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Singularity: Politics and Poetics by Samuel Weber
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.78An influential thinker on the concept of singularity and its implications on politics, theology, economics, psychoanalysis, and literature For readers versed in critical theory, German and... -
Benjamin's -abilities by Samuel Weber 9780674046061
Booksplease Price: £28.81"There is no world of thought that is not a world of language," Walter Benjamin remarked, "and one only sees in the world what is preconditioned by language." In this book, Samuel Weber, a leading... -
Theatricality as Medium by Samuel Weber 9780823224166
RRP: £34.00Booksplease Price: £30.98Ever since Aristotle's Poetics, both the theory and the practice of theater have been governed by the assumption that it is a form of representation dominated by what Aristotle calls the "mythos," or... -
Theatricality as Medium by Samuel Weber 9780823224159
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £70.80Ever since Aristotle's Poetics, both the theory and the practice of theater have been governed by the assumption that it is a form of representation dominated by what Aristotle calls the "mythos," or... -
Singularity: Politics and Poetics by Samuel Weber 9781517910372
RRP: £112.00Booksplease Price: £90.20An influential thinker on the concept of singularity and its implications on politics, theology, economics, psychoanalysis, and literature For readers versed in critical theory, German and... -
Preexisting Conditions - Recounting the Plague by Samuel Weber
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £21.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942130765Author Samuel WeberFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Zone BooksPublisher Zone... -
The Legend of Freud: Expanded Edition by Samuel Weber
RRP: £96.00Booksplease Price: £76.70"Psychoanalysis is dead!" Again and again this obituary is pronounced, with ever-increasing conviction in newspapers and scholarly journals alike. But the ghost of Freud and his thought continues to... -
Targets of Opportunity: On the Militarization of Thinking by Samuel Weber 9780823224760
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £21.66The title of this book echoes a phrase used by the Washington Post to describe the American attempt to kill Saddam Hussein at the start of the war against Iraq. Its theme is the notion of targeting... -
Institution and Interpretation: Expanded Edition by Samuel Weber 9780804731195
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48Institution and Interpretation investigates the forces that shape and limit interpretive practices. Whereas the prevailing use of the term institutions tends to reduce their role to that of... -
The Legend of Freud: Expanded Edition by Samuel Weber 9780804731218
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36"Psychoanalysis is dead!" Again and again this obituary is pronounced, with ever-increasing conviction in newspapers and scholarly journals alike. But the ghost of Freud and his thought continues to... -
The Office of Compline: Latin and English by Samuel Weber 9781586174552
RRP: £16.50Booksplease Price: £14.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781586174552Author Samuel WeberFormat HardbackPage Count 134Imprint Ignatius PressPublisher Ignatius... -
The Proper of the Mass: For Sundays and Solemnities by Samuel Weber 9781621640110
Booksplease Price: £36.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621640110Author Samuel WeberFormat HardbackPage Count 994Imprint Ignatius PressPublisher Ignatius... -
Samuel Weber: Acts of Reading by Simon Morgan Wortham 9781138709171
RRP: £94.99Booksplease Price: £83.04Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Aristocratic Power in the Spanish Monarchy: The Borromeo Brothers of Milan, 1620-1680 by Samuel Weber 9780198872597
RRP: £74.00Booksplease Price: £71.57In Italy, the powerful Borromeo family of Milan have long been held up as a rare example of paternalist aristocrats who withstood the temptations of self-enrichment so many of their peers succumbed... -
Reading Ronell by Diane Davis
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.24Avital Ronell has won worldwide acclaim for her work across literature and philosophy, psychoanalysis and popular culture, political theory and feminism, art and rhetoric, drugs and deconstruction... -
Words of Light: Theses on the Photography of History by Eduardo Cadava 9780691002682
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £32.82Here Eduardo Cadava demonstrates that Walter Benjamin articulates his conception of history through the language of photography. Focusing on Benjamin's discussions of the flashes and images of... -
Love in the Post: From Plato to Derrida: The Screenplay and Commentary by Martin McQuillan 9781783480043
Booksplease Price: £95.78Love in the Post (2013) is inspired by Jacques Derrida's book The Post Card. Like the book, the film plays with fact and fiction, weaving together the stories of a scholar of literature and a film... -
Walter Benjamin: Theoretical Questions by David S. Ferris
RRP: £96.00Booksplease Price: £77.39This collection of nine essays focuses on those writings of Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) on literature and language that have a direct relevance to contemporary literary theory, notably his analyses... -
Translation and Taboo by Douglas Robinson 9780875805719
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.24From the time of the first written sacred texts in the West, taboo has proscribed the act and art of translation. So argues Robinson, who with candor verging on iconoclasm explores the age-old... -
Musica Ficta: (Figures of Wagner) by Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe 9780804723855
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36This is a pioneering attempt to rearticulate the relationship between music and the problems of mimesis, between presentation and re-presentaion. Four "scenes" comprise the book, all four of them... -
Musica Ficta: (Figures of Wagner) by Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe 9780804723763
RRP: £96.00Booksplease Price: £77.39This is a pioneering attempt to rearticulate the relationship between music and the problems of mimesis, between presentation and re-presentaion. Four "scenes" comprise the book, all four of them... -
Love in the Post: From Plato to Derrida: The Screenplay and Commentary by Martin McQuillan 9781783480050
Booksplease Price: £35.01Love in the Post (2013) is inspired by Jacques Derrida's book The Post Card. Like the book, the film plays with fact and fiction, weaving together the stories of a scholar of literature and a film... -
Hope by Simon Wortham 9781350105300
Booksplease Price: £30.23A colourful map of the current conflict between pessimism and optimism in Western politics and theory, Hope attempts to reveal both the deep history and contemporary necessity of political... -
Walter Benjamin: Theoretical Questions by David S. Ferris 9780804725705
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36This collection of nine essays focuses on those writings of Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) on literature and language that have a direct relevance to contemporary literary theory, notably his analyses... -
The Belated Witness: Literature, Testimony, and the Question of Holocaust Survival by Michael G. Levine 9780804755559
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.24The Belated Witness stakes out an original place within the field of recent work on the theory and practice of literary writing after the Holocaust. Drawing in productive and unsettling ways from... -
Violence, Identity, and Self-Determination by Hent de Vries 9780804729963
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £25.34With the collapse of the bipolar system of global rivalry that dominated world politics after the Second World War, and in an age that is seeing the return of "ethnic cleansing" and "identity... -
Constituting Critique: Kant’s Writing as Critical Praxis by Willi Goetschel 9780822315346
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £73.01Kant's philosophy is often treated as a closed system, without reference to how it was written or how Kant arrived at its familiar form, the critique. In fact, the style of the critique seems so... -
Idylls of the Wanderer: Outside in Literature and Theory by Henry Sussman 9780823227693
RRP: £68.00Booksplease Price: £60.43This book is an extended inquiry into the dimension of exteriority constructed by philosophical systems and literary works. Literature has, since its inception, depended on a rogue's gallery of... -
Idylls of the Wanderer: Outside in Literature and Theory by Henry Sussman 9780823227709
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £25.54This book is an extended inquiry into the dimension of exteriority constructed by philosophical systems and literary works. Literature has, since its inception, depended on a rogue's gallery of... -
Emporialism: Department Store Fictions and the Politics of the Mediterranean Amr Kamal 9781438499475
RRP: £72.50Booksplease Price: £69.61A comparative study of iconographic and fictional representations of department stores in France and Egypt, as sites of imperial and Mediterranean cultural memory, from 1869 to the present.Honorable... -
Shakespearean Genealogies of Power: A Whispering of Nothing in Hamlet, Richard II, Julius Caesar, Macbeth, The Merchant of Venice, and The Winter's Tale by Anselm Haverkamp
RRP: £46.99Booksplease Price: £42.66Shakespearean Genealogies of Power proposes a new view on Shakespeare's involvement with the legal sphere: as a visible space between the spheres of politics and law and well able to negotiate legal... -
Copy, Archive, Signature: A Conversation on Photography by Jacques Derrida
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.37This book makes available for the first time in English-and for the first time in its entirety in any language-an important yet little-known interview on the topic of photography that Jacques Derrida... -
Inheritance Law and Political Theology in Shakespeare and Milton: Election and Grace as Constitutional in Early Modern Literature and Beyond by Joseph S. Jenkins 9781138267138
RRP: £55.99Booksplease Price: £49.89Reading God's will and a man's Last Will as ideas that reinforce one another, this study shows the relevance of England's early modern crisis, regarding faith in the will of God, to current debates... -
An Introduction to Dialectics by Theodor W. Adorno 9780745693118
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £49.35This volume comprises Adorno's first lectures specifically dedicated to the subject of the dialectic, a concept which has been key to philosophical debate since classical times. While discussing... -
An Introduction to Dialectics Theodor W. Adorno (Frankfurt School) 9780745679440
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £17.38This volume comprises Adorno's first lectures specifically dedicated to the subject of the dialectic, a concept which has been key to philosophical debate since classical times. While discussing... -
Staging Sovereignty: Theory, Theater, Thaumaturgy Arthur Bradley 9780231217347
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.21To become sovereign, one must be seen as sovereign. In other words, a sovereign must appear-philosophically, politically, and aesthetically-on the stage of power, both to themselves and to others, in... -
The Derrida Dictionary by Dr. Simon Morgan Wortham 9781847065261
Booksplease Price: £31.52The Derrida Dictionary is a comprehensive and accessible guide to the world of Jacques Derrida, the founder of deconstruction and one of the most important and influential European thinkers of the... -
The Liberal Way of War: Killing to Make Life Live by Michael Dillon 9780415953009
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £47.80The liberal way of war and the liberal way of rule are correlated; this book traces that correlation to liberalism's original commitment to 'making life live'. Committed to making life live,... -
Technics Improvised: Activating Touch in Global Media Art by Timothy Murray 9781517912871
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.24Seeing new media art as an entry point for better understanding of technology and worldmaking futures In this challenging work, a leading authority on new media art examines that curatorial and... -
Religion and Media by Hent de Vries
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £27.41The latter part of the twentieth century saw an explosion of new media that effected profound changes in human categories of communication. At the same time, a "return to religion" occurred on a...