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Bourdieu for Architects by Helena Webster
RRP: $33.53Booksplease Price: $29.41Pierre Bourdieu is arguably one of the twentieth century's greatest socio-philosophical thinkers and his writings have much to offer anyone interested in the ways that people value, consume and produce architecture. Bourdieu spent much of his life... -
Contemporary Political Philosophy: An Introduction by Will Kymlicka
RRP: $68.36Booksplease Price: $64.94This edition of Will Kymlicka's best selling critical introduction to contemporary political theory has been fully revised to include many of the most significant developments in Anglo-American political philosophy in the last 11 years, particularly the... -
Heroes: Mass Murder and Suicide by Francesco Berardi 9781781685785 [USED COPY]
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $4.53What 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... -
Heroes: Mass Murder and Suicide by Francesco Berardi
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $13.13What 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... -
The Cunning of Freedom: Saving the Self in an Age of False Idols by Ryszard Legutko 9781641771375
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $17.70This book has two currents. The first is an analysis of the three concepts of freedom that are called, respectively, negative, positive, and inner. Negative freedom is defined as an absence of coercion, positive freedom as an ability to rule oneself and... -
Not Thinking like a Liberal by Raymond Geuss
RRP: $33.48Booksplease Price: $26.83In 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... -
The Corruption of Capitalism: Why rentiers thrive and work does not pay by Guy Standing 9781785906817
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.93Politicians, financiers and bureaucrats claim to believe in free competitive markets, yet they have built the most unfree market system ever created. In this Gilded Age, income is funnelled to the owners of property - financial, physical and intellectual... -
Cancelled: The Left Way Back from Woke Umut Ozkirimli (Blanquerna, Ramon Llull University, Spain) 9781509550920
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.25Right now, someone, somewhere is being cancelled. Off-the-cuff tweets or "harmless" office banter have the potential to wreck lives. The Left condemns the Right and the bigotry of the old elites. The Right complains about brain-dead political correctness... -
Republicanism: A Theory of Freedom and Government by Philip Pettit 9780198296423
RRP: $61.91Booksplease Price: $46.31This is the first full-length presentation of a republican alternative to the liberal and communitarian theories that have dominated political philosophy in recent years. The author's eloquent, compelling account opens with an examination of the... -
How to Be a Citizen: Learning to Rely Less on Rules and More on Each Other by C.L. Skach 9781526655202
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $18.58Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Law of Peoples: With "The Idea of Public Reason Revisited" by John Rawls
RRP: $33.48Booksplease Price: $26.83This book consists of two parts: "The Law of Peoples," a major reworking of a much shorter article by the same name published in 1993, and the essay "The Idea of Public Reason Revisited," first published in 1997. Taken together, they are the culmination... -
The Dialectics of Liberation by Mr David Cooper
Booksplease Price: $23.84The 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... -
Cities of Power: The Urban, The National, The Popular, The Global by Goeran Therborn
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $14.31In 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... -
The Utilitarianism by John Stuart Mill
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $9.21This 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... -
Anscombe's Intention: A Guide by John Schwenkler 9780190052034
RRP: $34.17Booksplease Price: $24.91Written 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... -
Myth, Meaning, and Antifragile Individualism: On the Ideas of Jordan Peterson by Marc Champagne
Booksplease Price: $32.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788360142Author Marc ChampagneFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Imprint AcademicPublisher Imprint AcademicWeight(grams) 300gDimensions(mm) 210mm *... -
Foams: Spheres Volume III: Plural Spherology by Peter Sloterdijk
RRP: $46.44Booksplease Price: $30.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781584351870Author Peter SloterdijkFormat HardbackPage Count 912Imprint Semiotext (E)Publisher AutonomediaDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 44mm -
Discourse on the Origin of Inequality by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.91In his Discourses (1755), Rousseau argues that inequalities of rank, wealth, and power are the inevitable result of the civilizing process. If inequality is intolerable - and Rousseau shows with unparalledled eloquence how it robs us not only of our... -
Rights of Man by Thomas Paine 9780140390155
RRP: $9.02Booksplease Price: $7.12One of the great classics on democracy, Rights of Man was published in England in 1791 as a vindication of the French Revolution and a critique of the British system of government. In direct, forceful prose, Paine defends popular rights, national... -
Liberalism and Social Action by John Dewey 9781573927536
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $12.10In this, one of Dewey's most accessible works, he surveys the history of liberal thought from John Locke to John Stuart Mill, in his search to find the core of liberalism for today's world. While liberals of all stripes have held to some very basic... -
Chasing the Flame: Sergio Vieira de Mello and the Fight to Save the World by Samantha Power
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $14.23Sergio 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... -
Philosophy of Care by Boris Groys
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $11.12Our 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... -
Richer and More Equal: A New History of Wealth in the West Daniel Waldenstrom 9781509557783
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $28.37Once there were princes and peasants and very few between. The extremes of wealth and poverty are still with us, but that shouldn't blind us to the fact our societies have been utterly transformed for the better over the past century. As Daniel... -
The Mafia Philosopher: Two Tonys by Shaun Attwood 9780993021596
RRP: $12.90Booksplease Price: $12.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993021596Author Shaun AttwoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 294Imprint Shaun AttwoodPublisher Shaun Attwood -
New Radical Enlightenment: Philosophy for a Common World by Marina Garcés 9781839762987
Booksplease Price: $19.62Philosophy was born out of discussion, out of the rivalry between world views. From the philosophical ferment of the Enlightenment arose the idea of emancipation, a conflictual perspective which Marina Garcés would have us rethink. New Radical... -
The Philosophy of Movement: An Introduction Thomas Nail 9781517917456
RRP: $30.95Booksplease Price: $27.09An influential thinker distills years of work on the philosophy of movement into one accessible account Why are city dwellers worldwide walking on average ten percent faster than they were a decade ago? Why are newcomer immigrant groups so often maligned... -
Selected Writings on Race and Difference by Stuart Hall
RRP: $33.53Booksplease Price: $29.62In Selected Writings on Race and Difference, editors Paul Gilroy and Ruth Wilson Gilmore gather more than twenty essays by Stuart Hall that highlight his extensive and groundbreaking engagement with race, representation, identity, difference, and... -
Scales of Justice: Reimagining Political Space in a Globalizing World Nancy Fraser (Northwestern University) 9780745644875
RRP: $23.21Booksplease Price: $20.86Until recently, struggles for justice proceeded against the background of a taken-for-granted frame: the bounded territorial state. With that "Westphalian" picture of political space assumed by default, the scope of justice was rarely subject to explicit... -
Essays in Understanding, 1930-1954: Formation, Exile by Hannah Arendt
Booksplease Price: $25.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805211863Author Hannah ArendtFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Schocken BooksPublisher Schocken BooksWeight(grams) 414gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 132mm *... -
Future Politics: Living Together in a World Transformed by Tech Jamie Susskind (Barrister, Barrister, Littleton Chambers) 9780198825616
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $21.56Future 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... -
Globes: Spheres Volume II: Macrospherology by Peter Sloterdijk
RRP: $46.44Booksplease Price: $36.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781584351603Author Peter SloterdijkFormat HardbackPage Count 1024Imprint Semiotext (E)Publisher AutonomediaDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 43mm -
On Populist Reason by Ernesto Laclau
Booksplease Price: $17.18In 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... -
The Pecking Order: Social Hierarchy as a Philosophical Problem by Niko Kolodny
RRP: $59.28Booksplease Price: $46.96A trenchant case for a novel philosophical position: that our political thinking is driven less by commitments to freedom or fairness than by an aversion to hierarchy.Niko Kolodny argues that, to a far greater extent than we recognize, our political... -
Prophetic Culture: Recreation For Adolescents by Federico Campagna 9781350149625
RRP: $28.37Booksplease Price: $25.06Selected as one of The Tablet's Books of the Year 2021 Throughout history, different civilisations have given rise to many alternative worlds. Each of them was the enactment of a unique story about the structure of reality, the rhythm of time and the... -
The Yellow Pad: Making Better Decisions in an Uncertain World by Robert E. Rubin
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $22.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593491393Author Robert E. RubinFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Bantam PressPublisher Random House USA Inc -
Artists Remake the World: A Contemporary Art Manifesto by Vid Simoniti 9780300266290
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $20.34An original and provocative exploration of the relationship between contemporary art, politics, and activism Artists Remake the World introduces readers to the political ambitions of contemporary art in the early twenty-first century and puts forward a... -
Modern Social Imaginaries by Charles Taylor
RRP: $27.08Booksplease Price: $23.88One of the most influential philosophers in the English-speaking world, Charles Taylor is internationally renowned for his contributions to political and moral theory, particularly to debates about identity formation, multiculturalism, secularism, and... -
How to Be a Leader: An Ancient Guide to Wise Leadership by Plutarch 9780691192116
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $15.66Timeless 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... -
The Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844: and the Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $11.18Communism as a political movement attained global importance after the Bolsheviks toppled the Russian Czar in 1917. After that time the works of Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, especially the influential Communist Manifesto (1848), enjoyed an... -
The New Way of the World: On Neoliberal Society by Pierre Dardot
Booksplease Price: $17.18Exploring 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...