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Poet of Revolution: The Making of John Milton by Nicholas McDowell 9780691154695
RRP: £30.00£23.69A groundbreaking biography of Milton’s formative years that provides a new account of the poet’s political radicalizationJohn Milton (1608–1674) has a unique claim on literary and intellectual history as the author of both Paradise Lost, the greatest... -
The Collected Works of Spinoza, Volume II by Benedictus de Spinoza 9780691167633
RRP: £50.00£40.12The Collected Works of Spinoza provides, for the first time in English, a truly satisfactory edition of all of Spinoza's writings, with accurate and readable translations, based on the best critical editions of the original-language texts, done by a... -
How to Read Like a Parasite: Why the Left Got High on Nietzsche Daniel Tutt 9781914420627
RRP: £12.99£8.60"Beautifully written and bursting with spirit, How to Read Like a Parasite is destined to be vital reading." - Matthew McManus, author of Nietzsche and the Politics of Reaction How to Read Like a Parasite overturns the whitewashed and defanged... -
Populism Benjamin Moffitt 9781509534333
RRP: £14.99£13.58Populism is the key political phenomenon of the 21st century. From Trump to Brexit, from Chavez to Podemos, the term has been used to describe leaders, parties and movements across the globe who disrupt the status quo and speak in the name of 'the... -
The Road from Mont Pelerin: The Making of the Neoliberal Thought Collective, With a New Preface by Philip Mirowski
RRP: £25.95£20.64Although modern neoliberalism was born at the "Colloque Walter Lippmann" in 1938, it only came into its own with the founding of the Mont Pelerin Society, a partisan "thought collective," in Vevey, Switzerland, in 1947. Its original membership was made... -
Ideas Have Consequences by Richard M. Weaver
RRP: £18.00£15.40Originally published in 1948, at the height of post-World War II optimism and confidence in collective security, Ideas Have Consequences uses "words hard as cannonballs" to present an unsparing diagnosis of the ills of the modern age. Widely read and... -
How to Think Politically: Sages, Scholars and Statesmen Whose Ideas Have Shaped the World by James Bernard Murphy
RRP: £14.99£10.95'A wonderful introduction to history's most influential scribblers' - Steven Pinker What is truly at stake in politics? Nothing less than how we should live, as individuals and as communities. This book goes beyond the surface headlines, the fake news... -
The Ant Trap: Rebuilding the Foundations of the Social Sciences by Brian Epstein 9780190871758
RRP: £30.49£22.37We live in a world of crowds and corporations, artworks and artifacts, legislatures and languages, money and markets. These are all social objects - they are made, at least in part, by people and by communities. But what exactly are these things? How are... -
Malign Velocities - Accelerationism and Capitalism Benjamin Noys 9781782793007
RRP: £9.99£8.59We are told our lives are too fast, subject to the accelerating demand that we innovate more, work more, enjoy more, produce more, and consume more. That's one familiar story. Another, stranger, story is told here: of those who think we haven't gone fast... -
The Reason of Things: Living with Philosophy Prof A.C. Grayling 9780753817131
RRP: £9.99£6.80The follow-up to THE MEANING OF THINGS which continues A.C. Grayling's philosophical journey through lifeThe most important question we can ask ourselves is: what kind of life is the best? This is the same as asking: How does one give meaning to one's... -
War And The Iliad by Simone Weil
RRP: £14.99£9.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590171455Author Simone WeilFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams) 260gDimensions(mm)... -
Postliberal Politics: The Coming Era of Renewal Adrian Pabst 9781509546817
RRP: £14.99£13.58Hyper-capitalism and extreme identity politics are driving us to distraction. Both destroy the basis of a common life shared across ages and classes. The COVID-19 crisis could accelerate these tendencies further, or it could herald something more... -
On Life and Death by Cicero 9780199644148
RRP: £9.99£7.11'any service I may have rendered my countrymen in my active life I may also extend to them... now that I am at leisure' Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC), Rome's greatest orator, had a career of intense activity in politics, the law courts and the... -
Surplus-Enjoyment: A Guide For The Non-Perplexed by Slavoj Zizek
RRP: £25.00£18.88Contemporary life is defined by excess. There must always be more, there is never enough. We need a surplus to what we need to be able to truly enjoy what we have. Slavoj Zizek's guide to surplus (and why it's enjoyable) begins by arguing that what is... -
Hospitality, Volume I by Jacques Derrida 9780226828015
RRP: £35.00£29.57Jacques Derrida explores the ramifications of what we owe to others.Hospitality reproduces a two-year seminar series delivered by Jacques Derrida at the Ecole des hautes etudes en sciences sociales in Paris between 1995 and 1997. In these lectures,... -
Far-Right Newspeak and the Future of Liberal Democracy by A. James McAdams 9781032566269
RRP: £37.99£33.38This book is the first systematic, multicountry exploration of far-right Newspeak.The contributors analyze the ways in which contemporary far-right politicians, intellectuals, and pundits use and abuse traditional liberal concepts and ideas to justify... -
Karl Marx: Thoroughly Revised Fifth Edition by Isaiah Berlin
RRP: £22.00£17.02Isaiah Berlin's intellectual biography of Karl Marx has long been recognized as one of the best concise accounts of the life and thought of the man who had, in Berlin's words, a more "direct, deliberate, and powerful" influence on mankind than any other... -
Mind, Self, and Society: The Definitive Edition by George Herbert Mead
RRP: £26.00£25.25George Herbert Mead is widely recognized as one of the most brilliantly original American pragmatists. Although he had a profound influence on the development of social philosophy, he published no books in his lifetime. This makes the lectures collected... -
Seeing Things Politically - Interviews with Benedicte Delorme-Montini Pierre Manent 9781587318139
RRP: £24.00£20.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781587318139Author Pierre ManentFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint St Augustine's PressPublisher St Augustine's PressWeight(grams) 488gDimensions(mm)... -
The Soul at Work: From Alienation to Autonomy by Franco "Bifo" Berardi
RRP: £16.99£11.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781584350767Author Franco "Bifo" BerardiFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm... -
Heroes: Mass Murder and Suicide by Francesco Berardi
RRP: £11.99£9.70What is the relationship between capitalism and mental health? Through an exhilarating mix of philosophical and psychoanalytical theory and reportage - from the suicide epidemic in Korea to the wave of American mass murders - the prominent Italian... -
Liberty and Equality by Raymond Aron 9780691226767
RRP: £16.99£13.65An invaluable reflection on the essence of liberal democracy-and an ideal introduction to the work of political philosopher Raymond AronLiberty and Equality is the first English translation of the last lecture delivered at the College de France by... -
Hegemony James Martin 9781509521616
RRP: £14.99£13.58Power rarely works by force alone: it also rules by winning hearts and minds. States, classes, and social groups all seek political dominance by exerting political, ideological, or cultural leadership over others. This idea - hegemony - is a subtle,... -
Too Important for the Generals: Losing and Winning the First World War by Allan Mallinson
RRP: £12.99£9.09'War is too important to be left to the generals' snapped future French prime minister Georges Clemenceau on learning of yet another bloody and futile offensive on the Western Front. One of the great questions in the ongoing discussions and debate about... -
The Virtue of Nationalism Yoram Hazony 9781541645370
RRP: £25.00£14.66In the wake of Brexit and the election of Donald Trump, countless words have been written and uttered about nationalism-many accusing nationalists of racism, hatred, and violence. But nationalism wasn't always considered evil. Indeed, such venerated... -
Nationalism by Rabindranath Tagore 9780141192970
RRP: £6.99£5.13Tagore was a fierce opponent of British rule in India. In this work he discusses the resurgence of the East and the challenge it poses to Western supremacy, calling for a future beyond nationalism, based instead on cooperation and racial tolerance.GREAT... -
The Philosophy of Isaiah Berlin Johnny Lyons 9781350121430
RRP: £25.99£21.22'I gradually came to the conclusion that I should prefer a field in which one could hope to know more at the end of one's life than when one had begun.' So thought Isaiah Berlin toward the end of the Second World War, when he decided to bid farewell to... -
Extremism: A Philosophical Analysis by Quassim Cassam
RRP: £18.99£16.87Extremism is one of the most charged and controversial issues of the twenty-first century. Despite myriad programs of deradicalization and prevention around the world, it remains an intractable and poorly understood problem. Yet it is also sometimes... -
Cities of Power: The Urban, The National, The Popular, The Global by Goeran Therborn
RRP: £12.99£11.01In this brilliant, very original survey of the politics and meanings of urban landscapes, leading sociologist Goeran Therborn offers a tour of the world's major capital cities, and the forces that have shaped them. Through a global, historical lens, and... -
Aristotle Politica by Aristotle 9780198145158 [USED COPY]
RRP: £31.99£15.31Aristotle PoliticaBook InformationISBN 9780198145158Author Sir David RossFormat HardbackPage Count 292Imprint Clarendon PressPublisher Oxford University PressWeight(grams) 378gDimensions(mm) 193mm * 128mm * 20mm -
Amartya Sen Lawrence Hamilton (University of the Witwatersrand (Wits); University of Cambridge) 9781509519859
RRP: £17.99£16.04Amartya Sen is one of the world's best-known voices for the poor, the destitute and the downtrodden and an inspiration for policy makers and activists across the globe. He has also contributed almost without peer to the study of economics, philosophy and... -
Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism's Stealth Revolution by Wendy Brown 9781935408543
RRP: £17.99£14.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935408543Author Wendy BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Zone BooksPublisher Zone Books -
Deleuze and Guattari's A Thousand Plateaus: A Critical Introduction and Guide by Brent Adkins
RRP: £21.99£17.97Offera a guide to Deleuze and Guattari's masterwork, A Thousand Plateaus. The sheer volume and complexity of Deleuze and Guattari's A Thousand Plateaus can be daunting. What is a rhizome? What is a war machine? What is a body without organs? Brent Adkins... -
Introducing Machiavelli: A Graphic Guide by Patrick Curry 9781848311756
RRP: £8.99£4.04Illustrated guide to the crucial Italian philosopher and author of The Prince. 'Machiavellian' is a popular byword for treachery and opportunism. Machiavelli's classic book on statecraft, The Prince, published over 400 years ago, remains controversial to... -
Anscombe's Intention: A Guide by John Schwenkler 9780190052034
RRP: £26.49£19.16Written against the background of her controversial opposition to the University of Oxford's awarding of an honorary degree to Harry S. Truman, Elizabeth Anscombe's Intention laid the groundwork she thought necessary for a proper ethical evaluation of... -
Jordan Peterson: Critical Responses by Sandra Woien
RRP: £16.99£11.67This is a collection of critical essays regarding the work of Jordan Peterson, a Canadian professor of psychology, clinical psychologist, YouTube personality, and author. Peterson began his career as a teacher at Harvard before receiving worldwide... -
Conversations from Calais: Sharing Refugee Stories by Mathilda Della Torre
RRP: £14.99£10.64'A beautiful, deeply affecting and powerful marriage between art and activism' - KHALED HOSSEINI, bestselling author of The Kite Runner'These are vital conversations. Everyone should eavesdrop on them'- KAMILA SHAMSIE, author of award-winning bestseller... -
Colonialism and Neocolonialism by Jean-Paul Sartre 9780415378468
RRP: £14.99£13.58Nearly forty years after its first publication in French, this collection of Sartre's writings on colonialism remains a supremely powerful, and relevant, polemical work. Over a series of thirteen essays Sartre brings the full force of his remarkable... -
Fear of Black Consciousness by Lewis R. Gordon
RRP: £12.99£9.09'Important . . . powerful . . . . an explanation of why Black protest is such a dangerous prospect to the white power structure' Kehinde Andrews, GuardianWhere is the path to racial justice? In this ground-breaking book, philosopher Lewis R. Gordon... -
Marxism and the Philosophy of Science: A Critical History by Helena Sheehan
£28.38Skillfully deploying a large cast of characters, Sheehan retraces the development of Marxist philosophy of science through detailed and highly readable accounts of the debates that have characterized it. Approaching Marxism from the perspective of the...