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Because We Say So by Noam Chomsky
RRP: £10.99£7.77Because We Say So is Noam Chomsky's essential counter punch to American hegemonyIn 1962, the eminent statesman Dean Acheson enunciated a principle that has dominated global politics ever since: that no legal issue arises when the United States responds... -
Hobbes on Civil Association by Michael Oakeshott
RRP: £10.95£8.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865972919Author Michael OakeshottFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Liberty Fund IncPublisher Liberty Fund IncWeight(grams) 275g -
Politics of Touch: Sense, Movement, Sovereignty by Erin Manning
RRP: £19.99£17.54Political philosophy has long been bound by traditional thinking about the body and the senses. Through an engagement with the state-centered vocabulary of this discipline, Politics of Touch explores the ways in which sensing bodies continually run up... -
Emancipation After Hegel: Achieving a Contradictory Revolution by Todd McGowan 9780231192705
RRP: £25.00£19.59Hegel is making a comeback. After the decline of the Marxist Hegelianism that dominated the twentieth century, leading thinkers are rediscovering Hegel's thought as a resource for contemporary politics. What does a notoriously difficult... -
Civilization and Its Discontents by Sigmund Freud 9780393304510
RRP: £11.99£8.91Written in the decade before Freud's death, Civilization and Its Discontents may be his most famous and most brilliant work. It has been praised, dissected, lambasted, interpreted, and reinterpreted. Originally published in 1930, it seeks to answer... -
Singular Pasts: The "I" in Historiography by Enzo Traverso 9780231203982
RRP: £92.00£71.81Today, history is increasingly written in the first person. A growing number of historical works include an autobiographical dimension, as if writing about the past required exploring the inner life of the author. Neither traditional history nor... -
The Philosophy of 'As If' by H. Vaihinger
RRP: £19.99£17.69Hans Vaihinger (1852-1933) was an important and fascinating figure in German philosophy in the early twentieth century, founding the well-known journal Kant-Studien. Yet he was overshadowed by the burgeoning movements of phenomenology and analytical... -
The Moral Foundations of Parenthood by Joseph Millum 9780190695439
RRP: £78.00£65.53Most people believe that parents have moral rights and responsibilities regarding their children. These rights and responsibilities undergird the nuclear family and are essential to the flourishing of its members. However, their basis and contents are... -
Deja Vu and the End of History by Paolo Virno
£15.10This book places two key notions up against each other to imagine a new way of conceptualizing historical time. How do the experience of deja vu and the idea 'End of History' relate to one another? Through thinkers like Bergson, Kojeve and Nietzsche,... -
Engels before Marx by Terrell Carver 9783030423704
RRP: £54.99£54.80This book examines the life and works of Friedrich Engels during the decade before he entered a political partnership with Karl Marx. It takes a thematic approach in three substantial chapters: Imagination, Observation, and Vocation. Throughout, the... -
Continuity and Rupture - Philosophy in the Maoist Terrain J. Moufawad-paul 9781785354762
RRP: £17.99£15.39A philosophical examination of the theoretical terrain of contemporary Maoism premised on the counter-intuitive assumption that Maoism did not emerge as a coherent theory until the end of the 1980s.About the AuthorJ. Moufawad-Paul lives in Toronto and... -
Hope Lies in the Proles: George Orwell and the Left by John Newsinger
RRP: £18.99£12.75George Orwell was one of the most significant literary figures on the left in the twentieth century. While titles such as 1984, Animal Farm and Homage to Catalonia are still rightly regarded as modern classics, his own politics are less well understood. ... -
Critique on the Couch: Why Critical Theory Needs Psychoanalysis by Amy Allen
RRP: £22.00£17.36Does critical theory still need psychoanalysis? In Critique on the Couch, Amy Allen offers a cogent and convincing defense of its ongoing relevance.Countering the overly rationalist and progressivist interpretations of psychoanalysis put forward by... -
Political Theory: A Beginner's Guide Pete Woodcock 9781509531349
RRP: £16.99£15.22Is democracy the best form of government? What does it mean to be 'free'? Why should we obey the government? In this highly accessible and engaging new introductory textbook, Pete Woodcock examines all these questions and more in a compact outline of... -
Heritage and War: Ethical Issues by William Bülow
RRP: £74.00£67.31The world responded with horror to ISIS's campaign of destruction of cultural heritage across the Middle East, including with calls for an international response to prevent such damage. At the same time, newspapers and screens were filled with images of... -
Marxism and Epistemology: Bachelard, Canguilhem, Foucault by Dominique Lecourt
RRP: £16.99£15.72When this book was first published in English in 1975, the previous forty years had seen the emergence of a new tradition in the philosophy of the sciences, or 'epistemology' in France. The founder of this tradition was Gaston Bachelard. Rather than... -
Unconditional Equals by Anne Phillips 9780691226163
RRP: £18.99£15.12Why equality cannot be conditional on a shared human "nature" but has to be for allFor centuries, ringing declarations about all men being created equal appealed to a shared human nature as the reason to consider ourselves equals. But appeals to natural... -
Africa for Africans by Marcus Garvey
RRP: £16.99£13.49Originally published in two volumes between 1923 and 1925, Africa for Africans: Or, The Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey is a compilation of letters, speeches and essays by one of the Fathers of Pan-Africanism.Hailed by Martin Luther King, Jr... -
Absence of Myth: Writings on Surrealism by Georges Bataille 9781844675609
RRP: £16.99£14.55For Bataille, the absence of myth had itself become the myth of the modern age. In a world that had lost the secret of its cohesion, Bataille saw surrealism as both a symptom and a beginning of an attempt to address this loss. His writings on this theme... -
To Fight Against This Age: On Fascism and Humanism by Rob Riemen 9780393635867
RRP: £15.99£13.82Thomas Mann and Albert Camus understood something many political scientists still find difficult to fathom. Deprived of any coherent theory, fascism is characterised by its politics of resentment, stirring up of anger and fear, xenophobia, need for... -
Black Utopia: The History of an Idea from Black Nationalism to Afrofuturism by Alex Zamalin
RRP: £22.00£17.36Within the history of African American struggle against racist oppression that often verges on dystopia, a hidden tradition has depicted a transfigured world. Daring to speculate on a future beyond white supremacy, black utopian artists and thinkers... -
Good Government: Democracy beyond Elections by Pierre Rosanvallon
RRP: £37.95£32.49Few would disagree that Western democracies are experiencing a crisis of representation. In the United States, gerrymandering and concentrated political geographies have placed the Congress and state legislatures in a stranglehold that is often at odds... -
The Cultural Defense of Nations: A Liberal Theory of Majority Rights by Liav Orgad 9780198806912
£40.25Never in human history has so much attention been paid to human movement. Global migration yields demographic shifts of historical significance, profoundly shaking up world politics as has been seen in the refugee crisis, the Brexit referendum, and the... -
Immigration and Freedom by Chandran Kukathas
RRP: £30.00£23.29A compelling account of the threat immigration control poses to the citizens of free societies Immigration is often seen as a danger to western liberal democracies because it threatens to undermine their fundamental values, most notably freedom and... -
Critique and Praxis by Bernard E. Harcourt 9780231195737
RRP: £25.00£20.59Critical philosophy has always challenged the division between theory and practice. At its best, it aims to turn contemplation into emancipation, seeking to transform society in pursuit of equality, autonomy, and human flourishing. Yet today's critical... -
Energy and Change: A New Materialist Cosmotheology by Clayton Crockett
RRP: £30.00£23.29As humanity continues to consume planetary resources at an unsustainable rate, we require not only new and renewable forms of energy but also new ways of understanding energy itself. Clayton Crockett offers an innovative philosophy of energy that cuts... -
Machiavelli's Ethics by Erica Benner
RRP: £30.00£23.69Machiavelli's Ethics challenges the most entrenched understandings of Machiavelli, arguing that he was a moral and political philosopher who consistently favored the rule of law over that of men, that he had a coherent theory of justice, and that he did... -
The Concept of a Philosophical Jurisprudence by Michael Oakeshott 9781845401801
£21.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845401801Author Michael OakeshottFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Imprint AcademicPublisher Imprint AcademicWeight(grams) 500g -
Leadership and Organization: A Philosophical Introduction Sverre Spoelstra 9781138917101
RRP: £37.99£33.38This book is a philosophical exploration of the relationship between leadership and organization. Each chapter in the book sheds light on this relationship by exploring leadership with respect to a particular theme: charisma, authority, religion,... -
Philosophical Papers: Volume 2: Mind, Language and Reality by Hilary Putnam 9780521295512
RRP: £30.99£25.37Professor Hilary Putnam has been one of the most influential and sharply original of recent American philosophers in a whole range of fields. His most important published work is collected here, together with several new and substantial studies, in two... -
The Moral Economy: Why Good Incentives Are No Substitute for Good Citizens by Samuel Bowles
RRP: £16.99£14.61Why do policies and business practices that ignore the moral and generous side of human nature often fail? Should the idea of economic man-the amoral and self-interested Homo economicus-determine how we expect people to respond to monetary rewards,... -
Why Liberalism Works: How True Liberal Values Produce a Freer, More Equal, Prosperous World for All by Deirdre Nansen McCloskey
RRP: £22.50£19.35An insightful and passionately written book explaining why a return to Enlightenment ideals is good for the world "Beginning with the simple but fertile idea that people should not push other people around, Deirdre McCloskey presents an elegant defense... -
The Leviathan in the State Theory of Thomas Hobbes: Meaning and Failure of a Political Symbol by Carl Schmitt
RRP: £23.00£22.13One of the most significant political philosophers of the twentieth century, Carl Schmitt is a deeply controversial figure who has been labeled both a Nazi sympathizer and a modern-day Thomas Hobbes. First published in 1938, "The Leviathan in the State... -
The Art of Living: Socratic Reflections from Plato to Foucault by Alexander Nehamas
RRP: £27.00£21.06For much of its history, philosophy was not merely a theoretical discipline but a way of life, an 'art of living'. This practical aspect of philosophy has been much less dominant in modernity than it was in ancient Greece and Rome, when philosophers of... -
On the Reproduction of Capitalism: Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses by Professor Louis Althusser
RRP: £19.99£16.42Louis Althusser's renowned short text 'Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses' radically transformed the concept of the subject, the understanding of the state and even the very frameworks of cultural, political and literary theory. The text has... -
Prophecy without Contempt: Religious Discourse in the Public Square by Cathleen Kaveny
RRP: £25.95£20.64American culture warriors have plenty to argue about, but battles over such issues as abortion and torture have as much to do with rhetorical style as moral substance. Cathleen Kaveny reframes the debate about religion in the public square by focusing on... -
The Roman Republic of Letters: Scholarship, Philosophy, and Politics in the Age of Cicero and Caesar by Katharina Volk
RRP: £32.00£25.16An intellectual history of the late Roman Republic-and the senators who fought both scholarly debates and a civil warIn The Roman Republic of Letters, Katharina Volk explores a fascinating chapter of intellectual history, focusing on the literary... -
Shared and Institutional Agency: Toward a Planning Theory of Human Practical Organization by Michael E Bratman
RRP: £24.99£22.52Our human lives involve remarkable forms of practical organization-- diachronic organization of individual activity; small-scale organization of shared action; and the organization of institutions. In this book, Michael Bratman argues that the key to... -
The Politics of Repressed Guilt: The Tragedy of Austrian Silence by Claudia Leeb
RRP: £23.99£21.85Drawing on the work of Hannah Arendt and Theodor W. Adorno, Claudia Leeb discussesguilt and democracy in the case of Austrian Nazi perpetrators and recent public controversies surrounding Austria's involvement in the Nazi atrocities. She shows us that... -
Simone de Beauvoir: The Basics Megan Burke 9781032508610
RRP: £18.99£16.87Simone de Beauvoir: The Basics provides an accessible introduction to the life, work and ground-breaking ideas of author, philosopher, and feminist Simone de Beauvoir.The book offers readers “the basics” of Beauvoir, affording new and continuing readers...