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12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos by Jordan B. Peterson 9780735278516
RRP: $22.28$14.63Apologies 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: $46.30$39.11Inequality 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 Minority Body: A Theory of Disability by Elizabeth Barnes 9780198822417
RRP: $23.14$20.36Elizabeth Barnes argues compellingly that disability is primarily a social phenomenon-a way of being a minority, a way of facing social oppression, but not a way of being inherently or intrinsically worse off. This is how disability is understood in the... -
The “Russian Idea” in International Relations: Civilization and National Distinctiveness by Andrei P. Tsygankov 9781032455594
RRP: $63.45$55.80The "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: $29.14$21.06'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... -
Women of Ideas: Interviews from Philosophy Bites by Suki Finn
RRP: $20.57$14.46Thirty 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,... -
The Fire Is upon Us: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr., and the Debate over Race in America by Nicholas Buccola
RRP: $42.88$34.61"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: $51.46$48.06The 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 Ticklish Subject: The Absent Centre of Political Ontology by Slavoj Zizek
$50.65Slavoj Zizek, the maverick philosopher, author of over 30 books, acclaimed as the "Elvis of cultural theory", and today's most controversial public intellectual. His work traverses the fields of philosophy, psychoanalysis, theology, history and political... -
The History of Sexuality: An Introduction by Michel Foucault 9780679724698
$17.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679724698Author Michel FoucaultFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 170gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
The Politics of Virtue: Post-Liberalism and the Human Future by John Milbank 9781783486496
RRP: $73.76$68.68Contemporary politics is dominated by a liberal creed that champions 'negative liberty' and individual happiness. This creed undergirds positions on both the right and the left - free-market capitalism, state bureaucracy and individualism in social life... -
The Art of Wandering: The Writer as Walker by Merlin Coverley
RRP: $22.28$14.89The 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: $51.46$39.83Despite 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... -
Trump and a Post-Truth World by Ken Wilber
RRP: $24.00$15.78Apologies 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)... -
The Origins of Unfairness: Social Categories and Cultural Evolution by Cailin O'Connor 9780198789970
RRP: $58.30$57.36In 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,... -
Introducing Derrida: A Graphic Guide by Jeff Collins
RRP: $15.42$11.49Brilliant 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: $11.99$10.98Apologies 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: $58.23$46.12Liberal 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: $61.67$48.73Automating 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
$25.63Reveals 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: $10.21$10.07Apologies 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... -
Incerto: Fooled by Randomness, the Black Swan, the Bed of Procrustes, Antifragile, Skin in the Game by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
RRP: $166.38$109.76Apologies 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)... -
First Steps to Seeing: A Path Towards Living Attentively by Emma Kidd 9781782501695
RRP: $29.14$21.06In 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... -
Big Questions In History by Harriet Swain
RRP: $17.14$12.20Drawing 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: $49.73$40.21This 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: $17.14$14.10A 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... -
Dark Matters: Pessimism and the Problem of Suffering by Mara van der Lugt
RRP: $54.89$42.32An 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... -
About Behaviorism by B. F. Skinner
$16.30Apologies 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: $46.30$40.00Available 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... -
The Rights of Man by Thomas Paine 9780486408934
RRP: $6.84$4.92Apologies 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)... -
Toward the Critique of Violence: A Critical Edition by Walter Benjamin
RRP: $37.72$33.60Marking 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... -
Revolutionary Ideas: An Intellectual History of the French Revolution from The Rights of Man to Robespierre by Jonathan Israel 9780691169712
RRP: $48.03$38.35Historians 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... -
Hermes I: Communication by Michel Serres 9780816678839
RRP: $44.58$38.58For 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... -
Paper Belt on Fire: The Fight for Progress in an Age of Ashes by Michael Gibson
RRP: $42.87$28.68Written 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
$19.52Apologies 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 *... -
Black X: Liberatory thought in Azania by Tendayi Sithole 9781776148684
$35.06In 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... -
What is this thing called Global Justice? by Kok-Chor Tan
RRP: $61.73$54.36What 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: $60.04$46.67In 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: $59.16$50.89Cecile 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: $34.31$28.87The 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...