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The New Measures: A Theological History of Democratic Practice by Ted A. Smith 9780521871310
RRP: $89.01Booksplease Price: $85.24The 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: $18.06Booksplease Price: $16.99This 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: $16.71Booksplease Price: $13.40This 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: $97.79The 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: $59.70Within 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... -
Non-Violence: A History Beyond the Myth by Domenico Losurdo 9781498502191
Booksplease Price: $133.01We 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... -
Current of Music by Theodor W. Adorno 9780745642857
RRP: $83.85Booksplease Price: $74.63Fleeing 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: $52.09The 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: $60.63Booksplease Price: $58.58The 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: $59.70Within 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... -
Critical Theory and Frankfurt Theorists: Lectures-Correspondence-Conversations Leo Lowenthal 9781412857024
RRP: $67.07Booksplease Price: $59.97The 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: $124.29Old 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... -
Migrants in the Profane: Critical Theory and the Question of Secularization by Peter E. Gordon
Booksplease Price: $69.71A 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... -
History's Disquiet: Modernity, Cultural Practice, and the Question of Everyday Life by Harry Harootunian 9780231117951
RRP: $36.12Booksplease Price: $30.56Acclaimed 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... -
Speaking in Tongues J.M. Coetzee 9781787305137
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $14.72This 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 Photography Reader: History and Theory Liz Wells (University of Plymouth, UK) 9780415749183
RRP: $63.20Booksplease Price: $58.27Following 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: $54.17Booksplease Price: $49.88What 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: $8.97Booksplease Price: $7.19The 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: $91.44This 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: $59.70Following 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: $89.93This 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... -
The Illusions of Postmodernism Terry Eagleton (University of Manchester) 9780631203230
RRP: $38.64Booksplease Price: $36.91In 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: $43.85Booksplease Price: $40.24Memory, 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: $41.43Film 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... -
Fifty Key Literary Theorists by Richard J. Lane
RRP: $38.69Booksplease Price: $35.85Covering 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: $66.69We 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: $32.25Booksplease Price: $30.65This 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: $72.39Robert 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... -
Funtime, Endtime: Reading Frank O'Hara by Tadeusz Pioro 9783631732090
RRP: $55.02Booksplease Price: $49.97This book is a comprehensive approach to interpreting Frank O'Hara's highly influential work. Frank O'Hara's poetry, initially inspired by the Modernist avant-garde, underwent a radical change around... -
Constellations of a Contemporary Romanticism by Jacques Khalip 9780823271030
RRP: $113.52Booksplease Price: $99.33Constellations 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: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.56In 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: $98.10Booksplease Price: $87.08Contemporary 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: $108.21This 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... -
Benjamin and Brecht: The Story of a Friendship by Erdmut Wizisla
Booksplease Price: $32.37Germany in the mid 1920s, a place and time of looming turmoil, brought together Walter Benjamin-acclaimed critic and extraordinary literary theorist-and Bertolt Brecht, one of the twentieth century's... -
Conrad'S Marlow: Narrative and Death in 'Youth', Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim and Chance by Paul Wake 9780719074905
RRP: $109.65Booksplease Price: $79.48Variously 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),... -
Modern Jewish Philosophy and the Politics of Divine Violence by Daniel H. Weiss 9781009221658
RRP: $100.62Booksplease Price: $96.66Is 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,... -
Revolution Today by Susan Buck-Morss
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.55Susan 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: $123.84Booksplease Price: $117.98John 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... -
Ruined Skylines: Aesthetics, Politics and London's Towering Cityscape by Gunter Gassner
RRP: $60.62Booksplease Price: $55.03This book examines the skyline as a space for radical urban politics. Focusing on the relationship between aesthetics and politics in London's tall-building boom, it develops a critique of the... -
Saint Oscar and Other Plays by Terry Eagleton 9780631204534
RRP: $60.57Booksplease Price: $56.66This 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...