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  • What Is Zoopoetics?

    Texts, Bodies, Entanglement

    Edited by Kári Driscoll, Eva Hoffmann ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book brings together essays dealing with the question of zoopoetics both as an object of study—i.e. texts from various traditions and periods that reflect, explicitly or implicitly, on the relationship between animality, language and representation—and as a methodological problem for animal studies, and, indeed, for literary studies more generally. What can literary animal studies tell us ... Read more

    $134.99 USD

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  • Through the Language Glass

    Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages

    by Guy Deutscher ...
    The New York Times Editor's ChoiceThe Economist Best Book of 2010A Financial Times Best Book of 2010A Library Journal Best Book of 2010“An informative, pleasurable read… A gifted writer, Deutscher picks his way nimbly past overblown arguments to a sensible compromise.”—The Boston GlobeFrom Homer to Darwin, from Yale to the Am... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Language Hoax

    by John H. McWhorter ...
    Japanese has a term that covers both green and blue. Russian has separate terms for dark and light blue. Does this mean that Russians perceive these colors differently from Japanese people? Does language control and limit the way we think? This short, opinionated book addresses the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, which argues that the language we speak shapes the way we perceive the world. Linguist John ... Read more

    $10.49 USD

  • The Language Animal

    The Full Shape of the Human Linguistic Capacity

    by Charles Taylor ...
    “We have been given a powerful and often uplifting vision of what it is to be truly human.” —John Cottingham, The TabletIn seminal works ranging from Sources of the Self to A Secular Age, Charles Taylor has shown how we create possible ways of being, both as individuals and as a society. In his new book setting forth decades of thought, he demonstrates that language is at the center of this ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Heidegger For Beginners

    by Eric Lemay, Jennifer A. Pitts ...
    Series series For Beginners
    The ideas of the German philosopher Martin Heidegger have been described as an intellectual time bomb, as some of the most revolutionary thought in Western history. Despite the enormous amount of secondary scholarships available on Heidegger, it is – due to the complexity of his thought and the density of his writing – difficult for the curious beginner to gain an insight into Heidegger’s ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Deleuze & Guattari for Architects

    by Andrew Ballantyne ...
    Series series Thinkers for Architects
    The work of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari has been inspirational for architects and architectural theorists in recent years. It has influenced the design work of architects as diverse as Greg Lynn and David Chipperfield, and is regularly cited by avant-gardist architects and by students, but usually without being well understood.The first collaboration between Deleuze and Guattari was Anti ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Dying Words

    Endangered Languages and What They Have to Tell Us

    by Nicholas Evans ...
    Series Book 22 - The Language Library
    The next century will see more than half of the world’s 6,000 languages become extinct, and most of these will disappear without being adequately recorded. Written by one of the leading figures in language documentation, this fascinating book explores what humanity stands to lose as a result.Explores the unique philosophy, knowledge, and cultural assumptions of languages, and their impact on our ... Read more

    $42.00 USD

  • Meaning, Truth, and Reference in Historical Representation

    by Frank R. Ankersmit ...
    In this book, the noted intellectual historian Frank Ankersmit provides a systematic account of the problems of reference, truth, and meaning in historical writing. He works from the conviction that the historicist account of historical writing, associated primarily with Leopold von Ranke and Wilhelm von Humboldt, is essentially correct but that its original idealist and romanticist idiom needs to ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Literary Theory

    An Anthology

    Edited by Julie Rivkin, Michael Ryan ...
    Series series Blackwell Anthologies
    The new edition of this bestselling literary theory anthology has been thoroughly updated to include influential texts from innovative new areas, including disability studies, eco-criticism, and ethics.Covers all the major schools and methods that make up the dynamic field of literary theory, from Formalism to PostcolonialismExpanded to include work from Stuart Hall, Sara Ahmed, and Lauren Berlant ... Read more

    $70.00 USD

  • A Voice and Nothing More

    by Mladen Dolar ...
    Series series Short Circuits
    A new, philosophically grounded theory of the voice—the voice as the lever of thought, as one of the paramount embodiments of the psychoanalytic object.Plutarch tells the story of a man who plucked a nightingale and finding but little to eat exclaimed: "You are just a voice and nothing more." Plucking the feathers of meaning that cover the voice, dismantling the body from which the voice seems to ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • 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

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  • On Translation

    by Paul Ricoeur ...
    Series series Thinking in Action
    Paul Ricoeur was one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century. In this short and accessible book, he turns to a topic at the heart of much of his work: What is translation and why is it so important?Reminding us that The Bible, the Koran, the Torah and the works of the great philosophers are often only ever read in translation, Ricoeur reminds us that translation not only ... Read more

    $40.99 USD