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  • Object-Oriented Philosophy

    The Noumenon's New Clothes

    by Peter Wolfendale, Ray Brassier ...
    Series Book 1 - Urbanomic / Mono
    A remarkably clear explication of the tenets of Object-Oriented Philosophy and an acute critique of the movement's ramifications for philosophy today.How does the patience and rigour of philosophical explanation fare when confronted with an irrepressible desire to commune with the object and to escape the subjective perplexities of reference, meaning, and sense?Moving beyond the hype and the ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Fanged Noumena

    Collected Writings 1987-2007

    by Nick Land ...
    A dizzying trip through the mind(s) of the provocative and influential thinker Nick Land.During the 1990s British philosopher Nick Land's unique work, variously described as “rabid nihilism,” “mad black deleuzianism,” and “cybergothic,” developed perhaps the only rigorous and culturally-engaged escape route out of the malaise of “continental philosophy” —a route that was implacably blocked by the ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • An Epistemology of Noise

    by Ms Cecile Malaspina, Ray Brassier ...
    What do we understand 'noise' to be?The term 'noise' no longer suggests only aesthetic judgement, as in acoustic or visual noise, and is now relevant to domains as varied as communication theory, physics and biology. This trans-disciplinary usage leads to confusion and complication, and reveals that the question of noise is a properly philosophical problem.Presenting an analysis of the rising ... Read more

    $38.89 USD

  • Psychoanalysis, Politics, and Utopia

    Five Lectures

    by Herbert Marcuse ...
    An impassioned plea for overcoming capitalism, whose urgency is more timely today than when it was first published fifty years ago.Back in print after fifty years and with a new introduction by Ray Brassier, this often overlooked but prescient collection of Marcuse's lectures makes an impassioned plea for the overthrowing of capitalism.Analysing the work of Freud and Marx, and taking in topics ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Revenge of Reason

    by Peter Wolfendale ...
    Series Book 12 - Urbanomic / Mono
    Neorationalism as a distinctive philosophical trajectory, exploring the outermost possibilities of Prometheanism, Inhumanism, and Enlightenment.What is the fate of Reason in the twenty-first century? Today more than ever, in the face of disinformation, memetic plagues, and neuroactive media, if we are to resist not just the continual solicitation of our cognitive reflexes, but also the unearned ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Theoretical Writings

    by Alain Badiou ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Revelations
    Alain Badiou is arguably the most original and influential philosopher working in France today. Working against the tide of postmodern orthodoxy, Badiou revitalizes philosophy's perennial attempt to provide a systematic theory of truth.Theoretical Writings presents, in Badiou's own words, 'the theoretical core of [his] Philosophy'. Beginning with the controversial assertion that ontology is ... Read more

    $29.19 USD

  • Polemics

    by Alain Badiou, Cecile Winter ...
    Translated by Steve Corcoran, Bruno Bosteels, Ray Brassier ...
    Following on from Alain Badiou’s acclaimed works Ethics and Metapolitics, Polemics is a series of brilliant metapolitical reflections, demolishing established opinion and dominant propaganda, and reorienting our understanding of events from the Kosovo and Iraq wars to the Paris Commune and the Cultural Revolution.With the critical insight and polemical bravura for which he is renowned, Badiou ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Social Dissonance

    by Mattin ...
    Series Book 10 - Urbanomic / Mono
    An argument that by amplifying alienation in performance, we can shift the emphasis from the sonic to the social.Work in sound studies continues to seek out sound "itself"--but, today, when the aesthetic can claim no autonomy and the agency of both artist and audience is socially constituted, why not explore the social mediation already present within our experience of the sonorous? In this work, ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • The Last Word

    by Thomas Nagel ...
    If there is such a thing as reason, it has to be universal. Reason must reflect objective principles whose validity is independent of our point of view--principles that anyone with enough intelligence ought to be able to recognize as correct. But this generality of reason is what relativists and subjectivists deny in ever-increasing numbers. And such subjectivism is not just an inconsequential ... Read more

    $38.69 USD

  • Expressivism, Pragmatism and Representationalism

    by Huw Price, Simon Blackburn, Robert Brandom, Paul Horwich, Michael Williams ...
    Pragmatists have traditionally been enemies of representationalism but friends of naturalism, when naturalism is understood to pertain to human subjects, in the sense of Hume and Nietzsche. In this volume Huw Price presents his distinctive version of this traditional combination, as delivered in his René Descartes Lectures at Tilburg University in 2008. Price contrasts his view with other ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Reason, Truth and History

    by Hilary Putnam ...
    Hilary Putnam deals in this book with some of the most fundamental persistent problems in philosophy: the nature of truth, knowledge and rationality. His aim is to break down the fixed categories of thought which have always appeared to define and constrain the permissible solutions to these problems. ... Read more

    $24.59 USD

  • Quine

    by Christopher Hookway ...
    Series series Key Contemporary Thinkers
    This book provides a clear and comprehensive introduction to the work of Willard van Orman Quine, the most important and influential American philosopher of the post-war period. An understanding of Quine's work is essential for anyone who wishes to follow contemporary debates in the philosophy of language, the philosophy of mind and metaphysics.Hookway traces the development of Quine's work from ... Read more

    $21.00 USD