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  • On Jean-Luc Nancy

    The Sense of Philosophy

    Edited by Darren Sheppard, Simon Sparks, Colin Thomas ...
    Series series Warwick Studies in European Philosophy
    This is the first book to consider the increasing importance of Jean-Luc Nancy's work, which has influenced key thinkers such as Jacques Derrida. All his major works have been translated into English, yet until now little has been made available on his place in contemporary philosophy. By showing how he situates his work in a contemporary context - the collapse of communism, the Gulf War, and the ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • Portrait

    by Jean-Luc Nancy ...
    Translated by Sarah Clift, Simon Sparks ...
    Series series Lit Z
    This book examines the practice of portraits as a way in to grasping the paradoxes of subjectivity. To Nancy, the portrait is suspended between likeness and strangeness, identity and distance, representation and presentation, exactitude and forcefulness. It can identify an individual, but it can also express the dynamics by means of which its subject advances and withdraws.The book consists of two ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • Retreating the Political

    by Phillippe Lacoue-Labarthe, Jean-Luc Nancy ...
    Translated by Simon Sparks ...
    Series series Warwick Studies in European Philosophy
    This collection of essays presents, for the first time in English, some of the key essays on the political by Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe and Jean-Luc Nancy. Including several unpublished essays, Retreating the Political offers some highly original perspectives on the relationship between philosophy and the political.Through contemporary readings of the political in Freud, Heidegger and Marx, the ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Proust as Philosopher

    The Art of Metaphor

    by Miguel de Beistegui ...
    Translated by Dorothée Bonnigal-Katz, Simon Sparks ...
    Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time has long fascinated philosophers for its complex accounts of time, personal identity and narrative, amongst many other themes. Proust as Philosopher: The Art of Metaphor is the first book to try and connect Proust’s implicit ontology of experience with the question of style, and of metaphor in particular.Miguel de Beistegui begins with an observation: ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Philosophy and Tragedy

    Edited by Simon Sparks, Miguel de Beistegui ...
    Series series Warwick Studies in European Philosophy
    From Plato's Republic and Aristotle's Poetics to Nietzsche's The Birth of Tragedy, the theme of tragedy has been subject to radically conflicting philosophical interpretations. Despite being at the heart of philosophical debate from Ancient Greece to the Nineteenth Century, however, tragedy has yet to receive proper treatment as a philosophical tradition in its own right.Philosophy and Tragedy is ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • The SAGE Handbook of Punishment and Society

    Edited by Jonathan Simon, Richard Sparks ...
    The project of interpreting contemporary forms of punishment means exploring the social, political, economic, and historical conditions in the society in which those forms arise. The SAGE Handbook of Punishment and Society draws together this disparate and expansive field of punishment and society into one compelling new volume.Headed by two of the leading scholars in the field, Jonathan Simon and ... Read more

    $118.79 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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  • 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

  • Derrida's Legacies

    Literature and Philosophy

    Edited by Simon Glendinning, Robert Eaglestone ...
    This volume brings together some of the most well-known and highly respected commentators on the work of Jacques Derrida from Britain and America in a series of essays written to commemorate the life and come to terms with the death of one of the most important intellectual presences of our time.Derrida’s thought reached into nearly every corner of contemporary intellectual culture and the ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Derrida & Education

    Edited by Denise Egéa-Kuehne, Gert J.J. Biesta ...
    Series series Routledge International Studies in the Philosophy of Education
    Bringing together the work of international experts in the field, and two interviews with Derrida himself, this book provides a key to the reflections that Derrida's work has prompted on all aspects of educational studies. The contributors address fundamental educational issues from a Derridian perspective to demonstrate the relevance of his work in contemporary, multicultural societies. ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Althusser and His Contemporaries

    Philosophy's Perpetual War

    by Warren Montag ...
    Series series Post-Contemporary Interventions
    Althusser and His Contemporaries alters and expands understanding of Louis Althusser and French philosophy of the 1960s and 1970s. Thousands of pages of previously unpublished work from different periods of Althusser's career have been made available in French since his death in 1990. Based on meticulous study of the philosopher's posthumous publications, as well as his unpublished manuscripts, ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • French Hegel

    From Surrealism to Postmodernism

    by Bruce Baugh ...
    This highly original history of ideas considers the impact of Hegel on French philosophy from the 1920s to the present. As Baugh's lucid narrative makes clear, Hegel's influence on French philosophy has been profound, and can be traced through all the major intellectual movements and thinkers in France throughout the 20th Century from Jean Wahl, Sartre, and Bataille to Foucault, Deleuze, and ... Read more

    $63.99 USD