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A Time for Critique by Bernard E. Harcourt
RRP: $58.80$44.86In 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... -
Seeing Race Before Race – Visual Culture and the Racial Matrix in the Premodern World by Noémie Ndiaye
RRP: $84.00$80.96Explores the deployment of racial thinking and racial formations in the visual culture of the pre-modern world. The capacious visual archive studied in this volume includes a trove of materials such as annotated or illuminated manuscripts, Renaissance... -
Critical Theory and Feeling: The Affective Politics of the Early Frankfurt School by Simon Mussell 9781526155948
RRP: $52.50$42.63This 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... -
Selected Writings on Media, Propaganda, and Political Communication by Siegfried Kracauer
RRP: $46.20$35.68Siegfried 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... -
Subterranean Fanon: An Underground Theory of Radical Change by Gavin Arnall
RRP: $52.50$40.28The problem of change recurs across Frantz Fanon's writings. As a philosopher, psychiatrist, and revolutionary, Fanon was deeply committed to theorizing and instigating change in all of its facets. Change is the thread that ties together his critical... -
The Future of Humanity: Revisioning the Human in the Posthuman Age by Pavlina Radia 9781538147962
RRP: $63.00$57.73What is the future of humanity? What does it mean to be 'human' in the posthuman age? What responsibility does humankind have towards others and their environments? How are the stories that humans tell themselves implicated in the very power asymmetries... -
Foucault/Derrida Fifty Years Later: The Futures of Genealogy, Deconstruction, and Politics by Olivia Custer
RRP: $63.00$47.92Early in their careers, Michel Foucault and Jacques Derrida argued over madness, reason, and history in an exchange that profoundly influenced continental philosophy and critical theory. In this collection, Amy Allen, Geoffrey Bennington, Lynne Huffer,... -
The Mathematical Imagination: On the Origins and Promise of Critical Theory by Matthew Handelman
RRP: $56.68$47.99This book offers an archeology of the undeveloped potential of mathematics for critical theory. As Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno first conceived of the critical project in the 1930s, critical theory steadfastly opposed the mathematization of... -
The Phantom of the Ego: Modernism and the Mimetic Unconscious by Nidesh Lawtoo 9781611860962
RRP: $54.50$41.52The Phantom of the Ego is the first comparative study that shows how the modernist account of the unconscious anticipates contemporary discoveries about the importance of mimesis in the formation of subjectivity. Rather than beginning with Sigmund Freud... -
Critical Theory and Legal Autopoiesis: The Case for Societal Constitutionalism by Gunther Teubner 9781526107237
RRP: $52.50$45.32This volume collects and revises the key essays of Gunther Teubner, one of the world's leading sociologists of law. Written over the past twenty years, these essays examine the 'dark side' of functional differentiation and the prospects of societal... -
Alienation by Rahel Jaeggi 9780231151986
RRP: $63.00$47.92The Hegelian-Marxist idea of alienation fell out of favor after the postmetaphysical rejection of humanism and essentialist views of human nature. In this book Rahel Jaeggi draws on the Hegelian philosophical tradition, phenomenological analyses grounded... -
This Incredible Need to Believe by Julia Kristeva 9780231147842
RRP: $105.00$80.66"Unlike Freud, I do not claim that religion is just an illusion and a source of neurosis. The time has come to recognize, without being afraid of 'frightening' either the faithful or the agnostics, that the history of Christianity prepared the world for... -
The Brain-Eye: New Histories of Modern Painting by Eric Alliez 9781783480685
RRP: $100.80$99.23A detailed and inventive study of the thinking at work in modern painting, drawing on a formidable body of scholarly evidence to challenge modernist and phenomenological readings of art history, The Brain-Eye presents a series of interlinked 'case... -
Cut of the Real: Subjectivity in Poststructuralist Philosophy by Katerina Kolozova 9780231166119
RRP: $52.50$40.28Following 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... -
Philosophy After Nature by Rosi Braidotti 9781786603869
RRP: $86.10$81.73The 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... -
Rationalist Empiricism: A Theory of Speculative Critique by Nathan Brown
RRP: $73.50$63.34Honorable 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... -
Dark Matter: A Guide to Alexander Kluge & Oskar Negt by Richard Langston
RRP: $41.98$35.49Collaborators 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... -
Hegel, Freud and Fanon: The Dialectic of Emancipation by Stefan Bird-Pollan 9781783483013
RRP: $90.30$85.45Revolutionary 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... -
Let Them Rot: Antigone’s Parallax by Alenka Zupančič
RRP: $35.68$31.46A 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,... -
Class Wargames: Ludic Subversion Against Spectacular Capitalism by Richard Barbrook
RRP: $52.50$34.40Apologies 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 -
Political Uses of Utopia: New Marxist, Anarchist, and Radical Democratic Perspectives by S. Chrostowska
RRP: $63.00$47.92Utopia 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... -
Capitalism and the Limits of Desire by John Roberts
RRP: $50.38$43.97Addressing 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... -
The Saving Line: Benjamin, Adorno, and the Caesuras of Hope by Márton Dornbach 9780810142992
RRP: $73.40$60.44Walter Benjamin and Theodor Adorno both turned to canonical literary narratives to determine why the Enlightenment project was derailed and how this failure might be remedied. The resultant works, Benjamin's major essay on Goethe's Elective Affinities... -
What Is a People? by Judith Butler 9780231168762
$59.09What 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... -
Ricoeur and Castoriadis in Discussion: On Human Creation, Historical Novelty, and the Social Imaginary by Suzi Adams 9781786601353
RRP: $79.80$78.04This book features a highly significant discussion between Paul Ricoeur and Cornelius Castoriadis. Recorded for Radio France (Culture) in 1985, it is the only known encounter between these two great philosophers of the imagination. Their wide ranging... -
Revolutionary Keywords for a New Left by Ian Parker 9781785356421
RRP: $37.78$32.32Revolutionary Keywords for a New Left comprises short essays on fifty revolutionary keywords, each word being put to work on a contemporary political issue. With keywords ranging from academicisation to neoliberalism, from postcolonial to Zionism and... -
Toward a Concrete Philosophy: Heidegger and the Emergence of the Frankfurt School by Mikko Immanen
RRP: $56.68$47.99Toward a Concrete Philosophy explores the reactions of Theodor Adorno, Max Horkheimer, and Herbert Marcuse to Martin Heidegger prior to their dismissal of him once he turned to the Nazi party in 1933. Mikko Immanen provides a fascinating glimpse of the... -
Chronopoetics: The Temporal Being and Operativity of Technological Media by Wolfgang Ernst 9781783485710
RRP: $100.80$96.54Wolfgang Ernst has demonstrated that the knowledge of time-giving ('chrono-poetical') media and their temporal essence enriches the tradition of philosophical inquiry into the nature of 'time'. This book, a translated and abridged edition of Ernst's two... -
Critique of Latin American Reason by Santiago Castro-Gomez
RRP: $58.80$44.86Critique of Latin American Reason is one of the most important philosophical texts to have come out of South America in recent decades. First published in 1996, it offers a sweeping critique of the foundational schools of thought in Latin American... -
Gilbert Simondon: Information, Technology and Media by Simon Mills 9781783481491
RRP: $90.30$85.45Gilbert Simondon: Information, Technology and Media is a comprehensive introduction to the work of the French philosopher Gilbert Simondon. In particular it examines Simondon's original informational ontology, as developed from a synthesis of... -
Subaltern Social Groups: A Critical Edition of Prison Notebook 25 by Antonio Gramsci 9780231190381
RRP: $245.70$187.74Antonio Gramsci is widely celebrated as the most original political thinker in Western Marxism. Among the most central aspects of his enduring intellectual legacy is the concept of subalternity. Developed in the work of scholars such as Gayatri Spivak... -
Birth of a New Earth: The Radical Politics of Environmentalism by Adrian Parr
RRP: $52.50$40.28In response to unprecedented environmental degradation, activists and popular movements have risen up to fight the crisis of climate change and the ongoing devastation of the earth. The environmental movement has undeniably influenced even its... -
Agamben and Indifference: A Critical Overview by William Watkin 9781783480081
RRP: $88.20$83.60Since the publication of Homo Sacer in 1995, Giorgio Agamben has become one of the world's most revered and controversial thinkers. His ideas on our current political situation have found supporters and enemies in almost equal measure. His wider thoughts... -
The Ends of Critique: Methods, Institutions, Politics by Kathrin Thiele 9781538160534
$66.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781538160534Author Kathrin ThieleFormat PaperbackPage Count 234Imprint Rowman & Littlefield PublishersPublisher Rowman & Littlefield -
Pathologies of Reason: On the Legacy of Critical Theory by Axel Honneth 9780231146265
RRP: $88.20$68.10Axel 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 published over the... -
Italian Critical Thought: Genealogies and Categories by Dario Gentili 9781786604514
RRP: $77.70$74.36Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Logic of Racial Practice: Explorations in the Habituation of Racism by Brock Bahler 9781793641557
RRP: $63.00$57.73Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
On the Brink: Language, Time, History, and Politics by Werner Hamacher 9781786603920
RRP: $81.90$79.91As 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... -
Technology, Modernity, and Democracy: Essays by Andrew Feenberg by Eduardo Beira 9781786607218
RRP: $77.70$74.36This important collection of essays by Andrew Feenberg presents his critical theory of technology, an innovative approach to philosophy and sociology of technology based on a synthesis of ideas drawn from STS and Frankfurt School Critical Theory... -
Critical Theory and International Relations: Knowledge, Power and Practice by Stephen Hobden 9781526131959
RRP: $178.50$156.47Critical theory is one of the most important and exciting areas within the study of international relations. Its purpose is not only to describe how the world operates but also to help us imagine how we might achieve a more equitable and sustainable way...