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Thomas Paine's Rights of Man: A Biography by Christopher Hitchens
RRP: $20.98$14.07Thomas 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... -
Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women by Kate Manne 9780141990743
RRP: $20.98$14.93'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 gender battles are won, pretty much every man I know,... -
You Matter: The Human Solution by Delia Smith
RRP: $31.48$29.00Apologies 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 -
Gaia and Philosophy by Lynn Margulis
RRP: $16.78$12.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781838003968Author Lynn MargulisFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Ignota BooksPublisher Ignota Books -
Marx: A Very Short Introduction by Peter Singer
RRP: $18.88$13.88Karl 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, renowned philosopher Peter Singer identifies the central... -
The Ascent Of Humanity by Charles Eisenstein
RRP: $48.30$32.70Apologies 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)... -
What Remains?: Life, Death and the Human Art of Undertaking by Rupert Callender
RRP: $42.00$28.04'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... -
24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep by Jonathan Crary
RRP: $23.08$13.9424/7: 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... -
Rental Person Who Does Nothing: A Memoir by Shoji Morimoto 9781035012800
RRP: $31.48$20.01Need a rental person who does nothing?Shoji Morimoto provides a fascinating service to the lonely and socially anxious. After an old boss told him that he contributed nothing and that it made no difference whether he showed up to work or not, he wondered... -
The Republic of Plato by Adam Kirsch
RRP: $39.88$27.62Long regarded as the most accurate rendering of Plato's Republic that has yet been published, this widely acclaimed work is the first strictly literal translation of a timeless classic. In addition to the annotated text, there is also a rich and... -
Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance: 40th Anniversary Edition by Robert M. Pirsig
RRP: $23.08$13.97Acclaimed as one of the most exciting books in the history of American letters, this modern epic became an instant bestseller upon publication in 1974, transforming a generation and continuing to inspire millions. A narration of a summer motorcycle trip... -
The Death Penalty, Volume II: Volume II by Jacques Derrida
RRP: $81.90$68.86In 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... -
Spinal Catastrophism: A Secret History by Thomas Moynihan
RRP: $35.68$26.78Apologies 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 -
Simone Weil: A Very Short Introduction by A. Rebecca Rozelle-Stone 9780192846969
RRP: $18.88$13.55This Very Short Introduction provides an overview of the intriguing and provocative life and ideas of twentieth century French philosopher, mystic, and social activist Simone Weil. Weil was not a typical, systematic philosopher. Despite her short life,... -
Arguing for a Better World: How to talk about the issues that divide us by Arianne Shahvisi
RRP: $42.00$25.31'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... -
Archive Fever: A Freudian Impression by Deceased Jacques Derrida
RRP: $44.10$37.30In Archive Fever, Jacques Derrida deftly guides us through an extended meditation on remembrance, religion, time, and technology-fruitfully occasioned by a deconstructive analysis of the notion of archiving. Intrigued by the evocative relationship... -
Biocultural Creatures: Toward a New Theory of the Human by Samantha Frost
RRP: $46.18$39.46In 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... -
The Idea of a Critical Theory: Habermas and the Frankfurt School by Raymond Geuss 9780521284226
RRP: $33.58$25.58Habermas and earlier members of the Frankfurt School have presented critical theory as a radically new form of knowledge. It is differentiated from the natural sciences as essentially 'reflective': the knowledge it provides guides us towards... -
Elegant Simplicity: The Art of Living Well by Satish Kumar
RRP: $31.48$20.75"A profound and accessible guide to an ecological civilization of peace, material sufficiency, and spiritual abundance for all." -David Korten, international-bestselling author of When Corporations Rule the World Consumerism drives the pursuit of... -
The Fashion System by Roland Barthes
RRP: $33.58$24.38Fashion 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 system of meaning and subjected it for the first time to... -
Gender-Critical Feminism by Holly Lawford-Smith 9780198863885
RRP: $63.00$57.96The 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... -
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke 9780872202160
RRP: $29.38$24.26Includes generous selections from the Essay, topically arranged passages from the replies to Stillingfleet, a chronology, a bibliography, a glossary, and an index based on the entries that Locke himself devised.About the AuthorJohn Locke (1632-1704) was... -
Prophecy without Contempt: Religious Discourse in the Public Square by Cathleen Kaveny
RRP: $56.60$44.04American culture warriors have plenty to argue about, but battles over such issues as abortion and torture have as much to do with rhetorical style as moral substance. Cathleen Kaveny reframes the debate about religion in the public square by focusing on... -
In the World Interior of Capital: Towards a Philosophical Theory of Globalization by Peter Sloterdijk 9780745647692
RRP: $41.98$37.15Displaying the distinctive combination of narration and philosophy for which he is well known, this new book by Peter Sloterdijk develops a radically new account of globalization at the beginning of the twenty-first century. The author takes seriously... -
The Analects by Confucius
RRP: $23.08$15.77Formed in a time of great unrest in ancient China, The Analects is vital to an understanding of Chinese history and thought, and, 2,500 years on, it remains startlingly relevant to contemporary life.Complete and unabridged. Part of the Macmillan... -
Retreat: The Risks and Rewards of Stepping Back from the World by Nat Segnit 9781529111309
RRP: $20.98$14.93Retreat takes us on a stunning journey through the many ways humans step back from daily life, both in today's world and in our past.'Open-minded, elegantly written and comprehensive' Daily TelegraphFrom mindfulness and meditation to yoga breaks and... -
The Women Are Up to Something: How Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Mary Midgley, and Iris Murdoch Revolutionized Ethics by Benjamin J.B. Lipscomb
RRP: $49.33$41.94The story of four remarkable women who shaped the intellectual history of the 20th century: Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Mary Midgley, and Iris Murdoch. On the cusp of the Second World War, four women went to Oxford to begin their studies: a... -
Drinking Molotov Cocktails with Gandhi by Mark Boyle
RRP: $23.00$14.66More 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 cultures and those in poverty, millions are realising that... -
Slow Down: How Degrowth Communism Can Save the Earth by Kohei Saito 9781399612982
RRP: $35.68$25.83Will green capitalism save the planet? Is it even trying?Not when the very logic of the capitalist system pits it against Earth's life-support systems, as the Japanese philosopher Kohei Saito demonstrates in this astonishing international bestseller... -
Ethics in the Real World: 90 Essays on Things That Matter – A Fully Updated and Expanded Edition by Peter Singer
RRP: $31.48$24.65Provocative 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 controversial. The author of important books such as... -
Home in the World: A Memoir by Amartya Sen 9781846144868
RRP: $52.50$37.84The extraordinary early life in India and England of one of the world's leading public intellectualsWhere is 'home'? For Amartya Sen home has been many places - Dhaka in modern Bangladesh where he grew up, the village of Santiniketan where he was raised... -
The Courage of Hopelessness: Chronicles of a Year of Acting Dangerously by Slavoj Zizek
RRP: $23.08$16.32The maverick philosopher returns to explore today's idealogical, political and economic battles, and asks whether radical change is possibleIn these troubled times, even the most pessimistic diagnosis of our future ends with an uplifting hint that things... -
Time and History in Hegelian Thought and Spirit by Sally Sedgwick
RRP: $126.00$113.67Time and History in Hegelian Thought and Spirit examines a conspicuous feature of Hegel's major works: that they are progressive narratives. They advance from less to more perfect, abstract to concrete, indeterminate or empty to determinate. This is... -
How to Focus: A Monastic Guide for an Age of Distraction by John Cassian 9780691208084
RRP: $31.48$24.93How you can learn to focus like a monk without living like oneDistraction isn't a new problem. We're also not the first to complain about how hard it is to concentrate. Early Christian monks beat us to it. They had given up everything to focus on God,... -
Politics and Ideology in Marxist Theory by Ernesto Laclau
$36.52Ernesto Laclau is best known for co-authoring Hegemony and Socialist Strategy, with Chantal Mouffe. Politically active in the social and student movements of the 1960s, and a member of PSIN (Socialist Party of the National Left), Laclau's oeuvre links... -
How to Be Free: An Ancient Guide to the Stoic Life by Epictetus 9780691177717
RRP: $31.48$24.89A superb new edition of Epictetus's famed handbook on Stoicism-translated by one of the world's leading authorities on Stoic philosophyBorn a slave, the Roman Stoic philosopher Epictetus (c. 55-135 AD) taught that mental freedom is supreme, since it can... -
Dylan at 80: It used to go like that, and now it goes like this by Gary Browning
RRP: $31.40$30.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788360456Author Gary BrowningFormat PaperbackImprint Imprint AcademicPublisher Imprint AcademicWeight(grams) 300gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 135mm * 14mm -
To Shape a New World: Essays on the Political Philosophy of Martin Luther King, Jr. by Tommie Shelby 9780674237834
RRP: $39.80$29.95"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... -
The Rape of the Lock and Other Major Writings by Alexander Pope
RRP: $27.28$19.09The 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 English poet of his age, whose acerbic insights into human... -
Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity--And Why This Harms Everybody by Helen Pluckrose
RRP: $52.40$39.75Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly Bestseller!Times, Sunday Times, and Financial Times Book-of-the-Year Selection! Have you heard that language is violence and that science is sexist? Have you read that certain people shouldn't...