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Theodor Adorno: A Very Short Introduction by Andrew Bowie
RRP: £8.99£6.45bVery Short Introductionsb: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring /b T.W. Adorno (1903-69) was a German philosopher and social and cultural theorist. His work has come to be seen as increasingly relevant to understanding the pathologies of contemporary society... -
Roots of Hate: Anti-Semitism in Europe before the Holocaust by William I. Brustein 9780521774789
RRP: £30.99£24.41How did the levels of anti-Semitism in the 1930s compare to those of earlier decades? Did anti-Semitism vary in content and intensity across societies? In other words, were Germans more anti-Semitic than their European neighbors, and, if so, why? How... -
Democracy and Its Crisis by A. C. Grayling
RRP: £10.99£7.77The EU referendum in the UK and Trump's victory in the USA sent shockwaves through our democratic systems. In Democracy and Its Crisis A. C. Grayling investigates why the institutions of representative democracy seem unable to hold up against forces they... -
Republic by Plato 9780785839828
RRP: £7.99£5.60The unabridged version of this definitive work is now available in this highly designed jacketed hardcover with a new introduction by Odysseus Makridis. Published around 380 BCE, Plato's most famous work explores the idea of justness, among other... -
Prison Notebooks: Volumes 1, 2 & 3 by Antonio Gramsci
RRP: £80.00£64.79Columbia University Press's multivolume Prison Notebooks is the only complete critical edition of Antonio Gramsci's seminal writings in English. Based on the authoritative Italian edition of Gramsci's work, Quaderni del Carcere, this comprehensive... -
Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution by Peter Kropotkin
RRP: £9.99£7.11A pioneering treatise on cooperation and reciprocity, from the great anarchist thinker'Don't compete! - competition is always injurious to the species, and you have plenty of resources to avoid it!'In his pioneering 1902 treatise on human cooperation,... -
Freedom from Fear: An Incomplete History of Liberalism by Alan S. Kahan 9780691191287
RRP: £38.00£30.01A provocative new history of liberalism that also provides a road map for today's liberalsFreedom from Fear offers a striking new account of the dominant political and social theory of our time: liberalism. In a pathbreaking reframing of the historical... -
Trouble in Paradise: From the End of History to the End of Capitalism by Prof. Slavoj Zizek
RRP: £10.99£7.77In Trouble in Paradise, Slavoj Zizek, one of our most famous, most combative philosophers, explains how by drawing on the ideas of communism, we can find a way out of the crisis of capitalism.There is obviously trouble in the global capitalist paradise... -
Future Politics: Living Together in a World Transformed by Tech by Jamie Susskind
RRP: £11.99£8.43Politics in the Twentieth Century was dominated by a single question: how much of our collective life should be determined by the state, and what should be left to the market and civil society? Now the debate is different: to what extent should our... -
Legality by Scott J. Shapiro
RRP: £21.95£18.47What is law? This question has preoccupied philosophers from Plato to Thomas Hobbes to H. L. A. Hart. Yet many others find it perplexing. How could we possibly know how to answer such an abstract question? And what would be the point of doing so? In... -
The Racial Contract by Charles W. Mills
RRP: £19.99£17.54The Racial Contract puts classic Western social contract theory, deadpan, to extraordinary radical use. With a sweeping look at the European expansionism and racism of the last five hundred years, Charles W. Mills demonstrates how this peculiar and... -
Law, Legislation and Liberty: A new statement of the liberal principles of justice and political economy by F. A. Hayek
RRP: £19.99£18.09With a new foreword by Paul Kelly 'I regard Hayek's work as a new opening of the most fundamental debate in the field of political philosophy' - Sir Karl Popper 'This promises to be the crowning work of a scholar who has devoted a lifetime to thinking... -
The ABCs of Socialism by Bhaskar Jacobin
RRP: £8.99£7.40The remarkable run of self-proclaimed "democratic socialist" Bernie Sanders for president of the United States has prompted-for the first time in decades and to the shock of many-a national conversation about socialism. A New York Times poll in late... -
Plato: A Complete Introduction: Teach Yourself Roy Jackson 9781473601796
RRP: £14.99£9.80Written by Dr Roy Jackson, who Senior Lecturer at the University of Gloucestershire, Plato: A Complete Introduction is designed to give you everything you need to succeed, all in one place. It covers the key areas that students are expected to be... -
American Character: A History of the Epic Struggle Between Individual Liberty and the Common Good by Colin Woodard
RRP: £18.00£11.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143110002Author Colin WoodardFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 289gDimensions(mm) 212mm * 140mm... -
Anarchy, Geography, Modernity: Selected Writings of Elisee Reclus by Elisee Reclus
RRP: £21.99£14.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604864298Author John P. ClarkFormat PaperbackPage Count 290Imprint PM PressPublisher PM PressWeight(grams) 338g -
Unpopular Essays by Bertrand Russell
RRP: £14.99£13.58A classic collection of Bertrand Russell's more controversial works, reaffirming his staunch liberal values, Unpopular Essays is one of Russell's most characteristic and self-revealing books. Written to "combat... the growth in Dogmatism", on first... -
The Exform by Nicolas Bourriaud
£13.49Leading theorist and art curator Nicolas Bourriaud tackles the excluded, the disposable and the nature of waste by looking to the future of art-the exform.He argues that the great theoretical battles to come will be fought in the realms of ideology,... -
Personal Impressions Isaiah Berlin 9781845952495
RRP: £18.99£14.01The third, enlarged edition of Isaiah Berlin's remarkable series of character portraits, Personal ImpressionsWinston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Virginia Woolf, Aldous Huxley, Albert Einstein, Boris Pasternak and Anna Akhmatova: Isaiah Berlin's... -
Marxism: Philosophy and Economics by Thomas Sowell
RRP: £37.99£33.38First published in 1985, Thomas Sowell's book is a crisp, lucid and commonsensical introduction to Marx's own writings and to Marxist theory. It combines readability with intellectual rigour and distils more than a quarter of a century of Thomas Sowell's... -
The Dialectics of Liberation by Mr David Cooper
£16.18The now legendary Dialectics of Liberation congress, held in London in 1967, was a unique expression of the politics of dissent. Existential psychiatrists, Marxist intellectuals, anarchists, and political leaders met to discuss key social issues... -
The Political Theory of Neoliberalism by Thomas Biebricher
RRP: £21.99£19.19Neoliberalism has become a dirty word. In political discourse, it stigmatizes a political opponent as a market fundamentalist; in academia, the concept is also mainly wielded by its critics, while those who might be seen as actual neoliberals deny its... -
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 -
Combining by Nora Bateson 9781913743857
RRP: £30.00£24.77In 'Combining', Nora Bateson invites us into an ecology of communication where nothing stands alone, and every action sets off a chain of incalculable consequences. She challenges conventional fixes for our problems, highlighting the need to tackle... -
The Utilitarianism by John Stuart Mill
RRP: £7.99£6.72This expanded edition of John Stuart Mill's Utilitarianism includes the text of his 1868 speech to the British House of Commons defending the use of capital punishment in cases of aggravated murder. The speech is significant both because its topic... -
The Essential Writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
RRP: £12.99£9.09Translated by Peter ConstantineEdited and with a new introduction by Leo Damrosch'Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains' is the dramatic opening line of The Social Contract, published in 1762. Quoted by politicians and philosophers alike, the... -
Small Arcs of Larger Circles: Framing Through Other Patterns by Nora Bateson 9781909470965
RRP: £17.50£14.50This is a collection of essays, reflections and poems by Nora Bateson, the noted research designer, film-maker, writer and lecturer. She is the daughter of Gregory Bateson and president of the International Bateson Institute (IBI). Building on Gregory... -
The Revolutions of 1848: Pt. 1 by Karl Marx 9781844676033
RRP: £22.99£20.43Karl Marx was not only the great theorist of capitalism; he was above all else a revolutionary. In Paris in 1844 he made the connection between radical philosophy and the proletariat that would guide his future work, first with the Communist League and... -
Without Criteria: Kant, Whitehead, Deleuze, and Aesthetics by Steven Shaviro 9780262517973
£27.00A Deleuzian reading of Whitehead and a Whiteheadian reading of Deleuze open the possibility of a critical aesthetics of contemporary culture. In Without Criteria, Steven Shaviro proposes and explores a philosophical fantasy: imagine a world in which... -
Lectures on the History of Political Philosophy by John Rawls
RRP: £25.95£21.04This last book by the late John Rawls, derived from written lectures and notes for his long-running course on modern political philosophy, offers readers an account of the liberal political tradition from a scholar viewed by many as the greatest... -
A Discourse on Inequality by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
RRP: £9.99£7.03In A Discourse on Inequality Rousseau sets out to demonstrate how the growth of civilization corrupts man's natural happiness and freedom by creating artificial inequalities of wealth, power and social privilege. Contending that primitive man was equal... -
Aspiration: The Agency of Becoming by Agnes Callard 9780190085148
RRP: £30.49£22.37Becoming someone is a learning process; and what we learn is the new values around which, if we succeed, our lives will come to turn. Agents transform themselves in the process of, for example, becoming parents, embarking on careers, or acquiring a... -
Political Liberalism by John Rawls 9780231130899
RRP: £22.00£17.76This book continues and revises the ideas of justice as fairness that John Rawls presented in A Theory of Justice but changes its philosophical interpretation in a fundamental way. That previous work assumed what Rawls calls a "well-ordered society," one... -
A Tough Mind and a Tender Heart by Martin Luther King, Jr.
RRP: £5.99£4.46'Far from being the pious injunction of a Utopian dreamer, the command to love one's enemy is an absolute necessity for our survival'Advocating love as strength and non-violence as the most powerful weapon there is, these sermons and writings from the... -
Republic by Plato 9781585102617
RRP: £19.99£16.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781585102617Author PlatoFormat PaperbackPage Count 364Imprint Focus Publishing/R Pullins & CoPublisher Focus Publishing/R Pullins & CoWeight(grams) 513g -
Fear of a Black Consciousness by Lewis R. Gordon
RRP: £20.00£14.29'Expansive . . . reminds us that the ultimate aim of Black freedom quests is, indeed, universal liberation' Angela Y. Davis'There is a movement from a suffering black consciousness to a liberatory Black consciousness in which revelation of the dirty... -
Chasing the Flame: Sergio Vieira de Mello and the Fight to Save the World by Samantha Power
RRP: £14.99£10.95Sergio Vieira de Mello-a humanitarian, peacemaker and state builder -was at centre of the most significant geopolitical crises of the last half-century. Born in 1948, just as the post-World War II order was taking shape, he died in a terrorist attack on... -
WTF?: A Times top 10 bestseller by Robert Peston
RRP: £20.00£3.38'Richly argued and brilliantly written... a deeply thoughtful analysis that should be mandatory reading for anyone seeking to understand where we have gone wrong.' Vernon Bogdanor, Financial TimesAs with his previous bestsellers, WHO RUNS BRITAIN? and... -
The Oxford Handbook of Political Theory John S Dryzek (Professor of Social and Political Theory, Australian National University) 9780199548439
RRP: £34.99£34.29Long recognized as one of the main branches of political science, political theory has in recent years burgeoned in many different directions. Close textual analysis of historical texts sits alongside more analytical work on the nature and normative... -
On Liberty by John Stuart Mill 9780141046945
RRP: £7.99£5.79In one of the most influential philosophical works ever writen, John Stuart Mill explores the risks and responsibilities of liberty. Examining the tyranny that can come both from government and from the herd-like opinion of the majority, Mill proposes a...