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On Bowie by Simon Critchley
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €8.88What made Bowie special? What made him the cultural icon he is today? And what made millions of people around the world tune into his peculiar wavelength and find exactly what they'd been looking for... -
Memory Theatre by Simon Critchley
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €9.54A French philosopher dies during a savage summer heat wave. Boxes carrying his unpublished miscellany mysteriously appear in Simon Critchley's office. Rooting through piles of papers, Critchley... -
ABC of Impossibility by Simon Critchley
RRP: €20.39Booksplease Price: €18.14How does one write an experimental ABC, an impossible theory that would deal with a series of phenomena, concepts, places, sensations, persons, and moods? A para-philosophy? Returning to a... -
Notes on Suicide by Simon Critchley
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €11.17Suicide is everywhere. It haunts history and current events. It haunts our own networks of friends and family. The spectre of suicide looms large, but the topic is taboo because any meaningful... -
Mysticism by Simon Critchley 9781681378244
RRP: €22.74Booksplease Price: €16.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681378244Author Simon CritchleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint -
The Book of Dead Philosophers by Simon Critchley
RRP: €25.20Booksplease Price: €16.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307390431Author Simon CritchleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint -
Tragedy, the Greeks, and Us by Simon Critchley 9780525564645
Booksplease Price: €21.60Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
On Mysticism: The Experience of Ecstasy Simon Critchley 9781800816947
RRP: €14.39Booksplease Price: €10.37'A significant and courageous invitation to think again about the kinds of thinking that matter; the kinds of thinking that keep us awake' Rowan Williams Mysticism has been called 'experience at... -
Continental Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction by Simon Critchley
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €8.82Simon Critchley's Very Short Introduction shows that Continental philosophy encompasses a distinct set of philosophical traditions and practices, with a compelling range of problems all too often... -
Gareth Long Never Odd or Even by Simon Critchley 9781894699532
RRP: €52.80Booksplease Price: €17.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781894699532Author Simon CritchleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 86Imprint -
The Poverty of Ethics by 9781839765926
RRP: €20.39Booksplease Price: €14.78The Poverty of Ethics stands the usual moral-political dichotomy on its head. It argues that moral principles do not in fact underlie or inform political decisions. It is, rather, the conceptual... -
The Anarchist Turn Jacob Blumenfeld 9780745333427
RRP: €33.59Booksplease Price: €28.85In an act of resistance against the usage of the word 'anarchist' as an insult and representations of anarchy as a recipe for pure disorder, The Anarchist Turn brings together innovative and fresh... -
Messi: Lessons in Style by Jordi Punti 9781780724157
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €11.11"Reading this playful portrait of Leo Messi reminded me how extraordinary every minute was that I spent by his side." PEP GUARDIOLA SHORTLISTED FOR THE TELEGRAPH SPORTS BOOK AWARDS BIOGRAPHY OF... -
Emmanuel Levinas: Basic Philosophical Writings by Adriaan Theodoor Peperzak
RRP: €20.39Booksplease Price: €17.89Emmanuel Levinas (1906-1996) has exerted a profound influence on 20th-century continental philosophy. This anthology, including Levinas's key philosophical texts over a period of more than forty... -
In Praise of Love by Alain Badiou 9781595588777
RRP: €20.39Booksplease Price: €12.90The renowned French philosopher's "ode to love's power to unite in the face of eternity, and its optimism in the face of pain" (Publishers Weekly). In a world rife with consumerism, where online... -
How to Read Lacan by Slavoj Zizek 9780393329551
RRP: €14.39Booksplease Price: €11.66The How to Read series provides a context and an explanation that will facilitate and enrich your understanding of texts vital to the canon. These books use excerpts from the major texts to explain... -
Artist in Residence by Simon Bill
RRP: €10.79Booksplease Price: €8.14For Simon Bill's drunken anti-hero, an abstract artist forced to haunt private views to siphon the free booze, the picture looks bleak. He has been dumped by his curator girlfriend and the only... -
Style in Theory: Between Literature and Philosophy by Ivan Callus 9781441128935
Booksplease Price: €55.94'What, in theory, is style? How has style been rethought in literary theory?'Drawing together leading academics working within and across the disciplines of English, philosophy, literary theory, and... -
Redistribution or Recognition?: A Political-Philosophical Exchange by Nancy Fraser
RRP: €23.99Booksplease Price: €21.97"Recognition" has become a veritable keyword of our time, but its relation to "redistribution" remains undertheorized. This volume remedies the lacuna by staging a sustained debate between two... -
The Power of Life: Agamben and the Coming Politics by David Kishik
RRP: €21.59Booksplease Price: €19.08Giorgio Agamben's work develops a new philosophy of life. On its horizon lies the conviction that our form of life can become the guiding and unifying power of the politics to come. Informed by this... -
Love and Lies: And Why You Can't Have One Without the Other by Clancy Martin 9781784700775
RRP: €10.79Booksplease Price: €8.20For better or for worse, for richer or for poorer: love and lies have always been the most intimate of bedfellows. And Clancy Martin - divorced twice, married three times - is no stranger to either... -
Dead Man Working Carl Cederstrom 9781780991566
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €8.88Capitalism has become strange. Ironically, while the 'age of work' seems to have come to an end, working has assumed a total presence - a 'worker's society' in the worst sense of the term - where... -
Seneca: A Life by Emily Wilson
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €11.08Philosopher, dramatist, rhetorician, Stoic and pragmatist, Seneca was one of the most contradictory figures in ancient Rome, embracing a stern ascetic morality while amassing a fortune under Nero and... -
Nostalgia: When Are We Ever at Home? by Barbara Cassin 9780823269501
RRP: €80.40Booksplease Price: €70.66Winner, French Voices Grand Prize Nostalgia makes claims on us both as individuals and as members of a political community. In this short book, Barbara Cassin provides an eloquent and sophisticated... -
The Happiness Fantasy Carl Cederstroem (New School for Social Research) 9781509523818
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €11.87In this devastatingly witty new book, Carl Cederstroem traces our present-day conception of happiness from its roots in early-twentieth-century European psychiatry, to the Beat generation, to Ronald... -
I am Not a Brain: Philosophy of Mind for the 21st Century Markus Gabriel 9781509514755
RRP: €66.00Booksplease Price: €47.66Many consider the nature of human consciousness to be one of the last great unsolved mysteries. Why should the light turn on, so to speak, in human beings at all? And how is the electrical storm of... -
Culture and the Death of God by Terry Eagleton 9780300212334
RRP: €14.39Booksplease Price: €13.03New observations on the persistence of God in modern times and why "authentic" atheism is so very hard to come by How to live in a supposedly faithless world threatened by religious fundamentalism?... -
This Life: Why Mortality Makes Us Free by Martin Hagglund
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €11.11If this life is all there is, what should we do with it? Join Swedish philosopher Martin Hagglund on an original inquiry into the deepest questions of existence, beginning with a radical declaration:... -
The Ego and the Flesh: An Introduction to Egoanalysis by Jacob Rogozinski 9780804759885 [USED COPY]
RRP: €134.40Booksplease Price: €13.44Is our ego but an illusion, a mere appearance produced by a reality that is foreign to us? Is it the main source of violence and injustice? Jacob Rogozinski calls into question these prejudices that... -
Ecce Humanitas: Beholding the Pain of Humanity by Brad Evans 9780231184625
RRP: €140.40Booksplease Price: €109.75The very idea of humanity seems to be in crisis. Born in the ashes of devastation after the slaughter of millions, the liberal conception of humanity imagined a suffering victim in need of salvation... -
The Life Inside: A Memoir of Prison, Family and Learning to Be Free by Andy West 9781037412011
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €9.62Now a major BBC drama, Waiting for the Out.A unique insight into survival behind bars, inherited shame and some of life's most pressing questions.An Irish Times and The i Book of the Year'Tense and... -
The Life Inside: A Memoir of Prison, Family and Learning to be Free by Andy West
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €8.21An Irish Times and The i Book of 2022'Tense and intimate . . . an education' - Geoff Dyer'Enriching, sobering and at times heartrending. A wonder' - Sir Lenny Henry'Authentic, fascinating and deeply... -
Antigone, Interrupted by Bonnie Honig 9781107668157
RRP: €30.00Booksplease Price: €14.75Sophocles' Antigone is a touchstone in democratic, feminist and legal theory, and possibly the most commented upon play in the history of philosophy and political theory. Bonnie Honig's rereading of... -
Conversion Disorder: Listening to the Body in Psychoanalysis by Jamieson Webster 9780231184090
RRP: €30.00Booksplease Price: €24.17Conversion disorder-a psychiatric term that names the enigmatic transformation of psychic energy into bodily manifestations-offers a way to rethink the present. With so many people suffering from... -
Conversations on Violence: An Anthology Brad Evans 9780745341682
RRP: €22.79Booksplease Price: €18.29'Brad Evans in one of the brightest critical minds of his generation' - Henry A. Giroux Whether physical or metaphorical, institutional or interpersonal, violence is everywhere. A seemingly... -
Lives of the Eminent Philosophers: Compact Edition by Diogenes Laertius
RRP: €19.79Booksplease Price: €18.73Everyone wants to live a meaningful life. Long before our own day of self-help books offering twelve-step programs and other guides to attain happiness, the philosophers of ancient Greece explored... -
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The Book of Barely Imagined Beings: A 21st-Century Bestiary by Caspar Henderson 9781847082442 [USED COPY]
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €6.05From Axolotl to Zebrafish, discover a host of barely imagined beings: real creatures that are often more astonishing than anything dreamt in the pages of a medieval bestiary. Ranging from the depths...