Political
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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 Add to cartFor 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
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Feminist Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartVery Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring
Katharine Jenkins offers an introduction to feminist philosophy, giving the reader an idea of what it is, why it is important, and how to think abo… [more below]- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Jenkins, Katharine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: January 24 2025
- ISBN10: 0192858076
- Language: English
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The Long Transition Towards Socialism and the End of Capitalism
$33.33 Add to cartThe Long Transition Towards Socialism and the End of Capitalism is the latest work from renowned revolutionary Torkil Lauesen, whose decades of activism and scholarship have made him a leading voice i
- Author: Lauesen, Torkil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 418
- Publish Date: November 02 2024
- ISBN10: 9798330404315
- Language: English
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The Ticklish Subject: The Absent Centre of Political Ontology
$39.95 Add to cartSlavoj Zizek, the maverick philosopher, author of over 30 books, acclaimed as the “Elvis of cultural theory,” and today’s most controversial public intellectual. His work traverses the fields of philo… [more below]
- Series: Essential Zizek
- Author: Zizek, Slavoj
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: January 05 2009
- ISBN10: 1844673014
- Language: English
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Outlines of the Philosophy of Right
$19.95 Add to cartHegel’s Outlines of the Philosophy of Right is one of the greatest works of moral, social, and political philosophy. It contains significant ideas on justice, moral responsibility, family life, econom… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Hegel, G. W. F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: August 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0192806106
- Language: English
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A Brief Global History of the Left
$24.95 Read moreWhat is happening to the Left? It seems to be dying a slow death. While many commentators have predicted its demise, the Left has always defied these bleak prognoses and risen from the ashes in the mo
- Author: Sand, Shlomo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 271
- Publish Date: January 31 2024
- ISBN10: 150955825X
- Language: English
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The Cosmopolitan Tradition: A Noble But Flawed Ideal
$21.00 Read more“Profound, beautifully written, and inspiring. It proves that Nussbaum deserves her reputation as one of the greatest modern philosophers.”
“At a time of growing national chauvinism, M
—Globe and Mail- Author: Nussbaum, Martha C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 07 2021
- ISBN10: 0674260392
- Language: English
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American Awakening: Identity Politics and Other Afflictions of Our Time
$20.99 Read moreAmerica has always been committed to the idea that citizens can work together to build a common world. Today, three afflictions keep us from pursuing that noble ideal. The first and most obvious affli
- Author: Mitchell, Joshua
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: December 13 2022
- ISBN10: 1641772824
- Language: English
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To Shape a New World: Essays on the Political Philosophy of Martin Luther King, Jr.
$22.00 Add to cart“Fascinating and instructive…King’s philosophy, speaking to us through the written word, may turn out to constitute his most enduring legacy.”
Martin L
–Annette Gordon-Reed, New York Review of Books- Author: Shelby, Tommie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: January 07 2020
- ISBN10: 674237838
- Language: English
