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Derrida Vis-a-vis Lacan: Interweaving Deconstruction and Psychoanalysis by Andrea Hurst 9780823228744
RRP: £84.00Booksplease Price: £68.32Derrida and Lacan have long been viewed as proponents of two opposing schools of thought. This book argues, however, that the logical structure underpinning Lacanian psychoanalytic theory is a... -
Event and World by Claude Romano 9780823229703
RRP: £84.00Booksplease Price: £68.02The world into which we are born as the horizon of all our behavior is a world both of things and of events. But what are events? Though familiar to all of us, they are philosophically obscure... -
Insurgent Testimonies: Witnessing Colonial Trauma in Modern and Anglophone Literature by Nicole M. Rizzuto 9780823267828
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £21.92During the second half of the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth, insurgencies erupted in imperial states and colonies around the world, including Britain's. As Nicole Rizzuto... -
On the Nature of Marx's Things: Translation as Necrophilology by Jacques Lezra 9780823279425
RRP: £76.00Booksplease Price: £61.77On the Nature of Marx's Things is a major rethinking of the Marxian tradition, one based not on fixed things but on the inextricable interrelation between the material world and our language for it... -
Reified Life: Speculative Capital and the Ahuman Condition by J. Paul Narkunas 9780823280308
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £80.52Reified Life addresses the most pressing political question of the 21st century: what forms of life are free and what forms are perceived legally and economically as surplus or expendable, human and... -
Queer Natures, Queer Mythologies by Sam See 9780823286980
RRP: £92.00Booksplease Price: £74.57Queer Natures, Queer Mythologies collects in two parts the scholarly work-both published and unpublished-that Sam See had completed as of his death in 2013. In Part I, in a thorough reading of... -
Against Sustainability: Reading Nineteenth-Century America in the Age of Climate Crisis by Michelle Neely 9780823288229
RRP: £92.00Booksplease Price: £74.27Against Sustainability responds to the twenty-first-century environmental crisis by unearthing the nineteenth-century U.S. literary, cultural, and scientific contexts that gave rise to... -
Cold War Reckonings: Authoritarianism and the Genres of Decolonization by Jini Kim Watson 9780823294824
RRP: £84.00Booksplease Price: £68.02How did the Cold War shape culture and political power in decolonizing countries and give rise to authoritarian regimes in the so-called free world? Cold War Reckonings tells a new story about the... -
Staging Chekhov: The Cherry Orchard by John D. Mitchell 9781882763009
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £21.96This new translation is annotated with the comments of Yuri Zavadski, one of Russia's most acclaimed and decorated stage directors. Drawing fro his extensive experience directing under the aegis of... -
The Corpse in the Kitchen: Enclosure, Extraction, and the Afterlives of the Black Hawk War by Adam John Waterman 9780823298761
RRP: £84.00Booksplease Price: £68.02Reassessing the archive of the Black Hawk War, The Corpse in the Kitchen explores relationships between the enclosure of Indigenous land, histories of resource extraction, and the literary culture... -
Spirit Power: Politics and Religion in Korea's American Century by Heonik Kwon 9780823299928
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £71.14Spirit Power explores the manifestation of the American Century in Korean history with a focus on religious culture. It looks back on the encounter with American missionary power from the late... -
Orphaned Landscapes: Violence, Visuality, and Appearance in Indonesia by Patricia Spyer 9780823298686
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £80.52Less than a year after the end of authoritarian rule in 1998, huge images of Jesus Christ and other Christian scenes proliferated on walls and billboards around a provincial town in eastern Indonesia... -
Totality Inside Out: Rethinking Crisis and Conflict under Capital by Kevin Floyd 9780823298198
RRP: £84.00Booksplease Price: £68.02However divergent their analyses may be in other ways, some prominent anti-capitalist critics have remained critical of contemporary debates over reparative justice for groups historically... -
Kaleidophonic Modernity: Transatlantic Sound, Technology, and Literature by Brett Brehm 9781531501488
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £64.00What stories remain hidden behind one of the most significant inventions of the nineteenth century? Kaleidophonic Modernity reexamines the development of mechanical sound recording technology by... -
Reginald Rose and the Journey of 12 Angry Men by Phil Rosenzweig 9781531502966
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.56Finalist, 2021 Wall Award (Formerly the Theatre Library Association Award) The untold story behind one of America’s greatest dramas In early 1957, a low-budget black-and-white movie opened across the... -
The K-Effect: Romanization, Modernism, and the Timing and Spacing of Print Culture by Christopher GoGwilt 9781531505080
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £21.14The K-Effect shows how the roman alphabet has functioned as a standardizing global model for modern print culture. Investigating the history and ongoing effects of romanization, Christopher GoGwilt... -
Casablanca's Conscience by Robert Weldon Whalen 9781531504793
RRP: £72.00Booksplease Price: £58.64A new look at a beloved classic film that explores the philosophical dynamics of Casablanca Celebrating its eightieth anniversary this year, Casablanca remains one of the world’s most enduringly... -
In Defense of Secrets by Anne Dufourmantelle 9780823289226
RRP: £79.00Booksplease Price: £64.12Finalist, French-American Foundation Translation Prize In an age that prizes political and personal transparency, In Defense of Secrets champions the secret as what permits relation and ensures our... -
From First to Last: The Life of William B. Franklin by Mark A. Snell 9780823221493
RRP: £34.00Booksplease Price: £29.26From First to Last is a complete life story of one of the most controversial yet least well known generals on either side during the Civil War. The number one graduate of the West Point class of... -
Pragmatism, Reason, and Norms: A Realistic Assessment by Kenneth R. Westphal 9780823218196
RRP: £34.00Booksplease Price: £28.96This collection of essays examines the issue of norms and social practices both in epistemology and in moral and social philosophy. The contributors examine the issue across an unprecedented range of... -
The Metaphysics of Edmund Burke by Joseph Pappin 9780823213665
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £25.82The most recent commentators on Edmund Burke have renewed the charge that his political thought lacks the consistency and coherency necessary to even claim the status of a political philosophy and... -
The Still Point: Reflections on Zen and Christian Mysticism by William Johnston 9780823208616
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £25.54It is surely a significant manifestation of the permanence of the soul's quest for God that the Western world, at a time when human values, principles, and ideals are being questioned and rejected,... -
Catholic Reform From Cardinal Ximenes to the Council of Trent, 1495-1563:: An Essay with Illustrative Documents and a Brief Study of St. Ignatius Loyola by John C. Olin 9780823212811
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48The sixteenth century in Europe is characterized historically by the religious upheaval known as the Reformation, with attention generally focusing on Luther and the other Protestant reformers who... -
Emmanuel Levinas: The Problem of Ethical Metaphysics by Edith Wyschogrod 9780823219490
RRP: £72.00Booksplease Price: £58.64Edith Wyschogrod presents the first full-length study in English of the important contemporary French philosopher Emmanuel Levinas. It is a revision of the author's earlier study and includes... -
The Origins of the National Recovery Administration by Robert F. Himmelberg 9780823215416
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £25.82This book explores the background of the NRA, the most important economic measure of the first hundred days of Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal. It also is the history of the business community's... -
Martin Buber: Prophet of Religious Secularism by Donald Moore 9780823216406
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £21.92In this study of Martin Buber's life and work, Donald Moore focuses in on Buber's central message about what it means to be a human being and a person of faith.About the AuthorDonald J. Moore, S.J.,... -
Liberty, Virtue, and Progress: Northerners and Their War for the Union by Earl J. Hess 9780823217991
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £25.82Concentrating on ideology and cultural values, Liberty, Virtue, and Progress explores the motivations that casued Northerners to fight America's Civil War. Arguing for the primary significance of... -
The Mortal Presidency: Illness and Anguish in the White House by Robert E. Gilbert 9780823218370
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £25.82Available in a new digital edition with reflowable text suitable for e-readers The presidency is hazardous to your health. Fully two-thirds of our presidents have died before reaching their... -
The Wounded Stag by William Johnston 9780823218400
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48William Johnston writes that "the Christian mystic is one who lives in the Christ-mystery and is transformed by it." Making the distinction between Christian mysticism and other mystic experiences,... -
The Essential William H. Whyte by Albert LaFarge 9780823220267
RRP: £34.00Booksplease Price: £29.26The Essential William H. Whyte offers the core writings of a great observer of the postwar American scene. Included are selections from The Organization Man, Securing Space for Urban America:... -
The Freedmen's Bureau and Reconstruction by Paul A. Cimbala 9780823219353
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £26.12The Freedmen's Bureau and Reconstruction: Reconsiderations addresses the history of the Freedmen's Bureau at state and local levels of the Reconstruction South. In this lively and well-documented... -
New Deal Fat Cats: Campaign Finances and the Democratic Part in 1936 by Michael Webber 9780823219476
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £25.82In New Deal Fat Cats, Michael Webber offers a fresh perspective on the New Deal. The author analyzes the role of various segments of society in party politics during the political change brought on... -
Sword and Olive Branch: Oliver Otis Howard by John Carpenter 9780823219889
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £25.82Oliver Otis Howard devoted his life to the service of his country, both as a distinguished army officer in two wars and as the founder of two universities. Oliver Otis Howard was a graduate of... -
An Aquinas Reader: Selections from the Writings of Thomas Aquinas by Mary T. Clark 9780823220298
RRP: £34.00Booksplease Price: £29.26This new edition of An Aquinas Reader contains in one closely knit volume representative selections that reflect every aspect of Aquinas's philosophy. Divided into three section - Reality, God, and... -
Rethinking Philosophy of Religion: Approaches from Continental Philosophy by Philip Goodchild 9780823222063
RRP: £44.00Booksplease Price: £36.78"Philosophy of religion," in recent decades, has been the study of the rationality, coherence, and truth-claims of classical theism. Yet philosophical reflection on religion has included much more... -
Heidegger's Philosophy of Science by Trish Glazebrook 9780823220380
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £25.82This book concerns itself with an issue that is not sufficiently addressed in the literature: Heidegger's philosophy of science. Although a great deal of attention is paid to Heidegger's later... -
The Politics of Exodus: Soren Kierkegaard's Ethics of Responsibility by Mark Dooley 9780823221240
RRP: £72.00Booksplease Price: £58.64In The Politics of Exodus, Mark Dooley offers a lively interpretation of Kierkegaard as a precursor of the ethical and political insights of Jacques Derrida. While many connections have been forged... -
Rails Under the Mighty Hudson: The Story of the Hudson Tubes, the Pennsylvania Tunnels, and Manhattan Transfer by Brian J. Cudahy 9780823221905
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £22.70Rails Under the Mighty Hudson tells a story that begins in the final years of the nineteenth century and reaches fulfillment in the first decade of the twentieth: namely, the building of rail tunnels... -
Seeing into the Life of Things: Essays on Religion and Literature by John L. Mahoney 9780823217328
RRP: £76.00Booksplease Price: £62.07As the discourse of contemporary cultural studies brings questions of race, nationality, and gender to the center of critical attention nowadays, there is a strong sense that religious, or perhaps... -
Angels of Mercy: White Women and the History of New York's Colored Orphan Asylum by William Seraile 9780823234196
RRP: £56.00Booksplease Price: £46.14William Seraile uncovers the history of the colored orphan asylum, founded in New York City in 1836 as the nation's first orphanage for African American children. It is a remarkable institution that...