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The Legacy of Ruth Bader Ginsburg (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition): Scott Dodson The Legacy of Ruth Bader Ginsburg (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
Scott Dodson
R773 R638 Discovery Miles 6 380 Save R135 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Ruth Bader Ginsburg was a legal icon. In more than four decades as a lawyer, professor, appellate judge, and Associate Justice of the US Supreme Court, Ginsburg influenced the law and society in real and permanent ways. This book chronicles and evaluates the remarkable achievements Ruth Bader Ginsburg made over the last half-century. Including chapters written by prominent court-watchers and leading scholars from law, political science, and history, the book offers diverse perspectives on an array of doctrinal areas and different periods in Ginsburg's career. Together, these perspectives document the impressive legacy of one of the most important figures in modern law. This updated second edition features a new foreword from Supreme Court Justice Stephen G. Breyer and a new introduction from the editor Scott Dodson.

A Theory of Spectral Rhetoric - The Word between the Worlds (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021): Seth Pierce A Theory of Spectral Rhetoric - The Word between the Worlds (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Seth Pierce
R2,626 Discovery Miles 26 260 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book synthesizes Jacques Derrida's hauntology and spectrality with affect theory, in order to create a rhetorical framework analyzing the felt absences and hauntings of written and oral texts. The book opens with a history of hauntology, spectrality, and affect theory and how each of those ideas have been applied. The book then moves into discussing the unique elements of the rhetorical framework known as the rhetorrectional situation. Three case studies taken from the Christian tradition, serve to demonstrate how spectral rhetoric works. The first is fictional, C.S. Lewis 'The Great Divorce. The second is non-fiction, Tim Jennings 'The God Shaped Brain. The final one is taken from homiletics, Bishop Michael Curry's royal wedding 2018 sermon. After the case studies conclusion offers the reader a summary and ideas future applications for spectral rhetoric.

Bottle of Beef - The Media Empire of Doom (Paperback): Paul Tompkins Bottle of Beef - The Media Empire of Doom (Paperback)
Paul Tompkins
R669 R573 Discovery Miles 5 730 Save R96 (14%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
This Incredible Need to Believe (Paperback): Julia Kristeva This Incredible Need to Believe (Paperback)
Julia Kristeva; Translated by Beverley Bie Brahic
R383 R316 Discovery Miles 3 160 Save R67 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"Unlike Freud, I do not claim that religion is just an illusion and a source of neurosis. The time has come to recognize, without being afraid of 'frightening' either the faithful or the agnostics, that the history of Christianity prepared the world for humanism."

So writes Julia Kristeva in this provocative work, which skillfully upends our entrenched ideas about religion, belief, and the thought and work of a renowned psychoanalyst and critic. With dialogue and essay, Kristeva analyzes our "incredible need to believe"--the inexorable push toward faith that, for Kristeva, lies at the heart of the psyche and the history of society. Examining the lives, theories, and convictions of Saint Teresa of Avila, Sigmund Freud, Donald Winnicott, Hannah Arendt, and other individuals, she investigates the intersection between the desire for God and the shadowy zone in which belief resides.

Kristeva suggests that human beings are formed by their need to believe, beginning with our first attempts at speech and following through to our adolescent search for identity and meaning. Kristeva then applies her insight to contemporary religious clashes and the plight of immigrant populations, especially those of Islamic origin. Even if we no longer have faith in God, Kristeva argues, we must believe in human destiny and creative possibility. Reclaiming Christianity's openness to self-questioning and the search for knowledge, Kristeva urges a "new kind of politics," one that restores the integrity of the human community.

Expired Mindsets - Releasing Patterns That No Longer Serve You Well (Hardcover): Dr Charryse Johnson Lcmhc Ncc Expired Mindsets - Releasing Patterns That No Longer Serve You Well (Hardcover)
Dr Charryse Johnson Lcmhc Ncc
R781 R647 Discovery Miles 6 470 Save R134 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Elements of Foucault (Hardcover): Gregg Lambert The Elements of Foucault (Hardcover)
Gregg Lambert
R2,125 Discovery Miles 21 250 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A new conceptual diagram of Foucault's original vision of the biopolitical order The history around the critical reception of Michel Foucault's published writings is troubled, according to Gregg Lambert, especially in light of the controversy surrounding his late lectures on biopolitics and neoliberal governmentality. In this book, Lambert's unique approach distills Foucault's thought into its most basic components in order to more fully understand its method and its own immanent rules of construction. The Elements of Foucault presents a critical study of Foucault's concept of method from the earlier History of Sexuality, Volume 1, to his later lectures. Lambert breaks down Foucault's post-1975 analysis of the idea of biopower into four elements: the method, the conceptual device (i.e., dispositif), the grid of intelligibility, and the notion of "milieu." Taken together, these elements compose the diagram of Foucault's early analysis and the emergence of the neoliberal political economy. Lambert further delves into how Foucault's works have been used and misused over time, challenging the periodization of Foucault's later thought in scholarship as well as the major and most influential readings of Foucault by other contemporary philosophers-in particular Gilles Deleuze and Giorgio Agamben. The Elements of Foucault is the first generally accessible, yet rigorous and comprehensive, discussion of lectures and major published works of Foucault's post-1975 theory of biopower and of the major innovation of the concept of dispositif. It is also the first critical work to address the important influence of French philosopher Georges Canghuilhem on Foucault's thought.

Derrida'S Politics of Friendship - Amity and Enmity (Hardcover): Luke Collison, Cillian O Fathaigh, Georgios Tsagdis Derrida'S Politics of Friendship - Amity and Enmity (Hardcover)
Luke Collison, Cillian O Fathaigh, Georgios Tsagdis
R2,928 R2,449 Discovery Miles 24 490 Save R479 (16%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Twenty-five years after the publication of Derrida's Politics of Friendship (Politiques de l'amitie, 1994), this edited collection gathers twenty-three critical chapters each revisiting this underappreciated text, including Derrida's Geschlecht IV, an essay excluded from the English translation.Engaging closely with Derrida's text are analyses, extensions and critiques of the work. It not only reconsiders the place this book occupies in Derrida's political philosophy but also its potential for contemporary politics, when the promises and perils of political friendship have reappeared, intertwined with both nationalist and anti-nationalist political programmes.

Poststructuralist Agency - The Subject in Twentieth-Century Theory (Paperback): Gavin Rae Poststructuralist Agency - The Subject in Twentieth-Century Theory (Paperback)
Gavin Rae
R639 R578 Discovery Miles 5 780 Save R61 (10%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Gavin Rae offers us a new evaluation of poststructuralist thought. This involves a re-conception of the embodied subject as a continual process within and defined by ever-changing configurations of the social, the symbolic and the psychic.He shows that the question of the subject is central for poststructuralist thinkers, that they are aware of the problematic status of agency that arises from their decentring of the subject and that they offer heterogeneous solutions to resolve it. First, showing how this plays out in the thinking of Deleuze, Derrida and Foucault, Rae subsequently demonstrates that it is with those poststructuralists associated with and influenced by Lacanian psychoanalysis that this issue most clearly comes to the fore. He goes on to reveal that the conceptual schema of Cornelius Castoriadis best explains how the founded subject is capable of agency.

Excessive Subjectivity - Kant, Hegel, Lacan, and the Foundations of Ethics (Hardcover): Dominik Finkelde Excessive Subjectivity - Kant, Hegel, Lacan, and the Foundations of Ethics (Hardcover)
Dominik Finkelde
R1,603 R1,487 Discovery Miles 14 870 Save R116 (7%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

How are we to conceive of acts that suddenly expose the injustice of the prevailing order? These acts challenge long-standing hidden or silently tolerated injustices, but as they are unsupported by existing ethical rules they pose a drastic challenge to dominant norms. In Excessive Subjectivity, Dominik Finkelde rereads the tradition of German idealism and finds in it the potential for transformative acts that are capable of revolutionizing the social order. Finkelde's discussion of the meaning and structure of the ethical act meticulously engages thinkers typically treated as opposed-Kant, Hegel, and Lacan-to develop the concept of excessive subjectivity, which is characterized by nonconformist acts that reshape the contours of ethical life. For Kant, the subject is defined by the ethical acts she performs. Hegel interprets Kant's categorical imperative as the ability of an individual's conscience to exceed the existing state of affairs. Lacan emphasizes the transgressive force of unconscious desire on the ethical agent. Through these thinkers Finkelde develops a radical ethics for contemporary times. Integrating perspectives from both analytical and continental philosophy, Excessive Subjectivity is a distinctive contribution to our understanding of the ethical subject.

What IS Sex? (Paperback): Alenka Zupancic What IS Sex? (Paperback)
Alenka Zupancic
R613 R501 Discovery Miles 5 010 Save R112 (18%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Why sexuality is at the point of a "short circuit" between ontology and epistemology. Consider sublimation-conventionally understood as a substitute satisfaction for missing sexual satisfaction. But what if, as Lacan claims, we can get exactly the same satisfaction that we get from sex from talking (or writing, painting, praying, or other activities)? The point is not to explain the satisfaction from talking by pointing to its sexual origin, but that the satisfaction from talking is itself sexual. The satisfaction from talking contains a key to sexual satisfaction (and not the other way around)-even a key to sexuality itself and its inherent contradictions. The Lacanian perspective would make the answer to the simple-seeming question, "What is sex?" rather more complex. In this volume in the Short Circuits series, Alenka Zupancic approaches the question from just this perspective, considering sexuality a properly philosophical problem for psychoanalysis; and by psychoanalysis, she means that of Freud and Lacan, not that of the kind of clinician practitioners called by Lacan "orthopedists of the unconscious." Zupancic argues that sexuality is at the point of a "short circuit" between ontology and epistemology. Sexuality and knowledge are structured around a fundamental negativity, which unites them at the point of the unconscious. The unconscious (as linked to sexuality) is the concept of an inherent link between being and knowledge in their very negativity.

Expired Mindsets - Releasing Patterns That No Longer Serve You Well (Paperback): Dr Charryse Johnson Lcmhc Ncc Expired Mindsets - Releasing Patterns That No Longer Serve You Well (Paperback)
Dr Charryse Johnson Lcmhc Ncc
R518 R429 Discovery Miles 4 290 Save R89 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Not Half No End - Militantly Melancholic Essays in Memory of Jacques Derrida (Paperback): Geoffrey Bennington Not Half No End - Militantly Melancholic Essays in Memory of Jacques Derrida (Paperback)
Geoffrey Bennington
R735 Discovery Miles 7 350 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book, newly available in paperback, gathers essays written by Geoffrey Bennington since the death of his friend Jacques Derrida in 2004. All continue the ongoing work of elucidating difficult and complex thought, often enough with reference to Derrida's persistent interrogation of the concepts of life and death, mourning and melancholia, and what he sometimes calls 'half-mourning'. Not Half No End relates this 'ethical' interruption of mourning to the persistent but still ill-understood motif of interrupted teleology, which, it is argued here, is definitive of deconstruction in general. This suspension or interruption of the end (which is none other than differance 'itself') has all manner of consequences for our thinking, and for how we attempt to categorize that thinking (as epistemological, ethical, political or aesthetic, for example). Not Half No End moves through all these domains, and the whole of Derrida's rich and varied corpus, in a weave of styles - from the expository and analytic to the autobiographical and confessional - in the ongoing process of deconstruction. Key Features * New collection of essays by major theorist * Expanded readings of late texts by Derrida * Research monograph on mourning and melancholy * First consideration of the legacy of Derrida by a co-author

Enneagram - The Complete guide to the 9 Personality Types, Self-Discovery and Self-Realization - Improving Yourself and... Enneagram - The Complete guide to the 9 Personality Types, Self-Discovery and Self-Realization - Improving Yourself and Building Healthy Relationships (Paperback)
Peter Hastings
R524 Discovery Miles 5 240 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Defilement and Purgation in the Book of Hebrews (Hardcover): William G Johnsson Defilement and Purgation in the Book of Hebrews (Hardcover)
William G Johnsson
R1,599 Discovery Miles 15 990 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Deconstruction - An American Institution (Hardcover): Gregory Jones-Katz Deconstruction - An American Institution (Hardcover)
Gregory Jones-Katz
R3,005 Discovery Miles 30 050 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The basic story of the rise, reign, and fall of deconstruction as a literary and philosophical groundswell is well known among scholars. In this intellectual history, Gregory Jones-Katz aims to transform the broader understanding of a movement that has been frequently misunderstood, mischaracterized, and left for dead--even as its principles and influence transformed literary studies and a host of other fields in the humanities. Deconstruction begins well before Jacques Derrida's initial American presentation of his deconstructive work in a famed lecture at Johns Hopkins University in 1966 and continues through several decades of theoretic growth and tumult. While much of the subsequent story remains focused, inevitably, on Yale University and the personalities and curriculum that came to be lumped under the "Yale school" umbrella, Deconstruction makes clear how crucial feminism, queer theory, and gender studies also were to the lifeblood of this mode of thought. Ultimately, Jones-Katz shows that deconstruction in the United States--so often caricatured as a French infection--was truly an American phenomenon, rooted in our preexisting political and intellectual tensions, that eventually came to influence unexpected corners of scholarship, politics, and culture.

The S.P.E.A.R. Method - 5 Simple Steps to Balanced Success and Fulfillment (Paperback): Kuda Biza The S.P.E.A.R. Method - 5 Simple Steps to Balanced Success and Fulfillment (Paperback)
Kuda Biza
R463 R382 Discovery Miles 3 820 Save R81 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Derrida and Textual Animality - For a Zoogrammatology of Literature (Paperback, 1st ed. 2020): Rodolfo Piskorski Derrida and Textual Animality - For a Zoogrammatology of Literature (Paperback, 1st ed. 2020)
Rodolfo Piskorski
R3,119 Discovery Miles 31 190 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Derrida and Textual Animality: For a Zoogrammatology of Literature analyses what has come to be known, in the Humanities, as 'the question of the animal', in relation to literary texts. Rodolfo Piskorski intervenes in the current debate regarding the non-human and its representation in literature, resisting popular materialist methodological approaches in the field by revisiting and revitalising the post-structuralist thought of Derrida and the 'linguistic turn'. The book focuses on Derrida's early work in order to frame deconstructive approaches to literature as necessary for a theory and practice of literary criticism that addresses the question of the animal, arguing that texts are like animals, and animals are like texts. While Derrida's late writings have been embraced by animal studies scholars due to its overt focus on animality, ethics, and the non-human, Piskorski demonstrates the additional value of these early Derridean texts for the field of literary animal studies by proposing detailed zoogrammatological readings of texts by Freud, Clarice Lispector, Ted Hughes, and Darren Aronofsky, while in dialogue with thinkers such as Butler, Kristeva, Genette, Deleuze and Guattari, and Attridge.

Practical Stoicism - 10 Practical Steps to Embrace Ancient Stoic Philosophy in Today's Modern World & Design a Life of... Practical Stoicism - 10 Practical Steps to Embrace Ancient Stoic Philosophy in Today's Modern World & Design a Life of Wisdom, Perseverance and Joy! (Paperback)
Nicholas Mayor
R367 Discovery Miles 3 670 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Neoliberalism, Globalization, Income Inequality, Poverty And Resistance (Hardcover): Renaldo C Mckenzie Neoliberalism, Globalization, Income Inequality, Poverty And Resistance (Hardcover)
Renaldo C Mckenzie
R1,176 Discovery Miles 11 760 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Horrorism - Naming Contemporary Violence (Paperback): Adriana Cavarero Horrorism - Naming Contemporary Violence (Paperback)
Adriana Cavarero; Translated by William McCuaig
R682 R633 Discovery Miles 6 330 Save R49 (7%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Words like "terrorism" and "war" no longer encompass the scope of contemporary violence. With this explosive book, Adriana Cavarero, one of the world's most provocative feminist theorists and political philosophers, effectively renders such terms obsolete. She introduces a new word--"horrorism"--to capture the experience of violence.

Unlike terror, horrorism is a form of violation grounded in the offense of disfiguration and massacre. Numerous outbursts of violence fall within Cavarero's category of horrorism, especially when the phenomenology of violence is considered from the perspective of the victim rather than that of the warrior. Cavarero locates horrorism in the philosophical, political, literary, and artistic representations of defenseless and vulnerable victims. She considers both terror and horror on the battlefields of the "Iliad," in the decapitation of Medusa, and in the murder of Medea's children. In the modern arena, she forges a link between horror, extermination, and massacre, especially the Nazi death camps, and revisits the work of Primo Levi, Hannah Arendt's thesis on totalitarianism, and Arendt's debate with Georges Bataille on the estheticization of violence and cruelty.

In applying the horroristic paradigm to the current phenomena of suicide bombers, torturers, and hypertechnological warfare, Cavarero integrates Susan Sontag's views on photography and the eroticization of horror, as well as ideas on violence and the state advanced by Thomas Hobbes and Carl Schmitt. Through her searing analysis, Caverero proves that violence against the helpless claims a specific vocabulary, one that has been known for millennia, and not just to the Western tradition. Where common language fails to form a picture of atrocity, horrorism paints a brilliant portrait of its vivid reality.

Reassembling Pain, Reassembling the Reading of Fiction - An Inquiry into the Ontology of Drama (Paperback, 1st ed. 2021): Eric... Reassembling Pain, Reassembling the Reading of Fiction - An Inquiry into the Ontology of Drama (Paperback, 1st ed. 2021)
Eric Baudner
R1,893 Discovery Miles 18 930 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The present book deals with Sarah Kane's dramatic text Cleansed to show a specific negotiation of violence, pain, life and death - one that is not necessarily causal or dichotomous. Instead, a new mode of reading, based on Bruno Latour's take on Actor-Network-Theory, helps to make fictional worlds simultaneously intelligible in a mediate and in an immediate way. This results in an unprecedented understanding of how language can influence and modify ontological configurations. Eventually, this allows for a re-evaluation of political problems that occur in the 20th and 21st century.

Jonathan Lethem and the Galaxy of Writing (Paperback): Joseph Brooker Jonathan Lethem and the Galaxy of Writing (Paperback)
Joseph Brooker
R1,120 Discovery Miles 11 200 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Author of Motherless Brooklyn and The Fortress of Solitude, Jonathan Lethem is one of the most celebrated and significant American writers working today. This new scholarly study draws on a deep knowledge of all Lethem's work to explore the range of his writing, from his award-winning fiction to his work in comics and criticism. Reading Lethem in relation to five themes crucial to his work, Joseph Brooker considers influence and intertextuality; the role of genres such as crime, science fiction and the Western; the imaginative production of worlds; superheroes and comic book traditions; and the representation of New York City. Close readings of Lethem's fiction are contextualized by reference to broader conceptual and comparative frames, as well as to Lethem's own voluminous non-fictional writing and his adaptation of precursors from Franz Kafka to Raymond Chandler. Rich in critical insight, Jonathan Lethem and the Galaxy of Writing demonstrates how an understanding of this author illuminates contemporary literature and culture at large.

The Secrets to a Magical Life - Learn 104 Strategies To Live Before You Die, Your Master Key To Unlock Happiness, Fulfillment &... The Secrets to a Magical Life - Learn 104 Strategies To Live Before You Die, Your Master Key To Unlock Happiness, Fulfillment & Success, The A To Z of Art of Living (Paperback)
Vikram Khaitan
R364 Discovery Miles 3 640 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Hermeneutic Communism - From Heidegger to Marx (Hardcover): Gianni Vattimo, Santiago Zabala Hermeneutic Communism - From Heidegger to Marx (Hardcover)
Gianni Vattimo, Santiago Zabala
R1,811 R1,643 Discovery Miles 16 430 Save R168 (9%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Having lost much of its political clout and theoretical power, communism no longer represents an appealing alternative to capitalism. In its original Marxist formulation, communism promised an ideal of development, but only through a logic of war, and while a number of reformist governments still promote this ideology, their legitimacy has steadily declined since the fall of the Berlin wall.

Separating communism from its metaphysical foundations, which include an abiding faith in the immutable laws of history and an almost holy conception of the proletariat, Gianni Vattimo and Santiago Zabala recast Marx's theories at a time when capitalism's metaphysical moorings -- in technology, empire, and industrialization -- are buckling. While Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri call for a return of the revolutionary left, Vattimo and Zabala fear this would lead only to more violence and failed political policy. Instead, they adopt an antifoundationalist stance drawn from the hermeneutic thought of Martin Heidegger, Jacques Derrida, and Richard Rorty.

Hermeneutic communism leaves aside the ideal of development and the general call for revolution; it relies on interpretation rather than truth and proves more flexible in different contexts. Hermeneutic communism motivates a resistance to capitalism's inequalities yet intervenes against violence and authoritarianism by emphasizing the interpretative nature of truth. Paralleling Vattimo and Zabala's well-known work on the weakening of religion, "Hermeneutic Communism" realizes the fully transformational, politically effective potential of Marxist thought.

Mad Mothers, Bad Mothers, and What a "Good" Mother Would Do - The Ethics of Ambivalence (Paperback): Sarah LaChance Adams Mad Mothers, Bad Mothers, and What a "Good" Mother Would Do - The Ethics of Ambivalence (Paperback)
Sarah LaChance Adams
R1,021 Discovery Miles 10 210 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

When a mother kills her child, we call her a bad mother, but, as this book shows, even mothers who intend to do their children harm are not easily categorized as "mad" or "bad." Maternal love is a complex emotion rich with contradictory impulses and desires, and motherhood is a conflicted state in which women constantly renegotiate the needs mother and child, the self and the other. Applying care ethics philosophy and the work of Emmanuel Levinas, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Simone de Beauvoir to real-world experiences of motherhood, Sarah LaChance Adams throws the inherent tensions of motherhood into sharp relief, drawing a more nuanced portrait of the mother and child relationship than previously conceived. The maternal example is particularly instructive for ethical theory, highlighting the dynamics of human interdependence while also affirming separate interests. LaChance Adams particularly focuses on maternal ambivalence and its morally productive role in reinforcing the divergence between oneself and others, helping to recognize the particularities of situation, and negotiating the difference between one's own needs and the desires of others. She ultimately argues maternal filicide is a social problem requiring a collective solution that ethical philosophy and philosophies of care can inform.

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