Political
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A Philosophy of War: Why We Fight
$17.95 Add to cartThe best-selling author of A Philosophy of Walking returns to address the eternal subject of human conflict
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine seems to many like a throwback to another age, rattling Europe- Author: Gros, Frédéric
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: January 13 2026
- ISBN10: 1804296023
- Language: English
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Multispecies Assemblies
$10.00 Add to cartAnimals speak. Plants do too. Seas and mountains are not a mute background to human actions, but have interests and agency. Many more-than-human beings are political actors. All of us are part of a we
- Series: Alternative States Monograph #1
- Author: Meijer, Eva
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 102
- Publish Date: April 01 2025
- ISBN10: 9798989617227
- Language: English
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Ancient Wisdom for Polarized Times: Why Humanity Needs Herodotus, the Man Who Invented History
$30.00 Add to cartHow the wisdom of Herodotus can fortify us against political falsehoods and violent extremism
Nearly 2,500 years ago, the Greek writer Herodotus introduced the concept of objective truth derived from- Author: Anhalt, Emily Katz
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 0300272871
- Language: English
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24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep
$19.95 Read more“A fascinating short book” on the perils of 21st-century capitalism and its near-complete takeover of our everyday lives (New York Times Magazine)
24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep explores- Author: Crary, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 1804298409
- Language: English
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Freedom: A Disease Without Cure
$12.95 Add to cartWe are all afraid that new dangers pose a threat to our hard-won freedoms, so what deserves attention is precisely the notion of freedom.
The concept of freedom is deceptively simple. We think we unde- Author: Zizek, Slavoj
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: June 12 2025
- ISBN10: 1350559164
- Language: English
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Mary Wollstonecraft: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartVery Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring
Mary Wollstonecraft is widely hailed as the mother of modern feminism. The book that made her famous, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, is a w… [more below]- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Clery, E. J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: June 26 2025
- ISBN10: 0192862561
- Language: English
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Necropolitics
$40.43 Add to cartIn Necropolitics Achille Mbembe, a leader in the new wave of francophone critical theory, theorizes the genealogy of the contemporary world, a world plagued by ever-increasing inequality, militarizati… [more below]
- Series: Theory in Forms
- Author: Mbembe, Achille
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 25 2019
- ISBN10: 147800651X
- Language: English
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Quit Everything: Interpreting Depression
$18.95 Read moreAnalyses the current wave of depression, or “desertion”, that is causing more and more people to abandon hope and desire in a world where social, political and environment collapse seems inevitable.
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- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 207
- Publish Date: August 13 2024
- ISBN10: 1915672511
- Language: English
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What Is the State For?
$19.95 Read moreCan the nation-state serve social justice? Should social movements work inside or outside the state? What would a just state look like, and how can we get there?
Leading a forum in the latest issue of- Series: Boston Review
- Author: TáÃwò, Olúfẹ́mi O.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 196
- Publish Date: July 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1946511870
- Language: English
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Liberalism as a Way of Life
$29.95 Add to cartWhy liberalism is all you need to lead a good, fun, worthy, and rewarding life–and how you can become a better and happier person by taking your liberal beliefs more seriously
Where do you get your v- Author: Lefebvre, Alexandre
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 0691203741
- Language: English
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The Society of the Spectacle
$19.95 Add to cartThe Society of the Spectacle is a carefully considered effort to clarify the most fundamental tendencies and contradictions of the society in which we find ourselves–in order to facilitate its overth
- Author: Debord, Guy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 9798887440569
- Language: English
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Political Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThis Very Short Introduction introduces readers to the key concepts of political philosophy: authority, democracy, freedom and its limits, justice, feminism, multiculturalism, and nationality. Accessi… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions #97
- Author: Miller, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 147
- Publish Date: September 18 2003
- ISBN10: 0192803956
- Language: English
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Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
$9.94 Add to cartIn his Discourses (1755), Rousseau argues that inequalities of rank, wealth, and power are the inevitable result of the civilizing process. If inequality is intolerable – and Rousseau shows with unpar… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: July 26 2009
- ISBN10: 0199555427
- Language: English
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Redistribution or Recognition?: A Political-Philosophical Exchange
$24.95 Add to cart“Recognition” has become a veritable keyword of our time, but its relation to “redistribution” remains undertheorized. This volume remedies the lacuna by staging a sustained debate between two philoso… [more below]
- Author: Fraser, Nancy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 276
- Publish Date: January 23 2013
- ISBN10: 1859844928
- Language: English
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The New Leviathans: Thoughts After Liberalism
$18.00 Read moreA bold, provocative reckoning with our current political delusions and dysfunctions.
Ever since its publication in 1651, Thomas Hobbes’s Leviathan has unsettled and challenged how we understand the wo- Author: Gray, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: November 05 2024
- ISBN10: 125033831X
- Language: English
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True Conservatism: Reclaiming Our Humanity in an Arrogant Age
$30.00 Add to cartDrawing on the riches of the Western tradition, Anthony T. Kronman defends a humane conservativism for our enlightened age
As the party of the left has grown more strident, its conservative critics h- Author: Kronman, Anthony T.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: March 25 2025
- ISBN10: 0300277032
- Language: English
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Mythocracy: How Stories Shape Our Worlds
$29.95 Read moreHarnessing the power of storytelling for political progress
Mythocracy examines the narrative mechanisms that script our lives through the stories we tell one another. Digging beneath common anxieties- Author: Citton, Yves
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1839766980
- Language: English
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Essays in Understanding, 1930-1954: Formation, Exile, and Totalitarianism
$26.00 Add to cartFew thinkers have addressed the political horrors and ethical complexities of the twentieth century with the insight and passionate intellectual integrity of Hannah Arendt. She was irresistible drawn … [more below]
- Author: Arendt, Hannah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: June 07 2005
- ISBN10: 0805211861
- Language: English
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The Ancient Wisdom of Baseball: Lessons for Life from Homer’s Odyssey to the World Series
$27.95 Add to cart“For those who love baseball, the game holds deep personal meaning and echoes to the past that are undeniable but often hard to articulate. Christian Sheppard’s The Ancient Wisdom of Baseball is a lov
- Author: Sheppard, Christian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: March 25 2025
- ISBN10: 9798886453041
- Language: English
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The Absence of Myth: Writings on Surrealism
$24.95 Read moreFor Bataille, “the absence of myth” had itself become the myth of the modern age. In a world that had “lost the secret of its cohesion,” Bataille saw surrealism as both a symptom and the beginning of … [more below]
- Author: Bataille, Georges
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1804296597
- Language: English
