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Anarchaeologies: Reading as Misreading by Erin Graff Zivin
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £22.44How do we read after the so-called death of literature? If we are to attend to the proclamations that the representational apparatuses of literature and politics are dead, what aesthetic, ethical,... -
Cosmo-Nationalism: American, French and German Philosophy by Oisin Keohane
RRP: £115.00Booksplease Price: £105.64The idea of national philosophy carries in it a strange contradiction. We talk about 'German philosophy' or 'American philosophy'. But philosophy has always pictured itself to be the project of... -
Sarah Kofman and the Relief of Philosophy: Paragraph, Volume 44, Issue 1 by John McKeane
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £27.79Founded in 1983, Paragraph is a leading journal in modern critical theory. It publishes essays and review articles in English which explore critical theory in general and its application to... -
Touching Spaces in Textures: Affective Humor and Dialogism in Contemporary Literature Mariam Popal 9783837672619
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £35.84Touch has manifold layers of meaning, especially so in the context of the affectivity unleashed by humor, where often touching spaces ensue in deconstructive ways that affect the senses as well as... -
Inner Animalities: Theology and the End of the Human by Eric Daryl Meyer
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £25.54Most theology proceeds under the assumption that divine grace works on human beings at the points of our supposed uniqueness among earth's creatures-our freedom, our self-awareness, our language, or... -
The Cosmopolitan Self: George Herbert Mead and Continental Philosophy by Mitchell Aboulafia
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.12In this incisive commentary, Mitchell Aboulafia examines the relevance of the American pragmatist philosopher George Herbert Mead to current debates on pluralism, universalism, and the fostering of a... -
A Death of the World: Surviving the Death of the Other by Harris B. Bechtol 9798855801873
Booksplease Price: £26.00Offers a description of what happens to survivors after a death, based on the effect this death has on the survivor's relation to the spatial and temporal world occupied after the loss of the... -
Anarchaeologies: Reading as Misreading by Erin Graff Zivin 9780823286829
RRP: £84.00Booksplease Price: £68.02How do we read after the so-called death of literature? If we are to attend to the proclamations that the representational apparatuses of literature and politics are dead, what aesthetic, ethical,... -
Representing Bushmen - South Africa and the Origin of Language by Shane Moran 9781580462945
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £81.75A detailed and compelling volume that contributes significantly to current trends in post-apartheid scholarship. Representing Bushmen draws on the work of Jacques Derrida, Edward Said, and Martin... -
Goatsong Phoebe Giannisi 9781804271896
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51The ancient Greek word for tragedy ( ) is a compound of goat ( ) and song ( ). In Phoebe Giannisi's Goatsong, the seam that connects human and animal, myths and history, is the body. ... -
A Critical Introduction to Queer Theory by Nikki Sullivan
RRP: £33.99Booksplease Price: £30.23This new take on Queer Theory explores the ways in which sexuality, subjectivity and sociality have been discursively produced in various historical and cultural contexts. The book begins by putting... -
Monkey Trouble: The Scandal of Posthumanism by Christopher Peterson 9780823277803
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £22.44According to scholars of the nonhuman turn, the scandal of theory lies in its failure to decenter the human. The real scandal, however, is that we keep trying. The human has become a conspicuous... -
Derrida, an Egyptian by Peter Sloterdijk 9780745646398
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £9.44Shortly before his death in 2004, Jacques Derrida expressed two paradoxical convictions: he was certain that he would be forgotten the very day he died, yet at the same time certain that something of... -
Virality Vitality by Jonathan Basile 9798855801842
Booksplease Price: £103.70Reveals the fragility of basic scientific concepts through the unstable relationship between viruses and life, calling for a deconstructive reading to grapple with their theoretical and political... -
Worldlessness After Heidegger: Phenomenology, Psychoanalysis, Deconstruction by Associate Professor of English Roland Vegso
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £27.79Roland Vgs opens up a new debate in favour of abandoning the very idea of the world in both philosophy and politics. Opening with a reconsideration of the Heideggerian critique of worldlessness, he... -
Mindfulness and Letting Be: On Engaged Thinking and Acting by Fred Dallmayr 9780739199862
Booksplease Price: £96.35Mindfulness and Letting Be: On Engaged Thinking and Acting is a protest against the extreme mindlessness or thoughtlessness of our age, a malaise covered by manipulative cleverness and by minds... -
The Cultural Politics of Tel Quel: Literature and the Left in the Wake of Engagement by Danielle Marx-Scouras 9780271025568
Booksplease Price: £37.39Founded in 1960 by a group of relatively unknown young writers, Tel Quel quickly became one of the most influential literary journals and controversial intellectual movements in France. During the... -
Gerard Manley Hopkins and the Spell of John Duns Scotus by Reader in Philosophy John Llewelyn
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £21.23The early medieval Scottish philosopher and theologian John Duns Scotus shook traditional doctrines of universality and particularity by arguing for a metaphysics of 'formal distinction'. Why did... -
Writing the Radical Memoir: A Theoretical and Craft-based Approach by Dr Paul Williams
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £18.04For those that have mastered the basics of memoir and wish to probe this brand of creative nonfiction further, Writing the Radical Memoir uses salient theories about memory and the self to challenge... -
The Political Materialities of Borders: New Theoretical Directions by Olga Demetriou
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £65.11The political materialities of borders aims to bring questions of materiality to bear specifically on the study of borders. In doing this, the contributors have chosen an approach that does not... -
Radical Indecision: Barthes, Blanchot, Derrida, and the Future of Criticism by Leslie Hill 9780268031077
Booksplease Price: £43.60In his newest book, Radical Indecision, esteemed scholar Leslie Hill poses the following question: If the task of a literary critic is to make decisions about the value of a literary work or the... -
Marion and Derrida on The Gift and Desire: Debating the Generosity of Things by Jason W. Alvis 9783319279404
Booksplease Price: £90.56This book examines the various encounters between Jean-Luc Marion and Jacques Derrida on "the gift," considers their many differences on "desire," and demonstrates how these topics hold the keys... -
Archival Afterlives: Cixous, Derrida, and the Matter of Friendship by Laura Hughes 9780810146273
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48A capacious analysis of a legendary intellectual friendship and the material legacies it left behind Over the course of their decades-long friendship, HElEne Cixous and Jacques Derrida assembled... -
The Autistic Subject: On the Threshold of Language by Leon S. Brenner 9783030507176
RRP: £109.99Booksplease Price: £33.30This book presents a theory of autistic subjectivity from a Lacanian psychoanalytic perspective. Dr. Brenner describes autism as a singular mode of being that is fundamentally linked to one's... -
Writers and Missionaries: Essays on the Radical Imagination by Adam Shatz
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.68Through a close reading of the lives and works of some of the greatest intellectuals of recent times, Adam Shatz asks: do writers have an ethical imperative to question injustice? How can one remain... -
Missing Socrates: Problems of Plato's Writing by Jay Farness 9780271026312
Booksplease Price: £37.39Plato's conversations of Socrates are among the most accessible philosophical texts most of us have ever read, yet the more one pursues the art or intelligibility of this writing, the more mysterious... -
Giving Beyond the Gift: Apophasis and Overcoming Theomania by Elliot R. Wolfson
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £28.18This book explores the co-dependency of monotheism and idolatry by examining the thought of several prominent twentieth-century Jewish philosophers-Cohen, Buber, Rosenzweig, and Levinas. While all of... -
Immaterial Archives: An African Diaspora Poetics of Loss by Jenny Sharpe 9780810141575
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.61In this innovative study, Jenny Sharpe moves beyond the idea of art and literature as an alternative archive to the historical records of slavery and its aftermath. Immaterial Archives explores... -
Friendship by Michael Jackson
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36In this book, renowned anthropologist Michael Jackson draws on philosophy, biography, ethnography, and literature to explore the meanings and affordances of friendship-a relationship just as... -
Specters of Cavafy Maria Boletsi 9780472076840
Booksplease Price: £63.25The Greek Alexandrian poet C. P. Cavafy (1863-1933) has been recognized as a central figure in European modernism and world literature. His poetry explored the conditions for animating the past and... -
Desire, Faith, and the Darkness of God: Essays in Honor of Denys Turner by Eric Bugyis 9780268048884
RRP: £120.00Booksplease Price: £96.45In the face of religious and cultural diversity, some doubt whether Christian faith remains possible today. Critics claim that religion is irrational and violent, and the loudest defenders of... -
Desire, Faith, and the Darkness of God: Essays in Honor of Denys Turner by Eric Bugyis 9780268022426
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £30.04In the face of religious and cultural diversity, some doubt whether Christian faith remains possible today. Critics claim that religion is irrational and violent, and the loudest defenders of... -
The Autistic Subject: On the Threshold of Language by Leon S. Brenner 9783030507145
Booksplease Price: £112.12This book presents a theory of autistic subjectivity from a Lacanian psychoanalytic perspective. Dr. Brenner describes autism as a singular mode of being that is fundamentally linked to one's... -
Movement, Time, Technology, and Art by Christina Chau 9789811352065
Booksplease Price: £81.46This book explores the ways in which artists use technology to create different perceptions of time in art in order to reflect on contemporary relationships to technology. By considering the links... -
Friendship by Michael Jackson 9781512824285
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £64.89In this book, renowned anthropologist Michael Jackson draws on philosophy, biography, ethnography, and literature to explore the meanings and affordances of friendship-a relationship just as... -
Animal Theory: A Critical Introduction by Derek Ryan
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £27.79From caged orangutans to roasted pig, from dog training to horse phobias, from communicating bees to ruminating cows, Derek Ryan explores how animals are encountered in theoretical discourse. Over... -
Post-Agreement Northern Irish Literature: Lost in a Liminal Space? by Birte Heidemann 9783319804682
Booksplease Price: £80.72This book uncovers a new genre of 'post-Agreement literature', consisting of a body of texts - fiction, poetry and drama - by Northern Irish writers who grew up during the Troubles but published... -
Cixous, Derrida, Psychoanalysis: Paragraph Volume.36, Number 2 by Mairead Hanrahan 9780748677085
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £22.60This book considers the different ways psychoanalysis is of immense importance to the work of Helene Cixous and Jacques Derrida. Psychoanalysis is of immense importance in different ways to Helene... -
Remembering French Algeria: Pieds-Noirs, Identity, and Exile by Amy L. Hubbell 9780803264908
RRP: £44.00Booksplease Price: £36.78Colonized by the French in 1830, Algeria was an important French settler colony that, unlike its neighbors, endured a lengthy and brutal war for independence from 1954 to 1962. The nearly one million... -
Throwing the Moral Dice: Ethics and the Problem of Contingency by Thomas Claviez
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £25.54More than a purely philosophical problem, straddling the ambivalent terrain between necessity and impossibility, contingency has become the very horizon of everyday life. Often used as a synonym for...