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Gillian Rose
A Good Enough Justice
Av Kate Schick
Inbunden, 2012
2049 kr
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Makes the case for the rediscovery of British philosopher Gillian Rose’s unique but neglected voiceKate Schick explains the core themes of Gillian Rose's work. She engages with the work of Benjamin, Honig, Zizek and Butler and locates Rose's ideas within central debates in contemporary social …
Gillian Rose
A Good Enough Justice
Av Kate Schick
Häftad, 2026
252 kr
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Makes the case for the rediscovery of British philosopher Gillian Rose’s unique but neglected voiceKate Schick explains the core themes of Gillian Rose's work. She engages with the work of Benjamin, Honig, Zizek and Butler and locates Rose's ideas within central debates in contemporary social …
Post-Foundational Political Thought
Political Difference in Nancy, Lefort, Badiou and Laclau
Häftad, 2007
735 kr
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A wide-ranging overview of the emergence of post-foundationalism and a survey of the work of its key contemporary exponents.This book presents the first systematic coverage of the conceptual difference between ‘politics’ (the practice of conventional politics: the political system or political …
Post-Marxism Versus Cultural Studies
Theory, Politics and Intervention
Av Paul Bowman
Inbunden, 2007
1331 kr
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Post-Marxism versus Cultural Studies is an innovative exploration of the ethical and political significance of Cultural Studies and Post-Marxist discourse theory. It argues that although Cultural Studies and post-Marxism tend to present themselves as distinct entities, they actually share a project …
Untimely Politics
Inbunden, 2003
1530 kr
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Challenging the linear view of history which confines or predetermines the outcome of politics, this book argues for an ‘untimely’ politics, rendering the past problematic and the future unpredictable. Untimely Politics offers close readings of key texts in political theory and enters into debates …
Speaking Against Number
Heidegger, Language and the Politics of Calculation
Av Stuart Elden
Inbunden, 2005
1331 kr
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Numbers and politics are inter-related at almost every level – be it the abstract geometry of understandings of territory, the explosion of population statistics and measures of economic standards, the popularity of Utilitarianism, Rawlsian notions of justice, the notion of value, or simply the …
Democratic Piety
Complexity, Conflict and Violence
Inbunden, 2008
1303 kr
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This book presents an innovative analysis of the nature of democratic theory, focusing on the prevalence of pious discourses of democracy in contemporary politics. Democracy is now promoted in religious terms to such an extent that it has become sacrosanct in Western political theory. Rather than …
Ethics and Politics after Poststructuralism
Levinas, Derrida and Nancy
Inbunden, 2013
1530 kr
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What would political thought look like without the foundation of ethics? Drawing on the work of Emmanuel Levinas, Jacques Derrida and Jean-Luc Nancy, Madeleine Fagan puts forward a radical and far-reaching refusal of foundational ethics. Instead, she proposes an account of the inseparability of …
Space, Politics and Aesthetics
Inbunden, 2015
1303 kr
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Mustafa Dikeç reveals the aesthetic premises that underlie Hannah Arendt, Jean-Luc Nancy and Jacques Rancière's political thinking, and demonstrates how their politics depend on the construction and apprehension of worlds through spatial forms and distributions. Exploring these dimensions of the …
Space, Politics and Aesthetics
Häftad, 2016
575 kr
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Mustafa Dikeç reveals the aesthetic premises that underlie Hannah Arendt, Jean-Luc Nancy and Jacques Rancière's political thinking, and demonstrates how their politics depend on the construction and apprehension of worlds through spatial forms and distributions. Exploring these dimensions of the …
History and Event
From Marxism to Contemporary French Theory
Inbunden, 2015
1464 kr
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Nathan Coombs demonstrates that the Marxist science of history has been reimagined by a strand of contemporary French theory after Louis Althusser. Taking a comparative approach, he explores the technical details of both traditions’ historical sciences. He argues that their articulations of history …
Political Agency and the Medicalisation of Negative Emotions
Av Dan Degerman
Inbunden, 2022
1229 kr
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This book explores negative emotions like anger, fear and grief as important drivers of political action. It examines how treating these feelings as medical problems affects society. Drawing on the political thought of Hannah Arendt, the book develops an original understanding of political emotions …
Political Agency and the Medicalisation of Negative Emotions
Av Dan Degerman
Häftad, 2024
298 kr
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This book explores negative emotions like anger, fear and grief as important drivers of political action. It examines how treating these feelings as medical problems affects society. Drawing on the political thought of Hannah Arendt, the book develops an original understanding of political emotions …
History and Event
From Marxism to Contemporary French Theory
Häftad, 2026
252 kr
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Nathan Coombs demonstrates that the Marxist science of history has been reimagined by a strand of contemporary French theory after Louis Althusser. Taking a comparative approach, he explores the technical details of both traditions’ historical sciences. He argues that their articulations of history …
Immanence and Micropolitics
Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, Foucault and Deleuze
Inbunden, 2017
1530 kr
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Maps the context and development of immanence and micropolitics, from Sartre to DeleuzeChristian Gilliam argues that a philosophy of ‘pure’ immanence is integral to the development of an alternative understanding of ‘the political’; one that re-orients our understanding of the self toward the …
Shame
A Genealogy of Queer Practices in the 19th Century
Av Bogdan Popa
Inbunden, 2017
2038 kr
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Shame has often been considered a threat to democratic politics, and was used to degrade and debase sex radicals and political marginals. But certain forms of shame were also embraced by 19th-century activists in an attempt to reverse entrenched power dynamics. Bogdan Popa brings together …
Ethics and Politics after Poststructuralism
Levinas, Derrida and Nancy
Häftad, 2016
351 kr
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What would political thought look like without the foundation of ethics? Drawing on the work of Emmanuel Levinas, Jacques Derrida and Jean-Luc Nancy, Madeleine Fagan puts forward a radical and far-reaching refusal of foundational ethics. Instead, she proposes an account of the inseparability of …
Shame
A Genealogy of Queer Practices in the 19th Century
Av Bogdan Popa
Häftad, 2018
575 kr
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Shame has often been considered a threat to democratic politics, and was used to degrade and debase sex radicals and political marginals. But certain forms of shame were also embraced by 19th-century activists in an attempt to reverse entrenched power dynamics. Bogdan Popa brings together …
Immanence and Micropolitics
Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, Foucault and Deleuze
Häftad, 2018
575 kr
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Maps the context and development of immanence and micropolitics, from Sartre to DeleuzeChristian Gilliam argues that a philosophy of ‘pure’ immanence is integral to the development of an alternative understanding of ‘the political’; one that re-orients our understanding of the self toward the …
Prefigurative Democracy
Protest, Social Movements and the Political Institution of Society
Inbunden, 2022
1168 kr
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Introduces the key aspects of a theoretical debate on prefigurative politics and contemporary protest movementsDevelops a theory of prefigurative democracy as a way of thinking critically about contemporary protest movementsEngages with the work of various radical political theorists, such as …
Prefigurative Democracy
Protest, Social Movements and the Political Institution of Society
Häftad, 2024
471 kr
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In the wake of protest movements such as Occupy Wall Street and the Spanish 15-M movement, the past decade has seen an increased interest in prefigurative politics: the attempt of activists to already realise or embody their ideal of a future society within their own movements and practices. …
Visions of Council Democracy
Castoriadis, Lefort, Arendt
Inbunden, 2021
1331 kr
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Uncovering the neglected theories of the council system in the 20th centuryThis book examines the historical emergence of the council system in Russia and Germany by the end of the First World War, reconstructing the intellectual history of council democracy in 20th century political theory, and …
Visions of Council Democracy
Castoriadis, Lefort, Arendt
Häftad, 2023
282 kr
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Uncovers the neglected theories of the council system in the 20th centuryReconstructs the history of the century council system and puts it into dialogue with theoretical formulations of council democracy from Karl Marx to Hannah ArendtFocuses on neglected parts i.e. the council system of the …
Laughter As Politics
Critical Theory in an Age of Hilarity
Inbunden, 2022
1331 kr
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Laughter As Politics offers a novel account of laughter’s role in contemporary political life. A world awash in hilarity has rendered the traditional philosophical question of whether laughter should play a role in politics obsolete. Faced with the laughter generated by late-night comedians, …
Laughter As Politics
Critical Theory in an Age of Hilarity
Häftad, 2023
488 kr
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Explores the role that laughter plays in constructing, preserving and transforming contemporary social and political lifeProvides the first full-length study of the politics of laughterRejects the traditional, normative question of whether laughter should play a role in politics in favour of a new, …
