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Respect-Focused Therapy: Honoring Clients through the Therapeutic Relationship and Process by Susanne Slay-Westbrook
RRP: £37.99Booksplease Price: £34.59Therapists have a unique opportunity and responsibility to provide a respectful environment for their clients, yet respect has not received adequate attention in the psychotherapy community and... -
Love's Vision by Troy Jollimore 9780691148724
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £40.43Love often seems uncontrollable and irrational, but we just as frequently appear to have reasons for loving the people we do. In Love's Vision, Troy Jollimore offers a new way of understanding love... -
The Performance of Religion: Seeing the sacred in the theatre Cia Sautter 9781138385993
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £46.49The performing arts are uniquely capable of translating a vision of an ideal or sacred reality into lived practice, allowing an audience to confront deeply held values and beliefs as they observe a... -
The Plural of Us: Poetry and Community in Auden and Others by Bonnie Costello 9780691172811
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £40.73The Plural of Us is the first book to focus on the poet's use of the first-person plural voice--poetry's "we." Closely exploring the work of W. H. Auden, Bonnie Costello uncovers the trove of thought... -
Geographies of Liberation: The Making of an Afro-Arab Political Imaginary by Alex Lubin 9781469612881
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £27.10In this absorbing transnational history, Alex Lubin reveals the vital connections between African American political thought and the people and nations of the Middle East. Spanning the 1850s through... -
Nietzsche and Jewish Culture Jacob Golomb 9780415095136
Booksplease Price: £72.59Friedrich Nietzsche occupies a contradictory position in the history of ideas: he came up with the concept of a master race, yet an eminent Jewish scholar like Martin Buber translated his Also sprach... -
Papers from the Eranos Yearbooks, Eranos 3: Man and Time by Joseph Campbell 9780691626796
RRP: £58.00Booksplease Price: £55.10Essays by Henry Corbin, Mircea Eliade, C. G. Jung, Max Knoll, G. van der Leeuw, Louis Massignon, Erich Neumann, Helmuth Plessner, Adolf Portmann, Henri-Charles Puech, Gilles Quispel, and Hellmut... -
The Plural of Us: Poetry and Community in Auden and Others by Bonnie Costello 9780691202907
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £34.35The Plural of Us is the first book to focus on the poet's use of the first-person plural voice-poetry's "we." Closely exploring the work of W. H. Auden, Bonnie Costello uncovers the trove of thought... -
Jews and the American Soul: Human Nature in the Twentieth Century by Andrew R. Heinze
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.32What do Joyce Brothers and Sigmund Freud, Rabbi Harold Kushner and philosopher Martin Buber have in common? They belong to a group of pivotal and highly influential Jewish thinkers who altered the... -
Philosophy, Dialogue, and Education: Nine Modern European Philosophers Alexandre Guilherme (Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) 9780367363338
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £44.79Philosophy, Dialogue, and Education is an advanced introduction to nine key European social philosophers: Martin Buber, Mikhail Bakhtin, Lev Vygotsky, Hannah Arendt, Emmanuel Levinas, Maurice... -
Lectures on the I Ching: Constancy and Change by Richard Wilhelm
Booksplease Price: £30.30Wilhelm frequently wrote and lectured on the Book of Changes, supplying guidelines to its ideas and ways of thinking. Collected here are four lectures he gave between 1926 and 1929. The lectures are... -
Heinrich Zimmer: Coming into His Own by Margaret H. Case 9780691604022
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £29.02Heinrich Zimmer (1890-1943) is best known in the English-speaking world for the four posthumous books edited by Joseph Campbell and published in the Bollingen Series: Myths and Symbols in Indian Art... -
Hasidism: A New History by David Biale 9780691202440
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £32.90A must-read book for understanding this vibrant and influential modern Jewish movementHasidism originated in southeastern Poland, in mystical circles centered on the figure of Israel Ba'al Shem Tov,... -
Being and Existence in Kierkegaard's Pseudonymous Works by John W. Elrod 9780691645056
RRP: £105.00Booksplease Price: £95.01In this study John W. Elrod demonstrates that Kierkegaard's pseudonymous writings have an ontological foundation that unites the disparate elements of these books. The descriptions of the different... -
The Zionist Idea: A Historical Analysis and Reader by Arthur Hertzberg
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £26.62A classic since its initial publication in 1959, The Zionist Idea is an anthology of writings by the leading thinkers of the Zionist movement, including Theodor Herzl, Ahad Ha-Am, Martin Buber, Louis... -
For the Time Being: A Christmas Oratorio by W. H. Auden
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £15.51For the Time Being is a pivotal book in the career of one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century. W. H. Auden had recently moved to America, fallen in love with a young man to whom he... -
Papers from the Eranos Yearbooks, Eranos 5: Man and Transformation by Joseph Campbell
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £59.18Essays by Ernst Benz, Henry Corbin, Jean Danielou, Mircea Eliade, G. van der Leeuw, Fritz Meier, Adolf Portmann, Daisetz T. Suzuki, Paul Tillich, Lancelot Law Whyte, and Heinrich Zimmer. Originally... -
The Art of Bible Translation by Robert Alter
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £17.05From the recipient of the National Jewish Book Award for Lifetime Achievement, a "hugely entertaining and irreverent" (Adam Gopnik, New Yorker) account of the art of translating the Hebrew Bible into... -
Walter Kaufmann: Philosopher, Humanist, Heretic by Stanley Corngold
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £35.15The first complete account of the ideas and writings of a major figure in twentieth-century intellectual lifeWalter Kaufmann (1921-1980) was a charismatic philosopher, critic, translator, and poet... -
The Art of Bible Translation by Robert Alter 9780691209142
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.11From the recipient of the National Jewish Book Award for Lifetime Achievement, a "hugely entertaining and irreverent" (Adam Gopnik, New Yorker) account of the art of translating the Hebrew Bible into... -
Kierkegaard and Radical Discipleship by Vernard Eller 9780691623412
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £52.17Until recently most scholars have viewed Kierkegaard as a philosopher, a theologian, a psychologist, or a social thinker. Professor Eller sees Kierkegaard first and foremost as a religious thinker,... -
A New Hasidism: Roots by Arthur Green
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.62For more than a hundred years, people in search of religious renewal who are not Hasidic have found inspiration in Hasidism. Now Arthur Green and Ariel Mayse, both scholars of Hasidism and committed... -
Analytical Psychology in Exile: The Correspondence of C. G. Jung and Erich Neumann by C. G. Jung 9780691166179
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £25.33C. G. Jung and Erich Neumann first met in 1933, at a seminar Jung was conducting in Berlin. Jung was fifty-seven years old and internationally acclaimed for his own brand of psychotherapy. Neumann,... -
Hasidism: A New History by David Biale 9780691175157
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £39.03The first comprehensive history of the pietistic movement that shaped modern Judaism This is the first comprehensive history of the pietistic movement that shaped modern Judaism. The book's unique... -
Analytical Psychology in Exile: The Correspondence of C. G. Jung and Erich Neumann C. G. Jung 9780691270968
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £18.57Two giants of twentieth-century psychology in dialogueC. G. Jung and Erich Neumann first met in 1933, at a seminar Jung was conducting in Berlin. Jung was fifty-seven years old and internationally... -
Papers from the Eranos Yearbooks, Eranos 4: Spiritual Disciplines by Joseph Campbell 9780691602349
RRP: £82.00Booksplease Price: £79.60Essays by Rudolf Bernoulli, Martin Buber, C. M. von Cammerloher, T. W. Danzel, Friedrich Heiler, C. G. Jung, C. Kerenyi, John Layard, Fritz Meier, Max Pulver, Erwin Rousselle, and Heinrich Zimmer... -
The Jewess Pallas Athena: This Too a Theory of Modernity by Barbara Hahn 9780691171470
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £26.73"The Jewess Pallas Athena"--a line from a poem by Paul Celan. It is a provocative phrase, cutting across cultures and traditions. But it poses questions: How to reconstruct a culture that has been... -
Professor of Apocalypse: The Many Lives of Jacob Taubes by Jerry Z. Muller
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £37.43The controversial Jewish thinker whose tortured path led him into the heart of twentieth-century intellectual lifeScion of a distinguished line of Talmudic scholars, Jacob Taubes (1923-1987) was an... -
Walter Kaufmann: Philosopher, Humanist, Heretic by Stanley Corngold 9780691211534
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £24.49The first complete account of the ideas and writings of a major figure in twentieth-century intellectual lifeWalter Kaufmann (1921-1980) was a charismatic philosopher, critic, translator, and poet... -
The Love of God: Divine Gift, Human Gratitude, and Mutual Faithfulness in Judaism by Jon D. Levenson 9780691202501
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £18.57A compelling interpretation of a foundational concept of Jewish religious lifeThe love of God is arguably the most essential element in Judaism-but also one of the most confounding. In biblical and... -
The Gnostic Jung: Selections From The Writings of C.G. Jung and His Critics by C. G. Jung 9780691019239
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £20.93Gnosticism, together with alchemy, was for C. G. Jung the chief prefiguration of his analytical psychology. Jung did not simply interpret Gnostic texts psychologically but also cited them as... -
Fields of Play in Modern Drama by Thomas R. Whitaker 9780691607726
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £29.02Starting from the assumption that all theater is at least implicitly participatory, Professor Whitaker approaches thirteen plays, from Ibsen's Rosmersholm to Beckett's Endgame and Stoppard's... -
The Jewess Pallas Athena: This Too a Theory of Modernity by Barbara Hahn 9780691116143
RRP: £68.00Booksplease Price: £55.68"The Jewess Pallas Athena"--a line from a poem by Paul Celan. It is a provocative phrase, cutting across cultures and traditions. But it poses questions: How to reconstruct a culture that has been... -
Exile, Statelessness, and Migration: Playing Chess with History from Hannah Arendt to Isaiah Berlin by Seyla Benhabib
RRP: £82.00Booksplease Price: £69.38An examination of the intertwined lives and writings of a group of prominent twentieth-century Jewish thinkers who experienced exile and migrationExile, Statelessness, and Migration explores the... -
Exile, Statelessness, and Migration: Playing Chess with History from Hannah Arendt to Isaiah Berlin by Seyla Benhabib 9780691167251
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.69An examination of the intertwined lives and writings of a group of prominent twentieth-century Jewish thinkers who experienced exile and migrationExile, Statelessness, and Migration explores the... -
Hasidism as Mysticism: Quietistic Elements in Eighteenth-Century Hasidic Thought by Rivka Schatz Uffenheimer 9780691608068
RRP: £58.00Booksplease Price: £48.07Offered here for the first time in English translation, Hasidism as Mysticism is a classic in its field. Using the tools of phenomenology, Rivka Schatz Uffenheimer places Hasidism squarely in the... -
Professor of Apocalypse: The Many Lives of Jacob Taubes by Jerry Z. Muller 9780691259307
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £21.40The controversial Jewish thinker whose tortured path led him into the heart of twentieth-century intellectual lifeScion of a distinguished line of Talmudic scholars, Jacob Taubes (1923-1987) was an... -
Self and Others: Selected Works of R D Laing Vol 2 by R D Laing
RRP: £34.99Booksplease Price: £32.04Originally published in 1961 this book is divided into two parts. In the first Laing critiques the Kleinian view of unconsciou phantasy, as developed by Susan Sutherland Isaacs. He emphasizes the... -
Biblical Figures in Israel's Colonial Political Theology by Silvana Rabinovich 9783031038211
RRP: £109.99Booksplease Price: £102.20This book reveals and counteracts the misuse of biblical texts and figures in political theology, in an attempt to decolonialize the reading of the Old Testament. In the framework of Critical Theory,... -
Religion after Religion: Gershom Scholem, Mircea Eliade, and Henry Corbin at Eranos by Steven M. Wasserstrom
RRP: £58.00Booksplease Price: £48.07By the end of World War II, religion appeared to be on the decline throughout the United States and Europe. Recent world events had cast doubt on the relevance of religious belief, and modernizing...