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Karl Marx: Philosophy and Revolution by Shlomo Avineri
RRP: £18.99£16.18From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, a new exploration of Karl Marx's life through his intellectual contributions to modern thought"A perceptive and fair-minded corrective to superficial treatments of the man."-Jonathan Rose, Wall Street Journal... -
Isaiah Berlin: An Interpretation of His Thought by John Gray
RRP: £25.00£18.30Isaiah 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... -
The Philosophers' Quarrel: Rousseau, Hume, and the Limits of Human Understanding by Robert Zaretsky 9780300164282
£29.61The dramatic collapse of the friendship between Rousseau and Hume, in the context of their grand intellectual quest to conquer the limits of human understanding. The rise and spectacular fall of the friendship between the two great philosophers of the... -
Political Writings by Theodore Dreiser
RRP: £35.00£31.14Political Writings offers an abundance of newly translated essays by Simone de Beauvoir that demonstrate a heretofore unknown side of her political philosophy. The writings in this volume range from Beauvoir's surprising 1952 defense of the misogynistic... -
Spiritual Friendship: Rudolf Steiner and Christian Morgenstern by Peter Selg
RRP: £14.99£12.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621482222Author Peter SelgFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint SteinerBooks, IncPublisher SteinerBooks, IncWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 213mm *... -
All Too Human: A Political Education by George Stephanopoulos 9780316930161 [USED COPY]
RRP: £21.99£2.83All Too Human is a new-generation political memoir, written from the refreshing perspective of one who got his hands on the levers of awesome power at an early age. At thirty, the author was at Bill Clinton's side during the presidential campaign of... -
All Too Human: A Political Education by George Stephanopoulos 9780316930161
£24.51All Too Human is a new-generation political memoir, written from the refreshing perspective of one who got his hands on the levers of awesome power at an early age. At thirty, the author was at Bill Clinton's side during the presidential campaign of... -
Antonio Gramsci: A Biography by Andrew Pearmain 9781838601614
RRP: £24.99£21.78A historical biography of the Italian philosopher/politician Antonio Gramsci (1891-1973), considered one of the most important Marxist philosophers of the twentieth-century. As part of the Communist Lives series, Andrew Pearmain explores the life of... -
Introducing Heidegger: A Graphic Guide by Jeff Collins
RRP: £8.99£6.70Martin Heidegger - philosophy's 'hidden king', or leading exponent of a dangerously misguided secular mysticism. Heidegger has been acclaimed as the most powerfully original philosopher of the twentieth century. Profoundly influential on deconstruction,... -
Paul Foster Case: His Life and Works by Dr. Paul A. Clark 9780971046948
RRP: £16.50£14.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780971046948Author Dr. Paul A. ClarkFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Fraternity of the Hidden LightPublisher Fraternity of the Hidden... -
Introducing Baudrillard: A Graphic Guide by Chris Horrocks
RRP: £8.99£6.08Illustrated guide to the controversial sociologist Jean Baudrillard, who died in 2007. Did the Gulf War take place? Is it possible to fake a bank robbery? Was sexual liberation a disaster? Jean Baudrillard has been hailed as one of France's most subtle... -
Introducing Aristotle: A Graphic Guide by Rupert Woodfin
RRP: £7.99£6.05"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... -
Kierkegaard's Muse: The Mystery of Regine Olsen by Joakim Garff 9780691171760
RRP: £30.00£23.69The first biography of Kierkegaard's literary muse and one-time fiancee, from the author of the definitive biography of the philosopher Kierkegaard's Muse, the first biography of Regine Olsen (1822-1904), the literary inspiration and one-time fiancee of... -
Why Niebuhr Matters by Prof Charles Lemert 9780300192544
£29.61A leading social theorist analyzes how and why Niebuhr's revival has taken place, ultimately arguing for his political and moral relevance today Reinhold Niebuhr (1892-1971) was a Protestant preacher, an influential religious thinker, and an important... -
Edward Said: His Thought as a Novel by Dominique Edde
RRP: £17.99£12.95In this personal portrait of Edward Said written by a close friend, Dominique Edde offers a fascinating and fresh presentation of his oeuvre from his earliest writings on Joseph Conrad to his most famous texts, Orientalism and Culture and Imperialism... -
Frantz Fanon by James S Williams 9781789148312
RRP: £12.99£9.09Doctor, militant, political essayist, ambassador, teacher, journalist, pan-Africanist: Frantz Fanon represented a new model of engaged intellectual who sought to decolonize mid-twentieth-century thought, society and culture and move beyond the ideology... -
Aristotle's Way: How Ancient Wisdom Can Change Your Life by Edith Hall 9780735220829
RRP: £18.00£11.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780735220829Author Edith HallFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 255gDimensions(mm) 215mm * 141mm *... -
Decadence of the French Nietzsche by James Brusseau 9780739118085
RRP: £40.00£35.22Decadence in philosophy is truths dedicated to the intensification of thought. For decadents the best truths don't describe experience accurately, they incite the most consequent thinking. This doesn't imply wanting truths that are wrong. But, for... -
In Praise of Failure: Four Lessons in Humility Costica Bradatan 9780674297203
RRP: £16.95£13.24A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice “Charming and brilliant.” —Times Literary Supplement “Provocative, stimulating, wise―the book that our success-obsessed age needs to read.”―Tom Holland “Bradatan, a philosopher, writes with elegance and wit,... -
Catching an Elusive Bird: The Life of Hryhorii Skovoroda by Leonid Ushkalov 9783838218946
£45.76Based on a rich collection of primary and secondary sources, Leonid Ushkalov presents his biography of the famous Ukrainian philosopher and theologian Hryhorii (Gregorius) Skovoroda (1722–1794). However, this book is not only a biography of a prominent... -
Art, Aesthetics, Politics by Eugenio Colorni 9781599541914
RRP: £17.60£12.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781599541914Author Eugenio ColorniFormat PaperbackPage Count 268Imprint Bordighera PressPublisher Bordighera PressWeight(grams) 331g -
The Education of John Dewey: A Biography by Jay Martin 9780231116763
£74.41During John Dewey's lifetime (1859-1952), one public opinion poll after another revealed that he was esteemed to be one of the ten most important thinkers in American history. His body of thought, conventionally identified by the shorthand word... -
Pythagoras: His Life, Teaching, and Influence by Professor Christoph Riedweg 9780801474521
RRP: £24.99£21.67One of the most important mathematical theorems is named after Pythagoras of Samos, but this semi-mythical Greek sage has more to offer than formulas. He is said to have discovered the numerical nature of the basic consonances and transposed the musical... -
The Continuing Legacy of Simone Weil by David Pollard 9780761865742
RRP: £35.00£30.95The Continuing Legacy of Simone Weil analyzes the core work of Simone Weil and her views on the nature of the human condition, humanity's relationship with God, and the objective state of our world. David Pollard argues that though much of Weil's work... -
Kierkegaard: A Single Life by Stephen Backhouse 9780310520887
£16.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780310520887Author Stephen BackhouseFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint ZondervanPublisher ZondervanWeight(grams) 412gDimensions(mm) 221mm * 148mm * 31mm -
Emery Bigot: Seventeenth-Century French Humanist by Leonard E Doucette
RRP: £25.99£23.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781442631250Author Leonard E DoucetteFormat PaperbackPage Count 222Imprint University of Toronto PressPublisher University of Toronto PressWeight(grams) 331g -
Descartes: His Life and Thought by Genevieve Rodis-Lewis
RRP: £31.00£27.36Genevieve Rodis-Lewis is uniquely qualified to celebrate Rene Descartes. This major intellectual biography illuminates the personal and historical events of Descartes's life, from his birth and early years in France to his death in Sweden, his burial,... -
We Are Free to Change the World: Hannah Arendt's Lessons in Love and Disobedience by Lyndsey Stonebridge
RRP: £32.00£18.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593229736Author Lyndsey StonebridgeFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint HogarthPublisher HogarthWeight(grams) 516g -
Introducing Derrida: A Graphic Guide by Jeff Collins
RRP: £8.99£6.08Brilliant illustrated guide to the best-known and most controversial continental philosopher of the latter 20th century. Jacques Derrida is the most famous philosopher of the late 20th century. Yet Derrida has undermined the rules of philosophy, rejected... -
Conversations With Isaiah Berlin by Ramin Jahanbegloo
RRP: £10.99£7.40Revealing and enlightening, Conversations with Isaiah Berlin gives a close-up view of one of the foremost thinkers of our time An interview with the noted British philosopher and historian of ideas, conducted by the Iranian philosopher Jahanbegloo, which... -
Deconstructing Gurdjieff: Biography of a Spiritual Magician by Tobias Churton
RRP: £25.00£16.24In November 1949, architect Frank Lloyd Wright announced the death of "the greatest man in the world," yet few knew who he was talking about. Enigmatic, misunderstood, declared a charlatan, and recently dubbed "the Rasputin who inspired Mary Poppins,"... -
Shaman: The Mysterious Life and Impeccable Death of Carlos Castaneda by Mike Sager 9781950154197
RRP: £6.99£5.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781950154197Author Mike SagerFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Sager Group LLCPublisher Sager Group LLCWeight(grams) 127gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *... -
Ludwig Wittgenstein by Miles Hollingworth
RRP: £34.99£22.85After his intellectual biography of Saint Augustine of Hippo, Miles Hollingworth now turns his attention to one of Augustine's greatest modern admirers: The Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein. Wittgenstein's influence on post-war philosophical... -
Jean-Francois Lyotard by Kiff Bamford 9781780238081
RRP: £12.99£9.09Jean-Francois Lyotard is one of the most important, and complex, French thinkers of the twentieth century. Best known in the English-speaking world for his book The Postmodern Condition, the multi-faceted nature of Lyotard's work has often been obscured... -
A Life of H. L. A. Hart: The Nightmare and the Noble Dream by Nicola Lacey 9780199274970
RRP: £80.00£44.82Herbert Lionel Adolphus Hart was born in Yorkshire in 1907 to second generation Jewish immigrants. Having won a scholarship to Oxford University, he went on to become the most famous legal philosopher of the twentieth century. From 1932-40 H.L.A Hart... -
Milestones: In the Life of Rudolf Steiner and in the Development of Anthroposophy by T. H. Meyer 9781906999827
RRP: £15.99£13.33Why was the act of arson that destroyed the first Goetheanum so devastatingly successful in its malicious intent? What was the nature of the poisoning that Rudolf Steiner suffered in 1923? What was the significance of Steiner's encounter with an unknown... -
Don Isaac Abravanel: Statesman and Philosopher by B. Netanyahu
RRP: £27.99£24.14Don Isaac Abravanel (1437-1508) was a major historical figure during the waning of the Middle Ages. Statesman, diplomat, courtier, and financier, he was, at the same time, a scholar of encyclopedic learning, a philosopher, an exegete, a prolific author,... -
The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke by Jeffrey C. Stewart 9780195089578
RRP: £31.49£28.78A tiny, fastidiously dressed man emerged from Black Philadelphia around the turn of the twentieth century to mentor a generation of young artists like Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, and Jacob Lawrence and call them the New Negro--the gender... -
The Journals of Ayn Rand by Ayn Rand 9780452278875
RRP: £32.00£19.31Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Yours Faithfully, Bertrand Russell: A Lifelong Fight for Peace, Justice, and Truth in Letters to the Editor by Bertrand Russell 9780812694505
RRP: £19.99£18.45This 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...