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Politics and Ideology in Marxist Theory by Ernesto Laclau
£16.77Ernesto Laclau is best known for co-authoring Hegemony and Socialist Strategy, with Chantal Mouffe. Politically active in the social and student movements of the 1960s, and a member of PSIN (Socialist Party of the National Left), Laclau's oeuvre links... -
Man, the State, and War: A Theoretical Analysis by Kenneth N. Waltz
RRP: £25.00£19.59What are the causes of war? To answer this question, Professor Waltz examines the ideas of major thinkers throughout the history of Western civilization. He explores works both by classic political philosophers, such as St. Augustine, Hobbes, Kant, and... -
Conservatism: An Invitation to the Great Tradition by Roger Scruton 9781250170569
RRP: £24.99£14.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250170569Author Roger ScrutonFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint All Points BooksPublisher All Points BooksWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 216mm *... -
Women of Ideas: Interviews from Philosophy Bites by Suki Finn
RRP: £11.99£8.43Thirty leading women philosophers draw on and advance the rich heritage of the philosophical tradition to explore topics of pressing interest for today. Women of Ideas is edited by Suki Finn, based upon interviews by David Edmonds and Nigel Warburton,... -
Philosophy and Social Hope by Richard Rorty
RRP: £10.99£7.77Richard Rorty is one of the most provocative figures in recent philosophical, literary and cultural debate. This collection brings together those of his writings aimed at a wider audience, many published in book form for the first time. In these eloquent... -
Diagnosing Social Pathology: Rousseau, Hegel, Marx, and Durkheim by Frederick Neuhouser
RRP: £29.99£26.34Can a human society suffer from illness like a living thing? And if so, how does such a malaise manifest itself? In this thought-provoking book, Fred Neuhouser explains and defends the idea of social pathology, demonstrating what it means to describe... -
Taxation: Philosophical Perspectives by Martin O'Neill 9780199609222
RRP: £72.00£64.82This is the first book to give a collective treatment of philosophical issues relating to tax. The tax system is central to the operation of states and to the ways in which states interact with individual citizens. Taxes are used by states to fund the... -
Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity--And Why This Harms Everybody by Helen Pluckrose
RRP: £24.95£18.29Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly Bestseller!Times, Sunday Times, and Financial Times Book-of-the-Year Selection! Have you heard that language is violence and that science is sexist? Have you read that certain people shouldn't... -
Animal Rights: Moral Theory and Practice by Mark Rowlands 9780230219458
RRP: £49.99£44.97In this 2nd edition the author has substantially revised his book throughout, updating the moral arguments and adding a chapter on animal minds. Importantly, rather than being a polemic on animal rights, this book is also a considered and imaginative... -
Assemblage Theory and Method by Ian Buchanan
RRP: £23.99£20.94What do we mean by 'assemblage' in contemporary theory? The constant and seemingly limitless expansion of the concept's range of applications begs the question, if any and every kind of collection of things is an assemblage, then what advantage is there... -
The Beach Beneath the Street: The Everyday Life and Glorious Times of the Situationist International by McKenzie Wark
£16.83Over fifty years after the Situationist International appeared, its legacy continues to inspire activists, artists and theorists around the world. Such a legend has accrued to this movement that the story of the SI now demands to be told in a ... -
The Making of the Indebted Man: An Essay on the Neoliberal Condition: Volume 13 Maurizio Lazzarato 9781584351153
RRP: £13.99£9.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781584351153Author Maurizio LazzaratoFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Semiotext (E)Publisher AutonomediaWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 178mm * 114mm... -
No Truth Without Beauty: God, the Qur'an, and Women's Rights by Leena El-Ali
RRP: £22.99£20.66In this comprehensive open access book, written for readers from any or no religious background, Leena El-Ali does something remarkable. Never before has anyone taken on every last claim relating to Islam and women and countered it not just with Qur'anic... -
Mandeville’s Fable: Pride, Hypocrisy, and Sociability by Dr Robin Douglass
RRP: £30.00£23.29Why we should take Bernard Mandeville seriously as a philosopherBernard Mandeville's The Fable of the Bees outraged its eighteenth-century audience by proclaiming that private vices lead to public prosperity. Today the work is best known as an early... -
The Abuse of Property by Daniel Loick 9780262545501
RRP: £16.99£11.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262545501Author Daniel LoickFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
Redistribution or Recognition?: A Political-Philosophical Exchange by Nancy Fraser
RRP: £19.99£17.27"Recognition" has become a veritable keyword of our time, but its relation to "redistribution" remains undertheorized. This volume remedies the lacuna by staging a sustained debate between two philosophers, one North American, the other European, who... -
Feminist, Queer, Crip by Alison Kafer 9780253009340
RRP: £20.99£18.37In Feminist, Queer, Crip Alison Kafer imagines a different future for disability and disabled bodies. Challenging the ways in which ideas about the future and time have been deployed in the service of compulsory able-bodiedness and able-mindedness, Kafer... -
The Disenchanted Earth: Reflections on Ecosocialism and Barbarism by Richard Seymour 9781911648413
RRP: £9.99£6.80From Richard Seymour, one of the UK's leading public intellectuals, comes a characteristic blend of forensic insight and analysis, personal journey, and a vivid respect for the natural world. A planetary fever-dream. An environmental awakening that... -
Grief: A Philosophical Guide by Michael Cholbi
RRP: £20.00£15.89An engaging and illuminating exploration of grief-and why, despite its intense pain, it can also help us growExperiencing grief at the death of a person we love or who matters to us-as universal as it is painful-is central to the human condition... -
Making the Social World: The Structure of Human Civilization by John Searle
RRP: £11.99£8.92The renowned philosopher John Searle reveals the fundamental nature of social reality. What kinds of things are money, property, governments, nations, marriages, cocktail parties, and football games? Searle explains the key role played by language in the... -
How to Be a Stoic by Massimo Pigliucci
RRP: £19.99£11.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541644533Author Massimo PigliucciFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Basic BooksPublisher Basic BooksWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 140mm *... -
Liberty and Equality by Raymond Aron 9780691226767
RRP: £16.99£13.65An invaluable reflection on the essence of liberal democracy-and an ideal introduction to the work of political philosopher Raymond AronLiberty and Equality is the first English translation of the last lecture delivered at the College de France by... -
Democracy: A Very Short Introduction by Naomi Zack 9780192845061
RRP: £8.99£6.45Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Democracy refers to both ideal and real forms of government. The concept of democracy means that those governed - the demos - have a say in government. But different conceptions of democracy have... -
Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away by Rebecca Newberger Goldstein
RRP: £14.99£9.80What would the ancient Greek philosopher make of the twenty-first-century Google headquarters?A dazzling exploration of the role of ancient philosophy in modern life from the acclaimed writer and thinker.Imagine that Plato came to life in the... -
The Virtues of Limits by David McPherson 9780192848536
RRP: £74.00£67.31Human beings seek to transcend limits. This is part of our potential greatness, since it is how we can realize what is best in our humanity. However, the limit-transcending feature of human life is also part of our potential downfall, as it can lead to... -
Introducing Political Philosophy: A Policy-Driven Approach by Andrew Walton
RRP: £31.99£30.33Introducing Political Philosophy is a thought-provoking introduction that invites readers to consider and analyse the philosophical controversies that underpin several prominent areas of political debate. The opening chapter familiarises students with... -
On Human Nature by Roger Scruton
RRP: £12.99£10.20A brief, radical defense of human uniqueness from acclaimed philosopher Roger ScrutonIn this short book, acclaimed writer and philosopher Roger Scruton presents an original and radical defense of human uniqueness. Confronting the views of evolutionary... -
Mind, Self, and Society: The Definitive Edition by George Herbert Mead
RRP: £26.00£25.25George Herbert Mead is widely recognized as one of the most brilliantly original American pragmatists. Although he had a profound influence on the development of social philosophy, he published no books in his lifetime. This makes the lectures collected... -
We Hear Only Ourselves: Utopia, Memory, and Resistance Bill Cashmore 9781803415802
RRP: £8.99£7.81We Hear Only Ourselves is a study of utopia and its contradictions. If a future beyond capitalism cannot be imagined, what is the place of utopia today? The answer, Cashmore argues, lies beyond either idle speculation or merely hopeful optimism. We Hear... -
Inventing Peace: A Dialogue on Perception by Wim Wenders 9781780766935
£29.07Inventing Peace revolves around the question of how we look at the world, but do not see it when there is so much war, injustice, suffering and violence. What are the ethical and moral consequences of looking, but not seeing, and, most of all, what has... -
The Essential Emma Goldman-Anarchism, Feminism, Liberation (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition) by Emma Goldman 9781959891079
RRP: £9.95£7.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781959891079Author Emma GoldmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Warbler Press Inc.Publisher Warbler Press Inc.Weight(grams) 209gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
Love: A History by Simon May 9780300187748
RRP: £16.99£14.61An illuminating exploration of how love has been shaped, idolized, and misconstrued by the West over three millennia, and how we might differently conceive it Love-unconditional, selfless, unchanging, sincere, and totally accepting-is worshipped today as... -
How To Raise an Antiracist: FROM THE GLOBAL MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR by Ibram X. Kendi
RRP: £10.99£7.77A ground-breaking argument about children, racism and how to build the antiracist society of the future - from the author of the million-copy global bestseller How To Be an Antiracist*A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*'One of the pre-eminent intellectuals on... -
Architecture in the Anthropocene: Encounters Among Design, Deep Time, Science and Philosophy by Etienne Turpin 9781607853077
£12.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781607853077Author Etienne TurpinFormat PaperbackPage Count 262Imprint AnexactPublisher AnexactWeight(grams) 354gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 14mm -
Authority and the Individual by Bertrand Russell
RRP: £12.99£11.94From Ancient Greek philosophy to the French Revolution to the modern welfare state, in Authority and the Individual Bertrand Russell tackles the perennial questions about the balance between authority and human freedom. With characteristic clarity and... -
A Short History of Truth: Consolations for a Post-Truth World Julian Baggini 9781786488893
RRP: £10.99£7.40How did we find ourselves in a "post-truth" world of "alternative facts"? And can we get out of it? A Short History of Truth sets out to answer these questions by looking at the complex history of truth and falsehood. It identifies ten types of supposed... -
Prophetic Culture: Recreation For Adolescents by Federico Campagna 9781350149625
RRP: £21.99£19.28Selected as one of The Tablet's Books of the Year 2021 Throughout history, different civilisations have given rise to many alternative worlds. Each of them was the enactment of a unique story about the structure of reality, the rhythm of time and the... -
Safe: On Black British Men Reclaiming Space by Derek Owusu
RRP: £9.99£6.80'It's brave and honest, and not a moment too soon.' Afua Hirsch, Brit(ish)'[An] outstanding myth-busting book. Everyone should read it.' Bernardine EvaristoWhat is the experience of Black men in Britain today? Never has the conversation about racism and... -
In the Shadow of Justice: Postwar Liberalism and the Remaking of Political Philosophy by Katrina Forrester
RRP: £20.00£16.29A bold new history of postwar political philosophy and of how John Rawls transformed modern liberalismIn the Shadow of Justice tells the story of how liberal political philosophy was transformed in the second half of the twentieth century under the... -
Hot Planet, Cool Media: Socialist Polemics on War, Propaganda and Popular Culture by Stephen Harper 9781912992478
RRP: £14.99£10.95From the Arab Spring and London riots through the era of Brexit and Trump, the Covid-19 pandemic and war in Europe, this volume collects eleven years of lively, informative and entertaining essays and polemics, focusing on media treatment of major global...