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Provocations to Reading: J. Hillis Miller and the Democracy to Come by Barbara Cohen
RRP: €36.89Booksplease Price: €31.32This book is a marker of the "state of theory" today. Its rich array of wideranging essays explores the dimensions and implications of the work of J. Hillis Miller, one of the most eminent literary... -
Freedwomen and the Freedmen's Bureau: Race, Gender, and Public Policy in the Age of Emancipation by Mary Farmer-Kaiser
RRP: €99.96Booksplease Price: €80.94Established by congress in early 1865, the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands-more commonly known as "the Freedmen's Bureau"-assumed the Herculean task of overseeing the... -
Material Phenomenology by Michel Henry
RRP: €35.69Booksplease Price: €30.39This book is Michel Henry's most sustained investigation of Husserlian phenomenology. With painstaking detail and precision, Henry reveals the decisive methodological assumptions that led Husserlian... -
The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry: A Critical Edition by Ernest F. Fenollosa
RRP: €27.36Booksplease Price: €24.23First published in 1919 by Ezra Pound, Ernest Fenollosa's essay on the Chinese written language has become one of the most often quoted statements in the history of American poetics. As edited by... -
A Time for the Humanities: Futurity and the Limits of Autonomy by Tim Dean
RRP: €35.69Booksplease Price: €30.73This book brings together an international roster of renowned scholars from disciplines including philosophy, political theory, intellectual history, and literary studies to address the conceptual... -
Tropical Medicine: A Clinical Text, 8th Edition, Revised and Expanded by Kevin M. Cahill
RRP: €40.46Booksplease Price: €34.46The history of tropical medicine is as dramatic as the story of humankind. It has its own myths and legends, including tales of epidemics that destroyed whole civilizations. Today, with silent... -
Law and Revolution in South Africa: uBuntu, Dignity, and the Struggle for Constitutional Transformation by Drucilla Cornell
RRP: €21.41Booksplease Price: €18.92The relation between law and revolution is one of the most pressing questions of our time. As one country after another has faced the challenge that comes with the revolutionary overthrow of past... -
Red Tail Captured, Red Tail Free: Memoirs of a Tuskegee Airman and POW, Revised Edition by Alexander Jefferson
RRP: €30.93Booksplease Price: €26.70Red Tail Captured, Red Tail Free is a rare gift detailing the experience of Lt. Col. Alexander Jefferson, who was one of 32 Tuskegee Airmen from the 332nd Fighter Group to be shot down defending a... -
Orthodox Readings of Augustine by Aristotle Papanikolaou
RRP: €28.55Booksplease Price: €24.86Orthodox Readings of Augustine examines the theological engagement with the preeminent Latin theologian Augustine of Hippo in the Orthodox context. Augustine was not widely read in the East until... -
Sovereignties in Question: The Poetics of Paul Celan by Jacques Derrida
RRP: €35.69Booksplease Price: €30.73Contents * Shibboleth: For Paul Celan * "A Self-Unsealing Poetic Text": Poetics and Politics of Witnessing * Language Does Not Belong: An Interview * The Majesty of the Present: Reading Celan's... -
A Passion for the Possible: Thinking with Paul Ricoeur by Brian Treanor
RRP: €90.44Booksplease Price: €73.51Paul Ricoeur's entire philosophical project narrates a "passion for the possible" expressed in the hope that in spite of death, closure, and sedimentation, life is opened by superabundance, by how... -
Apophatic Bodies: Negative Theology, Incarnation, and Relationality by Chris Boesel
RRP: €49.98Booksplease Price: €41.83The ancient doctrine of negative theology or apophasis-the attempt to describe God by speaking only of what cannot be said about the divine perfection and goodness-has taken on new life in the... -
The Economics and Financing of Media Companies: Second Edition by Robert G. Picard
RRP: €85.68Booksplease Price: €69.78In this updated and expanded edition of the acclaimed Economics and Financing of Media Companies, leading economist and media specialist Robert G. Picard employs business concepts and analyses to... -
Sudan at the Brink: Self-Determination and National Unity by Francis Mading Deng
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €16.14In this brief but comprehensive book, Francis Deng offers a creative analysis of the situation, aimed at addressing, and hopefully resolving, the complex dilemmas confronting Sudan, Africa, and the... -
How to Do Comparative Theology by Francis X. Clooney
RRP: €40.46Booksplease Price: €34.46For a generation and more, the contribution of Christian theology to interreligious understanding has been a subject of debate. Some think of theological perspectives are of themselves inherently too... -
The Drama of Possibility: Experience as Philosophy of Culture by John J. McDermott
RRP: €45.22Booksplease Price: €38.53This book traces the trajectory of John J. McDermott's philosophical career through a selection of his essays. Many were originally occasional pieces and address specific issues in American thought... -
Philosophy and the Jewish Question: Mendelssohn, Rosenzweig, and Beyond by Bruce Rosenstock
RRP: €76.16Booksplease Price: €62.12Drawing together two critical moments in the history of European Jewry-its entrance as a participant in the Enlightenment project of religious and political reform and its involvement in the... -
The Real Fake: Authenticity and the Production of Space by Maria Francesca Piazzoni
RRP: €9.51Booksplease Price: €8.73Thames Town-an English-like village built in Shanghai-is many places at once: a successful tourist destination, an affluent residential cluster, a city of migrant workers, and a ghost town. The Real... -
The Singularity of Being: Lacan and the Immortal Within by Mari Ruti
RRP: €32.12Booksplease Price: €27.94The Singularity of Being presents a Lacanian vision of what makes each of us an inimitable and irreplaceable creature. It argues that, unlike the "subject" (who comes into existence as a result of... -
Advances in Cyber Security: Technology, Operations, and Experiences by D. Frank Hsu
RRP: €24.98Booksplease Price: €21.71As you read this, your computer is in jeopardy of being hacked and your identity being stolen. Read this book to protect yourselves from this threat. The world's foremost cyber security experts,... -
Grace and Gratitude: Spirituality in Martin Luther by Roger Haight
RRP: €9.51Booksplease Price: €8.73This book is about spirituality today. It therefore brings the classic witness of Martin Luther into the practical world of the twenty-first century. Grace and Gratitude presents two texts that... -
Obscene Gestures: Counter-Narratives of Sex and Race in the Twentieth Century by Patrick Lawrence
RRP: €99.96Booksplease Price: €80.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781531500085Author Patrick LawrenceFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Fordham University... -
Freedoms Gained and Lost: Reconstruction and Its Meanings 150 Years Later by Adam H. Domby
RRP: €119.00Booksplease Price: €95.82Reconstruction is one of the most complex, overlooked, and misunderstood periods of American history. The thirteen essays in this volume address the multiple struggles to make good on President... -
Reimagining the Republic: Race, Citizenship, and Nation in the Literary Work of Albion W. Tourgée by Sandra M. Gustafson
RRP: €119.00Booksplease Price: €95.82Albion W. Tourgée (1838–1905) was a major force for social, legal, and literary transformation in the second half of the nineteenth century. Best known for his Reconstruction novels A Fool’s Errand... -
The Church and Social Reform: The Policies of the Patriarch Athanasios of Constantinople by John Lawrence Boojamra
RRP: €35.69Booksplease Price: €30.73The Church and Social Reform studies the nature and extent of Athanasios' social reforms and political involvement during his two tenures on the patriarchal throne of Constantiople. The traditional... -
Reluctant Theologians: Franz Kafka, Paul Celan, Edmond Jabes by Beth Hawkins
RRP: €35.69Booksplease Price: €30.73Beth Hawkins focuses on the problematic faith in the works of Kafka, Celan, and Jabes to reevaluate the notions of God and covenant in light of Nietzsche's "death of God" hypothesis. the divine-human... -
Flight of the Gods: Philosophical Perspectives on Negative Theology by Ilse N. Bulhof
RRP: €32.12Booksplease Price: €28.30Contemporary continental philosophy approaches metaphysics with great reservation. A point of criticism concerns traditional philosophical speaking about God. Whereas Nietzsche, with his question... -
Aristotle: Rhetoric II: A Commentary by William M. A. Grimaldi 9780823210480
RRP: €89.25Booksplease Price: €72.27Aristotle, Rhetoric I: A Commentary begins the acclaimed work undertaken by the author, later completed in the second (1988) volume on Aristotle's Rhetoric. The first Commentary on the Rhetoric in... -
The Economics and Financing of Media Companies: Second Edition by Robert G. Picard 9780823232574
RRP: €35.69Booksplease Price: €30.39In this updated and expanded edition of the acclaimed Economics and Financing of Media Companies, leading economist and media specialist Robert G. Picard employs business concepts and analyses to... -
Fundamentalism or Tradition: Christianity after Secularism by Aristotle Papanikolaou 9780823285785
RRP: €29.74Booksplease Price: €26.08Traditional, secular, and fundamentalist-all three categories are contested, yet in their contestation they shape our sensibilities and are mutually implicated, the one with the others. This... -
The Reinvention of Religious Music: Olivier Messiaen's Breakthrough Toward the Beyond by Professor Sander van Maas 9780823230587
RRP: €32.12Booksplease Price: €27.94On the basis of a careful analysis of Olivier Messiaen's work, this book argues for a renewal of our thinking about religious music. Addressing his notion of a "hyper-religious" music of sounds and... -
Thinking about Thinking: What Kind of Conversation Is Philosophy? by Adriaan Theodoor Peperzak 9780823240180
RRP: €32.12Booksplease Price: €17.79Thinking about Thinking examines philosophy from a variety of perspectives as a practice realized by persons who communicate with one another while reflecting about the meaning of human life and... -
Melting Pot Soldiers: The Union Ethnic Regiments by William L. Burton 9780823218288
RRP: €35.69Booksplease Price: €30.73Melting Pot Soldiers is the story of the way immigrants responded to the drama of the Civil War. When the war began in 1861, there were, in most states in the North (primarily from Western Europe),... -
Killing and Letting Die by Bonnie Steinbock 9780823215638
RRP: €41.65Booksplease Price: €35.75This collection contains twenty-one thought-provoking essays on the controversies surrounding the moral and legal distinctions between euthanasia and "letting die." Since public awareness of this... -
Form and Foreskin: Medieval Narratives of Circumcision by A W Strouse 9780823294749
RRP: €94.01Booksplease Price: €34.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780823294749Author A W StrouseFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Fordham University PressPublisher... -
Freedom and Community by Yves R. Simon 9780823221073
RRP: €35.69Booksplease Price: €30.73The theory of liberty here propounded by Simon, along with his analysis of authority, democracy, and practical wisdom, contains the elements of a political philosophy that can provide direction to... -
The Symbolic Imagination: Coleridge and the Romantic Tradition by Robert J. Barth 9780823221134
RRP: €35.69Booksplease Price: €30.73The original edition of this book studied the nature of symbol in Coleridge's work, showing that it is central to Coleridge's intellectual endeavor in poetry and criticism as well as in philosophy... -
The Enigma of Gift and Sacrifice by Edith Wyschogrod 9780823221653
RRP: €80.92Booksplease Price: €66.07What does it mean to give a "gift"? In this timely collection, distinguished anthropologists-Maurice Godelier, George Marcus, Stephen Tyler-and philosophers-Mark C. Taylor, John D. Caputo,... -
Chesterton and Evil by Mark Knight 9780823223091
RRP: €79.73Booksplease Price: €65.14In the engaging Chesterton and Evil, Mark Knight offers a compelling analysis of the increasingly marginalized, but undoubtedly influential Gilbert Keith Chesterton and his late 19th and early 20th... -
Lacan and the Limits of Language by Charles Shepherdson 9780823227662
RRP: €90.44Booksplease Price: €73.51This book weaves together three themes at the intersection of Jacques Lacan and the philosophical tradition. The first is the question of time and memory. How do these problems call for a revision of...