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  • Looking Through Images

    A Phenomenology of Visual Media

    by Emmanuel Alloa, Andrew Benjamin ...
    Translated by Nils Schott ...
    Series series Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts
    Images have always stirred ambivalent reactions. Yet whether eliciting fascinated gazes or iconoclastic repulsion from their beholders, they have hardly ever been seen as true sources of knowledge. They were long viewed as mere appearances, placeholders for the things themselves or deceptive illusions. Today, the traditional critique of the spectacle has given way to an unconditional embrace of ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Looking Through Images

    A Phenomenology of Visual Media

    by Emmanuel Alloa, Andrew Benjamin ...
    Translated by Nils Schott ...
    Series series Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts
    Images have always stirred ambivalent reactions. Yet whether eliciting fascinated gazes or iconoclastic repulsion from their beholders, they have hardly ever been seen as true sources of knowledge. They were long viewed as mere appearances, placeholders for the things themselves or deceptive illusions. Today, the traditional critique of the spectacle has given way to an unconditional embrace of ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • The Warriors of Wren

    Little Man Go, #1

    by Benjamin Andrew ...
    Series Book 1 - Little Man Go
    Jimmy Go is lost in a hell he can’t escape.Slave to a job he hates, Jimmy lives, eats, and writhes in the factory-sponsored void his life has fallen into. A cracking cog in a mindless, paranoid war machine, Jimmy no longer remembers who he is, why he’s there—or why someone’s left him a warning: You don’t belong here, Little Man Go.Each day before work, Jimmy stares out his window watching Hat, ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • Abjection, Melancholia and Love

    The Work of Julia Kristeva

    Edited by John Fletcher, Andrew Benjamin ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Women, Feminism and Literature
    This volume begins with a new essay by Julia Kristeva, ‘The Adolescent Novel’, in which she examines the relation between novelistic writing and the experience of adolescence as an ‘open structure’. It is this blend of the literary with the psychoanalytic that places Kristeva’s work central to current thinking, from semiotics and critical theory to feminism and psychoanalysis.The essays in this ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Niobes

    Antiquity, Modernity, Critical Theory

    Edited by Mario Telò, Andrew Benjamin ...
    Series series Classical Memories/Modern Identities
    A marginalized but persistent figure of Greek tragedy, Niobe, whose many children were killed by Apollo and Artemis, embodies yet problematizes the philosophically charged dialectics between life and death, mourning and melancholy, animation and inanimation, silence and logos. The essays in Niobes present her as a set of complex figurations, an elusive mythical character but also an overdetermined ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Heidegger and Literary Studies

    Edited by Andrew Benjamin ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Literature and Philosophy
    Martin Heidegger is one of the most influential philosophers of the 20th Century, and a key philosophical resource for literary critics. Not only has he written about poetry, generations of poets have engaged his writings. And yet, for Heidegger poetry and literature are separate. An essential part of the project of this book therefore is to show how both the distinction and connection between ... Read more

    $95.19 USD

  • Libel and Lampoon

    Satire in the Courts, 1670-1792

    by Andrew Benjamin Bricker ...
    Series series Law and Literature
    Libel and Lampoon shows how English satire and the law mutually shaped each other during the long eighteenth century. Following the lapse of prepublication licensing in 1695, the authorities quickly turned to the courts and newly repurposed libel laws in an attempt to regulate the press. In response, satirists and their booksellers devised a range of evasions. Writers increasingly capitalized on ... Read more

    $75.99 USD

  • German Stoicisms

    From Hegel to Sloterdijk

    Edited by Kurt Lampe, Andrew Benjamin ...
    Stoicism has had a diverse reception in German philosophy. This is the first interpretive study of shared themes and dialogues between late nineteenth-century and twentieth-century experts on classical antiquity and philosophers. Assessing how modern philosophers have incorporated ancient resources with the context of German philosophy, chapters in this volume are devoted to philosophical giants ... Read more

    $34.79 USD

  • Post-Structuralist Classics

    Edited by Andrew Benjamin ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Literary Theory
    Modern literary theory is increasingly looking to philosophy for its inspiration. After a wave of structural analysis, the growing influence of deconstruction and hermeneutic readings continues to bear witness to this. This exciting and important collection, first published in 1988, reveals the diversity of approaches that mark the post-structuralist endeavour, and provides a challenge to the ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Sparks Will Fly

    Benjamin and Heidegger

    Edited by Andrew Benjamin, Dimitris Vardoulakis ...
    Series series SUNY series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy
    Collected essays consider points of affinity and friction between Walter Benjamin and Martin Heidegger.Despite being contemporaries, Walter Benjamin and Martin Heidegger never directly engaged with one another. Yet, Hannah Arendt, who knew both men, pointed out common ground between the two. Both were concerned with the destruction of metaphysics, the development of a new way of reading and ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • Walter Benjamin's Philosophy

    Destruction and Experience

    Edited by Andrew Benjamin, Peter Osborne ...
    Series series Warwick Studies in European Philosophy
    This collection explores, in Adorno's description, `philosophy directed against philosophy'. The essays cover all aspects of Benjamin's writings, from his early work in the philosophy of art and language, through to the concept of history. The experience of time and the destruction of false continuity are identified as the key themes in Benjamin's understanding of history. ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • On the Brink

    Language, Time, History, and Politics

    by Werner Hamacher ...
    Series series Philosophical Projections
    This collection of essays by one of the foremost figures in contemporary theory takes as its theme the edge or limit between language, time, history, and politics. These are essays that are all on the brink, the very extreme at which one can no longer define where one is located, neither on the cliff, say, nor over the edge. To be on the brink is to take up that extreme limit, the point of ... Read more

    $44.99 USD