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  • Hegel, Freud and Fanon

    The Dialectic of Emancipation

    by Stefan Bird-Pollan ...
    Series series Creolizing the Canon
    Revolutionary theories from Marx onward have often struggled to unite the psychological commitments of individuals— understood as ideological— with the larger ethical or political goals of a social movement. As a psychiatrist, social theorist, and revolutionary, Frantz Fanon attempted to connect the ideological and the political. Fanon’s work gives both a psychological explanation of the origins ... Read more

    $63.99 CAD

  • Hegel's Political Aesthetics

    Art in Modern Society

    Edited by Stefan Bird-Pollan, Vladimir Marchenkov ...
    What is the role of art in modern society? To what extent are the beautiful and the morally good intertwined? Hegel's Political Aesthetics explores Hegel's take on these ever-relevant philosophical questions and investigates three key themes: art's contribution to modern ethical life, the loss of art's authority in modern ethical life and ways of thinking beyond Hegel's analysis of art's role in ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

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    The Culture and Technology of Millennials

    by Michel Serres ...
    Translated by Daniel W. Smith ...
    The title of this timely and thought-provoking book, a French bestseller, refers to schoolgirls sending text messages to their friends on their smart phones. Michel Serres, one of France's most important living intellectuals, uses this image to get at something far broader: that humans are formed and shaped by technologies, and that with the advent of computers, smart phones, and the Internet, a ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • The Golden Thread of Time

    A Quest for the Truth and hidden knowledge of the Ancients

    by Crichton E.M. Miller ...
    Time is the most important commodity on Earth, we live by it and we die by it, it gives order to our lives and we control all of our modern society using time and its modern instruments. We think we have mastered time, what if we are wrong?We are told in the Bible in Genesis 1 verse 14, that our ancestors measured time by the stars and moon and we are told by evolutionists that ancient people used ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Left-Wing Melancholia

    Marxism, History, and Memory

    by Enzo Traverso ...
    Series Book 17 - New Directions in Critical Theory
    The fall of the Berlin Wall marked the end of the Cold War but also the rise of a melancholic vision of history as a series of losses. For the political left, the cause lost was communism, and this trauma determined how leftists wrote the next chapter in their political struggle and how they have thought about their past since. Throughout the twentieth century, argues Left-Wing Melancholia, from ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • The Age of Scientific Sexism

    How Evolutionary Psychology Promotes Gender Profiling and Fans the Battle of the Sexes

    by Professor Mari Ruti ...
    We trust our sciences to operate on a plane of objectivity and fact in a world of subjectivity and cultural ideologies, but should we? In The Age of Scientific Sexism, philosopher Mari Ruti offers a sharp critique of the gender profiling tendencies of evolutionary psychology, untangling the insidious threads of various gender mythologies that have infiltrated-or perhaps even define-this faux ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Between Levinas and Lacan

    Self, Other, Ethics

    by Professor Mari Ruti ...
    Levinas and Lacan, two giants of contemporary theory, represent schools of thought that seem poles apart. In this major new work, Mari Ruti charts the ethical terrain between them.At first glance, Levinansian and Lacanian approaches may seem more or less incompatible, and in many ways they are, particularly in their understanding of the self-other relationship. For both Levinas and Lacan, the ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • The Subject of Rosi Braidotti

    Politics and Concepts

    Edited by Bolette Blaagaard, Iris van der Tuin ...
    The Subject of Rosi Braidotti: Politics and Concepts brings into focus the diverse influence of the work of Rosi Braidotti on academic fields in the humanities and the social sciences such as the study and scholarship in - among others - feminist theory, political theory, continental philosophy, philosophy of science and technology, cultural studies, ethnicity and race studies.Inspired by ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

  • The Political is Political

    Conformity and the Illusion of Dissent in Contemporary Political Philosophy

    by Lorna Finlayson ...
    Nobody should really have to point out that political philosophy is political. Yet in this highly original and provocative book Lorna Finlayson argues that in fact it is necessary to do so. Offering a critique of mainstream liberal political philosophy through close, critical engagement with a series of specific debates and arguments, Finlayson analyzes the way in which apparently neutral ... Read more

    $61.99 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

  • Philosophy for Non-Philosophers

    by Louis Althusser ...
    Translated by G. M. Goshgarian ...
    In 1980, at the end of the most intensely political period of his work and life, Louis Althusser penned Philosophy for Non-philosophers. Available here for the first time in English, Philosophy for Non-philosophers constitutes a rigorous and engaged attempt to address a wide reading public unfamiliar with Althusser's project. As such, the work is a concentration of the most fundamental theses of ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Liquidation World

    On the Art of Living Absently

    by Alexi Kukuljevic ...
    Series series Short Circuits
    An examination of the disoriented subject of modernity: a dissolute figure who makes an makes an object of its absence; from Baudelaire to Broodthaers.In Liquidation World, Alexi Kukuljevic examines a distinctive form of subjectivity animating the avant-garde: that of the darkly humorous and utterly disoriented subject of modernity, a dissolute figure that makes an art of its own vacancy, an ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD