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Gilles Deleuze's Transcendental Empiricism: From Tradition to Difference by Peter Hertz-Ohmes
RRP: £28.99£23.38Reconstructs Deleuze's philosophy as transcendental empiricism: two philosophies previously seen as contradictory Deleuze's readings of Hume, Spinoza, Bergson and Nietzsche respond to philosophical critiques of classical and modern empiricism. However,... -
Pathologies of Reason: On the Legacy of Critical Theory by Axel Honneth 9780231146272
RRP: £20.00£15.89Axel Honneth has been instrumental in advancing the work of the Frankfurt School of critical theorists, rebuilding their effort to combine radical social and political analysis with rigorous philosophical inquiry. These eleven essays reclaim the relevant... -
Is Just War Possible? Christopher Finlay 9781509526505
RRP: £9.99£8.95The idea that war is sometimes justified is deeply embedded in public consciousness. But it is only credible so long as we believe that the ethical standards of just war are in fact realizable in practice. In this engaging book, Christopher Finlay... -
Adapt!: On a New Political Imperative by Barbara Stiegler
RRP: £23.99£20.84Winner, French Voices Award This book, a crossover hit in France, offers a fresh genealogy of our neoliberal moment. "We must adapt!" These words can be heard almost everywhere and in every aspect of our lives. Where does this widespread sense that we... -
State, power, socialism by Nikos Poulantzas 9781781681480
RRP: £19.99£17.29Developing themes of his earlier works, Poulantzas here advances a vigorous critique of contemporary Marxist theories of the state, arguing against a general theory of the state, and identifying forms of class power crucial to socialist strategy that... -
Obscenity and Film Censorship: An Abridgement of the Williams Report by Bernard Williams 9781107534407
RRP: £19.99£16.42When it first appeared in 1979, the Williams Report on Obscenity and Film Censorship provoked strong reactions. The practical issues and political principles examined are of continuing interest and remain a crucial point of reference for discussions on... -
Biopower: Foucault and Beyond by Vernon W. Cisney
RRP: £31.00£30.19Michel Foucault's notion of "biopower" has been a highly fertile concept in recent theory, influencing thinkers worldwide across a variety of disciplines and concerns. In The History of Sexuality: An Introduction, Foucault famously employed the term to... -
The Tyranny of Guilt: An Essay on Western Masochism by Pascal Bruckner
RRP: £20.00£15.89Fascism, communism, genocide, slavery, racism, imperialism--the West has no shortage of reasons for guilt. And, indeed, since the Holocaust and the end of World War II, Europeans in particular have been consumed by remorse. But Pascal Bruckner argues... -
For Marx by Louis Althusser
£19.95This is the work in which Louis Althusser formulated some of his most influential ideas. For Marx, first published in France in 1968, has come to be regarded as the founding text of the school of "structuralist Marxism" which was presided over by the... -
Last Night, The - Anti-Work, Atheism, Adventure Federico Campagna 9781782791959
RRP: £9.99£8.59Our secular society seems to have finally found its new God: Work. As technological progress makes human labor superfluous, and over-production destroys both the economy and the planet, Work remains stronger than ever as a mantra of universal submission... -
The Laws: Bks. I-VI by Plato
RRP: £24.95£23.39Final thoughts on an ideal constitution.Plato, the great philosopher of Athens, was born in 427 BC. In early manhood an admirer of Socrates, he later founded the famous school of philosophy in the grove Academus. Much else recorded of his life is... -
William Godwin: A Political Life Richard Gough Thomas 9780745338354
RRP: £16.99£11.54'Government by its very nature counteracts the improvement of original mind' - William Godwin William Godwin was the first major anarchist thinker in the Anglophone world, who rocked the establishment at the beginning of the nineteenth century... -
Infancy and History: On the Destruction of Experience by Giorgio Agamben 9781844675715
RRP: £14.99£10.16How and why did experience and knowledge become separated? Is it possible to talk of an infancy of experience, a "dumb" experience? For Walter Benjamin, the "poverty of experience" was a characteristic of modernity, originating in the catastrophe of the... -
Comradely Greetings: The Prison Letters of Nadya and Slavoj by Nadezhda Tolokonnikova
£13.34"We are the rebels asking for the storm, and believing that truth is only to be found in an endless search ... Two years of prison for Pussy Riot is our tribute to a destiny that gave us sharp ears, allowing us to sound the note A when everyone else is... -
Rawls's "A Theory of Justice": A Reader's Guide by Frank Lovett 9780826437815
£25.45A concise introduction to the context, themes, and influence of one of the most important works of 20th century political philosophy. John Rawls' "A Theory of Justice", first published in 1971, is arguably the most important work of moral and... -
Pilgrimages/Peregrinajes: Theorizing Coalition Against Multiple Oppressions by Maria Lugones 9780742514591
RRP: £47.00£41.20Mar'a Lugones, one of the premiere figures in feminist philosophy, has at last collected some of her most famous essays, as well as some lesser-known gems, into her first book, Pilgrimages/Peregrinajes. A deeply original essayist, Lugones writes from her... -
Essays on Music by Theodor Adorno
RRP: £35.00£28.74Theodor W. Adorno (1903-1969), one of the principal figures associated with the Frankfurt School, wrote extensively on culture, modernity, aesthetics, literature, and - more than any other subject - music. To this day, Adorno remains the single most... -
Moral Principles and Political Obligations A. John Simmons 9780691020198
RRP: £45.00£40.41Outlining the major competing theories in the history of political and moral philosophy--from Locke and Hume through Hart, Rawls, and Nozick--John Simmons attempts to understand and solve the ancient problem of political obligation. Under what conditions... -
Sparing Civilians by Seth Lazar 9780198712985
£62.71Killing civilians is worse than killing soldiers. If any moral principle commands near universal assent, this one does. It is written into every major historical and religious tradition that has addressed armed conflict. It is uncompromisingly inscribed... -
The Children of Harvey Milk: How LGBTQ Politicians Changed the World by Andrew Reynolds
RRP: £12.99£11.87Part political thriller, part meditation on social change, part love story, The Children of Harvey Milk tells the epic stories of courageous men and women around the world who came forward to make their voices heard during the struggle for equal rights. ... -
Hope in Hopeless Times John Holloway (Benemerita Universidad Autonoma de Puebla) 9780745347349
RRP: £17.99£12.14Hope lies in our richness, in the joy of our collective creativity. But that richness exists in the peculiar form of money. The fact that we relate to on another through money causes tremendous social pain and destruction and is dragging us through... -
The Oxford Handbook of Political Methodology Janet M. Box-Steffensmeier (Vernal Riffe Professor of Political Science and Director of the Program in Statistics and Methodology, Ohio State University) 9780199585564
RRP: £34.99£34.89Political methodology has changed dramatically over the past thirty years, and many new methods and techniques have been developed. Both the Political Methodology Society and the Qualitative/Multi-Methods Section of the American Political Science... -
The Idea of Communism by Slavoj Zizek 9781844674596
£20.53Do not be afraid, join us, come back! You've had your anti-communist fun, and you are pardoned for it-time to get serious once again!-Slavoj Zizek Responding to Alain Badiou's 'communist hypothesis', the leading political philosophers of the Left... -
On Mercy by Malcolm Bull 9780691217451
RRP: £16.99£13.65Is mercy more important than justice?Since antiquity, mercy has been regarded as a virtue. Yet by the end of the eighteenth century, mercy had been exiled from political life. In this book, Malcolm Bull analyses and challenges the Enlightenment's... -
The Republic (Hero Classics) by Plato
£11.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915054845Author PlatoFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint HeroPublisher Legend Press LtdWeight(grams) 500g -
The Political and Social Philosophy of Ze'ev Jabotinsky: Selected Writings by Mordechai Sarig
RRP: £19.95£19.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853033592Author Mordechai SarigFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdWeight(grams)... -
Philosophical Hermeneutics, 30th Anniversary Edition by Hans-Georg Gadamer
RRP: £30.00£23.29This excellent collection contains 13 essays from Gadamer's "Kleine Schriften", dealing with hermeneutical reflection, phenomenology, existential philosophy, and philosophical hermeneutics. Gadamer applies hermeneutical analysis to Heidegger and... -
Thinking Antagonism: Political Ontology After Laclau by Oliver Marchart
RRP: £23.99£19.51Oliver Marchart presents the main features of Ernesto Laclau's ontology and tracks the development of antagonism from German Idealism via Marx to today's post-Marxism. In doing so, he demonstrates Laclau's significant contribution to the current... -
In Defense of Anarchism by Robert Paul Wolff
RRP: £23.00£18.10In Defense of Anarchism is a 1970 book by the philosopher Robert Paul Wolff, in which the author defends individualist anarchism. He argues that individual autonomy and state authority are mutually exclusive and that, as individual autonomy is... -
On Paradox: The Claims of Theory by Elizabeth S. Anker
RRP: £22.99£20.01In On Paradox literary and legal scholar Elizabeth S. Anker contends that faith in the logic of paradox has been the cornerstone of left intellectualism since the second half of the twentieth century. She attributes the ubiquity of paradox in the... -
Introducing Thatcherism: A Graphic Guide by Peter Pugh
RRP: £8.99£6.70Margaret Thatcher's political career was one of the most remarkable of modern times. She rose to become the first woman to lead a major Western democracy, serving as British Prime Minister. Admired by Ronald Regan and the United States Congress,... -
The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx 9781936594436
RRP: £7.77£6.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781936594436Author Friedrich EngelsFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Tribeca BooksPublisher Tribeca BooksWeight(grams) 100gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *... -
Constructing the Political Spectacle by Arnold Xiangze Jiang 9780226183992
RRP: £21.00£20.31Thanks to the ready availability of political news today, informed citizens can protect and promote their own interests and the public interest more effectively. Or can they? Murray Edelman argues against this conventional interpretation of politics, one... -
The Three Languages of Politics: Talking Across the Political Divides by Arnold Kling
RRP: £11.99£9.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781952223280Author Arnold KlingFormat PaperbackPage Count 170Imprint Libertarianism.org PressPublisher Cato Institute -
Republics and Kingdoms Compared by Aurelio Lippo Brandolini
RRP: £29.95£23.66Aurelio Lippo Brandolini's Republics and Kingdoms Compared is the most fascinating and least-known work of humanist political theory before Machiavelli. A Socratic dialogue set in the court of King Mattias Corvinus of Hungary (ca. 1490), the work depicts... -
Reason and Rationality by Jon Elster
RRP: £22.00£17.36One of the world's most important political philosophers, Jon Elster is a leading thinker on reason and rationality and their roles in politics and public life. In this short book, he crystallizes and advances his work, bridging the gap between... -
Critical Theory and New Materialisms Hartmut Rosa (Institut fur Soziologie, Friedrich-Schiller-Universitat-Jena, Germany) 9781032020518
RRP: £37.99£33.38Bringing together authors from two intellectual traditions that have, so far, generally developed independently of one another - critical theory and new materialism - this book addresses the fundamental differences and potential connections that exist... -
Justice: A Reader by Michael J. Sandel 9780195335125
RRP: £38.99£36.59Justice brings together in one indispensable volume essential readings on justice and moral reasoning. With readings from major thinkers from the classical era up to the present, the collection provides a thematic overview of the concept of justice... -
Solidarity in Conflict: A Democratic Theory by Rochelle DuFord
RRP: £58.00£50.17Democracy has become disentangled from our ordinary lives. Mere cooperation or ethical consumption now often stands in for a robust concept of solidarity that structures the entirety of sociality and forms the basis of democratic culture. How did... -
The Concept of Representation by Hanna Fenichel Pitkin
RRP: £27.00£21.06Being concerned with representation, this book is about an idea, a concept, a word. It is primarily a conceptual analysis, not a historical study of the way in which representative government has evolved, nor yet an empirical investigation of the...