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Theory and the Disappearing Future: On de Man, On Benjamin by Claire Colebrook 9780415604536
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.37Paul de Man is often associated with an era of 'high theory', an era it is argued may now be coming to a close. This book, written by three leading contemporary scholars, includes both a transcript... -
Myth, Philosophy, and Literature: Exploring Thought, Story, and Culture Olivier Serrat 9789819528967
RRP: £32.99Booksplease Price: £31.54This book explores significant literary and critical thinking achievements that have shaped our world. This slim yet comprehensive guide is divided into three parts: Dawn of the Western Tradition,... -
The New Pastoral in Contemporary British Writing Deborah Lilley 9781032088006
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £40.94This book identifies a major turn in contemporary British literature in response to environmental crisis. It argues that the pastoral is emerging as a new critical framework in which to explore the... -
Speculative Realism: An Introduction by Graham Harman
Booksplease Price: £18.06On April 27, 2007, the first Speculative Realism (SR) workshop was held at Goldsmiths, University of London, featuring four young philosophers whose ideas were loosely allied. Over the ensuing... -
Elemental Ecocriticism: Thinking with Earth, Air, Water, and Fire by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.24For centuries it was believed that all matter was composed of four elements: earth, air, water, and fire in promiscuous combination, bound by love and pulled apart by strife. Elemental theory offered... -
The Nonhuman Turn by Richard Grusin
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.24Edited by Richard Grusin of the Center for 21st Century Studies, this is the first book to name and characterize-and therefore consolidate-a wide array of current critical, theoretical, and... -
Object-Oriented Feminism by Katherine Behar 9781517901080
RRP: £76.00Booksplease Price: £61.77The essays in Object-Oriented Feminism explore OOF: a feminist intervention into recent philosophical discourses-like speculative realism, object-oriented ontology (OOO), and new materialism-that... -
Early Modern cologies: Beyond English Ecocriticism by Usher
RRP: £118.00Booksplease Price: £114.69Early Modern Ecologies is the first collective volume to offer perspectives on the relationship between contemporary ecological thought and early modern French literature. If Descartes spoke of... -
Veer Ecology: A Companion for Environmental Thinking by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen 9781517900762
RRP: £87.00Booksplease Price: £70.37The words most commonly associated with the environmental movement-save, recycle, reuse, protect, regulate, restore-describe what we can do to help the environment, but few suggest how we might... -
Debt: Ethics, the Environment, and the Economy by Merry Wiesner-Hanks 9780253009265
RRP: £64.00Booksplease Price: £52.39From personal finance and consumer spending to ballooning national expenditures on warfare and social welfare, debt is fundamental to the dynamics of global capitalism. The contributors to this... -
Adventure: An Argument for Limits by Dr. Christopher Schaberg 9798765101452
Booksplease Price: £61.05What is the meaning of "adventure" as we enter the third decade of the 21st century, after a global pandemic, social and geopolitical calamities, and accelerating environmental catastrophes? What... -
Prismatic Ecology: Ecotheory beyond Green by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen 9780816679980
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.24Emphasizing sustainability, balance, and the natural, green dominates our thinking about ecology like no other color. What about the catastrophic, the disruptive, the inaccessible, and the excessive?... -
The Ethics of Giacomo Leopardi: A Philosophy for the Environmental Crisis Alice Gibson 9781350298637
Booksplease Price: £30.54Providing a comprehensive introduction to the work of pioneering poet-philosopher Giacomo Leopardi, Alice Gibson pushes his thought into new directions by investigating how his ethics and philosophy... -
The Spirit of Hope Byung-Chul Han 9781509565191
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.60A spectre is haunting us: fear. We are constantly confronted with apocalyptic scenarios: pandemics, world war, the climate catastrophe. Images of the end of the world and the end of human... -
Ecocriticism and Shakespeare: Reading Ecophobia by Simon C. Estok 9781137446893
Booksplease Price: £90.56This book offers the term 'ecophobia' as a way of understanding and organizing representations of contempt for the natural world. Estok argues that this vocabulary is both necessary to the developing... -
The Radical Ecology of the Shelleys: Eros and Environment by Colin Carman 9780367664589
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £43.51The Radical Ecology of the Shelleys: Eros and Environment is the first full-length study to explore a radically queer ecology at work in writings by Percy Bysshe Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft... -
Dark Scenes from Damaged Earth: The Gothic Anthropocene by Justin D. Edwards
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36An urgent volume of essays engages the Gothic to advance important perspectives on our geological era What can the Gothic teach us about our current geological era? More than just spooky, moonlit... -
Dark Scenes from Damaged Earth: The Gothic Anthropocene by Justin D. Edwards 9781517911225
RRP: £96.00Booksplease Price: £77.69An urgent volume of essays engages the Gothic to advance important perspectives on our geological era What can the Gothic teach us about our current geological era? More than just spooky, moonlit... -
Object-Oriented Feminism by Katherine Behar
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.25The essays in Object-Oriented Feminism explore OOF: a feminist intervention into recent philosophical discourses-like speculative realism, object-oriented ontology (OOO), and new materialism-that... -
Ecocriticism and Shakespeare: Reading Ecophobia by Simon C. Estok 9780230112568
Booksplease Price: £90.56This book offers the term 'ecophobia' as a way of understanding and organizing representations of contempt for the natural world. Estok argues that this vocabulary is both necessary to the developing... -
Haunted Landscapes: Super-Nature and the Environment by Ruth Heholt 9781783488827
Booksplease Price: £51.70Haunted Landscapes offers a fresh and innovative approach to contemporary debates about landscape and the supernatural. Landscapes are often uncanny spaces embroiled in the past; associated with... -
Englishness and Environment in Genre Fiction, 1890-1940 Professor Gerry Smyth 9781350412460
Booksplease Price: £75.81In this moment of growing anxiety about the environment and the fate of humanity, literature continues its vital role of articulating dynamic new ways of thinking about the relations between... -
The Green Light: A Self-Critique of the Ecological Movement by Bernard Charbonneau 9781350027091
Booksplease Price: £36.66The Green Light ('Le Feu Vert') offers an original and profound exploration of the roots of environmental philosophy and the Anthropocene. Bernard Charbonneau situates the wellspring of the... -
The Script of the Stones: A Short Walk at the End of the World by Francis Gooding 9781838957438
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.73The Script of the Stones follows a single half-mile clifftop walk on the Gower Peninsula in South Wales - one the author has been making his whole life. It takes fifteen minutes, if you keep moving... -
The Language of Plants: Science, Philosophy, Literature by Monica Gagliano
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.42The eighteenth-century naturalist Erasmus Darwin (grandfather of Charles) argued that plants are animate, living beings and attributed them sensation, movement, and a certain degree of mental... -
In Praise of Copying by Marcus Boon 9780674072527
RRP: £26.95Booksplease Price: £25.29This book is devoted to a deceptively simple but original argument: that copying is an essential part of being human, that the ability to copy is worthy of celebration, and that, without recognizing... -
Posthumanism in Art and Science: A Reader by Susan McHugh 9780231196666
RRP: £134.00Booksplease Price: £106.23Posthumanism synthesizes philosophical, literary, and artistic responses to technological advancements, globalization, and mass extinction in the Anthropocene. It asks what it can mean to be human in... -
Posthumanism in Art and Science: A Reader by Susan McHugh
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.02Posthumanism synthesizes philosophical, literary, and artistic responses to technological advancements, globalization, and mass extinction in the Anthropocene. It asks what it can mean to be human in... -
Englishness and Environment in Genre Fiction, 1890-1940 Professor Gerry Smyth 9781350412477
Booksplease Price: £27.79In this moment of growing anxiety about the environment and the fate of humanity, literature continues its vital role of articulating dynamic new ways of thinking about the relations between... -
Quantum Art & Uncertainty by Paul Thomas 9781783209019
RRP: £39.95Booksplease Price: £39.69At the core of both art and science we find the twin forces of probability and uncertainty. However, these two worlds have been tenuously entangled for decades. On the one hand, artists continue to... -
Veer Ecology: A Companion for Environmental Thinking by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen 9781517900779
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.01The words most commonly associated with the environmental movement-save, recycle, reuse, protect, regulate, restore-describe what we can do to help the environment, but few suggest how we might... -
Nature, Disaster and Animism in Japan: Anima Philosophica Dr Ishii Miho 9781350506848
Booksplease Price: £85.95This open access book argues that existing scholarship on animism, with its focus on harmony, often overlooks a fundamental tension: that the same forces that sustain collective life also demand... -
Twin Peaks: The Return, Part 8: Movies Minute by Minute Jeff Wood 9798765121757
Booksplease Price: £21.42A minute-by-minute analysis of one episode (Part 8) of David Lynch's Twin Peaks: The Return (2017).Much has been written about the work of David Lynch and existential fear in relation to Americana... -
Energy Humanities: An Anthology by Imre Szeman 9781421421896
RRP: £41.00Booksplease Price: £31.11Energy humanities is a field of scholarship that, like medical and digital humanities before it, aims to overcome traditional boundaries between the disciplines and between academic and applied... -
Energy Humanities: An Anthology by Imre Szeman 9781421421889
RRP: £79.50Booksplease Price: £76.16Energy humanities is a field of scholarship that, like medical and digital humanities before it, aims to overcome traditional boundaries between the disciplines and between academic and applied... -
Beyond Romantic Ecocriticism: Toward Urbanatural Roosting by A. Nichols 9780230102675
Booksplease Price: £46.28Nichols chronicles the Enlightenment view of 'Nature' as static and separate from humans as it moved towards the Romantic 'nature' characterized by dynamic links among all living things. Engaging... -
My Silver Planet: A Secret History of Poetry and Kitsch by Daniel Tiffany 9781421411453
RRP: £39.00Booksplease Price: £29.43Taking its title from John Keats, My Silver Planet contends that the problem of elite poetry's relation to popular culture bears the indelible mark of its turbulent incorporation of vernacular poetry... -
My Silver Planet: A Secret History of Poetry and Kitsch by Daniel Tiffany
RRP: £25.50Booksplease Price: £19.84Taking its title from John Keats, My Silver Planet contends that the problem of elite poetry's relation to popular culture bears the indelible mark of its turbulent incorporation of vernacular... -
The Work of Literature in an Age of Post-Truth by Christopher Schaberg 9781501334306
Booksplease Price: £85.65A 2019 Prose Award FinalistWhat is the role of literary studies in an age of Twitter threads and viral news?If the study of literature today is not just about turning to classic texts with age-old... -
Coleridge's Philosophy: The Logos as Unifying Principle by Mary Anne Perkins 9780198240754
RRP: £125.00Booksplease Price: £114.61Coleridge's status as a philosopher has often been questioned. `I am a poor poet in England,' he admitted, `but in America, I am a great philosopher.' J. S. Mill's assertion that `the time is yet far...