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Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny by Kate Manne
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $12.37'Everyone should read Down Girl. It should be distributed in schools and every board room, athletic department and legislative space' - Soraya ChemalyA transformative book on how misogyny works from... -
The Marvelous Clouds: Toward a Philosophy of Elemental Media by John Durham Peters
RRP: $25.46Booksplease Price: $23.65When we speak of clouds these days, it is as likely that we mean data clouds or network clouds as cumulus or stratus. In their sharing of the term, both kinds of clouds reveal an essential truth:... -
Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away by Rebecca Newberger Goldstein
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $16.35What would the ancient Greek philosopher make of the twenty-first-century Google headquarters?A dazzling exploration of the role of ancient philosophy in modern life from the acclaimed writer and... -
Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion by Paul Bloom
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.68In a divided world, empathy is not the solution, it is the problem. We think of empathy - the ability to feel the suffering of others for ourselves - as the ultimate source of all good behaviour. But... -
Finite and Infinite Games by James P. Carse
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.92"There are at least two kinds of games," states James P. Carse as he begins this extraordinary book. "One could be called finite; the other infinite. A finite game is played for the purpose of... -
In The Break: The Aesthetics Of The Black Radical Tradition by Fred Moten 9780816641000
RRP: $28.13Booksplease Price: $24.13Investigates the connections between jazz, sexual identity, and radical black politics In his controversial essay on white jazz musician Burton Greene, Amiri Baraka asserted that jazz was exclusively... -
Utopia by Saint Thomas More 9780241382684
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.08In Utopia, Thomas More gives us a traveller's account of a newly discovered island where the inhabitants enjoy a social order based on natural reason and justice, and human fulfilment is open to all... -
Utopia by Saint Thomas More 9780141442327
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80'It remains astonishingly radical ... one of Utopia's most striking aspects is its contemporaniety' Terry EagletonIn Utopia, Thomas More gives us a traveller's account of a newly-discovered island... -
The Essential Chomsky by Noam Chomsky
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $11.63In a single volume, the seminal writings of the world's leading philosopher, linguist and critic, and author of the bestselling Who Rules the World'The general population doesn't know what's... -
A Small Man's England Tommy Sissons 9781912248926
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75IS THE WHITE WORKING CLASS RIGHT-WING? AND IS IT RIGHT-WING TO EVEN SPEAK OF A "WHITE WORKING CLASS"? In recent decades, as class consciousness has been suppressed and eroded, many white... -
Relationality: An Emergent Politics of Life Beyond the Human by Arturo Escobar 9781350225961
Booksplease Price: $25.11This important new book argues that at the root of the contemporary crisis of climate, energy, food, inequality, and meaning is a certain core presupposition that structures the ways in which we... -
A Dictionary of Critical Theory by Ian Buchanan
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.15Containing over 750 in-depth entries, this is the most wide-ranging and up-to-date dictionary of critical theory available. This authoritative guide covers the whole range of critical theory,... -
Neuroqueer Heresies: Notes on the Neurodiversity Paradigm, Autistic Empowerment, and Postnormal Possibilities by Nick Walker 9781945955266
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $20.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945955266Author Nick WalkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint -
The Capitalist Unconscious: Marx and Lacan by Samo Tomsic 9781784781088
Booksplease Price: $34.08Despite a resurgence of interest in Lacanian psychoanalysis, particularly in terms of the light it casts on capitalist ideology-as witnessed by the work of Slavoj Zizek-there remain remarkably few ... -
Fools, Frauds and Firebrands: Thinkers of the New Left by Roger Scruton
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.79A devastating critique of New Left thinking. In Fools, Frauds and Firebrands, Roger Scruton first surveys and then deconstructs the golden idols of left wing thought from the 1960s to the present... -
The Republic of Plato by Adam Kirsch
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $19.77Long regarded as the most accurate rendering of Plato's Republic that has yet been published, this widely acclaimed work is the first strictly literal translation of a timeless classic. In addition... -
A Post-Truth World: Politics, Polarization, and a Vision for Transcending the Chaos Ken Wilber 9781645473558
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781645473558Author Ken WilberFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint -
Culture is Not an Industry: Reclaiming Art and Culture for the Common Good by Justin O'Connor 9781526171269
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $16.04Culture is at the heart of what it means to be human. But twenty-five years ago, the British government rebranded art and culture as 'creative industries', valued for their economic contribution, and... -
More: Utopia by Saint Thomas More
Booksplease Price: $21.44This is a fully revised edition of one of the most successful volumes in the Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought series. Incorporating extensive updates to the editorial apparatus,... -
What We Owe to Each Other by T. M. Scanlon
RRP: $38.79Booksplease Price: $26.56"This magnificent book...opens up a novel, arresting position on matters that have been debated for thousands of years." -Times Literary Supplement How do we judge whether an action is morally right... -
Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else) Olufe mi O. Taiwo (Georgetown University) 9780745347851
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.25'A thinker on fire' - Robin D. G. Kelley Identity politics is everywhere, polarising discourse from the campaign trail to the classroom and amplifying antagonisms in the media. But the... -
The Uses of Pessimism by Roger Scruton
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.05Scruton argues that the tragedies and disasters of the history of the European continent have been the consequences of a false optimism and the fallacies that derive from it. In place of these... -
Simone Weil: A Very Short Introduction by A. Rebecca Rozelle-Stone 9780192846969
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.88This Very Short Introduction provides an overview of the intriguing and provocative life and ideas of twentieth century French philosopher, mystic, and social activist Simone Weil. Weil was not a... -
All Art Is Ecological by Timothy Morton
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $9.77In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement.Provocative and playful, All Art is Ecological explores the strangeness of living in an age of mass extinction,... -
Citizens by Jon Alexander
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11MCKINSEY TOP 5 RECOMMENDED READ 'An underground hit' - Best Politics Books, Financial Times 'Jon has one of the few big ideas that's easily applied' - Sam Conniff, Be More Pirate 'A wonderful guide... -
The Art of Travel by Alain de Botton
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER'Honest, funny and dripping with witty aphorisms. Extremely entertaining and enlightening [...] all the way to journey's end' Herald One of our greatest voices in... -
The Prophets of Doom by Neema Parvini 9781788361118
RRP: $20.03Booksplease Price: $19.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788361118Author Neema ParviniFormat PaperbackImprint -
A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles by Thomas Sowell 9780465002054
Booksplease Price: $28.62In this classic work, Thomas Sowell analyzes the two competing visions that shape our debates about the nature of reason, justice, equality, and power: the constrained" vision, which sees human... -
The Blame Game: How to Recover from the World's Oldest Addiction by Denis Liam Murphy
RRP: $29.48Booksplease Price: $20.77Honest happiness and effortless living are possible. You just have to heal from a blame addiction you didn't know you had.Life is designed to be effortless. It might not seem like it right now, but a... -
Theatre of the Oppressed by Augusto Boal
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $18.60Augusto Boal saw theatre as a mirror to the world, one that we can reach into to change our reality. This book, The Theatre of the Oppressed, is the foundation to 'Forum Theatre', a popular radical... -
Frames of War: When is Life Grievable? by Judith Butler
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.26In this urgent response to violence, racism and increasingly aggressive methods of coercion, Judith Butler explores the media's portrayal of armed conflict, a process integral to how the West... -
The Crooked Timber Of Humanity by Isaiah Berlin
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $19.77'Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.' Immanuel KantIsaiah Berlin was one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century - an activist of the intellect... -
How to Know Everything: Ask better questions, get better answers Elke Wiss 9781787467682
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.45The international bestseller that will sharpen your mind, broaden your perspective and transform your relationships._____________________________________________________WHY ARE WE SO BAD AT ASKING... -
How to be a conservative by Roger Scruton
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.88Roger Scruton's How to be a Conservative presents the case for modern conservatism not in the terms of an elegy but rather as a practical example of how to live as a conservative despite the... -
The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.95Niccolo Machiavelli's brutally uncompromising manual of statecraft, The Prince is translated and edited with an introduction by Tim Parks in Penguin Classics.As a diplomat in turbulent... -
England: An Elegy by Sir Roger Scruton
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $17.94In this poignant and personal tribute, Roger Scruton gives an account of England which is both an illuminating analysis of its institutions and culture, and a celebration of its virtues. Covering... -
The Archer by Paulo Coelho 9780670095209
Booksplease Price: $15.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780670095209Author Paulo CoelhoFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint -
Kant: A Very Short Introduction by Roger Scruton
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.88Kant is arguably the most influential modern philosopher, but also one of the most difficult. Roger Scruton tackles his exceptionally complex subject with a strong hand, exploring the background to... -
A Lover's Discourse: Fragments by Roland Barthes
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $12.68'May be the most detailed, painstaking anatomy of desire that we are ever likely to see or need again... An ecstatic celebration of love and language' Washington PostThe language we use when we are... -
Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste by Pierre Bourdieu 9780415567886
RRP: $32.15Booksplease Price: $26.79No judgement of taste is innocent - we are all snobs. Pierre Bourdieu's Distinction brilliantly illuminates the social pretentions of the middle classes in the modern world, focusing on the tastes...