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Nostalgia: When Are We Ever at Home? by Barbara Cassin
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £14.91Winner, French Voices Grand Prize Nostalgia makes claims on us both as individuals and as members of a political community. In this short book, Barbara Cassin provides an eloquent and sophisticated... -
Fundamentals for Ophthalmic Technical Personnel by Barbara Cassin 9780721649313
RRP: £64.99Booksplease Price: £61.99Here's the best single-source guide to the basic science and clinical skills needed by ophthalmic medical personnel! Designed for both on-the-job and classroom training, this multi-faceted, new text... -
Google Me: One-Click Democracy by Barbara Cassin
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £18.01"Google is a champion of cultural democracy, but without culture and without democracy." In this witty and polemical critique the philosopher Barbara Cassin takes aim at Google and our culture of big... -
Sophistical Practice: Toward a Consistent Relativism by Barbara Cassin
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £21.66Sophistics is the paradigm of a discourse that does things with words. It is not pure rhetoric, as Plato wants us to believe, but it provides an alternative to the philosophical mainstream. A... -
Nostalgia: When Are We Ever at Home? by Barbara Cassin 9780823269501
RRP: £67.00Booksplease Price: £58.88Winner, French Voices Grand Prize Nostalgia makes claims on us both as individuals and as members of a political community. In this short book, Barbara Cassin provides an eloquent and sophisticated... -
Google Me: One-Click Democracy by Barbara Cassin 9780823278060
RRP: £64.00Booksplease Price: £57.32"Google is a champion of cultural democracy, but without culture and without democracy." In this witty and polemical critique the philosopher Barbara Cassin takes aim at Google and our culture of big... -
Jacques the Sophist: Lacan, Logos, and Psychoanalysis by Barbara Cassin 9780823285747
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £23.21Sophistry, since Plato and Aristotle, has been philosophy's negative alter ego, its bad other. Yet sophistry's emphasis on words and performativity over the fetishization of truth makes it an... -
Jacques the Sophist: Lacan, Logos, and Psychoanalysis by Barbara Cassin 9780823285754
RRP: £92.00Booksplease Price: £79.80Sophistry, since Plato and Aristotle, has been philosophy's negative alter ego, its bad other. Yet sophistry's emphasis on words and performativity over the fetishization of truth makes it an... -
Sophistical Practice: Toward a Consistent Relativism by Barbara Cassin 9780823256389
Booksplease Price: £89.77Sophistics is the paradigm of a discourse that does things with words. It is not pure rhetoric, as Plato wants us to believe, but it provides an alternative to the philosophical mainstream. A... -
Contemporary Encounters with Ancient Metaphysics by Abraham Jacob Greenstine
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £27.79This volume of 18 essays shows how leading philosophers address the problems of ancient metaphysics: one and the many, the potential and the actual, the material and immaterial, the divine and the... -
Contemporary Encounters with Ancient Metaphysics by Abraham Jacob Greenstine 9781474412094
RRP: £115.00Booksplease Price: £105.94In this volume of 18 essays, leading philosophers address the varied, volatile and novel encounters between contemporary and antique thought. They reconceive and redeploy the problems of ancient... -
What is a Thoughtful Life? Kélina Gotman 9781526187567
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £79.50In fresh readings of Theodor W. Adorno, Giorgio Agamben, Hannah Arendt, Judith Butler, Barbara Cassin, Michel Foucault, Werner Hamacher, Martin Heidegger, and many more, Gotman rearticulates the... -
Translation and the Untranslatable: Paragraph Volume 38, Number 2 by Michael Syrotinski
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £22.86The ground-breaking and monumental encyclopedia of philosophical terms read through the history of their translation, Vocabulaire Europeen des philosophies: Dictionnaire des Intraduisibles, ed... -
Untranslatability: Interdisciplinary Perspectives by Duncan Large
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.08This volume is the first of its kind to explore the notion of untranslatability from a wide variety of interdisciplinary perspectives and its implications within the broader context of translation... -
Poetics of Relation by Betsy Wing 9780472066292
Booksplease Price: £22.06Edouard Glissant, long recognized in the French and francophone world as one of the greatest writers and thinkers of our times, is increasingly attracting attention from English-speaking readers... -
Baroque Naturalism in Benjamin and Deleuze: The Art of Least Distances by Tim Flanagan 9783030663971
RRP: £99.99Booksplease Price: £90.56This book, itself a study of two books on the Baroque, proposes a pair of related theses: one interpretive, the other argumentative. The first, enveloped in the second, holds that the significance... -
French and Italian Stoicisms: From Sartre to Agamben by Kurt Lampe 9781350204010
Booksplease Price: £33.84The importance of Stoicism for Gilles Deleuze's Logic of Sense and Michel Foucault's Hermeneutics of the Subject and The Care of the Self is well known. However, few students of either classics or... -
Baroque Naturalism in Benjamin and Deleuze: The Art of Least Distances by Tim Flanagan 9783030664008
RRP: £99.99Booksplease Price: £61.04This book, itself a study of two books on the Baroque, proposes a pair of related theses: one interpretive, the other argumentative. The first, enveloped in the second, holds that the significance... -
Terror and Consensus: Vicissitudes of French Thought by Jean-Joseph Goux
RRP: £96.00Booksplease Price: £77.39This volume of twelve essays focuses on two interrelated issues. First, it addresses the historical and cultural determinants that have given rise to what frequently has been described as "the French... -
Terror and Consensus: Vicissitudes of French Thought by Jean-Joseph Goux 9780804729703
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36This volume of twelve essays focuses on two interrelated issues. First, it addresses the historical and cultural determinants that have given rise to what frequently has been described as "the French... -
Heidegger: His Life and His Philosophy by Alain Badiou 9780231157971
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £15.51Martin Heidegger was an ordinary Nazi and a loyal member of the provincial petty bourgeoisie. He was also a seminal thinker of the Continental tradition and one of the twentieth century's most... -
French and Italian Stoicisms by Kurt Lampe 9781350082038
Booksplease Price: £112.13The importance of Stoicism for Gilles Deleuze's Logic of Sense and Michel Foucault's Hermeneutics of the Subject and The Care of the Self is well known. However, few students of either classics or... -
The Rhetoricity of Philosophy: Audience in Perelman and Ricoeur after the Badiou-Cassin Debate Blake D. Scott 9781032686509
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.38This book aims to recast the way that philosophers understand rhetoric. Rather than follow most philosophers in conceiving rhetoric as a specific way of speaking or writing, it shows that rhetoric is... -
Capitalist Sorcery: Breaking the Spell by P. Pignarre
RRP: £89.99Booksplease Price: £56.12Capitalist Sorcery neither sets out a new political programme nor offers a new theory. Rather, it aims to encourage all those who are resistant to resignation and inertia, whose stories of partial... -
Capitalist Sorcery: Breaking the Spell by Phillipe Pignarre 9780230237629
RRP: £89.99Booksplease Price: £80.72Capitalist Sorcery neither sets out a new political programme nor offers a new theory. Rather, it aims to encourage all those who are resistant to resignation and inertia, whose stories of partial... -
French Women Philosophers: A Contemporary Reader Christina Howells 9780415261401
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £46.79This reader is the first of its kind to present the work of leading French women philosophers to an English-speaking audience. Many of the articles appear for the first time in English and have been... -
Universality and Translation: Sites of Struggle in Philosophy and Politics Gavin Arnall 9781531508562
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £80.82Within contemporary theory, the concepts of translation and universality have frequently been associated with different and even opposed philosophical and political projects: watchwords of either... -
Universality and Translation: Sites of Struggle in Philosophy and Politics Gavin Arnall 9781531508579
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48Within contemporary theory, the concepts of translation and universality have frequently been associated with different and even opposed philosophical and political projects: watchwords of either... -
Lucretius and Modernity: Epicurean Encounters Across Time and Disciplines by Jacques Lezra 9781137591890
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £21.47Lucretius's long shadow falls across the disciplines of literary history and criticism, philosophy, religious studies, classics, political philosophy, and the history of science. The best recent... -
There's No Such Thing as a Sexual Relationship: Two Lessons on Lacan by Alain Badiou 9780231157940
RRP: £68.00Booksplease Price: £54.15Published in 1973, "L'Etourdit" was one of the French philosopher Jacques Lacan's most important works. The book posed questions that traversed the entire body of Lacan's psychoanalytical... -
The Adventure of French Philosophy by Bruno Bosteels
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.32The Adventure of French Philosophy is essential reading for anyone interested in what Badiou calls the "French moment" in contemporary thought.Badiou explores the exceptionally rich and varied world... -
Form and Event: Principles for an Interpretation of the Greek World by Carlo Diano
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £19.71Carlo Diano's Form and Event has long been known in Europe as a major work not only for classical studies but even more for contemporary philosophy. Already available in Italian, French, Spanish, and... -
Form and Event: Principles for an Interpretation of the Greek World by Carlo Diano 9780823287932
RRP: £72.00Booksplease Price: £63.53Carlo Diano's Form and Event has long been known in Europe as a major work not only for classical studies but even more for contemporary philosophy. Already available in Italian, French, Spanish, and... -
Citizen Subject: Foundations for Philosophical Anthropology by Etienne Balibar
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £28.18What can the universals of political philosophy offer to those who experience "the living paradox of an inegalitarian construction of egalitarian citizenship"? Citizen Subject is the summation of... -
The Geschlecht Complex: Addressing Untranslatable Aspects of Gender, Genre, and Ontology by Dr. Oscar Jansson 9781501381966
Booksplease Price: £31.52The polysemous German word Geschlecht -- denoting gender, genre, kind, kinship, species, race, and somehow also more -- exemplifies the most pertinent questions of the translational,... -
The Geschlecht Complex: Addressing Untranslatable Aspects of Gender, Genre, and Ontology by Dr. Oscar Jansson 9781501381928
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £95.11The polysemous German word Geschlecht -- denoting gender, genre, kind, kinship, species, race, and somehow also more -- exemplifies the most pertinent questions of the translational,... -
The Marx Through Lacan Vocabulary: A Compass for Libidinal and Political Economies Christina Soto van der Plas (Santa Clara University, USA) 9781032079295
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £37.99This text explores a set of key concepts in Marxist theory as developed and read by Lacan, demonstrating links and connections between Marxist thought and Lacanian practice.The book examines the...