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After Year Zero: On Postwar German Thought by Fredric Jameson 9781836744023
RRP: $39.00Booksplease Price: $27.79In this series of accessible lectures, Fredric Jameson explores German philosophy and critical theory as it de veloped in the wake of World War Two. Focusing on key thinkers - Horkheimer, Adorno,... -
Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals by Iris Murdoch
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $22.25The 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... -
For the Tempus-Fugitives: Poems & Verse-Essays by Christopher Norris
Booksplease Price: $65.83In this latest collection of poems and verse-essays, Christopher Norris revisits many of the topics for which he is best known as a philosopher, literary theorist, and writer on music. Among them are... -
Luck and the Irish: A Brief History of Change, 1970-2000 by R. F. Foster
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.00R.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. ... -
Letters from Prison by Antonio Gramsci 9780231075534
RRP: $54.60Booksplease Price: $46.20Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937) was one of the most original political thinkers in Western Marxism and an exceptional intellectual. Arrested and imprisoned by the Italian Fascist regime in 1926, Gramsci... -
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... -
In Praise of Meekness: Essays on Ethnics and Politics Norberto Bobbio (University of Turin) 9780745623092
Booksplease Price: $42.72In this important volume, the leading political theorist and philosopher Norberto Bobbio confronts some of the most enduring moral questions of our time. Written over the last two decades of the... -
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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. ... -
Raymond Williams by Fred Inglis
RRP: $99.43Booksplease Price: $94.54In his life, Raymond Williams played many parts: child of the Black Mountains, inspirational adult lecturer, Cambridge professor, folk hero and guru of the left. After his death, he has remained a... -
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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 -... -
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... -
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... -
Marcel Mauss: A Biography by Marcel Fournier
RRP: $74.10Booksplease Price: $64.58This book is the first intellectual biography of Marcel Mauss (1872-1950), the father of modern ethnology and a leading early figure in the French school of sociology. Mauss left a rich intellectual... -
Nuclear Theory Degree Zero: Essays Against the Nuclear Android by John Kinsella 9780367645236
RRP: $81.88Booksplease Price: $77.40Nuclear Theory Degree Zero: Essays Against the Nuclear Android investigates the threat conveyed and maintained by the nuclear cycle: mining, research, health, power generation and weaponry. Central... -
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. ... -
In Praise of Meekness: Essays on Ethnics and Politics by Norberto Bobbio
RRP: $107.25Booksplease Price: $95.65In this important volume, the leading political theorist and philosopher Norberto Bobbio confronts some of the most enduring moral questions of our time. Written over the last two decades of the... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
Going to My Father's House: A History of My Times by Patrick Joyce
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $34.61A historian's personal journey into the complex questions of immigration, home and nationFrom Ireland to London in the 1950s, Derry in the Troubles to contemporary, de-industrialised Manchester,... -
Prison Notebooks: Volume 1 by Antonio Gramsci
RRP: $58.50Booksplease Price: $53.43Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937) is widely celebrated as the most original political thinker in Western Marxism and an all-around outstanding intellectual figure. Arrested and imprisoned by the Italian... -
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... -
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... -
The Life of John Milton: A Critical Biography Barbara K. Lewalski (Harvard University) 9781405106252
RRP: $81.80Booksplease Price: $77.24Providing a close examination of Milton's wide-ranging prose and poetry at each stage of his life, Barbara Lewalski reveals a rather different Milton from that in earlier accounts. Provides a close... -
Lenin Reloaded: Toward a Politics of Truth, sic vii by Sebastian Budgen 9780822339410
RRP: $60.45Booksplease Price: $51.89Lenin Reloaded is a rallying call by some of the world's leading Marxist intellectuals for renewed attention to the significance of Vladimir Lenin. The volume's editors explain that it was Lenin who... -
Death of a Discipline by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak 9780231129459
RRP: $39.00Booksplease Price: $33.25For almost three decades, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak has been ignoring the standardized "rules" of the academy and trespassing across disciplinary boundaries. Today she remains one of the foremost... -
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... -
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... -
Culture and the University: Education, Ecology, Design by Professor Ronald Barnett
Booksplease Price: $61.05Not long ago, it was understood that universities and culture were intimately related. However, to a large extent, that understanding has faded. Culture and the University confronts this situation... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
Theory at Yale: The Strange Case of Deconstruction in America by Marc Redfield
RRP: $48.73Booksplease Price: $45.26This book examines the affinity between "theory" and "deconstruction" that developed in the American academy in the 1970s by way of the "Yale Critics": Harold Bloom, Paul de Man, Geoffrey Hartman,... -
Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari: Intersecting Lives by Francois Dosse 9780231145602
RRP: $292.50Booksplease Price: $232.64In 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... -
Shakespeare and Literary Theory by Jonathan Gil Harris 9780199573387
Booksplease Price: $63.53OXFORD SHAKESPEARE TOPICS General Editors: Peter Holland and Stanley Wells Oxford Shakespeare Topics provide students and teachers with short books on important aspects of Shakespeare... -
Theory at Yale: The Strange Case of Deconstruction in America by Marc Redfield 9780823268665
Booksplease Price: $212.61This book examines the affinity between "theory" and "deconstruction" that developed in the American academy in the 1970s by way of the "Yale Critics": Harold Bloom, Paul de Man, Geoffrey Hartman,... -
Be Like the Fox: Machiavelli In His World by Erica Benner 9780393355819
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $24.55In the five hundred years since he wrote The Prince, Machiavelli's name has been linked to tyranny and the doctrine that "the ends justify the means." But that is not what he stood for. In Be Like... -
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...