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Foucault: A Very Short Introduction by Gary Gutting
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.36Born in 1926 in France, Foucault is one of those rare philosophers who has become a cult figure. Over the course of his life he dabbled in drugs, politics, and the Paris SM scene, all whilst striving... -
On Extinction: Beginning Again At The End by Ben Ware 9781788739993
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $13.96On Extinction takes us on a breathtaking philosophical journey through desperate territory. As we face 'the end of all things', Ben Ware argues we must face our apocalyptic future without flinching... -
Countersexual Manifesto by Paul B. Preciado 9780231175630
RRP: $29.48Booksplease Price: $22.78Countersexual Manifesto is an outrageous yet rigorous work of trans theory, a performative literary text, and an insistent call to action. Seeking to overthrow all constraints on what can be done... -
Of Grammatology by Jacques Derrida 9781421419954
RRP: $41.54Booksplease Price: $36.85Jacques Derrida's revolutionary approach to phenomenology, psychoanalysis, structuralism, linguistics, and indeed the entire European tradition of philosophy-called deconstruction-changed the face of... -
The Animal That Therefore I Am by Jacques Derrida
RRP: $32.15Booksplease Price: $27.99The Animal That Therefore I Am is the long-awaited translation of the complete text of Jacques Derrida's ten-hour address to the 1997 Cerisy conference entitled "The Autobiographical Animal," the... -
How to Live Together: Novelistic Simulations of Some Everyday Spaces by Roland Barthes
RRP: $37.52Booksplease Price: $30.34In The Preparation of the Novel, a collection of lectures delivered at a defining moment in Roland Barthes's career (and completed just weeks before his death), the critic spoke of his struggle to... -
Everything, All the Time, Everywhere: How We Became Postmodern by Stuart Jeffries 9781788738231
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $11.40But where do these ideas come from and how have they impacted on the world? In his brilliant history of a dangerous idea, Stuart Jeffries tells a narrative that starts in the early 1970s and... -
Matter and Motion by Thomas Nail 9781399525435
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $17.62Tells a new history of materialism from prehistory to the present that resists stasis, heirarchy and domination Traces a lineage of thinkers who have philosophically integrated ideas of... -
An Event, Perhaps: A Biography of Jacques Derrida by Peter Salmon
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.70Who was Jacques Derrida? For some, he is responsible, at least in part, for the contemporary crisis of truth. For the far right, he is one of the architects of Cultural Marxism. To his academic... -
New Radical Enlightenment: Philosophy for a Common World by Marina Garcés 9781839762987
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $13.96Philosophy was born out of discussion, out of the rivalry between world views. From the philosophical ferment of the Enlightenment arose the idea of emancipation, a conflictual perspective which... -
Monolingualism of the Other: or, The Prosthesis of Origin by Jacques Derrida 9780804732895
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $23.40"I have but one language-yet that language is not mine." This book intertwines theoretical reflection with historical and cultural particularity to enunciate, then analyze this conundrum in terms of... -
The Gift of Death, Second Edition & Literature in Secret by Deceased Jacques Derrida
Booksplease Price: $22.45The Gift of Death, Jacques Derrida's most sustained consideration of religion, explores questions first introduced in his book Given Time about the limits of the rational and responsible that one... -
The Question Concerning Technology in China: An Essay in Cosmotechnics by Yuk Hui
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $18.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995455009Author Yuk HuiFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint -
The Tomb of the Artisan God: On Plato's Timaeus by Serge Margel
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $18.17A far-reaching reinterpretation of Plato's Timaeus and its engagement with time, eternity, body, and soul that in its original French edition profoundly influenced Derrida The Tomb of the Artisan God... -
Flight Ways: Life and Loss at the Edge of Extinction Thom van Dooren 9780231166188
RRP: $112.56Booksplease Price: $88.90A leading figure in the emerging field of extinction studies, Thom van Dooren puts philosophy into conversation with the natural sciences and his ethnographic encounters to vivify the cultural and... -
Margins of Philosophy by Jacques Derrida
Booksplease Price: $39.52"In this densely imbricated volume Derrida pursues his devoted, relentless dismantling of the philosophical tradition, the tradition of Plato, Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, Husserl, Heidegger-each dealt... -
On Touching-Jean-Luc Nancy by Jacques Derrida
RRP: $30.81Booksplease Price: $27.68Using the philosophy of Jean-Luc Nancy as an anchoring point, Jacques Derrida in this book conducts a profound review of the philosophy of the sense of touch, from Plato and Aristotle to Jean-Luc... -
Democracy in What State? by Giorgio Agamben 9780231152990
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $21.82"Is it meaningful to call oneself a democrat? And if so, how do you interpret the word?" In responding to this question, eight iconoclastic thinkers prove the rich potential of democracy, along with... -
For Humanism: Explorations in Theory and Politics by David Alderson 9780745336145
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $20.42Today, anti-humanism is a dominant, even definitive, feature of contemporary theory. Setting out to challenge this tendency, editors David Alderson and Kevin Anderson argue that the political moment... -
The Postcard: From Socrates to Freud and Beyond by Jacques Derrida
Booksplease Price: $56.2517 November 1979You were reading a somewhat retro loveletter, the last in history. But you have not yet received it. Yes, its lack or excess of address prepares it to fall into all hands: a post... -
Hyperdream by Helene Cixous
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $19.62Hyperdream is a major new novel by celebrated French author Helene Cixous. It is a literary tour de force, returning anew to challenge necessity itself, the most implacable of human certainties: you... -
Object-Oriented Philosophy: The Noumenon's New Clothes Peter Wolfendale (Newcastle University) 9780957529595
RRP: $33.43Booksplease Price: $21.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957529595Author Peter WolfendaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint
Futures Past: On the Semantics of Historical Time by Reinhart Koselleck
RRP: $40.20Booksplease Price: $33.78Modernity in the late eighteenth century transformed all domains of European life -intellectual, industrial, and social. Not least affected was the experience of time itself: ever-accelerating change...
Nomadic Subjects: Embodiment and Sexual Difference in Contemporary Feminist Theory by Rosi Braidotti
RRP: $40.20Booksplease Price: $33.78For more than fifteen years, Nomadic Subjects has guided discourse in continental philosophy and feminist theory, exploring the constitution of contemporary subjectivity, especially the concept of...
Georges Bataille: Phenomenology and Phantasmatology by Rodolphe Gasche
RRP: $30.81Booksplease Price: $27.68This book investigates what Bataille, in "The Pineal Eye," calls mythological representation: the mythological anthropology with which this unusual thinker wished to outflank and undo scientific (and...
Aporias by Jacques Derrida 9780804722520
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $21.31"My death-is it possible?" That is the question asked, explored, and analyzed in Jacques Derrida's new book. "Is my death possible?" How is this question to be understood? How and by whom can it be...
Athens, Still Remains: The Photographs of Jean-Francois Bonhomme by Jacques Derrida 9780823232062
RRP: $28.13Booksplease Price: $27.99Athens, Still Remains is an extended commentary on a series of photographs of contemporary Athens by the French photographer Jean-Francois Bonhomme. But in Derrida's hands commentary always has a way...
Introducing Derrida: A Graphic Guide by Jeff Collins 9781848312050
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.58Brilliant illustrated guide to the best-known and most controversial continental philosopher of the latter 20th century. Jacques Derrida is the most famous philosopher of the late 20th century. Yet...
Heidegger: His Life and His Philosophy by Alain Badiou 9780231157971
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $20.78Martin Heidegger was an ordinary Nazi and a loyal member of the provincial petty bourgeoisie. He was also a seminal thinker of the Continental tradition and one of the twentieth century's most...
Identity: Fragments, Frankness by Jean-Luc Nancy
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $17.92Identity: Fragments, Frankness is a rich and powerful essay on the notion of identity and on how it operates in our contemporary world. In contrast to the various attempts to cling to established...
Paul's Summons to Messianic Life: Political Theology and the Coming Awakening by L. L. Welborn
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $22.26Taubes, Badiou, Agamben, Zizek, Reinhard, and Santner have found in the Apostle Paul's emphasis on neighbor-love a positive paradigm for politics. By thoroughly reexamining Pauline eschatology, L. L...
Derrida for Beginners by Jim Powell 9781934389119
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $16.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781934389119Author Jim PowellFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint
The Art of Philosophy: Wisdom as a Practice by Peter Sloterdijk 9780231158718
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.18In his best-selling book You Must Change Your Life, Peter Sloterdijk argued exercise and practice were crucial to the human condition. In The Art of Philosophy, he extends this critique to academic...
Paper Machine by Jacques Derrida
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $22.35This book questions the book itself, archivization, machines for writing, and the mechanicity inherent in language, the media, and intellectuals. Derrida questions what takes place between the paper...
Psyche: Inventions of the Other, Volume I by Jacques Derrida
RRP: $30.81Booksplease Price: $27.68Psyche: Inventions of the Other is the first publication in English of the twenty-eight essay collection Jacques Derrida published in two volumes in 1998 and 2003. In Volume I, Derrida advances his...
Hatred and Forgiveness Julia Kristeva 9780231218986
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $19.77Julia Kristeva refracts the impulse to hate (and our attempts to subvert, sublimate, and otherwise process it) through psychoanalysis and text, exploring worlds, women, religion, portraits, and the...
Being Nude: The Skin of Images by Jean-Luc Nancy
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $25.17What does it mean to be nude? What does the nude do? In a series of constantly surprising reflections, Jean-Luc Nancy and Federico Ferrari encounter the nude as an opportunity for thinking in a way...
Deleuze and the Body by Laura Guillaume
RRP: $41.54Booksplease Price: $36.82Deleuze and the Body puts the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze to work to trace the multiple lines of thought and affect that inhabit the ideas and attitudes to the body. It analyses how bodies are...
Death to Deconstruction: Reclaiming Faithfulness as an Act of Rebellion by Joshua Porter
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780825447341Author Joshua PorterFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint
The Logic of Sense by Gilles Deleuze 9780231059831
RRP: $29.48Booksplease Price: $25.26Considered one of the most important works of one of France's foremost philosophers, and long-awaited in English, The Logic of Sense begins with an extended exegesis of Lewis Carroll's Alice in...