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  • Dreaming in Dark Times

    Six Exercises in Political Thought

    by Sharon Sliwinski ...
    What do dreams manage to say—or indeed, show—about human experience that is not legible otherwise? Can the disclosure of our dream-life be understood as a form of political avowal? To what does a dream attest? And to whom?Blending psychoanalytic theory with the work of such political thinkers as Hannah Arendt and Michel Foucault, Sharon Sliwinski explores how the disclosure of dream-life ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • An Alphabet for Dreamers

    How to See the World with Eyes Closed

    by Sharon Sliwinski ...
    **A captivating and trailblazing look at how dreams serve as one of our most powerful ways to understand—and radically change—our world.A small, intimate gift book with 26 charming watercolor illustrations—the perfect bedside companion for your favorite dreamer.**Borrowing from the traditional alphabet book genre for children, An Alphabet for Dreamers provides adult readers with a new grammar for ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Mandela's Dark Years

    A Political Theory of Dreaming

    by Sharon Sliwinski ...
    Series series Forerunners: Ideas First
    Inspired by one of Nelson Mandela’s recurring nightmares, Mandela’s Dark Years offers a political reading of dream-life. Sharon Sliwinski guides the reader through the psychology of apartheid, recasting dreaming as a vital form of resistance to political violence, away from a rational binary of thinking.This short, provocative study blends political theory with clinical psychoanalysis, opening up ... Read more

    $4.95 USD

  • Photography and the Optical Unconscious

    Edited by Shawn Michelle Smith, Sharon Sliwinski ...
    Photography is one of the principal filters through which we engage the world. The contributors to this volume focus on Walter Benjamin's concept of the optical unconscious to investigate how photography has shaped history, modernity, perception, lived experience, politics, race, and human agency. In essays that range from examinations of Benjamin's and Sigmund Freud's writings to the work of Kara ... Read more

    $22.29 USD

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  • Meaning and Melancholia

    Life in the Age of Bewilderment

    by Christopher Bollas ...
    Meaning and Melancholia: Life in the Age of Bewilderment sees Christopher Bollas apply his creative and innovative psychoanalytic thinking to various contemporary social, cultural and political themes.This book offers an incisive exploration of powerful trends within, and between, nations in the West over the past two hundred years. The author traces shifts in psychological forces and ‘frames of ... Read more

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  • On Ambivalence

    The Problems and Pleasures of Having it Both Ways

    by Kenneth Weisbrode ...
    A concise guide to ambivalence, from Adam and Eve (to eat the apple or not?) to Hamlet (to be or not?) to globalization (e pluribus unum or not?).Why is it so hard to make up our minds? Adam and Eve set the template: Do we or don't we eat the apple? They chose, half-heartedly, and nothing was ever the same again. With this book, Kenneth Weisbrode offers a crisp, literate, and provocative ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Present Imperfect

    Contemporary South African Writing

    by Andrew van der Vlies ...
    Present Imperfect asks how South African writers have responded to the end of apartheid, to the hopes that attended the birth of the 'new' nation in 1994, and to the inevitable disappointments that have followed. The first full-length study of affect in South Africa's literature, it understands 'disappointment' both as a description of bad feeling and as naming a missed appointment with all that ... Read more

    $76.49 USD

  • Between Hope and Despair

    Pedagogy and the Remembrance of Historical Trauma

    by Rachel Baum, Mario DiPaolantonio, Andrea Liss, Jody Ranck, Julie Salverson, Rinaldo Walcott, Deborah P. Britzman ...
    Series series Culture and Education Series
    At the end of a century of unfathomable suffering, societies are facing anew the question of how events that shock, resist assimilation, and evoke contradictory and complex responses should be remembered. Between Hope and Despair specifically examines the pedagogical problem of how remembrance is to proceed when what is to be remembered is underscored by a logic difficult to comprehend and ... Read more

    $44.59 USD

  • Trauma in Contemporary Literature

    Narrative and Representation

    Edited by Marita Nadal, Mónica Calvo ...
    Series series Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature
    Trauma in Contemporary Literatureanalyzes contemporary narrative texts in English in the light of trauma theory, including essays by scholars of different countries who approach trauma from a variety of perspectives. The book analyzes and applies the most relevant concepts and themes discussed in trauma theory, such as the relationship between individual and collective trauma, historical trauma, ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • The Soul's Code

    In Search of Character and Calling

    by James Hillman ...
    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A transformative guide to reconnecting with and harnessing your authentic self so you can lead a more fulfilled, complete life, from the world-renowned former director of the Jung Institute“A brilliant and absorbing work . . . [James] Hillman dares us to believe we are each meant to be here, that we are needed by the world around us.”—Publishers WeeklyPlato called it ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Life Is Hard

    How Philosophy Can Help Us Find Our Way

    by Kieran Setiya ...
    **NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORKER AND THE ECONOMIST“Life Is Hard is a humane consolation for challenging times. Reading it is like speaking with a thoughtful friend who never tells you to cheer up, but, by offering gentle companionship and a change of perspective, makes you feel better anyway.” —The New York Times Book Review**There is no cure for the human condition: life is hard. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Psychoanalysis

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Daniel Pick ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Since its inception, psychoanalysis has been hailed as a revolutionary theory of how the mind works, whilst some of its ideas such as the Oedipus complex have become part of everyday conversation. In Psychoanalysis: A Very Short Introduction, Daniel Pick offers a lucid, lively, and wide-ranging survey of psychoanalysis. This book offers the reader a flavour of what it might be like to enter ... Read more

    $7.99 USD