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The Ethics of Ernst Lubitsch: Comedy Without Relief Ivana Novak 9781538146163
Booksplease Price: $159.20This collection considers Lubitsch, the famous author of Weimar and classical Hollywood cinema, as a role model for our times. From this ethical position Lubitsch's cinema is regarded as a conceptual... -
The Burdens of Perfection: On Ethics and Reading in Nineteenth-Century British Literature by Andrew H. Miller 9780801477188
RRP: $46.18Booksplease Price: $39.44Literary criticism has, in recent decades, rather fled from discussions of moral psychology, and for good reasons, too. Who would not want to flee the hectoring moralism with which it is so easily... -
Cavell's Must We Mean What We Say? at 50 by Greg Chase
Booksplease Price: $192.28In 1969 Stanley Cavell's Must We Mean What We Say? revolutionized philosophy of ordinary language, aesthetics, ethics, tragedy, literature, music, art criticism, and modernism. This volume of new... -
The Burdens of Perfection: On Ethics and Reading in Nineteenth-Century British Literature by Andrew H. Miller 9780801446610
RRP: $94.50Booksplease Price: $70.69Literary criticism has, in recent decades, rather fled from discussions of moral psychology, and for good reasons, too. Who would not want to flee the hectoring moralism with which it is so easily... -
Art by Diarmuid Costello 9781845203207
Booksplease Price: $62.75The last few decades have witnessed an explosion in ideas and theories on art. Art itself has never been so topical, but much recent thinking remains inaccessible and difficult to use. This book... -
The Romance of Individualism in Emerson and Nietzsche by David Mikics 9780821414965
RRP: $134.40Booksplease Price: $108.99The great American thinker Ralph Waldo Emerson and the influential German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, though writing in different eras and ultimately developing significantly different... -
Autonomy After Auschwitz: Adorno, German Idealism, and Modernity by Martin Shuster 9780226155487
Booksplease Price: $97.55Ever since Kant and Hegel, the notion of autonomy - the idea that we are beholden to no law except one we impose upon ourselves - has been considered the truest philosophical expression of human... -
![Critical Environments: Postmodern Theory and the Pragmatics of the "Outside" by Cary Wolfe 9780816630196](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/2682758/2682097/9780816630196__28753.1714572366.jpg?c=1 "Critical Environments: Postmodern Theory and the Pragmatics of the "Outside" by Cary Wolfe 9780816630196")
Critical Environments: Postmodern Theory and the Pragmatics of the "Outside" by Cary Wolfe 9780816630196
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $36.67Argues for a pragmatist orientation for postmodern theory.Taking up the problem that has stalled contemporary theory-its treatment of the object of knowledge, the "outside," as nothing but what a... -
Nudging Choices Through Media: Ethical and philosophical implications for humanity by James Katz 9783031265679
RRP: $251.98Booksplease Price: $235.45This book addresses the growing use of computerized systems to influence people's decisions without their awareness, a significant but underappreciated sea-change in the way the world works. To... -
Critical Excess: Overreading in Derrida, Deleuze, Levinas, Zizek and Cavell by Colin Davis
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $35.03The "ancient quarrel" between philosophy and literature seems to have been resolved once and for all with the recognition that philosophy and the arts may be allies instead of enemies. Critical... -
Evil and Silence Richard Fleming 9781594517297
RRP: $88.18Booksplease Price: $83.35Inspired by Ludwig Wittgenstein and Stanley Cavell, this book is a profoundly original philosophical work put together as a network of quotations, to show that our language is never our own and that... -
Becoming Visionary: Brian De Palma's Cinematic Education of the Senses by Eyal Peretz 9780804756853
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $36.67How is one to think the significance of the art of film for philosophy? What would it mean to introduce film as a question into the heart of the philosophical enterprise? How would this transform our... -
Intercultural Understanding After Wittgenstein by Carla Carmona 9781839987830
RRP: $168.00Booksplease Price: $161.89This volume addresses, from a Wittgensteinian perspective, the philosophical question of how to understand other cultures. It develops an approach to this question that emphasizes the connection... -
Work on Oneself: Wittgenstein's Philosophical Psychology by Fergus Kerr 9780977310319
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $28.08Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) was by any reckoning one of the major modern philosophers. Raised as a Catholic in late-19th century Vienna, he later gave up practicing his religion; yet, as journal... -
Philosophy's Cool Place by Professor D. Z. Phillips 9780801436000
RRP: $132.30Booksplease Price: $108.38Ludwig Wittgenstein established a "cool" stance for philosophy, contemplating the world without meddling in it. D. Z. Phillips explores this position, focusing on its implications for philosophical... -
The Immediate Experience: Movies, Comics, Theatre, and Other Aspects of Popular Culture by Robert Warshow
RRP: $65.00Booksplease Price: $55.40This collection of essays, which originally appeared as a book in 1962, is virtually the complete works of an editor of Commentary magazine who died, at age 37, in 1955. Long before the rise of... -
Cache Hidden by Catherine Wheatley
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $22.51Ever since its world premiere at the Cannes film festival in May 2005, audiences have been talking about Michael Haneke's Cache. The film's enigmatic and multi-layered narrative leaves its viewers... -
Reattachment Theory: Queer Cinema of Remarriage by Lee Wallace
RRP: $56.68Booksplease Price: $49.31In Reattachment Theory Lee Wallace argues that homosexuality-far from being the threat to "traditional" marriage that same-sex marriage opponents have asserted-is so integral to its reimagining that... -
The Philosophical Imagination: Selected Essays by Richard Moran 9780197521113
Booksplease Price: $77.39The Philosophical Imagination brings together several of Richard Moran's essays, ranging over a remarkable variety of topics in philosophy of mind and action, aesthetics, and moral psychology. A... -
Fictional Worlds and Philosophical Reflection by Garry Hagberg 9783030730635
RRP: $272.98Booksplease Price: $235.45This edited collection investigates the kinds of philosophical reflection we can undertake in the imaginative worlds of literature. Opening with a look into the relations between philosophical... -
![Marriage, Writing, and Romanticism: Wordsworth and Austen After War by Eric C. Walker 9780804760928 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9484885/10518733/9780804760928__43031.1768985908.jpg?c=1 "Marriage, Writing, and Romanticism: Wordsworth and Austen After War by Eric C. Walker 9780804760928 [USED COPY]")
Marriage, Writing, and Romanticism: Wordsworth and Austen After War by Eric C. Walker 9780804760928 [USED COPY]
RRP: $235.20Booksplease Price: $2.58Marriage, Writing, and Romanticism studies marriage in two sets of literary texts from the Regency decade: the novels of Jane Austen-who avoided marriage in her own life but seems to have written... -
Mike Leigh by Sean O'Sullivan 9780252078194
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $31.31In this much needed examination of Mike Leigh, Sean O'Sullivan reclaims the British director as a practicing theorist--a filmmaker deeply invested in cinema's formal, conceptual, and narrative... -
Becoming Visionary: Brian De Palma's Cinematic Education of the Senses by Eyal Peretz
RRP: $176.40Booksplease Price: $64.93How is one to think the significance of the art of film for philosophy? What would it mean to introduce film as a question into the heart of the philosophical enterprise? How would this transform our... -
Reattachment Theory: Queer Cinema of Remarriage by Lee Wallace 9781478006817
RRP: $235.20Booksplease Price: $188.79In Reattachment Theory Lee Wallace argues that homosexuality-far from being the threat to "traditional" marriage that same-sex marriage opponents have asserted-is so integral to its reimagining that... -
The Expression of Things: Themes in Thomas Hardy's Fiction and Poetry by John Hughes 9781789760750
Booksplease Price: $74.66John Hughes explores Hardy's claim that his art sought to intensify the expression of things through three main sections on music, the body, and voice. These offer intersecting and mutually informing... -
Thinking Across the American Grain: Ideology, Intellect, and the New Pragmatism by Giles Gunn 9780226310770
Booksplease Price: $59.96In Thinking Across the American Grain Giles Gunn makes a major contribution to the current revival of pragmatism in America by showing how it provides the most critically resilient and constructive... -
Encountering Religion: Responsibility and Criticism After Secularism by Tyler T. Roberts 9780231147538
RRP: $58.80Booksplease Price: $49.75Tyler Roberts encourages scholars to abandon rigid conceptual oppositions between "secular" and "religious" to better understand how human beings actively and thoughtfully engage with their worlds... -
Encountering Religion: Responsibility and Criticism After Secularism by Tyler T. Roberts 9780231147521
RRP: $228.90Booksplease Price: $179.28Tyler Roberts encourages scholars to abandon rigid conceptual oppositions between "secular" and "religious" to better understand how human beings actively and thoughtfully engage with their worlds... -
![Critical Excess: Overreading in Derrida, Deleuze, Levinas, Zizek and Cavell by Colin Davis 9780804763066 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9484865/10518713/9780804763066__37399.1768985883.jpg?c=1 "Critical Excess: Overreading in Derrida, Deleuze, Levinas, Zizek and Cavell by Colin Davis 9780804763066 [USED COPY]")
Critical Excess: Overreading in Derrida, Deleuze, Levinas, Zizek and Cavell by Colin Davis 9780804763066 [USED COPY]
RRP: $168.00Booksplease Price: $16.80The "ancient quarrel" between philosophy and literature seems to have been resolved once and for all with the recognition that philosophy and the arts may be allies instead of enemies. Critical... -
Tragic Conditions in Shakespeare: Disinheriting the Globe by Paul A. Kottman 9780801893711
Booksplease Price: $126.00Paul A. Kottman offers a new and compelling understanding of tragedy as seen in four of Shakespeare's mature plays- As You Like It, Hamlet, King Lear, and The Tempest. The author pushes beyond... -
A New Philosophy of Discourse: Language Unbound by Joshua Kates 9781350163621
Booksplease Price: $235.47What would happen if structures, forms, and other stand-alone entities thought to comprise our intellectual toolkit-words, meanings, signs-were jettisoned? How would a work written in a purportedly... -
Experience and Experimental Writing: Literary Pragmatism from Emerson to the Jameses by Paul Grimstad 9780199874071
Booksplease Price: $209.85American pragmatism is premised on the notion that to find out what something is, look to fruits rather than roots. But the thought of the classical pragmatists is itself the fruit, this book argues,... -
Philosophy's Artful Conversation by D. N. Rodowick 9780674416673
RRP: $86.00Booksplease Price: $72.30Theory has been an embattled discourse in the academy for decades. But now it faces a serious challenge from those who want to model the analytical methods of all scholarly disciplines on the natural... -
The Making of the Good Person: Self-Help, Ethics and Philosophy Nora Hämäläinen 9781032390116
RRP: $88.18Booksplease Price: $83.35This book provides a philosophical assessment of the idea of personhood advanced in popular self-help literature. It also traces, within academic philosophy and philosophical scholarship, a self-help... -
Judgment and Strategy by Robin Holt 9780199671458
Booksplease Price: $202.02Holt argues strategy is the process by which an organization presents itself to itself and others. To bring this about exponents of strategic inquiry attempt t gather knowledge about the conditions... -
A Natural History of Pragmatism: The Fact of Feeling from Jonathan Edwards to Gertrude Stein by Joan Richardson 9780521694506
RRP: $75.60Booksplease Price: $74.91Joan Richardson provides a fascinating and compelling account of the emergence of the quintessential American philosophy: pragmatism. She demonstrates pragmatism's engagement with various branches of... -
A Natural History of Pragmatism: The Fact of Feeling from Jonathan Edwards to Gertrude Stein by Joan Richardson 9780521837484
RRP: $197.40Booksplease Price: $188.98Joan Richardson provides a fascinating and compelling account of the emergence of the quintessential American philosophy: pragmatism. She demonstrates pragmatism's engagement with various branches of... -
Wittgenstein and Modernist Fiction: The Language of Acknowledgment by Greg Chase 9781839980633
RRP: $168.00Booksplease Price: $161.89The early decades of the twentieth century were a period of major economic and cultural upheaval across Europe and America. Scholars have typically held that novelists responded to these shifts by... -
Confucian Perspectives on Learning and Self-Transformation: International and Cross-Disciplinary Approaches by Roland Reichenbach 9783030400804
Booksplease Price: $262.56This book bridges the regions of East Asia and the West by offering a detailed and critical inquiry of educational concepts of the East Asian tradition. It provides educational thinkers and... -
The American Face of Edgar Allan Poe by Shawn Rosenheim
Booksplease Price: $56.91"The problem of Poe's place in American culture cannot be settled canonically, since, unlike the works of Melville or Hawthorne, Poe's texts have not been primarily transmitted through the schools...