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Rumors Mladen Dolar 9781509561698
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £32.05When Socrates was standing before the Athenian tribunal in 399 BC, he said in his defence that the opponents he feared most were the invisible ones, those who had been spreading rumors against him... -
Rumors Mladen Dolar 9781509561704
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £9.62When Socrates was standing before the Athenian tribunal in 399 BC, he said in his defence that the opponents he feared most were the invisible ones, those who had been spreading rumors against him... -
A Voice and Nothing More by Mladen Dolar 9780262541879
Booksplease Price: £26.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262541879Author Mladen DolarFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press... -
Hegel and Spinoza: Substance and Negativity by Gregor Moder 9780810135413
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48Gregor Moder's Hegel and Spinoza: Substance and Negativity is a lively entry into current debates surrounding the issues raised by Hegel's readings of Spinoza, from the Lacanians and Deleuzians to... -
Being Against the World: Rebellion and Constitution by Oscar Guardiola-Rivera 9780415459464
RRP: £59.99Booksplease Price: £53.80How can we save politics from the politician? How can we save ourselves? This book looks at the example of those who leave the city and break the social contract, rebellious exiles and freedom... -
Opera's Second Death by Slavoj Zizek 9780415930178
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £38.79Opera's Second Death is a passionate exploration of opera - the genre, its masterpieces, and the nature of death. Using a dazzling array of tools, Slavoj Zizek and coauthor Mladen Dolar explore the... -
Hegel, Marx, and the Laughing Matter of Spirit Rachel Aumiller 9780810149687
Booksplease Price: £27.58Excavating the comedic crack in historical repetitions What happens when those who have been denied political subjectivity fully play out their negative role in a historical drama that damned them... -
Beckett and Dialectics: Be it Something or Nothing by Eva Ruda 9781350214361
Booksplease Price: £33.84For a long time, analysis of the work of Samuel Beckett has been dominated by existentialist and post-structuralist interpretations. This new volume instead raises the question of how to understand... -
Gothic Voices: The Vococentric Soundworld of Gothic Writing by Matt Foley
RRP: £18.00Booksplease Price: £16.52This Element provides new ways of reading the soundscape of the Gothic text. Drawing inspiration from the field of 'sonic Gothic' studies, which has been spearheaded by the writings of Isabella van... -
Zizek and his Contemporaries: On the Emergence of the Slovenian Lacan by Jones Irwin 9781441105134
Booksplease Price: £40.38In recent years, the popularity of the inimitable Slavoj Zizek has perhaps cast a shadow over the collective influence exerted by Slovenian intellectuals on modern day philosophy. Yet despite his... -
Beckett and Dialectics: Be it Something or Nothing by Eva Heubach 9781350136830
Booksplease Price: £103.11For a long time, analysis of the work of Samuel Beckett has been dominated by existentialist and post-structuralist interpretations. This new volume instead raises the question of how to understand... -
The Badiou Dictionary by Steven Corcoran
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £28.09Alain Badiou's philosophical project is a genuine system in the traditional sense. It profoundly shakes up the field of thought as well as offering fresh insights into contemporary events. His... -
The Voice as Something More: Essays Toward Materiality by Martha Feldman
Booksplease Price: £31.37In the contemporary world, voices are caught up in fundamentally different realms of discourse, practice, and culture: between sounding and nonsounding, material and nonmaterial, literal and... -
Ideas and Idealism in Philosophy by Jure Simoniti 9783111621753
RRP: £18.50Booksplease Price: £13.62This book intends to broaden the study of idealism beyond its simplistic characterizations in contemporary philosophy. After idealist stances have practically disappeared from the mental landscape... -
Ideas and Idealism in Philosophy by Jure Simoniti 9783110760736
RRP: £125.50Booksplease Price: £84.80This book intends to broaden the study of idealism beyond its simplistic characterizations in contemporary philosophy. After idealist stances have practically disappeared from the mental landscape... -
The Ancient Phonograph by Shane Butler
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.21A search for traces of the voice before the phonograph, reconstructing a series of ancient soundscapes from Aristotle to Augustine. Long before the invention of musical notation, and long before... -
Becoming Audible: Sounding Animality in Performance by Austin McQuinn 9780271087979
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £26.49Becoming Audible explores the phenomenon of human and animal acoustic entanglements in art and performance practices. Focusing on the work of artists who get into the spaces between species, Austin... -
Volpone'S Bastards: Theorising Jonson's City Comedy by Isaac Hui 9781474423472
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £90.60Brings Ben Jonson to the twenty-first century by reading Volpone through psychoanalysis, poststructuralism and MarxismThrough studying Volpone's three bastard children ? the dwarf, the androgyne... -
Volpone'S Bastards: Theorising Jonson's City Comedy by Isaac Hui
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £23.98Brings Ben Jonson to the twenty-first century by reading Volpone through psychoanalysis, poststructuralism and MarxismThrough studying Volpone's three bastard children the dwarf, the androgyne and... -
Jacques Lacan and the Other Side of Psychoanalysis: Reflections on Seminar XVII, sic vi by Justin Clemens
Booksplease Price: £34.40This collection is the first extended interrogation in any language of Jacques Lacan's Seminar XVII. Originally delivered just after the Paris uprisings of May 1968, Seminar XVII marked a turning... -
The Language of Touch: Philosophical Examinations in Linguistics and Haptic Studies by Mirt Komel 9781350175624
Booksplease Price: £35.46Offering an in-depth analysis of the relationship between touch and language through the history of philosophy, this book revitalizes the field of haptic studies, providing new insights into the... -
Reading Hegel Slavoj Zizek 9781509545902
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £17.03A spirit is haunting contemporary thought - the spirit of Hegel. All the powers of academia have entered into a holy alliance to exorcize this spirit: Vitalists and Eschatologists, Transcendental... -
Cogito and the Unconscious: sic 2 by Slavoj Zizek 9780822320975
Booksplease Price: £28.42The Cartesian cogito-the principle articulated by Descartes that "I think, therefore I am"-is often hailed as the precursor of modern science. At the same time, the cogito's agent, the ego, is... -
Reading Hegel Slavoj Zizek 9781509545896
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £44.80A spirit is haunting contemporary thought - the spirit of Hegel. All the powers of academia have entered into a holy alliance to exorcize this spirit: Vitalists and Eschatologists, Transcendental... -
Capital and Ressentiment: A Short Theory of the Present Joseph Vogl 9781509551828
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £17.03The proliferation of social media has provided ideal conditions in which feelings of anger and frustration can be expressed and shared, forming a deep pool of ressentiment that is being drawn upon... -
Capital and Ressentiment: A Short Theory of the Present Joseph Vogl 9781509551811
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £49.05The proliferation of social media has provided ideal conditions in which feelings of anger and frustration can be expressed and shared, forming a deep pool of ressentiment that is being drawn upon... -
The Truths of Psychoanalysis Jasper Feyaerts 9789462703001
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £44.40Truth has always been a central philosophical category, occupying different fields of knowledge and practice. In the current moment of fake news and alternative facts, it is mandatory to revisit the... -
Jacques Lacan and Cinema: Imaginary, Gaze, Formalisation Pietro Bianchi 9781782201724
RRP: £38.99Booksplease Price: £35.44Psychoanalysis has always been based on the eclipse of the visual and on the primacy of speech. The work of Jacques Lacan though, is strangely full of references to the visual field, from the... -
Gaze and Voice as Love Objects: SIC 1 by Renata Salecl 9780822318064
RRP: £112.00Booksplease Price: £90.20The gaze entices, inspects, fascinates. The voice hypnotizes, seduces, disarms. Are gaze and voice part of the relationship we call love . . . or hate? If so, what part? How do they function? This... -
Parmenides: Ontological Figure, Being 1 Alain Badiou 9780231180948
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.21Alain Badiou's 1985 seminar on Parmenides initiated his ongoing dialogue with the pre-Socratic philosopher and set out some of the foundational ideas of his own major philosophical works, including... -
Lacan: A Genealogy Professor Miguel de Beistegui (University of Warwick, UK and ICREA, Spain) 9781350190771
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £31.22Lacan: A Genealogy provides a genealogical account of Lacan's work as a whole, from his early writings on paranoid psychosis to his later work on the real and surplus enjoyment. Beistegui argues... -
Monstrosity and the Psychoanalytic Dimensions of the Uncanny Rodrigo Gonsalves 9781032568881
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £37.99This accessible and meticulously researched book is a philosophical study dedicated to the psychoanalytic dimension of the uncanny, and the discussions on monstrosity as fundamental concepts to... -
Becoming Audible: Sounding Animality in Performance by Austin McQuinn
RRP: £84.99Booksplease Price: £75.63Becoming Audible explores the phenomenon of human and animal acoustic entanglements in art and performance practices. Focusing on the work of artists who get into the spaces between species, Austin... -
Lacan: A Genealogy by Professor Miguel de Beistegui 9781350190818
Booksplease Price: £33.49Lacan: A Genealogy provides a genealogical account of Lacan's work as a whole, from his early writings on paranoid psychosis to his later work on the real and surplus enjoyment. Beistegui argues that... -
Objective Fictions: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Marxism by Adrian Johnston 9781474489331
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £24.50Rethinks objectivity and fiction in contemporary philosophy, psychoanalysis and Marxism beyond the realism nominalism divide Rethinks the concept of objectivity through its relation to fiction... -
Adventures with the Theory of the Baroque and French Philosophy by Nadir Lahiji 9781350064010
Booksplease Price: £37.81Analysing the reception of contemporary French philosophy in architecture over the last four decades, Adventures with the Theory of the Baroque and French Philosophy discusses the problematic nature... -
Indirectness: A Plea for Truth in Times of Post-Truth Jela Krečič 9781399557900
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £85.43We are said to live in a 'post-truth' era, yet our time is equally marked by an obsession with reality. From new realism in philosophy to the cult of authenticity in culture and the... -
Prolegomena to Any Future Materialism: A Weak Nature Alone by Adrian Johnston
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.61Adrian Johnston's trilogy Prolegomena to Any Future Materialism aims to forge a thoroughly materialist yet antireductive theory of subjectivity. In this second volume, A Weak Nature Alone, Johnston... -
Lacan on Society: A Radical Archeology of the Social Bond Edgar Miguel Juárez-Salazar 9781032673813
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £36.28Lacan on Society is an exhaustive archeological and contingent review of Lacan's approaches to society throughout his work, seminars, and ecrits.Through a systematic and chronological analysis of... -
An Architecture Manifesto: Critical Reason and Theories of a Failed Practice Nadir Lahiji 9781138606654
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £37.99In this manifesto, the author takes a leap of faith. It is a faith in Lost Causes. He asserts that today, architectonic reason has fallen into ruins. As soon as architecture leaves the limits set to...