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Physiognomy of Capital in Charles Dickens: An Essay in Dialectical Criticism by Hye-Joon Yoon 9781573092180
Booksplease Price: £71.54A materialist approach to the fictions of Charles Dickens based on a reading-in of the historical background, creative application of Walter Benjamin's methodology, as well as a re-reading the... -
Fascist Visions: Art and Ideology in France and Italy by Matthew Affron 9780691027371
RRP: £62.00Booksplease Price: £49.59Bringing together studies by art historians, historians, and political scientists, Fascist Visions explores the themes and paradigms that pervaded protofascist and fascist aesthetic discourse,... -
The First Pop Age: Painting and Subjectivity in the Art of Hamilton, Lichtenstein, Warhol, Richter, and Ruscha by Hal Foster 9780691160986
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £24.51Who branded painting in the Pop age more brazenly than Richard Hamilton, Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Gerhard Richter, and Ed Ruscha? And who probed the Pop revolution in image and identity more... -
Shell Shock Cinema: Weimar Culture and the Wounds of War by Anton Kaes
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £26.54Shell Shock Cinema explores how the classical German cinema of the Weimar Republic was haunted by the horrors of World War I and the the devastating effects of the nation's defeat. In this exciting... -
Hymns and Fragments by Friedrich Holderlin
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.21The description for this book, Hymns and Fragments, will be forthcoming.About the AuthorRichard Sieburth teaches French and comparative literature at New York University.ReviewsRichard Sieburth,... -
Clausewitz and the State: The Man, His Theories, and His Times Peter Paret 9780691131306
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £31.60Originally published in 1976, Clausewitz and the State presents a comprehensive analysis of one of the significant thinkers of modern Europe. Peter Paret combines social and military history and... -
Brutal Aesthetics: Dubuffet, Bataille, Jorn, Paolozzi, Oldenburg by Hal Foster
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £35.15How artists created an aesthetic of "positive barbarism" in a world devastated by World War II, the Holocaust, and the atomic bombIn Brutal Aesthetics, leading art historian Hal Foster explores how... -
Regarding Lost Time: Photography, Identity and Affect in Proust, Benjamin, and Barthes by Katja Haustein
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £41.80This book addresses how does autobiography transform in the age of technological reproducibility, as it relates to photography and the role of emotion in Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time,... -
Benjamin on Fashion by Philipp Ekardt 9781350262324
Booksplease Price: £36.04Benjamin on Fashion reconstructs and redefines Walter Benjamin's complex, fragmentary and yet influential fashion theory that he developed in the Arcades Project (1927-1940) and beyond, while... -
Riding with Death: Vodou Art and Urban Ecology in the Streets of Port-au-Prince by Jana Evans Braziel 9781496818522
Booksplease Price: £29.37On the southern end of the Grand Rue, a major thoroughfare that runs through the center of Port-au-Prince, waits the Haitian capital's automobile repair district. This veritable junkyard of steel and... -
Bergson and the Metaphysics of Media by S. Crocker 9781137324498
Booksplease Price: £46.74What is a medium? Why is there always a middle? Can media produce 'immediacy'? Henri Bergson recognized mediation as the central philosophical problem of modernity. This book traces his influence on... -
Correspondence 1930-1940 Gretel Adorno 9780745636696
Booksplease Price: £61.35'We must see to it that we put the best of ourselves in our letters; for there is nothing to suggest that we shall see each other again soon.' So wrote Walter Benjamin to Gretel Adorno in spring 1940... -
Epistemontology in Spinoza-Marx-Freud-Lacan: The (Bio)Power of Structure A. Kiarina Kordela 9780367372088
RRP: £50.99Booksplease Price: £46.08A. Kiarina Kordela steps beyond extant commentaries on Marx's theory of commodity fetishism-from A. Sohn-Rethel to L. Althusser, E. Balibar, Slavoj Zizek, and others-to show that in capitalism value... -
Benjamin on Fashion by Philipp Ekardt 9781350075993
Booksplease Price: £116.38Benjamin on Fashion reconstructs and redefines Walter Benjamin's complex, fragmentary and yet influential fashion theory that he developed in the Arcades Project (1927-1940) and beyond, while... -
American Archives: Gender, Race, and Class in Visual Culture by Shawn Michelle Smith 9780691004785
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £39.05Visual texts uniquely demonstrate the contested terms of American identity. In American Archives Shawn Michelle Smith offers a bold and disturbing account of how photography and the sciences of... -
Archiving Sovereignty: Law, History, Violence by Stewart Motha 9780472053865
RRP: £20.95Booksplease Price: £20.78Archiving Sovereignty shows how courts use fiction in their treatment of sovereign violence. Law's complicity with imperial and neocolonial practices occurs when courts inscribe and repeat the... -
Bergson and the Metaphysics of Media by S. Crocker 9781349458967
Booksplease Price: £46.28What is a medium? Why is there always a middle? Can media produce 'immediacy'? Henri Bergson recognized mediation as the central philosophical problem of modernity. This book traces his influence on... -
Style and Time: Essays on the Politics of Appearance by Andrew Benjamin
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £21.14Interruption is often read as the foundational gesture of modernity - the means through which modernity asserts its existence by claiming its discontinuity with the past. Exposing the limitations of... -
The Continental Aesthetics Reader by Clive Cazeaux
RRP: £62.99Booksplease Price: £57.17The Continental Aesthetics Reader brings together classic and contemporary writings on art and aesthetics from the major figures in continental thought. The second edition is clearly divided into... -
Critical Theory and the Novel: Mass Society and Cultural Criticism in Dickens, Melville and Kafka by 9780299140847
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.56Using the methods of Frankfurt School theorists, Walter Benjamin and Theodor Adorno, Suchoff offers new readings of Dickens, Melville and Kafka that underscore the political and social critiques... -
Landscape as Urbanism: A General Theory by Charles Waldheim
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £23.69A definitive intellectual history of landscape urbanismIt has become conventional to think of urbanism and landscape as opposing one another-or to think of landscape as merely providing temporary... -
Plaster Monuments: Architecture and the Power of Reproduction by Mari Lending 9780691177144
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £41.23We are taught to believe in originals. In art and architecture in particular, original objects vouch for authenticity, value, and truth, and require our protection and preservation. The nineteenth... -
Archiving Sovereignty: Law, History, Violence by Stewart Motha 9780472073863
Booksplease Price: £76.52Archiving Sovereignty shows how courts use fiction in their treatment of sovereign violence. Law's complicity with imperial and neocolonial practices occurs when courts inscribe and repeat the... -
Camera Geologica: An Elemental History of Photography by Siobhan Angus 9781478025931
RRP: £86.00Booksplease Price: £69.25In Camera Geologica Siobhan Angus tells the history of photography through the minerals upon which the medium depends. Challenging the emphasis on immateriality in discourses on photography, Angus... -
Benjamin's Ghosts: Interventions in Contemporary Literary and Cultural Theory by Gerhard Richter 9780804741262
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.61This book explores the implications for today's critical concerns of the work of Walter Benjamin (1892-1940). Although his writings are considered to be among the most powerful and suggestive... -
The Messianic Disruption of Trinitarian Theology by Kornel Zathureczky 9780739131503
Booksplease Price: £95.49The unsettling context of late modernity, a terrain of an infinite fragmentation of life, poses a challenge to Christianity to rearticulate its defining doctrine of the Trinity. Christianity's... -
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... -
The Complete Correspondence 1928 - 1940 Theodor W. Adorno (Frankfurt School) 9780745632148
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £19.04The surviving correspondence between Walter Benjamin and Theodor W. Adorno. This is the first time all of the surviving correspondence between Adorno and Benjamin has appeared in English. Provides... -
Place Matters: Critical Topographies in Word and Image by Jonathan Bordo 9780228013914
RRP: £44.00Booksplease Price: £34.85A place comes into existence through the depth of relationships that underwrite a physical location with layers of sedimented names. In Place Matters scholars and artists conduct varied forms of... -
Place Matters: Critical Topographies in Word and Image by Jonathan Bordo 9780228013907
RRP: £120.00Booksplease Price: £96.15A place comes into existence through the depth of relationships that underwrite a physical location with layers of sedimented names. In Place Matters scholars and artists conduct varied forms of... -
Futura-isms by Futura
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.42A collection of fascinating quotations from the legendary artist and graffiti pioneerFutura is a living legend-a world-renowned painter, designer, and photographer who was a pioneer of graffiti art... -
Habits of Distraction by Michael Wood 9781845192501
RRP: £27.95Booksplease Price: £26.96Starting with Walter Benjamin's idea of 'reception in a state of distraction' and looking briefly at some antecedents for Benjamin's thinking, this book develops a working model of distraction in... -
Habits of Distraction by Michael Wood 9781845192495
Booksplease Price: £109.14Starting with Walter Benjamin's idea of 'reception in a state of distraction' and looking briefly at some antecedents for Benjamin's thinking, this book develops a working model of distraction in... -
The Gendering of Melancholia: Feminism, Psychoanalysis, and the Symbolics of Loss in Renaissance Literature by Juliana Schiesari 9780801499715
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £24.76The pantheon of renowned melancholics-from Shakespeare's Hamlet to Walter Benjamin-includes no women, an absence that in Juliana Schiesari's view points less to a dearth of unhappy women in... -
Paths of Emancipation: Jews, States, and Citizenship by Pierre Birnbaum 9780691607825
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £44.30Throughout the nineteenth century, legal barriers to Jewish citizenship were lifted in Europe, enabling organized Jewish communities and individuals to alter radically their relationships with the... -
Marxist Literary Theory: A Reader Terry Eagleton (University of Manchester) 9780631185819
RRP: £45.95Booksplease Price: £43.36Marxist Literary Theory: A Reader is designed to give both students and lecturers a sense of the historical formation of a Marxist literary tradition. A unique compilation of principal texts in that... -
The Devil and Commodity Fetishism in South America by Michael T. Taussig 9780807871331
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.61In this classic book, Michael Taussig explores the social significance of the devil in the folklore of contemporary plantation workers and miners in South America. Grounding his analysis in Marxist... -
Is History Fiction? by Ann Curthoys 9781742231716
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £18.01An original and insightful examination of the ways in which history is - and might be - written. It traces history's divided nature, beginning with its founding figures, Herodotus and Thucydides,... -
Benjamin's -abilities by Samuel Weber 9780674046061
Booksplease Price: £28.81"There is no world of thought that is not a world of language," Walter Benjamin remarked, "and one only sees in the world what is preconditioned by language." In this book, Samuel Weber, a leading... -
The Criminal Spectre in Law, Literature and Aesthetics: Incriminating Subjects by Peter J. Hutchings
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £43.94This book analyses the legal and aesthetic discourses that combine to shape the image of the criminal, and that image's contemporary endurance. The author traces the roots of contemporary ideas about...