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Albert Camus: A Life by Olivier Todd 9780786707393
£19.29In 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 Henry Thoreau 9781857151367
RRP: £16.99£12.47In 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... -
Heartbreak: A Personal and Scientific Journey by Florence Williams
RRP: £23.99£19.57When 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... -
Walter Benjamin by Esther Leslie 9781861893437
RRP: £12.99£9.34Walter Benjamin, critic, essayist, translator, philosopher one of the twentieth century's most influential intellectuals continues to intrigue today. His work stimulates a profusion of responses in the form of new novels, operas, films and artworks, as... -
A Father: Puzzle by Sibylle Lacan
RRP: £17.99£12.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262039314Author Sibylle LacanFormat HardbackPage Count 104Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 178mm * 127mm * 14mm -
Introducing Machiavelli: A Graphic Guide by Patrick Curry 9781848311756
RRP: £8.99£4.02Illustrated 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... -
Introducing Marx: A Graphic Guide by Rius
RRP: £8.99£6.28Compact INTRODUCING guide to the influential philosopher, sociologist and economist. INTRODUCING MARX - A GRAPHIC GUIDE explores the life of the most famous Socialist figure, from his early years to meeting Engels in1842. It provides a readable,... -
Thinking in Time: An Introduction to Henri Bergson by Suzanne Guerlac
RRP: £24.99£22.01"Under the aegis of time Suzanne Guerlac displaces matter, intuition, memory, and vitalism of the early twentieth century into the wake of poststructuralism and the dilemmas of nature and culture here and now. This book is a landmark for anyone working... -
It's Been a Good Life by Janet J. Asimov 9781573929684
RRP: £19.99£15.66New 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... -
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£11.83For 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... -
How To Be Good: What Socrates Can Teach Us About the Art of Living Well Massimo Pigliucci 9781399804936
RRP: £20.00£13.55What Socrates's greatest failure says about a 2,000-year-old question: is it possible to teach ourselves and others to become better people? Can we make ourselves into better human beings? Can we help others do the same? And can we get the leaders of our... -
Philosopher of the Heart: The Restless Life of Soren Kierkegaard by Clare Carlisle 9781250798428
RRP: £20.00£13.42Apologies 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 -
Fifty Thinkers Who Shaped the Modern World Stephen Trombley 9781782390923
RRP: £12.99£8.80Stephen 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... -
Susan Sontag: The Complete Rolling Stone Interview by Jonathan Cott
RRP: £10.99£9.61Published in its entirety for the first time, a candid conversation with Susan Sontag at the height of her brilliant career "One of my oldest crusades is against the distinction between thought and feeling, which is really the basis of all... -
Betraying Spinoza by Rebecca Goldstein 9780805211597
RRP: £15.99£11.67Apologies 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 *... -
My Life of Love and Truth: A Spiritual Autobiography by Barry Long 9781899324194
RRP: £19.99£17.61Apologies 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 -
Descartes: The Renewal of Philosophy by Steven Nadler
RRP: £17.95£13.12A critical biography of Rene Descartes, whose first principle ("I think therefore I am.") reshaped modern philosophy. Often called 'the father of modern philosophy', Rene Descartes' contributions to philosophy, mathematics and natural science set the... -
The Man Who Understood Democracy: The Life of Alexis de Tocqueville by Olivier Zunz
RRP: £30.00£24.06A 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... -
Julius Evola: The Philosopher and Magician in War: 1943-1945 Gianfranco de Turris 9781620558065
RRP: £25.00£20.62An 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... -
Sick Souls, Healthy Minds: How William James Can Save Your Life by John Kaag
RRP: £12.99£10.05From 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... -
Introducing Foucault: A Graphic Guide by Chris Horrocks 9781848310605
RRP: £8.99£4.02Michel 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... -
Professor of Apocalypse: The Many Lives of Jacob Taubes by Jerry Z. Muller
RRP: £42.00£34.30The 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... -
Martin Buber: A Life of Faith and Dissent by Paul Mendes-Flohr
RRP: £18.99£16.58From 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... -
Being RAM Dass by Ram Dass
RRP: £18.99£12.67Professor 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... -
Maimonides: Life and Thought by Moshe Halbertal 9780691165660
RRP: £25.00£20.30Maimonides 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... -
At the Risk of Thinking: An Intellectual Biography of Julia Kristeva by Alice Jardine
RRP: £22.99£20.43A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year Finalist for the 2021 Prose Awards (Biography & Autobiography category) At the Risk of Thinking is the first biography of Julia Kristeva--one of the most celebrated intellectuals in the world. Alice... -
Isaiah Berlin: An Interpretation of His Thought by John Gray
RRP: £25.00£18.51Isaiah Berlin (1909-1997) was the greatest intellectual historian of the twentieth century. But his work also made an original and important contribution to moral and political philosophy and to liberal theory. In 1921, at the age of eleven, Isaiah... -
Hannah Arendt: A Life in Dark Times by Anne C Heller 9781504073387
RRP: £15.95£10.54The 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... -
Life of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola. Oration by Gianfrancesco Pico della Mirandola
RRP: £29.95£24.03The 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,... -
Ludwig Wittgenstein by Edward Kanterian
£18.52Ludwig 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... -
Gurdjieff Reconsidered: The Life, the Teachings, the Legacy by Roger Lipsey
RRP: £23.00£16.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611804515Author Roger LipseyFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications Inc -
Afropessimism by Frank Wilderson, III 9781631496141
RRP: £23.99£18.63A 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... -
Jena 1800: The Republic of Free Spirits by Shelley Frisch
£22.14Around 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... -
Karl Marx: A Nineteenth-Century Life Jonathan Sperber 9780871404671
RRP: £27.99£24.62Between 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... -
Lives of the Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius 9781420970241
£13.53Apologies 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: £19.99£16.44In 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... -
Introducing Aristotle: A Graphic Guide by Rupert Woodfin
RRP: £7.99£6.04"Introducing Aristotle" guides the reader through an explosion of theories, from the establishment of systematic logic to the earliest rules of science. Aristotle's authority extended beyond his own lifetime to influence fundamentally Islamic philosophy... -
Democracy: A User's Guide by Joss Sheldon 9781716792045
£18.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781716792045Author Joss SheldonFormat PaperbackPage Count 760Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 1098gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 42mm -
Venice Saved by Simone Weil
RRP: £16.99£15.11Towards 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... -
Jacques Derrida by Geoffrey Bennington
RRP: £33.00£32.05Geoffrey 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...