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Philosophy of Care by Boris Groys
RRP: £9.99£8.17Our current culture is dominated by the ideology of creativity. One is supposed to create the new and not to care about the things as they are. This ideology legitimises the domination of the "creative class" over the rest of the population that is... -
The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Law and Legal Theory Martin P. Golding (Duke University) 9780631228325
RRP: £32.95£29.54The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Law and Legal Theory is a handy guide to the state of play in contemporary philosophy of law and legal theory. Comprises 23 essays critical essays on the central themes and issues of the philosophy of law today,... -
Dreamworlds of Race: Empire and the Utopian Destiny of Anglo-America by Duncan Bell
RRP: £25.00£19.59How transatlantic thinkers in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries promoted the unification of Britain and the United StatesBetween the late nineteenth century and the First World War an ocean-spanning network of prominent individuals... -
Decolonizing Politics – A Guide to Theory and Practice by Shilliam
RRP: £15.99£14.41Political science emerged as a response to the challenges of imperial administration and the demands of colonial rule. While not all political scientists were colonial cheerleaders, their thinking was nevertheless framed by colonial assumptions that... -
A Philosopher Looks at Sport by Stephen Mumford
RRP: £9.99£8.17Why is sport so important among participants and spectators when its goals seem so pointless? Stephen Mumford's book introduces the reader to a host of philosophical topics found in sport, and argues that sports activities reflect diverse human... -
Future Politics: Living Together in a World Transformed by Tech Jamie Susskind (Barrister, Barrister, Littleton Chambers) 9780198825616
RRP: £22.99£16.68Future Politics confronts one of the most important questions of our time: how will digital technology transform politics and society? The great political debate of the last century was about how much of our collective life should be determined by the... -
Big Questions In History by Harriet Swain
RRP: £9.99£7.11Drawing on examples ranging from ancient Greece to Tony Blair's Britain, leading historical thinkers address 20 of the really big questions that have been asked over the centuries about the course of human events.Each essay is put into context by a more... -
The Principle of Political Hope: Progress, Action, and Democracy in Modern Thought by Loren Goldman 9780197675823
RRP: £58.00£52.36A few years ago, the rhetoric of hope was all the rage, but the faith it expressed has been challenged by recent events and in recent political theory. Despite the regular appeal to hope from politicians, there is a widespread feeling of despair in the... -
Democracy's Discontent: A New Edition for Our Perilous Times by Michael J. Sandel
RRP: £20.95£16.88A renowned political philosopher updates his classic book on the American political tradition to address the perils democracy confronts today.The 1990s were a heady time. The Cold War had ended, and America's version of liberal capitalism seemed... -
Biocultural Creatures: Toward a New Theory of the Human by Samantha Frost
RRP: £19.99£17.54In Biocultural Creatures, Samantha Frost brings feminist and political theory together with findings in the life sciences to recuperate the category of the human for politics. Challenging the idea of human exceptionalism as well as other theories of... -
Anger and Forgiveness: Resentment, Generosity, Justice by Martha C. Nussbaum
RRP: £15.99£12.23Anger is not just ubiquitous, it is also popular. Many people think it is impossible to care sufficiently for justice without anger at injustice. Many believe that it is impossible for individuals to vindicate their own self-respect or to move beyond an... -
The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class SPECIAL COVID-19 EDITION by Prof. Guy Standing
RRP: £16.99£13.16This 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... -
The I in We: Studies in the Theory of Recognition Axel Honneth (Free University, Berlin) 9780745652337
RRP: £18.99£16.87In this volume Axel Honneth deepens and develops his highly influential theory of recognition, showing how it enables us both to rethink the concept of justice and to offer a compelling account of the relationship between social reproduction and... -
How to Be a Leader: An Ancient Guide to Wise Leadership by Plutarch 9780691192116
RRP: £14.99£12.15Timeless advice on how to be a successful leader in any fieldThe ancient biographer and essayist Plutarch thought deeply about the leadership qualities of the eminent Greeks and Romans he profiled in his famous-and massive-Lives, including politicians... -
Against the Double Blackmail: Refugees, Terror and Other Troubles with the Neighbours by Slavoj Zizek 9780141984124 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99£2.65'One of our best-known living philosophers' GuardianHow do we respond to the refugee crisis - by opening our doors, or pulling up the drawbridge? Both solutions, argues Slavoj Zizek, offer ideological blackmail, and both are wrong. He proposes that... -
Against the Double Blackmail: Refugees, Terror and Other Troubles with the Neighbours by Slavoj Zizek
RRP: £10.99£7.77'One of our best-known living philosophers' GuardianHow do we respond to the refugee crisis - by opening our doors, or pulling up the drawbridge? Both solutions, argues Slavoj Zizek, offer ideological blackmail, and both are wrong. He proposes that... -
The New Way of the World: On Neoliberal Society by Pierre Dardot
RRP: £12.99£6.85Exploring the genesis of neoliberalism, and the political and economic circumstances of its deployment, Pierre Dardot and Christian Laval dispel numerous common misconceptions. Neoliberalism is neither a return to classical liberalism nor the restoration... -
The Hours Have Lost Their Clock: The Politics of Nostalgia Grafton Tanner 9781913462444
RRP: £14.99£9.80In The Hours Have Lost Their Clock, Grafton Tanner charts the rise of nostalgia in an era knocked out of time. Nostalgia is the defining emotion of our age. Political leaders promise a return to yesteryear. Old movies are remade and cancelled... -
The Portable Machiavelli by Niccolo Machiavelli 9780140150926 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99£2.29Edited and translated by Peter Bondanella and Mark Musa, "The Portable Machiavelli" not only gives the casual reader a chance to read different personal and professional works of Machiavelli, but also strives to do away with many of the myths that have... -
The Portable Machiavelli by Niccolo Machiavelli
RRP: £12.99£9.09Edited and translated by Peter Bondanella and Mark Musa, "The Portable Machiavelli" not only gives the casual reader a chance to read different personal and professional works of Machiavelli, but also strives to do away with many of the myths that have... -
On Lying and Politics: A Library of America Special Publication by Hannah Arendt
RRP: £11.99£8.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781598537314Author Hannah ArendtFormat PaperbackPage Count 158Imprint The Library of AmericaPublisher The Library of America -
Not Thinking like a Liberal by Raymond Geuss
RRP: £25.95£20.64In a compelling meditation on the ideas that shape our lives, one of the world's most provocative and creative philosophers explains how his eccentric early years influenced his lifelong critique of liberalism.Liberalism is so amorphous and pervasive... -
Discourse on the Origin of Inequality by Jean-Jacques Rousseau 9780486434148
RRP: £2.99£2.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486434148Author Elizabeth S. HaldaneFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Philosophy, Politics, and Economics: An Introduction by Gerald Gaus 9780691219790
RRP: £30.00£23.29An updated and expanded edition of the classic introduction to PPE-philosophy, politics, and economics-coauthored by one of the field's pioneersPhilosophy, Politics, and Economics offers a complete introduction to the fundamental tools and concepts of... -
Jim Henson and Philosophy: Imagination and the Magic of Mayhem by Timothy M. Dale 9781442246645
RRP: £14.99£11.53Jim Henson's creations have inspired generations with characters that are among the world's most recognizable cultural icons. From Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy and their Muppet friends to the legendary Sesame Street and Children's Television Workshop,... -
Politics and Ideology in Marxist Theory by Ernesto Laclau
£16.77Ernesto Laclau is best known for co-authoring Hegemony and Socialist Strategy, with Chantal Mouffe. Politically active in the social and student movements of the 1960s, and a member of PSIN (Socialist Party of the National Left), Laclau's oeuvre links... -
Against the Great Reset: Eighteen Essays Contra the New World Order by Michael Walsh
RRP: £25.00£16.24Much more than a collection of essays by eminent writers, Against the Great Reset is intended to kick off the intellectual resistance to the sweeping restructuring of the western world by globalist elites.In June 2020, prominent business and political... -
The Promise Of Politics by Hannah Arendt 9780805212136
RRP: £16.99£11.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805212136Author Hannah ArendtFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Schocken BooksPublisher Schocken BooksWeight(grams) 221gDimensions(mm) 202mm * 134mm *... -
On Populist Reason by Ernesto Laclau
RRP: £12.99£11.01In this highly prescient work - which has had a big impact on figures such as Pablo Oglesias of Podemos in Spain - Ernesto Laclau continues the philosophical and political exploration initiated in Hegemony and Socialist Strategy. Here he focuses on the... -
All Incomplete by Stefano Harney
RRP: £23.00£15.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781570273780Author Stefano HarneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 182Imprint Minor CompositionsPublisher Autonomedia -
Psychoanalytic Politics, second edition, with a new preface: Jacques Lacan and Freud's French Revolution Sherry Turkle 9780262548175
RRP: £24.00£16.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262548175Author Sherry TurkleFormat PaperbackPage Count 488Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
Durkheim: A Critical Introduction by Kieran Allen
RRP: £22.99£17.94Emile Durkheim, along with Karl Marx and Max Weber, is one of the three 'founding fathers of sociology'. This is the first book to situate his sociology in the context of his republican politics, freeing his ideas from more conventional studies and... -
A Revolution of the Mind: Radical Enlightenment and the Intellectual Origins of Modern Democracy by Jonathan Israel
RRP: £25.00£19.59Democracy, free thought and expression, religious tolerance, individual liberty, political self-determination of peoples, sexual and racial equality--these values have firmly entered the mainstream in the decades since they were enshrined in the 1948 U.N... -
A New Philosophy of Society: Assemblage Theory and Social Complexity Professor Manuel DeLanda 9781350096738
RRP: £24.99£21.78In A New Philosophy of Society Manuel DeLanda offers a fascinating look at how the contemporary world is characterized by an extraordinary social complexity. Since most social entities, from small communities to large nation-states would disappear... -
Man, the State, and War: A Theoretical Analysis by Kenneth N. Waltz
RRP: £25.00£19.59What are the causes of war? To answer this question, Professor Waltz examines the ideas of major thinkers throughout the history of Western civilization. He explores works both by classic political philosophers, such as St. Augustine, Hobbes, Kant, and... -
State of Exception by Giorgio Agamben
RRP: £19.00£18.50Two months after the attacks of 9/11, the Bush administration, in the midst of what it perceived to be a state of emergency, authorized the indefinite detention of noncitizens suspected of terrorist activities and their subsequent trials by a military... -
Philosophy of Life: German Lebensphilosophie 1870-1920 by Prof Frederick C. Beiser
RRP: £60.00£54.13Philosophy of Life explores the intellectual movement called Lebensphilosophie, which flourished in Germany from 1870 until 1920. Author Frederick C. Beiser focuses on its most prominent members: Friedrich Nietzsche, Wilhelm Dilthey, and Georg Simmel... -
Taxation: Philosophical Perspectives by Martin O'Neill 9780199609222
RRP: £72.00£64.82This is the first book to give a collective treatment of philosophical issues relating to tax. The tax system is central to the operation of states and to the ways in which states interact with individual citizens. Taxes are used by states to fund the... -
The Beast and the Sovereign: Volume I by Jacques Derrida
RRP: £26.00£24.85When he died in 2004, Jacques Derrida left behind a vast legacy of unpublished material, much of it in the form of written lectures. With "The Beast and the Sovereign, Volume I", the University of Chicago Press inaugurated an ambitious series, edited by... -
A Small Man's England Tommy Sissons 9781912248926
RRP: £10.99£7.40IS THE WHITE WORKING CLASS RIGHT-WING? AND IS IT RIGHT-WING TO EVEN SPEAK OF A "WHITE WORKING CLASS"? In recent decades, as class consciousness has been suppressed and eroded, many white working-class men have turned their backs on the left in...