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  • Critical Conversations in African Philosophy

    Asixoxe - Let's Talk

    Edited by Alena Rettová, Benedetta Lanfranchi, Miriam Pahl ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in African Philosophy
    In this edited collection contributors examine key themes, sources and methods in contemporary African Philosophy, building on a wide-ranging understanding of what constitutes African philosophy, and drawing from a variety of both oral and written texts of different genres.Part one of the volume examines how African philosophy has reacted to burning issues, ranging from contemporary ethical ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Philosophies of Justice in Acholi

    Responsibility in Times of Collective Suffering

    by Benedetta Lanfranchi ...
    Series series World Philosophies
    Since 2008 Ugandans residing in the northern region of Acholiland have been faced with the uncertainties of justice stemming from the twenty-year civil war waged between the Ugandan government and Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army (LRA). Seeking accountability and reconciliation within their communities, Acholi and non-Acholi have had to grapple with large-scale practical and philosophical ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Social Construction of Reality

    A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge

    by Peter L. Berger, Thomas Luckmann ...
    A watershed event in the field of sociology, this text introduced "a major breakthrough in the sociology of knowledge and sociological theory generally" (George Simpson, American Sociological Review ).In this seminal book, Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann examine how knowledge forms and how it is preserved and altered within a society. Unlike earlier theorists and philosophers, Berger and ... Read more

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  • Pragmatism as Anti-Authoritarianism

    by Richard Rorty ...
    The last book by the eminent American philosopher and public intellectual Richard Rorty, providing the definitive statement of his mature philosophical and political views.Richard Rorty’s Pragmatism as Anti-Authoritarianism is a last statement by one of America’s foremost philosophers. Here Rorty offers his culminating thoughts on the influential version of pragmatism he began to articulate ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Giving an Account of Oneself

    Twentieth Anniversary Edition, with a new preface by the author

    by Judith Butler ...
    What does it mean to lead a moral life?In their first extended study of moral philosophy, Judith Butler offers a provocative outline for a new ethical practice—one responsive to the need for critical autonomy yet grounded in the opacity of the human subject.Butler takes as their starting point one’s ability to answer the questions “What have I done?” and “What ought I to do?” They show that these ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Hegel and the Infinite

    Religion, Politics, and Dialectic

    Edited by Slavoj Žižek, Clayton Crockett, Creston Davis ...
    Series series Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture
    Catherine Malabou, Antonio Negri, John D. Caputo, Bruno Bosteels, Mark C. Taylor, and Slavoj Zizek join seven others—including William Desmond, Katrin Pahl, Adrian Johnston, Edith Wyschogrod, and Thomas A. Lewis—to apply Hegel's thought to twenty-first-century philosophy, politics, and religion. Doing away with claims that the evolution of thought and history is at an end, these thinkers safeguard ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Zizek

    A Reader's Guide

    by Kelsey Wood ...
    A comprehensive overview of Slavoj Zizek's thought, including all of his published works to date.Provides a solid basis in the work of an engaging thinker and teacher whose ideas will continue to inform philosophical, psychological, political, and cultural discourses well into the futureIdentifies the major currents in Zizek's thought, discussing all of his works and providing a background in ... Read more

    $37.00 USD

  • Time and the Other

    How Anthropology Makes Its Object

    by Johannes Fabian ...
    Time and the Other is a classic work that critically reexamined the relationship between anthropologists and their subjects and reoriented the approach literary critics, philosophers, and historians took to the study of humankind. Johannes Fabian challenges the assumption that anthropologists live in the "here and now," that their subjects live in the "there and then," and that the "other" exists ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Senses of the Subject

    by Judith Butler ...
    This book brings together a group of Judith Butler’s philosophical essays written over two decades that elaborate her reflections on the roles of the passions in subject formation through an engagement with Hegel, Kierkegaard, Descartes, Spinoza, Malebranche, Merleau-Ponty, Freud, Irigaray, and Fanon. Drawing on her early work on Hegelian desire and her subsequent reflections on the psychic life ... Read more

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  • The Ontological Turn

    An Anthropological Exposition

    by Martin Holbraad, Morten Axel Pedersen ...
    Series series New Departures in Anthropology
    A new and often controversial theoretical orientation that resonates strongly with wider developments in contemporary philosophy and social theory, the so-called 'ontological turn' is receiving a great deal of attention in anthropology and cognate disciplines at present. This book provides the first anthropological exposition of this recent intellectual development. It traces the roots of the ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Kristeva and the Political

    by Cecilia Sjoholm ...
    Series series Thinking the Political
    Julia Kristeva is one of the most influential French thinkers of the twentieth century and is best known for her work in linguistics. Even though her work has been very influential, the political implications of her writings have so far been neglected. Kristeva and the Political is the first book to explore the relation of Kristeva's work to the political and casts new light on her work, ... Read more

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  • Slavoj Zizek

    by Tony Myers ...
    Series series Routledge Critical Thinkers
    Slavoj Zizek is no ordinary philosopher. Approaching critical theory and psychoanalysis in a recklessly entertaining fashion, Zizek's critical eye alights upon a bewildering and exhilarating range of subjects, from the political apathy of contemporary life, to a joke about the man who thinks he's a chicken, from the ethicial heroism of Keanu Reeves in Speed, to what toilet designs reveal about the ... Read more

    $39.99 USD