0
Your cart

Your cart is empty

Browse All Departments
Price
  • R100 - R250 (14)
  • R250 - R500 (43)
  • R500+ (646)
  • -
Status
Format
Author / Contributor
Publisher

Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > Postmodernism

Bergson, Complexity and Creative Emergence (Paperback, 1st ed. 2015): David Kreps Bergson, Complexity and Creative Emergence (Paperback, 1st ed. 2015)
David Kreps
R1,594 Discovery Miles 15 940 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This is a book about evolution from a post-Darwinian perspective. It recounts the core ideas of French philosopher Henri Bergson and his rediscovery and legacy in the poststructuralist critical philosophies of the 1960s, and explores the confluences of these ideas with those of complexity theory in environmental biology.

Plasticity at the Dusk of Writing - Dialectic, Destruction, Deconstruction (Hardcover): Catherine Malabou Plasticity at the Dusk of Writing - Dialectic, Destruction, Deconstruction (Hardcover)
Catherine Malabou; Translated by Carolyn Shread; Foreword by Clayton Crockett
R1,347 R1,195 Discovery Miles 11 950 Save R152 (11%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A former student and collaborator of Jacques Derrida, Catherine Malabou has generated worldwide acclaim for her progressive rethinking of postmodern, Derridean critique. Building on her notion of plasticity, a term she originally borrowed from Hegel's "Phenomenology of Spirit" and adapted to a reading of Hegel's own work, Malabou transforms our understanding of the political and the religious, revealing the malleable nature of these concepts and their openness to positive reinvention.

In French to describe something as plastic is to recognize both its flexibility and its explosiveness-its capacity not only to receive and give form but to annihilate it as well. After defining plasticity in terms of its active embodiments, Malabou applies the notion to the work of Hegel, Heidegger, Levinas, Levi-Strauss, Freud, and Derrida, recasting their writing as a process of change (rather than mediation) between dialectic and deconstruction. Malabou contrasts plasticity against the graphic element of Derrida's work and the notion of trace in Derrida and Levinas, arguing that plasticity refers to sculptural forms that accommodate or express a trace. She then expands this analysis to the realms of politics and religion, claiming, against Derrida, that "the event" of justice and democracy is not fixed but susceptible to human action.

Sacred Scroll of Seven Seals - The Lost Knowledge of Good and Evil (Paperback): Judah Sacred Scroll of Seven Seals - The Lost Knowledge of Good and Evil (Paperback)
Judah; Judah
R692 Discovery Miles 6 920 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Christo-Fiction - The Ruins of Athens and Jerusalem (Paperback): Francois Laruelle Christo-Fiction - The Ruins of Athens and Jerusalem (Paperback)
Francois Laruelle; Translated by Robin Mackay
R662 R570 Discovery Miles 5 700 Save R92 (14%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Francois Laruelle's lifelong project of "nonphilosophy," or "nonstandard philosophy," thinks past the theoretical limits of Western philosophy to realize new relations between religion, science, politics, and art. In Christo-Fiction Laruelle targets the rigid, self-sustaining arguments of metaphysics, rooted in Judaic and Greek thought, and the radical potential of Christ, whose "crossing" disrupts their circular discourse. Laruelle's Christ is not the authoritative figure conjured by academic theology, the Apostles, or the Catholic Church. He is the embodiment of generic man, founder of a science of humans, and the herald of a gnostic messianism that calls forth an immanent faith. Explicitly inserting quantum science into religion, Laruelle recasts the temporality of the cross, the entombment, and the resurrection, arguing that it is God who is sacrificed on the cross so equals in faith may be born. Positioning itself against orthodox religion and naive atheism alike, Christo-Fiction is a daring, heretical experiment that ties religion to the human experience and the lived world.

Clandestine Encounters - Philosophy in the Narratives of Maurice Blanchot (Hardcover): Kevin Hart Clandestine Encounters - Philosophy in the Narratives of Maurice Blanchot (Hardcover)
Kevin Hart
R2,868 Discovery Miles 28 680 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Maurice Blanchot is perhaps best known as a major French intellectual of the twentieth century: the man who countered Sartre's views on literature, who affirmed the work of Sade and Lautreamont, who gave eloquent voice to the generation of '68, and whose philosophical and literary work influenced the writing of, among others, Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze, and Michel Foucault. He is also regarded as one of the most acute narrative writers in France since Marcel Proust. In Clandestine Encounters, Kevin Hart has gathered together major literary critics in Britain, France, and the United States to engage with Blanchot's immense, fascinating, and difficult body of creative work. Hart's substantial introduction usefully places Blanchot as a significant contributor to the tradition of the French philosophical novel, beginning with Voltaire's Candide in 1759, and best known through the works of Sartre. Clandestine Encounters considers a selection of Blanchot's narrative writings over the course of almost sixty years, from stories written in the mid-1930s to L'instant de ma mort (1994). Collectively, the contributors' close readings of Blanchot's novels, recits, and stories illuminate the close relationship between philosophy and narrative in his work while underscoring the variety and complexity of these narratives. Contributors: Christophe Bident, Arthur Cools, Thomas S. Davis, Christopher Fynsk, Rodolphe Gasche, Kevin Hart, Leslie Hill, Michael Holland, Stephen E. Lewis, Vivian Liska, Caroline Sheaffer-Jones, Christopher A. Strathman, Alain Toumayan

Bergson, Complexity and Creative Emergence (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2015): David Kreps Bergson, Complexity and Creative Emergence (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2015)
David Kreps
R1,796 Discovery Miles 17 960 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This is a book about evolution from a post-Darwinian perspective. It recounts the core ideas of French philosopher Henri Bergson and his rediscovery and legacy in the poststructuralist critical philosophies of the 1960s, and explores the confluences of these ideas with those of complexity theory in environmental biology.

Artaud the Moma (Hardcover): Jacques Derrida Artaud the Moma (Hardcover)
Jacques Derrida; Afterword by Kaira M. Cabanas; Translated by Peggy Kamuf
R1,454 R1,297 Discovery Miles 12 970 Save R157 (11%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In 1996 Jacques Derrida gave a lecture at the Museum of Modern Art in New York on the occasion of Antonin Artaud: Works on Paper, one of the first major international exhibitions to present the avant-garde dramatist and poet's paintings and drawings. Derrida's original title, "Artaud the Moma," is a characteristic play on words. It alludes to Artaud's calling himself Momo, Marseilles slang for "fool," upon his return to Paris in 1946 after nine years in various asylums while playing off of the museum's nickname, MoMA. But the title was not deemed "presentable or decent," in Derrida's words, by the very institution that chose to exhibit Artaud's work. Instead, the lecture was advertised as "Jacques Derrida ...will present a lecture about Artaud's drawings." For Derrida, what was at stake was what it meant for the museum to exhibit Artaud's drawings and for him to lecture on Artaud in that institutional context. Thinking over the performative force of Artaud's work and the relation between writing and drawing, Derrida addresses the multiplicity of Artaud's identities to confront the modernist museum's valorizing of originality. He channels Artaud's specter, speech, and struggle against representation to attempt to hold the museum accountable for trying to confine Artaud within its categories. Artaud the Moma, as lecture and text, reveals the challenge that Artaud posed to Derrida-and to art and its institutional history. A powerful interjection into the museum halls, this work is a crucial moment in Derrida's thought and an insightful, unsparing reading of a challenging writer and artist.

Art's Teachings, Teaching's Art - Philosophical, Critical and Educational Musings (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2015): Tyson... Art's Teachings, Teaching's Art - Philosophical, Critical and Educational Musings (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2015)
Tyson Lewis, Megan Laverty
R2,504 Discovery Miles 25 040 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This volume examines the interface between the teachings of art and the art of teaching, and asserts the centrality of aesthetics for rethinking education. Many of the essays in this collection claim a direct connection between critical thinking, democratic dissensus, and anti-racist pedagogy with aesthetic experiences. They argue that aesthetics should be reconceptualized less as mere art appreciation or the cultivation of aesthetic judgment of taste, and more with the affective disruptions, phenomenological experiences, and the democratic politics of learning, thinking, and teaching. The first set of essays in the volume examines the unique pedagogies of the various arts including literature, poetry, film, and music. The second set addresses questions concerning the art of pedagogy and the relationship between aesthetic experience and teaching and learning. Demonstrating the flexibility and diversity of aesthetic expressions and experiences in education, the book deals with issues such as the connections between racism and affect, curatorship and teaching, aesthetic experience and the common, and studying and poetics. The book explores these topics through a variety of theoretical and philosophical lenses including contemporary post-structuralism, psychoanalysis, phenomenology, critical theory, and pragmatism.

On the Elements of Ontology - Attribute Instances and Structure (Hardcover, Digital original): D.W. Mertz On the Elements of Ontology - Attribute Instances and Structure (Hardcover, Digital original)
D.W. Mertz
R5,269 Discovery Miles 52 690 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Central to Elements is an assay of the attributional union properties and relations have with their subjects, a topic historically left metaphorical. The work critiques eight Aristotelian assumptions concerning attribute dependence and 'inherence', per se subjects ('substances'), attributes as agent-organizers, and unity-by-a-shared-one. Groups of these assumptions are seen to yield contradiction, vicious regress, or other problems. This analysis, joined with insights from an assay of ubiquitous structure, motivate ten theses explicating attribution and its primary ontic status. The theses detail: attributes proper as individuated instances, structure as instance-generated facts and their two forms of composition, the conditioning role and universal nature of instances' component intensions, the primacy of attribute instances for generating all forms of composition and complex entities, and identity and indiscernibility criteria for the latter. Principal is the insight that attribution is intension-determined combinatorial agency. It is its systematizing implications that provide solutions to classic problems, e.g., Composition, Individuation, and Universals, and in net generate a comprehensive one-category structuralist ontology.

Desire in Ashes - Deconstruction, Psychoanalysis, Philosophy (Hardcover): Simon Wortham, Chiara Alfano Desire in Ashes - Deconstruction, Psychoanalysis, Philosophy (Hardcover)
Simon Wortham, Chiara Alfano
R3,884 Discovery Miles 38 840 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The indebtedness of contemporary thinkers to Derrida's project of deconstruction is unquestionable, whether as a source of inspiration or the grounds of critical antagonism. This collection considers: how best to recall deconstruction? Rather than reduce it to an object of historical importance or memory, these essays analyze its significance in terms of complex matrices of desire; provoked in this way, deconstruction cannot be dismissed as 'dead', nor unproblematically defended as alive and well. Repositioned on the threshold of life-death, deconstruction profoundly complicates the field of critical thought which still struggles to memorialize, inter, or reduce the deconstructive corpus to ashes.

Althusser Revisited. Problematic, Symptomatic Reading, ISA and History of Marxism - A Textological Reading (Hardcover): Yibing... Althusser Revisited. Problematic, Symptomatic Reading, ISA and History of Marxism - A Textological Reading (Hardcover)
Yibing Zhang; Edited by Kizilcec Cem; Translated by Liu Yang
R1,345 Discovery Miles 13 450 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
A Marxist Reading of Young Baudrillard - Throughout His Ordered Masks (Hardcover): Yibing Zhang A Marxist Reading of Young Baudrillard - Throughout His Ordered Masks (Hardcover)
Yibing Zhang; Edited by Cem Kizilcec; Translated by Huiming He
R1,709 Discovery Miles 17 090 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Foucault and the History of Our Present (Paperback, 1st ed. 2015): S. Fuggle, Y. Lanci, M. Tazzioli Foucault and the History of Our Present (Paperback, 1st ed. 2015)
S. Fuggle, Y. Lanci, M. Tazzioli
R2,111 Discovery Miles 21 110 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

According to Michel Foucault, the 'history of the present' should constitute the starting point for any enquiry into the past. This collection considers the continued relevance of Foucault's work for thinking the history of our present and includes essays and interviews by Judith Butler, Judith Revel, Mark Neocleous, and Tiziana Terranova.

Philosophy, Myth and Epic Cinema - Beyond Mere Illusions (Hardcover): Sylvie Magerstadt Philosophy, Myth and Epic Cinema - Beyond Mere Illusions (Hardcover)
Sylvie Magerstadt
R4,575 Discovery Miles 45 750 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Philosophy, Myth and Epic Cinema looks at the power of cinema in creating ideas that inspire our culture. Sylvie Magerstadt discusses the relationship between art, illusion and reality, a theme that has been part of philosophical debate for centuries. She argues that with the increase in use of digital technologies in modern cinema, this debate has entered a new phase. She discusses the notion of illusions as a system of stories and values that inspire a culture similar to other grand narratives, such as mythology or religion. Cinema thus becomes the postmodern "mythmaking machine" par excellence in a world that finds it increasingly difficult to create unifying concepts and positive illusions that can inspire and give hope. The author draws on the work of Friedrich Nietzsche, Siegfried Kracauer, and Gilles Deleuze to demonstrate the relevance of continental philosophy to a reading of mainstream Hollywood cinema. The book argues that our longing for illusion is particularly strong in times of crisis, illustrated through an exploration of the recent revival of historic and epic myths in Hollywood cinema, including films such as Troy, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, and Clash of the Titans.

Theopoetics of the Word - A New Beginning of Word and World (Paperback): G. Vahanian, Mike Grimshaw Theopoetics of the Word - A New Beginning of Word and World (Paperback)
G. Vahanian, Mike Grimshaw
R1,961 Discovery Miles 19 610 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Theopoetics of the Word weaves together Christian theology, continental philosophy and cultural studies to present a new theology of language and technology for the 21st century. It is the final work of the famed death-of-God theologian Gabriel Vahanian completed only weeks before his death in 2012. It radicalizes his pioneering, iconoclastic work in contemporary religious thought by addressing issues of identity, Christology, secularity and the legacy of the Protestant West. The book continues Vahanian's longtime engagement with the thought of Paul Tillich and Jacques Ellul, and opens new pathways for thought in the work of Elisabeth Roudinesco and Francois Laurelle. Vahanian's is a prophetic and timely voice who has forged reputation as one of the most original and poetic religious thinkers of our time, who tells us here, 'You can only forget what you need to be reminded of. Read what follows in this book. And forget it.'

Ontology in Heidegger and Deleuze - A Comparative Analysis (Paperback, 1st ed. 2014): G. Rae Ontology in Heidegger and Deleuze - A Comparative Analysis (Paperback, 1st ed. 2014)
G. Rae
R2,081 Discovery Miles 20 810 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The first book in English to offer an extended comparative analysis of Heidegger and Deleuze. Those familiar with Heidegger's and Deleuze's thinking will find a detailed, well-researched book that comes to an innovative conclusion, while those new to both will find a clear, well-written exposition of their key concepts.

Lyotard, Literature and the Trauma of the differend (Paperback, 1st ed. 2014): D. Sawyer Lyotard, Literature and the Trauma of the differend (Paperback, 1st ed. 2014)
D. Sawyer
R1,498 Discovery Miles 14 980 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This original study examines Jean-Francois Lyotard's philosophical concept of the differend and details its unexplored implications for literature. it provides a new framework with which to understand the discourse itself, from its Homeric beginnings to postmodern works by authors such as Michael Ondaatje and Jonathan Safran Foer.

(Mis)readings of Marx in Continental Philosophy (Paperback, 1st ed. 2014): J. Habjan, J. Whyte (Mis)readings of Marx in Continental Philosophy (Paperback, 1st ed. 2014)
J. Habjan, J. Whyte
R2,061 Discovery Miles 20 610 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

(Mis)readings of Marx In Continental Philosophy reflects on the way major European philosophers related to the work of Karl Marx. It brings together leading and emerging critical theorists to address the readings of Marx offered by Benjamin, Adorno, Arendt, Althusser, Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze, Negri, Badiou, Agamben, Ranciere, Latour and Zizek.

This Test - The Dawn of the Ages (Paperback): Riley Parker Miller This Test - The Dawn of the Ages (Paperback)
Riley Parker Miller
R251 Discovery Miles 2 510 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Call of Duties In Life and Deed and Life (Paperback): Riley Parker Miller Call of Duties In Life and Deed and Life (Paperback)
Riley Parker Miller
R776 Discovery Miles 7 760 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Derrida/Searle - Deconstruction and Ordinary Language (Paperback): Raoul Moati Derrida/Searle - Deconstruction and Ordinary Language (Paperback)
Raoul Moati; Translated by Timothy Attanucci, Maureen Chun; Foreword by Jean-Michel Rabate
R590 R505 Discovery Miles 5 050 Save R85 (14%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Raoul Moati intervenes in the critical debate that divided two prominent philosophers in the mid-twentieth century. In the 1950s, the British philosopher J. L. Austin advanced a theory of speech acts, or the "performative," that Jacques Derrida and John R. Searle interpreted in fundamentally different ways. Their disagreement centered on the issue of intentionality, which Derrida understood phenomenologically and Searle read pragmatically. The controversy had profound implications for the development of contemporary philosophy, which, Moati argues, can profit greatly by returning to this classic debate. In this book, Moati systematically replays the historical encounter between Austin, Derrida, and Searle and the disruption that caused the lasting break between Anglo-American language philosophy and continental traditions of phenomenology and its deconstruction. The key issue, Moati argues, is not whether "intentionality," a concept derived from Husserl's phenomenology, can or cannot be linked to Austin's speech-acts as defined in his groundbreaking How to Do Things with Words, but rather the emphasis Searle placed on the performativity and determined pragmatic values of Austin's speech-acts, whereas Derrida insisted on the trace of writing behind every act of speech and the iterability of signs in different contexts.

Foucault/Paul - Subjects of Power (Hardcover, New): S. Fuggle Foucault/Paul - Subjects of Power (Hardcover, New)
S. Fuggle
R2,293 Discovery Miles 22 930 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

What is power? Where does it come from and who is in possession of it? How should we think about power and authority in a post-secular society in which traditional boundaries between individual and collective faith and secular governments and institutions are becoming increasingly blurred? The way which we conceive of power in the twenty-first century will effectively determine how we approach issues such as market reform and environmental disaster. Placing the twentieth-century French philosopher Michel Foucault into critical conjunction with the apostle Paul, Foucault/Paul re-evaluates the way in which power operates within society and underpins our ethical and political actions.

Foucault/Paul - Subjects of Power (Paperback, 1st ed. 2013): S. Fuggle Foucault/Paul - Subjects of Power (Paperback, 1st ed. 2013)
S. Fuggle
R2,091 Discovery Miles 20 910 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The way which society conceives of power in the twenty-first century determines how it approaches future issues. Placing the twentieth-century French philosopher Michel Foucault into critical conjunction with the apostle Paul, Fuggle re-evaluates the way in which power operates within society and underpins ethical and political actions.

Speculative Taxidermy - Natural History, Animal Surfaces, and Art in the Anthropocene (Paperback): Giovanni Aloi Speculative Taxidermy - Natural History, Animal Surfaces, and Art in the Anthropocene (Paperback)
Giovanni Aloi
R718 Discovery Miles 7 180 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Taxidermy, once the province of natural history and dedicated to the pursuit of lifelike realism, has recently resurfaced in the world of contemporary art,culture, and interior design. In Speculative Taxidermy, Giovanni Aloi offers a comprehensive mapping of the discourses and practices that have enabled the emergence of taxidermy in contemporary art. Drawing on the speculative turn in philosophy and recovering past alternative histories of art and materiality from a biopolitical perspective, Aloi theorizes speculative taxidermy: a powerful interface that unlocks new ethical and political opportunities in human-animal relationships and speaks to how animal representation conveys the urgency of climate change, capitalist exploitation, and mass extinction. A resolutely nonanthropocentric take on the materiality of one of the most controversial mediums in art, this approach relentlessly questions past and present ideas of human separation from the animal kingdom. It situates taxidermy as a powerful interface between humans and animals, rooted in a shared ontological and physical vulnerability. Carefully considering a select number of key examples including the work of Nandipha Mntambo, Maria Papadimitriou, Mark Dion, Berlinde De Bruyckere, Roni Horn, Oleg Kulik, Steve Bishop, Snaebjornsdottir/Wilson, and Cole Swanson,Speculative Taxidermy contextualizes the resilient presence of animal skin in the gallery space as a productive opportunity to rethink ethical and political stances in human-animal relationships.

Deconstruction without Derrida (Hardcover, New): Martin McQuillan Deconstruction without Derrida (Hardcover, New)
Martin McQuillan
R5,682 Discovery Miles 56 820 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The future of deconstruction lies in the ability of its practitioners to mobilise the tropes and interests of Derrida's texts into new spaces and creative readings. In Deconstruction without Derrida, Martin McQuillan sets out to do just that, to continue the task of deconstructive reading both with and without Derrida. The book's principal theme is an attention to instances of deconstruction other than or beyond Derrida and thus imagining a future for deconstruction after Derrida. This future is both the present of deconstruction and its past. The readings presented in this book address the expanded field of deconstruction in the work of Jean-Luc Nancy, Helene Cixous, Paul de Man, Harold Bloom, J. Hillis Miller, Judith Butler, Gayatri Spivak and Catherine Malabou. They also, necessarily, address Derrida's own readings of this work. McQuillan accounts for an experience of otherness in deconstruction that is, has been and always will be beyond Derrida, just as deconstruction remains forever tied to Derrida by an invisible, indestructible thread.

Free Delivery
Pinterest Twitter Facebook Google+
You may like...
Technocracy and the Epistemology of…
Paul Gunn Hardcover R3,793 Discovery Miles 37 930
Badiou's Deleuze
Jon Roffe Paperback R1,180 Discovery Miles 11 800
Lacan in the End Times - In the Name of…
Rob Weatherill Paperback R1,024 Discovery Miles 10 240
The Deconstructive Turn (Routledge…
Christopher Norris Paperback R1,344 Discovery Miles 13 440
Self-Defense - A Philosophy of Violence
Elsa Dorlin Paperback R671 R547 Discovery Miles 5 470
New Feminist Stories of Child Sexual…
Paula Reavey, Sam Warner Paperback R1,653 Discovery Miles 16 530
Levi-Strauss on Religion - The…
Paul-Francois Tremlett Hardcover R3,904 Discovery Miles 39 040
After Poststructuralism - Reading…
Colin Davis Paperback R1,177 Discovery Miles 11 770
The Deconstructive Turn (Routledge…
Christopher Norris Hardcover R4,208 Discovery Miles 42 080
Deleuze and Guattari's Philosophy of…
Dorothea Olkowski, Eftichis Pirovolakis Hardcover R3,921 Discovery Miles 39 210

 

Partners