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Metaphysics of the Profane: The Political Theology of Walter Benjamin and Gershom Scholem by Eric Jacobson 9780231126571
RRP: $58.50Booksplease Price: $49.16Walter Benjamin and Gershom Scholem are regarded as two of the most influential Jewish thinkers of the twentieth century. Together they produced a dynamic body of ideas that has had a lasting impact... -
Experience and Infinite Task: Knowledge, Language and Messianism in the Philosophy of Walter Benjamin by Tamara Tagliacozzo 9781786600424
Booksplease Price: $80.65This book examines the philosophical thought of the young Walter Benjamin and its development in his later work. Starting from his critique of the philosophy of Immanuel Kant and Hermann Cohen, the... -
Political Enthusiasm: Partisan Feeling and Democracy's Enchantments by Andrew Poe 9781526156914
RRP: $165.75Booksplease Price: $146.64Enthusiasm has long been perceived as a fundamental danger to democratic politics, with many regarding it as a source of instability and irrationalism. Such views can make enthusiasm appear as a... -
Law and the Utopian Imagination by Austin Sarat 9780804790819
RRP: $146.25Booksplease Price: $113.30Law and the Utopian Imagination seeks to explore and resuscitate the notion of utopianism within current legal discourse. The idea of utopia has fascinated the imaginations of important thinkers for... -
Magical Nominalism: The Historical Event, Aesthetic Reenchantment, and the Photograph Martin Jay 9780226837215
RRP: $62.40Booksplease Price: $62.07A bold and wide-ranging study across centuries, examining the conflict between "conventional" and "magical" nominalism in philosophy, history, aesthetics, political theory, and photography. In this... -
What Hashish Did To Walter Benjamin: Mind-Altering Essays on Marijuana by Sebastian Marincolo 9783981771206
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $20.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783981771206Author Sebastian MarincoloFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint Khargala PressPublisher... -
Walter Benjamin and the Critique of Political Economy: A New Historical Materialism by Duy Lap Nguyen 9781350331051
Booksplease Price: $61.46Exploring the connections between Walter Benjamin’s philosophy of history and a Marxian Critique of Political Economy, Duy Lap Nguyen analyses Benjamin’s early writings and their development into a... -
On Karl Marx by Ernst Bloch
Booksplease Price: $35.26This study of Marx serves not only as an excellent introduction to that most influential of "worldly philosophers" but is also a significant resume of the central issues of Bloch's own profound and... -
Climate Change, Interrupted: Representation and the Remaking of Time by Barbara Leckie
RRP: $44.83Booksplease Price: $39.70In this moment of climate precarity, Victorian studies scholar Barbara Leckie considers the climate crisis as a problem of time. Spanning the long nineteenth century through our current moment, her... -
Homo Temporalis: German Jewish Thinkers on Time Nitzan Itzhak Lebovic 9781501779558
RRP: $226.20Booksplease Price: $181.97Homo Temporalis focuses on the importance of temporal concepts for four German Jewish thinkers who profoundly shaped twentieth-century intellectual history: Martin Buber, Walter Benjamin, Hannah... -
Philosophical Urbanism: Lineages in Mind-Environment Patterns by Abraham Akkerman 9783030290870
Booksplease Price: $90.25This book expands on the thought of Walter Benjamin by exploring the notion of modern mind, pointing to the mutual and ongoing feedback between mind and city-form. Since the Neolithic Age, volumes... -
The Interior Urbanism Theory Reader Gregory Marinic (University of Houston, USA) 9781138336315
RRP: $79.93Booksplease Price: $72.42The Interior Urbanism Theory Reader expands our understanding of urbanism, interiority, and publicness from a global perspective across time and cultures. From ancient origins to speculative futures,... -
Hope Without Optimism by Terry Eagleton 9780813937342
RRP: $64.35Booksplease Price: $30.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780813937342Author Terry EagletonFormat HardbackPage Count 168Imprint University of Virginia... -
Precarious Lease Jacqueline Feldman 9781804271407
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $20.49On 31 December 2012, Le Bloc opened its doors. Situated at a far edge of Paris, near where the banlieue began, the legendary squat was eight stories tall and four basements deep. It took in artists... -
Political Enthusiasm: Partisan Feeling and Democracy’s Enchantments Andrew Poe 9781526195685
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $45.90Enthusiasm has long been perceived as a fundamental danger to democratic politics, with many regarding it as a source of instability and irrationalism. Such views can make enthusiasm appear as a... -
![Translation as a Form: A Centennial Commentary on Walter Benjamin's "The Task of the Translator" by Douglas Robinson](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/444185/443901/9781032161389__06454.1687160709.jpg?c=1 "Translation as a Form: A Centennial Commentary on Walter Benjamin's "The Task of the Translator" by Douglas Robinson")
Translation as a Form: A Centennial Commentary on Walter Benjamin's "The Task of the Translator" by Douglas Robinson
RRP: $79.93Booksplease Price: $73.16This is a book-length commentary on Walter Benjamin's 1923 essay "Die Aufgabe des UEbersetzers," best known in English under the title "The Task of the Translator." Benjamin's essay is at once an... -
Walter Benjamin, Religion and Aesthetics: Rethinking Religion through the Arts S. Brent Plate 9780415969925
RRP: $79.93Booksplease Price: $73.16Walter Benjamin, Religion, and Aesthetics is an innovative and creative attempt to unsettle and reconceive the key concepts of religious studies through a reading with, and against, Walter Benjamin... -
Walter Benjamin and the Critique of Political Economy: A New Historical Materialism by Duy Lap Nguyen 9781350180420
Booksplease Price: $186.79Exploring the connections between Walter Benjamin's philosophy of history and a Marxian Critique of Political Economy, Duy Lap Nguyen analyses Benjamin's early writings and their development into a... -
Cinema and Experience: Siegfried Kracauer, Walter Benjamin, and Theodor W. Adorno by Miriam Hansen 9780520265592
RRP: $122.85Booksplease Price: $116.47Siegfried Kracauer, Walter Benjamin, and Theodor W. Adorno - affiliated through friendship, professional ties, and argument - developed an astute philosophical critique of modernity in which... -
The Art of Gesture: Classical and Renaissance Expressions Andrew Benjamin 9781399529631
RRP: $185.25Booksplease Price: $166.59Andrew Benjamin approaches the relationship between philosophy and art history through the concept of gesture. Critically engaging with Walter Benjamin, Aby Warburg and Giorgio Agamben, by focusing... -
Experience and Infinite Task: Knowledge, Language and Messianism in the Philosophy of Walter Benjamin by Tamara Tagliacozzo 9781786600417
Booksplease Price: $158.87This book examines the philosophical thought of the young Walter Benjamin and its development in his later work. Starting from his critique of the philosophy of Immanuel Kant and Hermann Cohen, the... -
On Changing The World: Essays in Political Philosophy, from Karl Marx to Walter Benjamin by Michael Lowy 9781608461899
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $24.14This collection of essays - including several translated to english for the first time - cover a wide range of topics and figures too often neglected by the dominant trends in Marxist literature... -
Collective Dreams: Political Imagination and Community by Keally D. McBride 9780271026893
Booksplease Price: $72.91How do we go about imagining different and better worlds for ourselves? Collective Dreams looks at ideals of community, frequently embraced as the basis for reform across the political spectrum, as... -
Just Language: Walter Benjamin, German-Jewish Exile, and the Critique of Linguistic Violence Dennis Johannßen 9780472058006
RRP: $54.50Booksplease Price: $52.18Just Language revisits the Weimar period and its representation in the postwar years to explore narratives of linguistic resistance in the works of Walter Benjamin, Theodor W. Adorno, Hannah Arendt,... -
Crisis Cultures: Narratives of Western Modernity in the Digital Age Nicholas Manganas 9781666935219
Booksplease Price: $167.02In Crisis Cultures: Narratives of Western Modernity in the Digital Age, Nicholas Manganas argues that crisis should be understood not as a series of isolated events, but as a constitutive state... -
A Lover's Discourse by Xiaolu Guo
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $26.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802149534Author Xiaolu GuoFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly... -
The Critical Introduction to Salomo Friedlaender-Mynona: Twentieth-Century Performance Philosopher Detlef Thiel 9781538146132
RRP: $202.80Booksplease Price: $190.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781538146132Author Detlef ThielFormat HardbackPage Count 376Imprint Rowman & Littlefield... -
Just Language: Walter Benjamin, German-Jewish Exile, and the Critique of Linguistic Violence Dennis Johannßen 9780472078004
Booksplease Price: $158.44Just Language revisits the Weimar period and its representation in the postwar years to explore narratives of linguistic resistance in the works of Walter Benjamin, Theodor W. Adorno, Hannah Arendt,... -
Postcolonial Historical Materialism: The Heritage of Critical Theory Filippo Menozzi 9781350410138
Booksplease Price: $167.02Through a reappraisal of the work of four major figures in critical theory - Ernst Bloch, Georg Lukacs, Theodor Adorno, and Walter Benjamin - Filippo Menozzi rethinks the tradition of critical... -
The Afterlife of Texts in Translation: Understanding the Messianic in Literature by Edmund Chapman 9783030324513
Booksplease Price: $90.25The Afterlife of Texts in Translation: Understanding the Messianic in Literature reads Walter Benjamin's and Jacques Derrida's writings on translation as suggesting that texts exist within a process... -
In the Language of Walter Benjamin Carol Jacobs (Birgit Baldwin Professor of Comparative Literature, Yale University) 9780801866692
RRP: $55.58Booksplease Price: $42.71If Walter Benjamin (with an irony that belies his seemingly tragic life) is now recognized as one of the century's most important writers, reading him is no easy matter. Benjamin opens one of his... -
Minima Moralia: Reflections from Damaged Life by Theodor Adorno
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.58Written between 1944 and 1947, Minima Moralia is a collection of rich, lucid aphorisms and essays about life in modern capitalist society. Adorno casts his penetrating eye across society in... -
La Obra de Arte En La Época de Su Reproductibilidad Técnica by Consultant Statistician Walter Benjamin 9789508892874
Booksplease Price: $44.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789508892874Author Consultant Statistician Walter BenjaminFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint La... -
Under Representation: The Racial Regime of Aesthetics by David Lloyd
RRP: $46.78Booksplease Price: $43.76Under Representation shows how the founding texts of aesthetic philosophy ground the racial order of the modern world in our concepts of universality, freedom, and humanity. In taking on the relation... -
The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction: An Influential Essay of Cultural Criticism; The History and Theory of Art by Walter Benjamin 9780359046393
RRP: $16.28Booksplease Price: $15.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780359046393Author Walter BenjaminFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu... -
How to Measure a World?: A Philosophy of Judaism by Martin Shuster 9780253054548
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $32.53What does it mean to wonder in awe or terror about the world? How do you philosophically understand Judaism? In How to Measure a World?: A Philosophy of Judaism, Martin Shuster provides answers to... -
Stroll, revised edition Shawn Micallef 9781552454800
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $20.48THE TORONTO STAR'S "30 BOOKS WE CAN'T WAIT TO READ THIS SPRING"The updated edition of a Toronto favourite meanders around some of the city's unique neighborhoods and considers what makes a city... -
Augustine Our Contemporary: Examining the Self in Past and Present by Willemien Otten 9780268103453
RRP: $109.20Booksplease Price: $83.01In the massive literature on the idea of the self, the Augustinian influence has often played a central role. The volume Augustine Our Contemporary, starting from the compelling first essay by David... -
Exceptional Violence and the Crisis of Classic American Literature by Joseph Fichtelberg 9783031078477
Booksplease Price: $176.59This book is an interdisciplinary study of antebellum American literature and the problem of political emergency. Arguing that the United States endured sustained conflicts over the nature and... -
Critiquing Sovereign Violence: Law, Biopolitics, Bio-Juridicalism by Gavin Rae
RRP: $224.25Booksplease Price: $206.00Gavin Rae offers an original approach to sovereign violence by looking at a wide range of thinkers, which he organises into three models. Benjamin, Schmitt, Arendt, Deleuze and Guattari form the...