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The Truth in Photography by Michael Naas 9780748642526
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £21.23From the very invention of photography in the early part of the nineteenth century right up through the most recent developments in photography through digital technology, theorists have never... -
Plato and the Invention of Life by Michael Naas 9780823279685
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £25.54The question of life, Michael Naas argues, though rarely foregrounded by Plato, runs through and structures his thought. By characterizing being in terms of life, Plato in many of his later... -
Plato and the Invention of Life by Michael Naas 9780823279678
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £76.70The question of life, Michael Naas argues, though rarely foregrounded by Plato, runs through and structures his thought. By characterizing being in terms of life, Plato in many of his later... -
Class Acts: Derrida on the Public Stage by Michael Naas
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £14.75Class Acts examines two often neglected aspects of Jacques Derrida's work as a philosopher, his public presentations at lectures and conferences and his teaching, along with the question of the... -
Taking on the Tradition: Jacques Derrida and the Legacies of Deconstruction by Michael Naas
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.12Taking on the Tradition focuses on how the work of Jacques Derrida has helped us rethink and rework the themes of tradition, legacy, and inheritance in the Western philosophical tradition. It... -
Threshold Phenomena: Derrida and the Question of Hospitality Michael Naas 9781531507107
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £76.70Threshold Phenomena reexamines Jacques Derrida's thinking of hospitality, from his well-known writings of the 1990s to his recently-published seminars on the same topic. The book follows Derrida's... -
Threshold Phenomena: Derrida and the Question of Hospitality Michael Naas 9781531507114
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £23.21Threshold Phenomena reexamines Jacques Derrida's thinking of hospitality, from his well-known writings of the 1990s to his recently-published seminars on the same topic. The book follows Derrida's... -
Class Acts: Derrida on the Public Stage by Michael Naas 9780823298396
RRP: £76.00Booksplease Price: £67.40Class Acts examines two often neglected aspects of Jacques Derrida's work as a philosopher, his public presentations at lectures and conferences and his teaching, along with the question of the... -
Apocalyptic Ruin and Everyday Wonder in Don DeLillo's America by Prof Michael Naas
Booksplease Price: £28.09Apocalyptic Ruin and Everyday Wonder in Don DeLillo's America is a fresh and engaging study of "last things" in Don DeLillo's works-things like death, mourning, and the decline of the American... -
Miracle and Machine: Jacques Derrida and the Two Sources of Religion, Science, and the Media by Michael Naas
RRP: £34.00Booksplease Price: £31.28Miracle and Machine is a sort of "reader's guide" to Jacques Derrida's 1994-95 essay "faith and knowledge," his most important work on the nature of religion in general and on the unprecedented forms... -
Apocalyptic Ruin and Everyday Wonder in Don DeLillo's America by Prof Michael Naas 9781501390692
Booksplease Price: £102.21Apocalyptic Ruin and Everyday Wonder in Don DeLillo's America is a fresh and engaging study of "last things" in Don DeLillo's works-things like death, mourning, and the decline of the American... -
Miracle and Machine: Jacques Derrida and the Two Sources of Religion, Science, and the Media by Michael Naas 9780823239979
RRP: £108.00Booksplease Price: £95.30Miracle and Machine is a sort of "reader's guide" to Jacques Derrida's 1994-95 essay "faith and knowledge," his most important work on the nature of religion in general and on the... -
The End of the World and Other Teachable Moments: Jacques Derrida's Final Seminar by Michael Naas 9780823263295
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £18.78The End of the World and Other Teachable Moments follows the remarkable itinerary of Jacques Derrida's final seminar, "The Beast and the Sovereign" (2001-3), as the explicit themes of the... -
Don DeLillo, American Original: Drugs, Weapons, Erotica, and Other Literary Contraband by Michael Naas 9781501361814
Booksplease Price: £27.58Don DeLillo, American Original is a startlingly original and provocative reinterpretation of one of the most important novelists of the 20th and 21st centuries. Adopting a direct approach that steers... -
Don DeLillo, American Original: Drugs, Weapons, Erotica, and Other Literary Contraband by Michael Naas 9781501361821
Booksplease Price: £122.05Don DeLillo, American Original is a startlingly original and provocative reinterpretation of one of the most important novelists of the 20th and 21st centuries. Adopting a direct approach that steers... -
Foucault/Derrida Fifty Years Later: The Futures of Genealogy, Deconstruction, and Politics by Olivia Custer 9780231171946
RRP: £125.00Booksplease Price: £97.55Early in their careers, Michel Foucault and Jacques Derrida argued over madness, reason, and history in an exchange that profoundly influenced continental philosophy and critical theory. In this... -
Jacques Derrida: Key Concepts Claire Colebrook 9781844655908
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £27.79Jacques Derrida: Key Concepts presents a broad overview and engagement with the full range of Derrida's work - from the early phenomenological thinking to his preoccupations with key themes, such as... -
Jacques Derrida: Key Concepts Claire Colebrook (Pennsylvania State University, USA) 9781844655892
RRP: £96.99Booksplease Price: £84.74Jacques Derrida: Key Concepts presents a broad overview and engagement with the full range of Derrida's work - from the early phenomenological thinking to his preoccupations with key themes, such as... -
Cultural Semiosis: Tracing the Signifier by Hugh J. Silverman 9780415919548
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.67Cultural Semiosis traces the theoretical itinerary of the signifier in the continental tradition. Cultural semiosis provides links for cultural studies to the philosophical, the literary, the... -
Cultural Semiosis: Tracing the Signifier by Hugh J. Silverman
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £22.95Cultural Semiosis traces the theoretical itinerary of the signifier in the continental tradition. Cultural semiosis provides links for cultural studies to the philosophical, the literary, the... -
Plato's Animals: Gadflies, Horses, Swans, and Other Philosophical Beasts by Jeremy Bell
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £21.14Plato's Animals examines the crucial role played by animal images, metaphors, allusions, and analogies in Plato's Dialogues. These fourteen lively essays demonstrate that the gadflies, snakes,... -
Plato's Animals: Gadflies, Horses, Swans, and Other Philosophical Beasts by Jeremy Bell 9780253016133
RRP: £64.00Booksplease Price: £52.39Plato's Animals examines the crucial role played by animal images, metaphors, allusions, and analogies in Plato's Dialogues. These fourteen lively essays demonstrate that the gadflies, snakes,... -
After Fukushima: The Equivalence of Catastrophes by Jean-Luc Nancy 9780823263394
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £13.37In this book, the philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy examines the nature of catastrophes in the era of globalization and technology. Can a catastrophe be an isolated occurrence? Is there such a thing as a... -
Life Death by Jacques Derrida
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £35.10One of Jacques Derrida's richest and most provocative works, Life Death challenges and deconstructs one of the most deeply rooted dichotomies of Western thought: life and death. Here Derrida rethinks... -
Derrida's Legacies: Literature and Philosophy by Robert Eaglestone 9780415454285
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £41.80This volume brings together some of the most well-known and highly respected commentators on the work of Jacques Derrida from Britain and America in a series of essays written to commemorate the life... -
On Escape: De l'evasion by Emmanuel Levinas 9780804741408
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.91First published in 1935, On Escape represents Emmanuel Levinas's first attempt to break with the ontological obsession of the Western tradition. In it, Levinas not only affirms the necessity of an... -
Throwing the Moral Dice: Ethics and the Problem of Contingency by Thomas Claviez 9780823298075
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £87.55More than a purely philosophical problem, straddling the ambivalent terrain between necessity and impossibility, contingency seems to have become today the very horizon of our everyday life. Often... -
On Escape: De l'evasion by Emmanuel Levinas
RRP: £72.00Booksplease Price: £58.64First published in 1935, On Escape represents Emmanuel Levinas's first attempt to break with the ontological obsession of the Western tradition. In it, Levinas not only affirms the necessity of an... -
Life Death by Jacques Derrida 9780226826448
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £20.24The seventh in our series of Derrida's seminars, Life Death provides interdisciplinary reflections on the relationship of life and death-now in paperback. One of Jacques Derrida's most provocative... -
Urban Bridges, Global Capital(s): Trans-Mediterranean Francospheres Claire Launchbury 9781837644209
RRP: £34.99Booksplease Price: £32.91This collection of essays on Trans-Mediterranean Francospheres offers an original examination of cultural production and the flows between urban capitals and “capital” in and of a selection of... -
Early Twentieth-Century Continental Philosophy by Leonard Lawlor
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.24Early Twentieth-Century Continental Philosophy elaborates the basic project of contemporary continental philosophy, which culminates in a movement toward the outside. Leonard Lawlor interprets key... -
Urban Bridges, Global Capital(s): Trans-Mediterranean Francosphères by Claire Launchbury
Booksplease Price: £119.73This collection of essays on Trans-Mediterranean Francospheres offers an original examination of cultural production and the flows between urban capitals and "capital" in and of a selection of... -
Derrida and the Inheritance of Democracy by Samir Haddad 9780253008367
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £49.27Derrida and the Inheritance of Democracy provides a theoretically rich and accessible account of Derrida's political philosophy. Demonstrating the key role inheritance plays in Derrida's thinking,... -
The Iroquois and the Athenians: A Political Ontology by Brian Seitz 9780739179222
Booksplease Price: £113.41Political communities are constituted through the representation of their own origin. The Iroquois and the Athenians is a philosophical exploration of the material traces left by that constitutional... -
Germs of Death: The Problem of Genesis in Jacques Derrida by Mauro Senatore 9781438468488
Booksplease Price: £26.07An analysis of Derrida's early work engaging Plato, Hegel, and the life sciences.Germs of Death explores the idea of genesis, or dissemination, in the early work of Jacques Derrida. Looking at... -
Eating Culture by Ron Scapp 9780791438602
Booksplease Price: £27.36Eating has never been simple, and contemporary eating practices seem more complicated than ever, demanding a multidimensional analysis that strives not for a reductive overview but for a complex... -
God, Justice, Love, Beauty: Four Little Dialogues by Jean-Luc Nancy 9780823234257
RRP: £72.00Booksplease Price: £58.64The four talks collected here transcribe lectures delivered to an audience of children between the ages of ten and fourteen, under the auspices of the "little dialogues" series at the Montreuil's... -
God, Justice, Love, Beauty: Four Little Dialogues by Jean-Luc Nancy
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £20.89The four talks collected here transcribe lectures delivered to an audience of children between the ages of ten and fourteen, under the auspices of the "little dialogues" series at the Montreuil's... -
How Are We to Confront Death?: An Introduction to Philosophy by Francoise Dastur
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £18.01Confronting death means looking it squarely in the face. Contemporary society refuses to do so, preferring to hide it and hide from it. Funeral rites no longer function as a way to mediate death or... -
Psyche: Inventions of the Other, Volume I by Jacques Derrida
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.66Psyche: Inventions of the Other is the first publication in English of the twenty-eight essay collection Jacques Derrida published in two volumes in 1998 and 2003. In Volume I, Derrida advances his...