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An Essay on Man by Alexander Pope 9780691181059
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.23A 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... -
Augustine's Confessions: A Biography by Garry Wills
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.23From Pulitzer Prize-winner Garry Wills, the story of Augustine's ConfessionsIn this brief and incisive book, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Garry Wills tells the story of the Confessions--what... -
Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life by Zena Hitz 9780691229195
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £11.74An invitation to readers from every walk of life to rediscover the impractical splendors of a life of learningIn an overloaded, superficial, technological world, in which almost everything and... -
Journeys of the Mind: A Life in History by Peter Brown
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £28.38A beautifully written personal account of the discovery of late antiquity by one of the world's most influential and distinguished historiansThe end of the ancient world was long regarded by... -
From Poliziano to Machiavelli: Florentine Humanism in the High Renaissance by Peter Godman 9780691655284
RRP: £62.00Booksplease Price: £51.87Peter Godman presents the first intellectual history of Florentine humanism from the lifetime of Angelo Poliziano in the later fifteenth century to the death of Niccolo Machiavelli in 1527. Making... -
On Theology and Theurgy Porphyry of Tyre 9780674302471
Booksplease Price: £18.50Porphyry of Tyre (c. 234-305) was not only the biographer of his teacher Plotinus, and the editor of his Enneads, but an important Platonist philosopher in his own right. On Theology and Theurgy... -
History of Philosophy: Twentieth-Century Perspectives by Anthony O'Hear 9781316626269
RRP: £26.00Booksplease Price: £25.92History of Philosophy: Twentieth-Century Perspectives is based on the Royal Institute of Philosophy's annual lecture series for 2014-15. A group of eminent scholars consider important figures in the... -
Hummingbird Sleep: Poems, 2009-2011 by Coleman Barks 9780820345048
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £15.67The poems inHummingbird Sleep move associatively between Coleman Barks's personal experience and his extensive reading, weaving together a wild and eclectic range of material. A discussion of... -
The Art of Losing Control: A Philosopher's Search for Ecstatic Experience by Jules Evans
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Since the Enlightenment, western culture has written off ecstatic experience as a form of mental illness. But why should rationality be considered the highest part of human nature when we are capable... -
On the Inner Life of the Mind by Augustine 9780872204454
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £33.12Both an anthology of Augustine's writings and a commentary on them, this work features substantial selections from On the Trinity, Confessions, The City of God, and On Freedom of the Will, as well as... -
On the Inner Life of the Mind by Augustine 9780872204447
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £13.63Both an anthology of Augustine's writings and a commentary on them, this work features substantial selections from On the Trinity , Confessions , The City of God , and On Freedom of the Will , as... -
Neoplatonic Philosophy: Introductory Readings by John Dillon 9780872207073
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £15.66The most comprehensive collection of Neoplatonic writings available in English, this volume provides translations of the central texts of four major figures of the Neoplatonic tradition: Plotinus,... -
Ecologies of Ecstasy: Mysticism, Philosophy, and Vegetal Life Simone Kotva 9780231213967
RRP: £117.00Booksplease Price: £91.46What might religious practice learn from plants? Recent years have seen the emergence of critical plant studies, and philosophers have found a radical mode of thought in vegetal life. Ecologies of... -
Aristotle and Other Platonists by Lloyd P. Gerson
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.62"Aristotle versus Plato. For a long time that is the angle from which the tale has been told, in textbooks on the history of philosophy and to university students. Aristotle's philosophy, so the... -
The Quest For Meaning: Friends of Wisdom from Plato to Levinas by Adriaan Theodoor Peperzak 9780823222773
Booksplease Price: £83.93One of our most distinguished thinkers, Adriaan Peperzak has masterfully explored the connections between philosophy, ethics, religion, and the social and historical contexts of human experience. ... -
Time-Fetishes: The Secret History of Eternal Recurrence by Ned Lukacher 9780822322733
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £20.89For over two and a half millennia human beings have attempted to invent strategies to "discover" the truth of time, to determine whether time is infinite, whether eternity is the infinite duration of... -
The Transcendent Beloved: Platonic Eros and Its Graeco-Arabic Paths to Kabbalah Tanja Werthmann 9780197842775
RRP: £91.00Booksplease Price: £83.17Platonism and Kabbalah share a prominent characteristic: the formulation of epistemological and ontological concepts in erotic terms. Plato envisions eros as creating and sustaining the permeability... -
On the Name by Jacques Derrida 9780804725552
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.68"The name: What does one call thus? What does one understand under the name of name? And what occurs when one gies a name? What does one give then? One does not offer a thing, one delivers nothing,... -
Platonic Theology: v. 5: Books XV-XVI by Marsilio Ficino
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... -
The Platonic Tradition by Peter Kreeft 9781587316500
Booksplease Price: £20.94The Platonic tradition in Western philosophy is not just one of many equally central traditions. It is so much THE central one that the very existence and survival of Western civilization depends on... -
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Dialectic and Dialogue by Dmitri Nikulin 9780804770156 [USED COPY]
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £8.00This book considers the emergence of dialectic out of the spirit of dialogue and traces the relation between the two. It moves from Plato, for whom dialectic is necessary to destroy incorrect theses... -
Differences in Identity in Philosophy and Religion: A Cross-Cultural Approach by Lydia Azadpour 9781350076501
Booksplease Price: £112.13This book explores the constitutive role alterity plays in identity formation in Western and Eastern traditions. It examines the significance of difference in conceptions of identity across major... -
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... -
Dialectic and Dialogue by Dmitri Nikulin
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.68This book considers the emergence of dialectic out of the spirit of dialogue and traces the relation between the two. It moves from Plato, for whom dialectic is necessary to destroy incorrect theses... -
Avatar – The Last Airbender and Philosophy – Wisdom from Aang to Zuko by H De Cruz
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £11.89Would 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... -
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... -
Philosophy in the Hellenistic and Roman Worlds: A history of philosophy without any gaps, Volume 2 by Peter Adamson
RRP: £13.49Booksplease Price: £10.76Peter 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... -
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... -
Platonic Theology: v. 4: Books 12-14 by Marsilio Ficino 9780674014824
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... -
The Inner Citadel: The <i>Meditations</i> of Marcus Aurelius by Pierre Hadot
RRP: £29.95Booksplease Price: £23.69The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius are treasured today-as they have been over the centuries-as an inexhaustible source of wisdom. And as one of the three most important expressions of Stoicism, this...