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Willing Slaves of Capital: Spinoza and Marx on Desire by Frederic Lordon
RRP: £16.99£14.50Why do people work for other people? This seemingly naive question is more difficult to answer than one might at first imagine, and it lies at the heart of Lordon's Willing Slaves of Capital. To complement Marx's partial answers, especially in the... -
The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is: A History, A Philosophy, A Warning by Justin E. H. Smith 9780691212326
RRP: £22.00£16.99An original deep history of the internet that tells the story of the centuries-old utopian dreams behind it-and explains why they have died todayMany think of the internet as an unprecedented and overwhelmingly positive achievement of modern human... -
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... -
Just Hierarchy: Why Social Hierarchies Matter in China and the Rest of the World by Daniel A. Bell
RRP: £17.99£14.06A trenchant defense of hierarchy in different spheres of our lives, from the personal to the politicalAll complex and large-scale societies are organized along certain hierarchies, but the concept of hierarchy has become almost taboo in the modern world... -
Philosophical Criminology by Andrew Millie 9781447323716
RRP: £24.99£19.39Philosophical criminology asks big questions about how we get on with one another and what happens when we do not. This accessible book in the New Horizons in Criminology series is the first to foreground this growing area. The book is structured around... -
Infinitely Full of Hope by Tom Whyman
RRP: £10.99£7.40A philosophical memoir about becoming a father in an increasingly terrible world. Can I hope the child growing in my partner's womb will have a good-enough life? For Kant, philosophy boiled down to three key questions: "What can I know?", "What... -
Anger and Forgiveness: Resentment, Generosity, Justice by Martha C. Nussbaum
RRP: £14.99£10.95Anger is not just ubiquitous, it is also popular. Many people think it is impossible to care sufficiently for justice without anger at injustice. Many believe that it is impossible for individuals to vindicate their own self-respect or to move beyond an... -
Thoughtfulness and the Rule of Law by Jeremy Waldron 9780674290778
RRP: £37.95£29.94An essential study of the rule of law by one of the world's leading liberal political and legal philosophers.The meaning and value of the rule of law have been debated since antiquity. For many, the rule of law has become the essence of good government... -
In the Beginning Was the Deed: Realism and Moralism in Political Argument by Bernard Williams
RRP: £30.00£22.82Bernard Williams is remembered as one of the most brilliant and original philosophers of the past fifty years. Widely respected as a moral philosopher, Williams began to write about politics in a sustained way in the early 1980s. There followed a stream... -
What is History? And Other Essays: Selected Writings by Luke O'Sullivan 9780907845836
RRP: £30.00£28.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780907845836Author Luke O'SullivanFormat HardbackPage Count 480Imprint Imprint AcademicPublisher Imprint AcademicWeight(grams) 1000gDimensions(mm) 210mm *... -
Rhythmical Subjects: The Measures of the Modern by Laura Marcus 9780192883889
RRP: £30.00£28.00Tracing a developing fascination with rhythm's significance, its patterns, and its measures, across philosophy, psychology, science, and the whole range of arts, Rhythmical Subjects shows how and why attention to rhythm came to serve as connective tissue... -
Comrade: An Essay on Political Belonging by Jodi Dean
RRP: £14.99£9.70In the twentieth-century millions of people across the globe addressed each other as "comrade". Now, it's more common to hear talk of "allies" on the left than it is of comrades. In Comrade, Jodi Dean insists that this shift exemplifies the key problem... -
Towards Speculative Realism: Essays and Lectures by Graham Harman 9781846943942
RRP: £9.99£8.59These writings chart Harman's rise from Chicago sportswriter to co-founder of one of Europe's most promising philosophical movements: Speculative Realism. In 1997, Graham Harman was an obscure graduate student covering Chicago sporting events for a... -
Bold Ventures: Thirteen Tales of Architectural Tragedy by Charlotte Van den Broeck
RRP: £16.99£12.28'Bold Ventures resembles a pop version of Iain Sinclair's psychogeography or Out of Sheer Rage, Geoff Dyer's anti-biography of DH Lawrence' Olivia Laing, GUARDIAN'A marvel: a monument to human beings continuing to reach for the skies, even after their... -
Conversations with Roger Scruton by Mark Dooley
RRP: £16.99£12.28A candid and personal insight into the life and work of the philosopher and writer Roger Scruton, by his intellectual biographer Mark Dooley. This book reveals what life was like for Roger Scruton growing up in High Wycombe, how he survived Cambridge... -
The Paradox of Love by Pascal Bruckner 9780691149141
RRP: £32.00£24.27The sexual revolution is justly celebrated for the freedoms it brought--birth control, the decriminalization of abortion, the liberalization of divorce, greater equality between the sexes, women's massive entry into the workforce, and more tolerance of... -
Critique of Forms of Life by Rahel Jaeggi
RRP: £41.95£32.98For many liberals, the question "Do others live rightly?" feels inappropriate. Liberalism seems to demand a follow-up question: "Who am I to judge?" Peaceful coexistence, in this view, is predicated on restraint from morally evaluating our peers. But... -
Stop Being Reasonable: six stories of how we really change our minds by Eleanor Gordon-Smith 9781912854141
RRP: £14.99£9.80What if you aren't who you think you are? What if you don't really know the people closest to you? And what if your most deeply-held beliefs turn out to be ... wrong? In Stop Being Reasonable, philosopher and journalist Eleanor Gordon-Smith... -
Why Human Nature Matters: Between Biology and Politics by Dr Matteo Mameli 9781350189751
£23.63Does human nature constrain social and political change, or do social and political changes transform human nature? Why Human Nature Matters argues that the answer to both questions is 'yes'. This philosophical account offers new tools for connecting... -
Transhumanism: A Grimoire of Alchemical Agendas by Joseph P. Farrell 9781936239443
RRP: £18.99£12.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781936239443Author Joseph P. FarrellFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Feral House,U.S.Publisher Feral House,U.S.Weight(grams) 433g -
Plural Maghreb: Writings on Postcolonialism by Abdelkebir Khatibi
RRP: £31.99£28.38Abdelkebir Khatibi (1938-2009) was among the most renowned North African literary critics and authors of the past century whose unique treatments of subjects as vast as orientalism, otherness, coloniality, aesthetics, linguistics, sexuality, and the... -
World Risk Society by Ulrich Beck 9780745622217
RRP: £17.99£16.04This major new book draws together key essays by one of Europe's leading social and political theorists.About the AuthorUlrich Beck is Professor of Sociology at the Ludwig-Maximilian University in Munich.Reviews"Full of ideas and insights and thus... -
The Ecological Thought by Timothy Morton
RRP: £21.95£17.25In this passionate, lucid, and surprising book, Timothy Morton argues that all forms of life are connected in a vast, entangling mesh. This interconnectedness penetrates all dimensions of life. No being, construct, or object can exist independently from... -
Critical Realism: an Introduction to Roy Bhaskar's Philosophy by Andrew Collier 9780860916024
RRP: £19.99£16.90The work of Roy Bhaskar has had far-reaching effects in the philosophy of science and for political and moral theories of human emancipation. It shows how to overcome the atomistic and narrowly human-centered approaches which have dominated European... -
The Age of Questions: Or, A First Attempt at an Aggregate History of the Eastern, Social, Woman, American, Jewish, Polish, Bullion, Tuberculosis, and Many Other Questions over the Nineteenth Century, and Beyond by Holly Case
RRP: £28.00£21.36A groundbreaking history of the Big Questions that dominated the nineteenth centuryIn the early nineteenth century, a new age began: the age of questions. In the Eastern and Belgian questions, as much as in the slavery, worker, social, woman, and Jewish... -
Responsibility for Justice by Iris Marion Young
RRP: £23.99£16.66When the noted political philosopher Iris Marion Young died in 2006, her death was mourned as the passing of "one of the most important political philosophers of the past quarter-century" (Cass Sunstein) and as an important and innovative thinker working... -
Assemblage Theory and Method by Ian Buchanan
RRP: £23.99£20.66What 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... -
Anger and Forgiveness: Resentment, Generosity, and Justice by Martha C. Nussbaum
RRP: £19.99£14.68We live in a culture of apology and forgiveness. But while there are a few thinkers who are critical of forgiveness as being too supine, and extol the virtues of retribution and 'getting even,' philosopher and intellectual Martha C. Nussbaum criticizes... -
A Lot of People Are Saying: The New Conspiracism and the Assault on Democracy by Nancy L. Rosenblum
RRP: £12.99£9.24How 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... -
George Orwell: The Ethics of Equality by Peter Brian Barry 9780197627402
RRP: £19.99£17.13George Orwell is sometimes read as disinterested in (if not outright hostile) to philosophy. Yet a fair reading of Orwell's work reveals an author whose work was deeply informed by philosophy and who often revealed his philosophical sympathies. Orwell's... -
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... -
Humans and Robots: Ethics, Agency, and Anthropomorphism by Sven Nyholm
£31.88Can robots perform actions, make decisions, collaborate with humans, be our friends, perhaps fall in love, or potentially harm us? Even before these things truly happen, ethical and philosophical questions already arise. The reason is that we humans have... -
The Private Life: Why We Remain in the Dark by Josh Cohen 9781847085306
RRP: £9.99£6.70The war over private life spreads inexorably. Some seek to expose, invade and steal it, others to protect, conceal and withhold it. Either way, the assumption is that privacy is a possession to be won or lost. But what if what we call private life is the... -
A Difference of Opinion: The Autobiography of Jim Sillars by Jim Sillars
£15.01Jim Sillars, among the last of his generation's working-class politicians, has had a prominent role in Scottish public life for more than six decades, during which he moved from being a Unionist Labour MP to becoming deputy leader of the SNP and now a... -
Perfect Me: Beauty as an Ethical Ideal by Heather Widdows 9780691197142
RRP: £25.00£19.58How looking beautiful has become a moral imperative in today's worldThe demand to be beautiful is increasingly important in today's visual and virtual culture. Rightly or wrongly, being perfect has become an ethical ideal to live by, and according to... -
Spinoza, the Transindividual by Etienne Balibar
RRP: £21.99£17.97Etienne 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... -
How to Die: An Ancient Guide to the End of Life by Seneca 9780691175577
RRP: £14.99£11.87Timeless wisdom on death and dying from the celebrated Stoic philosopher Seneca"It takes an entire lifetime to learn how to die," wrote the Roman Stoic philosopher Seneca (c. 4 BC-65 AD). He counseled readers to "study death always," and took his own... -
Introducing Baudrillard: A Graphic Guide by Chris Horrocks
RRP: £8.99£6.70Illustrated guide to the controversial sociologist Jean Baudrillard, who died in 2007. Did the Gulf War take place? Is it possible to fake a bank robbery? Was sexual liberation a disaster? Jean Baudrillard has been hailed as one of France's most subtle... -
Impossible Exchange by Jean Baudrillard
£17.25Working his way through the various spheres and systems of everyday life-the political, the juridical, the economical, the aesthetic, the biological, among others-he finds that they are all characterized by the same non-equivalence, and hence the same... -
The Changing Character of War by Sir Hew Strachan
RRP: £47.99£36.59Over the last decade (and indeed ever since the Cold War), the rise of insurgents and non-state actors in war, and their readiness to use terror and other irregular methods of fighting, have led commentators to speak of 'new wars'. They have assumed that...