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Entre Nous: Between the World Cup and Me by Grant Farred
RRP: £21.99£19.19In Entre Nous Grant Farred examines the careers of international football stars Lionel Messi and Luis Suarez, along with his own experience playing for an amateur township team in apartheid South Africa, to theorize the relationship between sports and... -
Recognition or Disagreement: A Critical Encounter on the Politics of Freedom, Equality, and Identity by Axel Honneth
RRP: £28.00£21.80Axel Honneth is best known for his critique of modern society centered on a concept of recognition. Jacques Ranciere has advanced an influential theory of modern politics based on disagreement. Underpinning their thought is a concern for the logics of... -
Critical Theory at a Crossroads: Conversations on Resistance in Times of Crisis by Stijn De Cauwer
RRP: £30.00£23.29We are living in an age of crisis-or an age in which everything is labeled a crisis. Financial, debt, and refugee "crises" have erupted. The word has also been applied to the Arab Spring and its aftermath, Brexit, the 2016 U.S. election, and many other... -
American Immanence: Democracy for an Uncertain World by Michael S. Hogue
RRP: £28.00£21.80The Anthropocene marks the age of significant human impact on the Earth's ecosystems, dramatically underscoring the reality that human life is not separate from nature but an integral part of it. Culturally, ecologically, and socially destructive... -
Notes to Literature by Theodor W. Adorno
RRP: £100.00£78.33Notes to Literature is a collection of the great social theorist Theodor W. Adorno's essays on such writers as Mann, Bloch, Hoelderlin, Siegfried Kracauer, Goethe, Benjamin, and Stefan George. It also includes his reflections on a variety of subjects,... -
The End of Progress: Decolonizing the Normative Foundations of Critical Theory by Amy Allen
RRP: £30.00£23.29While post- and decolonial theorists have thoroughly debunked the idea of historical progress as a Eurocentric, imperialist, and neocolonialist fallacy, many of the most prominent contemporary thinkers associated with the Frankfurt School-Jurgen... -
Sorcery, Totem, and Jihad in African Philosophy by Christopher Wise
£104.28In 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... -
Critical Theory and Sociological Theory: On Late Modernity and Social Statehood by Darrow Schecter
RRP: £80.00£56.69Democracy 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... -
Critical Theory and Epistemology: The Politics of Modern Thought and Science by Anastasia Marinopoulou
RRP: £85.00£60.17This 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... -
The Green New Deal and the Future of Work by Craig Calhoun
RRP: £30.00£23.29Catastrophic 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... -
Technologies of Critique by Willy Thayer
RRP: £25.99£22.49Critique-a program of thought as well as a disposition toward the world-is a crucial resource for politics and thought today, yet it is again and again instrumentalized by institutional frames and captured by market logics. Technologies of Critique... -
In the Ruins of Neoliberalism: The Rise of Antidemocratic Politics in the West by Wendy Brown
RRP: £62.00£55.17Across the West, hard-right leaders are surging to power on platforms of ethno-economic nationalism, Christianity, and traditional family values. Is this phenomenon the end of neoliberalism or its monstrous offspring? In the Ruins of Neoliberalism casts... -
The Experience of Injustice: A Theory of Recognition by Emmanuel Renault
RRP: £62.00£48.22In The Experience of Injustice, the French philosopher Emmanuel Renault opens an important new chapter in critical theory. He brings together political theory, critical social science, and a keen sense of the power of popular movements to offer a... -
The Changing Face of Alterity: Communication, Technology, and Other Subjects by David J. Gunkel
RRP: £43.00£37.78The 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... -
Critical Theory and Feeling: The Affective Politics of the Early Frankfurt School Simon Mussell 9781526105707
RRP: £85.00£60.17This book offers a unique and timely reading of the early Frankfurt School in response to the recent 'affective turn' within the arts and humanities. Resisting the overly rationalist tendencies of political philosophy, it argues that critical theory... -
The Limits of Scientific Reason: Habermas, Foucault, and Science as a Social Institution by John D. McIntyre
RRP: £107.00£98.34Critically and comprehensively examining the works of Habermas and Foucault, two giants of 20th century continental philosophy, this book illuminates the effects of scientific reason as it migrates from its specialized institutions into society. It... -
Social Imaginaries: Critical Interventions by Suzi Adams 9781786607768
RRP: £43.00£37.78Written by members of the Social Imaginaries Editorial Collective, these programmatic essays showcase new critical interventions in understandings of social imaginaries and the human condition. They include a new comparative approach to theorizing... -
Eros and Revolution: The Critical Philosophy of Herbert Marcuse by Javier Sethness Castro 9781608468065
RRP: £35.00£23.04Investigating the origins and development of Herbert Marcuse's dialectical approach vis-a-vis Hegel, Marx, and Freud as well as the central figures of the Frankfurt School, Sethness Castro chronicles the radical philosopher's lifelong activism. Beyond... -
Psychoanalysis and the Human Sciences by Louis Althusser
RRP: £22.00£17.36What can psychoanalysis, a psychological approach developed more than a century ago, offer us in an age of rapidly evolving, hard-to-categorize ideas of sexuality and the self? Should we abandon Freud's theories completely or adapt them to new findings... -
Neoliberalism and Cyberpunk Science Fiction: Living on the Edge of Burnout by Caroline Alphin 9780367685904
RRP: £39.99£36.43Caroline Alphin presents an original exploration of biopolitics by examining it through the lens of cyberpunk science fiction.Comprised of five chapters, Neoliberalism and Cyberpunk Science Fiction is guided by four central themes: biopolitics,... -
The Limits of Technology and the End of History: Marx and Beyond Yefim Kats 9783031695445
RRP: £109.99£93.49This book examines the long-standing belief in infinite scientific and technological progress and links it to the Enlightenment ideal of man as a universal being and subject of the universal world history, destined to become a 'master and possessor of... -
Unworldliness in Twentieth Century German Thought Stéphane Symons 9781032304595
RRP: £135.00£114.75What happens when the world around us feels fragmented? How can a person continue to respond positively to their environment when it seems to have lost its internal coherence? These questions lie at the heart of this innovative interpretation of some of... -
Philosophy Across Borders: Perspectives from Contemporary Theory Emma Ingala 9781032462912
RRP: £135.00£114.75This book brings into conversation geographically diverse theorists to question the meaning, purpose, and place of conceptual borders in philosophy. It shows how contemporary theory is constituted by a dynamic practice in which the boundaries created to... -
Critical Theory and Independent Living Teodor Mladenov 9781526175151
RRP: £85.00£72.25This book explores intersections between contemporary critical theory and the disabled people’s Independent Living movement. The book helps strengthen critiques of the state, the market, and the family by grounding them in the struggles of disabled... -
Rumors Mladen Dolar 9781509561704
RRP: £9.99£8.49When Socrates was standing before the Athenian tribunal in 399 BC, he said in his defence that the opponents he feared most were the invisible ones, those who had been spreading rumors against him for years but none of whom were being brought to court –... -
Rumors Mladen Dolar 9781509561698
RRP: £35.00£29.75When Socrates was standing before the Athenian tribunal in 399 BC, he said in his defence that the opponents he feared most were the invisible ones, those who had been spreading rumors against him for years but none of whom were being brought to court –... -
Billie’s Bent Elbow: Exorbitance, Intimacy, and a Nonsensuous Standard Fumi Okiji 9781503641235
RRP: £21.99£18.69Deeply informed by jazz, Billie's Bent Elbow explores the nonsensical and nonsensuous in black radical thought and expression. Extending the encounter between black study, Frankfurt School critical theory, and sound studies staged in her first book Jazz... -
The Non-Modern Crisis of the Modern University Bret Leraul 9780810146846
RRP: £31.95£27.16A landmark work of critical theory about the Western university from the Southern Cone Renowned Chilean philosopher Willy Thayer’s La crisis no moderna de la universidad moderna, first published in 1996 and in an updated edition in 2019, is a landmark... -
Billie’s Bent Elbow: Exorbitance, Intimacy, and a Nonsensuous Standard Fumi Okiji 9781503640467
RRP: £90.00£76.50Deeply informed by jazz, Billie's Bent Elbow explores the nonsensical and nonsensuous in black radical thought and expression. Extending the encounter between black study, Frankfurt School critical theory, and sound studies staged in her first book Jazz... -
Descent of the Dialectic: Phronetic Criticism in an Age of Nihilism Michael J. Thompson 9781032011998
RRP: £130.00£112.11This book reconstructs the concept and practice of dialectics as a means of grounding a critical theory of society. At the center of this project is the thesis of phronetic criticism or a form of reason that is able to synthesize human value with... -
Cybernetic Capitalism: A Critical Theory of the Incommunicable Jan Overwijk 9781531508937
RRP: £29.99£25.49This book offers a conceptual interrogation of how capital navigates its cybernetic environment. Taking an immanent perspective, the book develops a unique synthesis between Niklas Luhmann’s systems theory and the critical theory tradition. Overwijk... -
Cybernetic Capitalism: A Critical Theory of the Incommunicable Jan Overwijk 9781531508920
RRP: £112.00£95.20This book offers a conceptual interrogation of how capital navigates its cybernetic environment. Taking an immanent perspective, the book develops a unique synthesis between Niklas Luhmann’s systems theory and the critical theory tradition. Overwijk... -
Deleuze, Guattari and the Schizoanalysis of the Global Pandemic: Revolutionary Praxis and Neoliberal Crisis Saswat Samay Das 9781350277397
RRP: £28.99£24.64A 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,...