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  • The Routledge Handbook of Law and the Anthropocene

    Edited by Peter D. Burdon, James Martel ...
    The Routledge Handbook of Law and the Anthropocene provides a critical survey into the function of law and governance during a time when humans have the power to impact the Earth system.The Anthropocene is a “crisis of the earth system.” This book addresses its implications for law and legal thinking in the twenty-first century. Unpacking the challenges of the Anthropocene for advocates of ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • Nothing Absolute

    German Idealism and the Question of Political Theology

    by Alex Dubilet, Joseph Albernaz, Daniel C. Barber, Agata Bielik-Robson, S.D. Chrostowska, Saitya Brata Das, Vincent W. Lloyd, Thomas Lynch, James Martel0, Steven Shakespeare1, Oxana Timofeeva2, Daniel Whistler3 ...
    Series series Perspectives in Continental Philosophy
    Featuring scholars at the forefront of contemporary political theology and the study of German Idealism, Nothing Absolute explores the intersection of these two flourishing fields. Against traditional approaches that view German Idealism as a secularizing movement, this volume revisits it as the first fundamentally philosophical articulation of the political-theological problematic in the ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • How Not to Be Governed

    Readings and Interpretations from a Critical Anarchist Left

    by Katherine Gordy, Elena Loizidou, Jacqueline Stevens, Banu Bargu, Vanessa Lemm, George Ciccariello-Maher, Todd May, Keally McBride ...
    How Not to Be Governed explores the contemporary debates and questions concerning anarchism in our own time. The authors address the political failures of earlier practices of anarchism, and the claim that anarchism is impracticable, by examining the anarchisms that have been theorized and practiced in the midst of these supposed failures. The authors revive the possibility of anarchism even as ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Subverting the Leviathan

    Reading Thomas Hobbes as a Radical Democrat

    by James Martel ...
    In Leviathan, Thomas Hobbes's landmark work on political philosophy, James Martel argues that although Hobbes pays lip service to the superior interpretive authority of the sovereign, he consistently subverts this authority throughout the book by returning it to the reader.Martel demonstrates that Hobbes's radical method of reading not only undermines his own authority in the text, but, by ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • The One and Only Law

    Walter Benjamin and the Second Commandment

    by James Martel ...
    Walter Benjamin’s “Critique of Violence,” widely considered his final word on law, proposes that all manifestations of law are false stand-ins for divine principles of truth and justice that are no longer available to human beings. However, he also suggests that we must have law—we are held under a divine sanction that does not allow us to escape our responsibilities. James R. Martel argues that ... Read more

    $33.09 USD

  • Murderous Consent

    On the Accommodation of Violent Death

    by Marc Crépon ...
    Translated by Michael Loriaux ...
    Series series Perspectives in Continental Philosophy
    Winner, 2002 French Translation Prize for NonfictionMurderous Consent details our implication in violence we do not directly inflict but in which we are structurally complicit: famines, civil wars, political repression in far-away places, and war, as it’s classically understood. Marc Crépon insists on a bond between ethics and politics and attributes violence to our treatment of the two as ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Transitional Subjects

    Critical Theory and Object Relations

    by Amy Allen, Axel Honneth, Joel Whitebook, C. Fred Alford, Alessandro Ferrera, Owen Hulatt, James Martel, Johanna Meehan, Noëlle McAfee0, Sara Beardsworth1 ...
    Series Book 67 - New Directions in Critical Theory
    Critical social theory has long been marked by a deep, creative, and productive relationship with psychoanalysis. Whereas Freud and Fromm were important cornerstones for the early Frankfurt School, recent thinkers have drawn on the object-relations school of psychoanalysis. Transitional Subjects is the first book-length collection devoted to the engagement of critical theory with the work of ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Transitional Subjects

    Critical Theory and Object Relations

    by Amy Allen, Axel Honneth, Joel Whitebook, C. Fred Alford, Alessandro Ferrera, Owen Hulatt, James Martel, Johanna Meehan, Noëlle McAfee0, Sara Beardsworth1 ...
    Series Book 67 - New Directions in Critical Theory
    Critical social theory has long been marked by a deep, creative, and productive relationship with psychoanalysis. Whereas Freud and Fromm were important cornerstones for the early Frankfurt School, recent thinkers have drawn on the object-relations school of psychoanalysis. Transitional Subjects is the first book-length collection devoted to the engagement of critical theory with the work of ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Textual Conspiracies

    Walter Benjamin, Idolatry, and Political Theory

    by James Martel ...
    “This is a sophisticated and fascinating argument written in a very enjoyably entertaining style. It is hard for me to see how readers initially interested in these texts will not be ‘swept off their feet’ by the core assertions of this author, and the devastatingly comprehensive way in which he demonstrates those arguments.”—Brent Steele, University of KansasIn Textual Conspiracies, James R. ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Love is a Sweet Chain

    Desire, Autonomy and Friendship in Liberal Political Theory

    by James Martel ...
    Notions of love intersect with ideas on personal liberty, obligation, individuality, self, and difference in this study. James Martel contends that theorists' inattention to the subject has impoverished our explorations of political discourse. ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Divine Violence

    Walter Benjamin and the Eschatology of Sovereignty

    by James Martel ...
    Divine Violence looks at the question of political theology and its connection to sovereignty. It argues that the practice of sovereignty reflects a Christian eschatology, one that proves very hard to overcome even by left thinkers, such as Arendt and Derrida, who are very critical of it. These authors fall into a trap described by Carl Schmitt whereby one is given a (false) choice between anarchy ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

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    by Adam Seligman ...
    As the countries of East-Central Europe struggle to create liberal democracy and the United States and other Western nations attempt to rediscover their own tarnished civil institutions, Adam Seligman identifies the neglect of the idea of "civil society" as a central concern common to both cultures today. Two centuries after its origins in the Enlightenment, the idea of civil society is being ... Read more

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