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Betraying Spinoza by Rebecca Goldstein 9780805211597
RRP: $20.63$15.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805211597Author Rebecca GoldsteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Schocken BooksPublisher Schocken BooksWeight(grams) 301gDimensions(mm) 202mm *... -
The Life And Letters Of Tofu Roshi by Susan Moon 9781570626814
RRP: $22.36$19.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781570626814Author Susan MoonFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)... -
Albert Camus: A Life by Olivier Todd 9780786707393
RRP: $24.50$22.69In this vibrant, engaging biography of Albert Camus, the internationally acclaimed author of The Stranger, The Plague, and The Fall, French writer and journalist Olivier Todd has richly tapped resources never before available,personal correspondence,... -
Walden by Henry Thoreau
RRP: $21.92$15.84In this classic of American literature, Thoreau gives an account of his two years experience of the 'simple life' in the woods, telling how he sought and found material and spiritual sustenance in the solitude of the cabin which he built for himself on... -
Life of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola. Oration by Gianfrancesco Pico della Mirandola
RRP: $38.64$30.52The Oration by philosopher Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463-1494), to which later editors added the subtitle On the Dignity of Man, is the most famous text written in Italy at the height of the Renaissance. The Life of Giovanni by Gianfrancesco Pico,... -
Professor of Apocalypse: The Many Lives of Jacob Taubes by Jerry Z. Muller
RRP: $54.18$43.91The controversial Jewish thinker whose tortured path led him into the heart of twentieth-century intellectual lifeScion of a distinguished line of Talmudic scholars, Jacob Taubes (1923-1987) was an intellectual impresario whose inner restlessness led him... -
Hegel: The Philosopher of Freedom by Klaus Vieweg 9781503630574
RRP: $46.44$30.75A monumental new biography of a pivotal yet poorly understood pioneer in modern philosophy. When a painter once told Goethe that he wanted to paint the most celebrated man of the age, Goethe directed him to Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. Hegel worked... -
Adam Smith: An Enlightened Life by Nicholas Phillipson
RRP: $20.63$14.98Adam Smith is celebrated all over the world as the author of The Wealth of Nations and the founder of modern economics. A few of his ideas - such as the 'Invisible Hand' of the market - have become icons of the modern world. Yet Smith saw himself... -
The Man Who Understood Democracy: The Life of Alexis de Tocqueville by Olivier Zunz
RRP: $38.70$30.56A definitive biography of the French aristocrat who became one of democracy's greatest championsIn 1831, at the age of twenty-five, Alexis de Tocqueville made his fateful journey to America, where he observed the thrilling reality of a functioning... -
Philosopher of the Heart: The Restless Life of Soren Kierkegaard by Clare Carlisle 9781250798428
RRP: $25.80$17.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250798428Author Clare CarlisleFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USAWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm) 221mm * 142mm * 28mm -
Brief Encounters: Notes from a Philosopher's Diary by Anthony Kenny
RRP: $14.18$10.02Cardinals, directors, dissidents, dons, judges, novelists, philosophers, prime ministers, scientists, world statesmen. . . Throughout his long and distinguished career, Sir Anthony Kenny has encountered some of the most notable and influential leaders of... -
Fifty Thinkers Who Shaped the Modern World by Stephen Trombley
RRP: $16.76$11.04Stephen Trombley's Fifty Thinkers Who Shaped the Modern World traces the development of modern thought through a sequence of accessible profiles of the most influential thinkers in every domain of intellectual endeavour since 1789. No major... -
Mikhail Bakhtin: The Duvakin Interviews, 1973 by Slav N. Gratchev
RRP: $23.21$20.51Whenever Bakhtin, in his final decade, was queried about writing his memoirs, he shrugged it off. Unlike many of his Symbolist generation, Bakhtin was not fascinated by his own self-image. This reticence to tell his own story was the point of access for... -
The Philosopher, the Priest, and the Painter: A Portrait of Descartes by Steven Nadler 9780691157306
RRP: $28.38$22.39In the Louvre museum hangs a portrait that is considered the iconic image of Rene Descartes, the great seventeenth-century French philosopher. And the painter of the work? The Dutch master Frans Hals--or so it was long believed, until the work was... -
My Life of Love and Truth: A Spiritual Autobiography by Barry Long 9781899324194
RRP: $25.79$22.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781899324194Author Barry LongFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Barry Long BooksPublisher Barry Long BooksWeight(grams) 1g -
Jena 1800: The Republic of Free Spirits by Shelley Frisch
$27.80Around the turn of the nineteenth century, a steady stream of young German poets and thinkers coursed to the town of Jena to make history. The French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars had dealt a one-two punch to the dynastic system. Confidence in... -
Aquinas: An Introduction to the Life and Work of the Great Medieval Thinker by Frederick C. Copleston
RRP: $20.63$14.98Aquinas (1224-74) lived at a time when the Christian West was opening up to a wealth of Greek and Islamic philosophical speculation. An embodiment of the thirteenth-century ideal of a unified interpretation of reality (in which philosophy and theology... -
Walter Benjamin by Gershom Gerhard Scholem
RRP: $23.21$15.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590170328Author Gershom ScholemFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)... -
Soren Kierkegaard: A Biography by Joakim Garff 9780691127880
RRP: $54.18$43.91"The day will come when not only my writings, but precisely my life--the intriguing secret of all the machinery--will be studied and studied." Soren Kierkegaard's remarkable combination of genius and peculiarity made this a fair if arrogant prediction... -
Karl Marx: A Nineteenth-Century Life by Jonathan Sperber 9780871404671
RRP: $36.11$31.30Between his birth in 1818 and his death sixty-five years later, Karl Marx became one of Western civilization's most influential political philosophers. Two centuries on, he is still revered as a prophet of the modern world, yet he is also blamed for the... -
Searching for Cioran by Ilinca Zarifopol-Johnston
RRP: $42.57$37.99Ilinca Zarifopol-Johnston's critical biography of the Romanian-born French philosopher E. M. Cioran focuses on his crucial formative years as a mystical revolutionary attracted to right-wing nationalist politics in interwar Romania, his writings of this... -
Venice Saved by Simone Weil
RRP: $21.92$19.49Towards the end of her life, the French philosopher and mystic Simone Weil (1909-43) was working on a tragedy, Venice Saved. Appearing here in English for the first time, this play explores the realisation of Weil's own thoughts on tragedy. A figure of... -
Portraits from Memory: And Other Essays by Bertrand Russell
RRP: $21.92$19.63'I have come to think that one of the main causes of trouble in the world is dogmatic and fanatical belief in some doctrine for which there is no adequate evidence.' - Bertrand Russell, Portraits from MemoryPortraits from Memory is one of Bertrand... -
Martin Heidegger: Between Good and Evil by Rudiger Safranski 9780674387102
RRP: $36.06$29.09One of the century's greatest philosophers, without whom there would be no Sartre, no Foucault, no Frankfurt School, Martin Heidegger was also a man of great failures and flaws, a Faustus who made a pact with the devil of his time, Adolf Hitler. The... -
The Quotable Jung by C. G. Jung 9780691181196
RRP: $21.92$17.47The definitive one-volume collection of Jung quotationsC. G. Jung (1875-1961) was a preeminent thinker of the modern era. In seeking to establish an interdisciplinary science of analytical psychology, he studied psychiatry, religion, mysticism,... -
Introducing Chomsky: A Graphic Guide by John Maher 9781848312944
RRP: $11.60$4.53Can it be that the human brain possesses an in-built faculty for language? Noam Chomsky, one of the most brilliant linguists of the 20th century, believes that it does- that there exists a 'universal grammar' common to all languages. Around the world... -
Lives in the Shadow with J. Krishnamurti by Radha Rajagopal Sloss 9781462031320
$22.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781462031320Author Radha Rajagopal SlossFormat PaperbackPage Count 396Imprint iUniversePublisher iUniverse -
Diderot and the Art of Thinking Freely by Andrew S Curran 9781590516706
RRP: $36.11$23.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590516706Author Andrew S. CurranFormat HardbackPage Count 528Imprint Other Press LLCPublisher Other Press LLC -
Introducing Nietzsche: A Graphic Guide by Laurence Gane 9781848310094
RRP: $11.60$7.84Why must we believe that God is dead? Can we accept that traditional morality is just a 'useful mistake'? Did the principle of 'the will to power' lead to the Holocaust? What are the limitations of scientific knowledge? Is human evolution complete or... -
Lives of the Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius 9781420970241
$17.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781420970241Author Diogenes LaertiusFormat PaperbackPage Count 402Imprint Digireads.comPublisher Digireads.comWeight(grams) 508gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm... -
Avicenna by Lenn E. Goodman 9780801472541
RRP: $25.79$21.27In this updated edition of his classic work, Lenn E. Goodman provides a concise introduction to the life and thought of Abu Ali al-Husain ibn Abdallah ibn Sina, known as Avicenna, who was born in the year 980 C.E. near Bokhara in what is now Uzbekistan... -
Jacques Derrida by Geoffrey Bennington
RRP: $42.57$41.34Geoffrey Bennington sets out here to write a systematic account of the thought of Jacques Derrida. Responding to Bennington's text at every turn is Derrida's own, excerpts from his life and thought that resist circumscription. Together these texts, as a... -
Heartbreak: A Personal and Scientific Journey by Florence Williams
RRP: $30.95$24.96When her twenty-five-year marriage unexpectedly falls apart, journalist Florence Williams expects the loss to hurt. What she doesn't expect is that she'll end up in the hospital, examining close-up the way our cells listen to loneliness. She travels to... -
When Reason Goes on Holiday: Philosophers in Politics by Neven Sesardic 9781594038792
RRP: $24.50$16.68Philosophers usually emphasize the importance of logic, clarity and reason. Therefore when they address political issues they will usually inject a dose of rationality in these discussions, right? Wrong. This book gives a lot of examples showing the... -
Ludwig Wittgenstein by Edward Kanterian
$23.53Ludwig Wittgenstein, writes noted scholar Edward Kanterian, was a philosopher's philosopher'. He was one of the founders of modern analytic philosophy and is regarded as the greatest philosophical genius since Immanuel Kant. In this book, Kanterian... -
A Life of H.L.A. Hart: The Nightmare and the Noble Dream by Nicola Lacey
RRP: $61.26$61.25Shortlisted for the 2005 British Academy Book prize, Nicola Lacey's entrancing biography recounts the life of H.L.A. Hart, the pre-eminent legal philosopher of the twentieth century. Following Hart's life from modest origins as the son of Jewish tailor... -
Autobiography: Chapters in the Course of My Life by Rudolf Steiner 9780880106009
RRP: $38.70$27.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780880106009Author Rudolf SteinerFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint SteinerBooks, IncPublisher Anthroposophic Press IncWeight(grams) 680g -
Hannah Arendt: A Life in Dark Times by Anne C Heller 9781504073387
RRP: $20.58$13.20The acclaimed biographer presents "a perceptive life of the controversial political philosopher" and author of Eichmann in Jerusalem (Kirkus Reviews). Hannah Arendt was a polarizing cultural theorist-extolled by her peers as a visionary and berated by... -
Julius Evola: The Philosopher and Magician in War: 1943-1945 by Gianfranco de Turris 9781620558065
RRP: $32.25$26.19An intimate portrait of Evola and his wartime activities that rebuts many of the Fascist pseudo-myths about him * Traces the Baron's activities in Italy, Germany, and Austria during World War II * Clarifies Evola's relations with Nazism and Fascism and... -
Camus and Sartre: The Story of a Friendship and the Quarrel That Ended it by Ronald Aronson 9780226000244
RRP: $24.51$20.90Albert Camus and Jean-Paul Sartre first met in 1943, during the German occupation of France. Intellectual as well as political allies, they grew famous overnight after Paris was liberated. But East West tensions began to strain their friendship as they...