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Let Them Rot
Antigone's Parallax
Häftad, 2023
261 kr
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A provocative, highly accessible journey to the heart of Sophocles' Antigone elucidating why it keeps resurfacing as a central text of Western thought and Western culture.There is probably no classical text that has inspired more interpretation, critical attention, and creative response than …
Flirtations
Rhetoric and Aesthetics This Side of Seduction
Av Barbara Natalie Nagel, Lauren Shizuko Stone m. fl.
Häftad, 2015
366 kr
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What is flirtation, and how does it differ from seduction?In historical terms, the particular question of flirtation has tended to be obscured by that of seduction, which has understandably been a major preoccupation for twentieth-century thought and critical theory. Both the discourse and the …
Minima Philologica
Inbunden, 2015
1222 kr
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Minima Philologica brings together two essays by Werner Hamacher that are meant to revitalize philology as a practice beyond its restriction to the restoration of linguistic data and their meanings. In these two texts, "95 Theses on Philology" and "For—Philology," Hamacher propounds a notion of …
Minima Philologica
Häftad, 2015
449 kr
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Minima Philologica brings together two essays by Werner Hamacher that are meant to revitalize philology as a practice beyond its restriction to the restoration of linguistic data and their meanings. In these two texts, "95 Theses on Philology" and "For—Philology," Hamacher propounds a notion of …
Chronicle of Separation
On Deconstruction's Disillusioned Love
Inbunden, 2015
1233 kr
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A unique feminist approach to the legacy of Jacques Derrida, Chronicle of Separation is a disparate yet beautifully interwoven series of distinct readings, genres, and themes, offering a powerful reflection of love in—and as—deconstruction. Looking especially at relationships between women, …
Chronicle of Separation
On Deconstruction's Disillusioned Love
Häftad, 2015
395 kr
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A unique feminist approach to the legacy of Jacques Derrida, Chronicle of Separation is a disparate yet beautifully interwoven series of distinct readings, genres, and themes, offering a powerful reflection of love in—and as—deconstruction. Looking especially at relationships between women, …
Intoxication
Inbunden, 2015
955 kr
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From Plato's Symposium to Hegel's truth as a "Bacchanalian revel," from the Bacchae of Euripedes to Nietzsche, philosophy holds a deeply ambivalent relation to the pleasures of intoxication. At the same time, from Baudelaire to Lowry, from Proust to Dostoyevsky, literature and poetry are also …
Intoxication
Häftad, 2015
253 kr
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From Plato's Symposium to Hegel's truth as a "Bacchanalian revel," from the Bacchae of Euripedes to Nietzsche, philosophy holds a deeply ambivalent relation to the pleasures of intoxication. At the same time, from Baudelaire to Lowry, from Proust to Dostoyevsky, literature and poetry are also …
Receptive Spirit
German Idealism and the Dynamics of Cultural Transmission
Inbunden, 2016
849 kr
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Premised on the assumption that the mind is fundamentally active and self-determining, the German Idealist project gave rise to new ways of thinking about our dependence upon culturally transmitted models of thought, feeling, and creativity. Receptive Spirit elucidates the ways in which Kant, …
Celebricities
Media Culture and the Phenomenology of Gadget Commodity Life
Inbunden, 2016
1245 kr
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What becomes of life, experience, and truth in the hyperconsumeristic culture of the twenty-first century? What happens to the phenomenological call to go "back to the things themselves" when these things, to an ever greater degree, involve a televised life that is not ours to live, celebrities who …
Limits of Fabrication
Materials Science, Materialist Poetics
Av Nathan Brown
Inbunden, 2017
639 kr
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Poetry, or poiēsis, has long been understood as a practice of making. But how are experiments in the making of poetic forms related to formal making in science and engineering? The Limits of Fabrication takes up this question in the context of recent developments in nanoscale materials science, …
Political Concepts
A Critical Lexicon
Av Adi M. Ophir, Ann Laura Stoler m. fl.
Inbunden, 2018
1695 kr
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Deciding what is and what is not political is a fraught, perhaps intractably opaque matter. Just who decides the question; on what grounds; to what ends—these seem like properly political questions themselves. Deciding what is political and what is not can serve to contain and restrain struggles, …
Political Concepts
A Critical Lexicon
Av Adi M. Ophir, Ann Laura Stoler m. fl.
Häftad, 2018
470 kr
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Deciding what is and what is not political is a fraught, perhaps intractably opaque matter. Just who decides the question; on what grounds; to what ends—these seem like properly political questions themselves. Deciding what is political and what is not can serve to contain and restrain struggles, …
Poetry and Mind
Tractatus Poetico-Philosophicus
Inbunden, 2018
1298 kr
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What one cannot compute, one must poetize: this essay theorizes the extraordinary regimes of human mental experience by putting the emphasis on poetry. Poetry grants us the ability to move "beyond the limits of thought" and to explore the beyond of cognition. It teaches us to think differently. An …
Poetry and Mind
Tractatus Poetico-Philosophicus
Häftad, 2018
400 kr
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What one cannot compute, one must poetize: this essay theorizes the extraordinary regimes of human mental experience by putting the emphasis on poetry. Poetry grants us the ability to move "beyond the limits of thought" and to explore the beyond of cognition. It teaches us to think differently. An …
Literature and the Remains of the Death Penalty
Av Peggy Kamuf
Inbunden, 2018
1189 kr
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Why have generations of philosophers failed or refused to articulate a rigorous challenge to the death penalty, when literature has been rife with death penalty abolitionism for centuries? In this book, Peggy Kamuf explores why any properly philosophical critique of capital punishment in the West …
Thinking with Adorno
The Uncoercive Gaze
Häftad, 2019
493 kr
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What Theodor W. Adorno says cannot be separated from how he says it. By the same token, what he thinks cannot be isolated from how he thinks it. The central aim of Richter's book is to examine how these basic yet far-reaching assumptions teach us to think with Adorno—both alongside him and in …
Thinking with Adorno
The Uncoercive Gaze
Inbunden, 2019
1739 kr
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What Theodor W. Adorno says cannot be separated from how he says it. By the same token, what he thinks cannot be isolated from how he thinks it. The central aim of Richter's book is to examine how these basic yet far-reaching assumptions teach us to think with Adorno—both alongside him and in …
Technologies of Critique
Av Willy Thayer
Häftad, 2020
445 kr
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Critique—a program of thought as well as a disposition toward the world—is a crucial resource for politics and thought today, yet it is again and again instrumentalized by institutional frames and captured by market logics. Technologies of Critique elaborates a critical practice that eludes such …
Technologies of Critique
Av Willy Thayer
Inbunden, 2020
1641 kr
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Critique—a program of thought as well as a disposition toward the world—is a crucial resource for politics and thought today, yet it is again and again instrumentalized by institutional frames and captured by market logics. Technologies of Critique elaborates a critical practice that eludes such …
Fact of Resonance
Modernist Acoustics and Narrative Form
Häftad, 2020
387 kr
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Shortlisted, 2021 Memory Studies Association First Book AwardThe Fact of Resonance returns to the colonial and technological contexts in which theories of the novel developed, seeking in sound an alternative premise for theorizing modernist narrative form. Arguing that narrative theory has been …
Fact of Resonance
Modernist Acoustics and Narrative Form
Inbunden, 2020
1427 kr
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Shortlisted, 2021 Memory Studies Association First Book AwardThe Fact of Resonance returns to the colonial and technological contexts in which theories of the novel developed, seeking in sound an alternative premise for theorizing modernist narrative form. Arguing that narrative theory has been …
Thinking with Balibar
A Lexicon of Conceptual Practice
Av Ann Laura Stoler, Stathis Gourgouris m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
485 kr
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This volume, the first sustained critical work on the French political philosopher Étienne Balibar, collects essays by sixteen prominent philosophers, psychoanalysts, anthropologists, sociologists, and literary critics who each identify, define, and explore a central concept in Balibar's thought. …
Thinking with Balibar
A Lexicon of Conceptual Practice
Av Ann Laura Stoler, Stathis Gourgouris m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
1805 kr
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This volume, the first sustained critical work on the French political philosopher Étienne Balibar, collects essays by sixteen prominent philosophers, psychoanalysts, anthropologists, sociologists, and literary critics who each identify, define, and explore a central concept in Balibar's thought. …
Rationalist Empiricism
A Theory of Speculative Critique
Av Nathan Brown
Inbunden, 2021
1685 kr
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Honorable Mention, Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies, Modern Language AssociationTwenty-first-century philosophy has been drawn into a false opposition between speculation and critique. Nathan Brown shows that the key to overcoming this antinomy is a re-engagement …
Rationalist Empiricism
A Theory of Speculative Critique
Av Nathan Brown
Häftad, 2021
485 kr
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Honorable Mention, Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies, Modern Language AssociationTwenty-first-century philosophy has been drawn into a false opposition between speculation and critique. Nathan Brown shows that the key to overcoming this antinomy is a re-engagement …
Let Them Rot
Antigone's Parallax
Inbunden, 2023
954 kr
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A provocative, highly accessible journey to the heart of Sophocles' Antigone elucidating why it keeps resurfacing as a central text of Western thought and Western culture.There is probably no classical text that has inspired more interpretation, critical attention, and creative response than …
In the Beginning Was the State
Divine Violence in the Hebrew Bible
Av Adi M. Ophir
Inbunden, 2022
1434 kr
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This book explores God's use of violence as depicted in the Hebrew Bible. Focusing on the Pentateuch, it reads biblical narratives and codes of law as documenting formations of theopolitical imagination. Ophir deciphers the logic of divine rule that these documents betray, with a special attention …
In the Beginning Was the State
Divine Violence in the Hebrew Bible
Av Adi M. Ophir
Häftad, 2022
404 kr
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This book explores God's use of violence as depicted in the Hebrew Bible. Focusing on the Pentateuch, it reads biblical narratives and codes of law as documenting formations of theopolitical imagination. Ophir deciphers the logic of divine rule that these documents betray, with a special attention …
Philology of Life
Walter Benjamin's Critical Program
Inbunden, 2023
1497 kr
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The Philology of Life retraces the outlines of the philological project developed by Walter Benjamin in his early essays on Hölderlin, the Romantics, and Goethe. This philological program, McLaughlin shows, provides the methodological key to Benjamin's work as a whole. According to Benjamin, German …
