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  • Chaos and Cosmos

    The Imaginary and the Political in Jorge Luis Borges

    by Dr. Martín Plot ...
    Series series Social Imaginaries
    Choice 2025 Outstanding Academic TitleThis book offers a new and unique interpretation of Argentine essayist and fiction writer Jorge Luis Borges as a thinker of what continental twentieth century political theory called the political. While not a political writer in the traditional sense, Borges was indeed an author whose response to the advent of totalitarianism, in particular in its Nazi form, ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • The Aesthetico-Political

    The Question of Democracy in Merleau-Ponty, Arendt, and Rancière

    by Dr. Martín Plot ...
    This study uses new arguments to reinvestigate the relation between aesthetics and politics in the contemporary debates on democratic theory and radical democracy.First, Carl Schmitt and Claude Lefort help delineate the contours of an aesthetico-political understanding of democracy, which is developed further by studying Merleau-Ponty, Rancière, and Arendt.The ideas of Merleau-Ponty serve to ... Read more

    $42.89 USD

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  • Let's Talk About Love

    Why Other People Have Such Bad Taste

    by Carl Wilson ...
    For his 2007 critically acclaimed 33 1/3 series title, Let's Talk About Love, Carl Wilson went on a quest to find his inner Céline Dion fan and explore how we define ourselves by what we call good and bad, what we love and what we hate.At once among the most widely beloved and most reviled and lampooned pop stars of the past few decades, Céline Dion's critics call her mawkish and overblown while ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

    Edited by Christopher Grau ...
    Series series Philosophers on Film
    Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is one of the most widely discussed and thought-provoking films of recent years.This is the first book to explore and address the philosophical aspects of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Beginning with a helpful introduction that places each essay in context, specially commissioned chapters examine the following topics:philosophical issues surrounding ... Read more

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  • Transmission and the Individual Remix

    by Tom McCarthy ...
    Sub-titled "How Literature Works" this essay by the renown novelist is a provocative and entertaining work of postmodern theory that re-evaluates literature and literary meaning from Aeschylus to Kraftwerk. A VINTAGE EBOOK ORIGINAL.Tom McCarthy is one of the most vital young voices in contemporary literature, and in this essay he identifies the signals that have been repeating, pulsing, modulating ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • Art and Agency

    An Anthropological Theory

    by Alfred Gell ...
    Alfred Gell puts forward a new anthropological theory of visual art, seen as a form of instrumental action: the making of things as a means of influencing the thoughts and actions of others. He argues that existing anthropological and aesthetic theories take an overwhelmingly passive point of view, and questions the criteria that accord art status only to a certain class of objects and not to ... Read more

    $104.39 USD

  • Genealogy and Ontology of the Western Image and its Digital Future

    by John Lechte ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies
    With the emerging dominance of digital technology, the time is ripe to reconsider the nature of the image. Some say that there is no longer a phenomenal image, only disembodied information (0-1) waiting to be configured. For photography, this implies that a faith in the principle of an "evidential force" – of the impossibility of doubting that the subject was before the lens – is no longer ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Introducing Kant

    A Graphic Guide

    by Christopher Kul-Want ...
    Series series Graphic Guides
    Immanuel Kant laid the foundations of modern Western thought. Every subsequent major philosopher owes a profound debt to Kant's attempts to delimit human reason as an appropriate object of philosophical enquiry. And yet, Kant's relentless systematic formalism made him a controversial figure in the history of the philosophy that he helped to shape.Introducing Kant focuses on the three critiques of ... Read more

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  • Heritage, Culture, and Politics in the Postcolony

    by Daniel Herwitz ...
    The act of remaking one's history into a heritage, a conscientiously crafted narrative placed over the past, is a thriving industry in almost every postcolonial culture. This is surprising, given the tainted role of heritage in so much of colonialism's history. Yet the postcolonial state, like its European predecessor of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, deploys heritage institutions and ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Artworks

    Meaning, Definition, Value

    by Robert Stecker ...
    What is art? What is it to understand a work of art? What is the value of art? Robert Stecker seeks to answer these central questions of aesthetics by placing them within the context of an ongoing debate criticizing, but also explaining what can be learned from, alternative views. His unified philosophy of art, defined in terms of its evolving functions, is used to explain and to justify current ... Read more

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  • Thinking on Screen

    Film as Philosophy

    by Thomas E. Wartenberg ...
    Thinking on Screen: Film as Philosophy is an accessible and thought-provoking examination of the way films raise and explore complex philosophical ideas. Written in a clear and engaging style, Thomas Wartenberg examines films’ ability to discuss, and even criticize ideas that have intrigued and puzzled philosophers over the centuries such as the nature of personhood, the basis of morality, and ... Read more

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  • Cybertext Poetics

    The Critical Landscape of New Media Literary Theory

    by PhD Markku Eskelinen ...
    Series series International Texts in Critical Media Aesthetics
    Equally interested in what is and what could be, Cybertext Poetics combines ludology and cybertext theory to solve persistent problems and introduce paradigm changes in the fields of literary theory, narratology, game studies, and digital media. The book first integrates theories of print and digital literature within a more comprehensive theory capable of coming to terms with the ever-widening ... Read more

    $44.99 USD