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Edinburgh University Press Thinking as Anarchists
Book SynopsisNewly translates and annotates 13 papers from the 1984 international anarchist gathering in Venice
£95.00
Edinburgh University Press After the Arab Revolutions
Book SynopsisIncorporates the lessons learned from the 2011 Arab revolutions into democratic transition theory.
£19.94
Edinburgh University Press Provocation in Womens Filmmaking
Book SynopsisA new critical perspective on the female auteur that considers her place in the avant-garde tradition of provocation
£18.99
Edinburgh University Press Race Nation and Cultural Power in Film Adaptation
Book SynopsisExamines race and nation in postcolonial, settler-colonial, and Indigenous film adaptation
£23.74
Edinburgh University Press Ethics of Drone Strikes
Book SynopsisThe violent use of armed, unmanned aircraft ('drones') is increasing worldwide, but uncertainty persists about the moral status of remote-control killing and why it should be restrained.
£18.99
Edinburgh University Press McGowan on Alcohol Licensing Law in Scotland
Book SynopsisDrawing on a wealth of experience, Stephen McGowan guides you through the often-perplexing patchwork of statute, policy, convention and jurisprudence that all amount to Scottish licensing law. There is no better guide to how Scottish alcohol licensing law works and often does not work in practice.
£292.50
Edinburgh University Press Samuel Beckett and Translation
Book SynopsisProvides valuable insight into one of the most exciting developments in Beckett Studies in recent years.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Queens Eunuchs and Concubines in Islamic History
Book SynopsisDrawing on specific historical case studies and events, this book looks at the role of women, mothers, wives, eunuchs, concubines, qahramans and atabegs in the dynamics and manipulation of medieval Islamic politics.
£29.45
Edinburgh University Press Making Mongol History
Book SynopsisThis book examines the life and work of Rashid al-Din Tabib (d. 1318), the most powerful statesman working for the Mongol Ilkhans in the Middle East.
£25.19
Edinburgh University Press Religion in the Egyptian Novel
Book SynopsisThis is an in-depth, original survey of religion in the modern Arabic novel. Tracing the relationship from the genesis of the form in the early twentieth century to present, Phillips provides a thematic exploration of the push and pull between religion and secularism as it played out on the pages of the Egyptian novel.
£26.59
Edinburgh University Press Transgressive Art Films
Book SynopsisExplores extremity in films and it's ethical, theoretical and film-philosophical implications
£23.74
Edinburgh University Press The Persian Prison Poem
Book SynopsisThrough a series of insightful and sophisticated readings, this book reveals the worldliness of premodern Persian poetry. It traces the political role of poetry in shaping the prison poem genre (habsiyyat) across 12th-century Central, South and West Asia., offering an unprecedented account of prison poetry before modernity.Trade Review"Gould draws on history and political theory alongside comparative poetics to offer a brilliant new way of reading classical Persian poetry as a mode of political critique. This first-ever study of Persian prison poetry in English opens new frontiers within Persian studies through its lucid translations and refreshingly insightful analysis. The Persian Prison Poem will change how the prison poem genre is read - indeed, how genre in general is read - within Persian and world literature." -Muzaffar Alam, Professor of South Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago
£23.74
Edinburgh University Press Landscape Poetics
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£18.99
Edinburgh University Press Jane Porter Thaddeus of Warsaw
Book SynopsisPublished in 1803, Thaddeus of Warsaw is a beguiling romance that also exposes the hardships faced by migrants in Britain two hundred years ago.
£29.45
Edinburgh University Press Primordial Modernism
Book SynopsisThis adventurous study focuses on experimental animal writing in the major interwar journal transition (1927 1938), which contains a striking recurrence of metaphors around the most basic forms of life.
£20.89
Edinburgh University Press The Spiritual Jurisdiction in Reformation
Book SynopsisThomas Green examines the Scottish Reformation from a new perspective the legal system and lawyers. Green covers the Wars of the Congregation, the Reformation Parliament, the legitimacy of the Scottish government in 1558-61, the courts of the early Church of Scotland and the legal significance of Mary Stewart's personal reign.
£20.89
Edinburgh University Press Buying your Self on the Internet
Book SynopsisThis book examines the rise of the direct-to-consumer genetic testing industry (DTC) and its use of 'wrap' contracts. It uses the example of DTC to show the challenges that disruptive technologies pose for societies and for regulation. It also uses the wrap contracts of DTC companies to explore broader issues with online contracting.
£26.59
Edinburgh University Press Gertrude Stein and the Politics of Participation
Book SynopsisThis book explores the politics of the right to write in Gertrude Stein?s practice and its reception. It examines how conceptions of authorship intersected discourses of democracy and rights in the period 1909-1933. The persistent debates across a broad range of publication contexts over Gertrude Stein?s right to participate in modernist authorship provide an instructive example of the way literary culture reflected contemporary political discussion. This study explores how representations of Stein that figured her either as barely human or as the ultimate democratic subject reproduced debates about who should participate in public life, refracted an emerging discourse of human rights, and echoed fears about the consequences of mass democracy as political franchise was extended.
£23.74
Edinburgh University Press Sarah Kofman and the Relief of Philosophy
Book SynopsisSarah Kofman and the Relief of Philosophy addresses Kofman's relations with her contemporary Jacques Derrida, but also her readings of psychoanalysis, music, Shakespeare, and more. The volume closes with a previously untranslated text of hers interpreting Nietzsche and Voltaire's responses to natural catastrophe.
£999.99
Edinburgh University Press Romanticism and Consciousness Revisited
Book SynopsisBrings Romanticism into dialogue with current understandings of consciousness.
£95.00
Edinburgh University Press Superhero Blockbusters
Book SynopsisExplores the huge commercial success of contemporary superhero blockbusters and develops a critical theory of digital-era popular seriality
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Refocus the Films of Lucrecia Martel
Book SynopsisCollects critical essays on the influential Argentine director Lucrecia Martel
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Digisprudence Code as Law Rebooted
Book SynopsisReboots the debate on 'code as law' to present a new cross-disciplinary direction that sheds light on the fundamental issue of software legitimacy.Trade Review"This book offers exceptionally well-argued insights on law and technology. Diver's understanding and deployment of ideas from legal theory and a range of disciplines makes this a brilliant critique of how we have come to understand code" and the role of those who design it. With the regulation of emerging technologies and of powerful players high on the political agenda concerns still too often simplified or misunderstood Digisprudence presents fresh and exciting ways of understanding these issues."" -Daith Mac S thigh, Institute of Art, Design + Technology
£23.74
Edinburgh University Press Deleuze and the Problem of Affect
Book SynopsisD. J. S. Cross argues that Deleuze's ambivalence towards affect and embodiment have been overlooked because they only become apparent through a systematic analysis of affect throughout Deleuze's work. Cross outlines how Deleuze's system of thought both ruptures and complies with the tradition the recent 'affective turn' that hinges upon it.Trade Review"This excellent book is a welcome counterpoint to the ubiquity that affect has acquired in much recent theorising. Cross not only illuminates key sources of the concept but, more importantly, problematises them in ways that give back to Deleuze some of the joy and inventiveness of his own philosophical method.???????????? " -Aidan Tynan, Cardiff University
£19.94
Edinburgh University Press European Union Enlargement and Democratisation
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£100.12
Edinburgh University Press Collected Essays in Speculative Philosophy
Book SynopsisThis collection of essays by James Bradley (1947-2012) showcases his unique vision: a speculative cosmology of the Trinity, drawing on the vast history of Western philosophy.Trade Review"In the standard analytic historiography, philosophy was transformed in the 17th century from the handmaiden of theology into the handmaiden of the natural sciences. Bradley challenges this pervasive narrative by exploring the persisting theological dimension, especially the ontological trinitarian structures, of much modern metaphysics, and boldly defends the contemporary relevance of philosophical Idealism. These are learned, brilliant and provocative essays that illuminate the thought of an unjustly neglected British Canadian philosopher." -Douglas Hedley, University of Cambridge
£19.94
Edinburgh University Press NeoAvantGardes
Book SynopsisA systematic transnational investigation of post-war literary experiments in Europe and the Americas.
£117.00
Edinburgh University Press NeoAvantGardes
Book SynopsisA systematic transnational investigation of post-war literary experiments in Europe and the Americas.Trade Review"Neo-Avant-Gardes provides nuanced critical perspectives on the resurgent avant-gardes active in Europe and elsewhere globally during the long 1960s". With particular focus on literary intermedia and experimental writing, the authors set out new directions in the theory and history of the neo-avant-gardes, beyond previous dismissals and defenses."" -Tyrus Miller, University of California, Irvine
£28.49
Edinburgh University Press Reading Time in the Long Poem
Book SynopsisReveals how long poems of the long eighteenth century articulate philosophies of time in both content and form
£18.99
Edinburgh University Press Derivative Images
Book SynopsisFocused on French cultural responses to the 2008 global financial crisis in cinema, literature and theory, Derivative Images offers detailed analyses of post-2008 French-language works, including Les Effondrés (2010), Le Grand Retournement (2013) and L''Outsider (2016), to show how they appropriate and reconfigure notions at the heart of the crisis, such as derivatives, financial trading and markets.Drawing on ideas from thinkers such as Jonathan Beller, Yves Citton and Peter Szendy, this book shows how derivatives can be taken as a conceptual resource for thinking about creative practice and the circulation of audio-visual images today.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Derivative Images
Book SynopsisA theoretical, interdisciplinary reading of French film and literary texts inspired by the 2008 global financial crisis.
£18.99
Edinburgh University Press Emotion Mission Architecture
Book SynopsisMissionary medicine flourished during the period of high European imperialism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and was considered the best and surest method to overcome the distrust of and gain access to the indigenous population in the so-called Muslim World. Through studying the medical activities and infrastructures of the Church Missionary Society (CMS) in Persia and north-western British India, and building upon existing works on missionaries in the Middle East and British India, this book examines the practice of obtaining trust. A synthesis of Christian mission history, architectural history, emotions history and history of medicine and empire, Emotion, Mission, Architecture raises broader historical questions about the process of mobilising and regulating emotions in the Christian missionary contexts ? contributing in turn to discussions on hybridity, missionary and local encounters, women?s agency and the interactions between mission and empire.
£18.99
Edinburgh University Press Giorgio Agambens Homo Sacer Series
Book SynopsisRequiring no prior knowledge of the series, Colby Dickinson explains why Agamben's Homer Sacer series is one of the most significant philosophical texts of the past century. He unpacks key concepts including sovereignty, potentiality, form-of-life, the state of exception, inoperativity, glory and the messianic as they appear and reappear.
£95.00
Edinburgh University Press DerridaS Politics of Friendship
Book Synopsis25 years after the publication of Derrida's Politics of Friendship (Politiques de l'amiti , 1994), this edited collection gathers 23 critical chapters that revisit this underappreciated text. Engaging closely with Derrida's text, the contributors analyse, extend and critique the work.Trade Review"The Politics of Friendship has never been more relevant at a time when being a friend seems undermined by fragmentation and a fantasy of individualism. The editors have brought together some of the most important Derrida scholars in this volume to develop critical discussions of this rich text and to remind us why we must return to it again and again." -Drucilla Cornell, Emeritus Professor, Rutgers University
£28.49
Edinburgh University Press A Continental Guide to Philosophy
Book SynopsisWhat is real? How can we know what is real? How might we live authentically? These are the three fundamental questions about metaphysics, epistemology, and ethics. John Macready guides you through these questions by reading three pairs of philosophers and texts: Plato and Descartes; Hume and Kant, and Nietzsche and Arendt.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Ageing Dementia and Time in Film
Book SynopsisOffers the first sustained analysis of films about ageing and dementia through a temporal framework
£18.99
Edinburgh University Press Coal and Energy in South Africa
Book SynopsisTaking the growing South African mining town of Emalahleni as a case study, this book investigates whether a just transition from coal-generated energy is possible and what the local implications of this global restructuring of the energy sector will be.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Coal and Energy in South Africa
Book SynopsisTaking the growing South African mining town of Emalahleni as a case study, this book investigates whether a just transition from coal-generated energy is possible and what the local implications of this global restructuring of the energy sector will be.Trade Review"This volume was an eye opener. The authors in this work of genuinely thorough scholarship skillfully use their South African mining story to develop bigger arguments about the complexity of transitioning away from a dominant resource economy. While the dramatic history of South Africa and its outsized mining sector is unique, the set of questions which arise is not. The town they focus on is still booming, but other communities already experience post-mining life, and, as the editors say, 'nobody plans for decline'. Planning for decline is especially hard when coping with growth requires all attention of local government, when post-apartheid elites want to finally benefit, and business people do not see an end to the boom. Envisioning what a transition would look like, and preparing for this, is hard. Turning such vision into a strategy is even harder. If we want such a transition to be more than economic survival, and more than avoiding environmental catastrophe, i.e. if we strive for fairness in the process and prosperous communities as a result, then the dimensions of the challenge are hard to overestimate. As the authors note, the reverberations of unregulated and unanticipated closure after a boom can span generations. Neo-liberal ideologies and mining companies anxious to avoid responsibility for communities they used to control, as well as workers desperately in need of opportunities, do not prevent the search for a just transition, however. The analyses in this book reveal, beyond complexity and despair, many signs of hope and pathways to brighter post-mining futures." -Kristof Van Assche, University of Alberta
£23.74
Edinburgh University Press Forging Identities in the Irish World
Book SynopsisPresents the experiences of two burgeoning cities and the Irish people that helped to establish what it is 'to be Irish' within them
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Walter Scott and Short Fiction
Book SynopsisA study of Walter Scott's short stories, novella and tales
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press The Gothic Forms of Victorian Poetry
Book SynopsisVictorian poets remixed and remastered signature tropes from 1790s Gothic novels, establishing canonical nineteenth-century poetic forms.
£23.74
Edinburgh University Press Lady Justice
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Edinburgh University Press Land Reform in the British and Irish Isles Since
Book SynopsisPresents a comparative analysis of land issues and impact of reform across the British and Irish Isles, in Ireland, Scotland and Wales
£90.25
Edinburgh University Press The Incomplete Project of Schizoanalysis
Book SynopsisCollects 18 previously published essays and two new essays by one of the world's leading commentators on Deleuze and Guattari.
£99.00
Edinburgh University Press Literary NeoOrientalism and the Arab Uprisings
Book SynopsisProvides a transnational study of the Arab uprisings in the Western literary market
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Literary NeoOrientalism and the Arab Uprisings
Book SynopsisProvides a transnational study of the Arab uprisings in the Western literary market
£18.99
Edinburgh University Press Kinship State Formation and Governance in the
Book SynopsisBuilds a theoretical model of tribe-state relations through historical political analysis of tribal politics in Kuwait, Qatar, and Oman
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Kinship State Formation and Governance in the
Book SynopsisBuilds a theoretical model of tribe-state relations through historical political analysis of tribal politics in Kuwait, Qatar, and Oman
£18.99
