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Poverty of Theory: An Orrery of Errors by E.P. Thompson 9780850364460
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $33.58This classic collection of essays by E.P. Thompson, one of England's most renowned socialist voices, remains a staple text in the history of Marxist theory. The bulk of the book is dedicated to... -
Routledge Handbook of Psychoanalytic Political Theory Yannis Stavrakakis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece) 9781032089409
RRP: $102.88Booksplease Price: $95.82The emerging field of 'psychoanalytic political theory' has now reached a stage in its development and rapid evolution that deserves to be registered, systematically defined and critically evaluated... -
The Limits of Autobiography: Trauma and Testimony by Leigh Gilmore
RRP: $216.30Booksplease Price: $167.58Leigh Gilmore's The Limits of Autobiography is a fine addition to the body of excellent recent work in trauma studies, and is highly recommended for all working in the mental health disciplines...... -
Spinoza and Other Heretics, Volume 2: The Adventures of Immanence by Yirmiyahu Yovel
RRP: $94.50Booksplease Price: $76.92This ambitious study presents Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677) as the most outstanding and influential thinker of modernity--and examines the question of whether he was the "first secular Jew." A... -
Rethinking Working-Class History: Bengal 1890-1940 by Dipesh Chakrabarty 9780691070308
RRP: $100.80Booksplease Price: $96.71Dipesh Chakrabarty combines a history of the jute-mill workers of Calcutta with a fresh look at labor history in Marxist scholarship. Opposing a reductionist view of culture and consciousness, he... -
Criticism Of Heaven: On Marxism And Theology: Historical Materialism, Volume 18 by Roland Boer 9781608460311
RRP: $84.00Booksplease Price: $57.96This volume consists of a critical commentary on the interactions between Marxism and theology in the work of the major figures of Western Marxism. It deals with the theological writings of Ernst... -
Errant Letters: Jacques Rancière and the Philosophy of Literature by Mikołaj Golubiewski 9783631881644
RRP: $96.60Booksplease Price: $87.40Jerzy Franczak comprehensively presents Jacques Rancière’s thought by emphasizing the relationship between politics and literature. This detailed analysis takes into account the context of modern... -
The Ideology of Work: Theoretical Humanism, Work and Labour by Samuel Mercer 9789004703162
Booksplease Price: $209.22In On the Reproduction of Capitalism, Louis Althusser cited an appendix which, it seems, remains lost or was never completed. This appendix was titled ‘the Ideology of Work’. This book takes... -
Art and the French Commune: Imagining Paris after War and Revolution by Albert Boime
RRP: $121.80Booksplease Price: $100.95In this bold exploration of the political forces that shaped Impressionism, Albert Boime proposes that at the heart of the modern is a "guilty secret"--the need of the dominant, mainly bourgeois,... -
The Performance Apparatus: On Ideological Production of Behaviors Branislav Jakovljevic 9780472077335
Booksplease Price: $132.83The publication of Louis Althusser's 1969 article "Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses," made a deep impact on cultural studies and was instrumental in the formation of the apparatus theory in... -
Working Theory: Critical Composition Studies for Students and Teachers by Judith Goleman 9780897893015
Booksplease Price: $129.42Goleman investigates the relationship between critical theory and composition pedagogy in extensive and methodical ways. The philosophical insights of Michel Foucault, Louis Althusser, and Mikhail... -
Race Nation Class: Ambiguous Identities by Etienne Balibar
RRP: $25.18Booksplease Price: $17.87Forty years after the defeat of Nazism, and twenty years after the great wave of decolonization, how is it that racism remains a growing phenomenon? What are the special characteristics of... -
The History of Sexuality: 2: The Use of Pleasure by Michel Foucault
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.38'No brief survey can do justice to the richness, complexity and detail of Foucault's discussion' New York Review of BooksThe second volume of Michel Foucault's pioneering analysis of the changing ... -
Contemporary Literary and Cultural Theory: An Overview Professor Jeffrey R. Di Leo 9781350564138
Booksplease Price: $61.22The most exhaustive mapping of contemporary literary theory to date, this book offers a comprehensive overview of the current state of the field of contemporary literary theory. Examining 75 key... -
The Althusserian Legacy by Michael Sprinker
Booksplease Price: $39.12Louis Althusser remained until his death in 1990 the most controversial of the "master thinkers" who emerged from the turbulent Parisian intellectual scene of the 1960s. The publication of his... -
Killer Althusser: The Banality of Men by Francis Dupuis-Déri 9781771136778
RRP: $21.00Booksplease Price: $16.84On November 16, 1980, the Marxist philosopher Louis Althusser strangled his wife in their Parisian apartment, in a period when she was thinking of leaving him. What do we know about Helene Legotien... -
Social Theory: A Textbook by Carsten Bagge Laustsen
RRP: $88.18Booksplease Price: $79.78This textbook offers a new approach to understanding social theory. Framed around paired theoretical perspectives on a series of sociological problems, the book shows how distinctive viewpoints shed... -
Film Theory: The Basics by Kevin McDonald 9780367774400
RRP: $220.50Booksplease Price: $193.98Fully updated and expanded throughout, this second edition of Film Theory: The Basics provides an accessible introduction to the key theorists, concepts, and debates that have shaped the study of... -
Critical Practice: Philosophy and Creativity by Martin McQuillan 9781780930343
Booksplease Price: $60.00What is the relationship between theory and practice in the creative arts today? In Critical Practice, Martin McQuillan offers a critical interrogation of the idea of practice-led research. He goes... -
Film Theory: The Basics by Kevin McDonald
RRP: $50.38Booksplease Price: $48.20Fully updated and expanded throughout, this second edition of Film Theory: The Basics provides an accessible introduction to the key theorists, concepts, and debates that have shaped the study of... -
This World Is Not My Home: A Critical Biography of African American Writer Charles Wright by W. Lawrence Hogue 9781625347077
RRP: $48.28Booksplease Price: $42.76In the 1960s, Charles Wright's (1932-2008) star was on the rise. After dropping out of high school and serving in the Korean War, the young Black writer landed in New York, where he was mentored by... -
This World Is Not My Home: A Critical Biography of African American Writer Charles Wright by W. Lawrence Hogue 9781625347084
RRP: $165.90Booksplease Price: $134.65In the 1960s, Charles Wright's (1932-2008) star was on the rise. After dropping out of high school and serving in the Korean War, the young Black writer landed in New York, where he was mentored by... -
Althusser and His Contemporaries: Philosophy's Perpetual War by Warren Montag
RRP: $56.68Booksplease Price: $48.74Althusser and His Contemporaries alters and expands understanding of Louis Althusser and French philosophy of the 1960s and 1970s. Thousands of pages of previously unpublished work from different... -
Chuck Palahniuk and the Comic Grotesque: Subversion of Ideology in the Fiction by David McCracken 9781476678177
RRP: $67.18Booksplease Price: $57.92With the success of Fight Club, his novel-turned-movie, Chuck Palahniuk has become noticed for accurately capturing the exploitation of power in America in the 21st century. With cynicism and... -
Althusser and His Contemporaries: Philosophy's Perpetual War by Warren Montag 9780822353867
RRP: $189.00Booksplease Price: $151.31Althusser and His Contemporaries alters and expands understanding of Louis Althusser and French philosophy of the 1960s and 1970s. Thousands of pages of previously unpublished work from different... -
Althusser and Education: Reassessing Critical Education by David I. Backer 9781350101487
Booksplease Price: $214.64Louis Althusser's thinking laid the groundwork for critical educational theory, yet it is often misunderstood in critical pedagogy and sociology of education. In this open access book, David I... -
Althusser and Pasolini: Philosophy, Marxism, and Film by Agon Hamza 9781349953981
RRP: $157.48Booksplease Price: $148.85Agon Hamza offers an in-depth analysis of the main thesis of Louis Althusser's philosophical enterprise alongside a clear, engaging dissection of Pier Paolo Pasolini's most important films. There is... -
Critical Practice: Philosophy and Creativity by Martin McQuillan 9781780930350
Booksplease Price: $179.87What is the relationship between theory and practice in the creative arts today? In Critical Practice, Martin McQuillan offers a critical interrogation of the idea of practice-led research. He goes... -
Althusser and Pasolini: Philosophy, Marxism, and Film by Agon Hamza 9781137566515
RRP: $157.48Booksplease Price: $148.85Agon Hamza offers an in-depth analysis of the main thesis of Louis Althusser's philosophical enterprise alongside a clear, engaging dissection of Pier Paolo Pasolini's most important films. There is... -
Insurgent Marcos: The Political-Philosophical Formation of the Zapatista Subcommander by Nick Henck 9781945234033
RRP: $48.28Booksplease Price: $32.72For over two decades now Subcommander Marcos has acted as military leader and spokesperson of Mexico's Zapatista movement. In the process of doing so he has also become a key figure in the... -
Critical Practice by Catherine Belsey
RRP: $62.98Booksplease Price: $61.93What is poststructuralist theory, and what difference does it make to literary criticism? Where do we find the meaning of the text: in the author's head? in the reader's? Or do we, instead, make... -
The Adventure of French Philosophy by Bruno Bosteels
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $25.87The Adventure of French Philosophy is essential reading for anyone interested in what Badiou calls the "French moment" in contemporary thought.Badiou explores the exceptionally rich and varied world... -
Working Theory: Critical Composition Studies for Students and Teachers by Judith Goleman 9780897893022
Booksplease Price: $62.06Goleman investigates the relationship between critical theory and composition pedagogy in extensive and methodical ways. The philosophical insights of Michel Foucault, Louis Althusser, and Mikhail... -
Badiou, Balibar, Ranciere: Re-Thinking Emancipation by Nick Hewlett 9781441109675
Booksplease Price: $85.66In recent years there has been increased interest in three contemporary French philosophers, all former students of Louis Althusser and each now an influential thinker in his own right. Alain Badiou... -
New Remarks on the Passage to the Act: Lacan and the Lacanians Jean Allouch 9781032823607
RRP: $73.48Booksplease Price: $70.83New Remarks on the Passage to the Act considers what happens when psychoanalysis and the social sciences are called on to help modern societies overwhelmed by unexplained violence.Jean Allouch... -
Mistaken Identity: Mass Movements and Racial Ideology Asad Haider 9781839763953
Booksplease Price: $30.22Whether class or race is the more important factor in modern politics is a question right at the heart of recent history's most contentious debates. Among groups who should readily find common... -
Class and Inequality in the Time of Finance: Subject to Terms and Conditions by Niamh Mulcahy 9780367531010
RRP: $94.48Booksplease Price: $88.70This book explores the effects of the gradual liberalisation of capital markets and the expansion of consumer credit on poorer households in the United Kingdom, with particular attention to the... -
Althusser and Education: Reassessing Critical Education by David I. Backer 9781350226845
Booksplease Price: $66.19Louis Althusser's thinking laid the groundwork for critical educational theory, yet it is often misunderstood in critical pedagogy, sociology of education, and related fields. In this open access... -
Naming the Multiple: Poststructuralism and Education by Michael Peters 9780897895491
Booksplease Price: $75.24Poststructuralism-as a name for a mode of thinking, a style of philosophizing, a kind of writing-has exercised a profound influence upon contemporary Western thought and the institution of the... -
Ecrits: A Selection by Jacques Lacan 9780415255462
RRP: $205.78Booksplease Price: $191.06Ecrits is Lacan's most important work, bringing together twenty-seven articles and lectures originally published between 1936 and 1966. This is the essential source for anyone who seeks to understand...