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Courting the Wild Twin by Martin Shaw 9781915294326
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.22'Fabulous.' Dan Richards, author of Holloway 'Terrifically strange and thrilling.' Melissa Harrison, author of All Among the Barley 'A modern-day bard.' Madeline Miller, author of Circe This is a book of literary activism - an antidote to the... -
Eclipse of Reason by Max Horkheimer 9781773238807
RRP: £8.50Booksplease Price: £8.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781773238807Author Max HorkheimerFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Must Have BooksPublisher Must Have BooksWeight(grams) 200gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
From What Is to What If: Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want by Rob Hopkins
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.22Big ideas that just might save the world. the Guardian A serious book on an important subject. Without imagination, where are we? Sir Quentin Blake What if we took play seriously? What if we considered imagination vital to our health? What if we... -
Ways of Seeing by John Berger 9780141035796
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.21Based on the BBC television series, John Berger's Ways of Seeing is a unique look at the way we view art, published as part of the Penguin on Design series in Penguin Modern Classics.'Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it... -
Marxist Modernism: Introductory Lectures on Frankfurt School Critical Theory Gillian Rose 9781804290118
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £11.99Marxist Modernism is a comprehensive yet concise and conversational introduction to the Frankfurt School. It is also a new resource from one of the twentieth century's most important philosophers: Gillian Rose.Her 1979 lectures on the Frankfurt School... -
How to Be Confident: The new book from the international number 1 bestselling author by James Smith 9780008536480
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.86From two times number one Sunday Times bestselling author, James Smith, comes HOW TO BE CONFIDENT – the third instalment in James’ no-nonsense guides to gaining the tools to empower your decision-making and change your life. Now, more than ever, we are... -
The Plague of Fantasies by Slavoj Zizek
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.10Modern audiovisual media have spawned a 'plague of fantasies', electronically inspired phantasms that cloud the ability to reason and prevent a true understanding of a world increasingly dominated by abstractions-whether those of digital technology or... -
Hegel, Marx and Vygotsky: Essays on Social Philosophy by Andy Blunden
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £23.52Andy Blunden's Hegel Marx & Vygotsky, Essays in Social Philosophy presents his novel approach to social theory in a series of essays. Blunden aims to use the cultural psychology of Lev Vygotsky and the Soviet Activity Theorists to renew Hegelian Marxism... -
Glitch Feminism: A Manifesto by Legacy Russell
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.99The divide between the digital and the real world no longer exists: we are connected all the time. How do we find out who we are within this digital era? Where do we create the space to explore our identity? How can we come together and create... -
After Theory by Terry Eagleton
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.99The golden age of cultural theory (the product of a decade and a half, from 1965 to 1980) is long past. We are living now in its aftermath, in an age which, having grown rich in the insights of thinkers like Althusser, Barthes and Derrida, has also moved... -
History of Shit by Dominique Laporte
RRP: £23.00Booksplease Price: £16.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262621601Author Dominique LaporteFormat PaperbackPage Count 175Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 146mm *... -
In the Ruins of Neoliberalism: The Rise of Antidemocratic Politics in the West by Wendy Brown 9780231193856
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.89Across the West, hard-right leaders are surging to power on platforms of ethno-economic nationalism, Christianity, and traditional family values. Is this phenomenon the end of neoliberalism or its monstrous offspring?In the Ruins of Neoliberalism casts... -
Critical Theory: A Very Short Introduction by Stephen Eric Bronner
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.37Critical theory emerged in the 1920s from the work of the Frankfurt School, the circle of German-Jewish academics who sought to diagnose -- and, if at all possible, cure -- the ills of society, particularly fascism and capitalism. In this book, Stephen... -
Critical Theory: The Basics by Martin Shuster 9781032061566
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.22Critical Theory: The Basics brings clarity to a topic that is confusingly bandied about with various meanings today in popular and academic culture.First defined by Max Horkheimer in the 1930s, "critical theory" now extends far beyond its original German... -
Dark Ecology: For a Logic of Future Coexistence by Timothy Morton 9780231177535
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.41Timothy Morton argues that ecological awareness in the present Anthropocene era takes the form of a strange loop or Moebius strip, twisted to have only one side. Deckard travels this oedipal path in Blade Runner (1982) when he learns that he might be the... -
Futurability: The Age of Impotence and the Horizon of Possibility by Franco "Bifo" Berardi
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.39We live in an age of impotence. Stuck between global war and global finance, between identity and capital, we seem to be incapable of producing that radical change that is so desperately needed. Is there still a way to disentangle ourselves from a global... -
Difference and Repetition by Gilles Deleuze
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £17.99Since its publication in 1968, Difference and Repetition, an exposition of the critique of identity, has come to be considered a contemporary classic in philosophy and one of Gilles Deleuze's most important works. The text follows the development of two... -
A Manifesto for Mental Health: Why We Need a Revolution in Mental Health Care by Peter Kinderman
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £21.22A Manifesto for Mental Health presents a radically new and distinctive outlook that critically examines the dominant 'disease-model' of mental health care. Incorporating the latest findings from both biological neuroscience and research into the social... -
Minima Moralia: Reflections from Damaged Life by Theodor Adorno
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.99Written between 1944 and 1947, Minima Moralia is a collection of rich, lucid aphorisms and essays about life in modern capitalist society. Adorno casts his penetrating eye across society in mid-century America and finds a life deformed by capitalism... -
A Singular Modernity: Essay on the Ontology of the Present by Fredric Jameson 9781781680223
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £15.09The concepts of modernity and modernism are amongst the most controversial and vigorously debated in contemporary philosophy and cultural theory. In this intervention, Fredric Jameson-perhaps the most influential and persuasive theorist of... -
Another Universalism: Seyla Benhabib and the Future of Critical Theory by Stefan Eich 9780231212793
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £27.00Seyla Benhabib's ongoing work has expanded the range and scope of critical theory beyond its origins to address questions of gender, migration, and difference. This book brings together an ensemble of leading theorists and younger voices to explore new... -
This Sex Which Is Not One by Luce Irigaray
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £20.84"The publication of these two translations is an event to be celebrated by feminists of all persuasions." Women's Review of Books In This Sex Which Is Not One, Luce Irigaray elaborates on some of the major themes of Speculum of the Other Woman, her... -
Libidinal Economy by Jean-Francois Lyotard
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £18.99First published in 1974, Libidinal Economy is a major work of twentieth century continental philosophy. In it, Lyotard develops the idea of economies driven by libidinal 'energies' or 'intensities' which he claims flow through all structures, such as... -
Identity Politics and Tribalism: The New Culture Wars by Nikos Sotirakopoulos
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £13.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788360623Author Nikos SotirakopoulosFormat PaperbackImprint Imprint AcademicPublisher Imprint AcademicWeight(grams) 250gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 135mm *... -
Black Enlightenment by Surya Parekh 9781478025191
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.54In Black Enlightenment Surya Parekh reimagines the Enlightenment from the position of the Black subject. Parekh examines the works of such Black writers as the free Jamaican Francis Williams (1697-1762), Afro-British thinker Ignatius Sancho (1729?-1780),... -
Excitable Speech: A Politics of the Performative by Judith Butler
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.22'When we claim to have been injured by language, what kind of claim do we make?' - Judith Butler, Excitable SpeechExcitable Speech is widely hailed as a tour de force and one of Judith Butler's most important books. Examining in turn debates about hate... -
Walking Inside Out: Contemporary British Psychogeography by Tina Richardson 9781783480869
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £38.86Walking Inside Out is the first text that attempts to merge the work of literary and artist practitioners with academics to critically explore the state of psychogeography today. The collection explores contemporary psychogeographical practices, shows... -
The Bitterest Pills: The Troubling Story of Antipsychotic Drugs by J. Moncrieff 9781137277435
Booksplease Price: £39.45A challenging reappraisal of the history of antipsychotics, revealing how they were transformed from neurological poisons into magical cures, their benefits exaggerated and their toxic effects minimized or ignored.About the AuthorJoanna Moncrieff is a... -
Speculation as a Mode of Production: Forms of Value Subjectivity in Art and Capital by Marina Vishmidt 9781642590517
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £22.56In Speculation as a Mode of Production: Forms of Value Subjectivity in Art and Capital, Marina Vishmidt offers a new perspective on one of the main categories of capitalist life in the historical present. Writing not under the shadow but in the spirit of... -
To Change All Worlds Carl R. Trueman 9781087754390
RRP: £30.50Booksplease Price: £22.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781087754390Author Carl R. TruemanFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint LifeWay Christian ResourcesPublisher LifeWay Christian Resources -
Critical Thinking by Jonathan Haber
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £11.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262538282Author Jonathan HaberFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 178mm * 127mm * 16mm -
Return to the Source: Selected Texts of Amilcar Cabral, New Expanded Edition by Amilcar Cabral
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781685900045Author Amilcar CabralFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Monthly Review Press,U.S.Publisher Monthly Review Press,U.S.Weight(grams)... -
The Sacred Conspiracy: The Internal Papers of the Secret Society of Acephale and Lecturers to the College of Sociology by Georges Bataille
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £22.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781900565950Author Georges BatailleFormat HardbackPage Count 480Imprint Atlas PressPublisher Atlas PressDimensions(mm) 228mm * 170mm * 30mm -
Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital by Vivek Chibber
Booksplease Price: £24.74Postcolonial theory has become enormously influential as a framework for understanding the Global South. It is also a school of thought popular because of its rejection of the supposedly universalizing categories of the Enlightenment. In this devastating... -
Fortunes of Feminism: From State-Managed Capitalism to Neoliberal Crisis by Nancy Fraser
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.09Second Wave feminism emerged as a struggle for women's liberation and took its place alongside other radical movements. But feminism's subsequent immersion in identity politics coincided with a decline in its utopian energies and the rise of... -
Alienation by Rahel Jaeggi 9780231151986
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £23.29The Hegelian-Marxist idea of alienation fell out of favor after the postmetaphysical rejection of humanism and essentialist views of human nature. In this book Rahel Jaeggi draws on the Hegelian philosophical tradition, phenomenological analyses grounded... -
Chaos, Territory, Art: Deleuze and the Framing of the Earth by Elizabeth Grosz 9780231145190
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.15Instead of treating art as a unique creation that requires reason and refined taste to appreciate, Elizabeth Grosz argues that art-especially architecture, music, and painting-is born from the disruptive forces of sexual selection. She approaches art as... -
Companion to Marx's Capital, a: The Complete Edition by David Harvey
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.61In recent years, we have witnessed a surge of interest in Marx's work in the effort to understand the origins of our current predicament. For nearly forty years, David Harvey has written and lectured on Capital, becoming one of the world's most foremost... -
Radio Benjamin by Walter Benjamin
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.99Walter Benjamin was fascinated by the impact of new technology on culture, an interest that extended beyond his renowned critical essays. From 1927 to '33, he wrote and presented something in the region of eighty broadcasts using the new medium of... -
Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation Gilles Deleuze (No current affiliation) 9781350040823
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £15.99In this landmark text by one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century, Gilles Deleuze takes the paintings of Francis Bacon as his object of his study. The book presents a deep engagement with Bacon's work and the nature of art...