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The Arrow that Flies by Day: Existential Images of the Human Condition from Socrates to Hannah Arendt by Bernard Murchland 9780761840428
Booksplease Price: £75.81This study contends that existentialism is the perennial philosophy thus going against the assumption that it is a school of more recent provenance. Anthologies or introductory texts used begin with... -
Interpreting Avicenna: Critical Essays by Peter Adamson 9781316505359
Booksplease Price: £32.12Avicenna is the greatest philosopher of the Islamic world. His immense impact on Christian and Jewish medieval thought, as well as on the subsequent Islamic tradition, is charted in this volume... -
Avatar – The Last Airbender and Philosophy – Wisdom from Aang to Zuko by H De Cruz
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £12.89Would our world be a better place if some of us were benders? Can Katara repair the world through care? Is Toph a disability pride icon? What does it mean for Zuko to be bad at being good? Can we... -
Historical Dictionary of Medieval Philosophy and Theology by Stephen F. Brown 9781538114308
Booksplease Price: £112.43This second edition concentrates on various philosophers and theologians from the medieval Arabian, Jewish, and Christian worlds. It principally centers on authors such as Abumashar, Saadiah Gaon and... -
Interpreting Avicenna: Critical Essays by Peter Adamson 9780521190732
RRP: £94.00Booksplease Price: £89.99Avicenna is the greatest philosopher of the Islamic world. His immense impact on Christian and Jewish medieval thought, as well as on the subsequent Islamic tradition, is charted in this volume... -
Commentary on Augustine City of God, Books 6-10 by Gillian Clark 9780198870081
Booksplease Price: £119.23This is the second volume in a series of commentaries on Augustine's City of God (De civitate Dei). Books 6-10 are Augustine's answer to those who think that many gods should be worshipped for... -
The Closing Of The Western Mind by Charles Freeman 9780712664981
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.54The conversion of the emperor Constantine to Christianity in 368 AD brought a transformation to Christianity and to western civilization, the effects of which we still feel today. Previously, the... -
The Arrow that Flies by Day: Existential Images of the Human Condition from Socrates to Hannah Arendt by Bernard Murchland 9780761840312
Booksplease Price: £40.38This study contends that existentialism is the perennial philosophy thus going against the assumption that it is a school of more recent provenance. Anthologies or introductory texts used begin with... -
Mediterranean Modernisms: The Poetic Metaphysics of Odysseus Elytis by Marinos Pourgouris 9781138253735
RRP: £36.99Booksplease Price: £35.44Engaging with the work of Nobel Prize-winning poet Odysseus Elytis within the framework of international modernism, Marinos Pourgouris places the poet's work in the context of other modernist and... -
Mediterranean Modernisms: The Poetic Metaphysics of Odysseus Elytis by Marinos Pourgouris 9781409410003
RRP: £99.99Booksplease Price: £90.98Engaging with the work of Nobel Prize-winning poet Odysseus Elytis within the framework of international modernism, Marinos Pourgouris places the poet's work in the context of other modernist and... -
Aristotle's Physics Alpha: Symposium Aristotelicum by Katerina Ierodiakonou
RRP: £98.00Booksplease Price: £93.71The volumes of the Symposium Aristotelicum have become essential reference works for the study of Aristotle. In this nineteenth volume, eleven distinguished scholars of ancient philosophy provide a... -
The Word Made Flesh: A History of Christian Thought Margaret R. Miles (Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley) 9781405108461
RRP: £39.95Booksplease Price: £38.26This outstanding textbook offers an original history of Christian thought, asking what it has meant over the centuries to participate in the religion of the Word made flesh. Traces Christian ideas,... -
Philosophical Mysticism in Plato, Hegel, and the Present by Dr Robert M. Wallace 9781350267381
Booksplease Price: £34.47Few twenty-first century academics take seriously mysticism's claim that we have direct knowledge of a higher or more "inner" reality or God. But Philosophical Mysticism argues that such leading... -
Don't Forget to Live: Goethe and the Tradition of Spiritual Exercises by Pierre Hadot
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.00The esteemed French philosopher Pierre Hadot's final work, now available in English. With a foreword by Arnold I. Davidson and Daniele Lorenzini. In his final book, renowned philosopher Pierre... -
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Plato's "Symposium": Issues in Interpretation and Reception by James H. Lesher
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £22.02In his Symposium, Plato crafted a set of speeches in praise of love that has influenced writers and artists from antiquity to the present. Early Christian writers read the dialogue's 'ascent passage'... -
Philosophy in the Hellenistic and Roman Worlds: A history of philosophy without any gaps, Volume 2 by Peter Adamson 9780198728023
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £25.64Peter Adamson offers an accessible, humorous tour through a period of eight hundred years when some of the most influential of all schools of thought were formed: from the third century BC to the... -
The Integrated Self: Augustine, the Bible, and Ancient Thought by Brian Stock 9780812248715
RRP: £56.00Booksplease Price: £46.44Well before his entry into the religious life in the spring of 386 C.E., Augustine had embarked on a lengthy comparison between teachings on the self in the philosophical traditions of Platonism and... -
Lost Souls: The Philosophic Origins of a Cultural Dilemma by David Weissman 9780791457566
Booksplease Price: £26.07Traces the history of mind-body dualism.Lost Souls examines the origins and consequences of the philosophic idea that mind and body are distinct. The author traces mind-body dualism from Plato,... -
Plato and Aristotle in Agreement?: Platonists on Aristotle from Antiochus to Porphyry by George E. Karamanolis 9780199684632
Booksplease Price: £62.50George Karamanolis breaks new ground in the study of later ancient philosophy by examining the interplay of the two main schools of thought, Platonism and Aristotelianism, from the first century BC... -
Platonic Theology: v.3, Bks.9-11 by Marsilio Ficino 9780674010659
RRP: £29.95Booksplease Price: £25.60The Platonic Theology is a visionary work and the philosophical masterpiece of Marsilio Ficino (1433-1499), the Florentine scholar-philosopher-magus who was largely responsible for the Renaissance... -
Philosophy in the Hellenistic and Roman Worlds: A history of philosophy without any gaps, Volume 2 by Peter Adamson
RRP: £13.49Booksplease Price: £10.99Peter Adamson offers an accessible, humorous tour through a period of eight hundred years when some of the most influential of all schools of thought were formed: from the third century BC to the... -
A Threat to Public Piety: Christians, Platonists, and the Great Persecution by Elizabeth DePalma Digeser
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £39.90In A Threat to Public Piety, Elizabeth DePalma Digeser reexamines the origins of the Great Persecution (AD 303-313), the last eruption of pagan violence against Christians before Constantine enforced... -
The Geometry of Christian Contemplation: Measure without Measure David Albertson 9780198946977
RRP: £99.00Booksplease Price: £90.60The writings of ancient and medieval Christian mystics were rediscovered in the twentieth century, and today they are read more widely than ever before. But do modern assumptions about religious... -
Philosophy of Mind in Antiquity: The History of the Philosophy of Mind, Volume 1 by John E Sisko
RRP: £36.99Booksplease Price: £35.44Spanning 1200 years of intellectual history - from the 6th century BCE emergence of philosophical enquiry in the Greek city-state of Miletus, to the 6th century CE closure of the Academy in Athens in... -
Contemplation: The Movements of the Soul by Kevin Hart 9780231213479
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.75What is contemplation? How is it distinct from meditation? Is contemplation essentially religious or mystical? What should one contemplate, and how? Are there different styles of contemplation, and... -
Freedom and Responsibility in Neoplatonist Thought by Ursula Coope 9780198824831
Booksplease Price: £99.23The Neoplatonists have a perfectionist view of freedom: an entity is free to the extent that it succeeds in making itself good. Free entities are wholly in control of themselves--they are... -
Great Thinkers A-Z by Julian Baggini 9780826467423
Booksplease Price: £60.58Great Thinkers, AZ brings together 100 short, accessible snapshots of the people who have shaped Western thought from the ancient Greeks to today. The snapshots, written by the world's leading... -
Platonic Theology: v.1: Books 1-4 by Marsilio Ficino 9780674003453
RRP: £29.95Booksplease Price: £25.60The Platonic Theology is a visionary work and the philosophical masterpiece of Marsilio Ficino (1433-1499), the Florentine scholar-philosopher-magus who was largely responsible for the Renaissance... -
Image, Word and God in the Early Christian Centuries Mark Edwards 9781409406716
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £49.89Christianity proclaims Christ and the incarnate word of God; the Bible is described as the Word of God in both Jewish and Christian tradition. Are these usages merely homonymous, or would the... -
Pythagoras and the Doctrine of Transmigration: Wandering Souls by James Luchte 9781441131027
Booksplease Price: £40.79The mythical narrative of transmigration tells the story of myriad wandering souls, each migrating from body to body along a path of recurrence amid the becoming of the All. In this highly original... -
The Collective Self: Reflection and Religion in Byzantium and the Middle East Zachary Ugolnik 9781531514204
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.32Reveals a conception of selfhood in Byzantine and Middle-Eastern sources that is fundamentally collective rather than merely individual, challenging Western-centric narratives of the modern self and... -
The Collective Self: Reflection and Religion in Byzantium and the Middle East Zachary Ugolnik 9781531514198
RRP: £112.00Booksplease Price: £89.10Reveals a conception of selfhood in Byzantine and Middle-Eastern sources that is fundamentally collective rather than merely individual, challenging Western-centric narratives of the modern self and... -
The Neoplatonic Socrates by Danielle A. Layne 9780812246292
RRP: £76.00Booksplease Price: £61.77Today the name Socrates invokes a powerful idealization of wisdom and nobility that would surprise many of his contemporaries, who excoriated the philosopher for corrupting youth. The problem of who... -
Individuality in Late Antiquity Alexis Torrance 9781138546080
RRP: £51.99Booksplease Price: £49.04Late antiquity is increasingly recognised as a period of important cultural transformation. One of its crucial aspects is the emergence of a new awareness of human individuality. In this book an... -
Pyrrhonism: How the Ancient Greeks Reinvented Buddhism by Adrian Kuzminski 9780739125076
Booksplease Price: £45.75Pyrrhonism is commonly confused with scepticism in Western philosophy. Unlike sceptics, who believe there are no true beliefs, Pyrrhonists suspend judgment about all beliefs, including the belief... -
The Classics of Western Philosophy: A Reader's Guide Jorge J. E. Gracia (State University of New York, Buffalo) 9780631236115
RRP: £34.95Booksplease Price: £34.51The Classics of Western Philosophy brings together 61 newly-commissioned essays on classic texts ranging from Ancient Greece to the twentieth century. Surveying the history of philosophy, the book... -
Ancient Mediterranean Philosophy: An Introduction by Stephen Clark 9781441123596
Booksplease Price: £29.55Although the Greeks were responsible for the first systematic philosophy of which we have any record, they were not alone in the Mediterranean world and were happy to draw inspiration from other... -
A Wolf in the City: Tyranny and the Tyrant in Plato's Republic by Cinzia Arruzza
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £86.73The problem of tyranny preoccupied Plato, and its discussion both begins and ends his famous Republic. Though philosophers have mined the Republic for millennia, Cinzia Arruzza is the first to devote... -
Magic in Western Culture: From Antiquity to the Enlightenment by Brian P. Copenhaver 9781107692176
RRP: £37.00Booksplease Price: £34.29The story of the beliefs and practices called 'magic' starts in ancient Iran, Greece, and Rome, before entering its crucial Christian phase in the Middle Ages. Centering on the Renaissance and... -
Evagrius and Gregory: Mind, Soul and Body in the 4th Century Kevin Corrigan 9780367882594
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.08Evagrius of Pontus and Gregory of Nyssa have either been overlooked by philosophers and theologians in modern times, or overshadowed by their prominent friend and brother (respectively), Gregory...