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Against the Tide: The Best of Roger Scruton's Columns, Commentaries and Criticism by Roger Scruton
RRP: £20.00£15.32'His moral courage shines through from the start.' - Sunday Telegraph The definitive edition of the late Sir Roger Scruton's philosophical and political essays and reviews, now collected in one volume. The philosopher Roger Scruton was the leading... -
One-Way Street: And Other Writings by Walter Benjamin
RRP: £12.99£11.01Walter Benjamin is one of the most fascinating and enigmatic intellectual figures of this century. Not only was he a thinker who made an enormous impact with his critical and philosophical writings, he shattered disciplinary and stylistic conventions... -
Mythologies by Roland Barthes
RRP: £9.99£7.11'Barthes' purpose is to tear away masks and demystify the signs, signals and symbols of the language of mass culture' The TimesIn this magnificent and often surprising collection of essays Barthes explores the myths of mass culture. Taking subjects as... -
Anti-Oedipus Gilles Deleuze (No current affiliation) 9781780936611
RRP: £24.99£22.33The collaboration of the philosopher Gilles Deleuze and the psychoanalyst Felix Guattari has been one of the most profoundly influential partnerships in contemporary thought. Anti-Oedipus is the first part of their masterpiece, Capitalism and... -
The Republic: The Influential Classic Plato 9780857083135
RRP: £11.99£8.00The newest deluxe edition in the bestselling Capstone Classics Series This ancient classic has had a make-over. In recent years these Capstone Classic deluxe editions have caught the book buying public's imagination. The volumes of international... -
Free For All: Why The NHS Is Worth Saving by Gavin Francis 9781800819252
RRP: £7.99£5.79'Needle-sharp analysis from the front line' Ian Rankin 'Utterly compelling' Henry Marsh 'Wonderful ... A heartbreaking chronicle of the NHS's near-demise, and a call to action' Leah Hazard 'A reminder of what is important, what we hold dear, and... -
The Case for Rage: Why Anger Is Essential to Anti-Racist Struggle by Myisha Cherry
RRP: £18.49£15.92When it comes to injustice, especially racial injustice, rage isn't just an acceptable response-it's crucial in order to fuel the fight for change. Anger has a bad reputation. Many people think that it is counterproductive, distracting, and... -
Limitarianism: The Case Against Extreme Wealth by Ingrid Robeyns 9780241578193
RRP: £25.00£18.02'The best case I've read for putting an upper limit on the accumulation of wealth' Richard Wilkinson'One of the most talked-about books to the moment ... Limitarianism floats the heretical idea that fixing society isn't just about saving the poorest from... -
Blackness at the Intersection Kehinde Andrews (Birmingham City University, UK) 9781786998651
RRP: £21.99£18.10A ground-breaking collection applying Crenshaw's concept of intersectionality to the black diasporic experience in Britain. In the 1980s, Professor Kimberle Crenshaw first coined the term 'intersectionality'. Since then, the concept has spread across... -
The New Leviathans: Thoughts After Liberalism by John Gray
RRP: £20.00£14.29'One of the most important thinkers alive' The Times'Britain's best philosopher' The TelegraphEver since its publication in 1651, Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan has unsettled and challenged how we understand the world. Condemned and vilified by each new... -
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft 9781857150865
RRP: £12.99£9.09Writing just after the French and American revolutions, Mary Wollstonecraft firmly established the demand for women's emancipation in the context of the ever-widening urge for human rights and individual freedom that followed in the wake of these two... -
Why Cicero Matters Vittorio Bufacchi 9781350376687
RRP: £19.99£16.54Why Cicero Matters shows us how the Roman philosopher and statesman Marcus Tullius, better known as Cicero, can help realize a new political world. His impact on humanitarianism, the Enlightenment and the Founding Fathers of America is immense. Yet we... -
The Politics by Aristotle
RRP: £9.99£7.11The Politics is one of the most influential texts in the history of political thought, and it raises issues which still confront anyone who wants to think seriously about the ways in which human societies are organized and governed. The work of one... -
The Prince (Collins Classics) by Niccolo Machiavelli 9780008296506
RRP: £7.99£5.41HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. 'We have declared before that it is not only expedient but necessary for a prince to take care his foundations be good, otherwise his fabric will be sure... -
Alienation and Freedom by Frantz Fanon
RRP: £45.00£35.63Since the publication of The Wretched of the Earth in 1961, Fanon's work has been deeply significant for generations of intellectuals and activists from the 60s to the present day. Alienation and Freedom collects together unpublished works comprising... -
Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord 9780946061129
£8.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780946061129Author Guy DebordFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Rebel Press,LondonPublisher Rebel Press,London -
The Web of Meaning: Integrating Science and Traditional Wisdom to Find Our Place in the Universe by Jeremy Lent
RRP: £14.99£9.53'The Web of Meaning is both a profound personal meditation on human existence and a tour-de-force weaving together of historic and contemporary world-wide secular and spiritual thought on the deepest question of all: why are we here?' Gabor Mate M.D.,... -
Republic by Plato 9780872201361
RRP: £13.99£11.83The revised edition of Grube's classic translation follows and furthers Grube's noted success in combining fidelity to Plato's text with natural readability, while reflecting the fruits of new scholarship and insights into Plato's thought since... -
Zelensky: A Biography Serhii Rudenko 9781509556380
RRP: £20.00£13.35Three years after the political novice Volodymyr Zelensky was elected to Ukraine's highest office, he found himself catapulted into the role of war-time leader. The former comedian has become the public face of his country's courageous and bloody... -
What Are Children For?: On Ambivalence and Choice Anastasia Berg 9780861549481
RRP: £20.00£14.29Having children is one of the biggest decisions you’ll make in your life. Increasingly, we aren’t making it at all. Across the developed world, fewer and fewer people are becoming parents, and many see themselves as never doing so. We seek... -
What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets by Michael Sandel
RRP: £9.99£7.11What Money Can't Buy is the Top Ten Sunday Times Bestseller from 'the superstar philosopher', Michael SandelShould we financially reward children for good marks? Is it ethical to pay people to donate organs? What about hiring mercenaries to fight our... -
Affluence and Freedom: An Environmental History of Political Ideas Pierre Charbonnier 9781509543724
RRP: £19.99£18.09In this pathbreaking book, Pierre Charbonnier opens up a new intellectual terrain: an environmental history of political ideas. His aim is not to locate the seeds of ecological thought in the history of political ideas as others have done, but rather to... -
Minimizing Marriage: Marriage, Morality, and the Law by Elizabeth Brake 9780199774135
RRP: £39.49£28.87Even in secular and civil contexts, marriage retains sacramental connotations. Yet what moral significance does it have? This book examines its morally salient features - promise, commitment, care, and contract - with surprising results. In Part One,... -
Too Late to Awaken: What Lies Ahead When There is No Future? by Slavoj Žižek 9780241651759
RRP: £20.00£14.29The most provocative philosopher of our times returns with a rousing and counterintuitive analysis of our global predicamentWe hear all the time that it's five minutes to global doomsday, so now is our last chance to avert disaster. But what if the only... -
The Cambridge Companion to Civil Disobedience by William E. Scheuerman
RRP: £24.99£21.58The theory and practice of civil disobedience has once again taken on import, given recent events. Considering widespread dissatisfaction with normal political mechanisms, even in well-established liberal democracies, civil disobedience remains hugely... -
Expanding World, The - Towards a Politics of Microspection Michael Cronin 9781780990774
RRP: £9.99£8.59Are we really living in a shrinking world? Is it true that diversity is on the decline everywhere? Are we condemned to live on a planet without difference or hope? The Expanding World challenges the basic notion of a shrinking world in current debates... -
Freedom and Equality: Essays on Liberalism and Feminism by Clare Chambers 9780192897909
RRP: £80.00£73.06Should the state recognise gender? Can a liberal state discourage traditional family structures? Is women's sport compatible with equality of opportunity? Should feminists defend women's freedom to choose cosmetic surgery? Is genital cutting always... -
Republic (Collins Classics) by Plato 9780008480080
RRP: £2.99£2.34HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Plato's Republic has influenced Western philosophers for centuries, with its main focus on what makes a well-balanced society and individual.About the... -
Fools, Frauds and Firebrands: Thinkers of the New Left by Roger Scruton
RRP: £14.99£10.95A devastating critique of New Left thinking. In Fools, Frauds and Firebrands, Roger Scruton first surveys and then deconstructs the golden idols of left wing thought from the 1960s to the present day. He dissects the hollow works of Hobsbawm and E. P... -
Political Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction by David Miller
RRP: £8.99£6.45This book introduces readers to the concepts of political philosophy. It starts by explaining why the subject is important and how it tackles basic ethical questions such as 'how should we live together in society?' It looks at political authority, the... -
Republicanism: A Theory of Freedom and Government by Philip Pettit 9780198296423
RRP: £47.99£36.19This is the first full-length presentation of a republican alternative to the liberal and communitarian theories that have dominated political philosophy in recent years. The author's eloquent, compelling account opens with an examination of the... -
Phaedo by Plato 9780198140146
£43.53PhaedoBook InformationISBN 9780198140146Author PlatoFormat PaperbackPage Count 314Imprint Clarendon PressPublisher Oxford University PressDimensions(mm) 187mm * 124mm * 17mm -
The Idea of a Critical Theory: Habermas and the Frankfurt School by Raymond Geuss 9780521284226
RRP: £15.99£11.74Habermas and earlier members of the Frankfurt School have presented critical theory as a radically new form of knowledge. It is differentiated from the natural sciences as essentially 'reflective': the knowledge it provides guides us towards... -
Heidegger in Question: The Art of Existing by Robert Bernasconi 9781538150344
RRP: £25.00£21.79Robert Bernasconi explores in the context of Heidegger's thought a number of questions of far-reaching concern: what is the role of literary examples within philosophy? Is art dead? What is the relation of art to nature? Is there a place for the idea of... -
Beyond Bourdieu Will Atkinson (University of Bristol, UK) 9781509507498
RRP: £14.99£13.58Pierre Bourdieu is arguably the most influential sociologist of the twentieth century, especially since the once common criticisms of his determinism and reproductionism have receded. Now, however, his intellectual enterprise faces a new set of... -
Memory Makers: The Politics of the Past in Putin's Russia by Jade McGlynn
RRP: £20.00£15.32Why aren't ordinary Russians more outraged by Putin's invasion of Ukraine? Inside the Kremlin's own historical propaganda narratives, Russia's invasion of Ukraine makes complete sense. From its World War II cult to anti-Western conspiracy theories, the... -
Athens: A History of the World's First Democracy by Thomas N. Mitchell
RRP: £13.99£12.25A history of the world's first democracy from its beginnings in Athens circa fifth century B.C. to its downfall 200 years later The first democracy, established in ancient Greece more than 2,500 years ago, has served as the foundation for every... -
World on Fire: Humans, Animals, and the Future of the Planet by Mark Rowlands
RRP: £27.99£24.01Mark Rowlands presents a novel analysis of three epoch-defining environmental problems: climate, extinction, and pestilence. Our climate is changing at a rate that is unprecedented and, if unchecked, disastrous. Species are disappearing hundreds or... -
An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding by David Hume
RRP: £9.99£7.11'Commit it then to the flames: for it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion.' Thus ends David Hume's Enquiry concerning Human Understanding, the definitive statement of the greatest philosopher in the English language. His arguments in... -
The Art of Rhetoric by Aristotle 9780140445107
RRP: £10.99£7.77With the emergence of democracy in the city-state of Athens in the years around 460 BC, public speaking became an essential skill for politicians in the Assemblies and Councils - and even for ordinary citizens in the courts of law. In response, the...