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America Last: The Right's Century-Long Romance with Foreign Dictators Jacob Heilbrunn 9781324095675
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.87Why do Donald Trump, Tucker Carlson and much of the far Right so explicitly admire the murderous and incompetent Russian dictator Vladimir Putin? Why is Ron DeSantis drawing from Victor Orban's... -
National Responsibility and Global Justice by David Miller 9780199235056
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £55.99Oxford Political Theory presents the best new work in contemporary political theory. It is intended to be broad in scope, including original contributions to political philosophy, and also work in... -
Personal Impressions: Updated Edition by Isaiah Berlin 9780691157702
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £20.85In this collection of remarkable biographical portraits, the great essayist and intellectual historian Isaiah Berlin brings to life a wide range of prominent twentieth-century thinkers, politicians,... -
Liberty by Isaiah Berlin
Booksplease Price: £39.20Liberty is a revised and expanded edition of the book that Isaiah Berlin regarded as his most important - Four Essays on Liberty, a standard text of liberalism, constantly in demand and constantly... -
Deliberative Democracy and Beyond: Liberals, Critics, Contestations by John S. Dryzek 9780199250431
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £42.96The past few years have seen a remarkable ferment in the theory of democracy. Deliberative Democracy and Beyond is a critical tour through recent democratic theory by one of the leading political... -
The Search for Tactical Success in Vietnam: An Analysis of Australian Task Force Combat Operations by Andrew Ross
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £40.47From 1966 to 1971 the First Australian Task Force was part of the counterinsurgency campaign in South Vietnam. Though considered a small component of the Free World effort in the war, these troops... -
Critical Republicanism: The Hijab Controversy and Political Philosophy by Cecile Laborde 9780199550210
RRP: £77.00Booksplease Price: £55.44The first comprehensive analysis of the philosophical issues raised by the hijab controversy in France, this book also conducts a dialogue between contemporary Anglo-American and French political... -
The Rule of Law and the Measure of Property by Jeremy Waldron 9781107653788
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £26.27When property rights and environmental legislation clash, what side should the Rule of Law weigh in on? It is from this point that Jeremy Waldron explores the Rule of Law both from an historical... -
Sex and Social Justice by Martha C. Nussbaum 9780195112108
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £41.05What sort of support do human capacities demand from the world, and how should we think about this support when we encounter differences of gender or sexuality? How should we think about each other... -
The New Leviathans: Thoughts After Liberalism John Gray 9780141999432
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.23'Britain's best philosopher - he knocks it out of the park with a book that details the unravelling of the Western order' Telegraph, Books of the YearEver since its publication in 1651, Thomas... -
Political Philosophy versus History?: Contextualism and Real Politics in Contemporary Political Thought by Jonathan Floyd 9780521146883
RRP: £26.00Booksplease Price: £24.60Is the way in which political philosophy is conducted today too ahistorical? Does such ahistoricism render political philosophy too abstract? Is political philosophy thus incapable of dealing with... -
Political Philosophy versus History?: Contextualism and Real Politics in Contemporary Political Thought by Jonathan Floyd 9780521197151
RRP: £75.00Booksplease Price: £68.43Is the way in which political philosophy is conducted today too ahistorical? Does such ahistoricism render political philosophy too abstract? Is political philosophy thus incapable of dealing with... -
The Ethics of Authenticity by Charles Taylor
RRP: £17.95Booksplease Price: £14.49Everywhere we hear talk of decline, of a world that was better once, maybe fifty years ago, maybe centuries ago, but certainly before modernity drew us along its dubious path. While some lament the... -
Philosophy of Social Science Alexander Rosenberg 9780813349732
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £46.49Philosophy of Social Science provides a tightly argued yet accessible introduction to the philosophical foundations of the human sciences, including economics, anthropology, sociology, political... -
Mill by Frederick Rosen 9780199271061
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £30.78Frederick Rosen presents an original study of John Stuart Mill's moral and political philosophy, which explores the main themes of his writings--particularly those that emerge from the two major... -
Becoming Right: How Campuses Shape Young Conservatives by Amy J. Binder 9780691163666
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £17.35Conservative pundits allege that the pervasive liberalism of America's colleges and universities has detrimental effects on undergraduates, most particularly right-leaning ones. Yet not enough... -
Rationality and Freedom by Amartya Sen
RRP: £30.95Booksplease Price: £26.68Rationality and freedom are among the most profound and contentious concepts in philosophy and the social sciences. In two volumes on rationality, freedom, and justice, the distinguished economist... -
Disadvantage by Jonathan Wolff 9780199655588
RRP: £38.99Booksplease Price: £28.01What does it mean to be disadvantaged? Is it possible to compare different disadvantages? What should governments do to move their societies in the direction of equality, where equality is to be... -
The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Donald Trump by Corey Robin 9780190842024
RRP: £110.00Booksplease Price: £74.27Late in life, William F. Buckley made a confession to Corey Robin. Capitalism is "boring," said the founding father of the American right. "Devoting your life to it," as conservatives do, "is... -
Relativism: A Contemporary Anthology Michael Krausz (Milton C. Nahm Professor, Bryn Mawr College) 9780231144117
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.32The thirty-three essays in Relativism: A Contemporary Anthology grapple with one of the most intriguing, enduring, and far-reaching philosophical problems of our age. Relativism comes in many... -
The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Donald Trump by Corey Robin
RRP: £20.49Booksplease Price: £15.72Late in life, William F. Buckley made a confession to Corey Robin. Capitalism is "boring," said the founding father of the American right. "Devoting your life to it," as conservatives do, "is... -
The Ethics of Identity by Kwame Anthony Appiah 9780691254074
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.40A bold vision of liberal humanism for navigating today's complex world of growing identity politics and rising nationalismCollective identities such as race, nationality, religion, gender, and... -
Philosophy as a Humanistic Discipline by Bernard Williams
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £26.73What can--and what can't--philosophy do? What are its ethical risks--and its possible rewards? How does it differ from science? In Philosophy as a Humanistic Discipline, Bernard Williams addresses... -
The Murder of Professor Schlick: The Rise and Fall of the Vienna Circle by David Edmonds 9780691211961
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.23From the author of Wittgenstein's Poker and Would You Kill the Fat Man?, the story of an extraordinary group of philosophers during a dark chapter in Europe's historyOn June 22, 1936, the philosopher... -
On the Muslim Question by Anne Norton 9780691157047
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.02In the post-9/11 West, there is no shortage of strident voices telling us that Islam is a threat to the security, values, way of life, and even existence of the United States and Europe. For better... -
Moral Imagination: Essays by David Bromwich 9780691173160
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £18.57Spanning many historical and literary contexts, Moral Imagination brings together a dozen recent essays by one of America's premier cultural critics. David Bromwich explores the importance of... -
The Murder of Professor Schlick: The Rise and Fall of the Vienna Circle by David Edmonds
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £18.87From the author of Wittgenstein's Poker and Would You Kill the Fat Man?, the story of an extraordinary group of philosophers during a dark chapter in Europe's historyOn June 22, 1936, the philosopher... -
The Man Who Understood Democracy: The Life of Alexis de Tocqueville by Olivier Zunz
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.51A definitive biography of the French aristocrat who became one of democracy's greatest championsIn 1831, at the age of twenty-five, Alexis de Tocqueville made his fateful journey to America, where he... -
Moral Imagination: Essays by David Bromwich 9780691161419
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £18.57Spanning many historical and literary contexts, Moral Imagination brings together a dozen recent essays by one of America's premier cultural critics. David Bromwich explores the importance of... -
The Monarchy of Fear: A Philosopher Looks at Our Political Crisis by Martha C. Nussbaum 9780192897718
RRP: £15.49Booksplease Price: £12.39'A manifesto for hope' Literary Review From one of the world's most celebrated moral philosophers comes a thorough examination of the current political crisis and recommendations for how to mend... -
John Stuart Mill's Platonic Heritage: Happiness through Character by Antis Loizides 9780739173930
Booksplease Price: £91.39In the early draft of his Autobiography (London, 1873), John Stuart Mill described himself as "a pupil of Plato, and cast in the mould of his dialectics." However, how Plato's influence came about,... -
In the Shadow of Justice: Postwar Liberalism and the Remaking of Political Philosophy by Katrina Forrester 9780691163086
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.32"A forceful, encyclopedic study."-Michael Eric Dyson, New York Times A history of how political philosophy was recast by the rise of postwar liberalism and irrevocably changed by John Rawls's A... -
The Man Who Understood Democracy: The Life of Alexis de Tocqueville by Olivier Zunz 9780691254142
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £18.57A definitive biography of the French aristocrat who became one of democracy's greatest championsIn 1831, at the age of twenty-five, Alexis de Tocqueville made his fateful journey to America, where he... -
Identity in Democracy by Amy Gutmann 9780691120409
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.02Written by one of America's leading political thinkers, this is a book about the good, the bad, and the ugly of identity politics.Amy Gutmann rises above the raging polemics that often characterize... -
The Lives of Erich Fromm: Love's Prophet by Lawrence J. Friedman 9780231162586
RRP: £84.00Booksplease Price: £66.64Erich Fromm was a political activist, psychologist, psychoanalyst, philosopher, and one of the most important intellectuals of the twentieth century. Known for his theories of personality and... -
Unmaking the Public University: The Forty-Year Assault on the Middle Class by Christopher Newfield 9780674060364
Booksplease Price: £28.72An essential American dream-equal access to higher education-was becoming a reality with the GI Bill and civil rights movements after World War II. But this vital American promise has been broken... -
Lessons Learned: Reflections of a University President by William G. Bowen
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.28Lessons Learned gives unprecedented access to the university president's office, providing a unique set of reflections on the challenges involved in leading both research universities and liberal... -
The Lives of Erich Fromm: Love's Prophet by Lawrence J. Friedman 9780231162593
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £17.35Erich Fromm was a political activist, psychologist, psychoanalyst, philosopher, and one of the most important intellectuals of the twentieth century. Known for his theories of personality and... -
How Bush Rules: Chronicles of a Radical Regime by Sidney Blumenthal 9780691128887
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £18.87In a series of columns and essays that renowned journalist and former presidential adviser, Sidney Blumenthal wrote in the three years following the 2003 invasion of Iraq, a unifying theme began to... -
John Stuart Mill: A Secular Life by Timothy Larsen 9780198753155
RRP: £44.49Booksplease Price: £33.49John Stuart Mill observed in his Autobiography that he was a rare case in nineteenth-century Britain because he had not lost his religion but never had any. He was a freethinker from beginning to end...