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Traces by Ernst Bloch
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €19.85Written between 1910 and 1929, Traces is considered Ernst Bloch's most important work next to The Principle of Hope and The Spirit of Utopia. This book, which collects aphorisms, essays, stories, and... -
Being Given: Toward a Phenomenology of Givenness by Jean-Luc Marion
RRP: €32.12Booksplease Price: €28.30Along with Husserl's Ideas and Heidegger's Being and Time, Being Given is one of the classic works of phenomenology in the twentieth century. Through readings of Kant, Husserl, Heidegger, Derrida,... -
The Flesh of Words: The Politics of Writing by Jacques Ranciere
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €19.85This new collection of challenging literary studies plays with a foundational definition of Western culture: the word become flesh. But the word become flesh is not, or no longer, a theological... -
Making IT: The Rise of Asia in High Tech by Henry S. Rowen
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €19.85In 2003, consumption of IT goods worldwide was $1.5 trillion. Asia represented twenty percent of this total. Even more telling, Asia produced about forty percent of these goods. The continued rise of... -
Taking Ourselves Seriously and Getting It Right by Harry G. Frankfurt
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €15.24Harry G. Frankfurt begins his inquiry by asking, "What is it about human beings that makes it possible for us to take ourselves seriously?" Based on The Tanner Lectures in Moral Philosophy, Taking... -
A Matter of Death and Life by Irvin D. Yalom
RRP: €16.65Booksplease Price: €14.32A year-long journey by the renowned psychiatrist and his writer wife after her terminal diagnosis, as they reflect on how to love and live without regret. Internationally acclaimed psychiatrist and... -
No Law: Intellectual Property in the Image of an Absolute First Amendment by David L. Lange
RRP: €34.50Booksplease Price: €18.48The original text of the Constitution grants Congress the power to create a regime of intellectual property protection. The first amendment, however, prohibits Congress from enacting any law that... -
A Revolution in Language: The Problem of Signs in Late Eighteenth-Century France by Sophia Rosenfeld
Booksplease Price: €36.37What is the relationship between the ideas of the Enlightenment and the culture and ideology of the French Revolution? This book takes up that classic question by concentrating on changing... -
The Philosopher's Desire: Psychoanalysis, Interpretation, and Truth by William Egginton
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €19.85This book is about interpretation as it pertains to literature, philosophy, and psychoanalysis. It argues against certain trends of thought that claim we should do without interpretation by... -
Nathan Mayer Rothschild and the Creation of a Dynasty: The Critical Years 1806-1816 by Herbert H. Kaplan
RRP: €24.98Booksplease Price: €21.43This groundbreaking history explains how Nathan Mayer Rothschild rose from comparatively humble circumstances to become the founder of an extraordinary banking and financial empire-an empire that... -
The Lebanese Connection: Corruption, Civil War, and the International Drug Traffic by Jonathan Marshall
RRP: €36.89Booksplease Price: €31.68Long before Mexico, Colombia, and Afghanistan became notorious for their contributions to the global drug traffic, Lebanon was a special target of U.S. drug agents for harboring the world's greatest... -
The Dragon in the Room: China and the Future of Latin American Industrialization by Kevin Gallagher
RRP: €21.41Booksplease Price: €18.92In the eyes of many, China's unprecedented economic rise has brought nothing but good news to the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean. Indeed, China's growing appetite for primary products,... -
After Empire: The Conceptual Transformation of the Chinese State, 1885-1924 by Peter G. Zarrow
RRP: €28.55Booksplease Price: €25.51From 1885-1924, China underwent a period of acute political struggle and cultural change, brought on by a radical change in thought: after over 2,000 years of monarchical rule, the Chinese people... -
The Jew, the Arab: A History of the Enemy by Gil Anidjar
RRP: €27.36Booksplease Price: €24.23Is there a concept of the enemy? To what discursive sphere would it belong? Or, if there is no concept of the enemy, what are the factors that could have prevented its articulation? Following the... -
The Reasonableness of Christianity, and A Discourse of Miracles by John Locke
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €17.74A new and manageable edition of Locke has been badly needed. Professor Ramsey's judicious editing of these important texts fills the need and greatly enhances the value of the texts for the modern... -
Reason in Human Affairs by Herbert A. Simon
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €19.85What can reason (or more broadly, thinking) do for us and what can't it do? This is the question examined by Herbert A. Simon, who received the 1978 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences "for his... -
The Embattled Lyric: Essays and Conversations in Poetics and Anthropology by Nathaniel Tarn
RRP: €23.79Booksplease Price: €20.78This book has two main subjects which are interwoven: the attitudes of selected poets (including Neruda, Rilke, Breton, Celan, and Artaud) to the "primitive" and the "archaic," studied from an... -
The Parable and Its Lesson: A Novella by S. Y. Agnon
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €18.66S.Y. Agnon was the greatest Hebrew writer of the twentieth century, and the only Hebrew writer to receive the Nobel Prize for literature. He devoted the last years of his life to writing a massive... -
If God Were a Human Rights Activist by Boaventura de Sousa Santos
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €17.74We live in a time when the most appalling social injustices and unjust human sufferings no longer seem to generate the moral indignation and the political will needed both to combat them effectively... -
The Natural History of Religion by David Hume
RRP: €21.41Booksplease Price: €18.92Hume's Natural History of Religion may, with his Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion be held to mark the beginning of the Philosophy of Religion. Not so clearly a text illustrating modern... -
The Man Without Content by Giorgio Agamben
RRP: €21.41Booksplease Price: €18.92In this book, one of Italy's most important and original contemporary philosophers considers the status of art in the modern era. He takes seriously Hegel's claim that art has exhausted its spiritual... -
The Zohar: Pritzker Edition, Volume Seven by Daniel Chanan Matt
RRP: €61.88Booksplease Price: €45.21Sefer ha-Zohar (The Book of Radiance) has amazed readers ever since it emerged in medieval Spain over seven hundred years ago. Written in lyrical Aramaic, this masterpiece of Kabbalah exceeds the... -
Silent Urns: Romanticism, Hellenism, Modernity by David Ferris 9780804738484
RRP: €28.55Booksplease Price: €23.81The study of Greece as an icon of culture appears to be as old as Greece itself, as if, like Pallas Athene springing from the head of Zeus, its cultural significance had attained full maturity at... -
Traditional Japanese Poetry: An Anthology by Steven D. Carter 9780804722124
RRP: €54.74Booksplease Price: €45.52This anthology brings togethere in convenient form a rich selection of Japanese poetry in traditional genres dating back from the earliest times to the twentieth century. With more than 1,100 poems,... -
Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life by Giorgio Agamben 9780804732185
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €19.35The work of Giorgio Agamben, one of Italy's most important and original philosophers, has been based on an uncommon erudition in classical traditions of philosophy and rhetoric, the grammarians of... -
The Spirit of Utopia by Ernst Bloch 9780804737654
RRP: €32.12Booksplease Price: €27.94I am. We are. That is enough. Now we have to start. These are the opening words of Ernst Bloch's first major work, The Spirit of Utopia, written mostly in 1915-16, published in its first version... -
The Mind of Modernism: Medicine, Psychology, and the Cultural Arts in Europe and America, 1880-1940 by Mark S. Micale 9780804747974
RRP: €35.69Booksplease Price: €29.82This vanguard collection of original and in-depth essays explores the intricate interplay of the aesthetic and psychological domains during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and... -
In the Stream of History: Shaping Foreign Policy for a New Era by Warren Christopher 9780804734684
RRP: €49.98Booksplease Price: €42.26Giving the reader a unique window into the inner workings of U.S. diplomacy in President Bill Clinton's first term, this book highlights the major foreign policy challenges faced and decisions made... -
The Roots, Rituals, and Rhetorics of Change: North American Business Schools After the Second World War by Mie Augier 9780804776165
RRP: €133.28Booksplease Price: €107.34Some rather remarkable changes took place in North American business schools between 1945 and 1970, altering the character of these institutions, the possibilities for their future, and the terms of... -
Selected Writings by Sarah Kofman 9780804732970
RRP: €28.55Booksplease Price: €25.16Sarah Kofman (1934-1994), Professor of Philosophy at the Sorbonne in Paris and the author of over twenty books, was one of the most significant postwar thinkers in France. Kofman's scholarship was... -
Fetal Positions: Individualism, Science, Visuality by Karen Newman 9780804726481
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €19.85This compelling book uses 103 illustrations to argue that modes of visualizing science have profoundly determined "fetal politics" and the contemporary abortion debates. With its close interplay of... -
Two Revolutions: Village Reconstruction and the Cooperative Movement in Northern Shaanxi, 1934-1945 by Pauline B. Keating 9780804728256
RRP: €76.16Booksplease Price: €62.70A study of the Chinese Communist Party's revolutionary enterprise in northern Shaanxi during the 1934-45 period, this book argues that the "Yan'an Way," long celebrated by the Party as the foundation... -
Reading Derrida / Thinking Paul: On Justice by Theodore W. Jennings 9780804752688
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €19.85This book explores the interweaving of several of Derrida's characteristic concerns with themes that Paul explores in Romans. It argues that the central concern of Romans is with the question of... -
Between Movement and Establishment: Organizations Advocating for Youth by Milbrey Wallin McLaughlin 9780804762106
RRP: €99.96Booksplease Price: €80.94This pathbreaking book examines the strategies, successes, and challenges of youth advocacy organizations, highlighting the importance of local contexts for these efforts. Working between social... -
1368: China and the Making of the Modern World by Ali Humayun Akhtar 9781503638136
RRP: €16.65Booksplease Price: €14.97A new picture of China's rise since the Age of Exploration and its historical impact on the modern world. The establishment of the Great Ming dynasty in 1368 was a monumental event in world history... -
No Longer Ladies and Gentlemen: Gender and the German-Jewish Migration to Mandatory Palestine by Viola Alianov-Rautenberg 9781503636330
RRP: €61.88Booksplease Price: €51.19For the sixty thousand German Jews who escaped Nazi Germany and found refuge in Mandatory Palestine between 1933 and 1941, migration meant radical changes: it transformed their professional and... -
Women's Emancipation Movements in the Nineteenth Century: A European Perspective by Sylvia Paletschek 9780804754941
Booksplease Price: €34.96The nineteenth century, a time of far-reaching cultural, political, and socio-economic transformation in Europe, brought about fundamental changes in the role of women. Women achieved this by... -
The Slow Boil: Street Food, Rights and Public Space in Mumbai by Jonathan Shapiro Anjaria 9780804798228
RRP: €85.68Booksplease Price: €83.90Street food vendors are both a symbol and a scourge of Mumbai: cheap roadside snacks are enjoyed by all, but the people who make them dance on a razor's edge of legality. While neighborhood... -
Poisonous Pandas: Chinese Cigarette Manufacturing in Critical Historical Perspectives by Matthew Kohrman 9781503602069
RRP: €114.24Booksplease Price: €92.09A favorite icon for cigarette manufacturers across China since the mid-twentieth century has been the panda, with factories from Shanghai to Sichuan using cuddly cliche to market tobacco products... -
A Thrice-Told Tale: Feminism, Postmodernism, and Ethnographic Responsibility by Margery Wolf 9780804719803
RRP: €21.41Booksplease Price: €18.92A Thrice-Told Tale is one ethnographer's imaginative and powerful response to the methodological issues raised by feminist and postmodernist critics of traditional ethnography. The author, a feminist...