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Itineraries in Conflict: Israelis, Palestinians, and the Political Lives of Tourism by Rebecca L. Stein 9780822342519 [USED COPY]
RRP: $116.10Booksplease Price: $10.46In Itineraries in Conflict, Rebecca L. Stein argues that through tourist practices-acts of cultural consumption, routes and imaginary voyages to neighboring Arab countries, culinary desires-Israeli... -
Divine Democracy: Political Theology after Carl Schmitt by Miguel Vatter 9780190942359
Booksplease Price: $144.93How secular are the political and legal concepts that underpin liberal democracy? Carl Schmitt first coined the term political theology to show the dependency of modern western jurisprudence and... -
The End of Progress: Decolonizing the Normative Foundations of Critical Theory by Amy Allen
RRP: $150.93Booksplease Price: $117.98While post- and decolonial theorists have thoroughly debunked the idea of historical progress as a Eurocentric, imperialist, and neocolonialist fallacy, many of the most prominent contemporary... -
Lost in Ideology: Interpreting Modern Political Life by Jason Blakely 9781788216630
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $24.50Modern political life is a confusing and disorientating terrain of competing ideologies. Jason Blakely offers readers a lively, fresh and insightful guide through the labyrinth of conflicting and... -
Governed through Choice: Autonomy, Technology, and the Politics of Reproduction by Jennifer M. Denbow 9781479828838
RRP: $110.94Booksplease Price: $89.77A trailblazing look at how the law regulates women's bodies as reproductive sites and what can be done about it. At the center of the "war on women" lies the fact that women in the contemporary... -
The End of Progress: Decolonizing the Normative Foundations of Critical Theory by Amy Allen 9780231173254
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $32.52While post- and decolonial theorists have thoroughly debunked the idea of historical progress as a Eurocentric, imperialist, and neocolonialist fallacy, many of the most prominent contemporary... -
Governed through Choice: Autonomy, Technology, and the Politics of Reproduction by Jennifer M. Denbow 9781479843916
RRP: $38.69Booksplease Price: $24.02A trailblazing look at how the law regulates women's bodies as reproductive sites and what can be done about it. At the center of the "war on women" lies the fact that women in the contemporary... -
Archaeology and the Letters of Paul by Laura Salah Nasrallah 9780198842026
Booksplease Price: $41.96Archaeology and the Letters of Paul illuminates the social, political, economic, and religious lives of those to whom the apostle Paul wrote. Roman Ephesos provides evidence of slave traders and the... -
Wild Democracy: Anarchy, Courage, and Ruling the Law by Anne Norton
RRP: $28.37Booksplease Price: $27.40Wild Democracy calls for a more anarchic, more courageous democracy. This is an ethic for people who know the rights they hold, and who struggle to rule themselves. This is an ethic for unfinished... -
Law Without Future: Anti-Constitutional Politics and the American Right by Jack Jackson 9780812251333
RRP: $51.60Booksplease Price: $43.41A provocative, sobering analysis of twenty-first century court cases that undermine the very idea of constitutional government As the 2000 decision by the Supreme Court to effectively deliver the... -
Varieties of Secularism in a Secular Age by Michael Warner 9780674072411
Booksplease Price: $38.00"What does it mean to say that we live in a secular age?" This apparently simple question opens into the massive, provocative, and complex A Secular Age, where Charles Taylor positions secularism as... -
Overreach: Delusions of Regime Change in Iraq by Michael MacDonald
RRP: $46.38Booksplease Price: $39.04In the run-up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq, a fair number of Americans thought the idea was crazy. Now everyone, except a few die-hards, thinks it was. So what was going through the minds of the... -
A Critique of Sovereignty by Daniel Loick 9781786600394
Booksplease Price: $53.35In this important new book, Daniel Loick argues that in order to become sensible to the violence imbedded in our political routines, philosophy must question the current forms of political community... -
Revolution: An Intellectual History Enzo Traverso 9781839763335
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $22.90This book reinterprets the history of nineteenth and twentieth-century revolutions by composing a constellation of "dialectical images": Marx's "locomotives of history," Alexandra Kollontai's... -
The New Pluralism: William Connolly and the Contemporary Global Condition by David Campbell 9780822342700
RRP: $39.99Booksplease Price: $34.33William Connolly, one of the best-known and most important political theorists writing today, is a principal architect of the "new pluralism." In this volume, leading thinkers in contemporary... -
The Case for Open Borders by John Washington 9798888901793
RRP: $61.92Booksplease Price: $48.30A beautifully-written, broadly accessible, and forthright argument for a solution to the migration crisis: open the gates. Because of restrictive borders, human beings suffer and die. Closed... -
Revolution: An Intellectual History by Enzo Traverso 9781839763595
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $18.83This book reinterprets the history of nineteenth and twentieth-century revolutions by composing a constellation of "dialectical images": Marx's "locomotives of history," Alexandra Kollontai's... -
Secularism and Cosmopolitanism: Critical Hypotheses on Religion and Politics by Etienne Balibar
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $32.52What is the relationship between cosmopolitanism and secularism-the worldwide and the worldly? While cosmopolitan politics may seem inherently secular, existing forms of secularism risk undermining... -
Democracy and Beauty: The Political Aesthetics of W. E. B. Du Bois Robert Gooding-Williams 9780231220033
RRP: $28.38Booksplease Price: $23.96What is beauty, and what is its political function? In what ways might it help undermine white supremacy and cultivate a more democratic political culture? Democracy and Beauty shines a light on W. E... -
On Borders: Territories, Legitimacy, and the Rights of Place by Paulina Ochoa Espejo 9780190074203
Booksplease Price: $40.57When are borders justified? Who has a right to control them? Where should they be drawn? Today people think of borders as an island's shores. Just as beaches delimit a castaway's realm, so borders... -
Capital and Time: For a New Critique of Neoliberal Reason by Martijn Konings 9781503604438
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $21.52Critics of capitalist finance tend to focus on its speculative character. Our financial markets, they lament, encourage irresponsible bets on the future that reflect no real underlying value. Why is... -
Secularism and Cosmopolitanism: Critical Hypotheses on Religion and Politics by Etienne Balibar 9780231168601
RRP: $150.93Booksplease Price: $117.98What is the relationship between cosmopolitanism and secularism-the worldwide and the worldly? While cosmopolitan politics may seem inherently secular, existing forms of secularism risk undermining... -
Democracy and Beauty: The Political Aesthetics of W. E. B. Du Bois Robert Gooding-Williams 9780231220026
RRP: $129.00Booksplease Price: $101.28What is beauty, and what is its political function? In what ways might it help undermine white supremacy and cultivate a more democratic political culture? Democracy and Beauty shines a light on W. E... -
On Borders: Territories, Legitimacy, and the Rights of Place by Paulina Ochoa Espejo 9780190074197
Booksplease Price: $145.32When are borders justified? Who has a right to control them? Where should they be drawn? Today people think of borders as an island's shores. Just as beaches delimit a castaway's realm, so borders... -
Capital and Time: For a New Critique of Neoliberal Reason by Martijn Konings
RRP: $103.20Booksplease Price: $83.71Critics of capitalist finance tend to focus on its speculative character. Our financial markets, they lament, encourage irresponsible bets on the future that reflect no real underlying value. Why is... -
When Sorrow Comes: The Power of Sermons from Pearl Harbor to Black Lives Matter by Melissa M Matthes
RRP: $51.54Booksplease Price: $43.42Since World War II, Protestant sermons have been an influential tool for defining American citizenship in the wake of national crises.In the aftermath of national tragedies, Americans often turn to... -
Violence and Civility: On the Limits of Political Philosophy by Etienne Balibar 9780231153980
RRP: $172.86Booksplease Price: $137.04In Violence and Civility, Etienne Balibar boldly confronts the insidious causes of violence, racism, nationalism, and ethnic cleansing worldwide, as well as mass poverty and dispossession. Through a... -
Violence and Civility: On the Limits of Political Philosophy by Tienne Balibar 9780231153997
RRP: $36.12Booksplease Price: $30.56In Violence and Civility, Etienne Balibar boldly confronts the insidious causes of violence, racism, nationalism, and ethnic cleansing worldwide, as well as mass poverty and dispossession. Through a... -
Biopolitics After Neuroscience: Morality and the Economy of Virtue by Jeffrey P. Bishop 9781350288447
Booksplease Price: $124.29This book offers a provocative analysis of the neuroscience of morality. Written by three leading scholars of science, medicine, and bioethics, it critiques contemporary neuroscientific claims about... -
Praxis and Revolution: A Theory of Social Transformation by Eva von Redecker
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $32.52The concept of revolution marks the ultimate horizon of modern politics. It is instantiated by sites of both hope and horror. Within progressive thought, "revolution" often perpetuates entrenched... -
The Principle of Political Hope: Progress, Action, and Democracy in Modern Thought by Loren Goldman 9780197675823
RRP: $78.69Booksplease Price: $77.37A few years ago, the rhetoric of hope was all the rage, but the faith it expressed has been challenged by recent events and in recent political theory. Despite the regular appeal to hope from... -
Derrida and the Time of the Political by Suzanne Guerlac 9780822343721
RRP: $39.99Booksplease Price: $34.33An intellectual event, Derrida and the Time of the Political marks the first time since Jacques Derrida's death in 2004 that leading scholars have come together to critically assess the philosopher's... -
Vernacular Border Security: Citizens' Narratives of Europe's 'Migration Crisis' 9780198882695
RRP: $37.40Booksplease Price: $37.09Since the peak of Europe's so-called 2015 'migration crisis', the dominant governmental response has been to turn to deterrent border security across the Mediterranean and construct border walls... -
The Right to Justification: Elements of a Constructivist Theory of Justice by Rainer Forst 9780231147095
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $32.52Contemporary philosophical pluralism recognizes the inevitability and legitimacy of multiple ethical perspectives and values, making it difficult to isolate the higher-order principles on which to... -
The Clamour of Nationalism: Race and Nation in Twenty-First-Century Britain by Sivamohan Valluvan 9781526126146
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $25.21Nationalism has reasserted itself today as the political force of our times, remaking European politics wherever one looks. Britain is no exception, and in the midst of Brexit, it has even become a... -
The Democratic Sublime: On Aesthetics and Popular Assembly by Jason Frank
RRP: $126.42Booksplease Price: $120.50The transition from royal to popular sovereignty during the age of democratic revolutions--from 1776 to 1848--entailed not only the reorganization of institutions of governance and norms of political... -
Starve and Immolate: The Politics of Human Weapons by Banu Bargu 9780231163415
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $37.82Starve and Immolate tells the story of leftist political prisoners in Turkey who waged a deadly struggle against the introduction of high security prisons by forging their lives into weapons. Weaving... -
The Clamour of Nationalism: Race and Nation in Twenty-First-Century Britain by Sivamohan Valluvan
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $17.02Nationalism has reasserted itself today as the political force of our times, remaking European politics wherever one looks. Britain is no exception, and in the midst of Brexit, it has even become a... -
Parting Ways: Jewishness and the Critique of Zionism by Judith Butler 9780231146111
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $20.83Judith Butler follows Edward Said's late suggestion that through a consideration of Palestinian dispossession in relation to Jewish diasporic traditions a new ethos can be forged for a one-state... -
Vernacular Border Security: Citizens' Narratives of Europe's 'Migration Crisis' by Nick Vaughan-Williams 9780198855538
RRP: $118.68Booksplease Price: $114.19Since the peak of Europe's so-called 2015 'migration crisis', the dominant governmental response has been to turn to deterrent border security across the Mediterranean and construct border walls...