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Debating and Defining Borders: Philosophical and Theoretical Perspectives by Anthony Cooper
RRP: $88.18$72.16This book brings together insights from border scholars and philosophers to ask how we are to define and understand concepts of borders today. Borders have a defining role in contemporary societies. Take, for example, the 2016 US election and the UK... -
Jazz As Critique: Adorno and Black Expression Revisited by Fumi Okiji
RRP: $165.90$144.29A sustained engagement with Theodor Adorno, Jazz As Critique looks to jazz for ways of understanding the inadequacies of contemporary life. Adorno's writings on jazz are notoriously dismissive. Nevertheless, Adorno does have faith in the critical... -
White People and Black Lives Matter: Ignorance, Empathy, and Justice by Johanna C. Luttrell
RRP: $48.28$41.98This book interrogates white responses to black-led movements for racial justice. It is a philosophical self-reflection on the ways in which 'white' reactions to Black Lives Matter stand in the way of the movement's important work. It probes reactions... -
Cinema, Media, and Human Flourishing by Timothy Corrigan
RRP: $45.13$40.95The Humanities and Human Flourishing series publishes edited volumes that explore the role of human flourishing in the central disciplines of the humanities, and whether and how the humanities can increase human happiness. This edited volume examines... -
The Alienated Subject: On the Capacity to Hurt by James A Tyner
RRP: $210.00$169.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781517911348Author James A TynerFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint University of Minnesota PressPublisher University of Minnesota PressWeight(grams) 140g -
: The Power of Shame (1985): A Rational Perspective by Agnes Heller
RRP: $69.28$62.08First published in 1985, this book provides a stimulating series of inter-connected essays which address the theme of shame, which, unlike the problem of conscience, has been seldom discussed by moral philosophers. The essays focus on the ethical... -
Rationality and Commitment by Fabienne Peter 9780199287260
RRP: $231.00$175.64Rational choice theory forms the core of the economic approach to human behaviour. It is also the most influential philosophical account of practical rationality. Yet there are persistent controversies about the scope of rational choice theory in... -
Global Philosophy: What Philosophy Ought to Be by Nicholas Maxwell 9781845407674
$37.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845407674Author Nicholas MaxwellFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint SocietasPublisher Imprint AcademicWeight(grams) 300g -
The Blackwell Guide to Feminist Philosophy by Eva Feder Kittay
RRP: $79.70$70.06The Blackwell Guide to Feminist Philosophy is a definitive introduction to the field, consisting of 15 newly-contributed essays that apply philosophical methods and approaches to feminist concerns. Offers a key view of the project of centering women's... -
The Art of Living: Falstaff, the Fool, and Dino by Starr Goode 9780692611883
RRP: $27.30$21.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692611883Author Starr GoodeFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint Starr GoodePublisher Starr GoodeWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 8mm -
Action Versus Contemplation: Why an Ancient Debate Still Matters by Jennifer Summit 9780226706634
RRP: $37.80$32.34"All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone," Blaise Pascal wrote in 1654. But then there's Walt Whitman, in 1856: "Whoever you are, come forth! Or man or woman come forth! / You must not stay sleeping and... -
Death Activism: Queer Death Studies and the Posthuman Professor Patricia MacCormack 9781350376182
RRP: $41.98$35.68Traditional Western attitudes towards death deal with it as a painful inevitability, something that has to be navigated as a trauma and a taboo. They focus essentially on the ‘management’ of death, an anthropocentric practice prioritising the human life... -
Alienation and Identity in Romantic Love Gary Foster 9781666912340
RRP: $170.10$156.45The concept of romantic love, influenced as it is by the theme within Romanticism of alienation and identification, suggests an important connection between love and personal identity. Love in this context recognizes both the sense in which one’s beloved... -
Death Activism: Queer Death Studies and the Posthuman Professor Patricia MacCormack 9781350376199
RRP: $136.50$116.03Traditional Western attitudes towards death deal with it as a painful inevitability, something that has to be navigated as a trauma and a taboo. They focus essentially on the ‘management’ of death, an anthropocentric practice prioritising the human life... -
Rebel Takes: On the Future of Food Catherine Joy White 9781405552356
RRP: $52.48$44.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781405552356Author Catherine Joy WhiteImprint Dialogue BooksPublisher Dialogue -
The Fatwā in the Digital Age: What Are Muslim Millennials Looking For? Wael Farouq 9783031660351
RRP: $209.98$178.48The rise of a significantly large (and young) Muslim population in the West, possessing no historical tradition of being a minority in a non-Muslim environment, has led to a recurring debate about the integration of Muslims into Western societies and the... -
Patipolitics Dr Isabel Millar 9781350319370
RRP: $46.18$39.25Patipolitics looks at what it means to enjoy the body under technocapitalism arguing that we need a new paradigm to talk about sexual enjoyment and suffering. It is not just biological life (biopolitics), nor even political death (necropolitics) that has... -
Patipolitics Dr Isabel Millar 9781350319363
RRP: $136.50$116.03Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Feminist Literature as Everyday Use: New Materialist Methodologies for Critical Thinking Beatriz Revelles-Benavente 9781350425316
RRP: $178.50$151.73What can feminist literature actually do? How can it affect the world? Does it have the power to change the oppressive structures that it opposes? Drawing on three of the fundamental wellsprings of feminist theory – genealogies, methodologies, and... -
Rebel Takes: On the Future of Food Catherine Joy White 9780349702636
RRP: $23.08$19.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780349702636Author Catherine Joy WhiteFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Dialogue BooksPublisher DialogueWeight(grams) 41g -
The Sexual Economy of Capitalism Noam Yuran 9781503640733
RRP: $54.58$47.48Economics has long modeled its theories on bakers and butchers rather than husbands, wives, lovers, and prostitutes. This book argues that exchanges involving sex and intimacy, far from being external or exceptional in relation to the workings of the... -
The Sexual Economy of Capitalism Noam Yuran 9781503630277
RRP: $207.90$176.72Economics has long modeled its theories on bakers and butchers rather than husbands, wives, lovers, and prostitutes. This book argues that exchanges involving sex and intimacy, far from being external or exceptional in relation to the workings of the... -
Freedom, in Context: Time, History, and Necessity in Hegel Dr. Borna Radnik 9781350430044
RRP: $178.50$151.73G.W.F. Hegel was a radical and incisive thinker, whose ideas have shaped the face of political philosophy. With questions of political agency and free will as urgent as ever, this book reintroduces Hegel’s ideas of freedom and the weight that it carries... -
How to Eat: An Ancient Guide for Healthy Living Claire Bubb 9780691256993
RRP: $31.48$26.75A delicious feast of ancient Greek and Roman writings on living well by eating well Today, we’re stuffed with dietary recommendations from every direction. Social media, advertising, food packaging, diet books, doctors—all have advice on what, how much,... -
Trans Philosophy Perry Zurn 9781517917043
RRP: $54.58$48.85Establishing trans philosophy as a unique field of inquiry, offering tools for our quest toward a more just and equitable worldTrans Philosophy defines this burgeoning and polymorphous discipline as philosophical work that is accountable to and... -
Trans Philosophy Perry Zurn 9781517917036
$230.18Establishing trans philosophy as a unique field of inquiry, offering tools for our quest toward a more just and equitable worldTrans Philosophy defines this burgeoning and polymorphous discipline as philosophical work that is accountable to and... -
Helen's Exile Albert Camus 9781916809857
RRP: $10.48$9.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916809857Author Albert CamusFormat PaperbackPage Count 20Imprint ERISPublisher ERIS -
The Human as the Other: Towards an Inclusive Philosophical Anthropology Dr Matthew Rukgaber 9781350438552
RRP: $178.50$151.73Philosophical anthropology investigates what makes us human, but it has produced accounts that exclude some members of our species. It relies often on non-naturalistic “philosophies of consciousness” that locate humanity in the cognitive capacity to... -
The Civilization of China and the Civilizations of the World Genyou Wu 9789819736775
RRP: $251.98$214.18This book talks about “Human Spirit and its Manifestations: A ‘Civilizational’ Perspective”, “Image and Expectations: China from the Perspective of the ‘Other’ Lecture Series”, “Civilization Communication and Mutual Enrichment”, and “Civilizational... -
A Philosophy of Crisis Miguel de Beistegui 9780226835235
RRP: $50.40$42.84A philosopher excavates the origins of our state of permanent crisis and charts a more promising path forward. Crises abound—so many that it can be easy to lose perspective. In A Philosophy of Crisis, Miguel de Beistegui traces the intellectual... -
The Autonomous Individual: A Praxeological Enactivist Account Martin Weichold 9781032790978
RRP: $283.50$246.29This book advances a new theory of what it means to be an autonomous individual with free will and an authentic self. It synthesizes the new “action turn” from 4E cognitive science with the new “practice turn” from the social sciences to develop a new... -
The Right to Oblivion: Privacy and the Good Life Lowry Pressly 9780674260528
RRP: $62.90$44.31A visionary reexamination of the value of privacy in today’s hypermediated world—not just as a political right but as the key to a life worth living.The parts of our lives that are not being surveilled and turned into data diminish each day. We are able... -
The Riddle of Organismal Agency: New Historical and Philosophical Reflections Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda 9781032537269
RRP: $273.00$235.43The Riddle of Organismal Agency brings together historians, philosophers and scientists for an interdisciplinary re-assessment of one of the long-standing problems in the scientific understanding of life.Marshalling insights from diverse sciences... -
Assertiveness in the Context of Human Rights, Ethics, and Classical Virtues Susana Castaños-Cervantes 9783031609619
RRP: $230.98$230.06Whether in everyday disagreements, bargaining episodes, or high-stakes disputes, people typically see a spectrum of possible responses to dealing with differences with others, ranging from avoidance and accommodation to competition and aggression. When... -
The Philosophical Power of Fairy Tales from Around the World: An Ocean of Stories Wendy Turgeon 9783031603723
$231.38This book analyzes the philosophical dimensions of fairy tales from cultures all around the world. Though there is a robust literature that analyzes fairy tales from sociological and historical perspectives and psychology has also focused on mining these... -
Meaning in the Metropolis: Toward an Urban Existentialism Shane Epting 9781032492322
RRP: $75.58$66.55This book will benefit readers by revealing how urban existence is a multifaceted affair that, once examined, will forever change the way they think about their place in the city and what it means to live in one.Engaging in urban existentialism requires... -
Meaning in the Metropolis: Toward an Urban Existentialism Shane Epting 9781032492315
RRP: $273.00$235.43This book will benefit readers by revealing how urban existence is a multifaceted affair that, once examined, will forever change the way they think about their place in the city and what it means to live in one.Engaging in urban existentialism requires...