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Theory of the Earth by Thomas Nail
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36We need a new philosophy of the earth. Geological time used to refer to slow and gradual processes, but today we are watching land sink into the sea and forests transform into deserts. We can even... -
Theory of the Object by Thomas Nail
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £21.23Thomas Nail approaches the theory of objects historically in order to tell a completely new story in which objects themselves are the true agents of scientific knowledge. They are processes, not... -
Theory of the Border by Thomas Nail
RRP: £42.99Booksplease Price: £31.64Despite -- and perhaps because of -- increasing global mobility, there are more types of borders today than ever before in history. Borders of all kinds define every aspect of social life in the... -
The Figure of the Migrant by Thomas Nail
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.24This book offers a much-needed new political theory of an old phenomenon. The last decade alone has marked the highest number of migrations in recorded history. Constrained by environmental,... -
Being and Motion by Thomas Nail
RRP: £37.99Booksplease Price: £27.76More than at any other time in human history, we live in an age defined by movement and mobility; and yet, we lack a unifying theory which takes this seriously as a starting point for philosophy. The... -
Theory of the Earth by Thomas Nail 9781503614956
RRP: £96.00Booksplease Price: £77.39We need a new philosophy of the earth. Geological time used to refer to slow and gradual processes, but today we are watching land sink into the sea and forests transform into deserts. We can even... -
Matter and Motion by Thomas Nail 9781399525435
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £13.15Tells a new history of materialism from prehistory to the present that resists stasis, heirarchy and domination Traces a lineage of thinkers who have philosophically integrated ideas of... -
Theory of the Border by Thomas Nail 9780190618643
RRP: £145.00Booksplease Price: £114.91Despite -- and perhaps because of -- increasing global mobility, there are more types of borders today than ever before in history. Borders of all kinds define every aspect of social life in the... -
Theory of the Image by Thomas Nail 9780190050085
Booksplease Price: £32.62We live in an age of the mobile image. The world today is absolutely saturated with images of all kinds circulating around the world at an incredible rate. The movement of the image has never been... -
Being and Motion by Thomas Nail 9780190908904
RRP: £120.00Booksplease Price: £80.91More than at any other time in human history, we live in an age defined by movement and mobility; and yet, we lack a unifying theory which takes this seriously as a starting point for philosophy. The... -
Theory of the Image by Thomas Nail 9780190924034
RRP: £127.50Booksplease Price: £103.45We live in an age of the mobile image. The world today is absolutely saturated with analog and digital images of all kinds circulating around the world at an incredible rate. The movement of the... -
The Figure of the Migrant by Thomas Nail 9780804787178
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £71.44This book offers a much-needed new political theory of an old phenomenon. The last decade alone has marked the highest number of migrations in recorded history. Constrained by environmental,... -
Lucretius II: An Ethics of Motion by Thomas Nail
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £16.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474466646Author Thomas NailFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Edinburgh University... -
The Philosophy of Movement: An Introduction Thomas Nail 9781517917449
RRP: £96.00Booksplease Price: £77.39An influential thinker distills years of work on the philosophy of movement into one accessible account Why are city dwellers worldwide walking on average ten percent faster than they were a decade... -
Lucretius III: A History of Motion by Thomas Nail
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.76Offers a new theory of history through an original reading of Lucretius' De Rerum NaturaFor Lucretius, history means something surprisingly different than we ordinarily think. Instead of thinking of... -
The Philosophy of Movement: An Introduction Thomas Nail 9781517917456
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36An influential thinker distills years of work on the philosophy of movement into one accessible account Why are city dwellers worldwide walking on average ten percent faster than they were a decade... -
Lucretius I: An Ontology of Motion by Thomas Nail
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £22.04The most original and shocking interpretation of Lucretius in the last 40 yearsThomas Nail argues convincingly and systematically that Lucretius was not an atomist, but a thinker of kinetic flux. In... -
Marx in Motion: A New Materialist Marxism by Thomas Nail
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £39.45Karl Marx is the most historically foundational and systematic critic of capitalism to date, and the years since the 2008 financial crisis have witnessed a rebirth of his popular appeal. In a world... -
Returning to Revolution: Deleuze, Guattari and Zapatismo by Thomas Nail
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £23.68Presents an account of the concept of revolution in the work of Deleuze and Guattari. Much has been written on Deleuze and Guattari's political philosophy in the last 15 years. Now, Returning to... -
Lucretius III: A History of Motion by Thomas Nail 9781474464239
RRP: £110.00Booksplease Price: £99.42For Lucretius, history means something surprisingly different than we ordinarily think. Instead of thinking of history in terms of time, he thought of it in terms of motion. This book unpacks the... -
Marx in Motion: A New Materialist Marxism by Thomas Nail 9780197526477
RRP: £93.00Booksplease Price: £72.86Karl Marx is the most historically foundational and systematic critic of capitalism to date, and the years since the 2008 financial crisis have witnessed a rebirth of his popular appeal. In a world... -
The Philosophy of Virginia Woolf: Moments of Becoming Prof. Thomas Nail 9781350526068
Booksplease Price: £66.27Towards the end of her life, Virginia Woolf defined her "philosophy"-the "constant idea" that "makes her a writer." She wrote that this idea had given her "the strongest pleasure known to [her]." She... -
The Philosophy of Virginia Woolf: Moments of Becoming Prof. Thomas Nail 9781350526051
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £18.23Towards the end of her life, Virginia Woolf defined her "philosophy"-the "constant idea" that "makes her a writer." She wrote that this idea had given her "the strongest pleasure known to [her]." She... -
The Citizen and the Vagabond: A Politics of Mobility Tim Cresswell 9781517920616
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.12An expansive treatise on the power relations that govern our movementThe Citizen and the Vagabond develops a theoretical approach to the study of mobility and its relationship to the production,... -
The Citizen and the Vagabond: A Politics of Mobility Tim Cresswell 9781517920609
RRP: £96.00Booksplease Price: £76.70An expansive treatise on the power relations that govern our movementThe Citizen and the Vagabond develops a theoretical approach to the study of mobility and its relationship to the production,... -
Care Ethics and the Refugee Crisis: Emotions, Contestation, and Agency by 9781032337135
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £41.39This book advocates for the philosophical import of care in re-evaluating problems of humanitarianism in the context of the ongoing international refugee and forced migration situation. In doing so,... -
The Charisma of Distant Places: Travel and Religion in the Early Middle Ages Courtney Luckhardt 9781032090917
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £41.80This cultural history of early medieval travel and religion reveals how movement affected society, demonstrating the connectedness of people and regions between 500 and 850 CE. In The Charisma of... -
Translation and Transmigration Siri Nergaard 9781138543683
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £37.14In our globalized and transcultural world it has become more common than ever to live among different languages, to cross geographical and cultural borders frequently, to negotiate between multiple... -
Migration, Protest Movements and the Politics of Resistance: A Radical Political Philosophy of Cosmopolitanism by Tamara Caraus
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £44.79Migration and cosmopolitanism are said to be complementary. Cosmopolitanism means to be a citizen of the world, and migration, without impediments, should be the natural starting point for a... -
Antony Gormley: Survey Antony Gormley 9781636811833
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £30.43An expansive view of Gormley's work, including new perspectives on its engagement with public space and its philosophical underpinnings Published with Nasher Sculpture Center. Spanning the... -
Law, Migration, and Human Mobility: Mobile Law by Magdalena Kmak 9781032185255
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.37This book analyses the multifaceted ways law operates in the context of human mobility, as well as the ways in which human mobility affects law.Migration law is conventionally understood as a tool to... -
Fortress Power: Hostile Designs and the Politics of Spatial Control Derek S. Denman 9781517917920
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £64.89A compelling treatise on the relationship between power and enclosureFortress Power presents a genealogy of fortification as a material and political technology intent on obstruction, tracing its... -
Fortress Power: Hostile Designs and the Politics of Spatial Control by Derek S. Denman 9781517917937
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.68A compelling treatise on the relationship between power and enclosureFortress Power presents a genealogy of fortification as a material and political technology intent on obstruction, tracing its... -
The Primacy of Resistance: Power, Opposition and Becoming by Marco Checchi 9781350214354
Booksplease Price: £33.49What is at the heart of political resistance? Whilst traditional accounts often conceptualise it as a reaction to power, this volume (prioritising remarks by Michel Foucault) invites us to think of... -
The Ethics of Epicurus and its Relation to Contemporary Doctrines by Jean-Marie Guyau 9781350261020
Booksplease Price: £31.52This is the first English translation of a compelling and highly original reading of Epicurus by Jean-Marie Guyau. This book has long been recognized as one of the best and most concerted attempts to... -
Anarchism After Deleuze and Guattari: Fabulating Futures by Chantelle Gray 9781350132399
Booksplease Price: £96.35Deleuze and Guattari never identified as anarchists, nor do they seem to know much about its historical development or continued praxis. Yet their individual and collective work belies this apparent... -
Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari: Intersecting Lives by Francois Dosse 9780231145619
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £32.10In 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... -
Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari: Intersecting Lives by Francois Dosse 9780231145602
RRP: £150.00Booksplease Price: £119.30In 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... -
Peopling the World: Representing Human Mobility from Milton to Malthus by Charlotte Sussman 9780812252026
RRP: £68.00Booksplease Price: £55.52A compelling study of views about population and demographic mobility in the British long eighteenth century In John Milton's Paradise Lost of 1667, Adam and Eve are promised they will produce a... -
Resistance, Revolution and Fascism by Anthony Faramelli 9781350161702
Booksplease Price: £35.46Examining the under-theorized relationship between revolution and fascism, this book outlines a politics of resistance to these forms of domination. Through an examination of the psychic conditions...