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Commonalities eBook Series

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  • The Republic of the Living

    Biopolitics and the Critique of Civil Society

    by Miguel Vatter ...
    Series series Commonalities
    This book takes up Foucault’s hypothesis that liberal “civil society,” far from being a sphere of natural freedoms, designates the social spaces where our biological lives come under new forms of control and are invested with new forms of biopower. In order to test this hypothesis, its chapters examine the critical theory of civil society—from Hegel and Marx through Lukacs, Adorno, Benjamin, and ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

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  • Pragmatism as Anti-Authoritarianism

    by Richard Rorty ...
    The last book by the eminent American philosopher and public intellectual Richard Rorty, providing the definitive statement of his mature philosophical and political views.Richard Rorty’s Pragmatism as Anti-Authoritarianism is a last statement by one of America’s foremost philosophers. Here Rorty offers his culminating thoughts on the influential version of pragmatism he began to articulate ... Read more

    $22.59 CAD

  • The Essential Marcuse

    Selected Writings of Philosopher and Social Critic Herbert Marcuse

    by Herbert Marcuse ...
    The Essential Marcuse provides an overview of Herbert Marcuse's political and philosophical writing over four decades, with excerpts from his major books as well as essays from various academic journals. The most influential radical philosopher of the 1960s, Marcuse's writings are noteworthy for their uncompromising opposition to both capitalism and communism. His words are as relevant to today's ... Read more

    $20.99 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

  • 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

  • Judgment, Imagination, and Politics

    Themes from Kant and Arendt

    by Hannah Arendt, Stanley Cavell, Onora O'Neill, Robert J. Dostal, Albrecht Wellmer, Seyla Benhabib, Iris Young, Leora Y. Bilsky, Dana Villa, Charles Larmore, George Kateb, Ronald Beiner ...
    Judgment, Imagination, and Politics brings together for the first time leading essays on the nature of judgment. Drawing from themes in Kant's Critique of Judgment and Hannah Arendt's discussion of judgment from Lectures on Kant's Political Philosophy, these essays deal with: the role of imagination in judgment; judgment as a distinct human faculty; the nature of judgment in law and politics; and ... Read more

    $71.99 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

  • Animals and the Limits of Postmodernism

    by Gary Steiner ...
    Series series Critical Perspectives on Animals: Theory, Culture, Science, and Law
    In Animals and the Limits of Postmodernism, Gary Steiner illuminates postmodernism's inability to produce viable ethical and political principles. Ethics requires notions of self, agency, and value that are not available to postmodernists. Thus, much of what is published under the rubric of postmodernist theory lacks a proper basis for a systematic engagement with ethics.Steiner demonstrates this ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • Political Philosophy

    What It Is and Why It Matters

    by Ronald Beiner ...
    What is political philosophy? Ronald Beiner makes the case that it is centrally defined by supremely ambitious reflection on the ends of life. We pursue this reflection by exposing ourselves to, and participating in, a perennial dialogue among epic theorists who articulate grand visions of what constitutes the authentic good for human beings. Who are these epic theorists, and what are their ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • Reading Marx

    by Frank Ruda, Agon Hamza, Slavoj Zizek ...
    Marx's critique of political economy is vital for understanding the crisis of contemporary capitalism. Yet the nature of its relevance and some of its key tenets remain poorly understood. This bold intervention brings together the work of leading Marx scholars Slavoj iek, Frank Ruda and Agon Hamza, to offer a fresh, radical reinterpretation of Marxism that explains the failures of neoliberalism ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Reading Hegel

    by Slavoj Zizek, Frank Ruda, Agon Hamza ...
    A spirit is haunting contemporary thought – the spirit of Hegel. All the powers of academia have entered into a holy alliance to exorcize this spirit: Vitalists and Eschatologists, Transcendental Pragmatists and Speculative Realists, Historical Materialists and even ‘liberal Hegelians’.Which of these groups has not been denounced as metaphysically Hegelian by its opponents? And which has not ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Ideology

    by Terry Eagleton ...
    Series series Longman Critical Readers
    This collection of readings on the concept of ideology is brought together by the Marxist critic, Terry Eagleton. His introduction traces the historical evolution of ideology and examines in a more theoretical style the various meanings of the word and their significance. The readings begin with the first English translations of some of the writing of the French founder of the concept in the ... Read more

    $119.99 CAD