Critical Theory

The attention economy is a notion that explains the growing value of human attention in societies characterised by post-industrial modes of production. In a world in which information and knowledge become central to the valorisation process of capital,...

Since 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...

Wolfgang 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...

This 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...

Explores 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...

This book revisits Paul Ricoeur's classification of Karl Marx, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Sigmund Freud as the "masters of suspicion", and provides a thought-provoking critique for critical religious studies scholars, as well as anyone working in critical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789811130878Author Jeremy FernandoFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint Delere PressPublisher Delere PressWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 254mm * 178mm *...

Axel 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...

What 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 high-toned version...

Critique 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999979355Author Radical Philosophy CollectiveFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint Radical PhilosophyPublisher Radical PhilosophyWeight(grams) 299g

The philosophy of Raymond Ruyer was an important if subterranean influence on twentieth-century French thought, and explicitly engaged with by figures such as Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Georges Canguilhem, Gilbert Simondon, and Gilles Deleuze. The Genesis of...

What Theodor W. Adorno says cannot be separated from how he says it. By the same token, what he thinks cannot be isolated from how he thinks it. The central aim of Richter's book is to examine how these basic yet far-reaching assumptions teach us to...

Now is a time of tremendous anxiety about the present and future state of the world. The second law of thermodynamics states that entropy never decreases, that time marches relentlessly forward, and that systems and energy inevitably break down. Entropy...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781849355551Author Richard Gilman-OpalskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint AK PressPublisher AK Press

Antonio 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...

This 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 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...

The publication of Reading Capital-by Louis Althusser, Etienne Balibar, Roger Establet, Pierre Macherey, and Jacques Ranciere-in 1965 marked a key intervention in Marxist philosophy and critical theory, bringing forth a stunning array of concepts that...

Addressing 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...

Apologies 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

A 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...

Revolutionary 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...

This 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...

This series features philosophical, interdisciplinary, and cross-disciplinary research on the analysis and application of dynamic categories.It presents cutting-edge research in process ontology and process metaphysics, but also interdisciplinary studies...

This volume marks a new chapter in the long-standing debate between Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault regarding argumentative methods and their political implications. The essays chart the undertheorized dialogue between the two philosophers on...

Sorry no description is available for this book at this time.

Sorry no description is available for this book at this time.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789526564630Author Egon Erwin KischFormat PaperbackImprint Rab-Rab PressPublisher Rab-Rab Press

Sorry no description is available for this book at this time.

Walter Benjamin is often viewed as a cultural critic who produced a vast array of brilliant and idiosyncratic pieces of writing with little more to unify them than the feeling that they all bear the stamp of his "unclassifiable" genius. Eli Friedlander...

Utopia 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783981554960Format PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint MonoKulturPublisher MonoKulturWeight(grams) 840g

Populism has become a contested and controversial word in contemporary politics. But what does “populism” really mean? Despite its relatively short history, the term follows a rather volatile trajectory in terms of its historical development and...

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

Theories of justice often fixate on purely normative, abstract principles unrelated to real-world situations. The philosopher and theorist Axel Honneth addresses this disconnect, and constructs a theory of justice derived from the normative claims of...

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