Philosophy and Thought

Antony Flew - A Dictionary of Philosophy - PB - 1984

Published in this revised edition, Pan UK.  A guidebook to the history of ideas, a handbook for the student of philosophy, or for the general reader seeking a concise definition and explanation of key ideas, in accessible  authoritative form.

Tony Benn ( Editor) - Writings on the Wall : A Radical and Socialist Anthology : 1215 -1984

Edited and selcedt by noted Labour MP Tony Benn, this is a collection of historic ( as far back as Magna Carta ) to modern essays , poems, folksongs, speeches and writings on socialism and all assocaitaed causes ( trade unionism, worker's rights,...

Terry Eagleton / Why Marx Was Right (Large Paperback)

One of the foremost Marxist critics of his generation forcefully argues against Marx's irrelevancyIn this combative, controversial book, Terry Eagleton takes issue with the prejudice that Marxism is dead and done with. Taking ten of the most common...

Noam Chomsky - The Chomsky Reader - PB - 1987

Published by Pantheon Books, NY, 1987, collecting much of the most importan t of the p[olitical thought and essays of Chomsky , from 1967-1983, including extarcts from several of his longer works.  What was central to Chomsky in this era, and in...

Anthony Kenny / The Oxford History of Western Philosophy (Coffee Table Book)

From Plato's Republic and St. Augustine's Confessions through Marx's Capital and Sartre's Being and Nothingness , the extraordinary philosophical dialogue between great Western minds has flourished unabated through the ages. Dazzling in its genius and...

Nigel Warburton / The Self (Coffee Table Book)

This is the first of six books in the Open University A222 ''Exploring Philosophy'' course. It is somewhat shorter than the other books, in order to allow you to get used to the demands of studying the subject, possibly for the first time, and to give...

Will Buckingham / The Philosophy Book (Coffee Table Book)

How did the universe begin? What is truth? How can we live good lives?Throughout history, humankind has asked these and other big questions about the nature of life and existence - and big thinkers have offered solutions that continue to shape our world...

Friedrich Nietzsche - The Birth of tragedy & The Genealogy of Morals - PB

Published by Doubleday Anchor, USA. Translation by Francis Golffing, originally 1956.  Birth of Tragedy -  The Birth of Tragedy is Friedrich Nietzsche's first book, published in 1872, which explores the origins of Greek tragedy and contrasts...

Malcolm Gladwell / Outliers (Large Paperback)

In this stunning new book, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of "outliers"--the best and the brightest, the most famous and the most successful. He asks the question: what makes high-achievers different?His answer is...

Kevin Lynch / What Time is This Place? (Large Paperback)

A look at the human sense of time, a biological rhythm that may follow a different beat from that dictated by external, "official," "objective" timepieces. Time and Place—Timeplace—is a continuum of the mind, as fundamental as the spacetime...

Lisa Appignanesi / Postmodernism (Large Paperback)

The term 'postmodernism' is ubiquitous in current cultural debate, but its meanings are difficult to grasp. This is consistent with the deconstructed, fragmented, fleeting versions of the world to which postmodernist cultural commentators allude. This...

Roy Bhaskar / Meta-Reality (Large Paperback)

This new, long awaited study, is the first and defining volume in which Roy Bhaskar, originator of the increasingly influential, interdisciplinary and international philosophy of critical realism, systematically presents and expounds the principles...

Gavriel Salomon / Distributed Cognitions (Large Paperback)

Traditionally, human cognition has been seen and studied as existing solely "inside" a person, irrelevant to the social, physical, and artifactual context in which cognition takes place. This book reexamines the nature of cognition and proposes that...

Arjun Appadurai / Modernity at Large (Large Paperback)

The world is growing smaller. Every day we hear this idea expressed and witness its reality in our lives-through the people we meet, the products we buy, the foods we eat, and the movies we watch. In this bold look at the cultural effects of a shrinking...

Albert Borgmann / Crossing the Postmodern Divide (Large Paperback)

In this eloquent guide to the meanings of the postmodern era, Albert Borgmann charts the options before us as we seek alternatives to the joyless and artificial culture of consumption. Borgmann connects the fundamental ideas driving his understanding of...

Allan Megill ( Editor) / Rethinking Objectivity (Large Paperback)

Although "objectivity" is a term used widely in many areas of public discourse, from discussions concerning the media and politics to debates over political correctness and cultural literacy, the question "What is objectivity?" is often ignored, as if...

Roberto Calasso / The Forty-Nine Steps (Large Paperback)

In books lauded as "brilliant"( New York Review of Books on The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony), "exhilarating" (Times Literary Supplement on Ka), and "profound"( New York Times Book Review on The Ruin of Kasch) Roberto Calasso has revealed the...

David E. Nye / American Technological Sublime (Large Paperback)

American Technological Sublime continues the exploration of the social construction of technology that David Nye began in his award-winning book Electrifying America. Here Nye examines the continuing appeal of the "technological sublime" (a term coined...

Bernard-Henri Lévy & Michel Houellebecq / Public Enemies (Large Paperback)

Two brilliant, controversial authors confront each other and their enemies in an unforgettable exchange of letters. In one corner, Bernard-Henri Lévy, creator of the classic Barbarism with a Human Face, dismissed by the media as a wealthy,...

Anthony Giddens - The Consequences of Modernity - PB

Published by Polity Press, 1990. Inked number to front endpage corner is teh only mark, spine uncreased, a very good PB copy.  In this major theoretical statement, the author offers a new and provocative interpretation of the institutional...

Peter Boghossian / A Manual for Creating Atheists (Large Paperback)

For thousands of years, the faithful have honed proselytizing strategies and talked people into believing the truth of one holy book or another. Indeed, the faithful often view converting others as an obligation of their faith—and are trained from...

J.A.C Brown - Freud and the Post-Freudians - Vintage PB

First published 1961, this is a Pelican PB reprint.  The book expains the main concepts of Freudian psychology and goes on to review the theories of Adler, Jung, Rank and Stekel. Later developments in the orthodox Freudian school are also discussed,...

Ian Olasov / Ask a Philosopher: Answers to Your Most Important – and Most Unexpected – Questions (Hardback)

A collection of answers to the philosophical questions on people's minds—from the big to the personal to the ones you didn't know you needed answered.Based on real-life questions from his Ask a Philosopher series, Ian Olasov offers his answers to...

Annie Cohen-Solal / Jean-Paul Sartre: A Life (Large Paperback)

One of the major accomplishments of Cohen-Solal's book is not only to place Sartre in the context of history, but to reopen the question of his role and to reassess the full import of his literary and political accomplishments. Discovering untold aspects...

Daniel Miller ( Editor) / Materiality (Large Paperback)

Throughout history and across social and cultural contexts, most systems of belief—whether religious or secular—have ascribed wisdom to those who see reality as that which transcends the merely material. Yet, as the studies collected here...

Dominique Janicaud / Beginner's Guide to Philosophy (Large Paperback)

The ideal introduction history of western thought. An illuminating discourse on the major thinkers, from Plato to Descartes to Nietzsche. A small marvel, A Beginner’s Guide to Philosophy provides an instructive and delightful introduction to...

Paul Strathern / Wittgenstein in 90 Minutes (Philosophers in 90 Minutes Series)

"If we accept Wittgenstein's word for it," Paul Strathern writes, "he is the last philosopher. In his view, philosophy in the traditional sense was finished." Ludwig Wittgenstein was a superb logician who distrusted language & sought to solve the...

Robert Mugerauer / Interpretations on Behalf of Place: Environmental Displacements and Alternative Responses (Environ Architect Phen (Large Paperback)

In this book, Mugerauer emphasizes the interplay between European continental philosophy and North American environments and architecture. Drawing on a keen understanding of conceptual trends in both scholarship and the design professions, he clarifies...

Keith Devlin / Goodbye, Descartes: The End of Logic and the Search for a New Cosmology of the Mind (Large Paperback)

Keith Devlin chronicles scientists' centuries-old quest to discover the laws of thought, from the astonishingly adept efforts of the ancient Greeks, to the invention of the first primitive "thinking machine" in the late nineteenth century, to radical...

Herbert Marcuse - One-Dimensional Man - PB 1966 ( Originally 1964)

Published by Beacon Press, USA, 1966. Bookshop sticker to front cover .  One of the most important texts of modern times, Herbert Marcuse's analysis and image of a one-dimensional man in a one-dimensional society has shaped many young radicals' way...

John Roberts / The Necessity of Errors (Large Paperback)

Truth and error are interdependent; claims to truth can be made only in the light of previous error. In The Necessity of Errors, John Roberts explores how, up to Hegel, emphasis was placed on error as something that dissolves truth and needs to...

Mark Poster / What's the Matter with the Internet? (Large Paperback)

In What's the Matter with the Internet?, leading cultural theorist Mark Poster offers a sophisticated and astute assessment of the potential the medium has to redefine culture and politics. Avoiding the mindless hype and meaningless jargon that has...

Christine Roche / I'M NOT FEMINIST BUT... (Large Paperback)

    This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain...

Peter Pesic / Seeing Double: Shared Identities in Physics, Philosophy, and Literature (Large Paperback)

The unknown history of surveillance in relation to changing systems of representation and visual arts practice. The separateness and connection of individuals is perhaps the central question of human What, exactly, is my individuality? To what degree is...

Toner Quinn & Jerry White ( Editors) - The Radical Thinking of Desmond Fennell - HB - BRAND NEW 2025

TRACKED DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE COST COPIES ARE SIGNED BY THE CO-EDITOR, TONER QUINN.  How can we create a more vibrant public discourse in Ireland? How do we organise Irish society so that it prospers culturally and economically?...

Martin Heidegger / Discourse on Thinking (Exact Copy)

Martin Heidegger's Discourse on Thinking was published in 1959. It comprises a statement of the point of view of his later thought. Since Heidegger's later thought has evoked so much interest among philosophers and, in the last few years, theologians, it...

R. G. H. Siu / The Tao of Science (Exact Copy)

''An essay on western knowledge and Eastern Wisdom'', originally 1964.  Siu applies Oriental philosophy to the problems of Western executives and program directors. The picture shown is the actual book you will receive. Please be aware that there...

Joseph Dunne / Back to the Rough Ground: Practical Judgment and the Lure of Technique (Large Paperback)

Back to the Rough Ground is a philosophical investigation of practical knowledge, with major import for professional practice and the ethical life in modern society. Its purpose is to clarify the kind of knowledge that informs good practice in a...

Tom Moylan / Becoming Utopian: The Culture and Politics of Radical Transformation (Large Paperback)

A dream of a better world is a powerful human force that inspires activists, artists, and citizens alike. In this book Tom Moylan – one of the pioneering scholars of contemporary utopian studies – explores the utopian process in its...

Geoffrey Nunberg / The Future of the Book (Large Paperback)

The death of the book has been duly announced, and with it the end of brick-and-mortar libraries, traditional publishers, linear narrative, authorship, and disciplinarity, along with the emergence of a more equitable discursive order. These essays...

Lawrence Weschler / Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees (Large Paperback)

When this book first appeared in 1982, it introduced readers to Robert Irwin, the Los Angeles artist "who one day got hooked on his own curiosity and decided to live it." Now expanded to include six additional chapters and twenty-four pages of color...

Ilpo Koskinen / Professional Mobile Image (Large Paperback)

What would you do if you could take photographs, look at them immediately on a camera screen, and send your best shots a minute later to a friend in Australia? What kinds of images would you take? Or send? Would you make up stories? Or put pictures...

Joshua D. Greene / Moral Tribes : Emotion, Reason and teh Gap Betweeen Us and Them

Moral philosophy  - a statment of the utilitarian case.         All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing...

Paul Stathern ( Editor) / The Essential Hume ( Virgin Philosophers Series)

In his day, Hume was acknowledge as the finest philosopher in Europe. Yet "the greatest mind Scotland has ever produced" remained for many years unrecognized. He bore his obscurity and apparent failure with the same good-hearted sanity as his...

John Moriarty - A Hut at the Edge of the Village - PB - BRAND NEW (Edited by Martin Shaw)

The new collection from John Moriarty, edited by Martin Shaw. There is a radical agency in John Moriarty’s work not always acknowledged. As our heads spin with mythological cross-referencing, poetical leaps and the philosophical bent, it is clear...

Karl Marx & Frederick Engels - The Communist Manifesto ( Translated by Samuel Moore)

Translated by Samuel Moore.The Communist Manifesto is perhaps the most influential political pamphlet ever written, having had a huge influence on European and world history, and First published in 1848, its arguments were primarily threefold...

Susan Stebbing - Thinking to Some Purpose - PB - 1959 ( Originally 1939)

W.B Gallie - Peirce and Pragmatism - Vintage Pelican PB 1952

Condition - spine darkened heavily, internally very good, light tanning only.  Peirce's pragmatism was the first time the scientific method was proposed as an epistemology for philosophical questions. A theory that succeeds better than its rivals in...

Witold Rybczynski / Waiting for the Weekend

Exploring the time we think of as our own, the author discusses the evolution of leisure time in Western civilization, from Aristotle, through the Middle Ages, to the present.      All of our books are second hand, and while you may not...

Dave Robinson / Introducing Ethics for Everyday Life: A Practical Guide

A Practical Guide to ethics and every day decisions. Written by an expert, it includes straightforward, easy-to-follow ways to use ethics in making real life choices in areas such as friendships, marriage, parenting, and work.Dave Robinson has taught...

Sherry Turkle / Evocative Objects: Things We Think With (Hardback)

For Sherry Turkle, "We think with the objects we love; we love the objects we think with." In Evocative Objects, Turkle collects writings by scientists, humanists, artists, and designers that trace the power of everyday things. These essays reveal...

Francis Fukuyama / The Origins of Political Order: From Pre-Human Times to the French Revolution (Hardback)

This is Francis Fukuyama's most important book since the pathbreaking "End of History". Nations are not trapped by their pasts, but events that happened hundreds or even thousands of years ago continue to exert huge influence on present-day politics. If...