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  • Cultural Transformations of the Public Sphere

    Contemporary and Historical Perspectives

    Edited by Bernd Fischer, May Mergenthaler ...
    Series Book 24 - Cultural History and Literary Imagination
    The last decade has seen renewed interest in political theories of the public sphere, reacting to new challenges posed by globalization, communication technology, and intra- and international conflicts. However, the role of culture and aesthetics in the formation of the public sphere has received insufficient analytical attention. The essays in this volume explore different strategies for ... Read more

    $111.99 CAD

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    Justice Against Epistemicide

    by Boaventura de Sousa Santos ...
    Series series Epistemologies of the South
    This book explores the concept of 'cognitive injustice': the failure to recognise the different ways of knowing by which people across the globe run their lives and provide meaning to their existence. Boaventura de Sousa Santos shows why global social justice is not possible without global cognitive justice. Santos argues that Western domination has profoundly marginalised knowledge and wisdom ... Read more

    $70.99 CAD

  • Philosophy and Real Politics

    by Raymond Geuss ...
    Many contemporary political thinkers are gripped by the belief that their task is to develop an ideal theory of rights or justice for guiding and judging political actions. But in Philosophy and Real Politics, Raymond Geuss argues that philosophers should first try to understand why real political actors behave as they actually do. Far from being applied ethics, politics is a skill that allows ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • Kant and Cosmopolitanism

    The Philosophical Ideal of World Citizenship

    by Pauline Kleingeld ...
    This is the first comprehensive account of Kant's cosmopolitanism, highlighting its moral, political, legal, economic, cultural and psychological aspects. Contrasting Kant's views with those of his German contemporaries and relating them to current debates, Pauline Kleingeld sheds new light on texts that have been hitherto neglected or underestimated. In clear and carefully argued discussions, she ... Read more

    $52.99 CAD

  • How Not to Be Governed

    Readings and Interpretations from a Critical Anarchist Left

    by Katherine Gordy, Elena Loizidou, Jacqueline Stevens, Banu Bargu, Vanessa Lemm, George Ciccariello-Maher, Todd May, Keally McBride ...
    How Not to Be Governed explores the contemporary debates and questions concerning anarchism in our own time. The authors address the political failures of earlier practices of anarchism, and the claim that anarchism is impracticable, by examining the anarchisms that have been theorized and practiced in the midst of these supposed failures. The authors revive the possibility of anarchism even as ... Read more

    $61.99 CAD

  • Violence and Civility

    On the Limits of Political Philosophy

    by Étienne Balibar ...
    Translated by G. M. Goshgarian ...
    Series series The Wellek Library Lectures
    In Violence and Civility, Étienne Balibar boldly confronts the insidious causes of violence, racism, nationalism, and ethnic cleansing worldwide, as well as mass poverty and dispossession. Through a novel synthesis of theory and empirical studies of contemporary violence, the acclaimed thinker pushes past the limits of political philosophy to reconceive war, revolution, sovereignty, and class ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Re-Figuring Hayden White

    Edited by Frank Ankersmit, Ewa Domańska, Hans Kellner ...
    Series series Cultural Memory in the Present
    Produced in honor of White's eightieth birthday, Re-Figuring Hayden White testifies to the lasting importance of White's innovative work, which firmly reintegrates historical studies with literature and the humanities. The book is a major reconsideration of the historian's contributions and influence by an international group of leading scholars from a variety of disciplines. Individual essays ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • Carl Schmitt and Leo Strauss

    The Hidden Dialogue

    by Heinrich Meier ...
    Translated by J. Harvey Lomax ...
    Carl Schmitt was the most famous and controversial defender of political theology in the twentieth century. But in his best-known work, The Concept of the Political, issued in 1927, 1932, and 1933, political considerations led him to conceal the dependence of his political theory on his faith in divine revelation. In 1932 Leo Strauss published a critical review of Concept that initiated an ... Read more

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  • Translation and Identity in the Americas

    New Directions in Translation Theory

    by Edwin Gentzler ...
    Translation is a highly contested site in the Americas where different groups, often with competing literary or political interests, vie for space and approval. In its survey of these multiple and competing groups and its study of the geographic, socio-political and cultural aspects of translation, Edwin Gentzler’s book demonstrates that the Americas are a fruitful terrain for the field of ... Read more

    $94.99 CAD

  • Decolonizing Dialectics

    by Geo Maher ...
    Series series Radical Américas
    Anticolonial theorists and revolutionaries have long turned to dialectical thought as a central weapon in their fight against oppressive structures and conditions. This relationship was never easy, however, as anticolonial thinkers have resisted the historical determinism, teleology, Eurocentrism, and singular emphasis that some Marxisms place on class identity at the expense of race, nation, and ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Thinking from the Underside of History

    Enrique Dussel's Philosophy of Liberation

    by Karl-Otto Apel, Enrique Dussel, Roberto S. Goizueta, Lynda Lange, James L. Marsh, Mario Saenz, Hans Schelkshorn, Michael D. Barber, Walter D. Mignolo, Elina Vuola ...
    Enrique Dussel's writings span the theology of liberation, critiques of discourse ethics, evaluations of Marx, Levinas, Habermas, and others, but most importantly, the development of a philosophy written from the underside of Eurocentric modernist teleologies, an ethics of the impoverished, and the articulation of a unique Latin American theoretical perspective. This anthology of original articles ... Read more

    $57.99 CAD

  • Hegel

    by Raymond Plant ...
    First published in 1973 this volume demonstrates the interconnection between Hegel's political and metaphysical writings. This book provides a point of entry into Hegel's system of ideas. Condemned unread, and when read far too often misunderstood, Hegel's thought has once more begun to make its impact on contemporary ideas with many of today's most important social and political thinkers. ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD