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A desire called america
Presents interpretations of American literature and politics, focusing on the work of Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, William S. Burroughs, and Thomas Pynchon. Analyzes how literary texts imagine America in utopian terms, contrasting American exceptionalism to non-capitalist visions of the America...
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A face drawn in sand
Rey Chow rearticulates the plight of the humanities in the age of global finance and neoliberal mores through a focus on Foucault’s concept “outside.” She foregrounds a nonutilitarian approach, stressing anew the intellectual and pedagogical objectives fundamental to humanistic inquiry.
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A political economy of the senses
Revives the key concept of reification from Marx and the Frankfurt School to spotlight the resistance to neoliberal capitalism now forming
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A politics of melancholia
Why melancholia is a vital form of social critique and a catalyst for political renewalMelancholia is wrongly condemned as a condition of withdrawal and despair that alienates its sufferer from community. Countering that misconception, A Politics of Melancholia reclaims an understanding of melanc...
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A time for critique
In A Time for Critique, Didier Fassin, Bernard E. Harcourt, and a group of eminent political theorists, anthropologists, sociologists, philosophers, literary and legal scholars reflect on the multiplying contexts and forms of critical discourses and on the social actors and social movements engag...
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Adorno's theory of philosophical and aesthetic truth
Owen Hulatt undertakes an original reading of Theodor W. Adorno’s epistemology, deepening our understanding of his theories of truth, art, and the nonidentical. Hulatt’s interpretation casts Adorno’s theory of philosophical and aesthetic truth as substantially unified, supporting his claim that b...
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After the red army faction
Analyzing the afterimage of revolutionary violence in contemporary culture and politics.Utopia or Auschwitz: Germany’s 1968 Generation and the Holocaust
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Alienation
A bold defense of a neglected concept and its relevance for critical social theory.
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Ambivalent recognition
In this ambitious and compelling book, Kristina Lepold challenges the common assumption that recognition is positive, emphasizing its ambivalent role in social life.
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American immanence
American Immanence seeks to replace the dominant American political tradition, which has resulted in global social, economic, and environmental injustices, with a new form of political theology, its dominant feature a radical democratic politics. Michael S. Hogue explores the potential of a disse...
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An archaeology of the political
Elías José Palti argues that the dimension of reality known as the political is not a natural, transhistorical entity. Instead, the horizon of the political arose in the context of a series of changes that affirmed the power of absolute monarchies in seventeenth-century Europe and was successivel...
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Anarcho-blackness
What Black liberation and anarchism have in common, and what they can offer each other.
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Another universalism
This book brings together an ensemble of leading theorists and younger voices to explore new dimensions of Seyla Benhabib’s thought across critical theory, feminism, and democratic theory, foregrounding the intricate relationship between critique and universality.
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Arts of address
Monique Roelofs offers a pathbreaking systematic model of the field of address and puts it to work in the arts, critical theory, and social life. Drawing on a wide array of theoretical and artistic sources and challenging disciplinary boundaries, she illuminates its significance to cultural exist...
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Avicenna and the aristotelian left
Ernst Bloch gives a striking account of materialism that traces emancipatory elements of modern thought to medieval Islamic philosophers’ encounter with Aristotle. He argues that the great medieval Islamic philosopher Avicenna (Ibn Sina) planted the seeds of a radical materialism still relevant f...
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Bauman and contemporary sociology
This book offers an incisive and original perspective on the works of Zygmunt Bauman, perhaps the greatest sociologist of the late twentieth century. It examines the limitations of his approach while recognising the importance of his legacy as a theorist who insisted on the need for moral engagem...
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Be prepared
Be Prepared reveals the surprising ways doomsday prepping is woven into the fabric of American institutions—and shows its significance for understanding the fault lines of liberal democracy.
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Birth of a new earth
Adrian Parr identifies the emancipatory potential of environmental politics both inside and outside existing structures and within opposing paradigms. Ultimately, environmental politics is the refusal to surrender life to the violence of global capitalism and militarism. This defiance can serve a...
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Bizarre-privileged items in the universe
An imaginative new theory of likeness that ranges widely across history and subjects, from physics and evolution to psychology, language, and artA butterfly is like another butterfly. A butterfly is also like a leaf and at the same time like a paper airplane, an owl’s face, a scholar flying from ...
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Capitalism and desire
Understanding capitalism as a psychic strategy.
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Capitalism on edge
Capitalism on Edge offers a novel diagnosis of the current moment to reveal that the potential for sweeping transformation must come from an unexpected direction. Albena Azmanova demonstrates that capitalism is not on its deathbed, revolution is not in the cards, and utopianism cannot steer us to...
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Capitalism's future
This book outlines conjoined critiques of commodity-fetishism and authority fetishism as the emancipatory agenda of 21st century critical theory.
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Chaos, territory, art
Elizabeth Grosz argues that art—especially architecture, music, and painting—is born from the disruptive forces of sexual selection. She approaches art as a form of erotic expression connecting sensory richness with primal desire, and finds that the meaning of art comes from the intensities and s...
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Cinema/politics/philosophy
Nico Baumbach revisits the much-maligned tradition of seventies film theory to reconsider: What does it mean to call cinema political? He explores how cinema can condition philosophy through its own means, challenging received ideas about what is seeable, sayable, and doable.
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Coming to our senses
Positions affect, or feeling, as our new cultural compass, ordering the parameters and possibilities of what can be known.
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Confronting gouldner
An important new appraisal of one of the 20th century’s most important activist sociologists.
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Contesting the far right
Why have so many people responded to the insecurity, exploitation, alienation, and isolation of precarity capitalism by supporting the far right? In this timely book, Claudia Leeb argues that psychoanalytic and feminist critical theory illuminates how economic and psychological factors interact t...
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Cooperation
Bernard E. Harcourt develops a transformative theory and practice that builds on worldwide models of successful cooperation.
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Crisis under critique
Didier Fassin, Axel Honneth, and an assembly of leading thinkers examine how people experience, interpret, and contribute to the making of and the response to critical situations. Featuring analysis from below as well as above, from the inside as well as the outside, Crisis Under Critique is a si...
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Critical marxism in mexico
A seminal work of interpretation, introducing English speaking readers to two of Mexico’s leading theorists.
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Critical practice from voltaire to foucault, eagleton and beyond
This volume aims to answer why so much 'critical' intellectual activity can be done with so little impact.
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Critical theories of anti-semitism
This book is at once a philosophical reflection on key problems in the analysis of anti-Semitism and a history of its leading theories and theorists.
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Critical theory and the philosophy of education
An interdisciplinary approach to modern educational issues, viewed through the lens of Critical Theory as developed by the Frankfurt School.
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Critical theory at a crossroads
Critical Theory at a Crossroads presents conversations with prominent theorists about the crises that have marked the past years and the use of the term "crisis" in political discourse. They offer their views on contemporary challenges and how we might address them, candidly discussing the altern...
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Critical theory in critical times
World-renowned specialists in contemporary critical theory address the recent crises and transformations of the global political and economic order
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Critique and praxis
Bernard E. Harcourt calls for moving beyond the complacency of decades of philosophical detours and to harness critical thought to the need for action. Critique and Praxis advocates for a new path forward that constantly challenges each one of us to ask what more we can do to realize a society ba...
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Critique of latin american reason
Critique of Latin American Reason is one of the most important philosophical texts to have come out of South America in recent decades. First published in 1996, it offers a sweeping critique of the foundational schools of thought in Latin American philosophy and critical theory.
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Critique on the couch
Does critical theory still need psychoanalysis? Amy Allen offers a cogent and convincing defense of its ongoing relevance. She draws on Freud, Klein, and Lacan to develop a more realistic strand of psychoanalytic thinking that centers on notions of loss, negativity, ambivalence, and mourning.
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Cut of the real
A leading scholar of gender studies and speculative realism carves a universal conception of identity and the subject. Katerina Kolozova reclaims the relevance of categories traditionally rendered "unthinkable" by postmodern feminist philosophies, critically repositioning poststructuralist femini...
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Dark ecology
Timothy Morton explores the foundations of the ecological crisis to reestablish our ties to nonhuman beings and rediscover playfulness and joy. Dark ecology puts us in an uncanny position of radical self-knowledge, illuminating our place in the biosphere and our belonging to a species in a sense ...
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Data love
Data Love considers the changes big data has brought to the human condition from a philosophical standpoint. Roberto Simanowski explores our entanglements with algorithmic analysis and data mining, as we contribute to the amassing of ever more data about our lives, leading to the statistical eval...
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Death and mastery
Fong reconstructs the psychoanalytic “foundation stone” of critical theory in an effort to once again think together the possibility of psychic and social transformation. Fong complicates the famous antagonism between Eros and the death drive in reference to a third term: the woefully undertheori...
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Decolonization and humanism
This collection challenges the understanding of decolonization and humanism pervasive in post-Foucauldian postcolonial studies.
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Disintegration: bad love, collective suicide, and the idols of imperial twilight
Marx. Durkheim. Critical Theory. Disintegration brings sociology, psychoanalysis, and dialectics together to offer a rousing critique of modern life.
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