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The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction: An Influential Essay of Cultural Criticism; The History and Theory of Art (Hardcover) by Walter Benjamin 9780359046386
RRP: £22.73Booksplease Price: £21.58Walter Benjamin discusses whether art is diminished by the modern culture of mass replication, arriving at the conclusion that the aura or soul of an artwork is indeed removed by duplication. In an... -
Poetry from the Future: Why a Global Liberation Movement Is Our Civilisation's Last Chance by Srecko Horvat 9780241337325
RRP: £32.95Booksplease Price: £20.61'A compelling vision, an urgent necessity, and not beyond reach' Noam ChomskyThe past is forgotten, and the future is without hope. Dystopia has become a reality. This is the new normal in our... -
Bridging Benjamin Volume 68: A Philosophy of Technology, Place, and Education Dominic Smith 9781517919641
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £72.05Walter Benjamin reimagined through the forgotten power of radioPhilosopher and cultural critic Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) has long been recognized for his influence on the fields of literature,... -
Community and Catastrophe: An Ecclesio-Political Reading of the Schleitheim Confession Dr Marius van Hoogstraten 9780567724564
Booksplease Price: £65.97This book examines, from a contemporary perspective, one of the most influential document in Anabaptist tradition: the Schleitheim Confession. Van Hoogstraten develops seven constructive readings of... -
Is Architecture Art?: An Introduction to the Aesthetics of Architecture John Macarthur 9781350147713
Booksplease Price: £83.03Is architecture an art, like literature or music? Or is it more akin to science or engineering? Can buildings be artworks, just like paintings and sculptures, or does their fundamentally functional... -
Pastures of the Empty Page: Fellow Writers on the Life and Legacy of Larry McMurtry by George Getschow 9781477327876
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £21.14A collection of essays that offers an intimate view of Larry McMurtry, America's preeminent western novelist, through the eyes of a pantheon of writers he helped shape through his work over the... -
Community and Catastrophe: An Ecclesio-Political Reading of the Schleitheim Confession Dr Marius van Hoogstraten 9780567724526
Booksplease Price: £25.66This book examines, from a contemporary perspective, one of the most influential document in Anabaptist tradition: the Schleitheim Confession. Van Hoogstraten develops seven constructive readings of... -
Benjamin's Crossing by Jay Parini
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31There is no such thing as history, you see. It's a dream, perhaps even a dream of a dream . . .Walter Benjamin is dead. One of the most radiant minds of the twentieth century has been snatched away... -
Animated by Uncertainty: Rugby and the Performance of History in South Africa by Joshua D. Rubin 9780472075003
Booksplease Price: £63.25In Animated by Uncertainty, Joshua D. Rubin analyzes South African rugby through the lens of aesthetic politics. Building on 17 months of ethnographic research with rugby coaches, players, and... -
Photobiography: Photographic Self-writing in Proust, Guibert, Ernaux, Mace by Akane Kawakami
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £41.80This book offers an intriguing account of photobiographic works ranging from texts containing metaphorical photographs through ekphrastic narratives to photo-texts. It is dedicated to the writers who... -
Tragedy by Terry Eagleton
RRP: £22.50Booksplease Price: £20.58An exploration of tragedy and its fundamental position in Western culture In this compelling account, eminent literary critic Terry Eagleton explores the nuances of tragedy in Western culture-from... -
Samuel Richardson and the Theory of Tragedy: Clarissa's Caesuras James Smith 9781526113986
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £19.54Samuel Richardson and the theory of tragedy is a bold new interpretation of one of the greatest European novels, Samuel Richardson's Clarissa. It argues that this text needs to be rethought as a... -
The Likeness: Semblance and Self in Slovene Society by Gretchen Bakke
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.40The Likeness is a close ethnographic study of subjectivity in the former Yugoslav republic of Slovenia. In this highly imaginative work, the author argues that much of what matters in Slovenia plays... -
Photobiography: Photographic Self-writing in Proust, Guibert, Ernaux, Mace by Akane Kawakami 9781907975868
Booksplease Price: £83.04This book offers an intriguing account of photobiographic works ranging from texts containing metaphorical photographs through ekphrastic narratives to photo-texts. It is dedicated to the writers who... -
The Likeness: Semblance and Self in Slovene Society by Gretchen Bakke 9780520320031
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £70.89The Likeness is a close ethnographic study of subjectivity in the former Yugoslav republic of Slovenia. In this highly imaginative work, the author argues that much of what matters in Slovenia plays... -
Animated by Uncertainty: Rugby and the Performance of History in South Africa by Joshua D. Rubin
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £24.14In Animated by Uncertainty, Joshua D. Rubin analyzes South African rugby through the lens of aesthetic politics. Building on 17 months of ethnographic research with rugby coaches, players, and... -
Dilemmas: Beyond Binaries and Double Binds Michael Jackson 9781512826708
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36The ingenious ways dilemmas are addressed in non-Western traditions Dilemmas explores some of the most pressing existential problems of our times, from climate change, political conflict, and social... -
Karl Kraus and the Discourse of Modernity by Ari Linden 9780810141636
RRP: £96.00Booksplease Price: £77.69Ari Linden's Karl Kraus and the Discourse of Modernity reconsiders the literary works of the Viennese satirist, journalist, and playwright Karl Kraus (1874-1936). Linden reads Kraus's work both on... -
Unhomely Wests: Essays from A to Z Stephen Tatum 9781496237187
RRP: £79.00Booksplease Price: £64.12In Unhomely Wests Stephen Tatum presents twenty-six essays exploring selected literary, visual art, cinematic, and musical representations of homelessness as a theme, a trope, an affliction, a... -
Culture and Politics: Class, Writing, Socialism by Raymond Williams 9781788738637
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £18.17Raymond Williams was a pioneering scholar of cultural and society, and one of the outstanding intellectuals of the twentieth century. In this, a collection of difficult to find essays, some of which... -
Affinities by Brian Dillon
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £9.95What do we mean when we claim affinity with an object or picture, or say affinities exist between such things? Affinities is a critical and personal study of a sensation that is not exactly taste,... -
Karl Kraus and the Discourse of Modernity by Ari Linden 9780810141629
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.61Ari Linden's Karl Kraus and the Discourse of Modernity reconsiders the literary works of the Viennese satirist, journalist, and playwright Karl Kraus (1874-1936). Linden reads Kraus's work both on... -
Artistic Collaboration, Exile, and Brecht: A New Intellectual History, 1900-1950 Katherine Hollander 9781350433588
Booksplease Price: £85.95An illuminating history of the intimate group around Bertolt Brecht which produced some of the most important works of 20th-century drama, literature, and theory while in exile from Nazi Germany... -
History of the Housing Crisis by Rebecca Searle 9781786616241
Booksplease Price: £76.51This book presents a history of the struggle that has brought us to the present crisis. The way housing was organised in mid-twentieth century Britain did a better job of providing people with... -
Berlin for Jews: A Twenty-First-Century Companion by Leonard Barkan
Booksplease Price: £24.80What is it like to travel to Berlin today, particularly as a Jew, and bring with you the baggage of history? And what happens when an American Jew, raised by a secular family, falls in love with... -
The Cruel Radiance: Photography and Political Violence by Susie Linfield 9780226482514
RRP: £19.00Booksplease Price: £18.05In "The Cruel Radiance", Susie Linfield challenges the idea that photographs of political violence exploit their subjects and pander to the voyeuristic tendencies of their viewers. Instead she argues... -
Marxist Modernism: Introductory Lectures on Frankfurt School Critical Theory Gillian Rose 9781804290118
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.08Marxist Modernism is a comprehensive yet concise and conversational introduction to the Frankfurt School. It is also a new resource from one of the twentieth century's most important philosophers:... -
The Poetics of Translation: A Thinking Structure by Geneviève Robichaud 9780228021940
RRP: £76.00Booksplease Price: £61.77Translation is a vital method of not just reading but writing and forms the basis of an exciting range of critical, artistic, and literary opportunities.Combining close readings of literary texts... -
On Photography by Esther Leslie
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £15.52Walter Benjamin's essay 'A Short History of Photography' (1931) made bold statements about photographic pioneers such as David Octavius Hill and Nicephore Niepce, and the social and historical... -
Joan of Arc and Sacrificial Authorship by Ann W. Astell 9780268032609
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.56A host of modern authors have portrayed Joan of Arc as a heroine. Identifying with the medieval saint and martyr as a figure of the artist, they tell her story as a way of commenting on their own... -
The Science Fiction of Poetics and the Avant-Garde Imagination by Michael Golston 9780817361006
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £26.32How the tropes of science fiction infuse and inform avant-garde poetics and many other kindred arts. This insightful, playful monograph from Golston does exactly what it advertises: modeling poetics... -
The Working Sovereign: Labour and Democratic Citizenship Axel Honneth 9781509561285
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.63What role does the organisation of labour relations play in the health of a democratic society? Axel Honneth's major new work is devoted to answering this question. His central thesis is that... -
The Jewish Decadence: Jews and the Aesthetics of Modernity by Jonathan Freedman
Booksplease Price: £27.62As Jewish writers, artists, and intellectuals made their way into Western European and Anglo-American cultural centers, they encountered a society obsessed with decadence. An avant-garde movement... -
Furnace of this World: Or, 36 Observations about Goodness Simon 9781789041255
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40In the tradition of Roland Barthes' Mythologies and Walter Benjamin's aphoristic Theses on the Philosophy of History, Ed Simon's Furnace of this World is a fragmentary, digressive, impressionistic... -
The Cruel Radiance: Photography and Political Violence by Susie Linfield 9780226482507
Booksplease Price: £26.98Since the early days of photography, critics have told us that photos of political violence - of torture, mutilation, and death - are exploitative, deceitful, even pornographic. To look at these... -
Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius by Ray Monk
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.74'Monk's energetic enterprise is remarkable for the interweaving of the philosophical and the emotional aspects of Wittgenstein's life' Sunday Times'Ray Monk's reconnection of Wittgenstein's... -
Selected Writings on Art and Literature by Charles-Pierre Baudelaire
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51Before publishing the sensuous and scandalous poems of Les Fleurs du Mal, Charles Baudelaire (1821-67) had already earned respect as a forthright and witty critic of art and literature. This... -
Dilemmas: Beyond Binaries and Double Binds Michael Jackson 9781512826715
RRP: £96.00Booksplease Price: £77.39The ingenious ways dilemmas are addressed in non-Western traditions Dilemmas explores some of the most pressing existential problems of our times, from climate change, political conflict, and social... -
A Tenth of a Second: A History by Jimena Canales 9780226093192
Booksplease Price: £28.55In the late fifteenth century, clocks acquired minute hands. A century later, second hands appeared. But it wasn't until the 1850s that instruments could recognize a tenth of a second, and, once they... -
The Poetics of Translation: A Thinking Structure by Geneviève Robichaud 9780228021957
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.74Translation is a vital method of not just reading but writing and forms the basis of an exciting range of critical, artistic, and literary opportunities.Combining close readings of literary texts...