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After Utopia: The Decline of Political Faith by Judith N. Shklar
RRP: £25.00£19.99A political philosophy classic from one of the foremost political thinkers of the twentieth centuryAfter Utopia was Judith Shklar's first book, a harbinger of her renowned career in political philosophy. Throughout the many changes in political thought... -
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... -
The Ethics and Politics of Asylum: Liberal Democracy and the Response to Refugees by Matthew J. Gibney 9780521009379
RRP: £26.99£24.08Asylum has become a highly charged political issue across developed countries, raising a host of difficult ethical and political questions. What responsibilities do the world's richest countries have to refugees arriving at their borders? Are states... -
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... -
How to Be an Epicurean: The Ancient Art of Living Well by Catherine Wilson 9781541672635
RRP: £30.00£17.48Apologies 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 -
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... -
Why Does Inequality Matter? by T. M. Scanlon 9780198812692
RRP: £26.99£22.80Inequality is widely regarded as morally objectionable: T. M. Scanlon investigates why it matters to us. Demands for greater equality can seem puzzling, because it can be unclear what reason people have for objecting to the difference between what they... -
How to Read Like a Parasite: Why the Left Got High on Nietzsche 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... -
I Think, Therefore I Draw: Understanding Philosophy Through Cartoons by Daniel Klein
RRP: £9.99£7.46In this joyous introduction to the major debates in Western philosophy, we see how cartoons can shed light and humour on life's Big Questions. Topics such as gender, morality and the meaning of life are examined here with a razor wit and eye. Open... -
Caste Matters by Suraj Yengde 9780670091225
RRP: £43.95£14.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780670091225Author Suraj Milind YengdeFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Penguin VikingPublisher Penguin Random House India -
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... -
The Ant Trap: Rebuilding the Foundations of the Social Sciences by Brian Epstein 9780190871758
RRP: £30.49£22.37We live in a world of crowds and corporations, artworks and artifacts, legislatures and languages, money and markets. These are all social objects - they are made, at least in part, by people and by communities. But what exactly are these things? How are... -
Malign Velocities - Accelerationism and Capitalism 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... -
The Reason of Things: Living with Philosophy Prof A.C. Grayling 9780753817131
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... -
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... -
Ideology: An Introduction by Terry Eagleton
£20.43Ideology 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... -
Far-Right Newspeak and the Future of Liberal Democracy by A. James McAdams 9781032566269
RRP: £37.99£33.38This book is the first systematic, multicountry exploration of far-right Newspeak.The contributors analyze the ways in which contemporary far-right politicians, intellectuals, and pundits use and abuse traditional liberal concepts and ideas to justify... -
Losing Ourselves: Learning to Live without a Self by Jay L. Garfield
RRP: £30.00£23.29Why 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... -
Philosophy For Dummies Tom Morris 9781119875673
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... -
Seeing Things Politically - Interviews with Benedicte Delorme-Montini Pierre Manent 9781587318139
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)... -
Heroes: Mass Murder and Suicide by Francesco Berardi
RRP: £11.99£9.70What 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... -
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... -
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... -
Thoughtfulness and the Rule of Law by Jeremy Waldron 9780674290778
RRP: £37.95£30.51An essential study of the rule of law by one of the world's leading liberal political and legal philosophers.The meaning and value of the rule of law have been debated since antiquity. For many, the rule of law has become the essence of good government... -
Revolutionary Ideas: An Intellectual History of the French Revolution from The Rights of Man to Robespierre by Jonathan Israel 9780691169712
RRP: £28.00£22.80Historians of the French Revolution used to take for granted what was also obvious to its contemporary observers--that the Revolution was shaped by the radical ideas of the Enlightenment. Yet in recent decades, scholars have argued that the Revolution... -
What World Is This?: A Pandemic Phenomenology by Judith Butler
RRP: £14.99£10.92The pandemic compels us to ask fundamental questions about our place in the world: the many ways humans rely on one another, how we vitally and sometimes fatally breathe the same air, share the surfaces of the earth, and exist in proximity to other... -
Introducing Machiavelli: A Graphic Guide by Patrick Curry 9781848311756
RRP: £8.99£4.04Illustrated guide to the crucial Italian philosopher and author of The Prince. 'Machiavellian' is a popular byword for treachery and opportunism. Machiavelli's classic book on statecraft, The Prince, published over 400 years ago, remains controversial to... -
Conversations from Calais: Sharing Refugee Stories by Mathilda Della Torre
RRP: £14.99£10.64'A beautiful, deeply affecting and powerful marriage between art and activism' - KHALED HOSSEINI, bestselling author of The Kite Runner'These are vital conversations. Everyone should eavesdrop on them'- KAMILA SHAMSIE, author of award-winning bestseller... -
Avatar – The Last Airbender and Philosophy – Wisdom from Aang to Zuko by H De Cruz
RRP: £16.95£11.51Would our world be a better place if some of us were benders? Can Katara repair the world through care? Is Toph a disability pride icon? What does it mean for Zuko to be bad at being good? Can we tell whether uncle Iroh is a fool or a sage? The world is... -
Karl Marx: Thoroughly Revised Fifth Edition by Isaiah Berlin
RRP: £22.00£17.19Isaiah Berlin's intellectual biography of Karl Marx has long been recognized as one of the best concise accounts of the life and thought of the man who had, in Berlin's words, a more "direct, deliberate, and powerful" influence on mankind than any other... -
Philosophy of Care by Boris Groys
RRP: £9.99£8.17Our 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 "creative class" over the rest of the population that is... -
Less Than Human: Why We Demean, Enslave, and Exterminate Others by David Livingstone Smith 9781250003836
£12.09"Brute." "Cockroach." "Lice." "Vermin." People often regard members of their own kind as less than human, and use terms like these for those whom they wish to harm, enslave, or exterminate. Dehumanization has made atrocities like the Holocaust, the... -
Bias: A Philosophical Study by Thomas Kelly 9780192842954
RRP: £34.49£29.67Bias seems to be everywhere. Biased media outlets decisively influence the political opinions and votes of millions of people. Discriminatory policies favor some racial groups over others. We tend to judge ourselves more favorably than our peers, and... -
World Risk Society Ulrich Beck 9780745622217
RRP: £17.99£16.04This major new book draws together key essays by one of Europe's leading social and political theorists.About the AuthorUlrich Beck is Professor of Sociology at the Ludwig-Maximilian University in Munich.Reviews"Full of ideas and insights and thus... -
Carpe Diem Regained: The Vanishing Art of Seizing the Day by Roman Krznaric 9781783524938
RRP: £8.99£6.22Existentialism 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 instant hit of one-click online shopping, or slogans... -
Invitation to Peace Studies by Houston Wood 9780190217136
RRP: £92.99£92.82Invitation to Peace Studies is the first textbook in the field to emphasize 21st-century research and controversies and to encourage the more frequent use of a gender perspective in analyzing peace, war and violence. Recent empirical research forms the... -
The New Way of the World: On Neoliberal Society by Pierre Dardot
RRP: £12.99£6.85Exploring the genesis of neoliberalism, and the political and economic circumstances of its deployment, Pierre Dardot and Christian Laval dispel numerous common misconceptions. Neoliberalism is neither a return to classical liberalism nor the restoration... -
America by Jean Baudrillard
RRP: £13.99£12.12From the sierras of New Mexico to the streets of New York and LA by night-"a sort of luminous, geometric, incandescent immensity"-Baudrillard mixes apercus and observations with a wicked sense of fun to provide a unique insight into the country that... -
How to Be a Friend: An Ancient Guide to True Friendship by Marcus Tullius Cicero 9780691177199
RRP: £14.99£12.15A splendid new translation of one of the greatest books on friendship ever writtenIn a world where social media, online relationships, and relentless self-absorption threaten the very idea of deep and lasting friendships, the search for true friends is... -
On Gaslighting by Kate Abramson 9780691249384
RRP: £20.00£17.15A philosopher examines the complicated phenomenon of gaslighting“Gaslighting” is suddenly in everyone’s vocabulary. It’s written about, talked about, tweeted about, even sung about (in “Gaslighting” by The Chicks). It’s become shorthand for being...