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Words Fail: Theology, Poetry, and the Challenge of Representation by Colby Dickinson 9780823272846
RRP: $40.93Booksplease Price: $40.74There has been much philosophical speculation on the potential failure of language as well as the search for a presentation of the "thing itself" beyond representation. Words Fail pursues the... -
Britain Colonized: Hollywood's Appropriation of British Literature by J. Jeffers 9781403972767
Booksplease Price: $90.25This study explores Hollywood's invention of Britain through the adaptation of its literature. Utilizing Derrida's Margins of Philosophy , texts by Gilles Deleuze and his work with Felix Guattari,... -
Specters of World Literature: Orientalism, Modernity, and the Novel in the Middle East by Karim Mattar
RRP: $204.75Booksplease Price: $185.27At the heart of this book is a spectral theory of world literature that draws on Edward Said, Aamir Mufti, Jacques Derrida and world-systems theory to assess how the field produces local literature... -
The Animal-to-Come: Zoo-Politics in Deconstruction by Robert Briggs 9781474493956
RRP: $40.93Booksplease Price: $37.11Thinks the politics of animals and animality beyond the critique of anthropocentrism and the concerns of biopolitics Offers a reinterpretation of concepts of institution, culture and power in the... -
An Analysis of Jacques Derrida's Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences Tim Smith-Laing 9781912453078
Booksplease Price: $13.03Jacques Derrida's Structure, Sign, and Play is one of the most controversial and influential philosophical texts of the 20th century. Delivered at a conference on structuralism at Johns Hopkins, the... -
Repetition, Difference, and Knowledge in the Work of Samuel Beckett, Jacques Derrida, and Gilles Deleuze by Sarah Gendron 9781433103759
RRP: $138.45Booksplease Price: $123.12Repetition, Difference, and Knowledge dialogues with novels, theatre, philosophy, and literary theory in order to explore how three thinkers – Samuel Beckett, Jacques Derrida, and Gilles Deleuze –... -
Dwelling in the Age of Climate Change: The Ethics of Adaptation by Elaine Kelly
RRP: $224.25Booksplease Price: $206.00Explores the complex ethical dilemmas of human mobility in the context of climate changeCurrently, adaptation policy for climate change prioritises economic and technological dimensions of governance... -
Deconstruction - Derrida by Julian Wolfreys 9780333687772
Booksplease Price: $72.83Deconstruction - Derrida contests the notion that what Jacques Derrida does can be turned into a theory for literary interpretation. It also questions the idea that there is a critical methodology... -
Poststructuralist Agency: The Subject in Twentieth-Century Theory Gavin Rae 9781474459365
RRP: $44.83Booksplease Price: $41.40Gavin Rae offers us a new evaluation of poststructuralist thought. This involves a re-conception of the embodied subject as a continual process within and defined by ever-changing configurations of... -
Derrida and Other Animals: The Boundaries of the Human by Judith Still
RRP: $66.28Booksplease Price: $59.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474474559Author Judith StillFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Edinburgh University... -
Eternal Youth and the Myth of Deconstruction: An Archetypal Reading of Jacques Derrida and Judith Butler by Bret Alderman 9781032455327
RRP: $76.03Booksplease Price: $69.11- the topic of Deconstruction has a strong and growing market within the UK - written in an accessible style that will appeal to both advanced scholars and those new to the subject - the... -
Eternal Youth and the Myth of Deconstruction: An Archetypal Reading of Jacques Derrida and Judith Butler by Bret Alderman 9781032455334
RRP: $263.25Booksplease Price: $232.58In Eternal Youth and the Myth of Deconstruction, Bret Alderman puts forth a compelling thesis: Deconstruction tells a mythic story. Through an attentive examination of multiple texts and literary... -
Origin and Ellipsis in the Writing of Hilary Mantel: An Elliptical Dialogue with the Thinking of Jacques Derrida by Eileen Pollard 9781032093116
RRP: $89.68Booksplease Price: $81.51Origin and Ellipsis in the Writing of Hilary Mantel provokes a re-engagement with Derrida's thinking in contemporary literature, with particular emphasis on the philosopher's preoccupation with the... -
Going Postcard: The Letter(s) of Jacques Derrida by Vincent W J Van Gerven Oei 9780998531878
RRP: $35.10Booksplease Price: $33.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998531878Author Vincent W J Van Gerven OeiFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Punctum... -
The Purest of Bastards: Works of Mourning, Art, and Affirmation in the Thought of Jacques Derrida by David Farrell Krell 9780271029993
Booksplease Price: $55.63The "deconstruction" that is commonly seen to be the method of Derrida's philosophy has an inescapably negative connotation. To counter this view of Derrida's thought as basically destructive, David... -
Sublime Art: Towards an Aesthetics of the Future by Stephen Zepke 9780748669998
RRP: $195.00Booksplease Price: $184.96Stephen Zepke shows how the idea of sublime art waxes and wanes in the work of Jean-Francois Lyotard, Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, Jacques Derrida, Jacques Ranciere and the recent Speculative... -
Poststructuralist Agency: The Subject in Twentieth-Century Theory by Gavin Rae 9781474459358
RRP: $195.00Booksplease Price: $175.11Gavin Rae shows that the problematic status of agency caused by the poststructuralist decentring of the subject is a central concern for poststructuralist thinkers. First, Rae shows how this plays... -
Sublime Art: Towards an Aesthetics of the Future by Stephen Zepke
RRP: $60.45Booksplease Price: $54.19Stephen Zepke shows how the idea of sublime art waxes and wanes in the work of Jean-Francois Lyotard, Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, Jacques Derrida, Jacques Ranciere and the recent Speculative... -
Derrida'S Politics of Friendship: Amity and Enmity Luke Collison 9781474486736
RRP: $214.50Booksplease Price: $177.59Twenty-five years after the publication of Derrida's Politics of Friendship (Politiques de l'amitie, 1994), this edited collection gathers twenty-three critical chapters each revisiting this... -
Postmodernism and Narratives of Erasure in Culture, Literature, and Language by Hassen Zriba
RRP: $218.40Booksplease Price: $102.86Edited by rising Tunisian literary scholar Hassen Zriba, Postmodernism and Narratives of Erasure in Culture, Literature, and Language is a collection of interdisciplinary essays arguing that the... -
Applied Grammatology: Post(e)-Pedagogy from Jacques Derrida to Joseph Beuys Gregory L. Ulmer 9781421430614
Booksplease Price: $75.70Originally published in 1984. In Applied Grammatology, Gregory Ulmer provides an extraordinary introduction to the third, "applied" phase of grammatology, the "science of writing," outlined by... -
Derrida and Foucault: Philosophy, Politics, and Polemics by Paul Rekret 9781786603449
Booksplease Price: $89.21Derrida and Foucault offers a major contribution to the interpretation of these two highly influential thinkers. By tracing the moments where Derrida and Foucault's arguments converge but also where... -
Appearing Beside Text: Uprisings of In-difference in Post-1945 American Poetry Joseph Shafer 9783031894466
Booksplease Price: $218.63Appearing beside Text introduces how the negative space between print can appear as another type of text. If indeed text is any perceived material with a sense of meaning, then underlying pages may... -
Uncontainable Legacies: Theses on Intellectual, Cultural and Political Inheritance by Gerhard Richter
RRP: $44.83Booksplease Price: $41.40How do our ceaseless conversations with what has passed and with those who have passed something on to us propel us into a precarious future? In a series of evocatively titled theses, including... -
Milan Kundera and Feminist Criticism: Dangerous Intersection by J. O'Brien 9780312122065
Booksplease Price: $176.59'Eliot to Derrida is a book which should be read by all students contemplating enrolment for a university course in modern English or European literary studies.' - Times Higher Educational Supplement... -
Applying: To Derrida by John Brannigan 9780333670705
Booksplease Price: $176.59Striking out from a number of new headings and in a number of new directions each of the essays in this collection pushes at the borders of their topics, disciplines and ways of thinking, providing... -
Shattering Biopolitics: Militant Listening and the Sound of Life by Naomi Waltham-Smith 9780823294862
RRP: $179.40Booksplease Price: $144.83A missed phone call. A misheard word. An indiscernible noise. All these can make the difference between life and death. Failures to listen are frequently at the root of the marginalization and... -
Reading Underwater Wreckage: An Encrusting Ocean by Killian Quigley 9781350290044
Booksplease Price: $192.64Presenting a novel and needed theoretical model for interpreting shipwrecks and other drowned fragments-the histories they tell, and the futures they presage-as junctures of artefact and ecofact,... -
Philosophizing Madness from Nietzsche to Derrida by Angelos Evangelou 9783319570921
RRP: $194.98Booksplease Price: $176.59Drawing connections between madness, philosophy and autobiography, this book addresses the question of how Nietzsche's madness might have affected his later works. It also explores why continental... -
Art and Technology in Maurice Blanchot Holly Langstaff 9781399515481
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $35.08Holly Langstaff reappraises the influential French thinker Maurice Blanchot's writing from the 1940s to his late work in the 1980s, demonstrating how Blanchot's exploration of the question of... -
Shattering Biopolitics: Militant Listening and the Sound of Life by Naomi Waltham-Smith
RRP: $48.73Booksplease Price: $45.26A missed phone call. A misheard word. An indiscernible noise. All these can make the difference between life and death. Failures to listen are frequently at the root of the marginalization and... -
Uncontainable Legacies: Theses on Intellectual, Cultural and Political Inheritance by Gerhard Richter 9781474487801
RRP: $204.75Booksplease Price: $185.27In a series of evocatively titled theses, including 'Wrinkles', 'Inheriting a Feeling', 'Weight of the World' and 'Making Treasures Speak', Gerhard Richter engages the quintessentially human dilemma... -
Giorgio Agamben: Beyond the Threshold of Deconstruction by Kevin Attell
RRP: $40.93Booksplease Price: $40.74Agamben's thought has been viewed as descending primarily from the work of Heidegger, Benjamin, and, more recently, Foucault. This book complicates and expands that constellation by showing how... -
Maurice Blanchot: Art and Technology Holly Langstaff 9781399515474
RRP: $185.25Booksplease Price: $153.43Demonstrates Blanchot's ongoing importance for contemporary philosophical debate about technology, the post-human, and ecological thinking Demonstrates a considerable shift in Blanchot's... -
Debating the Canon: A Reader from Addison to Nafisi by Lee Morrissey 9781403968203
Booksplease Price: $90.25Over the past two decades, the debate over the 'Great Books' has been one of the key public controversies concerning the cultural content of higher education. Debating the Canon provides a... -
Theory at Yale: The Strange Case of Deconstruction in America by Marc Redfield
RRP: $48.73Booksplease Price: $45.26This book examines the affinity between "theory" and "deconstruction" that developed in the American academy in the 1970s by way of the "Yale Critics": Harold Bloom, Paul de Man, Geoffrey Hartman,... -
The Desert in Modern Literature and Philosophy: Wasteland Aesthetics by Aidan Tynan
RRP: $195.00Booksplease Price: $176.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474443357Author Aidan TynanFormat HardbackPage Count 216Imprint Edinburgh University... -
Beckett and Philosophy by Richard Lane 9780333918791
Booksplease Price: $91.14Beckett and Philosophy examines and interrogates the relationships between Samuel Beckett's works and contemporary French and German thought. There are two wide-ranging overview chapters by Richard... -
Postmodern Apologetics?: Arguments for God in Contemporary Philosophy by Prof. Christina M. Gschwandtner
RRP: $148.20Booksplease Price: $121.04This book provides an introduction to the emerging field of continental philosophy of religion by treating the thought of its most important representatives, including its appropriations by several... -
The Desert in Modern Literature and Philosophy: Wasteland Aesthetics by Aidan Tynan 9781474443364
RRP: $44.83Booksplease Price: $41.40Aidan explores the ways in which Nietzsche's warning that 'the desert grows' has been taken up by Heidegger, Derrida and Deleuze in their critiques of modernity, and the desert in literature ranging...