story... -
The Subversive Simone Weil: A Life in Five Ideas by Robert Zaretsky
RRP: £9.99£8.59Known as the "patron saint of all outsiders," Simone Weil (1909-43) was one of the twentieth century's most remarkable thinkers, a philosopher who truly lived by her political and ethical ideals. In a short life framed by the two world wars, Weil taught... -
How to Think Like a Philosopher: Scholars, Dreamers and Sages Who Can Teach Us How to Live by Peter Cave
RRP: £16.99£13.09In showing how the great philosophers of human history lived and thought - and what they thought about - Peter Cave provides an accessible and enjoyable introduction to thinking philosophically and how it can change our everyday lives. With a lightness... -
Why I Am so Clever by Friedrich Nietzsche
RRP: £3.00£2.49'Why do I know a few more things? Why am I so clever altogether?'Self-celebrating and self-mocking autobiographical writings from Ecce Homo, the last work iconoclastic German philosopher Nietzsche wrote before his descent into madness.One of 46 new books... -
I've Been Thinking by Daniel C. Dennett 9780241519271
RRP: £30.00£20.95'A generous book written by a figure who has made a significant impact on philosophy ... Anyone interested in philosophy should read it' Nigel Warburton, Times Literary Supplement'One of today's most readable, intellectually nimble and scientifically... -
Symposium by Plato 9780199540198
RRP: £9.99£7.11In his celebrated masterpiece, Symposium, Plato imagines a high-society dinner-party in Athens in 416 BC at which the guests - including the comic poet Aristophanes and, of course, Plato's mentor Socrates - each deliver a short speech in praise of love... -
The Question of God: C.S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud Debate God, Love, Sex, and the Meaning of Life by Armand M. Nicholi
RRP: £18.99£11.56For all the variety of specific religious beliefs, there are fundamentally only two kinds of people: believers and non-believers. In the 20th century, no spokesman was more prominent for non-belief than Sigmund Freud, and nobody argued for belief more... -
Wittgenstein: A Very Short Introduction by A. C. Grayling
RRP: £8.99£6.45Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) was an extraordinarily original philospher, whose influence on twentieth-century thinking goes well beyond philosophy itself. In this book, which aims to make Wittgenstein's thought accessible to the general non-specialist... -
Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius by Ray Monk
RRP: £16.99£12.28'Monk's energetic enterprise is remarkable for the interweaving of the philosophical and the emotional aspects of Wittgenstein's life' Sunday Times'Ray Monk's reconnection of Wittgenstein's philosophy with his life triumphantly carries out the... -
J. L. Austin: Philosopher and D-Day Intelligence Officer by M. W. Rowe
RRP: £30.00£27.55The first biography of the philosopher who became a mastermind of Allied intelligence in World War Two. Austere, witty, and formidable, J. L. Austin (1911-1960) was the leader of Oxford Ordinary Language Philosophy and the founder of speech-act theory... -
Ecce Homo: How To Become What You Are by Friedrich Nietzsche
RRP: £8.99£6.45'I am not a man, I am dynamite.' Ecce Homo is an autobiography like no other. Deliberately provocative, Nietzsche subverts the conventions of the genre and pushes his philosophical positions to combative extremes, constructing a genius-hero whose life... -
Early Writings by Karl Marx
RRP: £16.99£12.28Written in 1833-4, when Marx was barely twenty-five, this astonishingly rich body of works formed the cornerstone for his later political philosophy. In the Critique of Hegel's Doctrine of the State, he dissects Hegel's thought and develops his own views... -
Cosmic Trigger II: Down to Earth by Robert Anton Wilson 9780998713465
RRP: £17.99£13.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998713465Author Robert Anton WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 324Imprint Hilaritas Press, LLC.Publisher Hilaritas Press, LLC. -
Parfit: A Philosopher and His Mission to Save Morality by David Edmonds
RRP: £28.00£22.20From 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... -
Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What One is by Friedrich Nietzsche
RRP: £8.99£6.45In late 1888, only weeks before his final collapse into madness, Nietzsche (1844-1900) set out to compose his autobiography, and Ecce Homo remains one of the most intriguing yet bizarre examples of the genre ever written. In this extraordinary work... -
Spinoza, Life and Legacy by Prof Jonathan I. Israel 9780198857488
RRP: £39.99£35.83A biography of the boldest and most unsettling of the early modern philosophers, Spinoza, which examines the man's life, relationships, writings, and career, while also forcing us to rethink how we previously understood Spinoza's reception in his own... -
Aleister Crowley: The Biography - Spiritual Revolutionary, Romantic Explorer, Occult Master - and Spy by Tobias Churton 9781780283845
RRP: £30.00£18.71Blowing the myths wide open, this exciting exploration of the notorious Aleister Crowley, packed with previously unpublished information, is the true story of a poet, explorer, mystic, mountaineer, philosopher, prophet and spy.About the AuthorTobias... -
Autobiography by Bertrand Russell
RRP: £19.99£18.69Bertrand Russell remains one of the greatest philosophers and most complex and controversial figures of the twentieth century. Here, in this frank, humorous and decidedly charming autobiography, Russell offers readers the story of his life - introducing... -
Dialogues and Letters by Lucius Annaeus Seneca
RRP: £9.99£7.11A major writer and a leading figure in the public life of Rome, Seneca (c. 4BC-AD 65) ranks among the most eloquent and influential masters of Latin prose. This selection explores his thoughts on philosophy and the trials of life. In the Consolation to... -
Bertrand Russell by A. J. Ayer 9780226033433
RRP: £33.00£32.05With extraordinary concision and clarity, A. J. Ayer gives an account of the major incidents of Bertrand Russell's life and an exposition of the whole range of his philosophy. "Ayer considers Russell to be, except possibly for Wittgenstein, the most... -
Perdurabo, Rev. by Richard Kaczynski
RRP: £27.00£18.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556438998Author Richard KaczynskiFormat HardbackPage Count 720Imprint North Atlantic Books,U.S.Publisher North Atlantic Books,U.S.Weight(grams)... -
Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist by Walter A. Kaufmann 9780691160269
RRP: £22.00£17.76This classic is the benchmark against which all modern books about Nietzsche are measured. When Walter Kaufmann wrote it in the immediate aftermath of World War II, most scholars outside Germany viewed Nietzsche as part madman, part proto-Nazi, and... -
Words by Jean-Paul Sartre
RRP: £10.99£7.77After his father's early death Jean-Paul Sartre was brought up at his grandfather's home in a world even then eighty years out of date. In Words Sartre recalls growing up within the confines of French provincialism in the period before the First World... -
Deer Man: Seven Years of Living in the Forest by Geoffroy Delorme
RRP: £10.99£7.40The astonishing, true account of one man's quest to immerse himself in nature and live with wild deer for seven years.'Haunting, remarkable and ultimately very moving' Sunday Times'A story of extraordinary power and tenderness' Charles Foster'A startling... -
Derrida: A Very Short Introduction by Dr. Simon Glendinning
RRP: £8.99£6.45Jacques Derrida, the French philosopher, developed his critical technique known as 'deconstruction'. His work is associated with ideas surrounding both post-structuralism and post-modern philosophy, and he was known to have challenged some of the... -
Plato of Athens: A Life in Philosophy by Robin Waterfield
RRP: £21.99£15.61The first ever biography of the founder of Western philosophy Considered by many to be the most important philosopher ever, Plato was born into a well-to-do family in wartime Athens at the end of the fifth century BCE. In his teens, he honed his... -
Alasdair MacIntyre: An Intellectual Biography by Emile Perreau-Saussine
RRP: £90.00£78.08This award-winning biography, now available for the first time in English, presents an illuminating introduction to Alasdair MacIntyre and locates his thinking in the intellectual milieu of twentieth-century philosophy. Winner of the prestigious 2005... -
Personal Odyssey, A by Thomas Sowell 9780684864655
RRP: £16.99£16.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780684864655Author SowellFormat PaperbackPage Count 322Imprint The Free PressPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 475gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 18mm -
How to Think Like a Woman: Four Women Philosophers Who Taught Me How to Love the Life of the Mind by Regan Penaluna
RRP: £16.99£11.58As a young woman growing up in a small, religious community, Regan Penaluna daydreamed about the big questions: Who are we and what is this strange world we find ourselves in? In college she discovered philosophy and fell in love with its rationality,... -
Introducing Descartes: A Graphic Guide by Dave Robinson
RRP: £8.99£6.70Rene Descartes is famous as the philosopher who was prepared to doubt everything- even his own physical existence. Most people know that he said 'I think, therefore I am', even if they are not always sure what he really meant by it. Introducing Descartes... -
In Praise of Failure: Four Lessons in Humility by Costica Bradatan 9780674970472
RRP: £24.95£16.93Squarely challenging a culture obsessed with success, an acclaimed philosopher argues that failure is vital to a life well lived, curing us of arrogance and self-deception and engendering humility instead.Our obsession with success is hard to overlook... -
Being RAM Dass by Ram Dass
RRP: £18.99£12.75Professor Richard Alpert's star fell fast. To the dismay of his wealthy Boston family, he got fired from Harvard over experimental use of psychedelics with his psychology students. In 1967, he traveled to India to lick his wounds and find himself. And he... -
The Laszlo Chronicle: A Global Thinker's Journey from Systems to Consciousness and the Akashic Field by Gyorgyi Szabo
RRP: £16.99£15.48This study analyses the fifty year evolution of Ervin Laszlo's contribution to science and philosophy. It records the major turning points in his thinking and discusses who and what influenced this evolution and with what result. Laszlo's search for... -
Being Ram Dass by Ram Dass 9781683646280
RRP: £23.99£19.74Perhaps no other teacher has sparked the fires of as many spiritual seekers in the West as Ram Dass. While many know of his transformation from Harvard psychology professor Richard Alpert to psychedelic and spiritual icon, Ram Dass tells here for the... -
Cosmic Trigger III: My Life After Death by Robert Anton Wilson 9780998713472
RRP: £17.99£13.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998713472Author Robert Anton WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 310Imprint Hilaritas Press, LLC.Publisher Hilaritas Press, LLC. -
Nietzsche, the Aristocratic Rebel: Intellectual Biography and Critical Balance-Sheet by Domenico Losurdo
RRP: £65.00£44.09Perhaps no philosopher is more of a conundrum than Nietzsche, the solitary rebel, poet, wayfarer, anti-revolutionary Aufklarer and theorist of aristocratic radicalism. His accusers identify in his 'superman' the origins of Nazism, and thus issue an... -
Ashoka: Portrait of a Philosopher King by Patrick Olivelle 9780300270006
RRP: £22.00£18.56An illuminating biography reconstructing the life and legacy of a unique king in world history and the most famous emperor in South Asian history "Mr. Olivelle has produced an outstanding monument of scholarship and sound judgment."-Maxwell Carter, Wall... -
Lives of the Eminent Philosophers: Compact Edition by Diogenes Laertius
RRP: £15.99£13.73Everyone wants to live a meaningful life. Long before our own day of self-help books offering twelve-step programs and other guides to attain happiness, the philosophers of ancient Greece explored the riddle of what makes a life worth living, producing a...