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  • Covid, Biopolitics and the Suspension of the Nomos

    Herd Immunities

    by William Watkin ...
    Series series Nomos Studies in Law, Culture and Power
    This book considers how, during the unprecedented global lockdown due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the normal order of everyday life, of the rule of law, of power itself was interrupted, and hence the nomos of this earth was suspended.Employing the term ‘herd immunity’ from vaccination science and global lockdown policy as a guiding theme, the book considers two central aspects of the pandemic. These ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Bioviolence

    How the Powers That Be Make Us Do What They Want

    by William Watkin ...
    Aylan, Isis, Begum, Grenfell, Trump. Harambe, Guantanamo, Syria, Brexit, Johnson. COVID, migrants, trolling, George Floyd, Trump!Gazing over the fractured, contested territories of the current global situation, Watkin finds that all these diverse happenings have one element in common. They occur when biopolitical states, in trying to manage and protect the life rights of their citizens, habitually ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Agamben and Indifference

    A Critical Overview

    by William Watkin ...
    Since the publication of Homo Sacer Giorgio Agamben has become one of the world's most revered and controversial thinkers. His ideas on our current political situation have found many supporters as well as garnering strong criticism from some quarters. While his wider thoughts on topics such as language, potentiality, life, law, messianism, power, and aesthetics have had significant impact on such ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Badiou and Communicable Worlds

    A Critical Introduction to Logics of Worlds

    by Dr William Watkin ...
    Logics of Worlds stands as one of the most important texts in contemporary thought. Conceived as the sequel to Alan Badiou's Being and Event, the book expands upon and elucidates the questions that were posed in the first book. As a complex theory of worlds, the text has, for the most part, been misunderstood, but in William Watkin's diligent and critical close reading of the book, he makes the ... Read more

    $34.79 USD

  • Badiou and Indifferent Being

    A Critical Introduction to Being and Event

    by Dr William Watkin ...
    The first critical work to attempt the mammoth undertaking of reading Badiou's Being and Event as part of a sequence has often surprising, occasionally controversial results.Looking back on its publication Badiou declared: “I had inscribed my name in the history of philosophy”. Later he was brave enough to admit that this inscription needed correction. The central elements of Badiou's philosophy ... Read more

    $30.79 USD

  • The Assault on Public Education

    Confronting the Politics of Corporate School Reform.

    by William Watkins ...
    In this timely interdisciplinary volume, William Watkins has brought together leading scholars and activists to address some of the most urgent issues facing public education. What is underneath and behind the language of choice, efficiency, and improvement in current neoliberal discourse? How will urban and poor populations be affected? Will privatization lead to increased stratification in our ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • Textual Layering

    Contact, Historicity, Critique

    by Apostolos Lampropoulos, Frances Restuccia, John Lechte, Judith Wambacq, Michael Beehler, Brendan Moran, Adnan Mahmutovic, Marios Constantinou0, Gertrude Postl1, S. K. Keltner2, Kalliopi Nikolopoulou3, Elena Tzelepis4, William Watkin5, Tina Chanter6 ...
    Series series TEXTURES: Philosophy / Literature / Culture
    Textual Layering: Contact, Historicity, Critique sets out to rethink our relation to textual tradition against the background of several contemporary developments, including the emergence of digital culture, the increasing spectacularization of psychic as well as social life, the renegotiation of historical thinking, and the precarious position of the theoretical humanities within academia. To ... Read more

    $121.49 USD

  • Canada and the States

    by Edward William Watkin ...
    The following pages have been written at the request of many old friends, some of them co-workers in the cause of permanent British rule over the larger part of the Great Northern Continent of America. ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Aircraft Maintenance and Repair, Seventh Edition

    by Michael Kroes, William Watkins, Frank Delp, Ronald Sterkenburg ...
    GET UP-TO-DATE INFORMATION TO PERFORM RETURN-TO-SERVICE AIRCRAFT MAINTENANCE AND PASS YOUR FAA AIRCRAFT CERTIFICATION!Aircraft Maintenance & Repair, Seventh Edition, is a valuable resource for students of aviation technology that provides updated information needed to prepare for an FAA airframe technician certification — and can be used with classroom discussions and practical application in the ... Read more

    $64.79 USD

  • The Independent Guide to the Constitution

    Original Intentions, Modern Inventions

    by William J. Watkins Jr. ...
    The Independent Guide to the Constitution: Original Intentions, Modern Inventions cuts through the partisan noise and helps readers reclaim the original, time-tested principles of liberty that America’s Framers worked so hard to protect.The Constitution is one of the most studied—and most willfully misunderstood—documents in American life. Now more than ever, Americans need an objective, thorough, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Crossing to Safety

    by Wallace Stegner, T.H. Watkins ...
    Series series Modern Library Classics
    Introduction by Terry Tempest WilliamsAfterword by T. H. WatkinsCalled a “magnificently crafted story . . . brimming with wisdom” by Howard Frank Mosher in The Washington Post Book World, Crossing to Safety has, since its publication in 1987, established itself as one of the greatest and most cherished American novels of the twentieth century. Tracing the lives, loves, and aspirations of two ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Faith, Reason, and Theosis

    by Aristotle Papanikolaou, William J. Abraham, Peter C. Bouteneff, Carolyn Chau, Robert Glenn Davis, Stephen J. Davis, David Bentley Hart, Philip Kariatlis, Jean Porter0, Andrew Prevot1, Ashley M. Purpura2, Ashley M. Purpura3, Kirsi Stjerna4, Michele Watkins5, Rowan Williams6 ...
    Series series Orthodox Christianity and Contemporary Thought
    Theosis shapes contemporary Orthodox theology in two ways: positively and negatively. In the positive sense, contemporary Orthodox theologians made theosis the thread that bound together the various aspects of theology in a coherent whole and also interpreted patristic texts, which experienced a renaissance in the twentieth century, even in Orthodox theology. In the negative sense, contemporary ... Read more

    $35.99 USD