Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture – serie
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93 produkter
Philosophical Temperaments
From Plato to Foucault
Häftad, 2013
235 kr
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Peter Sloterdijk turns his keen eye to the history of western thought, conducting colorful readings of the lives and ideas of the world's most influential intellectuals. Featuring nineteen vignettes rich in personal characterizations and theoretical analysis, Sloterdijk's companionable volume casts …
Plasticity at the Dusk of Writing
Dialectic, Destruction, Deconstruction
Inbunden, 2009
522 kr
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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 …
Rage and Time
A Psychopolitical Investigation
Häftad, 2012
256 kr
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While ancient civilizations worshipped strong, active emotions, modern societies have favored more peaceful attitudes, especially within the democratic process. We have largely forgotten the struggle to make use of thymos, the part of the soul that, following Plato, contains spirit, pride, and …
Spinoza for Our Time
Politics and Postmodernity
Häftad, 2026
179 kr
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Antonio Negri, one of the world's leading scholars on Baruch Spinoza (1632–1677) and his contemporary legacy, offers a straightforward explanation of the philosopher's elaborate arguments and a persuasive case for his ongoing relevance. Responding to a resurgent interest in Spinoza's thought and …
Factory of Strategy
Thirty-Three Lessons on Lenin
Häftad, 2015
308 kr
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Factory of Strategy is the last of Antonio Negri's major political works to be translated into English. Rigorous and accessible, it is both a systematic inquiry into the development of Lenin's thought and an encapsulation of a critical shift in Negri's theoretical trajectory. Lenin is the only …
Energy and Change
A New Materialist Cosmotheology
Häftad, 2022
308 kr
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As humanity continues to consume planetary resources at an unsustainable rate, we require not only new and renewable forms of energy but also new ways of understanding energy itself. Clayton Crockett offers an innovative philosophy of energy that cuts across a number of leading-edge disciplines. …
Excessive Subjectivity
Kant, Hegel, Lacan, and the Foundations of Ethics
Inbunden, 2017
1230 kr
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How are we to conceive of acts that suddenly expose the injustice of the prevailing order? These acts challenge long-standing hidden or silently tolerated injustices, but as they are unsupported by existing ethical rules they pose a drastic challenge to dominant norms. In Excessive Subjectivity, …
Political Theology of the Earth
Our Planetary Emergency and the Struggle for a New Public
Häftad, 2018
540 kr
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Amid melting glaciers, rising waters, and spreading droughts, Earth has ceased to tolerate our pretense of mastery over it. But how can we confront climate change when political crises keep exploding in the present? Noted ecotheologian and feminist philosopher of religion Catherine Keller reads the …
There’s No Such Thing as a Sexual Relationship
Two Lessons on Lacan
Av Alain Badiou, Barbara Cassin
Häftad, 2017
187 kr
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Published in 1973, "L'Etourdit" was one of the French philosopher Jacques Lacan's most important works. The book posed questions that traversed the entire body of Lacan's psychoanalytical explorations, including his famous idea that "there is no such thing as a sexual relationship," which seeks to …
Heidegger
His Life and His Philosophy
Av Alain Badiou, Barbara Cassin
Häftad, 2016
199 kr
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Martin Heidegger was an ordinary Nazi and a loyal member of the provincial petty bourgeoisie. He was also a seminal thinker of the Continental tradition and one of the twentieth century's most important philosophers. How are we to make sense of this dual life? Should we factor Heidegger's domestic …
Strange Wonder
The Closure of Metaphysics and the Opening of Awe
Häftad, 2010
282 kr
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Strange Wonder confronts Western philosophy's ambivalent relationship to the Platonic "wonder" that reveals the strangeness of the everyday. On the one hand, this wonder is said to be the origin of all philosophy. On the other hand, it is associated with a kind of ignorance that ought to be …
Hedonist Manifesto
The Power to Exist
Inbunden, 2015
325 kr
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Michael Onfray passionately defends the potential of hedonism to resolve the dislocations and disconnections of our melancholy age. In a sweeping survey of history's engagement with and rejection of the body, he exposes the sterile conventions that prevent us from realizing a more immediate, …
To Carl Schmitt
Letters and Reflections
Av Jacob Taubes
Inbunden, 2013
479 kr
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A philosopher, rabbi, religious historian, and Gnostic, Jacob Taubes was for many years a correspondent and interlocutor of Carl Schmitt (1888-1985), a German jurist, philosopher, political theorist, law professor-and self-professed Nazi. Despite their unlikely association, Taubes and Schmitt …
Hegel and the Infinite
Religion, Politics, and Dialectic
Av Slavoj Žižek, Clayton Crockett m. fl.
Inbunden, 2011
1920 kr
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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. …
Christo-Fiction
The Ruins of Athens and Jerusalem
Inbunden, 2015
1037 kr
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Francois Laruelle's lifelong project of "nonphilosophy," or "nonstandard philosophy," thinks past the theoretical limits of Western philosophy to realize new relations between religion, science, politics, and art. In Christo-Fiction Laruelle targets the rigid, self-sustaining arguments of …
Our Broad Present
Time and Contemporary Culture
Häftad, 2014
479 kr
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Considering a range of present-day phenomena, from the immediacy effects of literature to the impact of hypercommunication, globalization, and sports, Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht notes an important shift in our relationship to history and the passage of time. Although we continue to use concepts …
After the Death of God
Av John D. Caputo, Gianni Vattimo m. fl.
Häftad, 2009
230 kr
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It has long been assumed that the more modern we become, the less religious we will be. Yet a recent resurrection in faith has challenged the certainty of this belief. In these original essays and interviews, leading hermeneutical philosophers and postmodern theorists John D. Caputo and Gianni …
Politics of Postsecular Religion
Mourning Secular Futures
Inbunden, 2008
1307 kr
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Ananda Abeysekara contends that democracy, along with its cherished secular norms, is founded on the idea of a promise deferred to the future. Rooted in democracy's messianic promise is the belief that religious--political identity-such as Buddhist, Hindu, Sinhalese, Christian, Muslim, or …
Hegel and the Infinite
Religion, Politics, and Dialectic
Av Slavoj Žižek, Clayton Crockett m. fl.
Häftad, 2011
265 kr
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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. …
Rage and Time
A Psychopolitical Investigation
Inbunden, 2010
1037 kr
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While ancient civilizations worshipped strong, active emotions, modern societies have favored more peaceful attitudes, especially within the democratic process. We have largely forgotten the struggle to make use of thymos, the part of the soul that, following Plato, contains spirit, pride, and …
Strange Wonder
The Closure of Metaphysics and the Opening of Awe
Inbunden, 2009
908 kr
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Strange Wonder confronts Western philosophy's ambivalent relationship to the Platonic "wonder" that reveals the strangeness of the everyday. On the one hand, this wonder is said to be the origin of all philosophy. On the other hand, it is associated with a kind of ignorance that ought to be …
Factory of Strategy
Thirty-Three Lessons on Lenin
Inbunden, 2014
1209 kr
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Factory of Strategy is the last of Antonio Negri's major political works to be translated into English. Rigorous and accessible, it is both a systematic inquiry into the development of Lenin's thought and an encapsulation of a critical shift in Negri's theoretical trajectory. Lenin is the only …
Religion and the Specter of the West
Sikhism, India, Postcoloniality, and the Politics of Translation
Inbunden, 2009
1552 kr
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Arguing that intellectual movements, such as deconstruction, postsecular theory, and political theology, have different implications for cultures and societies that live with the debilitating effects of past imperialisms, Arvind Mandair unsettles the politics of knowledge construction in which the …
Religion and the Specter of the West
Sikhism, India, Postcoloniality, and the Politics of Translation
Häftad, 2016
393 kr
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Arguing that intellectual movements, such as deconstruction, postsecular theory, and political theology, have different implications for cultures and societies that live with the debilitating effects of past imperialisms, Arvind Mandair unsettles the politics of knowledge construction in which the …
Encountering Religion
Responsibility and Criticism After Secularism
Inbunden, 2013
1123 kr
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Tyler Roberts encourages scholars to abandon rigid conceptual oppositions between "secular" and "religious" to better understand how human beings actively and thoughtfully engage with their worlds and make meaning. The artificial distinction between a self-conscious and critical "academic study of …
Encountering Religion
Responsibility and Criticism After Secularism
Häftad, 2017
282 kr
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Tyler Roberts encourages scholars to abandon rigid conceptual oppositions between "secular" and "religious" to better understand how human beings actively and thoughtfully engage with their worlds and make meaning. The artificial distinction between a self-conscious and critical "academic study of …
Anatheism
Returning to God After God
Inbunden, 2009
1920 kr
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Has the passing of the old God paved the way for a new kind of religious project, a more responsible way to seek, sound, and love the things we call divine? Has the suspension of dogmatic certainties and presumptions opened a space in which we can encounter religious wonder anew? Situated at the …
Anatheism
Returning to God After God
Häftad, 2011
265 kr
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Has the passing of the old God paved the way for a new kind of religious project, a more responsible way to seek, sound, and love the things we call divine? Has the suspension of dogmatic certainties and presumptions opened a space in which we can encounter religious wonder anew? Situated at the …
Radical Political Theology
Religion and Politics After Liberalism
Inbunden, 2011
1123 kr
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In the 1960s, the strict opposition between the religious and the secular began to break down, blurring the distinction between political philosophy and political theology. This collapse contributed to the decline of modern liberalism, which supported a neutral, value-free space for capitalism. It …
Radical Political Theology
Religion and Politics After Liberalism
Häftad, 2013
571 kr
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In the 1960s, the strict opposition between the religious and the secular began to break down, blurring the distinction between political philosophy and political theology. This collapse contributed to the decline of modern liberalism, which supported a neutral, value-free space for capitalism. It …
