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Metamodernism The Future of Theory
ISBN: PB: 9780226786650, ISBN: HB: 9780226602295, University of Chicago Press, July 2021
328 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
For decades, scholars have been calling into question the universality of disciplinary objects and categories. The coherence of defined autonomous categories – such as religion, science, and art – has collapsed under the weight of postmodern critique...
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£24,00
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Aristotle's "Art of Rhetoric"
ISBN: PB: 9780226789903, ISBN: HB: 9780226591629, University of Chicago Press, January 2021
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
For more than two thousand years. Aristotle's "Art of Rhetoric" has shaped thought on the theory and practice of rhetoric, the art of persuasive speech. In three sections, Aristotle discusses what rhetoric is, as well as the three kinds of rhetoric (...
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£14,00
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Kingdom and the Garden
ISBN: HB: 9780857427861, Seagull Books, August 2020
164 pp., 19.7x13.9 cm
What happened to paradise after Adam and Eve were expelled? The question may sound like a theological quibble, or even a joke, but in "The Kingdom and the Garden", Giorgio Agamben uses it as a starting point for an investigation of human nature and t...
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Against Fairness
ISBN: PB: 9780226702124, ISBN: HB: 9780226029863, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
224 pp., 21.5x14 cm, 23 line illus.
From the school yard to the workplace, there's no charge more damning than "You're being unfair!" Born out of democracy and raised in open markets, fairness has become our de facto modern creed. The very symbol of American ethics – Lady Justice – wea...
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£15,00
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Karl Marx Philosophy and Revolution
ISBN: HB: 9780300211702, Yale University Press, September 2019
240 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 1 black&white illus.
Karl Marx (1818-1883) – philosopher, historian, sociologist, economist, current affairs journalist, and editor – was one of the most influential and revolutionary thinkers of modern history, but he is rarely thought of as a Jewish thinker, and his Je...
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£16,99
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Night Music Essays on Music 1928-1962
ISBN: PB: 9780857427090, Seagull Books, September 2019
328 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
Although Theodor W. Adorno is best known for his association with the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory, he began his career as a composer and successful music critic. "Night Music" presents the first complete English translations of two collection...
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£12,99
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Trials of Spinoza
ISBN: PB: 9780857426376, Seagull Books, March 2019
61 pp., 20.8x14.6 cm
Baruch Spinoza (1632-1977) is considered one of the great rationalist thinkers of the seventeenth century. His magnum opus, "Ethics", in which he criticized the dualism of Descartes, solidified his reputation and greatly influenced the Enlightenment...
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£12,99
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Human Condition Second Edition
ISBN: PB: 9780226586601, University of Chicago Press, October 2018
380 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
The past year has seen a resurgence of interest in the political thinker Hannah Arendt, "the theorist of beginnings", whose work probes the logics underlying unexpected transformations – from totalitarianism to revolution. A work of striking origin...
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£17,00
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Pulcinella Or Entertainment for Children
ISBN: HB: 9780857425409, Seagull Books, October 2018
144 pp., 19x15.2 cm, 46 colour plates
The list of subjects that Giorgio Agamben has tackled in his career is dizzying – from the dangers of our current political moment to the traces of the distant past that inflect the culture around us today. With "Pulcinella", Agamben is back with yet...
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Church and the Kingdom
ISBN: PB: 9780857425874, ISBN: HB: 9780857420244, Seagull Books, September 2018
64 pp., 19.7x14 cm, 20 colour plates
Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben is the rare writer whose ideas and works have a broad appeal across many fields, and his devoted fans are not just philosophers, but readers of political and legal theory, sociology, and literary criticism as well....
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