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  • - Hannah Arendt or Simone Weil?
    af Roberto Esposito
    328,95 - 928,95 kr.

  • - Toward a Poetics of Precarious Community
    af Thomas Claviez
    233,95 - 888,95 kr.

    An impressive collection bringing together contributions of renowned scholars on the topic of a "New Poetics of Community" that goes beyond both a romantic nostalgia for homogeneity and the myths of social engineering and rational choice.

  • af Roberto Esposito
    318,95 - 1.263,95 kr.

  • - Nine Theses on Agonistic Democracy
    af Dimitris Vardoulakis
    253,95 - 828,95 kr.

    How is political change possible when even the most radical revolutions only reproduce sovereign power? Via the analysis of the contradictory meanings of stasis, Vardoulakis argues that the opportunity for political change is located in the agonistic relation between sovereignty and democracy and thus demands a radical rethinking.

  • - Between Economic and Political Theology
    af Nicholas Heron
    335,95 - 883,95 kr.

    Seeks to understand the prevailing conception of government in the light of an important transformation in the idea of politics brought about by Christianity.

  • - Romance and the Aesthetics of Belonging in Atlantic Modernity
    af James D. Lilley
    443,95 kr.

    Focusing on the work of Horace Walpole, Thomas Jefferson, Henry Mackenzie, Washington Irving, Charles Brockden Brown, and Edgar Allan Poe, examines how the aesthetics of the romance novel influenced--and was influenced by--emerging modern systems of racial, national, sentimental, and political community.

  • - Community, Politics, and Religion after the Subject
    af Irving Goh
    253,95 - 1.233,95 kr.

    This book proposes the reject as the figure of thought for our contemporaneous times. It shows how the reject can open us to radical forms of relations, democratic horizons, and "post-secular" and "posthuman" futures not only beyond anthropocentric limits, but also in ways by which others and their differences are affirmed respectfully.

  • - Kant, Levinas
    af Gabriela Basterra
    283,95 - 1.168,95 kr.

    This book proposes a conversation between Immanuel Kant's first two Critiques and Emmanuel Levinas's Otherwise than Being to reflect on the ideas of freedom, obligation, subjectivity, ethics, autonomy and thinking.

  • - The Machine of Political Theology and the Place of Thought
    af Roberto Esposito
    298,95 - 1.293,95 kr.

    This book describes the historical underpinnings of political theology that continue to exert their influence. The confluence of Roman and Christian notions on the person fuels an exclusionary mechanism that unites by dividing people. Restoring thought to an impersonal place of universal access can help to end this oppressive conceptual regime.

  • - From the Age of Enlightenment to the Age of Obama
    af Akiba J. Lerner
    306,95 - 873,95 kr.

    This book brings together secular liberal democratic thought-as found within the work of late neo-pragmatic philosopher Richard Rorty-with religious liberal thinkers-such as Martin Buber and Ernst Bloch-for the purpose of exploring the contested intellectual history of redemptive hope narratives.

  • - Cinema and the Generous Form of Life
    af Timothy C. Campbell
    298,95 - 978,95 kr.

    In The Techne of Giving, Timothy Campbell elaborates a notion of generosity as way of responding to contemporary biopower. Reading films from Visconti, Rossellini, and Antonioni, he both updates their political lexicon while adopting them as models able to push back against neoliberal forms of gift-giving.

  • - On Touching and Not Touching
    af Aniket Jaaware
    508,95 - 1.390,95 kr.

    Practicing Caste attempts a break from the tradition of caste studies, using versions of phenomenology, structuralism and post-structuralism; and gives a description of touchability and untouchability in terms of a rhetoric and semantics of touch.

  • - C. L. R. James, Helio Oiticica, and the Aesthetic Sociality of Blackness
    af Laura Harris
    1.009,95 kr.

    Laura Harris is Assistant Professor of Cinema Studies and Art and Public Policy at New York University.

  • - C. L. R. James, Helio Oiticica, and the Aesthetic Sociality of Blackness
    af Laura Harris
    306,95 kr.

    Laura Harris is Assistant Professor of Cinema Studies and Art and Public Policy at New York University.

  • - Depression-Era Black Literature, Theory, and Politics
    af James Edward Ford
    427,95 - 1.390,95 kr.

  • - Constructing and Deconstructing Community
    af Etienne Balibar
    332,95 - 1.068,95 kr.

    Many on the Left have looked upon "universal" as a dirty word, one that signals liberalism's failure to recognize the masculinist and Eurocentric assumptions from which it proceeds. Balibar builds on these critiques, yet works to rescue and reinvent what universal claims can offer for a revolutionary politics answerable to the common.

  • - Principles for an Interpretation of the Greek World
    af Carlo Diano
    298,95 - 909,95 kr.

    Diano's Form and Event has long been known in Europe as a major work not only for classical studies but even more for contemporary philosophy, anticipating the work of Deleuze, Badiou, Esposito, and Agamben. It now appears in English for the first time, with a substantial Introduction that situates the book in the genealogy of modern political philosophy.

  • - A History of the A-Visible
    af Sigrid Weigel
    388,95 - 1.263,95 kr.

  • - Militant Listening and the Sound of Life
    af Naomi Waltham-Smith
    360,95 - 1.166,95 kr.

    Failures to listen or mishearings can be a matter of life and death. Shattering Biopolitics elaborates the intimate and complex relation between life and sound in philosophy, political theory, and sound-art.

  • af Remo Bodei
    218,95 - 1.058,95 kr.

    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 production, coming from diverse histories, enveloped in multiple layers of meaning, things embody ideas, emotions, and symbols of which we are often unaware.

  • - An Ontology of the Cell Phone
    af Maurizio Ferraris
    263,95 - 788,95 kr.

    An analysis of the history and social role of mobile phones today (with an enhancement of their primary writing function) is followed by a proposal of a philosophical theory of objects, which is meant to be complementary to Searle's 'collective intentionality', that places writing at the basis of social reality.

  • - Beyond the Threshold of Deconstruction
    af Kevin Attell
    320,95 - 908,95 kr.

    Traces Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben's engagement with deconstructive thought from his early work in the 1960s to the present, examining his key concepts - infancy, Voice, potentiality, sovereignty, bare life, messianism - in relation to key texts and concepts in Jacques Derrida's work.

  • af Jean-Luc Nancy
    291,95 - 833,95 kr.

    Over thirty years after Maurice Blanchot writes The Unavowable Community-a book outlining a critical response to Jean-Luc Nancy's early proposal for thinking an "inoperative community"-The Disavowed Community offers a close reading of Blanchot's text.

  • - On the Political Forms of Globalization
    af Massimo Cacciari
    356,95 - 970,95 kr.

    Assesses the current situation of Europe ten years after the adoption of the single currency. Examines the genealogy of the idea of Europe from the Greek confrontation with the Asia to the conflict between the Roman Empire and Christianity. Discusses the role of secularization in the shaping of modern Europe.

  • - Foundations for Philosophical Anthropology
    af Etienne Balibar
    353,95 kr.

    A collection of Essays over the last 20 years, exploring different dimensions (historical, political, philosophical, literary) of the philosophical debate on "subjecthood" and "subjectivity" in Modernity, as it was framed by the "Controversy on the subject" from the 1960's, and showing how it is now continued in a "controversy on the Universal".

  • - Advertising, Urban Space, and the Moral Law of the Image
    af Emanuele Coccia
    273,95 - 883,95 kr.

    Claims advertising is nothing but a metaphysical hypothesis about the moral nature of things: objects aren't purely physical or economical entities. Any object, regardless of its nature, can become a complex of possible happiness--not just an object of value, but a moral source of perfection for any one of us.

  • - Machiavelli's Theory of Political Freedom
    af Miguel Vatter
    318,95 kr.

    A study of Machiavelli's theory of politics and history which takes as its basis a radical theory of freedom as non-domination and a philosophy that gives priority to events over forms.

  • - Community, Immunity, Biopolitics
    af Roberto Esposito
    341,95 - 902,95 kr.

    Terms of Politics: Community, Immunity, and Biopolitics presents a decade of Esposito's thought on the origins and possibilities of political theory.

  • - The Aesthetics of Possibility
    af Ashon T. Crawley
    316,95 - 923,95 kr.

  • - A Micro-ontology of the Image
    af Emanuele Coccia
    280,95 - 788,95 kr.

    This book is a rehabilitation sensibility. It defines what we call sensibility or sensible life by defining the ontological status of images. It shows that images have an intermediate ontological status and exist in an autonomous sphere. It also explores our interactions with images in dream, fashion and language.