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Marquis de Sade and Continental Philosophy by Lode Lauwaert
RRP: €28.55Booksplease Price: €26.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474430708Author Lode LauwaertFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint -
The Persistence of Masks: Surrealism and the Ethnography of the Subject Joyce Suechun Cheng 9781517917777
RRP: €114.24Booksplease Price: €92.45An examination of surrealism's unofficial ethnography of marginalized subjectivities In interwar Paris, the encounter between surrealism and the nascent discipline of ethnology led to an intellectual... -
A Continental Philosophy of Luxury: Perfume, Superyachts and Videogames John Armitage 9781399541657
RRP: €107.10Booksplease Price: €96.45John Armitage shows how the ideas and theories of continental philosophers Nietzsche, Heidegger, Levinas, Bataille, Gadamer and Adorno, play an important role in the understanding of luxury... -
The Persistence of Masks: Surrealism and the Ethnography of the Subject Joyce Suechun Cheng 9781517917784
RRP: €27.36Booksplease Price: €23.94An examination of surrealism's unofficial ethnography of marginalized subjectivities In interwar Paris, the encounter between surrealism and the nascent discipline of ethnology led to an intellectual... -
Marquis De Sade and Continental Philosophy by Lode Lauwaert 9781474430692
RRP: €136.85Booksplease Price: €125.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474430692Author Lode LauwaertFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint -
Beyond Pleasure: Freud, Lacan, Barthes by Margaret Iversen 9780271029719
RRP: €47.59Booksplease Price: €44.73In Beyond the Pleasure Principle, Freud observed that the life-enhancing pleasure principle seems disrupted by something internal to the psyche. He took into account the possibility of a "death... -
Peak Libido – Sex, Ecology, and the Collapse of Desire by D Pettman 9781509543021
RRP: €59.50Booksplease Price: €53.31What is the carbon footprint of your libido? In this highly original book, Dominic Pettman examines the mutual influence and impact of human desire and ecological crisis. His account is premised on... -
The Marquis de Sade and the Avant-Garde by Alyce Mahon 9780691141619
RRP: €53.55Booksplease Price: €50.61How the notorious author of The 120 Days of Sodom inspired the surrealists and other avant-garde artists, writers, and filmmakersThe writings of the Marquis de Sade (1740-1814) present a libertine... -
The Marquis de Sade and the Avant-Garde Alyce Mahon 9780691264622
RRP: €41.65Booksplease Price: €34.53How the notorious author of The 120 Days of Sodom inspired the surrealists and other avant-garde artists, writers, and filmmakersThe writings of the Marquis de Sade (1740-1814) present a libertine... -
Peak Libido – Sex, Ecology, and the Collapse of Desire by D Pettman
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €18.25What is the carbon footprint of your libido? In this highly original book, Dominic Pettman examines the mutual influence and impact of human desire and ecological crisis. His account is premised on... -
After Life Eugene Thacker 9780226793726
Booksplease Price: €41.79Life is one of our most basic concepts, yet when examined directly it proves remarkably contradictory and elusive, encompassing both the broadest and the most specific phenomena. We can see this... -
Sensible Ecstasy: Mysticism, Sexual Difference, and the Demands of History by Amy Hollywood 9780226349527
Booksplease Price: €36.57Sensible Ecstasy investigates the attraction to excessive forms of mysticism among twentieth-century French intellectuals and demonstrates the work that the figure of the mystic does for these... -
Consuming Religion by Kathryn Lofton
Booksplease Price: €33.97What are you drawn to like, to watch, or even to binge? What are you free to consume, and what do you become through consumption? These questions of desire and value, Kathryn Lofton argues, are at... -
Consuming Religion by Kathryn Lofton 9780226481937
RRP: €95.20Booksplease Price: €92.34What are you drawn to like, to watch, or even to binge? What are you free to consume, and what do you become through consumption? These questions of desire and value, Kathryn Lofton argues, are at... -
Sensible Ecstasy: Mysticism, Sexual Difference, and the Demands of History by Amy Hollywood
Booksplease Price: €114.73Sensible Ecstasy investigates the attraction to excessive forms of mysticism among twentieth-century French intellectuals and demonstrates the work that the figure of the mystic does for these... -
A Brief Apology for a Catholic Moment by Jean-Luc Marion
Booksplease Price: €29.51A timely new work by one of France's premier philosophers, A Brief Apology for a Catholic Moment offers insight into what "catholic" truly means. In this short, accessible book, Jean-Luc Marion... -
The Everest Effect: Nature, Culture, Ideology by Elizabeth Mazzolini 9780817318932
RRP: €38.08Booksplease Price: €32.61In The Everest Effect Elizabeth Mazzolini traces a series of ideological shifts in the status of Mount Everest in Western culture over the past century to the present day and links these shifts to... -
Eclipse of Action: Tragedy and Political Economy Richard Halpern 9780226433653
Booksplease Price: €52.62According to traditional accounts, the history of tragedy is itself tragic: following a miraculous birth in fifth-century Athens and a brilliant resurgence in the early modern period, tragic drama... -
Outsider Theory: Intellectual Histories of Questionable Ideas by Jonathan Eburne 9781517905552
RRP: €27.36Booksplease Price: €24.23A vital and timely reminder that modern life owes as much to outlandish thinking as to dominant ideologies What do the Nag Hammadi library, Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code, speculative feminist... -
Desiring the Bomb: Communication, Psychoanalysis, and the Atomic Age by Calum Lister Matheson 9780817319984
RRP: €47.60Booksplease Price: €40.04A timely interdisciplinary study that applies psychoanalysis and the rhetorical tradition of the sublime to examine the cultural aftermath of the Atomic Age.Every culture throughout history has... -
Spring on the Peninsula: A Novel by Ery Shin 9781662602221
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €19.84A desultory libertine mourns a failed relationship over the course of two harsh winters in this unprecedented portrait of millennials living in Seoul. The time is roughly now and Kai, a... -
The Milk Bowl of Feathers: Essential Surrealist Writings by Mary Ann Caws 9780811227070
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €10.50Originating in 1916 with the avant-garde Dada movement at the famous Cafe Voltaire in Zurich, surrealism aimed to unleash the powers of the creative act without thinking. Max Ernst, Andre Breton,... -
Heterology and the Postmodern: Bataille, Baudrillard, and Lyotard by Julian Pefanis 9780822310754
RRP: €99.96Booksplease Price: €80.56In Heterology and the Postmodern, Julian Pefanis presents a new view of the history of poststructuralism (heterology) and the origins of postmodernism by analyzing three important French theorists,... -
Aestheticism and the Philosophy of Death: Walter Pater and Post-Hegelianism by Giles Whitely
RRP: €54.73Booksplease Price: €51.27By contextualizing Walter Pater's aestheticism alongside Alexandre Kojeve's and Georges Bataille's readings of Hegelianism, this book shows that Pater's aestheticism constitutes both a philosophy of... -
Violence and the Oedipal Unconscious: Volume 1: The Catharsis Hypothesis by Nidesh Lawtoo
Booksplease Price: €43.35Representations of violence are often said to generate cathartic effects, but what does "catharsis" mean? And what theory of the unconscious made this concept so popular that it reaches from... -
After Bataille: Sacrifice, Exposure, Community Patrick Ffrench 9780367603748
RRP: €54.73Booksplease Price: €51.27This book maps French intellectual history in the twentieth century through an interpretative engagement with the thought and legacy of Georges Bataille. It highlights the influence of Bataille and... -
After Bataille: Sacrifice, Exposure, Community by Patrick Ffrench
RRP: €113.04Booksplease Price: €108.27This book maps French intellectual history in the twentieth century through an interpretative engagement with the thought and legacy of Georges Bataille. It highlights the influence of Bataille and... -
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Movie Mistakes: Take 3 by Jon Sandys 9780753509128 [USED COPY]
RRP: €8.32Booksplease Price: €3.21Ever noticed a digital watch in a historical film? Or seen a camera crew in a mirror? There's nothing we like more than finding a continuity error, a historical inaccuracy or a technical blunder... -
Princeton Readings in Religion and Violence by Mark Juergensmeyer 9780691129143
RRP: €35.70Booksplease Price: €30.00This groundbreaking anthology provides the most comprehensive overview for understanding the fascinating relationship between religion and violence - historically, culturally, and in the contemporary... -
Agonies Ben Faulkner 9781648211188
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.54In the tradition of Albert Camus, J. D. Salinger, and Osamu Dazai, the archetype of the savage young man at the precipice returns in Ben Faulkner's hypnotic debut, The Agonies. Armand Bernal is... -
The Political Machine: Assembling Sovereignty in the Bronze Age Caucasus by Adam T. Smith
RRP: €53.55Booksplease Price: €43.95The Political Machine investigates the essential role that material culture plays in the practices and maintenance of political sovereignty. Through an archaeological exploration of the Bronze Age... -
The Severed Word: Ovid's Heroides and the Novela Sentimental by Marina Scordilis Brownlee 9780691634616
RRP: €124.95Booksplease Price: €97.96In this wide-ranging study Marina Scordilis Brownlee investigates the importance of the letter--often a complex interplay of objectivity and subjectivity--in the establishment of novelistic discourse... -
The Severed Word: Ovid's Heroides and the Novela Sentimental by Marina Scordilis Brownlee 9780691605685
RRP: €53.55Booksplease Price: €43.59In this wide-ranging study Marina Scordilis Brownlee investigates the importance of the letter--often a complex interplay of objectivity and subjectivity--in the establishment of novelistic discourse... -
Marriage to Death: The Conflation of Wedding and Funeral Rituals in Greek Tragedy by Rush Rehm 9780691606736
RRP: €53.55Booksplease Price: €43.59The link between weddings and death-as found in dramas ranging from Romeo and Juliet to Lorca's Blood Wedding-plays a central role in the action of many Greek tragedies. Female characters such as... -
Contagion, Hygiene, and the European Avant-Garde David Hopkins 9781032312880
RRP: €49.97Booksplease Price: €47.23This interdisciplinary collection of essays brings together scholars in the fields of art history, theatre, visual culture, and literature to explore intersections between the European avant-garde (c... -
The Political Machine: Assembling Sovereignty in the Bronze Age Caucasus by Adam T. Smith 9780691211480
RRP: €38.08Booksplease Price: €34.53The Political Machine investigates the essential role that material culture plays in the practices and maintenance of political sovereignty. Through an archaeological exploration of the Bronze Age... -
Marriage to Death: The Conflation of Wedding and Funeral Rituals in Greek Tragedy by Rush Rehm 9780691656281
RRP: €124.95Booksplease Price: €97.96The link between weddings and death-as found in dramas ranging from Romeo and Juliet to Lorca's Blood Wedding-plays a central role in the action of many Greek tragedies. Female characters such as... -
Drain 9780810152151
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €18.67In Davis Schneiderman's shocking novel, Drain, freedom, creativity, and transgression wage war with forces of control, censorship, and conformity. The wordscapes of William S. Burroughs and Thomas... -
The Afterlife of Property: Domestic Security and the Victorian Novel by Jeff Nunokawa 9780691114675
RRP: €47.60Booksplease Price: €40.88In The Afterlife of Property, Jeff Nunokawa investigates the conviction passed on by the Victorian novel that a woman's love is the only fortune a man can count on to last. Taking for his example... -
From Ancient to Modern: Archaeology and Aesthetics by Jennifer Y. Chi 9780691166469
RRP: €49.98Booksplease Price: €43.95As archaeologists unearth the past, they seek meaning or purpose for the objects they uncover by looking at the objects themselves and their archaeological context. Art historians, on the other hand,...