Philosophy

A guide for those who seek a true way of inner growth. The Fourth Way is one of the most comprehensive texts published of the ideas taught by the late...

The sequel to No Full Stops in India, Mark Tully's most popular book so far Since the Indian economy was liberated from bureaucratic, socialist controls in 1991, it has developed...

An extraordinary, uncompromising and consoling celebration of a life - through childhood, faith, family, love, friendship, pain and loss - written as its author was facing her own mortality Gillian...

Is the pope atheist? Why can a stubborn minority easily end up ruling? Should you take advice from a salesperson? This book is all about why having skin in the...

Walter Benjamin's magnum opus was a book he did not live to write. In The Dialectics of Seeing, Susan Buck-Morss offers an inventive reconstruction of the Passagen Werk, or Arcades...

'Anyone who wants to gain a quick idea of how before me everything was topsy-turvy should make a start with this work. That which is called idol on the title-page...

HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. 'The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.' When Basil Hallward paints the...

Michel Foucault remains one of the towering intellectual figures of the last half-century. His works on sexuality, madness, the prison, and medicine are classics; his example continues to challenge and...

Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) is now generally recognized as one of the most original and influential thinkers of this century. In Britain and the United States in particular, he has acquired...

In the first definitive biography of Britain's greatest public intellectual, Richard Reeves reveals John Stuart Mill as a passionate man of action: a philosopher, radical MP and reformer who profoundly...

As Derrida and Habermas disassemble and reassemble what we think we know about terrorism, they break from the familiar social and political rhetoric increasingly polarized between good and evil. In...

The four essays here collected show Mill applying his liberal utilitarian philosophy to a range of issues that are still regarded as vital today - issues of the nature of...

One of the world's greatest thinkers tells the heroic story of human progress - and why we neglect it at our peril Is modernity really failing? Or have we failed...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat does it mean for God to exist, for miracles to occur, or for faith to...

Edition: Twelfth EditionCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the crossroads of aesthetic philosophy and moral inquiry stands Music and Morals, the...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the heart of medieval Europe lay a crisis of faith — a groundswell of radical religious...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageOne of the most explosive and transformative works of the twentieth century, The Female Eunuch arrived...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat if the universe is not...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the heart of Christian scripture lies the Gospel of Saint Mark — the shortest, most urgent, and...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: markings on rear endpapersAt the intersection of philosophy and empirical inquiry...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodWhat happens when the impulse to rebel is crushed, co-opted, or turned against itself? The Broken Rebel by Rupert Wilkinson presents a...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingWhat does it mean to be virtuous when you have dismantled the very foundations upon which virtue was built? Carol...

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Edition: repr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: YellowedCondition remarks: faded and dulled spine. At the intersection of ritual, brotherhood, and moral philosophy stands...

Edition: repr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodAt the turbulent crossroads of nineteenth-century German intellectual life stands a group of radical thinkers whose ideas would...

Condition remarks:Book: AcceptableJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: YellowedCondition remarks: pages can have notes/underlining.Published in 1859, A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy stands...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: YellowedOne of the most incisive works of nineteenth-century philosophical criticism, Frederick Engels' Ludwig Feuerbach and the End of Classical...

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Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: YellowedFrom one of the twentieth century's most formidable military minds comes Thoughts on War, a landmark work...

Edition: 1st eng ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedCondition remarks: price clipped djAt the turbulent crossroads of modernity and tradition stands one of the most consequential intellectual...

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Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodIn an era when public trust in institutions hangs by a thread, Encouraging Ethics and Challenging Corruption: Reforming...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodThree of the ancient world's most enduring and authoritative texts on the art of writing and rhetoric are united in this landmark...

Edition: 1st uk edCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Some moisture damageMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: price clipped dj; some stains on the book block.At the crossroads of philosophy...

Edition: 1st uk ed.,Condition remarks:Book: AcceptableJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: pages can have notes and/or underlining in grey lead. At a moment when student revolts, anti-war protests,...

Edition: 7th pr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedCondition remarks: minor marks and specks on the boards, internally sound. At the crossroads of philosophy and political revolution stands...

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Condition remarks:Book: PoorJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: pages can have notes and/or underliningGeorgi Plekhanov — the founding father of Russian...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: Tanning and foxingAt the heart of one of history's most consequential intellectual partnerships lies a private world of ideas,...

Condition remarks:Book: PoorJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: damaged boards; binding remains tight, clean text. Few works cut as incisively to...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: YellowedAt the crossroads of philosophy and revolutionary thought stands Georgi Plekhanov's landmark work, The Development of the...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: YellowedCondition remarks: worn boards with some marks and specks; some discolouration.At the crossroads of political revolution and...