 | Cultural Amnesia: Notes in the Margin of My Time by Clive James
Buy used from: £15.98 A series of succinct and excellent wide-ranging biographies.
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 | The Foucault Reader: An Introduction to Foucault's Thought (Penguin Social Sciences) by Michel Foucault
Buy new: £8.08 / Used from: £4.94 A selection of thoughts from one of the twentieth centuries most influential polymaths.
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 | Public Goods, Private Goods (Princeton Monographs in Philosophy) by Raymond Geuss
Buy used from: £13.63 A short but illuminating pamphlet on the state, and the public-private dichotomy.
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 | History and Illusion in Politics by Raymond Geuss
Buy new: £16.14 / Used from: £12.68 An essentially iconoclastic and brilliant - if not always persuasive - critique of contemporary political philosophy.
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 | The Politics of Good Intentions: History, Fear and Hypocrisy in the New World Order by David Runciman
Buy new: £23.70 / Used from: £13.47 British and world politics as seen, unusually, in substantial historical perspective.
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 | Understanding Power: The Indispensable Chomsky by Noam Chomsky
Buy new: £8.36 / Used from: £5.99 Chomsky at his most even-handed. Not to everyone's tastes, but the man knows an enormous amount. His arguments are worth hearing out and considering.
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 | The Peloponnesian War (Classics) by Thucydides
Buy new: £7.66 / Used from: £0.78 A primer to international relations, and one of the first pieces of 'history' as we know it. To be read in a spare few weeks. An essentially political work.
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 | Weber: Political Writings (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought) by Max Weber
Buy new: £13.19 / Used from: £14.50 The final essay in this collection, 'The Profession and Vocation of Politics' or 'Politik als Beruf', is a really shocking and incredible account of what politics actually is. Troubling and brilliant.
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 | Power / Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings, 1972-77 by Foucault
Buy new: £24.22 / Used from: £16.93 More readable and eye-opening arguments by Foucault. Excellent interviews.
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 | United States: Essays, 1952-92 v. 1 by Gore Vidal
Buy new: £10.89 / Used from: £8.94 Contemporary America from an unabashedly liberal point of view. Great writing nonetheless.
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 | Bhagavad-Gita:: The Song of God by Anonymous
Buy used from: £3.29 A pivotal text in the Hindu canon. The Sermon on the Mount of Hinduism, and a short and powerful piece of scripture.
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 | The Upanishads (Classics)
Buy new: £4.63 / Used from: £2.31 The more esoteric Hindu text. Referenced by T.S. Eliot in The Wasteland. Hard work, but fascinating.
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 | The Argumentative Indian: Writings on Indian History, Culture and Identity by Amartya Sen
Buy new: £6.98 / Used from: £3.33 The antidote to modern culturally deterministic arguments about anti-democraticism in Asian culture. Good history too.
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 | The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times, and Ideas of the Great Economic Thinkers (Penguin Business Library) by Robert L Heilbroner
Buy new: £7.17 / Used from: £4.50 Easily the best introduction to economics and economists. Extremely readable.
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