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The Past is a Future Country: The Coming Conservative Demographic Revolution by Edward Dutton
RRP: £14.95£14.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788360753Author Edward DuttonFormat PaperbackImprint Imprint AcademicPublisher Imprint AcademicWeight(grams) 320gDimensions(mm) 235mm * 156mm * 13mm -
Liberty and Equality by Raymond Aron 9780691226767
RRP: £16.99£13.34An 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 last lecture delivered at the College de France by... -
The Intellectual and His People: Staging the People Volume 2 by Jacques Ranciere
£12.37A classic collection of essay by Jacques Ranciere, that focuses on the ways in which radical philosophers understand the people they profess to speak for. The Intellectual and His People engages in an incisive and original way with current political and... -
The Decision Trap: Genetic Education and Its Social Consequences by Silja Samerski 9781845407766
£17.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845407766Author Silja SamerskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Imprint AcademicPublisher Imprint AcademicWeight(grams) 200g -
For a Left Populism by Chantal Mouffe
RRP: £9.99£6.64We are seeing the rise of a populist moment around the world on both the left and the right. Movements like Bernie Sander, Jeremy Corbyn, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez have emerged in the midst of the neoliberal crisis. In this book, leading political... -
From Modernity to Modernism (Towards a Metaphilosophy of Daily Life): v.3 by Henri Lefebvre 9781844671939
£17.78Henri Lefebvre's magnum opus: a monumental exploration of contemporary society.Henri Lefebvre's three-volume Critique of Everyday Life is perhaps the richest, most prescient work by one of the twentieth century's greatest philosophers. Written at the... -
The Secret Life of Books: Why They Mean More Than Words by Tom Mole
RRP: £9.99£6.65We love books. We take them to bed with us. We display them on our bookshelves. We write our names in them. They weigh down our suitcases when we go on holiday. We take them for granted. But there's much more to them than meets the eye.; From how books... -
Screened out by Jean Baudrillard 9781781681558
£24.52'Watching the president's Christmas message produces this necropolar, white-mass sensation. Seeing the video broadcast of the Christmas service in the cathedral itself, with these pathetic screens and the young worshippers slumped around them here and... -
Heidegger in Ruins: Between Philosophy and Ideology by Richard Wolin
RRP: £25.00£24.34What 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 Heidegger's key writings with a rich cultural, literary and... -
This Is Not a Peace Pipe: Towards a Critical Indigenous Philosophy by Dale R. Turner
RRP: £33.00£28.50How can indigenous people best assert their legal and political distinctiveness? In This is Not a Peace Pipe, Dale Turner explores indigenous intellectual culture and its relationship to, and within, the dominant Euro-American culture. He contends that... -
The Memory of Place: A Phenomenology of the Uncanny by Dylan Trigg 9780821420393
RRP: £29.99£26.39From the frozen landscapes of the Antarctic to the haunted houses of childhood, the memory of places we experience is fundamental to a sense of self. Drawing on influences as diverse as Merleau-Ponty, Freud, and J. G. Ballard, The Memory of Place charts... -
Pragmatism and Idealism: Rorty and Hegel on Representation and Reality by Robert B. Brandom 9780192870216
RRP: £11.99£11.30In this short book, based upon his Spinoza Lectures at the University of Amsterdam, Robert B. Brandom offers a pragmatist approach to representation and reality, drawing on Richard Rorty and Hegel. During the last decade of his life, Rorty emphasized... -
How Basketball Can Save the World: 13 Guiding Principles for Reimagining What's Possible by David Hollander
RRP: £23.00£15.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593234907Author David HollanderFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Harmony BooksPublisher Potter/Ten Speed/Harmony/Rodale -
Do Humankind's Best Days Lie Ahead? by Steven Pinker
RRP: £7.99£5.79'It's just a brute fact that we don't throw virgins into volcanoes any more. We don't execute people for shoplifting a cabbage. And we used to.' -Steven Pinker 'The idea that because things have gotten better in the past they will continue to do so... -
Losing Ourselves: Learning to Live without a Self by Jay L. Garfield
RRP: £22.00£16.99Why you don't have a self-and why that's a good thingIn Losing Ourselves, Jay Garfield, a leading expert on Buddhist philosophy, offers a brief and radically clear account of an idea that at first might seem frightening but that promises to liberate us... -
Conservatism: An Invitation to the Great Tradition by Roger Scruton 9781250170569
RRP: £24.99£14.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250170569Author Roger ScrutonFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint All Points BooksPublisher All Points BooksWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 216mm *... -
Ideas Have Consequences by Richard M. Weaver
RRP: £18.00£15.40Originally 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 diagnosis of the ills of the modern age. Widely read and... -
How to Be an Epicurean: The Ancient Art of Living Well by Catherine Wilson 9781541672635
RRP: £30.00£17.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541672635Author Catherine WilsonFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Basic BooksPublisher Basic BooksWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 239mm * 155mm * 28mm -
An Introduction to Feminism by Lorna Finlayson
RRP: £23.99£20.94As well as providing a clear and critical introduction to the theory, this refreshing overview focuses on the practice of feminism with coverage of actions and activism, bringing the subject to life for newcomers as well as offering fresh perspectives... -
How to Think Politically: Sages, Scholars and Statesmen Whose Ideas Have Shaped the World by James Bernard Murphy
RRP: £14.99£10.95'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. This book goes beyond the surface headlines, the fake news... -
How to Read Like a Parasite: Why the Left Got High on Nietzsche by Daniel Tutt 9781914420627
RRP: £12.99£8.60"Beautifully written and bursting with spirit, How to Read Like a Parasite is destined to be vital reading." - Matthew McManus, author of Nietzsche and the Politics of Reaction How to Read Like a Parasite overturns the whitewashed and defanged... -
Evolution of Desire: A Life of Rene Girard by Cynthia L Haven
RRP: £25.95£18.61Rene Girard (1923-2015) was one of the leading thinkers of our era - a provocative sage who bypassed prevailing orthodoxies to offer a bold, sweeping vision of human nature, human history, and human destiny. His oeuvre, offering a "mimetic theory" of... -
Malign Velocities: Accelerationism and Capitalism by Benjamin Noys 9781782793007
RRP: £9.99£8.59We are told our lives are too fast, subject to the accelerating demand that we innovate more, work more, enjoy more, produce more, and consume more. That's one familiar story. Another, stranger, story is told here: of those who think we haven't gone fast... -
On Not Being Someone Else: Tales of Our Unled Lives by Andrew H. Miller
RRP: £16.95£13.54"To be someone-to be anyone-is about...not being someone else. Miller's amused and inspired book is utterly compelling."-Adam Phillips"A compendium of expressions of wonder over what might have been...Swept up in our real lives, we quickly forget about... -
The Reason of Things: Living with Philosophy by A. C. Grayling
RRP: £9.99£6.80The follow-up to THE MEANING OF THINGS which continues A.C. Grayling's philosophical journey through lifeThe most important question we can ask ourselves is: what kind of life is the best? This is the same as asking: How does one give meaning to one's... -
The Good-Enough Life by Avram Alpert
RRP: £22.00£17.39How an acceptance of our limitations can lead to a more fulfilling life and a more harmonious societyWe live in a world oriented toward greatness, one in which we feel compelled to be among the wealthiest, most powerful, and most famous. This book... -
Ideology: An Introduction by Terry Eagleton
£20.96Ideology has never before been so much in evidence as a fact and so little understood as a concept as it is today. In this now classic work, originally written for both newcomers to the topic and for those already familiar with the debate, Terry Eagleton... -
Dressed: The Philosophy of Clothes by Dr Shahidha Bari
RRP: £10.99£7.77'A sensual and intellectual pleasure from start to finish' - Deborah Levy, author of The Cost of LivingWe are all dressed. But how often do we pause to think about the place of our clothes in our lives? What unconscious thoughts do we express when we... -
Seeing Things Politically: Interviews with Benedicte Delorme-Montini by Director D'Etudes A L'Ehess Pierre Manent
RRP: £24.00£20.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781587318139Author Pierre ManentFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint St Augustine's PressPublisher St Augustine's PressWeight(grams) 488gDimensions(mm)... -
The Power of Cute by Simon May 9780691181813
RRP: £15.99£14.79An exploration of cuteness and its immense hold on us, from emojis and fluffy puppies to its more uncanny, subversive expressionsCuteness has taken the planet by storm. Global sensations Hello Kitty and Pokemon, the works of artists Takashi Murakami and... -
Heroes: Mass Murder and Suicide by Francesco Berardi
RRP: £11.99£7.86What is the relationship between capitalism and mental health? Through an exhilarating mix of philosophical and psychoanalytical theory and reportage - from the suicide epidemic in Korea to the wave of American mass murders - the prominent Italian... -
The Corruption of Capitalism: Why rentiers thrive and work does not pay by Guy Standing 9781785906817
RRP: £9.99£7.11Politicians, 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 owners of property - financial, physical and intellectual... -
The Waste Books by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
RRP: £16.99£11.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780940322509Author Georg Christoph LichtenbeFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)... -
Heaven in Disorder by Slavoj Zizek
RRP: £12.99£8.63As we emerge (though perhaps only temporarily) from the pandemic, other crises move center stage: outrageous inequality, climate disaster, desperate refugees, mounting tensions of a new cold war. The abiding motif of our time is relentless chaos. ... -
How States Think: The Rationality of Foreign Policy by John J. Mearsheimer 9780300269307
RRP: £25.00£18.76A groundbreaking examination of a central question in international relations: Do states act rationally? To understand world politics, you need to understand how states think. Are states rational? Much of international relations theory assumes that... -
On Life and Death by Cicero 9780199644148
RRP: £9.99£7.11'any service I may have rendered my countrymen in my active life I may also extend to them... now that I am at leisure' Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC), Rome's greatest orator, had a career of intense activity in politics, the law courts and the... -
Caring Democracy: Markets, Equality, and Justice by Joan C. Tronto
RRP: £25.99£22.04A rethinking of American democracy that puts caring responsibilities at the center Americans now face a caring deficit: there are simply too many demands on people's time for us to care adequately for our children, elderly people, and ourselves.At the... -
Freedom and Despair: Notes from the South Hebron Hills by David Shulman
RRP: £18.00£15.40Lately, it seems as if we wake up to a new atrocity each day. Every morning is now a ritual of scrolling through our Twitter feeds or scanning our newspapers for the latest updates on fresh horrors around the globe. Despite the countless protests we... -
Leadership and Organization: A Philosophical Introduction by Sverre Spoelstra
RRP: £37.99£33.38This book is a philosophical exploration of the relationship between leadership and organization. Each chapter in the book sheds light on this relationship by exploring leadership with respect to a particular theme: charisma, authority, religion,... -
Philosophy For Dummies by Tom Morris
RRP: £17.99£12.54You think, therefore you are. Get a straightforward rundown on philosophy from the ancient world to today If you've ever pondered your existence over your morning coffee or considered the nature of crime and punishment, you're an amateur philosopher...