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Algernon Swinburne and Walter Pater: Victorian Aestheticism, Doubt and Secularisation by Sarah Glendon Lyons
RRP: $199.48Booksplease Price: $175.01This book argues that Walter Pater and Algernon Swinburne draw upon the legacy of Romantic Hellenism in order to explore the possibilities of a secular model of enchantment and to complicate the... -
Robert Browning: Selected Poems John Woolford 9781405841139
Booksplease Price: $85.24Robert Browning (1812 - 1889) was one of the defining figures of the Victorian age. Famous in his lifetime for his elopement and marriage to Elizabeth Barratt, his critical reputation grew steadily... -
On the Origin of Evolution: Tracing 'Darwin's Dangerous Idea' from Aristotle to DNA by John Gribbin
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $40.38A Waterstones Best Book of 2020 The theory of evolution by natural selection did not spring fully formed and unprecedented from the brain of Charles Darwin. Rather it has been examined and... -
Philosophy and Tragedy by Simon Sparks 9780415191425
RRP: $100.78Booksplease Price: $91.37From Plato's Republic and Aristotle's Poetics to Nietzsche's The Birth of Tragedy, the theme of tragedy has been subject to radically conflicting philosophical interpretations. Despite being at the... -
The Return of Proserpina: Cultural Poetics of Sicily from Cicero to Dante by Sarah Spence
RRP: $73.50Booksplease Price: $60.94Sicily and the strategies of empire in the poetic imagination of classical and medieval EuropeIn the first century BC, Cicero praised Sicily as Rome's first overseas province and confirmed it as the... -
The Symptom and the Subject: The Emergence of the Physical Body in Ancient Greece by Brooke Holmes 9780691163406
RRP: $63.00Booksplease Price: $52.94The Symptom and the Subject takes an in-depth look at how the physical body first emerged in the West as both an object of knowledge and a mysterious part of the self. Beginning with Homer, moving... -
Dream Interpretation Ancient and Modern: Notes from the Seminar Given in 1936-1941 - Updated Edition by C. G. Jung 9780691159454
RRP: $84.00Booksplease Price: $69.55From 1936 to 1941, C. G. Jung gave a four-part seminar series in Zurich on children's dreams and the historical literature on dream interpretation. This book completes the two-part publication of... -
Dream Interpretation Ancient and Modern: Notes from the Seminar Given in 1936-1941 - Updated Edition by C. G. Jung
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $35.81From 1936 to 1941, C. G. Jung gave a four-part seminar series in Zurich on children's dreams and the historical literature on dream interpretation. This book completes the two-part publication of... -
The Beginnings of Philosophy in Greece by Maria Michela Sassi 9780691180502
RRP: $79.80Booksplease Price: $65.73A celebrated study of the origins of ancient Greek philosophy, now in English for the first timeHow can we talk about the beginnings of philosophy today? How can we avoid the conventional opposition... -
The Concept of Presocratic Philosophy: Its Origin, Development, and Significance by Andre Laks 9780691191485
RRP: $46.20Booksplease Price: $39.00When we talk about Presocratic philosophy, we are speaking about the origins of Greek philosophy and Western rationality itself. But what exactly does it mean to talk about "Presocratic philosophy"... -
Lunar Voices: Of Tragedy, Poetry, Fiction, and Thought by David Farrell Krell 9780226452777
Booksplease Price: $73.40This text reflects on nine writers and philosophers, including Heidegger, Derrida, Blanchot and Holderlin, in a personal exploration of the meaning of sensual love, language, tragedy and death. The... -
Lunar Voices: Of Tragedy, Poetry, Fiction, and Thought by David Farrell Krell 9780226452753
RRP: $168.00Booksplease Price: $162.33This text reflects on nine writers and philosophers, including Heidegger, Derrida, Blanchot and Holderlin, in a personal exploration of the meaning of sensual love, language, tragedy and death. The... -
Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 1: The Revised Oxford Translation by Aristotle
RRP: $115.50Booksplease Price: $96.29The Oxford Translation of Aristotle was originally published in 12 volumes between 1912 and 1954. It is universally recognized as the standard English version of Aristotle. This revised edition... -
The Philosophical Stage: Drama and Dialectic in Classical Athens by Joshua Billings
RRP: $84.00Booksplease Price: $68.92A bold new reconception of ancient Greek drama as a mode of philosophical thinkingThe Philosophical Stage offers an innovative approach to ancient Greek literature and thought that places drama at... -
The Return of Proserpina: Cultural Poetics of Sicily from Cicero to Dante by Sarah Spence 9780691227184
RRP: $210.00Booksplease Price: $190.26Sicily and the strategies of empire in the poetic imagination of classical and medieval EuropeIn the first century BC, Cicero praised Sicily as Rome's first overseas province and confirmed it as the... -
In and Out of the Mind: Greek Images of the Tragic Self by Ruth Padel 9780691037660
RRP: $100.80Booksplease Price: $81.75Ruth Padel explores Greek conceptions of human innerness and the way in which Greek tragedy shaped European notions of mind and self. Arguing that Greek poetic language connects images of... -
Calling Philosophers Names: On the Origin of a Discipline by Christopher Moore 9780691195056
RRP: $94.50Booksplease Price: $77.55An original and provocative book that illuminates the origins of philosophy in ancient Greece by revealing the surprising early meanings of the word "philosopher"Calling Philosophers Names provides a... -
The Early Greek Concept of the Soul by Jan Bremmer
RRP: $79.80Booksplease Price: $65.73Jan Bremmer presents a provocative picture of the historical development of beliefs regarding the soul in ancient Greece. He argues that before Homer the Greeks distinguished between two types of... -
Puerilities: Erotic Epigrams of The Greek Anthology by Daryl Hine 9780691088204
RRP: $63.00Booksplease Price: $59.96Elegiac lyrics celebrating the love of boys, which the translator terms Puerilities, comprise most of the twelfth book of The Greek Anthology. That book, the so-called Musa Puerilis, is brilliantly... -
The Locrian Maidens: Love and Death in Greek Italy by James M. Redfield
RRP: $220.50Booksplease Price: $173.50Athens dominates textbook accounts of ancient Greece. But was it, for the Greeks themselves, a model city-state or a creative, even a corrupt, departure from the model? Or was there a model? This... -
The Concept of Presocratic Philosophy: Its Origin, Development, and Significance by Andre Laks 9780691175454
RRP: $88.20Booksplease Price: $72.14When we talk about Presocratic philosophy, we are speaking about the origins of Greek philosophy and Western rationality itself. But what exactly does it mean to talk about "Presocratic philosophy"... -
Calling Philosophers Names: On the Origin of a Discipline by Christopher Moore
RRP: $67.20Booksplease Price: $56.13An original and provocative book that illuminates the origins of philosophy in ancient Greece by revealing the surprising early meanings of the word "philosopher"Calling Philosophers Names provides a... -
The Grand Contraption: The World as Myth, Number, and Chance by David Park
RRP: $73.50Booksplease Price: $60.94The Grand Contraption tells the story of humanity's attempts through 4,000 years of written history to make sense of the world in its cosmic totality, to understand its physical nature, and to know... -
Aristotle: His Life and School by Carlo Natali 9780691242170
RRP: $58.80Booksplease Price: $49.75The definitive account of Aristotle's life and schoolThis definitive biography shows that Aristotle's philosophy is best understood on the basis of a firm knowledge of his life and of the school he... -
Aristotle: His Life and School by Carlo Natali
RRP: $88.20Booksplease Price: $72.14This definitive biography shows that Aristotle's philosophy is best understood on the basis of a firm knowledge of his life and of the school he founded. First published in Italian, and now... -
Horace's Ars Poetica: Family, Friendship, and the Art of Living by Jennifer Ferriss-Hill
RRP: $94.50Booksplease Price: $76.92A major reinterpretation of Horace's famous literary manualFor two millennia, the Ars Poetica (Art of Poetry), the 476-line literary treatise in verse with which Horace closed his career, has served... -
Pythagoras' Revenge: A Mathematical Mystery by Arturo Sangalli
Booksplease Price: $43.97The celebrated mathematician and philosopher Pythagoras left no writings. But what if he had and the manuscript was never found? Where would it be located? And what information would it reveal? These... -
The Beginnings of Philosophy in Greece by Maria Michela Sassi 9780691204567
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $35.81An acclaimed study of the diverse origins of ancient Greek philosophyIn this acclaimed book, Maria Michela Sassi reconstructs the intellectual world of the early Greek "Presocratics" to provide a... -
From Religion to Philosophy: A Study in the Origins of Western Speculation by Francis Cornford 9780691020761
RRP: $94.50Booksplease Price: $87.53In this exploration of the "very first utterance of philosophers," F. M. Cornford showed that the remarkable burst of abstract speculation among pre-Socratic thinkers of the sixth century B.C... -
The Pre-Socratics: A Collection of Critical Essays by Alexander P. D. Mourelatos 9780691608273
RRP: $193.20Booksplease Price: $152.73This collection introduces readers to some of the most respected Pre-Socratic scholarship of the twentieth century. It includes translations of important works from European scholars that were... -
Italian Mobilities by Ruth Ben-Ghiat
RRP: $94.48Booksplease Price: $85.97The Italian nation-state has been defined by practices of mobility. Tourists have flowed in from the era of the Grand Tour to the present, and Italians flowed out in massive numbers in the late 19th... -
Explaining the Cosmos: The Ionian Tradition of Scientific Philosophy by Daniel W. Graham 9780691125404
RRP: $163.80Booksplease Price: $130.33Explaining the Cosmos is a major reinterpretation of Greek scientific thought before Socrates. Focusing on the scientific tradition of philosophy, Daniel Graham argues that Presocratic philosophy is... -
How to Innovate: An Ancient Guide to Creating Change by Armand D'Angour 9780691213736
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $27.78What we can learn about fostering innovation and creative thinking from some of the most inventive people of all times-the ancient GreeksWhen it comes to innovation and creative thinking, we are... -
Studies in Greek Philosophy, Volume I: The Presocratics by Gregory Vlastos
RRP: $130.20Booksplease Price: $104.77Gregory Vlastos (1907-1991) was one of the twentieth century's most influential scholars of ancient philosophy. Over a span of more than fifty years, he published essays and book reviews that... -
An Essay on Man by Alexander Pope 9780691181059
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $27.78A definitive new edition of one of the greatest philosophical poems in the English languageVoltaire called it "the most sublime didactic poem ever written in any language." Rousseau rhapsodized about... -
Aristotle's De Motu Animalium by Martha C. Nussbaum
RRP: $100.80Booksplease Price: $81.75Available for the first time in paperback, this volume contains text with translation of De Motu Animalium, Aristotle's attempt to lay the groundwork for a general theory of the explanation of animal... -
How to Be a Friend: An Ancient Guide to True Friendship by Marcus Tullius Cicero 9780691177199
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $26.31A splendid new translation of one of the greatest books on friendship ever writtenIn a world where social media, online relationships, and relentless self-absorption threaten the very idea of deep... -
Studies in Presocratic Philosophy Volume 2: The Eleatics and Pluralists David Furley 9781138201583
RRP: $83.98Booksplease Price: $76.82The articles in this volume deal with the four major philosophical positions of the presocratic period: The arguments of Parmenides and Zeno against earlier or contemporary pluralist theories The... -
Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy XXIX: Winter 2005 by David Sedley 9780199287444
Booksplease Price: $123.86Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy is a volume of original articles on all aspects of ancient philosophy. The articles may be of substantial length, and include critical notices of major books... -
Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy XXIX: Winter 2005 by David Sedley 9780199287451
Booksplease Price: $116.93Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy is a volume of original articles on all aspects of ancient philosophy. The articles may be of substantial length, and include critical notices of major books...