Understanding the Political Philosophers from Ancient to Modern Times by Alan Haworth

$16.00 NZD

Category: Philosophy | Reading Level: very good

Foucault and Feminism - Power, Gender and the Self by Lois McNay

$15.00 NZD

Category: Philosophy | Reading Level: very good

This book offers a systematic attempt to explore the point of convergance between feminist theory and the work of Michel Foucault.

The Deleuze Connections by John Rajchman

$14.00 NZD

Category: Philosophy | Reading Level: very good

The first book to present Gilles Deleuze's philosophy in language the nonphilosopher can understand.This book is a map of the work of Gilles Deleuze-the man Michel Foucault would call the "only real philosophical intelligence in France." It is not only for professional philosophers, but for those engage d in what Deleuze called the "nonphilosophical understanding of philosophy" in other domains, such as the arts, architecture, design, urbanism, new technologies, and politics. For Deleuze's philosophy is meant to go off in many directions at once, opening up zones of unforeseen connections between disciplines. Rajchman isolates the logic at the heart of Deleuze's philosophy and the "image of thought" that it supposes. He then works out its implications for social and cultural thought, as well as for art and design-for how to do critical theory today. In this way he clarifies the aims and assumptions of a philosophy that looks constantly to invent new ways to affirm the "free differences" and the "complex repetitions" in the histories and spaces in which we find ourselves. He looks at the particular realism and empiricism that this affirmation implies and how they might be used to diagnose new forces confronting us today. In the process, he explores the many connections that Deleuze himself constructs in working out his philosophy, with the arts, political movements, even the neurosciences and artificial intelligence. ...Show more

The New Science of Giambattista Vico by Giambattista Vico; Thomas G. Bergin (Translator); Max H. Fisch (Translator)

$10.00 NZD

Category: Philosophy | Reading Level: good

Reflexivity - The Post-Modern Predicament by Hilary Lawson

$12.00 NZD

Category: Philosophy | Series: Problems of Modern European Thought Ser. | Reading Level: very good

Philosophy Through the Looking-Glass by Jean-Jacques Lecercle

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Category: Philosophy | Reading Level: very good

The Contest of Faculties: Deconstruction, Philosophy and Theory by Christopher Norris

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Category: Philosophy | Reading Level: very good

Redrawing the Lines - Analytic Philosophy, Deconstruction, and Literary Theory by Reed Way Dasenbrock (Editor)

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Category: Philosophy | Reading Level: very good

Redrawing the Lines was first published in 1989. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. Since 1970 literary theory has experienced a period of rich inte raction with both Anglo-American analytic and Continental philosophy, particularly deconstruction. Yet these two philosophical schools have regarded each other with hostility, if at all, as in the 1977 exchange between John Searle and Jacques Derrida over the work of J. L. Austin. Since then, the two philosophical traditions have begun to interact as each has influenced literary theory, and some suggest that they are not diametrically opposed. Redrawing the Lines, the first book to focus on that interaction, brings together ten essays by key figures who have worked to connect literary theory and philosophy and to reassess the relationship between analytic and Continental philosophy. The editor's introduction establishes the debate's historical context, and his annotated bibliography directs the interested reader to virtually everything written on this issue. The contributors: Reed Way Dasenbrock, Henry Staten, Michael Fischer, Charles Altieri, Richard Shusterman, Samuel C. Wheeler III, Jules David Law, Steven Winspur, Christopher Norris, Richard Rorty, and Anthony J. Cascardi. Reed Way Dasenbrock is associate professor of English at New Mexico State University. He is the author of The Literary Vorticism of Ezra Pound and Wyndham Lewis: Toward the Condition of Painting. ...Show more

Patterns of Dissonance - A Study of Women and Contemporary Philosophy by Rosi Braidotti; Elizabeth Guild (Translator)

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Category: Philosophy | Reading Level: very good

This book is a brilliant and timely analysis of the complex issuesraised by the relation between women and philosophy. It offers acritical account of a wide range of contemporary philosophical andfeminist texts and it develops this account into an originalproject of critical feminist thought. Braidotti examines contemporary French philosophy as practisedby men such as Foucault and Derrida, showing that they rely on anotion of 'the feminine' in order to undermine classical thought,which bears no direct relevance to the historical experience ofwomen. Braidotti then looks at the attempts of contemporary feministthinkers in Europe and the United States to show the genderednature of discursive power games. She discusses the contributionsof Luce Irigaray and many other feminist theorists to theunderstanding of sexual difference and of its implications forphilosophy and politics. This book will be of interest to studentsand researchers in women's studies, feminist theory, social theory,cultural studies, philosophy and literature, and anyone interestedin contemporary feminism and the relation between feminist theory,post-structuralism and psychoanalysis. ...Show more

Altarity by Mark C. Taylor

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Category: Philosophy | Series: Religion and Postmodernism Ser. | Reading Level: very good

Readers familiar with Mark C. Taylor's previous writing will immediately recognize Altarity as a remarkable synthetic project. This work combines the analytic depth and detail of Taylor's earlier studies of Kierkegaard and Hegel with the philosophical and theological scope of his highly acclaimed Erring . In Altarity, Taylor develops a genealogy of otherness and difference that is based on the principle of creative juxtaposition. Rather than relying on a historical or chronological survey of crucial moments in modern philosophical thinking, he explores the complex question of difference through the strategies of contrast, resonance, and design. Taylor brings together the work of thinkers as diverse as Hegel, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Lacan, Bataille, Kristeva, Levinas, Blanchot, Derrida, and Kierkegaard to fashion a broad intellectual scheme. Situated in an interdisciplinary discourse, Altarity signifies a harnessing of continental and American habits of intellectual thought and illustrates the singularity that emerges from such a configuration. As such, the book functions as a mirror of our intellectual moment and offers the academy a rigorous way of acknowledging the limitations of its own interpretive practices. ...Show more

The Question of the Other - Essays in Contemporary Continental Philosophy by Arleen B. Dallery (Editor); Charles E. Scott (Editor)

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Category: Philosophy | Series: SUNY Series, Selected Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy Ser. | Reading Level: very good

The core source of this book is the work of Emmanuel Levinas. Beginning with a chapter on speaking and the other, three lead chapters focus on Levinas' account of the face of the other. These chapters are followed by explorations of the ethics of dissemination in Derrida, the freedom of the other in Sar tre, the cultural other in Husserlian phenomenology, the other as sexual difference in Irigaray and Nietzsche, the sublime in aesthetics, and the deconstruction of the primacy of the ego in Foucault and Lacan. This book is especially relevant to feminist theory. It shows that postmodern, continental philosophy does indeed have ethical implications. The question of the other or the presence of the other undercuts the foundationalist starting points of ethical theory and epistemology. The Question of the Other presents fresh and original interpretations of Husserl, Nietzsche, Derrida, Levinas, Irigaray, Foucault, Lacan, Heidegger, and Sartre. ...Show more

Tears by Mark C. Taylor

$12.00 NZD

Category: Philosophy | Series: SUNY Series, Intersections: Philosophy and Critical Theory Ser. | Reading Level: good

In Tears, the author explores theoretical issues raised by the intersection of philosophy, literature, art, architecture, and theology. The critical accounts of thinkers like Derrida, Blanchot, Jab s, Kierkegaard, Hegel, Heidegger, Ricoeur, Gadamer, Austin, Ayre, Rorty, Tillich, Barth, and Altizer devel oped in this book effectively reshape and refocus the terms of current debate. ...Show more