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The Book Against Death by Elias Canetti 9780811237994
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $15.67The 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... -
On Literature by Hillis Miller 9780415261258
RRP: $33.53Booksplease Price: $31.81Debates rage over what kind of literature we should read, what is good and bad literature, and whether in the global, digital age, literature even has a future. But what exactly is literature? Why... -
Henri Matisse: A Second Life by Alastair Sooke
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.60Henri 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... -
Media Transatlantic: Developments in Media and Communication Studies between North American and German-speaking Europe by Norm Friesen 9783319803623
Booksplease Price: $116.82This 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 Architecture of Phantasmagoria: Specters of the City Libero Andreotti (Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA) 9781138601512
RRP: $63.20Booksplease Price: $56.68In 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: $103.20Booksplease Price: $99.72In "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... -
Art and Postcapitalism: Aesthetic Labour, Automation and Value Production Dave Beech 9780745339245
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $27.14Artistic 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: $64.49Booksplease Price: $58.35This 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: $68.37Booksplease Price: $55.51David 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: $32.24Booksplease Price: $25.59Known 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... -
The Essential Ilan Stavans Ilan Stavans 9780415927543
RRP: $54.17Booksplease Price: $49.88Here, Ilan Stavans, one of the foremost Latino scholars, collects his best essays into one volume. As a Mexican Jew whose native languages are Yiddish and Spanish, Stavans writes in English to limn... -
The Trouble With Being Born by E. M. Cioran
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $8.51'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: $58.04Booksplease Price: $52.30In 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: $41.27Booksplease Price: $38.45Indispensable 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: $148.35Booksplease Price: $130.20Indispensable 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: $93.29A 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 Sociology of Risk and Gambling Reader James Cosgrave 9780415952224
RRP: $85.13Booksplease Price: $76.42This 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: $34.83Booksplease Price: $29.57The 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... -
Judaism and Modernity by Gillian Rose
Booksplease Price: $28.32Judaism 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: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.20Born 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: $52.88Booksplease Price: $48.40Postmodernism 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 Myth of Disenchantment: Magic, Modernity, and the Birth of the Human Sciences by Jason ?. Josephson-Storm
RRP: $36.12Booksplease Price: $33.23A 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: $64.49Booksplease Price: $58.35Continental 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: $49.02Booksplease Price: $44.80In 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... -
Fredric Jameson: The Project of Dialectical Criticism by Robert T. Tally
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $30.04Fredric 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: $110.49Artistic 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... -
Environmental Humanities and the Uncanny: Ecoculture, Literature and Religion Rod Giblett 9780367730260
RRP: $58.04Booksplease Price: $52.81Sigmund 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: $51.59Booksplease Price: $47.29In 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: $64.50Booksplease Price: $57.44A 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... -
The Portable Hannah Arendt by Hannah Arendt
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.03Although 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: $54.17Booksplease Price: $49.01Drawing 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: $25.79Booksplease Price: $21.54A 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. ... -
Time of the Magicians: The Great Decade of Philosophy, 1919-1929 by Wolfram Eilenberger
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $13.56AN ECONOMIST, GUARDIAN AND NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR A gripping narrative of the intertwined lives of the four philosophers whose ideas reshaped the twentieth centuryThe year is 1919. Walter... -
Remaking Reality: Nature at the Millenium by Bruce Braun 9780415144940
RRP: $76.10Booksplease Price: $68.29This book rejects apocalyptic pronouncements that the end of the millenium represents the 'end' of nature as well. Remaking Reality brings together contributors from across the human sciences who... -
The Visionaries: Arendt, Beauvoir, Rand, Weil and the Salvation of Philosophy Wolfram Eilenberger 9780141998473
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91'The question Eilenberger sets out to answer in this ambitious, enthralling book: what use is philosophy in the middle of a war?' The Sunday TimesThe year is 1933. Hannah Arendt escapes Berlin,... -
Decay and Afterlife: Form, Time, and the Textuality of Ruins, 1100 to 1900 by Professor Aleksandra Prica 9780226811314
RRP: $129.00Booksplease Price: $125.00Covering 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... -
Female Impersonation Carol-Anne Tyler 9780415916882
RRP: $52.88Booksplease Price: $48.40A 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: $30.95Booksplease Price: $29.61Giorgio 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... -
Language and History in Adorno's Notes to Literature by Ulrich Plass
RRP: $74.81Booksplease Price: $67.18Plass 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: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.56In 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...