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  • Money, Social Ontology and Law

    by Angela Condello, Maurizio Ferraris, John Rogers Searle ...
    Series series Law and Politics
    Presenting legal and philosophical essays on money, this book exploresthe conditions according to which an object like a piece of paper, or anelectronic signal, has come to be seen as having a value.Money plays a crucial role in the regulation of social relationships andtheir normative determination. It is thus integral to the very nature of the“social”, and the question of how society is kept ... Read more

    $49.99 CAD

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  • Understanding Kant: Concepts and Intuitions

    Understanding Philosophy, #4

    by Hercules Bantas ...
    Series Book 4 - Understanding Philosophy
    This guide examines Kant's theory of knowledge, specifically his arguments for separating human thought into concepts and intuitions. Based on the Critique of Pure Reason, this guide covers his critique of empirical and rational thought, and explains key concepts such as a priori judgements, analytic and synthetic judgements, and the difference between pure and empirical concepts. ... Read more

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  • Travelling Concepts in the Humanities

    A Rough Guide

    by Mieke Bal ...
    Series series Green College Thematic Lecture Series
    Attempting to bridge the gap between specialised scholarship in the humanistic disciplines and an interdisciplinary project of cultural analysis, Mieke Bal has written an intellectual travel guide that charts the course 'beyond' cultural studies. As with any guide, it can be used in a number of ways and the reader can follow or willfully ignore any of the paths it maps or signposts.Bal's focus for ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Luhmann Explained

    From Souls to Systems

    by Hans-Georg Moeller ...
    Series series Ideas Explained
    What are systems? What is society? What happens to human beings in a hypermodern world? This book is an introduction to Niklas Luhmann's social system theory which explains specific functions like economy and mass media from a cybernetic perspective. Integrating various schools of thought including sociology, philosophy and biology Luhmann Explained results in an overall analysis of "world society ... Read more

    $40.99 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

    $22.99 CAD

  • Umberto Eco

    Philosophy, Semiotics and the Work of Fiction

    by Michael Caesar ...
    Series series Key Contemporary Thinkers
    This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the work and thought of Umberto Eco - one of the most important writers in Europe today. ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Incontinence of the Void

    Economico-Philosophical Spandrels

    by Slavoj Zizek ...
    Series series Short Circuits
    The “formidably brilliant” Žižek considers sexuality, ontology, subjectivity, and Marxian critiques of political economy by way of Lacanian psychoanalysis.If the most interesting theoretical interventions emerge today from the interspaces between fields, then the foremost interspaceman is Slavoj Žižek. In Incontinence of the Void (the title is inspired by a sentence in Samuel Beckett's late ... Read more

    $18.39 CAD

  • Exhausting Dance

    Performance and the Politics of Movement

    by Andre Lepecki ...
    The only scholarly book in English dedicated to recent European contemporary dance, Exhausting Dance: Performance and the Politics of Movement examines the work of key contemporary choreographers who have transformed the dance scene since the early 1990s in Europe and the US.Through their vivid and explicit dialogue with performance art, visual arts and critical theory from the past thirty years, ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

  • "What Is an Apparatus?" and Other Essays

    by Giorgio Agamben ...
    Translated by David Kishik, Stefan Pedatella ...
    Series series Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
    The three essays collected in this book offer a succinct introduction to Agamben's recent work through an investigation of Foucault's notion of the apparatus, a meditation on the intimate link of philosophy to friendship, and a reflection on contemporariness, or the singular relation one may have to one's own time."Apparatus" (dispositif in French) is at once a most ubiquitous and nebulous concept ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • The Future of Religion

    by Gianni Vattimo, Richard Rorty ...
    Translated by William McCuaig ...
    Though coming from different and distinct intellectual traditions, Richard Rorty and Gianni Vattimo are united in their criticism of the metaphysical tradition. The challenges they put forward extend beyond philosophy and entail a reconsideration of the foundations of belief in God and the religious life. They urge that the rejection of metaphysical truth does not necessitate the death of religion ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Inclinations

    A Critique of Rectitude

    by Adriana Cavarero ...
    Translated by Adam Sitze, Amanda Minervini ...
    Series series Square One: First-Order Questions in the Humanities
    In this new and accessible book, Italy's best known feminist philosopher examines the moral and political significance of vertical posture in order to rethink subjectivity in terms of inclination. Contesting the classical figure of homo erectus or "upright man," Adriana Cavarero proposes an altruistic, open model of the subject—one who is inclined toward others. Contrasting the masculine upright ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • History of Translation

    Contributions to Translation Science in History: Authors, Ideas, Debate

    by Bruno Osimo ...
    Series Book 15 - Translation Studies
    A guide to authors who have made a contribution to the theory of sense in history and, ultimately, to translation theory. The book is divided into 5 chapters: Signification, Communication, Mind, Culture, Criticism ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus