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Dialectic by Prof. Roy Bhaskar
Booksplease Price: $69.89This 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... -
100 Artists' Manifestos: From the Futurists to the Stuckists by Alex Danchev
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.00In 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: $33.13Booksplease Price: $25.66SHORTLISTED 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: $38.90Booksplease Price: $5.09The 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 -... -
Hell's Foundations: A Town, Its Myths and Gallipoli by Geoffrey Moorhouse 9780571243532
Booksplease Price: $31.63There is no shortage of books on the ill-fated Gallipoli campaign of 1915 but this one stands out. In it Geoffrey Moorhouse moves the focus from the more familar aspects to concentrate on one small... -
Philosophy of Religion: A Very Short Introduction by Tim Bayne
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.08What is the philosophy of religion? How can we distinguish it from theology on the one hand and the psychology/sociology of religious belief on the other? What does it mean to describe God as... -
![Luck and the Irish: A Brief History of Change, 1970-2000 by R. F. Foster 9780141017655 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/5745355/5822424/9780141017655__92749.1726283055.jpg?c=1 "Luck and the Irish: A Brief History of Change, 1970-2000 by R. F. Foster 9780141017655 [USED COPY]")
Luck and the Irish: A Brief History of Change, 1970-2000 by R. F. Foster 9780141017655 [USED COPY]
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $4.27R.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: $31.18Booksplease Price: $22.78Slavoj 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: $29.23Booksplease Price: $25.33To 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. ... -
The World in a Grain of Sand: Postcolonial Literature and Radical Universalism by Nivedita Majumdar
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $27.77The 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... -
G.K. Chesterton, London and Modernity by Matthew Beaumont 9781474275651
Booksplease Price: $78.74G. K. Chesterton, London and Modernity is the first book to explore the persistent theme of the city in Chesterton's writing. Situating him in relation to both Victorian and Modernist literary... -
In Praise of the Garrulous by Allan Cameron 9781908251244
RRP: $23.30Booksplease Price: $20.26This 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: $29.23Booksplease Price: $20.32The 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... -
The New Leviathans: Thoughts After Liberalism John Gray 9780141999432
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $18.00'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... -
Radio Benjamin by Walter Benjamin
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $20.32Walter Benjamin was fascinated by the impact of new technology on culture, an interest that extended beyond his renowned critical essays. From 1927 to '33, he wrote and presented something in the... -
Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari: Intersecting Lives by Francois Dosse 9780231145619
RRP: $74.10Booksplease Price: $62.60In May 1968, Gilles Deleuze was an established philosopher teaching at the innovative Vincennes University, just outside of Paris. Felix Guattari was a political militant and the director of an... -
Together: The Rituals, Pleasures and Politics of Cooperation by Richard Sennett
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $18.00Living with people who differ - racially, ethnically, religiously or economically - is one of the most urgent challenges facing civil society today. Together argues that co-operation needs more than... -
Sex and the Failed Absolute by Slavoj Zizek
RRP: $31.18Booksplease Price: $26.99In the most rigorous articulation of his philosophical system to date, Slavoj Zizek provides nothing short of a new definition of dialectical materialism. In forging this new materialism, Zizek... -
Be Like the Fox: Machiavelli's Lifelong Quest for Freedom by Erica Benner
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $18.00'A ripping read ... fascinating, charming, enjoyably unorthodox' Daily TelegraphWas Niccolo Machiavelli really the cynical schemer of legend - or was he a profound ethical thinker, who tried to save... -
The Storyteller: Tales out of Loneliness by Walter Benjamin
RRP: $23.38Booksplease Price: $16.59The Storyteller gathers for the first time the fiction of the legendary critic and philosopher Walter Benjamin, best known for his groundbreaking studies of culture and literature, including... -
Inventions of a Present: The Novel in its Crisis of Globalization by Fredric Jameson 9781804292402
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $34.03A novel is an act, an intervention, which, most often, the naive reader takes as a representation. The novel intervenes to modify or correct our conventional notions of a situation and, in the best... -
The Years of Theory: Postwar French Thought to the Present Fredric Jameson 9781804295892
RRP: $39.00Booksplease Price: $28.20Fredric Jameson introduces here the major themes of French theory: existentialism, structuralism, poststructuralism, semiotics, feminism, psychoanalysis, and Marxism. In a series of accessible... -
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Later by Philip Gross 9781852249793 [USED COPY]
RRP: $19.40Booksplease Price: $7.72Challenging and tender, these poems are a rite of passage. Philip Gross's much praised previous collection, Deep Field, explored the loosening connections between the self and language in his refugee... -
Later Philip Gross 9781852249793
RRP: $19.40Booksplease Price: $14.39Challenging and tender, these poems are a rite of passage. Philip Gross's much praised previous collection, Deep Field, explored the loosening connections between the self and language in his refugee... -
A History of Solitude by David Vincent 9781509536580
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $15.93Solitude has always had an ambivalent status: the capacity to enjoy being alone can make sociability bearable, but those predisposed to solitude are often viewed with suspicion or pity. Drawing on a... -
Stinkbomb & Ketchup-Face and the Badness of Badgers by John Dougherty
RRP: $15.58Booksplease Price: $11.74Winner of the Great Kerfuffle Best Book of Last Tuesday Hey you! No, not you - the person behind you. No, not him either. Left a bit, left a bit more . . . You! Oh for goodness sake . . . never... -
Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature - New and Expanded Edition by Erich Auerbach
RRP: $42.90Booksplease Price: $36.80More than half a century after its translation into English, Erich Auerbach's Mimesis remains a masterpiece of literary criticism. A brilliant display of erudition, wit, and wisdom, his exploration... -
Austerity Measures: The New Greek Poetry by Karen van Dyck
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $25.66'I remember caresses, kisses, touchingeach other's hair. We had no sense thatanything else existed'- Elena Penga, 'Heads''Nothing, not even the drowning of a childStops the perpetual motion of the... -
Accident: A Philosophical and Literary History by Ross Hamilton 9780226821047
RRP: $50.70Booksplease Price: $30.91From ancient philosophy to Tristram Shandy and Buster Keaton movies, this book tells the engaging history of accident as an idea. An accidental glance at a newspaper notice causes Rousseau to... -
Astonish Me!: First Nights That Changed the World by Dominic Dromgoole 9781788166812
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $14.41A SUNDAY TIMES BEST FILM AND THEATRE BOOK OF 2022 'Anyone in love with the arts will fall in love with this beautifully written and fascinating book' Kathy Burke Astonish Me! is an... -
Hegel’s World Revolutions by Richard Bourke 9780691253121
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $31.75A new account of the relevance of Hegel's ideas for today's world, countering the postwar anti-Hegel "insurgency"G.W.F. Hegel was widely seen as the greatest philosopher of his age. Ever since, his... -
Dominion: The Making of the Western Mind by Tom Holland
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $21.06'If great books encourage you to look at the world in an entirely new way, then Dominion is a very great book indeed . . . Written with terrific learning, enthusiasm and good humour, Holland's book... -
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The Green Road by Anne Enright 9780224089050 [USED COPY]
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $5.27Shortlisted for the 2015 Costa Novel AwardLonglisted for the 2015 Man Booker PrizeA darkly glinting novel set on Ireland's Atlantic coast, The Green Road is a story of fracture and family,... -
Anti-basilisk by Christopher Middleton 9781857547894
RRP: $25.25Booksplease Price: $18.72In The Anti-Basilisk Christopher Middleton, in the spirit that impelled Shelley to write The Masque of Anarchy, reveals as crooked the apparently straight and sees what's coming round corners with a...