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Butler on Whitehead
Lexington Books 2012; US$ 79.99Considered together, Butler and Whitehead draw from a wide palette of disciplines to develop distinctive theories of becoming, of syntactical violence, and creative opportunities of limitation. The contributors of this volume offer a unique contribution to and for the humanities in the struggles of politics, economy, ecology, and the arts ... more...
Post-Rationalism
Bloomsbury Publishing 2013; US$ 100.99Post-Rationalism takes the experimental journal of psychoanalysis and philosophy, Cahiers pour lAnalyse , as its main source. Established by students of Louis Althusser in 1966, the journal has rarely figured in the literature, although it contained the first published work of authors now famous in contemporary critical thought, including Alain... more...
Geloof
Taylor and Francis 2002; US$ 18.95Hoe kunnen we nog geloven en regels hebben in dit postmoderne tijdperk waarin naar verluidt niets is om in te geloven en geen regels zijn. De beroemde filosoof en onstuitbaar cultuurcriticus Slavoj Zizek daagt iedereen uit in dit overtuigende en adembenemende nieuwe boek. In Geloof , dat van 'cyberspace-denken' tot de paradox van het 'westerse boeddhisme'... more...
Laws of History
Routledge 1998; US$ 230.00In this unorthodox and trail-blazing work Graeme Snooks argues that it is possible to construct a scientific theory of human history, but only if we adopt a radically materialist theory of human nature. more...
A Philosophy of Culture
Princeton University Press 2009; US$ 27.95In this book, one of America's leading philosophers offers a sweeping reconsideration of the philosophy of culture in the twentieth century. Morton White argues that the discipline is much more important than is often recognized, and that his version of holistic pragmatism can accommodate its breadth. Going beyond Quine's dictum that philosophy of... more...
Essays on the History of Moral Philosophy
OUP Oxford 2009; US$ 34.99J. B. Schneewind presents a selection of his published essays on ethics, the history of ethics and moral psychology, together with a new piece offering an intellectual autobiography. The volume ranges across the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries: it includes Schneewind's early anti-foundationalist 'Moral Knowledge and Moral... more...
Philosophical Chronicles
Fordham University Press 2008; US$ 17.99In eleven brief, engaging talks originally broadcast on French public radio, Jean-Luc Nancy offers a philosopher?s rough and ready account of some of the pressing questions of our day and addresses chronic issues within philosophical inquiry. The fundamental question, which recurs again and again, is whether philosophy is conditioned by the world the... more...
Alienation After Derrida
Continuum International Publishing 2010; US$ 120.00Alienation After Derrida rearticulates the Hegelian-Marxist theory of alienation in the light of Derrida’s deconstruction of the metaphysics of presence. Simon Skempton aims to demonstrate in what way Derridian deconstruction can itself be said to be a critique of alienation. In so doing, he argues that the acceptance of Derrida’s deconstructive... more...
The Roads to Modernity
Random House 2008; US$ 12.00Gertrude Himmelfarb's elegant and wonderfully readable work, The Roads to Modernity , reclaims the Enlightenment from historians who have downgraded its importance and from scholars who have given preeminence to the Enlightenment in France over concurrent movements in England and in America. Himmerlfarb demonstrates the primacy and wisdom of... more...
What Price Liberty?
Faber and Faber 2009; US$ 14.57Ben Wilson's provocative and incisive account of civil liberties, now in paperback. more...









