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  • At the Margins of Nihilism

    Deconstruction and Social Death

    by John E. Drabinski ...
    The multi-century event of enslavement and colonialism changed the cultural and political imagination of the Atlantic world. We still live and work in the horizon of that event. It was an event that placed a violent Manichean structure of antiblackness at the foundation of our shared world. What kinds of life are possible in nihilistic, antiblack worlds of social death? Is it possible to imagine ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Derrida and Africa

    Jacques Derrida as a Figure for African Thought

    by Nicolette Bragg, Jan Steyn, Kasereka Kavwahirehi, Jean-Paul Martinon, Bruce B. Janz, John E. Drabinski ...
    Series series African Philosophy: Critical Perspectives and Global Dialogue
    Derrida and Africa takes up Jacques Derrida as a figure of thought in relation to Africa, with a focus on Derrida’s writings specifically on Africa, which were influenced in part by his childhood in El Biar. From chapters that take up Derrida as Mother to contemplations on how to situate Derrida in relation to other African philosophers, from essays that connect deconstruction and diaspora to a ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Postcolonial Bergson

    by Souleymane Bachir Diagne ...
    Translated by Lindsay Turner ...
    Henri Bergson has been the subject of keen interest within French philosophy ever since being championed by Gilles Deleuze and others. Yet his influence extends well beyond European philosophy, especially within Africa and South Asia. Postcolonial Bergson traces the influence of Bergson’s thought through the work of two major figures in the postcolonial struggle, Muhammad Iqbal and Léopold Sédar ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

  • Levinas and the Postcolonial

    Race, Nation, Other

    by John E. Drabinski ...

    $27.99 USD

  • Theorizing Glissant

    Sites and Citations

    Edited by John E. Drabinski, Marisa Parham ...
    Series series Creolizing the Canon
    Édouard Glissant’s work has begun to make a significant impact on francophone studies and some corners of postcolonial theory. His literary works and criticism are increasingly central to the study of Caribbean literature and cultural studies.This collection focuses on the particularly philosophical register of Glissant’s thought.Each of the authors in this collection takes up a different aspect ... Read more

    $48.59 USD

  • Between Levinas and Heidegger

    Edited by John E. Drabinski, Eric S. Nelson ...
    Series series SUNY series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy
    Investigates the philosophical relationship between Levinas and Heidegger in a nonpolemical context, engaging some of philosophy's most pressing issues.Although both Levinas and Heidegger drew inspiration from Edmund Husserl's phenomenological method and helped pave the way toward the post-structuralist movement of the late twentieth century, very little scholarly attention has been paid to the ... Read more

    $33.29 USD

  • Glissant and the Middle Passage

    Philosophy, Beginning, Abyss

    by John E. Drabinski ...
    Series series Thinking Theory
    A reevaluation of Édouard Glissant that centers on the catastrophe of the Middle Passage and creates deep, original theories of trauma and CaribbeannessWhile philosophy has undertaken the work of accounting for Europe’s traumatic history, the field has not shown the same attention to the catastrophe known as the Middle Passage. It is a history that requires its own ideas that emerge organically ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Godard Between Identity and Difference

    by John E. Drabinski ...
    This book reads a series of Godard films as interventions in contemporary debate about the language of difference. Godard has something he wants both to preserve (singularity) and destroy (visual and aural totalitarianism). How is it possible to speak about the Other? How is it possible for the Other to speak? Does all speaking about or by the Other render that speaking common, thereby rendering ... Read more

    $42.89 USD

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  • Introducing Semiotics

    A Graphic Guide

    by Paul Cobley ...
    Series series Graphic Guides
    "Introducing Semiotics" outlines the development of sign study from its classical precursors to contemporary post-structuralism. Through Paul Cobley's incisive text and Litza Jansz's brilliant illustrations, it identifies the key semioticians and their work and explains the simple concepts behind difficult terms. For anybody who wishes to know why signs are crucial to human existence and how we ... Read more

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  • On What Matters

    Volume Two

    by Derek Parfit ...
    Series series The Berkeley Tanner Lectures
    On What Matters is a major work in moral philosophy. It is the long-awaited follow-up to Derek Parfit's 1984 book Reasons and Persons, one of the landmarks of twentieth-century philosophy. Parfit now presents a powerful new treatment of reasons, rationality, and normativity, and a critical examination of three systematic moral theories - Kant's ethics, contractualism, and consequentialism - ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • The Pragmatic Turn

    by Richard J. Bernstein ...
    In this major new work, Richard J. Bernstein argues that many of the most important themes in philosophy during the past one hundred and fifty years are variations and developments of ideas that were prominent in the classical American pragmatists: Charles S. Peirce, William James, John Dewey and George H Mead. Pragmatism begins with a thoroughgoing critique of the Cartesianism that dominated so ... Read more

    $21.00 USD

  • New Materialisms

    Ontology, Agency, and Politics

    by Jane Bennett, Pheng Cheah, Melissa A. Orlie, Elizabeth Grosz ...
    New Materialisms brings into focus and explains the significance of the innovative materialist critiques that are emerging across the social sciences and humanities. By gathering essays that exemplify the new thinking about matter and processes of materialization, this important collection shows how scholars are reworking older materialist traditions, contemporary theoretical debates, and advances ... Read more

    $21.59 USD