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  • Aristotle's Politics

    by Aristotle ...
    The “groundbreaking translation” of the foundational text of Western political thought, now in a revised and expanded edition (History of Political Thought).Aristotle’s masterwork is the first systematic treatise on the science of politics. Carnes Lord’s lucid translation helped raise scholarly interest in the work and has served as the standard English edition for decades. Widely regarded as the ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Stand out of our Light

    Freedom and Resistance in the Attention Economy

    Former Google advertising strategist, now Oxford-trained philosopher James Williams launches a plea to society and to the tech industry to help ensure that the technology we all carry with us every day does not distract us from pursuing our true goals in life. As information becomes ever more plentiful, the resource that is becoming more scarce is our attention. In this 'attention economy', we ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • The Essential Emma Goldman-Anarchism, Feminism, Liberation (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition)

    by Emma Goldman ...
    Emma Goldman, the anarchist feminist political philosopher, was known throughout her lifetime as the "High Priestess of Anarchy." To the tabloids, she was "Red Emma, Queen of the Anarchists." Today, she is heralded as a founder of anarcha-feminism and remembered for her feminist credo: "If I can't dance, I don't want to be in your revolution."Over the course of an extraordinary revolutionary ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • 21 Lektionen für das 21. Jahrhundert

    Translated by Andreas Wirthensohn ...
    Yuval Noah Harari ist der Weltstar unter den Historikern. In «Eine kurze Geschichte der Menschheit» erzählte er vom Aufstieg des Homo Sapiens zum Herrn der Welt. In «Homo Deus» ging es um die Zukunft unserer Spezies. Sein neues Buch schaut auf das Hier und Jetzt und konfrontiert uns mit den drängenden Fragen unserer Zeit. Wie unterscheiden wir Wahrheit und Fiktion im Zeitalter der Fake News? Was ... Read more

    $12.90 USD

  • History of Political Philosophy

    Edited by Leo Strauss, Joseph Cropsey ...
    Designed for undergraduate students, a historical survey of the most important political philosophers in the Western tradition.This volume provides an unequaled introduction to the thought of chief contributors to the Western tradition of political philosophy from classical Greek antiquity to the twentieth century. Written by specialists on the various philosophers, this third edition has been ... Read more

    $28.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Statelessness

    A Modern History

    The story of how a much-contested legal category—statelessness—transformed the international legal order and redefined the relationship between states and their citizens.Two world wars left millions stranded in Europe. The collapse of empires and the rise of independent states in the twentieth century produced an unprecedented number of people without national belonging and with nowhere to go. ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Filosofía de la apariencia física

    La apariencia física encierra uno de los problemas filosóficos más relevantes y poco discutidos por la filosofía contemporánea. Este ensayo defiende que la apariencia física es una cuestión filosófica porque constituye un problema moral, pues de ella depende la construcción material del sujeto ético. El sujeto inicia su relación ética consigo mismo y con los otros por medio del cuidado, consciente ... Read more

    $17.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Money

    by Conor McCabe ...
    Series Book 4 - Sireacht
    Money is power. It shapes our world in ways that can leave the mind reeling. Indeed, the bank crisis and subsequent recession made clear the influence that it has over our lives. Yet despite this, money remains an opaque and abstract space, with its own language and gatekeepers to knowledge. As citizens we are required to support the profit-seeking strategies of banks and other financial ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Between Past and Future

    From the author of Eichmann in Jerusalem and The Origins of Totalitarianism, “a book to think with through the political impasses and cultural confusions of our day” (Harper’s Magazine)Hannah Arendt’s insightful observations of the modern world, based on a profound knowledge of the past, constitute an impassioned contribution to political philosophy. In Between Past and Future Arendt describes the ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Mimesis, Expression, Construction

    Fredric Jamesons Seminar on Aesthetic Theory

    Mimesis, Expression, Construction brings Fredric Jameson's famous Duke University seminar on Adorno’s Aesthetic Theory into print for the first time.Transcribed and edited from audio recordings taken by Octavian Esanu of the original seminar at Duke University in 2003, Mimesis, Expression, Construction reproduces Jameson and his students' engagement with Aesthetic Theory, one of the most ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Considerations on Western Marxism

    This synoptic essay considers the nature and evolution of the Marxist theory that developed in Western Europe, after the defeat of the proletarian rebellions in the West and the isolation of the Russian Revolution in the East in the early 1920s. It focuses particularly on the work of Lukács, Korsch and Gramsci; Adorno, Marcuse and Benjamin; Sartre and Althusser; and Della Volpe and Colletti, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Utopia or Bust

    A Guide to the Present Crisis

    Series series Jacobin
    After the financial crash and the great recession, the media rediscovered Karl Marx, socialist theory, and the very idea that capitalism can be questioned.But in spite of the publicity, the main paths of contemporary critical thought have gone unexploredoutside of the academy. Benjamin Kunkel’s Utopia or Bust leads readers – whether politically committed or simply curious – through the most ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Hours Have Lost Their Clock

    The Politics of Nostalgia

    The Hours Have Lost Their Clock charts the rise of nostalgia in an era knocked out of time.In The Hours Have Lost Their Clock, Grafton Tanner charts the rise of nostalgia in an era knocked out of time.Nostalgia is the defining emotion of our age. Political leaders promise a return to yesteryear. Old movies are remade and cancelled series are rebooted. Veterans reenact past wars, while the ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Libertarian Mind

    A Manifesto for Freedom

    by David Boaz ...
    A revised, updated, and retitled edition of David Boaz’s classic book Libertarianism: A Primer, which was praised as uniting “history, philosophy, economics and law—spiced with just the right anecdotes—to bring alive a vital tradition of American political thought that deserves to be honored today” (Richard A. Epstein, University of Chicago).Libertarianism—the philosophy of personal and economic ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Conscience of a Conservative

    A Rejection of Destructive Politics and a Return to Principle

    by Jeff Flake ...
    **NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A thoughtful defense of traditional conservatism and a thorough assault on the way Donald Trump is betraying it.”—David Brooks, in his New York Times columnIn a bold act of conscience, Republican Senator Jeff Flake takes his party to task for embracing nationalism, populism, xenophobia, and the anomalous Trump presidency. The book is an urgent call for a return to ... Read more

    $6.99 USD $4.99 USD

  • Trotsky in New York, 1917

    A Radical on the Eve of Revolution

    Lev Davidovich Trotsky burst onto the world stage in November 1917 as co–leader of a Marxist Revolution seizing power in Russia. It made him one of the most recognized personalities of the Twentieth Century, a global icon of radical change. Yet just months earlier, this same Lev Trotsky was a nobody, a refugee expelled from Europe, writing obscure pamphlets and speeches, barely noticed outside a ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Pedophilia and Adult–Child Sex

    A Philosophical Analysis

    This book provides a philosophical analysis of adult–child sex and pedophilia. It looks at how the law should respond to such sex given the above analyses. ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Marx

    Series series Classic Thinkers
    Karl Marx was the first theorist of global capitalism and remains perhaps its most trenchant critic. This clear and innovative book, from one of the leading contemporary experts on Marx's thought, gives us a fresh overview of his ideas by framing them within concepts that remain topical and alive today, from class struggle and progress to democracy and exploitation.Taking Marx's work in his ... Read more

    $21.00 USD

  • We're Still Here

    Pain and Politics in the Heart of America

    The economy has been brutal to American workers for several decades. The chance to give one's children a better life than one's own -- the promise at the heart of the American Dream -- is withering away. While onlookers assume those suffering in marginalized working-class communities will instinctively rise up, the 2016 election threw into sharp relief how little we know about how the working ... Read more

    $16.99 USD $14.99 USD

  • Plato: The Complete Works

    by Plato ...
    This ebook contains Plato's complete works. This edition has been professionally formatted and contains several tables of contents. The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook) lists the titles of all novels included in this volume. By clicking on one of those titles you will be redirected to the beginning of that work, where you'll find a new TOC that lists all the chapters ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Napoleon and de Gaulle

    Heroes and History

    Translated by Steven Rendall ...
    An Australian Book Review Best Book of the YearOne of France’s most famous historians compares two exemplars of political and military leadership to make the unfashionable case that individuals, for better and worse, matter in history.Historians have taught us that the past is not just a tale of heroes and wars. The anonymous millions matter and are active agents of change. But in democratizing ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • How to Be an Epicurean

    The Ancient Art of Living Well

    A leading philosopher shows that if the pursuit of happiness is the question, Epicureanism is the answerEpicureanism has a reputation problem, bringing to mind gluttons with gout or an admonition to eat, drink, and be merry. In How to Be an Epicurean, philosopher Catherine Wilson shows that Epicureanism isn't an excuse for having a good time: it's a means to live a good life. Although modern ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Proclus: Commentary on Plato's Republic: Volume 1

    Series series Proclus: Commentary on Plato's Republic
    The commentary on Plato's Republic by Proclus (d. 485 CE), which takes the form of a series of essays, is the only sustained treatment of the dialogue to survive from antiquity. This three-volume edition presents the first complete English translation of Proclus' text, together with a general introduction that argues for the unity of Proclus' Commentary and orients the reader to the use that the ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • A World after Liberalism

    Five Thinkers Who Inspired the Radical Right

    by Matthew Rose ...
    A bracing account of liberalism’s most radical critics introducing one of the most controversial movements of the twentieth century“Powerful. . . . Bracing. . . . Part of the book’s eerie relevance comes from the role Russia plays throughout.”—Ezra Klein, New York Times“One of the best books I’ve read this year. . . . Its importance at this critical moment in our history cannot be overstated.”—Rod ... Read more

    $20.99 USD