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Freud, Proust and Lacan: Theory as Fiction by Malcolm Bowie 9780521275880
RRP: $54.18Booksplease Price: $52.86The views of Freud, Proust and Lacan are depicted through this staging of a series of provocative dialogues between psychological science and imaginative literature of the twentieth century... -
Terrorist's Creed: Fanatical Violence and the Human Need for Meaning by Roger Griffin 9780230241299
Booksplease Price: $47.39Terrorist's Creed casts a penetrating beam of empathetic understanding into the disturbing and murky psychological world of fanatical violence, explaining how the fanaticism it demands stems from the... -
Marx After Marx: History and Time in the Expansion of Capitalism by Harry Harootunian
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $27.61In Marx After Marx, Harry Harootunian questions the claims of Western Marxism and its presumption of the final completion of capitalism. If this shift in Marxism reflected the recognition that the... -
The Cinematic Political: Film Composition as Political Theory by Michael J. Shapiro
RRP: $51.59Booksplease Price: $49.01In this book, Michael J. Shapiro stages a series of pedagogical encounters between political theory, represented as a compositional challenge, and cinematic texts, emphasizing how to achieve an... -
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Transcommunality: From The Politics Of Conversion by John Brown Childs 9781592130047 [USED COPY]
RRP: $78.69Booksplease Price: $8.80In this original and collaborative creation, John Brown-Childs offers unique insights into some of the central problems facing communities, social movements, and people who desire social change: how... -
Transcommunality: From The Politics Of Conversion by John Brown Childs 9781592130047
RRP: $78.69Booksplease Price: $73.75In this original and collaborative creation, John Brown-Childs offers unique insights into some of the central problems facing communities, social movements, and people who desire social change: how... -
Terrorist's Creed: Fanatical Violence and the Human Need for Meaning by Roger Griffin
Booksplease Price: $47.01Terrorist's Creed casts a penetrating beam of empathetic understanding into the disturbing and murky psychological world of fanatical violence, explaining how the fanaticism it demands stems from the... -
Transcommunality: From The Politics Of Conversion by John Brown Childs 9781592130054
RRP: $28.37Booksplease Price: $24.54In this original and collaborative creation, John Brown-Childs offers unique insights into some of the central problems facing communities, social movements, and people who desire social change: how... -
Marx After Marx: History and Time in the Expansion of Capitalism by Harry Harootunian 9780231174800
RRP: $129.00Booksplease Price: $101.28In Marx After Marx, Harry Harootunian questions the claims of Western Marxism and its presumption of the final completion of capitalism. If this shift in Marxism reflected the recognition that the... -
Moved by the Past: Discontinuity and Historical Mutation by Eelco Runia 9780231168205
RRP: $64.50Booksplease Price: $59.99Historians go to great lengths to avoid confronting discontinuity, searching for explanations as to why such events as the fall of the Berlin Wall, George W. Bush's invasion of Iraq, and the... -
History and Film: A Tale of Two Disciplines by Eleftheria Thanouli 9781501340772
Booksplease Price: $50.48A Choice Outstanding Academic Title History and Film: A Tale of Two Disciplines addresses the representation of history in cinema, a much-argued debate on the need to understand cinematic history... -
An Introduction to Literature, Criticism and Theory Andrew Bennett (University of Bristol, UK) 9781032186139
RRP: $167.70Booksplease Price: $147.95Lively, original and highly readable, An Introduction to Literature, Criticism and Theory is the essential guide to literary studies. Starting at 'The Beginning' and concluding with 'The End',... -
An Introduction to Literature, Criticism and Theory by Andrew Bennett
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $32.84Lively, original and highly readable, An Introduction to Literature, Criticism and Theory is the essential guide to literary studies. Starting at 'The Beginning' and concluding with 'The End',... -
Giving an Account of Oneself by Judith P. Butler 9780823225040
RRP: $32.24Booksplease Price: $28.28What does it mean to lead a moral life? In her first extended study of moral philosophy, Judith Butler offers a provocative outline for a new ethical practice-one responsive to the need for critical... -
The Concept of History by Dmitri Nikulin 9781350064898
Booksplease Price: $52.30The Concept of History reflects on the presuppositions behind the contemporary understanding of history that often remain implicit and not spelled out. It is a critique of the modern understanding of... -
Memory, Trauma, and History: Essays on Living with the Past by Michael Roth 9780231145688
RRP: $150.93Booksplease Price: $117.98In these essays, Michael S. Roth uses psychoanalysis to build a richer understanding of history, and then takes a more expansive conception of history to decode the cultural construction of memory... -
Memory, Trauma, and History: Essays on Living with the Past by Michael Roth 9780231145695
RRP: $36.12Booksplease Price: $30.56In these essays, Michael S. Roth uses psychoanalysis to build a richer understanding of history, and then takes a more expansive conception of history to decode the cultural construction of memory... -
Giving an Account of Oneself by Judith P. Butler
RRP: $92.88Booksplease Price: $75.65What does it mean to lead a moral life? In her first extended study of moral philosophy, Judith Butler offers a provocative outline for a new ethical practice-one responsive to the need for critical... -
Europe in the Era of Two World Wars: From Militarism and Genocide to Civil Society, 1900-1950 by Volker R. Berghahn
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $37.44How and why did Europe spawn dictatorships and violence in the first half of the twentieth century, and then, after 1945 in the west and after 1989 in the east, create successful civilian societies?... -
Antinomies of Art and Culture: Modernity, Postmodernity, Contemporaneity by Okwui Enwezor
RRP: $39.99Booksplease Price: $34.53In this landmark collection, world-renowned theorists, artists, critics, and curators explore new ways of conceiving the present and understanding art and culture in relation to it. They revisit from... -
Poems Containing History: Twentieth-Century American Poetry's Engagement with the Past by Gary Grieve-Carlson 9781498550451
Booksplease Price: $67.96Ezra Pound's definition of an epic as "a poem containing history" raises questions: how can a poem "contain" history? And if it can, does it help us to think about history in ways that conventional... -
The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism by Michael Groden 9780801880100
Booksplease Price: $110.36The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism has become the indispensable resource for scholars and students of literary theory and discourse. The long-awaited second edition includes 48... -
Along the Archival Grain: Epistemic Anxieties and Colonial Common Sense by Ann Laura Stoler 9780691146362
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $34.48Along the Archival Grain offers a unique methodological and analytic opening to the affective registers of imperial governance and the political content of archival forms. In a series of nuanced... -
Love As Human Freedom by Paul A. Kottman
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $22.52Rather than see love as a natural form of affection, Love As Human Freedom sees love as a practice that changes over time through which new social realities are brought into being. Love brings about,... -
Karl Marx: The Burden of Reason (Why Marx Rejected Politics and the Market) by Allan Megill 9780742511668
Booksplease Price: $66.05Why did Karl Marx want to exclude politics and the market from his vision of a future socialism? In Karl Marx: The Burden of Reason, Allan Megill begins with this question. Megill's examination of... -
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Reading Boyishly: Roland Barthes, J. M. Barrie, Jacques Henri Lartigue, Marcel Proust, and D. W. Winnicott by Carol Mavor 9780822338864 [USED COPY]
RRP: $139.32Booksplease Price: $42.76An intricate text filled to the brim with connotations of desire, home, and childhood-nests, food, beds, birds, fairies, bits of string, ribbon, goodnight kisses, appetites sated and denied-Reading... -
Heaven by Mieko Kawakami
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.55Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2022From the bestselling author of Breasts and Eggs and international literary sensation Mieko Kawakami comes a sharp and illuminating novel about a... -
The Civil Sphere by Jeffrey C. Alexander 9780195369304
Booksplease Price: $53.38What binds societies together and how can these social orders be structured in a fair way? Jeffrey C. Alexander's masterful work, The Civil Sphere, addresses this central paradox of modern life...