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A 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...

A major new history of how the Enlightenment transformed people's everyday livesThe Secular Enlightenment is a panoramic account of the radical ways that life began to change for ordinary people in the age of Locke, Voltaire, and Rousseau. In this...

The first modern English edition of diverse Enlightenment-era writings by Prussian monarch Frederick the GreatFrederick II of Prussia (1712-1786), best known as Frederick the Great, was a prolific writer of philosophical discourses, poems, epics,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781584351634Author Maurizio LazzaratoFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Semiotext (E)Publisher AutonomediaDimensions(mm) 178mm * 114mm * 21mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912685905Author Neil VallellyFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Goldsmiths, Unversity of LondonPublisher Goldsmiths, Unversity of London

A 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...

Over 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,...

Finalist, 2022 Big Other Book Award for Nonfiction Never before has it been more important for Left thinking to champion expansive visions for societal transformation. Yet influential currents of critical theory have lost sight of this political...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788367583497Author Oswald SpenglerFormat HardbackPage Count 84Imprint Legend Books Sp. Z O.O.Publisher Legend Books Sp. Z O.O.Weight(grams)...

A 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...

A timely and incisive assessment of what the success of populism means for democracy.Populist movements have recently appeared in nearly every democracy around the world. Yet our grasp of this disruptive political phenomenon remains woefully inadequate...

What is at the heart of political resistance? Whilst traditional accounts often conceptualise it as a reaction to power, this volume (prioritising remarks by Michel Foucault) invites us to think of resistance as primary. The author proposes a strategic...

Etienne Balibar, one of the foremost living French philosophers, builds on his landmark work 'Spinoza and Politics' with this exploration of Spinoza's ontology. Balibar situates Spinoza in relation to the major figures of Marx and Freud as a precursor to...

The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Law and Legal Theory is a handy guide to the state of play in contemporary philosophy of law and legal theory. Comprises 23 essays critical essays on the central themes and issues of the philosophy of law today,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250277787Author Alexandra HudsonFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 300g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780140449105Author Thomas MoreFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Penguin ClassicsPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm) 197mm *...

In 1964, Augusto Del Noce assembled in a book some of his best works on Marxism, atheism, and the history of modern philosophy. The result was Il problema dell'ateismo, which he always regarded as foundational to his way of thinking. The book remains his...

In What Animals Teach Us about Politics, Brian Massumi takes up the question of "the animal." By treating the human as animal, he develops a concept of an animal politics. His is not a human politics of the animal, but an integrally animal politics,...

In this major new book, Andre Gorz expands on the political implications of his prescient and influential Paths to Paradise and Critique of Economic Reason. Against the background of technological developments which have transformed the nature of work...

Few philosophers have been the subject of as much or as intense debate, yet almost everyone agrees on one thing: Jean-Jacques Rousseau is among the most important and influential thinkers in the history of political philosophy. This new edition of his...

Apologies 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

In this section-by-section commentary, Benardete argues that Plato's Republic is a holistic analysis of the beautiful, the good, and the just. This book provides a fresh interpretation of the Republic and a new understanding of philosophy as practiced by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541672635Author Catherine WilsonFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Basic BooksPublisher Basic BooksWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 239mm * 155mm * 28mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781585102617Author PlatoFormat PaperbackPage Count 364Imprint Focus Publishing/R Pullins & CoPublisher Focus Publishing/R Pullins & CoWeight(grams) 513g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789527065198Author Vox DayFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Castalia HousePublisher Castalia HouseWeight(grams) 268gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 12mm

Ideologies play a crucial role in the way we understand and shape the political world. But no one has yet satisfactorily explained the nature of ideologies themselves. In this important study, Michael Freeden offers a ground-breaking approach to the...

The return to religion has perhaps become the dominant cliche of contemporary theory, which rarely offers anything more than an exaggerated echo of a political reality dominated by religious war. Somehow, the secular age seems to have been replaced by a...

Available in English for the first time, Hegel and the Freedom of Moderns revives discussion of the major political and philosophical tenets underlying contemporary liberalism through a revolutionary interpretation of G. W. F. Hegel's thought. Domenico...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907523441Author Friedrich Wilhelm NietzscheFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Cathedral ClassicsPublisher Aziloth BooksWeight(grams)...

Caring is a central aspect of our being. Without it, we would just float along in the world, attaching ourselves superficially to one activity after another as they came up. Caring anchors us to the world and to each other. And yet, understanding what...

Does it still make sense to talk about progress? The word "progress" conjures up a positivistic view of the world, a late Victorian boundless trust in humanity's talents for discovery and invention, and of advancement in any field, whether cultural...

How 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...

Nevertheless comprises essays on Machiavelli and on Pascal. The ambivalent connection between the two parts is embodied by the comma (,) in the subtitle: Machiavelli, Pascal. Is this comma a conjunction or a disjunction? In fact, both. Ginzburg...

Over the past 70 years, the United States has undergone major moral shifts surrounding gender, sexual orientation, and race. Although these changes have been incomplete and imperfect, they nonetheless represent stunning improvements in the human...

Francois Jullien, the leading philosopher and specialist in Chinese thought, has always aimed at building on inter-cultural relations between China and the West. In this new book he focuses on the following questions: Do universal values exist? Is...

In this book, Michael Sandel takes up some of the hotly contested moral and political issues of our time, including affirmative action, assisted suicide, abortion, gay rights, stem cell research, the meaning of toleration and civility, the gap between...

What 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...

Why equality cannot be conditional on a shared human "nature" but has to be for allFor centuries, ringing declarations about all men being created equal appealed to a shared human nature as the reason to consider ourselves equals. But appeals to natural...

This is the first paperback edition of what is now recognized as Marcuse's most important collection of writings on philosophy. He analyzes and attacks some of the main intellectual currents of European thoughts from the Reformation to the Cold War. In a...

A provocative defense of a forgotten Chinese approach to identity and differenceHistorically, the Western encounter with difference has been catastrophic: the extermination and displacement of aboriginal populations, the transatlantic slave trade, and...