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Politics and Vision: Continuity and Innovation in Western Political Thought - Expanded Edition by Sheldon S. Wolin 9780691174051
RRP: $46.20$37.30Politics and Vision is a landmark work by one of the great thinkers of the twentieth century. This is a significantly expanded edition of one of the greatest works of modern political theory. Sheldon Wolin's Politics and Vision inspired and instructed... -
Utopia by Thomas More
RRP: $16.78$12.94Utopia (1516) is a work of political satire by Thomas More. Published in Latin while More was serving as Privy Counsellor under King Henry VIII, the text is stylized as a true account of a new civilization discovered in the New World by traveler Raphael... -
Engagements with Aimé Césaire: Thinking with Spirits by Jason Allen-Paisant 9780192867223
RRP: $147.00$133.85Aime Cesaire is due a major critical reinterpretation and that is exactly what this book carries out. Through an in-depth grasp of the trajectory and core significance of Cesaire's work, Jason Allen-Paisant highlights a set of links it makes between... -
The Philosopher and His Poor by Jacques Ranciere
RRP: $50.38$43.76What has philosophy to do with the poor? If, as has often been supposed, the poor have no time for philosophy, then why have philosophers always made time for them? Why is the history of philosophy-from Plato to Karl Marx to Jean-Paul Sartre to Pierre... -
Reason and Rationality by Jon Elster
RRP: $46.20$36.46One of the world's most important political philosophers, Jon Elster is a leading thinker on reason and rationality and their roles in politics and public life. In this short book, he crystallizes and advances his work, bridging the gap between... -
The Use of Bodies by Giorgio Agamben
RRP: $50.38$43.76Giorgio Agamben's Homo Sacer was one of the seminal works of political philosophy in recent decades. It was also the beginning of a series of interconnected investigations of staggering ambition and scope, investigating the deepest foundations of Western... -
The Grounds of Political Legitimacy by Prof Fabienne Peter 9780198872382
RRP: $126.00$113.67Political decisions have the potential to greatly impact our lives. Think of decisions in relation to abortion or climate change, for example. This makes political legitimacy an important normative concern. But what makes political decisions legitimate?... -
Norms in the Wild: How to Diagnose, Measure, and Change Social Norms by Cristina Bicchieri 9780190622053
RRP: $79.78$59.85In Norms in the Wild, distinguished philosopher Cristina Bicchieri argues that when it comes to human behavior, social scientists place too much stress on rational deliberation. In fact, she says, many choices occur without much deliberation at all. Two... -
Boredom: A Lively History by Peter Toohey
RRP: $25.18$21.32A rich and stimulating exploration of one of our most maligned emotions and how it might actually help us flourish In the first book to argue for the benefits of boredom, Peter Toohey dispels the myth that it's simply a childish emotion or an existential... -
Rethink: The Surprising History of New Ideas by Steven Poole 9781847947581
RRP: $35.68$25.79'Clever and entertaining.' Sunday Times'Elegantly written and full of surprises.' Daily Telegraph'Always entertaining and often eye-opening.' Financial TimesOld ideas that were mocked or ignored for centuries are now storming back to the cutting edge of... -
Resisting Reality: Social Construction and Social Critique by Sally Haslanger 9780199892624
$109.64Contemporary theorists use the term "social construction" with the aim of exposing how what's purportedly "natural" is often at least partly social and, more specifically, how this masking of the social is politically significant. In these previously... -
William Godwin: A Political Life by Richard Gough Thomas 9780745338354
RRP: $35.68$24.23'Government by its very nature counteracts the improvement of original mind' - William Godwin William Godwin was the first major anarchist thinker in the Anglophone world, who rocked the establishment at the beginning of the nineteenth century... -
Hegel in A Wired Brain by Slavoj Zizek
RRP: $73.50$55.06Slavoj Zizek gives us a reading of a philosophical giant that changes our way of thinking about our new posthuman era. No ordinary study of Hegel, Hegel in a Wired Brain investigates what he might have had to say about the idea of the 'wired brain' -... -
On Fear by J. Krishnamurti 9780062510143
$24.28This is a collection of the counsellor and teacher, J. Krishnamurti's most profound observations and thoughts on how fear and dependence affect our lives and prevent us from seeing our true selves. Among the many questions Krishnamurti addresses in these... -
Making Sense of Marx by Jon Elster
RRP: $65.08$54.66A systematic, critical examination of Karl Marx's social theories and their philosophical presuppositions. Through extensive discussions of the texts Jon Elster offers a balanced and detailed account of Marx's views that is at once sympathetic,... -
Totalitarianism: The Basics by Phillip W. Gray 9781032183732
RRP: $39.88$35.43Totalitarianism: The Basics is an easy-to-read introduction into the main concepts, ideologies, and regimes associated with totalitarianism.Starting with an overview of how scholars have attempted to define totalitarianism, Phillip W. Gray begins with an... -
On Mercy by Malcolm Bull 9780691217451
RRP: $35.68$28.67Is mercy more important than justice?Since antiquity, mercy has been regarded as a virtue. Yet by the end of the eighteenth century, mercy had been exiled from political life. In this book, Malcolm Bull analyses and challenges the Enlightenment's... -
Poor but Sexy: Culture Clashes in Europe East and West by Agata Pyzik 9781780993942
RRP: $33.58$29.0224 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Europe is as divided as ever. The passengers of the low-budget airlines go east for stag parties, and they go West for work; but the East stays East, and West stays West. Caricatures abound - the Polish plumber... -
On Resistance: A Philosophy of Defiance by Howard Caygill 9781472523099
$42.08No word is more central to the contemporary political imagination and action than 'resistance'. In its various manifestations - from the armed guerrilla to Gandhian mass pacifist protest, from Wikileaks and the Arab Spring to the global eruption and... -
Integralism: A Manual of Political Philosophy by Thomas Crean
$60.25Integralism is the application to the temporal, political order of the full implications of the revelation of man's supernatural end in Christ and of the divinely established means by which it is to be attained. These implications are identified by means... -
Happiness in Action: A Philosopher's Guide to the Good Life by Adam Adatto Sandel
RRP: $52.40$42.61"Here, at last, is a book about what happiness really means, and why it often eludes us in our stressed-out, always-on lives."-Arianna Huffington, Founder and CEO, ThriveA young philosopher and Guinness World Record holder in pull-ups argues that the key... -
Modern Social Theory: An Introduction by Austin Harrington
RRP: $119.68$112.58This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the core topics, theories and debates in modern social theory. Fourteen chapters have been written by leading specialists in the field, providing up-to-date guidance on the full sweep of the modern... -
Public Sphere and Experience: Toward an Analysis of the Bourgeois and Proletarian Public Sphere by Alexander Kluge 9781784782412
RRP: $48.28$38.54The "public sphere" is a key concept in political discourse, designating a space for political action. But is this a single authoritative and universal space in which various positions compete for recognition, or does it consist of multiple local spaces... -
Standardizing the World: EU Trade Policy and the Road to Convergence by Francesco Duina 9780197681886
RRP: $134.40$121.11The EU has pursued many trade pacts across the world. This is part of its foreign policy: as the third largest economy in the world and lacking hard power, the EU relies on trade agreements to project its interests. These are often complex and... -
Hegel: Lectures on the Philosophy of World History, Volume I: Manuscripts of the Introduction and the Lectures of 1822-1823 by Robert F Brown 9780198776642
$84.11This edition makes available an entirely new version of Hegel's lectures on the development and scope of world history. Volume I presents Hegel's surviving manuscripts of his introduction to the lectures and the full transcription of the first series of... -
Karl Marx: Thoroughly Revised Fifth Edition by Isaiah Berlin
RRP: $46.20$37.51Isaiah Berlin's intellectual biography of Karl Marx has long been recognized as one of the best concise accounts of the life and thought of the man who had, in Berlin's words, a more "direct, deliberate, and powerful" influence on mankind than any other... -
Converts to the Real: Catholicism and the Making of Continental Philosophy by Edward Baring
RRP: $100.70$79.67In the most wide-ranging history of phenomenology since Herbert Spiegelberg's The Phenomenological Movement over fifty years ago, Baring uncovers a new and unexpected force-Catholic intellectuals-behind the growth of phenomenology in the early twentieth... -
Capitalism, Socialism, Ecology by Andre Gorz 9781781680261
$30.18In this major new book, Andre Gorz expands on the political implications of his prescient and influential Paths to Paradise and Critique of Economic Reason. Against the background of technological developments which have transformed the nature of work... -
Continuity and Rupture: Philosophy in the Maoist Terrain by J Moufawad-Paul 9781785354762
RRP: $37.78$32.32A philosophical examination of the theoretical terrain of contemporary Maoism premised on the counter-intuitive assumption that Maoism did not emerge as a coherent theory until the end of the 1980s.About the AuthorJ. Moufawad-Paul lives in Toronto and... -
The Undiscovered Dewey: Religion, Morality, and the Ethos of Democracy by Professor Melvin L. Rogers 9780231144872
RRP: $58.80$45.78The Undiscovered Dewey explores the profound influence of evolution and its corresponding ideas of contingency and uncertainty on John Dewey's philosophy of action, particularly its argument that inquiry proceeds from the uncertainty of human activity... -
The Production of Subjectivity: Marx and Philosophy by Jason Read
RRP: $73.48$48.34Louis Althusser argued that Marx initiated a transformation of philosophy, a new way of doing philosophy. This book follows that provocation to examine the way in which central Marxist concepts and problems from primitive accumulation to real abstraction... -
The Who and Philosophy by Rocco J. Gennaro 9781498514477
RRP: $199.50$174.55The Who were one of the most memorable and influential of the 1960s British Invasion bands-memorable because of their loudness and because they destroyed instruments during performances, and influential because of their success in crafting "Power Pop"... -
Freedom And Its Betrayal by Isaiah Berlin
RRP: $39.88$31.21Isaiah Berlin's celebrated radio lectures on six formative anti-liberal thinkers were delivered on the BBC's Third Programme in 1952. They are published here for the first time, fifty years on. Freedom and its Betrayal is one of Isaiah Berlin's earliest... -
The Friend by Alan Bray
RRP: $58.80$58.36In the chapel of Christ's College, Cambridge, some twenty years ago, historian Alan Bray made an astonishing discovery: a tomb shared by two men, John Finch and Thomas Baines. The monument featured eloquent imagery dedicated to their friendship:... -
The Fire Is upon Us: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr., and the Debate over Race in America by Nicholas Buccola 9780691210773
RRP: $33.58$25.39How the legendary debate between a civil rights firebrand and the father of modern conservatism illuminates America's racial divideOn February 18, 1965, an overflowing crowd packed the Cambridge Union in Cambridge, England, to witness a historic... -
Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit: A Guide by Terry Pinkard 9780197663134
RRP: $48.28$43.68Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit has a long-standing reputation as one of the key books in the history of Western philosophy, but many are unsure just what it is about. Even the words in the title are disputed: What sense of "phenomenology" is being used?... -
Russian Political Philosophy: Anarchy, Authority, Autocracy by Evert Van Der Zweerde 9781474460385
RRP: $52.48$42.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474460385Author Evert Van Der ZweerdeFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University PressWeight(grams)... -
Field Philosophy and Other Experiments by Brett Buchanan 9780367655723
RRP: $83.98$73.63This agenda-setting collection argues for the importance of fieldwork for philosophy and provides reflections on methods for such 'field philosophy' from the interdisciplinary vantage point of the environmental humanities. Field philosophy has emerged... -
Michael Oakeshott: Early Political Writings 1925-30: A discussion of some matters preliminary to the study of political philosophy' and 'The philosophical approach to politics: Issue 5 by Michael Oakeshott 9781845400538
$73.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845400538Author Michael OakeshottFormat HardbackPage Count 250Imprint Imprint AcademicPublisher Imprint AcademicWeight(grams) 700g -
Austerity Ecology & the Collapse-Porn Addicts: A Defence of Growth, Progress, Industry and Stuff by Leigh Phillips
RRP: $35.68$30.68Economic growth, progress, industry and, erm, stuff have all come in for a sharp kicking from the green left and beyond in recent years. Everyone from black-hoodied Starbucks window-smashers to farmers' market heirloom-tomato-mongers to Prince Charles...