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The Age of Genius: The Seventeenth Century and the Birth of the Modern Mind by A. C. Grayling
RRP: $31.48$23.00What happened to the European mind between 1605, when an audience watching Macbeth at the Globe might believe that regicide was such an aberration of the natural order that ghosts could burst from the ground, and 1649, when a large crowd, perhaps... -
On Augustine by Dr. Rowan Williams
RRP: $52.50$37.00Since his retirement as Archbishop of Canterbury and his return to academic life (Master of Magdalene College Cambridge) Rowan Williams has demonstrated a massive new surge of intellectual energy. In this new book he turns his attention to St Augustine. ... -
Introducing Machiavelli: A Graphic Guide by Patrick Curry 9781848311756
RRP: $18.88$8.48Illustrated guide to the crucial Italian philosopher and author of The Prince. 'Machiavellian' is a popular byword for treachery and opportunism. Machiavelli's classic book on statecraft, The Prince, published over 400 years ago, remains controversial to... -
The Essential Writings by Mahatma Gandhi
RRP: $23.08$16.32'those who say that religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion means' Mahatma Gandhi was a profound and original thinker as well as one of the most influential figures in the history of the twentieth century. A religious and... -
The Portable Karl Marx by Karl Marx
RRP: $27.28$19.09This book is an outstanding overview of the life and thoughts of Karl Marx. The editor masterfully weaves together Marx's published works and private letters into a rich tapestry of history and ideas. In addition to what you might expect to find in a... -
Autobiography of a Spiritually Incorrect Mystic by Osho 9780312280710
RRP: $25.18$20.37Ten years have passed since, in the words of his physician, Osho prepared for his departure from the body that had served him for 59 years "as calmly as though he were packing for a weekend in the country." This volume is recognition that the... -
The Autobiography Of John Stuart Mill by John Stuart Mill 9781534690707
RRP: $18.80$16.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781534690707Author John Stuart MillFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent... -
Hypatia of Alexandria: Mathematician and Martyr by Michael Deakin
RRP: $52.50$39.82In the late fourth and early fifth centuries of our era, Hypatia of Alexandria was the world's greatest living mathematician and astronomer. A strikingly beautiful woman and a devoted celibate, she lived in a city as turbulent and troubled as Baghdad or... -
Becoming Beauvoir by Kate Kirkpatrick
RRP: $31.48$25.52"One is not born a woman, but becomes one", Simone de Beauvoir A symbol of liberated womanhood, Simone de Beauvoir's unconventional relationships inspired and scandalised her generation. A philosopher, writer, and feminist icon, she won prestigious... -
The Last Muslim Intellectual: The Life and Legacy of Jalal Al-e Ahmad by Hamid Dabashi
RRP: $54.58$49.52Explores the life and legacy of Jalal Al-e Ahmad (1923 69) arguably the most prominent Iranian public intellectual of his time A social and intellectual biography of Jalal Al-e Ahmad, a seminal Muslim public intellectual of the mid-20th century ... -
Not Thinking like a Liberal by Raymond Geuss
RRP: $54.50$43.34In a compelling meditation on the ideas that shape our lives, one of the world's most provocative and creative philosophers explains how his eccentric early years influenced his lifelong critique of liberalism.Liberalism is so amorphous and pervasive... -
Ayn Rand for Beginners by Andrew Bernstein
RRP: $27.28$20.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781934389379Author Andrew BernsteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint For BeginnersPublisher For Beginners -
Afropessimism by Frank B. Wilderson
RRP: $31.48$25.12A seminal work that combines ground-breaking philosophy with searing flights of memoir, Afropessimism presents the tenets of an increasingly influential intellectual movement that theorises blackness through the lens of perpetual slavery. Rather than... -
Infinite Resignation by Eugene Thacker
RRP: $31.48$20.58The author of the contemporary classic, In the Dust of This Planet, is back with another raw and unsettling look at the human condition. Comprised of aphorisms, fragments, and observations both philosophical and personal, Thacker's new book traces the... -
Viktor Schauberger: A Life of Learning from Nature by Jane Cobbald
RRP: $35.68$23.79-- Second edition of a concise introduction to Schauberger's life and thinkingViktor Schauberger's knowledge of natural energies led to inventions which, if properly harnessed, could solve the world's energy crisis. Unfortunately most people still find... -
Guy Debord by Anselm Jappe 9781629634494
RRP: $44.08$29.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629634494Author Anselm JappeFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint PM PressPublisher PM Press -
Afropessimism by Frank Wilderson, III 9781631496141
RRP: $50.38$38.66A seminal work that combines ground-breaking philosophy with searing flights of memoir, Afropessimism presents the tenets of an increasingly influential intellectual movement that theorises blackness through the lens of perpetual slavery. Rather than... -
Nikola Tesla: Lectures and Patents by Rodoljub Colakovic 9781505419818
RRP: $67.79$64.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781505419818Author Rodoljub ColakovicFormat PaperbackPage Count 738Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent... -
Nietzsche: A Philosophical Biography by Rudiger Safranski
RRP: $47.25$40.32No other modern philosopher has proved as influential as Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) and none is as poorly understood. In the first new biography in decades, Rudiger Safranski, one of the foremost living Nietzsche scholars, re-creates the anguished... -
George Berkeley: A Philosophical Life by Tom Jones
RRP: $73.50$60.35A comprehensive intellectual biography of the Enlightenment philosopherIn George Berkeley: A Philosophical Life, Tom Jones provides a comprehensive account of the life and work of the preeminent Irish philosopher of the Enlightenment. From his early... -
Marcus Aurelius: The Stoic Emperor by Donald J. Robertson 9780300256666
RRP: $39.88$33.14Experience the world of Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius and the tremendous challenges he faced and overcame with the help of Stoic philosophy This novel biography brings Marcus Aurelius (121–180 CE) to life for a new generation of readers by exploring... -
The Last Man Takes LSD: Foucault and the End of Revolution by Daniel Zamora
$37.99In May 1975, Michel Foucault took LSD in the desert in southern California. He described it as the most important event of his life which would lead him to completely rework his History of Sexuality. His focus now would not be on power relations but on... -
At the Existentialist Cafe: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails with Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Others by Sarah Bakewell 9781590518892
RRP: $41.90$35.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Kirkus Prize (Nonfiction) 2016.Book InformationISBN 9781590518892Author Sarah BakewellFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Other Press LLCPublisher Other... -
Maimonides: Life and Thought by Moshe Halbertal 9780691165660
RRP: $52.50$41.98Maimonides was the greatest Jewish philosopher and legal scholar of the medieval period, a towering figure who has had a profound and lasting influence on Jewish law, philosophy, and religious consciousness. This book provides a comprehensive and... -
Conversations with Roger Scruton by Mark Dooley
RRP: $35.68$25.79A candid and personal insight into the life and work of the philosopher and writer Roger Scruton, by his intellectual biographer Mark Dooley. This book reveals what life was like for Roger Scruton growing up in High Wycombe, how he survived Cambridge... -
Walter Benjamin: A Critical Life by Lecturer in Literature Howard Eiland
RRP: $48.20$41.98Walter Benjamin is one of the twentieth century's most important intellectuals, and also one of its most elusive. His writings-mosaics incorporating philosophy, literary criticism, Marxist analysis, and a syncretistic theology-defy simple categorization... -
Sick Souls, Healthy Minds: How William James Can Save Your Life by John Kaag
RRP: $27.28$20.56From the author of American Philosophy: A Love Story, a compelling introduction to the life-affirming philosophy of William JamesIn 1895, William James, the father of American philosophy, delivered a lecture entitled "Is Life Worth Living?" It was no... -
Martin Heidegger by George Steiner 9780226772325
RRP: $48.30$46.47With characteristic lucidity and style, Steiner makes Heidegger's immensely difficult body of work accessible to the general reader. In a new introduction, Steiner addresses language and philosophy and the rise of Nazism. "It would be hard to imagine a... -
Derrida: A Biography by Benoit Peeters 9780745656151
RRP: $52.50$36.50This biography of Jacques Derrida (1930-2004) tells the story of a Jewish boy from Algiers, excluded from school at the age of twelve, who went on to become the most widely translated French philosopher in the world - a vulnerable, tormented man who,... -
Places of Mind: A Life of Edward Said by Timothy Brennan
RRP: $27.28$19.09'An intimate portrait ... Critical, generous and heartfelt' Ahdaf Soueif, Guardian 'An intriguing account of an alluring but evasive character' Daily Telegraph Drawing on extensive archival sources and hundreds of interviews, Timothy Brennan's Places... -
Great Minds on Small Things: The Philosophers' Guide to Everyday Life by Matthew Qvortrup 9780715654965
RRP: $27.28$18.12Three centuries ago, Voltaire published his Dictionnaire philosophique, taking in such idiosyncratic topics as adultery, mountains, nakedness, and others besides. In 1957, another French philosopher of more recent vintage, Roland Barthes, mused in his... -
The Infidel and the Professor: David Hume, Adam Smith, and the Friendship That Shaped Modern Thought by Dennis C. Rasmussen 9780691192284
RRP: $35.68$28.67The story of the greatest of all philosophical friendships-and how it influenced modern thoughtDavid Hume is arguably the most important philosopher ever to have written in English, but during his lifetime he was attacked as "the Great Infidel" for his... -
Lives of the Eminent Philosophers: by Diogenes Laertius by Pamela Mensch
$97.78Lives and the Eminent Philosophers of Diogenes Laertius is a crucial source for much of what we know about the origins of philosophy in Greece. The work covers a larger number of figures and a longer period of time than any other extant ancient source,... -
Introducing Foucault: A Graphic Guide by Chris Horrocks 9781848310605
RRP: $18.88$5.86Michel Foucault's work was described at his death as 'the most important event of thought in our century'. As a philosopher, historian and political activist, he certainly left behind an enduring and influential body of work, but is this acclaim... -
American Philosophy: A Love Story by John Kaag 9780374537203
RRP: $23.08$17.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374537203Author John KaagFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncWeight(grams) 250g -
It's Been a Good Life by Janet J. Asimov 9781573929684
RRP: $41.98$32.38New one-volume autobiography spans Asimov's life for the first time! As one of the most gifted and prolific writers of the twentieth century, Isaac Asimov became legendary for his inexhaustible creativity, wide-ranging intellectual curiosity, and... -
Martin Buber: A Life of Faith and Dissent by Paul Mendes-Flohr
RRP: $39.88$34.82From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, the first major biography in English in over thirty years of the seminal modern Jewish thinker Martin Buber"A scrupulously researched, perceptive biography."-Robert Alter, New York Times Book Review An authority... -
Martin Heidegger's Changing Destinies: Catholicism, Revolution, Nazism by Guillaume Payen
RRP: $84.00$80.96A portrait of Martin Heidegger as a man and a philosopher In this biography of Martin Heidegger (1889-1976), now available in English, historian Guillaume Payen synthesizes the connections between the German philosopher's life and work. Critically, but... -
Thomas Aquinas: A Portrait by Denys Turner
RRP: $31.48$27.36An illuminating introduction to the elusive Thomas Aquinas-the man and the saint"A marvellous introduction to the thought of the most daring and most important thinker of the Christian Middle Ages. . . . The best single-volume introduction to St. Thomas... -
John Rawls: His Life and Theory of Justice by Thomas Pogge 9780195136371
RRP: $76.63$76.52John Rawls was one of the most important political philosophers of our time, and promises to be an enduring figure over the coming decades. His Theory of Justice (1971) has had a profound impact across philosophy, politics, law, and economics...