Social and political philosophy Books
Edinburgh University Press Critiquing Sovereign Violence
Book SynopsisGavin Rae offers an original approach to sovereign violence by looking at a wide range of thinkers, which he organises into three models. Benjamin, Schmitt, Arendt, Deleuze and Guattari form the radical-juridical perspective; Foucault and Agamben the biopolitical; Derrida the bio-juridical which Rae argues produces the most nuanced account.
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Edinburgh University Press The Common and CounterHegemonic Politics
Book SynopsisAlexandros Kioupkiolis re-conceptualises the common in tandem with the political. By engaging with key thinkers of community and the commons, including Nancy, Ostrom, Hardt and Negri, together with poststructuralist conceptions of agonism and hegemony from Mouffe and Laclau, he remedies problematic issues of power relations and division.Table of ContentsPreface: The Long Run; Acknowledgements; 1. Commoning the Political, Politicising the Common: Community and the Political in J. L. Nancy, R. Esposito, G. Agamben, E. Laclau and C. Mouffe; 2. From the Commons to Another Politics of Egalitarian Autonomy: Common Pool Resources, Digital and Anticapitalist Commons, from E. Ostrom to Marxist Autonomism; 3. Common and Communism: Political Theories For Radical Change: from Hardt & Negri, Dardot & Laval to Badiou and Žižek; 4. Taking on Hegemony and the Political; 5. Reclaiming Post-Marxist Hegemony for the Commons; 6. Movements Post-Hegemony; 7. Common Democracy: Political Representation and Government as Commons; Endnotes; References.
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Edinburgh University Press The Common and CounterHegemonic Politics
Book SynopsisAlexandros Kioupkiolis re-conceptualises the common in tandem with the political. By engaging with key thinkers of community and the commons, including Nancy, Ostrom, Hardt and Negri, together with poststructuralist conceptions of agonism and hegemony from Mouffe and Laclau, he remedies problematic issues of power relations and division.
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Edinburgh University Press The Political Theories of Raymond Aron
Book SynopsisAn illuminating account of Raymond Aron's political philosophy and its enduring relevance today
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Raymond Arons Philosophy of Political
Book SynopsisThis book shines a light on Raymond Aron and his work on war and peace, ideological critique, the philosophy of history, international relations and political economy. It discusses Aaron's political legacy and argues that a number of his critiques and theories can help us address many of the problems and conflicts of the 21st century.
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Edinburgh University Press Creative Involution
Book Synopsis''Creative Involution: Bergson, Beckett Deleuze' focuses on a philosophical trajectory that not only had a profound impact on critical thought of the 20th and now 21st centuries, but on cosmopolitan, contemporary culture more broadly and on artistic experiment and expression in particular.
£22.79
Edinburgh University Press Rhythm and Critique
Book SynopsisRhythm and Critique presents 12 new essays from a range of specialists to define, contextualise and challenge the concepts of rhythm and rhythmanalysis. It includes newly translated materials from Rudolf Laban and Henri Meschonnic.Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors Introductions Rhythm, Rhuthmos and Rhythmanalysis Paola Crespi and Sunil Manghani Could Rhythm Become a New Scientific Paradigm for the Humanities? Pascal Michon A Genealogy of Rhythm Paola Crespi and Sunil Manghani Part I: Modalities of Rhythm 1. Drawing Rhythm: The Work of Rudolf Laba Paola Crespi 2. What is at Stake in a Theory of Rhythm Henri Meschonnic (translated by Chantal Wright, Introduced by Marko Pajevic) 3. Rhythm and Textural Temporality Xin Wei Sha and Garrett Laroy Johnson Part II: Sites and Practices 4. Attunement of Value and Capital in the Alogrithms of Social Media Beverly Skeggs and Simon Yuill 5. Idiorrhythmy: An (Unsustainable) Aesthetic of Ethics Sunil Manghani 6. Adventures of a Line of Thought: Rhythmic Evolutions of Intelligent Machines in Post-Digital Culture Stamatia Portanova Part III: Rhythmanalysis 7. The Configuring of ‘Context’ in Rhythmanalysis Yi Chen 8. City Rhythms: An Approach to Urban Rhythm Analyses Caroline Nevejan and Pinar Sefkatli 9. Rhythm, Rhythmanalysis and Algorithm-Analysis Julian Henriques Index
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Rhythm and Critique
Book SynopsisRhythm and Critique presents 12 new essays from a range of specialists to define, contextualise and challenge the concepts of rhythm and rhythmanalysis. It includes newly translated materials from Rudolf Laban and Henri Meschonnic.
£19.94
Edinburgh University Press The Ethics of Political Resistance
Book SynopsisWhat and how should individuals resist in political situations? Chris Henry brings together Althusser, Badiou and Deleuze in order to offer a new idea of political practice He develops a structural ontology that gives rise to non-idealist, non-dogmatic, yet ethical practices of resistance against the return of classical ontological dualities.
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Edinburgh University Press The Principles of Deleuzian Philosophy
Book SynopsisKoichiro Kokubun focuses on Deleuze's method of 'free indirect discourse' to locate and explicate Deleuze's philosophy of transcendental empiricism and its constitutive limits. He works through Deleuze's confrontations with Hume, Kant, Bergson, Freud, Lacan, Foucault and Guattari, and the influence of structuralism and psychoanalysis.
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Edinburgh University Press DeleuzeS Philosophical Lineage II
Book SynopsisFrom Lucretius to Schelling to Foucault, this book looks at 16 philosophers, writers and artists whose work influenced the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze. Each chapter introduces the thinker in question, explains the context in which Deleuze draws their work and discusses how it contributed to the development of Deleuze's own ideas.
£27.54
Edinburgh University Press Democratic Biopolitics
Book SynopsisSergei Prozorov challenges the assumption that the biopolitical governance means the end of democracy, arguing for a positive synthesis of biopolitics and democracy. He develops a vision of democratic biopolitics where diverse forms of life can coexist on the basis of their reciprocal recognition as free, equal and in common.
£26.59
Edinburgh University Press Felix Guattaris Schizoanalytic Ecology
Book SynopsisHanjo Berressem establishes the notion of a schizoanalytic ecology as the most consistent conceptual spine of Felix Guattari's work. He covers the whole range of Guattari's solo work andthe books co-authored with Gilles Deleuze, primarily a rigorous explication and analysis of 'Schizoanalytic Cartographies'.
£94.50
Edinburgh University Press HumeS Scepticism
Book SynopsisPeter S. Fosl offers a radical interpretation of Hume as a thoroughgoing sceptic on epistemological, metaphysical and doxastic grounds. He first contextualises Hume's thought in the sceptical tradition and goes on to interpret the conceptual apparatus of his work including the Treatise, Enquiries, Essays, History, Dialogues and letters.
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Edinburgh University Press SchellingS Ontology of Powers
Book SynopsisCharlotte Alderwick presents Schelling's ontology as fundamentally power-based. She demonstrates that this ontology enables his unique conception of human freedom outlined in the 'Freedom' essay and can usefully problematise and supplement contemporary work on power-based ontologies.
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Edinburgh University Press Critical Affect
Book SynopsisCritical Affect forges a path across the current impasse between critical and post-critical methods in social and cultural theory. It explores the emotional complexity of critique and maps out its enduring value for the turn to affect and ontology.Through a series of vivid close readings, Barnwell shows how suspicion and methods of decoding remain vital to both civic and academic spaces, where the question of how we verify the truth is one of the most polarising and provocative of our age. Situating current debates within enduring ethical discussions about how to represent lived experience from the 'Two Cultures' debate to the Science Wars, this book opens crucial questions about the ethics of practicing theory and offers a new route into the critical study of affect.
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Edinburgh University Press The Politics of Slavery
Book SynopsisLooking at scholarship on both 'old' and 'new' slavery, Laura Brace assesses the work of Aristotle, Locke, Hegel, Kant, Wollstonecraft and Mill, and explores the contemporary concerns of human trafficking and the prison industrial complex to consider the limitations of 'new slavery' discourse.
£22.79
Edinburgh University Press Restitution and the Imaginary
Book SynopsisThis book takes a unique approach grounded in political and cultural discourse to develop a political theory of restitution.
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Edinburgh University Press Restitution and the Politics of Repair
Book SynopsisThis book takes a unique approach grounded in political and cultural discourse to develop a political theory of restitution.
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Edinburgh University Press Neoliberalism and Political Theology
Book SynopsisCombining penetrating argument and broad-ranging scholarship, Carl Raschke shows what the term 'neoliberalism' really means, how it evolved and why it has been so misunderstood.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Aristotle on the Matter of Form
Book SynopsisAdriel M. Trott argues for an interdependent relationship of form and matter in Aristotle's metaphysics. Responding to feminist critiques from Judith Butler and Luce Irigary, she She finds resources for thinking the female's contribution and the female on its own terms and not as the contrary to form, or the male.
£94.50
Edinburgh University Press Essays on Hume Smith and the Scottish
Book SynopsisUpper-level undergraduate students, postgraduates and scholars working specifically on the Scottish Enlightenment and early modern political and economic thought more generally.
£29.45
Edinburgh University Press Affirming Divergence
Book SynopsisAlex Tissandier traces Leibniz's ambiguous status for Deleuze to explain two key ideas in Deleuzian philosophy: a concept of difference that is not reducible to a relation of contradiction and an account of the genesis of the world that does not presuppose the structure of representation.
£22.79
Edinburgh University Press Worldlessness After Heidegger
Book SynopsisRoland Vegs opens up a new debate in favour of abandoning the very idea of the world in both philosophy and politics. Opening with a reconsideration of the Heideggerian critique of worldlessness, he traces the overlooked history of worldlessness in Hannah Arendt, Sigmund Freud, Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida and Alain Badiou.
£27.54
Edinburgh University Press NietzscheS Gay Science
Book SynopsisRobert Miner attends closely to the rhymes and aphorisms that make up The Gay Science and make it so quotable yet so frequently misunderstood. Tracking Nietzsche's mixture of subtle argumentation, memorable images and provocative rhetoric, he opens up multiple ways of interpreting the text and applying it to our own circumstances.
£95.00
Edinburgh University Press Poststructuralist Agency
Book SynopsisGavin Rae shows that the problematic status of agency caused by the poststructuralist decentring of the subject is a central concern for poststructuralist thinkers. He shows how this plays out in the thinking of Deleuze, Derrida and Foucault, and find the best explanation of agency for the founded subject in the work of Castoriadis.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press The Fragility of Caring for Others
Book SynopsisFerrarese develops our thinking about the social conditions of caring for others, while arguing for an understanding of morality that is materialist and political always-already political.
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Edinburgh University Press Biopolitics Materiality and Meaning in Modern
Book SynopsisArguing that existing modernisation theories have been unnecessarily one-sided, Hedwig Fraunhofer offers a rewriting of modernity that cuts across binary methodologies nature and culture, mind and matter, epistemology and ontology, critique and affirmative writing, dramatic and postdramatic theatre.
£90.25
Edinburgh University Press SpinozaS Political Philosophy
Book SynopsisRiccardo Caporali examines of all of Spinoza's works while addressing the challenges imposed by the historical circumstances at the time. Focusing on Spinoza's constant preoccupation with the relationship between metaphysics and politics, Caporali shows that it takes different forms in his various major works.
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Edinburgh University Press The Responsibility to Understand
Book SynopsisTheodore George makes a novel case for a distinctive sense of responsibility at stake in the hermeneutical experiences of understanding and interpretation.
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Edinburgh University Press The Responsibility to Understand
Book SynopsisFew topics have received broader attention within contemporary philosophy than that of responsibility. Theodore George makes a novel case for a distinctive sense of responsibility at stake in the hermeneutical experiences of understanding and interpretation.He argues for the significance of this hermeneutical responsibility in the context of our relations with things, animals and others, as well as political solidarity and the formation of solidarities through the arts, literature and translation.
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Edinburgh University Press Humes Sceptical Enlightenment
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Edinburgh University Press We Ourselves
Book SynopsisThroughout the history of human societies, the question of 'we' has always entailed the question of 'us and them'. Tristan Garcia's looks at the history of how people have imagined themselves in their societies. All in all, this work is a rigorous engagement with the history of humanity's attempts at being collectively.
£94.50
Edinburgh University Press Deliberative Theory and Deconstruction
Book SynopsisOur political climate is increasingly characterised by hostility towards constructed others. Gormley answers the question: what does it mean to do justice to others? In developing this account, he places deliberative theory and deconstruction into critical conversation with the work of Mouffe, Aristotle, Rorty, Laclau and critical theory.
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Edinburgh University Press Living with Agamben
Book SynopsisThe book shows how Agamben's political concerns emerged and evolved as Agamben responded to contemporary events and new intellectual influences while striving to remain true to his deepest intuitions. Kotsko reveals the trajectory of Agamben's work and shows us what it means to practice philosophy as a living, responsive discipline.
£94.50
Edinburgh University Press Spinoza the Epicurean
Book SynopsisBy radically re-reading the 'Theological Political Treatise', Dimitris Vardoulakis argues that Spinoza's Epicurean influence has profound implications for his conception of politics and ontology. This reconsideration of Spinoza's political project, set within a historical context, lays the ground for an alternative genealogy of materialism.
£90.25
Edinburgh University Press Deleuze Kierkegaard and the Ethics of Selfhood
Book SynopsisAndrew Jampol-Petzinger pursues Gilles Deleuze's significantly under-discussed interpretation of Soren Kierkegaard. He presents a view of ethics and selfhood that responds to theories of moral judgment and selfhood based on stable, substance-orientated forms of identity.
£80.75
Edinburgh University Press Democracy and Defiance
Book SynopsisPuts forward a bold, polemical interpretation of democracy as an emancipatory political project through the work of Jacques Ranciere, Claude Lefort and Miguel Abensour
£76.50
Edinburgh University Press Positive Atheism
Book SynopsisCharles Devellennes looks at the the religious, social and political thought of the first four thinkers of the French Enlightenment: Pierre Bayle, Jean Meslier, Paul-Henri Thiry d'Holbach and Denis Diderot to explicitly argue for atheism as a positive philosophy.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Hysteresis
Book SynopsisOne of Europe's leading realist philosophers restores the role of the external world to modern philosophy.
£25.64
Edinburgh University Press The Ordering of Time
Book SynopsisGeorge Lucas sweeps aside the constraints of traditional methodological and cultural boundaries to answer the profound issues concerning the history of philosophy.
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Edinburgh University Press The Ordering of Time
Book SynopsisGeorge Lucas sweeps aside the constraints of traditional methodological and cultural boundaries to answer the profound issues concerning the history of philosophy.
£19.94
Edinburgh University Press Agamben and the Existentialists
Book SynopsisDivided into three sections 'Agamben and the Sovereign Exception', 'Agamben and the Death of God' and 'Existentialist Themes in Agamben' this collection challenges, complicates and reimagines Agamben's critique of the sovereign exception and other existentialist themes including feminism and postcolonialism.Trade Review"Consistently challenging, informative, and enlightening, the essays in this volume make a major contribution in situating Agamben's thought in relation to existentialist thinkers and themes. They provide a bright new lens through which to view Agamben's work." -Kevin Attell, Cornell University
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Edinburgh University Press Kants Cosmopolitics
Book SynopsisWritten by a group of international scholars, the essays in this collection investigate how Kant helps us think about issues related to the interplay among the state and global governance, peace and human rights enforcement, migrant crisis management, European federalisation, global educational reforms and a cosmopolitan culture.
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Edinburgh University Press Roberto Esposito
Book SynopsisThis collection addresses Esposito's long-standing engagement with early modern philosophy, philosophy of biology, biopolitics, and the impolitical and the impersonal, together with his significant dialogues with contemporary philosophers like Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Derrida, Simone Weil, Jean-Luc Nancy and Maurice Blanchot.Trade Review"A compelling collection of essays that attests to the extraordinary versatility of Roberto Esposito's thought, and the generosity of his engagement with other thinkers. Attentive to his diagonal and dialogic philosophical approach, the authors in this volume provide a welcome and stimulating expansion of current Esposito scholarship." -Diane Enns, Ryerson University
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Edinburgh University Press Towards a Geopolitical Image of Thought
Book SynopsisDrawing from his previous writings on the search for a new image of thought and the vitalist role of 'conceptual personae' in the history of philosophy, Gregg Lambert proposes a new geo-political image of thought that is uniquely commensurate with the globalisation of contemporary continental philosophy
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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 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
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