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Mandeville’s Fable: Pride, Hypocrisy, and Sociability by Dr Robin Douglass
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $31.39Why we should take Bernard Mandeville seriously as a philosopherBernard Mandeville's The Fable of the Bees outraged its eighteenth-century audience by proclaiming that private vices lead to public prosperity. Today the work is best known as an early... -
The Oxford Handbook of Political Psychology by Leonie Huddy 9780197541302
Booksplease Price: $52.52Political psychology applies what is known about human psychology to the study of politics. It examines how people reach political decisions on topics such as voting, party identification, and political attitudes as well as how leaders mediate political... -
Liberalism: The Life of an Idea, Second Edition by Edmund Fawcett 9780691180380
RRP: $28.38Booksplease Price: $23.48A compelling history of liberalism from the nineteenth century to todayDespite playing a decisive role in shaping the past two hundred years of American and European politics, liberalism is no longer the dominant force it once was. In this expanded and... -
Trust: A Very Short Introduction by Katherine Hawley
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $9.06Trust 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:... -
Hegel’s World Revolutions by Richard Bourke 9780691250182
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $26.45A new account of the relevance of Hegel's ideas for today's world, countering the postwar anti-Hegel "insurgency"G.W.F. Hegel was widely seen as the greatest philosopher of his age. Ever since, his work has shaped debates about issues as varied as... -
For F*ck's Sake: Why Swearing is Shocking, Rude, and Fun by Rebecca Roache 9780190665067
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.72Why do we love to swear so much? Why do we get so offended when others do it? With wit and insight, philosopher Rebecca Roache seeks answers to these and other puzzling questions about bad language. When someone swears at you, it can sting. Likewise,... -
Lacan by Professor Fredric Jameson
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $22.64The Benjamin Files offers a comprehensive new reading of all of Benjamin's major works and a great number of his shorter book reviews, notes and letters. Its premise is that Benjamin was an anti-philosophical, anti-systematic thinker whose conceptual... -
The Future by Marc Auge 9781781685662
Booksplease Price: $18.81For Marc Auge, best-selling author of Non-Places, the prevailing idea of "the Future" rests on our present fears of the contemporary world. It is to the future that we look for redemption and progress; but it is also where we project our personal and... -
The Ethics of Peace and War by Iain Atack 9780748615254
RRP: $39.99Booksplease Price: $37.29The ethics of peace and war is one of the central ethical issues in International Relations today. This book looks at three key theories which have implications for the role of ethics in war and armed conflict: cosmopolitanism; internationalism; and... -
On Liberty by John Stuart Mill 9780141046945
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $8.17In 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... -
Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do? by Michael J Sandel
RRP: $24.51Booksplease Price: $16.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374532505Author Michael J SandelFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncWeight(grams)... -
The Force of Nonviolence: An Ethico-Political Bind by Judith Butler
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $11.38Judith Butler's new book shows how an ethic of nonviolence must be connected to a broader political struggle for social equality. Further, it argues that nonviolence is often misunderstood as a passive practice that emanates from a calm region of the... -
Civil Disobedience: A Philosophical Overview by Piero Moraro 9781786607188
RRP: $50.31Booksplease Price: $44.94What is the difference between civil and uncivil disobedience? How can illegal protest be compatible with a democratic regime based on the rule of law? Is Edward Snowden a civil disobedient? This book follows the philosophical debate around these and... -
Archive Fever: A Freudian Impression by Deceased Jacques Derrida
Booksplease Price: $27.40In Archive Fever, Jacques Derrida deftly guides us through an extended meditation on remembrance, religion, time, and technology-fruitfully occasioned by a deconstructive analysis of the notion of archiving. Intrigued by the evocative relationship... -
Good Beyond Evil: Xunzi on human nature (313-238 BC) by Xunzi 9781739115623
Booksplease Price: $11.38A radical thinker, Xunzi disagreed with Mencius on human nature. For him men are naturally evil. From this inverse assumption, he yet reached the same Mencian conclusion: moral education is paramount for society to function, and the ruler should be... -
Privacy, Security and Accountability: Ethics, Law and Policy by Adam Daniel Moore 9781783484768
RRP: $58.05Booksplease Price: $54.13What is the appropriate balance between privacy, security, and accountability? What do we owe each other in terms of information sharing and access? Why is privacy valuable and is it more or less important than other values like security or free speech?... -
How to Be Healthy: An Ancient Guide to Wellness by Katherine D. Van Schaik 9780691206271
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $16.03Timeless wisdom about how to be healthy in body and mind from one of the greatest physicians of the ancient worldThe second-century Greek physician Galen-the most famous doctor in antiquity after Hippocrates-is a central figure in Western medicine. A... -
Shame: The Politics and Power of an Emotion by David Keen 9780691183756
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $31.39The uses of shame (and shamelessness) in spheres that range from social media and consumerism to polarized politics and mass violenceToday, we are caught in a shame spiral-a vortex of mutual shaming that pervades everything from politics to social media... -
The Making of a Marxist Philosopher: A Memoir Sean Sayers 9781032827452
RRP: $46.43Booksplease Price: $40.88The Making of a Marxist Philosopher is a revealing and beautifully written memoir and family history from renowned Marxist philosopher Sean Sayers.His father was the son of a Jewish-Irish businessman who was a friend of Michael Collins and other leaders... -
Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination by Adom Getachew 9780691202341
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $26.45Decolonization 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... -
On Taking Offence by Emily McTernan
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $28.08Someone fails to shake your outstretched hand, puts you down in front of others, or makes a joke in poor taste. Should we take offence? Wouldn't it be better if we didn't? In the face of popular criticism of people taking offence too easily, and the... -
The Portable Thoreau by Henry Thoreau
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $14.94Self-described as 'a mystic, a transcendentalist, and a natural philosopher to boot', Henry David Thoreau dedicated his life to preserving his freedom as a man and as an artist. Nature was the fountainhead of his inspiration and his refuge from what he... -
Fire Alarm: Reading Walter Benjamin's 'on the Concept of History' by Michael Lowy 9781784786410
Booksplease Price: $20.32Revolutionary critic of the philosophy of progress, nostalgic of the past yet dreaming of the future, romantic partisan of materialism - Walter Benjamin is in every sense of the word an "unclassifiable" philosopher. His essay "On the Concept of History"... -
Taking Rights Seriously by Ronald Dworkin
RRP: $32.24Booksplease Price: $31.22A landmark work of political and legal philosophy, Ronald Dworkin's Taking Rights Seriously was acclaimed as a major work on its first publication in 1977 and remains profoundly influential in the 21st century. A forceful statement of liberal principles... -
The Tragic Mind: Fear, Fate, and the Burden of Power by Robert D. Kaplan
Booksplease Price: $27.01A moving meditation on recent geopolitical crises, viewed through the lens of ancient and modern tragedy "Spare, elegant and poignant. . . . If there is a single contemporary book that should be pressed into the hands of those who decide issues of war... -
Norms in the Wild: How to Diagnose, Measure, and Change Social Norms by Cristina Bicchieri 9780190622053
RRP: $49.01Booksplease Price: $36.77In Norms in the Wild, distinguished philosopher Cristina Bicchieri argues that when it comes to human behavior, social scientists place too much stress on rational deliberation. In fact, she says, many choices occur without much deliberation at all. Two... -
On The Abolition Of All Polictical Simone Weil 9781590177815
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590177815Author Simone WeilFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams) 120gDimensions(mm)... -
Black Existentialism and Decolonizing Knowledge: Writings of Lewis R. Gordon by Rozena Maart
RRP: $28.37Booksplease Price: $23.37Black Existentialism and Decolonizing Knowledge collects key philosophical writings of Lewis R. Gordon, a globally renowned scholar whose writings cover liberation struggles across the globe and make field-defining contributions to the philosophy of... -
The Philosophy of Money by Georg Simmel 9780415610117
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $24.95With a new foreword by Charles Lemert'Its greatness...lies in ceaseless and varied use of the money form to unearth and conceptually reveal incommensurabilities of all kinds, in social reality fully as much as in thought itself.' - Fredric JamesonIn The... -
Authority and the Individual by Bertrand Russell
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $16.24From Ancient Greek philosophy to the French Revolution to the modern welfare state, in Authority and the Individual Bertrand Russell tackles the perennial questions about the balance between authority and human freedom. With characteristic clarity and... -
Crisis Under Critique: How People Assess, Transform, and Respond to Critical Situations by Didier Fassin
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $36.30The 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... -
Carbon Democracy: Political Power in the Age of Oil by Timothy Mitchell
Booksplease Price: $18.74Carbon Democracy provides a unique examination of the relationship between oil and democracy. Interweaving the history of energy, political analysis, and economic theory, Mitchell targets conventional wisdom regarding energy and governance. Emphasizing... -
Liberalism, Community and Culture by Will Kymlicka 9780198278719
RRP: $91.59Booksplease Price: $73.61Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Freedom: A Disease Without Cure by Slavoj Žižek 9781350357129
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $18.77We are all afraid that new dangers pose a threat to our hard-won freedoms, so what deserves attention is precisely the notion of freedom. The concept of freedom is deceptively simple. We think we understand it, but the moment we try and define it we... -
Reveries of the Solitary Walker by Jean-Jacques Rousseau 9780199563272
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.95'These hours of solitude and meditation are the only time of the day when I am completely myself' Reveries of the Solitary Walker is Rousseau's last great work, the product of his final years of exile from the society that condemned his political and... -
Fluid Futures: Science Fiction and Potentiality Steven Shaviro 9781915672469
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $15.71How does science fiction imagine forms of life that are plausible, and yet different from anything that we already know? Fluid Futures is about how science fiction imagines an open future. Science fiction does not claim to predict what will actually... -
The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli 9780141018850 [USED COPY]
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $2.97Throughout 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... -
The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli 9780141018850
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $8.17Throughout 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... -
Treatise on Toleration Voltaire 9780241236628
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.95Voltaire's Treatise on Toleration is one of the most important essays on religious tolerance and freedom of thought A powerful, impassioned case for the values of freedom of conscience and religious tolerance, Treatise on Toleration was written after the... -
Empire by Michael Hardt 9780674006713
RRP: $36.06Booksplease Price: $30.25Imperialism as we knew it may be no more, but Empire is alive and well. It is, as Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri demonstrate in this bold work, the new political order of globalization. It is easy to recognize the contemporary economic, cultural, and...