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Post-Truth

How we arrived in a post-truth era, when "alternative facts” replace actual facts, and feelings have more weight than evidence. Are we li...

Marx, Capital and the Madness of Economic Reason

Marx's Capital is one of the most important texts of the modern era. The three volumes, published between 1867 and 1883, changed the dest...

Philosophy of Physics: A Very Short Introduction

Philosophy of physics is concerned with the deepest theories of modern physics - quantum theory, our theories of space, time and symmetry...

Philosophy in the Islamic World - A history of philosophy without any gaps, Volume 3

Peter Adamson presents the first full history of philosophy in the Islamic world for a broad readership. He traces its development from e...

On Violence

From Hannah Arendt, the author of The Origins of Totalitarianism, her influential essay examining the relationship between violence, powe...

Black Men from behind the Veil - Ontological Interrogations

Intact - A Defence of the Unmodified Body

'A must-read for psychotherapists, doctors and everyone else who enjoys connecting ideas' Philippa Perry 'Compassionate and challenging, ...

Vital Foresight: The Case For Active Transhumanism

"Masterfully assists you with thoroughly thinking through all that is of vital importance to make today and tomorrow much better for all ...

Last Night, The - Anti-Work, Atheism, Adventure - Anti-work, Atheism, Adventure

By replacing hope and faith with adventure, The Last Night of our lives might finally become the first morning of an autonomous future. ,

Digital Technology and Democratic Theory

"One of the most far-reaching transformations in our era is the wave of digital technologies rolling over-and upending-nearly every aspec...

Gramsci on Tahrir - Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Egypt

Explores the relevance of the Gramscian concept of passive revolution and Caesarism in the context of the Egyptian revolution and counter...

The Soul of Activism: A Spirituality for Social Change - A Spirituality for Social Change

A unique book that reexamines the power of interfaith spirituality to fuel the fires of progressive activism.

The World Turned Inside Out: Settler Colonialism as a Political Idea - Settler Colonialism as a Political Idea

Settler colonialism and social control

Against the Web - A Cosmopolitan Answer to the New Right

From Michael Brooks, host of The Michael Brooks Show and co-host of the Majority Report, comes the first book to directly respond to the ...

The Police Identity Crisis - Hero, Warrior, Guardian, Algorithm

This work provides a comprehensive examination of the police role from within a broader philosophical context.

Compelling Evidence for God: Thinking Your Way to Truth

Is there a God? Was the universe intelligently designed? Or has the universe developed by unintelligent, natural, random happenings that ...

Pagan Portals - God-Speaking

What can we do to save the planet? Three R s are not enough. Reduce, reuse, recycle...and religion. ,

Democracy: A Very Short Introduction

Democracy refers to both ideal and real forms of government. The concept of democracy means that those governed - the demos - have a say ...

Liberalism and the Challenge of Climate Change

This book analyses how liberalism has shaped our understanding of climate change and how liberalism is legitimated in the face of a crisi...

Don't Take It Personally - Personalness and Impersonality in Social Life

In Don't Take It Personally, Eviatar Zerubavel comprehensively addresses the fundamental distinction between the specific and generic vis...

Philosophical and Theological Writings

This volume brings together Rosenzweig's central essays on theology and philosophy, including two works available for the first time in E...

A World Without Police - How Strong Communities Make Cops Obsolete

If police are the problem, what's the solution?

Do Humankind's Best Days Lie Ahead? - The Munk Debates

"Progress. It is one of the animating concepts of the modern era. From the Enlightenment onwards, the West has had an enduring belief tha...

Philosophy of the Home - Domestic Space and Happiness

A bedroom, a kitchen, a bathroom - are these rooms all that make a home? Not at all, argues Emanuele Coccia. The buildings we inhabit are...

The Irreducibility of the Human Person - A Catholic Synthesis

"This book presents a philosophical portrait of human persons that depicts each way in which we are irreducible, with the goal of guiding...

A Calendar of Wisdom - Annotated Edition

Over the last fifteen years of his life, Tolstoy collected and published the maxims of some of the world's greatest masters of philosophy...

Is God Happy? - Selected Essays

Leszek Kolakowski (1927-2009), born in Radom, Poland, was Professor of the History of Philosophy at the University of Warsaw until expell...

Our Grateful Dead: Stories of Those Left Behind Volume 65

"Originally published in French as Au bonheur des morts, Râecits de ceux qui restent. Copyright âEditions La Dâecouverte, Paris, 2015, 20...

Transhumanism - A Grimoire of Alchemical Agendas

Exposes the hidden history and agenda that has set humanity on a collision course for the Apocalypse.

Thinking about Religion in the 21st Century - A New Guide for the Perplexed

A path to belief for the 21st century citizen who cannot embrace either the traditional religions of the past or the emerging religions o...

The Ten Commandments: Updated, Condensed, and Improved

The Infinite City - Utopian Dreams on the Streets of London

`Glorious¿ Guardian 'Vigorous, rigorous and eminently readable¿ SPECTATOR

Walter Benjamin - Or, Towards a Revolutionary Criticism

The classic study of one of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century, by the great of socialist critic

Political Theory: 101

Political Theory 101 introduces readers to the basic themes, ideas, and arguments that have characterized and constituted political theor...

The Second Coming of Christ - Ancient Doctrine and Present Times

Compelling theological questions converge with contemporary concerns in Françoise Breynaert's exposition of the doctrine surrounding Chri...

Decolonise Ecomodernism!

In this opening volume to a trilogy of works critiquing and undermining our approach to our environment, Ariel Salleh argues we need a ne...

America's Systemic Psychosis - How Our Nation Lost Its Mind and How to Get It Back

The country is in chaos. Everywhere you look, it seems America has lost its collective mind. This mass formation psychosis has disconnect...

G. A. Cohen - Liberty, Justice and Equality

G. A. Cohen was one of the towering political philosophers of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. His intellectual caree...

Trans Philosophy

The Society of the Spectacle

The Society of the Spectacle is a carefully considered effort to clarify the most fundamental tendencies and contradictions of the societ...

The Solutionary Way - Transform Your Life, Your Community, and the World for the Better

Deep polarization in our society prevents us from working collaboratively to solve the problems we face. The Solutionary Way offers a pra...

Vaclav Havel's Meanings - His Key Words and Their Legacy

A close read of the rich collections of texts left behind by Václav Havel, one of the most important Czech thinkers and leaders of the tw...

Political Theology Today - 100 Years After Carl Schmitt

Almost 100 years have passed since Carl Schmitt gave his controversial definition of the sovereign as the one who decides on the exceptio...

Capitalism and the New Political Unconscious - A Philosophy of Immanence

Taking seriously Jacques Lacan's claim that 'the unconscious is politics', this volume proposes a new understanding of political power, i...

Speaking Philosophically - Communication at the Limits of Discursive Reason

Western philosophy has often claimed for itself not just a distinct sphere of knowledge, but a distinct form of communication, set agains...

A Brief History of Equality

In this powerful new work, Thomas Piketty reminds us that rising inequality is not inevitable. Over the centuries, we have been moving to...

An Introduction to Modern Political Thought - Machiavelli to Foucault

This book is an excellent critical introduction to modern political thought. It studies the ideas and contributions of sixteen major poli...

Hannah Arendt and Politics

Presents a new perspective on Hannah Arendt as a political thinker and actor This book uncovers the deeply practical aspect of Arendt's t...

Adam Smith Reconsidered - History, Liberty, and the Foundations of Modern Politics

A radical reinterpretation of Adam Smith that challenges economists, moral philosophers, political theorists, and intellectual historians...

Politics and Expertise - How to Use Science in a Democratic Society

A new model for the relationship between science and democracy that spans policymaking, the funding and conduct of research, and our appr...

The New Leviathans - Thoughts After Liberalism

A bold, provocative reckoning with our current political delusions and dysfunctions. Ever since its publication in 1651, Thomas Hobbes's ...

On the Divine Things and Their Revelation

Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi's influential text Von den göttlichen Dingen und Ihrer Offenbarung aroused the final debate about the intrinsic...

Empowering Affected Interests - Democratic Inclusion in a Globalized World

Empowering Affected Interests brings together a group of leading contemporary democratic theorists and philosophers to debate a taken-for...

Living a Marxist Life - Why Marx Is a Drug You Should Probably Take

The last ten years have seen a dramatic upsurge of interest in socialist theory and politics. As a recent Washington Post op-ed put it, "...

Political Jouissance

When we oppose or disagree with something important, do we ever really do it dispassionately? Isn't setting the world to rights or condem...

The Ontology of Death - The Philosophy of the Death Penalty in Literature

Through examination of the death penalty in literature, Aaron Aquilina contests Heidegger's concept of 'being-towards-death' and proposes...

Power of Sage - An Antithesis to Machiavellian Prince

The book constructs a new model for attaining power, challenging the traditional Machiavellian approach to construct power.

Fluid Futures - Science Fiction and Potentiality

How does science fiction imagine forms of life that are plausible, and yet different from anything that we already know? Fluid Futures is...

Schelling's Political Thought - Nature, Freedom, and Recognition

In the first study to examine F. W. J. Schelling's political thought, Velimir Stojkovski not only unearths a neglected dimension of the i...

Zizek's the Sublime Object of Ideology - A Reader's Guide

First published in 1989, The Sublime Object of Ideology was Zizek's breakthrough work, and is still regarded by many as his masterpiece. ...