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The Sacred Conspiracy: The Internal Papers of the Secret Society of Acephale and Lecturers to the College of Sociology by Georges Bataille
RRP: $33.49Booksplease Price: $32.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781900565950Author Georges BatailleFormat HardbackPage Count 480Imprint -
The Case for Working with Your Hands: Or Why Office Work is Bad for Us and Fixing Things Feels Good by Matthew Crawford
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $11.51It'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... -
Drinking Molotov Cocktails with Gandhi by Mark Boyle
RRP: $14.67Booksplease Price: $10.18More than ever, people across the planet want deep and meaningful change. From those campaigning for social justice and ecological sustainability, to those who want to protect animals, indigenous... -
Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work by Nick Srnicek 9781784786229
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![The Uprising: On Poetry and Finance: Volume 14 by Franco "Bifo" Berardi](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/362259/8615166/9781584351122__09338.1743191299.jpg?c=1 "The Uprising: On Poetry and Finance: Volume 14 by Franco "Bifo" Berardi")
The Uprising: On Poetry and Finance: Volume 14 by Franco "Bifo" Berardi
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $13.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781584351122Author Franco "Bifo" BerardiFormat PaperbackPage Count 176 -
Decolonial Marxism: Essays from the Pan-African Revolution by 9781839764110
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $19.08Early in life, Walter Rodney became a major revolutionary figure in a dizzying range of locales that traversed the breadth of the Black diaspora: in North America and Europe, in the Caribbean and on... -
The Fashion System by Roland Barthes
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.71Fashion never ceases to interest psychologists, aestheticians and sociologists. Roland Barthes, however, examined fashion from a new point of view. Using descriptions from magazines, he uncovered a... -
What Remains?: Life, Death and the Human Art of Undertaking Rupert Callender 9781645020509
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $7.76'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,... -
How to Win an Argument: An Ancient Guide to the Art of Persuasion by Marcus Tullius Cicero 9780691164335
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.79All 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... -
On Liberty by Shami Chakrabarti
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65On Liberty is the story of today's threats to our freedoms and a highly personal, impassioned plea in defence of fundamental rights, from Shami Chakrabarti, Britain's leading human rights... -
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding: Second Treatise of Goverment by John Locke 9781840227321
RRP: $8.03Booksplease Price: $6.94Notes and Introduction by Mark G. Spencer, Brock University, Ontario John Locke (1632-1704) was perhaps the most influential English writer of his time. His Essay concerning Human Understanding... -
Outlines of the Philosophy of Right by G. W. F. Hegel
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $14.02What is rational is actual and what is actual is rational. Hegel's Outlines of the Philosophy of Right is one of the greatest works of moral, social, and political philosophy. It contains... -
Quit Everything: Interpreting Depression Franco Berardi 9781915672513
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41Depression is rife amongst young people the world over. But what if this isn't depression as we know it, but instead a reaction to the chaos and collapse of a seemingly unchangeable and unliveable... -
Avatar – The Last Airbender and Philosophy – Wisdom from Aang to Zuko by H De Cruz
RRP: $22.71Booksplease Price: $15.93Would our world be a better place if some of us were benders? Can Katara repair the world through care? Is Toph a disability pride icon? What does it mean for Zuko to be bad at being good? Can we... -
Fair or Foul: The Lady Macbeth Guide to Ambition Stefan Stern 9781800183186
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.58Fair or Foul considers different aspects of ambition and its place in our lives. It asks: what does success mean? When is enough enough? And is Lady Macbeth right to suggest that only those with the... -
Moral Clarity: A Guide for Grown-up Idealists by Susan Neiman 9780099526278
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.63In Moral Clarity, Susan Neiman shows how the philosophical resources of the eighteenth-century Englightenment can help us to construct a politics that does not repeat the mistakes of Marxism or... -
How to Think Politically: Sages, Scholars and Statesmen Whose Ideas Have Shaped the World by James Bernard Murphy
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.79'A wonderful introduction to history's most influential scribblers' - Steven Pinker What is truly at stake in politics? Nothing less than how we should live, as individuals and as communities... -
Liberalism: A Counter-History by Domenico Losurdo
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.65In 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 Silence of Animals: On Progress and Other Modern Myths by John Gray
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.37The powerful, beautiful and chilling sequel to the bestselling Straw Dogs'By nature volatile and discordant, the human animal looks to silence for relief from being itself while other creatures enjoy... -
The ego and his own: The case of the individual against authority by Max Stirner
Booksplease Price: $37.43The Ego and His Own, the seminal defence of individualism, coloured the thinking of Friedrich Nietzsche, Max Ernst, Henrik Ibsen and Victor Serge, among many others, some of whom would vigorously... -
A Brief History of Equality by Thomas Piketty 9780674295469
RRP: $21.37Booksplease Price: $17.18A New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceA Public Books Best Book of the Year"A profound and optimistic call to action and reflection. For Piketty, the arc of history is long, but it does bend... -
Being Good: A Short Introduction to Ethics by Simon Blackburn
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.19It is not only in our dark hours that scepticism, relativism, hypocrisy, and nihilism dog ethics. Whether it is a matter of giving to charity, or sticking to duty, or insisting on our rights, we can... -
The Future of Nostalgia by Svetlana Boym
Booksplease Price: $29.90Combining personal memoir, philosophical essay, and historical analysis, Svetlana Boym explores the spaces of collective nostalgia that connect national biography and personal self-fashioning in the... -
Violence and the Sacred by Rene Girard
Booksplease Price: $29.47Violence and the Sacred is Rene Girard's landmark study of human evil. Here Girard explores violence as it is represented and occurs throughout history, literature and myth. Girard's forceful and... -
German Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction by Andrew Bowie
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.67German philosophy remains the core of modern philosophy. Without Kant, Frege, Wittgenstein, and Husserl there would be no Anglo-American 'analytical' style of philosophy. Moreover, without Kant,... -
Creating Capabilities: The Human Development Approach by Martha C. Nussbaum 9780674072350
RRP: $24.05Booksplease Price: $18.75If a country's Gross Domestic Product increases each year, but so does the percentage of its people deprived of basic education, health care, and other opportunities, is that country really making... -
The Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord 9781922491282
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $9.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781922491282Author Guy DebordFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint -
Bold Ventures: Thirteen Tales of Architectural Tragedy Charlotte Van den Broeck 9781784743987
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.07'Bold Ventures resembles a pop version of Iain Sinclair's psychogeography or Out of Sheer Rage, Geoff Dyer's anti-biography of DH Lawrence' Olivia Laing, GUARDIAN'A marvel: a monument to human beings... -
Fortunes of Feminism: From State-Managed Capitalism to Neoliberal Crisis by Nancy Fraser
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.26Second Wave feminism emerged as a struggle for women's liberation and took its place alongside other radical movements. But feminism's subsequent immersion in identity politics coincided with a... -
Scepticism: A Very Short Introduction by Duncan Pritchard
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.36Throughout history scepticism and the urge to question accepted truths has been a powerful force for change and growth. Today, as we are bombarded by adverts, scientific studies praising the latest... -
Lifescapes: A Biographer’s Search for the Soul by Ann Wroe 9781787334458
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $19.48The acclaimed biographer and obituarist for The Economist reflects on a career spent pursuing life and capturing it on the page***A FINANCIAL TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES AND TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT BOOK OF... -
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Vintage Feminism Short Edition) by Mary Wollstonecraft
RRP: $9.37Booksplease Price: $7.38Discover 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... -
Economy and Society: A New Translation by Max Weber
RRP: $32.09Booksplease Price: $25.45The definitive new translation of Max Weber's classic work of social theory-arguably the most important book by the foremost social theorist of the twentieth century.Max Weber's Economy and Society... -
Why We Drive: On Freedom, Risk and Taking Back Control by Matthew Crawford
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.04Why We Drive is a rebellious and daring celebration of the human spirit and the competence of ordinary people by the bestselling author of The Case for Working with Your Hands.Once we were drivers on... -
Why Not Socialism? by G. A. Cohen 9780691143613
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $12.05Is socialism desirable? Is it even possible? In this concise book, one of the world's leading political philosophers presents with clarity and wit a compelling moral case for socialism and argues... -
I Drink Therefore I Am: A Philosopher's Guide to Wine by Roger Scruton
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $18.69Here Scruton explains the connection between good wine and serious thought with a heady mix of humour and philosophy. We are familiar with the medical opinion that a daily glass of wine is good... -
Aspiration: The Agency of Becoming by Agnes Callard 9780190085148
Booksplease Price: $45.55Becoming someone is a learning process; and what we learn is the new values around which, if we succeed, our lives will come to turn. Agents transform themselves in the process of, for example,... -
Seeing Double by Raymond Geuss 9781509560882
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $20.35The world is never going to make complete sense to us, yet we find that conclusion almost impossible to accept. Can we live, and feel at home, in a world composed at best of incompatible fragments of... -
The Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at the College de France, 1978-1979 by Michel Foucault
RRP: $36.17Booksplease Price: $29.28Foucault continues on the theme of his 1978 course by focusing on the study of liberal and neo-liberal forms of government and concentrating in particular on two forms of neo-liberalism: German... -
Late Fascism: Race, Capitalism and the Politics of Crisis by Alberto Toscano 9781839760204
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $15.26The rich archive of twentieth-century debates on fascism can steer a path through an increasingly authoritarian present. Developing anti-fascist theory is an urgent and vital task. From the 'Great...