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Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide by Gerald Dworkin 9780521587891
RRP: £19.99£17.13The moral issues involved in doctors assisting patients to die with dignity are of absolutely central concern to the medical profession, ethicists, and the public at large. The debate is fuelled by cases that extend far beyond passive euthanasia to the... -
Common: On Revolution in the 21st Century by Pierre Dardot
£32.70Around the globe, contemporary protest movements are contesting the oligarchic appropriation of natural resources, public services, and shared networks of knowledge and communication. These struggles raise the same fundamental demand and rest on the same... -
Spinoza and Politics by Etienne Balibar 9781844672059
RRP: £13.99£13.36With Hobbes and Locke, Spinoza is arguably one of the most important political philosophers of the modern era, a premier theoretician of democracy and mass politics. In this revised and augmented English translation of his 1985 classic, Spinoza et la... -
Of Critical Theory and Its Theorists by Stephen Eric Bronner
RRP: £37.99£33.38Of Critical Theory and its Theorists is an intelligent , accessible overview of the entire Critical Theory Tradition, written by one of the leading experts on the subject. Filled with original insights and valuable historical narratives, Of Critical... -
Truths Among Us: Conversations on Building a New Culture Derrick Jensen 9781604862997
RRP: £14.99£12.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604862997Author Derrick JensenFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint PM PressPublisher PM PressWeight(grams) 378g -
The Lions' Den: Zionism and the Left from Hannah Arendt to Noam Chomsky by Susie Linfield 9780300251845
RRP: £22.50£22.08A lively intellectual history that explores how prominent midcentury public intellectuals approached Zionism and then the State of Israel itself and its conflicts with the Arab world In this lively intellectual history of the political Left, cultural... -
Public Things: Democracy in Disrepair by Bonnie Honig
RRP: £18.99£15.64In the contemporary world of neoliberalism, efficiency is treated as the vehicle of political and economic health. State bureaucracy, but not corporate bureaucracy, is seen as inefficient, and privatization is seen as a magic cure for social ills. In... -
Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit: A Guide by Terry Pinkard 9780197663134
RRP: £22.99£20.80Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit has a long-standing reputation as one of the key books in the history of Western philosophy, but many are unsure just what it is about. Even the words in the title are disputed: What sense of "phenomenology" is being used?... -
A Commonwealth of Hope: Augustine's Political Thought by Michael Lamb
RRP: £35.00£27.74A bold new interpretation of Augustine's virtue of hope and its place in political lifeWhen it comes to politics, Augustine of Hippo is renowned as one of history's great pessimists, with his sights set firmly on the heavenly city rather than the public... -
Luhmann Explained: From Souls to Systems by Hans-Georg Moeller 9780812695984
RRP: £27.99£18.61What are systems? What is society? What happens to human beings in a hypermodern world? This book is an introduction to Niklas Luhmann's social system theory which explains specific functions like economy and mass media from a cybernetic perspective... -
Living with the Invisible Hand: Markets, Corporations, and Human Freedom by Waheed Hussain
RRP: £54.00£48.83Markets are thought of by some as liberating the individual. Rather than a feudal system in which each is assigned a role or tasks by an authority, each is free to make decisions concerning how to use their resources and direct their productive... -
Political Theory: Methods and Approaches by David Leopold 9780199230099
RRP: £34.99£27.95Political theorists are too often silent on questions of method and approach. David Leopold and Marc Stears have assembled a distinguished group of contributors to break that silence and to explain and defend the research methods they utilise in their... -
A Good and Dignified Life: The Political Advice of Hannah Arendt and Rosa Luxemburg by Joke J Hermsen
RRP: £12.99£11.46A timely and provocative essay about the parallel lives of Rosa Luxemburg and Hannah Arendt and their mission for a more humane society "[A] short but moving book . . . Even better, the volume's advice is not only pragmatically political-necessary... -
What's the Point of Political Philosophy? Jonathan Floyd 9781509524198
RRP: £14.99£13.58Idiots burn books for the same reason philosophers write them - they matter. But why exactly do political philosophy books matter, not to mention the hundreds of articles published every year? In part because they are interesting, but also because they... -
Utopophobia: On the Limits (If Any) of Political Philosophy by David Estlund 9780691235172
RRP: £25.00£19.59A leading political theorist's groundbreaking defense of ideal conceptions of justice in political philosophyThroughout the history of political philosophy and politics, there has been continual debate about the roles of idealism versus realism. For... -
Isaiah Berlin: An Interpretation of His Thought by John Gray
RRP: £25.00£17.91Isaiah Berlin (1909-1997) was the greatest intellectual historian of the twentieth century. But his work also made an original and important contribution to moral and political philosophy and to liberal theory. In 1921, at the age of eleven, Isaiah... -
The Grammar of Society: The Nature and Dynamics of Social Norms by Cristina Bicchieri 9780521574907
RRP: £22.99£17.39In The Grammar of Society, first published in 2006, Cristina Bicchieri examines social norms, such as fairness, cooperation, and reciprocity, in an effort to understand their nature and dynamics, the expectations that they generate, and how they evolve... -
What is this thing called Global Justice? by Kok-Chor Tan
RRP: £35.99£31.69What is this thing called Global Justice? is a clear and engaging introduction to this widely studied and important topic. It explores the fundamental concepts, issues and arguments at the heart of global justice, including: world povertyeconomic... -
The Social and Political Thought of Karl Marx by Shlomo Avineri 9780521096195 [USED COPY]
RRP: £24.99£2.27Ever since the discovery of Marx's Early Writings, most of the literature concerned with Marx's intellectual development has centred around the so-called gap between the 'young' Marx, who was considered to be a humanist thinker, and the 'older' Marx, who... -
The Social and Political Thought of Karl Marx by Shlomo Avineri 9780521096195
RRP: £24.99£20.28Ever since the discovery of Marx's Early Writings, most of the literature concerned with Marx's intellectual development has centred around the so-called gap between the 'young' Marx, who was considered to be a humanist thinker, and the 'older' Marx, who... -
Ulysses Unbound: Studies in Rationality, Precommitment, and Constraints by Jon Elster
RRP: £26.99£22.80Common sense suggests that it is always preferable to have more options than fewer, and better to have more knowledge than less. This provocative book argues that, very often, common sense fails. Sometimes it is simply the case that less is more; people... -
Peace, Land, and Bread: Issue 1: Issue 1 by Center For Communist Studies 9781087895659
RRP: £20.50£15.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781087895659Author Center For Communist StudiesFormat PaperbackPage Count 154Imprint Iskra BooksPublisher Iskra BooksWeight(grams) 216g -
What's in it for Me?: Self-Interest and Political Difference by Thomas Prosser
RRP: £30.00£14.33This punchy and provocative book asks a simple but overlooked question: why do we have the political views that we do? Offering a lively and original analysis of five worldviews - conservatism, national populism, liberalism, the new left and social... -
Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism's Stealth Revolution by Wendy Brown
RRP: £30.00£21.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935408536Author Wendy BrownFormat HardbackPage Count 296Imprint Zone BooksPublisher Zone Books -
J.S. Mill's Political Thought: A Bicentennial Reassessment by Nadia Urbinati
RRP: £28.99£23.80The year 2006 marked the two hundredth anniversary of John Stuart Mill's birth. Though his philosophical reputation has varied greatly, it is now clear that Mill ranks among the most influential modern political thinkers. Despite his enduring influence,... -
Lenin: A Study on the Unity of His Thought by Georg Lukacs
£13.37Out of the chaos following Lenin's death and the mounting fury against Lukacs and his freshly penned History and Class Consciousness (1923), this book bears an assessment of Lenin as "the only theoretical equal to Marx." Lukacs shows, with unprecedented... -
From Class to Race: Essays in White Marxism and Black Radicalism by Charles Mills 9780742513020
RRP: £42.00£36.93In From Class to Race, Charles Mills maps the theoretical route that brought him to the innovative conceptual framework outlined in his academic bestseller The Racial Contract (1997). Mills argues for a new critical theory that develops the insights of... -
Schizo-Culture: The Event, The Book: 2-vol. set by Sylvere Lotringer 9781584351245
RRP: £36.00£27.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781584351245Author Sylvere LotringerFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Semiotext (E)Publisher AutonomediaWeight(grams) 1343g -
Fanon and the Crisis of European Man: An Essay on Philosophy and the Human Sciences by Lewis R. Gordon
RRP: £41.99£36.75As the first book to analyze the work of Fanon as an existential-phenomenological of human sciences and liberation philosopher, Gordon deploys Fanon's work to illuminate how the "bad faith" of European science and civilization have philosophically... -
Machiavelli and Us by Louis Althusser
RRP: £13.99£13.78"We do not publish our own drafts, that is, our own mistakes, but we do sometimes publish other people's," Louis Althusser once observed of Marx's early writings. Among his own posthumously released drafts, one, at least, is incontestably neither mistake... -
The Ticklish Subject: The Absent Centre of Political Ontology by Slavoj Zizek
RRP: £28.99£28.01Slavoj Zizek, the maverick philosopher, author of over 30 books, acclaimed as the "Elvis of cultural theory", and today's most controversial public intellectual. His work traverses the fields of philosophy, psychoanalysis, theology, history and political... -
Ronald Dworkin's Theory of Equality: Domestic and Global Perspectives by Alexander Brown 9780230210158
RRP: £44.99£44.97Ronald Dworkin's work on equality has shaped debates in the field of distributive justice for nearly three decades. In this book Alexander Brown attempts to provide a critique but also a defence of that work, and to extend equality of resources globally... -
The Oxford Handbook of Political Communication by Kate Kenski 9780190090456
RRP: £44.49£42.18Since its development shaped by the turmoil of the World Wars and suspicion of new technologies such as film and radio, political communication has become a hybrid field largely devoted to connecting the dots among political rhetoric, politicians and... -
Situating Ourselves In Displacement: Conditions, experiences and subjectivity across neoliberalism and precarity. by Paula Cobo Guevara
RRP: £18.00£12.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781570273230Author Paula Cobo GuevaraFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint AutonomediaPublisher Autonomedia -
On Human Conduct by Michael Oakeshott 9780198277583
RRP: £73.00£55.95On Human Conduct is composed of three connected essays. Each has its own concern: the first with theoretical understanding, and with human conduct in general; the second with an ideal mode of human relationship which the author has called civil... -
Late Marx and the Russian Road: Marx and the Peripheries of Capitalism by Teodor Shanin 9780853456476
RRP: £18.99£15.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853456476Author Tedor ShaninFormat PaperbackPage Count 297Imprint Monthly Review Press,U.S.Publisher Monthly Review Press,U.S. -
Homo Natura: Nietzsche, Philosophical Anthropology and Biopolitics Vanessa Lemm 9781474466721
RRP: £23.99£19.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474466721Author Vanessa LemmFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press -
Philosophy of the Tourist by Hiroki Azuma
RRP: £27.00£17.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915103000Author Hiroki AzumaFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Urbanomic Media LtdPublisher Urbanomic Media Ltd -
How to Stop a Conspiracy: An Ancient Guide to Saving a Republic by Sallust 9780691212364
RRP: £13.99£9.96An energetic new translation of an ancient Roman masterpiece about a failed coup led by a corrupt and charismatic politicianIn 63 BC, frustrated by his failure to be elected leader of the Roman Republic, the aristocrat Catiline tried to topple its... -
How We Became Post-Liberal: The Rise and Fall of Toleration Russell Blackford (Conjoint Lecturer, University of Newcastle, Australia) 9781350322943
RRP: £19.99£16.54Liberalism is in trouble. As a set of ideas, it has lost much of its historical authority in guiding public policy and personal behaviour. In this post-liberal climate, Russell Blackford asks whether liberalism is truly over. How We Became...