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From What Is to What If: Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want by Rob Hopkins
RRP: £11.99£8.00Big 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... -
Critique of Dialectical Reason: v. 2 by Jean-Paul Sartre
RRP: £28.99£24.62Does history produce discernible meaning? Are human struggles intelligible? These questions form the starting-point for the second volume of Sartre's Critique of Dialectical Reason. Drafted in 1958 and published in France in 1985, this magisterial work... -
Eclipse of Reason by Max Horkheimer 9781773238807
RRP: £8.50£7.79Apologies 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) 200g -
Ways of Seeing by John Berger 9780141035796
RRP: £9.99£7.11Based 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... -
Courting the Wild Twin by Martin Shaw 9781915294326
RRP: £11.99£8.00'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... -
Glitch Feminism: A Manifesto by Legacy Russell
RRP: £9.99£8.17The 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... -
How to Be Confident: The new book from the international number 1 bestselling author by James Smith 9780008536480
RRP: £9.99£6.64From 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... -
Minima Moralia: Reflections from Damaged Life by Theodor Adorno
RRP: £9.99£8.17Written 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... -
The Plague of Fantasies by Slavoj Zizek
RRP: £16.99£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... -
One-Way Street: And Other Writings by Walter Benjamin
RRP: £12.99£11.01Walter Benjamin is one of the most fascinating and enigmatic intellectual figures of this century. Not only was he a thinker who made an enormous impact with his critical and philosophical writings, he shattered disciplinary and stylistic conventions... -
Identity Politics and Tribalism: The New Culture Wars by Nikos Sotirakopoulos
RRP: £14.95£14.30Apologies 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 *... -
In the Ruins of Neoliberalism: The Rise of Antidemocratic Politics in the West by Wendy Brown 9780231193856
RRP: £20.00£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... -
The Five Senses: A Philosophy of Mingled Bodies by Michel Serres
RRP: £23.99£20.94Marginalized by the scientific age the lessons of the senses have been overtaken by the dominance of language and the information revolution. With The Five Senses Serres traces a topology of human perception, writing against the Cartesian tradition and... -
Nihilistic Times: Thinking with Max Weber by Wendy Brown
RRP: £19.95£16.12One of America's leading political theorists analyzes the nihilism degrading-and confounding-political and academic life today. Through readings of Max Weber's Vocation Lectures, she proposes ways to counter nihilism's devaluations of both knowledge and... -
The Six Secrets of Intelligence: What your education failed to teach you by Craig Adams
RRP: £14.99£9.80'You may even find that you have the last word in arguments at home and in school, thanks to this introduction to logic and reasoning.' TESSome people have something to say in any conversation and can spot the hidden angles of completely unrelated... -
Dark Ecology: For a Logic of Future Coexistence by Timothy Morton 9780231177535
RRP: £20.00£15.89Timothy 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... -
Another Universalism: Seyla Benhabib and the Future of Critical Theory by Stefan Eich 9780231212793
RRP: £32.00£24.76Seyla 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... -
The Genesis of Living Forms by Raymond Ruyer 9781786600875
RRP: £85.00£78.10The philosophy of Raymond Ruyer was an important if subterranean influence on twentieth-century French thought, and explicitly engaged with by figures such as Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Georges Canguilhem, Gilbert Simondon, and Gilles Deleuze. The Genesis of... -
Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation Gilles Deleuze (No current affiliation) 9781350040823
RRP: £21.99£19.28In 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... -
Difference and Repetition by Gilles Deleuze
RRP: £23.99£21.08Since 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... -
Black Enlightenment by Surya Parekh 9781478025191
RRP: £19.99£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),... -
Speculation as a Mode of Production: Forms of Value Subjectivity in Art and Capital by Marina Vishmidt 9781642590517
RRP: £30.00£22.38In 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... -
Return to the Source: Selected Texts of Amilcar Cabral, New Expanded Edition by Amilcar Cabral
RRP: £16.99£14.12Apologies 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)... -
Neglected or Misunderstood: Introducing Theodor Adorno Stuart Walton 9781785353826
RRP: £17.99£15.39While Theodor Adorno has continued to be influential since his death in 1969, his very centrality has led to the left simplifying his ideas while the right placed him at the center of a myriad of wild conspiracy theories, all of them filed under the... -
Libidinal Economy by Jean-Francois Lyotard
RRP: £24.99£20.44First 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... -
Excitable Speech: A Politics of the Performative by Judith Butler
RRP: £16.99£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... -
Companion to Marx's Capital, a: The Complete Edition by David Harvey
£23.10In 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... -
Critical Theory: A Very Short Introduction by Stephen Eric Bronner
RRP: £8.99£6.45Critical 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... -
Absolute Recoil: Towards A New Foundation of Dialectical Materialism by Slavoj Zizek 9781784781996
RRP: £26.99£24.98At the outset of the twentieth century, Lenin argued that materialism has to change its form with each new scientific discovery. Today, argues Slavoj Zizek in this major new work, we should apply this stricture to Lenin himself. Philosophical materialism... -
Posthuman Ecologies: Complexity and Process after Deleuze by Rosi Braidotti 9781786608239
RRP: £35.00£32.49The devolved and dispersed character of human agency and moral responsibility in the contemporary condition appears linked with the deepening global trauma of 'inhumanism' as a paradox of the Anthropocene. Reclaiming human agency and accountability... -
Out of the Dark Night: Essays on Decolonization by Achille Mbembe
RRP: £25.00£19.59Achille Mbembe is one of the world's most profound critics of colonialism and its consequences, a major figure in the emergence of a new wave of French critical theory. His writings examine the complexities of decolonization for African subjectivities... -
Chaos, Territory, Art: Deleuze and the Framing of the Earth by Elizabeth Grosz 9780231145190
RRP: £14.99£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... -
The Sacred Conspiracy: The Internal Papers of the Secret Society of Acephale and Lecturers to the College of Sociology by Georges Bataille
RRP: £24.99£22.78Apologies 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 -
Fortunes of Feminism: From State-Managed Capitalism to Neoliberal Crisis by Nancy Fraser
RRP: £12.99£11.01Second 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... -
The Beginning of Knowledge by Hans-Georg Gadamer
£24.11The Beginning of Knowledge brings together almost all of Gadamer's essays on the Presocratics. In each of the essays Gadamer discusses the origins of knowledge in the western philosophical tradition. Beginning with a hermeneutical and philological... -
Critical Thinking by Jonathan Haber
RRP: £16.99£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 -
Radio Benjamin by Walter Benjamin
RRP: £14.99£12.55Walter 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... -
Toward a Concrete Philosophy: Heidegger and the Emergence of the Frankfurt School by Mikko Immanen 9781501752377
RRP: £108.00£93.40Toward a Concrete Philosophy explores the reactions of Theodor Adorno, Max Horkheimer, and Herbert Marcuse to Martin Heidegger prior to their dismissal of him once he turned to the Nazi party in 1933. Mikko Immanen provides a fascinating glimpse of the... -
Adorno's Critique of Political Economy: The Structural Inequities of Capitalism, from Lehman Brothers to Covid-19 by Dirk Braunstein 9781642599923
RRP: £35.00£23.04A major intervention into the place of Marxist political economy in the work of celebrated critical theorist Theodor Adorno.To this day, there persists a widespread assumption that Theodor Adorno's references to Marx-and especially to Marx's critique of... -
Crisis Under Critique: How People Assess, Transform, and Respond to Critical Situations by Didier Fassin
RRP: £35.00£28.14The word "crisis" denotes a break, a discontinuity, a rupture-a moment after which the normal order can continue no longer. Yet our political vocabulary today is suffused with the rhetoric of crisis, to the point that supposed abnormalities have been...