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Big Questions In History by Harriet Swain
RRP: £9.99£7.11Drawing on examples ranging from ancient Greece to Tony Blair's Britain, leading historical thinkers address 20 of the really big questions that have been asked over the centuries about the course of human events.Each essay is put into context by a more... -
Philosophy of Social Science: A New Introduction by Nancy Cartwright
RRP: £26.99£23.44This is a much-needed new introduction to a field that has been transformed in recent years by exciting new subjects, ideas, and methods. It is designed both for students with central interests in philosophy and those planning to concentrate on the... -
Good Beyond Evil: Xunzi on human nature (313-238 BC) by Xunzi 9781739115623
RRP: £9.99£7.99A radical thinker, Xunzi disagreed with Mencius on human nature. For him men are naturally evil. From this inverse assumption, he yet reached the same Mencian conclusion: moral education is paramount for society to function, and the ruler should be... -
About Behaviorism by B. F. Skinner
£9.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780394716183Author B.F. SkinnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm)... -
Hegel and the Freedom of Moderns by Domenico Losurdo 9780822332916
RRP: £26.99£22.85Available in English for the first time, Hegel and the Freedom of Moderns revives discussion of the major political and philosophical tenets underlying contemporary liberalism through a revolutionary interpretation of G. W. F. Hegel's thought. Domenico... -
Dark Matters: Pessimism and the Problem of Suffering by Mara van der Lugt
RRP: £30.00£24.67An intellectual history of the philosophers who grappled with the problem of evil, and the case for why pessimism still holds moral value for us todayIn the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, philosophers engaged in heated debates on the question of... -
Toward the Critique of Violence: A Critical Edition by Walter Benjamin
RRP: £21.99£19.19Marking the centenary of Walter Benjamin's immensely influential essay, "Toward the Critique of Violence," this critical edition presents readers with an altogether new, fully annotated translation of a work that is widely recognized as a classic of... -
Hermes I: Communication by Michel Serres 9780816678839
RRP: £25.99£22.04For the first time in English, the introductory volume in a major French philosopher's groundbreaking series of poetic transdisciplinary works Michel Serres is recognized as one of the giants of postwar French philosophy of knowledge, along with... -
The Rights of Man by Thomas Paine 9780486408934
RRP: £3.99£2.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486408934Author Thomas PaineFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Revolutionary Ideas: An Intellectual History of the French Revolution from The Rights of Man to Robespierre by Jonathan Israel 9780691169712
RRP: £28.00£22.36Historians of the French Revolution used to take for granted what was also obvious to its contemporary observers--that the Revolution was shaped by the radical ideas of the Enlightenment. Yet in recent decades, scholars have argued that the Revolution... -
Black X: Liberatory thought in Azania by Tendayi Sithole 9781776148684
£20.39In Black X: Liberatory Thought in Azania, Tendayi Sithole elaborates on the problematic signifier X, a marker of the dehumanization of the black subject, and makes an argument for the struggle for Azania as a liberatory project. Azania refers to the land... -
Paper Belt on Fire: The Fight for Progress in an Age of Ashes by Michael Gibson
RRP: £24.99£16.72Written by a successful venture capitalist (and university dropout), this book is part memoir, part guide for the next generation of innovators who seek an alternative to the traditional path in higher education."Part adventure tale, part manifesto,... -
The Te of Piglet by Benjamin Hoff 9780140230161
£10.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780140230161Author Benjamin HoffFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Penguin Putnam IncPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 193gDimensions(mm) 183mm *... -
How to Stop a Conspiracy: An Ancient Guide to Saving a Republic by Sallust 9780691212364
RRP: £13.99£10.99An energetic new translation of an ancient Roman masterpiece about a failed coup led by a corrupt and charismatic politicianIn 63 BC, frustrated by his failure to be elected leader of the Roman Republic, the aristocrat Catiline tried to topple its... -
Comments on the Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord
RRP: £10.99£9.20First published in 1967, Guy Debord's stinging revolutionary critique ofcontemporary society, The Society of the Spectacle has since acquired acult status. Credited by many as being the inspiration for the ideasgenerated by the events of May 1968 in... -
What is this thing called Global Justice? by Kok-Chor Tan
RRP: £35.99£31.69What is this thing called Global Justice? is a clear and engaging introduction to this widely studied and important topic. It explores the fundamental concepts, issues and arguments at the heart of global justice, including: world povertyeconomic... -
Enlightenment against Empire by Sankar Muthu
RRP: £35.00£27.21In the late eighteenth century, an array of European political thinkers attacked the very foundations of imperialism, arguing passionately that empire-building was not only unworkable, costly, and dangerous, but manifestly unjust. Enlightenment against... -
Spying Through a Glass Darkly: The Ethics of Espionage and Counter-Intelligence by Cecile Fabre 9780198833765
RRP: £32.49£28.01Cecile Fabre draws back the curtain on the ethics of espionage and counterintelligence. Espionage and counter-intelligence activities, both real and imagined, weave a complex and alluring story. Yet there is hardly any serious philosophical work on... -
Lacan by Professor Fredric Jameson
RRP: £20.00£13.74The Benjamin Files offers a comprehensive new reading of all of Benjamin's major works and a great number of his shorter book reviews, notes and letters. Its premise is that Benjamin was an anti-philosophical, anti-systematic thinker whose conceptual... -
The Scaffolding of Sovereignty: Global and Aesthetic Perspectives on the History of a Concept by Zvi Ben-Dor Benite 9780231029292
RRP: £30.00£22.82What is sovereignty? Often taken for granted or seen as the ideology of European states vying for supremacy and conquest, the concept of sovereignty remains underexamined both in the history of its practices and in its aesthetic and intellectual... -
Why Does Inequality Matter? by T. M. Scanlon 9780198854883
£17.13Inequality 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 Division of Labor in Society by Emile Durkheim 9781420948561
RRP: £13.99£13.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781420948561Author Emile DurkheimFormat PaperbackPage Count 262Imprint Digireads.comPublisher Digireads.comWeight(grams) 390gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *... -
Henry at Work: Thoreau on Making a Living by John Kaag
RRP: £22.00£16.99What Thoreau can teach us about working-why we do it, what it does to us, and how we can make it more meaningfulHenry at Work invites readers to rethink how we work today by exploring an aspect of Henry David Thoreau that has often been overlooked:... -
Just Health: Meeting Health Needs Fairly by Norman Daniels
RRP: £34.99£28.38In this book by the award-winning author of Just Healthcare, Norman Daniels develops a comprehensive theory of justice for health that answers three key questions: what is the special moral importance of health? When are health inequalities unjust? How... -
Hegel in A Wired Brain by Slavoj Zizek 9781350264045
RRP: £13.99£10.77Slavoj Zizek gives us a reading of a philosophical giant that changes our way of thinking about the new posthuman era. No ordinary study of Hegel, this work investigates what he might have had to say about the idea of the 'wired brain' - what happens... -
You Must Change Your Life by Peter Sloterdijk
RRP: £17.99£16.44In his major investigation into the nature of humans, Peter Sloterdijk presents a critique of myth - the myth of the return of religion. For it is not religion that is returning; rather, there is something else quite profound that is taking on... -
Is Democracy Failing?: A primer for the 21st century by Niheer Dasandi
RRP: £12.95£8.58The Big Idea shortlisted for series design in the British Design and Production AwardsOnly four countries around the world do not currently define themselves as democracies. But many more do not fulfil the four basic requirements of democracy: free and... -
Lectures in the History of Political Thought by Luke O'Sullivan
RRP: £19.95£19.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845400934Author Luke O'SullivanFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Imprint AcademicPublisher Imprint AcademicWeight(grams) 600gDimensions(mm) 210mm *... -
Exploitation as Domination: What Makes Capitalism Unjust by Nicholas Vrousalis 9780192867698
RRP: £64.00£57.67Exploitation is a globally pervasive phenomenon. Slavery, serfdom, and the patriarchy are part of its lineage. Temporary and sex workers, commercial surrogacy, precarious labour contracts, sweatshops, and markets in blood, vaccines or human organs, are... -
Life Worth Living: A guide to what matters most by Miroslav Volf 9781846047213
RRP: £14.99£11.58What kind of life would be truly worth wanting? What kind of world would be truly worth seeking? How should we live?We are facing a crisis of meaning. Swept up in the obstacles of the day-to-day, the deeper questions of our fundamental purpose linger... -
Hope Lies in the Proles: George Orwell and the Left by John Newsinger
RRP: £18.99£12.75George Orwell was one of the most significant literary figures on the left in the twentieth century. While titles such as 1984, Animal Farm and Homage to Catalonia are still rightly regarded as modern classics, his own politics are less well understood. ... -
What Love Is: And What It Could Be by Carrie Jenkins
£30.10What is love? Aside from being the title of many a popular love song, this is one of life's perennial questions. In What Love Is , philosopher Carrie Jenkins offers a bold new theory on the nature of romantic love that reconciles its humanistic and... -
The Trouble with Being Born by E M Cioran
RRP: £14.95£9.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611457407Author E M CioranFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Arcade PublishingPublisher Skyhorse PublishingWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 208mm *... -
The Utopia Experiment by Dylan Evans
RRP: £10.99£8.94As read on BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week.Imagine you have survived an apocalypse. Civilization as you knew it is no more. What will life be like and how will you cope?In 2006, Dylan Evans set out to answer these questions. He left his job in a high-tech... -
Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand by Leonard Peikoff 9780452011014
RRP: £22.00£14.89THE 25TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION-The definitive statement of Ayn Rand's philosophy as interpreted by her best student and chosen heir. This brilliantly conceived and organized book is Dr. Leonard Peikoff's classic text on the abstract principles and... -
We Are Not Born Submissive: How Patriarchy Shapes Women's Lives by Manon Garcia 9780691223209
RRP: £18.99£14.79A philosophical exploration of female submission, using insights from feminist thinkers-especially Simone de Beauvoir-to reveal the complexities of women's reality and lived experienceWhat role do women play in the perpetuation of patriarchy? On the one... -
Envisioning Democracy: New Essays after Sheldon Wolin's Political Thought by Terry Maley 9781487565602
£62.85Few terms elicit such strong and varied feelings and yet have so little clarity as "democracy." Leaders of large states use "democracy" to designate their nations' public character even as critics and rivals use the term to validate their own political... -
Memory in Culture by Astrid Erll
RRP: £24.99£22.37This book questions the sociocultural dimensions of remembering. It offers an overview of the history and theory of memory studies through the lens of sociology, political science, anthropology, psychology, literature, art and media studies; documenting... -
The Persistence of Critical Theory by Gabriel R. Ricci
RRP: £49.99£43.50The latest volume of Culture and Civilization gathers contemporary exponents of critical theory, specifically those based in the Frankfurt School of social thinking. Collectively, this volume demonstrates the continuing intellectual viability of critical... -
Getting Back into Place, Second Edition: Toward a Renewed Understanding of the Place-World by Edward S. Casey
RRP: £29.99£26.39What would the world be like if there were no places? Our lives are so place-oriented that we cannot begin to comprehend the loss of locality. Indeed, the space we occupy has much to do with what and who we are. Yet, despite the pervasiveness of place in...