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Key Philosophers in Conversation Andrew Pyle (University of Bristol, UK) 9780415180375
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.08Key Philosophers in Conversation is a fascinating collection of interviews presenting the ideas of some of the worlds leading contemporary philosophers. Each interview features a discussion with a... -
Janacek Studies by Paul Wingfield 9780521027724
RRP: £53.00Booksplease Price: £51.61This book is the first major publication devoted to the music of Janacek, now widely regarded as one of the most important composers of the early twentieth century. The essays, all by leading... -
Janacek Studies by Paul Wingfield 9780521573573
RRP: £103.00Booksplease Price: £97.66This book is the first major publication devoted to the music of Janacek, now widely regarded as one of the most important composers of the early twentieth century. The essays, all by leading... -
Fiction and Emotion: A Study in Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Mind by Bijoy H. Boruah 9780195620931
Booksplease Price: £96.62Why do people respond emotionally to fiction when they know that it is only make-believe? This question which is fundamental to aesthetics and literary studies, is here tackled from a new perspective... -
Sex and Ethics: Essays on Sexuality, Virtue and the Good Life by Raja Halwani 9781403989840
RRP: £109.99Booksplease Price: £102.20This anthology addresses a neglected philosophical field, comprising issues of virtue and ethics versus sexuality and sex. The topics include discussions of particular virtues and vices related to... -
Authenticities: Philosophical Reflections on Musical Performance by Peter Kivy
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £17.24"In his latest book on the aesthetics of music, Peter Kivy presents an argument not for authenticity but for authenticities of performance, including authenticities of intention, sound, practice, and... -
Where Have All the Intellectuals Gone?: Confronting 21st Century Philistinism by Frank Furedi 9780826490964
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £18.99The intellectual is an endangered species. In place of such people as Bertrand Russell, Raymond Williams or Hannah Arendt - people with genuine learning, breadth of vision and a concern for public... -
Food for Thought: The Debate over Eating Meat by Steve F. Sapontzis 9781591021186
Booksplease Price: £19.29For anyone who has ever wondered about the ethics of killing animals for food, this is the definitive collection of essays on the ethical debate. Written by internationally recognized scholars on... -
Wagner's Mature Music-Dramas (Tristan and Isolde, The Mastersingers of Nuremberg, and Parsifal) in Light of Their Allegorical Relationship to The Ring of the Nibelung Paul Brian Heise 9781680532920
Booksplease Price: £90.57Scholars devoted to analysis of Richard Wagner's operas and music-dramas have long noted his numerous comparisons between their characters and plots in his letters, essays, and recorded remarks. Yet... -
Western Self-Contempt: Oikophobia in the Decline of Civilizations by Benedict Beckeld 9781501763182
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £20.64Western Self-Contempt travels through civilizations since antiquity, examining major political events and literature of ancient Greece, Rome, France, Britain, and the United States, to study evidence... -
Conservative Thinkers: The Key Contributors to the Political Thought of the Modern Conservative Party by Mark Garnett 9780719075087
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £61.61This book outlines and evaluates the political thought of the Conservative Party through a detailed examination of its principal thinkers from Harold Macmillan to the present.Traditionally, the... -
Scruton's Aesthetics by Andy Hamilton 9780230251687
Booksplease Price: £90.56Scruton's Aesthetics is a comprehensive critical evaluation of one of the major aestheticians of our age. The lead essay by Scruton is followed by fourteen essays by international commentators plus... -
What is Music?: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Music by Philip Alperson
Booksplease Price: £39.90Contributors to this volume are Philip Alperson, Francis Sparshott, Nicholas Wolterstorff, Edward T. Cone, Peter Kivy, Jenefer Robinson, Joseph Margolis, Arnold Berleant, Morris Grossman, Jerrold... -
Ruin the Sacred Truths: Poetry and Belief from the Bible to the Present by Prof. Harold Bloom
RRP: £31.95Booksplease Price: £27.15Harold Bloom surveys with majestic view the literature of the West from the Old Testament to Samuel Beckett. He provocatively rereads the Yahwist (or J) writer, Jeremiah, Job, Jonah, the Iliad, the... -
The Great Philosophers Frederic Raphael 9780753811368
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.56The Great Philosophers in one volume: the widely acclaimed series on the greatest philosophers by specialists writing for the general reader.The Great Philosophers brings together in one volume and... -
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RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £2.31The Great Philosophers in one volume: the widely acclaimed series on the greatest philosophers by specialists writing for the general reader.The Great Philosophers brings together in one volume and... -
Art and Morality Jose Luis Bermudez 9780415260466
RRP: £51.99Booksplease Price: £49.04Featuring contributions from Matthew Kieran, Aaron Ridley, Roger Scruton and Mary Mothersill to name but a few, this collection of groundbreaking new papers on aesthetics and ethics, highlights the... -
Intention and Identity: Collected Essays Volume II by John Finnis 9780199580064
Booksplease Price: £83.12The essays in Intention and Identity explore themes in Finnis's work touched on only lightly, if at all, in Natural Law and Natural Rights, developing profound accounts of personal identity and... -
Philosophical Interventions: Reviews 1986-2011 by Martha C. Nussbaum 9780199777853
Booksplease Price: £49.20This volume collects the notable published book reviews of Martha C. Nussbaum, a philosopher and high profile public intellectual who comments often on issues in philosophy, politics, gender... -
Why Place Matters: Geography, Identity, and Civic Life in Modern America by Wilfred M. McClay 9781641771177
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £11.78Contemporary American society, with its emphasis on mobility and economic progress, all too often loses sight of the importance of a sense of place; and community. Appreciating place is essential for... -
Take My Advice: Letters to the Next Generation from People Who Know a Thing or Two by James L. Harmon 9781416578352
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.52Take Their Advice:Camille Paglia Wayne Koestenbaum Jonathan Ames Jennifer Belle Howard Zinn Joe Dallesandro Bruce LaBruce Dr. Laura Schlessinger Tom Robbins Judith Butler Martha... -
Philosophical Psychology: Psychology, Emotions, and Freedom by Craig Steven Titus 9780977310364
RRP: £30.95Booksplease Price: £26.53Elizabeth Anscombe, in her critique of modern moral philosophy, called for a renewed 'philosophy of psychology'. In line with her hopes, "Philosophical Psychology" outlines a vision that seeks to do... -
Intention and Identity: Collected Essays Volume II by John Finnis 9780199689958
Booksplease Price: £45.33The essays in Intention and Identity explore themes in Finnis's work touched on only lightly, if at all, in Natural Law and Natural Rights, developing profound accounts of personal identity and... -
Irresistible Beauty: Beholding Triune Glory in the Face of Jesus Christ by Samuel G. Parkison
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.78What hath beauty to do with systematic theology? In this new monograph, Samuel G. Parkison explores this question by examining the relationship between Christ's divine beauty and regeneration and... -
The Age of Nothing: How We Have Sought To Live Since The Death of God Peter Watson 9780753828106
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.86The closing months of 2008 saw the world's nations united in financial uncertainty. Amid endless reports of collapsing stock markets, failed banks, fiscal fraud and snowballing unemployment, THE AGE... -
Judging Architectural Value: A Harvard Design Magazine Reader by William S. Saunders
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.12When it comes to determining the relative quality of architecture, who is best equipped to make the distinctions? Is it the public who lives in and among the buildings? The people who commission and... -
Justice, Dissent, and the Sublime by Mark Canuel
RRP: £43.00Booksplease Price: £31.86In the past ten years, theorists from Elaine Scarry to Roger Scruton have devoted renewed attention to the aesthetic of beauty. Part of their discussions claim that beauty - because it arises from a... -
Brief Encounters: Notes from a Philosopher's Diary by Anthony Kenny
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.64Cardinals, directors, dissidents, dons, judges, novelists, philosophers, prime ministers, scientists, world statesmen. . . Throughout his long and distinguished career, Sir Anthony Kenny has... -
Animal Rights: Moral Theory and Practice by Mark Rowlands 9780230219458
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £46.28In this 2nd edition the author has substantially revised his book throughout, updating the moral arguments and adding a chapter on animal minds. Importantly, rather than being a polemic on animal... -
Animal Rights: Moral Theory and Practice by Mark Rowlands 9780230219441
Booksplease Price: £46.28In this 2nd edition the author has substantially revised his book throughout, updating the moral arguments and adding a chapter on animal minds. Importantly, rather than being a polemic on animal... -
Adam Smith and the Virtues of Enlightenment by Charles L. Griswold
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £30.75Charles Griswold has written a comprehensive philosophical study of Smith's moral and political thought. Griswold sets Smith's work in the context of the Enlightenment and relates it to current... -
Beyond Reason: Wagner contra Nietzsche by Karol Berger 9780520292758
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £49.67Beyond Reason relates Wagner's works to the philosophical and cultural ideas of his time, centering on the four music dramas he created in the second half of his career: Der Ring des Nibelungen,... -
Unlikely Pilgrim: A Journey into History and Faith by Alfred Regnery 9780825308871
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £13.06Two middle-aged men, fast friends, make eleven foreign trips-pilgrimages you might call them-to parts of the world rich in the history of Christianity. The trips combine adventure, strenuous physical... -
Blood Sport: Hunting in Britain since 1066 by Emma Griffin 9780300145458
Booksplease Price: £16.74Nearly a decade of fiercely divisive debate over foxhunting in Britain culminated with passage of the Hunting with Dogs Act of 2004. But the battle over the future of hunting is not yet resolved, and... -
The Betrayal of Liberalism: How the Disciples of Freedom and Equality Helped Foster the Illiberal Politics of Coercion and Control by Hilton Kramer 9781566632584
Booksplease Price: £16.21Just fifty years ago the literary critic Lionel Trilling spoke of liberalism as "not only the dominant but even the sole intellectual tradition" in American society. At the turn of the twentieth... -
Beyond Reason: Wagner contra Nietzsche Karol Berger 9780520409255
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £31.60Beyond Reason relates Wagner's works to the philosophical and cultural ideas of his time, centering on the four music dramas he created in the second half of his career: Der Ring des Nibelungen,... -
Conservatism: Burke, Nozick, Bush, Blair? Ted Honderich 9780745321295
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £26.30This is a new edition of a classic work by one of the world's leading progressive political philosophers. Ted Honderich examines ideology and reality in British and American politics in order to... -
Where the Muses Still Haunt – The Second Reading by Hall Drury Anne 9781587315398
RRP: £21.00Booksplease Price: £13.09"Re-reading is one of life's joys," Anne Drury Hall reminds us. Not simply from the sweetness of remembering or because of the way a book can be like an old friend, but because returning to a great... -
Adam Smith and the Virtues of Enlightenment by Charles L. Griswold 9780521621274
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £83.79Charles Griswold has written a comprehensive philosophical study of Smith's moral and political thought. Griswold sets Smith's work in the context of the Enlightenment and relates it to current... -
Police Leadership in the 21st Century: Philosophy, Doctrine and Developments by Robert Adlam 9781872870243
Booksplease Price: £24.15Contains the 'Golden Rules' of Police Leadership. In Police Leadership in the Twenty-first Century the editors bring together a collection of authoritative and innovative contributions to show that:...