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  • Law and Transcendence

    The Question of Justice

    by John Lechte ...
    Inspired by the philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas, this book shows that for justice to be realised law must be understood to originate in transcendence rather than in violence, conflict and the sacred – prevalent themes in philosophies of law and the political.To this end, the book takes up the case of ‘scapegoating’: evident in Carl Schmitt’s influential theory of the ‘friend–enemy’ dichotomy as the ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Philosophy of the Medium

    The Age of McLuhan in Question

    by John Lechte ...
    Taking the principle of the 'disappearance of the medium' into new territory, this book questions the pervasive influence of the principle that the 'medium is the message'. Bold and expansive, this book argues that we have for too long focused on the technical specificities of media, when we should have been focusing on what it is that mediums do, that is, on their 'content' rather than their ... Read more

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  • Fifty Key Contemporary Thinkers

    From Structuralism to Post-Humanism

    by John Lechte ...
    Series series Routledge Key Guides
    This revised second edition from our bestselling Key Guides includes brand new entries on some of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth- and twenty-first century: Zizek, Bergson, Husserl, Heidegger, Butler and Haraway.With a new introduction by the author, sections on phenomenology and the post-human, full cross-referencing and up-to-date guides to major primary and secondary texts, this ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • Agamben and the Politics of Human Rights

    Statelessness, Images, Violence

    by John Lechte ...

    $27.99 USD

  • The Human

    Bare Life and Ways of Life

    by John Lechte ...
    Why is it important to consider the human today? Exploring this question John Lechte takes inspiration from the interplay of two of Giorgio Agamben's concepts: 'ways of life' and 'bare life'.Stateless people, those who do not have a political community, such as asylum seekers and refugees, are no less human. However the European tradition, represented most clearly in Hannah Arendt's thinking of ... Read more

    $38.89 USD

  • Textual Layering

    Contact, Historicity, Critique

    by Apostolos Lampropoulos, Frances Restuccia, John Lechte, Judith Wambacq, Michael Beehler, Brendan Moran, Adnan Mahmutovic, Marios Constantinou0, Gertrude Postl1, S. K. Keltner2, Kalliopi Nikolopoulou3, Elena Tzelepis4, William Watkin5, Tina Chanter6 ...
    Series series TEXTURES: Philosophy / Literature / Culture
    Textual Layering: Contact, Historicity, Critique sets out to rethink our relation to textual tradition against the background of several contemporary developments, including the emergence of digital culture, the increasing spectacularization of psychic as well as social life, the renegotiation of historical thinking, and the precarious position of the theoretical humanities within academia. To ... Read more

    $121.49 USD

  • Genealogy and Ontology of the Western Image and its Digital Future

    by John Lechte ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies
    With the emerging dominance of digital technology, the time is ripe to reconsider the nature of the image. Some say that there is no longer a phenomenal image, only disembodied information (0-1) waiting to be configured. For photography, this implies that a faith in the principle of an "evidential force" – of the impossibility of doubting that the subject was before the lens – is no longer ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Julia Kristeva (RLE Feminist Theory)

    by John Lechte ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Feminist Theory
    A leading literary critic and psychoanalyst, Julia Kristeva is one of the most significant French thinkers writing today. In this up-to-date survey of her work, John Lechte outlines fully and systematically her intellectual development. He traces it from her work on Bakhtin and the logic of poetic language in the 1960s, through her influential theories of the ‘symbolic’ and the ‘semiotic’ in the ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

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  • Kristeva and the Political

    by Cecilia Sjoholm ...
    Series series Thinking the Political
    Julia Kristeva is one of the most influential French thinkers of the twentieth century and is best known for her work in linguistics. Even though her work has been very influential, the political implications of her writings have so far been neglected. Kristeva and the Political is the first book to explore the relation of Kristeva's work to the political and casts new light on her work, ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Foucault

    Edited by Gary Gutting ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Philosophy
    For Michel Foucault, philosophy was a way of questioning the allegedly necessary truths that underpin the practices and institutions of modern society. He carried this out in a series of deeply original and strikingly controversial studies on the origins of modern medical and social scientific disciplines. These studies have raised fundamental questions about the nature of human knowledge and its ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Ricoeur and the Post-Structuralists

    Bourdieu, Derrida, Deleuze, Foucault, Castoriadis

    by Johann Michel ...
    Translated by Scott Davidson ...
    In this important and original book, Johann Michel paves the way for a greater understanding of Paul Ricoeur's philosophy by exploring it in relation to some major figures of contemporary French thought—Bourdieu, Derrida, Deleuze, Foucault and Castoriadis.Although the fertile dialogue between Ricoeur and various structuralist thinkers is well documented, his position in relation to the post ... Read more

    $42.09 USD

  • Ethics, Politics, and Difference in Julia Kristeva's Writing

    Edited by Kelly Oliver ...
    A valuable intervention in Kristevan scholarship and a significant and exciting contribution in its own right to post-structuralist discussions of ethical and political agency and practice. Contributors: Judith Butler, Tina Chanter, Marilyn Edelstein, Jean Graybeal, Suzanne Guerlac, Alice Jardine, Lisa Lowe, Noelle McAfee, Norma Claire Moruzzi, Kelly Oliver, Tilottma Rajan, Jacqueline Rose, ... Read more

    $57.99 USD