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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “alberto moreiras”
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  • Uncanny Rest

    For Antiphilosophy

    by Alberto Moreiras ...
    In Uncanny Rest Alberto Moreiras offers a meditation on intellectual life under the suspension of time and conditions of isolation. Focusing on his personal day-to-day experiences of the “shelter-in-place” period during the first months of the coronavirus pandemic, Moreiras engages with the limits and possibilities of critical thought in the realm of the infrapolitical—the conditions of existence ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Infrapolitics

    A Handbook

    by Alberto Moreiras ...
    The personal is not political, even if politics marks it and, in many cases, determines it. Infrapolitics seeks to understand conditions of existence that are not reducible to political life and that exceed any definition of world bound to political determinations. It seeks to mobilize an exteriority without which politics could only be business or administration, that is, oppression. It demands a ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Against Abstraction

    Notes from an Ex-Latin Americanist

    by Alberto Moreiras ...
    Series series Border Hispanisms
    In 2015, members of the philosophy department at the University of Madrid conducted an interview with Alberto Moreiras for the university’s digital archive. The resulting dialogues and the Spanish edition of this work, Marranismo e inscripción, o el abandono de la conciencia desdichada, are the basis for Against Abstraction, supplemented with an interview conducted for the Chilean journal Papel ... Read more

    $54.99 CAD

  • The Exhaustion of Difference

    The Politics of Latin American Cultural Studies

    by Alberto Moreiras, Stanley Fish, Fredric Jameson ...
    Series series Post-Contemporary Interventions
    The conditions for thinking about Latin America as a regional unit in transnational academic discourse have shifted over the past decades. In The Exhaustion of Difference Alberto Moreiras ponders the ramifications of this shift and draws on deconstruction, Marxian theory, philosophy, political economy, subaltern studies, literary criticism, and postcolonial studies to interrogate the minimal ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • The Marrano Specter

    Derrida and Hispanism

    by Jacques Lezra, Erin Graff Zivin, Alberto Moreiras, Gareth Williams, Brett Levinson, David Kelman, Geoffrey Bennington, Patrick Dove, Jaime Hanneken ...
    The Marrano Specter pursues the reciprocal influence between Jacques Derrida and Hispanism. On the one hand, Derrida’s work has engendered a robust conversation among philosophers and critics in Spain and Latin America, where his work circulates in excellent translation, and where many of the terms and problems he addresses take on a distinctive meaning: nationalism and cosmopolitanism; ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • O Ditador e a Afrontosa Ditadura

    by Joaquim Pereira Pimenta de Castro, Fernando Alberto Torres Moreira, José Barbosa Machado ...
    O livro "O Ditador e a Afrontosa Ditadura", de Joaquim Pereira Pimenta de Castro, é um libelo de defesa do autor que, ao longo das cerca de 90 páginas da edição original, tece todo um argumentário justificativo da ação do governo a que presidiu entre 24 de janeiro e 14 de maio de 1915, um executivo que ficou conhecido nos meios políticos e jornalísticos como a “afrontosa ditadura”.Pimenta de ... Read more

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