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The Prince (Collins Classics) by Niccolo Machiavelli 9780007420070
RRP: £2.99£2.34HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'We have declared before that it is not only expedient but necessary for a prince to take care his foundations be good, otherwise his fabric will be sure to... -
Diverging Time: The Politics of Modernity in Kant, Hegel, and Marx by David Carvounas 9780739103739
RRP: £39.00£34.37Temporal divergence creates a need for new narratives and paradigms. In Diverging Time David Carvounas supports this assertion through detailed expository and diagnostic readings of Kant, Hegel, and Marx. He focuses on their contribution to our... -
The Critical Legal Studies Movement: Another Time, a Greater Task by Roberto Mangabeira Unger
£18.79Critical legal studies is the most important development in progressive thinking about law of the past half century. It has inspired the practice of legal analysis as institutional imagination, exploring, with the materials of the law, alternatives for... -
With Power Comes Responsibility: The Politics of Structural Injustice by Maeve McKeown 9781350195783
RRP: £21.99£19.28What is structural injustice, and who ultimately bears responsibility for it? In answering these questions Maeve McKeown goes beyond the widely accepted narrative of unintended consequences and blameless participation to explain how power and... -
Why Can't We All Just Get Along: Shout Less. Listen More. by Iain Dale
RRP: £9.99£6.64Why Can't We All Just Get Along is part-memoir, part-polemic about the state of public discourse in Britain and the world today. In an increasingly divided society, Iain examines why we've all become so disrespectful... -
Democracy: A Very Short Introduction by Naomi Zack 9780192845061
RRP: £8.99£6.45Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Democracy refers to both ideal and real forms of government. The concept of democracy means that those governed - the demos - have a say in government. But different conceptions of democracy have... -
On Gaslighting by Kate Abramson 9780691249384
RRP: £20.00£17.15A philosopher examines the complicated phenomenon of gaslighting“Gaslighting” is suddenly in everyone’s vocabulary. It’s written about, talked about, tweeted about, even sung about (in “Gaslighting” by The Chicks). It’s become shorthand for being... -
Groupthink by Christopher Booker 9781472959058
RRP: £20.00£15.24In Groupthink, his final book, the late, eminent journalist and bestselling author Christopher Booker seeks to identify the hidden key to understanding much that is disturbing about the world today. With reference to the ideas of a Yale professor... -
The Infidel and the Professor: David Hume, Adam Smith, and the Friendship That Shaped Modern Thought by Dennis C. Rasmussen 9780691177014
RRP: £25.00£19.99The story of the greatest of all philosophical friendships--and how it influenced modern thought David Hume is widely regarded as the most important philosopher ever to write in English, but during his lifetime he was attacked as "the Great Infidel" for... -
Popper Selections by Karl R. Popper 9780691020310
RRP: £35.00£25.48These excerpts from the writings of Sir Karl Popper are an outstanding introduction to one of the most controversial of living philosophers, known especially for his devastating criticisms of Plato and Marx and for his uncompromising rejection of... -
The Northern Ireland Question: Perspectives on Nationalism and Unionism by Patrick John Roche 9781783241453
£16.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781783241453Author Patrick John RocheFormat PaperbackPage Count 392Imprint Wordzworth PublishingPublisher Wordzworth PublishingWeight(grams)... -
Foucault: The Birth of Power Stuart Elden (Durham University) 9781509507269
RRP: £18.99£16.87Michel Foucault's The Archaeology of Knowledge was published in March 1969; Discipline and Punish in February 1975. Although only six years apart, the difference in tone is stark: the former is a methodological treatise, the latter a call to arms. What... -
The Keys to Democracy: Sortition as a New Model for Citizen Power by Maurice Pope
RRP: £25.00£23.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788360975Author Maurice PopeFormat HardbackImprint Imprint AcademicPublisher Imprint AcademicWeight(grams) 550gDimensions(mm) 235mm * 156mm * 14mm -
Heidegger in Ruins: Between Philosophy and Ideology by Richard Wolin
RRP: £25.00£24.34What does it mean when a radical understanding of National Socialism is inextricably embedded in the work of the twentieth century's most important philosopher? "Combines close readings of Heidegger's key writings with a rich cultural, literary and... -
Suburban Socialism by Oly Durose
RRP: £12.99£8.60In December 2019, Oly Durose lost by over 25,000 votes as the Labour Party Parliamentary Candidate for Brentwood & Ongar. Revealing what it's like to stand on a socialist platform in one of the safest Conservative seats in the UK, this book makes the... -
Me the People: How Populism Transforms Democracy by Nadia Urbinati
RRP: £40.95£33.23A timely and incisive assessment of what the success of populism means for democracy.Populist movements have recently appeared in nearly every democracy around the world. Yet our grasp of this disruptive political phenomenon remains woefully inadequate... -
Heaven in Disorder by Slavoj Zizek
RRP: £12.99£8.63As we emerge (though perhaps only temporarily) from the pandemic, other crises move center stage: outrageous inequality, climate disaster, desperate refugees, mounting tensions of a new cold war. The abiding motif of our time is relentless chaos. ... -
Travels in Icaria by Etienne Cabet 9780815630098
£23.82Radical in its dayand long overdue in Englishthis rare French classic traces the journey of fictional British Lord Clarisdall to the exotic island nation of Icaria. To his delight, Clarisdell discovers an ideal utopian democracy prospering amid peace and... -
Technology and the Virtues: A Philosophical Guide to a Future Worth Wanting by Shannon Vallor 9780190905286
RRP: £20.99£20.87The 21st century offers a dizzying array of new technological developments: robots smart enough to take white collar jobs, social media tools that manage our most important relationships, ordinary objects that track, record, analyze and share every... -
How To Think More About Sex by Alain de Botton 9781035019724
RRP: £9.99£7.27In this rigorous and supremely honest book Alain de Botton helps us navigate the intimate and exciting - yet often confusing and difficult - experience that is sex.Few of us tend to feel we're entirely normal when it comes to sex, and what we think we're... -
Against the Web: A Cosmopolitan Answer to the New Right by Michael Brooks 9781789042306 [USED COPY]
RRP: £7.99£4.77"A brilliant critique of the Right with very sharp insight on some of the shortcomings of the Left, this book is a must-read for anyone looking to understand how dishonest actors spread their propaganda." Ana Kasparian, Host and Executive Producer of The... -
Against the Web: A Cosmopolitan Answer to the New Right Michael Brooks 9781789042306
RRP: £7.99£7.02"A brilliant critique of the Right with very sharp insight on some of the shortcomings of the Left, this book is a must-read for anyone looking to understand how dishonest actors spread their propaganda." Ana Kasparian, Host and Executive Producer of The... -
Accidental Agents: Ecological Politics Beyond the Human by Martin Crowley
RRP: £25.00£19.59In the Anthropocene, the fact that human activity is enmeshed with the existence and actions of every kind of other being is inescapable. As a result, the planetary ecological crisis has brought forth an urgent need to rethink understandings of human... -
Bunker: What It Takes to Survive the Apocalypse by Bradley Garrett
RRP: £10.99£7.77A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020 'An extraordinary achievement . . . gripping, grim and witty' Robert MacFarlane 'Unputdown-able ... No book could be more timely' Richard J Evans Today, the bunker has become the extreme expression of our... -
Everyday Utopia: In Praise of Radical Alternatives to the Traditional Family Home by Kristen Ghodsee 9781847927170
RRP: £20.00£14.29A practical and uplifting vision of better ways to live together, own property, have families and raise children, from the author of Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism.'Kristen Ghodsee is back with another splendid insight: utopia can and ought to... -
The Dialectical Imagination: A History of the Frankfurt School and the Institute of Social Research, 1923-1950 by Martin Jay
RRP: £27.00£21.06Herbert Marcuse, Erich Fromm, Max Horkheimer, Franz Neumann, Theodor Adorno, Leo Lowenthal--the impact of the Frankfurt School on the sociological, political, and cultural thought of the twentieth century has been profound. The Dialectical Imagination is... -
The Uses of Pessimism by Roger Scruton
RRP: £10.99£7.32Scruton argues that the tragedies and disasters of the history of the European continent have been the consequences of a false optimism and the fallacies that derive from it. In place of these fallacies, Scruton mounts a passionate defence of both civil... -
State and Revolution by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin 9781637525401
RRP: £11.99£10.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781637525401Author Vladimir Ilyich LeninFormat HardbackPage Count 106Imprint Affordable Classics LimitedPublisher Affordable Classics LimitedWeight(grams)... -
Creation and Anarchy: The Work of Art and the Religion of Capitalism by Giorgio Agamben
RRP: £15.99£14.24Creation and the giving of orders are closely entwined in Western culture, where God commands the world into existence and later issues the injunctions known as the Ten Commandments. The arche, or origin, is always also a command, and a beginning is... -
A Political Philosophy: Arguments for Conservatism by Roger Scruton
RRP: £16.99£12.28In this timely new edition of his classic book A Political Philosophy, celebrated conservative philosopher Roger Scruton interrogates contemporary values, virtues and morality. What principles should govern our relations to animals, the nation state,... -
Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination by Adom Getachew 9780691202341
RRP: £25.00£19.59Decolonization 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... -
Getting Things Right: Fittingness, Reasons, and Value by Jonathan Way 9780198810322
RRP: £76.00£69.10Some of our attitudes are fitting, others unfitting. It seems fitting to admire Mandela, but not Idi Amin, and to believe that the Seine flows through Paris, but not that the Thames does. Fitting attitudes get things right. Conor McHugh and Jonathan Way... -
Black X: Liberatory thought in Azania by Tendayi Sithole 9781776148684
RRP: £15.99£14.24In Black X: Liberatory Thought in Azania, Tendayi Sithole elaborates on the problematic signifier X, a marker of the dehumanization of the black subject, and makes an argument for the struggle for Azania as a liberatory project. Azania refers to the land... -
How to Keep Your Cool: An Ancient Guide to Anger Management by Seneca 9780691181950
RRP: £14.99£12.15Timeless wisdom on controlling anger in personal life and politics from the Roman Stoic philosopher and statesman SenecaIn his essay "On Anger" (De Ira), the Roman Stoic thinker Seneca (c. 4 BC-65 AD) argues that anger is the most destructive passion:... -
Not Enough: Human Rights in an Unequal World by Samuel Moyn 9780674241398
RRP: £17.95£14.60"No one has written with more penetrating skepticism about the history of human rights."-Adam Kirsch, Wall Street Journal"Moyn breaks new ground in examining the relationship between human rights and economic fairness."-George SorosThe age of human... -
The Fable of the Bees by Bernard Mandeville 9780140445411
RRP: £12.99£9.09A physician with a particular interest in psychological disorders and satirist, Mandeville published versions of his notorious Fable of the Bees from 1714 to 1732. Each was a defence and elaboration of his short satirical poem The Angry Hive, 1705. The... -
Utopia from Thomas More to Walter Benjamin by Miguel Abensour
RRP: £19.99£17.54"Utopia poses a question. Not simply in the sense of a problem to be resolved and at the same time eliminated . . . but in the sense that, within the economy of the human condition, utopia, the aim of social alterity-of all social otherness-is... -
Trust: A Very Short Introduction by Katherine Hawley
RRP: £8.99£6.45Trust is indispensable, yet it can be dangerous. Without trusting others, we cannot function in society, or even stay alive for very long, but being overly-trustful can be a bad strategy too. Trust is pragmatic, but it also has a moral dimension:... -
Private Censorship by J.P. Messina 9780197581902
RRP: £22.99£19.56Concerns about censorship have once again reached a fever pitch across the liberal West. In other historical periods, such concerns may have marked reactions to book bans and burnings. Often, they followed prosecutions and subsequent jailtime for things... -
The State by Philip Pettit
RRP: £35.00£27.74A major new account of the state and its importance by a leading political philosopherThe future of our species depends on the state. Can states resist corporate capture, religious zealotry, and nationalist mania? Can they find a way to work together so...