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  • Formations

    by Catherine Malabou, Tyler M. Williams, D. J. S. Cross ...
    Catherine Malabou’s elaboration of the concept of plasticity has made her one of the most innovative philosophers working today. Formations collects eighteen of Malabou’s early writings, spanning 1986 to 2003, within which her initial articulations of plasticity take shape.Though Malabou might be most famous for bringing neurobiological discourse into conversation with continental philosophy, she ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

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  • Adventures in Transcendental Materialism

    Dialogues with Contemporary Thinkers

    by Adrian Johnston ...
    Series series Speculative Realism

    $31.99 USD

  • A New German Idealism

    Hegel, Žižek, and Dialectical Materialism

    by Adrian Johnston ...
    In 2012, philosopher and public intellectual Slavoj Žižek published what arguably is his magnum opus, the one-thousand-page tome Less Than Nothing: Hegel and the Shadow of Dialectical Materialism. A sizable sequel appeared in 2014, Absolute Recoil: Towards a New Foundation of Dialectical Materialism. In these two books, Žižek returns to the German idealist G. W. F. Hegel in order to forge a new ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Self and Emotional Life

    Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, and Neuroscience

    by Adrian Johnston, Catherine Malabou ...
    Series series Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture
    Adrian Johnston and Catherine Malabou defy theoretical humanities' deeply-entrenched resistance to engagements with the life sciences. Rather than treat biology and its branches as hopelessly reductive and politically suspect, they view recent advances in neurobiology and its adjacent scientific fields as providing crucial catalysts to a radical rethinking of subjectivity.Merging three distinct ... Read more

    $33.29 USD

  • God Is Undead

    Psychoanalysis for Unbelievers

    by Lorenzo Chiesa, Prof. Adrian Johnston ...
    The undead are neither alive nor dead. They are animate yet non-living. In God Is Undead, Lorenzo Chiesa and Adrian Johnston contend that true unbelief today sees the divine precisely as exemplifying such undeath.In God Is Undead, Chiesa and Johnston delve into and deepen the insights of both Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalysis as regards unbelief. This analytic perspective reveals that modern ... Read more

    $28.39 USD

  • Infinite Greed

    The Inhuman Selfishness of Capital

    by Adrian Johnston ...
    Series series Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture
    Winner, 2025 Symposium Book Award, Canadian Society for Continental PhilosophySelfishness is essential to capitalism—or so both advocates and opponents claim. In Infinite Greed, Adrian Johnston argues that this consensus is mistaken. Through a novel synthesis of Marxism and psychoanalysis, he reveals how the relentless pursuit of profits is not fundamentally animated by human acquisitiveness. ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • A New German Idealism

    Hegel, Žižek, and Dialectical Materialism

    by Adrian Johnston ...
    In 2012, philosopher and public intellectual Slavoj Žižek published what arguably is his magnum opus, the one-thousand-page tome Less Than Nothing: Hegel and the Shadow of Dialectical Materialism. A sizable sequel appeared in 2014, Absolute Recoil: Towards a New Foundation of Dialectical Materialism. In these two books, Žižek returns to the German idealist G. W. F. Hegel in order to forge a new ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Irrepressible Truth

    On Lacan’s ‘The Freudian Thing’

    by Adrian Johnston ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    This book offers readers a uniquely detailed engagement with the ideas of legendary French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan. The Freudian Thing is one of Lacan’s most important texts, wherein he explains the significance and stakes of his “return to Freud” as a passionate defence of Freud’s disturbing, epoch-making discovery of the unconscious, against misrepresentations and criticisms of it. However, ... Read more

    $116.09 USD

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  • Less Than Nothing

    Hegel and the Shadow of Dialectical Materialism

    by Slavoj Zizek ...
    Discover a 1,000-page resurrection of Hegel, a giant of Western philosophy—from “one of the world’s best-known public intellectuals” (New York Review of Books).For the last two centuries, Western philosophy has developed in the shadow of Hegel, an influence each new thinker struggles to escape. As a consequence, Hegel’s absolute idealism has become the bogeyman of philosophy, obscuring the fact ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Time and Narrative, Volume 3

    by Paul Ricoeur ...
    Translated by Kathleen Blamey, David Pellauer ...
    In the first two volumes of this work, Paul Ricoeur examined the relations between time and narrative in historical writing, fiction, and theories of literature. This final volume, a comprehensive reexamination and synthesis of the ideas developed in volumes 1 and 2, stands as Ricoeur's most complete and satisfying presentation of his own philosophy.Ricoeur's aim here is to explicate as fully as ... Read more

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  • Emmanuel Levinas

    Basic Philosophical Writings

    Edited by Adriaan T. Peperzak, Simon Critchley, Robert Bernasconi ...
    Series series Studies in Continental Thought
    Emmanuel Levinas (1906–1996) has exerted a profound influence on 20th-century continental philosophy. This anthology, including Levinas's key philosophical texts over a period of more than forty years, provides an ideal introduction to his thought and offers insights into his most innovative ideas. Five of the ten essays presented here appear in English for the first time. An introduction by ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

  • A Voice and Nothing More

    by Mladen Dolar ...
    Series series Short Circuits
    A new, philosophically grounded theory of the voice—the voice as the lever of thought, as one of the paramount embodiments of the psychoanalytic object.Plutarch tells the story of a man who plucked a nightingale and finding but little to eat exclaimed: "You are just a voice and nothing more." Plucking the feathers of meaning that cover the voice, dismantling the body from which the voice seems to ... Read more

    $19.99 USD