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  • The Lost Thread

    The Democracy of Modern Fiction

    by Mr Steven Corcoran, Jacques Rancière ...
    In The Lost Thread, Rancière debunks the notion of Flaubert, Baudelaire, Conrad, Woolf and Keats as reactionary producers of bourgeois mythologies, and instead foregrounds the egalitarian and democratic impulses of modernist literature. Contrary to the canonical interpretation of the relation between modernism and capitalism via the commodification of everyday life, Rancière proposes a radical ... Read more

    $26.49 USD

  • Profitability in Law Firms

    Insight and Analysis

    by Toby Brown, Steven Campbell, Tim Corcoran, Mark Santiago, Shaun Jardine, Richard Brzakala, Stuart Dodds, Phil Nixon, Wayne Hassay, Madhav Srinivasan, Richard Martin, John McCarthy, Jack Kingston, Michelle Peters, Mitch Spradlin ...
    Profit. What a simple term. To determine it, all one needs to do is take revenue and subtract costs and there you go: profit. From there it’s easy to determine a percentage and margin. So what’s so hard about law firm profitability? Profitability in Law Firms: Insight and Analysis provides practical and proven strategies for law firm leaders and managers who want to take their firms to the next ... Read more

    $215.99 USD

  • Foucault with Marx

    by Jacques Bidet ...
    Translated by Mr Steven Corcoran ...
    With this timely commitment, Jacques Bidet unites the theories of arguably the world's two greatest emancipatory political thinkers. In this far-reaching and decisive text, Bidet examines Marxian and Foucauldian criticisms of capitalist modernity.For Marx, the intersection between capital and the market is crucial, while for Foucault, the organizational aspects of capital are what really matter. ... Read more

    $21.39 USD

  • Alienation and Freedom

    by Frantz Fanon ...
    Translated by Mr Steven Corcoran ...
    Since the publication of The Wretched of the Earth in 1961, Fanon's work has been deeply significant for generations of intellectuals and activists from the 60s to the present day.Alienation and Freedom collects together unpublished works comprising around half of his entire output – which were previously inaccessible or thought to be lost. This book introduces audiences to a new Fanon, a more ... Read more

    $52.69 USD

  • Dissensus

    On Politics and Aesthetics

    by Jacques Rancière ...
    Translated by Mr Steven Corcoran ...
    Dissensus: On Politics and Aesthetics brings together some of Jacques Rancière's most recent writings on art and politics to show the critical potential of two of his most important concepts: the aesthetics of politics and the politics of aesthetics.In this fascinating collection, Rancière engages in a radical critique of some of his major contemporaries on questions of art and politics: Gilles ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Conditions

    by Alain Badiou ...
    Translated by Mr Steven Corcoran ...
    Beginning with a sustained critique of the so-called 'end of philosophy', Badiou goes on to propose a new definition of philosophy, one that is tested with respect to both its origin, in Plato, and its contemporary state. The essays that follow are ordered according to what Badiou sees as the four great conditions of philosophy: philosophy and poetry, philosophy and mathematics, philosophy and ... Read more

    $60.79 USD

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    Necropolitics

    by Achille Mbembe ...
    Narrated by Sean Crisden ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 31 min

    In Necropolitics, Achille Mbembe, a leader in the new wave of francophone critical theory, theorizes the genealogy of the contemporary world, a world plagued by ever-increasing inequality, militarization, enmity, and terror as well as by a resurgence of racist, fascist, and nationalist forces determined to exclude and kill. He outlines how democracy has begun to embrace its dark side—what he calls ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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  • The Plays from Alienation and Freedom

    by Frantz Fanon ...
    Translated by Mr Steven Corcoran ...
    Prior to becoming a psychiatrist, Frantz Fanon wanted to be a playwright and his interest in dialogue, dramatisation and metaphor continued throughout his writing and career. His passion for theatre developed during the years that he was studying medicine, and in 1949 he wrote the plays The Drowning Eye (L'Œil se noie), and Parallel Hands (Les Mains parallèles). This first English translation of ... Read more

    $15.39 USD

  • The Psychiatric Writings from Alienation and Freedom

    by Frantz Fanon ...
    Translated by Mr Steven Corcoran ...
    Frantz Fanon's psychiatric career was crucial to his thinking as an anti-colonialist writer and activist. Much of his iconic work was shaped by his experiences working in hospitals in France, Algeria and Tunisia. The writing collected here was written from 1951 to 1960 in tandem with his political work and reveals much about how Fanon's thought developed, showing that, for him, psychiatry was part ... Read more

    $22.19 USD

  • The Political Writings from Alienation and Freedom

    by Frantz Fanon ...
    Translated by Mr Steven Corcoran ...
    Frantz Fanon's political impact is difficult to overestimate. His anti-colonialist, philosophical and revolutionary writings were among the most influential of the 20th century. The essays, articles and notes published in this volume cover the most politically active period of his life and encapsulate the breadth, depth and urgency of his writings. In particular, they clarify and amplify his much ... Read more

    $19.69 USD

  • Mallarme

    The Politics of the Siren

    Translated by Mr Steven Corcoran ...
    by Jacques Rancière ...
    In this concise and illuminating study, Jacques Rancière, one of the world's most popular and influential living philosophers, examines the life and work of the celebrated nineteenth-century French poet and critic, Stéphane Mallarmé.Ranciere presents Mallarmé as neither an aesthete in need of rare essences and unheard-of words, nor the silent and nocturnal thinker of some poem too pure to be ... Read more

    $44.59 USD

  • Distant Freedom

    Essay on Chekhov

    by Jacques Ranciere ...
    Translated by Steven Corcoran ...
    Chekhov's fiction offers a subtle yet powerful message: another life is possible. Something can always happen to our lives – a possibility that breaks the monotony of servitude and points to a different, more liberated existence. This is the way to approach all these brief tales of lost lives, nights filled with tears and joy, landscapes, or love, against the cynicism of those who believe that ... Read more

    $10.00 USD