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An Intelligent Person's Guide to Philosophy by Roger Scruton 9780140275162
RRP: €28.56Booksplease Price: €21.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780140275162Author Roger ScrutonFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin... -
Sexual Desire: A Philosophical Investigation by Roger Scruton 9780826480385
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €26.76A passionate and consoling study of sexual love by one of Britain's finest philosophers. "A dazzling treatise, as erudite and eloquent as Simone de Beauvoir's "The Second Sex" and... -
Fools, Frauds and Firebrands: Thinkers of the New Left by Roger Scruton
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €14.02A devastating critique of New Left thinking. In Fools, Frauds and Firebrands, Roger Scruton first surveys and then deconstructs the golden idols of left wing thought from the 1960s to the present... -
Art and Imagination - A Study in the Philosophy of Mind Roger Scruton 9781587310324
Booksplease Price: €25.05This book presents a theory of aesthetic judgment and appreciation in the spirit of modern empiricism. There are three parts: the first deals with questions of philosophical logic, the second with... -
Roger Scruton: The Philosopher on Dover Beach by Mark Dooley 9781847060136
RRP: €26.17Booksplease Price: €22.91This book presents an intriguing portrait of Roger Scruton and his philosophy. Roger Scruton is one of the outstanding British philosophers of the post-war years. Why then is he at best ignored and... -
German Philosophers: Kant, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche by Roger Scruton
RRP: €23.79Booksplease Price: €17.60German Philosophers contains studies of four of the most important German theorists: Kant, arguably the most influential modern philosopher; Hegel, whose philosophy inspired an enduring vision of a... -
Gentle Regrets: Thoughts from a Life by Roger Scruton 9780826480330
Booksplease Price: €35.16Roger Scruton is Britain's best known intellectual dissident, who has defended English traditions and English identity against an official culture of denigration. Although his writings on... -
The Palgrave Macmillan Dictionary of Political Thought by Roger Scruton 9781403989529
RRP: €58.30Booksplease Price: €55.43This new edition takes stock of the revolutionary changes that have taken place since the dictionary was first published in 1982. 1790 entries cover every aspect of political thought providing an... -
The Palgrave Macmillan Dictionary of Political Thought by Roger Scruton 9781403989512
RRP: €58.30Booksplease Price: €55.43This new edition takes stock of the revolutionary changes that have taken place since the dictionary was first published in 1982. 1790 entries cover every aspect of political thought providing an... -
The Ring of Truth: The Wisdom of Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung by Roger Scruton
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.98'The ideal interpreter of the Ring ... a fascinating and valuable study ... absorbing and convincing' Sunday TimesThe Ring of the Nibelung is one of the greatest works of art created in modern times... -
A Short History of Modern Philosophy: From Descartes to Wittgenstein by Roger Scruton
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €20.34Discover for yourself the pleasures of philosophy! Written both for the seasoned student of philosophy as well as the general reader, the renowned writer Roger Scruton provides a survey of modern... -
Art and Politics in Roger Scruton's Conservative Philosophy by Ferenc Hörcher 9783031135903
Booksplease Price: €133.42This book covers the field of and points to the intersections between politics, art and philosophy. Its hero, the late Sir Roger Scruton had a longstanding interest in all fields, acquiring... -
Green Philosophy: How to think seriously about the planet by Roger Scruton
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €12.51The environment has long been the undisputed territory of the political Left, which has seen the principal threats to the earth as issuing from international capitalism, consumerism and the... -
Culture Counts: Faith and Feeling in a World Besieged by Roger Scruton 9781641772594
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €14.76What is culture? Why should we preserve it, and how? In this book, renowned philosopher Roger Scruton defends Western culture against its internal critics and external enemies, and argues that rumors... -
Roger Scruton: The Philosopher on Dover Beach: An Intellectual Biography by Mark Dooley 9781399414197
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.64An intriguing portrait of Roger Scruton and his philosophy, with a new Preface and updated Bibliography of Scruton's many literary works over the years. Roger Scruton was one of the outstanding... -
A Short History of Modern Philosophy: From Descartes to Wittgenstein Roger Scruton 9780415267625
RRP: €118.99Booksplease Price: €108.27Discover for yourself the pleasures of philosophy! Written both for the seasoned student of philosophy as well as the general reader, the renowned writer Roger Scruton provides a survey of modern... -
I Drink Therefore I Am: A Philosopher's Guide to Wine by Roger Scruton
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €16.60Here Scruton explains the connection between good wine and serious thought with a heady mix of humour and philosophy. We are familiar with the medical opinion that a daily glass of wine is good... -
How to Think Seriously about the Planet: The Case for an Environmental Conservatism by Roger Scruton 9780199371242
RRP: €36.88Booksplease Price: €31.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780199371242Author Roger ScrutonFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint OUP IndiaPublisher OUP... -
Death-Devoted Heart: Sex and the Sacred in Wagner's Tristan and Isolde by Roger Scruton 9780199928088
RRP: €42.83Booksplease Price: €35.28A tale of forbidden love and inevitable death, the medieval legend of Tristan and Isolde recounts the story of two lovers unknowingly drinking a magic potion and ultimately dying in one another's... -
Death-Devoted Heart: Sex and the Sacred in Wagner's Tristan and Isolde by Roger Scruton 9780195166910
RRP: €57.70Booksplease Price: €44.59A tale of forbidden love and inevitable death, the medieval legend of Tristan and Isolde recounts the story of two lovers unknowingly drinking a magic potion and ultimately dying in one another's... -
Recovering Politics, Civilization, and the Soul: Essays on Pierre Manent and Roger Scruton by Daniel J Mahoney
Booksplease Price: €19.93The Western inheritance is under sustained theoretical and practical assault. Legitimate self-criticism has given way to nihilistic self-loathing and cultural, moral, and political repudiation is the... -
The Wisdom of Our Ancestors: Conservative Humanism and the Western Tradition by Graham James McAleer 9780268207427
RRP: €52.36Booksplease Price: €39.27In The Wisdom of Our Ancestors, the authors mount a powerful defense of Western civilization, sketching a fresh vision of conservatism in the present age. In this book, Graham McAleer and Alexander... -
Whatever Happened to Tradition?: History, Belonging and the Future of the West by Tim Stanley 9781399404877
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €10.65The West feels lost. Brexit, Trump, the coronavirus: we hurtle from one crisis to another, lacking definition, terrified that our best days are behind us. The central argument of this book is... -
The Penguin History of the Church: Western Society and the Church in the Middle Ages by R. W. Southern
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €14.79The history of the Western church in the Middle Ages is the history of the most elaborate and thoroughly integrated system of religious thought and practice the world has ever known. It is also the... -
Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity by Erving Goffman
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.83The acclaimed sociologist's landmark, compassionate work on how society treats those who are different'By definition, of course, we believe the person with a stigma is not quite human'In ancient... -
Selected Writings on Art and Literature by Charles-Pierre Baudelaire
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €12.51Before publishing the sensuous and scandalous poems of Les Fleurs du Mal, Charles Baudelaire (1821-67) had already earned respect as a forthright and witty critic of art and literature. This... -
The Roots Of Romanticism by Isaiah Berlin
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €16.74The Roots of Romanticism is the long-awaited text of Isaiah Berlin's most celebrated set of lectures, the Mellon Lectures, delivered in Washington in 1965 and heard since by a much wider audience on... -
Introducing Kant: A Graphic Guide by Christopher Kul-Want 9781848312098
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €8.51Immanuel Kant laid the foundations of modern Western thought. Every subsequent major philosopher owes a profound debt to Kant's attempts to delimit human reason as an appropriate object of... -
Benjamin Britten: A Life in the Twentieth Century by Paul Kildea
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €16.34Paul Kildea's Benjamin Britten: A Life in the Twentieth Century is the definitive biography of Britain's greatest modern composer - now in paperbackBenjamin Britten was Britain's greatest... -
The Ring of the Nibelung by Richard Wagner
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €21.91A superb new translation of one of the greatest nineteenth century poems: the libretto to Wagner's Ring cycleThe scale and grandeur of Wagner's The Ring of the Nibelung has no precedent and no... -
The Ring of the Nibelung by Richard Wagner 9780241422281
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €14.79A superb new translation of the libretto to Wagner's Ring cycle'Smiling in sorrowI sing of love'The Ring of the Nibelung, Wagner's epic cycle of four musical dramas about primal envy, cosmic... -
The Complete Works: Essays, Travel Journal, Letters by Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
RRP: €35.70Booksplease Price: €27.06Describing his collection of Essays as 'a book consubstantial with its author', Montaigne identified both the power and the charm of a work which introduces us to one of the most attractive figures... -
Discourse on Method and Related Writings by Rene Descartes
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.46This is the second of a new two-volume edition of the works of Descartes in Penguin Classics. This volume is designed for students who approach Descartes from the point of view of his philosophy of... -
A Philosophical Enquiry into the Sublime and Beautiful by Edmund Burke
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €12.51Edmund Burke was one of the foremost philosophers of the eighteenth century and wrote widely on aesthetics, politics and society. In this landmark work, he propounds his theory that the sublime and... -
The Magician of Lublin by Isaac Bashevis Singer
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.46Yasha the magician - sword swallower, fire eater, acrobat and master of escape - is famed for his extraordinary Houdini-like skills. Half Jewish, half Gentile, a free thinker who slips easily between... -
The Immortalization Commission: The Strange Quest to Cheat Death by John Gray
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.46John Gray's The Immortalization Commission: The Strange Quest to Cheat Death raises vital questions about the 'truths' science can offer, the technology we are still exploiting for immortality - and... -
The Dream of Reason: A History of Western Philosophy from the Greeks to the Renaissance by Anthony Gottlieb
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €12.51Already a classic, this landmark account of early Western thought now appears in a new edition with expanded coverage of the Middle Ages. The Dream of Reason takes a fresh look at the writings of the... -
Words by Jean-Paul Sartre
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.46After his father's early death Jean-Paul Sartre was brought up at his grandfather's home in a world even then eighty years out of date. In Words Sartre recalls growing up within the confines of... -
The Concept of Mind by Gilbert Ryle
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.98This epoch-making book cuts through confused thinking and forces us to re-examine many cherished ideas about knowledge, imagination, consciousness and the intellect. The result is a classic example... -
Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche 9780141395838
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €14.79One of the most iconoclastic philosophers of all time, Nietzsche dramatically rejected notions of good and evil, truth and God. Beyond Good and Evil demonstrates that the world is steeped in false...