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  • Badiou and Communicable Worlds

    A Critical Introduction to Logics of Worlds

    by Dr William Watkin ...
    Logics of Worlds stands as one of the most important texts in contemporary thought. Conceived as the sequel to Alan Badiou's Being and Event, the book expands upon and elucidates the questions that were posed in the first book. As a complex theory of worlds, the text has, for the most part, been misunderstood, but in William Watkin's diligent and critical close reading of the book, he makes the ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Badiou and Indifferent Being

    A Critical Introduction to Being and Event

    by Dr William Watkin ...
    The first critical work to attempt the mammoth undertaking of reading Badiou's Being and Event as part of a sequence has often surprising, occasionally controversial results.Looking back on its publication Badiou declared: “I had inscribed my name in the history of philosophy”. Later he was brave enough to admit that this inscription needed correction. The central elements of Badiou's philosophy ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Covid, Biopolitics and the Suspension of the Nomos

    Herd Immunities

    by William Watkin ...
    Series series Nomos Studies in Law, Culture and Power
    This book considers how, during the unprecedented global lockdown due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the normal order of everyday life, of the rule of law, of power itself was interrupted, and hence the nomos of this earth was suspended.Employing the term ‘herd immunity’ from vaccination science and global lockdown policy as a guiding theme, the book considers two central aspects of the pandemic. These ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Bioviolence

    How the Powers That Be Make Us Do What They Want

    by William Watkin ...
    Aylan, Isis, Begum, Grenfell, Trump. Harambe, Guantanamo, Syria, Brexit, Johnson. COVID, migrants, trolling, George Floyd, Trump!Gazing over the fractured, contested territories of the current global situation, Watkin finds that all these diverse happenings have one element in common. They occur when biopolitical states, in trying to manage and protect the life rights of their citizens, habitually ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Agamben and Indifference

    A Critical Overview

    by William Watkin ...
    Since the publication of Homo Sacer Giorgio Agamben has become one of the world's most revered and controversial thinkers. His ideas on our current political situation have found many supporters as well as garnering strong criticism from some quarters. While his wider thoughts on topics such as language, potentiality, life, law, messianism, power, and aesthetics have had significant impact on such ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Textual Layering

    Contact, Historicity, Critique

    by Apostolos Lampropoulos, Frances Restuccia, John Lechte, Judith Wambacq, Michael Beehler, Brendan Moran, Adnan Mahmutovic, Marios Constantinou0, Gertrude Postl1, S. K. Keltner2, Kalliopi Nikolopoulou3, Elena Tzelepis4, William Watkin5, Tina Chanter6 ...
    Series series TEXTURES: Philosophy / Literature / Culture
    Textual Layering: Contact, Historicity, Critique sets out to rethink our relation to textual tradition against the background of several contemporary developments, including the emergence of digital culture, the increasing spectacularization of psychic as well as social life, the renegotiation of historical thinking, and the precarious position of the theoretical humanities within academia. To ... Read more

    $121.49 USD

  • The Assault on Public Education

    Confronting the Politics of Corporate School Reform.

    by William Watkins ...
    In this timely interdisciplinary volume, William Watkins has brought together leading scholars and activists to address some of the most urgent issues facing public education. What is underneath and behind the language of choice, efficiency, and improvement in current neoliberal discourse? How will urban and poor populations be affected? Will privatization lead to increased stratification in our ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • Aircraft Maintenance and Repair, Seventh Edition

    by Michael Kroes, William Watkins, Frank Delp, Ronald Sterkenburg ...
    GET UP-TO-DATE INFORMATION TO PERFORM RETURN-TO-SERVICE AIRCRAFT MAINTENANCE AND PASS YOUR FAA AIRCRAFT CERTIFICATION!Aircraft Maintenance & Repair, Seventh Edition, is a valuable resource for students of aviation technology that provides updated information needed to prepare for an FAA airframe technician certification — and can be used with classroom discussions and practical application in the ... Read more

    $64.79 USD

  • Canada and the States

    by Edward William Watkin ...
    The following pages have been written at the request of many old friends, some of them co-workers in the cause of permanent British rule over the larger part of the Great Northern Continent of America. ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

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  • The Last Word

    by Thomas Nagel ...
    If there is such a thing as reason, it has to be universal. Reason must reflect objective principles whose validity is independent of our point of view--principles that anyone with enough intelligence ought to be able to recognize as correct. But this generality of reason is what relativists and subjectivists deny in ever-increasing numbers. And such subjectivism is not just an inconsequential ... Read more

    $38.69 USD

  • Introducing Logic

    A Graphic Guide

    by Bill Mayblin, Dan Cryan, Sharron Shatil ...
    Series series Graphic Guides
    Logic is the backbone of Western civilization, holding together its systems of philosophy, science and law. Yet despite logic's widely acknowledged importance, it remains an unbroken seal for many, due to its heavy use of jargon and mathematical symbolism.This book follows the historical development of logic, explains the symbols and methods involved and explores the philosophical issues ... Read more

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  • More than Just Race

    Being Black and Poor in the Inner City

    by William Julius Wilson ...
    Series series Issues of Our Time
    A preeminent sociologist of race explains a groundbreaking new framework for understanding racial inequality, challenging both conservative and liberal dogma.In this timely and provocative contribution to the American discourse on race, William Julius Wilson applies an exciting new analytic framework to three politically fraught social problems: the persistence of the inner-city ghetto, the plight ... Read more

    $11.69 USD