-
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
Regular price $32.00Sale price $32.00 Regular price $32.00Unit price per -
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...
Read MoreRegular price $30.00Sale price $30.00 Regular price $30.00Unit price per -
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.
Regular price $28.00Sale price $28.00 Regular price $28.00Unit price per -
Crowds and democracy
Spanning aesthetics, cultural studies, intellectual history, and political theory, this volume unpacks the significance of the shadow agent known as “the mass” during a critical period in European history.
Regular price $65.00Sale price $65.00 Regular price $65.00Unit price per -
Dangerous minds
Following the fall of the Berlin Wall and demise of the Soviet Union, prominent Western thinkers began to suggest that liberal democracy had triumphed decisively on the world stage. Having banished fascism in World War II, liberalism had now buried communism, and the result would be an end of maj...
Read MoreRegular price $29.95Sale price $29.95 Regular price $29.95Unit price per -
Debating race, ethnicity, and latino identity
The philosopher Jorge J. E. Gracia engages fifteen prominent scholars on race, ethnicity, nationality, and Hispanic/Latino identity
Regular price $60.00Sale price $60.00 Regular price $60.00Unit price per -
Debord, time and spectacle
A detailed philosophical study of the theoretical work of Guy Debord and the Situationist International that helps to uncover a philosophy of praxis that remains useful today.
Regular price $40.00Sale price $40.00 Regular price $40.00Unit price per -
Decolonising the mind
A collection of essays about language and its constructive role in national culture, history, and identity, that advocates for linguistic decolonization.'The language of literature', Ngũgĩ writes, 'cannot be discussed meaningfully outside the context of those social forces which have made it both...
Read MoreRegular price $29.99Sale price $29.99 Regular price $29.99Unit price per -
-
Deleuze beyond badiou
Restoring the reputation of a twentieth-century philosopher and his relevance to twenty-first-century political thought.
Regular price $34.00Sale price $34.00 Regular price $34.00Unit price per -
Demanding the impossible
Navigating the broad “river of anarchy,” from Taoism to Situationism, from Ranters to Punk rockers, from individualists to communists, from anarcho-syndicalists to anarcha-feminists, Demanding the Impossible is an authoritative and lively study of a widely misunderstood subject. It explores the k...
Read MoreRegular price $34.95Sale price $34.95 Regular price $34.95Unit price per -
Democracy
Democracy is an essential collection of source texts by major historical figures on the value of democracy, key concepts and practices, theoretical perspectives, and contemporary challenges. The volume includes reflections on democracy by Machiavelli, Hobbes, Madison, Mill, Lincoln, and Paine. It...
Read MoreRegular price $42.00Sale price $42.00 Regular price $42.00Unit price per -
Democracy
At a time when democracy appears to be universally acclaimed as the only acceptable form of government, it is all the more necessary to be clear about what democracy means. Democracy: A Reader provides a range of pivotal statements on this important topic from supporters and defenders as well as ...
Read MoreRegular price $50.00Sale price $50.00 Regular price $50.00Unit price per -
Democracy and beauty
Robert Gooding-Williams reconstructs W. E. B. Du Bois’s defense of the political potential of beauty to challenge oppressive systems and foster an inclusive democracy.
Regular price $28.00Sale price $28.00 Regular price $28.00Unit price per -
Democracy and digital communication
How platforms are embedded in political systems and shape the conditions of communication and collective decision-making.
Regular price $60.00Sale price $60.00 Regular price $60.00Unit price per -
Democracy and the political unconscious
Political philosopher Noëlle McAfee proposes a powerful new political theory for our post-9/11 world, in which an old pathology-the repetition compulsion-has manifested itself in a seemingly endless war on terror. McAfee argues that the quintessentially human desire to participate in a world with...
Read MoreRegular price $65.00Sale price $65.00 Regular price $65.00Unit price per -
Democracy and tradition
Do religious arguments have a public role in the post-9/11 world? Can we hold democracy together despite fractures over moral issues? Are there moral limits on the struggle against terror? Asking how the citizens of modern democracy can reason with one another, this book carves out a controversia...
Read MoreRegular price $55.00Sale price $55.00 Regular price $55.00Unit price per -
Democracy for realists
Why our belief in government by the people is unrealistic—and what we can do about itDemocracy for Realists assails the romantic folk-theory at the heart of contemporary thinking about democratic politics and government, and offers a provocative alternative view grounded in the actual human natur...
Read MoreRegular price $24.95Sale price $24.95 Regular price $24.95Unit price per -
Democracy in what state?
"Is it meaningful to call oneself a democrat? And if so, how do you interpret the word?"In responding to this question, eight iconoclastic thinkers prove the rich potential of democracy, along with its critical weaknesses, and reconceive the practice to accommodate new political and cultural real...
Read MoreRegular price $23.00Sale price $23.00 Regular price $23.00Unit price per -
Democracy past and future
Democracy Past and Future is the first English-language collection of Pierre Rosanvallon's most important essays on the historical origins, contemporary difficulties, and future prospects of democratic life.One of Europe's leading political thinkers, Rosanvallon proposes in these essays new readi...
Read MoreRegular price $34.00Sale price $34.00 Regular price $34.00Unit price per -
Democratic failures and the ethics of democracy
In Democratic Failures and the Ethics of Democracy, political philosopher Adam Lovett argues that when it comes to democratic ideals, the United States is a failed democracy. Specifically, he contends that American democracy has failed to advance equality and self-rule for its citizens—qualities ...
Read MoreRegular price $74.95Sale price $74.95 Regular price $74.95Unit price per -
Demos
A compelling reinterpretation of ancient Greek democracy showing that the people ruled by securing mass control over leadersIn ancient Greece, demokratia meant “rule by the people”—but what people, and how did they rule? Scholars have long argued that demokratia signified the rule of all adult ma...
Read MoreRegular price $45.00Sale price $45.00 Regular price $45.00Unit price per -
Desire and fate
Brilliant and unsparing essays on the blind spots and maladies of contemporary culture.
Regular price $24.00Sale price $24.00 Regular price $24.00Unit price per -
Developing africa?
The book depicts an Afrocentric thinker grounded in the theory of Afrocentricity in the interrogation of an African development discourse in pursuit of cognitive justice.
Regular price $110.00Sale price $110.00 Regular price $110.00Unit price per -
Dialectics of the ideal
Activity Theory and 'Creative' Soviet-Marxism are still overlocked by contemporary theorists. This volume is a correction to this tragic omission.
Regular price $30.00Sale price $30.00 Regular price $30.00Unit price per -
Die your own death
How Walt Whitman’s philosophy of death prepares the soul for freedom and equalityHumans fantasize about immortality. Billionaires dabble in cryonics, politicians build monuments to themselves, and writers donate their papers to libraries. In Die Your Own Death, Jack Turner argues that the quest f...
Read MoreRegular price $24.95Sale price $24.95 Regular price $24.95Unit price per -
Discourse on colonialism
This classic work, first published in France in 1950, profoundly influenced the generation of scholars and activists at the forefront of liberation struggles in Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean. More than twenty years later, when published for the first time in English, Discourse on Colon...
Read MoreRegular price $16.00Sale price $16.00 Regular price $16.00Unit price per -
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.
Regular price $30.00Sale price $30.00 Regular price $30.00Unit price per -
Divine institutions
How religious ritual united a growing and diversifying Roman RepublicMany narrative histories of Rome's transformation from an Italian city-state to a Mediterranean superpower focus on political and military conflicts as the primary agents of social change. Divine Institutions places religion at ...
Read MoreRegular price $37.00Sale price $37.00 Regular price $37.00Unit price per -
Do not resuscitate
Maurice Saatchi writes an unsparing self-portrait of his celestial trial in which his application to pass through the Gates of Heaven is heard before a jury featuring luminaries like Marilyn Monroe, Pablo Picasso, Chairman Mao, and Margaret Thatcher.
Regular price $18.00Sale price $18.00 Regular price $18.00Unit price per -
Doing aesthetics with arendt
Constructs an Arendtian theory of aesthetics from the philosopher’s fragmentary writings on art and perception.
Regular price $60.00Sale price $60.00 Regular price $60.00Unit price per -
Dreamworlds of race
How transatlantic thinkers in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries promoted the unification of Britain and the United StatesBetween the late nineteenth century and the First World War an ocean-spanning network of prominent individuals advocated the unification of Britain and the Unit...
Read MoreRegular price $34.00Sale price $34.00 Regular price $34.00Unit price per -
Earthborn democracy
This book offers a new vision of ecological and participatory democratic life for a time of crisis, allying visionary political theory with environmental activism.
Regular price $32.00Sale price $32.00 Regular price $32.00Unit price per -
Earthlings
Combining poetic observation with philosophical contemplation and scientific evidence, Adrian Parr offers a moving vision of a world in upheaval and a potent manifesto for survival. Earthlings is both a joyful celebration of the magnificence of the biosphere and an urgent call for action to save it.
Regular price $22.00Sale price $22.00 Regular price $22.00Unit price per -
Ecce humanitas
Through a critical exploration of violence and the sacred, Ecce Humanitas recasts the fall of liberal humanism. Brad Evans offers a rich analysis of the changing nature of sacrificial violence, from its theological origins to the exhaustion of the victim in the contemporary world.
Regular price $35.00Sale price $35.00 Regular price $35.00Unit price per -
Edward said
“A learned and intimate exploration of Said’s thought with deep relevance for today’s debates about Palestine and Israel and American intellectual life.”—Peter Beinart, author of Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza An exploration of the political thought of one of the twentieth century's m...
Read MoreRegular price $49.95Sale price $49.95 Regular price $49.95Unit price per -
Emancipation after hegel
Simultaneously an introduction to Hegel and a fundamental reimagining of Hegel’s project, this book presents a radical Hegel for the twenty-first century. Todd McGowan contends that the revolutionary core of Hegel’s thought is contradiction.
Regular price $30.00Sale price $30.00 Regular price $30.00Unit price per -
Energy and change
Clayton Crockett offers an innovative philosophy of energy that cuts across a number of leading-edge disciplines. Drawing from contemporary philosophies of New Materialism, non-Western traditions, and the sciences, he develops a comprehensive vision of energy as a material process spanning physic...
Read MoreRegular price $35.00Sale price $35.00 Regular price $35.00Unit price per -
Enlightenment on the eve of revolution
Elizabeth Suzanne Kassab offers a groundbreaking analysis of Egyptian and Syrian debates over enlightenment and their import for the 2011 uprisings. Enlightenment on the Eve of Revolution is the first book to document these debates for the Anglophone audience and to analyze their importance for c...
Read MoreRegular price $30.00Sale price $30.00 Regular price $30.00Unit price per -
Epistemic injustice and violence
This book is dedicated to the special role of epistemic injustice and violence in philosophy.
Regular price $50.00Sale price $50.00 Regular price $50.00Unit price per -
Equal recognition
Conflicting claims about culture are a familiar refrain of political life in the contemporary world. On one side, majorities seek to fashion the state in their own image, while on the other, cultural minorities press for greater recognition and accommodation. Theories of liberal democracy are at ...
Read MoreRegular price $39.00Sale price $39.00 Regular price $39.00Unit price per -
Ethics
The Essence of Morality offers a bold, coherent vision of ethics grounded in cooperation rather than coercion, an argument as provocative today as when Kropotkin first set pen to paper. Left unfinished at his death, Peter Kropotkin’s two-volume work on ethics is a rejection of both divine command...
Read MoreRegular price $24.95Sale price $24.95 Regular price $24.95Unit price per -
Europe and the wolf
How the work of several contemporary artists illuminates and challenges the policing of European borders and identityIn this stunningly original book, Sara Nadal-Melsió explores how the work of several contemporary artists illuminates the current crisis of European universalist values amid the br...
Read MoreRegular price $32.00Sale price $32.00 Regular price $32.00Unit price per -
Exile, statelessness, and migration
An examination of the intertwined lives and writings of a group of prominent twentieth-century Jewish thinkers who experienced exile and migrationExile, Statelessness, and Migration explores the intertwined lives, careers, and writings of a group of prominent Jewish intellectuals during the mid-t...
Read MoreRegular price $33.00Sale price $33.00 Regular price $33.00Unit price per -
Faces of moderation
Aristotle listed moderation as one of the moral virtues. He also defined virtue as the mean between extremes, implying that moderation plays a vital role in all forms of moral excellence. But moderation's protean character—its vague and ill-defined omnipresence in judgment and action—makes it exc...
Read MoreRegular price $34.95Sale price $34.95 Regular price $34.95Unit price per
Something went wrong
Please try again
