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Community by J. Toby Reiner 9781509552085
RRP: $97.50Booksplease Price: $87.36People often yearn for a sense of belonging and connection: they long to live in a meaningful community. In the modern age, however, this often seems to be a chimera. Does modernity doom us to be... -
Experience and Experimental Writing: Literary Pragmatism from Emerson to the Jameses by Paul Grimstad 9780190270049
Booksplease Price: $83.05American 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,... -
The Great Riddle: Wittgenstein and Nonsense, Theology and Philosophy by Stephen Mulhall 9780198801627
Booksplease Price: $61.46Can we talk meaningfully about God? The theological movement known as Grammatical Thomism affirms that religious language is nonsensical, because the reality of God is beyond our capacity for... -
Home: A Place in the World by Arien Mack 9780814754832
Booksplease Price: $176.61Home, wrote Robert Frost, is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. And yet the idea of home has, in the modern world, become extremely problematic. Robert Frost's... -
On Ceasing to Be Human by Gerald L. Bruns
RRP: $35.08Booksplease Price: $31.01The philosopher Stanley Cavell once asked, "Can a human being be free of human nature?" On Ceasing to Be Human examines philosophical as well as literary texts and contexts, in which various senses... -
Melancholic Freedom: Agency and the Spirit of Politics by David Kyuman Kim 9780195372465
Booksplease Price: $59.44Why does agency-the capacity to make choices and to act in the world-matter to us? Why is it meaningful that our intentions have effects in the world, that they reflect our sense of identity, that... -
Closer Reading: Garrett Stewart's Essays in Refraction Professor or Dr. Garrett Stewart 9798765140260
Booksplease Price: $41.77In his first book of essays, Garrett Stewart demonstrates and reframes his formidable powers as a close reader of a vast range of texts: novels, films, songs, book art, digital media, and more.Among... -
Home: A Place in the World by Arien Mack 9780814755266
RRP: $58.48Booksplease Price: $50.35Home, wrote Robert Frost, is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. And yet the idea of home has, in the modern world, become extremely problematic. Robert Frost's... -
Everyday Life: Theories and Practices from Surrealism to the Present by Michael Sheringham 9780199273959
Booksplease Price: $211.03In the last twenty years the concept of the quotidien, or the everyday, has been prominent in contemporary French culture and in British and American cultural studies. This book provides the first... -
Within the Inscribed: selected prose and conversations by Michael Heller 9781848617513
RRP: $29.15Booksplease Price: $24.38The title, and to some extent, the thematics of this book, is based on the volume's epigraph, a sentence of Geoffrey Hartman's: "The sacred has so inscribed itself in language that while it must be... -
Shakespeare and the Grammar of Forgiveness by Sarah Beckwith 9780801478352
RRP: $40.93Booksplease Price: $33.62Shakespeare lived at a time when England was undergoing the revolution in ritual theory and practice we know as the English Reformation. With it came an unprecedented transformation in the language... -
Rei Kawakubo: For and Against Fashion Dr Rex Butler 9781350355293
Booksplease Price: $65.79Rei Kawakubo of Comme des Garcons is undoubtedly one of the world's major fashion designers. In 2017 she was the second living designer ever to be given a retrospective at the renowned Costume... -
Supplanting the Postmodern: An Anthology of Writings on the Arts and Culture of the Early 21st Century by David Rudrum 9781501306860
Booksplease Price: $62.05For more than a decade now a steadily growing chorus of voices has announced that the 'postmodern' literature, art, thought and culture of the late 20th century have come to an end. At the same time... -
Everyday Life: Theories and Practices from Surrealism to the Present by Michael Sheringham 9780199566983
Booksplease Price: $135.66In the last twenty years the concept of the quotidien , or the everyday, has been prominent in contemporary French culture and in British and American cultural studies. This book provides the first... -
Phenomenology of the Broken Body by Espen Dahl 9780367731885
RRP: $93.58Booksplease Price: $87.34Some fundamental aspects of the lived body only become evident when it breaks down through illness, weakness or pain. From a phenomenological point of view, various breakdowns are worth analyzing for... -
Walden / Civil Disobedience / and Other Writings by Henry D. Thoreau 9780393930900
Booksplease Price: $39.33As a unique feature, the Third Edition includes generous excerpts from Thoreau's journal, reprinted by special arrangements with Princeton University Press from the definitive edition of his writings... -
Melancholic Freedom: Agency and the Spirit of Politics by David Kyuman Kim 9780195319828
Booksplease Price: $104.66Why does agency -- the capacity to make choices and to act in the world -- matter to us? Why is it meaningful that our intentions have effects in the world, that they reflect our sense of identity,... -
Describing Ourselves: Wittgenstein and Autobiographical Consciousness by Garry L. Hagberg 9780199698424
Booksplease Price: $49.98The voluminous writings of Ludwig Wittgenstein contain some of the most profound reflections of recent times on the nature of the human subject and self-understanding - the human condition,... -
Vocal Apparitions: The Attraction of Cinema to Opera by Michal Grover-Friedlander 9780691120089
RRP: $120.90Booksplease Price: $106.84Cinema and opera have become intertwined in a variety of powerful and unusual ways. Vocal Apparitions tells the story of this fascinating intersection, interprets how it occurred, and explores what... -
Discovering Levinas by Michael L. Morgan 9780521759687
RRP: $85.80Booksplease Price: $79.54In Discovering Levinas, Michael L. Morgan shows how this thinker faces in novel and provocative ways central philosophical problems of twentieth-century philosophy and religious thought. He tackles... -
Analyzing Literature-to-Film Adaptations: A Novelist's Exploration and Guide by Mary H. Snyder 9781441168184
Booksplease Price: $76.30This is an introduction of an academic means for critical analysis of film adaptations. Critical questions specific to film adaptations need to be not only developed but established. And, these... -
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The Philosophical Hitchcock: "Vertigo" and the Anxieties of Unknowingness by Robert B Pippin
Booksplease Price: $39.23On the surface, The Philosophical Hitchcock: Vertigo and the Anxieties of Unknowingness, is a close reading of Alfred Hitchcock's 1958 masterpiece Vertigo. This, however, is a book by Robert B... -
Beyond Church and State: Democracy, Secularism, and Conversion by Matthew Scherer
RRP: $175.50Booksplease Price: $159.35Secularism is often imagined in Thomas Jefferson's words as 'a wall of separation between Church and State'. This book moves past that standard picture to argue that secularism is a process that... -
Experiments in Listening by Rajni Shah 9781538144299
Booksplease Price: $84.42Through an exploration of both practice and theory, this book investigates the relationship between listening and the theatrical encounter in the context of Western theatre and performance. Rather... -
Still Modernism: Photography, Literature, Film by Louise Hornby 9780190661229
Booksplease Price: $198.78Still Modernism offers a critique of the modernist imperative to embrace motion, speed, and mobility. In the context of the rise of kinetic technologies and the invention of motion pictures, it... -
Language Lost and Found: On Iris Murdoch and the Limits of Philosophical Discourse by Niklas Forsberg 9781501306815
Booksplease Price: $79.54Language Lost and Found takes as its starting-point Iris Murdoch's claim that "we have suffered a general loss of concepts." By means of a thorough reading of Iris Murdoch's philosophy in the light... -
Philosophy, Black Film, Film Noir by Dan Flory
Booksplease Price: $85.86In the past two decades, African American filmmakers like Spike Lee have made significant contributions to the dialogue about race in the United States by adapting techniques from classic film noir... -
Irony in the Age of Empire: Comic Perspectives on Democracy and Freedom by Cynthia Willett
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $29.07Comedy, from social ridicule to the unruly laughter of the carnival, provides effective tools for reinforcing social patterns of domination as well as weapons for emancipation. In Irony in the Age of... -
The Star as Icon: Celebrity in the Age of Mass Consumption by Professor Daniel Herwitz 9780231145411
RRP: $42.90Booksplease Price: $36.21Princess Diana, Jackie O, Grace Kelly-the star icon is the most talked about yet least understood persona. The object of adoration, fantasy, and cult obsession, the star icon is a celebrity, yet she... -
The Star as Icon: Celebrity in the Age of Mass Consumption by Professor Daniel Herwitz 9780231145404
RRP: $163.80Booksplease Price: $129.36Princess Diana, Jackie O, Grace Kelly-the star icon is the most talked about yet least understood persona. The object of adoration, fantasy, and cult obsession, the star icon is a celebrity, yet she... -
Thoreau's Importance for Philosophy by Rick Anthony Furtak 9780823239306
RRP: $103.35Booksplease Price: $92.14The philosophical significance of Henry David Thoreau's life and writings is far from settled. Although his best-known book, Walden, is admired as a classic work of American literature, it has not... -
A Quarter Century of Common Knowledge: Eleven Conversations by Jeffrey M. Perl 9781478004905
RRP: $44.83Booksplease Price: $40.29To commemorate the journal's quarter-century, this double issue consists of foundational pieces arranged in conversation with one another. Common Knowledge has opened lines of communication among... -
Across the Great Divide: Between Analytic and Continental Political Theory by Jeremy Arnold 9781503612143
RRP: $44.83Booksplease Price: $39.70The division between analytic and continental political theory remains as sharp as it is wide, rendering basic problems seemingly intractable. Across the Great Divide offers an accessible and... -
Across the Great Divide: Between Analytic and Continental Political Theory by Jeremy Arnold 9781503612136
RRP: $187.20Booksplease Price: $150.91The division between analytic and continental political theory remains as sharp as it is wide, rendering basic problems seemingly intractable. Across the Great Divide offers an accessible and... -
Shakespeare among the Moderns by Richard Halpern
RRP: $62.40Booksplease Price: $52.85Modernist writers, critics, and artists sparked a fresh and distinctive interpretation of Shakespeare's plays which has proved remarkably tenacious, as Richard Halpern explains in this lively and... -
Escape, Escapism, Escapology: American Novels of the Early Twenty-First Century by Professor John Limon
Booksplease Price: $54.78Escape, Escapism, Escapology: American Novels of the Early Twenty-First Century identifies and explores what has emerged as perhaps the central theme of 21st-century American fiction: the desire to... -
Terrence Malick and the Thought of Film by Steven Rybin 9780739180105
Booksplease Price: $104.42As the director of Badlands, Days of Heaven, The Thin Red Line, and The New World, Terrence Malick has created a remarkable body of work that enables imaginative acts of philosophical interpretation... -
Engaging Kripke with Wittgenstein: The Standard Meter, Contingent Apriori, and Beyond by Martin Gustafsson 9781032147321
RRP: $81.88Booksplease Price: $77.40This volume draws connections between Wittgenstein's philosophy and the work of Saul Kripke, especially his Naming and Necessity.Saul Kripke is regarded as one of the foremost representatives of... -
Jacques Lacan and the Adventure of Insight: Psychoanalysis in Contemporary Culture by Shoshana Felman 9780674471214
RRP: $54.50Booksplease Price: $46.90Jacques Lacan, one of the most influential and controversial French thinkers of the twentieth century, was a practicing and teaching psychoanalyst in Paris, but his revolutionary seminars on Freud... -
Metacinema: The Form and Content of Filmic Reference and Reflexivity by David LaRocca
RRP: $67.26Booksplease Price: $66.50When a work of art shows an interest in its own status as a work of art-either by reference to itself or to other works-we have become accustomed to calling this move "meta." While scholars and...