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  • Churchfails

    100 Blunders in Church History (& What We Can Learn from Them)

    by Dr. Ken Cleaver, Dr. Rodrick K. Durst, Dr. Lloyd A. Harsch, James Lutzweiler, Dr. Stephen Presley, Rex D. Butler ...
    churchfails is a collection of 100 articles describing people who claim to be Christians doing foolish things. Each article will include a picture of the subject.From the Introduction: "Groucho Marx once said, “I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member.” If Christianity is a club, it has featured innumerable inglorious members. As abashed affiliates of said club, what can we do? We ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Victory over Death

    The Art of Colin McCahon

    by Rex Butler, Laurence Simmons ...
    Series series Art History
    A profound exploration of Colin McCahon's art and its enduring legacy.Victory over Death: The Art of Colin McCahon delves into the work of New Zealand painter Colin McCahon, examining his quest for artistic immortality in a culturally isolated landscape. This book explores how McCahon, like Jesus, sought to transcend death through his art, making his work a form of religious transmission. Through ... Read more

    $39.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Stanley Cavell and the Arts

    Philosophy and Popular Culture

    by Dr Rex Butler ...
    In the late 1990s, Rosalind Krauss, one of the principal theorists of post-modernism in the arts, began using the term “post-medium” in her work. It was a nod to the American “ordinary language” philosopher Stanley Cavell, who had been thinking through a concept of medium in art for 30 years.Today with the decline of post-modernism, Stanley Cavell has emerged as one of the most important figures ... Read more

    $28.39 USD

  • Deleuze and Guattari's 'What is Philosophy?'

    A Reader's Guide

    by Dr Rex Butler ...
    Series series Reader's Guides
    What is Philosophy? is the last instalment of a remarkable twenty-year collaboration between the philosopher Gilles Deleuze and the psychoanalyst Félix Guattari. This hugely important text attempts to explain the terms of their collaboration and to define the activity of philosophy in which they have been engaged. A major contribution to contemporary Continental philosophy, it nevertheless remains ... Read more

    $28.39 USD

  • Borges' Short Stories

    A Reader's Guide

    by Dr Rex Butler ...
    Series series Reader's Guides
    The Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges is undoubtedly one of the defining voices of our age. Since the Second World War, his work has had an enormous impact on generations of writers, philosophers, and literary theorists. This guide offers a close reading of ten of Borges' greatest short stories, seeking to bring out the logic that has made his work so influential. The main section of the guide ... Read more

    $121.49 USD

  • The Žižek Dictionary

    Edited by Rex Butler ...
    Slavoj Žižek is the most popular and discussed philosopher in the world today. His prolific writings – across philosophy, psychoanalysis, political and social theory, film, music and religion – always engage and provoke. The power of his ideas, the breadth of his references, his capacity for playfulness and confrontation, his willingness to change his mind and his refusal fundamentally to alter ... Read more

    Was $60.99 USD Now $53.99 USD

  • Rei Kawakubo

    For and Against Fashion

    Edited by Dr Rex Butler ...
    The Japanese fashion designer Rei Kawakubo of Comme des Garçons is undoubtedly one of the world's major fashion designers. In 2017 she was the second living designer to ever be given a retrospective at the renowned Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Her work exerts an extraordinary influence over succeeding generations of designers and is a major point of reference ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Lars von Trier's Women

    Edited by Dr Rex Butler, David Denny ...
    The Danish director Lars von Trier is undoubtedly one of the world's most important and controversial filmmakers, and arguably so because of the depiction of women in his films. He has been criticized for subjecting his female characters to unacceptable levels of violence or reducing them to masochistic self-abnegation, as with Bess in Breaking the Waves, 'She' in Antichrist and Joe in ... Read more

    $39.69 USD

  • On the Act of Looking

    Reading Joshua Oppenheimer’s Diptych: The Act of Killing and The Look of Silence

    Edited by Dr Rex Butler, David Denny ...
    This collection analyzes Joshua Oppenheimer's diptych The Act of Killing and The Look of Silenceas a cinematic event that invites interrelated questions on historical memory, truth and reconciliation, and the limits of documentary filmmaking.On the Act of Looking affirms Oppenheimer's use of fiction and manipulation as a technique to expose, contrary to t... ... Read more

    $97.19 USD

  • Interrogating the Real

    by Slavoj Zizek ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Revelations
    Slavoj iek is one of the worlds foremost cultural commentators: a prolific writer and thinker, whose vividly adventurous, unorthodox and wide-ranging writings have won him a unique place as one of the most high profile thinkers of our time. Covering psychoanalysis, philosophy and popular culture and drawing on a heady mix of Marxist politics, Hegelian dialectics and Lacanian psychoanalysis, the ... Read more

    $23.89 USD

  • The Universal Exception

    by Slavoj Žižek ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Revelations
    Slavoj Žižek is one of the world's foremost cultural commentators: a prolific writer and thinker, whose adventurous, unorthodox and wide-ranging writings have won him a unique place as one of the most high profile thinkers of our time. The Universal Exception brings together some of Žižek's most vivid writings on politics. Bringing together high theory, popular culture and passionate engagement ... Read more

    $28.19 USD

  • Interrogating the Real

    by Slavoj Žižek ...
    Interrogating the Real is the first volume of the collected writings of Slavoj Žižek - undoubtedly one of the world's leading contemporary cultural commentators, and one of the most inspiring, provocative and entertaining cultural critics at work today. Drawing upon the full range of his prolific output, the articles here cover psychoanalysis, philosophy and popular culture, reflecting the ... Read more

    $34.79 USD