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Contemporary life is defined by excess. There must always be more, there is never enough. We need a surplus to what we need to be able to truly enjoy what...

Author: Christopher Kul-Want Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 176 Slavoj Zizek is one of those rare philosophers writing today whose fame exceeds academia and who is widely known publicly. Zizek's...

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We 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...

We 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...

A panoramic view of the cosmos must begin with the tension of a single political moment. In Quantum History , Slavoj Zizek brings together Hegelian dialectics, Lacan psychoanalysis and quantum...

There should no longer be any doubt: global capitalism is fast approaching its terminal crisis. But if the end of capitalism seems to many like the end of the world,...

With an apparently contradictory and characteristically makeshift term, 'Liberal Fascisms', Slavoj Zizek captures the paradoxical nature of political populism. To see this phenomenon as purely liberal and dictatorially fascistic is...

The essays in Zero Point ask how we distinguish defeat from disaster, and how we confront despair without collapsing into it - questions never more pertinent than the current moment...

In a novel pairing of anti-colonial theorist Frantz Fanon with Marxist-Lacanian philosopher Slavoj Zizek, Zahi Zalloua explores the ways both thinkers expose the violence of political structures. This inventive exploration...

Liberals and conservatives proclaim the end of the American holiday from history. Now the easy games are over; one should take sides. Zizek argues this is precisely the temptation to...

Psychoanalysis as a navigation device for the cultural maze of the twenty-first century. "Can Freud be 'updated' in the twenty-first century, or is he a venerated but outmoded genius?" asks...

What would a fair and equal society actually look like? The world-renowned economist and bestselling author presents his radical and subversive answer 'A landmark work' Brian Eno Imagine a world...

This collection features 16 monumental works of non-fiction, encompassing philosophy, politics, autobiography, and practical advice. Spanning over two millennia, from the ancient wisdom of Confucius and Marcus Aurelius to the...

Translated into at least 24 languages and with over 16 million copies sold worldwide, Man's Search for Meaning is one of the seminal pieces of literature to emerge from the...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: SignedCondition remarks: Signed by Alexander Dubček. Rear board slightly damaged - cardboard showing. Internally sound - binding remains tight. In the...

Author: Steven Levitsky, Daniel Ziblatt Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 Donald Drumpf's presidency has raised a question that many of us never thought we'd be asking: Is our democracy...

Condition remarks: Condition: New in original shrink wrap. Jacket: New. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Binding condition: Good. A rigorous work of political philosophy, Solzhenitsyn's Political Thought presents a...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: No dust jacket - paperback with some wear on edges and corners. Page Condition: Yellowed. Markings: No markings. A landmark work of Marxist literary criticism,...

A new collection of essays from the world's most influential political thinker In this collection of essays from 1969-2013, many in book form for the first time, Noam Chomsky exposes...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Good Markings: No markingsAlexander Solzhenitsyn’s Lenin In Zürich: Chapters reconstructs a pivotal period in Vladimir Lenin’s life, offering a biographical account of his...

A comprehensive account of the simmering discontents that threaten the future of humankind - from world-leading public intellectual Noam Chomsky What kind of world are we leaving to our grandchildren?...

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An accessible, powerful overview of Noam Chomsky's political thought In sixteen extended talks with Alternative Radio's David Barsamian, Noam Chomsky explains why the 'war on drugs' is really a war...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: No dust jacket - paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. A gripping work of political non-fiction, Ten...

Author: Frederich Nietzsche Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: After kicking open the doors to twentieth-century philosophy in Thus Spake Zarathustra, Friedrich Nietzsche refined his ideal of the superman...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn the summer of 1902, Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk — philosopher, statesman, and future founding president of Czechoslovakia — delivered a remarkable series of lectures...

Two Harvard professors explain the stages in which governments collapse - and how we can prevent this Democracies can die with a coup d'etat - or they can die slowly....

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew writers of the twentieth century provoked as much controversy, admiration, and political fury as Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, and...

Why the tools of philosophy offer a powerful antidote to today's epidemic of irrationality There is an epidemic of bad thinking in the world today. An alarming number of people...

In 1922, Lenin personally drew up a list of some 160 'undesirable' intellectuals - mostly philosophers, academics, scientists and journalists - to be deported from the new Soviet State. Two...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the height of superpower tension, Noam Chomsky — one of the most provocative and incisive...

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Celebrates seven decades of Czeslaw Milosz's exceptional career New and Collected Poems: 1931-2001 celebrates seven decades of Czeslaw Milosz's exceptional career. Widely regarded as one of the greatest poets of...

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Penguin Classics relaunch Few figures in intellectual history have proved as notorious and ambiguous as Niccol Machiavelli. But while his treatise The Prince made his name synonymous with autocratic ruthlessness...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: YellowedCondition remarks: worn boards with some marks and specks; some discolouration.At the crossroads of political revolution and...

Author: Konstantin Kolenda (editor)Binding: HardbackPublished: Principia Press of Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas, 1966Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsThe book presents a collection of philosophical essays. These...

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Penguin Classics relaunch Nietzsche was one of the most revolutionary and subversive thinkers in Western philosophy, and Thus Spoke Zarathustra remains his most famous and influential work. It describes how...