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War and Ethics: A New Just War Theory by Nicholas Fotion 9780826492609
RRP: £22.99£22.85The US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 prompted unprecedented public interest in the ethics of war, a debate that has raged furiously in the media, in politics and in the public consciousness ever since. In this fascinating and informative book, Nicholas... -
Foucault in Iran: Islamic Revolution after the Enlightenment by Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi 9780816699490
RRP: £20.99£18.37Were the thirteen essays Michel Foucault wrote in 1978-1979 endorsing the Iranian Revolution an aberration of his earlier work or an inevitable pitfall of his stance on Enlightenment rationality, as critics have long alleged? Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi... -
Philosophy as Cultural Politics: Philosophical Papers by Richard Rorty 9780521698351
RRP: £22.99£17.72This volume presents a selection of the philosophical papers which Richard Rorty has written over the past decade, and complements three previous volumes of his papers: Objectivity, Relativism, and Truth, Essays on Heidegger and Others and Truth and... -
Anti-capitalism: A Beginner's Guide by Simon Tormey
RRP: £9.99£7.55Every aspect of the anti-capitalist world is covered in this helpful guide, from WOMBLES to Zapatistas, NGOs to environmentalism, Paris 1968 to Seattle, and beyond. Picking up where Naomi Klein left off, this is not so much a manifesto as a roadmap,... -
Blackening Britain: Caribbean Radicalism from Windrush to Decolonization by James G. Cantres
RRP: £30.00£28.02Covering the period from the interwar years through the arrival of the steamship SS Empire Windrush from Jamaica in 1948 and culminating in the period of decolonization in the British Caribbean by the early 1970s, this project situates the development of... -
Ethics of Liberation: In the Age of Globalization and Exclusion by Enrique Dussel
RRP: £31.00£28.36Available in English for the first time, this much-anticipated translation of Enrique Dussel's Ethics of Liberation marks a milestone in ethical discourse. Dussel is one of the world's foremost philosophers. This treatise, originally published in 1998,... -
A Lot of People Are Saying: The New Conspiracism and the Assault on Democracy by Nancy L. Rosenblum 9780691188836
RRP: £22.00£17.36How the new conspiracists are undermining democracy-and what can be done about itConspiracy theories are as old as politics. But conspiracists today have introduced something new-conspiracy without theory. And the new conspiracism has moved from the... -
The Shock Doctrine of the Left Graham Jones (Loughborough University, UK) 9781509528554
RRP: £9.99£8.95Shocks, from natural disasters to military catastrophes, have long been exploited by the state to impose privatization, cuts and rampant free markets. This book argues that the left can use such moments of chaos to achieve emancipation. Graham Jones... -
The Human Motor: Energy, Fatigue, and the Origins of Modernity by Anson Rabinbach
RRP: £31.00£24.43Science once had an unshakable faith in its ability to bring the forces of nature - even human nature - under control. In this wide-ranging book Anson Rabinbach examines how developments in physics, biology, medicine, psychology, politics, and art... -
The State and the Citizen: An Introduction to Political Philosophy J. D. Mabbott 9781032120454
RRP: £28.99£25.09First published in 1948, The State and the Citizen traces the development of the idea of the State as the ultimate source of authority. The author then proceeds to suggest the proper ends and limitation of State action. He analyses the conceptions of... -
Marx in Motion: A New Materialist Marxism by Thomas Nail
RRP: £37.99£34.66Karl Marx is the most historically foundational and systematic critic of capitalism to date, and the years since the 2008 financial crisis have witnessed a rebirth of his popular appeal. In a world of rising income inequality, right-wing nationalisms,... -
On Bernard Stiegler: Philosopher of Friendship Jean-Luc Nancy 9781350329034
RRP: £14.99£12.65"What I love, and those whom I love, you, that is to say us in so far as we are capable of forming a we, all this I love, and I love them, and I love you infinitely" (Bernard Steigler April 1952- August 2020). When Bernard Stiegler writes "I love you"... -
On the Currency of Egalitarian Justice, and Other Essays in Political Philosophy by G. A. Cohen
RRP: £28.00£21.80G. A. Cohen was one of the most gifted, influential, and progressive voices in contemporary political philosophy. At the time of his death in 2009, he had plans to bring together a number of his most significant papers. This is the first of three volumes... -
The Currency of Politics: The Political Theory of Money from Aristotle to Keynes by Stefan Eich 9780691235431
RRP: £18.99£15.12Money in the history of political thought, from ancient Greece to the Great Inflation of the 1970sIn the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, critical attention has shifted from the economy to the most fundamental feature of all market economies-money. Yet... -
Can Non-Europeans Think? by Hamid Dabashi
£17.82'In Can Non-Europeans Think? Dabashi takes his subtle but vigorous polemic to another level.' Pankaj Mishra What happens to thinkers who operate outside the European philosophical pedigree? In this powerfully honed polemic, Hamid Dabashi argues that... -
Liberty, the God That Failed: Policing the Sacred and Constructing the Myths of the Secular State, from Locke to Obama by Christopher A Ferrara 9781621380061
£26.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621380061Author Christopher A FerraraFormat PaperbackPage Count 726Imprint Angelico PressPublisher Angelico PressWeight(grams) 998gDimensions(mm) 234mm *... -
Secular Translations: Nation-State, Modern Self, and Calculative Reason by Talal Asad
RRP: £22.00£17.36In Secular Translations, the anthropologist Talal Asad reflects on his lifelong engagement with secularism and its contradictions. He draws out the ambiguities in our concepts of the religious and the secular through a rich consideration of... -
What Is Race?: Four Philosophical Views by Joshua Glasgow 9780190610180
RRP: £35.49£22.85Across public discourse, in the media, politics, many branches of academic inquiry, and ordinary daily interactions, we spend a lot time talking about race: race relations, racial violence, discrimination based on race, racial integration, racial... -
Selected Writings by Jeremy Bentham 9780300112375
£39.89Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832), philosopher and reformer, is one of the most influential thinkers of the modern age. This introduction to his writings presents a representative selection of texts authoritatively restored by the Bentham Project, University... -
Nietzsche, Genealogy, Morality: Essays on Nietzsche's <i>On the Genealogy of Morals</i> by Richard Schacht
RRP: £33.00£26.61Written at the height of the philosopher's intellectual powers, Friedrich Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morals has become one of the key texts of recent Western philosophy. Its essayistic style affords a unique opportunity to observe many of... -
Philosophy of Right by G. W. F. Hegel
RRP: £71.99£22.38A translation of 'Naturrecht und Staatswissenschaft im Grundisse' and 'Grundlinien der Philosophie des Rechts.'Book InformationISBN 9780195002768Author G. W. F. HegelFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Oxford University Press IncPublisher Oxford... -
Exile, Statelessness, and Migration: Playing Chess with History from Hannah Arendt to Isaiah Berlin by Seyla Benhabib 9780691167251
RRP: £25.00£19.59An examination of the intertwined lives and writings of a group of prominent twentieth-century Jewish thinkers who experienced exile and migrationExile, Statelessness, and Migration explores the intertwined lives, careers, and writings of a group of... -
Authoritarianism: Three Inquiries in Critical Theory by Wendy Brown
RRP: £19.00£18.50Across the Euro-Atlantic world, political leaders have been mobilizing their bases with nativism, racism, xenophobia, and paeans to "traditional values," in brazen bids for electoral support. How are we to understand this move to the mainstream of... -
Aristotle and Law: The Politics of Nomos by George Duke
RRP: £19.99£18.09In Aristotle and Law, George Duke argues that Aristotle's seemingly dispersed statements on law and legislation are unified by a commitment to law's status as an achievement of practical reason. This book provides a systematic exposition of the... -
Human Nature and World Affairs: An Introduction to Classical Liberalism and International Relations Theory by Edwin van de Haar 9780255368278
RRP: £15.00£13.65Where do classical liberals stand on international relations? Does this differ from their views on domestic policy? And how does this stance vary from other liberal schools of thought? Here, author Edwin van de Haar draws on the writings of major... -
The Politics Of Transindividuality: Historical Materialism Volume 106 by Jason Read
RRP: £30.00£22.38The Politics of Transindividuality re-examines social relations and subjectivity through the concept of transindividuality. Transindividuality is understood as the mutual constitution of individuality and collectivity, and as such it intersects with... -
The Will to Punish by Didier Fassin 9780190888589
£30.16Over the last few decades, most societies have become more repressive, their laws more relentless, their magistrates more inflexible, independently of the evolution of crime. In The Will to Punish, using an approach both genealogical and ethnographic,... -
Liberalism and Social Action by John Dewey 9781573927536
RRP: £11.99£8.92In this, one of Dewey's most accessible works, he surveys the history of liberal thought from John Locke to John Stuart Mill, in his search to find the core of liberalism for today's world. While liberals of all stripes have held to some very basic... -
Socializing Metaphysics: The Nature of Social Reality by Frederick F. Schmitt 9780742514294
RRP: £51.00£44.62Human life is conducted within a network of social relations, social groups, and societies. Grasping the implications of that fact starts with understanding social metaphysics. Social metaphysics provides a foundation for social theory, as well as for... -
Ontopower: War, Powers, and the State of Perception by Brian Massumi
RRP: £22.99£20.01Color coded terror alerts, invasion, drone war, rampant surveillance: all manifestations of the type of new power Brian Massumi theorizes in Ontopower. Through an in-depth examination of the War on Terror and the culture of crisis, Massumi identifies the... -
The Passage to Europe: How a Continent Became a Union by Luuk van Middelaar
RRP: £14.99£13.03The untold story of the crises and compromises that united a continent "A work of impressive scholarship and historical imagination, . . . unlike anything written about the EU before or since"-Perry Anderson, London Review of Books As financial turmoil... -
Contemporary Political Philosophy: An Anthology Robert E. Goodin (Australian National University) 9781119154167
RRP: £48.95£43.63The revised and updated edition of Goodin and Pettit's highly-acclaimed contemporary political philosophy anthology, bringing together the field's most important readings in a single volume Unparalleled in the breadth and scope of its coverage, this... -
Property and Justice: A Liberal Theory of Natural Rights by Billy Christmas 9780367752668
RRP: £39.99£35.06This book gives an account of a full spectrum of property rights and their relationship to individual liberty. It shows that a purely deontological approach to justice can deal with the most complex questions regarding the property system. Moreover, the... -
Freedom as Marronage by Neil Roberts 9780226201047
RRP: £25.00£23.94What is the opposite of freedom? In Freedom as Marronage, Neil Roberts answers this question with definitive force: slavery. From there he unveils powerful new insights on the human condition as it has been understood between these poles. Crucial to his... -
On Compromise and Rotten Compromises by Avishai Margalit
£18.40When is political compromise acceptable--and when is it fundamentally rotten, something we should never accept, come what may? What if a rotten compromise is politically necessary? Compromise is a great political virtue, especially for the sake of peace... -
Charity Law: Exploring the Concept of Public Benefit by Daniel Halliday 9780367745134
RRP: £39.99£35.06This book investigates and critically evaluates the concept of public benefit within charity law in the common law world. In the course of the study the book: provides a rich account of how the concept of public benefit has developed over time in charity... -
The External World by Maurizio Ferraris 9781474478489
RRP: £26.99£24.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474478489Author Maurizio FerrarisFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press -
Critique of the Gotha Program by Karl Marx 9781629639161
RRP: £15.99£9.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629639161Author Karl MarxFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint PM PressPublisher PM Press -
Recovering Politics, Civilization, and the Soul: Essays on Pierre Manent and Roger Scruton by Daniel J Mahoney
RRP: £16.00£15.77The Western inheritance is under sustained theoretical and practical assault. Legitimate self-criticism has given way to nihilistic self-loathing and cultural, moral, and political repudiation is the order of the day. Yet, as Daniel J. Mahoney shows in... -
Rules Without Rulers - The Possibilities and Limits of Anarchism Matthew Wilson 9781782790075
RRP: £12.99£11.46This book is about the possibility of organising society without the state, but, crucially, it makes the claim, contrary to much anarchist theory, that such a life would not entail absolute freedom; rather, as the title suggests, it would mean creating...