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21 Letters on Life and Its Challenges by Charles Handy
RRP: £9.99£7.81Charles Handy is one of the giants of contemporary thought. His books on management - including Understanding Organizations and Gods of Management - have changed the way we view business. His work on broader issues and trends - such as Beyond Certainty... -
Phaedrus by Plato 9780199554027
RRP: £8.99£6.45'Some of our greatest blessings come from madness Phaedrus is widely recognized as one of Plato's most profound and beautiful works. It takes the form of a dialogue between Socrates and Phaedrus and its ostensible subject is love, especially... -
Outlines of the Philosophy of Right by G. W. F. Hegel
RRP: £12.99£9.09What is rational is actual and what is actual is rational. Hegel's Outlines of the Philosophy of Right is one of the greatest works of moral, social, and political philosophy. It contains significant ideas on justice, moral responsibility, family... -
The Edge of Sentience: Risk and Precaution in Humans, Other Animals, and AI Jonathan Birch 9780192870421
RRP: £30.00£25.95This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read on the Oxford Academic platform and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Can octopuses feel pain... -
Living in the End Times by Slavoj Zizek
RRP: £15.99£13.73There should no longer be any doubt: global capitalism is fast approaching its terminal crisis. But if the end of capitalism seems to many like the end of the world, how is it possible for Western society to face up to the end times? In a major new... -
Frames of War: When is Life Grievable? by Judith Butler
RRP: £10.99£8.94In this urgent response to violence, racism and increasingly aggressive methods of coercion, Judith Butler explores the media's portrayal of armed conflict, a process integral to how the West prosecutes its wars. In doing so, she calls for a... -
Justice as Fairness: A Restatement by John Rawls 9780674005112
RRP: £28.95£25.55This book originated as lectures for a course on political philosophy that Rawls taught regularly at Harvard in the 1980s. In time the lectures became a restatement of his theory of justice as fairness, revised in light of his more recent papers and his... -
The Pocket Oracle and Art of Prudence by Baltasar Gracian
RRP: £9.99£7.11A unique collection of advice for life, Baltasar Gracian's The Pocket Oracle and Art of Prudence is a philosophical gem, and perhaps the first 'self-help' book ever written. This Penguin Classics edition is translated from the Spanish with an... -
Epistemic Injustice: Power and the Ethics of Knowing by Miranda Fricker
RRP: £30.99£24.27Epistemic Injustice explores the idea that there is a distinctively epistemic kind of injustice - injustice which consists in a wrong done to someone specifically in their capacity as a knower. Miranda Fricker distinguishes two forms of epistemic... -
The Practice of Everyday Life by Michel de Certeau 9780520271456
RRP: £25.00£19.59In this incisive book, Michel de Certeau considers the uses to which social representation and modes of social behavior are put by individuals and groups, describing the tactics available to the common man for reclaiming his own autonomy from the... -
Together: 10 Choices For a Better Now by Ece Temelkuran
RRP: £9.99£8.45'If I had to choose just one book that I want everybody of any age to read at this moment in time, this would be it' Brian Eno 'Clear-eyed, frank, wise and joyous!' Andrew Sean Greer ... -
The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Obligations towards the Human Being by Simone Weil 9780241467978
RRP: £12.99£9.09A new translation of Simone Weil's best-known work: a political, philosophical and spiritual treatise on what human life could beWhat do humans require to be truly nourished? Simone Weil, one of the foremost philosophers of the last century, envisaged us... -
Getting Hooked: Rationality and Addiction by Jon Elster 9780521038799
RRP: £39.99£33.26The essays in this volume offer a thorough discussion of the relationship between addiction and rationality. This book-length treatment of the subject includes contributions from philosophers, psychiatrists, neurobiologists, sociologists and economists... -
Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else) Olufe mi O. Taiwo (Georgetown University) 9780745347851
RRP: £12.99£8.60'A thinker on fire' - Robin D. G. Kelley Identity politics is everywhere, polarising discourse from the campaign trail to the classroom and amplifying antagonisms in the media. But the compulsively referenced phrase bears little resemblance to the... -
The Courage of Hopelessness: Chronicles of a Year of Acting Dangerously by Slavoj Zizek
RRP: £10.99£7.77The maverick philosopher returns to explore today's idealogical, political and economic battles, and asks whether radical change is possibleIn these troubled times, even the most pessimistic diagnosis of our future ends with an uplifting hint that things... -
Security, Territory, Population: Lectures at the College De France, 1977 - 78 by Michel Foucault
RRP: £54.99£49.36This book derives from Foucault's lectures at the College de France between January and April 1978, which can be seen as a radical turning point in his thought. Focusing on 'bio-power', he studies the foundations of this new technology of power over... -
Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste by Pierre Bourdieu 9780415567886
RRP: £19.99£18.09No judgement of taste is innocent - we are all snobs. Pierre Bourdieu's Distinction brilliantly illuminates the social pretentions of the middle classes in the modern world, focusing on the tastes and preferences of the French bourgeoisie. First... -
Capital: Volume II by Karl Marx
RRP: £16.99£12.28The "forgotten" second volume of Capital, Marx's world-shaking analysis of economics, politics, and history, contains the vital discussion of commodity, the cornerstone to Marx's theories.The "forgotten" second volume of Capital, Marx's world-shaking... -
Politics of the Everyday by Ezio Manzini
RRP: £15.99£15.28Each of us develops and enacts strategies for living our everyday lives. These may confirm the general tendency towards new forms of connected solitude, in which we work, travel and live alone, yet feel sociable mainly by means of technology. ... -
Coming of Neo-Feudalism: A Warning to the Global Middle Class by Joel Kotkin
RRP: £20.99£14.59Following a remarkable epoch of greater dispersion of wealth and opportunity, we are inexorably returning towards a more feudal era marked by greater concentration of wealth and property, reduced upward mobility, demographic stagnation, and increased... -
Justice for Hedgehogs by Ronald Dworkin
RRP: £23.95£19.54The fox knows many things, the Greeks said, but the hedgehog knows one big thing. In his most comprehensive work, Ronald Dworkin argues that value in all its forms is one big thing: that what truth is, life means, morality requires, and justice demands... -
Liberalism: A Counter-History by Domenico Losurdo
RRP: £15.99£15.45In this definitive historical investigation, Italian author and philosopher Domenico Losurdo argues that from the outset liberalism, as a philosophical position and ideology, has been bound up with the most illiberal of policies: slavery, colonialism,... -
Why Marx Was Right by Terry Eagleton
RRP: £11.99£10.15One of the foremost Marxist critics of his generation forcefully argues against Marx's irrelevancy "[Eagleton is] a witty, insightful thinker with a penchant for glib asides and wry dashes of humor. It's probably the only book that makes references to... -
The Communist Manifesto by Friedrich Engels 9780141397986 [USED COPY]
RRP: £3.00£1.79'The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains.'Marx and Engels's revolutionary summons to the working classes - one of the most important and influential political theories ever formulated.Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for... -
The Communist Manifesto Karl Marx 9780141397986
RRP: £3.00£2.49'The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains.'Marx and Engels's revolutionary summons to the working classes - one of the most important and influential political theories ever formulated.Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for... -
Three Early Modern Utopias: Thomas More: Utopia / Francis Bacon: New Atlantis / Henry Neville: The Isle of Pines by Saint Thomas More
RRP: £7.99£5.79Thomas More: Utopia/ Francis Bacon: New Atlantis/Henry Neville: The Isle of Pines With the publication of Utopia (1516), Thomas More introduced into the English language not only a new word, but a new way of thinking about the gulf between what ought... -
Political Philosophy: A Beginners' Guide for Students and Politicians Adam Swift (Balliol College, Oxford) 9781509533350
RRP: £17.99£16.04Politicians invoke grand ideas: social justice, democracy, community, liberty, equality. But what do these ideas really mean? How can politicians across the political spectrum appeal to the same values? This fourth edition of Adam Swift's highly readable... -
Rawls 'A Theory of Justice' and Its Critics by Chandran Kukathas 9780745602820
RRP: £15.99£14.41John Rawls's A Theory of Justice has been enormously influential in philosophy, political theory, welfare economics and jurisprudence. This book is a systematic study of Rawls's work. It provides a clear and concise account of Rawls's ideas, situates... -
The Prince (Reader's Library Classics) by Niccolò Machiavelli 9781954839274
RRP: £5.99£5.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781954839274Author Niccol MachiavelliFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Reader's Library ClassicsPublisher Reader's Library ClassicsWeight(grams)... -
Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life by Giorgio Agamben 9780804732185
RRP: £19.99£17.27The work of Giorgio Agamben, one of Italy's most important and original philosophers, has been based on an uncommon erudition in classical traditions of philosophy and rhetoric, the grammarians of late antiquity, Christian theology, and modern philosophy... -
Between Earth And Empire: From the Necrocene to the Beloved Community by John P. Clark
RRP: £23.99£15.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629636481Author John P. ClarkFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint PM PressPublisher PM Press -
Utopianism: A Very Short Introduction by Lyman Tower Sargent
RRP: £8.99£6.45There are many debates about utopia - What constitutes a utopia? Are utopias benign or dangerous? Is the idea of utopianism essential to Christianity or heretical? What is the relationship between utopia and ideology? This Very Short Introduction... -
The Republic of Plato by Adam Kirsch
RRP: £18.99£14.13Long regarded as the most accurate rendering of Plato's Republic that has yet been published, this widely acclaimed work is the first strictly literal translation of a timeless classic. In addition to the annotated text, there is also a rich and... -
German Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction by Andrew Bowie
RRP: £8.99£6.45German philosophy remains the core of modern philosophy. Without Kant, Frege, Wittgenstein, and Husserl there would be no Anglo-American 'analytical' style of philosophy. Moreover, without Kant, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, and Heidegger, the 'Continental... -
An Introduction to Political Philosophy by Jonathan Wolff 9780192847904
RRP: £31.99£30.33Who should hold political power? Are there any justified limits to people's liberty? What is democracy? Is it really that attractive? An Introduction to Political Philosophy is the beginner's ideal introduction to the field, combining clarity... -
Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 9780008275709
RRP: £6.99£4.80From the best-selling author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists comes a powerful new statement about feminism today - written as a letter to a friend. A few years ago, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie received a letter from a dear friend from... -
The Portable Thoreau by Henry Thoreau
RRP: £14.99£10.95Self-described as 'a mystic, a transcendentalist, and a natural philosopher to boot', Henry David Thoreau dedicated his life to preserving his freedom as a man and as an artist. Nature was the fountainhead of his inspiration and his refuge from what he... -
Consciencism: Philosophy and Ideology for De-Colonization by Kwame Nkrumah
RRP: £11.99£9.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853451365Author Kwame NkrumahFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint Monthly Review Press,U.S.Publisher Monthly Review Press,U.S. -
A Theory of Justice: Original Edition by John Rawls 9780674017726
RRP: £33.95£27.81John Rawls aims to express an essential part of the common core of the democratic tradition-justice as fairness-and to provide an alternative to utilitarianism, which had dominated the Anglo-Saxon tradition of political thought since the nineteenth... -
Second Treatise of Government and A Letter Concerning Toleration by John Locke
RRP: £10.99£7.77'Man being born...to perfect freedom...hath by nature a power...to preserve his property, that is, his life, liberty and estate.' Locke's Second Treatise of Government (1689) is one of the great classics of political philosophy, widely regarded as the...