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Shakespeare and Contemporary Theory: New Historicism and Cultural Materialism by Dr Neema Parvini 9781441193933
Booksplease Price: £37.81In the 30 years since the publication of Stephen Greenblatt's Renaissance Self-Fashioning overthrew traditional modes of Shakespeare criticism, New Historicism and Cultural Materialism have rapidly... -
A Race So Different: Performance and Law in Asian America by Joshua Takano Chambers-Letson 9780814738399
Booksplease Price: £90.57Winner of the 2014 Outstanding Book Award presented by the Association for Theatre in Higher Education Taking a performance studies approach to understanding Asian American racial subjectivity,... -
A Race So Different: Performance and Law in Asian America by Joshua Takano Chambers-Letson
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48Winner of the 2014 Outstanding Book Award presented by the Association for Theatre in Higher Education Taking a performance studies approach to understanding Asian American racial subjectivity,... -
Identity: A Reader by Jessica Evans 9780761969167
Booksplease Price: £93.82Identity provides an essential resource of key statements drawn from cultural studies, sociology, and psychoanalytic theory, and includes three editorial essays, which place the readings in their... -
Concept and Form: Selections from Cahiers Pour L'analyse: Volume 1 by Peter Hallward
Booksplease Price: £22.52Concept 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... -
Jacques Ranciere by Oliver Davis 9780745646541
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £49.05This 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... -
Infinite Greed: The Inhuman Selfishness of Capital by Adrian Johnston 9780231214728
RRP: £117.00Booksplease Price: £91.46Selfishness is essential to capitalism-or so both advocates and opponents claim. In Infinite Greed, Adrian Johnston argues that this consensus is mistaken. Through a novel synthesis of Marxism and... -
International Relations in the Middle East: Hegemonic Strategies and Regional Order by Ewan Stein
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.76Developing an original theoretical approach to understanding the roots of regional conflict and cooperation, International Relations in the Middle East explores domestic and international foreign... -
Infinite Greed: The Inhuman Selfishness of Capital by Adrian Johnston 9780231214735
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.21Selfishness is essential to capitalism-or so both advocates and opponents claim. In Infinite Greed, Adrian Johnston argues that this consensus is mistaken. Through a novel synthesis of Marxism and... -
For Revolt: Ranci�re, Abstract Space and Emancipation Jussi Palmusaari 9781350277137
Booksplease Price: £30.54This striking interpretation of Ranciere's uncompromising view of emancipation draws on his Maoist commitments and invariably rational and Kantian-moralist basis. Tracing the logic of abstract and... -
A Concrete Alliance: Communism and Modern Architecture in Postwar France Vanessa Grossman 9780300259346
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £49.18The compelling story of the significant relationship between communism and modern architecture in postwar France The massive reshaping of French cities that took place between 1958 and 1981 is... -
On Universals: Constructing and Deconstructing Community by Etienne Balibar
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £22.44Many on the Left have looked upon "universal" as a dirty word, one that signals liberalism's failure to recognize the masculinist and Eurocentric assumptions from which it proceeds. In rejecting... -
International Relations in the Middle East: Hegemonic Strategies and Regional Order by Ewan Stein 9781107181892
RRP: £78.00Booksplease Price: £74.63Developing an original theoretical approach to understanding the roots of regional conflict and cooperation, International Relations in the Middle East explores domestic and international foreign... -
Arguments within English Marxism by Perry Anderson
Booksplease Price: £18.18The characteristic form taken by English Marxism since the war has been the study of history. No writer exemplifies its achievements better than Edward Thompson, whose Making of the English Working... -
Traces of War: Interpreting Ethics and Trauma in Twentieth-Century French Writing Colin Davis (School of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures, Royal Holloway, University of London (United Kingdom)) 9781786940421
Booksplease Price: £47.29An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library. The legacy of the Second World War remains unsettled; no consensus has been... -
For Revolt: Rancière, Abstract Space and Emancipation by Jussi Palmusaari 9781350274020
Booksplease Price: £91.39This striking interpretation of Ranciere's uncompromising view of emancipation draws on his Maoist commitments and invariably rational and Kantian-moralist basis. Tracing the logic of abstract and... -
Kant by Alexandre Kojève 9781804290651
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £15.53Immanuel Kant's philosophical system, Kojeve argues, is haunted by the Thing-in-itself as the ultimate expression of 'bourgeois hypocrisy' and its internally divided reason, split between action and... -
A Search for Clarity: Science and Philosophy in Lacan's Oeuvre by Jean-Claude Milner 9780810142848
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.21In A Search for Clarity: Science and Philosophy in Lacan's Oeuvre, Jean-Claude Milner argues that although Jacques Lacan's writing is notoriously obscure his oeuvre is entirely clear. In a discussion... -
Pierre Macherey and the Case of Literary Production by Warren Montag
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £25.04This collection revisits A Theory of Literary Production (1966) to show how Pierre Macherey's remarkable-and still provocative-early work can contribute to contemporary discussions about the act of... -
In Praise of Love by Alain Badiou 9781595588777
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £10.66The renowned French philosopher's "ode to love's power to unite in the face of eternity, and its optimism in the face of pain" (Publishers Weekly). In a world rife with consumerism, where online... -
The Agent in the Margin: Nayantara Sahgal's Gandhian Fiction by Clara A. B. Joseph
RRP: £72.00Booksplease Price: £58.10The Agent in the Margin: Nayantara Sahgal's Gandhian Fiction is a comprehensive study of the literary works of Nayantara Sahgal, daughter of Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit - the first woman president of the... -
Foundations of Modernity: Human Agency and the Imperial State by Isa Blumi 9781138306974
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £46.49Investigating how a number of modern empires transform over the long 19th century (1789-1914) as a consequence of their struggle for ascendancy in the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East,... -
Ambivalent Recognition: The Harmful Social Consequences of an Ethical Good Kristina Lepold 9780231217309
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £22.92Recognition has become one of the key concepts of contemporary critical theory, heralded by thinkers such as Axel Honneth and Charles Taylor. It is widely claimed that a person must be recognized by... -
Shakespeare in Theory and Practice by Catherine Belsey
RRP: £33.99Booksplease Price: £30.23Theory is valuable to the degree that it enables us to read differently: a nuanced approach shows that the most obvious interpretation is never the whole story. In these essays, brought together here... -
Stain Removal: Ethics and Race by J. Reid Miller 9780190055875
Booksplease Price: £41.57Martin 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... -
Ambivalent Recognition: The Harmful Social Consequences of an Ethical Good Kristina Lepold 9780231217293
RRP: £94.00Booksplease Price: £89.80Recognition has become one of the key concepts of contemporary critical theory, heralded by thinkers such as Axel Honneth and Charles Taylor. It is widely claimed that a person must be recognized by... -
Shakespeare in Theory and Practice by Catherine Belsey 9780748633012
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £72.96Theory is valuable to the degree that it enables us to read differently: a nuanced approach shows that the most obvious interpretation is never the whole story. In these essays, brought together here... -
Foucault with Marx by Jacques Bidet 9781783605378
Booksplease Price: £19.71With this timely commitment, Jacques Bidet unites the theories of arguably the world's two greatest emancipatory political thinkers. In this far-reaching and decisive text, Bidet examines Marxian and... -
Having A Life: Self Pathology after Lacan by Lewis A. Kirshner
RRP: £38.99Booksplease Price: £37.14What is it about "having a life"- which is to say, about having a sense of separate existence as a subject or self - that is usually taken for granted but is so fragilely maintained in certain... -
The Glyph and the Gramophone: D.H. Lawrence's Religion by Luke Ferretter 9781441122957
Booksplease Price: £29.55D. H. Lawrence wrote in 1914, 'Primarily I am a passionately religious man, and my novels must be written from the depths of my religious experience.' Although he had broken with the... -
The War Against Marxism: Reification and Revolution by Tony McKenna
Booksplease Price: £29.16Marxism has provided the ideological impetus to liberation movements, radical struggles and revolutions across the world. But in the 20th century, the emancipatory and democratic power of its... -
The Glyph and the Gramophone: D.H. Lawrence's Religion by Luke Ferretter 9781441132581
Booksplease Price: £113.11D. H. Lawrence wrote in 1914, 'Primarily I am a passionately religious man, and my novels must be written from the depths of my religious experience.' Although he had broken with the... -
The War Against Marxism: Reification and Revolution Mr Tony McKenna 9781350201408
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £25.07Marxism has provided the ideological impetus to liberation movements, radical struggles and revolutions across the world. But in the 20th century, the emancipatory and democratic power of its... -
Knowledge of Life by Georges Canguilhem
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £25.54As the work of thinkers such as Michel Foucault, Francois Jacob, Louis Althusser, and Pierre Bourdieu demonstrates, Georges Canguilhem has exerted tremendous influence on the philosophy of science... -
Equaliberty: Political Essays by Etienne Balibar
RRP: £128.00Booksplease Price: £102.70First published in French in 2010, Equaliberty brings together essays by Etienne Balibar, one of the preeminent political theorists of our time. The book is organized around equaliberty, a term... -
Militant Acts: The Role of Investigations in Radical Political Struggles by Marcelo Hoffman 9781438472614
RRP: £72.50Booksplease Price: £59.58Militant Acts presents a broad history of the concept and practice of investigations in radical political struggles from the nineteenth century to the present. Radicals launched investigations into... -
Mapping Ideology by Slavoj Zizek
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.32For a long time, the term 'ideology' was in disrepute, having become associated with such unfashionable notions as fundamental truth and the eternal verities. The tide has turned, and recent years... -
Militant Acts: The Role of Investigations in Radical Political Struggles by Marcelo Hoffman 9781438472621
Booksplease Price: £27.39Offers a history of the role of investigations in radical political struggles from the nineteenth century forward.Militant Acts presents a broad history of the concept and practice of investigations... -
Citizen Subject: Foundations for Philosophical Anthropology by Etienne Balibar
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £28.18What can the universals of political philosophy offer to those who experience "the living paradox of an inegalitarian construction of egalitarian citizenship"? Citizen Subject is the summation of... -
Violence and Civility: On the Limits of Political Philosophy by Tienne Balibar 9780231153997
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £23.69In Violence and Civility, Etienne Balibar boldly confronts the insidious causes of violence, racism, nationalism, and ethnic cleansing worldwide, as well as mass poverty and dispossession. Through a...