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The Function of Criticism by Terry Eagleton
Booksplease Price: £14.74This wide-ranging book argues that criticism emerged in early bourgeois society as a central feature of a "public sphere" in which political, ethical, and literary judgements could mingle under the... -
Foucault: A Very Short Introduction by Gary Gutting
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73Born 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: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.42On 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: £22.00Booksplease Price: £17.00Countersexual 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: £31.00Booksplease Price: £23.91Jacques 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: £23.99Booksplease Price: £20.89The 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: £28.00Booksplease Price: £22.65In 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: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.51But 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: £15.99Booksplease Price: £13.15Tells 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: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.24Who 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: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.42Philosophy 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: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.46"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... -
Hegel and the Infinite: Religion, Politics, and Dialectic by Slavoj Zizek 9780231143356
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.40Catherine Malabou, Antonio Negri, John D. Caputo, Bruno Bosteels, Mark C. Taylor, and Slavoj Zizek join seven others-including William Desmond, Katrin Pahl, Adrian Johnston, Edith Wyschogrod, and... -
The Gift of Death, Second Edition & Literature in Secret by Deceased Jacques Derrida
Booksplease Price: £16.75The 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 Tomb of the Artisan God: On Plato's Timaeus by Serge Margel
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.56A 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... -
A Derrida Reader: Between the Blinds by Jacques Derrida 9780231066594
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £31.56Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Jacques Lacan, Past and Present: A Dialogue by Alain Badiou 9780231165112
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.37In this dialogue, Alain Badiou shares the clearest, most detailed account to date of his profound indebtedness to Lacanian psychoanalysis. He explains in depth the tools Lacan gave him to navigate... -
Flight Ways: Life and Loss at the Edge of Extinction Thom van Dooren 9780231166188
RRP: £84.00Booksplease Price: £66.34A 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: £29.49"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: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.66Using 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: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.28"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: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.24Today, 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: £41.9817 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... -
Philosophy in Turbulent Times: Canguilhem, Sartre, Foucault, Althusser, Deleuze, Derrida by Elisabeth Roudinesco 9780231143004
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £63.59For Elisabeth Roudinesco, a historian of psychoanalysis and one of France's leading intellectuals, Canguilhem, Sartre, Foucault, Althusser, Deleuze, and Derrida represent a "great generation" of... -
Hyperdream by Helene Cixous
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £14.64Hyperdream 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: £24.95Booksplease Price: £16.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957529595Author Peter WolfendaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint
Sovereignties in Question: The Poetics of Paul Celan by Jacques Derrida 9780823224388
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £27.88Sorry no description is available for this book at this time.
Futures Past: On the Semantics of Historical Time by Reinhart Koselleck
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.21Modernity 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: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.21For 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...
Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari: Intersecting Lives by Francois Dosse 9780231145619
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £32.10In May 1968, Gilles Deleuze was an established philosopher teaching at the innovative Vincennes University, just outside of Paris. Felix Guattari was a political militant and the director of an...
Georges Bataille: Phenomenology and Phantasmatology by Rodolphe Gasche
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.66This 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...
Derrida: A Guide for the Perplexed by Julian Wolfreys 9780826486011
Booksplease Price: £27.58Sorry no description is available for this book at this time.
Aporias by Jacques Derrida 9780804722520
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £15.90"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: £20.99Booksplease Price: £20.89Athens, 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: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.15Brilliant 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...
Porosity between Politics and the Economy by Egidius Berns 9781666915167
Booksplease Price: £75.81Sorry no description is available for this book at this time.
Theory at Yale: The Strange Case of Deconstruction in America by Marc Redfield 9780823268665
Booksplease Price: £109.03This book examines the affinity between "theory" and "deconstruction" that developed in the American academy in the 1970s by way of the "Yale Critics": Harold Bloom, Paul de Man, Geoffrey Hartman,...
Giorgio Agamben: Beyond the Threshold of Deconstruction by Kevin Attell 9780823262045
Booksplease Price: £79.80Agamben's thought has been viewed as descending primarily from the work of Heidegger, Benjamin, and, more recently, Foucault. This book complicates and expands that constellation by showing how...
Kant in the Land of Extraterrestrials: Cosmopolitical Philosofictions by Peter Szendy 9780823255504
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £23.21"Yes, Kant did indeed speak of extraterrestrials." This phrase could provide the opening for this brief treatise of philosofiction (as one speaks of science fiction). What is revealed in the aliens...
Dearth Volume 1: Deconstruction After Speculative Realism. the Nothing and Nothingness Philippe Lynes 9780810148987
RRP: £96.00Booksplease Price: £76.70Sorry no description is available for this book at this time.