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  • Subject Matter

    The Anaesthetics of Habit and the Logic of Breakdown

    by Aron Vinegar ...
    Series series Short Circuits
    A theorization of habit that emphasizes its excessive and unsettling qualities rather than its mediating, adaptive, and stabilizing functions.Subject Matter offers a bold counterpoint to prevalent conceptions of habit characterized by bodily fluidity and ease, as the stabilizing foundation of an emerging subjectivity, or, more negatively, as a numbing and deadening force. Instead of facilitating ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

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  • The Agony of Eros

    by Byung-Chul Han ...
    Series Book 1 - Untimely Meditations
    An argument that love requires the courage to accept self-negation for the sake of discovering the Other.Byung-Chul Han is one of the most widely read philosophers in Europe today, a member of the new generation of German thinkers that includes Markus Gabriel and Armen Avanessian. In The Agony of Eros, a bestseller in Germany, Han considers the threat to love and desire in today's society. For Han ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • The Great Philosophers: Wittgenstein

    by Peter Hacker ...
    Series series GREAT PHILOSOPHERS
    This highly accessible account offers an illuminating introduction to Wittgenstein's philosophy of mind and to his conception of philosophy. Combining passages from Wittgenstein's writings with detailed interpretation and commentary, Hacker leads us into a world of philosophical investigation in which 'to smell a rat is ever so much easier than to trap it.'Wittgenstein claimed that the role of ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Hermeneutics

    Facts and Interpretation in the Age of Information

    by John D. Caputo ...
    Series series Pelican Books
    Is anything ever not an interpretation?Does interpretation go all the way down?Is there such a thing as a pure fact that is interpretation-free? If not, how are we supposed to know what to think and do?These tantalizing questions are tackled by renowned American thinker John D Caputo in this wide-reaching exploration of what the traditional term 'hermeneutics' can mean in a postmodern, twenty ... Read more

    $10.79 USD

  • The Language Animal

    The Full Shape of the Human Linguistic Capacity

    by Charles Taylor ...
    “We have been given a powerful and often uplifting vision of what it is to be truly human.” —John Cottingham, The TabletIn seminal works ranging from Sources of the Self to A Secular Age, Charles Taylor has shown how we create possible ways of being, both as individuals and as a society. In his new book setting forth decades of thought, he demonstrates that language is at the center of this ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • The Entanglement

    How Art and Philosophy Make Us What We Are

    by Alva Noë ...
    Why human nature is an aesthetic phenomenon—and why we need art and philosophy to understand ourselvesIn The Entanglement, philosopher Alva Noë explores the inseparability of life, art, and philosophy, arguing that we have greatly underestimated what this entangled reality means for understanding human nature.Life supplies art with its raw materials, but art, Noë argues, remakes life by giving us ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • Philosophy as Poetry

    by Richard Rorty, Mary Varney Rorty ...
    Series series Page-Barbour Lectures
    Undeniably iconoclastic, and doggedly practical where others were abstract, the late Richard Rorty was described by some as a philosopher with no philosophy. Rorty was skeptical of systems claiming to have answers, seeing scientific and aesthetic schools as vocabularies rather than as indispensable paths to truth. But his work displays a profound awareness of philosophical tradition and an urgent ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • I am Not a Brain

    Philosophy of Mind for the 21st Century

    by Markus Gabriel ...
    Translated by Christopher Turner ...
    Many consider the nature of human consciousness to be one of the last great unsolved mysteries. Why should the light turn on, so to speak, in human beings at all? And how is the electrical storm of neurons under our skull connected with our consciousness? Is the self only our brain’s user interface, a kind of stage on which a show is performed that we cannot freely direct?In this book, philosopher ... Read more

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  • The Trouble with Pleasure

    Deleuze and Psychoanalysis

    by Aaron Schuster ...
    Series series Short Circuits
    An investigation into the strange and troublesome relationship to pleasure that defines the human being, drawing on the disparate perspectives of Deleuze and Lacan.Is pleasure a rotten idea, mired in negativity and lack, which should be abandoned in favor of a new concept of desire? Or is desire itself fundamentally a matter of lack, absence, and loss? This is one of the crucial issues dividing ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Semblance and Event

    Activist Philosophy and the Occurrent Arts

    by Brian Massumi ...
    Series series Technologies of Lived Abstraction
    An investigation of the “occurrent arts” through the concepts of the “semblance” and “lived abstraction.”Events are always passing; to experience an event is to experience the passing. But how do we perceive an experience that encompasses the just-was and the is-about-to-be as much as what is actually present? In Semblance and Event, Brian Massumi, drawing on the work of William James, Alfred ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Life-Destroying Diagrams

    by Eugenie Brinkema ...
    In Life-Destroying Diagrams, Eugenie Brinkema brings the insights of her radical formalism to bear on supremely risky terrain: the ethical extremes of horror and love. Through close readings of works of film, literature, and philosophy, she explores how diagrams, grids, charts, lists, abecedaria, toroids, tempos, patterns, colors, negative space, lengths, increments, and thresholds attest to ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Logos

    The mystery of how we make sense of the world

    by Prof. Raymond Tallis ...
    Our sense-making capabilities and the relationship between our individual and collective intelligence and the comprehensibility of the world is both remarkable and deeply mysterious. Our capacity to make sense of the world and the fact that we pass our lives steeped in knowledge and understanding, albeit incomplete, that far exceeds what we are or even experience has challenged our greatest ... Read more

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