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Aesthetics, Method, and Epistemology: Essential Works of Foucault 1954-1984 by Michel Foucault
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51'Foucault leaves no reader untouched or unchanged' Edward SaidAesthetics, the second volume of the complete collection of Michel Foucault's courses, articles and interviews, focuses on the... -
Art and Postcapitalism: Aesthetic Labour, Automation and Value Production Dave Beech 9780745339245
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £21.04Artistic labour was exemplary for Utopian Socialist theories of 'attractive labour', and Marxist theories of 'nonalienated labour', but the rise of the anti-work movement and current theories of... -
Art, Mimesis and the Avant-Garde: Aspects of a Philosophy of Difference by Andrew Benjamin
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £45.23This book explores the relationship between art and philosophy. Andrew Benjamin argues for a reworking of the task of philosophy in terms of the centrality of ontology. It is in relation to this... -
The Philosopher's Gaze: Modernity in the Shadows of Enlightenment by David Michael Levin
RRP: £53.00Booksplease Price: £43.03David Michael Levin's ongoing exploration of the moral character and enlightenment-potential of vision takes a new direction in The Philosopher's Gaze. Levin examines texts by Descartes, Husserl,... -
Black Minded: The Political Philosophy of Malcolm X Michael E. Sawyer 9780745340746
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £19.84Known as 'the angriest black man in America', Malcolm X was one of the most famous activists to ever live. Going beyond biography, Black Minded examines Malcolm X's philosophical system, restoring... -
In Excess: Sergei Eisenstein's Mexico by Masha Salazkina 9780226734149
Booksplease Price: £46.29During the 1920s and '30s, Mexico attracted an international roster of artists and intellectuals - including Orson Welles, Katherine Anne Porter, and Leon Trotsky - who were drawn to the heady tumult... -
The Book Against Death by Elias Canetti 9780811237994
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.15The Book Against Death is the work of a lifetime: a collection of Elias Canetti's powerful, disarming, and often bleakly comic observations, diatribes, musings, and commentaries on and against death... -
Media Transatlantic: Developments in Media and Communication Studies between North American and German-speaking Europe by Norm Friesen 9783319803623
Booksplease Price: £90.56This book reflects recent scholarly and theoretical developments in media studies, or Medienwissenschaft. It focuses on linkages between North America and German-speaking Europe, and brings together... -
The Sociology of Risk and Gambling Reader James Cosgrave 9780415952224
RRP: £65.99Booksplease Price: £59.24This reader contributes to the sociology of gambling, and offers a variety of sociological approaches, ranging from classical sociological analyses of gambling to contemporary sociological approaches... -
Siting Translation: History, Post-Structuralism, and the Colonial Context by Tejaswini Niranjana
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £22.92The act of translation, Tejaswini Niranjana maintains, is a political action. Niranjana draws on Benjamin, Derrida, and de Man to show that translation has long been a site for perpetuating the... -
The Myth of Disenchantment: Magic, Modernity, and the Birth of the Human Sciences by Jason ?. Josephson-Storm
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £25.76A great many theorists have argued that the defining feature of modernity is that people no longer believe in spirits, myths, or magic. Jason A. Josephson-Storm argues that as broad cultural history... -
Continental Philosophy in the 20th Century: Routledge History of Philosophy Volume 8 by Richard Kearney
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £45.23Continental philosophy is one of the twentieth century's most important and challenging philosophical movements. This major volume includes fourteen chapters on its major representatives and schools,... -
Disarming Words: Empire and the Seductions of Translation in Egypt by Shaden M. Tageldin 9780520265523
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £34.73In a book that radically challenges conventional understandings of the dynamics of cultural imperialism, Shaden M. Tageldin unravels the complex relationship between translation and seduction in the... -
Henri Matisse: A Second Life by Alastair Sooke
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67Henri Matisse by Alastair Sooke - an essential guide to one of the 20th century's greatest artists'One January morning in 1941, only a fortnight or so after his seventy-first birthday, the bearded... -
Judaism and Modernity by Gillian Rose
Booksplease Price: £21.95Judaism and Modernity: Philosophical Essays challenges the philosophical presentation of Judaism as the sublime 'other' of modernity. Here, Gillian Rose develops a philosophical alternative to... -
Gathering Evidence by Thomas Bernhard
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46Born in 1931, the illegitimate child of an abandoned mother, Thomas Bernhard was brought up by an eccentric grandmother and adored grandfather. Tormented as a young student in a right-wing, catholic... -
Postmodernism and Popular Culture by Angela McRobbie
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £37.52Postmodernism and Popular Culture brings together eleven recent essays by Angela McRobbie in a collection which deals with the issues which have dominated cultural studies over the last ten years.A... -
The Trouble With Being Born by E. M. Cioran
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'Not to be born is undoubtedly the best plan of all. Unfortunately it is within no one's reach.'In The Trouble With Being Born, E. M. Cioran grapples with the major questions of human existence:... -
Migrancy, Culture, Identity Iain Chambers 9780415088022
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.36In Migrancy, Culture, Identity, Iain Chambers unravels how our sense of place and identity is realised as we move through myriad languages, worlds and histories. The author explores the uncharted... -
Allegory by Professor Jeremy Tambling
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £29.81Indispensable to an understanding of Medieval and Renaissance texts and a topic of controversy for the Romantic poets, allegory remains a site for debate and controversy in the twenty-first-century... -
Allegory by Professor Jeremy Tambling 9780415340052
RRP: £115.00Booksplease Price: £100.93Indispensable to an understanding of Medieval and Renaissance texts and a topic of controversy for the Romantic poets, allegory remains a site for debate and controversy in the twenty-first-century... -
Thinking Through Fashion: A Guide to Key Theorists Agn�s Rocamora 9781350376526
Booksplease Price: £72.32A vital update to the definitive guide to fashion and cultural theory, featuring four new chapters and essential revisions throughout in light of key developments in fashion and fashion studies. ... -
The Architecture of Phantasmagoria: Specters of the City Libero Andreotti (Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA) 9781138601512
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £43.94In a time of mass-mediated modernity, the city becomes, almost by definition, a constitutively 'mediated' city. Today, more than ever before, the omnipresence of media in every sphere of culture is... -
German Idealism and the Jew: The Inner Anti-Semitism of Philosophy and German Jewish Responses Michael Mack 9780226500942
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £77.30In "German Idealism and the Jew", Michael Mack uncovers the deep roots of anti-Semitism in the German philosophical tradition. While many have read German anti-Semitism as a reaction against... -
Environmental Humanities and the Uncanny: Ecoculture, Literature and Religion Rod Giblett 9780367730260
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £40.94Sigmund Freud's essay 'The Uncanny' is celebrating a century since publication. It is arguably his greatest and most fruitful contribution to the study of culture and the environment. Environmental... -
Theory for Religious Studies by William E. Deal
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £36.66In this handy volume, two professors of religious studies provide the student of religious studies - whether the motivated undergraduate, graduate student, or professor - with a brief review of... -
Charlotte Salomon and the Theatre of Memory by Griselda Pollock 9780300100723
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £44.53A long-awaited, new interpretation of Charlotte Salomon's singular and complex modern artwork, Life? or Theatre? Charlotte Salomon (1917-1943) is renowned for a single, monumental, modernist... -
Fredric Jameson: The Project of Dialectical Criticism by Robert T. Tally
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.29Fredric Jameson is the most important Marxist critic in the world today. While consistently operating at the cutting edge of literary and cultural studies, Jameson has remained committed to seemingly... -
Art and Postcapitalism: Aesthetic Labour, Automation and Value Production by Dave Beech 9780745339252
Booksplease Price: £85.65Artistic labour was exemplary for Utopian Socialist theories of 'attractive labour', and Marxist theories of 'nonalienated labour', but the rise of the anti-work movement and current theories of... -
Female Impersonation Carol-Anne Tyler 9780415916882
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £37.52A feminist and psychoanalytic investigation of the contemporary fascination with impersonation. The questions raised by female impersonations in a wide range of contemporary media are considered... -
Giorgio Agamben by Alex Murray
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £22.95Giorgio Agamben is one of the most important and controversial figures in contemporary continental philosophy and critical theory. His work covers a broad array of topics from biblical criticism to... -
Next Time on Dragon Ball: Playing with a Manga and Anime Franchise Vincent Haddad 9781517919566
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £17.62How media production and fan play interact to shape the aesthetics of a global anime franchiseSince its debut in 1984, Dragon Ball has become one of the most popular, influential, and lucrative... -
Decay and Afterlife: Form, Time, and the Textuality of Ruins, 1100 to 1900 by Professor Aleksandra Prica 9780226811314
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £96.90Covering 800 years of intellectual and literary history, Prica considers the textual forms of ruins. Western ruins have long been understood as objects riddled with temporal contradictions, whether... -
The Portable Hannah Arendt by Hannah Arendt
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.43Although Hannah Arendt is considered one of the major contributors to social and political thought in the twentieth century, this is the first general anthology of her writings. This volume includes... -
Border Thinking on the Edges of the West: Crossing Over the Hellespont by Andrew Davison
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £37.99Drawing on scholarly and life experience on, and over, the historically posited borders between "West" and "East," the work identifies, interrogates, and challenges a particular, enduring, violent... -
Thinking Through Fashion: A Guide to Key Theorists Agn�s Rocamora 9781350376519
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £16.70A vital update to the definitive guide to fashion and cultural theory, featuring four new chapters and essential revisions throughout in light of key developments in fashion and fashion studies. ... -
Language and History in Adorno's Notes to Literature by Ulrich Plass
RRP: £57.99Booksplease Price: £52.08Plass argues that Adorno's essays on literature are of prime importance for an understanding of his aesthetics because they challenge the conceptual limitations of philosophical discourse.Selected... -
Self-Portrait by Man Ray
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51In this remarkable autobiography, Man Ray - painter, photographer, sculptor, film maker and writer - relates the story of his life, from his childhood determination to be an artist and his technical... -
Protestant Ethic and Other Writings by Max Weber
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51In The Protestant Ethic, Max Weber opposes the Marxist concept of dialectical materialism and relates the rise of the capitalist economy to the Calvinist belief in the moral value of hard work and... -
Going Down for Air: A Memoir in Search of a Subject Derek Sayer 9781594510410
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £47.34What is hidden in the taste of a madeleine - or in snatches of Bob Dylan songs, operatic arias, and the remembered sting of a rattan cane? An exploration of memory, Going Down for Air artfully...