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The Reality of Film: Theories of Filmic Reality by Richard Rushton 9780719091377
Booksplease Price: £23.54By formulating a notion of 'filmic reality', The reality of film offers new ways of understanding our relationship with cinema. It argues that cinema does not merely refer to, reproduce or represent... -
The Reality of Film: Theories of Filmic Reality by Richard Rushton 9780719082689
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £61.61In formulating a notion of filmic reality, The Reality of Film offers a novel way of understanding our relationship to cinema. It argues that cinema need not be understood in terms of its capacities... -
How to Measure a World?: A Philosophy of Judaism by Martin Shuster 9780253054548
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.68What does it mean to wonder in awe or terror about the world? How do you philosophically understand Judaism? In How to Measure a World?: A Philosophy of Judaism, Martin Shuster provides answers to... -
The Thought of Stanley Cavell and Cinema: Turning Anew to the Ontology of Film a Half-Century after The World Viewed by Dr. David LaRocca 9781501384073
Booksplease Price: £33.84Stanley Cavell was, by many accounts, America's greatest philosophical thinker of film. Like Bazin in France and Perkins in England, Cavell did not just transform the American capacity to take film... -
TV-Philosophy in Action: The Ethics and Politics of TV Series Sandra Laugier 9781804132272
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £26.11TV-Philosophy in Action is inspired by philosopher and series-devotee Sandra Laugier's monthly columns published in the French journal Liberation. It is her contribution to the collective reflection... -
TV-Philosophy: How TV Series Change Our Thinking Sandra Laugier 9781804132265
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £23.53This is the first book to explore the hold of TV series on our lives from a philosophical and ethical perspective. Sandra Laugier argues that this vital and ubiquitous expression of popular culture... -
Chuck, Appearance and Reality: Everyday Philosophy in a TV Spy Comedy Kelly Dean Jolley 9781804132357
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £83.93How can we know the minds of others? How can we make our own mind known? On the face of it, Chuck appears to be fun and funny network TV show merging spy thriller with romantic comedy, a piece of... -
To Make the Hands Impure: Art, Ethical Adventure, the Difficult and the Holy by Adam Zachary Newton 9780823263516
RRP: £76.00Booksplease Price: £74.29How can cradling, handling, or rubbing a text be said, ethically, to have made something happen? What, as readers or interpreters, may come off in our hands in as we maculate or mark the books we... -
Comedies of Nihilism: The Representation of Tragedy Onscreen by Amir Khan 9783319598932
Booksplease Price: £46.28This book presents close-readings of seven post-millennial comedic films: Up in the Air, Tropic Thunder, JCVD, Winnebago Man, The Trotsky, Be Kind Rewind, and Hamlet 2. It is a sequel to Stanley... -
How to Measure a World?: A Philosophy of Judaism by Martin Shuster
RRP: £64.00Booksplease Price: £52.39What does it mean to wonder in awe or terror about the world? How do you philosophically understand Judaism? In How to Measure a World?: A Philosophy of Judaism, Martin Shuster provides answers to... -
The Non-Sovereign Self, Responsibility, and Otherness: Hannah Arendt, Judith Butler, and Stanley Cavell on Moral Philosophy and Political Agency by Rosine Kelz 9781137508966
Booksplease Price: £112.12Drawing on Hannah Arendt, Judith Butler and Stanley Cavell, this book addresses contemporary theoretical and political debates in a broader comparative perspective and rearticulates the relationship... -
The Cavell Reader Stephen Mulhall (Essex University; All Souls College, Oxford) 9780631197430
RRP: £40.95Booksplease Price: £39.11A personal glimpse inside the mind of a leading philosopher The Cavell Reader is an introduction to one of the 20th century's most influential American philosophers. Stanley Cavell was well-known for... -
Modern European Cinema and Love Richard Rushton 9781526149435
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £64.63Modern European cinema and love examines nine European directors whose films contain stories about romantic love and marriage. The directors are Jean Renoir, Ingmar Bergman, Alain Resnais,... -
Modern European Cinema and Love by Richard Rushton 9781526191229
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.54Modern European cinema and love examines nine European directors whose films contain stories about romantic love and marriage. The directors are Jean Renoir, Ingmar Bergman, Alain Resnais,... -
Fictions of Proximity: Skepticism, Romanticism, and the Wallace Nexus by Tim Personn 9781666923186
Booksplease Price: £86.43Fictions of Proximity: Skepticism, Romanticism, and the Wallace Nexus tells the story of a nexus of contemporary novelists around David Foster Wallace who took up the legacy of logical positivism and... -
William Wordsworth and the Hermeneutics of Incarnation by David Haney 9780271026411
Booksplease Price: £37.39Recent critics view Wordsworth's incarnational rhetoric as the expression of an unfulfilled desire for representational adequacy. David Haney, however, argues that Wordsworth's interpretation of the... -
The Philosophy of Autobiography by Christopher Cowley 9780226267890
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £77.30We are living through a boom in autobiographical writing. Every half-famous celebrity, every politician, every sports hero-even the non-famous, nowadays, pour out pages and pages, Facebook post after... -
Shakespearean Issues: Agency, Skepticism, and Other Puzzles Richard Strier 9781512826968
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36A collection of thought-provoking essays that treat the political, social, and philosophical themes of Shakespeare's plays In Shakespearean Issues, Richard Strier has written a set of linked essays... -
The Philosophy of Autobiography Christopher Cowley 9780226267920
RRP: £26.00Booksplease Price: £24.79We are living through a boom in autobiographical writing. Every half-famous celebrity, every politician, every sports hero-even the non-famous, nowadays, pour out pages and pages, Facebook post after... -
Shakespearean Issues: Agency, Skepticism, and Other Puzzles by Richard Strier
RRP: £56.00Booksplease Price: £46.00A collection of thought-provoking essays that treat the political, social, and philosophical themes of Shakespeare's plays In Shakespearean Issues, Richard Strier has written a set of linked essays... -
Progressivism's Aesthetic Education: The Bildungsroman and the American School, 1890-1920 by Jesse Raber 9783030079239
Booksplease Price: £46.28During the Progressive Era in the United States, as teaching became professionalized and compulsory attendance laws were passed, the public school emerged as a cultural authority. What did accepting... -
The Human Embrace: The Love of Philosophy and the Philosophy of Love; Kierkegaard, Cavell, Nussbaum by Ronald L. Hall 9780271019536
RRP: £30.95Booksplease Price: £29.07Starting from Soren Kierkegaard's insight that fully accepting the human condition requires one to live with the persistent temptation to escape from it, Ronald Hall finds similar concerns reflected... -
Progressivism's Aesthetic Education: The Bildungsroman and the American School, 1890-1920 by Jesse Raber 9783319900438
Booksplease Price: £65.96During the Progressive Era in the United States, as teaching became professionalized and compulsory attendance laws were passed, the public school emerged as a cultural authority. What did accepting... -
Negative Life: The Cinema of Extinction by Steven Swarbrick 9780810147195
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48How films help us understand the inevitable death of Earth and humanity Offering a bracing theoretical corrective to ecocriticism's emphasis on pedagogies of care and interconnection, Negative Life:... -
Cavell on Film, Second Edition by Cavell 9798855801620
RRP: £109.50Booksplease Price: £88.29A collection of the philosopher Stanley Cavell's most important writings on cinema.Stanley Cavell was the first philosopher in the Anglo-American tradition to make film a central concern of his work,... -
On Soren Kierkegaard: Dialogue, Polemics, Lost Intimacy, and Time Edward F. Mooney 9780754658221
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63Tracing a path through Kierkegaard's writings, this book brings the reader into close contact with the texts and purposes of this remarkable 19th century Danish writer and thinker. Kierkegaard writes... -
Automatic Architecture: Motivating Form After Modernism by Sean Keller
RRP: £39.00Booksplease Price: £34.29In the 1960s and '70s, architects, influenced by recent developments in computing and the rise of structuralist and poststructuralist thinking, began to radically rethink how architecture could be... -
Volume 11, Tome III: Kierkegaard's Influence on Philosophy: Anglophone Philosophy by Dr. Jon Stewart
RRP: £55.99Booksplease Price: £52.44Kierkegaard's relation to the field of philosophy is a particularly complex and disputed one. He rejected the model of philosophical inquiry that was mainstream in his day and was careful to have his... -
The Poverty of Ethics by 9781839765926
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.32The Poverty of Ethics stands the usual moral-political dichotomy on its head. It argues that moral principles do not in fact underlie or inform political decisions. It is, rather, the conceptual... -
Pragmatism and Law: From Philosophy to Dispute Resolution by Michal Alberstein 9781138264021
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £51.89Pragmatism and Law provides a textual reading of the American legal discourse, as it unfolds through various genres of pragmatism, which evolve and transform during the twentieth century. The... -
Skepticism and Belonging in Shakespeare's Comedy by Derek Gottlieb
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £28.64This book recovers a sense of the high stakes of Shakespearean comedy, arguing that the comedies, no less than the tragedies, serve to dramatize responses to the condition of being human, responses... -
Philosophical Romanticism Nikolas Kompridis 9780415256445
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69Philosophical Romanticism is one of the first books to address the relationship between philosophy and romanticism, an area which is currently undergoing a major revival. This collection of... -
American Philosophy and the Romantic Tradition by Russell B. Goodman 9780521394437
RRP: £95.99Booksplease Price: £91.46Professional philosophers have tended either to shrug off American philosophy as negligible or derivative or to date American philosophy from the work of twentieth-century analytical positivists such... -
On Photography: A Philosophical Inquiry by Diarmuid Costello
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £31.19What is photography? Is it a source of knowledge or an art? Many have said the former because it records the world automatically, others the latter because it expresses human subjectivity. Can... -
American Philosophy and the Romantic Tradition by Russell B. Goodman 9780521067652
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £39.21Professional philosophers have tended either to shrug off American philosophy as negligible or derivative or to date American philosophy from the work of twentieth-century analytical positivists such... -
The Apologetics of Evil: The Case of Iago by Richard Raatzsch
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £32.82This book is a concise philosophical meditation on Iago and the nature of evil, through the exploration of the enduring puzzle found in Shakespeare's Othello. What drives Iago to orchestrate... -
Thinking in the Dark: Cinema, Theory, Practice by Murray Pomerance 9780813566283
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £27.40Today's film scholars draw from a dizzying range of theoretical perspectives-they're just as likely to cite philosopher Gilles Deleuze as they are to quote classic film theorist Andre Bazin. To... -
Jane Austen and Other Minds: Ordinary Language Philosophy in Literary Fiction by Eric Reid Lindstrom 9781009206990
RRP: £78.00Booksplease Price: £74.93Jane Austen's fiction is itself philosophy, a fact to which Stanley Cavell attested when he honored his philosophical teacher, J. L. Austin, through homage to her and her work. Engaging equally in... -
Cinematic Skepticism: Across Digital and Global Turns by Jeroen Gerrits 9781438476643
Booksplease Price: £25.54Drawing on the film-philosophies of Stanley Cavell and Gilles Deleuze, argues that skepticism is an ethical problem that pervades contemporary film.Because of its automatic way of recording reality,... -
Ethics in the Wake of Wittgenstein by Benjamin De Mesel
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.08This book brings together essays from leading scholars who, rather than taking a strictly exegetical approach, attempt to show how discussions in moral philosophy can benefit from Wittgenstein's...