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Counterpleasures by Karmen MacKendrick 9780791441473
RRP: $152.25Booksplease Price: $125.12Takes up a series of literary and physical pleasures that do not appear to be pleasurable, ranging from Christian saintly asceticism to Sadean narrative to contemporary s/m practices.Counterpleasures... -
Immemorial Silence by Karmen MacKendrick 9780791448779
RRP: $152.25Booksplease Price: $125.12Treats time, eternity, language, and silence in an original way.Drawing on philosophy, theology, and literature, from the early Middle Ages to the present, Immemorial Silence traces a series of... -
Divine Enticement: Theological Seductions by Karmen MacKendrick
RRP: $134.40Booksplease Price: $120.37Theology usually appears to us to be dogmatic, judgmental, condescending, maybe therapeutic, or perhaps downright fantastical-but seldom enticing. Divine Enticement takes as its starting point that... -
The Matter of Voice: Sensual Soundings by Karmen MacKendrick
RRP: $44.08Booksplease Price: $43.87Philosophers for millennia have tried to silence the physical musicality of voice in favor of the purity of ideas without matter, souls without bodies. Nevertheless, voices resonate among bodies,... -
Divine Enticement: Theological Seductions by Karmen MacKendrick 9780823242900
RRP: $56.68Booksplease Price: $53.63Theology usually appears to us to be dogmatic, judgmental, condescending, maybe therapeutic, or perhaps downright fantastical-but seldom enticing. Divine Enticement takes as its starting point that... -
The Matter of Voice: Sensual Soundings by Karmen MacKendrick 9780823269990
RRP: $142.80Booksplease Price: $126.90Philosophers for millennia have tried to silence the physical musicality of voice in favor of the purity of ideas without matter, souls without bodies. Nevertheless, voices resonate among bodies,... -
Fragmentation and Memory: Meditations on Christian Doctrine by Karmen MacKendrick 9780823229499
Booksplease Price: $228.96Philosophers have long and skeptically viewed religion as a source of overeasy answers, with a singular, totalizing "God" and the comfort of an immortal soul being the greatest among them. But... -
Material Mystery: The Flesh of the World in Three Mythic Bodies by Karmen Mackendrick
RRP: $48.28Booksplease Price: $45.49Material Mystery considers three apparently anthropocentric myths that are central to Abrahamic religions-those of the primal human, the incarnated and possibly divine redeemer, and the resurrected... -
Word Made Skin: Figuring Language at the Surface of Flesh by Karmen MacKendrick 9780823224074
RRP: $62.98Booksplease Price: $58.55Today, body and language are prominent themes throughout philosophy. Each is strange enough on its own; this book asks what sense we might make of them together. Words reach out. Hands pick up books;... -
Word Made Skin: Figuring Language at the Surface of Flesh by Karmen MacKendrick 9780823224067
Booksplease Price: $187.89Today, body and language are prominent themes throughout philosophy. Each is strange enough on its own; this book asks what sense we might make of them together. Words reach out. Hands pick up books;... -
Material Mystery: The Flesh of the World in Three Mythic Bodies by Karmen Mackendrick 9780823294541
RRP: $176.40Booksplease Price: $156.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780823294541Author Karmen MackendrickFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint -
Seducing Augustine: Bodies, Desires, Confessions by Virginia Burrus
RRP: $62.98Booksplease Price: $58.55Augustine's Confessions is a text that seduces. But how often do its readers respond in kind? Here three scholars who share a longstanding fascination with sexuality and Christian discourse attempt... -
Seducing Augustine: Bodies, Desires, Confessions by Virginia Burrus 9780823231935
Booksplease Price: $176.25Augustine's Confessions is a text that seduces. But how often do its readers respond in kind? Here three scholars who share a longstanding fascination with sexuality and Christian discourse attempt... -
Temporality and Trinity by Peter Manchester 9780823265718
Booksplease Price: $97.21Temporality and Trinity argues that there is deep homology between the roles of temporal problematic in Augustine's On Trinity and Heidegger's Being and Time. Although Heidegger was aware of On... -
BDSM in American Science Fiction and Fantasy L. Call 9780230348042
Booksplease Price: $205.57A history of the love affair between BDSM (Bondage/Discipline, Dominance/Submission, Sadism/Masochism) and science fiction and fantasy. Lewis Call explores representations of BDSM in the 1940s Wonder... -
BDSM in American Science Fiction and Fantasy by Lewis Call 9781349345250
Booksplease Price: $204.71A history of the love affair between BDSM (Bondage/Discipline, Dominance/Submission, Sadism/Masochism) and science fiction and fantasy. Lewis Call explores representations of BDSM in the 1940s Wonder... -
Intimacy and Intelligibility: Word and Life in Augustine's "De Magistro" Erika Kidd 9780268210212
RRP: $75.60Booksplease Price: $56.89Intimacy and Intelligibility is a paradigm-shifting exploration of De magistro, Augustine's overlooked and misunderstood dialogue about words and signs. Erika Kidd's fresh approach to Augustine's De... -
Negative Ecstasies: Georges Bataille and the Study of Religion by Jeremy Biles 9780823265190
Booksplease Price: $188.52Despite Georges Bataille's acknowledged influence on major poststructuralist thinkers-including Foucault, Derrida, Kristeva, Lacan, Baudrillard, and Barthes-and his prominence in literary, cultural,... -
Negative Ecstasies: Georges Bataille and the Study of Religion by Jeremy Biles
RRP: $56.68Booksplease Price: $53.63Despite Georges Bataille's acknowledged influence on major poststructuralist thinkers-including Foucault, Derrida, Kristeva, Lacan, Baudrillard, and Barthes-and his prominence in literary, cultural,... -
Decreation and the Ethical Bind: Simone Weil and the Claim of the Other by Yoon Sook Cha 9780823275250
RRP: $75.60Booksplease Price: $69.93In Simone Weil's philosophical and literary work, obligation emerges at the conjuncture of competing claims: the other's self-affirmation and one's own dislocation; what one has and what one has to... -
Corpus by Jean-Luc Nancy
RRP: $50.38Booksplease Price: $47.12How have we thought "the body"? How can we think it anew? The body of mortal creatures, the body politic, the body of letters and of laws, the "mystical body of Christ"-all these (and others) are... -
Corpus by Jean-Luc Nancy 9780823229611
RRP: $126.00Booksplease Price: $113.86How have we thought "the body"? How can we think it anew? The body of mortal creatures, the body politic, the body of letters and of laws, the "mystical body of Christ"-all these (and others) are... -
On the Universality of What Is Not: The Apophatic Turn in Critical Thinking by William Franke
RRP: $92.40Booksplease Price: $75.50Branching out from his earlier works providing a history and a theory of apophatic thinking, William Franke's newest book pursues applications across a variety of communicative media, historical... -
Entangled Worlds: Religion, Science, and New Materialisms by Catherine Keller 9780823276226
RRP: $62.98Booksplease Price: $58.55Historically speaking, theology can be said to operate "materiaphobically." Protestant Christianity in particular has bestowed upon theology a privilege of the soul over the body and belief over... -
Entangled Worlds: Religion, Science, and New Materialisms by Catherine Keller
RRP: $184.80Booksplease Price: $161.07Historically speaking, theology can be said to operate "materiaphobically." Protestant Christianity in particular has bestowed upon theology a privilege of the soul over the body and belief over... -
Why Internet Porn Matters by Margret Grebowicz
Booksplease Price: $26.42Now that pornography is on the Internet, its political and social functions have changed. So contends Margret Grebowicz in this imperative philosophical analysis of Internet porn. The production and... -
End of Story: Toward an Annihilation of Language and History by Crispin Sartwell 9780791447260
Booksplease Price: $53.87In End of Story, Crispin Sartwell maintains that the academy is obsessed with language, and with narrative in particular. Narrative has been held to constitute or explain time, action, value,... -
Wrestling with Archons: Gnosticism as a Critical Theory of Culture by Jonathan Cahana-Blum
Booksplease Price: $179.87This book demonstrates that ancient Christian Gnosticism was an ancient form of cultural criticism in a mythological garb. It establishes that, much like modern forms of critical theory, ancient... -
Trials: Of Antigone and Jesus by William Robert
RRP: $121.80Booksplease Price: $107.35What does it mean to be called "human"? How does this nomination affect or effect what it means to be called "divine"? This book responds to these related questions in intertwined explorations of the... -
Toward a Theology of Eros: Transfiguring Passion at the Limits of Discipline by Virginia Burrus 9780823226368
RRP: $71.40Booksplease Price: $65.69What does theology have to say about the place of eroticism in the salvific transformation of men and women, even of the cosmos itself? How, in turn, does eros infuse theological practice and... -
Toward a Theology of Eros: Transfiguring Passion at the Limits of Discipline by Virginia Burrus
RRP: $168.00Booksplease Price: $148.68What does theology have to say about the place of eroticism in the salvific transformation of men and women, even of the cosmos itself? How, in turn, does eros infuse theological practice and... -
On Religion and Memory by Babette Hellemans
RRP: $151.20Booksplease Price: $133.41This volume takes up the challenge implied in Augustine's paradox of time: How does one account for the continuity of history and the certitude of memory, if time, in the guise of an indivisible... -
On Religion and Memory by Babette Hellemans 9780823251636
RRP: $50.38Booksplease Price: $48.74This volume takes up the challenge implied in Augustine's paradox of time: How does one account for the continuity of history and the certitude of memory, if time, in the guise of an indivisible... -
Giving Beyond the Gift: Apophasis and Overcoming Theomania by Elliot R. Wolfson
RRP: $62.98Booksplease Price: $59.18This 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... -
Thinking Nature and the Nature of Thinking: From Eriugena to Emerson by Willemien Otten 9781503606708
RRP: $201.60Booksplease Price: $163.15A fresh and more capacious reading of the Western religious tradition on nature and creation, Thinking Nature and the Nature of Thinking puts medieval Irish theologian John Scottus Eriugena (810-877)... -
A Philosophy of the Unsayable by William Franke 9780268028947
RRP: $58.78Booksplease Price: $53.80In A Philosophy of the Unsayable, William Franke argues that the encounter with what exceeds speech has become the crucial philosophical issue of our time. He proposes an original philosophy pivoting... -
Thinking Nature and the Nature of Thinking: From Eriugena to Emerson by Willemien Otten
RRP: $48.28Booksplease Price: $42.76A fresh and more capacious reading of the Western religious tradition on nature and creation, Thinking Nature and the Nature of Thinking puts medieval Irish theologian John Scottus Eriugena (810-877)... -
Cloud of the Impossible: Negative Theology and Planetary Entanglement by Catherine Keller
RRP: $73.50Booksplease Price: $61.57The experience of the impossible churns up in our epoch whenever a collective dream turns to trauma: politically, sexually, economically, and with a certain ultimacy, ecologically. Out of an ancient...