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Recognition or Disagreement: A Critical Encounter on the Politics of Freedom, Equality, and Identity by Axel Honneth 9780231177177
RRP: $42.00$33.37Axel 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... -
The Communism Of Love: An Inquiry into the Poverty of Exchange Value Richard Gilman-Opalsky 9781849353915
RRP: $39.80$26.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781849353915Author Richard Gilman-OpalskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint AK PressPublisher AK Press -
Religion, Theory, Critique: Classic and Contemporary Approaches and Methodologies by Richard King
RRP: $115.50$92.21Religion, Theory, Critique is an essential tool for learning about theory and method in the study of religion. Leading experts engage with contemporary and classical theories as well as non-Western cultural contexts. Unlike other collections, this... -
About the Beginning of the Hermeneutics of the Self: Lectures at Dartmouth College, 1980 by Michel Foucault
RRP: $50.40$43.09In 1980, Michel Foucault began a vast project of research on the relationship between subjectivity and truth, an examination of conscience, confession, and truth-telling that would become a crucial feature of his life-long work on the relationship... -
Critical Theory and Psychoanalysis: From the Frankfurt School to Contemporary Critique Jon Mills (University of Essex, UK and Adelphi University, USA) 9781032104270
RRP: $62.98$55.94Critical theory has traditionally been interested in engaging classical psychoanalysis rather than addressing postclassical thought. For the first time, this volume brings critical theory into proper dialogue with modern developments in the... -
Let Them Rot: Antigone’s Parallax by Alenka Zupančič
RRP: $33.58$29.90A provocative, highly accessible journey to the heart of Sophocles' Antigone elucidating why it keeps resurfacing as a central text of Western thought and Western culture. There is probably no classical text that has inspired more interpretation,... -
The Production of Subjectivity: Marx and Philosophy by Jason Read
RRP: $73.48$56.01Louis Althusser argued that Marx initiated a transformation of philosophy, a new way of doing philosophy. This book follows that provocation to examine the way in which central Marxist concepts and problems from primitive accumulation to real abstraction... -
Invoking Hope: Theory and Utopia in Dark Times by Phillip E. Wegner
RRP: $46.18$40.30An 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... -
The Logic of Racial Practice: Explorations in the Habituation of Racism by Brock Bahler 9781793641557
RRP: $63.00$56.03The title of this collection, The Logic of Racial Practice, pays homage to the work of Pierre Bourdieu, who coined the term habitus to name the pretheoretical, embodied dispositions that orient our social interactions and meaningfully frame our lived... -
The Right to Resist: Philosophies of Dissent Mario Wenning 9781350265301
$61.64While the idea of total revolution seems anachronistic today, there is increasing consensus about the importance of new forms of political, ethical, and aesthetic resistance. In the past, resistance was often motivated as a form of protest against... -
Marxist Modernism: Introductory Lectures on Frankfurt School Critical Theory Gillian Rose 9781804290118
RRP: $35.68$29.61Marxist Modernism is a comprehensive yet concise and conversational introduction to the Frankfurt School. It is also a new resource from one of the twentieth century's most important philosophers: Gillian Rose.Her 1979 lectures on the Frankfurt School... -
Zero-Point Hubris: Science, Race, and Enlightenment in 18th Century Latin America by Santiago Castro-Gomez 9781786613776
RRP: $84.00$73.96Operating within the framework of postcolonial studies and decolonial theory, this important work starts from the assumption that the violence exercised by European colonialism was not only physical and economic, but also 'epistemic'. Santiago... -
The Work of Forgetting: Or, How Can We Make the Future Possible? by Stephane Symons 9781538158272
RRP: $73.50$65.00For over fifty years the concept of memory has played a crucial role in a large number of academic and societal debates. The Work of Forgetting: Or, How Can We Make the Future Possible? draws attention to the limits of the academic field of memory... -
The Limits of Scientific Reason: Habermas, Foucault, and Science as a Social Institution by John McIntyre 9781538157800
RRP: $63.00$56.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781538157800Author John McIntyreFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Rowman & Littlefield PublishersPublisher Rowman & Littlefield -
The Ends of Critique: Methods, Institutions, Politics by Kathrin Thiele 9781786616463
RRP: $195.30$170.94The Ends of Critique re-examines the stakes of critique in the 21st century. In view of increasingly complex socio-political realities and shifts in a fully globalized world, the roles and manners of critique also change. The volume offers an... -
Walter Benjamin and the Post-Kantian Tradition by Phillip Homburg 9781786603838
RRP: $73.50$65.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781786603838Author Phillip HomburgFormat PaperbackImprint Rowman & Littlefield InternationalPublisher Rowman & Littlefield International -
The Enigma of Justice: Freedom and Morality in the Work of Immanuel Kant, G.W.F Hegel, Agnes Heller, and Axel Honneth by Claire Nyblom 9781793654526
RRP: $153.30$134.78The Enigma of Justice: Freedom and Morality in the Work of Immanuel Kant, G.W.F Hegel, Agnes Heller, and Axel Honneth offers a novel perspective on the idea of justice. Claire Nyblom argues that justice is a cultural and historical constant, routinely... -
Creolizing Critical Theory: New Voices in Caribbean Philosophy by Kris F. Sealey 9781538187999
RRP: $178.50$156.47Creolizing Critical Theory highlights the Caribbean as a philosophical site from which, for centuries and until today, theorists have articulated pressing critiques of capitalism and colonialism. Some of these critiques, such as those of the Saramaka... -
The Fractured Subject: Walter Benjamin and Sigmund Freud by Betty Schulz 9781538163368
RRP: $184.80$161.89This book investigates the relationship of the work of Walter Benjamin and Sigmund Freud, centered around Benjamin’s fractured subject. Through a reading of Benjamin’s work on sovereignty and myth, it establishes the emergence of this fractured subject... -
Theory of Perception by George Pitcher 9780691647401
$204.29Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Fear of Breakdown: Politics and Psychoanalysis by Noelle McAfee 9780231192682
$177.83What is behind the upsurge of virulent nationalism and intransigent politics across the globe today? In Fear of Breakdown, Noelle McAfee uses psychoanalytic theory to explore the subterranean anxieties behind current crises and the ways in which... -
Transitional Subjects: Critical Theory and Object Relations by Amy Allen 9780231183185
$177.83Critical social theory has long been marked by a deep, creative, and productive relationship with psychoanalysis. Whereas Freud and Fromm were important cornerstones for the early Frankfurt School, recent thinkers have drawn on the object-relations... -
The Highway of Despair: Critical Theory After Hegel by Robyn Marasco 9780231168670
RRP: $52.50$41.14Hegel's "highway of despair," introduced in his Phenomenology of Spirit, represents the tortured path traveled by "natural consciousness" on its way to freedom. Despair, the passionate residue of Hegelian critique, also indicates fugitive opportunities... -
Jane Austen's Emma: Philosophical Perspectives by E.M. Dadlez 9780190689414
$210.92What has Emma Woodhouse, "handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and very little to distress or vex her" to say to a discipline like philosophy? How is a novel like Emma, inaccurately but not infrequently caricatured as a... -
A Time for Critique by Bernard E. Harcourt 9780231191265
$186.80In a world of political upheaval, rising inequality, catastrophic climate change, and widespread doubt of even the most authoritative sources of information, is there a place for critique? This book calls for a systematic reappraisal of critical... -
Postcolonial Melancholia by Paul Gilroy 9780231134545
$167.90In an effort to deny the ongoing effect of colonialism and imperialism on contemporary political life, the death knell for a multicultural society has been sounded from all sides. That's the provocative argument Paul Gilroy makes in this unorthodox... -
War Is Hell: Studies in the Right of Legitimate Violence by Charles Douglas Lummis 9781538174203
RRP: $178.50$156.47War 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... -
Zero-Point Hubris: Science, Race, and Enlightenment in 18th Century Latin America by Santiago Castro-Gomez 9781786613769
RRP: $241.50$211.55Operating within the framework of postcolonial studies and decolonial theory, this important work starts from the assumption that the violence exercised by European colonialism was not only physical and economic, but also 'epistemic'. Santiago... -
Immanent Critique by Titus Stahl 9781786601797
RRP: $193.20$169.95When we criticize social institutions and practices, what kinds of reasons can we offer for such criticism? Political philosophers often assume that we must rely on universal moral principles that are not necessarily connected to the particular social... -
The Double Binds of Neoliberalism: Theory and Culture After 1968 by Guillaume Collett 9781538154526
RRP: $178.50$156.47In the wake of the new far-right populisms, the fragmentation of global narratives of progress, and the dismantling of economic globalization, there are signs that neoliberalism is beginning to enter its death throes or at least starting to fundamentally... -
The French Revolution in Theory by Sophie Wahnich 9781786616173
RRP: $203.70$178.16It is time to re-examine the French Revolution as a political resource. The historiography has so far ignored the question of popular sovereignty and emancipation; instead the Revolution has been vilified as a matrix of totalitarianisms by the liberals... -
Capitalism on Edge: How Fighting Precarity Can Achieve Radical Change Without Crisis or Utopia by Albena Azmanova
$176.15The wake of the financial crisis has inspired hopes for dramatic change and stirred visions of capitalism's terminal collapse. Yet capitalism is not on its deathbed, utopia is not in our future, and revolution is not in the cards. In Capitalism on Edge,... -
The Power of Tolerance: A Debate by Wendy Brown
RRP: $88.20$69.38We invoke the ideal of tolerance in response to conflict, but what does it mean to answer conflict with a call for tolerance? Is tolerance a way of resolving conflicts or a means of sustaining them? Does it transform conflicts into productive tensions,... -
Unbearable Life: A Genealogy of Political Erasure by Arthur Bradley
$177.20In ancient Rome, any citizen who had brought disgrace upon the state could be subject to a judgment believed to be worse than death: damnatio memoriae, condemnation of memory. The Senate would decree that every trace of the citizen's existence be removed... -
What Is a People? by Judith Butler 9780231168762
RRP: $42.00$34.21What Is a People? seeks to reclaim "people" as an effective political concept by revisiting its uses and abuses over time. Alain Badiou surveys the idea of a people as a productive force of solidarity and emancipation and as a negative tool of... -
Unbearable Life: A Genealogy of Political Erasure by Arthur Bradley 9780231193399
RRP: $52.50$41.14In ancient Rome, any citizen who had brought disgrace upon the state could be subject to a judgment believed to be worse than death: damnatio memoriae, condemnation of memory. The Senate would decree that every trace of the citizen's existence be removed... -
Distillations: Theory, Ethics, Affect by Mari Ruti
RRP: $60.88$54.22Distilling 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... -
Pathologies of Reason: On the Legacy of Critical Theory by Axel Honneth 9780231146272
RRP: $42.00$33.37Axel Honneth has been instrumental in advancing the work of the Frankfurt School of critical theorists, rebuilding their effort to combine radical social and political analysis with rigorous philosophical inquiry. These eleven essays reclaim the relevant... -
Notes to Literature by Theodor W. Adorno 9780231179652
RRP: $73.50$59.09Notes 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 Stoic way of Life: The ultimate guide of Stoicism to make your everyday modern life Calm, Confident & Positive - Master the Art of Living, Emotional Resilience & Perseverance by Marcus Epictetus 9781989785249
RRP: $51.18$35.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781989785249Author Marcus EpictetusFormat HardbackPage Count 178Imprint Kontakt DigitalPublisher Kontakt DigitalWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...