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The Right to Be Lazy by Paul Lafargue
RRP: £14.99£9.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681376820Author Paul LafargueFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc -
The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau 9780140442014 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99£1.78'Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains'These are the famous opening words of a treatise that has not ceased to stir debate since its publication in 1762. Rejecting the view that anyone has a natural right to wield authority over others,... -
The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau 9780140442014
RRP: £10.99£7.03'Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains'These are the famous opening words of a treatise that has not ceased to stir debate since its publication in 1762. Rejecting the view that anyone has a natural right to wield authority over others,... -
Carbon Democracy: Political Power in the Age of Oil by Timothy Mitchell
£13.22Carbon Democracy provides a unique examination of the relationship between oil and democracy. Interweaving the history of energy, political analysis, and economic theory, Mitchell targets conventional wisdom regarding energy and governance. Emphasizing... -
Facing Gaia: Eight Lectures on the New Climatic Regime by Bruno Latour 9780745684345
RRP: £18.99£16.87The emergence of modern sciences in the seventeenth century profoundly renewed our understanding of nature. For the last three centuries new ideas of nature have been continually developed by theology, politics, economics, and science, especially the... -
The Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at the College de France, 1978-1979 by Michel Foucault
RRP: £24.99£21.78Foucault continues on the theme of his 1978 course by focusing on the study of liberal and neo-liberal forms of government and concentrating in particular on two forms of neo-liberalism: German post-war liberalism and the liberalism of the Chicago School... -
Between Past and Future by Hannah Arendt
RRP: £19.00£11.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143104810Author Hannah ArendtFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Penguin ClassicsPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 210gDimensions(mm) 196mm *... -
Political Hypocrisy: The Mask of Power, from Hobbes to Orwell and Beyond, Revised Edition by David Runciman 9780691180854
RRP: £16.99£13.65What kind of hypocrite should voters choose as their next leader? The question seems utterly cynical. But, as David Runciman suggests, it is actually much more cynical to pretend that politics can ever be completely sincere. Political Hypocrisy is a... -
Authenticity: Reclaiming Reality in a Counterfeit Culture by Alice Sherwood
RRP: £9.99£6.64'Wide-ranging, witty and fresh ... a stimulating read. Authentic fun'Tim Harford, Financial Times Best Summer Books 2022 'Brilliantly witty, profoundly illuminating, Alice Sherwood is a master storyteller' Simon Schama ... -
Is Ireland Neutral: The Many Myths of Irish Neutrality by Conor Gallagher
RRP: £17.99£12.95Neutrality has, supposedly, long been a pillar of the Irish national identity. But examining the concept reveals it to be a vague, flimsy and elastic notion that, throughout history, various governments have been happy to stretch or, in some cases,... -
The Ascent Of Humanity by Charles Eisenstein
RRP: £23.00£15.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583945353Author Charles EisensteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint Evolver EditionsPublisher North Atlantic Books,U.S.Weight(grams)... -
Why Iris Murdoch Matters by Gary Browning
RRP: £25.99£22.61In Why Iris Murdoch Matters Gary Browning draws on as yet unpublished archival material to present an unrivalled overview of Murdoch's work and thought. Browning argues for Murdoch's position amongst the key theorists of modern life, and discusses in... -
How to Be Healthy: An Ancient Guide to Wellness by Katherine D. Van Schaik 9780691206271
RRP: £14.99£12.15Timeless wisdom about how to be healthy in body and mind from one of the greatest physicians of the ancient worldThe second-century Greek physician Galen-the most famous doctor in antiquity after Hippocrates-is a central figure in Western medicine. A... -
Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance by Noam Chomsky
RRP: £10.99£7.77'One of the radical heroes of our age. A towering intellect' GuardianHegemony or Survival is Noam Chomsky's essential polemic on American foreign policy.Noam Chomsky, the world's foremost intellectual activist, presents an irrefutable analysis of... -
The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli 9780141018850 [USED COPY]
RRP: £7.99£2.09Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched... -
The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli 9780141018850
RRP: £7.99£5.79Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched... -
The Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844: and the Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx
RRP: £10.99£8.22Communism as a political movement attained global importance after the Bolsheviks toppled the Russian Czar in 1917. After that time the works of Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, especially the influential Communist Manifesto (1848), enjoyed an... -
Political Thought by Michael Rosen 9780192892782
RRP: £42.99£40.80Human beings live together in societies which, by their very nature, give rise to institutions governing the behaviour and freedom of individuals. This raises important questions about how these institutions ought to function, and the extent to which... -
Lyotard and Politics by Stuart Sim
RRP: £27.99£26.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474456524Author Stuart SimFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press -
Hegel’s World Revolutions by Richard Bourke 9780691250182
RRP: £25.00£19.59A new account of the relevance of Hegel's ideas for today's world, countering the postwar anti-Hegel "insurgency"G.W.F. Hegel was widely seen as the greatest philosopher of his age. Ever since, his work has shaped debates about issues as varied as... -
The Birth of the Clinic by Michel Foucault
RRP: £16.99£15.22In this remarkable book Michel Foucault, one of the most influential thinkers of recent times, calls us to look critically at specific historical events in order to uncover new layers of significance. In doing so, he challenges our assumptions not only... -
The Tragic Mind: Fear, Fate, and the Burden of Power by Robert D. Kaplan
£20.00A moving meditation on recent geopolitical crises, viewed through the lens of ancient and modern tragedy "Spare, elegant and poignant. . . . If there is a single contemporary book that should be pressed into the hands of those who decide issues of war... -
Selected Writings on Race and Difference by Stuart Hall
RRP: £25.99£22.89In Selected Writings on Race and Difference, editors Paul Gilroy and Ruth Wilson Gilmore gather more than twenty essays by Stuart Hall that highlight his extensive and groundbreaking engagement with race, representation, identity, difference, and... -
The Melancholia of Class: A Manifesto for the Working Class Cynthia Cruz 9781912248919
RRP: £10.99£7.40To be working-class in a middle-class world is to be a ghost. Excluded, marginalised, and subjected to violence, the working class is also deemed by those in power to not exist. We are left with a choice between assimilation into middle-class values and... -
The Morality of Freedom by Joseph Raz 9780198248071
RRP: £44.49£35.61Ranging over central issues of morals and politics, this book discusses the nature of freedom and authority. It examines the role of value-neutrality, rights, equality, and the prevention of harm in the liberal tradition, and relates them to fundamental... -
Karl Marx: Selected Writings by Karl Marx 9780198782650
RRP: £55.99£48.17This second edition of McLellan's comprehensive selection of Marx's writings includes carefully selected extracts from the whole range of Marx's political, philosophical and economic thought. Each section of the book deals with a different period of... -
Leo Strauss: An Introduction by Neil Robertson
RRP: £17.99£16.04Leo Strauss's lifelong intellectual mission was to recover 'classical rationalism', a pursuit that has made him a controversial figure to this day. While his critics see him as responsible for a troubling anti-democratic strain in modern politics, others... -
Gender-Critical Feminism by Holly Lawford-Smith 9780198863885
RRP: £32.49£29.81The expectation used to be that men would be masculine and women would be feminine, and this was assumed to come naturally to them in virtue of their biology. That orthodoxy persists today in many parts of society. On this view, sex is gender and gender... -
Just and Unjust Wars: A Moral Argument with Historical Illustrations by Michael Walzer
RRP: £14.99£12.13"A classic in the field" (New York Times), this is a penetrating investigation into moral and ethical questions raised by war, drawing on examples from antiquity to the present.Just and Unjust Wars has forever changed how we think about the ethics of... -
The Prison before the Panopticon: Incarceration in Ancient and Modern Political Philosophy Jacob Abolafia 9780674290631
RRP: £29.95£23.66A pioneering history of incarceration in Western political thought. The prison as we know it is a relatively new institution, established on a large scale in Europe and the United States only during the Enlightenment. Ideas and arguments about penal... -
The Fall of Spirituality: The Corruption of Tradition in the Modern World by Julius Evola
RRP: £25.00£15.84A bold critique of the spiritual schools, philosophies, and mystical teachers of the 20th century* Examines newer spiritual "systems" of the modern era, from spiritism and theosophy, to parapsychic research and anthroposophism, to psychoanalysis and the... -
The China Model: Political Meritocracy and the Limits of Democracy by Daniel A. Bell 9780691166452
RRP: £35.00£28.14Westerners tend to divide the political world into "good" democracies and "bad" authoritarian regimes. But the Chinese political model does not fit neatly in either category. Over the past three decades, China has evolved a political system that can best... -
Two Cheers for Anarchism: Six Easy Pieces on Autonomy, Dignity, and Meaningful Work and Play by James C. Scott 9780691161037
RRP: £14.99£11.01James Scott taught us what's wrong with seeing like a state. Now, in his most accessible and personal book to date, the acclaimed social scientist makes the case for seeing like an anarchist. Inspired by the core anarchist faith in the possibilities of... -
On Taking Offence by Emily McTernan
RRP: £22.99£20.80Someone fails to shake your outstretched hand, puts you down in front of others, or makes a joke in poor taste. Should we take offence? Wouldn't it be better if we didn't? In the face of popular criticism of people taking offence too easily, and the... -
Maoism: A Global History by Julia Lovell
RRP: £14.99£10.95WINNER OF THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE 2019SHORLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2019'A landmark work giving a global panorama of Mao's ideology filled with historic events and enlivened by striking characters' Jonathan Fenby, author of The Penguin... -
Demanding the Impossible by Peter Marshall
RRP: £19.99£13.73A fascinating and comprehensive history, Demanding the Impossible is a challenging and thought-provoking exploration of anarchist ideas and actions from ancient times to the present day. Navigating the broad 'river of anarchy', from Taoism to... -
Adventures in Democracy: The Turbulent World of People Power by Erica Benner 9780241609750
RRP: £25.00£17.62'A sparkling page-turner full of wit, original insight and unassuming erudition.' Katja Hoyer, GuardianDemocracy is a living, breathing thing and Erica Benner has spent a lifetime thinking about the role ordinary citizens play in keeping it alive: from... -
Gorgias by Plato
RRP: £8.99£6.37The struggle which Plato has Socrates recommend to his interlocutors in Gorgias - and to his readers - is the struggle to overcome the temptations of worldly success and to concentrate on genuine morality. Ostensibly an enquiry into the value of... -
Art of Rhetoric by Aristotle
RRP: £24.95£23.39Persuasion analyzed.Aristotle (384-322 BC), the great Greek thinker, researcher, and educator, ranks among the most important and influential figures in the history of philosophy, theology, and science. He joined Plato's Academy in Athens in 367 and... -
Unshrinking: How to Fight Fatphobia by Kate Manne 9780241629390
RRP: £20.00£14.29'Required reading for everyone who lives in an unruly human body... elegant, fierce, and profound' Roxane GaySize discrimination harms everyone. Acclaimed philosopher Kate Manne shows how to combat it.For as long as she can remember, Kate Manne has...