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Early Socratic Dialogues by Emlyn-Jones Chris
RRP: £12.99£9.09Rich in drama and humour, they include the controversial Ion, a debate on poetic inspiration; Laches, in which Socrates seeks to define bravery; and Euthydemus, which considers the relationship between philosophy and politics. Together, these dialogues... -
A Defense of Abortion by David Boonin 9780521520355
RRP: £30.99£24.41David Boonin has written the most thorough and detailed case for the moral permissibility of abortion yet published. Critically examining a wide range of arguments that attempt to prove that every human fetus has a right to life, he shows that each of... -
Theories of Rights by Jeremy Waldron 9780198750635
RRP: £52.99£41.68This latest addition to the Oxford Readings in Philosophy series covers a topic which is one of the focal points of much of the current work in moral and politicaltheory.Book InformationISBN 9780198750635Author Jeremy WaldronFormat PaperbackPage Count... -
Achieving Our Country: Leftist Thought in Twentieth-Century America by Richard Rorty
RRP: £18.95£15.37Must the sins of America's past poison its hope for the future? Lately the American Left, withdrawing into the ivied halls of academe to rue the nation's shame, has answered yes in both word and deed. In Achieving Our Country, one of America's foremost... -
The Law of Peoples: With "The Idea of Public Reason Revisited" by John Rawls
RRP: £25.95£20.64This 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 Fanaticism of the Apocalypse: Save the Earth, Punish Human Beings Pascal Bruckner 9780745669762
RRP: £20.00£17.70The planet is sick. Human beings are guilty of damaging it. We have to pay. Today, that is the orthodoxy throughout the Western world. Distrust of progress and science, calls for individual and collective self-sacrifice to 'save the planet' and... -
The Relevance of the Communist Manifesto Slavoj Zizek (Institute of Sociology, Ljubljana in Slovenia) 9781509536115
RRP: £9.99£6.80No other Marxist text has come close to achieving the fame and influence of The Communist Manifesto. Translated into over 100 languages, this clarion call to the workers of the world radically shaped the events of the twentieth century. But what... -
What Is Philosophy for? by Mary Midgley
RRP: £21.99£18.49Why should anybody take an interest in philosophy? Is it just another detailed study like metallurgy? Or is it similar to history, literature and even religion: a study meant to do some personal good and influence our lives? "Engaging and accessible,... -
Moral Progress by Philip Kitcher
RRP: £24.49£20.78This inaugural volume in the Munich Lectures in Ethics series presents lectures by noted philosopher Philip Kitcher. In these lectures, Kitcher develops further the pragmatist approach to moral philosophy, begun in his book The Ethical Project. He uses... -
Philosophy for Public Health and Public Policy: Beyond the Neglectful State by James Wilson 9780198900580
RRP: £19.99£18.21Public health has never been more important, or more controversial. What states do, and fail to do, makes a significant difference to the lives we are able to lead. Putting public health first would allow improvements to the health of everyone,... -
Common Sense by Thomas Paine 9780141018904 [USED COPY]
£17.10Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched... -
Common Sense by Thomas Paine 9780141018904
RRP: £7.99£5.79Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched... -
Open Democracy: Reinventing Popular Rule for the Twenty-First Century by Hélène Landemore
RRP: £42.00£33.04"Open Democracy envisions what true government by mass leadership could look like."-Nathan Heller, New YorkerHow a new model of democracy that opens up power to ordinary citizens could strengthen inclusiveness, responsiveness, and accountability in... -
Working as Equals: Relational Egalitarianism and the Workplace by Julian David Jonker 9780197634301
RRP: £22.99£20.80Are hierarchical arrangements in the workplace, including the employer-employee relationship, consistent with the ideal of relating to one another as moral equals? With this question at its core, this volume of essays by leading moral and political... -
America's Philosopher: John Locke in American Intellectual Life by Claire Rydell Arcenas
RRP: £28.00£23.27America's Philosopher examines how John Locke has been interpreted, reinterpreted, and misinterpreted over three centuries of American history. The influence of polymath philosopher John Locke (1632-1704) can still be found in a dizzying range of... -
Radical Happiness: Moments of Collective Joy by Lynne Segal 9781786631558
RRP: £10.99£8.94Why are we so obsessed by the pursuit of happiness? With new ways to measure contentment we are told that we have a right to individual joy. But at what cost? In an age of increasing individualism, we have never been more alone and miserable. But what... -
A Theory of Socialism and Capitalism by Hans-Hermann Hoppe 9781933550732
RRP: £10.75£9.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781933550732Author Hans-Hermann HoppeFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Ludwig Von Mises InstitutePublisher Ludwig Von Mises InstituteWeight(grams)... -
This Is an Uprising: How Nonviolent Revolt Is Shaping the Twenty-First Century Mark Engler 9781568585703
RRP: £14.99£9.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781568585703Author Mark EnglerFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Avalon Publishing GroupPublisher Avalon Publishing GroupWeight(grams) 330gDimensions(mm)... -
The Common and Counter-Hegemonic Politics: Re-Thinking Social Change by Alexandros Kioupkiolis 9781474446150
RRP: £21.99£20.11Alexandros Kioupkiolis re-conceptualises the common in tandem with the political. By engaging with key thinkers of community and the commons, including Nancy, Ostrom, Hardt and Negri, together with poststructuralist conceptions of agonism and hegemony... -
What Fanon Said: A Philosophical Introduction to His Life and Thought by Lewis R. Gordon
RRP: £18.99£16.98Antiblack racism avows reason is white while emotion, and thus supposedly unreason, is black. Challenging academic adherence to this notion, Lewis R. Gordon offers a portrait of Martinican-turned-Algerian revolutionary psychiatrist and philosopher Frantz... -
The Case against Perfection: Ethics in the Age of Genetic Engineering by Michael J. Sandel
RRP: £18.95£15.37"Sandel explores a paramount question of our era: how to extend the power and promise of biomedical science to overcome debility without compromising our humanity. His arguments are acute and penetrating, melding sound logic with compassion."-Jerome... -
On Democracy by Robert A. Dahl
RRP: £15.99£13.82Written by the preeminent democratic theorist of our time, this book explains the nature, value, and mechanics of democracy. In a new introduction to this Veritas edition, Ian Shapiro considers how Dahl would respond to the ongoing challenges democracy... -
Vulnerability in Resistance by Judith Butler
RRP: £23.99£20.84Vulnerability and resistance have often been seen as opposites, with the assumption that vulnerability requires protection and the strengthening of paternalistic power at the expense of collective resistance. Focusing on political movements and cultural... -
In the Flow by Boris Groys
£17.46In the early 20th century, art and its institutions came under critique from a new democratic and egalitarian spirit. In an age of secularism and materialism, artworks would be understood as merely things among other things. This meant an attack on the... -
Marx Terrell Carver 9781509518180
RRP: £16.99£15.22Karl Marx was the first theorist of global capitalism and remains perhaps its most trenchant critic. This clear and innovative book, from one of the leading contemporary experts on Marx's thought, gives us a fresh overview of his ideas by framing them... -
How We Get Along by J. David Velleman
RRP: £22.99£19.56In How We Get Along, philosopher David Velleman compares our social interactions to the interactions among improvisational actors on stage. He argues that we play ourselves - not artificially but authentically, by doing what would make sense coming from... -
Dissensus: On Politics and Aesthetics by Jacques Ranciere 9781472583550
RRP: £18.99£18.96Dissensus: On Politics and Aesthetics brings together some of Jacques Ranciere's most recent writings on art and politics to show the critical potential of two of his most important concepts: the aesthetics of politics and the politics of aesthetics. ... -
Rousseau: The Basic Political Writings: Discourse on the Sciences and the Arts, Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Discourse on Political Economy, On the Social Contract, The State of War by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
RRP: £15.99£13.36This substantially revised new edition of Rousseau: The Basic Political Writings features a brilliant new Introduction by David Wootton, a revision by Donald A. Cress of his own 1987 translation of Rousseau's most important political writings, and the... -
Why Not Socialism? by G. A. Cohen 9780691143613
RRP: £9.99£7.07Is socialism desirable? Is it even possible? In this concise book, one of the world's leading political philosophers presents with clarity and wit a compelling moral case for socialism and argues that the obstacles in its way are exaggerated. There are... -
Capitalism: The Story behind the Word by Michael Sonenscher 9780691238883
RRP: £13.99£12.28How the history of a word sheds new light on capitalism and modern politicsWhat exactly is capitalism? How has the meaning of capitalism changed over time? And what’s at stake in our understanding or misunderstanding of it? In Capitalism, Michael... -
The Theology of Liberalism: Political Philosophy and the Justice of God by Eric Nelson 9780674240940
RRP: £27.95£22.15One of our most important political theorists pulls the philosophical rug out from under modern liberalism, then tries to place it on a more secure footing.We think of modern liberalism as the novel product of a world reinvented on a secular basis after... -
Boycott Theory and the Struggle for Palestine: Universities, Intellectualism and Liberation by Nick Riemer
RRP: £30.00£26.68The academic boycott of Israel, a branch of the pro-Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign, is one of the richest - and most divisive - topics in the politics of knowledge today. In Boycott Theory and the Struggle for Palestine,... -
Rhythmical Subjects: The Measures of the Modern by Laura Marcus 9780192883889
RRP: £30.00£28.00Tracing a developing fascination with rhythm's significance, its patterns, and its measures, across philosophy, psychology, science, and the whole range of arts, Rhythmical Subjects shows how and why attention to rhythm came to serve as connective tissue... -
The Politics of Virtue: Post-Liberalism and the Human Future by John Milbank 9781783486496
RRP: £43.00£38.18Contemporary politics is dominated by a liberal creed that champions 'negative liberty' and individual happiness. This creed undergirds positions on both the right and the left - free-market capitalism, state bureaucracy and individualism in social life... -
Knowledge, Science and Relativism by P.K. Feyerabend 9780521641296
RRP: £90.00£67.25This third volume of Paul Feyerabend's philosophical papers, which gathers together work originally published between 1960 and 1980, offers a range of his characteristically exciting treatments of classic questions in the philosophy of science. It... -
Reconstructing Democracy: How Citizens Are Building from the Ground Up by Charles Taylor
RRP: £12.95£10.84"An urgent manifesto for the reconstruction of democratic belonging in our troubled times." -Davide PanagiaAcross the world, democracies are suffering from a disconnect between the people and political elites. In communities where jobs and industry are... -
On Liberty by John Stuart Mill 9780140432077
RRP: £9.99£7.11'Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign.' To this 'one very simple principle' the whole of Mill's essay On Liberty is dedicated. While many of his immediate predecessors and contemporaries, from Adam Smith to Godwin and... -
Philosophy for Non-Philosophers by Louis Althusser 9781474299275
RRP: £26.99£26.86In 1980, at the end of the most intensely political period of his work and life, Louis Althusser penned Philosophy for Non-philosophers. Available here for the first time in English, Philosophy for Non-philosophers constitutes a rigorous and engaged... -
Collected Works: Volume 3 by V.I. Lenin
£44.25Among the most influential political and social forces of the twentieth century, modern communism rests firmly on philosophical, political, and economic underpinnings developed by Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, later known as Lenin. For anyone who seeks to... -
David Hume: Moral and Political Theorist by Russell Hardin 9780199571536
RRP: £53.00£52.39Russell Hardin presents a new explication of David Hume's moral and political theory. With Hume, he holds that our normative views can be scientifically explained but they cannot be justified as true. Hume argued for the psychological basis of such views...