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Society and Its Metaphors: Language, Social Theory and Social Structure by Jose Lopez 9780826463852
Booksplease Price: £81.47Both classical and contemporary social theorists have created a range of frameworks to formulate and develop concepts of social structure. Focusing on the work of the key theorists, Emile Durkheim,... -
Reclaiming Truth: Contribution to a Critique of Cultural Relativism by Christopher Norris
Booksplease Price: £17.19We live in a world where questions of truth and of falsehood are left increasingly unattended. Such questions are often replaced by a relativism which allows any group the right to assert their... -
Supposing the Subject by Joan Copjec
Booksplease Price: £18.71A collection of essays by theorists in culture and politics. Experts from a variety of fields re-examine the origins of the subject as understood by Descartes, Kant and Hegel, and consider... -
The Exform by Nicolas Bourriaud
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £11.33Leading theorist and art curator Nicolas Bourriaud tackles the excluded, the disposable and the nature of waste by looking to the future of art-the exform.He argues that the great theoretical battles... -
Reading Knowledge: An Introduction to Foucault, Barthes and Althusser by Michael Payne
RRP: £97.95Booksplease Price: £89.81Michael Payne introduces the principal writings of Roland Barthes, Michael Foucault and Louis Althusser by means of a detailed focus on their common interest in the forms and conditions of knowledge... -
The Method of Equality: Interviews with Laurent Jeanpierre and Dork Zabunyan by Jacques Ranciere 9780745680620
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £49.05The point is to get away from questions of origin, to forget about where a theory or a form of knowledge or politics come from originally, and to define instead scenes where we can see things play... -
Post-Marxist Theory: An Introduction by Philip Goldstein 9780791463024
Booksplease Price: £25.65An introduction to the philosophical, economic, historical, feminist, and cultural versions of post-Marxist theory.Poststructuralist Marxism, or post-Marxism, is a theoretical viewpoint that... -
Reading Knowledge: An Introduction to Foucault, Barthes and Althusser by Michael Payne 9780631195672
RRP: £43.95Booksplease Price: £41.37Michael Payne introduces the principal writings of Roland Barthes, Michael Foucault and Louis Althusser by means of a detailed focus on their common interest in the forms and conditions of knowledge... -
Jacques Ranciere Oliver Davis (Assistant Professor, French Studies, University of Warwick) 9780745646558
Booksplease Price: £19.71This book is a critical introduction to contemporary French philosopher Jacques Ranciere. It is the first introduction in any language to cover all of his major work and offers an accessible... -
Michel Serres and French Philosophy of Science: Materiality, Ecology and Quasi-Objects by Massimiliano Simons 9781350247901
Booksplease Price: £31.86Massimiliano Simons provides the first systematic study of Serres’s work in the context of 20th-century French philosophy of science. By proposing new readings of Serres’s philosophy, Simons creates... -
The Production of Subjectivity: Marx and Philosophy by Jason Read
RRP: £34.99Booksplease Price: £27.83Louis Althusser argued that Marx initiated a transformation of philosophy, a new way of doing philosophy. This book follows that provocation to examine the way in which central Marxist concepts and... -
Marxist Literary Theory: A Reader Terry Eagleton (University of Manchester) 9780631185819
RRP: £45.95Booksplease Price: £43.36Marxist Literary Theory: A Reader is designed to give both students and lecturers a sense of the historical formation of a Marxist literary tradition. A unique compilation of principal texts in that... -
The Ethics of Psychoanalysis: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan: Book VII by Jacques Lacan 9781138834590
Booksplease Price: £110.39A charismatic and controversial figure, Lacan is one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century and his work has revolutionized linguistics, philosophy, literature, psychology, cultural... -
Althusser and Law by Laurent de Sutter
RRP: £58.99Booksplease Price: £54.98Althusser and Law is the first book specifically dedicated to the place of law in Louis Althusser's philosophy. The growing importance of Althusser's philosophy in contemporary debates on the left... -
Michel Serres and French Philosophy of Science: Materiality, Ecology and Quasi-Objects by Massimiliano Simons 9781350247864
Booksplease Price: £96.35Massimiliano Simons provides the first systematic study of Serres' work in the context of late 20th-century French philosophy of science. By proposing new readings of Serres' philosophy, Simons... -
The Ethics of Psychoanalysis: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan: Book VII by Jacques Lacan
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £17.09A charismatic and controversial figure, Lacan is one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century and his work has revolutionized linguistics, philosophy, literature, psychology, cultural... -
Threads of Life: Autobiography and the Will by Richard Freadman
Booksplease Price: £30.43Many autobiographers share profound questions about human life with their readers - questions like: To what extent was my life imposed on me? To what extent did I bring it about through particular... -
Imaginary Relations: Aesthetics and Ideology in the Theory of Historical Materialism by Michael Sprinker
Booksplease Price: £21.98This book sets out to clarify the nature of the aesthetic as a category within the theory of historical materialism. It opens with an analysis of Marx's brief discussion of Greek art in the... -
Metapolitics by Alain Badiou
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £14.30Badiou indicts this approach, which reduces politics to a matter of opinion, thus eliminating any of its truly radical and emancipatory possibilities. Against this intellectual tradition, Badiou... -
Identity and Difference: John Locke and the Invention of Consciousness by Etienne Balibar 9781781681343
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.97John Locke's foundational place in the history of British empiricism and liberal political thought is well established. So, in what sense can Locke be considered a modern European philosopher?... -
Ecrits: A Selection by Jacques Lacan
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £18.74Genius and charismatic leader of a psychoanalytic movement that in the 1950s and 1960s provided a focal point for the French intelligentsia, Jacques Lacan attracted a cult following. Ecrits is his... -
Modernity At Sea: Melville, Marx, Conrad In Crisis by Cesare Casarino 9780816639274
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.76Analyzes nineteenth-century seafaring narratives and their importance to ideas of modernityAt once a literary-philosophical meditation on the question of modernity and a manifesto for a new form of... -
Five Lessons on Wagner by Alain Badiou
Booksplease Price: £22.85For over a century, Richard Wagner's music has been the subject of intense debate among philosophers, many of whom have attacked its ideological-some say racist and reactionary-underpinnings. In this... -
Psychoanalysis of Science: The Role of Metaphor, Paraprax, Lacunae & Myth by Yehoyakim Stein
Booksplease Price: £114.18By systematically deconstructing and analysing scientific texts for irrational unconscious motivations, new scientific associations can be produced. Four categories are suggested as guidelines for... -
Threads of Life: Autobiography and the Will by Richard Freadman 9780226261423
RRP: £81.00Booksplease Price: £78.54Many autobiographers share profound questions about human life with their readers - questions like: To what extent was my life imposed on me? To what extent did I bring it about through particular... -
Atomic Road by Grant Buday 9781772141139
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.30Art critic Clement Greenberg, champion of abstract expressionism, is more interested in silencing his rival Harold Rosenberg than with the threat of nuclear destruction. Greenberg is driving from... -
Philosophy for Militants by Alain Badiou
Booksplease Price: £14.30An urgent and provocative account of the modern 'militant', a transformative figure at the front line of emancipatory politics. Around the world, recent events have seen the creation of a radical... -
Concrete Critical Theory: Althusser’s Marxism by William S. Lewis 9781642597899
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.38Taking an analytic and historical approach, this work develops and defends Althusserian critical theory. This theory, it is argued, produces knowledge of how a particular class of people, in a... -
Black Bodies That Matter: Mourning, Rage, and Beauty James Garrison 9781793644688
Booksplease Price: £102.21Responding to interconnected tragedies affecting minority populations in America, Black Bodies That Matter: Mourning, Rage, and Beauty brings together the Black Lives Matter movement with the... -
Studies of the Paris Manuscripts: The Turning Point of Marx by Lixin Han 9789813297692
Booksplease Price: £80.72This book is devoted to the studies of Karl Marx’s Paris Manuscripts and presents a new interpretation of early Marx, arguing that his transition to maturity can be found in these manuscripts, and... -
Spinoza and Politics by Etienne Balibar 9781844672059
Booksplease Price: £14.08With Hobbes and Locke, Spinoza is arguably one of the most important political philosophers of the modern era, a premier theoretician of democracy and mass politics. In this revised and augmented... -
Althusser's Lesson by Jacques Ranciere 9781350009110
Booksplease Price: £22.66Jacques Ranciere's first major work, Althusser's Lesson appeared in 1974, just as the energies of May 68 were losing ground to the calls for a return to order. Ranciere's analysis of Althusserian... -
The Communist Hypothesis by Alain Badiou
Booksplease Price: £21.55"We know that communism is the right hypothesis. All those who abandon this hypothesis immediately resign themselves to the market economy, to parliamentary democracy - the form of state suited to... -
Key Sociological Thinkers by Rob Stones 9780814781166
Booksplease Price: £30.78Despite the fact that most of us think often about society and social life, few of us have had extensive schooling in how to organize or structure such thought. Guided by the belief that the... -
Marxism and Epistemology: Bachelard, Canguilhem, Foucault by Dominique Lecourt
Booksplease Price: £17.53When this book was first published in English in 1975, the previous forty years had seen the emergence of a new tradition in the philosophy of the sciences, or 'epistemology' in France. The founder... -
Stuart Hall Lives: Cultural Studies in an Age of Digital Media by Peter Decherney
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24The work of cultural and political theorist Stuart Hall, a pioneer of Cultural Studies who passed away in 2014, remains more relevant than ever. In Stuart Hall Lives, scholars engage with Hall's most... -
Ranciere and Law by Monica Lopez Lerma
RRP: £46.99Booksplease Price: £43.94This book is the first to approach Jacques Ranciere's work from a legal perspective. A former student of Louis Althusser, Ranciere is one of the most important contemporary French philosophers of... -
After Poststructuralism: Reading, Stories, Theory Colin Davis 9780415316095
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69In the last decades of the twentieth century, French poststructuralist 'theory' transformed the humanities; it also met with resistance and today we frequently hear that theory is 'dead'.In this... -
The Concept in Crisis: Reading Capital Today by Nick Nesbitt 9780822369622
RRP: £86.00Booksplease Price: £69.89The publication of Reading Capital-by Louis Althusser, Etienne Balibar, Roger Establet, Pierre Macherey, and Jacques Ranciere-in 1965 marked a key intervention in Marxist philosophy and critical... -
Rhapsody for the Theatre by Alain Badiou 9781781681251
Booksplease Price: £17.93For Alain Badiou, theatre-unlike cinema-creates a space in which philosophy can be lived. It is, of all the arts, the most closely related to politics: both depend on a limited number of texts or ...