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Creolizing Hegel by Michael Monahan 9781786600240
RRP: $90.30$83.24The 19th-century German thinker G.W.F. Hegel is a towering figure in the canon of European philosophy. Indeed, most of the significant figures of European Philosophy after Hegel explicitly address his thought in their own work. Outside of the familiar... -
Creolizing Hegel by Michael Monahan 9781786600233
RRP: $283.50$248.85The 19th-century German thinker G.W.F. Hegel is a towering figure in the canon of European philosophy. Indeed, most of the significant figures of European Philosophy after Hegel explicitly address his thought in their own work. Outside of the familiar... -
Culture Control Critique: Allegories of Reading the Present by Frida Beckman 9781783488018
RRP: $94.50$82.93When "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 Dimensions of Difference: Space, Time and Bodies in Women's Cinema and Continental Philosophy by Caroline Godart 9781783486557
RRP: $94.50$86.50The Dimensions of Difference departs from traditional takes on feminist film criticism, and in particular from the psychoanalytical focus on the gaze, to examine the question of sexual difference through three axes: space, time, and bodies. These are... -
Agamben's Coming Philosophy: Finding a New Use for Theology by Colby Dickinson 9781783484010
RRP: $270.90$246.06One 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,... -
On the Verge of a Planetary Civilization: A Philosophy of Integral Ecology by Sam Mickey 9781783481361
RRP: $235.20$205.28On the Verge of a Planetary Civilization presents a philosophical contribution to integral ecology-an emerging approach to the field that crosses disciplinary boundaries of the humanities and sciences. In this original book, Sam Mickey argues for the... -
Media After Kittler by Eleni Ikoniadou 9781783481224
RRP: $92.40$81.14Is 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... -
Agamben and Indifference: A Critical Overview by William Watkin 9781783480074
RRP: $270.90$246.06Since the publication of Homo Sacer Giorgio Agamben has become one of the world's most revered and controversial thinkers. His ideas on our current political situation have found many supporters as well as garnering strong criticism from some quarters... -
Badiou, Infinity, and Subjectivity: Reading Hegel and Lacan After Badiou by Mohammad Naderi 9781666931044
RRP: $201.60$177.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781666931044Author Mohammad NaderiFormat HardbackPage Count 370Imprint Lexington BooksPublisher Lexington Books -
Let Them Rot: Antigone’s Parallax by Alenka Zupančič 9781531501037
RRP: $121.80$105.36A 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,... -
Parables for the Virtual: Movement, Affect, Sensation by Brian Massumi 9781478013747
RRP: $199.50$173.73Since its publication twenty years ago, Brian Massumi's pioneering Parables for the Virtual has become an essential text for interdisciplinary scholars across the humanities. Massumi views the body and media such as television, film, and the Internet, as... -
Entre Nous: Between the World Cup and Me by Grant Farred 9781478004097
RRP: $178.50$155.00In 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... -
Counter-Modernism in Current Critical Theory by Geoffrey Thurley 9781349171613
RRP: $84.00$56.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781349171613Author Geoffrey ThurleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 261Imprint Palgrave MacmillanPublisher Palgrave MacmillanWeight(grams) 350g -
Un-Mapping the Global South by Gero Bauer 9781032727462
RRP: $77.68$68.31This book offers new approaches and insights into the ongoing and topical discussions on the concepts and definitions of the global south. Instead of adding to the debates about how to properly define the "global south" as such, it aims at emphasising... -
Un-Mapping the Global South by Gero Bauer 9781032607986
RRP: $283.50$247.13This book offers new approaches and insights into the ongoing and topical discussions on the concepts and definitions of the global south. Instead of adding to the debates about how to properly define the "global south" as such, it aims at emphasising... -
Althusser, The Infinite Farewell by Emilio De Ipola 9780822370246
RRP: $41.98$36.83In 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... -
The Concept in Crisis: Reading Capital Today by Nick Nesbitt 9780822369622
RRP: $186.90$163.00The 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... -
The Concept in Crisis: Reading Capital Today by Nick Nesbitt 9780822369073
RRP: $48.28$42.02The 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... -
Critique of Latin American Reason by Santiago Castro-Gomez 9780231200066
RRP: $228.90$178.10Critique 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... -
Critique on the Couch: Why Critical Theory Needs Psychoanalysis by Amy Allen 9780231198608
RRP: $168.00$129.97Does critical theory still need psychoanalysis? In Critique on the Couch, Amy Allen offers a cogent and convincing defense of its ongoing relevance.Countering the overly rationalist and progressivist interpretations of psychoanalysis put forward by... -
Critical Theory at a Crossroads: Conversations on Resistance in Times of Crisis by Stijn De Cauwer 9780231186780
RRP: $210.00$163.65We 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... -
Birth of a New Earth: The Radical Politics of Environmentalism by Adrian Parr 9780231180085
RRP: $176.40$137.95In 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... -
Psychoanalysis and the Human Sciences by Louis Althusser 9780231177641
RRP: $147.00$114.03What 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... -
Foucault's Futures: A Critique of Reproductive Reason by Penelope Deutscher 9780231176408
RRP: $184.80$144.38In Foucault's Futures, Penelope Deutscher reconsiders the role of procreation in Foucault's thought, especially its proximity to risk, mortality, and death. She brings together his work on sexuality and biopolitics to challenge our understanding of the... -
Foucault/Derrida Fifty Years Later: The Futures of Genealogy, Deconstruction, and Politics by Olivia Custer 9780231171946
RRP: $210.00$163.65Early 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,... -
Cut of the Real: Subjectivity in Poststructuralist Philosophy by Katerina Kolozova 9780231166102
RRP: $105.00$82.15Following 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... -
Rationalist Empiricism: A Theory of Speculative Critique by Nathan Brown 9780823290000
RRP: $239.40$206.87Honorable 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 9781788735162
RRP: $147.00$82.93Collaborators 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 think so... -
Technologies of Critique by Willy Thayer 9780823286744
RRP: $199.50$172.89Critique-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... -
The Mathematical Imagination: On the Origins and Promise of Critical Theory by Matthew Handelman 9780823283835
RRP: $165.90$144.29This 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 Practice of Political Theory: Rorty and Continental Thought by Clayton Chin 9780231173988
RRP: $130.20$101.26Recent political thought has grappled with a crisis in philosophical foundations: how do we justify the explicit and implicit normative claims and assumptions that guide political decisions and social criticism? In The Practice of Political Theory,... -
The Highway of Despair: Critical Theory After Hegel by Robyn Marasco 9780231168663
RRP: $105.00$82.15Hegel'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... -
Subterranean Fanon: An Underground Theory of Radical Change by Gavin Arnall 9780231193641
RRP: $210.00$163.65The 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... -
Recognition and Ambivalence by Heikki Ikaheimo 9780231177603
RRP: $210.00$163.65Recognition is one of the most debated concepts in contemporary social and political thought. Its proponents, such as Axel Honneth, hold that to be recognized by others is a basic human need that is central to forming an identity, and the denial of... -
American Immanence: Democracy for an Uncertain World by Michael S. Hogue 9780231172325
RRP: $184.80$144.38The 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... -
The Habermas Handbook by Hauke Brunkhorst 9780231166423
RRP: $147.00$116.13Jurgen Habermas is among the most influential philosophers of our time. His diagnosis of contemporary society and concepts such as the public sphere, communicative rationality, and cosmopolitanism have influenced virtually all academic disciplines,... -
Praxis and Revolution: A Theory of Social Transformation by Eva von Redecker 9780231198226
RRP: $254.10$197.40The concept of revolution marks the ultimate horizon of modern politics. It is instantiated by sites of both hope and horror. Within progressive thought, "revolution" often perpetuates entrenched philosophical problems: a teleological... -
The Disclosure of Politics: Struggles Over the Semantics of Secularization by Maria Lara 9780231162807
RRP: $94.50$74.17Postmodern political critiques speak of the death of ideology, the end of history, and the postsecular return of religious attitudes, yet radical conservative theorists such as Mark Lilla argue religion and politics are inextricably intertwined... -
The Habermas-Luhmann Debate by Gorm Harste 9780231159142
RRP: $254.10$197.40Fifty years ago, the two leading German philosophers and sociologists since the Second World War, Jurgen Habermas and Niklas Luhmann, embarked on a sweeping and contentious debate that would continue for decades. Their coauthored 1971 book Theory of... -
Melancholia Africana: The Indispensable Overcoming of the Black Condition by Nathalie Etoke 9781786613028
RRP: $168.00$154.56Melancholia Africana argues that in the African and Afro-diasporic context, melancholy is rooted in collective experiences such as slavery, colonization, and the post-colony. From these experiences a theme of loss resonates-loss of land, of freedom, of...