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Culture/Power/History: A Reader in Contemporary Social Theory by Nicholas B. Dirks
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £42.26The intellectual radicalism of the 1960s spawned a new set of questions about the role and nature of "the political" in social life, questions that have since revolutionized nearly every field of... -
The Pathologies of Individual Freedom: Hegel's Social Theory by Axel Honneth
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £17.05This is a penetrating reinterpretation and defense of Hegel's social theory as an alternative to reigning liberal notions of social justice. The eminent German philosopher Axel Honneth rereads... -
Walter Kaufmann: Philosopher, Humanist, Heretic by Stanley Corngold 9780691211534
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £22.20The first complete account of the ideas and writings of a major figure in twentieth-century intellectual lifeWalter Kaufmann (1921-1980) was a charismatic philosopher, critic, translator, and poet... -
Discovering the Comic by George McFadden 9780691614663
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £34.35Arguing that the comic is a quality of literary works of art in other forms as well as comedy, George McFadden finds its essence in the maintenance of some literary feature--a situation, a... -
The Aspiring Adept: Robert Boyle and His Alchemical Quest by Lawrence M. Principe 9780691050829
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £41.96The Aspiring Adept presents a provocative new view of Robert Boyle (1627-1691), one of the leading figures of the Scientific Revolution, by revealing for the first time his avid and lifelong pursuit... -
The Origin of the Jews: The Quest for Roots in a Rootless Age by Steven Weitzman 9780691191652
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.40The scholarly quest to answer the question of Jewish originsThe Jews have one of the longest continuously recorded histories of any people in the world, but what do we actually know about their... -
The Pathologies of Individual Freedom: Hegel's Social Theory by Axel Honneth 9780691118062
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £38.93This is a penetrating reinterpretation and defense of Hegel's social theory as an alternative to reigning liberal notions of social justice. The eminent German philosopher Axel Honneth rereads... -
The Writer Writing: Philosophic Acts in Literature by Francis-Noel Thomas 9780691609195
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £26.73In an age of authorless, contextless, deconstructed texts, Francis-Noel Thomas argues that it is time to re-examine a fundamental but neglected concept of literature: writing is an action whose agent... -
Five Frames for the Decameron: Communication and Social Systems in the CORNICE by Joy Hambuechen Potter 9780691614250
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £31.30Using a fourfold approach derived from symbolic anthropology, sociology, semiotics, and philology, Joy Hambuechen Potter focuses on the cornice, or frame tale, of the Decameron, its purpose, and its... -
Cuba and the Tempest: Literature and Cinema in the Time of Diaspora by Eduardo Gonzalez 9780807856833
Booksplease Price: £40.12In a unique analysis of Cuban literature inside and outside the country's borders, Eduardo Gonzalez looks closely at the work of three important contemporary Cuban authors: Guillermo Cabrera Infante... -
Selected Writings, Volume 2: Curating the Postcolonial Condition Okwui Enwezor 9781478028345
RRP: £116.00Booksplease Price: £93.32Okwui Enwezor is widely regarded as a leader among the brilliant curators who emerged in the 1990s to set agendas for understanding the global expansiveness of contemporary art. Among his pathfinding... -
Emergency Politics: Paradox, Law, Democracy by Bonnie Honig
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.21This book intervenes in contemporary debates about the threat posed to democratic life by political emergencies. Must emergency necessarily enhance and centralize top-down forms of sovereignty? Those... -
The Figure of Dante: An Essay on The Vita Nuova by Jerome Mazzaro
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £28.78Jerome Mazzaro examines Dante's Vita Nuova as an artistic correlative to what Dante conceived as an image of himself. Specifically, he explores the structure of the work in relation to medieval views... -
Against Deconstruction by John M. Ellis 9780691014845
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £36.56"The focus of any genuinely new piece of criticism or interpretation must be on the creative act of finding the new, but deconstruction puts the matter the other way around: its emphasis is on... -
Blindness and Autobiography: Al-Ayyam of Taha Husayn by Fedwa Malti-Douglas 9780691609324
Booksplease Price: £30.30The three-volume life-story of the Egyptian intellectual Tahah Husayn (1889-1973) is a landmark in modern autobiography, in Arabic letters, and in the literature of blindness. This justly celebrated... -
The Philosopher: A History in Six Types by Justin E. H. Smith 9780691163277
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.02What would the global history of philosophy look like if it were told not as a story of ideas but as a series of job descriptions--ones that might have been used to fill the position of philosopher... -
The Skeptic Disposition In Contemporary Criticism by Eugene Goodheart 9780691611907
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £28.76Eugene Goodheart's remarkably compact and penetrating analysis examines the skeptic disposition that has informed advanced literary discourse over the past generation. Originally published in 1985. ... -
New Times in Modern Japan by Stefan Tanaka
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £32.82New Times in Modern Japan concerns the transformation of time--the reckoning of time--during Japan's Meiji period, specifically from around 1870 to 1900. Time literally changed as the archipelago... -
Local Histories/Global Designs: Coloniality, Subaltern Knowledges, and Border Thinking by Walter D. Mignolo
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £27.03Local Histories/Global Designs is an extended argument about the "coloniality" of power by one of the most innovative Latin American and Latino scholars. In a shrinking world where sharp dichotomies,... -
Enlightenment, Romanticism, and the Blind in France by William R. Paulson 9780691609546
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £39.35Paulson examines literary, philosophical, and pedagogical writing on blindness in France from the Enlightenment, when philosophical speculation and surgical cures for cataracts demystified the... -
Plato's Fable: On the Mortal Condition in Shadowy Times by Joshua Mitchell 9780691124384
RRP: £62.00Booksplease Price: £49.59This book is an exploration of Plato's Republic that bypasses arcane scholarly debates. Plato's Fable provides refreshing insight into what, in Plato's view, is the central problem of life: the... -
The Philosopher: A History in Six Types by Justin E. H. Smith 9780691178462
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.28What would the global history of philosophy look like if it were told not as a story of ideas but as a series of job descriptions--ones that might have been used to fill the position of philosopher... -
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... -
Reclaiming Truth: Contribution to a Critique of Cultural Relativism by Christopher Norris
Booksplease Price: £17.19We live in a world where questions of truth and of falsehood are left increasingly unattended. Such questions are often replaced by a relativism which allows any group the right to assert their... -
The Wolf Man's Magic Word: A Cryptonymy by Nicolas Abraham
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.68The Wolf Man's Magic Word reopens the examination of the "Wolf Man," a Russian emigre who was Freud's patient and who wrote his own memoirs. Nicolas Abraham and Maria Torok's work is at once the... -
Deconstructing Derrida: Tasks for the New Humanities by Dr. Michael Peters 9780312296117
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £33.05Responding to Jacques Derrida's vision for what a 'new' humanities should strive toward, Peter Trifonas and Michael Peters gather together in a single volume original essays by major scholars in the... -
Academic Instincts by Marjorie Garber
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £31.30In this lively and provocative book, cultural critic Marjorie Garber, who has written on topics as different as Shakespeare, dogs, cross-dressing, and real estate, explores the pleasures and pitfalls... -
Contemporary Social Theory: An Introduction Anthony Elliott 9781032132624
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £36.28Now in its third edition, Anthony Elliott's comprehensive, stylish and accessible introduction continues to be the indispensable guide to social theory. Fully revised and updated, the book examines... -
Hegel's Social Ethics: Religion, Conflict, and Rituals of Reconciliation by Molly Farneth
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £21.91Hegel's Social Ethics offers a fresh and accessible interpretation of G. W. F. Hegel's most famous book, the Phenomenology of Spirit. Drawing on important recent work on the social dimensions of... -
The Translation Studies Reader by Lawrence Venuti 9780367235970
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £44.79The Translation Studies Reader provides a definitive survey of the most important and influential developments in translation theory and research, with an emphasis on the twentieth and twenty-first... -
Nietzsche, Godfather of Fascism?: On the Uses and Abuses of a Philosophy by Jacob Golomb 9780691007106
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £37.30Nietzsche, the Godfather of Fascism? What can Nietzsche have in common with this murderous ideology? Frequently described as the "radical aristocrat" of the spirit, Nietzsche abhorred mass culture... -
Dreams of Happiness: Social Art and the French Left, 1830-1850 by Neil McWilliam 9780691601502
RRP: £58.00Booksplease Price: £46.54Responding to the decline of the monarchy and the church in post-revolutionary France, theorists representing a wide spectrum of leftist ideologies proposed comprehensive blueprints for society that... -
The Invention of Deconstruction by M. Currie 9781349455379
Booksplease Price: £46.74Why did deconstruction emerge when it did? Why did commentators in literary studies seem to need to look back on it from the earliest moments of its emergence? This book argues that the invention of... -
Rising Star: Dandyism, Gender, and Performance in the Fin de Siecle by Rhonda K. Garelick
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £32.82Celebrity personalities, who reign over much of our cultural landscape, owe their fame not to specific deeds but to the ability to project a distinct personal image, to create an icon of the self... -
Rousseau's Republican Romance by Elizabeth Rose Wingrove
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £41.96In Rousseau's Republican Romance, Elizabeth Wingrove combines political theory and narrative analysis to argue that Rousseau's stories of sex and sexuality offer important insights into the paradoxes... -
Twelve Views of Manet's Bar by Bradford R. Collins
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £37.97Bradford Collins has assembled here a collection of twelve essays that demonstrates, through the interpretation of a single work of art, the abundance and complexity of methodological approaches now... -
Extravagant Narratives: Closure and Dynamics in the Epistolary Form by Elizabeth Jane MacArthur 9780691605029
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £36.63Challenging the view of epistolary narrative as a faulty precursor to the nineteenth-century realist novel, Elizabeth MacArthur argues that the openness and flexibility that characterize... -
Interpreting Modern Philosophy by James Daniel Collins 9780691619927
RRP: £70.00Booksplease Price: £55.98James Collins probes the meaning and methods of historical interpretation in philosophy by analyzing the creative reciprocity between the modern source thinkers--the great classical philosophers from... -
The Origin of the Jews: The Quest for Roots in a Rootless Age by Steven Weitzman 9780691174600
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.32The first major history of the scholarly quest to answer the question of Jewish origins The Jews have one of the longest continuously recorded histories of any people in the world, but what do we... -
The Letter of Violence: Essays on Narrative, Ethics, and Politics by Idelber Avelar 9781403967411
Booksplease Price: £46.74This book traces the theory of violence from nineteenth-century symmetrical warfare through today's warfare of electronics and unbalanced numbers. Surveying such luminaries as Walter Benjamin, Frantz...