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With Power Comes Responsibility: The Politics of Structural Injustice by Maeve McKeown 9781350195783
RRP: £21.99£19.28What is structural injustice, and who ultimately bears responsibility for it? In answering these questions Maeve McKeown goes beyond the widely accepted narrative of unintended consequences and blameless participation to explain how power and... -
Israel, Palestine and Terror by Stephen Law 9780826497932
RRP: £50.00£36.99This is an extraordinary collection of essays on a hugely topical subject from a team of leading philosophers from around the world.This extraordinary book brings together the thoughts of 15 leading philosophers on one of the most important political and... -
Everyday Utopia: In Praise of Radical Alternatives to the Traditional Family Home by Kristen Ghodsee 9781847927170
RRP: £20.00£14.29A practical and uplifting vision of better ways to live together, own property, have families and raise children, from the author of Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism.'Kristen Ghodsee is back with another splendid insight: utopia can and ought to... -
The Uses of Pessimism by Roger Scruton
RRP: £10.99£7.32Scruton argues that the tragedies and disasters of the history of the European continent have been the consequences of a false optimism and the fallacies that derive from it. In place of these fallacies, Scruton mounts a passionate defence of both civil... -
Critique of Everyday Life by Henri Lefebvre
RRP: £25.00£21.89The three-volume text by Henri Lefebvre is perhaps the richest, most prescient work about modern capitalism to emerge from one of the twentieth century's greatest philosophers and is now available for the first time in one complete volume. Written at... -
Epicureanism: A Very Short Introduction by Catherine Wilson
RRP: £8.99£6.45Epicureanism is commonly associated with a carefree view of life and the pursuit of pleasures, particularly the pleasures of the table. However it was a complex and distinctive system of philosophy that emphasized simplicity and moderation, and... -
How to Grow Old: Ancient Wisdom for the Second Half of Life by Marcus Tullius Cicero 9780691167701
RRP: £14.99£11.58Worried that old age will inevitably mean losing your libido, your health, and possibly your marbles too? Well, Cicero has some good news for you. In How to Grow Old, the great Roman orator and statesman eloquently describes how you can make the second... -
J.S. Mill by Alan Ryan
RRP: £36.99£32.53First published in 1974. As logician, economist, political theorist, practical politician and active champion of social freedom, John Stuart Mill is a figure of continuing importance. In this book the author does full justice to the range of Mill's... -
Getting Things Right: Fittingness, Reasons, and Value by Jonathan Way 9780198810322
RRP: £65.00£58.56Some of our attitudes are fitting, others unfitting. It seems fitting to admire Mandela, but not Idi Amin, and to believe that the Seine flows through Paris, but not that the Thames does. Fitting attitudes get things right. Conor McHugh and Jonathan Way... -
Trust: A Very Short Introduction by Katherine Hawley
RRP: £8.99£6.45Trust 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 is pragmatic, but it also has a moral dimension:... -
How To Think More About Sex by Alain de Botton 9781035019724
RRP: £9.99£6.52In 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 entirely normal when it comes to sex, and what we think we're... -
How to Know Everything: Ask Better Questions. Get Better Answers. Be A Better You by Elke Wiss
RRP: £10.99£7.77The international bestseller that will sharpen your mind, broaden your perspective and transform your relationships._____________________________________________________WHY ARE WE SO BAD AT ASKING GOOD QUESTIONS?In an increasingly polarized world, asking... -
The Fable of the Bees by Bernard Mandeville 9780140445411
RRP: £12.99£9.09A physician with a particular interest in psychological disorders and satirist, Mandeville published versions of his notorious Fable of the Bees from 1714 to 1732. Each was a defence and elaboration of his short satirical poem The Angry Hive, 1705. The... -
A Philosopher Looks at Sport by Stephen Mumford
RRP: £9.99£9.35Why is sport so important among participants and spectators when its goals seem so pointless? Stephen Mumford's book introduces the reader to a host of philosophical topics found in sport, and argues that sports activities reflect diverse human... -
Mind, Self, and Society: The Definitive Edition by George Herbert Mead
RRP: £26.00£25.25George Herbert Mead is widely recognized as one of the most brilliantly original American pragmatists. Although he had a profound influence on the development of social philosophy, he published no books in his lifetime. This makes the lectures collected... -
Bound by Convention: Obligations and Social Rules by David Owens 9780192896124
RRP: £71.00£64.64How should we assess the social structures that govern human conduct and settle whether we are bound by their rules? One approach is to ask whether those social arrangements (e.g. our family structures) reflect pre-conventional facts about our nature. If... -
Private Censorship by J.P. Messina 9780197581902
RRP: £22.99£19.56Concerns about censorship have once again reached a fever pitch across the liberal West. In other historical periods, such concerns may have marked reactions to book bans and burnings. Often, they followed prosecutions and subsequent jailtime for things... -
Jordan Peterson: Critical Responses by Sandra Woien
RRP: £16.99£11.67This is a collection of critical essays regarding the work of Jordan Peterson, a Canadian professor of psychology, clinical psychologist, YouTube personality, and author. Peterson began his career as a teacher at Harvard before receiving worldwide... -
The Oxford Handbook of Political Psychology by Leonie Huddy 9780197541302
£40.71Political psychology applies what is known about human psychology to the study of politics. It examines how people reach political decisions on topics such as voting, party identification, and political attitudes as well as how leaders mediate political... -
On the Suffering of the World by Arthur Schopenhauer 9781913462031
RRP: £14.99£9.80Edited 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 texts, produced during the last decades of Schopenhauer's... -
Contemporary Political Philosophy: An Introduction by Will Kymlicka
RRP: £52.99£49.95This edition of Will Kymlicka's best selling critical introduction to contemporary political theory has been fully revised to include many of the most significant developments in Anglo-American political philosophy in the last 11 years, particularly the... -
On Extinction: Beginning Again At The End by Ben Ware 9781788739993
RRP: £14.99£12.55On Extinction takes us on a breathtaking philosophical journey through desperate territory. As we face 'the end of all things', Ben Ware argues we must face our apocalyptic future without flinching. In fact, extinction is the very lens through which we... -
Diagnosing Social Pathology: Rousseau, Hegel, Marx, and Durkheim by Frederick Neuhouser
£30.73Can a human society suffer from illness like a living thing? And if so, how does such a malaise manifest itself? In this thought-provoking book, Fred Neuhouser explains and defends the idea of social pathology, demonstrating what it means to describe... -
On the Universal: The Uniform, the Common and Dialogue between Cultures by Francois Jullien 9780745646237
RRP: £17.99£16.04Francois Jullien, the leading philosopher and specialist in Chinese thought, has always aimed at building on inter-cultural relations between China and the West. In this new book he focuses on the following questions: Do universal values exist? Is... -
The Essential Mozi: Ethical, Political, and Dialectical Writings by Mo Zi
RRP: £12.99£9.09'The task of the benevolent person is surely to diligently seek to promote the benefit of the world and eliminate harm to the world' The Mozi is among the founding texts of the Chinese philosophical tradition, presenting China's earliest ethical,... -
On Love and Loneliness by J. Krishnamurti 9780062510136
RRP: £12.00£8.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062510136Author J. KrishnamurtiFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc -
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Trouble in Paradise: From the End of History to the End of Capitalism by Prof. Slavoj Zizek
RRP: £10.99£7.77In Trouble in Paradise, Slavoj Zizek, one of our most famous, most combative philosophers, explains how by drawing on the ideas of communism, we can find a way out of the crisis of capitalism.There is obviously trouble in the global capitalist paradise... -
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... -
Farewell Fear by Theodore Dalrymple 9780985439477
RRP: £17.99£13.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780985439477Author Theodore DalrympleFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint World Encounter Institute/New English Review PressPublisher World Encounter... -
The Entangled Activist: Learning to recognise the master's tools by Anthea Lawson
RRP: £15.00£12.56"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 campaign that rewrote the laws on secret company... -
Black Existentialism and Decolonizing Knowledge: Writings of Lewis R. Gordon by Rozena Maart
RRP: £21.99£17.42Black Existentialism and Decolonizing Knowledge collects key philosophical writings of Lewis R. Gordon, a globally renowned scholar whose writings cover liberation struggles across the globe and make field-defining contributions to the philosophy of... -
Ethics, Security, and the War Machine by Ned Dobos 9780192887849
RRP: £21.99£19.93If pacifists are correct in thinking that war is always unjust, then it follows that we ought to eliminate the possibility and temptation of ever engaging in it; we should not build war-making capacity, and if we already have, then demilitarization-or... -
How To Raise an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
RRP: £16.99£12.28**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**How do we talk to our children about racism?How do we teach children to be antiracist? How are kids at different ages experiencing race? How are racist structures impacting children? How can we inspire our children to avoid... -
A Philosopher Looks at Work by Raymond Geuss
RRP: £9.99£8.17Is work as we know it disappearing? And if so why should we care? These questions are explored by Raymond Geuss in this compact but sweeping survey which integrates conceptual analysis, historical reflection, autobiography and social commentary. Geuss... -
Awkwardness by Adam Kotsko
RRP: £6.99£6.25Awkwardness has been one of the defining traits of the awkwardly unnamed first decade of our young century, dominating comedy on both the big and small screens. Could this trend point toward something deeper? In Awkwardness, Adam Kotsko answers that... -
The Blame Game: How to Recover from the World's Oldest Addiction by Denis Liam Murphy
RRP: £20.00£12.86Honest happiness and effortless living are possible. You just have to heal from a blame addiction you didn't know you had.Life is designed to be effortless. It might not seem like it right now, but a deep sense of confidence, freedom, and serenity is... -
The History of Animals: A Philosophy by Oxana Timofeeva 9781350012011
RRP: £23.99£20.94Oxana Timofeeva's The History of Animals: A Philosophy is an original and ambitious treatment of the "animal question". While philosophers have always made distinctions between human beings and animals, Timofeeva imagines a world free of such walls and... -
Politics without Vision: Thinking without a Banister in the Twentieth Century by Tracy B. Strong
RRP: £25.00£24.34From Plato through the nineteenth century, the West could draw on comprehensive political visions to guide government and society. Now, for the first time in more than two thousand years, Tracy B. Strong contends, we have lost our foundational supports... -
Mexican Philosophy for the 21st Century: Relajo, Zozobra, and Other Frameworks for Understanding Our World by Carlos Alberto Sánchez 9781350319141
RRP: £16.99£16.12Mexican philosophy has been relegated for far too long to the margins of philosophy's global scene. Carlos Alberto Sanchez brings it to the front and centre by demonstrating that its figures, methods, and texts, supplement, enrich, and broaden the scope...