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How To Read Wittgenstein by Ray Monk
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.35Though Wittgenstein wrote on the same subjects that dominate the work of other analytic philosophers - the nature of logic, the limits of language, the analysis of meaning - he did so in a peculiarly... -
The Great Philosophers: Russell Ray Monk 9781399612357
RRP: $12.58Booksplease Price: $10.33'The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts' Bertrand Russell'Science is what you know. Philosophy is what... -
Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius by Ray Monk
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $26.75'Monk's energetic enterprise is remarkable for the interweaving of the philosophical and the emotional aspects of Wittgenstein's life' Sunday Times'Ray Monk's reconnection of Wittgenstein's... -
Bertrand Russell and the Origins of Analytical Philosophy by Ray Monk 9781855064768
RRP: $63.00Booksplease Price: $59.30This collection of essays seeks, in various ways, to explore Bertrand Russell's contribution to shaping the concerns and the methods of contemporary analytical philosophers. It includes both general... -
Robert Oppenheimer: A Life Inside the Center by Ray Monk 9780385722049
RRP: $50.40Booksplease Price: $45.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsNominated for Plutarch Award 2014.Book InformationISBN 9780385722049Author Ray MonkFormat Paperback -
Bertrand Russell: 1921-1970, the Ghost of Madness by Ray Monk 9781501153778
RRP: $73.48Booksplease Price: $57.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501153778Author Ray MonkFormat PaperbackPage Count 608Imprint -
Bertrand Russell: The Spirit of Solitude 1872-1921 by Ray Monk 9781501153747
RRP: $88.18Booksplease Price: $69.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501153747Author Ray MonkFormat PaperbackPage Count 752Imprint -
Inside The Centre: The Life of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Ray Monk 9780099433538
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $34.04J. Robert Oppenheimer is among the most contentious and important figures of the twentieth century. As head of the Los Alamos Laboratory, he oversaw the successful effort to beat the Nazis to develop... -
Stop the Train, Monkey! by Syed M Hasany 9781466977921
Booksplease Price: $27.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781466977921Author Syed M HasanyFormat PaperbackImprint -
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The Great Philosophers by Frederic Raphael 9780753811368 [USED COPY]
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $4.85The 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... -
The Great Philosophers Frederic Raphael 9780753811368
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $27.64The 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... -
Wittgenstein and Scientism by Jonathan Beale 9780367871703
RRP: $96.58Booksplease Price: $90.47Wittgenstein criticised prevailing attitudes toward the sciences. The target of his criticisms was 'scientism': what he described as 'the overestimation of science'. This collection is the first... -
Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius 9780140159950
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $34.44"Great philosophical biographies can be counted on one hand. Monk's life of Wittgenstein is such a one." The Christian Science Monitor.About the AuthorRay Monk is the author of Ludwig Wittgenstein:... -
Nuclear Cultures: Irradiated Subjects, Aesthetics and Planetary Precarity Pramod K Nayar 9781032183916
RRP: $88.18Booksplease Price: $83.35Nuclear Cultures: Irradiated Subjects, Aesthetics and Planetary Precarity aims to develop the field of nuclear humanities and the powerful ability of literary and cultural representations of science... -
On the Trail to Wittgenstein's Hut: The Historical Background of the Tractatus Logico-philosphicus Ivar Oxaal 9781138512764
RRP: $125.98Booksplease Price: $117.26One of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and the roots of his monumental Tractatus are explored in this imaginative work. Oxaal picks up on themes... -
Philosophy and Social Hope by Richard Rorty
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $19.38Richard Rorty is one of the most provocative figures in recent philosophical, literary and cultural debate. This collection brings together those of his writings aimed at a wider audience, many... -
Brain and Behavior: Research in Clinical Neuropsychology by Arthur L. Benton
RRP: $102.88Booksplease Price: $95.82Research in the field of clinical neuropsychology has greatly advanced understanding of the complex relationships between brain functions and human behavior. This edited collection, originally... -
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus Ludwig Wittgenstein 9780415854757
RRP: $50.38Booksplease Price: $49.43Ludwig Wittgenstein is one of the greatest and most fascinating philosophers of all time. His Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, composed in a series of remarkable numbered propositions, was the only... -
Writing the Lives of Writers by Warwick Gould 9780333684610
Booksplease Price: $190.18Writing the Lives of Writers ponders that strange ventriloquized dialogue between biographers and their subjects, a dialogue all the stranger when the subject is a writer. It contains 22 essays by... -
Writing the Lives of Writers by Warwick Gould 9781349265503
Booksplease Price: $193.56Writing the Lives of Writers ponders that strange ventriloquized dialogue between biographers and their subjects, a dialogue all the stranger when the subject is a writer. It contains 22 essays by... -
History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell
RRP: $50.38Booksplease Price: $46.18First published in 1946, History of Western Philosophy went on to become the best-selling philosophy book of the twentieth century. A dazzlingly ambitious project, it remains unchallenged to this day... -
History of Western Philosophy Bertrand Russell 9781138127043
RRP: $241.50Booksplease Price: $233.50First published in 1946, History of Western Philosophy went on to become the best-selling philosophy book of the twentieth century. A dazzlingly ambitious project, it remains unchallenged to this day... -
Wittgenstein: Biography and Philosophy by James C. Klagge
Booksplease Price: $93.07This collection of essays deals with the relationship between Wittgenstein's life and his philosophy. The first two essays reflect on general problems inherent in philosophical biography itself. The... -
Wittgenstein: Biography and Philosophy by James C. Klagge 9780521803977
Booksplease Price: $173.67This collection of essays deals with the relationship between Wittgenstein's life and his philosophy. The first two essays reflect on general problems inherent in philosophical biography itself. The... -
The Philosophy of History: Talks Given at the Institute of Historical Research, London, 2000-2006 by A. L. Macfie 9780230004573
Booksplease Price: $193.39This volume contains a selection of the talks given at the Philosophy of History seminar in the IHR, London, in the period 2000-6. It puts students, historians, teachers of History and anyone else... -
Cambridge Minds by Richard Mason 9780521456258
Booksplease Price: $99.29This collection of essays by a group of leading authorities is addressed primarily to a non-specialist readership, with the aim of introducing people and achievements associated with the University... -
The Selected Writings of Maurice O'Connor Drury: On Wittgenstein, Philosophy, Religion and Psychiatry by Maurice O'Connor Drury 9781350091542
Booksplease Price: $80.03Maurice O'Connor Drury was among Wittgenstein's first students after his return to Cambridge in 1929. The subsequent course of Drury's life and thought was to be enormously influenced by his teacher... -
A Life of H.L.A. Hart: The Nightmare and the Noble Dream by Nicola Lacey 9780199202775
Booksplease Price: $113.55Shortlisted for the 2005 British Academy Book prize, Nicola Lacey's entrancing biography recounts the life of H.L.A. Hart, the pre-eminent legal philosopher of the twentieth century. Following Hart's... -
Frank Ramsey: Truth and Success Jerome Dokic 9780415408288
RRP: $125.98Booksplease Price: $117.26Despite his tragic death at the age of 26, Frank Ramsey (1903 - 1930) remains one of the most intriguing minds of the twentieth century. His thought had a profound influence on both Ludwig... -
Movements of Thought: Ludwig Wittgenstein's Diary, 1930–1932 and 1936–1937 by Ludwig Wittgenstein 9781538163665
Booksplease Price: $148.87While the published works of Ludwig Wittgenstein reveal the final, coalesced thoughts of this philosophical giant, Wittgenstein's diary reveals his process of doing philosophy. Only in his private... -
Movements of Thought: Ludwig Wittgenstein's Diary, 1930–1932 and 1936–1937 by Ludwig Wittgenstein 9781538163672
Booksplease Price: $43.47While the published works of Ludwig Wittgenstein reveal the final, coalesced thoughts of this philosophical giant, Wittgenstein's diary reveals his process of doing philosophy. Only in his private... -
A History of Psychiatry: From the Era of the Asylum to the Age of Prozac by Edward Shorter
RRP: $75.60Booksplease Price: $56.49"PPPP . . . To compress 200 years of psychiatric theory and practice into a compelling and coherent narrative is a fine achievement . . . . What strikes the reader [most] are Shorter's storytelling... -
Time Reborn: From the Crisis in Physics to the Future of the Universe by Lee Smolin
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $19.38Nothing seems more real than time passing. We experience life as a succession of moments. But just as some of us see God as eternal, so physicists understand the truths of mathematics and the laws of... -
The Philosopher's Dog Raimond Gaita 9781138687943
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $39.35In this beautifully written book Raimond Gaita tells inspirational, poignant, sometimes funny but never sentimental stories of the dogs, cats and cockatoos that lived and died within his own family... -
“I Think of You Constantly with Love”: The Letters of Ludwig Wittgenstein and Ben Richards Alfred Schmidt 9781350026469
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $44.08Ludwig Wittgenstein and Ben Richards met in the autumn of 1945, when Richards - a medical student - was attending one of Wittgenstein's courses. The 'loving friendship' (in Wittgenstein's words)... -
New British Philosophy: The Interviews by Julian Baggini
RRP: $88.18Booksplease Price: $83.35From popular introductions to biographies and television programmes, philosophy is everywhere. Many people even want to be philosophers, usually in the cafe or the pub. But what do real philosophers... -
Virginia Woolf: A Biography by Quentin Bell
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $31.61As the nephew of Virginia Woolf, Quentin Bell enjoyed an initimacy with his subject granted to few biographers. Originally published in two volumes in 1972, his acclaimed biography describes Virginia... -
D. H. Lawrence: Triumph to Exile 1912-1922: The Cambridge Biography of D. H. Lawrence by Mark Kinkead-Weekes 9781107403000
Booksplease Price: $96.83This second volume of the acclaimed Cambridge Biography of D. H. Lawrence covers the years 1912-22, the period in which Lawrence forged his reputation as one of the greatest and most controversial... -
Maker of Patterns: An Autobiography Through Letters by Freeman Dyson 9781631495472
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $27.09Written between 1940 and the late 1970s, the postwar recollections of renowned physicist Freeman Dyson have been celebrated as an historic portrait of modern science and its greatest players,... -
Wittgenstein Reads Freud: The Myth of the Unconscious by Jacques Bouveresse
RRP: $84.00Booksplease Price: $72.14Did Freud present a scientific hypothesis about the unconscious, as he always maintained and as many of his disciples keep repeating? This question has long prompted debates concerning the legitimacy...