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The Lessons of Tragedy: Statecraft and World Order by Hal Brands
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $28.51An eloquent call to draw on the lessons of the past to address current threats to international order The ancient Greeks hard-wired a tragic sensibility into their culture. By looking disaster... -
Politics and Vision: Continuity and Innovation in Western Political Thought - Expanded Edition by Sheldon S. Wolin 9780691174051
RRP: $59.50Booksplease Price: $47.65Politics and Vision is a landmark work by one of the great thinkers of the twentieth century. This is a significantly expanded edition of one of the greatest works of modern political theory. Sheldon... -
Natural Law and Natural Rights by John Finnis
RRP: $113.03Booksplease Price: $101.22First published in 1980, Natural Law and Natural Rights is widely heralded as a seminal contribution to the philosophy of law, and an authoritative restatement of natural law doctrine. It has offered... -
Famine, Affluence, and Morality by Peter Singer
RRP: $22.59Booksplease Price: $17.26In 1972, Peter Singer published "Famine, Affluence and Morality," which rapidly became one of the most widely discussed essays in applied ethics. Through this article, Singer presents his view that... -
A Calendar of Wisdom by Leo Tolstoy
RRP: $21.40Booksplease Price: $16.78Over the last fifteen years of his life, Tolstoy collected and published the maxims of some of the world's greatest masters of philosophy, religion and literature, adding his own contributions to... -
Liberty and Equality by Raymond Aron 9780691226767
RRP: $40.44Booksplease Price: $34.15An invaluable reflection on the essence of liberal democracy-and an ideal introduction to the work of political philosopher Raymond AronLiberty and Equality is the first English translation of the... -
The Monarchy of Fear: A Philosopher Looks at Our Political Crisis by Martha C. Nussbaum 9780192897718
RRP: $36.87Booksplease Price: $28.54'A manifesto for hope' Literary Review From one of the world's most celebrated moral philosophers comes a thorough examination of the current political crisis and recommendations for how to mend... -
Zoopolis: A Political Theory of Animal Rights by Sue Donaldson
RRP: $74.95Booksplease Price: $68.95Zoopolis offers a new agenda for the theory and practice of animal rights. Most animal rights theory focuses on the intrinsic capacities or interests of animals, and the moral status and moral rights... -
We Can Do Better Than This: 35 Voices on the Future of LGBTQ+ Rights by Amelia Abraham
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $22.51How do we shape a better world for LGBTQ+ people? Olly Alexander, Peppermint, Owen Jones, Beth Ditto, Shon Faye and more share their stories and visions for the future.'A vital addition to your... -
On the Suffering of the World Arthur Schopenhauer 9781913462031
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $24.99Edited and with an introduction by Eugene Thacker, On the Suffering of the World comprises a core selection of Schopenhauer's later writings, gathered together for the first time in print. These... -
The Right to Oblivion: Privacy and the Good Life Lowry Pressly 9780674260528
RRP: $71.28Booksplease Price: $53.60A New Yorker Best Book of the Year"It is a radiantly original contribution to a conversation gravely in need of new thinking."-Ben Tarnoff, The New YorkerA visionary reexamination of the value of... -
Trust: A Very Short Introduction by Katherine Hawley
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $17.26Trust is indispensable, yet it can be dangerous. Without trusting others, we cannot function in society, or even stay alive for very long, but being overly-trustful can be a bad strategy too. Trust... -
Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life by Zena Hitz 9780691229195
RRP: $33.30Booksplease Price: $27.94An invitation to readers from every walk of life to rediscover the impractical splendors of a life of learningIn an overloaded, superficial, technological world, in which almost everything and... -
The Corruption of Capitalism: Why rentiers thrive and work does not pay by Guy Standing 9781785906817
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $18.40Politicians, financiers and bureaucrats claim to believe in free competitive markets, yet they have built the most unfree market system ever created. In this Gilded Age, income is funnelled to the... -
Post-Truth by Lee McIntyre
RRP: $38.06Booksplease Price: $22.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Winner of the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Titles for 2018 2018.Book InformationISBN 9780262535045Author -
Autobiography by John Stuart Mill
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $18.40It may be useful that there should be some record of an education which was unusual and remarkable John Stuart Mill (1806-73), philosopher, economist, and political thinker, was the most prominent... -
Retreat: The Risks and Rewards of Stepping Back from the World by Nat Segnit 9781529111309
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $17.83Retreat 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... -
Philosophy of Care by Boris Groys
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $17.23Our current culture is dominated by the ideology of creativity. One is supposed to create the new and not to care about the things as they are. This ideology legitimises the domination of the... -
New Radical Enlightenment: Philosophy for a Common World by Marina Garcés 9781839762987
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $24.80Philosophy was born out of discussion, out of the rivalry between world views. From the philosophical ferment of the Enlightenment arose the idea of emancipation, a conflictual perspective which... -
How To Think More About Sex by Alain de Botton 9781035019724
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $17.61In this rigorous and supremely honest book Alain de Botton helps us navigate the intimate and exciting - yet often confusing and difficult - experience that is sex.Few of us tend to feel we're... -
Thinking Without a Banister: Essays in Understanding, 1953-1975 by Hannah Arendt 9780805211658
RRP: $52.36Booksplease Price: $47.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805211658Author Hannah ArendtFormat PaperbackPage Count 608Imprint -
Man, the State, and War: A Theoretical Analysis by Kenneth N. Waltz
RRP: $59.50Booksplease Price: $50.93What are the causes of war? To answer this question, Professor Waltz examines the ideas of major thinkers throughout the history of Western civilization. He explores works both by classic political... -
The Entangled Activist: Learning to recognise the master's tools by Anthea Lawson
RRP: $35.70Booksplease Price: $30.94"I'd been an activist for years. I'd marched, protested, blocked the road, been arrested. I'd exposed how banks and tax havens fuel corruption, poverty and environmental destruction. I'd launched a... -
Incerto: Fooled by Randomness, the Black Swan, the Bed of Procrustes, Antifragile, Skin in the Game by Nassim Nicholas Taleb 9780593243657
RRP: $235.62Booksplease Price: $152.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593243657Author Nassim Nicholas TalebFormat PaperbackPage Count 1872 -
The Frock-Coated Communist: The Revolutionary Life of Friedrich Engels by Tristram Hunt
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $28.04Friedrich Engels is one of the most attractive and contradictory figures of the nineteenth century. Born to a prosperous mercantile family in west Germany, he spent his career working in the... -
Anti-Tech Revolution: Why and How by Theodore John Kaczynski 9781944228026
RRP: $38.06Booksplease Price: $32.61"There are many people today who see that modern society is heading toward disaster in one form or another, and who moreover recognize technology as the common thread linking the principal dangers... -
Because We Say So by Noam Chomsky
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $18.92Because We Say So is Noam Chomsky's essential counter punch to American hegemonyIn 1962, the eminent statesman Dean Acheson enunciated a principle that has dominated global politics ever since: that... -
Why Grow Up?: Subversive Thoughts for an Infantile Age by Susan Neiman
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $21.97In Why Grow Up, the latest volume in the Philosophy in Transit series, world-renowned philosopher Susan Neiman looks at growing up as an ideal with urgent relevance todayBecoming an adult today can... -
#Accelerate: The Accelerationist Reader by Robin Mackay 9780957529557
RRP: $59.50Booksplease Price: $57.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957529557Author Robin MackayFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint < -
Redistribution or Recognition?: A Political-Philosophical Exchange by Nancy Fraser
RRP: $47.58Booksplease Price: $43.58"Recognition" has become a veritable keyword of our time, but its relation to "redistribution" remains undertheorized. This volume remedies the lacuna by staging a sustained debate between two... -
After the Fact?: The Truth About Fake News Marcus Gilroy-Ware 9781912248735
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $22.04Why are journalists and politicians trusted to tell the truth as little as estate agents? How can democracy function when everybody just believes whatever they want? Will we ever return to "normal"? ... -
Ideas Have Consequences by Richard M. Weaver
Booksplease Price: $50.10Originally published in 1948, at the height of post-World War II optimism and confidence in collective security, Ideas Have Consequences uses "words hard as cannonballs" to present an unsparing... -
Toward the Critique of Violence: A Critical Edition by Walter Benjamin
RRP: $47.58Booksplease Price: $42.27Marking the centenary of Walter Benjamin's immensely influential essay, "Toward the Critique of Violence," this critical edition presents readers with an altogether new, fully annotated translation... -
Feminist, Queer, Crip by Alison Kafer 9780253009340
RRP: $49.96Booksplease Price: $42.86In Feminist, Queer, Crip Alison Kafer imagines a different future for disability and disabled bodies. Challenging the ways in which ideas about the future and time have been deployed in the service... -
The philosophy of Marx by Etienne Balibar 9781784786038
RRP: $42.82Booksplease Price: $35.58Written by one of political theory's leading thinkers, The Philosophy of Marx examines all the key areas of Marx's writings in their wider historical and theoretical context-including the concepts of... -
How to Run a Country: An Ancient Guide for Modern Leaders by Quintus Tullius Cicero 9780691156576
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $26.39Marcus Cicero, Rome's greatest statesman and orator, was elected to the Roman Republic's highest office at a time when his beloved country was threatened by power-hungry politicians, dire economic... -
Double-Tracking: Studies in Duplicity by Rosanna McLaughlin 9780995705227
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $19.71To double-track is to be both: counter-cultural and establishment, rich and poor, a bum with the keys to a country retreat, an exotic addition to the dinner table who still knows how to find their... -
The Politics of Friendship by Jacques Derrida
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $21.78Jacques Derrida was one of most influential philosophers of the 20th century. In The Politics of Friendship he explores the idea of friendship and its political consequences, past and future in order... -
A Sense of Belonging: How to find your place in a fractured world Dr Holan Liang 9781780724683
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $24.99A sense of belonging - being liked, understood, accepted for who we are - is vital for our mental health. Whether it is fitting in at school, struggling to connect with colleagues in a new job, or... -
Solitude: In Pursuit of a Singular Life in a Crowded World by Michael Harris
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $19.40'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...