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Becoming Indigenous: Governing Imaginaries in the Anthropocene by David Chandler 9781786605726
RRP: £41.00£37.85Throughout the history of colonialism competing representations of the indigenous have been deployed by colonial powers to their own advantages and ends. Historically the indigenous have been represented as belonging to a past temporality in ways that... -
Ethical Vegan: A Personal and Political Journey to Change the World Jordi Casamitjana 9781912836581
RRP: £12.99£8.68'Veganism is not just a diet. Not just an opinion, nor a trend. It is a 21st-century revolution which began 20 centuries ago.' From the activist, scientist and animal welfare consultant whose employment tribunal changed the law forever comes a timely,... -
The Seduction of Unreason: The Intellectual Romance with Fascism from Nietzsche to Postmodernism, Second Edition by Richard Wolin 9780691192352
RRP: £28.00£21.80Ever since the shocking revelations of the fascist ties of Martin Heidegger and Paul de Man, postmodernism has been haunted by the specter of a compromised past. In this intellectual genealogy of the postmodern spirit, Richard Wolin shows that... -
Carl Schmitt and The Buribunks: Technology, Law, Literature by Edwin Bikundo 9780367548919
RRP: £39.99£35.06In 1918 a young Carl Schmitt published a short satirical fiction entitled The Buribunks. He imagined a future society of beings who consistently wrote and disseminated their personal diaries. Schmitt would go on to become the infamous philosopher of the... -
Deleuze's Difference and Repetition: An Edinburgh Philosophical Guide by Henry Somers-Hall
RRP: £18.99£15.65This is the essential toolkit for anyone approaching Deleuze for the first time. "Difference and Repetition" (first published in 1968) is widely accepted as Gilles Deleuze's most important work of philosophy and one of the most significant texts of... -
Bourdieu for Architects by Helena Webster
RRP: £25.99£22.63Pierre 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... -
Rational Man by Henry Babcock Veatch 9780865973930
RRP: £8.95£7.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865973930Author Henry Babcock VeachFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint Liberty Fund IncPublisher Liberty Fund IncWeight(grams) 374g -
Idol of Our Age: How the Religion of Humanity Subverts Christianity by Daniel J. Mahoney 9781641770927
RRP: £12.99£8.63This book is a learned essay at the intersection of politics, philosophy, and religion. It is first and foremost a diagnosis and critique of the secular religion of our time, humanitarianism, or the "religion of humanity." It argues that the humanitarian... -
Disruption: Why Things Change by David Potter
RRP: £26.49£22.39How do things change? The question is critical to the historical study of any era but it is also a profoundly important issue today as western democracies find the fundamental tenets of their implicit social contract facing extreme challenges from forces... -
Hot Planet, Cool Media: Socialist Polemics on War, Propaganda and Popular Culture by Stephen Harper 9781912992478
RRP: £14.99£10.95From the Arab Spring and London riots through the era of Brexit and Trump, the Covid-19 pandemic and war in Europe, this volume collects eleven years of lively, informative and entertaining essays and polemics, focusing on media treatment of major global... -
Spirit of Laws by Charles de Secondat,Baron de Montesquieu
RRP: £16.99£14.04The Spirit of Laws is one of the most influential books of all time. This masterpiece of political philosophy was widely read throughout Europe, attracted an especially enthusiastic readership in England, and had a profound effect on the framers of the... -
War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning by Chris Hedges
RRP: £12.99£9.70As 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... -
Robespierre: The Man Who Divides Us the Most by Marcel Gauchet
RRP: £38.00£25.95How Robespierre's career and legacy embody the dangerous contradictions of democracyMaximilien Robespierre (1758-1794) is arguably the most controversial and contradictory figure of the French Revolution, inspiring passionate debate like no other... -
The Bakhtin Reader: Selected Writings of Bakhtin, Medvedev, Voloshinov by M. M. Bakhtin 9780340592670
£38.14Incessantly cited by critics, Bakhtin's work nonetheless remains relatively unavailable: partly through lack of suitable editions, partly because no individual text conveys all the key concepts or arguments. This anthology provides in a convenient format... -
Who Cares Wins: Reasons For Optimism in Our Changing World by Lily Cole
RRP: £9.99£6.52Global warming has reached terrifying heights of severity, human consumption has caused the extinction of countless species and neoliberalism has led to a destructive divide in wealth and a polarization of mainstream politics. The climate crisis demands... -
The Hybrid Media System: Politics and Power by Andrew Chadwick 9780190696733
RRP: £35.49£26.85New communication technologies have reshaped media and politics. But who are the new power players? The Hybrid Media System is a sweeping new theory of how political communication now works. Politics is increasingly defined by organizations, groups, and... -
Property Is Theft: A Pierre Joseph Proudhon Reader by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon 9781849350242
RRP: £25.00£17.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781849350242Author Pierre-Joseph ProudhonFormat PaperbackPage Count 826Imprint AK PressPublisher AK PressWeight(grams) 1120g -
Structural Injustice by Madison Powers 9780197744895
RRP: £19.99£18.21Madison Powers and Ruth Faden here develop an innovative theory of structural injustice that links human rights norms and fairness norms. Norms of both kinds are grounded in an account of well-being. Their well-being account provides the foundation for... -
Leviathan on a Leash: A Theory of State Responsibility by Sean Fleming
RRP: £35.00£27.74New perspectives on the role of collective responsibility in modern politicsStates are commonly blamed for wars, called on to apologize, held liable for debts and reparations, bound by treaties, and punished with sanctions. But what does it mean to hold... -
George Berkeley: A Philosophical Life by Tom Jones
RRP: £35.00£28.74A comprehensive intellectual biography of the Enlightenment philosopherIn George Berkeley: A Philosophical Life, Tom Jones provides a comprehensive account of the life and work of the preeminent Irish philosopher of the Enlightenment. From his early... -
Politics without Vision: Thinking without a Banister in the Twentieth Century by Tracy B. Strong
RRP: £25.00£24.34From Plato through the nineteenth century, the West could draw on comprehensive political visions to guide government and society. Now, for the first time in more than two thousand years, Tracy B. Strong contends, we have lost our foundational supports... -
World Risk Society Ulrich Beck 9780745622217
RRP: £17.99£16.04This major new book draws together key essays by one of Europe's leading social and political theorists.About the AuthorUlrich Beck is Professor of Sociology at the Ludwig-Maximilian University in Munich.Reviews"Full of ideas and insights and thus... -
Hannah Arendt and Isaiah Berlin: Freedom, Politics, and Humanity by Kei Hiruta
RRP: £38.00£30.41For the first time, the full story of the conflict between two of the twentieth century's most important thinkers-and the lessons their disagreements continue to offerTwo of the most iconic thinkers of the twentieth century, Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) and... -
Willing Slaves of Capital: Spinoza and Marx on Desire by Frederic Lordon
£17.13Why do people work for other people? This seemingly naive question is more difficult to answer than one might at first imagine, and it lies at the heart of Lordon's Willing Slaves of Capital. To complement Marx's partial answers, especially in the... -
Han Feizi: Basic Writings by Han Fei Tzu 9780231129695
RRP: £22.00£17.36Trenchant, sophisticated, and cynical, Han Feizi has been read in every age and is still of interest today when people are more than ever concerned with the nature and use of power. Han Feizi (280?-233 B.C.), a prince of Han, was a representative of the... -
The Persistence of the Negative: A Critique of Contemporary Continental Theory by Benjamin Noys
RRP: £28.99£23.38Through a series of incisive readings of leading theoretical figures of affirmationism -- Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze, Bruno Latour, Antonio Negri and Alain Badiou -- Benjamin Noys contests the tendency of recent theory to rely on affirmation, and... -
Reconsidering Reparations by Assistant Professor Olufemi O Taiwo
RRP: £27.99£23.61Reparations for slavery have become a reinvigorated topic for public debate over the last decade. Most theorizing about reparations treats it as a social justice project - either rooted in reconciliatory justice focused on making amends in the present;... -
Practical Radicals: Seven Strategies to Change the World by Deepak Bhargava 9781620978214
RRP: £21.99£14.83A clear, expert, and inspiring guide to social change, based on case studies of grassroots movements that won, from two leading community and labor experts"Our movements must seek and win governing power to achieve our visions for a more just society... -
The Mismeasure Of Wealth: Essays on Marx and Social Form by Patrick Murray
RRP: £45.00£34.40Murray's essays concentrate on Marx the historical materialist, the investigator of historically specific social forms of wealth and labour. In probing Marx's dialectical accounts of the commodity, value, money, surplus value, wage labour and capital,... -
The Stack: On Software and Sovereignty by Benjamin H. Bratton
RRP: £38.00£27.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262029575Author Benjamin H. BrattonFormat HardbackPage Count 528Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 229mm * 178mm * 38mm -
Self-Ownership, Freedom, and Equality by G. A. Cohen 9780521477512
RRP: £22.99£18.02In this book G. A. Cohen examines the libertarian principle of self-ownership, which says that each person belongs to himself and therefore owes no service or product to anyone else. This principle is used to defend capitalist inequality, which is said... -
The Foucault Effect: Studies in Governmentality by Graham Burchell
RRP: £25.00£21.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780226080451Author Graham BurchellFormat PaperbackPage Count 318Imprint University of Chicago PressPublisher The University of Chicago Press -
Contesting Democracy: Political Ideas in Twentieth-Century Europe by Jan-Werner Muller
RRP: £16.99£16.66In this brilliant guide to modern European political ideas and thinkers spans the twentieth century, the author illuminates both the twentieth-century's ideological extremes and how Europeans built lasting liberal democracies in the second half of the... -
In the Beginning Was the Deed: Realism and Moralism in Political Argument by Bernard Williams
RRP: £30.00£27.39Bernard Williams is remembered as one of the most brilliant and original philosophers of the past fifty years. Widely respected as a moral philosopher, Williams began to write about politics in a sustained way in the early 1980s. There followed a stream... -
Political Philosophy by Steven B. Smith
RRP: £22.50£21.68Who ought to govern? Why should I obey the law? How should conflict be controlled? What is the proper education for a citizen and a statesman? These questions probe some of the deepest and most enduring problems that every society confronts, regardless... -
Freud and the Non-European by Edward W. Said
£16.19Using an impressive array of material from literature, archaeology and social theory, Edward Said explores the profound implications of Freud's Moses and Monotheism for Middle-East politics today. The resulting book reveals Said's abiding interest in... -
Prophetic Culture: Recreation For Adolescents by Federico Campagna 9781350149625
RRP: £21.99£19.28Selected 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... -
Unconditional Equals by Anne Phillips
RRP: £35.00£23.62Why equality cannot be conditional on a shared human "nature" but has to be for allFor centuries, ringing declarations about all men being created equal appealed to a shared human nature as the reason to consider ourselves equals. But appeals to natural... -
Capital Hates Everyone: Fascism or Revolution Maurizio Lazzarato 9781635901382
RRP: £14.99£9.80Apologies 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) -
Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination by Adom Getachew
RRP: £35.00£28.14Decolonization 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...