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Who Rules the World? by Noam Chomsky
RRP: £10.99£5.47Who Rules the World is the essential account of geopolitics right now - including an afterword on President Donald Trump Noam Chomsky: philosopher, political writer, fearless activist. No one has done more to question the hidden actors who govern our... -
Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal (Centennial Edition) by Ayn Rand 9780451147950
RRP: £9.99£6.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451147950Author Ayn RandFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint SignetPublisher Penguin Random House AustraliaWeight(grams) 232gDimensions(mm) 170mm *... -
Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life by Jordan B. Peterson
RRP: £10.99£7.77The inspirational sequel to 12 RULES FOR LIFE, which has sold over 5 million copies around the world - now in paperbackIn 12 Rules for Life, acclaimed public thinker and clinical psychologist Jordan B. Peterson offered an antidote to the chaos in our... -
The Sublime Object of Ideology by Slavoj Zizek
RRP: £15.99£13.33Slavoj Zizek, the maverick philosopher, author of over 30 books, acclaimed as the "Elvis of cultural theory", and today's most controversial public intellectual. His work traverses the fields of philosophy, psychoanalysis, theology, history and political... -
The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good? by Michael J. Sandel
RRP: £10.99£7.77A TLS, GUARDIAN AND NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020The new bestseller from the acclaimed author of Justice and one of the world's most popular philosophers"Astute, insightful, and empathetic...A crucial book for this moment" Tara Westover, author of... -
On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays by John Stuart Mill
RRP: £8.99£6.45'it is only the cultivation of individuality which produces, or can produce, well developed human beings' Mill's four essays, 'On Liberty', 'Utilitarianism', 'Considerations on Representative Government', and 'The Subjection of Women' examine the most... -
History and Class Consciousness: Studies in Marxist Dialectics by Georg Lukacs 9780850361971
RRP: £20.00£17.84Lukacs explores problems of consciousness and organization, drawing on Luxemburg and Lenin. "When the proletariat proclaims the dissolution of the existing social order," Marx declares, "it does no more than disclose the secret of its own existence, for... -
The Good Robot: Why Technology Needs Feminism by Eleanor Drage 9781350399952
RRP: £21.99£19.41What is good technology? Is 'good' technology even possible? And how can feminism help us work towards it? The Good Robot addresses these crucial questions through the voices of leading feminist thinkers, activists and technologists. Each thinker... -
Slow Down: How Degrowth Communism Can Save the Earth by Kohei Saito 9781399612975
RRP: £22.00£14.56Will green capitalism save the planet? Is it even trying?Not when the very logic of the capitalist system pits it against Earth's life-support systems, as the Japanese philosopher Kohei Saito demonstrates in this astonishing international bestseller... -
Courting the Wild Twin by Martin Shaw 9781915294326
RRP: £11.99£8.00'Fabulous.' Dan Richards, author of Holloway 'Terrifically strange and thrilling.' Melissa Harrison, author of All Among the Barley 'A modern-day bard.' Madeline Miller, author of Circe This is a book of literary activism - an antidote to the... -
History for Tomorrow: Inspiration from the Past for the Future of Humanity by Roman Krznaric 9780753559628
RRP: £22.00£15.62'Brimming with ideas and insights, this is a welcome, important and clear-eyed view of how understanding the past can help us better prepare for the future' - Peter Frankopan, bestselling author of The Earth Transformed and The Silk Roads'Enlightening... -
The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli 9780141442259
RRP: £7.99£5.79'A gripping work, and a gripping translation' Nicholas Lezard, GuardianNiccolo Machiavelli's brutally uncompromising manual of statecraft, The Prince is translated and edited with an introduction by Tim Parks in Penguin Classics As a diplomat in... -
Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things by Jane Bennett
RRP: £19.99£17.54In Vibrant Matter the political theorist Jane Bennett, renowned for her work on nature, ethics, and affect, shifts her focus from the human experience of things to things themselves. Bennett argues that political theory needs to do a better job of... -
A Brief History of Equality by Thomas Piketty 9780674295469
RRP: £15.95£11.09A New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceA Public Books Best Book of the Year"A profound and optimistic call to action and reflection. For Piketty, the arc of history is long, but it does bend toward equality. There is nothing automatic about it,... -
Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness: From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Endeavour Peter Moore 9781784743192
RRP: £25.00£17.62Bestselling historian Peter Moore traces how Enlightenment ideas were exported from Britain and put into practice in America - where they became the most successful export of all time, the American Dream'Absorbing... fascinating... eloquent' THE... -
Who's Afraid of Gender? by Judith Butler 9780241595824
RRP: £25.00£17.62ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2024 ACCORDING TO THE TIMES, GUARDIAN, FINANCIAL TIMES, NEW STATESMAN, THE INDEPENDENT, THE SCOTSMAN, THE GLOBE AND MAIL, AND TIMEShouldn't we know what we're arguing about?From one of the most influential thinkers of... -
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress by Steven Pinker
RRP: £14.99£10.95THE TOP TEN SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Bristles with pure, crystalline intelligence, deep knowledge and human sympathy' Richard Dawkins Is modernity really failing? Or have we failed to appreciate progress and the ideals that make it possible?If you... -
The Politics by Aristotle 9780140444216 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99£2.15Raising questions that are as relevant to modern society as they were to the ancient world, Aristotle's The Politics remains central to the study of political science millennia after its compilation. This Penguin Classics edition is translated from the... -
The Politics by Aristotle 9780140444216
RRP: £12.99£9.09Raising questions that are as relevant to modern society as they were to the ancient world, Aristotle's The Politics remains central to the study of political science millennia after its compilation. This Penguin Classics edition is translated from the... -
Necropolitics by Achille Mbembe
RRP: £20.99£18.37In Necropolitics Achille Mbembe, a leader in the new wave of francophone critical theory, theorizes the genealogy of the contemporary world, a world plagued by ever-increasing inequality, militarization, enmity, and terror as well as by a resurgence of... -
National Populism: The Revolt Against Liberal Democracy by Roger Eatwell
RRP: £10.99£7.77A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEARA crucial new guide to one of the most urgent political phenomena of our time: the rise of national populismAcross the West, there is a rising tide of people who feel excluded, alienated from mainstream politics, and... -
Minima Moralia: Reflections from Damaged Life by Theodor Adorno
RRP: £9.99£8.17Written between 1944 and 1947, Minima Moralia is a collection of rich, lucid aphorisms and essays about life in modern capitalist society. Adorno casts his penetrating eye across society in mid-century America and finds a life deformed by capitalism... -
Civilization and Its Discontents by Sigmund Freud 9780141182360
RRP: £8.99£6.45In what remains one of his most seminal papers, Freud considers the incompatibility of civilisation and individual happiness, and the tensions between the claims of society and the individual. We all know that living in civilised groups means sacrificing... -
The Plague of Fantasies by Slavoj Zizek
RRP: £16.99£14.10Modern audiovisual media have spawned a 'plague of fantasies', electronically inspired phantasms that cloud the ability to reason and prevent a true understanding of a world increasingly dominated by abstractions-whether those of digital technology or... -
On Liberty and the Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill
RRP: £8.99£6.45A prodigiously brilliant thinker who sharply challenged the beliefs of his age, the political and social radical John Stuart Mill was the most influential English-speaking philosopher of the nineteenth century. Regarded as one of the sacred texts of... -
Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life by Jordan B. Peterson 9780241407622
RRP: £25.00£18.02A #1 New York Times and Sunday Times bestsellerThe long-awaited sequel to 12 RULES FOR LIFE, which has sold over 5 million copies around the worldIn 12 Rules for Life, acclaimed public thinker and clinical psychologist Jordan B. Peterson offered an... -
Against Decolonisation: Taking African Agency Seriously by Olufe mi Taiwo
RRP: £14.99£13.64Selected as one of '100 Notable African Books of 2022' in Brittle Paper A leading African political philosopher's searing intellectual and moral critique of today's decolonisation movement. Decolonisation has lost its way. Originally a struggle to... -
Being Social: The Philosophy of Social Human Rights by Kimberley Brownlee 9780198871194
RRP: £88.00£79.80Human rights capture what people need to live minimally decent lives. Recognised dimensions of this minimum include physical security, due process, political participation, and freedom of movement, speech, and belief, as well as - more controversially... -
What We Owe the Future: A Million-Year View by William MacAskill
RRP: £20.00£14.69The challenges we face are enormous. But we can still secure a positive future for our planet, and for everyone on it. In What We Owe The Future, philosopher William MacAskill persuasively argues for longtermism, the idea that positively influencing... -
On Violence by Hannah Arendt 9780241631645
RRP: £7.99£5.79From Hannah Arendt, the author of The Origins of Totalitarianism, her influential essay examining the relationship between violence, power, war and politics'Violence can destroy power; it is utterly incapable of creating it'Why has violence played such a... -
Philosophy and Real Politics by Raymond Geuss 9780691258690
RRP: £13.99£12.28A trenchant critique of established ideas in political philosophy and a provocative call for changeMany contemporary political thinkers are gripped by the belief that their task is to develop an ideal theory of rights or justice for guiding and judging... -
Power: The Essential Works of Michel Foucault 1954-1984 by Michel Foucault
RRP: £12.99£9.09'Who since Weber, or perhaps even Hobbes, has done as much to show why power is such a profound, elusive and treacherous presence throughout our experience?' The Times Higher EducationThe third and final volume of the Essential Works of Foucault series,... -
A Theory of Justice: Revised Edition by John Rawls
RRP: £33.95£27.81Since it appeared in 1971, John Rawls's A Theory of Justice has become a classic. The author has now revised the original edition to clear up a number of difficulties he and others have found in the original book.Rawls aims to express an essential part... -
Matter and Motion by Thomas Nail 9781399525435
RRP: £14.99£12.55Tells a new history of materialism from prehistory to the present that resists stasis, heirarchy and domination Traces a lineage of thinkers who have philosophically integrated ideas of matter, motion, indeterminacy, relationality and process ... -
Utopia by Saint Thomas More 9780241382684
RRP: £14.99£10.95In Utopia, Thomas More gives us a traveller's account of a newly discovered island where the inhabitants enjoy a social order based on natural reason and justice, and human fulfilment is open to all. As the traveller, Raphael, describes the island to... -
One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society by Douglas Kellner 9780415289771
RRP: £16.99£15.22One of the most important texts of modern times, Herbert Marcuse's analysis and image of a one-dimensional man in a one-dimensional society has shaped many young radicals' way of seeing and experiencing life. Published in 1964, it fast became an... -
What We Owe to Each Other by T. M. Scanlon
RRP: £28.95£22.90"This magnificent book...opens up a novel, arresting position on matters that have been debated for thousands of years." -Times Literary Supplement How do we judge whether an action is morally right or wrong? If an action is wrong, what reason does that... -
The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius by George Orwell
RRP: £6.99£5.13George Orwell's moving reflections on the English character and his passionate belief in the need for political change.The Lion and the Unicorn was written in London during the worst period of the blitz. It is vintage Orwell, a dynamic outline of his... -
The Prince: The Original Classic Niccolo Machiavelli 9780857080783
RRP: £11.99£8.00THE HANDBOOK FOR LEADERS The Prince is often regarded as the first true leadership book. It shocked contemporary readers with its ruthless call for fearless and effective action. With simple prose and straightforward logic Machiavelli's guide still has... -
The Grounds of Political Legitimacy by Prof Fabienne Peter 9780198872382
RRP: £60.00£54.13Political decisions have the potential to greatly impact our lives. Think of decisions in relation to abortion or climate change, for example. This makes political legitimacy an important normative concern. But what makes political decisions legitimate?...