Philosophy and Thought

Philip Stokes / Philosophy : 100 Essential Thinkers (Coffee Table Book)

Philosophy in the West has a long and venerable tradition, stretching back to almost six centuries before the birth of Christ. Philosophy 100 Essential Thinkers introduces one hundred of the world's greatest philosophers and locates them within the...

Christopher Hampton - Socialism in a Crippled World - PB -1981

A very readable book, full of eloquent passion for Hampton's socialist cause, one that he feels is the way to make the world a more humane and just place.He argues that Marx's 19th century views have never really been tried. What is necessary is a...

Richard Butler - The Life and World of George Santayana - PB -1960

Paperback, Gateway Books USA 1960.  Partly biographical, part study of the importance of Santayana as a key thinker and philosopher during his life ( 1863-1952) 

G.I Warnock - Berkeley ( Pelican Philosophy) - Vintage PB -1953

Berkeley is one of the most influential and yet most misunderstood of eighteenth-century philosophers. In this classic 1953 introduction, G.J. Warnock examines all Berkeley's major philosophical works and discusses his most original and interesting...

Christian Metz / Impersonal Enunciation, or the Place of Film (Large Paperback)

Christian Metz is best known for applying Saussurean theories of semiology to film analysis. In the 1970s, he used Sigmund Freud's psychology and Jacques Lacan's mirror theory to explain the popularity of cinema. In this final book, Metz uses the concept...

Robert Bly / Iron John : A Book About Men (Large Paperback) 1990

A fascinating examination of myth, literature, psychology, and anthropology" (Newsday), National Book Award-winning poet and translator Robert Bly offers nothing less than a new vision of what it is to be a man. Iron John is an exegesis of Iron John, a...

Peter Vardy / The Puzzle of Ethics

A guide to the complex subject of ethics explained in clear and entertaining language. This new edition is fully revised and updated. This popular introduction to the subject of ethics poses vital contemporary questions and explores the approach of...

Terry Eagleton / Figures of Dissent: Reviewing Fish, Spivak, Zizek and Others

Playwright, literary theorist, fine analyst of the works of Shakespeare, the Brontës, Swift and Joyce, scourge of postmodernism, autobiographer — Terry Eagleton’s achievements are many and his combative intelligence widely admired and...

Simone Weil / The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties towards Mankind

Hailed by Andre Gide as the patron saint of all outsiders, Simone Weil's short life was ample testimony to her beliefs. In 1943, the final year of her life, unable to join the resistance movement in France, she worked in London for the Free French...

Pedro Alexis Tabensky / The Positive Function of Evil (Hardback)

This collection explores the controversial and perhaps even abject idea that evils, large and small, human and natural, may have a central positive function to play in our lives. For centuries a concern of religious thinkers from the Christian...

Reuben Hersh / What Is Mathematics Really (Hardback)

What is Mathematics, Really? Most philosophers of mathematics treat it as isolated, timeless, ahistorical, inhuman. Reuben Hersh argues the contrary, that mathematics must be understood as a human activity, a social phenomenon, part of human...

Erica Jong / What Do Women Want? : Power, Sex, Bread and Roses (Hardback)

Attempting to build a path towards a millennial sexual politics and truce between the sexes, this collection covers politics, pornography, motherhood and writing, with turns in the limelight from Hillary Rodham Clinton, Lolita, Princess Diana and Louise...

Simon Blackburn / Being Good: A Short Introduction to Ethics (Hardback)

From political scandals at the highest levels to inflated repair bills at the local garage, we are seemingly surrounded with unethical behavior, so why should we behave any differently? Why should we go through life anchored down by rules no one else...

Alan Macfarlane / Letters to Lily : On How the World Works (Hardback)

What is love? Why are families so difficult? How do we get justice? Who is God? What makes us individuals? And why are we here in the first place? In responding to his granddaughter’s challenging questions, social anthropologist Alan Macfarlane...

Harry J. Gensler / Formal Ethics (Hardback)

Formal Ethics is the study of formal ethical principles. The most important of these, perhaps even the most important principle of life, is the golden "Treat others as you want to be treated". Although the golden rule enjoys support amongst different...

Damian Thompson / Counterknowledge (Hardback)

We are being swamped by dangerous nonsense. From 9/11 conspiracy theories to Holocaust denial, creationism to alternative medicine, we are all experiencing an epidemic of demonstrably untrue descriptions of the world. For Damian Thompson, these unproven...

Antonio R. Damasio / Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain (Large Paperback)

In this wondrously lucid and engaging book, renowned neurologist Antonio Damasio demonstrates what many of us have long emotions are not a luxury, they are essential to rational thinking. Descartes' Error takes the reader on an enthralling journey of...

Marcus Weeks / What Would Nietzsche Do (Large Paperback)

What Would Nietzsche Do? uses the key ideas of more than 80 philosophical thinkers, past and present, to shine new light onto today's everyday problems. Ever wondered if Schopenhauer could fix your broken heart? How Heraclitus might help you if you lost...

Julian Baggini , Peter S. Fosl / The Philosopher's Toolkit (Large Paperback)

The second edition of this popular compendium provides the necessary intellectual equipment to engage with and participate in effective philosophical argument, reading, and reflection     All of our books are second hand, and while you may not...

Craig Storti / Cross-Cultural Dialogues: 74 Brief Encounters with Cultural Difference (Large Paperback)

Culture affects everything we the simplest phrase can be so steeped in cultural context that even seemingly innocent exchanges between people are loaded with cultural differences waiting to expand into misunderstanding and tension. In response,...

Kenneth L. Becker / Unlikely Companions: C. G. Jung on the Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius of Loyola (Large Paperback)

Both Ignatius of Loyola and C.G. Jung were giants in their own fields. Separated in time by four centuries and different world views, both men were interested in the inner journey of the individual. The author examines how Jung's thoughts about...

Robert B. Stewart / The Future of Atheism (Large Paperback)

Containing the transcript of a lively dialogue between Alister McGrath and Daniel Dennett on the topic of the status of atheism, this book highlights points of agreement and disagreement between the two.     All of our books are second hand,...

Thomas Berry / The Dream of the Earth (Large Paperback)

This acclaimed inaugural volume of the Sierra Club Nature and Natural Philosophy Library considers our ecological fate from a species perspective, the way The Fate of the Earth viewed our prospects for nuclear annihilation. Thomas Berry's seminal thesis...

Jules Evans / Philosophy for Life: And Other Dangerous Situations (Large Paperback)

In his engaging book , Jules Evans explains how ancient philosophy saved his life, and how we can all use it to become happier, wiser and more resilient. Jules imagines a dream school, which includes 12 of the greatest and most colourful thinkers the...

Pádraig Hogan / The Custody and Courtship of Experience: Western Education in Philosophical Perspective (Large Paperback)

Throughout most of the history of Western civilization, Christianity and Classical ideals played a dominant part in education. In most western countries, however, this is no longer the case. In modern pluralist Democracies, church influence struggles...

Vincent MacNamara / New Life for Old: On Desire and Becoming Human (Large Paperback)

MacNamara takes as his starting point the human condition, specifically, human desire. He considers the desires that drive us, the patterns we develop, and the disappointments we suffer. He leads us into an awareness of deeper desires - the domain of...

Guy P. Harrison / 50 Popular Beliefs That People Think Are True (Large Paperback)

Maybe you know someone who swears by the reliability of psychics or who is in regular contact with angels. Or perhaps you're trying to find a nice way of dissuading someone from wasting money on a homeopathy cure. Or you met someone at a party who...

Marshall Missner / Wadsworth Philosophers Series : On Hobbes (Large Paperback)

This brief text assists students in understanding Hobbes' philosophy and thinking so that they can more fully engage in useful, intelligent class dialogue and improve their understanding of course content. Part of the "Wadsworth Philosophers Series,"...

Sydney D. Bailey / War and Conscience in the Nuclear Age (Large Paperback)

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John D. Caputo / Deconstruction in a Nutshell: Conversation with Jacques Derrida (Large Paperback)

Responding to questions put to him at a Roundtable held at Villanova University in 1994, Jacques Derrida leads the reader through an illuminating discussion of the central themes of deconstruction. Speaking in English and extemporaneously, Derrida takes...

Adam Phillips / Going Sane

From Britain's leading psychoanalyst, author of On Kindness and Missing Out, Adam Phillips explains what it means to be a sane person in an insane world. Volumes have been dedicated to madness, but sanity is rarely mentioned. We can define the mad, but...

David Runciman / How Democracy Ends

Scintillating ... thought-provoking ... one of the very best of the great crop of recent books on the subject.' Andrew Rawnsley, Observer Democracy has died hundreds of times, all over the world. We think we know what that looks like: chaos descends and...

Richard Girling / Greed

A timely polemic on how it drove our ancesters out of their caves but is now sending us careening towards our destruction.Selfishness and greed have been our tools of survival from the very beginning, ever since our earliest forebearers climbed down from...

Hans Küng - On Being a Christian - HB -1977

Hardcover, first English language edition, 1977, ( originally 1974) translated by Edward Quinn.  An international bestseller by one of this century's most prominent theologians, On Being a Christian is a work of exhaustive scholarship,...

J. Krishnamurti / Freedom From the Unknown

Freedom from the known is a book that provides much needed insight into the monotonous quality our lives have adapted into the book does an in-depth exploration of the idea that life as we know it is a result of the pressure we are under to maintain and...

Meher McArthur / Confucius

Scholar, philosopher and political sage, Confucius lived at a turbulent time in his country's history, the so-called 'Spring and Autumn Period' of the sixth century BC, during which China was wracked by warfare between rival feudal states. Against this...

W.B. Gallie / Peirce and Pragmatism (Vintage Paperback)

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Perry Zurn & Dani S. Bassett / Curious Minds : The Power of Connection (Hardback)

An exhilarating, genre-bending exploration of curiosity’s powerful capacity to connect ideas and people.Curious about something? Google it. Look at it. Ask a question. But is curiosity simply information seeking? According to this exhilarating,...

Peter Hain / Back to the Future of Socialism (Hardback)

What's gone wrong with capitalism and how should governments respond? What does the future hold for the Left in the UK in the face of the austerity straitjacket around politics and media? Anthony Crosland’s The Future of Socialism (1956) provided a...

E.F Schumacher - Good Work - PB - 1979

Indicates directions individuals can take to make a workable future for themselves, stressing that man can control and redirect technology and large institutions by recognizing the importance of the human being Paperback, published by Abacus UK,...

Kerry Spackman / The Ant and the Ferrari (Large Paperback)

 Is there life after death? Can we prove the big bang theory? In his engrossing and accessible style, Dr Kerry Spackman uses everyday examples to answer these questions and other diverse issues. the Ant and the Ferrari is a magical tour-de-force...

Hannelore Bublitz - Judith Butler zur Einführung - PB -2005

Judith Butler (geb. 1956) ist eine der profiliertesten Vertreterinnen poststrukturalistischer Theorie. Bekannt geworden ist sie mit ihrem Buch Das Unbehagen der Geschlechter, das zum Schlüsselbuch der neueren feministischen Theorie wurde. Wie keine...

Otto A. Böhmer / The Philosophy Book: An A-Z of Philosophers and Ideas in Sophie's World (Hardback)

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Andrew Keen / The Internet is Not the Answer (Hardback)

 The Internet, created during the Cold War, has now ushered in one of the greatest shifts in society since the Industrial Revolution. There are many positive ways in which the Internet has contributed to the world, but as a society we are less aware...

Jonathan Sacks / To Heal a Fractured World: The Ethics of Responsibility (Large Paperback)

 More than any previous generation, we have been tempted to imagine that the individual's needs are the sole source of meaning. Here Rabbi Sacks argues that this pre-occupation with self is a mistake and that ethics are concerned with the life we...

Ted M. Dorman / A Faith for All Seasons - Historical Christian Belief in its Classical Expression (Large Paperback)

 In response to the questions most asked by students in his theology classes at Taylor University, Ted M. Dorman revises his textbook, which introduces and explains the classic doctrines of the philosophy of historic Christian faith. While...

William Kingston / Innovation : the creative impulse in human progress : industry, art, science (Hardback)

Discusses why and how humanity innovates; innovation is the central driving force for the human race with many unseen benefits. Includes a detailed case study of the creation of the first antibiotics, showing the role of the innovators and the complexity...

Steven E. Landsburg / The Big Questions: Tackling the Problems of Philosophy with Ideas from Mathematics, Economics, and Physics (Hardback)

 In the wake of his enormously popular books The Armchair Economist and More Sex Is Safer Sex , S teven L andsburg uses concepts from mathematics, economics, and physics to address the big questions in What is real? What can we know? What is the...

Catherine Redfern & Kristin Aune / Reclaiming the F Word : Feminism Today

 Feminism is so last century. Surely in today's world the idea is irrelevant and unfashionable? Wrong. Since the turn of the millennium a new feminist movement has emerged to challenge these assumptions. Based on interviews with thousands of women,...

Giovanni Frazzetto / Together, Closer: Stories of Intimacy in Friendship, Love, and Family (Large Paperback)

A deeply felt book that explores intimacy through the stories of eight relationships, from a leading neuroscientist and author of How We Feel. What is intimacy and why do we need it? Intimacy is that moment when our true identity is revealed to...

Thomas Hylland Eriksen / Small Places, Large Issues: An Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology (Large Paperback)

Ranging from the Pacific islands to the Arctic north and from small villages to modern nation states, this concise introduction to social and cultural anthropology reveals the rich global variation in social life and culture. The text also provides a...

Gerry O'Hanlon / Theology in the Irish Public Square (Large Paperback)

O'Hanlon draws on the rich resources of Christian humanism to make connections between faith and real life at a time of crisis and darkness. He does so in a way which will be of interest to believers (including Muslims) and non-believers alike, as we...