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Status Anxiety by Alain de Botton
RRP: £10.99£7.77THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLERFrom one of our greatest voices in modern philosophy, author of The Course of Love, The Consolations of Philosophy, Religion for Atheists and The School of Life - Alain de Botton sets out to understand our universal... -
The Case for Working with Your Hands: Or Why Office Work is Bad for Us and Fixing Things Feels Good by Matthew Crawford
RRP: £10.99£7.77It's time to rethink our attitudes to work.For too long we have convinced ourselves that the only jobs worth doing involve sitting at a desk. Generations of school-leavers head for university lacking the skills to fix or even understand the most basic... -
Matter and Motion by Thomas Nail 9781399525435
RRP: £14.99£12.55Tells a new history of materialism from prehistory to the present that resists stasis, heirarchy and domination Traces a lineage of thinkers who have philosophically integrated ideas of matter, motion, indeterminacy, relationality and process ... -
The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Obligations towards the Human Being by Simone Weil 9780241467978
RRP: £12.99£9.09A new translation of Simone Weil's best-known work: a political, philosophical and spiritual treatise on what human life could beWhat do humans require to be truly nourished? Simone Weil, one of the foremost philosophers of the last century, envisaged us... -
How to be a conservative by Roger Scruton
RRP: £16.99£12.28Roger 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 pressures to live otherwise. As he writes, the book 'is not... -
21 Letters on Life and Its Challenges by Charles Handy
RRP: £9.99£7.11Charles Handy is one of the giants of contemporary thought. His books on management - including Understanding Organizations and Gods of Management - have changed the way we view business. His work on broader issues and trends - such as Beyond Certainty... -
The Pocket Oracle and Art of Prudence by Baltasar Gracian
RRP: £9.99£7.11A unique collection of advice for life, Baltasar Gracian's The Pocket Oracle and Art of Prudence is a philosophical gem, and perhaps the first 'self-help' book ever written. This Penguin Classics edition is translated from the Spanish with an... -
Politics of Affect Brian Massumi 9780745689821
RRP: £15.99£14.41'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 in encounter is to have already ventured forth... -
Frames of War: When is Life Grievable? by Judith Butler
RRP: £10.99£8.94In 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 prosecutes its wars. In doing so, she calls for a... -
Believing Bullshit: How Not to Get Sucked into an Intellectual Black Hole by Stephen Law 9781616144111
RRP: £14.99£11.53This book identifies eight key mechanisms that can transform a set of ideas into a psychological flytrap. The author suggests that, like the black holes of outer space, from which nothing, not even light, can escape, our contemporary cultural... -
All Art Is Ecological by Timothy Morton
RRP: £7.99£5.79In 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, and shows us that emotions and experience are the basis... -
Love's Work by Gillian Rose
£10.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590173657Author Gillian RoseFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)... -
Life: A User's Manual: Philosophy for (Almost) Any Eventuality by Julian Baggini
RRP: £12.99£9.09How should I live?What is my purpose? Can I find happiness?Ever felt as though life would be simpler if it came with an instruction manual? There are no easy answers to the big questions. And life does not follow a straight path from A to B.Since the... -
The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity: Twelve Lectures Jurgen Habermas (Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt) 9780745608303
RRP: £24.99£22.21The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity: Twelve Lectures. Introduction by Thomas McCarthy, translated by Frederick Lawrence.About the AuthorJurgen Habermas is a German philosopher and sociologist in the tradition of critical theory and pragmatism. He is... -
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Vintage Feminism Short Edition) by Mary Wollstonecraft
RRP: £5.99£4.46Discover Wollstonecraft's classic feminist text in an abridged, digestible form.WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ZOE WILLIAMS The term feminism did not yet exist when Mary Wollstonecraft wrote this book, but it was the first great piece of feminist writing. In... -
Solitude: In Pursuit of a Singular Life in a Crowded World by Michael Harris
RRP: £10.99£7.77'An elegant, thoughtful book . . . beautifully expresses the importance and experience of liberation from the battery-hen life of constant connection and crowds.' Daily Mail'A compelling study of the subtle ways in which modern life and technologies have... -
Losing Ourselves: Learning to Live without a Self by Jay L. Garfield 9780691220574
RRP: £13.99£11.42Why you don't have a self-and why that's a good thingIn Losing Ourselves, Jay Garfield, a leading expert on Buddhist philosophy, offers a brief and radically clear account of an idea that at first might seem frightening but that promises to liberate us... -
Justice for Hedgehogs by Ronald Dworkin
RRP: £23.95£19.54The fox knows many things, the Greeks said, but the hedgehog knows one big thing. In his most comprehensive work, Ronald Dworkin argues that value in all its forms is one big thing: that what truth is, life means, morality requires, and justice demands... -
Liberalism: A Counter-History by Domenico Losurdo
£16.03In this definitive historical investigation, Italian author and philosopher Domenico Losurdo argues that from the outset liberalism, as a philosophical position and ideology, has been bound up with the most illiberal of policies: slavery, colonialism,... -
Thomas Paine's Rights of Man: A Biography by Christopher Hitchens
RRP: £9.99£6.70Thomas Paine is one of the greatest political advocates in history. Declaration of the Rights of Man, first published in 1791, is the key to his reputation. Inspired by his outrage at Edmund Burke's attack on the uprising of the French people, Paine's... -
The Fateful Triangle: Race, Ethnicity, Nation by Stuart Hall 9780674248342
RRP: £15.95£13.10"Given the current political conditions, these lectures on race, ethnicity, and nation, delivered by Stuart Hall almost a quarter of a century ago, may be even more timely today."-Angela Y. DavisIn this defining statement one of the founding figures of... -
How to Win an Argument: An Ancient Guide to the Art of Persuasion by Marcus Tullius Cicero 9780691164335
RRP: £14.99£12.15All of us are faced countless times with the challenge of persuading others, whether we're trying to win a trivial argument with a friend or convince our coworkers about an important decision. Instead of relying on untrained instinct--and often... -
Doing Good Better: Effective Altruism and a Radical New Way to Make a Difference Dr William MacAskill 9781783350513
RRP: £10.99£7.32A radical reassessment of how we can most effectively help others by a rising star of philosophy and leading social entrepreneur.'A surprising and often counterintuitive look at the best ways to make a difference . . . MacAskill is that rarest of beasts:... -
The Dream of Reason: A History of Western Philosophy from the Greeks to the Renaissance by Anthony Gottlieb
RRP: £12.99£9.09Already a classic, this landmark account of early Western thought now appears in a new edition with expanded coverage of the Middle Ages. The Dream of Reason takes a fresh look at the writings of the great thinkers of classic philosophy and questions... -
Facing Gaia: Eight Lectures on the New Climatic Regime by Bruno Latour 9780745684345
RRP: £18.99£16.87The emergence of modern sciences in the seventeenth century profoundly renewed our understanding of nature. For the last three centuries new ideas of nature have been continually developed by theology, politics, economics, and science, especially the... -
The Ascent Of Humanity by Charles Eisenstein
RRP: £23.00£15.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583945353Author Charles EisensteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint Evolver EditionsPublisher North Atlantic Books,U.S.Weight(grams)... -
Ideology: A Very Short Introduction by Michael Freeden
RRP: £8.99£6.45Ideology is one of the most controversial terms in the political vocabulary, exciting both revulsion and inspiration. This book examines the reasons for those views, and explains why ideologies deserve respect as a major form of political thinking. It... -
A Dictionary of Critical Theory by Ian Buchanan
RRP: £13.99£9.75Containing 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, including the Frankfurt school, cultural materialism, cultural... -
What Remains?: Life, Death and the Human Art of Undertaking Rupert Callender 9781645020509
RRP: £20.00£13.35'This isn't a grisly book; it is sharp, angry, punchily philosophical and often funny. It basically invents a new type of lifestyle aspiration: deathstyle.' The Times 'Callender's joyous, thought-provoking book is an account of how his own early... -
You Matter: The Human Solution by Delia Smith
RRP: £14.99£13.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912914333Author Delia SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Mensch PublishingPublisher Mensch PublishingWeight(grams) 202g -
Gender-Critical Feminism by Holly Lawford-Smith 9780198863885
RRP: £32.49£29.81The expectation used to be that men would be masculine and women would be feminine, and this was assumed to come naturally to them in virtue of their biology. That orthodoxy persists today in many parts of society. On this view, sex is gender and gender... -
Of The Social Contract and Other Political Writings by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
RRP: £10.99£7.77'Man was born free, and everywhere he is in chains.' These are the famous opening words of a treatise that has stirred vigorous debate ever since its first publication in 1762. Rejecting the view that anyone has a natural right to wield authority over... -
24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep by Jonathan Crary
RRP: £10.99£8.9424/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep explores some of the ruinous consequences of the expanding non-stop processes of twenty-first-century capitalism. The marketplace now operates through every hour of the clock, pushing us into constant activity... -
Culture and Power: Sociology of Pierre Bourdieu by David Swartz 9780226785950
RRP: £28.00£27.39Pierre Bourdieu is a prominent social theorist and researcher in contemporary sociology. In this critical examination of his oeuvre David Swartz focuses on a central theme in Bourdieu's work - the complex relationship between culture and power, and... -
The Theory of Communicative Action: Reason and the Rationalization of Society, Volume 1 by Jurgen Habermas 9780745603865
RRP: £19.99£18.09Here, for the first time in English, is volume one of Jurgen Habermas's long-awaited magnum opus: The Theory of Communicative Action. This pathbreaking work is guided by three interrelated concerns: (1) to develop a concept of communicative rationality... -
Spinal Catastrophism: A Secret History by Thomas Moynihan
RRP: £16.99£12.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913029562Author Thomas MoynihanFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Urbanomic Media LtdPublisher Urbanomic Media Ltd -
Arguing for a Better World: How to talk about the issues that divide us by Arianne Shahvisi
RRP: £20.00£12.05'Brings cooling clarity to the heat of today's culture wars' Priyamvada Gopal, author of Insurgent Empire'Allows us to not only interrogate our own views, but to persuade others using reason and optimism. A must read' Aaron Bastani, author of Fully... -
The Prison before the Panopticon: Incarceration in Ancient and Modern Political Philosophy Jacob Abolafia 9780674290631
RRP: £29.95£23.66A pioneering history of incarceration in Western political thought. The prison as we know it is a relatively new institution, established on a large scale in Europe and the United States only during the Enlightenment. Ideas and arguments about penal... -
The Good Robot: Why Technology Needs Feminism by Eleanor Drage 9781350399952
RRP: £21.99£19.41What is good technology? Is 'good' technology even possible? And how can feminism help us work towards it? The Good Robot addresses these crucial questions through the voices of leading feminist thinkers, activists and technologists. Each thinker... -
The Essential Schopenhauer: Key Selections from The World As Will and Representation and Other Writings by Arthur Schopenhauer
RRP: £9.99£6.64What is the meaning of life? How should I live? Is there any purpose to the universe? Generations have turned to the great German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer because he tackled the big issues. His influence has extended not only to later philosophers...