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Discourse on the Origin of Inequality by Jean-Jacques Rousseau 9780872201507
RRP: £10.99£9.00Donald Cress's highly regarded translation, based on the critical Pleiade edition of 1964, is here issued with a lively introduction by James Miller, who brings into sharp focus the cultural and intellectual milieu in which Rousseau operated. This new... -
Ugly Freedoms by Elisabeth R. Anker
RRP: £20.99£18.37In Ugly Freedoms Elisabeth R. Anker reckons with the complex legacy of freedom offered by liberal American democracy, outlining how the emphasis of individual liberty has always been entangled with white supremacy, settler colonialism, climate... -
France before 1789: The Unraveling of an Absolutist Regime by Jon Elster 9780691149813
RRP: £45.00£35.32A masterful new account of old regime France by one of the world's most prominent political philosophersFrance before 1789 traces the historical origins of France's National Constituent Assembly of 1789, providing a vivid portrait of the ancien regime... -
A Difference of Opinion: The Autobiography of Jim Sillars by Jim Sillars
RRP: £14.99£14.42Jim Sillars, among the last of his generation's working-class politicians, has had a prominent role in Scottish public life for more than six decades, during which he moved from being a Unionist Labour MP to becoming deputy leader of the SNP and now a... -
Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra: An Edinburgh Philosophical Guide by Douglas Burnham
RRP: £20.99£17.19A step-by-step guide to Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra. Thus Spoke Zarathustra is one of Nietzsche's greatest books, a cross-over text that combines philosophical innovation with literary experimentation. With Zarathustra Nietzsche has attempted a... -
Beyond the Nation-State: The Zionist Political Imagination from Pinsker to Ben-Gurion by Dmitry Shumsky
RRP: £32.50£27.95A revisionist account of Zionist history, challenging the inevitability of a one-state solution, from a bold, path-breaking young scholar The Jewish nation-state has often been thought of as Zionism's end goal. In this bracing history of the idea of the... -
The Metastases of Enjoyment: On Women and Causality by Slavoj Zizek 9781844670611
RRP: £16.99£15.77The experience of the Yugoslav war and the rise of "irrational" violence in contemporary societies provides the theoretical and political context of this book, which uses Lacanian psychoanalysis as the basis for a renewal of the Marxist theory of... -
The Ways of the World David Harvey 9781781255322
RRP: £12.99£9.09The essential anthology of writings by the world's leading Marxist thinker: this book presents a sequence of landmark works in David Harvey's intellectual journey over five decades. It shows how experiencing the riots, despair and injustice of 1970s... -
Decolonizing Dialectics by George Ciccariello-Maher
RRP: £20.99£18.37Anticolonial theorists and revolutionaries have long turned to dialectical thought as a central weapon in their fight against oppressive structures and conditions. This relationship was never easy, however, as anticolonial thinkers have resisted the... -
Democratic Practice: Origins of the Iberian Divide in Political Inclusion by Robert M. Fishman 9780190912888
RRP: £29.99£22.37At a time of growing concern over the fate of contemporary democracy this book shows how vast differences between countries in forms of political conduct, and taken for granted assumptions, determine what democracies actually accomplish. In Democratic... -
Counter-Enlightenments: From the Eighteenth Century to the Present Graeme Garrard (Cardiff University, UK) 9780415852968
RRP: £53.99£46.87The Enlightenment and its legacy are still actively debated, with the Enlightenment acting as a key organizing concept in philosophy, social theory and the history of ideas. Counter-Enlightenments is the first full-length study to deal with the history... -
Politics and the Other Scene by Etienne Balibar
£17.29As one of Louis Althusser's most brilliant students in the 1960s, Etienne Balibar contributed to the theoretical collective masterpiece of Reading Capital. Since then he has established himself among the most subtle philosophical and political thinkers... -
The Communist Hypothesis by Alain Badiou
£17.13"We know that communism is the right hypothesis. All those who abandon this hypothesis immediately resign themselves to the market economy, to parliamentary democracy - the form of state suited to capitalism - and to the inevitable and "natural"... -
Representing Capital: A Reading of Volume One by Fredric Jameson 9781781681572
£16.65Representing Capital, Fredric Jameson's first book-length engagement with Marx's magnum opus, is a unique work of scholarship that records the progression of Marx's thought as if it were a musical score. The textual landscape that emerges is the... -
The Main Enterprise of the World: Rethinking Education by Philip Kitcher 9780190928971
RRP: £36.49£31.73Philip Kitcher's The Main Enterprise of the World offers a sweeping vision of the goals of education. Kitcher considers the ways in which schools and universities should advance their goals, explores the social changes required to make high-quality... -
The Ruthless Critique of Everything Existing: Nature and Revolution in Marcuse's Philosophy of Praxis by Andrew Feenberg
RRP: £17.99£14.87For several years after 1968, Herbert Marcuse was one of the most famous philosophers in the world. He became the face of Frankfurt School Critical Theory for a generation in turmoil. His fame rested on two remarkable books, Eros and Civilization and... -
Moral Imagination: Essays by David Bromwich 9780691173160
RRP: £20.00£15.89Spanning many historical and literary contexts, Moral Imagination brings together a dozen recent essays by one of America's premier cultural critics. David Bromwich explores the importance of imagination and sympathy to suggest how these faculties may... -
Against Democracy by Jason Brennan 9780691162607
RRP: £35.00£28.14Most people believe democracy is a uniquely just form of government. They believe people have the right to an equal share of political power. And they believe that political participation is good for us--it empowers us, helps us get what we want, and... -
Man & Citizen by Thomas Hobbes 9780872201118
RRP: £15.99£13.36A reprint of the 1972 Doubleday edition. Contains the most helpful version of Hobbes's political and moral philosophy available in English. Includes the only English translation of De Homine, chapters X-XV. Features the English translation of De Cive... -
The Rise of Scientific Philosophy by Hans Reichenbach
RRP: £27.00£21.06This book represents a new approach to philosophy. It treats philosophy as not a collection of systems, but as a study of problems. It recognizes in traditional philosophical systems the historical function of having asked questions rather than having... -
Ontology and Oppression: Race, Gender, and Social Reality by Katharine Jenkins
RRP: £19.99£18.21The way society is organized means that we all get made into members of various types of people, such as judges, wives, or women. These 'human social kinds' may be brought into being by oppressive social arrangements, and people may suffer oppression in... -
Hegel and Modern Philosophy by David Lamb
RRP: £31.99£28.33Originally published in 1987, this volume reflects the diversity in Hegelianism and every branch of philosophy which he contributed to. It includes essays on his contribution to contemporary social philosophy, logic and the philosophy of religion. His... -
The Parasite by Michel Serres 9780816648818
RRP: £15.99£11.60Influential philosopher Michel Serres's foundational work uses fable to explore how human relations are identical to that of the parasite to the host body. Among Serres's arguments is that by being pests, minor groups can become major players in public... -
Four Horsemen: The Survival Manual by Mark Braund 9780956398512
£10.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956398512Author Mark BraundFormat PaperbackPage Count 290Imprint Motherlode LtdPublisher Motherlode LtdWeight(grams) 371g -
Adam Smith Reconsidered: History, Liberty, and the Foundations of Modern Politics by Paul Sagar
RRP: £32.00£24.76A radical reinterpretation of Adam Smith that challenges economists, moral philosophers, political theorists, and intellectual historians to rethink him-and why he mattersAdam Smith has long been recognized as the father of modern economics. More... -
Political Theology: A Critical Introduction Saul Newman (University of London) 9781509528400
RRP: £15.99£14.41God is dead, but his presence lives on in politics. This is the problem of political theology: the way that theological ideas find their way into secular political institutions, particularly the sovereign state. In this intellectual tour-de-force,... -
The Method of Equality: Interviews with Laurent Jeanpierre and Dork Zabunyan Jacques Ranciere 9780745680637
RRP: £17.99£16.04The development of Ranciere's philosophical work, from his formative years through the political and methodological break with Louis Althusser and the lessons of May 68, is documented here, as are the confrontations with other thinkers, the controversies... -
The Ethics of Identity by Kwame Anthony Appiah 9780691254074
RRP: £16.99£13.65A bold vision of liberal humanism for navigating today's complex world of growing identity politics and rising nationalismCollective identities such as race, nationality, religion, gender, and sexuality clamor for recognition and respect, sometimes at... -
We, the Sovereign Gianpaolo Baiocchi 9781509521364
RRP: £9.99£8.95What does it mean for the people to actually rule? Formal democracy is an empty and cynical shell, while the nationalist Right claims to advance its anti-democratic project in the name of 'the People'. How can the Left respond in a way that is true to... -
Is Whistleblowing a Duty? Emanuela Ceva 9781509529667
RRP: £9.99£8.95Recent years have seen a number of whistleblowers risk their liberty to expose illegal and corrupt behaviour. Some have heralded their bravery; others see them as traitors. Can there be a moral duty to emulate their example and blow the whistle? In this... -
The Production of Subjectivity: Marx and Philosophy by Jason Read
RRP: £34.99£26.67Louis Althusser argued that Marx initiated a transformation of philosophy, a new way of doing philosophy. This book follows that provocation to examine the way in which central Marxist concepts and problems from primitive accumulation to real abstraction... -
State and Politics: Deleuze and Guattari on Marx by Guillaume Sibertin-Blanc
RRP: £16.99£12.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781584351764Author Guillaume Sibertin-BlancFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Semiotext (E)Publisher AutonomediaDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 22mm -
Human Rights as Politics and Idolatry by Michael Ignatieff
RRP: £32.00£24.76Michael Ignatieff draws on his extensive experience as a writer and commentator on world affairs to present a penetrating account of the successes, failures, and prospects of the human rights revolution. Since the United Nations adopted the Universal... -
Charisma and Disenchantment: The Vocation Lectures by Max Weber
RRP: £16.99£9.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681373898Author Max WeberFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint The New York Review of Books, IncPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc -
Islam as Political Religion: The Future of an Imperial Faith Shabbir Akhtar (Independent scholar, USA) 9780415781473
RRP: £43.99£38.44This comprehensive survey of contemporary Islam provides a philosophical and theological approach to the issues faced by Muslims and the question of global secularisation. Engaging with critics of modern Islam, Shabbir Akhtar sets out an agenda of what... -
Fifty Major Political Thinkers by Ian Adams
RRP: £36.99£32.53Fifty Major Political Thinkers introduces the lives and ideas of some of the most influential figures in Western political thought, from ancient Greece to the present day. The entries provide a fascinating introduction to the major figures and schools of... -
Post-Truth, Fake News and Democracy: Mapping the Politics of Falsehood Johan Farkas (Malmoe University, Sweden) 9781032563039
RRP: £35.99£31.69The new edition of Post-Truth, Fake News and Democracy offers an updated overview and critical discussion of contemporary discourses around truth, misinformation, and democracy, while also mapping cutting-edge scholarship.Through in-depth analyses of... -
States of Shock: Stupidity and Knowledge in the 21st Century by Bernard Stiegler 9780745664941
£19.04In 1944 Horkheimer and Adorno warned that industrial society turns reason into rationalization, and Polanyi warned of the dangers of the self-regulating market, but today, argues Stiegler, this regression of reason has led to societies dominated by... -
The Anatomy of Justice: On the Shape, Substance, and Power of Liberal Egalitarianism Regina Schouten 9780198898634
RRP: £77.00£69.99The Anatomy of Justice argues for a reorientation in liberal egalitarian theorizing about justice. Gina Schouten argues that the orientation she propose supports compelling resolutions to longstanding disputes and difficulties internal to egalitarianism... -
Power and Resistance: Foucault, Deleuze, Derrida, Althusser Yoshiyuki Sato 9781839763519
RRP: £19.99£16.42The "structuralist" theories of power show that the subject is produced and reproduced by the investment of power: but how then can we think of the subject's resistance to power? Based on this fundamental question, Power and Resistance interprets...