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  • Cannibal Metaphysics

    by Eduardo Viveiros de Castro ...
    Series series Univocal
    The iconoclastic Brazilian anthropologist and theoretician Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, well known in his discipline for helping initiate its “ontological turn,” offers a vision of anthropology as “the practice of the permanent decolonization of thought.” After showing that Amazonian and other Amerindian groups inhabit a radically different conceptual universe than ours—in which nature and culture, ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

  • Rough Metaphysics

    The Speculative Thought and Mediumship of Jane Roberts

    by Peter Skafish ...
    A powerful case for why anthropology should study outsiders of thought and their speculative ideasWhat sort of thinking is needed to study anomalies in thought? In this trenchantly argued and beautifully written book, anthropologist Peter Skafish explores this provocative question by examining the writings of the medium and “rough metaphysician” Jane Roberts (1929–1984). Through a close ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Comparative Metaphysics

    Ontology After Anthropology

    Edited by Pierre Charbonnier, Gildas Salmon, Peter Skafish ...
    Series series Reinventing Critical Theory
    How does the ontological turn in anthropology redefine what modern, Western ontology is in practice, and offer the beginnings of a new ontological pluralism?On a planet that is increasingly becoming a single, metaphysically homogeneous world, anthropology remains one of the few disciplines that recognizes that being has been thought with very different concepts and can still be rendered in terms ... Read more

    $55.09 USD

  • From Montaigne to Montaigne

    by Claude Lévi-Strauss ...
    Translated by Robert Bononno ...
    Two previously unpublished lectures charting the renowned anthropologist’s intellectual engagement with the sixteenth-century French essayist Michel de MontaigneIn January 1937, between the two ethnographic trips he would describe in Tristes Tropiques, Claude Lévi-Strauss gave a talk to the Confédération générale du travail in Paris. Only recently discovered in the archives of the Bibliothèque ... Read more

    $12.29 USD

  • The Decision of Desire

    by Silvia Lippi ...
    Translated by Peter Skafish ...
    Series series Univocal
    A unique rereading of Lacan’s theory of desire and its link to masochism, joy, mysticism, death, and feminine jouissanceOf all of Lacan’s reconceptualizations of Freudian psychoanalytic discourse, the most misunderstood are those concerning human beings’ relation to the unconscious play of desire and the neurosis stemming from their attachment to the phallic function. An interpretive tour de force ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Heidegger Change

    On the Fantastic in Philosophy

    by Catherine Malabou ...
    Translated by Peter Skafish ...
    Series series SUNY series in Contemporary French Thought
    Elaborates the author's conception of plasticity by proposing a new way of thinking through Heidegger's writings on change.Behind Martin Heidegger's question of Being lies another one not yet sufficiently addressed in continental philosophy: change. Catherine Malabou, one of France's most inventive contemporary philosophers, explores this topic in the writings of Heidegger through the themes of ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

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  • Civilization and Its Discontents

    by Sigmund Freud ...
    Translated by David McLintock ...
    Series series Penguin Modern Classics
    In what remains one of his most seminal papers, Freud considers the incompatibility of civilisation and individual happiness, and the tensions between the claims of society and the individual. We all know that living in civilised groups means sacrificing a degree of personal interest, but couldn't you argue that it in fact creates the conditions for our happiness? Freud explores the arguments and ... Read more

    $10.79 USD

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  • The Experience of God

    Being, Consciousness, Bliss

    by David Bentley Hart ...
    Despite the recent ferocious public debate about belief, the concept most central to the discussion-God-frequently remains vaguely and obscurely described. Are those engaged in these arguments even talking about the same thing? In a wide-ranging response to this confusion, esteemed scholar David Bentley Hart pursues a clarification of how the word God” functions in the world’s great theistic ... Read more

    $17.99 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

  • The Sovereignty of Good

    by Iris Murdoch ...
    Series series Routledge Great Minds
    Iris Murdoch was one of the great philosophers and novelists of the twentieth century and The Sovereignty of Good is her most important and enduring philosophical work. She argues that philosophy has focused, mistakenly, on what it is right to do rather than good to be and that only by restoring the notion of ‘vision’ to moral thinking can this distortion be corrected. This brilliant work shows ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

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  • The Language Animal

    The Full Shape of the Human Linguistic Capacity

    by Charles Taylor ...
    “We have been given a powerful and often uplifting vision of what it is to be truly human.” —John Cottingham, The TabletIn seminal works ranging from Sources of the Self to A Secular Age, Charles Taylor has shown how we create possible ways of being, both as individuals and as a society. In his new book setting forth decades of thought, he demonstrates that language is at the center of this ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • Symbolic Exchange and Death

    by Jean Baudrillard ...
    Series series Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society
    Jean Baudrillard is one of the most celebrated and most controversial of contemporary social theorists. This major work occupies a central place in the rethinking of the humanities and social sciences around the idea of postmodernism.It leads the reader on an exhilarating tour encompassing the end of Marxism, the enchantment of fashion, symbolism about sex and the body, and the relations between ... Read more

    $98.99 USD