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  • Philosophy in Turbulent Times

    Canguilhem, Sartre, Foucault, Althusser, Deleuze, Derrida

    by Elisabeth Roudinesco ...
    Translated by William McCuaig ...
    For Elisabeth Roudinesco, a historian of psychoanalysis and one of France's leading intellectuals, Canguilhem, Sartre, Foucault, Althusser, Deleuze, and Derrida represent a "great generation" of French philosophers who accomplished remarkable work and lived incredible lives. These troubled and innovative thinkers endured World War II and the cultural and political revolution of the 1960s, and ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • A Farewell to Truth

    by Gianni Vattimo ...
    Translated by William McCuaig ...
    With Western cultures becoming more pluralistic, the question of "truth" in politics has become a game of interpretations. Today, we face the demise of the very idea of truth as an objective description of facts, though many have yet to acknowledge that this is changing.Gianni Vattimo explicitly engages with the important consequences for democracy of our changing conception of politics and truth, ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • Slow Food

    The Case for Taste

    by Carlo Petrini ...
    Translated by William McCuaig ...
    Series series Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History
    Take a breath.... Read slowly.How often in the course and crush of our daily lives do we afford ourselves moments to truly relish-to truly be present in-the act of preparing and eating food? For most of us, our enjoyment of food has fallen victim to the frenetic pace of our lives and to our increasing estrangement, in a complex commercial economy, from the natural processes by which food is grown ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • Horrorism

    Naming Contemporary Violence

    by Adriana Cavarero ...
    Translated by William McCuaig ...
    Series Book 14 - New Directions in Critical Theory
    Words like "terrorism" and "war" no longer encompass the scope of contemporary violence. With this explosive book, Adriana Cavarero, one of the world's most provocative feminist theorists and political philosophers, effectively renders such terms obsolete. She introduces a new word-"horrorism"-to capture the experience of violence.Unlike terror, horrorism is a form of violation grounded in the ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • On Liberal Revolution

    by Piero Gobetti ...
    Translated by William McCuaig ...
    Series series Italian Literature and Thought
    This book is the first English-language edition of a collection of writings by one of Italy’s most important radical liberals, Piero Gobetti (19011926). In thirty-five thought-provoking essays, Gobetti proposes an original and challenging notion of liberalism as a revolutionary theory of both the individual and social and political movements. His theory is of particular relevance in the wake of ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • Christianity, Truth, and Weakening Faith

    A Dialogue

    by Gianni Vattimo, René Girard ...
    Translated by William McCuaig ...
    The debate over the place of religion in secular, democratic societies dominates philosophical and intellectual discourse. These arguments often polarize around simplistic reductions, making efforts at reconciliation impossible. Yet more rational stances do exist, positions that broker a peace between relativism and religion in people's public, private, and ethical lives.Christianity, Truth, and ... Read more

    $27.99 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

  • Not Being God

    A Collaborative Autobiography

    by Gianni Vattimo ...
    Translated by William McCuaig ...
    Gianni Vattimo, a leading philosopher of the continental school, has always resisted autobiography. But in this intimate memoir, the voice of Vattimo as thinker, political activist, and human being finds its expression on the page. With Piergiorgio Paterlini, a noted Italian writer and journalist, Vattimo reflects on a lifetime of politics, sexual radicalism, and philosophical exuberance in ... Read more

    $26.99 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

  • The Responsibility of the Philosopher

    by Gianni Vattimo ...
    Translated by William McCuaig ...
    Over the course of his career, Gianni Vattimo has assumed a number of public and private identities and has pursued multiple intellectual paths. He seems to embody several contradictions, at once defending and questioning religion and critiquing and serving the state. Yet the diversity of his life and thought form the very essence of, as he sees it, the vocation and responsibility of the ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • Three Lectures on Post-Industrial Society

    by Daniel Cohen ...
    Translated by William McCuaig ...
    A noted economist analyzes the upheavals caused by revolutions in technology, labor, culture, financial markets, and globalization.In this pithy and provocative book, noted economist Daniel Cohen offers his analysis of the global shift to a post-industrial era. If it was once natural to speak of industrial society, Cohen writes, it is more difficult to speak meaningfully of post-industrial ... Read more

    $20.79 CAD

  • Democracy in What State?

    by Giorgio Agamben, Alain Badiou, Daniel Bensaid, Wendy Brown, Jean-Luc Nancy, Jacques Rancière, Kristin Ross, Slavoj Žižek ...
    Translated by William McCuaig ...
    Series Book 11 - New Directions in Critical Theory
    "Is it meaningful to call oneself a democrat? And if so, how do you interpret the word?"In responding to this question, eight iconoclastic thinkers prove the rich potential of democracy, along with its critical weaknesses, and reconceive the practice to accommodate new political and cultural realities. Giorgio Agamben traces the tense history of constitutions and their coexistence with various ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD