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The Social and Cultural Forms of Modernity: Understanding Modern Societies, Book III Kenneth Thompson (Both Open University) 9780745609645
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £37.08This book considers the social and cultural aspects of 20th-century modern industrial social formations, focusing on Britain and Europe, with reference to North America and Australasia. The main... -
In Praise of Mathematics Alain Badiou (l'Ecole normale superieure) 9781509512034
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.48Why bother to praise mathematics when you claim, as Alain Badiou does, that philosophy is first and foremost a metaphysics of happiness, or else it s not worth an hour of trouble? What possible... -
Democracy and New Technology by Iain McLean
Booksplease Price: £61.05In this accessible new book, Iain McLean explores the impact of information technology on democracy. Combining democratic theory, social choice theory and description of new technology at work in... -
The Imaginary Institution of Society: Creativity and Autonomy in the Social-historical World by Cornelius Castoriadis
Booksplease Price: £25.36This is one of the most original and important works of contemporary European thought. First published in France in 1975, it is the major theoretical work of one of the foremost thinkers in Europe... -
Homo Academicus by Pierre Bourdieu
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £22.99This highly acclaimed work, in which Pierre Bourdieu turns his attention to the academic world and offers a brilliant analysis of modern intellectual culture, is now available in paperback. The... -
What is Urban History? Shane Ewen 9780745652696
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £15.34Urban history is a well-established and flourishing field of historical research. Written by a leading scholar, this short introduction demonstrates how urban history draws upon a wide variety of... -
The Complete Correspondence 1928 - 1940 Theodor W. Adorno (Frankfurt School) 9780745618180
RRP: £65.00Booksplease Price: £57.85The surviving correspondence between Walter Benjamin and Theodor W. Adorno. This is the first time all of the surviving correspondence between Adorno and Benjamin has appeared in English. Provides... -
The Poverty of Our Freedom: Essays 2012 - 2019 by Axel Honneth
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £53.30There is no normative concept more appealing today than the idea of individual freedom. Political party manifestos are drawn up, legal reforms are defended, military interventions are undertaken,... -
Consumption by Hudson
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £40.55Consumption used to be a disease. Now it is the dominant manner in which most people meet their most basic needs and – if they can afford the price – their wildest desires. In this new book, Ian and... -
Fugitive, Where Are You Running? by D Touam Bona
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £44.80Hunting stories will always glorify the hunters, since it is the hunters who write the stories. In this book, Dénètem Touam Bona takes up the perspective of the hunted, using the concept of... -
A War Made in Russia by Sergei Medvedev 9781509558407
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.85In this timely and incisive book, Sergei Medvedev argues that Russia’s war in Ukraine was not merely a whim of Putin’s obsession: rather, it was the result of two decades of authoritarian degradation... -
Derrida: A Biography Benoit Peeters 9780745656168
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £22.66This biography of Jacques Derrida (1930 2004) tells the story of a Jewish boy from Algiers, excluded from school at the age of twelve, who went on to become the most widely translated French... -
Language and Symbolic Power by Pierre Bourdieu 9780745610344
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £16.54This volume brings together Bourdieu's highly original writings on language and on the relations between language, power and politics. Bourdieu develops a forceful critique of traditional approaches... -
Patriotism by Charles Jones 9781509518326
RRP: £46.75Booksplease Price: £42.04From flag-waving to the singing of national anthems, the practices and symbols ofpatriotism are inescapable, and modern politics is increasingly full of appeals topatriotic fervour. But if no-one... -
Gender and Political Theory: Feminist Reckonings Mary Hawkesworth 9781509525829
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £15.34Western political theory typically incorporates certain assumptions about sex and gender as natural, unvarying and "pre-political." This book critically examines these assumptions and shows... -
Minsky Daniel H. Neilson 9781509528509
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £16.19No economist has written more incisively and provocatively on financial crisis than Hyman Minsky. Minsky is best known for his claim that "stability is destabilizing" - that the seeds of... -
Visual Culture by Richard Howells 9781509518777
RRP: £65.00Booksplease Price: £58.35This is a book about how to read visual images: from fine art to photography, film, television and new media. It explores how meaning is communicated by the wide variety of texts that inhabit our... -
Can the Euro be Saved? by Malcolm Sawyer 9781509515240
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £32.05The economies of the Eurozone countries are plagued by multiple crises, which cast major doubts over the future of the Euro. In this engaging new book, leading heterodox economist Malcolm Sawyer... -
In Defense of Universal Human Rights by Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann 9781509513536
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £44.80Should African and Muslim-majority countries be obliged to protect LGBT rights, or do such rights violate their cultures? Should Western-based corporations be held liable if their security guards... -
Democracy and Community by Jean-Luc Nancy 9781509535347
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £32.05The concept of community is tainted by the events of the twentieth century, frequently appropriated by totalitarian regimes for the purposes of exclusion and oppression. In this dialogue with Peter... -
Autonomy: An Essay on the Life Well-Lived by Beate Rossler 9781509537990
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £49.05In everyday life, we generally assume that we can make our own decisions on matters which concern our own lives. We assume that a life followed only according to decisions taken by other people,... -
What Makes a Social Crisis?: The Societalization of Social Problems by Jeffrey C. Alexander 9781509538249
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £44.80In this book Jeffrey Alexander develops a new sociological theory of social crisis and applies it to a wide range of cases, from the church paedophilia crisis to the #MeToo movement. He argues that... -
The End of the Second Reconstruction Richard Johnson 9781509538348
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.48Democracy in the United States is under threat. The Trump administration's attack on the legacy of the civil rights movement is undermining America's claims to be a multi-racial democracy. This... -
Rethinking Global Governance by Thomas G. Weiss 9781509527236
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £40.55Rethinking Global Governance casts fresh eyes upon a once poignant but now languishing concept. Its purpose is to disrupt the simple association between global governance and the actions and... -
A New Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere and Deliberative Politics by Jürgen Habermas 9781509558940
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.89Jürgen Habermas’s book The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere, first published in 1962, has long been recognized as one of the most important works of twentieth-century social thought... -
Sketch for a Self-Analysis by Pierre Bourdieu 9780745635279
Booksplease Price: £15.29"This is not an autobiography." Pierre Bourdieu Pierre Bourdieu's commitment to a reflexive sociology led him ineluctably to take on the final challenge of a self socio-analysis in which he recounts... -
Decolonizing Literature: An Introduction by Anna Bernard 9781509544622
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £40.95Recent efforts to diversify and decentre the literary canon taught at universities have been moderately successful. Yet this expansion of our reading lists is only the start of a broader... -
The Spirit of Digital Capitalism by Huberman 9781509553952
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £49.05Digital technologies are now central to the machinations of capitalism. But how are they changing forms of capital accumulation and domination, and in what terms are these changes being promoted and... -
Gender and Social Movements by Jo Reger 9781509541324
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £44.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781509541324Author Jo RegerFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Polity PressPublisher Polity Press -
Race: A Philosophical Introduction by Paul C. Taylor 9781509532896
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £49.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781509532896Author Paul C. TaylorFormat HardbackPage Count 280Imprint Polity PressPublisher Polity... -
Crisis Sylvia Walby (Lancaster University and UNESCO Chair in Gender Research) 9780745647609
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £49.05We are living in a time of crisis which has cascaded through society. Financial crisis has led to an economic crisis of recession and unemployment; an ensuing fiscal crisis over government deficits... -
Race and Digital Media – An Introduction by LK Lopez 9781509546923
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £49.05Since the early days of the internet, there have been questions about how emerging technologies might one day liberate or further harm communities of color that already face structural inequalities... -
Dignity or Death – Ethics and Politics of Race by N Ajari 9781509548651
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £43.96This book sets out to understand the ethical dimension of Black lives and deaths in the modern period. Recent events—from the brutal murder of George Floyd to the pervasive violence meted out daily... -
The Fashioned Body: Fashion, Dress and Modern Social Theory by Joanne Entwistle 9781509547883
Booksplease Price: £61.35The Fashioned Body provides a wide-ranging and original overview of fashion and dress from an historical and sociological perspective. Where once fashion was seen as marginal, it has now entered into... -
The Kindertransport: What Really Happened by Andrea Hammel 9781509553761
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £36.05In 1938 and 1939, some 10,000 children and young people fled to the UK to escape Nazi persecution. Known as the ‘Kindertransport’, this effort has long been hailed as a wartime success story – but... -
A Global Racial Enemy: Muslims and 21st-Century Racism by Saher Selod 9781509540198
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £45.10Prejudice against Muslims has a long and complex history. In recent decades, discrimination, violence, and human rights abuses against Muslims have taken a significant turn, with rising reports and... -
Seven Essays on Populism – For a Renewed Theoretical Perspective by Biglieri 9781509542208
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £44.80This important intervention interrogates keystone features of the dominant European theoretical landscape in the field of populism studies, advancing existing debates and introducing new avenues of... -
War and Conflict in the Middle East and North Africa by Ahram 9781509532810
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £49.35For much of the last half century, the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) has seemed the outlier in global peace. Today Iraq, Libya, Israel/Palestine, Yemen, and Syria are not just countries, but... -
Can Democracy Safeguard the Future? Graham Smith 9781509539246
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £32.05Our democracies repeatedly fail to safeguard the future. From pensions to pandemics, health and social care through to climate, biodiversity and emerging technologies, democracies have been unable to... -
Environmental Thought – A Short History by Attfield 9781509536658
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £49.05Environmental thought has a rich and extensive history. Philosopher Robin Attfield guides readers through the key developments and debates that have defined the field from ancient times to the...