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  • Edward Said and the Work of the Critic

    Speaking Truth to Power

    by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Jonathan Arac, Terry Cochran, W. J. T. Mitchell ...
    Series series a boundary 2 book
    For at least two decades the career of Edward Said has defined what it means to be a public intellectual today. Although attacked as a terrorist and derided as a fraud for his work on behalf of his fellow Palestinians, Said’s importance extends far beyond his political activism. In this volume a distinguished group of scholars assesses nearly every aspect of Said’s work—his contributions to ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Twilight of the Literary

    Figures of Thought in the Age of Print

    by Terry Cochran ...
    In Western thought, the modern period signals a break with stagnant social formations, the advent of a new rationalism, and the emergence of a truly secular order, all in the context of an overarching globalization. In The Twilight of the Literary, Terry Cochran links these developments with the rise of the book as the dominant medium for recording, preserving, and disseminating thought. ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

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  • Violence

    by Slavoj Zizek ...
    Series series BIG IDEAS//small books
    Philosopher, cultural critic, and agent provocateur Slavoj Žižek constructs a fascinating new framework to look at the forces of violence in our world.Using history, philosophy, books, movies, Lacanian psychiatry, and jokes, Slavoj Žižek examines the ways we perceive and misperceive violence. Drawing from his unique cultural vision, Žižek brings new light to the Paris riots of 2005; he questions ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Time and Narrative: Volume 1

    by Paul Ricoeur ...
    Translated by Kathleen McLaughlin, David Pellauer ...
    Series series Time and Narrative
    The first volume in the eminent philosopher's three-part examination of time and narrative, exploring their relationship in the context of historical writing.Time and Narrative builds on Paul Ricoeur's earlier analysis, in The Rule of Metaphor, of semantic innovation at the level of the sentence. Ricoeur here examines the creation of meaning at the textual level, with narrative rather than ... Read more

    $17.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Selected Works of Edward W. Said, 1966 - 2006

    by Edward W. Said ...
    **The renowned literary and cultural critic Edward Said was one of our era’s most provocative and important thinkers. This comprehensive collection of his work draws from across his entire four-decade career, including his posthumously published books, making it a definitive one-volume source."Said is a brilliant and unique amalgam of scholar, aesthete, and political activist...[He] challenges and ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Hegel and the Infinite

    Religion, Politics, and Dialectic

    Edited by Slavoj Žižek, Clayton Crockett, Creston Davis ...
    Series series Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture
    Catherine Malabou, Antonio Negri, John D. Caputo, Bruno Bosteels, Mark C. Taylor, and Slavoj Zizek join seven others—including William Desmond, Katrin Pahl, Adrian Johnston, Edith Wyschogrod, and Thomas A. Lewis—to apply Hegel's thought to twenty-first-century philosophy, politics, and religion. Doing away with claims that the evolution of thought and history is at an end, these thinkers safeguard ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Living in the End Times

    by Slavoj Zizek ...
    The celebrated philosopher explores the end of global capitalism at the hands of its key drivers—the ‘4 riders of the apocalypse’—in this analysis “of fierce brilliance” (Guardian).There should no longer be any doubt: global capitalism is fast approaching its terminal crisis. Slavoj Žižek has identified the 4 horsemen of this coming apocalypse: the worldwide ecological crisis; imbalances within ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Spinoza for Our Time

    Politics and Postmodernity

    by Antonio Negri ...
    Translated by William McCuaig ...
    Series series Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture
    Antonio Negri, one of the world's leading scholars on Baruch Spinoza (1632–1677) and his contemporary legacy, offers a straightforward explanation of the philosopher's elaborate arguments and a persuasive case for his ongoing relevance. Responding to a resurgent interest in Spinoza's thought and its potential application to contemporary global issues, Negri demonstrates the thinker's special value ... Read more

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  • Translation Changes Everything

    Theory and Practice

    by Lawrence Venuti ...
    In Translation Changes Everything leading theorist Lawrence Venuti gathers fourteen of his incisive essays since 2000.The selection sketches the trajectory of his thinking about translation while engaging with the main trends in research and commentary. The issues covered include basic concepts like equivalence, retranslation, and reader reception; sociological topics like the impact of ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • The Most Sublime Hysteric

    Hegel with Lacan

    by Slavoj Zizek ...
    What do we know about Hegel? What do we know about Marx? What do we know about democracy and totalitarianism? Communism and psychoanalysis? What do we know that isn't a platitude that we've heard a thousand times - or a self-satisfied certainty? Through his brilliant reading of Hegel, Slavoj Zizek - one of the most provocative and widely-read thinkers of our time - upends our traditional ... Read more

    $22.00 USD

  • Power, Politics, and Culture

    Interviews with Edward W. Said

    by Edward W. Said ...
    **Edward Said has long been considered one of the world’s most compelling public intellectuals, taking on a remarkable array of topics with his many publications. But no single book has encompassed the vast scope of his stimulating erudition quite like Power, Politics, and Culture.“A fascinating, oblique entry into the mind of one whose own writings . . . are a brilliant questioning chronicle of ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • A Farewell to Truth

    by Gianni Vattimo ...
    Translated by William McCuaig ...
    With Western cultures becoming more pluralistic, the question of "truth" in politics has become a game of interpretations. Today, we face the demise of the very idea of truth as an objective description of facts, though many have yet to acknowledge that this is changing.Gianni Vattimo explicitly engages with the important consequences for democracy of our changing conception of politics and truth, ... Read more

    $22.79 USD