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Investigations of a Dog by Franz Kafka
RRP: £4.00Booksplease Price: £3.47'If I think about it, and I have the time and inclination and capacity to do so, we dogs are an odd lot.'How does a dog see the world? How do any of us? In this playful and enigmatic story of a... -
Heidegger's Concept of Philosophical Method: Innovating Philosophy in the Age of Global Warming by Vincent Blok 9781032176918
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £41.80This book provides new interpretations of Heidegger's philosophical method in light of 20th-century postmodernism and 21st-century speculative realism. In doing so, it raises important questions... -
A Philosophy of Luxury by Lambert Wiesing
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £23.81In this thought-provoking book Lambert Wiesing asks simply: What is luxury? Drawing on a fascinating range of examples, he argues that luxury is an aesthetic experience. Unlike experience gained via... -
Walter Benjamin and Antonio Gramsci: A Missed Encounter Dario Gentili 9781032599700
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £37.99This book marks a missed encounter between two of the most influential Marxist thinkers of our age, Walter Benjamin and Antonio Gramsci, studied here for the first time side by side.Benjamin and... -
Thomas Hobbes and Carl Schmitt: The Politics of Order and Myth Johan Tralau (Uppsala University, Sweden) 9780415661218
RRP: £58.99Booksplease Price: £52.94Thomas Hobbes, the English 17th century philosopher, and Carl Schmitt, Hitler's 'crown jurist', a political thinker and author of an enigmatic book on Hobbes, are increasingly relevant today for two... -
Spaces for Happiness in the Twentieth-Century German Novel: Mann, Kafka, Hesse, Juenger by Alan Corkhill 9783034307970
RRP: £43.40Booksplease Price: £39.38This book offers an in-depth study of the rich tapestry of happiness discourses in well-known philosophical novels by Thomas Mann, Franz Kafka, Hermann Hesse and Ernst Junger, published between 1922... -
Inanimation: Theories of Inorganic Life by David Wills 9780816698868
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.12Inanimation is the third book by author David Wills to analyze the technology of the human. In Prosthesis, Wills traced our human attachment to external objects back to a necessity within the body... -
The Burrow: Posthumously Published Short Fiction by Franz Kafka
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.19A superb new translation by Michael Hofmann of some of Kafka's most frightening and visionary short fictionStrange beasts, night terrors, absurd bureaucrats and sinister places abound in this... -
Ferdinand, the Man with the Kind Heart by Michael Hofmann
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31'A great writer' Ali SmithNewly translated by Michael Hofmann, the touching final novel from the author of Child of All Nations'I don't think I'm that unusual, and I don't think I'm crazy... -
German Novelists of the Weimar Republic - Intersections of Literature and Politics by Karl Leydecker 9781571134691
Booksplease Price: £27.80New essays introducing a broad range of novelists of the Weimar period. The Weimar Republic was a turbulent and fateful time in German history. Characterized by economic and political instability,... -
Messing About in Boats by Michael Hofmann
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £34.28Written by the eminent poet Michael Hofmann, this approachable and companionable book offers readings of four poems on the subject of boats. Based on Michael Hofmann's Clarendon lectures, this... -
Child of All Nations by Irmgard Keun
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Kully knows some things you don't learn at school. She knows the right way to roll a cigarette and pack a suitcase. She knows that cars are more dangerous than lions. She knows you can't enter a... -
Categories of the Impolitical by Roberto Esposito 9780823264216
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.32The notion of the "impolitical" developed in this volume draws its meaning from the exhaustion of modernity's political categories, which have become incapable of giving voice to any genuinely... -
Categories of the Impolitical by Roberto Esposito
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £80.52The notion of the "impolitical" developed in this volume draws its meaning from the exhaustion of modernity's political categories, which have become incapable of giving voice to any genuinely... -
The Dream Songs by John Berryman 9780374534554
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £13.31John Berryman's Dream Songs are perhaps the funniest, saddest, most intricately wrought cycle of poems by an American in the twentieth century. They are also, more simply, the vibrantly sketched... -
Cruelty: A Cultural History Wolfgang Müller-Funk 9781509563951
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.63In a humane world, cruelty should not exist, and yet it has been a feature of our societies since time immemorial. From individual acts of cruelty to systematic torture and mass murder, cruelty has... -
History and Its Limits: Human, Animal, Violence by Dominick LaCapra
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.21Dominick LaCapra's History and Its Limits articulates the relations among intellectual history, cultural history, and critical theory, examining the recent rise of "Practice Theory" and probing the... -
Hesse: The Wanderer and His Shadow by Gunnar Decker
Booksplease Price: £29.50A deftly crafted biography of the author of Siddhartha, whose critique of consumer culture continues to inspire millions of readers.Against the horrors of Nazi dictatorship and widespread... -
Kuala Lumpur: Community, Infrastructure and Urban Inclusivity by Marek Kozlowski 9781138207387
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £49.04Kuala Lumpur is a diverse city representing many different religions and nationalities. Recent government policy has actively promoted unity and cohesion throughout the city; and the country of... -
Kuala Lumpur: Community, Infrastructure and Urban Inclusivity by Marek Kozlowski 9781032474830
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £22.69Kuala Lumpur is a diverse city representing many different religions and nationalities. Recent government policy has actively promoted unity and cohesion throughout the city; and the country of... -
A soldier on the Southern Front: the classic Italian memoir of WWI by Emilio Lussu
RRP: £26.95Booksplease Price: £18.26Taking its place alongside works by Ernst Junger, Robert Graves, and Erich Maria Remarque, Emilio Lussu's memoir is one of the most affecting accounts to come out of the First World War. A classic in... -
Heidegger and Parmenides Laurence Hemming 9781538186015
Booksplease Price: £95.49This collection of original essays brings together leading scholars from a range of disciplines to explore the influence and importance of Parmenides to Heidegger's quest to bring about the end of... -
Berlin Alexanderplatz by Alfred Doblin
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23The great novel of 1920s Berlin life, in a superb new translation by Michael HofmannFranz Biberkopf is back on the streets of Berlin. Determined to go straight after a stint in prison, he finds... -
Source Magic: The Origin of Art, Science, and Culture by Carl Abrahamsson
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £12.53Since the dawn of time, magic is the node around which all human activities and culture revolve. As magic entered the development of science, art, philosophy, religion, myth, and psychology, it still... -
Nonconformist Writing in Nazi Germany - The Literature of Inner Emigration by John Klapper 9781640140547
Booksplease Price: £46.58An innovative, critical, historically informed, yet accessible reassessment of writers who remained in Nazi Germany and Austria yet expressed nonconformity - even dissent - through their fiction. ... -
Violence and the German Soldier in the Great War: Killing, Dying, Surviving by Benjamin Ziemann 9781350106116
Booksplease Price: £36.82Translated into English as the Winner of the Geisteswissenschaften International Translation Prize for Work in the Humanities and Social Sciences 2015.During the Great War, mass killing took place on... -
On Freedom: Technology, Capital, Medium by Peter Trawny
Booksplease Price: £26.90How do we challenge the structures of late capitalism if all possible media through which to do do is inescapably capitalist? This urgent political question is at the heart of Peter Trawny's major... -
Harmful and Undesirable: Book Censorship in Nazi Germany by Guenter Lewy 9780190275280
RRP: £36.49Booksplease Price: £30.53Like every authoritarian regime in history, Nazi Germany tried to inhibit ideological freedom through book censorship. Between 1933 and 1945, Hitler's party orchestrated a massive campaign to take... -
Poilu: The World War I Notebooks of Corporal Louis Barthas, Barrelmaker, 1914-1918 by Louis Barthas
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.79The harrowing first-person account of a French foot soldier who survived four years in the trenches of the First World War Along with millions of other Frenchmen, Louis Barthas, a... -
Untraceable by Sergei Lebedev 9781800246614
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.54'A thriller dipped in poison... Lebedev shares some of le Carre's fascination with secret worlds and the nature of evil' New York Times An extraordinary and angry Russian novel about poisons of all... -
Untraceable by Sergei Lebedev
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £18.52'A superb literary thriller' The Times, Book of the Week 'A thriller dipped in poison... Lebedev shares some of le Carre's fascination with secret worlds and the nature of evil' New York Times An... -
The Sojourn by Andrew Krivak 9781934137345
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £10.50The Sojourn, finalist for the National Book Award and winner of both the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and inaugural Chautauqua Prize, is the story of Jozef Vinich, who was uprooted from a 19th-century...