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Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche 9780141395838
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.43One 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... -
Poems And Prophecies by William Blake 9781857150346
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.04This is a selection of the poet's work, including all the great lyrics and the more important prophetic books. In her introduction the poet and critic expounds Blake's esoteric theory and shows how... -
Ring Resounding: The Recording of Der Ring Des Nibelungen by John Culshaw 9781845951948
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16Nothing in the history of recording approaches Decca's mammoth venture in producing Wagner's Ring complete for the first time. It was eight years in the making and this book tells the story of how it... -
The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy by Jacob Burckhardt 9780140445343
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.51For nineteenth-century Swiss historian Jacob Burckhardt, the Italian Renaissance was nothing less than the beginning of the modern world - a world in which flourishing individualism and the... -
National Populism: The Revolt Against Liberal Democracy by Roger Eatwell
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEARA crucial new guide to one of the most urgent political phenomena of our time: the rise of national populismAcross the West, there is a rising tide of people who feel... -
Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion by David Hume 9780140445367
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78In the posthumously published Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, the Enlightenment philosopher David Hume attacked many of the traditional arguments for the existence of God, expressing the... -
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The Enlightenment by Norman Hampson 9780140137453 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £2.14Armed with the insights of the scientific revolution, the men of the Enlightenment set out to free mankind from its age-old cocoon of pessimism and superstition and establish a more reasonable world... -
The Captive Mind by Czeslaw Milosz
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Written in Paris in the early 1950s, this book created instant controversy in its analysis of modern society that had allowed itself to be hypnotized by socio-political doctrines, and to accept... -
The Enlightenment by Norman Hampson
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51Armed with the insights of the scientific revolution, the men of the Enlightenment set out to free mankind from its age-old cocoon of pessimism and superstition and establish a more reasonable world... -
How Music Works: A listener's guide to harmony, keys, broken chords, perfect pitch and the secrets of a good tune John Powell 9781846143151
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Have you ever listened to an incredible piece of music and wondered exactly why it makes you want to dance or cry? Are you mystified by how musicians just 'know' what notes to play next when they're... -
Adam Smith: What He Thought, and Why it Matters by Jesse Norman
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23'A superb book' Financial Times, Books of the YearAdam Smith is now widely regarded as 'the father of modern economics' and the most influential economist who ever lived. But what he really ... -
Essays and Letters by Friedrich Holderlin
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51One of Germany's greatest poets, Johann Christian Friedrich Hoelderlin (1770-1843) was also a prose writer of intense feeling, intelligence and perception. This new translation of selected letters... -
The Book of Master Mo by Mo Zi
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23A key work of ancient Chinese philosophy is brought back to life in Ian Johnston's compelling and definitive translation, new to Penguin Classics. Very little is known about Master Mo, or the school... -
Aquinas: An Introduction to the Life and Work of the Great Medieval Thinker by Frederick C. Copleston
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.47Aquinas (1224-74) lived at a time when the Christian West was opening up to a wealth of Greek and Islamic philosophical speculation. An embodiment of the thirteenth-century ideal of a unified... -
The Treasure of the City of Ladies: Or the Book of the Three Virtues by Christine
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Written by Europe's first professional woman writer, The Treasure of the City of Ladies offers advice and guidance to women of all ages and from all levels of medieval society, from royal courtiers... -
Human Happiness by Blaise Pascal
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.02Created by the seventeenth-century philosopher and mathematician Pascal, the essays contained in Human Happiness are a curiously optimistic look at whether humans can ever find satisfaction and real... -
Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the Left from Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning by Jonah Goldberg
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Today the word 'fascist' is usually an insult aimed at those on the right, from neocons to big business. But what does it really mean? What if the true heirs to fascism were actually those who... -
Society Must be Defended: Lectures at the College de France, 1975-76 by Michel Foucault
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23'Foucault must be reckoned with by humanists, social scientists, and political activists' The New York Times Book ReviewSociety Must Be Defended is Michel Foucault's devastating critique of the... -
Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.26'One of the greatest books of a very great thinker' Michael TannerBeyond Good and Evil confirmed Nietzsche's position as the towering European philosopher of his age. The work dramatically rejects... -
Language, Truth and Logic A.J. Ayer 9780141186047
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23If you can't prove something, it is literally senseless - so argues Ayer in this irreverent and electrifying book. Statements are either true by definition (as in maths), or can be verified by direct... -
One-Way Street and Other Writings by Walter Benjamin
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Walter Benjamin - philosopher, essayist, literary and cultural theorist - was one of the most original writers and thinkers of the twentieth century. This new selection brings together Benjamin's... -
Autobiography by John Robson
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78One of the greatest prodigies of his era, John Stuart Mill (1806-73) was studying arithmetic and Greek by the age of three, as part of an astonishingly intense education at his father's hand... -
A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland & The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides by Samuel Johnson
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.71When James Boswell persuaded Samuel Johnson to embark on a tour of Boswell's native Scotland in 1773, the adventure resulted in two magnificent books, Johnson's Journey to the Western Islands of... -
What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets by Michael Sandel
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.03What Money Can't Buy is the Top Ten Sunday Times Bestseller from 'the superstar philosopher', Michael SandelShould we financially reward children for good marks? Is it ethical to pay people to donate... -
The Sickness Unto Death: A Christian Psychological Exposition of Edification and Awakening by Anti-Climacus by Soren Kierkegaard
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95One of the most remarkable philosophical works of the nineteenth century, The Sickness Unto Death is also famed for the depth and acuity of its modern psychological insights. Writing under the... -
Gray's Anatomy: Selected Writings by John Gray
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.43'The most prescient of British public intellectuals' Pankaj Mishra, Financial TimesUpdated with a new foreword and two new chapters of John Gray's writing.Why is progress a pernicious myth? Why do... -
Philosophy and Social Hope by Richard Rorty
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Richard Rorty is one of the most provocative figures in recent philosophical, literary and cultural debate. This collection brings together those of his writings aimed at a wider audience, many... -
Fear and Trembling by Soren Kierkegaard
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.02Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened,... -
The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Standing at the crossroads of psychology and religion, this catalyzing work applied the scientific method to a field abounding in abstract theory. William James believed that individual religious... -
Theaetetus by Plato
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.78Set immediately prior to the trial and execution of Socrates in 399 BC, Theaetetus shows the great philosopher considering the nature of knowledge itself, in a debate with the geometrician Theodorus... -
The Construction of Social Reality by John R. Searle
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23This short treatise looks at how we construct a social reality from our sense impressions; at how, for example, we construct a "five-pound note" with all that implies in terms of value and social... -
Personal Narrative of a Journey to the Equinoctial Regions of the New Continent by Jason Wilson 9780140445534
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.78One of the greatest nineteenth-century scientist-explorers, Alexander von Humboldt traversed the tropical Spanish Americas between 1799 and 1804. By the time of his death in 1859, he had won... -
Sinatra: The Life by Anthony Summers
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £13.85In 1941, at age twenty-five, Sinatra told a friend, 'I'm going to be the best singer in the world'. Two years on, the bobbysoxers were already weeping and screaming for him in their thousands. Half a... -
On Suicide by David Hume
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.02Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened,... -
Principles of Human Knowledge and Three Dialogues by George Berkeley
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95One of the greatest British philosophers, Bishop Berkeley (1685-1753) was the founder of the influential doctrine of Immaterialism - the belief that there is no reality outside the mind, and that the... -
Wagner and Philosophy by Bryan Magee
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Wagner was one of the few major composers who studied philosophy seriously. Bryan Magee places the composer's artistic development in the context of the philosophy of his age, and gives us the first... -
On Friendship by Michel de Montaigne
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.02Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened,... -
The Happiness Hypothesis: Putting Ancient Wisdom to the Test of Modern Science by Jonathan Haidt
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.81Every culture hands wisdom down through generations. What doesn't kill you makes you stronger. What you do not wish for yourself, do not do to others. Happiness comes from within. Can these 'truths'... -
For Lust of Knowing: The Orientalists and Their Enemies by Robert Irwin
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.47Robert Irwin's history of Orientalism leads from Ancient Greece to the present. He shows that, whether making philological comparisons between Arabic and Hebrew, cataloguing the coins of Fatimid... -
The Federalist Papers by James Madison
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.51Written at a time when furious arguments were raging about the best way to govern America, The Federalist Papers had the immediate pratical aim of persuading New Yorkers to accept the newly drafted...