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  • Levinas and the Cinema of Redemption

    Time, Ethics, and the Feminine

    by Sam Girgus ...
    Series series Film and Culture Series
    In his philosophy of ethics and time, Emmanuel Levinas highlighted the tension that exists between the "ontological adventure" of immediate experience and the "ethical adventure" of redemptive relationships-associations in which absolute responsibility engenders a transcendence of being and self.In an original commingling of philosophy and cinema study, Sam B. Girgus applies Levinas's ethics to a ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

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  • The Selected Writings of Friedrich Nietzsche

    by Friedrich Nietzsche ...
    Collected here in this omnibus edition are three of Nietzsche's three most important books: The Anti-Christ, Beyond Good and Evil, and Thus Spake Zarathustra, as well as The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche by Henry Louis Mencken. A perfect book for new readers of Nietzsche or anyone hoping to understand his writing and philosophy more thoroughly. The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche by Henry ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • Plasticity at the Dusk of Writing

    Dialectic, Destruction, Deconstruction

    by Catherine Malabou ...
    Translated by Carolyn Shread ...
    Series series Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture
    A former student and collaborator of Jacques Derrida, Catherine Malabou has generated worldwide acclaim for her progressive rethinking of postmodern, Derridean critique. Building on her notion of plasticity, a term she originally borrowed from Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit and adapted to a reading of Hegel's own work, Malabou transforms our understanding of the political and the religious, ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Critical Models

    Interventions and Catchwords

    by Theodor W. Adorno ...
    Translated by Henry Pickford ...
    Series series European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
    Critical Models combines into a single volume two of Adorno's most important postwar works — Interventions: Nine Critical Models (1963) and Catchwords: Critical Models II (1969). Written after his return to Germany in 1949, the articles, essays, and radio talks included in this volume speak to the pressing political, cultural, and philosophical concerns of the postwar era. The pieces in Critical ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • The God Who Deconstructs Himself

    Sovereignty and Subjectivity Between Freud, Bataille, and Derrida

    by Nick Mansfield ...
    Series series Perspectives in Continental Philosophy
    No topic has caused more discussion in recent philosophy and political theory than sovereignty. From late Foucault to Agamben, and from Guantanamo Bay to the 'war on terror,' the issue of the extent and the nature of the sovereign has given theoretical debates their currency and urgency. New thinking on sovereignty has always imagined the styles of human selfhood that each regime involves. Each ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • Art’s Claim to Truth

    by Gianni Vattimo ...
    Translated by Luca D'Isanto ...
    Series series Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts
    First collected in Italy in 1985, Art's Claim to Truth is considered by many philosophers to be one of Gianni Vattimo's most important works. Newly revised for English readers, the book begins with a challenge to Plato, Aristotle, Kant, and Hegel, who viewed art as a metaphysical aspect of reality rather than a futuristic anticipation of it. Following Martin Heidegger's interpretation of the ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • A History of Light

    The Idea of Photography

    by Junko Theresa Mikuriya ...
    When was photography invented, in 1826 with the first permanent photograph? If we depart from the technologically oriented accounts and consider photography as a philosophical discourse an alternative history appears, one which examines the human impulse to reconstruct the photographic or “the evoking of light”. It's significance throughout the history of ideas is explored via the Platonic ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • Intoxication

    by Jean-Luc Nancy ...
    Translated by Philip Armstrong ...
    Series series Idiom: Inventing Writing Theory
    From Plato’s Symposium to Hegel’s truth as a “Bacchanalian revel,” from the Bacchae of Euripedes to Nietzsche, philosophy holds a deeply ambivalent relation to the pleasures of intoxication. At the same time, from Baudelaire to Lowry, from Proust to Dostoyevsky, literature and poetry are also haunted by scenes of intoxication, as if philosophy and literature share a theme that announces and ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • In Other Shoes

    Music, Metaphor, Empathy, Existence

    by Kendall L. Walton ...
    In fifteen essays-one new, two newly revised and expanded, three with new postscripts-Kendall L. Walton wrestles with philosophical issues concerning music, metaphor, empathy, existence, fiction, and expressiveness in the arts. These subjects are intertwined in striking and surprising ways. By exploring connections among them, appealing sometimes to notions of imagining oneself in shoes different ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • Love in the Post: From Plato to Derrida

    The Screenplay and Commentary

    by Martin McQuillan, Joanna Callaghan ...
    Love 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 director, alongside insights from critics and philosophers.Theo Marks works in a university department that is soon to be closed. His wife Sophie, enigmatic and distant, is in analysis. Filmmaker Joanna ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Jacques Derrida (Routledge Revivals)

    An Annotated Primary and Secondary Bibliography

    Edited by William Schultz, Lewis L.B. Fried ...
    First published in 1992, this book represents the first major attempt to compile a bibliography of Derrida’s work and scholarship about his work. It attempts to be comprehensive rather than selective, listing primary and secondary works from the year of Derrida’s Master’s thesis in 1954 up until 1991, and is extensively annotated. It arranges under article type a huge number of works from scholars ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • The Ground of the Image

    by Jean-Luc Nancy ...
    Translated by Jeff Fort ...
    Series series Perspectives in Continental Philosophy
    The renowned philosopher provides "noteworthy contributions to themes connected with images, imagination, representation, aesthetics, and . . . religion." — Journal of American Academy of ReligionWhat is this power that lies in the depths and recesses of an image—which is always only an impenetrable surface? What secrets are concealed in the ground or in the figures of an image—which never does ... Read more

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