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Modernism and Its Media by Professor Chris Forster 9781350033153
Booksplease Price: £95.49From cinema and radio broadcasting to the growth of new communication technologies, Modernism and Its Media is the first critical guide to key issues and debates on the changing media contexts of... -
Nymphs Giorgio Agamben 9781803094434
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.86Agamben is the rare writer whose ideas and works have a broad appeal across many fields, and Nymphs will engage not only the author's devoted fans in philosophy, legal theory, sociology, and literary... -
The Early Frankfurt School and Religion by Margarete Kohlenbach 9781349517985
Booksplease Price: £46.28Are religions tissues of superstition and repression, or repositories of the highest hopes and aspirations of humanity, or perhaps both at the same time? For many of those thinkers who lived through... -
Philosophical Urbanism: Lineages in Mind-Environment Patterns by Abraham Akkerman 9783030290849
Booksplease Price: £65.96This book expands on the thought of Walter Benjamin by exploring the notion of modern mind, pointing to the mutual and ongoing feedback between mind and city-form. Since the Neolithic Age, volumes... -
The Dialectics of Music: Adorno, Benjamin, and Deleuze by Joseph Weiss 9781350244078
Booksplease Price: £31.86Combining the philosophy and musicology of T.W. Adorno, Walter Benjamin, and Gilles Deleuze, alongside an exploration of the dialectical character of music production, Joseph Weiss exposes the... -
Towards the Critique of Violence by Brendan Moran 9781474241892
Booksplease Price: £40.38In the past two and a half decades, Walter Benjamin's early essay 'Towards the Critique of Violence' (1921) has taken a central place in politico-philosophic debates. The complexity and perhaps even... -
Correspondence, 1939 - 1969 Theodor W. Adorno (Frankfurt School) 9781509510450
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £17.33At first glance, Theodor W. Adorno's critical social theory and Gershom Scholem's scholarship of Jewish mysticism could not seem farther removed from one another. To begin with, they also harbored a... -
Philosophy in Cultural Theory by Peter Osborne 9780415238021
RRP: £51.99Booksplease Price: £46.94Philosophy in Cultural Theory boldly crosses disciplinary boundaries to offer a philosophical critique of cultural theory today. Drawing on the legacy of Walter Benjamin, Peter Osborne looks... -
Love and Russian Literature: From Benjamin to Woolf by Ira B. Nadel 9781350115019
Booksplease Price: £98.79Russia haunted the British cultural imagination throughout the 20th century – whether as a romantic source of literary and political inspiration or as a warning of creeping totalitarianism. In this... -
Hoelderlin & the Poetry of Tragedy: Readings in Sophocles, Shakespeare, Nietzsche & Benjamin by Professor Jeremy Tambling 9781845197094
RRP: £37.50Booksplease Price: £35.12Hoelderlin (1770-1843) is the magnificent writer whom Nietzsche called 'my favourite poet'. His writings and poetry have been formative throughout the twentieth century, and as influential as those... -
Aesthetics: A Reader in Philosophy of the Arts David Goldblatt 9781138235885
RRP: £125.00Booksplease Price: £111.20Aesthetics: A Reader in Philosophy of the Arts, fourth edition, contains a selection of ninety-six readings organized by individual art forms as well as a final section of readings in philosophical... -
Paperwork: Fiction and Mass Mediacy in the Paper Age by Kevin McLaughlin 9780812238884
Booksplease Price: £60.36"The Paper Age" is the phrase coined by Thomas Carlyle in 1837 to describe the monetary and literary inflation of the French Revolution-an age of mass-produced "Bank-paper" and "Book-paper."... -
Philosophy and Melancholy: Benjamin's Early Reflections on Theater and Language by Ilit Ferber 9780804785198
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £71.14This book traces the concept of melancholy in Walter Benjamin's early writings. Rather than focusing on the overtly melancholic subject matter of Benjamin's work or the unhappy circumstances of his... -
Shock and Naturalization in Contemporary Japanese Literature by Carl Cassegard 9781905246298
Booksplease Price: £115.70This study introduces the concepts of naturalization and naturalized modernity, and uses them as tools for understanding the way modernity has been experienced and portrayed in Japanese literature... -
Watching Babylon: The War in Iraq and Global Visual Culture by Nicholas Mirzoeff
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £36.66Groundbreaking and compelling, Watching Babylon examines the experience of watching the war against Iraq on television, on the internet, in the cinema and in print media. Mirzoeff shows how the... -
The Great Dismissal: Memoir of the Cultural Demolition Derby, 2015-22 by Henry Sussman
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £20.33Veteran scholar and critic Henry Sussman deploys anecdote, reportage, and memoir to lament and scrutinize the rise of anti-intellectualism in the past few decades. How are we to reckon with the... -
Ideology and Inscription: 'Cultural Studies' after Benjamin, De Man, and Bakhtin by Tom Cohen 9780521590488
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £86.14In Ideology and Inscription Tom Cohen questions the way history, ideology and politics are invoked in contemporary cultural studies. Enlisting the work of three seminal figures in literary theory -... -
Religion as a philosophical matter: Concerns about truth, name, and habitation by Lars Albinus 9783110468656
Booksplease Price: £99.73The book works out new perspectives for a philosophy of religion that aims beyond the internal questions of rationality within a theological tradition, on the one hand, and the outer criticism of... -
Sensitive Subjects: The Political Aesthetics of Contemporary German and Austrian Cinema Leila Mukhida 9781789206302
RRP: £104.00Booksplease Price: £89.99Both politically and aesthetically, the contemporary German and Austrian film landscape is a far cry from the early days of the medium, when critics like Siegfried Kracauer produced foundational... -
Literature and Culture in Northern Ireland Since 1965: Moments of Danger Richard Kirkland 9780582238848
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £52.47This study considers writing within the cultural context of Northern Ireland and discusses how writing creates a sense of community, and the different forms this takes when written from loyalist or... -
The Great Dismissal: Memoir of the Cultural Demolition Derby, 2015-22 by Henry Sussman 9781501392290
Booksplease Price: £66.59Veteran scholar and critic Henry Sussman deploys anecdote, reportage, and memoir to lament and scrutinize the rise of anti-intellectualism in the past few decades. How are we to reckon with the... -
Ruins in the Literary and Cultural Imagination by Efterpi Mitsi 9783030269074
RRP: £99.99Booksplease Price: £99.82This book focuses on literal and metaphorical ruins, as they are appropriated and imagined in different forms of writing. Examining British and American literature and culture in the nineteenth and... -
Appropriating Theory: Angel Rama's Critical Work by Jose Eduardo Gonzalez
RRP: £44.95Booksplease Price: £42.05Angel Rama (1926-1983) is a major figure in Latin American literary and cultural studies, but little has been published on his critical work. In this study, Jose Eduardo Gonzalez focuses on Rama's... -
Art and the Form of Life by Roy Brand 9783030547714
Booksplease Price: £56.12Art and the Form of Life takes a classic theme-philosophy as the art of living-and gives it a contemporary twist. The book examines a series of watershed moments in artistic practice alongside... -
Translation and the Nature of Philosophy: A New Theory of Words by Andrew Benjamin
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £37.99This engrossing study, first published in 1989, explores the basic mutuality between philosophy and translation. By studying the conceptions of translation in Plato, Seneca, Davidson, Walter Benjamin... -
Reading as Belief: Language Writing, Poetics, Faith by Joel Bettridge 9780230619425
Booksplease Price: £46.74Reading as Belief advances the provocative idea that the disruptive techniques of recent innovative poetry require readers to become believers, occupying the same philosophical ground as the... -
Philosophy and Melancholy: Benjamin's Early Reflections on Theater and Language by Ilit Ferber
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.24This book traces the concept of melancholy in Walter Benjamin's early writings. Rather than focusing on the overtly melancholic subject matter of Benjamin's work or the unhappy circumstances of his... -
The Moment of Rupture: Historical Consciousness in Interwar German Thought by Humberto Beck 9780812251593
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £42.60An instant is the shortest span in which time can be divided and experienced. In an instant, there is no duration: it is an interruption that happens in the blink of an eye. For the ancient Greeks,... -
Hoelderlin & the Poetry of Tragedy: Readings in Sophocles, Shakespeare, Nietzsche & Benjamin by Professor Jeremy Tambling 9781845195878
Booksplease Price: £109.44Hoelderlin (1770-1843) is the magnificent writer whom Nietzsche called 'my favourite poet'. His writings and poetry have been formative throughout the twentieth century, and as influential as those... -
Fragments, Futures, Absence and the Past: A New Approach to Photography Silke Helmerdig 9783837636246
RRP: £38.99Booksplease Price: £26.00According to Walter Benjamin, the past that is not recognized by the present threatens to disappear irretrievably. As a consequence, photographs cannot save the moment from oblivion by pure depiction... -
Current of Music by Theodor W. Adorno
Booksplease Price: £27.20Fleeing the Nazis, Theodor W. Adorno lived in New York City as a refugee from 1938 until 1941. During these years, he was intensively involved in a study of how the recently developed techniques for... -
Freedom from the Free Will: On Kafka's Laughter by Dimitris Vardoulakis
RRP: £72.50Booksplease Price: £59.58Brings Kafka's fiction into conversation with philosophy and political theory.Many of Kafka's narratives place their heroes in situations of confinement. Gregor Samsa is locked in his room in the... -
Idylls of the Wanderer: Outside in Literature and Theory by Henry Sussman 9780823227693
RRP: £68.00Booksplease Price: £60.43This book is an extended inquiry into the dimension of exteriority constructed by philosophical systems and literary works. Literature has, since its inception, depended on a rogue's gallery of... -
Idylls of the Wanderer: Outside in Literature and Theory by Henry Sussman 9780823227709
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £25.54This book is an extended inquiry into the dimension of exteriority constructed by philosophical systems and literary works. Literature has, since its inception, depended on a rogue's gallery of... -
Current of Music by Theodor W. Adorno 9780745642857
RRP: £65.00Booksplease Price: £57.85Fleeing the Nazis, Theodor W. Adorno lived in New York City as a refugee from 1938 until 1941. During these years, he was intensively involved in a study of how the recently developed techniques for... -
Conrad'S Marlow: Narrative and Death in 'Youth', Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim and Chance by Paul Wake 9781784992477
Booksplease Price: £23.54Variously described as 'the average pilgrim', a 'wanderer', and 'a Buddha preaching in European clothes', Charlie Marlow is the voice behind Joseph Conrad's Youth (1898), Heart of Darkness (1899),... -
Key Thinkers for the Information Society: Volume One by Christopher May
RRP: £51.99Booksplease Price: £46.94Key Thinkers for the Information Society provides an introduction to some important social theorists whose work has considerable relevance to today's 'brave new world' of information and... -
Postsecular Benjamin: Agency and Tradition by Brian Britt
Booksplease Price: £36.05In readings of Walter Benjamin's work, religion often marks a boundary between scholarly camps, but it rarely receives close and sustained scrutiny. Benjamin's most influential writings pertain to... -
Space as Storyteller: Spatial Jumps in Architecture, Critical Theory, and Literature by Laura Chiesa
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £25.04Walter Benjamin's Arcades Project suggests that space can become a storyteller: if so, plenty of fleeting stories can be read in the space of modernity, where repetition and the unexpected... -
Crisis and Critique: A Brief History of Media Participation in Times of Crisis by Anne Kaun 9781783607372
Booksplease Price: £90.57Throughout history, innovations in media have had a profound impact on protest and dissent. But while these recent developments in social media have been the subject of intense scholarly attention,...