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Democratic Enlightenment: Philosophy, Revolution, and Human Rights 1750-1790 by Jonathan Israel
£27.89The Enlightenment shaped modernity. Western values of representative democracy and basic human rights, gender and racial equality, individual liberty, and freedom of expression and the press, form an interlocking system that derives directly from the... -
Wollstonecraft: Philosophy, Passion, and Politics by Sylvana Tomaselli 9780691169033
RRP: £35.00£27.74A compelling portrait of Mary Wollstonecraft that shows the intimate connections between her life and workMary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, first published in 1792, is a work of enduring relevance in women's rights advocacy... -
Modern Social Imaginaries by Charles Taylor
RRP: £20.99£17.93One 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... -
What is Anarchism? - Conversations with Mehdi Belhaj Kacem and Assia Turquier-Zauberman by David Graeber
RRP: £16.00£13.84David Graeber was not only one of today's most important living thinkers, but also one of the most influential. He was also one of the very few engaged intellectuals who has a proven track record of effective militancy on a world scale, and his impact on... -
Do the Humanities Create Knowledge? by Chris Haufe 9781316512500
RRP: £30.00£25.95There is in certain circles a widely held belief that the only proper kind of knowledge is scientific knowledge. This belief often runs parallel to the notion that legitimate knowledge is obtained when a scientist follows a rigorous investigative... -
Changing the Subject: Philosophy from Socrates to Adorno by Raymond Geuss 9780674248359
RRP: £18.95£15.37"A history of philosophy in twelve thinkers...The whole performance combines polyglot philological rigor with supple intellectual sympathy, and it is all presented...in a spirit of fun...This bracing and approachable book [shows] that there is life in... -
Everything, All the Time, Everywhere: How We Became Postmodern by Stuart Jeffries 9781788738231
RRP: £11.99£9.70But where do these ideas come from and how have they impacted on the world? In his brilliant history of a dangerous idea, Stuart Jeffries tells a narrative that starts in the early 1970s and continue to today. He tells this history through a riotous... -
The Ahuman Manifesto: Activism for the End of the Anthropocene by Patricia MacCormack
RRP: £24.99£22.18We are in the midst of a growing ecological crisis. Developing technologies and cultural interventions are throwing the status of "human" into question. It is against this context that Patricia McCormack delivers her expert justification for the... -
The Quotable Atheist: Ammunition for Nonbelievers, Political Junkies, Gadflies, and Those Generally Hell-Bound by Jack Huberman 9781560259695 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99£2.29Surprisingly, no book of quotations on God and religion by atheists and agnostics exists. Luckily, for the millions of American nonbelievers who have quietly stewed for years as the religious right made gains in politics and culture, the wait is over... -
The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene 9780140280197
£15.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780140280197Author Robert GreeneFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Penguin Putnam IncPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 527gDimensions(mm) 235mm *... -
Capitalism and Desire: The Psychic Cost of Free Markets by Todd McGowan
RRP: £30.00£23.69Despite creating vast inequalities and propping up reactionary world regimes, capitalism has many passionate defenders-but not because of what it withholds from some and gives to others. Capitalism dominates, Todd McGowan argues, because it mimics the... -
Law and Marxism: A General Theory by Evgeny Pashukanis 9780861047406
RRP: £22.99£17.94This is a classic Marxist study first published in 1924 - one of the principal Soviet contributions to jurisprudence theory. It is an authoritative non-revisionist text offering both a commentary and a critique of prevailing Marxist and non-Marxist legal... -
Trump and a Post-Truth World Ken Wilber 9781611805611
RRP: £13.99£9.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611805611Author Ken WilberFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)... -
The Origins of Unfairness: Social Categories and Cultural Evolution by Cailin O'Connor 9780198789970
£34.01In almost every human society some people get more and others get less. Why is inequity the rule in these societies? In The Origins of Unfairness, philosopher Cailin O'Connor firstly considers how groups are divided into social categories, like gender,... -
The Ethics of Identity by Kwame Anthony Appiah
RRP: £35.00£27.74Race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, gender, sexuality: in the past couple of decades, a great deal of attention has been paid to such collective identities. They clamor for recognition and respect, sometimes at the expense of other things we value... -
Valences of the Dialectic by Fredric Jameson 9781844674633
RRP: £35.99£25.85After half a century exploring dialectical thought, renowned cultural critic Fredric Jameson presents a comprehensive study of a misunderstood yet vital strain in Western philosophy. The dialectic, the concept of the evolution of an idea through... -
Gilles Deleuze's Difference and Repetition: A Critical Introduction and Guide by James Williams
RRP: £24.99£20.29This is a revised, expanded and fully up-to-date critical introduction to Deleuze's most important work of philosophy. This is the first critical introduction to "Difference and Repetition" (first published in 1968): Gilles Deleuze's most important work... -
The Tangle of Science: Reliability Beyond Method, Rigour, and Objectivity by Nancy Cartwright 9780198866343
RRP: £34.49£29.67Science is remarkably reliable. It puts people on the moon, performs laser eye surgery, tells us about ancient civilizations and species, and predicts the future of our climate. What underwrites this reliability? This book argues that the standard... -
Foams: Spheres Volume III: Plural Spherology by Peter Sloterdijk
RRP: £36.00£24.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781584351870Author Peter SloterdijkFormat HardbackPage Count 912Imprint Semiotext (E)Publisher AutonomediaDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 44mm -
The Essential Writings of Machiavelli Niccolo Machiavelli 9780812974232
RRP: £16.99£11.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812974232Author Niccolo MachiavelliFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 448gDimensions(mm)... -
A World History of Political Thought J. Babb 9781786435545
RRP: £30.95£28.62A World History of Political Thought is an outstanding and innovative work with profound significance for the study of the history of political thought, providing a wide-ranging, detailed and global overview of political thought from 600 BC to the 21st... -
An Introduction to Political Thought: A Conceptual Toolkit by Peri Roberts 9780748643981
RRP: £24.99£20.29New for this edition * New chapter on international political thought This textbook gives you all the vocabulary you need -- political, conceptual and historical -- to engage confidently and deeply with political thought and the moral and political... -
Poetry from the Future: Why a Global Liberation Movement Is Our Civilisation's Last Chance by Srecko Horvat
RRP: £13.99£9.75'A compelling vision, an urgent necessity, and not beyond reach' Noam ChomskyThe past is forgotten, and the future is without hope. Dystopia has become a reality. This is the new normal in our apocalyptic politics - but if we accept it, our... -
Philosophy of Social Science: A New Introduction by Nancy Cartwright
RRP: £28.99£23.44This is a much-needed new introduction to a field that has been transformed in recent years by exciting new subjects, ideas, and methods. It is designed both for students with central interests in philosophy and those planning to concentrate on the... -
The Oxford Handbook of International Political Theory by Chris Brown
RRP: £40.99£40.49International Political Theory (IPT) focuses on the point where two fields of study meet - International Relations and Political Theory. It takes from the former a central concern with the 'international' broadly defined; from the latter it takes a... -
The Philosophy of Social Science: An Introduction by Martin Hollis
RRP: £29.99£25.45This textbook by Martin Hollis offers an exceptionally clear and concise introduction to the philosophy of social science. It examines questions which give rise to fundamental philosophical issues. Are social structures better conceived of as systems of... -
An Introduction to Feminism by Lorna Finlayson
RRP: £23.99£20.94As well as providing a clear and critical introduction to the theory, this refreshing overview focuses on the practice of feminism with coverage of actions and activism, bringing the subject to life for newcomers as well as offering fresh perspectives... -
The Assault on Liberty: What Went Wrong with Rights by Dominic Raab 9780007293391
RRP: £12.99£8.48An urgent and necessary polemic on the government's assault on our fundamental freedoms and the proliferation of Human Rights. From 42 days detention to ASBOs, as citizens of modern Britain we are seeing some of our fundamental freedoms being... -
Freedom Without Violence by Dustin Ells Howes
RRP: £41.99£37.28There is a long tradition in western political thought suggesting that violence is necessary to defend freedom. But nonviolence and civil disobedience have played an equally long and critical role in establishing democratic institutions. Freedom... -
Carl Schmitt: A Biography Reinhard Mehring (Heidelberg University of Education (Padagogische Hochschule Heidelberg)) 9780745652252
RRP: £18.99£17.87Carl Schmitt is one of the most widely read and influential German thinkers of the twentieth century. His fundamental works on friend and enemy, legality and legitimacy, dictatorship, political theology and the concept of the political are read today... -
A Thousand Small Sanities: The Moral Adventure of Liberalism by Adam Gopnik
RRP: £10.99£7.40'WITTY, HUMANE, LEARNED' NEW YORK TIMESThe New York Times-bestselling author offers a stirring defence of liberalism against the dogmatisms of our timeNot since the early twentieth century has liberalism, and liberals, been under such relentless attack,... -
Good Beyond Evil: Xunzi on human nature (313-238 BC) by Xunzi 9781739115623
RRP: £9.99£8.22A radical thinker, Xunzi disagreed with Mencius on human nature. For him men are naturally evil. From this inverse assumption, he yet reached the same Mencian conclusion: moral education is paramount for society to function, and the ruler should be... -
The Purity Fetish and the Crisis of Western Marxism by Carlos L Garrido 9780578278360
RRP: £12.31£11.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578278360Author Carlos L GarridoFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint Midwestern Marx Publishing PressPublisher Midwestern Marx Publishing... -
Liberalism and Empire: A Study in Nineteenth-century British Liberal Thought by Uday Singh Mehta
RRP: £30.00£29.25One takes liberalism to be a set of ideas committed to political rights and self-determination, yet it also served to justify an empire built on political domination. Uday Singh Mehta argues that imperialism, far from contradicting liberal tenets, in... -
The Politics of Decolonial Investigations by Walter D. Mignolo
RRP: £31.00£27.76In The Politics of Decolonial Investigations Walter D. Mignolo provides a sweeping examination of how coloniality has operated around the world in its myriad forms from the sixteenth century to the twenty-first. Decolonial border thinking allows Mignolo... -
Foucault Beyond Foucault: Power and Its Intensifications since 1984 by Jeffrey T. Nealon
RRP: £19.99£17.54In Foucault Beyond Foucault Jeffrey Nealon argues that critics have too hastily abandoned Foucault's mid-career reflections on power, and offers a revisionist reading of the philosopher's middle and later works. Retracing power's "intensification" in... -
Reason and Revolution: Hegel and the Rise of Social Theory by Herbert Marcuse 9781922491589
RRP: £29.99£17.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781922491589Author Herbert MarcuseFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Critical EditionsPublisher Critical EditionsWeight(grams) 540gDimensions(mm) 234mm *... -
Politics: A New Translation by Aristotle 9781624665578
RRP: £23.99£19.92This new translation of Aristotle's Politics is a model of accuracy and consistency and fits seamlessly with the translator's Nicomachean Ethics, allowing the two to be read together, as Aristotle intended. Sequentially numbered endnotes provide the... -
The Meaning of Conservatism by Roger Scruton 9780333912447
RRP: £99.99£89.87First published in 1980, this contribution to political thought is a statement of the traditional conservative position. Roger Scruton challenges those who would regard themselves as conservatives, and also their opponents.Book InformationISBN... -
Hegel and the Freedom of Moderns by Domenico Losurdo 9780822332916
RRP: £23.99£20.84Available in English for the first time, Hegel and the Freedom of Moderns revives discussion of the major political and philosophical tenets underlying contemporary liberalism through a revolutionary interpretation of G. W. F. Hegel's thought. Domenico...