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  • Health, Disease, and Illness

    Concepts in Medicine

    by Arthur L. Caplan, Galen, Maimonodes, Roy Porter, G.S. Rousseau, Samuel A. Cartwright, Georges Canguilhem0, Thomas S. Szaz1, George L. Engel2, Robert A. Aronowitz3, Christopher Boorse4, K. Danner Clouser5, Charles M. Culver6, Bernard Gert7, Roberto Mordacci8, Andrew Sobel9, R.E. Kendell0, Winston Chiong1, Alice Domurat Dreger2, Peter Conrad3, Norma C. Ware4, John T. E. Richardson5, Frances B. McCrea6, Martha Holstein7, Sander Gilman8, George C. Williams9, David Magnus0, Eric T. Juengst1, Peter J. Whitehouse2, Maxwell J. Mehlman3, Thomas H. Murray4, Paul R. Wolpe5 ...
    In the 1850s, "Drapetomania" was the medical term for a disease found among black slaves in the United States. The main symptom was a strange desire to run away from their masters. In earlier centuries gout was understood as a metabolic disease of the affluent, so much so that it became a badge of uppercrust honor—and a medical excuse to avoid hard work. Today, is there such a thing as mental ... Read more

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  • Respect and Power

    The Foundations of Critical Ethics and Politics

    by Roberto Mordacci ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
    This book presents a historically informed, theoretically systematic, and critically articulated theory of respect that challenges many of the presuppositions of the current debate in ethics and politics. It develops a theory of respect as the rule of power relations, which draws connections between Kant’s critical philosophy and Critical Theory.The concept of respect is the foundation of ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Critique and Utopia: From Kant to the Frankfurt School

    by Roberto Mordacci ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book envisions a more practical effectiveness of critical theory thru consideration of concrete alternatives that allow for the capability of a gradually transformed and redeemed reality. Mordacci combines critique with utopia, and inspires new visions in political thought aimed at dismantling structures of domination and constructing a more emancipated version of social life. This text ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

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    Edited by Paul Wake, Simon Malpas ...
    Series series Routledge Companions
    Now in a fully updated second edition The Routledge Companion to Critical and Cultural Theory is an indispensible guide for anyone approaching the field for the first time. Exploring ideas from a diverse range of disciplines through a series of 11 critical essays and a dictionary of key names and terms, this book examines some of the most complex and fundamental theories in modern scholarship ... Read more

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  • The Literary Theory Handbook

    by Gregory Castle ...
    Series series Wiley Blackwell Literature Handbooks
    The Literary Theory Handbook introduces students to the history and scope of literary theory, showing them how to perform literary analysis, and providing a greater understanding of the historical contexts for different theories.A new edition of this highly successful text, which includes updated and refined chapters, and new sections on contemporary theoriesFar reaching in its inclusion of a ... Read more

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  • Ethical Dimensions of Marxist Thought

    by Cornel West ...
    Esteemed American philosopher, Cornel West tackles the ethics of the Marxism agendaIn this fresh, original analysis of Marxist thought, Cornel West makes a significant contribution to today's debates about the relevance of Marxism by putting the issue of ethics squarely on the Marxist agenda. West, professor of religion and director of the Afro-American studies program at Princeton University, ... Read more

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  • Mapping Ideology

    by Nicholas Abercrombie, Theodor Adorno, Louis Althusser, Michèle Barrett ...
    For a long time, the term “ideology” was in disrepute, having become associated with such unfashionable notions as fundamental truth and the eternal verities. The tide has turned, and recent years have seen a revival of interest in the questions that ideology poses to social and cultural theory and to political practice.Including Slavoj iek’s study of the development of the concept from Marx to ... Read more

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  • 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

  • A Deep Plough:Unscrambling Major Post-Marxist Texts. From Adorno to Zizek

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    A Deep Plough:Unscrambling Major Post-Marxist Texts. From Adorno to Zizek ... Read more

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  • Marx and Foucault

    Essays, Volume 1

    by Antonio Negri ...
    Translated by Ed Emery ...
    This the first of a new three-part series in which Antonio Negri, a leading political thinker of our time, explores key ideas that have animated radical thought and examines some of the social and economic forces that are shaping our world today.In this first volume Negri shows how the thinking of Marx and Foucault were brought together to create an original theoretical synthesis - particularly in ... Read more

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  • Theory After 'Theory'

    Edited by Jane Elliott, Derek Attridge ...
    This volume argues that theory, far from being dead, has undergone major shifts in order to come to terms with the most urgent cultural and political questions of today. Offering an overview of theory’s new directions, this groundbreaking collection includes essays on affect, biopolitics, biophilosophy, the aesthetic, and neoliberalism, as well as examinations of established areas such as ... Read more

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  • Reading Marx

    by Frank Ruda, Agon Hamza, Slavoj Zizek ...
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