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Philosophy and Autobiography: Reflections on Truth, Self-Knowledge and Knowledge of Others by Christopher Hamilton 9783030706593
Booksplease Price: £75.80This book, taking its point of departure from Stanley Cavell’s claim that philosophy and autobiography are dimensions of each other, aims to explore some of the relations between these forms of... -
Hope Draped in Black: Race, Melancholy, and the Agony of Progress by Joseph R. Winters 9780822361534
RRP: £112.00Booksplease Price: £89.90In Hope Draped in Black Joseph R. Winters responds to the enduring belief that America follows a constant trajectory of racial progress. Such notions-like those that suggested the passage into a... -
The Twilight of Reason: Benjamin, Adorno, Horkheimer and Levinas Tested by the Catastrophe by Orietta Ombrosi 9781644696675
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £18.36Think of the disaster" is the first injunction of thought when faced with the disaster that struck European Jews during the Shoah. Thinking of the disaster means understanding why the Shoah was able... -
Baudelaire's Bitter Metaphysics: Anti-Nihilist Readings by Fondane, Benjamin, and Sartre by Aaron Brice Cummings 9781666961751
Booksplease Price: £102.51Baudelaire’s Bitter Metaphysics: Anti-Nihilist Readings by Fondane, Benjamin, and Sartre reconstructs a philosophical trialogue that might have been expected to take place between Benjamin Fondane,... -
Saints and Scholars by Terry Eagleton
Booksplease Price: £14.83In 1916, in a remote cottage on the west coast of Ireland, an unlikely collection of fugitives gathers. Ludwig Wittgenstein has run away from Cambridge and English insularity. His traveling... -
The Emergence of the Interior: Architecture, Modernity, Domesticity by Charles Rice
RRP: £58.99Booksplease Price: £52.94Taking a radical position counter to many previous histories and theories of the interior, domesticity and the home, The Emergence of the Interior considers how the concept and experience of the... -
Indigeneity: Before and Beyond the Law Kathleen Birrell 9781138570375
RRP: £50.99Booksplease Price: £45.63Examining contested notions of indigeneity, and the positioning of the Indigenous subject before and beyond the law, this book focuses upon the animation of indigeneities within textual imaginaries,... -
Baudelaire's Media Aesthetics: The Gaze of the Flaneur and 19th-Century Media by Marit Grotta 9781501326448
Booksplease Price: £40.79Baudelaire's Media Aesthetics situates Charles Baudelaire in the midst of 19th-century media culture. It offers a thorough study of the role of newspapers, photography, and precinematic devices in... -
Victorians in Theory: From Derrida to Browning by 9780719081224
Booksplease Price: £20.70"Each century," wrote Charles Dickens "[is] more amazed by the century following it than by all the centuries before." Victorians in theory explores the startling conceit that nineteenth-century... -
Introducing Hegel: A Graphic Guide by Lloyd Spencer
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.48INTRODUCING guide to the hugely influential German thinker. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel is one of the greatest thinkers of all time. No other philosopher has had such a profound impact on the ideas... -
Portable Modernisms: The Art of Travelling Light by Emily Ridge
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £23.41A wide-ranging study of the rise of a new culture of portability and its impact on modernist approaches to fictionLuggage is an overlooked detail in the stock sketch of the expatriated modernist... -
Conjuring Up Prehistory: Landscape and the Archaic in Japanese Nationalism by Mark J. Hudson
Booksplease Price: £25.63Walter Benjamin observed that it is precisely the modern which conjures up prehistory. From Yanagita's 'mountain people' to Umehara's 'Jomon civilisation', Japan has been an especially resonant site... -
Antidiets of the Avant-Garde: From Futurist Cooking to Eat Art by Cecilia Novero
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.01Discussing an aspect of the European avant-garde that has often been neglected-its relationship to the embodied experience of food, its sensation, and its consumption-Cecilia Novero exposes the... -
Criticism and Politics: A Polemical Introduction by Bruce Robbins 9781503630192
RRP: £64.00Booksplease Price: £52.39An accessible introduction to cultural theory and an original polemic about the purpose of criticism What is criticism for? Over the past few decades, violent disagreements over that question in... -
Language and Relation: . . . that there is language by Christopher Fynsk 9780804727143
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48The most recent version of the "linguistic turn," the revolution in language theory shaped by Saussure's structural linguistics and realized in a sweeping revision of investigations throughout the... -
Sensing the Future: Moholy-Nagy, Media and the Arts by Bauhaus Archiv/Museum für Gestaltung 9783037787465
RRP: £36.00Booksplease Price: £31.55Life in the digital economy of information and images enriches us but often induces a sense of being overwhelmed. Sensing the Future: Moholy-Nagy, Media and the Arts considers the impact of... -
Capitalism, a Horror Story: Gothic Marxism and the Dark Side of the Radical Imagination Jon Greenaway 9781914420887
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02A horror-story history of capitalism and its relationship to the haunted and the gothic, and a manifesto of Gothic Marxism, which finds revolutionary hope in the nightmare of modernity. Capitalism is... -
Berlin in the Twentieth Century: A Cultural Topography by Andrew J. Webber 9780521188746
RRP: £41.00Booksplease Price: £40.09Berlin has been the focal scene of some of the most dramatic and formative events of the twentieth century. Through periods of decadence, fascism, war, partition and reunification, it has seen both... -
'Dear Friend, You Must Change Your Life': The Letters of Great Thinkers by Ada Bronowski 9781350089181
Booksplease Price: £85.65In Dear Friend, you must change your life, we see some of the most fascinating thinkers in history at their most private and profound, reaching out to a friend, sharing, testing, confirming... -
Lament in Jewish Thought: Philosophical, Theological, and Literary Perspectives by Ilit Ferber 9783110333824
RRP: £91.00Booksplease Price: £59.48Lament, mourning, and the transmissibility of a tradition in the aftermath of destruction are prominent themes in Jewish thought. The corpus of lament literature, building upon and transforming the... -
Ruins in the Literary and Cultural Imagination by Efterpi Mitsi 9783030269043
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... -
Comparative Modernism and Poetics of Time: Bergson, Tanpinar, Benjamin, Walser by Özen Nergis Dolcerocca 9783031352003
Booksplease Price: £102.35This book explores the conceptualization of time in early twentieth-century literature and thought, based on a transnational and translational model of literary history, focusing on Turkish, French... -
States Of Exception: Everyday Life and Postcolonial Identity by Keya Ganguly 9780816637171
Booksplease Price: £29.34Explores the conflict between capitalism and tradition in an immigrant community.A philosophical anthropology of everyday experience, this book is also a deeply informed and thought-provoking... -
There and Away: Topobiographies Rainer Nägele 9781501789151
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.56Rainer Nagele's There and Away charts a series of autobiographical topographies or "topobiographies" that map a life beginning in a working-class village in Liechtenstein to the places he traveled as... -
Radio: Essays in Bad Reception by John Mowitt 9780520270497
RRP: £63.00Booksplease Price: £56.56In a wide-ranging, cross-cultural, and transhistorical assessment, John Mowitt examines radio's central place in the history of twentieth-century critical theory. A communication apparatus that was a... -
The Orient of Style: Modernist Allegories of Conversion by Beryl Schlossman
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48In this study of modernist aesthetics, Beryl Schlossman reveals how for such writers as Marcel Proust, Gustave Flaubert, and Charles Baudelaire, the Orient came to symbolize the highest aspirations... -
Chicanx Utopias: Pop Culture and the Politics of the Possible by Luis Alvarez
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48Amid the rise of neoliberalism, globalization, and movements for civil rights and global justice in the post-World War II era, Chicanxs in film, music, television, and art weaponized culture to... -
Music, Theater, and Cultural Transfer: Paris, 1830-1914 by Annegret Fauser
Booksplease Price: £73.99Opera and musical theater dominated French culture in the 1800s, and the influential stage music that emerged from this period helped make Paris, as Walter Benjamin put it, the 'capital of the... -
Contemporary Argentine Women Filmmakers by Mirna Vohnsen 9783031323454
RRP: £119.99Booksplease Price: £112.12This edited volume offers a wide-ranging picture of Argentine women filmmakers' contribution to the film industry from the 1980s to the present by bringing together the work of highly acclaimed and... -
Memory Made, Hacked, and Outsourced: How the 21st Century Anglophone Novels Remember and Forget by Chia-Chieh Mavis Tseng 9789811992506
RRP: £109.99Booksplease Price: £109.76This book probes the complex relationship between memory and storytelling in contemporary literature. It not only examines how memory is constantly made and remade through words and stories but also... -
The Architecture of the Visible: Technology and Urban Visual Culture by Graham MacPhee 9780826459268
Booksplease Price: £61.04Visual technology saturates everyday life. Theories of the visual--now key to debates across cultural studies, social theory, art history, literary studies and philosophy--have interpreted this new... -
Late Modernist Poetics: From Pound to Prynne by Anthony Mellors 9780719058868
Booksplease Price: £23.54This book explores the uncanny afterlife of modernist ideals in the second half of the twentieth century. Rejecting the familiar notion that modernism dissolved during the 1930s, it argues that the... -
The Politics of Purim: Law, Sovereignty and Hospitality in the Aesthetic Afterlives of Esther by Dr Jo Carruthers 9780567702319
Booksplease Price: £34.47This book approaches the holiday of Purim as profane, freed to human use and ends, in order to consider the political legacy of the biblical story of Esther in festival and art works. Jo Carruthers... -
The Theatre of Death - The Uncanny in Mimesis: Tadeusz Kantor, Aby Warburg, and an Iconology of the Actor by Mischa Twitchin 9781137478719
Booksplease Price: £112.12This book is concerned with such questions as the following: What is the life of the past in the present? How might "the theatre of death" and "the uncanny in mimesis" allow us to... -
Allegories of Telling: Self-Referential Narrative in Contemporary British Fiction by Lynn Wells 9789042011144
Booksplease Price: £55.54Allegories of Telling: Self-Referential Narrative in Contemporary British Fiction has as its founding premise Ross Chambers’s notion that “one of the important powers of fiction is its power to... -
Forgiveness and Resentment in the Aftermath of Mass Atrocity: Jewish Voices in Literature and Film by Idit Alphandary 9783112215357
RRP: £18.50Booksplease Price: £13.32The author's starting point is the interweaving of forgiveness and resentment in the works of Jewish writers after the Holocaust, most especially Hannah Arendt and Jean Amery, to make sense of the... -
Common Places: The Poetics of African Atlantic Postromantics by Seanna Sumalee Oakley 9789042034082
Booksplease Price: £108.86While a great deal of postcolonial criticism has examined how the processes of hybridity, mestizaje, creolization, and syncretism impact African diasporic literature, Oakley employs the heuristic of... -
The Image in Dispute: Art and Cinema in the Age of Photography by Dudley Andrew
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.78Photography, cinema, and video have irrevocably changed the ways in which we view and interpret images. Indeed, the mechanical reproduction of images was a central preoccupation of twentieth-century... -
Digital Rubbish: A Natural History of Electronics by Jennifer Gabrys 9780472035373
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £24.14Digital Rubbish: A Natural History of Electronics is a study of the material life of information and its devices and of electronic waste in its physical and electronic incarnations. It is also a... -
The Archaeologies of Modernity: The Avant-Garde Bildung by Rainer Rumold 9780810131125
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.61Archaeologies of Modernity explores the shift from the powerful tradition of literary forms of Bildung-the education of the individual as the self-to the visual forms of "Bildung" (from Bild) that...