Filter By
- Book
- Qty in Cart
- Quantity
- Price
- Subtotal
-
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress by Steven Pinker
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.66THE TOP TEN SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Bristles with pure, crystalline intelligence, deep knowledge and human sympathy' Richard Dawkins Is modernity really failing? Or have we failed to appreciate... -
The Communist Manifesto (Collins Classics) Karl Marx 9780008619978
RRP: $5.35Booksplease Price: $5.05HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Published in 1848, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engel's pamphlet The... -
Critical Theory: A Very Short Introduction by Stephen Eric Bronner
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $8.59Critical theory emerged in the 1920s from the work of the Frankfurt School, the circle of German-Jewish academics who sought to diagnose -- and, if at all possible, cure -- the ills of society,... -
The Ring of Truth: The Wisdom of Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung by Roger Scruton
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37'The ideal interpreter of the Ring ... a fascinating and valuable study ... absorbing and convincing' Sunday TimesThe Ring of the Nibelung is one of the greatest works of art created in modern times... -
Making the Social World: The Structure of Human Civilization by John Searle
RRP: $16.74Booksplease Price: $13.11The renowned philosopher John Searle reveals the fundamental nature of social reality. What kinds of things are money, property, governments, nations, marriages, cocktail parties, and football games?... -
Transgender Body Politics by Heather Brunskell-Evans
RRP: $17.35Booksplease Price: $11.82Transgenderism in the twenty-first century is patriarchy emblazoned in imperial form. At a time when supposedly enlightened attitudes are championed by the mainstream, philosopher and activist... -
On the Shortness of Life: The Stoic Classic Lucius Annaeus Seneca 9781907312540
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $10.99Make each of your days meaningful using Seneca's immortal guidance In On the Shortness of Life: The Stoic Classic, Tom Butler-Bowdon introduces the work of Lucius Annaeus Seneca, an ancient Roman... -
Philosophy in Minutes Marcus Weeks 9781782066460
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41Philosophy in Minutes distils 200 of the most important philosophical ideas into easily digestible, bite-sized sections. The core information for every topic - including debates such as the role of... -
Caleb Williams by William Godwin 9780199232062
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $11.46'He appears to be persecutor and I the persecuted: is not this difference the mere creature of the imagination?' Caleb is a guileless young servant who enters the employment of Ferdinando... -
Marx: A Very Short Introduction by Peter Singer
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.72Karl Marx is one of the most influential philosophers of all time, whose theories have shaped and directed political, economic, and social thought for 150 years. Considering Marx's life and impact,... -
A New Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere and Deliberative Politics by Jürgen Habermas 9781509558940
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.57Jürgen Habermas’s book The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere, first published in 1962, has long been recognized as one of the most important works of twentieth-century social thought... -
The Rape of the Lock and Other Major Writings by Alexander Pope
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37The Rape of the Lock and Other Major Writings is a collection of Alexander Pope's greatest works, edited with an introduction by Leo Damrosch in Penguin Classics.Alexander Pope was the greatest... -
Ethics in the Real World: 90 Essays on Things That Matter – A Fully Updated and Expanded Edition by Peter Singer
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $16.36Provocative essays on real-world ethical questions from the world's most influential philosopherPeter Singer is often described as the world's most influential philosopher. He is also one of its most... -
Dialectic of Enlightenment by Theodor Adorno
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.65Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer are the leading figures of the Frankfurt School and this book is their magnum opus. Dialectic of Enlightenment is one of the most celebrated works of modern social... -
Empathy: Why It Matters, And How To Get It by Roman Krznaric
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $16.07Influential popular philosopher Roman Krznaric argues our brains are wired for social connection: empathy is at the heart of who we are. It's an essential, transforming quality we must develop for... -
Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes 9781840227338
RRP: $8.03Booksplease Price: $6.54With an Introduction by Dr Richard Serjeantson, Trinity College, CambridgeSince its first publication in 1651, Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan has been recognised as one of the most compelling, and most... -
What Are Children For?: On Ambivalence and Choice Anastasia Berg 9780861549481
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $18.77Having children is one of the biggest decisions you'll make in your life. Increasingly, we aren't making it at all. 'A book for lovers of sound reasoning.' THE NEW YORKER Across the developed... -
Essays on Fascism by Benito Mussolini 9781913176037
Booksplease Price: $12.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913176037Author Benito MussoliniFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint -
The Grain Of The Voice by Roland Barthes
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.71In these interviews, given between 1962 and 1980, Barthes speaks about the development of his thought, explaining why and how he wrote his many books, paying tributes to philosophers, linguists,... -
Love's Work by Gillian Rose
Booksplease Price: $14.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590173657Author Gillian RoseFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint < -
Politics of Affect Brian Massumi 9780745689821
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $20.35'The capacity to affect and to be affected'. This simple definition opens a world of questions - by indicating an openness to the world. To affect and to be affected is to be in encounter, and to be... -
What We Owe the Future: A Million-Year View by William MacAskill
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $19.18The challenges we face are enormous. But we can still secure a positive future for our planet, and for everyone on it. In What We Owe The Future, philosopher William MacAskill persuasively argues... -
To Have or To Be? Erich Fromm 9781780936802
Booksplease Price: $32.82To Have Or to Be? is one of the seminal books of the second half of the 20th century. Nothing less than a manifesto for a new social and psychological revolution to save our threatened planet, this... -
A Lot of People Are Saying: The New Conspiracism and the Assault on Democracy by Nancy L. Rosenblum
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.17How the new conspiracists are undermining democracy-and what can be done about itConspiracy theories are as old as politics. But conspiracists today have introduced something new-conspiracy without... -
Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women by Kate Manne 9780141990743
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.05'Kate Manne is the Simone de Beauvoir of the 21st century' - Amanda Marcotte'I want to press this book on every schoolgirl who thinks that feminism is uncool, any woman who thinks the most important... -
Epistemic Injustice: Power and the Ethics of Knowing by Miranda Fricker
RRP: $44.21Booksplease Price: $38.04Epistemic Injustice explores the idea that there is a distinctively epistemic kind of injustice - injustice which consists in a wrong done to someone specifically in their capacity as a knower... -
Thomas More: A Very Brief History by John Guy 9780281076178
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75'If the English people were to be set a test to justify their history and civilization by the example of one man, then it is Sir Thomas More whom they would perhaps choose.' So commented The Times in... -
This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life by David Foster Wallace
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $18.26How does one keep from going through their comfortable, prosperous adult life unconsciously? How do we get ourselves out of the foreground of our thoughts and achieve compassion? The speech captures... -
Process and Reality by Alfred North Whitehead 9780029345702
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.07One of the major philosophical texts of the 20th century, Process and Reality is based on Alfred North Whitehead's influential lectures that he delivered at the University of Edinburgh in the 1920s... -
Vulnerability in Resistance by Judith Butler
RRP: $30.81Booksplease Price: $27.28Vulnerability and resistance have often been seen as opposites, with the assumption that vulnerability requires protection and the strengthening of paternalistic power at the expense of collective... -
Misogyny Re-Loaded by Abigail Bray 9781876756901
RRP: $26.73Booksplease Price: $18.41'Misogyny Re-loaded' is an explosive manifesto against the resurgent sexual fascism of the new world order. By exposing the casual acceptance of snuff pornography in 'gore' culture through to the... -
The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements by Eric Hoffer
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060505912Author Eric HofferFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint -
Revolutions: A Very Short Introduction by Jack A. Goldstone 9780199858507
Booksplease Price: $13.68From 1789 in France to 2011 in Cairo, revolutions have shaken the world. In their pursuit of social justice, revolutionaries have taken on the assembled might of monarchies, empires, and... -
12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos by Jordan B Peterson
RRP: $42.88Booksplease Price: $25.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345816023Author Jordan B. PetersonFormat HardbackPage Count 448Imprint -
Grand Hotel Abyss: The Lives of the Frankfurt School by Stuart Jeffries
Booksplease Price: $42.44In 1923, a group of young radical German thinkers and intellectuals came together to at Victoria Alle 7, Frankfurt, determined to explain the workings of the modern world. Among the most prominent... -
Introducing Political Philosophy: A Graphic Guide by Dave Robinson 9781848312036
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $8.79Essential illustrated guide to key ideas of political thought. Philosophers have always asked fundamental and disturbing questions about politics. Plato and Aristotle debated the merits of democracy... -
A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas (Vintage Classics Woolf Series) by Virginia Woolf
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $8.39'Brilliant interweaving of personal experience, imaginative musing and political clarity' Kate Mosse Virginia Woolf exposes the prejudices and constraints against which women writers... -
The Cosmopolitan Tradition: A Noble but Flawed Ideal by Martha C. Nussbaum
RRP: $24.05Booksplease Price: $20.89"Profound, beautifully written, and inspiring. It proves that Nussbaum deserves her reputation as one of the greatest modern philosophers."-Globe and Mail"At a time of growing national chauvinism,... -
The Triumph of the Slippers: On the Withdrawal from the World by Pascal Bruckner 9781509559527
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $13.25Since the beginning of the 21st century, global warming, terrorism, the pandemic and now the war in Ukraine have created a widespread feeling that the world is an increasingly dangerous place. In... -
The Concept of Law by H. L. A. Hart
RRP: $66.99Booksplease Price: $59.86Fifty 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...