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Of Jews And Animals by Andrew Benjamin
RRP: $243.75Booksplease Price: $223.33By developing his own conception of the 'figure' Andrew Benjamin has written an innovative and provocative study of the complex relationship between philosophy, the history of painting and their... -
Of Jews And Animals by Andrew Benjamin 9780748643172
RRP: $52.63Booksplease Price: $47.78By developing his own conception of the 'figure' Andrew Benjamin has written an innovative and provocative study of the complex relationship between philosophy, the history of painting and their... -
Judging Lyotard Andrew Benjamin 9780415052573
RRP: $81.88Booksplease Price: $77.40The work of Jean-Francois Lyotard signals the return of judgement to the centre of philosophical concerns. This collection of papers is the first devoted to his work and provides an estimation and... -
Writing in the Still by Andrew Benjamin 9780648728252
RRP: $23.40Booksplease Price: $18.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648728252Author Andrew BenjaminFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint -
Writing Art and Architecture by Andrew Benjamin 9780980819700
RRP: $31.20Booksplease Price: $24.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780980819700Author Andrew BenjaminFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint -
Heidegger and Literary Studies by Andrew Benjamin 9781316513101
Booksplease Price: $175.29Martin Heidegger is one of the most influential philosophers of the 20th Century, and a key philosophical resource for literary critics. Not only has he written about poetry, generations of poets... -
Art's Philosophical Work by Andrew Benjamin 9781783482900
Booksplease Price: $73.73What is the work of art? How does art work as art? Andrew Benjamin contends that the only way to address these questions is by developing a radically new materialist philosophy of art, and by... -
Walter Benjamin and History by Andrew Benjamin 9780826467461
Booksplease Price: $149.18The first book to examine in detail Benjamin's Theses on the Philosophy of History Benjamin's collection of fragments, Theses on the Philosophy of History, play a determining role in how Benjamin's... -
Art's Philosophical Work by Andrew Benjamin 9781783482894
Booksplease Price: $220.56What is the work of art? How does art work as art? Andrew Benjamin contends that the only way to address these questions is by developing a radically new materialist philosophy of art, and by... -
Walter Benjamin and Romanticism by Andrew Benjamin 9780826460219
Booksplease Price: $201.06This text explores the relationship between Walter Benjamin's literary and philosophical work and the tradition of German Romanticism, as well as Holderlin and Goethe. Through a detailed and... -
Walter Benjamin and Art by Andrew Benjamin 9780826467300
Booksplease Price: $149.18Walter Benjamin's most famous and influential essay remains The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction. Walter Benjamin and the Work of Art is the first book to provide a broad and... -
Place, Commonality and Judgment by Andrew Benjamin 9781441112873
Booksplease Price: $78.74A highly original examination of topics in ancient philosophy through the lens of modern European thought.Book InformationISBN 9781441112873Author Andrew BenjaminFormat PaperbackPage Count 1 -
The Lyotard Reader Andrew Benjamin (Monash University) 9780631163398
RRP: $79.85Booksplease Price: $76.26Jean-Francois Lyotard was one of the founding members of the College Internationale de philosophie. Ha has taught at Vincennes, Saint Denis and is currently Professor of Philosophy at the University... -
Walter Benjamin and the Architecture of Modernity by Andrew Benjamin 9780980544022
RRP: $31.20Booksplease Price: $24.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780980544022Author Andrew BenjaminFormat PaperbackPage Count 234Imprint -
Sparks Will Fly: Benjamin and Heidegger by Andrew Benjamin 9781438455044
Booksplease Price: $53.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438455044Author Andrew BenjaminFormat PaperbackPage Count 305Imprint -
Disclosing Spaces: on Painting: On Painting by Andrew Benjamin 9781903083284
RRP: $31.18Booksplease Price: $24.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903083284Author Andrew BenjaminFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint -
The Plural Event: Descartes, Hegel, Heidegger by Andrew Benjamin
RRP: $48.73Booksplease Price: $47.54Benjamin provides new and important readings of key canonical texts in the history of philosophy in his sustained philosophical reworking of ontology. Amongst texts included are Hegel's Difference... -
Virtue in Being: Towards an Ethics of the Unconditioned by Andrew Benjamin
RRP: $141.38Booksplease Price: $116.18A radical rethinking of ethics set within the development of a philosophical anthropology.In his last book, Towards a Relational Ontology, Andrew Benjamin provided a philosophical account of what he... -
Style and Time: Essays on the Politics of Appearance by Andrew Benjamin
RRP: $46.78Booksplease Price: $41.22Interruption is often read as the foundational gesture of modernity - the means through which modernity asserts its existence by claiming its discontinuity with the past. Exposing the limitations of... -
Walter Benjamin's Philosophy: Destruction and Experience Andrew Benjamin 9780415862202
RRP: $115.03Booksplease Price: $107.21This collection explores, in Adorno's description, `philosophy directed against philosophy'. The essays cover all aspects of Benjamin's writings, from his early work in the philosophy of art and... -
Present Hope: Philosophy, Architecture, Judaism Andrew Benjamin 9780415133869
RRP: $81.88Booksplease Price: $77.40An understanding of what we mean by the present is one of the key issues in literature, philosophy, and culture today, but also one of the most neglected and misunderstood. Present Hope develops a... -
Virtue in Being: Towards an Ethics of the Unconditioned by Andrew Benjamin 9781438461625
Booksplease Price: $50.84A radical rethinking of ethics set within the development of a philosophical anthropology.In his last book, Towards a Relational Ontology, Andrew Benjamin provided a philosophical account of what he... -
Translation and the Nature of Philosophy: A New Theory of Words by Andrew Benjamin
RRP: $81.88Booksplease Price: $77.40This engrossing study, first published in 1989, explores the basic mutuality between philosophy and translation. By studying the conceptions of translation in Plato, Seneca, Davidson, Walter Benjamin... -
Art, Mimesis and the Avant-Garde: Aspects of a Philosophy of Difference by Andrew Benjamin
RRP: $97.48Booksplease Price: $90.66This book explores the relationship between art and philosophy. Andrew Benjamin argues for a reworking of the task of philosophy in terms of the centrality of ontology. It is in relation to this... -
Libel and Lampoon: Satire in the Courts, 1670-1792 by Andrew Benjamin Bricker 9780192846150
Booksplease Price: $195.45Libel and Lampoon shows how English satire and the law mutually shaped each other during the long eighteenth century. Following the lapse of prepublication licensing in 1695, the authorities quickly... -
Abjection, Melancholia and Love: The Work of Julia Kristeva John Fletcher 9780415752299
RRP: $115.03Booksplease Price: $107.21This volume begins with a new essay by Julia Kristeva, 'The Adolescent Novel', in which she examines the relation between novelistic writing and the experience of adolescence as an 'open structure'... -
Rethinking the Baroque Helen Hills 9781138249424
RRP: $116.98Booksplease Price: $108.89Rethinking the Baroque explores a tension. In recent years the idea of 'baroque' or 'the baroque' has been seized upon by scholars from a range of disciplines and the term 'baroque' has consequently... -
Sculpture and Touch by Peter Dent
RRP: $89.68Booksplease Price: $84.01Since the Renaissance, at least, the medium of sculpture has been associated explicitly with the sense of touch. Sculptors, philosophers and art historians have all linked the two, often in... -
Rethinking Translation: Discourse, Subjectivity, Ideology Lawrence Venuti 9781138361874
RRP: $70.18Booksplease Price: $67.45Originally published in 1992 Rethinking Translation makes the translator's activity more visible by using critical theory. It examines the selection of the foreign text and the implementation of... -
Architecture and Revolution: Contemporary Perspectives on Central and Eastern Europe Neil Leach 9780415139151
RRP: $128.68Booksplease Price: $118.83Architecture and Revolution explores the consequences of the 1989 revolutions in Central and Eastern Europe from an architectural perspective. It presents new writings from a team of renowned... -
Philosophy of Nonsense: The Intuitions of Victorian Nonsense Literature by Jean-Jacques Lecercle 9780415076531
RRP: $81.88Booksplease Price: $77.40'Jean-Jacques Lecercle's remarkable Philosophy of Nonsense offers a sustained and important account of an area that is usually hastily dismissed. Using the resources of contemporary philosophy -... -
The Fair-Line and the Good Frontage: Surface and Effect by Stephen Walker 9789811079733
Booksplease Price: $88.34This book offers an extended consideration of the fairground showfront. It combines archival material, contemporary examples of fairs, and a sustained theoretical engagement with influential... -
The Fair-Line and the Good Frontage: Surface and Effect by Stephen Walker 9789811340314
Booksplease Price: $91.42This book offers an extended consideration of the fairground showfront. It combines archival material, contemporary examples of fairs, and a sustained theoretical engagement with influential... -
Freedom from the Free Will: On Kafka's Laughter by Dimitris Vardoulakis
RRP: $141.38Booksplease Price: $116.18Brings Kafka's fiction into conversation with philosophy and political theory.Many of Kafka's narratives place their heroes in situations of confinement. Gregor Samsa is locked in his room in the... -
Heidegger Among the Sculptors: Body, Space, and the Art of Dwelling by Andrew Mitchell
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $29.07In the 1950s and 60s, Martin Heidegger turned to sculpture to rethink the relationship between bodies and space and the role of art in our lives. In his texts on the subject-a catalog contribution... -
Restoration Plays and Players: An Introduction by David Roberts 9781107617971
Booksplease Price: $46.14Introducing readers to the key texts, theatrical practice and context of late seventeenth-century drama, David Roberts combines literary and theatrical approaches to show how Restoration plays were... -
Heidegger Among the Sculptors: Body, Space, and the Art of Dwelling by Andrew Mitchell 9780804770224
RRP: $140.40Booksplease Price: $114.35In the 1950s and 60s, Martin Heidegger turned to sculpture to rethink the relationship between bodies and space and the role of art in our lives. In his texts on the subject-a catalog contribution... -
The Power of Laughter and Satire in Early Modern Britain: Political and Religious Culture, 1500-1820 Mark Knights 9781783272037
RRP: $185.25Booksplease Price: $178.19Leading scholars show how laughter and satire in early modern Britain functioned in a variety of contexts both to affirm communal boundaries and to undermine them. This interdisciplinary... -
Why Philosophize? by Jean-Francois Lyotard
RRP: $78.00Booksplease Price: $70.79Why Philosophize? is a series of lectures given by Jean-Francois Lyotard to students at the Sorbonne embarking on their university studies. The circumstances obliged him to be both clear and concise:... -
Gordon Matta-Clark: Art, Architecture and the Attack on Modernism by Stephen Walker 9781845119669
Booksplease Price: $54.39Known for - and even overshadowed by - his brutal and spectacular building cuts, Gordon Matta-Clark's oeuvre is unique in the history of American art. He worked in the 1970s on the boarders between...