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  • Late Star Trek

    The Final Frontier in the Franchise Era

    by Adam Kotsko ...
    Series series Mass Markets: Storyworlds Across Media
    How Star Trek’s twenty-first-century reinventions illuminate the unique challenges and opportunities of franchise-style corporate storytellingLate Star Trek explores the beloved science fiction franchise’s repeated attempts to reinvent itself after the end of its 1990s golden age. Beginning with the prequel series Enterprise, Adam Kotsko analyzes the wealth of content set within Star Trek’s ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

  • The Prince of This World

    by Adam Kotsko ...
    The most enduring challenge to traditional monotheism is the problem of evil, which attempts to reconcile three incompatible propositions: God is all-good, God is all-powerful, and evil happens. The Prince of This World traces the story of one of the most influential attempts to square this circle: the offloading of responsibility for evil onto one of God's rebellious creatures. In this striking ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

  • The Use of Bodies

    by Giorgio Agamben ...
    Translated by Adam Kotsko ...
    Series series Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
    The renowned philosopher and author of Homo Sacer continues his groundbreaking work with this examination of selfhood and Western ontology.Giorgio Agamben's Homo Sacer was one of the most influential works of political philosophy in recent decades. It was also the beginning of a series of studies investigating the deepest foundations of Western politics and thought. The Use of Bodies represents ... Read more

    $20.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Neoliberalism's Demons

    On the Political Theology of Late Capital

    by Adam Kotsko ...
    By both its supporters and detractors, neoliberalism is usually considered an economic policy agenda. Neoliberalism's Demons argues that it is much more than that: a complete worldview, neoliberalism presents the competitive marketplace as the model for true human flourishing. And it has enjoyed great success: from the struggle for "global competitiveness" on the world stage down to our individual ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

  • What Is Theology?

    Christian Thought and Contemporary Life

    by Adam Kotsko ...
    Series series Perspectives in Continental Philosophy
    The secular world may have thought it was done with theology, but theology was not done with it. Recent decades have seen a resurgence of religion on the social and political scene, which have driven thinkers across many disciplines to grapple with the Christian theological inheritance of the modern world.Adam Kotsko provides a unique guide to this fraught terrain. The title essay establishes a ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • Agamben's Philosophical Trajectory

    by Adam Kotsko ...

    $25.49 USD

  • Creepiness

    by Adam Kotsko, Shimer Great Books School ...
    A specter is haunting contemporary television—the specter of creepiness. In our everyday lives, we try to avoid creepiness at every cost, shunning creepy people and recoiling in horror at the idea that we ourselves might be creeps. And yet when we sit down to watch TV, we are increasingly entranced by creepy characters. In this follow-up to Awkwardness and Why We Love Sociopaths, Adam Kotsko tries ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Highest Poverty

    Monastic Rules and Form-of-Life

    by Giorgio Agamben ...
    Translated by Adam Kotsko ...
    Series series Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
    The acclaimed philosopher and author of Homo Sacer contemplates the possibility of true human freedom through a deep analysis of monastic stricture.What is a rule, if it appears to become confused with life? And what is a human life, if, in every one of its gestures, of its words, and of its silences, it cannot be distinguished from the rule? It is to these questions that Giorgio Agamben's new ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Creation and Anarchy

    The Work of Art and the Religion of Capitalism

    by Giorgio Agamben ...
    Translated by Adam Kotsko ...
    Series series Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
    The acclaimed Italian philosopher interrogates the concept of creation in art, religion, and economics in this collection of five essays.Creation and the giving of orders are closely entwined in Western culture, where God commands the world into existence and later issues the injunctions known as the Ten Commandments. The arche, or origin, is always also a command, and a beginning is always the ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Use of Bodies

    by Giorgio Agamben ...
    Translated by Adam Kotsko ...
    Series series Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
    Giorgio Agamben's Homo Sacer was one of the seminal works of political philosophy in recent decades. It was also the beginning of a series of interconnected investigations of staggering ambition and scope, investigating the deepest foundations of Western politics and thought.The Use of Bodies represents the ninth and final volume in this twenty-year undertaking, breaking considerable new ground ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Agamben's Philosophical Lineage

    Edited by Adam Kotsko ...

    $31.39 USD

  • Pilate and Jesus

    by Giorgio Agamben ...
    Translated by Adam Kotsko ...
    Series series Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
    Pontius Pilate is one of the most enigmatic figures in Christian theology. The only non-Christian to be named in the Nicene Creed, he is presented as a cruel colonial overseer in secular accounts, as a conflicted judge convinced of Jesus's innocence in the Gospels, and as either a pious Christian or a virtual demon in later Christian writings. This book takes Pilate's role in the trial of Jesus as ... Read more

    $14.79 USD