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Making the Social World: The Structure of Human Civilization by John Searle
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.09The renowned philosopher John Searle reveals the fundamental nature of social reality. What kinds of things are money, property, governments, nations, marriages, cocktail parties, and football games? Searle explains the key role played by language in the... -
Prophetic Culture: Recreation For Adolescents by Federico Campagna 9781350149625
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £20.19Selected 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: £26.99Booksplease Price: £18.43Apologies 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
Booksplease Price: £19.19An 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: £20.99Booksplease Price: £19.24One 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... -
A Theologico-political Treatise and a Political Treatise by Benedict de Spinoza 9780486437224
RRP: £14.49Booksplease Price: £12.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486437224Author Alfred PearseFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
How to Be a Leader: An Ancient Guide to Wise Leadership by Plutarch 9780691192116
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.82Timeless 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: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.86Communism 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: £13.92Exploring 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... -
Hayek: A Life, 1899-1950 by Bruce Caldwell 9780226816821
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.57The definitive account of the distinguished economist's formative years. Few twentieth-century figures have been lionized and vilified in such equal measure as Friedrich Hayek-economist, social theorist, leader of the Austrian school of economics,... -
The Cosmopolitan Tradition: A Noble but Flawed Ideal by Martha C. Nussbaum
RRP: £17.95Booksplease Price: £15.35"Profound, beautifully written, and inspiring. It proves that Nussbaum deserves her reputation as one of the greatest modern philosophers."-Globe and Mail"At a time of growing national chauvinism, Martha Nussbaum's excellent restatement of the... -
The Political is Political: Conformity and the Illusion of Dissent in Contemporary Political Philosophy by Lorna Finlayson 9781783482870
RRP: £44.00Booksplease Price: £41.07Nobody should really have to point out that political philosophy is political. Yet in this highly original and provocative book Lorna Finlayson argues that in fact it is necessary to do so. Offering a critique of mainstream liberal political philosophy... -
Black Vienna: The Radical Right in the Red City, 1918-1938 by Janek Wasserman 9781501713606
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £16.69Interwar Vienna was considered a bastion of radical socialist thought, and its reputation as "Red Vienna" has loomed large in both the popular imagination and the historiography of Central Europe. However, as Janek Wasserman shows in this book, a "Black... -
Utopia by Merlin Coverley 9781842433164
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.25For more than 2,000 years utopian visionaries have sought to create a blueprint of the ideal society: from Plato to HG Wells, from Cloud cuckoo land to Shangri-La, the utopian impulse has generated a vast body of work, encompassing philosophy and... -
Tocqueville: A Very Short Introduction by Harvey C. Mansfield 9780195175394
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.02No one has ever described American democracy with more accurate insight or more profoundly than Alexis de Tocqueville. After meeting with Americans on extensive travels in the United States, and intense study of documents and authorities, he authored the... -
Man, the State, and War: A Theoretical Analysis by Kenneth N. Waltz
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £20.50What 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... -
Capital Hates Everyone: Fascism or Revolution Maurizio Lazzarato 9781635901382
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635901382Author Maurizio LazzaratoFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Semiotext (E)Publisher Semiotext (E) -
Adorno's Critique of Political Economy: The Structural Inequities of Capitalism, from Lehman Brothers to Covid-19 by Dirk Braunstein 9781642599923
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £27.09A major intervention into the place of Marxist political economy in the work of celebrated critical theorist Theodor Adorno.To this day, there persists a widespread assumption that Theodor Adorno's references to Marx-and especially to Marx's critique of... -
Václav Havel’s Meanings: His Key Words and Their Legacy by David Danaher 9788024649412
Booksplease Price: £20.30A close read of the rich collections of texts left behind by Václav Havel, one of the most important Czech thinkers and leaders of the twentieth century. No one in Czech politics or culture could match the international stature of Václav Havel at the... -
An Introduction to Political Philosophy by Colin Bird 9781108437554
Booksplease Price: £27.40Now revised and updated and containing several entirely new chapters, this book provides a comprehensive introduction to political philosophy. It discusses historical and contemporary figures and covers a vast range of topics and debates, including... -
The Entangled Activist: Learning to recognise the master's tools by Anthea Lawson
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £13.25"I'd been an activist for years. I'd marched, protested, blocked the road, been arrested. I'd exposed how banks and tax havens fuel corruption, poverty and environmental destruction. I'd launched a campaign that rewrote the laws on secret company... -
Surplus-Enjoyment: A Guide For The Non-Perplexed by Slavoj Zizek
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.33Contemporary 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... -
The Immortalization Commission: The Strange Quest to Cheat Death by John Gray
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.40John Gray's The Immortalization Commission: The Strange Quest to Cheat Death raises vital questions about the 'truths' science can offer, the technology we are still exploiting for immortality - and exactly what it means to be human. At the heart of all... -
War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning by Chris Hedges
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.55As a veteran war correspondent, Chris Hedges has survived ambushes in Central America, imprisonment in Sudan, and a beating by Saudi military police. He has seen children murdered for sport in Gaza and petty thugs elevated into war heroes in the Balkans... -
Psychoanalytic Politics, second edition, with a new preface: Jacques Lacan and Freud's French Revolution Sherry Turkle 9780262548175
RRP: £24.00Booksplease Price: £17.50Apologies 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 -
Karl Marx: Thoroughly Revised Fifth Edition by Isaiah Berlin
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £18.04Isaiah 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... -
Freedom from Fear: An Incomplete History of Liberalism by Alan S. Kahan 9780691191287
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £30.24A provocative new history of liberalism that also provides a road map for today's liberalsFreedom from Fear offers a striking new account of the dominant political and social theory of our time: liberalism. In a pathbreaking reframing of the historical... -
Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century by Tony Judt 9780099532330
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.75In Reappraisals award-winning historian Tony Judt argues that we have entered an 'age of forgetting', where we have set aside our immediate past before we could even begin to make sense of it. We have lost touch with generations of international policy... -
Too Important for the Generals: Losing and Winning the First World War by Allan Mallinson
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.77'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... -
Out of the Dark Night: Essays on Decolonization by Achille Mbembe
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £20.50Achille Mbembe is one of the world's most profound critics of colonialism and its consequences, a major figure in the emergence of a new wave of French critical theory. His writings examine the complexities of decolonization for African subjectivities... -
A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto China Mieville 9781786692030
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £17.61China Mieville's brilliant reading of the modern world's most controversial and enduring political document: The Communist Manifesto. 'It's thrilling to accompany Mieville... as he wrestles - in critical good faith and incandescent commitment - with a... -
Philosophy of Life: German Lebensphilosophie 1870-1920 by Prof Frederick C. Beiser
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £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... -
Theodor Adorno: A Very Short Introduction by Andrew Bowie
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.02bVery Short Introductionsb: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring /b T.W. Adorno (1903-69) was a German philosopher and social and cultural theorist. His work has come to be seen as increasingly relevant to understanding the pathologies of contemporary society... -
Taxation: Philosophical Perspectives by Martin O'Neill 9780199609222
RRP: £72.00Booksplease Price: £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... -
Disinherited Mind: Essays in Modern German Literature and Thought by Erich Heller 9780156261005
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £15.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156261005Author Erich HellerFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Harper PerennialPublisher Harper PerennialWeight(grams) 494gDimensions(mm) 217mm *... -
Conservatism: The Fight for a Tradition by Edmund Fawcett
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £15.88A fresh and sharp-eyed history of political conservatism from its nineteenth-century origins to today's hard RightFor two hundred years, conservatism has defied its reputation as a backward-looking creed by confronting and adapting to liberal modernity... -
Sediments of Time: On Possible Histories by Reinhart Koselleck 9781503605961
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £25.20Sediments of Time features the most important essays by renowned German historian Reinhart Koselleck not previously available in English, several of them essential to his theory of history. The volume sheds new light on Koselleck's crucial concerns,... -
One-Way Street: And Other Writings by Walter Benjamin
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.64Walter Benjamin is one of the most fascinating and enigmatic intellectual figures of this century. Not only was he a thinker who made an enormous impact with his critical and philosophical writings, he shattered disciplinary and stylistic conventions... -
Zoopolis: A Political Theory of Animal Rights by Sue Donaldson
RRP: £30.49Booksplease Price: £22.21Zoopolis offers a new agenda for the theory and practice of animal rights. Most animal rights theory focuses on the intrinsic capacities or interests of animals, and the moral status and moral rights that these intrinsic characteristics give rise to... -
Sovereign Virtue: The Theory and Practice of Equality by Ronald Dworkin
Booksplease Price: £35.18Equality is the endangered species of political ideals. Even left-of-center politicians reject equality as an ideal: government must combat poverty, they say, but need not strive that its citizens be equal in any dimension. In his new book Ronald Dworkin...