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  • Finance Fictions

    Realism and Psychosis in a Time of Economic Crisis

    by Arne De Boever ...
    Finance Fictions takes the measure of what it means to live in a world ruled by high finance by examining the tension between psychosis and realism that plays out in the contemporary finance novel. When the things traded at the center of the economy cease to be things at all, but highly abstracted speculations, how do we come to see the real? What sorts of narrative can accurately approach the ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Being Vulnerable

    Contemporary Political Thought

    by Arne De Boever ...
    Series series Outspoken
    We are living in a time of acute vulnerability. From climate change to drone warfare, terrorist attacks to mass shootings, safe spaces to trigger warnings, not to mention the COVID-19 pandemic, homo vulnerabilis is once again coming to terms with the fact that it can be wounded, or even killed.Against such finitude, sovereignty is now reasserting itself as a political power that might save us from ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • François Jullien's Unexceptional Thought

    A Critical Introduction

    by Arne De Boever ...
    Series series Global Aesthetic Research
    Although the French Hellenist and sinologist François Jullien has published more than thirty books, half of which have been translated into English, he remains much less known in the English-language world than many of his fellow “French philosophers”. This may be due to his work being perceived as within the limits of sinology. This book attempts to rectify this, highlighting Jullien’s work at ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • Against Aesthetic Exceptionalism

    by Arne De Boever ...
    Series series Forerunners: Ideas First
    Reconsiders exceptionalism between aesthetics and politicsHere, Arne De Boever proposes the notion of aesthetic exceptionalism to describe the widespread belief that art and artists are exceptional. Against Aesthetic Exceptionalism challenges that belief by focusing on the sovereign artist as genius, as well as the original artwork as the foundation of the art market. Engaging with sculpture, ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Plastic Sovereignties

    Agamben and the Politics of Aesthetics

    by Arne De Boever ...
    Series series Incitements

    $31.99 CAD

  • Gilbert Simondon

    Being and Technology

    Edited by Arne De Boever ...

    $31.99 CAD

  • Narrative Care: Biopolitics and the Novel

    by Dr. Arne De Boever ...
    If the September 11 terror attacks opened up an era of crises and exceptions of which we are yet to see the end, it is perhaps not surprising that care has emerged in the early twenty-first century as a key political issue. This book approaches contemporary narratives of care through the lens of a growing body of theoretical writings on biopolitics. Through close-readings of J.M. Coetzee's Slow ... Read more

    $55.99 CAD

  • States of Exception in the Contemporary Novel

    Martel, Eugenides, Coetzee, Sebald

    by Dr. Arne De Boever ...
    In the aftermath of the September 11 terror attacks, the political situation in both the United States and abroad has often been described as a "state of exception": an emergency situation in which the normal rule of law is suspended. In such a situation, the need for good decisions is felt ever more strongly. This book investigates the aesthetics, ethics, and politics of various decisions ... Read more

    $55.99 CAD

  • New Materialist Literary Theory

    Critical Conceptions of Literature for the Anthropocene

    by Philipp Erchinger, Grant Hamilton, Birgit Mara Kaiser, Annina Klappert, Evan Gottlieb, Ann-Katrin Preis, Cord-Christian Casper, Kerstin Howaldt, Arne De Boever, Marco Caracciolo0, Daniela Keller1 ...
    Series series New Critical Humanities
    This edited collection builds on recent strands in philosophy that promote a critical conceptual return to the material world outside human culture. Through the lens of literary analysis and theory, it conceptualizes the potential of New Materialism as a timely mode of critique toward the current human condition and its effect on literature and the present. Organized around the key New Materialist ... Read more

    $120.99 CAD

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  • Postmodernism

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Christopher Butler ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Postmodernism has been a buzzword in contemporary society for the last decade. But how can it be defined? In this Very Short Introduction Christopher Butler challenges and explores the key ideas of postmodernists, and their engagement with theory, literature, the visual arts, film, architecture, and music. He treats artists, intellectuals, critics, and social scientists 'as if they were all ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

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  • Mind and Cosmos:Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False

    Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False

    by Thomas Nagel ...
    The modern materialist approach to life has conspicuously failed to explain such central mind-related features of our world as consciousness, intentionality, meaning, and value. This failure to account for something so integral to nature as mind, argues philosopher Thomas Nagel, is a major problem, threatening to unravel the entire naturalistic world picture, extending to biology, evolutionary ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • 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

    $17.99 CAD