The Limits of Critique (Felski Rita)(Paperback)

The Limits of Critique (Felski Rita)(Paperback)

Why must critics unmask and demystify literary works? Why do they believe that language is always withholding some truth, that the critic's task is to reveal the unsaid or repressed? In this book, Rita Felski examines critique, the dominant form of interpretation in literary studies, and situates

Rethinking Tragedy (Felski Rita)(Paperback)

This groundbreaking collection provokes a major reassessment of the significance of tragedy and the tragic in late modernity. A distinguished group of scholars and theorists extends the discussion of tragedy beyond its usual parameters to include film, popular culture, and contemporary politics

LaTour and the Humanities (Felski Rita)(Paperback)

In recent years, defenses of the humanities have tended to argue along predictable lines: the humanities foster empathy, the humanities encourage critical thinking, the humanities offer a counterweight to the cold calculations of the natural and social sciences. The essays in Latour and the

The Limits to Capital (Harvey David)(Paperback)

A major rereading of Marx's critique of political economy, fully

Critique of Judgement (Kant Immanuel)(Paperback)

In the Critique of Judgement, Kant offers a penetrating analysis of our experience of the beautiful and the sublime. He discusses the objectivity of taste, aesthetic disinterestedness, the relation of art and nature, the role of imagination, genius and originality, the limits of representation, and

Toward the Critique of Violence: A Critical Edition (Benjamin Walter)(Paperback)

Marking the centenary of Walter Benjamin's immensely influential essay, 'Toward the Critique of Violence,' this critical edition presents readers with an altogether new, fully annotated translation of a work that is widely recognized as a classic of modern political theory. The volume includes

For a Critique of the Political Economy of the Sign (Baudrillard Jean)(Paperback)

A material analysis of the sign which deepens Marx's critique of political economy for spectacular

Critique of Pure Reason, Second Edition (Kant I.)(Paperback)

Kant's Critique of Pure Reason is one of the most rewarding of all philosophical works. The text follows the second edition of 1787, with a translation of all first edition passages altered or omitted. For this reissue of Kemp Smith's classic 1929 edition, Gary Banham contributes a major new

Critique of Black Reason (Mbembe Achille)(Paperback)

In Critique of Black Reason eminent critic Achille Mbembe offers a capacious genealogy of the category of Blackness-from the Atlantic slave trade to the present-to critically reevaluate history, racism, and the future of humanity. Mbembe teases out the intellectual consequences of the reality that

On Critique: A Sociology of Emancipation (Boltanski Luc)(Paperback)

The relationship between sociology and social critique has haunted the discipline since its origins. Does critique divert sociology from its scientific project? Or is critique the ultimate goal of sociology, without which the latter would be a futile activity disconnected from the concerns of

Marx and the Earth: An Anti-Critique (Foster John Bellamy)(Paperback)

In this compelling anti-critique the founders of the Eco-socialist school of thought respond to their chief intellectual

Hooked: Art and Attachment (Felski Rita)(Paperback)

How does a novel entice or enlist us? How does a song surprise or seduce us? Why do we bristle when a friend belittles a book we love, or fall into a funk when a favored TV series comes to an end? What characterizes the aesthetic experiences of feeling captivated by works of art? In Hooked, Rita

Kant: Critique of Pure Reason (Kant Immanuel)(Paperback)

This entirely new translation of Critique of Pure Reason is the most accurate and informative English translation ever produced of this epochal philosophical text. Though its simple, direct style will make it suitable for all new readers of Kant, the translation displays a philosophical and textual

Critique of Latin American Reason (Castro-Gmez Santiago)(Paperback)

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. Santiago Castro-G

Tarrying with the Negative: Kant, Hegel, and the Critique of Ideology (Zizek Slavoj)(Paperback)

Adorno, Foucault and the Critique of the West (Cook Deborah)(Paperback)

The alliance of critical theory between Frankfurt and

Constructing the Pluriverse: The Geopolitics of Knowledge (Reiter Bernd)(Paperback)

The contributors to Constructing the Pluriverse critique the hegemony of the postcolonial Western tradition and its claims to universality by offering a set of 'pluriversal' approaches to understanding the coexisting epistemologies and practices of the different worlds and problems we inhabit and

Critique of Pure Reason (Kant Immanuel)(Paperback)

The masterpiece of the father of modern philosophy A seminal text of modern philosophy, Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason (1781) made history by bringing together two opposing schools of thought: rationalism, which grounds all our knowledge in reason, and empiricism, which traces all our

The Blood-Stained Poppy: A Critique of the Politics of Commemoration (Rooney Kevin)(Paperback)

The Poppy is a symbol of British militarism, not a badge of

The Promise of Happiness (Ahmed Sara)(Paperback)

The Promise of Happiness is a provocative cultural critique of the imperative to be happy. It asks what follows when we make our desires and even our own happiness conditional on the happiness of others: 'I just want you to be happy'; 'I'm happy if you're happy.' Combining philosophy and feminist

Alone on the Wall - Alex Honnold and the Ultimate Limits of Adventure (Honnold Alex)(Paperback / softback)

Rite of Passage (Bury Dom)(Paperback)

Dom Bury's Rite of Passage is an initiation into what it means to be alive on the planet in the midst of extinction, of climate, environmental and systematic collapse. It is a journey into the shadow of man's distorted relationship with the earth. And yet in the utter darkness of this hour, these

Frankenstein (Shelley Mary)(Paperback)

The world's most famous work of horror fiction: a devastating exploration of the limits of human creativity. Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read Mary Shelley's timeless gothic novel presents the epic battle between man and monster at its greatest

Now (The Invisible Committee)(Paperback)

A new political critique from the authors of The Coming Insurrection, calling for a 'destituent process' of outright refusal and utter indifference to government.Now is the phantom chapter to the Invisible Committee's previous book, To Our Friends a new critique from the anonymous collective that