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Utopia by Saint Thomas More
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $8.54In Thomas More's hugely influential Utopia, a traveller recounts his discovery of an island nation in which the inhabitants enjoy unprecedented social cohesion and justice. The book imagines a... -
Enough is Enough: How to Build a New Republic by Fintan O'Toole
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $8.94The Republic of Ireland, which declared itself in 1949, allowed the Catholic Church to dominate its civil society and education system. Investment by American and European companies, and a welcoming... -
Antigone Slavoj Zizek (Birkbeck Institute for Humanities, University of London, UK) 9781474269377
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $18.01Antigone is universally celebrated as the ultimate figure of ethical resistance to the state power which oversteps its legitimate scope and as the defender of simple human dignity (more important... -
How To Read Sade by John Phillips 9781862077270
RRP: $9.37Booksplease Price: $7.22John Philips introduces the Marquis de Sade's highly original and thoroughly subversive depiction of human sexuality and the philosophical and political thinking that underpins it. He shows how,... -
The Ancients and the Postmoderns: On the Historicity of Forms by Fredric Jameson
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $21.83High modernism is now as far from us as antiquity was for the Renaissance. Such is the premise of Fredric Jameson's major new work in which modernist works, this time in painting (Rubens) and music... -
How To Read Shakespeare Nicholas Royle 9781862077300
RRP: $9.37Booksplease Price: $7.22William Shakespeare (1564-1616) is perhaps the most famous as well as strangest and most inventive poet and dramatist of all time. Although dead for hundreds of years, he is everywhere - in books and... -
Bleak House by Charles Dickens 9780141439723
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.06'Perhaps his best novel ... when Dickens wrote Bleak House he had grown up' G. K. ChestertonAs the interminable case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce grinds its way through the Court of Chancery, it draws... -
How To Read Sartre Robert Bernasconi 9781862078758
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37'I can want only the freedom of others' Jean-Paul Sartre Jean-Paul Sartre is best known as the pre-eminent philosopher of individual freedom. He is the one who told us that we are totally free... -
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The Great Philosophers by Frederic Raphael 9780753811368 [USED COPY]
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $3.10The Great Philosophers in one volume: the widely acclaimed series on the greatest philosophers by specialists writing for the general reader.The Great Philosophers brings together in one volume and... -
Numero Zero by Umberto Eco
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.92The gripping new conspiracy thriller by the bestselling author of The Name of the Rose1945, Lake Como. Mussolini and his mistress are captured and shot by local partisans. The precise circumstances... -
How To Read Beauvoir by Stella Sandford 9781862078741
RRP: $9.37Booksplease Price: $7.22'One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman' Simone de Beauvoir To what extent does our social existence determine who we are? What is the meaning of sexuality for human existence? What is the... -
Utopia by Saint Thomas More 9780141442327
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80'It remains astonishingly radical ... one of Utopia's most striking aspects is its contemporaniety' Terry EagletonIn Utopia, Thomas More gives us a traveller's account of a newly-discovered island... -
Violence by Slavoj Zizek
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $11.58Zizek argues that the physical violence we see is often generated by the systemic violence that sustains our political and economic systems. With the help of eminent philosophers like Marx, Engel and... -
Trouble in Paradise: From the End of History to the End of Capitalism by Prof. Slavoj Zizek
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.53In 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... -
The Case of the Pope: Vatican Accountability for Human Rights Abuse by Geoffrey Robertson
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.63In The Case of the Pope Geoffrey Robertson QC delivers a devastating indictment of the way the Vatican has run a secret legal system that shields paedophile priests from criminal trial around the... -
At Day's Close: Night in Times Past by A. Roger Ekirch 9780393329018
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $18.22Bringing light to the shadows of history through a "rich weave of citation and archival evidence" (Publishers Weekly), scholar A. Roger Ekirch illuminates the aspects of life most often overlooked by... -
The Concept of the Social: Scepticism, Idleness and Utopia by Malcolm Bull
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.51What does political agency mean for those who don't know what to do or can't be bothered to do it? This book develops a novel account of collective emancipation in which freedom is achieved not... -
Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism by Fredric Jameson
RRP: $32.15Booksplease Price: $26.30Now in paperback, Fredric Jameson's most wide-ranging work seeks to crystalize a definition of "postmodernism". Jameson's inquiry looks at the postmodern across a wide landscape, from "high" art to... -
Mapping Ideology by Slavoj Zizek
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.51For a long time, the term 'ideology' was in disrepute, having become associated with such unfashionable notions as fundamental truth and the eternal verities. The tide has turned, and recent years... -
The Government of No One: The Theory and Practice of Anarchism by Ruth Kinna
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.63'The standard book on anarchism for the twenty-first century. Written with brio, quiet insight and clarity' Carl LevyA magisterial study of the history and theory of one of the most controversial... -
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe 9780099511847
RRP: $9.37Booksplease Price: $9.15Discover the legendary story of a marine adventurer shipwrecked on a desert island. ... -
Formation: Building a Personal Canon, Part 1 by Brad Mehldau 9781800503137
Booksplease Price: $44.33As an innovative and constantly inventive jazz pianist, Brad Mehldau has attracted a sizable following over the years, one that has grown to expect a singular, intense experience from his... -
A Biography of Loneliness: The History of an Emotion by Fay Bound Alberti 9780198811350
RRP: $20.76Booksplease Price: $16.07'A compassionate, wide-ranging study.' Terry Eagleton, The Guardian Despite 21st-century fears of a modern 'epidemic' of loneliness, its history has been sorely neglected. A Biography of... -
The Walker: On Finding and Losing Yourself in the Modern City by Matthew Beaumont
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $11.40Can you get lost in a crowd? It is polite to stare at people walking past on the street? What differentiates the city of daylight and the nocturnal metropolis? What connects walking, philosophy and... -
Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals by Iris Murdoch
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.29The decline of religion and ever increasing influence of science pose acute ethical issues for us all. Can we reject the literal truth of the Gospels yet still retain a Christian morality? Can we... -
The Hegel Variations: On the Phenomenology of Spirit by Fredric Jameson
Booksplease Price: $19.15In this major new study, the philosopher and cultural theorist Fredric Jameson offers a new reading of Hegel's foundational text Phenomenology of Spirit.In contrast to those who see the Phenomenology... -
Postmodernism: Or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism by Fredric Jameson 9780860915379
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $18.63In his most wide-ranging and accessible work, Frederic Jameson argues that postmodernism is the cultural response to the latest systemic change in world capitalism. He seeks here to crystallize a... -
Shakespeare by Anthony Burgess
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.68Among Shakespeare's many biographers none brings to his subject more passion and feeling for the creative act than Anthony Burgess. He breathes life into Shakespeare the man and invigorates his times... -
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Redemption Falls by Joseph O'Connor 9780099481522 [USED COPY]
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $3.461865. The American Civil War is ending. Eighteen years after the famine ship Star of the Sea docked at New York, the daughter of two of her passengers sets out from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on a walk... -
Redemption Falls Joseph O'Connor 9781529112610
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.68'Broad and ambitious...beautifully written...at the heart of O'Connor's masterful epic lies a universal hope for something better' ObserverDiscover the powerful sequel to international bestseller... -
Luck and the Irish: A Brief History of Change, 1970-2000 by R. F. Foster
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37R.F. Foster's Luck and the Irish: A Brief History of Change, 1970-2000 examines how the country has weathered thirty years of rapid transformation, and what these changes may mean in the long run. ... -
The Sublime Object of Ideology by Slavoj Zizek
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.65Slavoj Zizek, the maverick philosopher, author of over 30 books, acclaimed as the "Elvis of cultural theory", and today's most controversial public intellectual. His work traverses the fields of... -
To Aran, I Andrew McNellie 9781843519195
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $17.41To Aran, I tells how a young man from north Wales found the means to give shape a youthful dream of going to live on Inis Mor, an adventure recorded in his acclaimed first memoir An Aran Keening. ... -
100 Artists' Manifestos: From the Futurists to the Stuckists by Alex Danchev
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37In this one-of-a-kind volume, indispensable for students of art, architecture and film,Alex Danchev presents 100 Artists' Manifestos, each reproduced with an introduction on the author and the... -
Dublinesque by Enrique Vila-Matas
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.63SHORTLISTED FOR THE INDEPENDENT FOREIGN FICTION PRIZE'A writer who has no equal in the contemporary landscape of the Spanish novel.' Roberto BolanoSamuel Riba is about to turn 60. A successful... -
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Modern Times, Modern Places: Life and Art in the 20th Century by Peter Conrad 9780500281512 [USED COPY]
RRP: $26.73Booksplease Price: $3.42The world changed faster during the 20th century than ever before. All our previous assumptions about God, our social, economic and political structures, science and technology, and - by extension -... -
Dialectic by Prof. Roy Bhaskar
Booksplease Price: $48.03This book attacks purely analytical modes of thinking. Bhaskar develops a critical realist philosophy, which isolates the definition of being in terms of knowledge as the characteristic flaw of... -
The World in a Grain of Sand: Postcolonial Literature and Radical Universalism by Nivedita Majumdar
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $19.08The World in a Grain of Sand offers a framework for reading literature from the global South that goes against the grain of dominant theories in cultural studies, especially, postcolonial theory. It... -
In Praise of the Garrulous by Allan Cameron 9781908251244
RRP: $16.01Booksplease Price: $13.92This first and only work of non-fiction by the author of two novels, two collections of short stories and a collection of poetry, has an accessible and conversational tone, which perhaps disguises... -
The Benjamin Files Fredric Jameson 9781839765575
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $13.96The 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...