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We Hear Only Ourselves: Utopia, Memory, and Resistance Bill Cashmore 9781803415802
RRP: €10.79Booksplease Price: €8.14We Hear Only Ourselves is a study of utopia and its contradictions. If a future beyond capitalism cannot be imagined, what is the place of utopia today? The answer, Cashmore argues, lies beyond... -
Rhythmical Subjects: The Measures of the Modern by Laura Marcus 9780192883889
Booksplease Price: €38.08Tracing a developing fascination with rhythm's significance, its patterns, and its measures, across philosophy, psychology, science, and the whole range of arts, Rhythmical Subjects shows how and why... -
Against the Double Blackmail: Refugees, Terror and Other Troubles with the Neighbours by Slavoj Zizek
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €9.54'One of our best-known living philosophers' GuardianHow do we respond to the refugee crisis - by opening our doors, or pulling up the drawbridge? Both solutions, argues Slavoj Zizek, offer... -
The Disenchanted Earth: Reflections on Ecosocialism and Barbarism by Richard Seymour 9781911648413
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €8.88From Richard Seymour, one of the UK's leading public intellectuals, comes a characteristic blend of forensic insight and analysis, personal journey, and a vivid respect for the natural world. A... -
How to Innovate: An Ancient Guide to Creating Change by Armand D'Angour 9780691213736
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €15.88What we can learn about fostering innovation and creative thinking from some of the most inventive people of all times-the ancient GreeksWhen it comes to innovation and creative thinking, we are... -
The Return of the Political by Chantal Mouffe 9781788738569
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €8.69Chantal Mouffe is one of the most influential political theorists at work today. Her work has influenced political parties across Europe and continues to inform the direction of left politics. In... -
The Courage of Hopelessness: Chronicles of a Year of Acting Dangerously by Slavoj Zizek
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €11.08The 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... -
How to Focus: A Monastic Guide for an Age of Distraction by John Cassian 9780691208084
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €14.14How 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... -
Isaiah Berlin: An Interpretation of His Thought by John Gray
RRP: €30.00Booksplease Price: €28.43Isaiah Berlin (1909-1997) was the greatest intellectual historian of the twentieth century. But his work also made an original and important contribution to moral and political philosophy and to... -
The Te of Piglet by Benjamin Hoff 9780140230161
Booksplease Price: €12.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780140230161Author Benjamin HoffFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint -
Speed and Politics by Paul Virilio
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €12.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781584350408Author Paul VirilioFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint < -
Carpe Diem Regained: The Vanishing Art of Seizing the Day by Roman Krznaric 9781783524938
RRP: €10.79Booksplease Price: €8.80Existentialism is backCarpe diem - 'seize the day' - is one of the oldest pieces of life advice in Western history. But its true spirit has been hijacked by ad men and self-help gurus, reduced to the... -
The Road from Mont Pelerin: The Making of the Neoliberal Thought Collective, With a New Preface by Philip Mirowski
RRP: €31.14Booksplease Price: €27.00Although modern neoliberalism was born at the "Colloque Walter Lippmann" in 1938, it only came into its own with the founding of the Mont Pelerin Society, a partisan "thought collective," in Vevey,... -
The Benjamin Files Fredric Jameson 9781839765575
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €12.50The Benjamin Files offers a comprehensive new reading of all of Benjamin's major works and a great number of his shorter book reviews, notes and letters. Its premise is that Benjamin was an... -
Love: A History by Simon May 9780300187748
RRP: €20.39Booksplease Price: €18.66An illuminating exploration of how love has been shaped, idolized, and misconstrued by the West over three millennia, and how we might differently conceive it Love-unconditional, selfless,... -
Infinitely Full of Hope: Fatherhood and the Future in an Age of Crisis and Disaster Tom Whyman 9781913462253
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €9.62A philosophical memoir about becoming a father in an increasingly terrible world. Can I hope the child growing in my partner's womb will have a good-enough life? For Kant, philosophy boiled down... -
The Case against Perfection: Ethics in the Age of Genetic Engineering by Michael J. Sandel
RRP: €22.74Booksplease Price: €19.81"Sandel explores a paramount question of our era: how to extend the power and promise of biomedical science to overcome debility without compromising our humanity. His arguments are acute and... -
Of The Social Contract and Other Political Writings by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €10.99'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... -
Hegemony and socialist strategy: Towards a radical democratic politics by Ernesto Laclau
RRP: €19.19Booksplease Price: €17.77In this hugely influential book, Laclau and Mouffe examine the workings of hegemony and contemporary social struggles, and their significance for democratic theory. With the emergence of new social... -
The Minority Body: A Theory of Disability by Elizabeth Barnes 9780198822417
Booksplease Price: €16.80Elizabeth Barnes argues compellingly that disability is primarily a social phenomenon-a way of being a minority, a way of facing social oppression, but not a way of being inherently or intrinsically... -
Surviving the Future: Culture, Carnival and Capital in the Aftermath of the Market Economy David Fleming 9781603586467
RRP: €16.79Booksplease Price: €11.65Surviving the Future is a story drawn from the fertile ground of the late David Fleming's extraordinary Lean Logic: A Dictionary for the Future and How to Survive It. That hardback consists of four... -
Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand by Leonard Peikoff 9780452011014
RRP: €26.40Booksplease Price: €18.80THE 25TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION-The definitive statement of Ayn Rand's philosophy as interpreted by her best student and chosen heir. This brilliantly conceived and organized book is Dr. Leonard... -
Materialism and Empirio-criticism by V I Lenin 9781913026202
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €16.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913026202Author V I LeninFormat PaperbackPage Count 338Imprint -
The Ascent Of Humanity by Charles Eisenstein
RRP: €27.60Booksplease Price: €19.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583945353Author Charles EisensteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprin -
Leviathan and Its Enemies by Samuel T Francis 9781593680749
RRP: €33.60Booksplease Price: €28.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781593680749Author Samuel T FrancisFormat PaperbackPage Count 794Imprint
The Social Contract and The First and Second Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau 9780300091410
Booksplease Price: €20.09Jean-Jacques Rousseau's ideas about society, culture, and government are pivotal in the history of political thought. His works are as controversial as they are relevant today. This volume brings...
Heidegger in Ruins: Between Philosophy and Ideology by Richard Wolin
Booksplease Price: €31.25What does it mean when a radical understanding of National Socialism is inextricably embedded in the work of the twentieth century's most important philosopher? "Combines close readings of...
Hegel in A Wired Brain by Slavoj Zizek 9781350264045
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €15.37Slavoj Zizek gives us a reading of a philosophical giant that changes our way of thinking about the new posthuman era. No ordinary study of Hegel, this work investigates what he might have had to...
Cicero: On the Commonwealth and On the Laws by James E. G. Zetzel
Booksplease Price: €29.57Cicero's On the Commonwealth and On the Laws were his first and most substantial attempts to adapt Greek theories of political life to the circumstances of the Roman Republic. They represent Cicero's...
Conversations with Roger Scruton by Mark Dooley 9781472917096
RRP: €38.40Booksplease Price: €29.08A candid and personal insight into the life and work of the philosopher and writer Roger Scruton, by his intellectual biographer Mark Dooley. This book reveals what life was like for Roger Scruton...
Is Democracy Failing?: A primer for the 21st century Niheer Dasandi 9780500293652
RRP: €15.54Booksplease Price: €11.09The Big Idea shortlisted for series design in the British Design and Production AwardsOnly four countries around the world do not currently define themselves as democracies. But many more do not...
Hobbes on Civil Association by Michael Oakeshott
RRP: €13.14Booksplease Price: €9.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865972919Author Michael OakeshottFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint
The Tyranny of Merit: Can We Find the Common Good? by Michael J Sandel
RRP: €21.60Booksplease Price: €10.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250800060Author Michael J SandelFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint
Suburban Socialism by Oly Durose
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €11.11In December 2019, Oly Durose lost by over 25,000 votes as the Labour Party Parliamentary Candidate for Brentwood & Ongar. Revealing what it's like to stand on a socialist platform in one of the...
On Human Rights by James Griffin
RRP: €40.19Booksplease Price: €37.88What is a human right? How can we tell whether a proposed human right really is one? How do we establish the content of particular human rights, and how do we resolve conflicts between them? These...
Culture by Terry Eagleton
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €12.06One of our most brilliant minds offers a sweeping intellectual history that argues for the reclamation of culture's value Culture is a defining aspect of what it means to be human. Defining culture...
Safe: On Black British Men Reclaiming Space by Derek Owusu
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €8.88'It's brave and honest, and not a moment too soon.' Afua Hirsch, Brit(ish)'[An] outstanding myth-busting book. Everyone should read it.' Bernardine EvaristoWhat is the experience of Black men in...
Is Ireland Neutral: The Many Myths of Irish Neutrality by Conor Gallagher
RRP: €22.79Booksplease Price: €17.45Neutrality has, supposedly, long been a pillar of the Irish national identity. But examining the concept reveals it to be a vague, flimsy and elastic notion that, throughout history, various...
The World According to Tom Hanks: The Life, the Obsessions, the Good Deeds of America's Most Decent Guy by Gavin Edwards 9781538712207
RRP: €31.20Booksplease Price: €24.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781538712207Author Gavin EdwardsFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint
Lean Logic: A Dictionary for the Future and How to Survive It David Fleming 9781603586481
RRP: €48.00Booksplease Price: €33.47Lean Logic is David Fleming's masterpiece, the product of more than thirty years' work and a testament to the creative brilliance of one of Britain's most important intellectuals. A dictionary...