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  • Bioaesthetics

    Making Sense of Life in Science and the Arts

    by Carsten Strathausen ...
    Series series Posthumanities
    In recent years, bioaesthetics has used the latest discoveries in evolutionary studies and neuroscience to provide new ways of looking at art and aesthetics. Carsten Strathausen’s remarkable exploration of this emerging field is the first comprehensive account of its ideas, as well as a timely critique of its limitations.Strathausen familiarizes readers with the basics of bioaesthetics, grounding ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Under Suspicion

    A Phenomenology of Media

    by Boris Groys ...
    Translated by Carsten Strathausen ...
    Series series Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts
    The public generally regards the media with suspicion and distrust. Therefore, the media's primary concern is to regain that trust through the production of sincerity. Advancing the field of media studies in a truly innovative way, Boris Groys focuses on the media's affect of sincerity and its manufacture of trust to appease skeptics.Groys identifies forms of media sincerity and its effect on ... Read more

    $78.99 CAD

  • Globalizing Critical Theory

    by James Bohman, Jacques Derrida, Nancy Fraser, Jürgen Habermas, Peter Uwe Hohendahl, Andreas Huyssen, María Pía Lara, Silvia L. López, F Scott Scribner, Clay Steinman, Carsten Strathausen, Thomas McCarthy, Eduardo Mendieta ...
    Series series New Critical Theory
    Across a spectrum of academic disciplines, the topic of globalization is at the forefront of contemporary efforts to understand a dynamically changing world society. How might critical social theory respond creatively to the challenge of thinking and theorizing globalization in its full complexity? Globalizing Critical Theory collects essays by scholars at the forefront of Critical Theory as they ... Read more

    $61.99 CAD

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    A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge

    by Peter L. Berger, Thomas Luckmann ...
    A watershed event in the field of sociology, this text introduced "a major breakthrough in the sociology of knowledge and sociological theory generally" (George Simpson, American Sociological Review ).In this seminal book, Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann examine how knowledge forms and how it is preserved and altered within a society. Unlike earlier theorists and philosophers, Berger and ... Read more

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  • Ideology

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Michael Freeden ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Ideology is one of the most controversial terms in the political vocabulary, exciting both revulsion and inspiration. This book examines the reasons for those views, and explains why ideologies deserve respect as a major form of political thinking. It investigates the centrality of ideology both as a political phenomenon and as an organizing framework of political thought and action. It explores ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • German Philosophy

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Andrew Bowie ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    German philosophy remains the core of modern philosophy. Without Kant, Frege, Wittgenstein, and Husserl there would be no Anglo-American 'analytical' style of philosophy. Moreover, without Kant, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, and Heidegger, the 'Continental Philosophy' of Derrida, Foucault, Deleuze, Badiou, and Zizek, which has had major effects on humanities subjects in recent years, is incomprehensible ... Read more

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  • Habermas

    A Very Short Introduction

    by James Gordon Finlayson ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    This book gives a clear and readable overview of the philosophical work of Jürgen Habermas, the most influential German philosopher alive today, who has commented widely on subjects such as Marxism, the importance and effectiveness of communication, the reunification of Germany, and the European Union. Gordon Finlayson provides readers with a clear and readable overview of Habermas's forbiddingly ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Marx and Heidegger

    Gerry Stahl's eLibrary, #1

    by Gerry Stahl ...
    Series Book 1 - Gerry Stahl's eLibrary
    This volume considers the two most important philosophers of the modern age. Today, the philosophies of Marx and Heidegger are still extremely relevant—provided one adapts them to the current socio-historical context and adjusts each to the implicit criticisms of the other—as indicated in this book. In particular, Marx countered the ideology of individualism by analyzing social structures and ... Read more

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  • Hayek's Challenge

    An Intellectual Biography of F.A. Hayek

    by Bruce Caldwell ...
    Friedrich A. Hayek is regarded as one of the preeminent economic theorists of the twentieth century, as much for his work outside of economics as for his work within it. During a career spanning several decades, he made contributions in fields as diverse as psychology, political philosophy, the history of ideas, and the methodology of the social sciences. Bruce Caldwell—editor of The Collected ... Read more

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  • The Expulsion of the Other

    Society, Perception and Communication Today

    by Byung-Chul Han ...
    Translated by Wieland Hoban ...
    The days of the Other are over in this age of excessive communication, information and consumption. What used to be the Other, be it as friend, as Eros or as hell, is now indistinguishable from the self in our narcissistic desire to assimilate everything and everyone until there are no boundaries left. The result is a 'terror of the Same', lives in which we no longer pursue knowledge, insight and ... Read more

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  • The Idea of Socialism

    Towards a Renewal

    by Axel Honneth ...
    The idea of socialism has given normative grounding and orientation to the outrage over capitalism for more than 150 years, and yet today it seems to have lost much of its appeal. Despite growing discontent, many would hesitate to invoke socialism when it comes to envisioning life beyond capitalism. How can we explain the rapid decline of this once powerful idea? And what must we do to renew it ... Read more

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  • The Parallax View

    by Slavoj Zizek ...
    Series series Short Circuits
    In Žižek's long-awaited magnum opus, he theorizes the "parallax gap" in the ontological, the scientific, and the political—and rehabilitates dialectical materialism.The Parallax View is Slavoj Žižek's most substantial theoretical work to appear in many years; Žižek himself describes it as his magnum opus. Parallax can be defined as the apparent displacement of an object, caused by a change in ... Read more

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