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  • On Literary Plasticity

    Readings with Kafka in Ecology, Voice, and Object-Life

    by Heather H. Yeung ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    On Literary Plasticity: Readings with Kafka in Ecology, Voice, and Object-Life calls to Franz Kafka, and in particular ‘Die Sorge des Hausvaters’, for aid in charting the long reach of plastic on the human mind and world. In this book, Heather H. Yeung builds a past and future ecology of plastic, arguing that it is through a deep reading of literature that we can begin to understand more clearly ... Read more

    $64.09 CAD

  • Women's Fiction and Post-9/11 Contexts

    by Ruzy Suliza Hashim, Emily Horton, Kristine Miller, Jago Morrison, Ana-Karina Schneider, Corina Selejan, Karin Sellberg, Heather Yeung, Noraini Md Yusof, Roberta Garrett ...
    9/11 is not simple a date on the calendar but marks a distinct historical threshold, ushering in the war on terror, various states of emergency, a supposed “clash of civilizations,” and the putative legitimation of counter-democratic procedures ranging from extraordinary renditions to enhanced interrogation. Perhaps no date, since Virginia Woolf declared that “on or about December 1910 human ... Read more

    $136.79 CAD

  • Ecopoetics and the Global Landscape

    Critical Essays

    by Cheryl Alison, Sarah Bouttier, Sarah Giragosian, Randy Schiff, David Tagnani, Aleksandra Ubertowska, Isabel Sobral Campos, Craig Santos Perez, John Charles Ryan, Heather H. Yeung0, Benay Blend1 ...
    Series series Ecocritical Theory and Practice
    Ecopoetics and the Global Landscape: Critical Essays surveys ecopoetry from a global perspective across different historical epochs. Its comparative approach foregrounds the importance of ecopoetics within the context of distinct national literatures and cultures to reveal the ubiquitous intersection of poetry with ecocriticism. The collection analyzes environmental problems resulting from the ... Read more

    $158.09 CAD

  • Trans(in)fusion and Contemporary Thought

    Thinking in Migration

    by Jayjit Sarkar, Arka Chattopadhyay, Maria Carmen África Vidal Claramonte, Olivier Hercend, James Martell, Emelia Quinn, Erik S. Roraback, Heather H. Yeung, Ranjan Ghosh ...
    Trans(in)fusion and Contemporary Thought: Thinking in Migration engages with Ranjan Ghosh’s concept of trans(in)fusion and critical theory. Trans(in)fusion reexamines critical thinking and considers how thinking across traditions and systems of thought can generate distinct interpretive experiences. The chapters not only analyze Ghosh’s work but provide insight into the authors’ individual ... Read more

    $100.09 CAD

  • Indifference and Repetition; or, Modern Freedom and Its Discontents

    by Frank Ruda ...
    Translated by Heather H. Yeung ...
    In capitalism human beings act as if they are mere animals. So we hear repeatedly in the history of modern philosophy. Indifference and Repetition examines how modern philosophy, largely coextensive with a particular boost in capitalism’s development, registers the reductive and regressive tendencies produced by capitalism’s effect on individuals and society.Ruda examines a problem that has ... Read more

    $36.79 CAD

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  • Hegel and Modern Society

    by Charles Taylor ...
    Series series Cambridge Philosophy Classics
    This rich study explores the elements of Hegel's social and political thought that are most relevant to our society today. Combating the prevailing post-World War II stereotype of Hegel as a proto-fascist, Charles Taylor argues that Hegel aimed not to deny the rights of individuality but to synthesise them with the intrinsic good of community membership. Hegel's goal of a society of free ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Emancipation After Hegel

    Achieving a Contradictory Revolution

    by Todd McGowan ...
    Hegel is making a comeback. After the decline of the Marxist Hegelianism that dominated the twentieth century, leading thinkers are rediscovering Hegel’s thought as a resource for contemporary politics. What does a notoriously difficult nineteenth-century German philosopher have to offer the present? How should we understand Hegel, and what does understanding Hegel teach us about confronting our ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Reason and Revolution

    Hegel and the Rise of Social Theory

    by Herbert Marcuse ...
    "Brilliant and penetrating ... the most important work which has opened up an understanding of Marx's humanism." - Erich FrommReason and Revolution: Hegel and the Rise of Social Theory is the philosopher Herbert Marcuse's first major work in English - a masterful interpretation of Hegel's philosophy and the influence it has had on European political thought from the French Revolution to the ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Hegel

    by Frederick Beiser ...
    Series series The Routledge Philosophers
    Hegel (1770-1831) is one of the major philosophers of the nineteenth century. Many of the major philosophical movements of the twentieth century - from existentialism to analytic philosophy - grew out of reactions against Hegel. He is also one of the hardest philosophers to understand and his complex ideas, though rewarding, are often misunderstood.In this magisterial and lucid introduction, ... Read more

    $48.08 CAD

  • The Most Sublime Hysteric

    Hegel with Lacan

    by Slavoj Zizek ...
    What do we know about Hegel? What do we know about Marx? What do we know about democracy and totalitarianism? Communism and psychoanalysis? What do we know that isn't a platitude that we've heard a thousand times - or a self-satisfied certainty? Through his brilliant reading of Hegel, Slavoj Zizek - one of the most provocative and widely-read thinkers of our time - upends our traditional ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • A Companion to Hegel

    Edited by Stephen Houlgate, Michael Baur ...
    Series series Wiley Companions to Philosophy
    This companion provides original, scholarly, and cutting-edge essays that cover the whole range of Hegel’s mature thought and his lasting influence.A comprehensive guide to one of the most important modern philosophersEssays are written in an accessible manner and draw on the most up-to-date Hegel researchContributions are drawn from across the world and from a wide variety of philosophical ... Read more

    $55.99 CAD

  • Spinoza for Our Time

    Politics and Postmodernity

    by Antonio Negri ...
    Translated by William McCuaig ...
    Series series Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture
    Antonio Negri, one of the world's leading scholars on Baruch Spinoza (1632–1677) and his contemporary legacy, offers a straightforward explanation of the philosopher's elaborate arguments and a persuasive case for his ongoing relevance. Responding to a resurgent interest in Spinoza's thought and its potential application to contemporary global issues, Negri demonstrates the thinker's special value ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD