Social

The philosophy of the social sciences considers the underlying explanatory powers of the social (or human) sciences, such as history, economics, anthropology, politics, and sociology. The type of questions covered includes the methodological (the nature...

The questions and dilemmas of bioethics touch everyone. Should people who refuse to be vaccinated be treated for COVID-19, even if that displaces vaccinated patients with other serious conditions? What restrictions on abortion should there be, if any?...

In this short essay, Kant completes his political theory and philosophy of history, considering the prospects for peace among nations and addressing questions that remain central to our thoughts about nationalism, war, and peace.Ted Humphrey provides an...

A compelling exploration of how reputation affects every aspect of contemporary life Reputation touches almost everything, guiding our behavior and choices in countless ways. But it is also shrouded in mystery. Why is it so powerful when the criteria by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780898703627Author Josef PieperFormat PaperbackPage Count 54Imprint Ignatius PressPublisher Ignatius PressWeight(grams) 77gDimensions(mm) 220mm * 165mm * 6mm

In Biocultural Creatures, Samantha Frost brings feminist and political theory together with findings in the life sciences to recuperate the category of the human for politics. Challenging the idea of human exceptionalism as well as other theories of...

Should the state recognise gender? Can a liberal state discourage traditional family structures? Is women's sport compatible with equality of opportunity? Should feminists defend women's freedom to choose cosmetic surgery? Is genital cutting always...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781532648250Author Paul TysonFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams) 195gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914602139Author Marcus AureliusFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Chiltern PublishingPublisher Chiltern Publishing

A trenchant defense of hierarchy in different spheres of our lives, from the personal to the politicalAll complex and large-scale societies are organized along certain hierarchies, but the concept of hierarchy has become almost taboo in the modern world...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802849755Author Oliver O'DonovanFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint William B Eerdmans Publishing CoPublisher William B Eerdmans Publishing...

"Fascinating and instructive...King's philosophy, speaking to us through the written word, may turn out to constitute his most enduring legacy."-Annette Gordon-Reed, New York Review of BooksMartin Luther King, Jr., is one of America's most revered...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621483656Author Rudolf SteinerFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Steiner BooksPublisher Steiner BooksWeight(grams) 141g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948924238Author E M CioranFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Arcade PublishingPublisher Arcade PublishingWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 206mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781949845266Author Noelle McAfeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 186Imprint Tibidabo Publishing, Inc.Publisher Tibidabo Publishing, Inc.Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845409005Author Eric CoombesFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Imprint AcademicPublisher Imprint AcademicWeight(grams) 350g

An inquiry into the phenomenology of "woman" based in the relationship between lived time and sexual violence Feminist phenomenologists have long understood a woman's life as inhibited, confined, and constrained by sexual violence. In this important...

Someone fails to shake your outstretched hand, puts you down in front of others, or makes a joke in poor taste. Should we take offence? Wouldn't it be better if we didn't? In the face of popular criticism of people taking offence too easily, and the...

The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Race provides up-to-date explanation and analyses by leading scholars of contemporary issues in African American philosophy and philosophy of race. These original essays encompass the major topics and approaches in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935408055Author Veit ErlmannFormat PaperbackPage Count 424Imprint Zone BooksPublisher Zone BooksDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 38mm

The 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,...

Freedom for the spiritual-cultural life, equality and democracy for human rights, initiative and solidarity for the economic sphere! Revolutions happen when society does not change and evolve. Stagnation and resistance create a situation in which a leap...

This book provides the first comprehensive introduction to Simone de Beauvoir's philosophical thought. Beauvoir has long been recognized as the twentieth century's leading feminist writer, but the full extent of her significance as a philosopher is just...

"This translation offers a fresh and vital encounter with Thomas More's Utopia for a twenty-first century audience."-Elizabeth McCutcheon, Utopian Studies Saint Thomas More's Utopia is one of the most important works of European humanism and serves as...

Fifty years on from its original publication, HLA Hart's The Concept of Law is widely recognized as the most important work of legal philosophy published in the twentieth century, and remains the starting point for most students coming to the subject for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583946367Author Charles EisensteinFormat HardbackPage Count 600Imprint North Atlantic Books,U.S.Publisher North Atlantic Books,U.S.Weight(grams) 904g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780934868075Author Guy DebordFormat PaperbackPage Count 118Imprint Black & Red,U.S.Publisher Black & Red,U.S.

One 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 "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...

In the first volume of his extraordinary analysis of the death penalty, Jacques Derrida began a journey toward an ambitious end: the first truly philosophical argument against the death penalty. Exploring an impressive breadth of thought, he traced a...

This book argues that the institutions of law, and the structures of legal thought, are to be understood by reference to a moral ideal. The idea of law is an ideal of freedom, or independence from the power of others. The moral value and justificatory...

Are hierarchical arrangements in the workplace, including the employer-employee relationship, consistent with the ideal of relating to one another as moral equals? With this question at its core, this volume of essays by leading moral and political...

'Where can the human animal seek its energy in this era of lockdowns and social distancing? Dodge may help us to find out' Guardian'If you're a fan of Maggie Nelson's work, you'll like this book. It's truly beautiful' DazedIs love a force akin to...

Philosophical criminology asks big questions about how we get on with one another and what happens when we do not. This accessible book in the New Horizons in Criminology series is the first to foreground this growing area. The book is structured around...

Why Philosophize? is a series of lectures given by Jean-Francois Lyotard to students at the Sorbonne embarking on their university studies. The circumstances obliged him to be both clear and concise: at the same time, his lectures offer a profound and...

One of the characteristics of modern-day life seems to be that we are doing more and more at an ever-increasing rate. Uncompromising couturier Azzedine Alaia hosted salon-style discussions between creative luminaries on this subject. The result is a...

In the midst of unprecedented material wealth and technological advancement, a paradoxical crisis looms large - the crisis of meaning. Lost and Found, by Dr. Mark D'Souza, ventures deep into this quandary, addressing the poignant disconnects of our...

The core of this book is a set of five lectures delivered by Habermas at Princeton in 1971 under the title 'Reflections on the Linguistic Foundation of Sociology'. These lectures offer a preliminary view of what would become The Theory of Communicative...

An 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...

This is the first book to give a collective treatment of philosophical issues relating to tax. The tax system is central to the operation of states and to the ways in which states interact with individual citizens. Taxes are used by states to fund the...