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On Habit by Clare Carlisle
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £29.81For Aristotle, excellence is not an act but a habit, and Hume regards habit as 'the great guide of life'. However, for Proust habit is problematic: 'if habit is a second nature, it prevents us from... -
Philosophy as Therapeia by Clare Carlisle
Booksplease Price: £32.12'Empty are the words of that philosopher who offers therapy for no human suffering. For just as there is no use in medical expertise if it does not give therapy for bodily diseases, so too there is... -
Kierkegaardian Essays by Clare Carlisle
RRP: £114.50Booksplease Price: £77.62Soren Kierkegaard argued that the most essential truths come to light by asking "How...?" This innovative collection of essays by leading scholars focuses on this questioning "How?", asking how we... -
Transcendence for Beginners Clare Carlisle 9781804271957
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Transcendence for Beginners marries a philosophy of religious life with a philosophy of the heart, and asserts Carlisle’s place as one of our most innovative thinkers. -
Kierkegaard: A Guide for the Perplexed by Clare Carlisle 9780826486110
Booksplease Price: £27.58Continuum's Guides for the Perplexed are clear, concise and accessible introductions to thinkers, writers and subjects that students and readers can find especially challenging. Concentrating... -
Spinoza's Religion: A New Reading of the Ethics by Clare Carlisle
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £25.00A bold reevaluation of Spinoza that reveals his powerful, inclusive vision of religion for the modern ageSpinoza is widely regarded as either a God-forsaking atheist or a God-intoxicated pantheist,... -
Transcendence for Beginners: Life Writing and Philosophy by Clare Carlisle 9798896230144
RRP: £18.95Booksplease Price: £12.07Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Spinoza's Religion: A New Reading of the Ethics by Clare Carlisle 9780691224190
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £15.79A bold reevaluation of Spinoza that reveals his powerful, inclusive vision of religion for the modern ageSpinoza is widely regarded as either a God-forsaking atheist or a God-intoxicated pantheist,... -
Philosopher of the Heart: The Restless Life of Soren Kierkegaard by Clare Carlisle
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Selected as a Book of the Year in The Times Literary Supplement'This lucid and riveting new biography at once rescuses Kierkegaard from the scholars and shows why he is such an intriguing and useful... -
The Marriage Question: George Eliot's Double Life by Clare Carlisle 9781250338303
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £15.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250338303Author Clare CarlisleFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St... -
The Marriage Question: George Eliot's Double Life by Clare Carlisle 9780141992945
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23*A Times, Telegraph, TLS and Prospect Book of the Year*'The best book I've read on George Eliot' John Carey, Sunday TimesAn exceptional new biography that shows how George Eliot wrestled with the... -
Philosopher of the Heart: The Restless Life of Soren Kierkegaard by Clare Carlisle 9781250798428
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £16.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250798428Author Clare CarlisleFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador... -
Kierkegaard's "Fear and Trembling": A Reader's Guide by Clare Carlisle 9781847064608
Booksplease Price: £103.11A concise and accessible introduction, this Reader's Guide takes students through Kierkegaard's most important work and a key nineteenth century philosophical text. Soren Kierkegaard was without... -
Kierkegaard's "Fear and Trembling": A Reader's Guide by Clare Carlisle 9781847064615
Booksplease Price: £30.23A concise and accessible introduction, this "Reader's Guide" takes students through Kierkegaard's most important work and a key nineteenth century philosophical text. Soren Kierkegaard was without... -
How Not to Kill Yourself: Portrait of a Suicidal Mind by Clancy Martin 9780861540488
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.37'Illuminating, riveting, and - for those of us who are suffering, or know people who are - potentially life-savingly helpful.' Scott Stossel The last time Clancy Martin tried to kill himself was... -
Burning Man: The Ascent of DH Lawrence by Frances Wilson
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78**LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2021** **SHORTLISTED FOR THE DUFF COOPER PRIZE 2021** **SHORTLISTED FOR THE JAMES TAIT BLACK PRIZE** **FINALIST FOR THE 2022 PLUTARCH... -
Heidegger, Authenticity and the Self: Themes From Division Two of Being and Time by Denis McManus
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £45.23Though Heidegger's Being and Time is often cited as one of the most important philosophical works of the last hundred years, its Division Two has received relatively little attention. This... -
Spinoza's Ethics by Benedictus de Spinoza 9780691193236
RRP: £110.00Booksplease Price: £98.55An authoritative edition of George Eliot's elegant translation of Spinoza's greatest philosophical workIn 1856, Marian Evans completed her translation of Benedict de Spinoza's Ethics while living in... -
Spinoza's Ethics by Benedictus de Spinoza 9780691193243
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £17.70An authoritative edition of George Eliot's elegant translation of Spinoza's greatest philosophical workIn 1856, Marian Evans completed her translation of Benedict de Spinoza's Ethics while living in... -
Of Habit by Felix Ravaisson 9781847061973
RRP: £130.00Booksplease Price: £75.20Flix Ravaissons seminal philosophical essay, Of Habit, was first published in French in 1838. It traces the origins and development of habit and proposes the principle of habit as the foundation of... -
Descartes: The Renewal of Philosophy by Steven Nadler
RRP: £19.95Booksplease Price: £17.96A critical biography of Rene Descartes, whose first principle ("I think therefore I am.") reshaped modern philosophy. Often called 'the father of modern philosophy', Rene Descartes' contributions to... -
The Drama of Living: Being wise in the Spirit by David F. Ford 9781848255388
Booksplease Price: £15.84How can we live wisely today, attuned to God and to other people amid the ups and downs of modern life with its complexities, conflicts and distractions? Responding creatively to the multiple... -
Of Habit by Felix Ravaisson 9781847061980
Booksplease Price: £34.84Felix Ravaisson's seminal philosophical essay, Of Habit, was first published in French in 1838. It traces the origins and development of habit and proposes the principle of habit as the foundation of... -
The Collected Works of Spinoza, Volume II by Benedictus de Spinoza 9780691167633
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £42.76The Collected Works of Spinoza provides, for the first time in English, a truly satisfactory edition of all of Spinoza's writings, with accurate and readable translations, based on the best critical... -
Starting with Nietzsche by Ullrich Haase 9781847061638
Booksplease Price: £24.92This is a new introduction to Nietzsche, guiding the student through the key concepts of his work by examining the overall development of his ideas. Covering all the key concepts of Nietzsche's work,... -
Fiction and the Weave of Life by John Gibson 9780199299522
Booksplease Price: £67.74Literature is a source of understanding and insight into the human condition. Yet ever since Aristotle, philosophers have struggled to provide a plausible account of how this can be the case. For... -
The Tragic Imagination: The Literary Agenda by Dr. Rowan Williams
Booksplease Price: £26.11The Literary Agenda is a series of short polemical monographs about the importance of literature and of reading in the wider world and about the state of literary education inside schools and... -
Félix Ravaisson: Fragments on Philosophy and Religion Victor Emma-Adamah 9781350299139
Booksplease Price: £92.92Felix Ravaisson: Fragments on Philosophy and Religion offers accurate translations of a selection of writings from Ravaisson's notes on the history and philosophy of religion, dating from 1850 to... -
Kierkegaard: Thinking Christianly in an Existential Mode by Sylvia Walsh 9780199208364
Booksplease Price: £51.33Soren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) was first and foremost a Christian thinker who is perhaps best known for his devastating attack upon Christendom or the established order of his time. Not since Luther... -
Givenness and Revelation by Jean-Luc Marion 9780198757733
Booksplease Price: £46.96Givenness and Revelation represents both the unity and the deep continuity of Jean-Luc Marions thinking over many decades. This investigation into the origins and evolution of the concept of... -
Participation in God: A Study in Christian Doctrine and Metaphysics by Andrew Davison 9781108483285
RRP: £109.00Booksplease Price: £105.09Few ideas have excited greater interest among theologians in recent decades than the idea of 'participation'. In thinking about creation, it is the notion that everything comes from, and depends... -
Seeing the World and Knowing God: Hebrew Wisdom and Christian Doctrine in a Late-Modern Context by Paul S. Fiddes 9780199644100
Booksplease Price: £115.18This book aims to create a Christian theology of wisdom for the present day, in discussion with two sets of conversation-partners. The first are writers of the 'wisdom literature' in ancient Israel... -
Participation in God: A Study in Christian Doctrine and Metaphysics by Andrew Davison
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £37.74Few ideas have excited greater interest among theologians in recent decades than the idea of 'participation'. In thinking about creation, it is the notion that everything comes from, and depends... -
Seeing the World and Knowing God: Hebrew Wisdom and Christian Doctrine in a Late-Modern Context by Professor Paul S. Fiddes 9780198709756
RRP: £41.49Booksplease Price: £38.17This book aims to create a Christian theology of wisdom for the present day, in discussion with two sets of conversation-partners. The first are writers of the 'wisdom literature' in ancient Israel... -
Motherhood: A Confession by Natalie Carnes
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £16.97A meditation on the conversions, betrayals, and divine revelations of motherhood. What if Augustine's Confessions had been written not by a man, but by a mother? How might her tales of desire,... -
Is God Invisible?: An Essay on Religion and Aesthetics by Charles Taliaferro
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.76In this volume, Charles Taliaferro and Jil Evans promote aesthetic personalism by examining three domains of aesthetics - the philosophy of beauty, aesthetic experience, and philosophy of art -... -
Is God Invisible?: An Essay on Religion and Aesthetics by Charles Taliaferro 9781108470742
RRP: £81.00Booksplease Price: £77.29In this volume, Charles Taliaferro and Jil Evans promote aesthetic personalism by examining three domains of aesthetics - the philosophy of beauty, aesthetic experience, and philosophy of art -... -
Atheism by Alexandre Kojève
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.40One of the twentieth century's most brilliant and unconventional thinkers, Alexandre Kojeve was a Russian emigre to France whose lectures on Hegel in the 1930s galvanized a generation of French... -
Atheism by Alexandre Kojeve 9780231180009
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £78.51One of the twentieth century's most brilliant and unconventional thinkers, Alexandre Kojeve was a Russian emigre to France whose lectures on Hegel in the 1930s galvanized a generation of French... -
True Stories: And Other Essays by Francis Spufford
Booksplease Price: £17.67An irresistible collection of favorite writings from an author celebrated for his bravura style and sheer unpredictability Francis Spufford's welcome first volume of collected essays gathers an array...