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Commonalities eBook Series

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  • Giorgio Agamben

    Beyond the Threshold of Deconstruction

    by Kevin Attell ...
    Series series Commonalities
    Agamben’s thought has been viewed as descending primarily from the work of Heidegger, Benjamin, and, more recently, Foucault. This book complicates and expands that constellation by showing how throughout his career Agamben has consistently and closely engaged (critically, sympathetically, polemically, and often implicitly) the work of Derrida as his chief contemporary interlocutor.The book begins ... Read more

    $35.19 CAD

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  • The Beast and the Sovereign, Volume II

    by Jacques Derrida ...
    Translated by Geoffrey Bennington ...
    Series Book 5. 1 - The Seminars of Jacques Derrida
    Following on from The Beast and the Sovereign, Volume I, this book extends Jacques Derrida’s exploration of the connections between animality and sovereignty. In this second year of the seminar, originally presented in 2002–2003 as the last course he would give before his death, Derrida focuses on two markedly different texts: Heidegger’s 1929–1930 course The Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics, ... Read more

    $39.59 CAD

  • The Art of Philosophy

    Wisdom as a Practice

    by Peter Sloterdijk ...
    Translated by Karen Margolis ...
    In his best-selling book You Must Change Your Life, Peter Sloterdijk argued exercise and practice were crucial to the human condition. In The Art of Philosophy, he extends this critique to academic science and scholarship, casting the training processes of academic study as key to the production of sophisticated thought. Infused with humor and provocative insight, The Art of Philosophy further ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • After the Death of God

    by Gianni Vattimo, John D. Caputo ...
    Series series Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture
    It has long been assumed that the more modern we become, the less religious we will be. Yet a recent resurrection in faith has challenged the certainty of this belief. In these original essays and interviews, leading hermeneutical philosophers and postmodern theorists John D. Caputo and Gianni Vattimo engage with each other's past and present work on the subject and reflect on our transition from ... Read more

    $28.59 CAD

  • What Is Philosophy?

    by Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari ...
    Translated by Hugh Tomlinson, Graham Burchell ...
    Series series European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
    Called by many France's foremost philosopher, Gilles Deleuze is one of the leading thinkers in the Western World. His acclaimed works and celebrated collaborations with Félix Guattari have established him as a seminal figure in the fields of literary criticism and philosophy. The long-awaited publication of What Is Philosophy? in English marks the culmination of Deleuze's career.Deleuze and ... Read more

    $26.39 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

    $25.59 CAD

  • The Animal That Therefore I Am

    by Jacques Derrida ...
    Translated by David Wills ...
    Series series Perspectives in Continental Philosophy
    The translated, complete text of Derrida's 1997 ten-hour address, "The Autobiographical Animal," focusing on the industrialized treatment of animals.The Animal That Therefore I Am is at once an affectionate look back over the multiple roles played by animals in Derrida's work and a profound philosophical investigation and critique of the relegation of animal life that takes place as a result of ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Software Theory

    A Cultural and Philosophical Study

    by Federica Frabetti ...
    Series series Media Philosophy
    The cultural and philosophical study of software is crucial, both within and outside of the university, at an international level and across disciplines. Software is increasingly considered the focus of digital media studies because of the perceived need to address the invisibility, ubiquity, and power of digital media. Yet software remains quite obscure to students and scholars in media studies, ... Read more

    $54.69 CAD

  • Strange Wonder

    The Closure of Metaphysics and the Opening of Awe

    by Mary-Jane Rubenstein ...
    Series series Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture
    Strange Wonder confronts Western philosophy's ambivalent relationship to the Platonic "wonder" that reveals the strangeness of the everyday. On the one hand, this wonder is said to be the origin of all philosophy. On the other hand, it is associated with a kind of ignorance that ought to be extinguished as swiftly as possible. By endeavoring to resolve wonder's indeterminacy into certainty and ... Read more

    $35.19 CAD

  • Mad for Foucault

    Rethinking the Foundations of Queer Theory

    by Lynne Huffer ...
    Series series Gender and Culture Series
    Michel Foucault was the first to embed the roots of human sexuality in discipline and biopolitics, therefore revolutionizing our conception of sex and its relationship to society, economics, and culture. Yet over the past two decades, scholars have limited themselves to the study of Foucault's History of Sexuality, volume 1 paying lesser attention to his equally explosive History of Madness. In ... Read more

    $36.79 CAD

  • On Deconstruction

    Theory and Criticism after Structuralism

    by Jonathan Culler ...
    With an emphasis on readers and reading, Jonathan Culler considered deconstruction in terms of the questions raised by psychoanalytic, feminist, and reader-response criticism. On Deconstruction is both an authoritative synthesis of Derrida's thought and an analysis of the often-problematic relation between his philosophical writings and the work of literary critics. Culler's book is an ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Nomadic Subjects

    Embodiment and Sexual Difference in Contemporary Feminist Theory

    by Rosi Braidotti ...
    Series series Gender and Culture Series
    For more than fifteen years, Nomadic Subjects has guided discourse in continental philosophy and feminist theory, exploring the constitution of contemporary subjectivity, especially the concept of difference within European philosophy and political theory. Rosi Braidotti's creative style vividly renders a productive crisis of modernity. From a feminist perspective, she recasts embodiment, sexual ... Read more

    $36.79 CAD