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On the Political by Chantal Mouffe
RRP: $54.58Booksplease Price: $51.20Since September 11th, we frequently hear that political differences should be put aside: the real struggle is between good and evil. What does this mean for political and social life? Is there a... -
For a Left Populism by Chantal Mouffe
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.20We are seeing the rise of a populist moment around the world on both the left and the right. Movements like Bernie Sander, Jeremy Corbyn, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez have emerged in the midst of the... -
The Return of the Political by Chantal Mouffe 9781844670574
Booksplease Price: $34.17In this work, Mouffe argues that liberal democracy misunderstands the problems of ethnic, religious and nationalist conflicts because of its inadequate conception of politics. He suggests that the... -
The Democratic Paradox by Chantal Mouffe
Booksplease Price: $29.82From the theory of 'deliberative democracy' to the politics of the 'third way', the present Zeitgeist is characterized by attempts to deny what Chantal Mouffe contends is the inherently conflictual... -
The Challenge of Carl Schmitt by Chantal Mouffe
Booksplease Price: $38.54Carl Schmitt's thought serves as a warning against the dangers of complacency entailed by triumphant liberalism. His conception of politics is a sharp challenge to those who believe that the blurring... -
The Return of the Political by Chantal Mouffe 9781788738569
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.20Chantal Mouffe is one of the most influential political theorists at work today. Her work has influenced political parties across Europe and continues to inform the direction of left politics. In... -
Podemos: In the Name of the People by Chantal Mouffe 9781910448809
RRP: $31.50Booksplease Price: $23.73The rise of Podemos in Spain is part of a wave of European left political initiatives that are putting forward new ideas for change and innovative ways of thinking about politics. The traditional... -
Agonistics: Thinking the World Politically by Chantal Mouffe 9781781681039
Booksplease Price: $44.23Political conflict in our society is inevitable, and the results are often far from negative. How then should we deal with the intractable differences arising from complex modern culture?In... -
Dimensions of Radical Democracy: Pluralism and Citizenship by Chantal Mouffe 9780860915560
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $38.43The themes of citizenship and community are today at the center of a fierce debate as both left and right try to mobilize them for their cause. For the left such notions are crucial in all the... -
Gramsci and Marxist Theory (RLE: Gramsci) Chantal Mouffe 9781138975446
RRP: $107.08Booksplease Price: $101.18This book familiarizes the English-speaking reader with the debate on the originality of Gramsci's thought and its importance for the development of Marxist theory. The contributors present the... -
How is Architecture Political?: Engaging Chantal Mouffe by Joseph Bedford 9781350263062
Booksplease Price: $190.20Chantal Mouffe has transformed the contemporary understanding of politics through her re-reading of political theory inspired by anti-foundationalist philosophy—based on Saussure’s linguistics,... -
How Is Architecture Political?: Engaging Chantal Mouffe Joseph Bedford 9781350263109
Booksplease Price: $64.13Chantal Mouffe has transformed the contemporary understanding of politics through her re-reading of political theory inspired by anti-foundationalist philosophy-based on Saussure's linguistics,... -
Towards a Green Democratic Revolution: Left Populism and the Power of Affects by Chantal Mouffe
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.55In recent years, the promises of the populist moment have faltered, as seen in the defeats of Jeremy Corbyn, Bernie Sanders, Jean-Luc Melenchon. In addition, the pandemic has brought about a strong... -
Spatial Politics: Essays For Doreen Massey by David Featherstone 9781444338317
RRP: $126.00Booksplease Price: $111.93This critical engagement with Doreen Massey's ground-breaking work in geographic theory and its relationship to politics features specially commissioned essays from former students and colleagues, as... -
Spatial Politics: Essays For Doreen Massey David Featherstone (University of Glasgow, UK) 9781444338300
RRP: $52.48Booksplease Price: $49.43This critical engagement with Doreen Massey's ground-breaking work in geographic theory and its relationship to politics features specially commissioned essays from former students and colleagues, as... -
Reflections on Post-Marxism: Laclau and Mouffe's Project of Radical Democracy in the 21st Century Stuart Sim (Northumbria University) 9781529221831
RRP: $178.50Booksplease Price: $146.58The world has changed dramatically since the emergence of post-Marxism, and a reassessment is needed to determine its significance in the modern world. First published as a special issue of Global... -
Agonistic Democracy and Political Practice: Ways of Being Adversarial by Fuat Gürsözlü 9783031060014
Booksplease Price: $150.59This book explores the implications of agonistic democratic theory for political practice. Fuat Gursoezlu argues that at a time when political parties exacerbate political division, political... -
Agonistic Democracy and Political Practice: Ways of Being Adversarial by Fuat Gursoezlu
Booksplease Price: $189.06This book explores the implications of agonistic democratic theory for political practice. Fuat Gursoezlu argues that at a time when political parties exacerbate political division, political... -
Democracy in Spite of the Demos: From Arendt to the Frankfurt School by Larry Alan Busk 9781786615251
Booksplease Price: $235.47The value of democracy is taken for granted today, even by those interested in criticizing the fundamental structures of society. Things would be better, the argument goes, if only things were more... -
Democracy in Spite of the Demos: From Arendt to the Frankfurt School by Larry Alan Busk 9781538148174
Booksplease Price: $71.06The value of democracy is taken for granted today, even by those interested in criticizing the fundamental structures of society. Things would be better, the argument goes, if only things were more... -
The Common and Counter-Hegemonic Politics: Re-Thinking Social Change by Alexandros Kioupkiolis 9781474446150
RRP: $50.38Booksplease Price: $46.28Alexandros Kioupkiolis re-conceptualises the common in tandem with the political. By engaging with key thinkers of community and the commons, including Nancy, Ostrom, Hardt and Negri, together with... -
The Common and Counter-Hegemonic Politics: Re-Thinking Social Change by Alexandros Kioupkiolis
RRP: $210.00Booksplease Price: $190.26Alexandros Kioupkiolis re-conceptualises the common in tandem with the political. By engaging with key thinkers of community and the commons, including Nancy, Ostrom, Hardt and Negri, he harnesses... -
Our Bloc: How We Win by 9781839768507
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $13.88In Our Bloc, Momentum co-founder James Schneider lays out an action plan for the British left. To move from defeatism to renewed confidence, he proposes a Left Bloc: an explicit alliance of... -
Hegemony Now: How Big Tech and Wall Street Won the World (And How We Win it Back) by Alex Williams
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $25.87Today power is in the hands of Wall Street and Silicon Valley. How do we understand this transformation in power? And what can we do about it?We cannot change anything until we have a better... -
Rethinking the Politics of Belonging: Towards a Theory of Improper Community Kevin Inston 9781399558952
RRP: $189.00Booksplease Price: $170.21Community has conventionally been understood as a unifying property (identity, ethnicity, territory) that establishes relations of belonging and non-belonging. However, that understanding necessarily... -
Democratic Piety: Complexity, Conflict and Violence by Adrian Little
RRP: $210.00Booksplease Price: $190.26This book presents an innovative analysis of the nature of democratic theory, focusing on the prevalence of pious discourses of democracy in contemporary politics. Democracy is now promoted in... -
Nonconforming Criticism: Political Practices and Poetics at the Borderlands of Performance Diana Damian Martin 9781350178595
Booksplease Price: $201.83Published Open Access, Nonconforming Criticism examines forms of thinking at the borderlands of performance that defy, dispute and resist the category of criticism. Against the backdrop of forms of... -
The Priority of Injustice: Locating Democracy in Critical Theory by Clive Barnett 9780820351513
RRP: $216.20Booksplease Price: $193.94This original and ambitious work looks anew at a series of intellectual debates about the meaning of democracy. Clive Barnett engages with key thinkers in various traditions of democratic theory and... -
The Priority of Injustice: Locating Democracy in Critical Theory by Clive Barnett 9780820351520
RRP: $69.20Booksplease Price: $64.47This original and ambitious work looks anew at a series of intellectual debates about the meaning of democracy. Clive Barnett engages with key thinkers in various traditions of democratic theory and... -
Populism Benjamin Moffitt 9781509534333
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $28.88Populism is the key political phenomenon of the 21st century. From Trump to Brexit, from Chavez to Podemos, the term has been used to describe leaders, parties and movements across the globe who... -
Beyond the Populist Moment: Perspectives on Democracy's Crisis Professor Abdelwahab El-Affendi 9781350574755
Booksplease Price: $179.87Populism has had a transformative impact on the global political landscape, but is it invigorating and restoring modern democratic politics, or is it destroying it? This landmark study explores this... -
Populism by Benjamin Moffitt 9781509534326
RRP: $94.50Booksplease Price: $85.16Populism is the key political phenomenon of the 21st century. From Trump to Brexit, from Chavez to Podemos, the term has been used to describe leaders, parties and movements across the globe who... -
Citizenship and Democracy in Further and Adult Education by Neil Hopkins 9789400772281
Booksplease Price: $193.33This book addresses the questions why citizenship education is an important subject for students in further and adult education and why we need democratic colleges to support the study of citizenship... -
Being Vulnerable: Contemporary Political Thought by Arne de Boever 9780228016281
RRP: $48.28Booksplease Price: $42.76We are living in a time of acute vulnerability. From climate change to drone warfare, terrorist attacks to mass shootings, safe spaces to trigger warnings, not to mention the COVID-19 pandemic, homo... -
Post-Truth, Fake News and Democracy: Mapping the Politics of Falsehood Johan Farkas (Malmoe University, Sweden) 9781032563039
RRP: $86.08Booksplease Price: $81.54The new edition of Post-Truth, Fake News and Democracy offers an updated overview and critical discussion of contemporary discourses around truth, misinformation, and democracy, while also mapping... -
Being Vulnerable: Contemporary Political Thought by Arne De Boever
RRP: $210.00Booksplease Price: $161.07We are living in a time of acute vulnerability. From climate change to drone warfare, terrorist attacks to mass shootings, safe spaces to trigger warnings, not to mention the COVID-19 pandemic, homo... -
A Lacanian Conception of Populism: Society Does Not Exist Timothy Appleton 9781032557182
RRP: $71.38Booksplease Price: $69.07A Lacanian Conception of Populism takes issue with traditional theories of populism, which seek to equate populism with hegemony, arguing that these are not only different but even incompatible... -
Performance and Politics in a Digital Populist Age: Imagining Alternatives Cami Rowe (Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts, Lancaster University, UK) 9781032419589
RRP: $83.98Booksplease Price: $79.78This book re-evaluates the role of performance in global politics in the face of populism and the digital mediatisation of political interactions. As political communications are increasingly... -
Anxious Identity: Education, Difference and Politics by Ho-chia Chueh 9780897899260
Booksplease Price: $159.20This work is a systematic analysis of texts with arguments on political performance of representation and agency in education. The author critically examines discourses on the politics of difference... -
War, Peace, and Populist Discourse in Ukraine Olga Baysha (National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia) 9781032455358
Booksplease Price: $126.17This book explores the detrimental effects on global peace of populism's tendency to present complex social issues in simplistic "good versus evil" terms. Analyzing the civilizational discourse of...