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  • The Share of Perspective

    by Emmanuel Alloa ...
    Translated by Nils F. Schott ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Aesthetics
    This book is a defense of perspectivism in the age of post-truth. At the crossroads of science, art, and philosophy, it unearths a tradition that we must rediscover: the point of view is not only what divides, it is also what is shared.Today, perspective is associated with individualism and personal viewpoints. But in an age of post-truth, the only robust answer to relativism lies in fact in a ... Read more

    $56.99 USD

  • Resistance of the Sensible World

    An Introduction to Merleau-Ponty

    by Emmanuel Alloa ...
    Translated by Jane Marie Todd ...
    Series series Perspectives in Continental Philosophy
    In this book, Emmanuel Alloa offers a handrail for venturing into the complexities of the work of the French philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908–61). Through a comprehensive analysis of the three main phases of Merleau-Ponty’s thinking and a thorough knowledge of his many unpublished manuscripts, the author traces how Merleau-Ponty’s philosophy evolved and exposes the remarkable coherence that ... Read more

    $27.89 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

    $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

  • Merleau-Ponty and Contemporary Philosophy

    Edited by Emmanuel Alloa, Frank Chouraqui, Rajiv Kaushik ...
    Series series SUNY series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy
    Assesses the importance of Merleau-Ponty to current and ongoing concerns in contemporary philosophy.Maurice Merleau-Ponty is widely recognized as one of the major figures of twentieth-century philosophy. The recent publication of his lecture courses and posthumous working notes has opened new avenues for both the interpretation of his thought and philosophy in general. These works confirm that, ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • Transparency, Society and Subjectivity

    Critical Perspectives

    Edited by Emmanuel Alloa, Dieter Thomä ...
    This book critically engages with the idea of transparency whose ubiquitous demand stands in stark contrast to its lack of conceptual clarity. The book carefully examines this notion in its own right, traces its emergence in Early Modernity and analyzes its omnipresence in contemporary rhetoric. Today, transparency has become a catchword outplaying other Enlightenment values like empowerment, ... Read more

    $134.09 USD

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    by Frank R. Ankersmit ...
    In this book, the noted intellectual historian Frank Ankersmit provides a systematic account of the problems of reference, truth, and meaning in historical writing. He works from the conviction that the historicist account of historical writing, associated primarily with Leopold von Ranke and Wilhelm von Humboldt, is essentially correct but that its original idealist and romanticist idiom needs to ... Read more

    $30.59 USD

  • Umberto Eco

    Philosophy, Semiotics and the Work of Fiction

    by Michael Caesar ...
    Series series Key Contemporary Thinkers
    This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the work and thought of Umberto Eco - one of the most important writers in Europe today. ... Read more

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  • Translation Changes Everything

    Theory and Practice

    by Lawrence Venuti ...
    In Translation Changes Everything leading theorist Lawrence Venuti gathers fourteen of his incisive essays since 2000.The selection sketches the trajectory of his thinking about translation while engaging with the main trends in research and commentary. The issues covered include basic concepts like equivalence, retranslation, and reader reception; sociological topics like the impact of ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • Attunement

    Architectural Meaning after the Crisis of Modern Science

    by Alberto Perez-Gomez ...
    How architecture can move beyond the contemporary enthusiasms for the technically sustainable and the formally dazzling to enhance our human values and capacities.Architecture remains in crisis, its social relevance lost between the two poles of formal innovation and technical sustainability. In Attunement, Alberto Pérez-Gómez calls for an architecture that can enhance our human values and ... Read more

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  • "What Is an Apparatus?" and Other Essays

    by Giorgio Agamben ...
    Translated by David Kishik, Stefan Pedatella ...
    Series series Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
    The three essays collected in this book offer a succinct introduction to Agamben's recent work through an investigation of Foucault's notion of the apparatus, a meditation on the intimate link of philosophy to friendship, and a reflection on contemporariness, or the singular relation one may have to one's own time."Apparatus" (dispositif in French) is at once a most ubiquitous and nebulous concept ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • An Introduction to the Thought of Karl Popper

    by Roberta Corvi ...
    Translated by Patrick Camiller ...
    This is a comprehensive introduction to the philosophical and political thought of Karl Popper, now available in English. It is divided into three parts; the first part provides a biography of Popper; the second part looks at his works and recurrent themes, and the third part assesses his critics. It was approved of by Popper himself as a sympathetic and comprehensive study, and will be ideal to ... Read more

    $55.99 USD