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The Just War: Force and Political Responsibility by Paul Ramsey 9780742522329
RRP: £52.00£45.87Recent conflicts, such as the Persian Gulf War of the 1990s and the war against the Taliban in Afghanistan in 2001 show that the idea of what constitutes a 'just war' remains a crucial issue in politics and ethics today. With a new foreword by noted... -
Putting Ideas to Work: A Practical Introduction to Political Thought by Mark Mattern 9780742548893
RRP: £119.00£104.18In this innovative new text, Mark Mattern offers a unique alternative to the traditional approaches to the study and teaching of political philosophy. Rather than approaching it solely as a world of abstractions, Putting Ideas to Work emphasizes its... -
White Ignorance and Complicit Responsibility: Transforming Collective Harm beyond the Punishment Paradigm by Eva Boodman 9781793639035
RRP: £30.00£26.68White ignorance is a form of collective denial that aggressively resists acknowledging the role of race and racism. It dominates our political landscape, warps white moral frameworks and affective responses, intervenes in white self-conceptions, and... -
White Educators Negotiating Complicity: Roadblocks Paved with Good Intentions by Barbara Applebaum 9781666904154
RRP: £81.00£71.06While there is a proliferation of research studying white educators who teach courses around anti-racism, White Educators Negotiating Complicity: Roadblocks Paved with Good Intentions focuses on white educators who teach about whiteness to a racially... -
Charles Taylor's Doctrine of Strong Evaluation: Ethics and Ontology in a Scientific Age by Michiel Meijer 9781786604019
RRP: £35.00£30.95This book provides a comprehensive critical account of the philosophy of Charles Taylor. It argues that a close examination of Taylor's central concept of "strong evaluation" reveals both the potential of and the tensions in his entire thinking. The... -
Black Men from behind the Veil: Ontological Interrogations by George Yancy 9781666906493
RRP: £30.00£26.68The Black male scholars within this important book are painfully aware that the brutal murder of George Floyd was not due to a few "bad apples." They understand that they are perceived as "threats" and "criminals" within a distorted white imaginary that... -
From Bakunin to Lacan: Anti-Authoritarianism and the Dislocation of Power by Saul Newman 9780739102404
RRP: £95.00£83.12In its comparison of anarchist and poststructuralist thought, From Bakunin to Lacan contends that the most pressing political problem we face today is the proliferation and intensification of power. Saul Newman targets the tendency of radical political... -
Foucault and Governmentality: Living to Work in the Age of Control by Benda Hofmeyr 9781786611727
RRP: £85.00£74.51Using empirical research, this book critically analyses the dynamics, culture and forms of subjectivity of neo-liberalism. It draws upon existing historical, sociological and cultural studies to excavate the geneaology of the capitalist subject with... -
Rick Turner's Politics as the Art of the Impossible Michael Onyebuchi Eze 9781776148943
£89.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781776148943Author Michael Onyebuchi EzeFormat HardbackPage Count 280Imprint Wits University PressPublisher Wits University Press -
Solidarity and the Palestinian Cause: Indigeneity, Blackness, and the Promise of Universality Zahi Zalloua 9781350290235
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The Informational Logic of Human Rights: Networked Imaginaries in the Cybernetic Age Joshua Bowsher 9781399509916
RRP: £19.99£18.38What happens to the cultural politics of human rights when atrocities are rendered calculable, abuses are transformed into data, and victims become vectors? As human rights organizations have increasingly embraced information technologies this... -
Elias Canetti and Social Theory: The Bond of Creation Andrea Mubi Brighenti 9781350344402
£29.35Elias Canetti is a key thinker in the trend towards the renewal of social theory for the 21st century. He is increasingly being recognised in the social and political sciences for the seminal text, Crowds and Power (1960). While this work can sometimes... -
Machiavellian Ontology: Political Conflict and Philosophy Francesco Marchesi 9781399520454
RRP: £85.00£77.50The twentieth century was the century of the deconstruction of all absolutes: of liberation understood as a critique of every meaningful structure. In this sense, conflict was understood as an instrument of the rupture of every form, institution and... -
G. A. Cohen: Liberty, Justice and Equality Christine Sypnowich 9781509529940
RRP: £17.99£16.04G. A. Cohen was one of the towering political philosophers of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. His intellectual career was unusually wide-ranging, and he was celebrated internationally not only for his for his penetrating ideas about... -
The Afterlife of Race: An Informed Philosophical Search Lionel K. McPherson 9780197626849
RRP: £25.99£21.99The ideology that underlies the concept of race has a long history. For centuries that ideology has spun supernaturalist and scientistic stories about ostensibly natural differences between different groups. The concept of “race” is in scientific... -
The Environmental Uncanny: A Phenomenology of the Loss of the World Prof. Brian A. Irwin 9781350417373
RRP: £85.00£84.96The Environmental Uncanny argues that the increasing destitution of our world is the result of a certain forgetfulness: we have forgotten that the basis of our knowledge is not calculative reason, but our participation in the natural world. The modern... -
Exploitation: Perspectives from Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Benjamin Ferguson 9780190256968
RRP: £25.99£23.38Exploitation: Perspectives from Philosophy, Politics, and Economics brings together recent work on the topic of exploitation from philosophy, political science, and economics in one volume, organized around three main questions: What is exploitation? Why... -
Global Sweatshops: A Feminist Theory of Exploitation and Resistance Mirjam Müller 9780197767207
RRP: £19.99£18.21Sweatshop labour is characterized by low wages, long hours, and systematic health and safety hazards. Most of the workers in the sweatshops of the garment industry are women, many of them migrant women. Philosopher Mirjam Müller asks: Why are sweatshops... -
The Nature of Law: Authority, Obligation, and the Common Good Daniel Mark 9780268208219
RRP: £45.00£39.18Challenging the prevailing understanding of the authority of law, Daniel Mark offers a theory of moral obligation that is rooted both in command and in the law’s orientation to the common good. When and why do we have an obligation to obey the law?... -
The City in the Distance Jean-Luc Nancy 9781531508975
RRP: £19.99£19.28In The City in the Distance, Jean-Luc Nancy embarks on nothing less than a philosophy of the city. Drawing on his widely discussed accounts of sense and of the fraught question of community, Nancy views the city as the site of a disposition that is... -
Beyond Liberalism Prabhat Patnaik 9780231216326
RRP: £30.00£23.29Liberalism holds that individual freedom can be realized under capitalism. “Classical liberalism” tends to focus on excessive state interference as the primary threat to freedom. More recent theorists, however, recognize that capitalism, left to itself,... -
How to Think about Religious Schools: Principles and Policies Matthew Clayton 9780198924005
RRP: £70.00£63.74Should religious schools be an option? Should they receive public funding? Are they bad for community cohesion? What should we make of the charge that they indoctrinate? How should they be regulated? People disagree on the answers to these questions... -
Practical Holism and Nomadic Thought by Carlos Pereda 9781666931822
RRP: £77.00£67.62Practical Holism and Nomadic Thought invites us to think of societies as organizations built with moral, legal, political, and economic materials that interact in dynamic, and often simultaneous, ways. According to this view, which Carlos Pereda calls... -
The Pause: Experiencing Time Interrupted by Julian Jason Haladyn 9780228020813
RRP: £17.99£15.90When COVID-19 spread across the globe, people experienced protection measures such as social distancing, self-isolation, and self-quarantine as a kind of shutting down or putting on hold of life. Many referred to this experience as a pause.Calling... -
Creolizing Rosa Luxemburg by Jane Anna Gordon 9781538155523
RRP: £41.00£36.48Rosa Luxemburg is unquestionably the most important historical European woman Marxist theorist. Significantly, for the purpose of creolizing the canon, she considered her continent and the globe from an Eastern Europe that was in constant flux and... -
Progressive Anonymity: From Identity Politics to Evidence-Based Government by Naomi Zack 9781538174104
RRP: £30.00£28.02Naomi Zack critiques identity politics and argues that both political and social identities should not enter democratic government. She proposes evidence-based government by anonymous stakeholders, without preference for group affiliation or political... -
Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy Volume 10 by David Sobel 9780198909460
RRP: £70.00£63.74This is the tenth volume of Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy. Since its revival in the 1970s, political philosophy has been a vibrant field in philosophy, one that intersects with jurisprudence, normative economics, political theory in political... -
Aquinas and Modernity: The Lost Promise of Natural Law by Shadia B. Drury 9780742522589
RRP: £41.00£36.08In this startling book, Drury overturns the long-standing reputation of Thomas Aquinas as the most rational exponent of the Christian faith. She reveals that Aquinas as one of the most zealous Dominicans (Domini Canes) or Hounds of the Lord. The book... -
Representative Men: Seven Lectures by Ralph Waldo Emerson 9798888303443
RRP: £20.95£20.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798888303443Author Ralph Waldo EmersonFormat HardbackPage Count 150Imprint Bibliotech PressPublisher Bibliotech PressWeight(grams) 152g -
The Militant Intellectual: Performance Philosophy and Decolonial Materialism by Andres Fabian Henao Castro 9781538145098
RRP: £93.00£81.40The Militant Intellect offers a way of rethinking the relationship between critical theory and politics. How does critical theory become self-conscious of its own relation to politics? How does it contribute to change the world through its... -
Primal Philosophy: Rousseau with Laplanche by Lucas Fain 9781538148396
RRP: £30.00£26.68Primal Philosophy: Rousseau with Laplanche presents the first comprehensive study of Rousseau's thought on the possibility of philosophy and the responsibility of the philosopher. Through a close reading of texts from throughout Rousseau's entire corpus,... -
Humanism as Realism – Three Essays Concerning the Thought of Paul Elmer More and Irving Babbitt by Pawel Armada 9781587314346
RRP: £36.00£30.37Originally published in Polish in 2019 by The Lethe Foundation, this book demonstrates the relevance and importance of Paul Elmer More (1864–1937) and Irving Babbitt (1865–1933). Their collective legacy is one of responsible and truly thoughtful living... -
Anti-Colonial Solidarity: Race, Reconciliation, and MENA Liberation by George Fourlas 9781538141465
RRP: £30.00£26.68Anti-Colonial Solidarity: Race, Reconciliation, and MENA Liberation confronts the racialization of Middle-Eastern and North African (MENA) perceived peoples from a global perspective. George Fourlas critiques the ways that orientalism, racism, and... -
Democracy in Spite of the Demos: From Arendt to the Frankfurt School by Larry Alan Busk 9781538148174
RRP: £30.00£26.68The value of democracy is taken for granted today, even by those interested in criticizing the fundamental structures of society. Things would be better, the argument goes, if only things were more democratic. The word “democracy” means “the power of the... -
The A to Z of Socialism by Peter Lamb 9780810868519
RRP: £45.00£39.89Primarily concerned with the historical roots and contemporary condition of socialism, The A to Z of Socialism offers information on writers, activists, ideas, political parties, institutions, and movements that sought-and in many cases are still... -
The Metaphysics of Capitalism by Andrea Micocci 9780739128381
RRP: £45.00£39.49The objective of this book is to construct an individually emancipatory economic and political philosophy. This means a concrete-based, man-centered, non-hypostatizing, anti-dialectical approach to the apprehension of the material, i.e. nature in general... -
Catastrophe and Philosophy by David J. Rosner 9781498540117
RRP: £90.00£79.21This book takes a different approach to the history of philosophy, exploring a neglected theme, the relationship between catastrophe and philosophy. The book analyzes this theme within texts from ancient times to the present, from a global perspective... -
Hannah Arendt and Karl Marx: On Totalitarianism and the Tradition of Western Political Thought by Tama Weisman 9781498520980
RRP: £45.00£39.49Hannah Arendt and Karl Marx: On Totalitarianism and the Tradition of Western Political Thought is the first book to examine Hannah Arendt's unpublished writings on Marx in their totality and as the unified project Arendt originally intended. In 1952,... -
Hip-Hop as Philosophical Text and Testimony: Can I Get a Witness? by Lissa Skitolsky 9781498566728
RRP: £35.00£30.95Hip-hop as survivor testimony? Rhymes as critical text? Drawing on her own experiences as a lifelong hip-hop head and philosophy professor, Lissa Skitolsky reveals the existential power of hip-hop to affect our sensibility and understanding of race and... -
Thomas Aquinas on Persuasion: Action, Ends, and Natural Rhetoric by Jeffrey J. Maciejewski 9781498556958
RRP: £41.00£36.08This analysis of the human need to persuade offers a new, creative, application of Aristotelian essentialism to human discourse. Using Thomas Aquinas's adaptation of essentialism as a starting point, Jeffrey J. Maciejewski argues that persuasion is...