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The Philosophy of Kierkegaard by Professor George Pattison 9781844650316
RRP: $81.88Booksplease Price: $74.08Although the ideas of Soren Kierkegaard played a pivotal role in the shaping of mainstream German philosophy and the history of French existentialism, the question of how philosophers should read... -
Modality Joseph Melia 9781902683485
RRP: $81.88Booksplease Price: $74.08This introduction to modality places the emphasis on the metaphysics of modality rather than on the formal semetics of quantified modal logic. The text begins by introducing students to the "de... -
The Bible and the Environment: Towards a Critical Ecological Biblical Theology David G. Horrell 9781844657469
RRP: $95.53Booksplease Price: $85.68Environmental issues have in recent years come to the centre stage of political and ethical debate. This is a crucial topic to engage in this series. Moreover, there has long been the charge,... -
Bernard Williams Mark Jenkins 9781902683966
RRP: $81.88Booksplease Price: $74.08From his earliest work on personal identity to his last on the value of truthfulness, the ideas and arguments of Bernard Williams - in the metaphysics of personhood, in the history of philosophy, but... -
Defining Shinto: A Reader Mark W. MacWilliams 9781844658381
RRP: $101.38Booksplease Price: $91.24This book provides key official documents alongside political, religious-philosophical, and historical essays, illustrating how the term "Shinto" has metamorphosed terminologically from... -
Keith Joseph Andrew Denham 9781902683706
RRP: $72.13Booksplease Price: $66.36Hailed by Margaret Thatcher as the founder of modern conservatism, Keith Joseph is commonly ranked among the most influential politicians of the late-20th century. A complex and enigmatic figure... -
The Philosophy of Merleau-Ponty Eric Matthews 9781902683522
RRP: $81.88Booksplease Price: $74.08In this introduction to the life and thought of one of the most important French thinkers of the twentieth-century Eric Matthews shows how Merleau-Ponty has contributed to current debates in... -
The Musical Structure of Plato's Dialogues by J. B. Kennedy 9781844652679
RRP: $93.58Booksplease Price: $84.01J. B. Kennedy argues that Plato's dialogues have an unsuspected musical structure and use symbols to encode Pythagorean doctrines. The followers of Pythagoras famously thought that the cosmos had a... -
White Ink: Interviews on Sex, Text and Politics by Helene Cixous 9781844651375
Booksplease Price: $90.25Helene Cixous is widely regarded as one of the world's most influential feminist writers and thinkers. "White Ink" brings together her most revealing interviews, available in English for... -
The Philosophy of Gadamer Jean Grondin 9781902683652
RRP: $81.88Booksplease Price: $74.08The ideas of the German philosopher, Hans-Georg Gadamer have had considerable influence both in their own right as the leading modern exposition of philosophical hermeneutics and interpreting the... -
Wittgenstein: Key Concepts by Kelly Dean Jolley
RRP: $243.75Booksplease Price: $215.28Wittgenstein's complex and demanding work challenges much that is taken for granted in philosophical thinking as well as in the theorizing of art, theology, science and culture. Each essay in this... -
The New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy: Volume 10 by Burt Hopkins
RRP: $163.78Booksplease Price: $145.59The New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy provides an annual international forum for phenomenological research in the spirit of Husserl's groundbreaking work and the... -
Epicureanism Tim O'Keefe 9781844651702
RRP: $81.88Booksplease Price: $74.08The Epicurean school of philosophy was one of the dominant philosophies of the Hellenistic period. Founded by Epicurus of Samos (century 341-270 BCE), it was characterized by an empiricist... -
Gilles Deleuze: Key Concepts Charles J. Stivale 9781844652884
RRP: $72.13Booksplease Price: $65.77Gilles Deleuze is now regarded as one of the most radical philosophers of the twentieth century. His work is hugely influential across a range of subjects, from philosophy to literature, to art,... -
Ethics for a Broken World: Imagining Philosophy After Catastrophe Tim Mulgan 9781844654888
RRP: $81.88Booksplease Price: $74.08Imagine living in the future in a world already damaged by humankind, a world where resources are insufficient to meet everyone's basic needs and where a chaotic climate makes life precarious. Then... -
Gilles Deleuze: Key Concepts by Charles J. Stivale 9781844652877
RRP: $273.00Booksplease Price: $240.34Gilles Deleuze is now regarded as one of the most radical philosophers of the twentieth century. His work is hugely influential across a range of subjects, from philosophy to literature, to art,... -
A Plato Primer by J. D. G. Evans
RRP: $273.00Booksplease Price: $240.34"A Plato Primer" introduces beginning students and the general reader to the main theses, concepts and arguments in Plato's philosophy. Subtle, versatile and multi-faceted though Plato's thought... -
Reinventing Religious Studies: Key Writings in the History of a Discipline by Scott S. Elliott
RRP: $93.58Booksplease Price: $84.01"Reinventing Religious Studies" offers readers an opportunity to trace the important trends and developments in Religious Studies over the last forty years. Over this time the study of religion has... -
Reflections of a Metaphysical Flaneur: and Other Essays Raymond Tallis 9781844656660
RRP: $81.88Booksplease Price: $74.08These essays from one of our most stimulating thinkers showcase Tallis's infectious fascination, indeed intoxication, with the infinite complexity of human lives and the human condition. In the... -
Graffiti in Antiquity Peter Keegan 9781844656073
RRP: $263.25Booksplease Price: $233.55Ancient graffiti - hundreds of thousands of informal, ephemeral texts spanning millennia - offer a patchwork of fragmentary conversations in a variety of languages spread across the Mediterranean... -
A Plato Primer J.D.G. Evans 9781844652280
RRP: $81.88Booksplease Price: $74.08"A Plato Primer" introduces beginning students and the general reader to the main theses, concepts and arguments in Plato's philosophy. Subtle, versatile and multi-faceted though Plato's thought... -
Philosophy and Philosophers: An Introduction to Western Philosophy John Shand 9781902683638
RRP: $81.88Booksplease Price: $74.08This revised and updated edition of a standard work provides a clear and authoritative survey of the Western tradition in metaphysics and epistemology from the Presocratics to the present day. Aimed... -
Jean-Luc Nancy and the Future of Philosophy B.C. Hutchens 9781844650279
RRP: $79.93Booksplease Price: $72.42The work of the contemporary French philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy has impacted across a range of disciplines. His writings on psychoanalysis, theology, art, culture and, of course, philosophy are now... -
Albert Camus: From the Absurd to Revolt John Foley 9781844651412
RRP: $72.13Booksplease Price: $65.77Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, encompassing philosophy, literature, politics and history, John Foley examines the full breadth of Camus' ideas to provide a comprehensive and rigorous study... -
Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morality David Owen 9781844651047
RRP: $81.88Booksplease Price: $74.08A landmark work of western philosophy, "On the Genealogy of Morality" is a dazzling and brilliantly incisive attack on European "morality". Combining philosophical acuity with psychological insight... -
Clothes John Harvey 9781844651504
RRP: $81.88Booksplease Price: $74.08Clothes protect our vulnerable skin and they keep us warm or cool. They help us show that we are young or old, rich or poor, at work or play, and whether we may be good to know. But though they are... -
How to be a Green Liberal: Nature, Value and Liberal Philosophy Simon A. Hailwood 9781902683843
RRP: $81.88Booksplease Price: $74.08It is often claimed by environmental philosophers and green political theorists that liberalism, the dominant tradition of western political philosophy, is too focused on the interests of human... -
Money Eric Lonergan 9781844658237
RRP: $79.93Booksplease Price: $73.01Eric Lonergan explores our complex relationship with money. In a provocative and insightful analysis, he argues that few things seem to matter more to us, but few things are as poorly understood... -
Reading Nietzsche: An Analysis of "Beyond Good and Evil" by Douglas Burnham 9781844650750
RRP: $72.13Booksplease Price: $65.77"Beyond Good and Evil" is a concise and comprehensive statement of Nietzsche's mature philosophy and is an ideal entry point into Nietzsche's work as a whole. Pithy, lyrical and densely complex,... -
Rights and Reason: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Rights Jonathan Gorman 9781902683744
RRP: $79.93Booksplease Price: $72.42In "Rights and Reason", Jonathan Gorman sets discussion of the 'rights debate' within a wide-ranging philosophical and historical framework. Drawing on positions in epistemology, metaphysics and the... -
Medieval Philosophy of Religion: The History of Western Philosophy of Religion, Volume 2 Graham Oppy 9781844656820
RRP: $89.68Booksplease Price: $80.71The Medieval period was one of the richest eras for the philosophical study of religion. Covering the period from the 6th to the 16th century, reaching into the Renaissance, "The History of Western... -
Reading Nietzsche: An Analysis of "Beyond Good and Evil" by Douglas Burnham
RRP: $243.75Booksplease Price: $215.28"Beyond Good and Evil" is a concise and comprehensive statement of Nietzsche's mature philosophy and is an ideal entry point into Nietzsche's work as a whole. Pithy, lyrical and densely complex,... -
Hope Stan van Hooft 9781844652600
RRP: $79.93Booksplease Price: $72.42From the now iconic Barack Obama 'Hope' poster of the 2008 presidential campaign to the pit-head 'Camp Hope' of the families of the trapped Chilean miners, the language of hope can be hugely powerful... -
Central Works of Philosophy v1: Ancient and Medieval by John Shand
RRP: $273.00Booksplease Price: $240.92This collection of essays showcases the most important and influential philosophical works of the ancient and medieval period, roughly from 600 BC to AD 1600. Each chapter takes a particular work of... -
The Philosophy of Husserl Burt Hopkins 9781844650118
RRP: $81.88Booksplease Price: $74.08As the founder of phenomenology, Edmund Husserl has been hugely influential in the development of contemporary continental philosophy. In The Philosophy of Husserl, Burt Hopkins shows that the unity... -
Models and Theories: A Philosophical Inquiry Roman Frigg 9781844654918
RRP: $79.93Booksplease Price: $72.13Models and theories are of central importance in science, and scientists spend substantial amounts of time building, testing, comparing and revising models and theories. It is therefore not... -
The Zizek Dictionary Rex Butler 9781844655823
RRP: $81.88Booksplease Price: $74.08Slavoj Zizek is the most popular and discussed philosopher in the world today. His prolific writings - across philosophy, psychoanalysis, political and social theory, film, music and religion -... -
Understanding Virtue Ethics Stan van Hooft 9781844650453
RRP: $81.88Booksplease Price: $74.08More and more philosophers have advocated varieties of virtue-based ethics that challenge moral theory traditionally founded on moral obligation and the delineation of what is right or wrong in given... -
Understanding Postcolonialism Jane Hiddleston 9781844651610
RRP: $81.88Booksplease Price: $74.08Postcolonialism offers challenging and provocative ways of thinking about colonial and neocolonial power, about self and other, and about the discourses that perpetuate postcolonial inequality and... -
Paradox Doris Olin 9781902683829
RRP: $81.88Booksplease Price: $74.82Paradoxes are more than just intellectual puzzles - they raise substantive philosophical issues and offer the promise of increased philosophical knowledge. In this introduction to paradox and...