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Identity: Contemporary Identity Politics and the Struggle for Recognition by Francis Fukuyama
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.67Currently in Bill Gates's bookbag and FT Books of 2018 Increasingly, the demands of identity direct the world's politics. Nation, religion, sect, race, ethnicity, gender: these categories have overtaken broader, inclusive ideas of who we are. We have... -
Philosophy and Real Politics by Raymond Geuss 9780691258690
RRP: €16.65Booksplease Price: €15.42A trenchant critique of established ideas in political philosophy and a provocative call for changeMany contemporary political thinkers are gripped by the belief that their task is to develop an ideal theory of rights or justice for guiding and judging... -
The Politics by Aristotle
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €9.17The 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 Concept of the Political by Carl Schmitt
Booksplease Price: €25.28In this, his most influential work, legal theorist and political philosopher Carl Schmitt argues that liberalism's basis in individual rights cannot provide a reasonable justification for sacrificing one-self for the state - a critique as cogent today as... -
We Are Free to Change the World: Hannah Arendt’s Lessons in Love and Disobedience by Lyndsey Stonebridge 9781787332522
RRP: €26.18Booksplease Price: €19.68This bold new take on the life and ideas of political philosopher Hannah Arendt explores her lessons for living in an age of uncertainty.'Compelling and original' OBSERVER'Invigorating and insightful' FINANCIAL TIMESBorn in the first decade of the last... -
The Art of Rhetoric by Aristotle 9780198724254
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €9.39For all men are persuaded by considerations of where their interest lies... Aristotle's Art of Rhetoric is the earliest systematic treatment of the subject, and it remains among the most incisive works on rhetoric that we possess. In it, we are asked:... -
Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste by Pierre Bourdieu 9780415567886
RRP: €23.79Booksplease Price: €22.42No judgement of taste is innocent - we are all snobs. Pierre Bourdieu's Distinction brilliantly illuminates the social pretentions of the middle classes in the modern world, focusing on the tastes and preferences of the French bourgeoisie. First... -
The Aesthetics of Disappearance Paul Virilio 9781584350743
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €12.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781584350743Author Paul VirilioFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 10mm -
Utopia by Saint Thomas More 9780241382684
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €13.78In Utopia, Thomas More gives us a traveller's account of a newly discovered island where the inhabitants enjoy a social order based on natural reason and justice, and human fulfilment is open to all. As the traveller, Raphael, describes the island to... -
The Collected Works of Spinoza, Volume II by Benedictus de Spinoza 9780691167633
RRP: €59.50Booksplease Price: €48.10The Collected Works of Spinoza provides, for the first time in English, a truly satisfactory edition of all of Spinoza's writings, with accurate and readable translations, based on the best critical editions of the original-language texts, done by a... -
Why We Fight: The Roots of War and the Paths to Peace by Christopher Blattman 9780241989258
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €10.00Why do human beings fight one another?In this exhilarating and bracing book, we learn the common logic driving vainglorious monarchs, dictators, mobs, pilots, football hooligans, ancient peoples and fanatics.Distilling decades of economics, political... -
The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius by George Orwell
RRP: €8.32Booksplease Price: €6.71George Orwell's moving reflections on the English character and his passionate belief in the need for political change.The Lion and the Unicorn was written in London during the worst period of the blitz. It is vintage Orwell, a dynamic outline of his... -
The Grounds of Political Legitimacy by Prof Fabienne Peter 9780198872382
RRP: €71.40Booksplease Price: €64.41Political decisions have the potential to greatly impact our lives. Think of decisions in relation to abortion or climate change, for example. This makes political legitimacy an important normative concern. But what makes political decisions legitimate?... -
Horrorism: Naming Contemporary Violence by Adriana Cavarero 9780231144575
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €24.40Words 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... -
The Essential Chomsky by Noam Chomsky
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €18.25In a single volume, the seminal writings of the world's leading philosopher, linguist and critic, and author of the bestselling Who Rules the World'The general population doesn't know what's happening, and it doesn't even know that it doesn't know' Noam... -
Profits Over People: Neoliberalism and the New Order by Noam Chomsky
RRP: €16.65Booksplease Price: €11.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781888363821Author Noam ChomskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 167g -
The Case for Rage: Why Anger Is Essential to Anti-Racist Struggle by Myisha Cherry
RRP: €22.00Booksplease Price: €19.90When 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... -
Haywire: A Political History of Britain since 2000 by Andrew Hindmoor 9780241651711
RRP: €41.65Booksplease Price: €30.55'In this fascinating book, Andrew Hindmoor makes sense of the tangled past we have just lived through ... sprinkling wit, insight and analytical verve over his energetic narrative. In contemporary British political history, his will be the distinctive... -
Maoism: A Global History by Julia Lovell
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €13.78WINNER OF THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE 2019SHORLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2019'A landmark work giving a global panorama of Mao's ideology filled with historic events and enlivened by striking characters' Jonathan Fenby, author of The Penguin... -
The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Law and Legal Theory Martin P. Golding (Duke University) 9780631228325
RRP: €39.21Booksplease Price: €35.41The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Law and Legal Theory is a handy guide to the state of play in contemporary philosophy of law and legal theory. Comprises 23 essays critical essays on the central themes and issues of the philosophy of law today,... -
The Fall of Spirituality: The Corruption of Tradition in the Modern World by Julius Evola
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €25.12A bold critique of the spiritual schools, philosophies, and mystical teachers of the 20th century* Examines newer spiritual "systems" of the modern era, from spiritism and theosophy, to parapsychic research and anthroposophism, to psychoanalysis and the... -
The Prince (Collins Classics) by Niccolo Machiavelli 9780008296506
RRP: €9.51Booksplease Price: €7.07HarperCollins 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... -
‘Just Like Us’?: The Politics of Ministerial Promotion in UK Government Bill Jones 9781032520759
RRP: €29.74Booksplease Price: €27.12Informed by interviews with key political figures and commentators, this entertaining and enlightening book exposes the influences, processes and motivations behind ministerial promotion in British government.It identifies and analyses the political... -
Justice as Fairness: A Restatement by John Rawls 9780674005112
RRP: €34.45Booksplease Price: €28.46This book originated as lectures for a course on political philosophy that Rawls taught regularly at Harvard in the 1980s. In time the lectures became a restatement of his theory of justice as fairness, revised in light of his more recent papers and his... -
A Small Man's England Tommy Sissons 9781912248926
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.52IS THE WHITE WORKING CLASS RIGHT-WING? AND IS IT RIGHT-WING TO EVEN SPEAK OF A "WHITE WORKING CLASS"? In recent decades, as class consciousness has been suppressed and eroded, many white working-class men have turned their backs on the left in... -
The Courage of Hopelessness: Chronicles of a Year of Acting Dangerously by Slavoj Zizek
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €10.00The maverick philosopher returns to explore today's idealogical, political and economic battles, and asks whether radical change is possibleIn these troubled times, even the most pessimistic diagnosis of our future ends with an uplifting hint that things... -
Relationality: An Emergent Politics of Life Beyond the Human by Arturo Escobar 9781350225961
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €16.62This important new book argues that at the root of the contemporary crisis of climate, energy, food, inequality, and meaning is a certain core presupposition that structures the ways in which we live, think, act and design: the assumption of dualism, or... -
Conservatism: An Anthology of Social and Political Thought from David Hume to the Present by Jerry Z. Muller
RRP: €41.65Booksplease Price: €33.74At 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... -
What Are Children For?: On Ambivalence and Choice Anastasia Berg 9780861549481
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €17.90Having children is one of the biggest decisions you'll make in your life. Increasingly, we aren't making it at all. 'A book for lovers of sound reasoning.' THE NEW YORKER Across the developed world, fewer and fewer people are becoming parents. We... -
Fools, Frauds and Firebrands: Thinkers of the New Left by Roger Scruton
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €13.78A 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... -
Why Marx Was Right by Terry Eagleton
RRP: €14.27Booksplease Price: €12.92One of the foremost Marxist critics of his generation forcefully argues against Marx's irrelevancy "[Eagleton is] a witty, insightful thinker with a penchant for glib asides and wry dashes of humor. It's probably the only book that makes references to... -
The End of History and the Last Man by Francis Fukuyama
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €13.53A LANDMARK WORK OF POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY. A GLOBAL BESTSELLER. STILL AS RELEVANT TODAY. With the fall of Berlin Wall in 1989 the threat of the Cold War which had dominated the second half of the twentieth century vanished. And with it the West looked to... -
Against the Double Blackmail: Refugees, Terror and Other Troubles with the Neighbours by Slavoj Zizek 9780141984124 [USED COPY]
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €3.15'One of our best-known living philosophers' GuardianHow do we respond to the refugee crisis - by opening our doors, or pulling up the drawbridge? Both solutions, argues Slavoj Zizek, offer ideological blackmail, and both are wrong. He proposes that... -
Against the Double Blackmail: Refugees, Terror and Other Troubles with the Neighbours by Slavoj Zizek
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €10.00'One of our best-known living philosophers' GuardianHow do we respond to the refugee crisis - by opening our doors, or pulling up the drawbridge? Both solutions, argues Slavoj Zizek, offer ideological blackmail, and both are wrong. He proposes that... -
On Violence by Hannah Arendt 9780241631645
RRP: €9.51Booksplease Price: €7.53From Hannah Arendt, the author of The Origins of Totalitarianism, her influential essay examining the relationship between violence, power, war and politics'Violence can destroy power; it is utterly incapable of creating it'Why has violence played such a... -
A Post-Truth World: Politics, Polarization, and a Vision for Transcending the Chaos Ken Wilber 9781645473558
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €14.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781645473558Author Ken WilberFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications Inc -
Culture is Not an Industry: Reclaiming Art and Culture for the Common Good by Justin O'Connor 9781526171269
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €14.01Culture is at the heart of what it means to be human. But twenty-five years ago, the British government rebranded art and culture as 'creative industries', valued for their economic contribution, and set out to launch the UK as the creative workshop of a... -
The Prince: The Original Classic Niccolo Machiavelli 9780857080783
RRP: €14.27Booksplease Price: €10.26THE HANDBOOK FOR LEADERS The Prince is often regarded as the first true leadership book. It shocked contemporary readers with its ruthless call for fearless and effective action. With simple prose and straightforward logic Machiavelli's guide still has... -
Three Early Modern Utopias: Thomas More: Utopia / Francis Bacon: New Atlantis / Henry Neville: The Isle of Pines by Saint Thomas More
RRP: €9.51Booksplease Price: €7.53Thomas More: Utopia/ Francis Bacon: New Atlantis/Henry Neville: The Isle of Pines With the publication of Utopia (1516), Thomas More introduced into the English language not only a new word, but a new way of thinking about the gulf between what ought... -
Minimizing Marriage: Marriage, Morality, and the Law by Elizabeth Brake 9780199774135
RRP: €46.99Booksplease Price: €34.36Even 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,...