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Mallarme: Ranciere, Milner, Badiou by Robert Boncardo 9781786603104
RRP: $199.50$182.95From the post-War writings of Sartre and Blanchot to the post-structuralism of Jacques Derrida and Julia Kristeva, French philosophers have consistently debated the poetry of Stephane Mallarme, almost as a rite of passage. Alain Badiou, Jean-Claude... -
The Changing Face of Alterity: Communication, Technology, and Other Subjects by David J. Gunkel 9781783488698
RRP: $266.70$245.51The figure of the 'other' is fundamental to the concept of communication. Online or offline, communication, which is commonly defined as the act of sending or imparting information to others, is only possible in the face of others. In fact, the reason we... -
Culture Control Critique: Allegories of Reading the Present by Frida Beckman 9781783488001
RRP: $270.90$245.22When "revolution" becomes a recurring theme in mainstream culture, where do we look for the tools for a critical engagement with the present? Addressing the link between allegory and cultural critique in contemporary culture and resisting the... -
The Domestication of Critical Theory by Michael J. Thompson 9781783484300
RRP: $270.90$245.22Critical theory was one of the most vigorous and insightful intellectual traditions of the twentieth-century. At its core was a critique of culture and consciousness tied to instrumental rationality and capitalist economic life. Yet, Michael J. Thompson... -
Agamben's Coming Philosophy: Finding a New Use for Theology by Colby Dickinson 9781783484027
RRP: $94.50$82.93One of the many challenges for readers of Agamben's sprawling and heterogeneous body of work is what to make of his increasingly insistent focus on theology. Agamben's Coming Philosophy brings together Colby Dickinson, the author of Agamben and Theology,... -
The Desiring Modes of Being Black: Literature and Critical Theory by Jean-Paul Rocchi 9781783483983
RRP: $237.30$35.39A critique of theory through literature that celebrates the diversity of black being, The Desiring Modes of Being Black explores how literature unearths theoretical blind spots while reasserting the legitimacy of emotional turbulence in the controlled... -
Hegel, Freud and Fanon: The Dialectic of Emancipation by Stefan Bird-Pollan 9781783483006
RRP: $270.90$245.22Revolutionary 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... -
Media After Kittler by Eleni Ikoniadou 9781783481217
RRP: $275.10$241.56Is it possible to incite a turn towards Media Philosophy, a field that accounts for the autonomy of media, for machine agency and for the new modalities of thought and subjectivity that these enable, rather than dwelling on representations, audiences and... -
Critical Theory and Sociological Theory: On Late Modernity and Social Statehood by Darrow Schecter 9781526105851
RRP: $52.50$39.50Democracy in the twenty-first century faces a number of major challenges, populism, neoliberalism and globalisation being three of the most prominent. This book examines such challenges by investigating how the conditions of democratic statehood have... -
The Counterhuman Imaginary: Earthquakes, Lapdogs, and Traveling Coinage in Eighteenth-Century Literature by Laura Brown 9781501773242
RRP: $35.68$31.65The Counterhuman Imaginary proposes that alongside the historical, social, and institutional structures of human reality that seem to be the sole subject of the literary text, an other-than-human world is everywhere in evidence. Laura Brown finds that... -
Brutalism by Achille Mbembe 9781478020875
RRP: $174.30$152.27In Brutalism, eminent social and critical theorist Achille Mbembe invokes the architectural aesthetic of brutalism to describe our moment, caught up in the pathos of demolition and production on a planetary scale. Just as brutalist architecture creates... -
War Is Hell: Studies in the Right of Legitimate Violence by Charles Douglas Lummis 9781538174210
RRP: $63.00$56.03War is Hell is a study of the philosophy of war and peace, ranging critically from ancient peace thinking to today. The author uses a Socratic method, focused on political philosophy rather than on cultural or psychological aspects of war and peace... -
African Intellectuals in the Post-colonial World by Fetson A Kalua 9780367787769
RRP: $46.18$40.61This book examines the role of African intellectuals in the years since the end of colonialism, studying the contribution that has been made by such individuals, both to political causes and to development within Africa. Studying the concept of the... -
African Intellectuals in the Post-colonial World by Fetson A Kalua 9780367263706
RRP: $104.98$91.35This book examines the role of African intellectuals in the years since the end of colonialism, studying the contribution that has been made by such individuals, both to political causes and to development within Africa. Studying the concept of the... -
Marx: Towards the Centre of Possibility (Lbe) by Kojin Karatani 9781788737791
RRP: $147.00$45.76Classic study of Marx by Japan's leading critical theorist Originally published in 1974, Kojin Karatani's Marx: Towards the Centre of Possibility has been amongst his most enduring and pioneering works in critical theory. Written at a time when the... -
Invoking Hope: Theory and Utopia in Dark Times by Phillip E. Wegner 9781517908850
RRP: $195.30$169.34An appeal for the importance of theory, utopia, and close consideration of our contemporary dark times What does any particular theory allow us to do? What is the value of doing so? And who benefits? In Invoking Hope, Phillip E. Wegner argues for the... -
Climate and Capital in the Age of Petroleum: Locating Terminal Landscapes by Dr Jeff Diamanti 9781350191839
$218.99Jeff Diamanti describes the destructive relationship between climate and capital through the exponential growth of the petroleum industry over the last 40 years. Building on key insights in the environmental and energy humanities, Diamanti introduces the... -
Contradiction Set Free by Hermann Levin Goldschmidt 9781350079786
RRP: $67.18$59.60First published in in 1976, Hermann Levin Goldschmidt's Contradiction Set Free, (Freiheit fur den Widerspruch), reflects the push to explore new forms of critical thinking that gained momentum in the decade between Theodor Adorno's Negative Dialectics of... -
Erich Fromm's Critical Theory by Joan Braune 9781350087019
$230.33Interest in Fromm is increasing: as a prominent Marxist, sociologist, psychoanalytic theorist, and public intellectual, the unique normative-humanist thrust of his writings provides a crucial critical reference point for those seeking to understand and... -
The Counterhuman Imaginary: Earthquakes, Lapdogs, and Traveling Coinage in Eighteenth-Century Literature by Laura Brown 9781501772559
RRP: $226.80$196.98The Counterhuman Imaginary proposes that alongside the historical, social, and institutional structures of human reality that seem to be the sole subject of the literary text, an other-than-human world is everywhere in evidence. Laura Brown finds that... -
Freedom and Negativity in Beckett and Adorno: Something or Nothing by Natalie Leeder 9781786603197
RRP: $266.70$232.41Since his notorious 1961 lecture, 'Trying to Understand Endgame', Theodor W. Adorno's name has been frequently coupled with that of Samuel Beckett. This book offers a radical reappraisal of the intellectual affinities between these two figures, whose... -
The Desiring Modes of Being Black: Literature and Critical Theory by Jean-Paul Rocchi 9781783483990
RRP: $77.70$68.59A critique of theory through literature that celebrates the diversity of black being, The Desiring Modes of Being Black explores how literature unearths theoretical blind spots while reasserting the legitimacy of emotional turbulence in the controlled... -
Capitalism's Future: Alienation, Emancipation and Critique by Daniel Krier 9781608468058
RRP: $63.00$41.75This collection brings together contributions from social theorists in sociology, philosophy, and cultural studies to dissect and critique capitalist crises, left-liberalism, left-Thatcherism, resistance to risk-pooling, idealist philosophy, undemocratic... -
Critical Theory and Epistemology: The Politics of Modern Thought and Science by Anastasia Marinopoulou 9781526139627
RRP: $52.50$37.63This volume in the Critical Theory and Contemporary Society series explores the arguments between critical theory and epistemology in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Focusing on the first and second generations of critical theorists and... -
Recognition and the Human Life-Form: Beyond Identity and Difference by Heikki Ikäheimo 9781032223322
RRP: $83.98$73.63What is recognition and why is it so important? This book develops a synoptic conception of the significance of recognition in its many forms for human persons by means of a rational reconstruction and internal critique of classical and contemporary... -
The Livable and the Unlivable by Judith Butler 9781531502737
RRP: $121.80$105.36The unlivable is the most extreme point of human suffering and injustice. But what is it exactly? How do we define the unlivable? And what can we do to prevent and repair it? These are the intriguing questions Judith Butler and Frédéric Worms discuss in... -
Capitalism, Democracy, Socialism: Critical Debates by Albena Azmanova 9783031084065
RRP: $188.98$170.12This 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... -
The Complete Personal Essays of Robert Louis Stevenson by Trenton B. Olsen 9781032570709
$92.40For all of Robert Louis Stevenson’s achievements in fiction, many of his contemporaries thought of him primarily as an essayist. His essays, known for their intellectual substance, emotional force, and stylistic vitality, were widely considered the best... -
Indifference and Repetition; or, Modern Freedom and Its Discontents by Frank Ruda 9781531505318
RRP: $197.40$171.11In capitalism human beings act as if they are mere animals. So we hear repeatedly in the history of modern philosophy. Indifference and Repetition examines how modern philosophy, largely coextensive with a particular boost in capitalism’s development,... -
Walter Benjamin’s First Philosophy: Experience, Ephemerality and Truth by Nathan Ross 9780367616991
RRP: $83.98$73.63This book provides a study of Walter Benjamin’s first philosophy in two senses: it focuses on his early philosophy as a source of insight into his later works, and it explores his thinking about the nature of truth, method, experience, the relation of... -
Critical Theory and Psychoanalysis: From the Frankfurt School to Contemporary Critique by Jon Mills 9781032104287
RRP: $252.00$217.58- first volume to address the philosophical and psychological parameters of Critical Theory in psychoanalysis - broad market potential, namely academics and scholars in a variety of disciplines with interdisciplinary interests i.e. philosophers,... -
Critical Theory and Demagogic Populism by Paul K. Jones 9781526163738
RRP: $63.00$56.60Populism is a powerful force today, but its full scope has eluded the analytical tools of both orthodox and heterodox 'populism studies'. This book provides a valuable alternative perspective. It reconstructs in detail for the first time the sociological... -
Untying Things Together: Philosophy, Literature, and a Life in Theory by Professor Eric L. Santner 9780226816463
RRP: $126.00$120.02Untying Things Together helps to clarify the stakes of the last fifty years of literary and cultural theory by proposing the idea of a sexuality of theory. In 1905, Freud published his Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality, the book that established... -
Selected Writings on Media, Propaganda, and Political Communication by Siegfried Kracauer 9780231158961
RRP: $199.50$177.95Siegfried Kracauer stands out as one of the most significant theorists and critics of the twentieth century, acclaimed for his analyses of film and popular culture. However, his writing on propaganda and politics has been overshadowed by the works of his... -
The Green New Deal and the Future of Work by Craig Calhoun 9780231205566
RRP: $245.70$218.38Catastrophic climate change overshadows the present and the future. Wrenching economic transformations have devastated workers and hollowed out communities. However, those fighting for jobs and those fighting for the planet have often been at odds. Does... -
Young Foucault: The Lille Manuscripts on Psychopathology, Phenomenology, and Anthropology, 1952-1955 by Elisabetta Basso 9780231205849
RRP: $210.00$187.13In the 1950s, long before his ascent to international renown, Michel Foucault published a scant few works. His early writings on psychology, psychopathology, and anthropology have been dismissed as immature. However, recently discovered manuscripts from... -
Lessons on Rousseau (Lbe) by Louis Althusser
RRP: $147.00$45.76Althusser delivered these lectures on Rousseau's Discourse on the Origins of Inequality at the Ecole normale superieure in Paris in 1972. They are fascinating for two reasons. First, they gave rise to a new generation of Rousseau scholars, attentive not... -
Extractivism and Universality: Inside an Uprising in the Amazon by Japhy Wilson
RRP: $262.50$226.51What are the possibilities for a radical politics of universal humanity, at a time when the politics of identity increasingly defines the agenda of the left? What are the political and conceptual implications of such an emancipatory form of universality... -
Althusser, The Infinite Farewell by Emilio De Ipola
RRP: $174.30$151.43In Althusser, The Infinite Farewell-originally published in Spanish and appearing here in English for the first time-Emilio de Ipola contends that Althusser's oeuvre is divided between two fundamentally different and at times contradictory projects. The... -
Sociophobia: Political Change in the Digital Utopia by Cesar Rendueles
RRP: $46.20$36.46The great ideological cliche of our time, Cesar Rendueles argues in Sociophobia, is the idea that communication technologies can support positive social dynamics and improve economic and political conditions. We would like to believe that the Internet...