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The Banality of Evil: Hannah Arendt and 'The Final Solution' by Bernard J. Bergen 9780847692101
RRP: £42.00£36.93This highly original book is the first to explore the political and philosophical consequences of Hannah Arendt's concept of 'the banality of evil,' a term she used to describe Adolph Eichmann, architect of the Nazi 'final solution.' According to Bernard... -
Against the Vortex: Zardoz and Degrowth Utopias in the Seventies and Today by Anthony Galluzzo 9781803416625
RRP: £7.99£7.89Alongside scientific knowledge and collective effort, building a degrowth ecological society will require a different set of stories and myths than the big and fast Promethean fables we're accustomed to. Using Boorman's Zardoz as a tool, Into The Vortex... -
Out of Joint: Power, Crisis, and the Rhetoric of Time by Nomi Claire Lazar
RRP: £32.50£31.58How constructions of time shape political beliefs about what is possible-and what is inevitable To secure power in a crisis, leaders must sell deep change as a means to future good. But how could we know the future? Nomi Claire Lazar draws on stories... -
Ideas for the Philosophy of the History of Mankind by Johann Gottfried Herder 9780691147185
RRP: £68.00£60.37One of the most important works of the Enlightenment—in the first new, unabridged English translation in more than two centuriesPublished in four volumes between 1784 and 1791, Herder’s Ideas for the Philosophy of the History of Mankind is one of the... -
Oakeshott on Rome and America by Gene Callahan 9781845406677
£23.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845406677Author Gene CallahanFormat PaperbackPage Count 238Imprint Imprint AcademicPublisher Imprint AcademicWeight(grams) 400g -
Getting Back into Place, Second Edition: Toward a Renewed Understanding of the Place-World by Edward S. Casey
RRP: £27.99£24.54What would the world be like if there were no places? Our lives are so place-oriented that we cannot begin to comprehend the loss of locality. Indeed, the space we occupy has much to do with what and who we are. Yet, despite the pervasiveness of place in... -
Agamben and Politics: A Critical Introduction by Sergei Prozorov
RRP: £28.99£26.91This is a critical introduction to Giorgio Agamben's political thought that highlights its affirmative dimension. Rapidly becoming one of the most celebrated and controversial contemporary thinkers, Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben has made an... -
A World after Liberalism: Philosophers of the Radical Right by Matthew Rose 9780300268133
RRP: £14.00£12.26A bracing account of liberalism's most radical critics introducing one of the most controversial movements of the twentieth century "Powerful. . . . Bracing. . . . Part of the book's eerie relevance comes from the role Russia plays throughout."-Ezra... -
The Spectre Of Babeuf by Ian Birchall
RRP: £19.95£13.54The Spectre of Babeuf is a long-awaited introduction to Babeuf written by Ian Birchall. Little known to today's radicals, Babeuf and his conspiracy of equals were in some ways the direct historical precursor of the revolutionary socialist movement. Ian... -
On Female Body Experience: Throwing Like a Girl and Other Essays by Iris Marion Young 9780195161939
RRP: £34.49£28.50Written over a span of more than two decades, the essays by Iris Marion Young collected in this volume describe diverse aspects of women's lived body experience in modern Western societies. Drawing on the ideas of several twentieth century continental... -
The Destruction of Reason by Georg Lukacs
RRP: £30.00£24.17A classic of Western Marxism, The Destruction of Reason is Georg Lukacs's trenchant criticism of German philosophy after Marx and the role it played in the rise of National Socialism. Originally published in 1952, the book is a sustained and detailed... -
Carceral Humanitarianism: Logics of Refugee Detention by Kelly Oliver 9781517903275
RRP: £9.00£7.98Coopted by military operations, humanitarianism has never been neutral. Rather than welcoming refugees, host countries assess the relative risks of taking them in versus turning them away, using a risk-benefit analysis that often reduces refugees to... -
A Collection of Ranter Writings: Spiritual Liberty and Sexual Freedom in the English Revolution by Nigel Smith
RRP: £28.99£18.80The Ranters - like the Levellers and the Diggers - were a group of religious libertarians who flourished during the English Civil War (1642-1651), a period of social and religious turmoil which saw, in the words of the historian Christopher Hill, 'the... -
Ecce Humanitas: Beholding the Pain of Humanity by Brad Evans
RRP: £25.00£19.59The very idea of humanity seems to be in crisis. Born in the ashes of devastation after the slaughter of millions, the liberal conception of humanity imagined a suffering victim in need of salvation. Today, this figure appears less and less capable of... -
Post-Truth: Knowledge As A Power Game by Steve Fuller 9781783086948
RRP: £24.95£23.72'Post-truth' was Oxford Dictionaries 2016 word of the year. While the term was coined by its disparagers in the light of the Brexit and US presidential campaigns, the roots of post-truth lie deep in the history of Western social and political theory... -
Hannah Arendt and Isaiah Berlin: Freedom, Politics and Humanity by Kei Hiruta 9780691226125
RRP: £20.00£15.89For the first time, the full story of the conflict between two of the twentieth century's most important thinkers-and the lessons their disagreements continue to offerTwo of the most iconic thinkers of the twentieth century, Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) and... -
Violent Fraternity: Indian Political Thought in the Global Age by Shruti Kapila
RRP: £35.00£28.14A groundbreaking history of the political ideas that made modern IndiaViolent Fraternity is a major history of the political thought that laid the foundations of modern India. Taking readers from the dawn of the twentieth century to the independence of... -
The Year of Dreaming Dangerously Slavoj Zizek 9781781680421
RRP: £7.99£6.64Call it the year of dreaming dangerously: 2011 caught the world off guard with a series of shattering events. While protesters in New York, Cairo, London, and Athens took to the streets in pursuit of emancipation, obscure destructive fantasies inspired... -
Why Global Justice Matters: Moral Progress in a Divided World Chris Armstrong 9781509531875
RRP: £40.00£35.07While many are born into prosperity, hundreds of millions of people lead lives of almost unimaginable poverty. Our world remains hugely unequal, with our place of birth continuing to exert a major influence on our opportunities. In this accessible book,... -
Democracy for Realists: Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government by Christopher H. Achen 9780691178240
RRP: £20.00£14.16Democracy for Realists assails the romantic folk-theory at the heart of contemporary thinking about democratic politics and government, and offers a provocative alternative view grounded in the actual human nature of democratic citizens. Christopher... -
When the State Meets the Street: Public Service and Moral Agency by Bernardo Zacka
RRP: £33.95£27.81When the State Meets the Street probes the complex moral lives of street-level bureaucrats: the frontline social and welfare workers, police officers, and educators who represent government's human face to ordinary citizens. Too often dismissed as... -
Critical Thinking: An Introduction to Reasoning Well by Dr Jamie Carlin Watson 9781350232938
RRP: £24.99£21.93'You shouldn't drink too much. The Earth is round. Milk is good for your bones.' Are any of these claims true? How can you tell? Can you ever be certain you are right? For anyone tackling philosophical logic for the first time, here is a practical... -
Downcast Eyes: The Denigration of Vision in Twentieth-Century French Thought by Martin Jay
RRP: £33.00£27.21Long considered 'the noblest of the senses', vision has increasingly come under critical scrutiny by a wide range of thinkers who question its dominance in Western culture. These critics of vision, especially prominent in twentieth-century France, have... -
Ominous Parallels by Leonard Peikoff 9780452011175
RRP: £24.00£16.80Ayn Rand chose Leonard Peikoff to be her successor as the spokesman for Objectivism. And in this brilliantly reasoned, thought-provoking work we learn why, as he demonstrates how far America has been detoured from its original path and led down the same... -
Roots for Radicals: Organizing for Power, Action, and Justice by Edward T. Chambers 9781350043121
£18.09The successor to the legendary activist Saul Alinsky, Edward T. Chambers pioneered a set of principles and practices that have guided community organizations throughout the US and the world. Roots for Radicals remains his definitive reflection on these... -
Original Spin: Downing Street and the Press in Victorian Britain by Paul Brighton 9781780760599
£50.26Secret lunches, off-the-record briefings, the leaking of confidential information and tightly-organised media launches - the well-known world of modern political spin. But is this really a new phenomenon or have politicians been manipulating the press... -
Heidegger's Life and Thought: A Tarnished Legacy by Mahon O'Brien 9781786613837
RRP: £19.99£18.52Martin Heidegger was a captivating and controversial philosopher, known for his highly original and challenging philosophical concepts, as well as his association with - and sympathy for - the Nazi Party during World War II.Providing an introduction to... -
H.L.A. Hart Matthew H. Kramer (Cambridge University) 9781509520732
RRP: £17.99£16.04H.L.A. Hart is among the most important philosophers of the twentieth century, with an especially great influence on the philosophy of law. His 1961 book The Concept of Law has become an enduring classic of legal philosophy, and has also left a... -
Henri Bergson by Vladimir Jankelevitch
RRP: £23.99£20.84Appearing here in English for the first time, Vladimir Jankelevitch's Henri Bergson is one of the two great commentaries written on Henri Bergson. Gilles Deleuze's Bergsonism renewed interest in the great French philosopher but failed to consider... -
A Rule of Law for Our New Age of Anxiety by Stephen J Toope 9781009299459
RRP: £30.00£25.95Taking Auden's Age of Anxiety as a leitmotiv and drawing on literature from law, philosophy, political theory, international relations, and sociology, Toope argues with passion that a renewed faith in the rule of law can address troubling developments in... -
On Tyranny: Corrected and Expanded Edition, Including the Strauss-Kojeve Correspondence by Leo Strauss
RRP: £26.00£24.85"On Tyranny" is Leo Strauss' classic reading of Xenophon's dialogue Hiero, or Tyrannicus, in which the tyrant Hiero and the poet Simonides discuss the advantages and disadvantages of exercising tyranny. Included are a translation of the dialogue from its... -
This Is Not a Peace Pipe: Towards a Critical Indigenous Philosophy by Dale R. Turner
RRP: £32.00£28.21How can indigenous people best assert their legal and political distinctiveness? In This is Not a Peace Pipe, Dale Turner explores indigenous intellectual culture and its relationship to, and within, the dominant Euro-American culture. He contends that... -
Jealousy of Trade: International Competition and the Nation-State in Historical Perspective by Istvan Hont 9780674055773
RRP: £28.95£27.95This collection explores eighteenth-century theories of international market competition that continue to be relevant for the twenty-first century. "Jealousy of trade" refers to a particular conjunction between politics and the economy that emerged when... -
Great Political Theories, Volume 1: A Comprehensive Selection of the Crucial Ideas in Political Philosophy from the Greeks to the Enlightenment by M Curtis 9780061351365
RRP: £16.99£12.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061351365Author M CurtisFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)... -
Disagreement: Politics and Philosophy by Jacques Ranciere
RRP: £23.99£20.84"Is there any such thing as political philosophy?" So begins this provocative book by one of the foremost figures in Continental thought. Here, Jacques Ranciere brings a new and highly useful set of terms to the vexed debate about political effectiveness... -
Negotiating a Settlement in Northern Ireland, 1969-2019 by Prof John Coakley 9780198882824
RRP: £40.00£36.44The Good Friday Agreement of 1998 ended a protracted violent conflict in Northern Ireland and became an international reference point for peace-building. Negotiating a Settlement in Northern Ireland, 1969-2019 traces the roots and out-workings of the... -
Measurement in Medicine: Philosophical Essays on Assessment and Evaluation by Leah McClimans 9781783488483
RRP: £41.00£37.85Measurement in Medicine brings together for the first time a range of philosophical essays on topics in the philosophy of epidemiology, epistemology of measurement, philosophy of health economics and health policy that address pressing questions of... -
An Introduction to Political Philosophy by Colin Bird 9781108437554
RRP: £19.99£18.01Now revised and updated and containing several entirely new chapters, this book provides a comprehensive introduction to political philosophy. It discusses historical and contemporary figures and covers a vast range of topics and debates, including... -
The Political Writings by Karl Marx
RRP: £30.99£26.03Karl Marx was not only the great theorist of capitalism, he was also a superb journalist, politician and historian. For the first time ever, this book brings together all of his essential political and historical writings in one volume. These writings... -
Plato's Euthyphro and the Earlier Theory of Forms (RLE: Plato): A Re-Interpretation of the Republic R Allen 9780415751506
RRP: £53.99£46.87Plato's Euthyphro is important because it gives an excellent example of Socratic dialogue in operation and of the connection of that dialectic with Plato's earlier theory of Forms. Professor Allen's edition of the dialogue provides a translation with...