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  • Conservatism

    A Rediscovery

    by Yoram Hazony ...
    The idea that American conservatism is identical to "classical" liberalism—widely held since the 1960s—is seriously mistaken.The award-winning political theorist Yoram Hazony argues that the best hope for Western democracy is a return to the empiricist, religious, and nationalist traditions of America and Britain—the conservative traditions that brought greatness to the English-speaking nations ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Concepts of Cabralism

    Amilcar Cabral and Africana Critical Theory

    Series series Critical Africana Studies
    By examining Amilcar Cabral’s theories and praxes, as well as several of the antecedents and major influences on the evolution of his radical politics and critical social theory, Concepts of Cabralism:Amilcar Cabral and Africana Critical Theory simultaneously reintroduces, chronicles, and analyzes several of the core characteristics of the Africana tradition of critical theory. Reiland Rabaka’s ... Read more

    $50.99 USD

  • Philosophy of Antifascism

    Punching Nazis and Fighting White Supremacy

    On January 20th, 2017, during an interview on the streets of Washington D.C., white nationalist Richard Spencer was punched by an anonymous antifascist. The moment was caught on video and quickly went viral, and soon “punching Nazis” was a topic of heated public debate. How might this kind of militant action be conceived of, or justified, philosophically? Can we find a deep commitment to ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Nigeria and the Leadership Question

    This book provides for the reader:- An excellent perspective on the early historical origins and political development of Nigeria.- Solutions to the leadership question Nigeria has been struggling with since independence.- It destroys the myth that leadership is Nigeria’s only problem.- It points out the role of responsible followership in building a great nation.- It shows why democracy has not ... Read more

    $9.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Mutual Aid

    A Factor of Evolution

    Series series Critical Editions
    "Make no mistake: the story that started with Pyotr Alexeyevich Kropotkin is far from finished. On the contrary, I believe there's a good chance that it's only just begun."-Rutger Bregman, Utopia for Realists and Humankind"Russian social theorist Peter Kropotkin ... argued that voluntary cooperation has been key to the flourishing of human civilization."-The New York Times"The book is undeniably ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • Beyond Good and Evil

    In the book “Beyond Good and Evil”, Nietzsche accused past philosophers of accusing the founding of great metaphysical systems on the belief that good man is the opposite of the wicked, instead of a different expression of the same basic impulses they find more direct expression in the wicked man. Work moves in the kingdom “beyond good and evil”in the sense of leaving behind the traditional ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Seven Military Classics Of Ancient China

    The Seven Military Classics is one of the most profound studies of warfare ever written, a stanchion in sinological and military history. It presents an Eastern tradition of strategic thought that emphasizes outwitting one's opponent through speed, stealth, flexibility, and a minimum of force -- an approach very different from that stressed in the West. Safeguarded for centuries by the ruling ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Justice and the Meritocratic State

    Series series Political Philosophy for the Real World
    Like American politics, the academic debate over justice is polarized, with almost all theories of justice falling within one of two traditions: egalitarianism and libertarianism. This book provides an alternative to the partisan standoff by focusing not on equality or liberty, but on the idea that we should give people the things that they deserve. Mulligan sets forth a theory of economic justice ... Read more

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  • Draw Your Weapons

    A single book might not change the world. But this utterly original meditation on art and war might transform the way you see the world—and that makes all the difference.“How to live in the face of so much suffering? What difference can one person make in this beautiful, imperfect, and imperiled world?”Through a dazzling combination of memoir, history, reporting, visual culture, literature, and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Ethics of Identity

    Race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, gender, sexuality: in the past couple of decades, a great deal of attention has been paid to such collective identities. They clamor for recognition and respect, sometimes at the expense of other things we value. But to what extent do "identities" constrain our freedom, our ability to make an individual life, and to what extent do they enable our ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • No Enemies, No Hatred

    Selected Essays and Poems

    by Xiaobo Liu ...
    When the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded on December 10, 2010, its recipient, Liu Xiaobo, was in Jinzhou Prison, serving an eleven-year sentence for what Beijing called “incitement to subvert state power.” In Oslo, actress Liv Ullmann read a long statement the activist had prepared for his 2009 trial. It read in part: “I stand by the convictions I expressed in my ‘June Second Hunger Strike ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Heroes

    Mass Murder and Suicide

    Series series Futures
    What is the relationship between capitalism and mental health? In his most unsettling book to date, Franco “Bifo” Berardi embarks on an exhilarating journey through philosophy, psychoanalysis and current events, searching for the social roots of the mental malaise of our age.Spanning an array of horrors – the Aurora “Joker” killer; Anders Breivik; American school massacres; the suicide epidemic in ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Overdoing Democracy

    Why We Must Put Politics in its Place

    We live in an age of political polarization. As political beliefs on the left and the right have been pulled closer to the extremes, so have our social environments: we seldom interact with those with whom we don't see eye to eye. Making matters worse, we are being appealed to--by companies, products, and teams, for example--based on our deep-seated, polarized beliefs. Our choice of Starbucks or ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Vanity Fair (Collins Classics)

    Series series Collins Classics
    A masterpiece of social satire, featuring one of literature’s best-loved characters, Becky Sharp.Ruthless social climber and irrepressible anti-hero Becky Sharp will do anything to raise her position in Society, from impoverished orphan to woman of means. Clever, lively and resourceful, Becky is the total opposite of her naive and sentimental schoolmate Amelia Sedley, a pampered yet good-natured ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • Cooperation and Social Justice

    by Joseph Heath ...
    In six new essays, philosopher and award-winning author Joseph Heath explores the connection between principles of justice and the institutional arrangements required to achieve them. Topics include the significance of status inequality, the question of open borders and immigration, the stigmatization of self-control failure, and debates over racial inequality in the United States. Ultimately, ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Wages of Rebellion

    by Chris Hedges ...
    Revolutions come in waves and cycles. We are again riding the crest of a revolutionary epic, much like 1848 or 1917, from the Arab Spring to movements against austerity in Greece to the Occupy movement. In Wages of Rebellion, Chris Hedges -- who has chronicled the malaise and sickness of a society in terminal moral decline in his books Empire of Illusion and Death of the Liberal Class -- ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • This Troubled World

    The newspapers these days are becoming more and more painful. I was reading my morning papers on the train not so long ago, and looked up with a feeling of desperation. Up and down the car people were reading, yet no one seemed excited. To me the whole situation seems intolerable. We face today a world filled with suspicion and hatred.Some time we must begin, for where there is no beginning there ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • German Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction

    by Andrew Bowie ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    German philosophy remains the core of modern philosophy. Without Kant, Frege, Wittgenstein, and Husserl there would be no Anglo-American 'analytical' style of philosophy. Moreover, without Kant, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, and Heidegger, the 'Continental Philosophy' of Derrida, Foucault, Deleuze, Badiou, and Zizek, which has had major effects on humanities subjects in recent years, is incomprehensible ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Meaning of Ideology

    Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives

    Edited by Michael Freeden ...
    This is the first collection to bring together leading scholars from diverse disciplines to offer a variety of perspectives on ideology and its analysis, emphasizing the input of different intellectual and scholarly traditions to the meaning of ideology.The articles explore commonalities in the use and understanding of ideology as well as delineating constructive differences in its interpretation, ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Theories of the Flesh

    Latinx and Latin American Feminisms, Transformation, and Resistance

    Series series Studies in Feminist Philosophy
    "A theory in the flesh means one where the physical realities of our lives all fuse to create a politic born of necessity," writes activist Cherríe L. Moraga. This volume of new essays stages an intergenerational dialogue among philosophers to introduce and deepen engagement with U.S Latinx and Latin American feminist philosophy, and to explore their "theories in the flesh." It explores specific ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Dangerous Minds

    Nietzsche, Heidegger, and the Return of the Far Right

    by Ronald Beiner ...
    Following the fall of the Berlin Wall and demise of the Soviet Union, prominent Western thinkers began to suggest that liberal democracy had triumphed decisively on the world stage. Having banished fascism in World War II, liberalism had now buried communism, and the result would be an end of major ideological conflicts, as liberal norms and institutions spread to every corner of the globe. With ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Dressmaker of Khair Khana

    Five Sisters, One Remarkable Family, and the Woman Who Risked Everything to Keep Them Safe

    The New York Times bestseller, written by a former reporter for ABC News, that People magazine called “a transporting, enlightening book” tells the story of a fearless young entrepreneur who brought hope to the lives of dozens of women in war-torn AfghanistanFormer ABC journalist Gayle Tzemach Lemmon tells the riveting true story of Kamila Sidiqi and other women of Afghanistan in the wake of the ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • How Fascism Works

    The Politics of Us and Them

    by Jason Stanley ...
    **“No single book is as relevant to the present moment.”—Claudia Rankine, author of Citizen“One of the defining books of the decade.”—Elizabeth Hinton, author of From the War on Poverty to the War on CrimeNEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS’ CHOICE • With a new preface • Fascist politics are running rampant in America today—and spreading around the world. A Yale philosopher identifies the ten ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Civil Disobedience

    Thoreau advocates for nonviolent protest in his classic manifestoMotivated by his disgust with the US government, Henry David Thoreau’s seminal philosophical essay enjoins individuals to stand against the ruling forces that seek to erase their free will. It is the duty of a good citizen, he argues, not only to disobey a bad law, but also to protest an unjust government. His message of nonviolence ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus