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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 20 books in this booklist

  • Cover image of book The Courage of Hopelessness: Chronicles of a Year of Acting Dangerously by Slavoj Žižek
    The Courage of Hopelessness: Chronicles of a Year of Acting Dangerously - by Slavoj Žižek

    £9.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780141986098 | ISBN 10: 0141986093

    In these troubled times, even the most pessimistic diagnosis of our future ends with an uplifting hint that things might not be as bad as all that, that there is light at the end of the tunnel.   Yet, argues Slavoj Žižek, it is only when we have ... more

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  • Cover image of book Grand Hotel Abyss: The Lives of the Frankfurt School by Stuart Jeffries
    Grand Hotel Abyss: The Lives of the Frankfurt School - by Stuart Jeffries

    £10.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781784785697 | ISBN 10: 1784785695

    Who were the Frankfurt School — Benjamin, Adorno, Marcuse, Horkheimer—and why do they matter today?   In 1923, a group of young radical German thinkers and intellectuals came together to at Victoria Alle 7, Frankfurt, determined to explain ... more

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  • Cover image of book Romantic Rationalist: A William Godwin Reader by William Godwin, edited by Peter Marshall
    Romantic Rationalist: A William Godwin Reader - by William Godwin, edited by Peter Marshall

    £15.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781629632285 | ISBN 10: 1629632287

    William Godwin (1756–1836) was one of the first exponents of utilitarianism and the first modern proponent of anarchism. He was not only a radical philosopher but a pioneer in libertarian education, a founder of communist economics, and an acute an ... more

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  • Cover image of book Philosophy in the Islamic World: A Very Short Introduction by Peter Adamson
    Philosophy in the Islamic World: A Very Short Introduction - by Peter Adamson

    £7.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780199683673 | ISBN 10: 0199683670

    In the history of philosophy, few topics are so relevant to today's cultural and political landscape as philosophy in the Islamic world. Yet, this remains one of the lesser-known philosophical traditions.   In this Very Short Introduction, Pe ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Brief Guide to Philosophical Classics: From Plato to Winnie the Pooh by Diane Law,
    A Brief Guide to Philosophical Classics: From Plato to Winnie the Pooh - by Diane Law,

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781849010016 | ISBN 10: 1849010013

    Big ideas sometimes come from the strangest places. In this wide ranging introduction, James M Russell takes the fear out of philosophy and selects seventy-six works - from Plato, Descartes and Wittgenstein to Philip K Dick and the Moomins as well as ... more

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  • Cover image of book Missing Out: In Praise of the Unlived Life by Adam Phillips
    Missing Out: In Praise of the Unlived Life - by Adam Phillips

    £9.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780141031811 | ISBN 10: 0141031816

    Missing Out is a meditation on reality and opportunity by Adam Phillips.   We all have two lives - the life we live and the life of our fantasies. But it is the life unlived - the person we have failed to be - that can trouble and even haunt ... more

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  • Cover image of book Introducing Slavoj Zizek: A Graphic Guide by Christopher Kul-Want and Piero
    Introducing Slavoj Zizek: A Graphic Guide - by Christopher Kul-Want and Piero

    £7.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781848312937 | ISBN 10: 1848312938

    A brand-new Introducing title on the ‘world’s most dangerous philosopher’.   Slavoj Zizek is one of those rare philosophers writing today whose fame exceeds academia and who is widely known publicly.   Zizek’s work and writings ... more

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  • Cover image of book Conscience: A Very Short Introduction by Paul Strohm
    Conscience: A Very Short Introduction - by Paul Strohm

    £7.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780199569694 | ISBN 10: 019956969x

    Where does our conscience come from? How reliable is it?   In the West conscience has been relied upon for two thousand years as a judgement that distinguishes right from wrong. It has effortlessly moved through every period division and ... more

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  • Cover image of book Derrida: A Very Short Introduction by Simon Glendinning
    Derrida: A Very Short Introduction - by Simon Glendinning

    £7.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780192803450 | ISBN 10: 019280345x

    Jacques Derrida, the French philosopher, developed his critical technique known as 'deconstruction'. His work is associated with ideas surrounding both post-structuralism and post-modern philosophy, and he was known to have challenged some of the unq ... more

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  • Cover image of book Believing Bullshit: How Not to Get Sucked into an Intellectual Black Hole by Stephen Law
    Believing Bullshit: How Not to Get Sucked into an Intellectual Black Hole - by Stephen Law

    £15.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781616144111 | ISBN 10: 1616144114

    Members of the Heaven’s Gate suicide cult believed they were taking a ride to heaven aboard a UFO. Muslim suicide bombers expect to be greeted after death by seventy-two heavenly virgins. Significant numbers of people believe that aliens built the py ... more

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  • Cover image of book Post-Anarchism: A Reader by Duane Rousselle and Süreyyya Evren
    Post-Anarchism: A Reader - by Duane Rousselle and Süreyyya Evren

    £26.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780745330860 | ISBN 10: 074533086x

    Post-anarchism has been of considerable importance in the discussions of radical intellectuals across the globe in the last decade. In its most popular form, it demonstrates a desire to blend the most promising aspects of traditional anarchist theory ... more

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  • Cover image of book SoulPancake: Chew on Life
    SoulPancake: Chew on Life's Big Questions - by Rainn Wilson

    £20.00   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781401310332 | ISBN 10: 1401310338

    In this digital, turbocharged era, few of us stop to consider life’s big questions. Rainn Wilson, known for his deft portrayal of Dwight on NBC’s The Office, would like to change that. Together with some friends, he launched a Web site called SoulPan ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Philosophers
    The Philosophers' Secret Fire: A History of the Imagination - by Patrick Harpur

    £9.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781906069063 | ISBN 10: 1906069069

    In this dazzling history of the imagination, Patrick Harpur links together fields as far apart as Greek philosophy and depth psychology, Renaissance magic and tribal ritual, Romantic poetry and modern models of the Universe, to trace how myths have b ... more

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  • Cover image of book Nietzsche for Beginners by Marc Sautet and Patrick Boussignac
    Nietzsche for Beginners - by Marc Sautet and Patrick Boussignac

    £11.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781934389058 | ISBN 10: 1934389056

    The unorthodox life and ideas of Friedrich Nietzsche come alive in this documentary history. Nietzsche For Beginners presents a clear picture of the time in which this revolutionary philosopher lived and worked.   We meet the luminaries of the age ... more

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  • Cover image of book Game Theory: A Very Short Introduction by Ken Binmore
    Game Theory: A Very Short Introduction - by Ken Binmore

    £7.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780199218462 | ISBN 10: 0199218463

    Games are everywhere: Drivers manoeuvring in heavy traffic are playing a driving game. Bargain hunters bidding on eBay are playing an auctioning game. A firm negotiating next year's wage is playing a bargaining game. The opposing candidates in an ele ... more

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  • Cover image of book Paradoxes from A to Z by Michael Clark
    Paradoxes from A to Z - by Michael Clark

    £15.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780415420839 | ISBN 10: 0415420830

    This updated second edition is the essential guide to paradoxes and takes the reader on a lively tour of puzzles that have taxed thinkers from Zeno to Galileo and Lewis Carroll to Bertrand Russell. Michael Clark uncovers an array of conundrums, such ... more

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  • Cover image of book Je, Tu, Nous; Towards a Culture of Difference. by Luce Irigaray
    Je, Tu, Nous; Towards a Culture of Difference. - by Luce Irigaray

    £15.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780415771986 | ISBN 10: 0415771986

    Exploring women’s experiences of motherhood, abortion, the AIDS crisis and the beauty industry, this book presents one of the most important thinkers of our day in her own words.  A passionate celebrator of 'sexual difference', Luce Irigaray ... more

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  • Cover image of book Plato Not Prozac! by Lou Marinoff
    Plato Not Prozac! - by Lou Marinoff

    £10.99   paperback   (2001) - ISBN 13: 9780060931360 | ISBN 10: 0060931361

    If you're facing a dilemma - whether it's handling a relationship, living ethically, dealing with a career change, or finding meaning in life - the world's most important thinkers from centuries past will help guide you toward a solution compatible w ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Thomas Paine Reader. by Thomas Paine (Michael Foot, Issac Kramnick, eds)
    The Thomas Paine Reader. - by Thomas Paine (Michael Foot, Issac Kramnick, eds)

    £11.99   paperback   (1987) - ISBN 13: 9780140444964 | ISBN 10: 0140444963

    All of Paine's supreme masterpieces are included here: The Rights of Man, a magnificent defence of the French Revolution against Edmund Burke and, according to A.J.P.Taylor, 'the best statement of democratic belief in any language'; Common Sense, who ... more

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