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  • The Shadow of Totalitarianism

    Action, Judgment, and Evil in Politics

    by Javier Burdman ...
    Series series SUNY series, Intersections: Philosophy and Critical Theory
    Examines the relationship of evil, action, and judgment in the work of Immanuel Kant, Hannah Arendt, and Jean-François Lyotard.The Shadow of Totalitarianism develops a new way to think about the problem of evil in politics. Beginning with the commonplace idea that the rise of totalitarianism in the twentieth century marked the emergence of a new form of evil, Javier Burdman finds early seeds of ... Read more

    $33.29 USD

  • Modernity as Exception and Miracle

    by Eduardo Sabrovsky ...
    Translated by Javier Burdman ...
    Series series SUNY series, Intersections: Philosophy and Critical Theory
    Proposes "the extraordinary" as a defining characteristic of modernity.Translated from the Spanish De lo extraordinario: Nominalismo y Modernidad, this book argues that a defining aspect of modernity is an ever-increasing pursuit of, and need for, what Eduardo Sabrovsky calls "the extraordinary," a term that encompasses both the exception and the miraculous. Sabrovsky shows the degree to which ... Read more

    $33.29 USD

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  • German Philosophy

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Andrew Bowie ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    German philosophy remains the core of modern philosophy. Without Kant, Frege, Wittgenstein, and Husserl there would be no Anglo-American 'analytical' style of philosophy. Moreover, without Kant, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, and Heidegger, the 'Continental Philosophy' of Derrida, Foucault, Deleuze, Badiou, and Zizek, which has had major effects on humanities subjects in recent years, is incomprehensible ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Marx and Heidegger

    Gerry Stahl's eLibrary, #1

    by Gerry Stahl ...
    Series Book 1 - Gerry Stahl's eLibrary
    This volume considers the two most important philosophers of the modern age. Today, the philosophies of Marx and Heidegger are still extremely relevant—provided one adapts them to the current socio-historical context and adjusts each to the implicit criticisms of the other—as indicated in this book. In particular, Marx countered the ideology of individualism by analyzing social structures and ... Read more

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  • Giving an Account of Oneself

    Twentieth Anniversary Edition, with a new preface by the author

    by Judith Butler ...
    What does it mean to lead a moral life?In their first extended study of moral philosophy, Judith Butler offers a provocative outline for a new ethical practice—one responsive to the need for critical autonomy yet grounded in the opacity of the human subject.Butler takes as their starting point one’s ability to answer the questions “What have I done?” and “What ought I to do?” They show that these ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Introduction to Critical Theory

    Horkheimer to Habermas

    by David Held ...
    The writings of the Frankfurt school, in particular of Horkheimer, Adorno, Marcuse, and Jurgen Habermas, caught the imagination of the radical movements of the 1960s and 1970s and became a key element in the Marxism of the New Left.Partly due to their rise to prominence during the political turmoil of the 1960s, the work of these critical theorists has been the subject of continuing controversy in ... Read more

    $30.00 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Existentialism

    Edited by Steven Crowell ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Philosophy
    Existentialism exerts a continuing fascination on students of philosophy and general readers. As a philosophical phenomenon, though, it is often poorly understood, as a form of radical subjectivism that turns its back on reason and argumentation and possesses all the liabilities of philosophical idealism but without any idealistic conceptual clarity. In this volume of original essays, the first to ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • The Essential Marcuse

    Selected Writings of Philosopher and Social Critic Herbert Marcuse

    by Herbert Marcuse ...
    The Essential Marcuse provides an overview of Herbert Marcuse's political and philosophical writing over four decades, with excerpts from his major books as well as essays from various academic journals. The most influential radical philosopher of the 1960s, Marcuse's writings are noteworthy for their uncompromising opposition to both capitalism and communism. His words are as relevant to today's ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Most Sublime Hysteric

    Hegel with Lacan

    by Slavoj Zizek ...
    What do we know about Hegel? What do we know about Marx? What do we know about democracy and totalitarianism? Communism and psychoanalysis? What do we know that isn't a platitude that we've heard a thousand times - or a self-satisfied certainty? Through his brilliant reading of Hegel, Slavoj Zizek - one of the most provocative and widely-read thinkers of our time - upends our traditional ... Read more

    $22.00 USD

  • Theodor Adorno

    by Ross Wilson ...
    Series series Routledge Critical Thinkers
    The range of Adorno's achievement, and the depth of his insights, is breathtaking and daunting. His work on literary, artistic, and musical forms, his devastating indictment of modern industrial society, and his profound grasp of Western culture from Homer to Hollywood have made him one of the most significant figures in twentieth-century thought.As one of the main philosophers of the Frankfurt ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • A Theory of History

    by Ágnes Heller ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Historiography
    This radical analysis of the role and importance of historiography interprets the philosophy and theory of history on the basis of historicity as a human condition. The book examins the norms and methods of historiography from a philosophical point of view, but rejects generalisations tht the philosophy of history can provide all the answers to contemporary problems. Instead it outlines a feasible ... Read more

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  • A Short History of My Philosophy

    by Agnes Heller ...
    A Short History of My Philosophy is an autobiographic account of Agnes Heller's intellectual and academic career. While the narration mainly traces the development of ideas, we also learn how they occurred in the context of challenging life circumstances. Agnes Heller presents the life of her ideas is four stages: the first, "years of apprenticeship," details both the pre- and post-Hungarian ... Read more

    $93.99 USD