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The Many Futures of a Decision by Jay Lampert
£30.64Combining two a central topics in philosophy in the 20th Century, this book considers the ethics and impact of decision-making alongside the philosophy of time. When we make simple decisions, like the decision to wake up at 8 a.m. tomorrow, we make... -
Think Like a Commoner: A Short Introduction to the Life of the Commons by David Bollier
RRP: £14.99£9.88The biggest "tragedy of the commons" is the misconception that commons are failures-relics from another era rendered unnecessary by the market and state. Think Like a Commoner dispels such prejudices by explaining the rich history and promising future of... -
Realism in Political Theory by Rahul Sagar 9780367530587
RRP: £39.99£35.46Over the past decade, an intellectual movement known as "realism" has challenged the reigning orthodoxy in political theory and political philosophy. Realists take issue with what they see as the excessive moralism and utopianism associated with... -
The Agony of Power: Volume 6 by Jean Baudrillard 9781584350927
RRP: £12.99£8.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781584350927Author Jean BaudrillardFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Semiotext (E)Publisher AutonomediaWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm) 178mm * 114mm *... -
The Grain Of The Voice by Roland Barthes
RRP: £15.99£11.61In these interviews, given between 1962 and 1980, Barthes speaks about the development of his thought, explaining why and how he wrote his many books, paying tributes to philosophers, linguists, novelists, poets, painters and film-makers who have... -
Nationalism by Rabindranath Tagore 9780141192970
RRP: £6.99£5.13Tagore was a fierce opponent of British rule in India. In this work he discusses the resurgence of the East and the challenge it poses to Western supremacy, calling for a future beyond nationalism, based instead on cooperation and racial tolerance.GREAT... -
The Irony of American History by Reinhold Niebuhr
RRP: £20.00£19.40Forged during the tumultuous but triumphant postwar years when America came of age as a world power, "The Irony of American History" is more relevant now than ever before. Cited by politicians as diverse as Hillary Clinton and John McCain, Niebuhr's... -
Mandeville’s Fable: Pride, Hypocrisy, and Sociability by Dr Robin Douglass
RRP: £30.00£22.82Why 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... -
Roots of Hate: Anti-Semitism in Europe before the Holocaust by William I. Brustein 9780521774789
RRP: £30.99£25.28How did the levels of anti-Semitism in the 1930s compare to those of earlier decades? Did anti-Semitism vary in content and intensity across societies? In other words, were Germans more anti-Semitic than their European neighbors, and, if so, why? How... -
Care and Cure: An Introduction to Philosophy of Medicine by Jacob Stegenga
RRP: £24.00£20.12The philosophy of medicine has become a vibrant and complex intellectual landscape, and Care and Cure is the first extended attempt to map it. In pursuing the interdependent aims of caring and curing, medicine relies on concepts, theories, inferences,... -
Future Morality by David Edmonds 9780198862086
RRP: £11.99£8.43The world is changing so fast that it's hard to know how to think about what we ought to do. We barely have time to reflect on how scientific advances will affect our lives before they're upon us. New kinds of dilemma are springing up. Can robots be held... -
New Human Rights Movement: Reinventing the Economy to End Oppression by Peter Joseph 9781946885142
RRP: £12.99£12.44Society is broken. We can design our way to a better one.In our interconnected world, self-interest and social-interest are rapidly becoming indistinguishable. If current negative trajectories remain, including growing climate destabilization,... -
Postmodern Geographies: The Reassertion of Space in Critical Social Theory by Edward W. Soja 9781844676699
RRP: £11.99£7.86Postmodern Geographies stands as the cardinal broadcast and defence of theory's "spatial turn." From the suppression of space in modern social science and the disciplinary aloofness of geography to the spatial returns of Foucault and Lefebvre and the... -
Second Treatise of Government by John Locke 9781453754276
RRP: £9.99£8.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781453754276Author John LockeFormat PaperbackPage Count 98Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing... -
Meaning in History: Theological Implications of the Philosophy of History by Karl Lowith
RRP: £27.00£26.47Modern man sees with one eye of faith and one eye of reason. Consequently, his view of history is confused. For centuries, the history of the Western world has been viewed from the Christian or classical standpoint-from a deep faith in the Kingdom of God... -
The Angela Y. Davis Reader by Joy James
RRP: £23.95£20.97For three decades, Angela Y. Davis has written on liberation theory and democratic praxis. Challenging the foundations of mainstream discourse, her analyses of culture, gender, capital, and race have profoundly influenced democratic theory, antiracist... -
Working as Equals: Relational Egalitarianism and the Workplace by Julian David Jonker 9780197634301
RRP: £22.99£20.80Are hierarchical arrangements in the workplace, including the employer-employee relationship, consistent with the ideal of relating to one another as moral equals? With this question at its core, this volume of essays by leading moral and political... -
What Fanon Said: A Philosophical Introduction to His Life and Thought by Lewis R. Gordon
RRP: £18.99£16.62Antiblack racism avows reason is white while emotion, and thus supposedly unreason, is black. Challenging academic adherence to this notion, Lewis R. Gordon offers a portrait of Martinican-turned-Algerian revolutionary psychiatrist and philosopher Frantz... -
Time of Transitions by Jurgen Habermas 9780745630113
RRP: £15.99£14.41We live in a time of turbulent change when many of the frameworks that have characterized our societies over the last few centuries - such as the international order of sovereign nation-states - are being called into question. In this new volume of... -
Women of Ideas: Interviews from Philosophy Bites by Suki Finn
RRP: £10.99£7.77Thirty 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,... -
Between Facts and Norms: Contributions to a Discourse Theory of Law and Democracy by Jurgen Habermas
RRP: £19.99£18.09This is Habermas's long awaited work on law, democracy and the modern constitutional state in which he develops his own account of the nature of law and democracy.About the AuthorJurgen Habermas is a German philosopher and sociologist in the tradition of... -
12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos by Jordan B. Peterson 9780735278516
RRP: £12.99£8.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780735278516Author Jordan B. PetersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Random House CanadaPublisher Random House CanadaWeight(grams) 357gDimensions(mm)... -
Why Does Inequality Matter? by T. M. Scanlon 9780198812692
RRP: £25.49£21.58Inequality is widely regarded as morally objectionable: T. M. Scanlon investigates why it matters to us. Demands for greater equality can seem puzzling, because it can be unclear what reason people have for objecting to the difference between what they... -
The “Russian Idea” in International Relations: Civilization and National Distinctiveness by Andrei P. Tsygankov 9781032455594
RRP: £36.99£32.53The "Russian Idea" in International Relations identifies different approaches within Russian Civilizational tradition - Russia's nationally distinctive way of thinking - by situating them within IR literature and connecting them to practices of the... -
For the Good of the World: Is a Universal Ethics Possible? by A. C. Grayling
RRP: £16.99£12.28'A must read' Gordon Brown 'A truly excellent book' Sir David King The three biggest challenges facing the world today, in A. C. Grayling's view, are climate change, technology and justice. In his timely new book, he asks: can human beings agree... -
The Fire Is upon Us: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr., and the Debate over Race in America by Nicholas Buccola
RRP: £25.00£20.18"A great read."-Whoopi Goldberg, The ViewHow the clash between the civil rights firebrand and the father of modern conservatism continues to illuminate America's racial divideOn February 18, 1965, an overflowing crowd packed the Cambridge Union in... -
Boycott Theory and the Struggle for Palestine: Universities, Intellectualism and Liberation by Nick Riemer
RRP: £30.00£27.49The academic boycott of Israel, a branch of the pro-Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign, is one of the richest - and most divisive - topics in the politics of knowledge today. In Boycott Theory and the Struggle for Palestine,... -
The Art of Wandering: The Writer as Walker by Merlin Coverley
RRP: £12.99£8.68The Art of Wandering is a history of that curious hybrid, the writer as walker. From the Ancient world to the modern day, the role of the walker continues to evolve, from philosopher and pilgrim, vagrant and visionary, to experimentalist and radical... -
Capitalism and Desire: The Psychic Cost of Free Markets by Todd McGowan
RRP: £30.00£23.22Despite creating vast inequalities and propping up reactionary world regimes, capitalism has many passionate defenders-but not because of what it withholds from some and gives to others. Capitalism dominates, Todd McGowan argues, because it mimics the... -
Isaiah Berlin: An Interpretation of His Thought by John Gray
RRP: £25.00£18.60Isaiah Berlin (1909-1997) was the greatest intellectual historian of the twentieth century. But his work also made an original and important contribution to moral and political philosophy and to liberal theory. In 1921, at the age of eleven, Isaiah... -
The Origins of Unfairness: Social Categories and Cultural Evolution by Cailin O'Connor 9780198789970
£32.28In almost every human society some people get more and others get less. Why is inequity the rule in these societies? In The Origins of Unfairness, philosopher Cailin O'Connor firstly considers how groups are divided into social categories, like gender,... -
Incerto: Fooled by Randomness, the Black Swan, the Bed of Procrustes, Antifragile, Skin in the Game by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
RRP: £97.00£63.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593243657Author Nassim Nicholas TalebFormat PaperbackPage Count 1872Imprint Random House Trade PaperbacksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)... -
Trump and a Post-Truth World by Ken Wilber
RRP: £13.99£9.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611805611Author Ken WilberFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)... -
Introducing Derrida: A Graphic Guide by Jeff Collins
RRP: £8.99£6.70Brilliant illustrated guide to the best-known and most controversial continental philosopher of the latter 20th century. Jacques Derrida is the most famous philosopher of the late 20th century. Yet Derrida has undermined the rules of philosophy, rejected... -
The Origin of the Family Private Property and the State by Ernest Untermann 9781500133894
RRP: £6.99£6.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781500133894Author Ernest UntermannFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent... -
Liberalism's Religion by Cecile Laborde
RRP: £33.95£26.89Liberal societies conventionally treat religion as unique under the law, requiring both special protection (as in guarantees of free worship) and special containment (to keep religion and the state separate). But recently this idea that religion requires... -
Automation and Utopia: Human Flourishing in a World without Work by John Danaher
RRP: £35.95£28.41Automating technologies threaten to usher in a workless future. But this can be a good thing-if we play our cards right.Human obsolescence is imminent. The factories of the future will be dark, staffed by armies of tireless robots. The hospitals of the... -
War and Cinema: The Logistics of Perception by Paul Virilio
£14.67Reveals the convergence of perception and destruction in the parallel technologies of warfare and cinema.A rich and suggestive analysis of military "ways of seeing"About the AuthorPaul Virilio trained as an artist in stained glass, working with Braque... -
Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes 9781463649937
RRP: £5.95£5.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781463649937Author Thomas HobbesFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent... -
First Steps to Seeing: A Path Towards Living Attentively by Emma Kidd 9781782501695
RRP: £16.99£12.28In the twenty-first century we are confronted with a rapidly changing world full of social, economic and environmental uncertainties. We are all inherently connected to this changing world and in order to create the best possible conditions for life to...