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Groundworks eBook Series

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  • The Birth of Physics

    by Michel Serres ...
    Translated by David Webb, William James Ross ...
    Series series Groundworks
    The Birth of Physics represents a foundational work in the development of chaos theory from one of the world’s most influential living theorists, Michel Serres.Focussing on the largest text still intact to reach us from the Atomists - Lucretius' De Rerum Natura - Serres mobilises everything we know about the related scientific work of the time (Archemides, Epicurus et al) in order to demand a ... Read more

    $54.69 CAD

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  • The Rhetorical Foundations Of Society

    by Ernesto Laclau ...
    The essays collected in this volume develop the theoretical perspective initiated in Laclau and Mouffe’s Hegemony and Socialist Strategy in three main directions. First, by exploring the specificity of social antagonisms and answering the question ‘What is an antagonistic relation?’, an issue which has become increasingly crucial in our globalized world, where the proliferation of conflicts and ... Read more

    $25.59 CAD

  • The Five Senses

    A Philosophy of Mingled Bodies

    by Professor Michel Serres ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Revelations
    Marginalized by the scientific age the lessons of the senses have been overtaken by the dominance of language and the information revolution. With The Five Senses Serres traces a topology of human perception, writing against the Cartesian tradition and in praise of empiricism, he demonstrates repeatedly, and lyrically, the sterility of systems of knowledge divorced from bodily experience. The ... Read more

    $37.09 CAD

  • The Melancholy Science

    An Introduction To The Thought Of Theodor W. Adorno

    by Gillian Rose ...
    Series Book 8 - Radical Thinkers
    The Melancholy Science is the first and foundational work from the celebrated philosopher Gillian Rose and a classic critique of critical theory. ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Race, Rights and Rebels

    Alternatives to Human Rights and Development from the Global South

    by Julia Suárez-Krabbe ...
    Series series Global Critical Caribbean Thought
    Human rights and development cannot be understood separately. They are historically connected by the idea of race, and have evolved concomitantly with the latter. As the tools of race, human rights and development have been forged in the effort to legitimize and maintain coloniality.While rights and development can be used as tools to achieve protection, specific political goals, or access in the ... Read more

    $63.39 CAD

  • The Lost Thread

    The Democracy of Modern Fiction

    by Mr Steven Corcoran, Jacques Rancière ...
    In The Lost Thread, Rancière debunks the notion of Flaubert, Baudelaire, Conrad, Woolf and Keats as reactionary producers of bourgeois mythologies, and instead foregrounds the egalitarian and democratic impulses of modernist literature. Contrary to the canonical interpretation of the relation between modernism and capitalism via the commodification of everyday life, Rancière proposes a radical ... Read more

    $32.79 CAD

  • All Thoughts Are Equal

    Laruelle and Nonhuman Philosophy

    by John Ó Maoilearca ...
    Series series Posthumanities
    All Thoughts Are Equal is both an introduction to the work of French philosopher François Laruelle and an exercise in nonhuman thinking. For Laruelle, standard forms of philosophy continue to dominate our models of what counts as exemplary thought and knowledge. By contrast, what Laruelle calls his “non-standard” approach attempts to bring democracy into thought, because all forms of thinking ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Manifestos for World Thought

    Edited by Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh, Lucian Stone ...
    Series series Future Perfect: Images of the Time to Come in Philosophy, Politics and Cultural Studies
    What are the still-unknown horizons of world thought?This book brings together prominent scholars from varying disciplines to speculate on this obscure question and the many crossroads that face intellectuals in our contemporary era and its aftermath. The result is a collection of “manifestos” that contemplate a potential global future for thinking itself, venturing across some of the most ... Read more

    $57.99 CAD

  • Post-Personal Romanticism

    Democratic Terror, Prosthetic Poetics, and the Comedy of Modern Ethical Life

    by Bo Earle ...
    Post-Personal Romanticism: Democratic Terror, Prosthetic Poetics, and the Comedy of Modern Ethical Life by Bo Earle offers a broad recasting of Romantic lyric’s formal innovations in terms of Hegel’s historical ethics. These innovations attempt to come to terms with the Enlightenment’s paradoxical legacy: industrial and consumerist modernity depends on the Enlightenment norm of rationally ... Read more

    $37.59 CAD

  • Politics and Letters

    Interviews with New Left Review

    by Raymond Williams ...
    Raymond Williams made a central contribution to the intellectual culture of the Left in the English-speaking world. He was also one of the key figures in the foundation of cultural studies in Britain, which turned critical skills honed on textual analysis to the examination of structures and forms of resistance apparent in everyday life. Politics and Letters is a volume of interviews with Williams ... Read more

    $25.59 CAD

  • Enlightenment in an Age of Destruction

    Intellectuals, World Disorder, and the Politics of Empire

    by Christopher Britt, Paul Fenn, Eduardo Subirats ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book is about the ways in which modern enlightenment, rather than liberating humanity from tyranny, has subjected us to new servitude imposed by systems of mass manipulation, electronic vigilance, compulsive consumerism, and the horrors of a seemingly unending global war on terror. The main intellectual aims of this title are the following: the analysis of spectacle, the criticism of ... Read more

    $115.29 CAD

  • Superpositions

    Laruelle and the Humanities

    Edited by Julius Greve, Professor Rocco Gangle ...
    Series series Critical Perspectives on Theory, Culture and Politics
    One of the most important French philosophers working today, François Laruelle has developed an innovative and powerful repertoire of concepts across an oeuvre spanning four decades and more than twenty books. His work—termed non-philosophy or, more recently, non-standard philosophy—has garnered international attention in recent years and stands likely to have a significant impact on the critical ... Read more

    $61.19 CAD