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Common Growl - Toward A Poetics Of Precarious Community

by Thomas Claviez

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 An impressive collection bringing together contributions of renowned scholars on the topic of a "New Poetics of Community" that goes beyond both a romantic nostalgia for homogeneity and the myths of social engineering and rational choice.
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Sensible Life - A Micro-Ontology Of The Image

by Emanuele Coccia

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 This book is a rehabilitation sensibility. It defines what we call sensibility or sensible life by defining the ontological status of images. It shows that images have an intermediate ontological status and exist in an autonomous sphere. It also explores our interactions with images in dream, fashion and language.
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Europe And Empire - On The Political Forms Of Globalization

by Massimo Cacciari

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 Assesses the current situation of Europe ten years after the adoption of the single currency. Examines the genealogy of the idea of Europe from the Greek confrontation with the Asia to the conflict between the Roman Empire and Christianity. Discusses the role of secularization in the shaping of modern Europe.
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Subject Of Freedom - Kant, Levinas

by Gabriela Basterra

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 This book proposes a conversation between Immanuel Kantâ€™s first two Critiques and Emmanuel Levinasâ€™s Otherwise than Being to reflect on the ideas of freedom, obligation, subjectivity, ethics, autonomy and thinking.
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Life Of Things, The Love Of Things

by Remo Bodei

~~23,84€~~ 19,07€ 20% OFF + 5% CARD

 From prehistoric stone tools to machines to computers, things have traveled a long road along with human beings. Changing with the times, places, and methods of production, coming from diverse histories, enveloped in multiple layers of meaning, things embody ideas, emotions, and symbols of which we are often unaware.
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Communities In Fiction

by J. Hillis Miller

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 Communities in Fiction reads in detail six novels or stories (one each by Trollope, Hardy, Conrad, Woolf, Pynchon, and Cervantes) in the light of theories of community worked out (contradictorily) by Raymond Williams, Martin Heidegger, and Jean-Luc Nancy for communities or non-communities in the real world.
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Reject - Community, Politics, And Religion After The Subject

by Irving Goh

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 This book proposes the reject as the figure of thought for our contemporaneous times. It shows how the reject can open us to radical forms of relations, democratic horizons, and â€œpost-secularâ€ and â€œposthumanâ€ futures not only beyond anthropocentric limits, but also in ways by which others and their differences are affirmed respectfully.
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Giorgio Agamben - Beyond The Threshold Of Deconstruction

by Kevin Attell

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 Traces Italian philosopher Giorgio Agambenâ€™s engagement with deconstructive thought from his early work in the 1960s to the present, examining his key concepts â€" infancy, Voice, potentiality, sovereignty, bare life, messianism â€" in relation to key texts and concepts in Jacques Derridaâ€™s work.
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Where Are You? - An Ontology Of The Cell Phone

by Maurizio Ferraris

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 An analysis of the history and social role of mobile phones today (with an enhancement of their primary writing function) is followed by a proposal of a philosophical theory of objects, which is meant to be complementary to Searleâ€™s â€˜collective intentionalityâ€™, that places writing at the basis of social reality.
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Identity - Fragments, Frankness

by Jean-Luc Nancy

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 Identity: Fragments, Frankness is a rich and powerful essay on the notion of identity and on how it operates in our contemporary world. In contrast to the various attempts to cling to established identities or to associate identity with dubious agendas, Nancy shows that an identity is always open to alterity and its transformations.Against cynical initiatives that seek to instrumentalize the question of identity in an attempt to manipulate sentiment against immigration, Nancy problematizes anew the notions of identity, nation, and national identity. He seeks to show that there is never a given identity but always an open process of identification that retains an exposure to difference. Thus identity can never operate as a self-identical subject, such as the French. Ultimately, for Nancy, one does not have an identity but has to become one. One can never return to a self-same identity but can only seek to locate oneself within difference and singularity. Nancy shows the impasse of a certain conception of identity that he calls the identity of the identifiable, which refers to some permanent, given, substantial identity. In opposition to such identity, Nancy offers the identity of whatever or whoever invents itself in an open process of exposure to others and internal difference. Hence, an identity is never given but makes itself by seeking and inventing itself. One does not have an identity, but is an identity.Identity is an act, not a state.This important book will provide much-needed philosophical clarification of a complex and strategic notion at the center of many current events and discussions.
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Republic Of The Living - Biopolitics And The Critique Of Civil Society

by Miguel Vatter

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 Takes up Foucault's hypothesis that liberal "civil society," far from being a sphere of natural freedoms, designates the social spaces where our biological lives come under new forms of control, and are invested with new forms of biopower.
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Common Things - Romance And The Aesthetics Of Belonging In Atlantic Modernity

by James D. Lilley

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 Focusing on the work of Horace Walpole, Thomas Jefferson, Henry Mackenzie, Washington Irving, Charles Brockden Brown, and Edgar Allan Poe, examines how the aesthetics of the romance novel influenced--and was influenced by--emerging modern systems of racial, national, sentimental, and political community.
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Queer Turn In Feminism - Identities, Sexualities, And The Theater Of Gender

by Anne Emmanuelle Berger

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 Looks at gender and queer theories through lenses that are simultaneously retrospective and anticipatory, "American" and "French".
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Sovereignty And Its Other - Toward The Dejustification Of Violence

by Dimitris Vardoulakis

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 In this new book, Dimitris Vardoulakis asks how it is possible to think of a politics that is not commensurate with sovereignty. For such a politics, he argues, sovereignty is defined not in terms of the exception but as the different ways in which violence is justified. Vardoulakis shows how it is possible to deconstruct the various justifications of violence. Such dejustifications can take place only by presupposing an other to sovereignty, which Vardoulakis identifies with radical democracy. In doing so, Sovereignty and Its Other puts forward both a novel critique of sovereignty and an original philosophical theory of democratic practice.
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Scandalize My Name - Black Feminist Practice And The Making Of Black Social Life

by Terrion L. Williamson

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 "A cultural analysis of representation and representational discourse that advances black feminist practice as a modality through which black social life is both theorized and made material."
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Out Of The Ordinary - A Life Of Gender And Spiritual Transitions

by Michael Dillon/Lobzang Jivaka

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 Out of the Ordinary is the memoir of Dr. Michael Dillon / Lobzang Jivaka (1915-1962) who transitioned from female to male between 1939 and 1949, became a shipâ€™s surgeon in the (British) Merchant Navy, and was a monastic novice in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition when he died unexpectedly in 1962.
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Scandalize My Name - Black Feminist Practice And The Making Of Black Social Life

by Terrion L. Williamson

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 "A cultural analysis of representation and representational discourse that advances black feminist practice as a modality through which black social life is both theorized and made material."
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Sexagon - Diversity, Sexuality, And Belonging In Contemporary France

by Mehammed Amadeus Mack

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 Sexagon examines how Muslim immigrants from North Africa-as well as their French descendants-have had their level of assimilation to French Culture evaluated according to their attitudes about gender and sexuality. Mack contends that French Arab and Muslim minorities have had their French-ness rejected not because of any linguistic or civic barrier, but rather due to their perceived inadequacy at the level of sexual liberation.
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Blackpentecostal Breath - The Aesthetics Of Possibility

by Ashon T. Crawley

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All Ears - The Aesthetics Of Espionage

by Peter Szendy

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 An archeology of auditory surveillance combined with an analysis of representations of spying in works of literature, music, and film that provide philosophical reflections on the drives that animate listening: the drive for mastery and the death drive.
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The Disavowed Community

by Jean-Luc Nancy

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 Over thirty years after Maurice Blanchot writes The Unavowable Communityâ€"a book outlining a critical response to Jean-Luc Nancyâ€™s early proposal for thinking an â€œinoperative communityâ€â€"The Disavowed Community offers a close reading of Blanchotâ€™s text.
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Teaching Bodies - Moral Formation In The Summa Of Thomas Aquinas

by Mark D. Jordan

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 This book is an interpretation of the moral teaching of Thomas Aquinasâ€™s Summa of Theology. It argues that teaching on the virtues can only be understood by turning to the patterns of divine teaching in the incarnation and the sacraments. It presents this not only as Thomasâ€™s great originality in the Summa but also as his contribution to Christian thought in the present.
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The Muses On Their Lunch Hour

by Marjorie Garber

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Heidegger, Philosophy, And Politics - The Heidelberg Conference

by Hans-Georg Gadamer, Jacques Derrida e Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe

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