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  • Torture and Dignity

    An Essay on Moral Injury

    by J. M. Bernstein ...
    In this unflinching look at the experience of suffering and one of its greatest manifestations—torture—J. M. Bernstein critiques the repressions of traditional moral theory, showing that our morals are not immutable ideals but fragile constructions that depend on our experience of suffering itself. Morals, Bernstein argues, not only guide our conduct but also express the depth of mutual dependence ... Read more

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  • Levels of Organic Life and the Human

    An Introduction to Philosophical Anthropology

    by Helmuth Plessner ...
    Translated by Millay Hyatt ...
    Series series Forms of Living
    The groundbreaking classic of twentieth-century German philosophy now available in English—with an introduction by J.M. Bernstein.Helmuth Plessner's Levels of Organic Life and the Human, draws on phenomenological, biological, and social scientific sources to offer a systematic account of nature, life, and human existence. The book considers non-living nature, plants, non-human animals, and human ... Read more

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  • Political Concepts

    A Critical Lexicon

    by J. M. Bernstein, Ann Laura Stoler, Ann Laura Stoler, Stathis Gourgouris, Gil Anidjar, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Étienne Balibar, Joan Copjec, Jacques Lezra, Andreas Kalyvas0, Jean L. Cohen1, Akeel Bilgrami2, Adi M. Ophir3 ...
    Series series Idiom: Inventing Writing Theory
    Deciding what is and what is not political is a fraught, perhaps intractably opaque matter. Just who decides the question; on what grounds; to what ends—these seem like properly political questions themselves. Deciding what is political and what is not can serve to contain and restrain struggles, make existing power relations at once self-evident and opaque, and blur the possibility of reimagining ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • Thinking with Balibar

    A Lexicon of Conceptual Practice

    by Ann Laura Stoler, Stathis Gourgouris, Jacques Lezra, Emily Apter, Étienne Balibar, J. M. Bernstein, Judith Butler, Monique David-Ménard0, Hanan Elsayed1, Didier Fassin2, Bernard Harcourt3, Patrice Maniglier4, Warren Montag5, Bruce Robbins6, Gary Wilder7, Adi M. Ophir8 ...
    Series series Idiom: Inventing Writing Theory
    This volume, the first sustained critical work on the French political philosopher Étienne Balibar, collects essays by sixteen prominent philosophers, psychoanalysts, anthropologists, sociologists, and literary critics who each identify, define, and explore a central concept in Balibar’s thought. The result is a hybrid lexicon-engagement that makes clear the depth and importance of Balibar’s ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • The Culture Industry

    Selected Essays on Mass Culture

    by Theodor W Adorno ...
    Series series Routledge Classics
    The creation of the Frankfurt School of critical theory in the 1920s saw the birth of some of the most exciting and challenging writings of the twentieth century. It is out of this background that the great critic Theodor Adorno emerged. His finest essays are collected here, offering the reader unparalleled insights into Adorno's thoughts on culture. He argued that the culture industry commodified ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • On Jean Améry

    Philosophy of Catastrophe

    by Magdalena Zolkos, J M. Bernstein, Arne Grøn, Dennis B. Klein, Joseph Rosen, Philipa Rothfield, Melanie Steiner Sherwood, Wolfgang Treitler, Aleksandra Ubertowska, Michael Ure, Anna Yeatman, Markus Zisselsberger, Kitty Millet, Thomas Brudholm, Roy Ben-Shai ...
    On Jean Améry provides a comprehensive discussion of one of the most challenging and complex post-Holocaust thinkers, Jean Améry (1912-1978), a Jewish-Austrian-Belgian essayist, journalist and literary author. In the English-speaking world Améry is known for his poignant publication, At the Mind's Limits, a narrative of exile, dispossession, torture, and Auschwitz. In recent years, there has been ... Read more

    $129.59 USD

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  • Justice for Hedgehogs

    by Ronald Dworkin ...
    In Dworkin’s master work, the central thesis is that all areas of value depend on one another. This is one, big thing that the hedgehog knows, in contrast to the fox, who knows many little things. Dworkin’s understanding of the relationship—between ethics, morality, and political morality—is significantly revised and also greatly elaborated. He argues that “dignity” is the essential core of living ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

  • Intuitive Thinking as a Spiritual Path

    A Philosophy of Freedom (CW 4)

    by Rudolf Steiner ...
    Translated by Michael Lipson ...
    Series series Anthroposophy
    Written in 1894 (CW 4)"The realms of life are many. For each, specific sciences develop. But life itself is a unity, and the more the sciences busily immerse themselves in separate realms, the farther they move away from seeing the living wholeness of the world. There must be a kind of knowing that seeks, in the separate sciences, the elements that lead human beings back to full life again. A ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Marx's Concept of Man

    by Erich Fromm ...
    The social philosopher and New York Times –bestselling author of Escape from Freedom explores how Marx's ideas have been misused and misunderstood.In the Western world, and especially in the United States, Karl Marx is perceived as the spiritual godfather of Lenin and Stalin—someone bent on creating a state where everyone worships a centralized bureaucracy. Social philosopher E... ... Read more

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  • The Force of Nonviolence

    An Ethico-Political Bind

    by Judith Butler ...
    “The most creative and courageous social theorist working today” examines the ethical binds that emerge within the force field of violence (Cornel West).“ . . . nonviolence is often seen as passive and resolutely individual. Butler’s philosophical inquiry argues that it is in fact a shrewd and even aggressive collective political tactic.” —New York TimesJudith Butler shows how an ethic of ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • The Wholeness of Nature

    Goethe’s Way toward a Science of Conscious Participation in Nature

    by Henri Bortoft ...
    Whereas most readers are familiar with Goethe as a poet and dramatist, few are familiar with his scientific work. In this brilliant book, Henri Bortoft (who began his studies of Goethean science with J. G. Bennett and David Bohm) introduces the fascinating scientific theories of Goethe. He succeeds in showing that Goethe's way of doing science was not a poet's folly but a genuine alternative to ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Dialectic of Enlightenment

    by Max Horkheimer, Theodor W. Adorno ...
    Translated by Edmund Jephcott ...
    Series series Cultural Memory in the Present
    Dialectic of Enlightenment is undoubtedly the most influential publication of the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory. Written during the Second World War and circulated privately, it appeared in a printed edition in Amsterdam in 1947. "What we had set out to do," the authors write in the Preface, "was nothing less than to explain why humanity, instead of entering a truly human state, is sinking ... Read more

    $24.99 USD