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Thinking in Action eBook Series

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  • On Literature

    by J. Hillis Miller ...
    Series series Thinking in Action
    Debates rage over what kind of literature we should read, what is good and bad literature, and whether in the global, digital age, literature even has a future. But what exactly is literature? Why should we read literature? How do we read literature? These are some of the important questions J. Hillis Miller answers in this beautifully written and passionate book. He begins by asking what ... Read more

    $50.99 CAD

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  • Less Than Nothing

    Hegel and the Shadow of Dialectical Materialism

    by Slavoj Zizek ...
    Discover a 1,000-page resurrection of Hegel, a giant of Western philosophy—from “one of the world’s best-known public intellectuals” (New York Review of Books).For the last two centuries, Western philosophy has developed in the shadow of Hegel, an influence each new thinker struggles to escape. As a consequence, Hegel’s absolute idealism has become the bogeyman of philosophy, obscuring the fact ... Read more

    $52.99 CAD

  • On Humour

    by Simon Critchley ...
    Series series Thinking in Action
    Does humour make us human, or do the cats and dogs laugh along with us? On Humour is a fascinating, beautifully written and funny book on what humour can tell us about being human. Simon Critchley skilfully probes some of the most perennial but least understood aspects of humour, such as our tendency to laugh at animals and our bodies, why we mock death with comedy and why we think it's funny when ... Read more

    $57.99 CAD

  • What Would Nietzsche Do?

    How the greatest philosophers would solve your everyday problems

    by Marcus Weeks ...
    What Would Nietzsche Do? uses the key ideas of more than 80 philosophical thinkers, past and present, to shine new light onto today's everyday problems.Ever wondered if Schopenhauer could fix your broken heart? How Heraclitus might help you if you lost your phone? Given the chance, would Foucault leave the toilet seat up?With sections on Relationships, Self and Identity, How to Live, Art and ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Art as Experience

    by John Dewey ...
    Based on John Dewey's lectures on esthetics, delivered as the first William James Lecturer at Harvard in 1932, Art as Experience has grown to be considered internationally as the most distinguished work ever written by an American on the formal structure and characteristic effects of all the arts: architecture, sculpture, painting, music, and literature. ... Read more

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  • Walter Benjamin's Concept of the Image

    by Alison Ross ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Philosophy
    In this book, Alison Ross engages in a detailed study of Walter Benjamin’s concept of the image, exploring the significant shifts in Benjamin’s approach to the topic over the course of his career. Using Kant’s treatment of the topic of sensuous form in his aesthetics as a comparative reference, Ross argues that Benjamin’s thinking on the image undergoes a major shift between his 1924 essay on ... Read more

    $94.99 CAD

  • The Spectacle of Disintegration

    Situationist Passages out of the Twentieth Century

    by McKenzie Wark ...
    Following his acclaimed history of the Situationist International, The Beach Beneath the Street, McKenzie Wark continues the SI’s story, charting its post-sixties legacy and putting the late work of the Situationists in a broader, deeper context. He uncovers a contemporary relevance and searching critique of modernity. Wark builds on their work to map the historical stages of the society of the ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • Aesthetics and Modernity

    Essays by Agnes Heller

    Edited by John Rundell ...
    Aesthetics and Modernity brings together Agnes Heller's most recent essays around the topics of aesthetic genres such as painting, music, literature and comedy, aesthetic reception, and embodiment. The essays draw on Heller's deep appreciation of aesthetics in all its forms from the classical to the Renaissance and the contemporary periods. Heller's recent work on aesthetics explores the complex ... Read more

    $61.99 CAD

  • Routledge Philosophy GuideBook to Nietzsche on Art

    by Aaron Ridley ...
    Series series Routledge Philosophy GuideBooks
    Nietzsche is one of the most important modern philosophers and his writings on the nature of art are amongst the most influential of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This GuideBook introduces and assesses:Nietzsche's life and the background to his writings on artthe ideas and texts of his works which contribute to art, including The Birth of Tragedy, Human, All Too Human and Thus Spoke ... Read more

    $74.99 CAD

  • The Immortal Comedy

    The Comic Phenomenon in Art, Literature, and Life

    by Agnes Heller ...
    Immortal Comedy is the first book to 'think' philosophically about the comic phenomenon in general. Although author Agnes Heller had written a book that is both deeply scholarly and meditative on the subject of the comic form in film, literature, and life her writing is eminently approachable. In both its subject and style, Immortal Comedy is a seminal book. In it, Heller takes us on a journey ... Read more

    $61.99 CAD

  • The Literary Wittgenstein

    Edited by John Gibson, Wolfgang Huemer ...
    The Literary Wittgenstein is a stellar collection of articles relating the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) to core problems in the theory and philosophy of literature.Amid growing recognition that Wittgenstein's philosophy has important implications for literary studies, this book brings together twenty-one articles by the most prominent figures in the field. Eighteen of the articles ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • The Problem of Naturalism

    Analytic Perspectives, Continental Virtues

    by Brian Lightbody ...
    Philosophers often use the term “naturalism’ in order to describe their work. It is commonplace to see a metaphysical, epistemological and/or ethical position self-described and described by others as one that is “naturalized.” But what, if anything, does the term naturalized add--or subtract---to the position being articulated? I demonstrate in The Problem of Naturalism: Analytic and Continental ... Read more

    $100.99 CAD