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Kant, Race, and Racism: Views from Somewhere by Huaping Lu-Adler 9780197685211
RRP: $149.10$135.74Kant scholars have paid relatively little attention to his raciology. They assume that his racism, as personal prejudice, can be disentangled from his core philosophy. They also assume that racism contradicts his moral theory. In this book, philosopher... -
Dead Man Working by Carl Cederstrom 9781780991566
RRP: $20.98$18.04Capitalism has become strange. Ironically, while the 'age of work' seems to have come to an end, working has assumed a total presence - a 'worker's society' in the worst sense of the term - where everyone finds themselves obsessed with it. So what... -
Libertarianism for Beginners by Todd Seavey 9781939994660
$25.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781939994660Author Todd SeaveyFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint For BeginnersPublisher For Beginners -
Remaking Society: A New Ecological Politics by Murray Bookchin
RRP: $35.70$24.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781849354424Author Murray BookchinFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint AK PressPublisher AK Press -
Jane Austen's Little Book of Wisdom: Words on Love, Life, Society and Literature by Andrea Kirk Assaf
RRP: $18.88$12.64Jane Austen's Little Book of Wisdom offers more than 300 bite-size quotes of inspiration and wisdom from one of the greatest females writers in the English language. Jane Austen is one of the most celebrated female writers in history, best... -
Oakeshott on Rome and America by Gene Callahan 9781845406677
$49.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845406677Author Gene CallahanFormat PaperbackPage Count 238Imprint Imprint AcademicPublisher Imprint AcademicWeight(grams) 400g -
Post-Truth: Knowledge As A Power Game by Steve Fuller 9781783086948
RRP: $52.40$48.83'Post-truth' was Oxford Dictionaries 2016 word of the year. While the term was coined by its disparagers in the light of the Brexit and US presidential campaigns, the roots of post-truth lie deep in the history of Western social and political theory... -
Less Than Human: Why We Demean, Enslave, and Exterminate Others by David Livingstone Smith 9781250003836
$26.88"Brute." "Cockroach." "Lice." "Vermin." People often regard members of their own kind as less than human, and use terms like these for those whom they wish to harm, enslave, or exterminate. Dehumanization has made atrocities like the Holocaust, the... -
Entangled Empathy: An Alternative Ethic for Our Relationships with Animals by Lori Gruen 9781590564875
RRP: $39.88$26.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590564875Author Lori GruenFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Lantern Books,USPublisher Lantern Books,USWeight(grams) 0g -
We Are Not Born Submissive: How Patriarchy Shapes Women's Lives by Manon Garcia
RRP: $52.50$41.14A 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... -
On Female Body Experience: Throwing Like a Girl and Other Essays by Iris Marion Young 9780195161939
RRP: $72.43$59.85Written over a span of more than two decades, the essays by Iris Marion Young collected in this volume describe diverse aspects of women's lived body experience in modern Western societies. Drawing on the ideas of several twentieth century continental... -
Carceral Humanitarianism: Logics of Refugee Detention by Kelly Oliver 9781517903275
RRP: $18.90$16.76Coopted by military operations, humanitarianism has never been neutral. Rather than welcoming refugees, host countries assess the relative risks of taking them in versus turning them away, using a risk-benefit analysis that often reduces refugees to... -
The Year of Dreaming Dangerously by Slavoj Zizek
RRP: $16.78$13.94Call it the year of dreaming dangerously: 2011 caught the world off guard with a series of shattering events. While protesters in New York, Cairo, London, and Athens took to the streets in pursuit of emancipation, obscure destructive fantasies inspired... -
Critical Thinking: An Introduction to Reasoning Well by Dr Jamie Carlin Watson 9781350232938
RRP: $52.48$46.05'You shouldn't drink too much. The Earth is round. Milk is good for your bones.' Are any of these claims true? How can you tell? Can you ever be certain you are right? For anyone tackling philosophical logic for the first time, here is a practical... -
Post-Truth, Fake News and Democracy: Mapping the Politics of Falsehood by Johan Farkas 9781032563039
RRP: $75.58$66.55The new edition of Post-Truth, Fake News and Democracy offers an updated overview and critical discussion of contemporary discourses around truth, misinformation, and democracy, while also mapping cutting-edge scholarship.Through in-depth analyses of... -
A Rule of Law for Our New Age of Anxiety by Stephen J Toope 9781009299459
RRP: $63.00$54.50Taking Auden's Age of Anxiety as a leitmotiv and drawing on literature from law, philosophy, political theory, international relations, and sociology, Toope argues with passion that a renewed faith in the rule of law can address troubling developments in... -
The Method of Equality: Interviews with Laurent Jeanpierre and Dork Zabunyan by Jacques Ranciere 9780745680637
RRP: $37.78$33.68The development of Ranciere's philosophical work, from his formative years through the political and methodological break with Louis Althusser and the lessons of May 68, is documented here, as are the confrontations with other thinkers, the controversies... -
Authority and the Individual by Bertrand Russell
RRP: $27.28$25.07From Ancient Greek philosophy to the French Revolution to the modern welfare state, in Authority and the Individual Bertrand Russell tackles the perennial questions about the balance between authority and human freedom. With characteristic clarity and... -
Escapism by Yi-fu Tuan
RRP: $57.75$49.64In prehistoric times, our ancestors began building shelters and planting crops in order to escape from nature's harsh realities. Today, we flee urban dangers for the safer, reconfigured world of suburban lawns and parks. According to geographer Yi-Fu... -
Measurement in Medicine: Philosophical Essays on Assessment and Evaluation by Leah McClimans 9781783488483
RRP: $86.10$79.49Measurement in Medicine brings together for the first time a range of philosophical essays on topics in the philosophy of epidemiology, epistemology of measurement, philosophy of health economics and health policy that address pressing questions of... -
Thinking about Social Thinking by Antony G. Flew 9780879759544
RRP: $39.88$30.07Rationalizing human behavior is our most compelling pastime. We are all disposed to offer and accept insufficient evidence and invalid arguments when these seem to support conclusions that we merely wish were true. We need to know how to think clearly... -
Complexity Theory and the Social Sciences: The State of the Art by David Byrne
RRP: $75.58$66.55This expanded and updated edition of Complexity Theory and the Social Sciences: The State of the Art revisits the use of complexity theory across the social sciences and demonstrates how complexity informs approaches to various contemporary issues in the... -
The Meaning of Life and Death: Ten Classic Thinkers on the Ultimate Question by Michael Hauskeller
RRP: $52.48$45.74What is the point of living? If we are all going to die anyway, if nothing will remain of whatever we achieve in this life, why should we bother trying to achieve anything in the first place? Can we be mortal and still live a meaningful life? Questions... -
Cooperation and Social Justice by Joseph Heath
RRP: $50.38$45.30In six new essays, philosopher and award-winning author Joseph Heath explores the connection between principles of justice and the institutional arrangements required to achieve them. Topics include the significance of status inequality, the question of... -
The Philosophy of Civilization by Albert Schweitzer 9780879754037
RRP: $52.50$38.93Albert Schweitzer's social and ethical philosophy is best expressed in The Philosophy of Civilization. Not widely available in recent years, this edition will give contemporary readers the opportunity to discover his prophetic thought. In Book I, The... -
On Inequality by Harry G. Frankfurt 9780691167145
RRP: $29.38$24.36Economic inequality is one of the most divisive issues of our time. Yet few would argue that inequality is a greater evil than poverty. The poor suffer because they don't have enough, not because others have more, and some have far too much. So why do... -
Philosophy for Passengers by Michael Marder
RRP: $31.48$20.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262543712Author Michael MarderFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
Friendship by A. C. Grayling
RRP: $27.28$24.07An entertaining and provocative investigation of friendship in all its variety, from ancient times to the present day A central bond, a cherished value, a unique relationship, a profound human need, a type of love. What is the nature of friendship, and... -
The Machiavellian Moment: Florentine Political Thought and the Atlantic Republican Tradition by J. G. A. Pocock
RRP: $67.20$52.88Originally published in 1975, The Machiavellian Moment remains a landmark of historical and political thought. Celebrated historian J.G.A. Pocock looks at the consequences for modern historical and social consciousness arising from the ideal of the... -
As If: Idealization and Ideals by Kwame Anthony Appiah 9780674237711
RRP: $33.50$27.51"Appiah is a writer and thinker of remarkable range... [He] has packed into this short book an impressive amount of original reflection... A rich and illuminating book."-Thomas Nagel, New York Review of BooksIdealization is a fundamental feature of human... -
Revolutionary Routines: The Habits of Social Transformation by Carolyn Pedwell
RRP: $60.88$54.22Although we tend to associate social transformation with major events, historical turning points, or revolutionary upheaval, Revolutionary Routines argues that seemingly minor everyday habits are the key to meaningful change.Through its account of... -
Man and People by Jose Ortega y Gasset 9780393001235
RRP: $44.10$37.91"This last book, from the man whose The Revolt of the Masses is now in a 25th anniversary edition, newly designed and reset, is sure of attention from those who know that he will provide active mental gymnastics in his dissection to the roots of today's... -
Jalaluddin Rupur Kabita: Poems of Jalaluddin Rumi by Quazi Johirul Islam 9781726302968
RRP: $12.58$11.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781726302968Author Quazi Johirul IslamFormat PaperbackPage Count 86Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent... -
Philosophy of Childhood Today: Exploring the Boundaries by Brock Bahler 9781498542623
RRP: $90.30$79.34Although philosophy of childhood has always played some part in philosophical discourse, its emergence as a field of postmodern theory follows the rise, in the late nineteenth century, of psychoanalysis, for which childhood is a key signifier. Then in... -
The Question Concerning Technology in China: An Essay in Cosmotechnics by Yuk Hui
RRP: $37.78$26.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995455009Author Yuk HuiFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Urbanomic Media LtdPublisher Urbanomic Media Ltd -
How To Like Everything – A Utopia by Paul Shepheard 9781780998206
RRP: $20.98$18.04How To Like Everything is a utopia. 'Utopia' is a word invented five hundred years ago at the start of the modern age as a description of the ideal society. It's composed of Latin parts that taken together mean 'no place' or 'nowhere'. We now use the... -
Storming Heaven - Second Edition: Class Composition and Struggle in Italian Autonomist Marxism by Steve Wright
RRP: $54.58$35.66Storming Heaven is the only book which looks at Italian workerist theory and practice, from its origins in the anti-Stalinist left of the 1950s to its heyday twenty years later. It focuses on the theme of workerism, or 'operaismo', which includes the... -
Critical Realism: an Introduction to Roy Bhaskar's Philosophy by Andrew Collier 9780860916024
RRP: $41.98$38.41The 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 Spectre Of Babeuf by Ian Birchall
RRP: $41.90$28.43The Spectre of Babeuf is a long-awaited introduction to Babeuf written by Ian Birchall. Little known to today's radicals, Babeuf and his conspiracy of equals were in some ways the direct historical precursor of the revolutionary socialist movement. Ian... -
A Difference of Opinion: The Autobiography of Jim Sillars by Jim Sillars
$31.84Jim 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...