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The Bible As Literature: A New Introduction Luke Ferretter 9781138806665
RRP: $88.18Booksplease Price: $83.35This book introduces the Bible as one of the greatest works of world literature. Luke Ferretter provides a comprehensive history of the field, alongside detailed readings of the texts of the Bible... -
The Thriller and Northern Ireland since 1969: Utterly Resigned Terror Aaron Kelly 9781138383623
RRP: $109.18Booksplease Price: $102.98For the past 30 years, the so-called 'Troubles' thriller has been the dominant fictional mode for representing Northern Ireland, leading to the charge that the crudity of this popular genre... -
The Meaning of Sarkozy by Alain Badiou 9781844676293
Booksplease Price: $30.45In this incisive, acerbic work, Alain Badiou looks beyond the petty vulgarity of the French president to decipher the true significance of what he represents-a reactionary tradition that goes back... -
Concept and Form: Interviews and Essays on Cahiers Pour L'analyse: Volume 2 by Peter Hallward
Booksplease Price: $47.63Concept and Form is a two-volume monument to the work of the philosophy journal the Cahiers pour l'Analyse (1966-69), the most ambitious and radical collective project to emerge from French... -
For Theory: Althusser and the Politics of Time by Natalia Romé 9781538147665
Booksplease Price: $70.33For Theory is an invitation to review the impact of neoliberalization on critical thinking and a call to recover the momentum of theoretical production capable of sustaining better analyses of the... -
The New Materialism: Althusser, Badiou, and Zizek Geoff Pfeifer 9781138283107
RRP: $121.78Booksplease Price: $113.69Alain Badiou and Slavoj Zizek have become two of the dominant voices in contemporary philosophy and critical theory. In this book, Geoff Pfeifer offers an in-depth look at their respective views... -
Deception in Modern Art and Hollywood Dr Jela Krecic 9781350515086
Booksplease Price: $179.87Over the last 200 years, a paradoxical fear of deception has grown in the fields of art and popular culture - modes of expression that are traditionally dedicated to creating illusory, artificial ... -
The philosophy of Marx by Etienne Balibar 9781784786038
RRP: $37.78Booksplease Price: $31.27Written by one of political theory's leading thinkers, The Philosophy of Marx examines all the key areas of Marx's writings in their wider historical and theoretical context-including the concepts of... -
Althusser, The Infinite Farewell by Emilio De Ipola 9780822370246
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $36.20In Althusser, The Infinite Farewell-originally published in Spanish and appearing here in English for the first time-Emilio de Ipola contends that Althusser's oeuvre is divided between two... -
Naming the Multiple: Poststructuralism and Education by Michael Peters 9780897894852
Booksplease Price: $161.30Poststructuralism-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... -
The Age of the Poets: And Other Writings on Twentieth-Century Poetry and Prose by Alain Badiou
Booksplease Price: $46.16The Age of the Poets revisits the age-old problem of the relation between literature and philosophy, arguing against both Plato and Heidegger's famous arguments. Philosophy neither has to ban the... -
Althusser, The Infinite Farewell by Emilio De Ipola
RRP: $168.00Booksplease Price: $136.27In Althusser, The Infinite Farewell-originally published in Spanish and appearing here in English for the first time-Emilio de Ipola contends that Althusser's oeuvre is divided between two... -
Derrida: A Biography Benoit Peeters 9780745656168
RRP: $60.88Booksplease Price: $47.59This biography of Jacques Derrida (1930 2004) tells the story of a Jewish boy from Algiers, excluded from school at the age of twelve, who went on to become the most widely translated French... -
Racism and Education in the U.K. and the U.S.: Towards a Socialist Alternative by Mike Cole 9780230103801
RRP: $94.48Booksplease Price: $70.52Extends Marxist analysis to include key concepts from the work of neo-Marxists Antonio Gramsci and Louis Althusser. It looks in detail at racism in the U.K. and the U.S. and goes on to examine the... -
Derrida: A Biography Benoit Peeters 9780745656151
Booksplease Price: $52.67This biography of Jacques Derrida (1930-2004) tells the story of a Jewish boy from Algiers, excluded from school at the age of twelve, who went on to become the most widely translated French... -
Freud and the Problem of Sexuality by Bradley Benjamin Ramos 9781438496764
RRP: $152.25Booksplease Price: $146.18A fresh, provocative reading of Freud's theory of sexuality.While contemporary studies have paid renewed attention to the psychoanalytic theory of sexuality and routinely reference Sigmund Freud,... -
Spinoza, the Transindividual by Etienne Balibar
RRP: $50.38Booksplease Price: $45.76Etienne Balibar, one of the foremost living French philosophers, builds on his landmark work 'Spinoza and Politics' with this exploration of Spinoza's ontology. Balibar situates Spinoza in relation... -
Freud and the Problem of Sexuality by Bradley Benjamin Ramos 9781438496771
Booksplease Price: $53.87A fresh, provocative reading of Freud's theory of sexuality.While contemporary studies have paid renewed attention to the psychoanalytic theory of sexuality and routinely reference Sigmund Freud,... -
Late Neoclassical Economics: The restoration of theoretical humanism in contemporary economic theory by Yahya M. Madra
RRP: $71.38Booksplease Price: $69.07Several contemporary economic theories revolve around different concepts: market failures, institutions, transaction costs, information asymmetries, motivational diversity, cognitive limitations,... -
The Method of Equality: Interviews with Laurent Jeanpierre and Dork Zabunyan Jacques Ranciere 9780745680637
RRP: $37.78Booksplease Price: $35.76The development of Ranciere's philosophical work, from his formative years through the political and methodological break with Louis Althusser and the lessons of May 68, is documented here, as are... -
Making Subject(s): Literature and the Emergence of National Identity by Allen Carey-Webb 9781138864382
RRP: $79.78Booksplease Price: $76.19Considering a wide range of cultural materials and engaging in a close reading of literary texts, this book draws a compelling comparison between national identity in Europe and the Third World. The... -
The Ideology of Imagination: Subject and Society in the Discourse of Romanticism by Forest Pyle 9780804728621
RRP: $48.28Booksplease Price: $42.76Exploring how the concept of the imagination is figured in some principal texts of English Romanticism, this book convincingly argues that this figuring is a deeply ideological activity which reveals... -
Media Manifestos by Regis Debray
Booksplease Price: $37.97In this volume Regis Debray sums up over a decade of his research and writing on the evolution of subjects of communication and the technologically transmitted interventions of the modern... -
Lenin, Hegel, and Western Marxism: A Critical Study by Kevin B. Anderson 9781642598223
RRP: $63.00Booksplease Price: $50.72Still the only full-length study of the achievements and limitations of Lenin's extensive writings on Hegel, Hegel, Lenin, and Western Marxism has become a minor classic. In a full critical account,... -
Jacques Lacan, Past and Present: A Dialogue by Alain Badiou 9780231165112
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $27.70In this dialogue, Alain Badiou shares the clearest, most detailed account to date of his profound indebtedness to Lacanian psychoanalysis. He explains in depth the tools Lacan gave him to navigate... -
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The Ideology of Imagination: Subject and Society in the Discourse of Romanticism by Forest Pyle 9780804716499 [USED COPY]
RRP: $201.60Booksplease Price: $9.41Exploring how the concept of the imagination is figured in some principal texts of English Romanticism, this book convincingly argues that this figuring is a deeply ideological activity which reveals... -
Stain Removal: Ethics and Race by J. Reid Miller 9780190280970
RRP: $220.50Booksplease Price: $155.34Martin Luther King, Jr. famously expressed his dream that his children would "one day not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character." In his vision, a person's... -
The Early Foucault Stuart Elden (Durham University) 9781509525966
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $37.57It was not until 1961 that Foucault published his first major book, History of Madness. He had already been working as an academic for a decade, teaching in Lille and Paris, writing, organizing... -
The Work of Mourning by Jacques Derrida
RRP: $54.60Booksplease Price: $51.68Jacques Derrida is, in the words of the New York Times, "perhaps the world's most famous philosopher if not the only famous philosopher." He often provokes controversy as soon as his name is... -
The Concept in Crisis: Reading Capital Today by Nick Nesbitt 9780822369073
RRP: $46.18Booksplease Price: $39.94The 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... -
The Age of Structuralism: From Levi-Strauss to Foucault Edith Kurzweil 9781560008798
RRP: $107.08Booksplease Price: $101.18Structuralism began in linguistics and was enlarged by Claude Levi-Strauss into a new way of thinking that views our world as consisting of relationships between structures we create rather than of... -
Wittgenstein's Antiphilosophy by Alain Badiou
Booksplease Price: $36.77Alain Badiou takes on the standard bearer of the "linguistic turn" in modern philosophy and anatomizes the "antiphilosophy" of Ludwig Wittgenstein. In the course of his interrogation of... -
The Ideology of Power and the Power of Ideology by Goran Therborn
Booksplease Price: $32.57Few concepts have been so intensively discussed or so widely sponsored as that of "ideology." Whether read as the expression of social classes or attributed a material independence and efficacy,... -
The Early Foucault by Stuart Elden 9781509525959
RRP: $115.50Booksplease Price: $103.01It was not until 1961 that Foucault published his first major book, History of Madness. He had already been working as an academic for a decade, teaching in Lille and Paris, writing, organizing... -
Idiotism: Capitalism and the Privatisation of Life Neal Curtis 9780745331553
Booksplease Price: $66.19Idiotism examines society in late capitalism where the market logic of neoliberalism has become the new 'common sense'. Using the Greek word idios, meaning 'private', Neal Curtis calls this... -
The Limits of Autobiography: Trauma and Testimony by Leigh Gilmore 9781501770777
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $36.20In The Limits of Autobiography, Leigh Gilmore analyzes texts that depict trauma by combining elements of autobiography, fiction, biography, history, and theory in ways that challenge the constraints... -
History and Event: From Marxism to Contemporary French Theory Nathan Coombs 9781399565653
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $37.78Nathan Coombs demonstrates that the Marxist science of history has been reimagined by a strand of contemporary French theory after Louis Althusser. Taking a comparative approach, he explores the... -
History and Event: From Marxism to Contemporary French Theory by Nathan Coombs
RRP: $231.00Booksplease Price: $208.78Nathan Coombs demonstrates that the Marxist science of history has been reimagined by a strand of contemporary French theory after Louis Althusser. Taking a comparative approach, he explores the... -
Lacan and Levi-Strauss or The Return to Freud (1951-1957) by Markos Zafiropoulos
RRP: $75.58Booksplease Price: $72.64Lacan and Levi-Strauss are often mentioned together in reviews of French structuralist thought, but what really links their distinct projects? In this important study, Markos Zafiropoulos shows how... -
The Limits of Autobiography: Trauma and Testimony by Leigh Gilmore 9781501770760
RRP: $243.60Booksplease Price: $167.58In The Limits of Autobiography, Leigh Gilmore analyzes texts that depict trauma by combining elements of autobiography, fiction, biography, history, and theory in ways that challenge the constraints...