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  • Homo Sacer

    Sovereign Power and Bare Life

    Translated by Daniel Heller-Roazen ...
    Series series Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
    In this major work by the renowned Italian philosopher, an obscure figure in Roman law poses significant questions about the nature of power.The work of Giorgio Agamben, one of Italy's most important and original philosophers, challenges modern conceptions of society and the individual's place within it. In Homo Sacer, Agamben aims to connect the problem of pure possibility, potentiality, and ... Read more

    $18.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Potentialities

    Collected Essays in Philosophy

    Translated by Daniel Heller-Roazen ...
    Series series Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
    This book collects fifteen major philosophical essays spanning more than twenty years by acclaimed Italian philosopher and author of State of Exception.Giorgio Agamben is one of contemporary philosophy's most influential thinkers on the subjects of language, power, society. This collection of essays opens with an enlightening introduction by the translator Daniel Heller-Roazen, who situates ... Read more

    $23.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Absentees

    On Variously Missing Persons

    An intellectually adventurous account of the role of nonpersons that explores their depiction in literature and challenges how they are defined in philosophy, law, and anthropologyIn thirteen interlocking chapters, Absentees explores the role of the missing in human communities, asking an urgent question: How does a person become a nonperson, whether by disappearance, disenfranchisement, or civil, ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • The Fifth Hammer

    Pythagoras and the Disharmony of the World

    A revolutionary history and theory of harmony from music to metaphysicsAn ancient tradition holds that Pythagoras invented harmony. It is said that one day, he wandered by a forge and, hearing a wondrous sound come from within, ventured in to investigate. He found five men hammering with five hammers. To his astonishment, he discovered that four of the five hammers stood in a marvelous set of ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Far Calls

    On Omens, Slips, and Epiphanies

    An inquiry into the theories and practices of overhearingWhen words are not heard but overheard, when phrases are perceived in bits and pieces, and when speakers, failing to do as they intend, state things that they never meant to say, the saying, in its unsteady relation to understanding, becomes an event. That event has long been studied by a disparate company of interpreters: prophets, priests, ... Read more

    $26.69 USD

  • Vertigo

    The Temptation of Identity

    Translated by Max Matukhin ...
    Reading philosophy through the lens of Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo, Andrea Cavalletti shows why, for two centuries, major philosophers have come to think of vertigo as intrinsically part of philosophy itself.Fear of the void, terror of heights: everyone knows what acrophobia is, and many suffer from it. Before Freud, the so-called “sciences of the mind” reserved a place of honor for vertigo in the ... Read more

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  • Homo Sacer

    Sovereign Power and Bare Life

    Translated by Daniel Heller-Roazen ...
    Series series Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
    The work of Giorgio Agamben, one of Italy's most important and original philosophers, has been based on an uncommon erudition in classical traditions of philosophy and rhetoric, the grammarians of late antiquity, Christian theology, and modern philosophy. Recently, Agamben has begun to direct his thinking to the constitution of the social and to some concrete, ethico-political conclusions ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

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  • Between Word and Image

    Heidegger, Klee, and Gadamer on Gesture and Genesis

    Series series Studies in Continental Thought
    A groundbreaking examination of word and image through the lenses of modern art and Continental philosophy: "Probing and lucid" (Stephen H. Watson, University of Notre Dame).Engagement with the image has played a decisive role in the formulation of the very idea of philosophy since Plato. Identifying pivotal moments in the history of philosophy, Dennis J. Schmidt develops the question of ... Read more

    $12.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Dictionary of Untranslatables

    A Philosophical Lexicon

    Series series Translation/Transnation
    Characters in some languages, particularly Hebrew and Arabic, may not display properly due to device limitations. Transliterations of terms appear before the representations in foreign characters.This is an encyclopedic dictionary of close to 400 important philosophical, literary, and political terms and concepts that defy easy—or any—translation from one language and culture to another. Drawn ... Read more

    $68.39 USD

  • Four Seminars

    Series series Studies in Continental Thought
    The philosopher presents a stimulating overview of his work, its intellectual roots, and its relationship to the work of other twentieth century thinkers.In Four Seminars, Heidegger reviews the entire trajectory of his thought and offers unique perspectives on fundamental aspects of his work. First published in French in 1976, these seminars were translated into German with Heidegger's approval ... Read more

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  • The Problem of Distraction

    by Paul North ...
    We live in an age of distraction. Contemporary analyses of culture, politics, techno-science, and psychology insist on this. They often suggest remedies for it, or ways to capitalize on it. Yet they almost never investigate the meaning and history of distraction itself. This book corrects this lack of attention. It inquires into the effects of distraction, defined not as the opposite of attention, ... Read more

    $26.99 USD