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How Propaganda Works by Jason Stanley
RRP: £17.99£14.38Our democracy today is fraught with political campaigns, lobbyists, liberal media, and Fox News commentators, all using language to influence the way we think and reason about public issues. Even so, many of us believe that propaganda and manipulation... -
Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century by Tony Judt 9780099532330
RRP: £16.99£12.28In 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... -
Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body by Susan Bordo 9780520240544
RRP: £30.00£23.69'"Unbearable Weight" is brilliant. From an immensely knowledgeable feminist perspective, in engaging, jargonless prose, Bordo analyzes a whole range of issues connected to the body - weight and weight loss, exercise, media images, movies, advertising,... -
Hermes I: Communication by Michel Serres 9780816678839
RRP: £23.99£20.84For the first time in English, the introductory volume in a major French philosopher's groundbreaking series of poetic transdisciplinary works Michel Serres is recognized as one of the giants of postwar French philosophy of knowledge, along with... -
Critique of Forms of Life by Rahel Jaeggi
RRP: £41.95£33.60For many liberals, the question "Do others live rightly?" feels inappropriate. Liberalism seems to demand a follow-up question: "Who am I to judge?" Peaceful coexistence, in this view, is predicated on restraint from morally evaluating our peers. But... -
Imperialism and the National Question by V I Lenin 9781804292716
RRP: £14.99£12.64Fired up by the outbreak of the First World War and outraged by the capitulation of most socialist parties to the demands of national bourgeoisies, Lenin sought to understand the deeper roots of the crisis of the world movement. The result was... -
Worldly Philosopher: The Odyssey of Albert O. Hirschman by Jeremy Adelman 9780691163499
RRP: £25.00£20.59Worldly Philosopher chronicles the times and writings of Albert O. Hirschman, one of the twentieth century's most original and provocative thinkers. In this gripping biography, Jeremy Adelman tells the story of a man shaped by modern horrors and hopes, a... -
Stasis: Civil War as a Political Paradigm by Giorgio Agamben
RRP: £13.99£12.71We can no longer speak of a state of war in any traditional sense, yet there is currently no viable theory to account for the manifold internal conflicts, or civil wars, that increasingly afflict the world's populations. Meant as a first step toward such... -
Plural Maghreb: Writings on Postcolonialism by Abdelkebir Khatibi
RRP: £31.99£28.38Abdelkebir Khatibi (1938-2009) was among the most renowned North African literary critics and authors of the past century whose unique treatments of subjects as vast as orientalism, otherness, coloniality, aesthetics, linguistics, sexuality, and the... -
Care and Cure: An Introduction to Philosophy of Medicine by Jacob Stegenga
RRP: £24.00£20.12The philosophy of medicine has become a vibrant and complex intellectual landscape, and Care and Cure is the first extended attempt to map it. In pursuing the interdependent aims of caring and curing, medicine relies on concepts, theories, inferences,... -
Aristotle's Politics by Aristotle
RRP: £14.00£13.96One of the fundamental works of Western political thought, Aristotle's masterwork is the first systematic treatise on the science of politics. For almost three decades, Carnes Lord's justly acclaimed translation has served as the standard English edition... -
Why Human Nature Matters: Between Biology and Politics by Dr Matteo Mameli 9781350189751
£24.11Does human nature constrain social and political change, or do social and political changes transform human nature? Why Human Nature Matters argues that the answer to both questions is 'yes'. This philosophical account offers new tools for connecting... -
Anger and Forgiveness: Resentment, Generosity, and Justice by Martha C. Nussbaum
RRP: £20.99£15.34We live in a culture of apology and forgiveness. But while there are a few thinkers who are critical of forgiveness as being too supine, and extol the virtues of retribution and 'getting even,' philosopher and intellectual Martha C. Nussbaum criticizes... -
Autonomy and the Challenges to Liberalism: New Essays by John Christman 9780521839518
RRP: £96.99£82.41In recent years the concepts of individual autonomy and political liberalism have been the subjects of intense debate, but these discussions have occurred largely within separate academic disciplines. Autonomy and the Challenges to Liberalism contains... -
Critical Realism: an Introduction to Roy Bhaskar's Philosophy by Andrew Collier 9780860916024
RRP: £19.99£17.53The work of Roy Bhaskar has had far-reaching effects in the philosophy of science and for political and moral theories of human emancipation. It shows how to overcome the atomistic and narrowly human-centered approaches which have dominated European... -
Assemblage Theory and Method by Ian Buchanan
RRP: £23.99£21.19What do we mean by 'assemblage' in contemporary theory? The constant and seemingly limitless expansion of the concept's range of applications begs the question, if any and every kind of collection of things is an assemblage, then what advantage is there... -
Divine Institutions: Religions and Community in the Middle Roman Republic by Dan-el Padilla Peralta 9780691247632
RRP: £30.00£23.29How religious ritual united a growing and diversifying Roman RepublicMany narrative histories of Rome's transformation from an Italian city-state to a Mediterranean superpower focus on political and military conflicts as the primary agents of social... -
The Return of the Political by Chantal Mouffe 9781788738569
RRP: £9.99£8.17Chantal Mouffe is one of the most influential political theorists at work today. Her work has influenced political parties across Europe and continues to inform the direction of left politics. In this work, Mouffe argues that liberal democracy... -
Looking Backward 2000-1887 by Edward Bellamy
RRP: £7.99£6.39'No person can be blamed for refusing to read another word of what promises to be a mere imposition upon his credulity.' Julian West, a feckless aristocrat living in fin-de-si`ecle Boston, plunges into a deep hypnotic sleep in 1887 and wakes up in the... -
Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality by Sigmund Freud
£18.66Available for the first time in English, the 1905 edition of Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality presents Sigmund Freud's thought in a form new to all but a few ardent students of his work.This is a Freud absent the Oedipal complex, which came to... -
George Orwell: The Ethics of Equality by Peter Brian Barry 9780197627402
RRP: £19.99£17.13George Orwell is sometimes read as disinterested in (if not outright hostile) to philosophy. Yet a fair reading of Orwell's work reveals an author whose work was deeply informed by philosophy and who often revealed his philosophical sympathies. Orwell's... -
Realm of Lesser Evil Jean-Claude Michea 9780745646213
RRP: £15.99£14.41Winston Churchill said of democracy that it was 'the worst form of government, except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.' The same could be said of liberalism. While liberalism displays an unfailing optimism with regard to... -
The Spirit of Utopia by Ernst Bloch 9780804737654
RRP: £27.99£24.14I am. We are. That is enough. Now we have to start. These are the opening words of Ernst Bloch's first major work, The Spirit of Utopia, written mostly in 1915-16, published in its first version just after the First World War, republished five years... -
Politics: v. 21 by Aristotle
RRP: £24.95£23.39The natural state of mankind.Aristotle, great Greek philosopher, researcher, reasoner, and writer, born at Stagirus in 384 BC, was the son of a physician. He studied under Plato at Athens and taught there (367-347); subsequently he spent three years ... -
Subaltern Social Groups: A Critical Edition of Prison Notebook 25 by Antonio Gramsci
RRP: £30.00£23.29Antonio Gramsci is widely celebrated as the most original political thinker in Western Marxism. Among the most central aspects of his enduring intellectual legacy is the concept of subalternity. Developed in the work of scholars such as Gayatri Spivak... -
The Prince (Hero Classics) by Niccolo Machiavelli
RRP: £8.99£6.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915054821Author Niccolo MachiavelliFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint HeroPublisher Legend Press Ltd -
The Ecological Thought by Timothy Morton
RRP: £21.95£17.62In this passionate, lucid, and surprising book, Timothy Morton argues that all forms of life are connected in a vast, entangling mesh. This interconnectedness penetrates all dimensions of life. No being, construct, or object can exist independently from... -
Group Agency: The Possibility, Design, and Status of Corporate Agents by Christian List 9780199679676
RRP: £34.49£23.80Are companies, churches, and states genuine agents? Or are they just collections of individual agents that give a misleading impression of unity? This question is important, since the answer dictates how we should go about explaining the behaviour of... -
Power: A New Social Analysis by Bertrand Russell
RRP: £14.99£13.58The key to human nature that Marx found in wealth and Freud in sex, Bertrand Russell finds in power. Power, he argues, is man's ultimate goal, and is, in its many guises, the single most important element in the development of any society. Writting in... -
Spinoza, the Transindividual by Etienne Balibar
RRP: £21.99£17.97Etienne Balibar, one of the foremost living French philosophers, builds on his landmark work 'Spinoza and Politics' with this exploration of Spinoza's ontology. Balibar situates Spinoza in relation to the major figures of Marx and Freud as a precursor to... -
Understand Political Philosophy: Teach Yourself by Mel Thompson 9781444107531 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99£4.65Understand Political Philosophy is an in-depth guide to the philosophers and political ideas who have shaped our society. Quickly and easily get to grips with the key thinkers and theories, from Aristotle to Wollstonecraft, from capitalism to... -
Understand Political Philosophy: Teach Yourself by Mel Thompson 9781444107531
£12.37Understand Political Philosophy is an in-depth guide to the philosophers and political ideas who have shaped our society. Quickly and easily get to grips with the key thinkers and theories, from Aristotle to Wollstonecraft, from capitalism to... -
The Private Life: Why We Remain in the Dark by Josh Cohen 9781847085306
RRP: £9.99£6.70The war over private life spreads inexorably. Some seek to expose, invade and steal it, others to protect, conceal and withhold it. Either way, the assumption is that privacy is a possession to be won or lost. But what if what we call private life is the... -
The German Ideology: Introduction to a Critique of Political Economy by Karl Marx 9780853152170
RRP: £14.00£13.46This edition makes easily accessible the most important parts of Marx's and Engels's major early philosophical work, The German Ideology, a text of key importance for students.Book InformationISBN 9780853152170Author Karl MarxFormat PaperbackPage Count... -
The Theological Origins of Modernity by Michael Allen Gillespie
RRP: £24.00£23.03Exposing the religious roots of our ostensibly godless age, Michael Allen Gillespie reveals in this landmark study that modernity is much less secular than conventional wisdom suggests. Taking as his starting point the collapse of the medieval world,... -
A Brief History of Equality by Thomas Piketty
RRP: £23.95£17.15A New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceA Public Books Best Book of the Year"An opportunity for readers to see Piketty bring his larger argument about the origins of inequality and his program for fighting it into high relief."-Nicholas Lemann, New... -
The Minority Body: A Theory of Disability by Elizabeth Barnes 9780198822417
RRP: £13.49£11.87Elizabeth Barnes argues compellingly that disability is primarily a social phenomenon-a way of being a minority, a way of facing social oppression, but not a way of being inherently or intrinsically worse off. This is how disability is understood in the... -
Making Monsters: The Uncanny Power of Dehumanization by David Livingstone Smith
RRP: £24.95£19.89Shortlisted for the Nayef Al-Rodhan Book Prize.A leading scholar explores what it means to dehumanize others-and how and why we do it."I wouldn't have accepted that they were human beings. You would see an infant who's just learning to smile, and it... -
The Highest Poverty: Monastic Rules and Form-of-Life by Giorgio Agamben 9780804784061
RRP: £16.99£14.43What is a rule, if it appears to become confused with life? And what is a human life, if, in every one of its gestures, of its words, and of its silences, it cannot be distinguished from the rule? It is to these questions that Agamben's new book turns... -
The Qur'an: A Historical-Critical Introduction by Nicolai Sinai
RRP: £27.99£22.61The Qur'an represents both Islam's historical point of origin and its scriptural foundation, inaugurating a new religion and, ultimately, a new civilisation. Yet the text itself can be difficult to understand, and the scholarship devoted to it is often...