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  • The Birth of Territory

    by Stuart Elden ...
    Political theory professor Stuart Elden explores the history of land ownership and control from the ancient to the modern world in The Birth of Territory.Territory is one of the central political concepts of the modern world and, indeed, functions as the primary way the world is divided and controlled politically. Yet territory has not received the critical attention afforded to other crucial ... Read more

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  • Shakespearean Territories

    by Stuart Elden ...
    Shakespeare was an astute observer of contemporary life, culture, and politics. The emerging practice of territory as a political concept and technology did not elude his attention. In Shakespearean Territories, Stuart Elden reveals just how much Shakespeare's unique historical position and political understanding can teach us about territory. Shakespeare dramatized a world of technological ... Read more

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  • Mitra-Varuna

    An Essay on Two Indo-European Representations of Sovereignty

    by Georges Dumézil, Veena Das ...
    Translated by Derek Coltman ...
    A classic text that develops one prong of Dumézil’s tripartite hypothesis of Indo-European tribes: the sacred sovereign.Georges Dumézil’s fascination with the myths and histories of India, Rome, Scandinavia, and the Celts yielded an idea that became his most influential scholarly legacy: the tripartite hypothesis, which divides Indo-European societal functions into three classes: the sacred ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • The Archaeology of Foucault

    by Stuart Elden ...
    On 20 May 1961 Foucault defended his two doctoral theses; on 2 December 1970 he gave his inaugural lecture at the Collège de France. Between these dates, he published four books, travelled widely, and wrote extensively on literature, the visual arts, linguistics, and philosophy. He taught both psychology and philosophy, beginning his explorations of the question of sexuality.Weaving together ... Read more

    $22.00 USD

  • Rhythmanalysis

    Space, Time and Everyday Life

    by Henri Lefebvre ...
    Translated by Gerald Moore, Stuart Elden ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Revelations
    Rhythmanalysis displays all the characteristics which made Lefebvre one of the most important Marxist thinkers of the twentieth century. In the analysis of rhythms -- both biological and social -- Lefebvre shows the interrelation of space and time in the understanding of everyday life.With dazzling skills, Lefebvre moves between discussions of music, the commodity, measurement, the media and the ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Mapping the Present

    Heidegger, Foucault and the Project of a Spatial History

    by Stuart Elden ...
    In a late interview, Foucault, suggested that Heidegger was for him the "essential philosopher." Taking this claim seriously, Mapping the Present assesses the relationship between these two thinkers, particularly on the issue of space and history. It suggests that space and history need to be rethought, and combined as a spatial history, rather than as a history of space. In other words, space ... Read more

    $121.49 USD

  • Canguilhem

    by Stuart Elden ...
    Series series Key Contemporary Thinkers
    Georges Canguilhem (1904–95) was an influential historian and philosopher of science, as renowned for his teaching as for his writings. He is best known for his book The Normal and the Pathological, originally his doctoral thesis in medicine, but he also wrote a thesis in philosophy on the concept of the reflex, supervised by Gaston Bachelard. He was the sponsor of Michel Foucault’s doctoral ... Read more

    $22.00 USD

  • Foucault

    The Birth of Power

    by Stuart Elden ...
    Michel Foucault's The Archaeology of Knowledge was published in March 1969; Discipline and Punish in February 1975. Although only six years apart, the difference in tone is stark: the former is a methodological treatise, the latter a call to arms. What accounts for the radical shift in Foucault's approach?Foucault's time in Tunisia had been a political awakening for him, and he returned to a ... Read more

    $22.00 USD

  • The Early Foucault

    by Stuart Elden ...
    It was not until 1961 that Foucault published his first major book, History of Madness. He had already been working as an academic for a decade, teaching in Lille and Paris, writing, organizing cultural programmes and lecturing in Uppsala, Warsaw and Hamburg. Although he published little in this period, Foucault wrote much more, some of which has been preserved and only recently become available ... Read more

    $22.00 USD

  • On the Rural

    Economy, Sociology, Geography

    by Henri Lefebvre ...
    Translated by Robert Bononno ...
    A collection of previously untranslated writings by Henri Lefebvre on rural sociology, situating his research in relation to wider Marxist workOn the Rural is the first English collection to translate Lefebvre’s crucial but lesser-known writings on rural sociology and political economy, presenting a wide-ranging approach to understanding the historical and rural sociology of precapitalist social ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • State, Space, World

    Selected Essays

    by Henri Lefebvre ...
    Translated by Neil Brenner, Gerald Moore ...
    One of the most influential Marxist theorists of the twentieth century, Henri Lefebvre pioneered the study of the modern state in an age of accelerating global economic integration and fragmentation. Shortly after the 1974 publication of his landmark book The Production of Space, Henri Lefebvre embarked on one of the most ambitious projects of his career: a consideration of the history and ... Read more

    $20.59 USD

  • Terror and Territory

    The Spatial Extent of Sovereignty

    by Stuart Elden ...
    Today's global politics demands a new look at the concept of territory. From so-called deterritorialized terrorist organizations such as al-Qaeda to U.S.-led overthrows of existing regimes in the Middle East, the relationship between territory and sovereignty is under siege. Unfolding an updated understanding of the concept of territory, Stuart Elden shows how the contemporary "war on terror" is ... Read more

    $17.99 USD