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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,... -
The Truth in Photography by Michael Naas 9780748642526
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £21.23From the very invention of photography in the early part of the nineteenth century right up through the most recent developments in photography through digital technology, theorists have never... -
Critical Theory and Frankfurt Theorists: Lectures-Correspondence-Conversations Leo Lowenthal 9781412857024
RRP: £51.99Booksplease Price: £46.49The core of this volume is its presentation of Lowenthal's sixty-year-long intellectual career as a critical theorist and sociologist. The book includes some of his speeches on Theodor Adorno and... -
Old Stories Retold: Narrative and Vanishing Pasts in Modern China by G. Andrew Stuckey 9780739123621
Booksplease Price: £96.35Old Stories Retold explores the ways modern Chinese narratives dramatize and embody the historical sense that links them to the past and to the Chinese literary tradition. Largely guided by Walter... -
The New Measures: A Theological History of Democratic Practice by Ted A. Smith 9780521871310
RRP: £69.00Booksplease Price: £66.08The New Measures: A Theological History of Democratic Practice brings thick cultural history to contemporary debates about religion and democracy. Combining histories of performance, space,... -
Bot-mimicry in Digital Literary Culture: Imitating Imitative Software by Malthe Stavning Erslev 9781009222389
RRP: £14.00Booksplease Price: £13.17This Element traverses the concept and practice of bot mimicry, defined as the imitation of imitative software, specifically the practice of writing in the style of social bots. Working as both an... -
Firewriting and Other Poems by John Muckle 9780907562641
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £10.39This is John Muckle's first poetry collection. The book's main feature is the long title poem, in which the author imagines that the German-Jewish critic Walter Benjamin escaped death by his own hand... -
Debt and Guilt by Elettra Stimilli 9781350063426
Booksplease Price: £75.81The issue of debt and how it affects our lives is becoming more and more urgent. The "Austerity" model has been the prevalent European economic policies of recent years led by the... -
Derrida | Benjamin: Two Plays for the Stage by John Schad 9783030498061
Booksplease Price: £46.28Within the work of both Jacques Derrida and Walter Benjamin there is a buried theatricality, a theatre to-come. And in the last fifteen years there has been a growing awareness of this theatricality... -
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... -
What's Left?: Marxism, Utopianism, and the Revolt against History by Jack Lawrence Luzkow 9780761835455
Booksplease Price: £40.38The writings of Karl Marx explored the tensions between the laws of socialist science and a utopian longing for socialism; between a science of history and a prophetic hope based on moral and ethical... -
The New Measures: A Theological History of Democratic Practice by Ted A. Smith 9781107410534
RRP: £47.00Booksplease Price: £45.41The New Measures: A Theological History of Democratic Practice brings thick cultural history to contemporary debates about religion and democracy. Combining histories of performance, space,... -
Derrida Benjamin: Two Plays for the Stage by John Schad 9783030498092
Booksplease Price: £46.28Within the work of both Jacques Derrida and Walter Benjamin there is a buried theatricality, a theatre to-come. And in the last fifteen years there has been a growing awareness of this theatricality... -
History's Disquiet: Modernity, Cultural Practice, and the Question of Everyday Life by Harry Harootunian 9780231117951
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £23.69Acclaimed historian Harry Harootunian calls attention to the boundaries, real and theoretical, that compartmentalize the world around us. In one of the first works to explore on equal footing... -
Migrants in the Profane: Critical Theory and the Question of Secularization by Peter E. Gordon
Booksplease Price: £54.04A beautifully written exploration of religion's role in a secular, modern politics, by an accomplished scholar of critical theory"Rich in historical background, illuminating in its comparative... -
Speaking in Tongues J.M. Coetzee 9781787305137
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.41This is a book about languages, what languages can and what they cannot do.In this dialogue between a Nobel Laureate and a leading translator, provocative ideas emerge about the evolution of language... -
The Illusions of Postmodernism Terry Eagleton (University of Manchester) 9780631203230
RRP: £29.95Booksplease Price: £28.61In this brilliant critique, Terry Eagleton explores the origins and emergence of postmodernism, revealing its ambivalences and contradictions. Above all he speaks to a particular kind of student, or... -
Memory, Trauma and the Spirited Life: Remembering and Identity by Gillian Burrell
RRP: £33.99Booksplease Price: £31.19Memory, Trauma and the Spirited Life offers a unique understanding of memory’s role in developing as a person, in navigating the course of life, and in mitigating emotional pain. This book develops... -
Film at the Intersection of High and Mass Culture by Paul Coates 9780521107914
Booksplease Price: £32.12Film at the Intersection of High and Mass Culture analyses the contradictions and interaction between high and low art, with particular reference to Hollywood and European cinema. Written in the... -
Revolution Today by Susan Buck-Morss
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50Susan Buck-Morss asks: What does revolution look like today? How will the idea of revolution survive the inadequacy of the formula, "progress = modernization through industrialization," to which it... -
John Donne and Baroque Allegory: The Aesthetics of Fragmentation by Hugh Grady 9781107195806
RRP: £96.00Booksplease Price: £91.46John Donne has been one of the most controversial poets in the history of English literature, his complexity and intellectualism provoking both praise and censure. In this major re-assessment of... -
Constellations of a Contemporary Romanticism by Jacques Khalip 9780823271030
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £77.00Constellations of a Contemporary Romanticism takes its title and point of departure from Walter Benjamin's concept of the historical constellation, which puts both "contemporary" and... -
The Book Against Death by Elias Canetti 9781804270899
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51In 1937, Elias Canetti began collecting notes for the project that ‘by definition, he could never live to complete’, as translator Peter Filkins writes in his afterword. The Book Against Death is the... -
Lessons in Critical Theory: Marx, Benjamin, Braudel, Bakhtin, Thompson, Ginzburg and Wallerstein by Robin Myers 9781433169113
RRP: £76.05Booksplease Price: £67.50Contemporary critical thinking was founded by Karl Marx approximately a century and a half ago. Later, in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, various critical thinkers (some Marxist, others... -
Kierkegaard’s Indirect Politics: Interludes with Lukács, Schmitt, Benjamin and Adorno by Bartholomew Ryan 9789042038134
Booksplease Price: £83.88This book argues that a radical political gesture can be found in Søren Kierkegaard’s writings. The chapters navigate an interdisciplinary landscape by placing Kierkegaard’s passionate thought in... -
The Photography Reader: History and Theory Liz Wells (University of Plymouth, UK) 9780415749183
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £46.43Following on from its hugely successful first edition, The Photography Reader: History and Theory provides deeper insight into the critical discussions around photography - its production, its uses... -
Democratic Theory and Technological Society Richard B. Day 9780873324489
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.67What are the chief challenges posed to contemporary democracy by modern technology, and how can democratic theory best respond to, or at least reflect on, those challenges? Inhabiting the kind of... -
Emeritus by Brian Cox 9781857545449
RRP: £6.95Booksplease Price: £5.57The leisure in which Brian Cox now writes his poems is hard-earned. Poetry, always his chief passion as reader and teacher, was forced to the edges of his life during the years in which he followed... -
Philosophy of the Novel by Barry Stocker 9783030404826
Booksplease Price: £70.88This book explores the aesthetics of the novel from the perspective of Continental European philosophy, presenting a theory on the philosophical definition and importance of the novel as a literary... -
Writing London: Volume 2: Materiality, Memory, Spectrality by Julian Wolfreys 9781349422906
Booksplease Price: £46.28Following on from Julian Wolfrey's successful Writing London (1998), this second volume extends Wolfrey's original argument that a new urban sensibility in the nineteenth century had been developed... -
German Expressionism and the Messianism of a Generation by Lisa Marie Anderson 9789042033528
Booksplease Price: £69.71This book reads messianic expectation as the defining characteristic of German culture in the first decades of the twentieth century. It has long been accepted that the Expressionist movement in... -
Saint Oscar and Other Plays by Terry Eagleton 9780631204534
RRP: £46.95Booksplease Price: £43.92This is the first collection of Terry Eagleton's work for the theatre - St Oscar, The White, the Gold and the Gangrene, Disappearances, and Gods Locusts. The first two originally toured Ireland... -
Marxism and Phenomenology: The Dialectical Horizons of Critique by Bryan Smyth 9781793622556
Booksplease Price: £95.79Marxism and Phenomenology: The Dialectical Horizons of Critique, edited by Bryan Smyth and Richard Westerman, offers new perspectives on the possibility of a philosophical outlook that combines... -
Modern Jewish Philosophy and the Politics of Divine Violence by Daniel H. Weiss 9781009221672
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £28.57Is commitment to God compatible with modern citizenship? In this book, Daniel H. Weiss provides new readings of four modern Jewish philosophers – Moses Mendelssohn, Hermann Cohen, Franz Rosenzweig,... -
Fifty Key Literary Theorists by Richard J. Lane
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £27.79Covering over a century's worth of debate, thinking and writing about literature, this is a unique guide to the lives and works of fifty theorists who have left an indelible mark on literary studies... -
Non-Violence: A History Beyond the Myth by Domenico Losurdo 9781498502214
Booksplease Price: £51.70We know of the blood and tears provoked by the projects of transformation of the world through war or revolution. Starting from the essay published in 1921 by Walter Benjamin, twentieth century... -
Kurt Weill: The Threepenny Opera by Stephen Hinton 9780521338882
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.76This is a book on the best known of the Weill-Brecht collaborations which explores the extent and significance of the composer's contribution. After a detailed reconstruction of the work's genesis... -
Robert Eisler and the Magic of the Combinatory Mind: The Forgotten Life of a 20th-Century Austrian Polymath by Brian Collins 9783030612283
Booksplease Price: £56.12Robert Eisler, the polymathic Jewish Austrian scholar and Holocaust survivor, faded into obscurity after his death in 1949. A contemporary and associate of Walter Benjamin, Aby Warburg, and Gershom...