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Philosophy After Nature by Rosi Braidotti 9781786603869
£39.64The significant changes that have dominated the social and the scientific world over the last thirty years have brought about upheavals and critical re-appraisals that have proved quite positive in fostering 21st century thought. This interdisciplinary... -
Cut of the Real: Subjectivity in Poststructuralist Philosophy by Katerina Kolozova 9780231166119
£19.59Following Francois Laruelle's nonstandard philosophy and the work of Judith Butler, Drucilla Cornell, Luce Irigaray, and Rosi Braidotti, Katerina Kolozova reclaims the relevance of categories traditionally rendered "unthinkable" by postmodern feminist... -
Copy, Archive, Signature: A Conversation on Photography by Jacques Derrida
RRP: £20.00£15.19This book makes available for the first time in English-and for the first time in its entirety in any language-an important yet little-known interview on the topic of photography that Jacques Derrida granted in 1992 to the German theorist of photography... -
Talent Development, Existential Philosophy and Sport: On Becoming an Elite Athlete by Kenneth Aggerholm
RRP: £43.99£38.44'Why don't young athletes in sport just quit?' Starting with this question and drawing on existential philosophy, phenomenology and hermeneutics, Talent Development, Existential Philosophy and Sport seeks a deeper understanding of the experience of... -
Philosophy and Truth by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche 9781573925327
£22.89Philosophy and Truth offers the first English translation of six unpublished theoretical studies (sometimes referred to as Nietzsche's "Philosopher's Book") written just after the publication of The Birth of Tragedy and simultaneously with Untimely... -
Confronting Postmaternal Thinking: Feminism, Memory, and Care by Julie Stephens 9780231149211
£21.80There is a deep cultural anxiety around public expressions of maternalism and the application of maternal values to society as a whole. Julie Stephens examines why postmaternal thinking has become so influential in recent decades and why there has been a... -
Dark Matter: A Guide to Alexander Kluge & Oskar Negt by Richard Langston
£19.99Collaborators for more than four decades, lawyer, author, filmmaker, and multimedia artist Alexander Kluge and social philosopher Oskar Negt are an exceptional duo in the history of Critical Theory precisely because their respective disciplines operate... -
Rationalist Empiricism: A Theory of Speculative Critique by Nathan Brown
£30.74Honorable Mention, Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies, Modern Language Association Twenty-first-century philosophy has been drawn into a false opposition between speculation and critique. Nathan Brown shows that the key to... -
Alphonso Lingis and Existential Genealogy: The first full length study of the work of Alphonso Lingis by Alexander E. Hooke 9781789041767
RRP: £14.99£13.03What is philosophy? Is philosophy an academic discipline that produces arguments and theories, or is philosophy also about understanding the world through stories, metaphors, analogies, ambience, and even through feelings? Alphonso Lingis approaches... -
Race as Phenomena: Between Phenomenology and Philosophy of Race by Emily S. Lee 9781786605375
£36.07This book introduces and explores the relation between race and phenomenology through varied African American, Latina, Asian American, and White American perspectives. Phenomenology is best known as a descriptive endeavor to more accurately describe our... -
Limit-Phenomena and Phenomenology in Husserl by Anthony J. Steinbock 9781786604996
£37.85Recent discussions around limit-problems, namely the questions concerning what can appear in phenomenological reflection, as well as what phenomenology as philosophical reflection can handle, call for a concerted treatment of the problem of... -
Matter and Memory by Henri Louis Bergson 9781602065499
RRP: £19.99£18.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781602065499Author Henri Louis BergsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Cosimo ClassicsPublisher Cosimo ClassicsWeight(grams) 399gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
The Quest of the Absolute: Birth and Decline of European Romanticism by Louis K. Dupre
£31.98This eagerly awaited study brings to completion Louis Dupre's planned trilogy on European culture during the modern epoch. Demonstrating remarkable erudition and sweeping breadth, The Quest of the Absolute analyzes Romanticism as a unique cultural... -
Hegel, Freud and Fanon: The Dialectic of Emancipation by Stefan Bird-Pollan 9781783483013
£41.44Revolutionary theories from Marx onward have often struggled to unite the psychological commitments of individuals- understood as ideological- with the larger ethical or political goals of a social movement. As a psychiatrist, social theorist, and... -
The Problem of Distraction by Paul North
£20.84We live in an age of distraction. Contemporary analyses of culture, politics, techno-science, and psychology insist on this. They often suggest remedies for it, or ways to capitalize on it. Yet they almost never investigate the meaning and history of... -
Class Wargames: Ludic Subversion Against Spectacular Capitalism by Richard Barbrook
RRP: £25.00£16.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781570272936Author Richard BarbrookFormat PaperbackPage Count 442Imprint Minor CompositionsPublisher AutonomediaWeight(grams) 556g -
La Nature: Notes, Cours du College de France by Maurice Merleau-Ponty
RRP: £27.95£23.48Collected here are the written traces of courses on the concept of nature given by Maurice Merleau-Ponty at the College de France in the 1950s-notes that provide a window on the thinking of one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth... -
Homo Interpretans: Towards a Transformation of Hermeneutics by Johann Michel 9781786608833
£39.64When do we interpret? That is the question at the heart of this important new work by Johann Michel. The human being does not spend his time interpreting in everyday life. We interpret when we are confronted with a blurred, confused, problematic sense... -
On the Brink: Language, Time, History, and Politics by Werner Hamacher 9781786603920
£38.76As its title suggests, this collections of essays by one of the foremost theorists working today takes as its theme the edge or limit between language, time, history, and politics. These are essays that are all on the brink, about the edge, the very... -
Political Uses of Utopia: New Marxist, Anarchist, and Radical Democratic Perspectives by S. Chrostowska
£23.29Utopia has long been banished from political theory, framed as an impossible-and possibly dangerous-political ideal, a flawed social blueprint, or a thought experiment without any practical import. Even the "realistic utopias" of liberal theory strike... -
The Critique of Pure Reason by J M D Meiklejohn 9781496070487
RRP: £10.49£9.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781496070487Author J M D MeiklejohnFormat PaperbackPage Count 228Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent... -
Rethinking Political Judgement: Arendt and Existentialism by Ma a Mrovlje 9781474437172
RRP: £21.99£17.97How can we reinvigorate the human capacity for political judgement in our uncertain post-foundational world? This book takes up the challenge by calling on 20th-century existentialism, in particular the works of Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir,... -
Theory at Yale: The Strange Case of Deconstruction in America by Marc Redfield
£24.14This book examines the affinity between "theory" and "deconstruction" that developed in the American academy in the 1970s by way of the "Yale Critics": Harold Bloom, Paul de Man, Geoffrey Hartman, and J. Hillis Miller, sometimes joined by the French... -
From Agamben to Zizek: Contemporary Critical Theorists by Jonathan Simons
£22.71In these 15 taster essays you will discover the key concepts and critical approaches of the theorists who have had the most significant impact on the humanities since 1990. On completing each chapter, you will find suggestions for further reading so that... -
Welcoming Finitude: Toward a Phenomenology of Orthodox Liturgy by Christina M. Gschwandtner 9780823289837
£30.74What does it mean to experience and engage in religious ritual? How does liturgy structure time and space? How do our bodies move within liturgy, and what impact does it have on our senses? How does the experience of ritual affect us and shape our... -
Capitalism and the Limits of Desire by John Roberts
RRP: £23.99£20.94Addressing Spinoza's perennial question: "why do the masses fight for their servitude as if it was salvation?", Capitalism and the Limits of Desire examines the ways in which self-love as the care of the self has become intertwined with self-love as the... -
Heidegger: Through Phenomenology to Thought by William J. Richardson
£60.45"This book, one of the most frequently cited works on Martin Heidegger in any language, belongs on any short list of classic studies of Continental philosophy. William J. Richardson explores the famous turn (Kehre) in Heidegger's thought after Being in... -
Work on Oneself: Wittgenstein's Philosophical Psychology by Fergus Kerr 9780977310319
RRP: £19.95£18.91Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) was by any reckoning one of the major modern philosophers. Raised as a Catholic in late-19th century Vienna, he later gave up practicing his religion; yet, as journal notes and many anecdotes attest, he remained deeply if... -
Phenomenology and Deconstruction: v. 2: Method and Imagination by Robert Denoon Cumming 9780226123691
RRP: £50.00£47.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780226123691Author Robert Denoon CummingFormat PaperbackPage Count 404Imprint University of Chicago PressPublisher The University of Chicago Press -
For the Love of Psychoanalysis: The Play of Chance in Freud and Derrida by Elizabeth Rottenberg
£30.74For the Love of Psychoanalysis is a book about what exceeds or resists calculation-in life and in death. Rottenberg examines what emerges from the difference between psychoanalysis and philosophy. Part I, "Freuderrida," announces a non-traditional... -
The Ethics of Emmanuel Levinas by Diane Perpich 9780804759434
£20.84Too often, Levinas's thought is distanced from traditional ethical enterprises, especially from normative ethics. It is put into the service of directly normative ends such as a call for respect for women or disadvantaged social groups, or for new... -
Surfing with Sartre: An Aquatic Inquiry Into a Life of Meaning by Aaron James
RRP: £16.95£9.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781101970157Author Aaron JamesFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 306gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 133mm... -
Humanity's End: Why We Should Reject Radical Enhancement by Nicholas Agar 9780262525176
£35.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title, 2011 2011.Book InformationISBN 9780262525176Author Nicholas AgarFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Bradford BooksPublisher... -
Unpublished Fragments from the Period of Dawn (Winter 1879/80–Spring 1881): Volume 13 by Friedrich Nietzsche 9780804728867
£100.22This volume provides the first English translation of Nietzsche's unpublished notes from late 1879 to early 1881, the period in which he authored Dawn, the second book in the trilogy that began with Human, All Too Human and concluded with The Joyful... -
From Life to Survival: Derrida, Freud, and the Future of Deconstruction by Robert Trumbull
£22.49Contemporary continental thought is marked by a move away from the "linguistic turn" in twentieth-century European philosophy, as new materialisms and ontologies seek to leave behind the thinking of language central to poststructuralism as it has been... -
Unpublished Fragments from the Period of Dawn (Winter 1879/80–Spring 1881): Volume 13 by Friedrich Nietzsche 9781503636989
£20.84This volume provides the first English translation of Nietzsche's unpublished notes from late 1879 to early 1881, the period in which he authored Dawn, the second book in the trilogy that began with Human, All Too Human and concluded with The Joyful... -
Ricoeur and the Post-Structuralists: Bourdieu, Derrida, Deleuze, Foucault, Castoriadis by Johann Michel 9781783480951
£36.07In this important and original book, Johann Michel paves the way for a greater understanding of Paul Ricoeur's philosophy by exploring it in relation to some major figures of contemporary French thought-Bourdieu, Derrida, Deleuze, Foucault and... -
What's These Worlds Coming To? by Jean-Luc Nancy
£19.19Our contemporary challenge, according to Jean-Luc Nancy and Aurelien Barrau, is that a new world has stolen up on us. We no longer live in a world, but in worlds. We do not live in a universe anymore, but rather in a multiverse. We no longer create; we... -
French Feminism Reader by Kelly Oliver 9780847697670
£38.76French Feminism Reader is a collection of essays representing the authors and issues from French theory most influential in the American context. The book is designed for use in courses, and it includes illuminating introductions to the work of each... -
Ethics-politics-subjectivity: Levinas and Contemporary French Thought by Simon Critchley 9781844673513
RRP: £19.95£15.08In Ethics-Politics-Subjectivity, Simon Critchley takes up three questions at the centre of contemporary theoretical debate: What is ethical experience? What can be said of the subject who has this experience? What, if any, is the relation of ethical...