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Architecture and Sacrament: A Critical Theory by David Wang
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £36.66David Wang's Architecture and Sacrament considers architectural theory from a Christian theological perspective, specifically, the analogy of being (analogia entis). The book tracks social and... -
Words Made Flesh: Formations of the Postsecular in British Romanticism by Sean Dempsey 9780813948119
Booksplease Price: £110.15Religion is not merely a different way of thinking but is rather an alternative manner of being-it is both a way of attending to the world and a form of embodiment. Literature provides another key to... -
The Tonality of Thought Byung-Chul Han 9781509569670
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.89In a lecture given in 2023, Byung-Chul Han likened his thinking to music: like the Goldberg Variations, his books present variations on themes, though in his case the variations are articulated in... -
The Tonality of Thought Byung-Chul Han 9781509569663
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £32.68In a lecture given in 2023, Byung-Chul Han likened his thinking to music: like the Goldberg Variations, his books present variations on themes, though in his case the variations are articulated in... -
Romantic Anti-capitalism and Nature: The Enchanted Garden Robert Sayre 9781032114545
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.37Romantic Anti-capitalism and Nature examines the deep connections between the romantic rebellion against modernity and ecological concern with modern threats to nature. The chapters deal with... -
Avantgarde Art and Radical Material Theology: A Manifesto by Petra Carlsson Redell 9780367553715
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £22.95Theological thought has long been focused on the meaning to be found in our existence, but it has tended to neglect what it might offer to those seeking how to prolong and improve our physical... -
Time, History and Architecture: Essays on Critical Historiography Gevork Hartoonian (University of Canberra, Australia) 9780367501945
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £40.94Time, History and Architecture presents a series of essays on critical historiography, each addressing a different topic, to elucidate the importance of two influential figures Walter Benjamin and... -
Repetition Nineteen by Monica de la Torre 9781643620145
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26At the heart of Repetition Nineteen are twenty-five unreliable translations of a poem in Monica de la Torre's first book, written in Spanish. She embarked on this new genre-defying project after... -
Words Made Flesh: Formations of the Postsecular in British Romanticism by Sean Dempsey 9780813948126
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £23.99Religion is not merely a different way of thinking but is rather an alternative manner of being-it is both a way of attending to the world and a form of embodiment. Literature provides another key to... -
Photography: History and Theory Jae Emerling 9780415778558
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £47.97Photography: History and Theory introduces students to both the history of photography and critical theory.From its inception in the nineteenth century, photography has instigated a series of... -
Tense Times: Rhetoric, Syntax, and Politics in US Crisis Culture by Lee M. Pierce 9780817321673
RRP: £91.00Booksplease Price: £70.50How the syntax used in US political discourse creates the very crises it describes American public culture is obsessed with crisis. Political polarization, economic collapse, moral decline-the worst... -
Tacitus and the Incomplete by Panayiotis Christoforou 9780472133703
Booksplease Price: £83.25Widely regarded as ancient Rome's greatest historian, Tacitus has shaped much of early modern and modern thought on Rome and its emperors. Substantial portions of his major historical works Histories... -
Tense Times: Rhetoric, Syntax, and Politics in US Crisis Culture by Lee M. Pierce 9780817360870
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36How the syntax used in US political discourse creates the very crises it describes American public culture is obsessed with crisis. Political polarization, economic collapse, moral decline-the worst... -
Marxism and Form: 20th-Century Dialectical Theories of Literature by Fredric Jameson
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £31.30For more than thirty years, Fredric Jameson has been one of the most productive, wide-ranging, and distinctive literary theorists in the United States and the Anglophone world. Marxism and Form... -
The Jurisprudence of Emergency: Colonialism and the Rule of Law by Nasser Hussain 9780472037537
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £24.14The Jurisprudence of Emergency examines British rule in India from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century, tracing tensions between the ideology of liberty and government by law used to... -
Solo in the New Order: Language and Hierarchy in an Indonesian City by James T. Siegel
RRP: £58.00Booksplease Price: £46.54In this brilliant ethnography of contemporary Java, James Siegel analyzes how language operates to organize and to order an Indonesian people. Despite the imposition of Suharto's New Order, the... -
Lambent Traces: Franz Kafka by Stanley Corngold 9780691127804
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £34.35On the night of September 22, 1912, Franz Kafka wrote his story "The Judgment," which came out of him "like a regular birth." This act of creation struck him as an unmistakable sign of his literary... -
Platonic Noise by J. Peter Euben 9780691114002
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £32.82Platonic Noise brings classical and contemporary writings into conversation to enrich our experience of modern life and politics. Drawing on writers as diverse as Plato, Homer, Nietzsche, Borges, Don... -
Slapstick Modernism: Chaplin to Kerouac to Iggy Pop by William Solomon
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.68Slapstick comedy landed like a pie in the face of twentieth-century culture. Pratfalls percolated alongside literary modernism throughout the 1920s and 1930s before slapstick found explosive... -
The Art of Taking a Walk: Flanerie, Literature, and Film in Weimar Culture by Anke Gleber
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £41.19Anke Gleber examines one of the most intriguing and characteristic figures of European urban modernity: the observing city stroller, or flaneur. In an age transformed by industrialism, the flaneur... -
Mirages and Mad Beliefs: Proust the Skeptic by Christopher Prendergast 9780691155203
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £35.46Marcel Proust was long the object of a cult in which the main point of reading his great novel In Search of Lost Time was to find, with its narrator, a redemptive epiphany in a pastry and a cup of... -
Siegfried Kracauer: An Introduction by Gertrud Koch
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £32.82Siegfried Kracauer has been misunderstood as a naive realist, appreciated as an astute critic of early German film, and noticed as the interesting exile who exchanged letters with Erwin Panofsky. But... -
Architecture and Modern Literature by David Spurr 9780472051717
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £24.14Architecture and Modern Literature explores the representation and interpretation of architectural space in modern literature from the early nineteenth century to the present, with the aim of showing... -
Hegel, Marx, and the Laughing Matter of Spirit Rachel Aumiller 9780810149687
Booksplease Price: £27.58Excavating the comedic crack in historical repetitions What happens when those who have been denied political subjectivity fully play out their negative role in a historical drama that damned them... -
The Translation Zone: A New Comparative Literature by Emily Apter 9780691049977
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £39.86Translation, before 9/11, was deemed primarily an instrument of international relations, business, education, and culture. Today it seems, more than ever, a matter of war and peace. In The... -
Nabokov and the Real World: Between Appreciation and Defense by Robert M. Alter
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.75From award-winning literary scholar Robert Alter, a masterful exploration of how Nabokov used artifice to evoke the dilemmas, pain, and exaltation of the human conditionAdmirers and detractors of... -
Engineers of Happy Land: Technology and Nationalism in a Colony by Rudolf Mrazek 9780691091624
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £47.80Based on close reading of historical documents--poetry as much as statistics--and focused on the conceptualization of technology, this book is an unconventional evocation of late colonial Netherlands... -
The Funeral Casino: Meditation, Massacre, and Exchange with the Dead in Thailand by Alan Klima 9780691074603
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £38.93The Funeral Casino is a heretical ethnography of the global age. Setting his book within Thailand's pro-democracy movement and the street massacres that accompanied it, Alan Klima offers a strikingly... -
Cultural Capitals: Early Modern London and Paris by Karen Newman 9780691141107
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.02Social theories of modernity focus on the nineteenth century as the period when Western Europe was transformed by urbanization. Cities became thriving metropolitan centers as a result of economic,... -
Facing Fear: The History of an Emotion in Global Perspective by Michael Laffan 9780691153599
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £74.71Fear is ubiquitous but slippery. It has been defined as a purely biological reality, derided as an excuse for cowardice, attacked as a force for social control, and even denigrated as an unnatural... -
Nation, Language, and the Ethics of Translation by Sandra Bermann 9780691116099
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £36.90In recent years, scholarship on translation has moved well beyond the technicalities of converting one language into another and beyond conventional translation theory. With new technologies blurring... -
Facing Fear: The History of an Emotion in Global Perspective by Michael Laffan 9780691153605
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £36.63Fear is ubiquitous but slippery. It has been defined as a purely biological reality, derided as an excuse for cowardice, attacked as a force for social control, and even denigrated as an unnatural... -
The Holocaust: Theoretical Readings by Neil Levi 9780813533537
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £30.04The first anthology to address the relationship between the events of the Nazi genocide and the intellectual concerns of contemporary literary and cultural theory in one substantial and indispensable... -
Hermeneutic Humility and the Political Theology of Cinema: Blind Paul by Sean Desilets
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £41.78This book revisits the tradition of Western religious cinema in light of scholarship on St. Paul's political theology. The book's subtitle derives from the account in the Book of Acts that St. Paul... -
My Own Private Germany: Daniel Paul Schreber's Secret History of Modernity Eric L. Santner 9780691026275
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £32.82In November 1893, Daniel Paul Schreber, recently named presiding judge of the Saxon Supreme Court, was on the verge of a psychotic breakdown and entered a Leipzig psychiatric clinic. He would spend... -
Is Paris Still the Capital of the Nineteenth Century?: Essays on Art and Modernity, 1850-1900 Hollis Clayson 9780367331474
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £42.10"Is Paris Still the Capital of the Nineteenth Century?" The question that guides this volume stems from Walter Benjamin's studies of nineteenth-century Parisian culture as the apex of capitalist... -
Streetwalking on a Ruined Map: Cultural Theory and the City Films of Elvira Notari by Giuliana Bruno
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £39.23Emphasizing the importance of cultural theory for film history, Giuliana Bruno enriches our understanding of early Italian film as she guides us on a series of "inferential walks" through Italian... -
In the Soviet House of Culture: A Century of Perestroikas by Bruce Grant
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £36.63At the outset of the twentieth century, the Nivkhi of Sakhalin Island were a small population of fishermen under Russian dominion and an Asian cultural sway. The turbulence of the decades that... -
Empire for Liberty: Melville and the Poetics of Individualism by Wai-chee Dimock
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £36.63Wai Chee Dimock approaches Herman Melville not as a timeless genius, but as a historical figure caught in the politics of an imperial nation and an "imperial self." She challenges our customary view... -
Thinking in the Dark: Cinema, Theory, Practice by Murray Pomerance 9780813566283
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £27.40Today's film scholars draw from a dizzying range of theoretical perspectives-they're just as likely to cite philosopher Gilles Deleuze as they are to quote classic film theorist Andre Bazin. To...