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66 produkter
Citizen Subject
Foundations for Philosophical Anthropology
Häftad, 2016
444 kr
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What can the universals of political philosophy offer to those who experience "the living paradox of an inegalitarian construction of egalitarian citizenship"? Citizen Subject is the summation of Étienne Balibar's career-long project to think the necessary and necessarily antagonistic relation …
Thou Shalt not Kill
A Political and Theological Dialogue
Av Adriana Cavarero, Angelo Scola
Häftad, 2015
259 kr
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In this fascinating and rare little book, a leading Italian feminist philosopher and the Archbishop of Milan face off over the contemporary meaning of the biblical commandment not to kill.The result is a series of erudite and wide-ranging arguments that move from murder and suicide to just war and …
Europe and Empire
On the Political Forms of Globalization
Av Massimo Cacciari, Alessandro Carrera
Inbunden, 2016
1229 kr
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The European Union and the single currency have given Europe more stability than it has known in the past thousand years, yet Europe seems to be in perpetual crisis about its global role. The many European empires are now reduced to a multiplicity of ethnicities, traditions, and civilizations. …
Life of Things, the Love of Things
Av Remo Bodei
Häftad, 2015
287 kr
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From prehistoric stone tools, to machines, to computers, things have traveled a long road along with human beings. Changing with the times, places, and methods of their production, emerging from diverse histories, and enveloped in multiple layers of meaning, things embody ideas, emotions, and …
Categories of the Impolitical
Häftad, 2015
441 kr
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The notion of the "impolitical" developed in this volume draws its meaning from the exhaustion of modernity's political categories, which have become incapable of giving voice to any genuinely radical perspective. The impolitical is not the opposite of the political but rather its outer limit: the …
Two
The Machine of Political Theology and the Place of Thought
Häftad, 2015
447 kr
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The debate on "political theology" that ran throughout the twentieth century has reached its end, but the ultimate meaning of the notion continues to evade us. Despite all the attempts to resolve the issue, we still speak its language—we remain in its horizon.The reason for this, says Roberto …
Terms of the Political
Community, Immunity, Biopolitics
Inbunden, 2012
1109 kr
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Terms of the Political: Community, Immunity, Biopolitics presents a decade of thought about the origins and possibilities of political theory from one of contemporary Italy's most prolific and engaging political theorists, Roberto Esposito. He has coined a number of critical concepts in current …
Terms of the Political
Community, Immunity, Biopolitics
Häftad, 2012
388 kr
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Terms of the Political: Community, Immunity, Biopolitics presents a decade of thought about the origins and possibilities of political theory from one of contemporary Italy's most prolific and engaging political theorists, Roberto Esposito. He has coined a number of critical concepts in current …
Documentality
Why It Is Necessary to Leave Traces
Inbunden, 2012
1561 kr
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This books ushers in a new way of talking about social phenomena. It develops an ontology of social objects on the basis of the claim that registration or inscription—the leaving of a trace to be called up later—is what is most fundamental to them. In doing so, it systematically organizes concepts …
Documentality
Why It Is Necessary to Leave Traces
Häftad, 2012
459 kr
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This books ushers in a new way of talking about social phenomena. It develops an ontology of social objects on the basis of the claim that registration or inscription—the leaving of a trace to be called up later—is what is most fundamental to them. In doing so, it systematically organizes concepts …
Sovereignty and Its Other
Toward the Dejustification of Violence
Inbunden, 2013
1194 kr
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In this new book, Dimitris Vardoulakis asks how it is possible to think of a politics that is not commensurate with sovereignty. For such a politics, he argues, sovereignty is defined not in terms of the exception but as the different ways in which violence is justified. Vardoulakis shows how it is …
Sovereignty and Its Other
Toward the Dejustification of Violence
Häftad, 2013
371 kr
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In this new book, Dimitris Vardoulakis asks how it is possible to think of a politics that is not commensurate with sovereignty. For such a politics, he argues, sovereignty is defined not in terms of the exception but as the different ways in which violence is justified. Vardoulakis shows how it is …
Queer Turn in Feminism
Identities, Sexualities, and the Theater of Gender
Inbunden, 2013
1406 kr
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More than any other area of late-twentieth-century thinking, gender theory and its avatars have been to a large extent a Franco-American invention. In this book, a leading Franco-American scholar traces differences and intersections in the development of gender and queer theories on both sides of …
Queer Turn in Feminism
Identities, Sexualities, and the Theater of Gender
Häftad, 2013
431 kr
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More than any other area of late-twentieth-century thinking, gender theory and its avatars have been to a large extent a Franco-American invention. In this book, a leading Franco-American scholar traces differences and intersections in the development of gender and queer theories on both sides of …
Common Things
Romance and the Aesthetics of Belonging in Atlantic Modernity
Inbunden, 2013
723 kr
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What are the relationships between the books we read and the communities we share? Common Things explores how transatlantic romance revivals of the eighteenth and nineteenth century influenced—and were influenced by—emerging modern systems of community.Drawing on the work of Washington Irving, …
Between Form and Event
Machiavelli's Theory of Political Freedom
Häftad, 2014
404 kr
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Machiavelli uncovers the productive function of social conflict in establishing a new idea of popular power and its legal institutions whose function is to relativize the command of the state and check the abuses of the privileged groups in society. Henceforth, every legitimate form of government …
Republic of the Living
Biopolitics and the Critique of Civil Society
Inbunden, 2014
1561 kr
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This book takes up Foucault's hypothesis that liberal "civil society," far from being a sphere of natural freedoms, designates the social spaces where our biological lives come under new forms of control and are invested with new forms of biopower. In order to test this hypothesis, its chapters …
Republic of the Living
Biopolitics and the Critique of Civil Society
Häftad, 2014
431 kr
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This book takes up Foucault's hypothesis that liberal "civil society," far from being a sphere of natural freedoms, designates the social spaces where our biological lives come under new forms of control and are invested with new forms of biopower. In order to test this hypothesis, its chapters …
Identity
Fragments, Frankness
Inbunden, 2014
819 kr
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Identity: Fragments, Frankness is a rich and powerful essay on the notion of identity and on how it operates in our contemporary world. In contrast to the various attempts to cling to established identities or to associate identity with dubious agendas, Nancy shows that an identity is always open …
Identity
Fragments, Frankness
Häftad, 2014
217 kr
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Identity: Fragments, Frankness is a rich and powerful essay on the notion of identity and on how it operates in our contemporary world. In contrast to the various attempts to cling to established identities or to associate identity with dubious agendas, Nancy shows that an identity is always open …
Where Are You?
An Ontology of the Cell Phone
Häftad, 2014
343 kr
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This book sheds light on the most philosophically interesting of contemporary objects: the cell phone. "Where are you?"—a question asked over cell phones myriad times each day—is arguably the most philosophical question of our age, given the transformation of presence the cell phone has wrought in …
Giorgio Agamben
Beyond the Threshold of Deconstruction
Av Kevin Attell
Inbunden, 2014
883 kr
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Agamben's thought has been viewed as descending primarily from the work of Heidegger, Benjamin, and, more recently, Foucault. This book complicates and expands that constellation by showing how throughout his career Agamben has consistently and closely engaged (critically, sympathetically, …
Giorgio Agamben
Beyond the Threshold of Deconstruction
Av Kevin Attell
Häftad, 2014
346 kr
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Agamben's thought has been viewed as descending primarily from the work of Heidegger, Benjamin, and, more recently, Foucault. This book complicates and expands that constellation by showing how throughout his career Agamben has consistently and closely engaged (critically, sympathetically, …
Reject
Community, Politics, and Religion After the Subject
Av Irving Goh
Inbunden, 2014
1373 kr
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This book proposes a theory of the reject, a more adequate figure than the subject for thinking friendship, love, community, democracy, the postsecular, and the posthuman.Through close readings of Nancy, Deleuze, Derrida, Cixous, Clement, Bataille, Balibar, Ranciere, and Badiou, Goh shows how the …
Reject
Community, Politics, and Religion After the Subject
Av Irving Goh
Häftad, 2014
394 kr
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This book proposes a theory of the reject, a more adequate figure than the subject for thinking friendship, love, community, democracy, the postsecular, and the posthuman.Through close readings of Nancy, Deleuze, Derrida, Cixous, Clement, Bataille, Balibar, Ranciere, and Badiou, Goh shows how the …
Communities in Fiction
Inbunden, 2014
1373 kr
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Communities in Fiction reads six novels or stories (one each by Trollope, Hardy, Conrad, Woolf, Pynchon, and Cervantes) in the light of theories of community worked out (contradictorily) by Raymond Williams, Martin Heidegger, and Jean- Luc Nancy.The book's topic is the question of how communities …
Communities in Fiction
Häftad, 2014
447 kr
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Communities in Fiction reads six novels or stories (one each by Trollope, Hardy, Conrad, Woolf, Pynchon, and Cervantes) in the light of theories of community worked out (contradictorily) by Raymond Williams, Martin Heidegger, and Jean- Luc Nancy.The book's topic is the question of how communities …
Categories of the Impolitical
Inbunden, 2015
1561 kr
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The notion of the "impolitical" developed in this volume draws its meaning from the exhaustion of modernity's political categories, which have become incapable of giving voice to any genuinely radical perspective. The impolitical is not the opposite of the political but rather its outer limit: the …
Life of Things, the Love of Things
Av Remo Bodei
Inbunden, 2015
1023 kr
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From prehistoric stone tools, to machines, to computers, things have traveled a long road along with human beings. Changing with the times, places, and methods of their production, emerging from diverse histories, and enveloped in multiple layers of meaning, things embody ideas, emotions, and …
Subject of Freedom
Kant, Levinas
Inbunden, 2015
1123 kr
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Is freedom our most essential belonging, the intimate source of self-mastery, an inalienable right? Or is it something foreign, an other that constitutes subjectivity, a challenge to our notion of autonomy? To Basterra, the subjectivity we call free embodies a relationship with an irreducible …
