Social and political philosophy Books
Edinburgh University Press SpinozaS Philosophy of Ratio
Book SynopsisThese essays explore the surprisingly varied dimensions of this unacknowledged keystone of Spinoza's thought. They take you from Spinoza's geometrical diagrams to his concepts of mind, body, the emotions and the cosmos.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Architectural Materialisms
Book SynopsisThis book gathers 14 architects, designers, performing artists, film makers, media theorists, philosophers, mathematicians and programmers. They all argue that matter in contemporary posthuman times has to be rethought in its rich internal dynamism and its multifaceted context.
£94.50
Edinburgh University Press Critical and Clinical Cartographies
Book SynopsisThis collection is framed through Deleuze's symptomalogical approach which creates the ideal terrain for architecture and medical technologies of care to meet with robotics, alongside the newly emerging 'materialist landscape.
£94.50
Edinburgh University Press Continental Realism and its Discontents
Book SynopsisTaking the challenge of speculative realism seriously, Continental Realism and Its Discontents refuses to discard the philosophical contributions of Kant, Schelling, Merleau-Ponty, Derrida and Nancy without closer scrutiny. Instead, the contributors turn to these thinkers to meet the challenge of realism in contemporary philosophy.
£94.50
Edinburgh University Press Queering Digital India
Book SynopsisThis pioneering interdisciplinary collection works across mainstream and alternative spaces such as Twitter, Youtube, Facebook, Grindr and gay men's health websites. These digital platforms are then situated within the socio-political situation in India, offering a new way of understanding queerness and Indian-ness.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press British Multiculturalism and the Politics of
Book SynopsisLasse Thomassen argues that the politics of inclusion and identity should be viewed as struggles over how these identities are represented. He centres this argument through careful analysis of cases from the last four decades of British multiculturalism.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements; Introduction: Identity, Inclusion and Representation; 1. Hegemony, Representation and Britishness; 2. Subjects of Equality; 3. (Not) Just a Piece of Cloth: Recognition and Representation; 4. Tolerance: Circles of Inclusion and Exclusion; 5. Hospitality beyond Good and Bad; Conclusion: Multiculturalism, Britishness and Muscular Liberalism; Bibliography; Index.
£22.79
Edinburgh University Press A Guide to Ethics and Moral Philosophy
Book SynopsisBrent Adkins traces the history of ethics and morality by examining six thinkers: Aristotle, Spinoza, Kant, Mill, Nietzsche and Levinas. You'll learn what the philosophers actually said about how to live the best kind of life and, more importantly, why.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction: Three Questions I: Ethics: Aristotle and Spinoza; 1. Aristotle: Happiness is the Good; 2. Aristotle: Virtue and the Highest Happiness; 3. Spinoza:The Universe and Power; 4. Spinoza: Emotions and Freedom II: Morality: Kant and Mill; 5. Kant: Happiness is not the Good; 6. Kant: The Categorical Imperative; 7. Mill: Happiness is Pleasure; 8. Mill: The Greatest Happiness for the Greatest Number III: Beyond: Nietzsche and Levinas; 9. Nietzsche: These are the Wrong Questions; 10. Nietzsche: Morality and Power; 11. Levinas: Philosophy and Appropriation 12. Levinas: Ethics and the Other Conclusion: Beyond Beyond Timeline; Suggestions for Further Reading; Glossary; Bibliography; Notes; Index.
£17.09
Edinburgh University Press Adam Smith and Rousseau
Book SynopsisThis collection brings together an international and interdisciplinary group of Adam Smith and Jean-Jacques Rousseau scholars to explore the key shared concerns of these two great thinkers in politics, philosophy, economics, history and literature.
£94.50
Edinburgh University Press The Moral Mappings of South and North
Book SynopsisThis book explores the possible meanings of this new distinction and assesses the advantages and disadvantages of adopting it for understanding the contemporary world. It casts a wide exploratory net, looking at how the way that we interpret the world has changed over time.
£90.25
Edinburgh University Press Derridas Secret
Book SynopsisThe Snowden Affair, Wikiieaks, the lone wolf terrorist, Hilary Clinton's private email account - the question of the secret is arguably the central element of our contemporary political experience. Organised as a reflection on Jacques Derrida's later writings on secrecy, Charles Barbour looks at the basic ontological question: what is a secret?
£22.79
Edinburgh University Press Nancy and Visual Culture
Book SynopsisThese 12 essays reanimate the dialogue between interdisciplinary scholars and practicing artists that originally gave birth to visual culture as a field of study. A new translation of Nancy s essay, 'The Image: Mimesis and Methexis', reveals how Nancy s work informs, challenges and inspires our encounters with visual culture.Trade Review"Nancy and Visual Culture offers an insightful exploration of the relevance of Nancy's work for our understanding of visual and other cultures." - Marta Weychan, University of Aberdeen, Film-Philosophy
£22.79
Edinburgh University Press Interventions in Contemporary Thought
Book SynopsisWith a critical eye, Gabriel Rockhill guides you through complex debates in history, politics and aesthetics, giving you an overview of key issues and central figures, including Foucault, Derrida, Castoriadis, Badiou and Ranciere. Rockhill also questions the stereotypes of prominent figures and Intellectual movements.
£27.54
Edinburgh University Press Placemaking
Book SynopsisThrough embodied and material practice research, underpinned with theories of new materialism, Tara Page shows how our ways of knowing, making and learning place are entangled with embodied and material pedagogies.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Mallarmeand the Politics of Literature
Book SynopsisWith in-depth studies of Jean-Paul Sartre, Julia Kristeva, Alain Badiou and Jacques Ranciere, along with shorter analyses of Jean-Claude Milner and Quentin Meillassoux, Boncardo asks how Stephane Mallarme became so politically significant for left-wing French intellectuals.
£94.50
Edinburgh University Press Mallarme and the Politics of Literature
Book SynopsisWith in-depth studies of Jean-Paul Sartre, Julia Kristeva, Alain Badiou and Jacques Ranciere, along with shorter analyses of Jean-Claude Milner and Quentin Meillassoux, Boncardo asks how StephaneMallarme became so politically significant for left-wing French intellectuals.
£20.89
Edinburgh University Press Deleuze and Evolutionary Theory
Book Synopsis9 essays focus on the significance of Deleuze and Guattari's engagements with evolutionary theory across the full range of their work, from the interpretation of Darwin in 'Difference and Repetition', to the symbiotic alliances of wasp and orchid in 'A Thousand Plateaus'.
£94.50
Edinburgh University Press Deleuze and Evolutionary Theory
Book Synopsis9 essays focus on the significance of Deleuze and Guattari's engagements with evolutionary theory across the full range of their work, from the interpretation of Darwin in 'Difference and Repetition', to the symbiotic alliances of wasp and orchid in 'A Thousand Plateaus'.
£26.59
Edinburgh University Press CosmoNationalism
Book SynopsisWhy do we assign nationalities to philosophies? Building on Jacques Derrida's unpublished seminars on philosophical nationalism, Oisin Keohane claims that national philosophies are a variant of some form of cosmo-nationalism: a strain of nationalism that uses, rather than opposes, ideas in cosmopolitanism to advance the aims of one nation.
£94.50
Edinburgh University Press CosmoNationalism
Book SynopsisWhy do we assign nationalities to philosophies? Building on Jacques Derrida's unpublished seminars on philosophical nationalism, Oisin Keohane claims that national philosophies are a variant of some form of cosmo-nationalism: a strain of nationalism that uses, rather than opposes, ideas in cosmopolitanism to advance the aims of one nation.
£22.79
Edinburgh University Press Lacan and Deleuze
Book SynopsisThis volume of 12 new essays, breaks the myth of Deleuze and Lacan's foreignness (if not hostility) and places the two in a productive conversation. By taking on topics such as baroque, perversion, death drive, ontology/topology, face, linguistics and formalism the essays highlight key entry points for a discussion between Lacan and Deleuze.
£22.79
Edinburgh University Press Just Enough
Book SynopsisLiam Shields systematically clarifies and defends the political philosophy of Sufficientarianism, which insists that securing enough of some things, such as food, healthcare and education, is a crucial demand of justice. He engages in practical debates about critical issues such as child-rearing and global justice.
£22.79
Edinburgh University Press Deleuze Cinema and the Thought of the World
Book SynopsisDeleuze turns to the cinema because its formal resources enable it to 'think' the relation between movement and duration in ways that philosophy cannot. Discover the nature of the philosophical problems that Deleuze turns to the cinema to resolve and how resources of the cinema enable him to do what philosophy alone cannot.
£94.50
Edinburgh University Press Deleuze Cinema and the Thought of the World
Book SynopsisDeleuze turns to the cinema because its formal resources enable it to 'think' the relation between movement and duration in ways that philosophy cannot. Discover the nature of the philosophical problems that Deleuze turns to the cinema to resolve and how resources of the cinema enable him to do what philosophy alone cannot.
£27.54
Edinburgh University Press Reclaiming Wonder
Book SynopsisGenevieve Lloyd illuminates and challenges some perplexing aspects of contemporary attitudes to wonder. She draws especially on Flaubert, who influenced the thought of Jean-Paul Sartre, Gilles Deleuze and Jacques Derrida. She also reaches into contemporary debates on refugees, secularisation and climate change.
£999.99
Edinburgh University Press Affects Actions and Passions in Spinoza
Book SynopsisRevisiting the generally accepted notion of psycho-physical parallelism in Spinoza, Chantal Jaquet offers a new analysis of the relation between body and mind. Looking at a range of Spinoza's texts, and using an original methodology, she analyses their unity in action through affects, actions and passions.
£94.50
Edinburgh University Press Hobbes and Modern Political Thought
Book SynopsisDiscover how Hobbes established the framework for modern political thought: liberalism originates in the Hobbesian theory of negative liberty; Hobbesian interest and contract are essential to contemporary discussions of the comportment of economic actors; and state sovereignty returns anew in the servility of the state.
£27.54
Edinburgh University Press Queer Defamiliarisation
Book SynopsisHelen Palmer examines the Russian formalist concept of defamiliarisation from a contemporary critical perspective, bringing together new materialist feminisms, experimental linguistic formalism and queer theory.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Queer Defamiliarisation
Book SynopsisHelen Palmer examines the Russian formalist concept of defamiliarisation from a contemporary critical perspective, bringing together new materialist feminisms, experimental linguistic formalism and queer theory.
£24.69
Edinburgh University Press The 1801 SchellingEschenmayer Controversy
Book SynopsisBerger and Whistler provide a ground-breaking account of Schelling's first controversy with his critic A. C. A. Eschenmayer in 1801, which focused on the philosophy of nature. They argue that key Schellingian concepts, such as identity, potency and abstraction, were first forged in his early debate with Eschenmayer.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press The SchellingEschenmayer Controversy 1801
Book SynopsisBerger and Whistler provide a ground-breaking account of Schelling's first controversy with his critic A. C. A. Eschenmayer in 1801, which focused on the philosophy of nature. They argue that key Schellingian concepts, such as identity, potency and abstraction, were first forged in his early debate with Eschenmayer.
£20.89
Edinburgh University Press The Problem of Nature in Hegels Final System
Book SynopsisWes Furlotte critically evaluates Hegel's philosophy of human freedom in terms of his often-disregarded conception of nature. In doing so, he gives us a new portrait of Hegel's final system that is surprisingly relevant for our contemporary world, connecting it with recent work in speculative realism and new materialism.
£27.54
Edinburgh University Press WhiteheadS Metaphysics of Power
Book SynopsisPierfrancesco Basile makes it possible to grasp the main concepts of Whitehead's process metaphysics especially the crucial notion that being and power are one and the same and appreciate the complex way this is rooted in the modern philosophical tradition.
£22.79
Edinburgh University Press The Afterlives of Georges Perec
Book SynopsisThese 14 essays examine Georges Perec's impact on architecture, art, design, media, electronic communications, computing and the everyday.
£27.54
Edinburgh University Press Contemporary Encounters with Ancient Metaphysics
Book SynopsisThis volume of 18 essays shows how leading philosophers address the problems of ancient metaphysics: one and the many, the potential and the actual, the material and immaterial, the divine and the world itself. Includes three original and previously unpublished translations of texts by Gilles Deleuze, Pierre Aubenque and Barbara Cassin.
£27.54
Edinburgh University Press Prehistoric Myths in Modern Political Philosophy
Book SynopsisThe state of nature, the origin of property, the origin of government, the primordial nature of inequality and war why do political philosophers talk so much about the Stone Age? Widerquist and McCall draw on archaeology and anthropology to show that much of what we think we know about human origins comes from philosophers' imaginations.
£27.54
Edinburgh University Press Schellings Naturalism
Book SynopsisUsing Schelling's philosophy, Ben Woodard examines how an expanded form of naturalism changes how we conceive of the division between thought and world, mathematics and motion, sense and dynamics, experiment and materiality, as well as speculation and pragmatism.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements; Introduction; 1. The Natural Forge of the Transcendental: The Movement of Thought and the Space of Nature; 2. Castles of Ether and Asymptotic Bridges: Kant, Maimon, Schelling, and the Relation of Inner and Outer Sense; 3. The Force of the Continuous: Schelling’s Naturalization of Mathematics; 4. The Red Threads of the World: Potenzen, Construction, and Inexistence; 5. Lamps, Rainbows, Unicorns, and Horizons: Spatializing Knowledge in Naturphilosophical Epistemology; 6. Speculative Pragmatism: Traversing the Richtungen of Nature and Thought; Bibliography.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Speculative Grammatology
Book SynopsisLooking mainly at Derrida's early work and the philosophy of speculative realists Karen Barad, Catherine Malabou and Quentin Meillassoux, Deborah Goldgaber opens the conversation between deconstruction and speculative realism.
£94.50
Edinburgh University Press Animals Plants Things
Book SynopsisCombining recent insights from animal studies, critical plant studies and the new materialisms, Danielle Sands reads the fiction of Yann Martel, Karen Joy Fowler, Han Kang and Jim Crace beside the philosophy of Graham Harman, Donna Haraway, Jacques Derrida and Roger Caillois to propose a method of thinking of and with animals.
£94.50
Edinburgh University Press Deleuze and Anarchism
Book SynopsisThis collection of 13 essays addresses and explores Deleuze and Guattari's relationship to the notion of anarchism: in the diverse ways that they conceived of and referred to it throughout their work, and also expands it in terms of the spirit of their philosophy and in their critique of capitalism and the State.
£94.50
Edinburgh University Press The Egalitarian Sublime
Book SynopsisAgainst the unjust legacies of the traditional sublime, James Williams defends an anarchist sublime: multiple, self-destructive and temporary; opposed to any idea of highest value to be shared by all, but always imposed on the powerless.
£20.89
Edinburgh University Press Shakespeare and the TruthTeller
Book SynopsisHighlighting the necessity of literary thinking to political philosophy, this book explores Shakespeare's responses to sixteenth-century debates over the revolutionary potential of Cynic critical activity.
£90.25
Edinburgh University Press Shakespeare and the TruthTeller
Book SynopsisHighlighting the necessity of literary thinking to political philosophy, this book explores Shakespeare's responses to sixteenth-century debates over the revolutionary potential of Cynic critical activity.
£19.94
Edinburgh University Press Politics Ontology and Ethics in Spinoza
Book SynopsisAlexandre Matheron is considered one of the most important interpreters of Spinoza's philosophy in the 20th century. These 20 essays, translated into English for the first time,focus on ontology, knowledge, politics and ethics in Spinoza, his predecessors and his contemporaries.
£90.25
Edinburgh University Press Obligation and the Fact of Sense
Book SynopsisStaging a fruitful dialogue between the analytic and Continental philosophy, and reflecting specifically on the work of Hegel, Merleau-Ponty, Serres and Nancy, Lueck offers a creative new approach to the problem of moral obligation. Lueck builds on Immanuel Kant's fact of reason to give us a fresh rethinking of morality and wellbeing.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press BecomingAnimal
Book SynopsisDrawing on a wide range of texts from philosophical ethology to classical texts, and from continental philosophy to literature Cimatti creates a dialogue with Flaubert, Derrida, Temple Grandin, Heidegger as well as Malaparte and Landolfi explores what human animality looks like, with a particular focus on the work of Gilles Deleuze.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Heidegger and the Groundwork of Evental Ontology
Book SynopsisJames Bahoh proposes a new methodology for explaining Heidegger's philosophy that solves a set of interpretive problems in his difficult later work and led to substantial inconsistencies in the scholarship. Bahoh reconstructs Heidegger's concept of event in relation to his theories of history, truth, difference, ground and time-space.
£94.50
Edinburgh University Press Continental Realism and its Discontents
Book SynopsisTaking the challenge of speculative realism seriously, 'Continental Realism and Its Discontents' refuses to discard the philosophical contributions of Kant, Schelling, Merleau-Ponty, Derrida and Nancy without closer scrutiny. Instead, the contributors turn to these thinkers to meet the challenge of realism in contemporary philosophy.
£22.79
Edinburgh University Press Arendt Natality and Biopolitics
Book SynopsisRosalyn Diprose and Ewa Ziarek show us that biopolitics along with sexism, racism and political theology seeks to control to women's reproductive agency. They reconfigure Arendt's philosophy of natality (birth rate)in terms of biopolitical theory and feminism to defend women's reproductive choices and democratic pluralism.
£27.54
