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Philosophy, Animality and the Life Sciences
E-bok, 2014
326 kr
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Using animals for scientific research is a highly contentious issue that Continental philosophers engaging with ‘the animal question’ have been rightly accused of shying away from. Now, Wahida Khandker asks whether Continental approaches to animality and organic life will make us reconsider our …
Order and the Virtual
The Philosophy and Science of Deleuzian Cosmology
Av Bill Ross
Häftad, 2026
252 kr
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Bill Ross demonstrates the relation between Gilles Deleuze's philosophy of difference and the conceptual foundations of contemporary physics through careful engagements with the theory of relativity, quantum physics and chaos and complexity theory. Ross shows that recent work in cosmology by …
Philosophy, Animality and the Life Sciences
Häftad, 2026
252 kr
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Using animals for scientific research is a highly contentious issue that Continental philosophers engaging with ‘the animal question’ have been rightly accused of shying away from. Now, Wahida Khandker asks whether Continental approaches to animality and organic life will make us reconsider our …
Writing and America
Av Gavin Cologne-Brookes, Neil Sammells m. fl.
Häftad, 1996
665 kr
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Writing and America surveys the writing genres that have contributed to the American notions of America . Essays from scholars from both side of the Atlantic chart the range of responses to American nationhood from colonial times to the present and include dissenting responses from communities such …
Writing and Africa
Av Mpalive-Hangson Msiska, Paul Hyland
Häftad, 1997
1001 kr
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This volume reflects one of the new areas of English Studies as it broadens to take in non-western literatures, and places more emphasis on the contexts and broader notions of `writing'. In discussing writing from and about Africa, this collection touches on studies in black writing, colonialism …
Writing and the English Renaissance
Av William Zunder, Suzanne Trill
Häftad, 1996
1001 kr
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Writing and the English Renaissance is a collection of essays exploring the full creative richness of Renaissance culture during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. As well as considering major literary figures such as Spenser, Marlowe, Donne and Milton, lesser known - especially women - …
Writing and Race
Av Tim Youngs
Häftad, 1997
883 kr
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Writing and Race brings together specially commissioned essays by new and established authors from a range of disciplines. Texts are drawn from subjects and genres that include philosophy, politics, anthropology, sexuality, travel, fiction and autobiography. Through a time-span from Ancient Greece …
Writing and Victorianism
Av J.B. Bullen
Häftad, 1997
715 kr
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Writing and Victorianism asks the fundamental question 'what is Victorianism?' and offers a number of answers taken from methods and approaches which have been developed over the last ten years. This collection of essays, written by both new and established scholars from Britain and the U.S.A, …
Writing and Fantasy
Av Ceri Sullivan, Barbara White
Häftad, 1999
1001 kr
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Writing and Fantasy brings together essays which restore a sense of the fantastic as a political response to cultural opportunities and pressures. It moves on from two conventional fields of discussion: the psychoanalytic, where phantasies are produced by the emergence of the consciousness, and the …
Writing and Cinema
Häftad, 1999
883 kr
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This collection of essays examines the ways in which writing and cinema can be studied in relation to each other. A wide range of material is presented, from essays which look at particular films, including The Piano and The English Patient, to discussions of the latest developments in film studies …
Politics of the Gift
Exchanges in Poststructuralism
Av Gerald Moore
Inbunden, 2011
1397 kr
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Marcel Mauss' 'Essai sur le don' (1923–4) has become one of the central non-philosophical references of contemporary French philosophy. Deleuze (and Guattari) and Derrida, to cite only two, engage with the concept of the gift explicitly and repeatedly. Gerald Moore shows how the problematic of the …
Sublime Art
Towards an Aesthetics of the Future
Av Stephen Zepke, Stephen Zepke
Inbunden, 2017
1331 kr
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Stephen Zepke tracks the sublime art movement from its beginnings in Kant to its flowering in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. He shows that the idea of sublime art waxes and wanes in the work of Jean-François Lyotard, Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, Jacques Derrida, Jacques Rancière and …
Difficult Atheism
Post-Theological Thinking in Alain Badiou, Jean-Luc Nancy and Quentin Meillassoux
Häftad, 2013
677 kr
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Drawing primarily on the work of Alain Badiou and Jean-Luc Nancy, plus Quentin Meillassoux and Slavoj Žižek, Watkin explores the theme of atheism through the ideas of the death of God and nihilism, and probes the limits of any 'atheistic politics'. He argues that rigorous atheism is elusive, and …
Figure of This World
Agamben and the Question of Political Ontology
Inbunden, 2014
2038 kr
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What if we’ve been wrong when reading Agamben? Mathew Abbott argues that Agamben’s thought is misunderstood when read in terms of critical theory or traditional political philosophy. Instead, he shows that it engages with political ontology: studying the political stakes of the question of being. …
Visual Art and Self-Construction
Inbunden, 2021
1331 kr
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Starting from Nietzsche, Freud and Foucault's criticisms of a simple, given self, Katrina Mitcheson addresses the problem of how a complex self is constructed, and how a hermeneutics of the self can avoid reproducing a subjugated self. Critically examining Ricoeur’s narrative account of …
Writing and the English Renaissance
Av William Zunder, Suzanne Trill
Inbunden, 2017
2904 kr
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Writing and the English Renaissance is a collection of essays exploring the full creative richness of Renaissance culture during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. As well as considering major literary figures such as Spenser, Marlowe, Donne and Milton, lesser known - especially women - …
Writing and America
Av Gavin Cologne-Brookes, Neil Sammells m. fl.
Inbunden, 2017
1759 kr
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Writing and America surveys the writing genres that have contributed to the American notions of America . Essays from scholars from both side of the Atlantic chart the range of responses to American nationhood from colonial times to the present and include dissenting responses from communities such …
Writing and Cinema
Inbunden, 2016
2525 kr
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This collection of essays examines the ways in which writing and cinema can be studied in relation to each other. A wide range of material is presented, from essays which look at particular films, including The Piano and The English Patient, to discussions of the latest developments in film studies …
Writing and Fantasy
Av Ceri Sullivan, Barbara White
Inbunden, 2018
3544 kr
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Writing and Fantasy brings together essays which restore a sense of the fantastic as a political response to cultural opportunities and pressures. It moves on from two conventional fields of discussion: the psychoanalytic, where phantasies are produced by the emergence of the consciousness, and the …
Writing and Victorianism
Av J.B. Bullen
Inbunden, 2018
2466 kr
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Writing and Victorianism asks the fundamental question 'what is Victorianism?' and offers a number of answers taken from methods and approaches which have been developed over the last ten years. This collection of essays, written by both new and established scholars from Britain and the U.S.A, …
Writing and Race
Av Tim Youngs
Inbunden, 2017
3544 kr
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Writing and Race brings together specially commissioned essays by new and established authors from a range of disciplines. Texts are drawn from subjects and genres that include philosophy, politics, anthropology, sexuality, travel, fiction and autobiography. Through a time-span from Ancient Greece …
Writing and Africa
Av Mpalive-Hangson Msiska, Paul Hyland
Inbunden, 2017
3544 kr
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This volume reflects one of the new areas of English Studies as it broadens to take in non-western literatures, and places more emphasis on the contexts and broader notions of `writing'. In discussing writing from and about Africa, this collection touches on studies in black writing, colonialism …
Visual Art and Self-Construction
Häftad, 2023
517 kr
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Demonstrates how visual art can work as a powerful technology of the selfAsks how we can know a decentred and partly unconscious self, and shows how particular artworks can help us to address this challengeIllustrates how both artists and audience members can use artworks as a means of cultivating …
Saint Paul and Contemporary European Philosophy
The Outcast and the Spirit
Häftad, 2025
252 kr
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The re-examination of Saint Paul's letters in contemporary European philosophy is one of the most important developments at the crossroads of philosophy and theology today. In discussion with a range of authors contributing to this movement, including Heidegger, Badiou, Agamben, and Taubes, …
Order and the Virtual
The Philosophy and Science of Deleuzian Cosmology
Av Bill Ross
Inbunden, 2024
1828 kr
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Bill Ross demonstrates the relation between Gilles Deleuze's philosophy of difference and the conceptual foundations of contemporary physics through careful engagements with the theory of relativity, quantum physics and chaos and complexity theory. Ross shows that recent work in cosmology by …
French Technological Thought and the Nonhuman Turn
Inbunden, 2024
1343 kr
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French Technological Thought and the Nonhuman Turn traces a genealogy of thinking and writing about technology, which takes us from the French avant-gardes to the contemporary 'nonhuman turn' in Anglo-American theory via the Surrealists, Gilbert Simondon, and Gilles Deleuze. Tracking the unruly …
French Technological Thought and the Nonhuman Turn
Häftad, 2026
289 kr
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French Technological Thought and the Nonhuman Turn traces a genealogy of thinking and writing about technology, which takes us from the French avant-gardes to the contemporary ‘nonhuman turn’ in Anglo-American theory via the Surrealists, Gilbert Simondon and Gilles Deleuze. Tracking the unruly …
Catherine Malabou and Contemporary French Literature and Film
Witnessing Plasticity
Inbunden, 2026
1413 kr
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Our bodies and brains are radically transformable, mutable and plastic. From the neuroplasticity of the brain to the epigenetic malleability of our bodies and of all organic life, the work of the contemporary French philosopher Catherine Malabou invites us to consider our plasticity as both a …
Jean-Luc Nancy and the Deconstruction of Christianity
Inbunden, 2025
1107 kr
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In dialogue with Derridean deconstruction, this book highlights Nancy's distinctive figurative philosophical style which emerges as a transformative force, one that radicalises differance and draws out its creative potential. Through this generative logic, Nancy reconfigures how we conceptualise …
Jean-Luc Nancy and the Deconstruction of Christianity
Häftad, 2027
252 kr
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In dialogue with Derridean deconstruction, this book highlights Nancy's distinctive figurative philosophical style which emerges as a transformative force, one that radicalises différance and draws out its creative potential. Through this generative logic, Nancy reconfigures how we conceptualise …
