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  • An Education in Judgment

    Hannah Arendt and the Humanities

    by D. N. Rodowick ...
    Rodowick takes after the theories of Hannah Arendt and argues that thinking is an art we practice with and for each other in our communities.In An Education in Judgment, philosopher D. N. Rodowick makes the definitive case for a philosophical humanistic education aimed at the cultivation of a life guided by both self-reflection and interpersonal exchange. Such a life is an education in judgment, ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • The Difficulty of Difference

    Psychoanalysis, Sexual Difference and Film Theory

    by D. N. Rodowick ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Cinema
    This book argues that serious misreadings of Freud and Lacan on sexual difference have characterized prevailing models of psychoanalytic film criticism. In critiquing theories of identification and female spectatorship, the author maintains that early film theorists and feminist critics are equally guilty of imposing a binary conception of sexual difference on Freud’s thought. By embracing such a ... Read more

    $94.99 CAD

  • Elegy for Theory

    by D. N. Rodowick ...
    Rhetorically charged debates over theory have divided scholars of the humanities for decades. In Elegy for Theory, D. N. Rodowick steps back from well-rehearsed arguments pro and con to assess why theory has become such a deeply contested concept. Far from lobbying for a return to the "high theory" of the 1970s and 1980s, he calls for a vigorous dialogue on what should constitute a new, ethically ... Read more

    $37.29 CAD

  • What Philosophy Wants from Images

    by D. N. Rodowick ...
    In recent decades, contemporary art has displayed an ever increasing and complicated fascination with the cinema—or, perhaps more accurately, as D. N. Rodowick shows, a certain memory of cinema. Contemporary works of film, video, and moving image installation mine a vast and virtual archive of cultural experience through elliptical and discontinuous fragments of remembered images, even as the ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • The Virtual Life of Film

    by D. N. Rodowick ...
    As almost (or, truly, virtually) every aspect of making and viewing movies is replaced by digital technologies, even the notion of “watching a film” is fast becoming an anachronism. With the likely disappearance of celluloid film stock as a medium, and the emergence of new media competing for an audience, what will happen to cinema—and to cinema studies? In the first of two books exploring this ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

  • Philosophy's Artful Conversation

    by D. N. Rodowick ...
    Theory—an embattled discourse for decades—faces a new challenge from those who want to model the methods of all scholarly disciplines on the sciences. What is urgently needed, says D. N. Rodowick, is a revitalized concept of theory that can assess the limits of scientific explanation and defend the unique character of humanistic understanding. ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • Reading the Figural, or, Philosophy after the New Media

    by Stanley Fish, Fredric Jameson, David Rodowick ...
    Series series Post-Contemporary Interventions
    In Reading the Figural, or, Philosophy after the New Media D. N. Rodowick applies the concept of “the figural” to a variety of philosophical and aesthetic issues. Inspired by the aesthetic philosophy of Jean-François Lyotard, the figural defines a semiotic regime where the distinction between linguistic and plastic representation breaks down. This opposition, which has been the philosophical ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Gilles Deleuze's Time Machine

    by David Rodowick ...
    Series series Post-contemporary interventions
    Although Gilles Deleuze is one of France’s most celebrated twentieth-century philosophers, his theories of cinema have largely been ignored by American scholars. Film theorist D. N. Rodowick fills this gap by presenting the first comprehensive study, in any language, of Deleuze’s work on film and images. Placing Deleuze’s two books on cinema—The Movement-Image and The Time-Image—in the context of ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

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    An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics

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  • Introducing Lacan

    A Graphic Guide

    by Darian Leader ...
    Series series Graphic Guides
    Jacques Lacan is now regarded as a major psychoanalytical theorist alongside Freud and Jung, although recognition has been delayed by fierce arguments over his ideas. Written by a leading Lacanian analyst, "Introducing Lacan" guides the reader through his innovations, including his work on paranoia, his addition of structural linguistics to Freudianism and his ideas on the infant 'mirror phase'. ... Read more

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  • After Virtue

    A Study in Moral Theory, Third Edition

    by Alasdair MacIntyre ...
    When After Virtue first appeared in 1981, it was recognized as a significant and potentially controversial critique of contemporary moral philosophy. Newsweek called it “a stunning new study of ethics by one of the foremost moral philosophers in the English-speaking world.” Since that time, the book has been translated into more than fifteen foreign languages and has sold over one hundred thousand ... Read more

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  • The Language of New Media

    by Lev Manovich ...
    Series series Leonardo
    A stimulating, eclectic accountof new media that finds its origins in old media, particularly the cinema.In this book Lev Manovich offers the first systematic and rigorous theory of new media. He places new media within the histories of visual and media cultures of the last few centuries. He discusses new media's reliance on conventions of old media, such as the rectangular frame and mobile camera ... Read more

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