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The Routledge Handbook of Practical Reason by Ruth Chang 9780367695408
RRP: £43.99Booksplease Price: £39.44Over the last several decades, questions about practical reason have come to occupy the center stage in ethics and metaethics. The Routledge Handbook of Practical Reason is an outstanding reference source to this exciting and distinctive subject area and... -
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: £23.85Apologies 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 -
Against Democracy: New Preface by Jason Brennan 9780691178493
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £15.42Most people believe democracy is a uniquely just form of government. They believe people have the right to an equal share of political power. And they believe that political participation is good for us--it empowers us, helps us get what we want, and... -
Moral Clarity: A Guide for Grown-up Idealists by Susan Neiman 9780099526278
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.96In Moral Clarity, Susan Neiman shows how the philosophical resources of the eighteenth-century Englightenment can help us to construct a politics that does not repeat the mistakes of Marxism or succumb to the temptation of a cynicism that masquerade as... -
If You're an Egalitarian, How Come You're So Rich? by G. A. Cohen
RRP: £31.95Booksplease Price: £26.26This book presents G. A. Cohen's Gifford Lectures, delivered at the University of Edinburgh in 1996. Focusing on Marxism and Rawlsian liberalism, Cohen draws a connection between these thought systems and the choices that shape a person's life. In the... -
Machiavelli and Us by Louis Althusser
Booksplease Price: £14.80"We do not publish our own drafts, that is, our own mistakes, but we do sometimes publish other people's," Louis Althusser once observed of Marx's early writings. Among his own posthumously released drafts, one, at least, is incontestably neither mistake... -
The Wellness Syndrome Carl Cederstroem (Stockholm University) 9780745655611
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £14.95Not exercising as much as you should? Counting your calories in your sleep? Feeling ashamed for not being happier? You may be a victim of the wellness syndrome. In this ground-breaking new book, Carl Cederstroem and Andre Spicer argue that the... -
The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class SPECIAL COVID-19 EDITION by Prof. Guy Standing
Booksplease Price: £19.02This book presents the new Precariat - the rapidly growing number of people facing lives of insecurity, on zero hours contracts, moving in and out of jobs that give little meaning to their lives. The delivery driver who brings your packages, the uber... -
How to Focus: A Monastic Guide for an Age of Distraction by John Cassian 9780691208084
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.43How you can learn to focus like a monk without living like oneDistraction isn't a new problem. We're also not the first to complain about how hard it is to concentrate. Early Christian monks beat us to it. They had given up everything to focus on God,... -
Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination by Adom Getachew
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £32.48Decolonization revolutionized the international order during the twentieth century. Yet standard histories that present the end of colonialism as an inevitable transition from a world of empires to one of nations-a world in which self-determination was... -
Phaedrus by Plato 9780199554027
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.02'Some of our greatest blessings come from madness Phaedrus is widely recognized as one of Plato's most profound and beautiful works. It takes the form of a dialogue between Socrates and Phaedrus and its ostensible subject is love, especially... -
Contextualizing Angela Davis: The Agency and Identity of an Icon by Joy James 9781350368637
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £16.75Angela Davis is iconic as an international figure but few recognize the educational, political and ideological contexts that formed the public persona. Excavating layers of networks, activists, academics, polemicists, and funders across the ideological... -
Specters of Marx: The State of the Debt, the Work of Mourning and the New International by Jacques Derrida
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £20.24Prodigiously influential, Jacques Derrida gave rise to a comprehensive rethinking of the basic concepts and categories of Western philosophy in the latter part of the twentieth century, with writings central to our understanding of language, meaning,... -
The Silence of Animals: On Progress and Other Modern Myths by John Gray
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.40The powerful, beautiful and chilling sequel to the bestselling Straw Dogs'By nature volatile and discordant, the human animal looks to silence for relief from being itself while other creatures enjoy silence as their birthright'Why do humans seek meaning... -
Drinking Molotov Cocktails with Gandhi by Mark Boyle
RRP: £10.95Booksplease Price: £8.37More than ever, people across the planet want deep and meaningful change. From those campaigning for social justice and ecological sustainability, to those who want to protect animals, indigenous cultures and those in poverty, millions are realising that... -
Humanity at the Crossroads: Technological Progress, Spiritual Evolution, and the Dawn of the Nuclear Age by Garth J. Hallett 9780761865612
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.91Humanity now stands at a crossroads between a world of unimaginable wonders and one of unprecedented terrors. The choices we make now will determine not only the shape of our future, but whether there will be, for us as a species, a future at all. But,... -
Ethical Vegan: A Personal and Political Journey to Change the World Jordi Casamitjana 9781912836581
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.23'Veganism is not just a diet. Not just an opinion, nor a trend. It is a 21st-century revolution which began 20 centuries ago.' From the activist, scientist and animal welfare consultant whose employment tribunal changed the law forever comes a timely,... -
Creating Capabilities: The Human Development Approach by Martha C. Nussbaum 9780674072350
RRP: £17.95Booksplease Price: £15.35If a country's Gross Domestic Product increases each year, but so does the percentage of its people deprived of basic education, health care, and other opportunities, is that country really making progress? If we rely on conventional economic indicators,... -
Phaedo by Plato
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £5.64The Phaedo is acknowledged to be one of Plato's greatest masterpieces, showing him both as a philosopher and as a dramatist at the height of his powers. For its moving account of the execution of Socrates, the Phaedo ranks among the supreme literary... -
The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau 9780141018881
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.33Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched... -
Considerations on Western Marxism by Perry Anderson
Booksplease Price: £14.99This synoptic essay considers the nature and evolution of the Marxist theory that developed in Western Europe, after the defeat of the proletarian rebellions in the West and the isolation of the Russian Revolution in the East in the early 1920s. It... -
Track Record: Me, Music, and the War on Blackness by George the Poet 9781529341935
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £13.85**Available to pre-order: The ground-breaking memoir by acclaimed rapper and podcast host, George the Poet**__________By telling my story, I've laid out my predicament: I'm a Black entertainer on the frontline of the War on Blackness, but it's not always... -
Principles of Politics Applicable to All Governments by Benjamin Constant 9780865973954
RRP: £10.95Booksplease Price: £10.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865973954Author Benjamin ConstantFormat PaperbackPage Count 558Imprint Liberty Fund IncPublisher Liberty Fund IncWeight(grams) 983g -
The Practice of Everyday Life by Michel de Certeau 9780520271456
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £20.50In this incisive book, Michel de Certeau considers the uses to which social representation and modes of social behavior are put by individuals and groups, describing the tactics available to the common man for reclaiming his own autonomy from the... -
Shame and Necessity, Second Edition by Bernard Williams 9780520256439
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £20.50We tend to suppose that the ancient Greeks had primitive ideas of the self, of responsibility, freedom, and shame, and that now humanity has advanced from these to a more refined moral consciousness. Bernard Williams' original and radical book questions... -
Pedophilia and Adult-Child Sex: A Philosophical Analysis by Stephen Kershnar 9781498504454
RRP: £43.00Booksplease Price: £40.15This book provides a philosophical analysis of adult-child sex and pedophilia. This sex intuitively strikes many people as sick, disgusting, and wrong. The problem is that it is not clear whether these judgments are justified and whether they are... -
The Racial Contract by Charles W. Mills 9780801484636
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.93A very important book.... The Racial Contract has the potential to radically challenge many of us to reevaluate how we think about social contract theory. As well, to take the arguments that Mills makes is to be prepared to rethink about the concept of... -
Nuts and Bolts for the Social Sciences by Jon Elster 9780521376068
Booksplease Price: £51.49This 1989 book is intended as an introductory survey of the philosophy of the social sciences. It is essentially a work of exposition which offers a toolbox of mechanisms - nuts and bolts, cogs and wheels - that can be used to explain complex social... -
Valences of the Dialectic by Fredric Jameson 9781844674633
RRP: £35.99Booksplease Price: £28.04After half a century exploring dialectical thought, renowned cultural critic Fredric Jameson presents a comprehensive study of a misunderstood yet vital strain in Western philosophy. The dialectic, the concept of the evolution of an idea through... -
The Right to Be Lazy by Paul Lafargue
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681376820Author Paul LafargueFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc -
Mad World: War, Movies, Sex by Slavoj Žižek 9781682194492
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.29In a characteristically explosive barrage, Ljubljana's most famous philosopher takes a passionate stance on the war in Ukraine, surveys the latest Hollywood blockbusters, and delivers detonations into a range of contemporary issues, from sexual politics... -
The Disenchantment of Secular Discourse by Steven D. Smith 9780674050877
RRP: £35.95Booksplease Price: £28.96Prominent observers complain that public discourse in America is shallow and unedifying. This debased condition is often attributed to, among other things, the resurgence of religion in public life. Steven Smith argues that this diagnosis has the matter... -
Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society by Raymond Williams 9780006861508
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.13Raymond Williams' seminal exploration of the history of meaning of some of the most important words in the English language. First published in 1976, and expanded in 1983, KEYWORDS reveals how the meanings of 131 words - including 'art',... -
The Concept of Law by H. L. A. Hart
Booksplease Price: £47.79Fifty years on from its original publication, HLA Hart's The Concept of Law is widely recognized as the most important work of legal philosophy published in the twentieth century, and remains the starting point for most students coming to the subject for... -
The Structure of Liberty: Justice and the Rule of Law by Randy E. Barnett
Booksplease Price: £25.17In this book, legal scholar Randy Barnett elaborates and defends the fundamental premise of the Declaration of Independence: that all persons have a natural right to pursue happiness so long as they respect the equal rights of others, and that... -
An Introduction to Political Thought: A Conceptual Toolkit by Peri Roberts 9780748643981
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £21.24New for this edition * New chapter on international political thought This textbook gives you all the vocabulary you need -- political, conceptual and historical -- to engage confidently and deeply with political thought and the moral and political... -
How to Care about Animals: An Ancient Guide to Creatures Great and Small by M. D. Usher 9780691240435
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.61An entertaining and enlightening anthology of classical Greek and Roman writings on animals-and our vital relationships with themHow to Care about Animals is a fascinating menagerie of passages from classical literature about animals and the lives we... -
Capital: Volume II by Karl Marx
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.96The "forgotten" second volume of Capital, Marx's world-shaking analysis of economics, politics, and history, contains the vital discussion of commodity, the cornerstone to Marx's theories.The "forgotten" second volume of Capital, Marx's world-shaking... -
The Ethics of Privacy and Surveillance by Carissa V´eliz 9780198870173
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £22.17Privacy matters because it shields us from possible abuses of power. Human beings need privacy just as much as they need community. Our need for socialization brings with it risks and burdens which in turn give rise to the need for spaces and time away... -
Founding God's Nation: Reading Exodus by Leon R Kass
Booksplease Price: £20.30A chapter-by-chapter explanation of the Book of Exodus, revealing its wisdom about nation building and people formation"Kass draws from Exodus' record of the founding of Judaism timely-even urgent-universal lessons about twenty-first-century...