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A Hacker Manifesto by McKenzie Wark 9780674015432
RRP: £21.95£17.62A double is haunting the world--the double of abstraction, the virtual reality of information, programming or poetry, math or music, curves or colorings upon which the fortunes of states and armies, companies and communities now depend. The bold aim of... -
Chomsky: Ideas and Ideals by Neil Smith
RRP: £26.99£19.44Noam Chomsky continues to be one of the most influential intellectual figures of modern times. His wide-ranging contributions to the fields of linguistics, psychology, philosophy and politics have revolutionised our view of language, the mind and human... -
Key Writings by Elizabeth Lebas
RRP: £24.99£21.93Henri Lefebvre is widely recognized as one of the most influential social theorists of the Twentieth Century. His writings on cities, everyday life, and the production of space have become hugely influential across Cultural Studies, Sociology, Geography... -
We Are Not Born Submissive: How Patriarchy Shapes Women's Lives by Manon Garcia 9780691223209
RRP: £18.99£15.12A philosophical exploration of female submission, using insights from feminist thinkers-especially Simone de Beauvoir-to reveal the complexities of women's reality and lived experienceWhat role do women play in the perpetuation of patriarchy? On the one... -
Sensoria: Thinkers for the Twentieth-first Century by McKenzie Wark
RRP: £16.99£14.10As we face the compounded crises of late capitalism, environmental catastrophe and technological transformation, who are the thinkers and the ideas who will allow us to understand the world we live in? McKenzie Wark surveys three areas at the cutting... -
Philosophy of the Encounter: Later Writing, 1978-1987 by Louis Althusser
RRP: £22.99£20.65In the late 1970s and 1980s, Louis Althusser endured a period of intense mental instability during which he murdered his wife and was committed to a psychiatric hospital. Spanning this deeply troubling period, this fourth and final volume of political... -
The Oxford Handbook of Jurisprudence and Philosophy of Law by Jules L. Coleman 9780199270972
£76.93The Oxford Handbook of Jurisprudence and Philosophy of Law brings together specially commissioned essays by twenty-six of the foremost legal theorists currently writing, to provide a state-of-the-art overview of jurisprudential scholarship. Each author... -
Philosophy of the Family: Ethics, Identity and Responsibility by Teresa Baron 9781350373631
RRP: £24.99£21.93Almost everyone grows up in a family, and family ties play an important role in daily life. But what exactly is a 'family'? What is a 'family tie'? We use the general concept of 'family' in many contexts - in fiction, in talk shows, in law, in politics -... -
Introducing Marxism: A Graphic Guide by Rupert Woodfin 9781848310582 [USED COPY]
£18.52Was Marx himself a 'Marxist'? Was his visionary promise of socialism betrayed by Marxist dictatorship? Is Marxism inevitably totalitarian? What did Marx really say? "Introducing Marxism" provides a fundamental account of Karl Marx's original philosophy,... -
Introducing Marxism: A Graphic Guide by Rupert Woodfin 9781848310582
RRP: £8.99£6.70Was Marx himself a 'Marxist'? Was his visionary promise of socialism betrayed by Marxist dictatorship? Is Marxism inevitably totalitarian? What did Marx really say? "Introducing Marxism" provides a fundamental account of Karl Marx's original philosophy,... -
For They Know Not What They Do: Enjoyment as a Political Factor by Slavoj Zizek 9781844672127
RRP: £24.99£17.72Psychoanalysis is less merciful than Christianity. Where God the Father forgives our ignorance, psychoanalysis holds out no such hope. Ignorance is not a sufficient ground for forgiveness since it masks enjoyment; an enjoyment which erupts in those black... -
The Shipwrecked Mind: On Political Reaction by Mark Lilla 9781590179024 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99£3.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590179024Author Mark LillaFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint The New York Review of Books, IncPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)... -
The Shipwrecked Mind: On Political Reaction Mark Lilla 9781590179024
RRP: £14.99£10.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590179024Author Mark LillaFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint The New York Review of Books, IncPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)... -
Toward an Ecological Society by Murray Bookchin 9781849354448
RRP: £18.00£12.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781849354448Author Murray BookchinFormat PaperbackPage Count 340Imprint AK PressPublisher AK PressWeight(grams) 358gDimensions(mm) 201mm * 132mm * 23mm -
Future Morality by David Edmonds 9780198862086
RRP: £12.99£9.09The world is changing so fast that it's hard to know how to think about what we ought to do. We barely have time to reflect on how scientific advances will affect our lives before they're upon us. New kinds of dilemma are springing up. Can robots be held... -
Hegel: Lectures on the Philosophy of World History, Volume I: Manuscripts of the Introduction and the Lectures of 1822-1823 by Robert F Brown 9780198776642
£38.64This edition makes available an entirely new version of Hegel's lectures on the development and scope of world history. Volume I presents Hegel's surviving manuscripts of his introduction to the lectures and the full transcription of the first series of... -
Narcocapitalism: Life in the Age of Anaesthesia by Laurent De Sutter
RRP: £14.99£13.58What do the invention of anaesthetics in the middle of the nineteenth century, the Nazis' use of cocaine, and the development of Prozac have in common? The answer is that they're all products of the same logic that defines our contemporary era: 'the age... -
What Love Is: And What It Could Be by Carrie Jenkins
£30.10What is love? Aside from being the title of many a popular love song, this is one of life's perennial questions. In What Love Is , philosopher Carrie Jenkins offers a bold new theory on the nature of romantic love that reconciles its humanistic and... -
The concept of nature in Marx by Alfred Schmidt
RRP: £17.99£17.54In The Concept of Nature in Marx, Alfred Schmidt examines humanity's relation to the natural world as understood by the great philosopher-economist Karl Marx, who wrote that human beings are 'part of Nature yet able to stand over against it; and this... -
History and Illusion in Politics by Raymond Geuss 9780521000437
RRP: £39.99£33.26The distinguished political philosopher Raymond Geuss examines critically some of the most widely held and important preconceptions about contemporary politics held in advanced Western societies. In a series of analytically focused chapters Dr Geuss... -
Liberalism and the Limits of Justice by Michael J. Sandel
RRP: £53.99£44.97A liberal society seeks not to impose a single way of life, but to leave its citizens as free as possible to choose their own values and ends. It therefore must govern by principles of justice that do not presuppose any particular vision of the good life... -
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The Good It Promises, the Harm It Does: Critical Essays on Effective Altruism by Carol J. Adams
RRP: £20.99£17.94The Good It Promises, the Harm It Does is the first edited volume to critically engage with Effective Altruism (EA). It brings together writers from diverse activist and scholarly backgrounds to explore a variety of unique grassroots movements and... -
The Athenian Constitution by Aristotle
RRP: £24.95£23.39Government of state and self.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 ... -
What Can We Hope For?: Essays on Politics by Richard Rorty
RRP: £20.00£15.89Prescient essays about the state of our politics from the philosopher who predicted that a populist demagogue would become president of the United StatesRichard Rorty, one of the most influential intellectuals of recent decades, is perhaps best known... -
Politics in Commercial Society: Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Adam Smith by Istvan Hont 9780674967700
RRP: £35.95£28.96Scholars normally emphasize the contrast between the two great eighteenth-century thinkers Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Adam Smith. Rousseau is seen as a critic of modernity, Smith as an apologist. Istvan Hont, however, finds significant commonalities in... -
Jean Baudrillard: From Hyperreality to Disappearance: Uncollected Interviews by Richard G. Smith
RRP: £23.99£19.51This new collection gathers 23 highly insightful yet previously difficult-to-find interviews with Baudrillard, ranging over topics as diverse as art, war, technology, globalisation, terrorism and the fate of humanity. From familiar themes to the less... -
Muslims and Christians Debate Justice and Love by David L. Johnston
RRP: £24.95£23.23This book seeks to elucidate the concept of justice, not so much as it is expressed in law courts (retributive and procedural justice) or in state budgets (distributive justice), but as primary justice - what it means and how it can be grounded in the... -
The Women Are Up to Something: How Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Mary Midgley, and Iris Murdoch Revolutionized Ethics by Benjamin J. Bruxvoort Lipscomb 9780197689967
RRP: £14.99£13.09The story of four remarkable women who shaped the intellectual history of the 20th century: Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Mary Midgley, and Iris Murdoch. On the cusp of the Second World War, four women went to Oxford to begin their studies: a... -
Do States Have the Right to Exclude Immigrants? Christopher Bertram 9781509521968
RRP: £9.99£8.95States claim the right to choose who can come to their country. They put up barriers and expose migrants to deadly journeys. Those who survive are labelled 'illegal' and find themselves vulnerable and unrepresented. The international state system... -
Sentientist Politics: A Theory of Global Inter-Species Justice by Alasdair Cochrane 9780198789802
£85.30There is now widespread agreement that many non-human animals are sentient, and that this fact has important moral and political implications. Indeed, most are in agreement that animal sentience ought to constrain the actions of political institutions,... -
Horrorism: Naming Contemporary Violence by Adriana Cavarero 9780231144575
RRP: £25.00£19.59Words like "terrorism" and "war" no longer encompass the scope of contemporary violence. With this explosive book, Adriana Cavarero, one of the world's most provocative feminist theorists and political philosophers, effectively renders such terms... -
War and Self-Defense by David Rodin
£42.75When is it right to go to war? The most persuasive answer to this question has always been 'in self-defense'. In a penetrating new analysis, bringing together moral philosophy, political science, and law, David Rodin shows what's wrong with this answer... -
Recognition and Ambivalence by Heikki Ikaheimo
RRP: £25.00£19.59Recognition is one of the most debated concepts in contemporary social and political thought. Its proponents, such as Axel Honneth, hold that to be recognized by others is a basic human need that is central to forming an identity, and the denial of... -
The Indivisible Remainder by Slavoj Zizek 9781844675814
RRP: £17.99£14.20The feature which distinguishes the great works of materialist thought, from Lucretius' De rerum natura through Capital to the writings of Lacan, is their unfinished character: again and again they tackle their chosen problem. Schelling's Weltalter... -
On Religion: Considered in Its Source, Its Forms, and Its Developments by Benjamin Constant
RRP: £10.95£9.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865978973Author Benjamin ConstantFormat PaperbackPage Count 1008Imprint Liberty Fund IncPublisher Liberty Fund IncWeight(grams) 1320g -
Forgiveness and Mercy by Jeffrie G. Murphy 9780521395670
RRP: £22.99£19.56This book focuses on the degree to which certain moral and legal doctrines are rooted in specific passions that are then institutionalised in the form of criminal law. A philosophical analysis is developed of the following questions: when, if ever,... -
The Discourse of Kingship in Classical Greece Carol Atack (University of Oxford, UK) 9781032240060
RRP: £39.99£35.06This book examines how ancient authors explored ideas of kingship as a political role fundamental to the construction of civic unity, the use of kingship stories to explain the past and present unity of the polis and the distinctive function or status... -
The Greatest of All Plagues: How Economic Inequality Shaped Political Thought from Plato to Marx David Lay Williams 9780691171975
£34.17How the great political thinkers have persistently warned against the dangers of economic inequalityEconomic inequality is one of the most daunting challenges of our time, with public debate often turning to questions of whether it is an inevitable... -
Nomadic Subjects: Embodiment and Sexual Difference in Contemporary Feminist Theory by Rosi Braidotti
RRP: £28.00£21.80For more than fifteen years, Nomadic Subjects has guided discourse in continental philosophy and feminist theory, exploring the constitution of contemporary subjectivity, especially the concept of difference within European philosophy and political...