Critical Theory

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780851249452Author Mihailo MarkovicFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Spokesman BooksPublisher Spokesman Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781637843932Author Vasile PirauFormat PaperbackPage Count 334Imprint Hawes & JenkinsPublisher Hawes & JenkinsWeight(grams) 490g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781662915765Author Kevin NelsonFormat HardbackPage Count 346Imprint Gatekeeper PressPublisher Gatekeeper PressWeight(grams) 535g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935807506Author Jerry DirnbergerFormat PaperbackPage Count 102Imprint Stansbury PublishingPublisher Stansbury PublishingWeight(grams) 132gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780645351507Author Brendan James GleesonFormat PaperbackPage Count 194Imprint Shiel Street PressPublisher Shiel Street PressWeight(grams) 308g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798223317982Author Ali AhmadFormat PaperbackPage Count 98Imprint Ali AhmadPublisher Ali AhmadWeight(grams) 113gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 6mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783965580404Author Christoph F E HolzheyFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint ICI Berlin PressPublisher ICI Berlin PressWeight(grams) 481g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783965580398Author Christoph F E HolzheyFormat HardbackPage Count 328Imprint ICI Berlin PressPublisher ICI Berlin PressWeight(grams) 635g

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Jean-Francois Lyotard (1924-1998) was one of the previous century's most provocative thinkers. Can his work help us address the crisis currently facing the humanities? The dominant economic discourse sees the humanities as "low-value," an...

Though inspired by a Panofskyan legacy, this book diverges at certain points from Erwin Panofsky's declared objectives, and calls attention to several of aspects that were until now less accentuated in his intellectual reception. Insisting on the...

What are we doing when taking psychoanalysis from the couch to the analysis of society, culture, and arts? How is it possible to do so? How is it possible to move from singular experiences to universal structures detected in culture and society? Could...

Rachel Loewen Walker's original study of Deleuze's theory of temporality critically expands our understanding of non-linear time through engagement with queer theory and new feminist materialisms. Walker draws on the notion of non-linear time in...

The oeuvre of Alain Badiou has gained international success and recognition, but most of the secondary literature focuses on internal problems of Badiou's philosophy, rather than its position within a broader philosophical genealogy. This book unites...

Drawing upon a wide variety of authors, approaches, and ideological contexts, this book offers a comprehensive and detailed critique of the distinct and polemical senses in which the concept of ressentiment (and its cognate 'resentment') is used today...

Revisiting Guy Debord's seminal work, The Society of the Spectacle (1967), Eric-John Russell locates Debord's work within the legacy of the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory. Deepening the analysis between Debord and Marx by revealing the centrality of...

Widely regarded as one of the foremost cultural critics of the last century, Walter Benjamin's relation to Modernism has largely been understood in the context of his reception of the aesthetic theories of Early German Romanticism and his associated...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781642594249Format PaperbackImprint Haymarket BooksPublisher Haymarket Books

Exploring the connections between Walter Benjamin's philosophy of history and a Marxian Critique of Political Economy, Duy Lap Nguyen analyses Benjamin's early writings and their development into a distinct understanding of historical materialism...

Commentators across the political spectrum have argued that the future has been absorbed by an ever-expanding present to which we cannot imagine alternatives. The notion that we have lost the ability to imagine change-culturally, socially, and...

Reinterpreting Badiou’s philosophy in light of both his persistent, reverent invocations of the German-Jewish poet Paul Celan, and his long-term engagement with Samuel Beckett, Badiou, Poem and Subject fundamentally reassesses Badiou’s radical departure...

Gerhard Richter examines, in the work of Walter Benjamin, one of the central problems of modernity: the question of how to receive an intellectual inheritance. Covering aspects of Benjamin's complex relationship to the legacies of such writers as...

Challenging the normalization of a capitalist reality in which environmental destruction and catastrophe have become 'second nature', Towards a Critical Theory of Nature offers a bold new theoretical understanding of the current crisis via the work of...

In this significant new work in African philosophy, Christopher Wise explores deconstruction's historical indebtedness to Egypto-African civilization and its relevance in Islamicate Africa today. He does so by comparing deconstructive and African thought...

Providing a comprehensive engagement with the work of Hans-Herbert Koegler, this is the first volume to expand upon and critique his distinctive approach to critical theory: critical hermeneutics. In the current climate of crisis, the relevance and...

Uncovering the theoretical and creative interconnections between posthumanism and philosophies of immanence, this volume explores the influence of the philosophy of immanence on posthuman theory; the varied reworkings of immanence for the nonhuman turn;...

A vital response to the COVID-19 pandemic, this volume connects the neoliberal underpinnings of the pandemic to the philosophy of Deleuze and Guattari. By positioning the worst outcomes of the COVID-19 crisis in terms of neoliberal normativity,...

The Body in French Queer Thought from Wittig to Preciado: Queer Permeability identifies a common concern in French queer works for the materiality of the body, arguing for a return to the body as fundamental to queer thought and politics, from HIV...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915445308Author Jonathan PughFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint University of Westminster PressPublisher University of Westminster PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781643170671Author Gregory L UlmerFormat PaperbackPage Count 306Imprint Parlor PressPublisher Parlor PressWeight(grams) 449g

This book critically analyzes the current historical conjuncture of neoliberal capitalism with an eye to its emergent alternatives. Can democracy and capitalism thrive together? Is socialism a viable and a desirable alternative? What are the forms of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781940813868Author Alain BadiouFormat PaperbackPage Count 266Imprint Atropos PressPublisher Atropos PressWeight(grams) 313g

This book presents the first sustained articulation of a Foucauldian oeuvre. It situates Foucault's critique within the tradition of Kant's call for a philosophical archaeology of reason; in parallel, it demonstrates the priority in Foucault's thought of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914099045Author Radical Philosophy CollectiveFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint Radical PhilosophyPublisher Radical PhilosophyWeight(grams) 299g

This book explores the reception of Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno's Dialectic of Enlightenment. It examines a variety of perspectives on the text, supplied by e.g. American critical theorists, British New Leftists, Transatlantic Cultural Studies...

For decades Foucault was mostly known for his diagnosis of modernity as a form of entrapment, both in our modes of thought and our behaviors. This book argues that Foucault's reappraisal of modernity occurs with the 1978 and 1979 lectures, in which he...

This book is concerned with the connection between the formal structure of agency and the formal structure of genocide. The contributors employ philosophical approaches to explore the idea of genocidal violence as a structural element in the world.Do...

This book critically examines Bonhoeffer's social theology in Sanctorum Communio from the perspective of Zizek's theological materialism. Specifically, it refers to Zizek's struggling universality of abandonment and its ethic of indifference in...

Distilling into concise and focused formulations many of the main ideas that Mari Ruti has sought to articulate throughout her writing career, this book reflects on the general state of contemporary theory as it relates to posthumanist ethics, political...

This intriguing and compact book investigates whether or not philosophy can have a use in the face of 'capitalist realism' today. Can philosophy study everyday objects like computers and mobile phones? Can it think of advertising, the population,...