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The Day After the Revolution by Slavoj Zizek
£11.35Lenin's originality and importance as a revolutionary leader is most often associated with the seizure of power in 1917. But, Zizek argues in his new study and collection of original texts, Lenin's true greatness can be better grasped in the very last... -
The Lessons of Tragedy: Statecraft and World Order by Hal Brands
RRP: £12.99£11.46An eloquent call to draw on the lessons of the past to address current threats to international order The ancient Greeks hard-wired a tragic sensibility into their culture. By looking disaster squarely in the face, by understanding just how badly things... -
Alienation: Marx's Conception of Man in a Capitalist Society by Professor Bertell Ollman
RRP: £26.99£21.57In this book, the most thorough account of Marx's theory of alienation yet to have appeared in English, Professor Ollman reconstructs the theory from its constituent parts and offers it as a vantage point from which to view the rest of Marxism. The book... -
The Aesthetic Dimension by Herbert Marcuse
RRP: £20.00£14.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807015193Author Herbert MarcuseFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 142gDimensions(mm) 213mm * 142mm *... -
Degenerations of Democracy by Craig Calhoun
RRP: £24.95£19.89Three leading thinkers analyze the erosion of democracy's social foundations and call for a movement to reduce inequality, strengthen inclusive solidarity, empower citizens, and reclaim pursuit of the public good.Democracy is in trouble. Populism is a... -
All Things are Nothing to Me: The Unique Philosophy of Max Stirner Jacob Blumenfeld 9781780996639
RRP: £11.99£10.15Max Stirner's The Unique and Its Property (1844) is the first ruthless critique of modern society. In All Things are Nothing to Me, Jacob Blumenfeld reconstructs the unique philosophy of Max Stirner (1806-1856), a figure that strongly influenced-for... -
William Blake: Visionary Anarchist by Peter H. Marshall 9780900384776
£6.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780900384776Author Peter H. MarshallFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Freedom PressPublisher Freedom Press -
The Oxford Handbook of Political Psychology by Leonie Huddy 9780199760107
RRP: £55.00£50.96Political psychology applies what is known about human psychology to the study of politics. It examines how, for example, people reach political decisions on topics such as voting, party identification, and political attitudes as well as how leaders... -
Reimagining Livelihoods: Life beyond Economy, Society, and Environment by Ethan Miller
RRP: £20.99£18.37A provocative reassessment of the concepts underlying the struggle for sustainable developmentMuch of the debate over sustainable development revolves around how to balance the competing demands of economic development, social well-being, and... -
A New Dawn for Politics Alain Badiou (l'Ecole normale superieure) 9781509553013
RRP: £9.99£8.95What is the relation between politics and the world? It might seem that global capitalism has created one world, but this is an illusion because capitalism creates a world of objects and money that divides human existence into regions separated by fences... -
On the Political by Chantal Mouffe
RRP: £22.99£20.16Since September 11th, we frequently hear that political differences should be put aside: the real struggle is between good and evil. What does this mean for political and social life? Is there a 'Third Way' beyond left and right, and if so, should we... -
Routledge Philosophy GuideBook to Rousseau and the Social Contract by Christopher Bertram 9780415201995
RRP: £25.99£22.63Rousseau's Social Contract is a benchmark in political philosophy and has influenced moral and political thought since its publication. Rousseau and the Social Contract introduces and assesses:*Rousseau's life and the background of the Social... -
Ethics in the Conflicts of Modernity: An Essay on Desire, Practical Reasoning, and Narrative by Alasdair MacIntyre
RRP: £39.99£36.19Alasdair MacIntyre explores some central philosophical, political and moral claims of modernity and argues that a proper understanding of human goods requires a rejection of these claims. In a wide-ranging discussion, he considers how normative and... -
The Philosopher and His Poor by Jacques Ranciere
RRP: £21.99£19.19What has philosophy to do with the poor? If, as has often been supposed, the poor have no time for philosophy, then why have philosophers always made time for them? Why is the history of philosophy-from Plato to Karl Marx to Jean-Paul Sartre to Pierre... -
The Green Book by Muammar Al-Qadhafi
RRP: £10.99£5.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781902932705Author Muammar Al-QadhafiFormat PaperbackPage Count 86Imprint Garnet PublishingPublisher Garnet PublishingWeight(grams) 91gDimensions(mm) 178mm... -
The Epistemology of Resistance: Gender and Racial Oppression, Epistemic Injustice, and the Social Imagination by Jose Medina 9780199929047
RRP: £52.00£32.77This book explores the epistemic side of oppression, focusing on racial and sexual oppression and their interconnections. It elucidates how social insensitivities and imposed silences prevent members of different groups from interacting epistemically in... -
Russian Political Philosophy: Anarchy, Authority, Autocracy by Evert Van Der Zweerde 9781474460385
RRP: £24.99£20.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474460385Author Evert Van Der ZweerdeFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University PressWeight(grams)... -
Late Capitalist Fascism by Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen 9781509547449
RRP: £9.99£8.95What if fascism didn't disappear at the end of WW II with the defeat of Hitler and Mussolini? Even more troubling, what if fascism can no longer be confined to political parties or ultra nationalist politicians but has become something much more diffuse... -
The Strains of Commitment: The Political Sources of Solidarity in Diverse Societies by Keith Banting 9780198795452
£107.92Building and sustaining solidarity is a compelling challenge, especially in ethnically and religiously diverse societies. Recent research has concentrated on forces that trigger backlash and exclusion. The Strains of Commitment examines the politics of... -
Setting the People Free: The Story of Democracy, Second Edition by John Dunn 9780691180038
RRP: £17.99£14.38Why does democracy-as a word and as an idea-loom so large in the political imagination, though it has so often been misused and misunderstood? Setting the People Free starts by tracing the roots of democracy from an improvised remedy for a local Greek... -
Inequality Reexamined by Amartya Sen 9780198289289
RRP: £45.49£35.64This book brings together and develops some of the most important economic, social, and ethical ideas Sen has explored over the last two decades. It examines the claims of equality in social arrangements, stressing that we should be concerned with... -
Freedom And Its Betrayal by Isaiah Berlin
RRP: £18.99£13.61Isaiah Berlin's celebrated radio lectures on six formative anti-liberal thinkers were delivered on the BBC's Third Programme in 1952. They are published here for the first time, fifty years on. Freedom and its Betrayal is one of Isaiah Berlin's earliest... -
Dead Man Working Carl Cederstrom 9781780991566
RRP: £9.99£8.59Capitalism has become strange. Ironically, while the 'age of work' seems to have come to an end, working has assumed a total presence - a 'worker's society' in the worst sense of the term - where everyone finds themselves obsessed with it. So what... -
The Kingdom and the Glory: For a Theological Genealogy of Economy and Government by Giorgio Agamben
RRP: £21.99£19.19Why has power in the West assumed the form of an "economy," that is, of a government of men and things? If power is essentially government, why does it need glory, that is, the ceremonial and liturgical apparatus that has always accompanied it? In the... -
Libertarianism for Beginners by Todd Seavey 9781939994660
RRP: £11.99£11.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781939994660Author Todd SeaveyFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint For BeginnersPublisher For Beginners -
Simone Weil: Late Philosophical Writings by Simone Weil
RRP: £15.99£14.24Although trained as a philosopher, Simone Weil (1909-43) contributed to a wide range of subjects, resulting in a rich field of interdisciplinary Weil studies. Yet those coming to her work from such disciplines as sociology, history, political science,... -
Patriarchal Moments: Reading Patriarchal Texts by Cesare Cuttica
£31.23This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Patriarchalism is omnipresent in Western culture and it pervades the texts that have shaped this culture. From the... -
Remaking Society: A New Ecological Politics by Murray Bookchin
RRP: £17.00£11.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781849354424Author Murray BookchinFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint AK PressPublisher AK Press -
Normal Now: Individualism as Conformity Mark G. E. Kelly 9781509550951
RRP: £15.99£14.41This is a book about what we consider normal. It details how the very concept of normality emerged in the modern era, and how it has changed over the centuries. By the mid-twentieth century, the expansion of norms across various areas of human endeavour... -
Conservatism: An Anthology of Social and Political Thought from David Hume to the Present by Jerry Z. Muller
RRP: £35.00£28.14At a time when the label "conservative" is indiscriminately applied to fundamentalists, populists, libertarians, fascists, and the advocates of one or another orthodoxy, this volume offers a nuanced and historically informed presentation of what is... -
Why Some Things Should Not Be for Sale: The Moral Limits of Markets by Debra Satz 9780199892617
RRP: £25.99£16.18For many, markets are the most efficient way in general to organize production and distribution in a complex economy. But what about those markets we might label noxious--markets in addictive drugs, say, or in sex? In Why Some Things Should Not Be for... -
Michael Oakeshott: Early Political Writings 1925-30: A discussion of some matters preliminary to the study of political philosophy' and 'The philosophical approach to politics: Issue 5 by Michael Oakeshott 9781845400538
£35.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845400538Author Michael OakeshottFormat HardbackPage Count 250Imprint Imprint AcademicPublisher Imprint AcademicWeight(grams) 700g -
The Crooked Timber of Humanity: Chapters in the History of Ideas - Second Edition by Isaiah Berlin
RRP: £22.00£15.45"Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made."--Immanuel Kant Isaiah Berlin was one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century--an activist of the intellect who marshaled vast erudition and eloquence in defense... -
Enlightenment against Empire by Sankar Muthu
RRP: £35.00£27.74In the late eighteenth century, an array of European political thinkers attacked the very foundations of imperialism, arguing passionately that empire-building was not only unworkable, costly, and dangerous, but manifestly unjust. Enlightenment against... -
Marx, Revolution, and Social Democracy by Philip J. Kain
RRP: £58.00£52.36Many people think Marx a totalitarian and Soviet Marxism the predictable outcome of his thought. If one shows them the texts-proves to them that Marx was a radical democrat--they often flip and think him utopian. Totalitarian or utopian--for many those... -
Using Gramsci: A New Approach by Michele Filippini
RRP: £22.99£17.94Thought of as one of the world's greatest political theorists, Antonio Gramsci's writings push readers to interpret and change the world. In Using Gramsci, Michele Filippini enlarges upon his seminal works, disentangling it from the prevailing orthodoxy... -
The Social Contract and The First and Second Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau 9780300091410
RRP: £15.99£15.76Jean-Jacques Rousseau's ideas about society, culture, and government are pivotal in the history of political thought. His works are as controversial as they are relevant today. This volume brings together three of Rousseau's most important political... -
Jacques Lacan: A Critical Introduction by Martin Murray 9780745315904
RRP: £24.99£19.39*Winner of the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Book Prize, 2016* The wide-ranging and brilliant ideas of the French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan (1901-1981) have had a major influence on modern thought. His 'followers' are loyal and legion. Yet his ideas... -
Critique of Freedom: The Central Problem of Modernity by Otfried Höffe
RRP: £35.00£29.57In this ambitious book, philosopher Otfried Hoeffe provides a sophisticated account of the principle of freedom and its role in the project of modernity. Hoeffe addresses a set of complex questions concerning the possibility of political justice and... -
The Empire and the Five Kings: America's Abdication and the Fate of the World by Bernard-Henri Lévy
RRP: £12.99£9.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250231307Author Bernard-Henri LevyFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Henry Holt & Company IncPublisher Henry Holt & Company IncWeight(grams)...