Criticism

A pioneering call for a new understanding of scale across the humanities How is it possible that you are-simultaneously-cells, atoms, a body, quarks, a component in an ecological network, a moment in the thermodynamic dispersal of the sun, and an element...

Whenever Bakhtin, in his final decade, was queried about writing his memoirs, he shrugged it off. Unlike many of his Symbolist generation, Bakhtin was not fascinated by his own self-image. This reticence to tell his own story was the point of access for...

This book is a practical and theoretical exploration of the embodied imagining processes of devised performance in which the human and more-than-human are co-implicated in the creative process.This study brings together the work of French theatre...

Marsilio Ficino (1433-1499), the Florentine scholar-philosopher-magus, was largely responsible for the Renaissance revival of Plato. Ficino's commentaries on Plato remained the standard guide to the Greek philosopher's works for centuries. Vanhaelen's...

Critical Essays (Situations I) contains essays on literature and philosophy from a highly formative period of French philosopher and leading existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre's life, the years between 1938 and 1946. This period is particularly interesting...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674284265Author Anton FordFormat PaperbackPage Count 324Imprint Harvard Graduate School of DesignPublisher Harvard Graduate School of Design

"It's like talking to a brick wall" and "We'll have to agree to disagree" are popular sayings referring to the frustrating experience of discussing issues with people who seem to be beyond the reach of argument. It's often claimed that some...

The Perfection of Freedom seeks to respond to the impoverished conventional notion of freedom through a recovery of an understanding rich with possibilities yet all but forgotten in contemporary thought. This understanding, developed in different but...

Sam Harris, a previously unknown neuroscientist, single-handedly generated the New Atheism with his best-selling book The End of Faith, which quickly became a huge best-seller following its release in 2004.Harris went on to write several more...

In this path-breaking work, Susan Buck-Morss draws new connections between history, inequality, social conflict, and human emancipation. Hegel, Haiti, and Universal History offers a fundamental reinterpretation of Hegel's master-slave dialectic and...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781883600Author Xon de RosFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint LegendaPublisher LegendaWeight(grams) 376gDimensions(mm) 244mm * 170mm * 12mm

The idea of Continental Philosophy has never been properly explained in philosophical terms. In this short and engaging book Simon Glendinning attempts finally to succeed where others have failed -- although not by giving an account of its internal...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935654742Author Hiroki AzumaFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Vertical Inc.Publisher Vertical Inc.Weight(grams) 221g

The main goal of Critical Writing is to provide students with a set of robust, integrated critical concepts and processes that will allow to them think through a topic, and then write about it, and to do so in a way that is built on, and permeated by,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802860071Author S. J. McgrathFormat PaperbackPage Count 131Imprint William B Eerdmans Publishing CoPublisher William B Eerdmans Publishing...

The dialogue has disappeared as a mode of writing philosophy, and philosophers who study Plato today often ignore the form in which Plato's work appears in favor of reconstructing and analyzing arguments thought to be conveyed by the content of the...

"The heart of history, for Heidegger, is not a sequence of occurrences but the eruption of significance at critical junctures that bring us into our own by making all being, including our being, into an urgent issue. In emergency, being emerges."-from...

Led Zeppelin, who bestrode the world of rock like a colossus, have continually grown in popularity and influence since their official winding up in 1980. They exasperated critics and eluded classification, synthesizing blues, rock, folk, rockabilly,...

Taking Wittgenstein at His Word is an experiment in reading organized around a central question: What kind of interpretation of Wittgenstein's later philosophy emerges if we adhere strictly to his claims that he is not in the business of presenting and...

Foucault lived in Tunisia for two years and travelled to Japan and Iran more than once. Yet throughout his critical scholarship, he insisted that the cultures of the "Orient" constitute the "limit" of Western rationality. Using...

Andrews Reath presents a selection of his best essays on various features of Kant's moral psychology and moral theory, with particular emphasis on his conception of rational agency and his conception of autonomy. The opening essays explore different...

First published in 1974. As logician, economist, political theorist, practical politician and active champion of social freedom, John Stuart Mill is a figure of continuing importance. In this book the author does full justice to the range of Mill's...

Marsilio Ficino (1433-1499), the Florentine scholar-philosopher-magus, was largely responsible for the Renaissance revival of Plato. Ficino's commentaries on Plato remained the standard guide to the Greek philosopher's works for centuries. Vanhaelen's...

The devil gets his due in the latest entry in the Pop Culture and Philosophy series. Supervillains and Philosophy features an international cabal of philosophers and comics industry professionals conspiring to reveal the dark details -- and deeper...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780333112151Author Ronald F. AtkinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 229Imprint Palgrave MacmillanPublisher Palgrave Macmillan

When Nietzsche published Beyond Good and Evil in 1886, he told a friend that it was a book that would not be read properly until "around the year 2000." Now Laurence Lampert sets out to fulfill this prophecy by providing a section by section...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781440422393Author Geoffrey BenningtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint CreateSpacePublisher CreateSpaceWeight(grams) 327gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

In The Democracy of Suffering philosopher Todd Dufresne provides a strikingly original exploration of the past, present, and future of this epoch, the Anthropocene, demonstrating how the twin crises of reason and capital have dramatically remade the...

A comprehensive discussion of Plato's treatment of techne (technical knowledge), which shows that the final goal of Platonic philosophy is nontechnical wisdom. The Greek word "techne," typically translated as "art," but also as "craft," "skill,"...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998237534Author Eileen a JoyFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Punctum BooksPublisher Punctum BooksWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm *...

Produced in honor of White's eightieth birthday, Re-Figuring Hayden White testifies to the lasting importance of White's innovative work, which firmly reintegrates historical studies with literature and the humanities. The book is a major reconsideration...

Recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records as the most popular MMORPG (massively multiplayer online role-playing game) in videogame history, World of Warcraft is everywhere -- from episodes of South Park and The Simpsons, to online series like...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780989549707Author Mathias NilgesFormat PaperbackPage Count 454Imprint MCM'Publisher MCM'Weight(grams) 467gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 133mm * 23mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262544337Author Greg BirdFormat PaperbackPage Count 514Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 709gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 178mm * 33mm

Henri Lefebvre has been celebrated as one of the most influential social theorists of the twentieth century. Understanding Henri Lefebvre places Lefebvre in his historical and intellectual context and analyzes the extraordinary range of his work, across...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262513753Author Jonathan CohenFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Bradford BooksPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 726gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 178mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375758041Author Monroe BeardsleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 944Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 652gDimensions(mm)...

The popularity of the His Dark Materials trilogy has generated a major motion picture, a stage play, video games, and a new prequel. The series has also been highly controversial with its use of exciting adventure stories for children to comment on...

The Signature of the World focuses on one of the most influential works of contemporary philosophy: What is Philosophy? by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, their last joint work after Anti-Oedipus and A Thousand Plateaus. It sets What is Philosophy? in...