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Living Speech: Resisting the Empire of Force by James Boyd White 9780691138374
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £36.63Language is our key to imagining the world, others, and ourselves. Yet sometimes our ways of talking dehumanize others and trivialize human experience. In war other people are imagined as enemies to... -
Pathways of Peace: The Philosophy and Sociology of Peace and Nonviolence by Romina Gurashi
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £24.38This book explores the close interconnection that exists between sociological and philosophical scholarship in relation to peace studies. Through an examination of the thought of nine leading... -
Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life by Zena Hitz
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £16.44An 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... -
Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life by Zena Hitz 9780691229195
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £11.16An 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... -
Gravity and Grace by Gustave Thibon
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £18.74Gravity and Grace was the first ever publication by the remarkable thinker and activist, Simone Weil. In it Gustave Thibon, the farmer to whom she had entrusted her notebooks before her untimely... -
Selected Poems of Tudor Arghezi by Tudor Arghezi 9780691616933
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £34.35Born in Bucharest of peasant stock, Tudor Arghezi (1880-1967) was awarded Romania's National Poetry Prize in 1946 and the State Prize for Poetry in 1956. The translators of this volume have... -
On Beauty and Being Just by Elaine Scarry
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £13.62Have we become beauty-blind? For two decades or more in the humanities, various political arguments have been put forward against beauty: that it distracts us from more important issues; that it is... -
Thoreau's Axe: Distraction and Discipline in American Culture by Caleb Smith
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £23.69How nineteenth-century "disciplines of attention" anticipated the contemporary concern with mindfulness and being "spiritual but not religious"Today, we're driven to distraction, our attention... -
Thoreau's Axe: Distraction and Discipline in American Culture Caleb Smith 9780691256023
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £15.51How nineteenth-century "disciplines of attention" anticipated the contemporary concern with mindfulness and being "spiritual but not religious"Today, we're driven to distraction, our attention... -
The Book of Hulga by Rita Mae Reese 9780299308148
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £10.91The Book of Hulga speculates-with humor, tenderness, and a brutal precision-on a character that Flannery O'Connor envisioned but did not live long enough to write: "an angular intellectual proud... -
Divinely Abused: A Philosophical Perspective on Job and His Kin by Nehama Verbin 9781441138569
Booksplease Price: £40.38Divinely Abused engages with the logical features of the experience of divine abuse and the religious difficulties to which it gives rise. Taking Job's trial as a test case, Verbin explores the... -
A Brief Guide to Spiritual Classics: From Dark Night of the Soul to The Power of Now by James M. Russell
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £4.01This very readable brief guide examines a wide range of spiritual writing that can be read for enjoyment or inspiration, including some books that come from beyond any religious tradition. While... -
Spirituality and Theology: Essays in Honor of Diogenes Allen by Eric O. Springsted 9780664257415
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.96This collection of essays honors the work of Diogenes Allen, one of the leading theologians in the United States during the twentieth century. The list of contributors from the fields of theology,... -
The Murdochian Mind by Silvia Caprioglio Panizza 9781032272986
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £46.43Iris Murdoch was a philosopher and novelist of extraordinary breadth and originality whose work defies simple categorisation. Her philosophical writing engages with an astonishingly wide range of... -
Understanding African Philosophy: A Cross-cultural Approach to Classical and Contemporary Issues Richard H. Bell, Jr. 9780415939379
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69Understanding African Philosophy serves as a critical guide to some of the most important issues in modern African philosophy. Richard Bell introduces readers to the complexity of Africa, the legacy... -
Agamben's Philosophical Lineage by Adam Kotsko
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £28.64One of the greatest challenges Agamben presents to his readers is the vast and often bewildering range of sources he draws upon in his work. Looking at figures including Michel Foucault, St Paul,... -
Love: Its Forms, Dimensions and Paradoxes by I. Dilman 9781349408344
Booksplease Price: £90.56The book is concerned with questions about love: questions about its many forms, strands and aspects, and the relation in which they stand to each other. It is concerned with the way different... -
Iris Murdoch and Remorse: Past Forgiving? by Frances White 9783031430121
Booksplease Price: £100.04This exploration of the crucially important role played by remorse in Iris Murdoch's philosophical, theological, and political thinking identifies it as a critical concept in her moral psychology and... -
Edward Said on the Prospects of Peace in Palestine and Israel by J. Leblanc 9781349435647
Booksplease Price: £46.28John Randolph LeBlanc examines the political oeuvre of critic and activist Edward Said and finds that Said preferred "reconciliation" to segregation in Palestine/Israel. LeBlanc argues that Said's... -
Every Changing Shape by Elizabeth Jennings
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.99This collection studies writers and mystics, past and present, and considers from a Christian poet's perspective how religious or mystical experience informs the imagination. The text provides... -
Animal Ethics: The Basics Tony Miligan 9780415739368
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £23.54Animal Ethics has long been a highly contested area with debates driven by unease about various forms of animal harm, from the use of animals in scientific research to the farming of animals for... -
I See Satan Fall Like Lightning by Andrew B Hammond Professor of French Language Literature and Civilization Rene Girard 9781570753190
RRP: £26.00Booksplease Price: £16.27Rene Girard holds up the gospels as mirrors that reveal our broken humanity, and shows that they also reflect a new reality that can make us whole. Like Simone Weil, Girard looks at the Bible as a... -
Choose Your Bearing: Édouard Glissant, Human Rights, and Decolonial Ethics by Benjamin P. Davis 9781399522441
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.92What do we in the West owe those who grow our food, sew our clothes and produce our electronics? And what have we always owed one another, but forgotten, avoided, or simply disregarded? Looking back... -
Marxism After Marx by David McLellan 9781403997289
RRP: £64.99Booksplease Price: £61.04This fourth edition is an updated version of what has become the classic account of Twentieth-century Marxism. It includes new bibliographical information and sections covering developments since the... -
Philosophy for Understanding Theology, Second Edition by Diogenes Allen 9780664231804
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £24.71Philosophy for Understanding Theology has become the classic text for exploring the relationship between philosophy and Christian theology. This new edition adds chapters on postmodernism and... -
Effort and Grace: On the Spiritual Exercise of Philosophy by Simone Kotva 9781350113657
Booksplease Price: £112.13Philosophy and theology have long harboured contradictory views on spiritual practice. While philosophy advocates the therapeutic benefits of daily meditation, the theology of grace promotes an ideal... -
Effort and Grace: On the Spiritual Exercise of Philosophy by Simone Kotva 9781350194755
Booksplease Price: £33.84Philosophy and theology have long harboured contradictory views on spiritual practice. While philosophy advocates the therapeutic benefits of daily meditation, the theology of grace promotes an ideal... -
Ecce Monstrum: Georges Bataille and the Sacrifice of Form by Jeremy Biles 9780823227785
RRP: £75.00Booksplease Price: £66.63In the 1930s, Georges Bataille proclaimed a "ferociously religious" sensibility characterized by simultaneous ecstasy and horror. Ecce Monstrum investigates the content and implications of this... -
Democratic Theory and Technological Society Richard B. Day 9780873324489
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.99What are the chief challenges posed to contemporary democracy by modern technology, and how can democratic theory best respond to, or at least reflect on, those challenges? Inhabiting the kind of... -
Thinking Against the Current: Literature and Political Resistance by Sybil Oldfield 9781845195946
Booksplease Price: £114.18This collection of literary/historical essays, written 1970-2010, covers political subjects as diverse as 17th Century Quaker persecution history, the social impact of Malthus, the self-emancipation... -
Thinking Against the Current: Literature and Political Resistance by Sybil Oldfield 9781845196899
Booksplease Price: £33.76This collection of literary/historical essays, written 1970-2010, covers political subjects as diverse as 17th Century Quaker persecution history, the social impact of Malthus, the self-emancipation... -
Ethics, Society and Politics: Themes from the Philosophy of Peter Winch by Michael Campbell 9783030407445
RRP: £119.99Booksplease Price: £112.12This volume is a reappraisal of the work of Peter Guy Winch (1926 -1997), one of the most important philosophers of the 20th Century. Winch faded into relative obscurity compared to his... -
Ethics, Society and Politics: Themes from the Philosophy of Peter Winch by Michael Campbell 9783030407414
RRP: £119.99Booksplease Price: £112.12This volume is a reappraisal of the work of Peter Guy Winch (1926 -1997), one of the most important philosophers of the 20th Century. Winch faded into relative obscurity compared to his... -
Christian Mystics: Their Lives and Legacies Throughout the Ages by Ursula King
Booksplease Price: £50.71Ursula King's Christian Mystics tells the story of sixty men and women whose mystical devotion to God transformed the times in which they lived and still affects our present-day search for spiritual... -
Degrees of Evil in Iris Murdoch's Fiction and Philosophy Daniel Read 9783031758409
Booksplease Price: £111.03This is the first survey of Murdoch's exploration of evil, addressing aesthetic, philosophical, political and theological perspectives. The study demonstrates how her work engages with currently... -
Maurice Blanchot on Poetry and Narrative: Ethics of the Image by Professor Kevin Hart 9781350349056
Booksplease Price: £90.57Blanchot and his writings on three major poets, Mallarmé, Hölderlin, and Char, provide a decisive new point of departure for English language criticism of his philosophical writings on narrative in... -
The Plague by Jacqueline Rose
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23What do you do with death and dying when they can no longer be pushed to the outer limits of your lived experience or dismissed from your conscious mind? How do you live with death or rather how do... -
The Gallows in the Grove: Civil Society in American Law by George W. Liebmann 9780275958862
Booksplease Price: £76.81Writing of the France of the 1930s, the late Simone Weil declared, The state has morally killed everything smaller than itself. Liebmann asserts that a comparable development has recently taken place... -
Primary Readings in Philosophy for Understanding Theology by Diogenes Allen 9780664252083
RRP: £37.00Booksplease Price: £26.85Knowledge of key philosophic terms or concepts is vital to the understanding of many issues in Christian theology. Diogenes Allen's book Philosophy for Understanding Theology explores such terms and... -
'the Spanish Trenches Are Here in Ireland': The Mind and Deeds of the Irish in the International Brigades by Barry McLoughlin
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £22.62In the late 1930s, the Spanish Civil War was both a cause celebre and a true international flashpoint, garnering support from thousands from Europe and the Americas who saw the fight as a crucial...