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The Roots Of Romanticism by Isaiah Berlin
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.07The Roots of Romanticism is the long-awaited text of Isaiah Berlin's most celebrated set of lectures, the Mellon Lectures, delivered in Washington in 1965 and heard since by a much wider audience on... -
The Weimar Origins of Rhetorical Inquiry by David L. Marshall
RRP: £39.00Booksplease Price: £34.29The Weimar origins of political theory is a widespread and powerful narrative, but this singular focus leaves out another intellectual history that historian David L. Marshall works to reveal: the... -
A Tenth of a Second: A History by Jimena Canales
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £77.30In 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... -
Passage of Tears Abdourahman A. Waberi 9780857425317
RRP: £14.50Booksplease Price: £13.54Passage of Tears cleverly mixes many genres and forms of writing--spy novel, political thriller, diary (replete with childhood memories), travel notebook, legends, parables, incantations, and ... -
Modern German Thought from Kant to Habermas - An Annotated German-Language Reader by Henk de Berg
Booksplease Price: £33.52The first book that presents key original texts from the modern German philosophical tradition to English-language students and scholars of German, with introductions, commentaries, and annotations... -
Wittgenstein and Modernism by Michael LeMahieu 9780226420400
Booksplease Price: £31.37Ludwig Wittgenstein famously declared that philosophy "ought really to be written only as a form of poetry," and he even described the Tractatus as "philosophical and, at the same time, literary."... -
Mastery of Non-Mastery in the Age of Meltdown by Michael Taussig 9780226684581
RRP: £65.00Booksplease Price: £63.24For centuries, humans have excelled at mimicking nature in order to exploit it. Now, with the existential threat of global climate change on the horizon, the ever-provocative Michael Taussig asks... -
What, After All, Is a Work of Art?: Lectures in the Philosophy of Art by Joseph Margolis 9780271018669
Booksplease Price: £37.39What, After All, Is a Work of Art? directs our attention toward historicity, the inherent historied nature of thinking, and the artifactual, culturally emergent nature of both art and human selves... -
Kant and the Possibility of Progress: From Modern Hopes to Postmodern Anxieties by Paul Wilford
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £43.02Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) transformed the philosophical, cultural, and religious landscape of modern Europe. Emphasizing the priority of practical reason and moral autonomy, Kant's radically original... -
Mosques in the Metropolis: Incivility, Caste, and Contention in Europe by Elisabeth Becker
Booksplease Price: £27.62Mosques in the Metropolis offers a unique look into two of Europe's largest mosques and the communities they support. Elisabeth Becker provides a complex picture of Islam in Europe at a particularly... -
Deutsche Menschen: Das Buch versammelt 27 Briefe aus den hundert Jahren zwischen 1783 und 1883, von der Franz sischen Revolution bis zur Gr nderzeit by Consultant Statistician Walter Benjamin 9788027315352
Booksplease Price: £7.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788027315352Author Consultant Statistician Walter BenjaminFormat PaperbackPage Count 68Imprint... -
The Future of Illusion: Political Theology and Early Modern Texts Victoria Kahn 9780226379371
Booksplease Price: £24.80In recent years, the rise of fundamentalism and a related turn to religion in the humanities have led to a powerful resurgence of interest in the problem of political theology. In a critique of this... -
Mastery of Non-Mastery in the Age of Meltdown by Michael Taussig
Booksplease Price: £24.80For centuries, humans have excelled at mimicking nature in order to exploit it. Now, with the existential threat of global climate change on the horizon, the ever-provocative Michael Taussig asks... -
Teenage Time: Coming of Age Disruptively in Modern and Contemporary Literature, Culture and Film Pamela Thurschwell 9781350318427
Booksplease Price: £85.95Adolescence has been codified as an unpredictable, experimental and liminal time. Teenage Time reads this phase as queer in its framing and disruption of developmental narratives of modernity,... -
American Poetry as Transactional Art by Stephen Fredman
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £26.32Explores the ways American poetry engages with visual art, music, fiction, spirituality, and performance art. Many people think of poetry as a hermetic art, as though poets wrote only about... -
Rosenzweig and Heidegger: Between Judaism and German Philosophy by Peter Eli Gordon 9780520246362
RRP: £29.00Booksplease Price: £27.68Franz Rosenzweig (1886-1929) is widely regarded today as one of the most original and intellectually challenging figures within the so-called renaissance of German-Jewish thought in the Weimar period... -
Gershom Scholem: An Intellectual Biography Amir Engel 9780226428635
Booksplease Price: £35.12Gershom Scholem (1897 1982) was ostensibly a scholar of Jewish mysticism, yet he occupies a powerful role in today's intellectual imagination, having an influential contact with an extraordinary cast... -
Money and the Modern Mind: Georg Simmel's Philosophy of Money by Gianfranco Poggi 9780520075719
RRP: £53.00Booksplease Price: £47.65A major representative of the German sociological tradition, Georg Simmel (1858-1918) has influenced social thinkers ranging from the Chicago School to Walter Benjamin. His magnum opus, The... -
Modernism: A Guide to European Literature 1890-1930 by James Walter McFarlane
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.43An exploration of the ideas, groupings and the social tensions that shaped the transformation of life caused by the changes of modernity in art, science, politics and philosophyBook InformationISBN... -
Gershom Scholem: An Intellectual Biography by Amir Engel
Booksplease Price: £26.68Gershom Scholem (1897-1982) was ostensibly a scholar of Jewish mysticism, yet he occupies a powerful role in today's intellectual imagination, having an influential contact with an extraordinary cast... -
Textual Layering: Contact, Historicity, Critique by Maria Margaroni 9781498501330
Booksplease Price: £113.41Textual Layering: Contact, Historicity, Critique sets out to rethink our relation to textual tradition against the background of several contemporary developments, including the emergence of digital... -
Revolution: An Intellectual History Enzo Traverso 9781839763335
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.75This book reinterprets the history of nineteenth and twentieth-century revolutions by composing a constellation of "dialectical images": Marx's "locomotives of history," Alexandra Kollontai's... -
European Film Theory Temenuga Trifonova (York University, Canada) 9780415960441
RRP: £38.99Booksplease Price: £35.80European Film Theory explores the 'Europeanness' of European film theory, its philosophical origins, the 'culture wars' between 'Continental' and 'Analytical' film theory and philosophy, the major... -
Revolution: An Intellectual History by Enzo Traverso 9781839763595
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.72This book reinterprets the history of nineteenth and twentieth-century revolutions by composing a constellation of "dialectical images": Marx's "locomotives of history," Alexandra Kollontai's... -
Chromorama: How Colour Changed Our Way of Seeing by Riccardo Falcinelli 9781802060300
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.43The new colour bible: a gorgeously illustrated exploration of colour and the modern gaze, from an award-winning designer'One of the best books on colour I've read. A layered tapestry of stories,... -
Death Kit by Susan Sontag
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78First published in 1967, Death Kit is a classic of modern fiction. Blending realism and dream, Susan Sontag's second novel offers a passionate exploration of the recesses of the American conscience... -
A Cultural History of Tragedy in the Age of Empire by Professor Michael Gamer
Booksplease Price: £95.81This volume traces a path across the metamorphoses of tragedy and the tragic in Western cultures during the bourgeois age of nations, revolutions, and empires, roughly delimited by the French... -
The Correspondence of Hannah Arendt and Gershom Scholem by Hannah Arendt
Booksplease Price: £39.46Few people thought as deeply or incisively about Germany, Jewish identity, and the Holocaust as Hannah Arendt and Gershom Scholem. And, as this landmark volume reveals, much of that thinking was... -
Being Vulnerable: Contemporary Political Thought by Arne De Boever
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £76.70We are living in a time of acute vulnerability. From climate change to drone warfare, terrorist attacks to mass shootings, safe spaces to trigger warnings, not to mention the COVID-19 pandemic, homo... -
Data Power: Radical Geographies of Control and Resistance by Jim E. Thatcher
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.49In recent years, popular media have inundated audiences with sensationalised headlines recounting data breaches, new forms of surveillance and other dangers of our digital age. Despite their... -
In Excess: Sergei Eisenstein's Mexico by Masha Salazkina 9780226734149
Booksplease Price: £46.29During the 1920s and '30s, Mexico attracted an international roster of artists and intellectuals - including Orson Welles, Katherine Anne Porter, and Leon Trotsky - who were drawn to the heady tumult... -
The Book Against Death by Elias Canetti 9780811237994
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.15The Book Against Death is the work of a lifetime: a collection of Elias Canetti's powerful, disarming, and often bleakly comic observations, diatribes, musings, and commentaries on and against death... -
God is Dead. God Remains Dead. And We Have Killed Him. by Friedrich Nietzsche
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £5.99'We have left dry land and put out to sea! We have burned the bridge behind us - what is more, we have burned the land behind us!'Nietzsche's devastating demolition of religion would have seismic... -
Aesthetics, Method, and Epistemology: Essential Works of Foucault 1954-1984 by Michel Foucault
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51'Foucault leaves no reader untouched or unchanged' Edward SaidAesthetics, the second volume of the complete collection of Michel Foucault's courses, articles and interviews, focuses on the... -
On Literature by Hillis Miller 9780415261258
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £24.66Debates rage over what kind of literature we should read, what is good and bad literature, and whether in the global, digital age, literature even has a future. But what exactly is literature? Why... -
Atlas, or the Anxious Gay Science by Georges Didi-Huberman
RRP: £39.00Booksplease Price: £33.99Aby Warburg's Mnemosyne Atlas (1925-1929) is a prescient work of mixed media assemblage, made up of hundreds of images culled from antiquity to the Renaissance and arranged into startling... -
Deep Rhetoric: Philosophy, Reason, Violence, Justice, Wisdom James Crosswhite 9780226016481
Booksplease Price: £36.05"Rhetoric is the counterpart of logic," claimed Aristotle. "Rhetoric is the first part of logic rightly understood," Martin Heidegger concurred. "Rhetoric is the universal form of human... -
Architecture in the Age of Pornography: Reading Alain Badiou by Nadir Lahiji
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £36.66Architecture, and its pedagogy in the academy, is dominated by the technology of image production that veils the 'naked power' behind its operation. It conforms to the principles of cultural logic of... -
German Idealism and the Jew: The Inner Anti-semitism of Philosophy and German Jewish Responses by Michael Mack
Booksplease Price: £25.74In German Idealism and the Jew, Michael Mack uncovers the deep roots of anti-Semitism in the German philosophical tradition, contending that the redefinition of the Jews as an irrational, oriental... -
The Architecture of Phantasmagoria: Specters of the City Libero Andreotti (Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA) 9781138601512
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £43.94In a time of mass-mediated modernity, the city becomes, almost by definition, a constitutively 'mediated' city. Today, more than ever before, the omnipresence of media in every sphere of culture is...