{"title":"Structuralism and Post-structuralism Books","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"poststructuralism-9780198859963","title":"Poststructuralism","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVery Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, InspiringPoststructuralism challenges traditional ways of thinking about human beings and our relation to the world. Language, meaning, and culture are all reappraised, and with them assumptions about what it''s possible for us to know. More interested in posing sharply focused questions than in reassuring with certainties, its theorists tend to clarify the options, while leaving them open to debate. At once sceptical towards inherited authority and positive about future possibilities, poststructuralism asks above all that we reflect on its findings.In this Very Short Introduction, Catherine Belsey traces the key arguments that have led poststructuralists to challenge traditional theories of language and culture. In this new edition, such well-known figures as Barthes, Foucault, and Derrida are joined by less famous theorists, and examples are drawn from both high art and popular culture. Shakespeare features alongside advertising and Christmas cards, as well as Lewis Carroll, Marcel Duchamp, Toni Morrison, and the tantalizing lithographs of M. C. Escher.ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA wonderfully clear account * Guardian *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface by Neil Badmington 1: Creatures of difference 2: Difference and culture 3: The differed subject 4: Difference or truth? 5: Difference in the world 6: Dissent References Further reading Glossary Index","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732817228119,"sku":"9780198859963","price":9.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780198859963.jpg?v=1719998526"},{"product_id":"heidegger-9780226678924","title":"Heidegger","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFew philosophers held greater fascination for Jacques Derrida than Martin Heidegger, and in this book we get an extended look at Derrida's first real encounters with him. Delivered over nine sessions in 1964 and 1965 at the  cole Normale Sup rieure, these lectures offer a glimpse of the young Derrida first coming to terms with the German philosopher and his magnum opus, Being and Time. They provide not only crucial insight into the gestation of some of Derrida's primary conceptual concerns--indeed, it is here that he first uses, with some hesitation, the word deconstruction--but an analysis of Being and Time that is of extraordinary value to readers of Heidegger or anyone interested in modern philosophy.     Derrida performs an almost surgical reading of the notoriously difficult text, marrying pedagogical clarity with patient rigor and acting as a lucid guide through the thickets of Heidegger's prose. At this time in intellectual history, Heidegger was still somewhat unfamiliar to Fre\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Heidegger: The Question of Being and History certainly (re)familiarizes Anglophone readers with the essentially historical orientation of Derrida's philosophical project. Given at the start of his remarkable career, at the age of thirty-four, and originally delivered over the course of nine sessions during the 1964- 1965 academic year at the  cole Normale Sup rieure (ENS), Derrida's seminar offers a wealth of insights into the ways his published views on history fundamentally emerged out of a critical engagement with the introduction and the final sections of Martin Heidegger's 1927 Being and Time.\"--H-France Review \"The publication of Derrida's 1964-65 seminar on Martin Heidegger's Being and Time is a philosophical event of great significance. Despite dozens of detailed analyses, Being and Time remains one of the most misread books of the twentieth century. Humanist, anthropological, analytic, and transcendental-mystical readings have occluded the profoundly atheistic, 'ek-sistent' thing that is Dasein. Derrida's penetrating reconstruction of Heidegger's revolutionary 'aporetic style' illuminates Being and Time and the entirety of Derrida's own oeuvre. Although Derrida did not publish this seminar, its traces pervade the issues that dominated his thinking. Derrida's greatest insights into Heidegger's thinking are announced here: being is neither a 'cosmic ground' nor 'the highest being, ' the metaphors for being can never be stabilized by a logic, the 'mystery of Geschehen [originary movement]' marks an absolute temporal concealment, the 'destruction of ontology' is the work of ontology itself, the history of being is history itself. Derrida's focus is on the opening and closing sections of Being and Time, Heidegger's Introduction to Metaphysics, his 'Letter on Humanism', and texts by Hegel, Nietzsche, and Husserl. This brilliantly translated seminar is required reading for students of Heidegger and Derrida. . . . Summing up: Essential.\"  --Choice \"For those who are prepared, this text makes for absorbing reading. . . . Because it dates from the early years of Derrida's career and because it is a series of classroom lectures, this book serves as a helpful preparation for reading the more intricate and playful texts that he published in the late 1960s and beyond. It also shows just how indebted Derrida is to Heidegger.\"  --Los Angeles Review of Books","brand":"The University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732915695959,"sku":"9780226678924","price":24.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780226678924.jpg?v=1719998933"},{"product_id":"metamorphoses-9780745625775","title":"Metamorphoses","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e* Major new work in feminist theory, cultural theory and gender studies * Author is well known in the fields of feminism and post--structuralism and for her work on problems of identity and difference.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Wonderfully thought provoking, highly stylized, and imaginatively written.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eKevin Pelletier, \u003ci\u003eCultural Critique\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Replete with situated, embedded figurations, \u003ci\u003eMetamorphoses\u003c\/i\u003e is a book to grow with. Emergences, transformations, and materialist becomings of all kinds are the subject of this rich philosophical work. Insects, women, philosophers, cyborgs – promising monsters all, and all are enlisted in drawing up a cartography of becoming. Braidotti writes with enormous energy and style. Never forgetting the subject structured in sexual difference, she searches for figurations that can guide us to emergences more attuned to justice, pleasure, and historical specificity. This book warms my biophilic heart, as it informs my feminist soul and gives pleasure to my embodied mind.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDonna J. Haraway, \u003ci\u003eUniversity of California at Santa Cruz\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements. \u003cp\u003ePrologue.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. Becoming Woman or Sexual Difference Revisited.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. 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It is formed of three major texts, which constitute a kind of metaphysical saga: \u003ci\u003eBeing and Event\u003c\/i\u003e (1988). ),\u003ci\u003e Logics of the Worlds (\u003c\/i\u003e2006) and finally \u003ci\u003eThe Immanence of Truths\u003c\/i\u003e, which he has been working on for 15 years. The new volume reverses the perspective adopted in \u003ci\u003eLogics of Worlds. \u003c\/i\u003eWhere in that book, Badiou saw fit to analyze how truths, qua events, appear from the perspective of particular worlds that by definition exclude them, in \u003ci\u003eThe Immanence of Truths \u003c\/i\u003eBadiou asks instead how the irruption of truths transforms the worlds within which they by necessity must arise. An emphasis on regularity and continuity has given way to an attempt, one unquestionable in its philosophical power and implications, to formalize rupture and reconfiguration.The \u003ci\u003eBeing and Event \u003c\/i\u003etrilogy is a unique and ambitious work that reveals how truths can be at once context-spec\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlain Badiou is that rare thing: a true Philosopher. In an age of cynicism, nihilism, relativism, and the deadening suspicion of thought, Badiou remains true to the courage that characterises Philosophy from the very beginning. Casting his rational and patient eye over developments in thought, religion and mathematics, Badiou continues to grapple with the infinite in this admirably clear work. Everyone is already capable of thought, Badiou suggests, the point is to realise it. * Nina Power, Philosopher, UK *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Immanence of Truths\u003c\/i\u003e completes Alain Badiou’s philosophical trilogy that began with \u003ci\u003eBeing and Event\u003c\/i\u003e. It is a grand summa of years of conceptual creativity, mathematical research, political militancy in the quest for a new form of communism, and fidelity to the infinite power of art and the amorous encounter. * Bruno Bosteels, Professor of Comparative Literature and Latin American and Iberian Cultures, Columbia University, USA *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eList of Symbols\u003c\/i\u003e  Introduction, \u003ci\u003eKenneth Reinhard (UCLA, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e Prologue  Section I: The Classic Forms Of Finitude Section II: The Modernity Of Finitude: Covering-Over Section III: The Supremacy Of Infinity Section IV: On The Edge Of The Absolute Section V: Conditions For Defeating Covering-Over Section VI: Parmenides’ Revenge. 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The book shows how discourses are used to construct social institutionsoften classist, sexist, or racistand that those social institutions always entail a distribution of resources and capital in ways that capacitate some subject positions over others. Such asymmetrical power relations are often obscured by ideologies that offer demonstrably false accounts of why those asymmetries exist or persist.    The author provides a method of reading in order to bring matters into relief, and the last chapter provides a case study that applies his theory and method to racist ideologies in the United States, which systematically function to discourage white Americans from sympathizing with poor African Americans, thereby contributing to reinforcing the latter's place at the bottom o\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book is a gift to students and colleagues who have a passion for theory. 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This is a must-read for anyone who considers themselves a scholar of culture. * Leslie Dorrough Smith, Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Director of the Women’s and Gender Studies Program, Avila University, USA *\u003cbr\u003e“If to study religion is to study how people name and rank their worlds, then it actually studies how power and identity are claimed and contested—and Craig Martin numbers among the best representatives of such a field; \u003ci\u003eDiscourse and Ideology\u003c\/i\u003e makes clear that a critical scholar of religion has much to say about how society works, and why it so often seems to work only for some of its members.” * Russell T. McCutcheon, University Research Professor and Chair of the Department of Religious Studies, University of Alabama, USA *\u003cbr\u003eThis book succeeds in providing a secure base and guide for scholars to apply a poststructuralist critique of culture, whether focused on religion, politics, gender, race or another category of analysis. * Suzanne Owen, Reader in Religious Studies, Leeds Trinity University, UK *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface Introduction: Contingency 1. Critique 2. Things 3. Discourse 4. Domination 5. Ideology 6. Recrement 7. 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Philosophy  vainly attempts to control the irrecoverable dissemination of its own  meaning, it strives—against the grain of language—to offer a sober  revelation of truth. Literature—on the other hand—flaunts its own  meretriciousness, abandons itself to the Dionysiac play of language. In \u003ci\u003eDissemination\u003c\/i\u003e—more  than any previous work—Derrida joins in the revelry, weaving a complex  pattern of puns, verbal echoes and allusions, intended to 'deconstruct'  both the pretension of criticism to tell the truth about literature, and  the pretension of philosophy to the literature of truth. * Peter Dews, New Statesman *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTranslator’s Introduction   Outwork, prefacing       \u003cb\u003ePlato’s Pharmacy\u003c\/b\u003e   \u003cb\u003eI\u003c\/b\u003e   1 Pharmacia    2 The Father of Logos   3 The Filial Inscription: Theuth, Hermes, Thoth, Nabu, Nebo   4 The Pharmakon   5 The Pharmakeus   II   6 The Pharmakos   7 The Ingredients: Phantasms, Festivals, and Paints   8 The Heritage of the Pharmakon: Family Scene   9 Play: From the Pharmakon to the Letter and from Blindness to the Supplement       \u003cb\u003eThe Double Session\u003c\/b\u003e   \u003cb\u003eI\u003c\/b\u003e   \u003cb\u003eII\u003c\/b\u003e       \u003cb\u003eDissemination\u003c\/b\u003e   \u003cb\u003eI\u003c\/b\u003e   1 The Trigger    2 The Apparatus or Frame   3 The Scission   4 The Double Bottom of the Plupresent   5 wriTing, encAsIng, screeNing   6 The Attending Discourse   \u003cb\u003eII\u003c\/b\u003e   7 The Time before First   8 The Column   9 The Crossroads of the “Est”   10 Grafts, a return to Overcasting   XI The Supernumerary","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48739587752279,"sku":"9781474243711","price":22.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781474243711.jpg?v=1720052674"},{"product_id":"camera-lucida-vintage-design-edition-9781784876012","title":"Camera Lucida: Vintage Design Edition","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBarthes investigation into the meaning of photographs is a seminal work of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003etwentieth-century \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003ecritical theory. 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The economy is in crisis, politics in both its past and present forms is in crisis and our own individual lives are in crisis, made vulnerable by the fluctuations of the labor market and by the undoing of social and political ties we inherited from modernity. Yet, traditional views of crises as just temporary setbacks do not seem to hold any longer; this crisis seems permanent, with no way out and no alternatives on the horizon. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReconstructing a political genealogy of the term from the Greek world to today's neoliberalism, this book demonstrates that crisis, understood as a \"choice\" between revolution and conservation, is a peculiarity of the modern era that does not apply to the present day. However, since its origin, the trope of crisis has proven to be one of the most effective instruments of social discipline and administration. The analytical trajectory followed by this book - which spans from Plato to Hayek, from the juridical and medical science of antiquity to the current technocracy, passing through the \"weapons of criticism\" of Marx and Gramsci - finally identifies, following Benjamin and Foucault, precariousness as the \"form of life\" that characterizes crisis understood as an art of government. But we still need to answer the question: \"How can we recreate the possibility of political alternatives?\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDario Gentili's book on crisis is one of the first genealogies of a concept that nowadays is crucial. In this way, through the rigorous analysis of the term, he captures an uncharted aspect of our contemporary condition -- Roberto Esposito\u003cbr\u003eThere is a crisis, there is no alternative. This is the rhetorical strategy through which governments across the world justify and legitimize unpopular political and economic decisions in this age, the age of precarity. Dario Gentili's illuminating genealogical reconstruction of the dispositive of crisis is an indispensable tool to understand and contrast the very specific art of government implicit in today's globally predominant neoliberal policies.\"}\" data-sheets-userformat=\"{\"2\":513,\"3\":{\"1\":0},\"12\":0}\" style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;\"\u0026gt;\u003ci\u003eThere is a crisis, there is no alternative\u003c\/i\u003e. This is the rhetorical strategy through which governments across the world justify and legitimize unpopular political and economic decisions in this age, the age of precarity. Dario Gentili's illuminating genealogical reconstruction of the dispositive of crisis is an indispensable tool to understand and contrast the very specific art of government implicit in today's globally predominant neoliberal policies. -- Elettra Stimilli\u003cbr\u003eDario Gentili's superb The Age of Precarity takes a concept ubiquitous in contemporary left political and social theory, precarity, and endows it with new life and explanatory power. Deftly drawing on thinkers from Plato to Benjamin, Gramsci to Foucault, Schmitt to Hayek, Gentili diagnoses a present where crisis generates an 'art of government' of precarious life, and calls against a politics as a fight-to-the-death between forms of life, for a new politics of shared forms of life through which power is expressed in common. -- Matteo Mandarini, Queen Mary University of London\u003cbr\u003eDario Gentili's book on crisis is one of the first genealogies of a concept that nowadays is crucial. Through the rigorous analysis of the term, he captures an uncharted aspect of our contemporary condition. -- Roberto Esposito, author of \u003ci\u003eCommunitas\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"There is a crisis, there is no alternative.\" This is the rhetorical strategy through which governments across the world justify and legitimize unpopular political and economic decisions in this age, the age of precarity. Dario Gentili's illuminating genealogical reconstruction of the dispositive of crisis is an indispensable tool helping us to understand and contrast the very specific art of government implicit in today's globally predominant neoliberal policies -- Elettra Stimilli, author of \u003ci\u003eDebt and Guilt\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDario Gentili's radical and rigorous work offers a magisterial analysis of the figure of crisis, which so much seems to define our current socio-political situation. By tracing an intellectual counter-history of this concept and proposing a novel theorization of it as an art of government, The Age of Precarity stands out as a benchmark text across contemporary debates in critical thought and one that we need to understand present-day practices of administration under neoliberal governance. -- Andrea Mura, Goldsmiths, University of London\u003cbr\u003eDario Gentili has, through an analysis of the language of crisis, shown how its inscription into the discourse of contemporary politics has diminished its force. The language of crisis has been legitimized. In its place he proposes a rethinking of conflict. The political is then recast in terms of life. Freed of the debilitating effect of the equation of life with the biological Gentile proposes a genuine biopolitics. The point of departure is the recovery of that which has been rendered precarious in the name of a new form of commonality. -- Andrew Benjamin, University of Technology, Sydney","brand":"Verso Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49084399092055,"sku":"9781788733809","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781788733809.jpg?v=1725552025"},{"product_id":"dark-matter-a-guide-to-alexander-kluge-oskar-negt-9781788735179","title":"Dark Matter: A Guide to Alexander Kluge \u0026 Oskar","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCollaborators for more than four decades, lawyer, author, filmmaker, and multimedia artist Alexander Kluge and social philosopher Oskar Negt are an exceptional duo in the history of Critical Theory precisely because their respective disciplines operate so differently. \u003ci\u003eDark Matter\u003c\/i\u003e argues that what makes their contributions to the Frankfurt School so remarkable is how they think together in spite of these differences. Kluge and Negt's \"gravitational thinking\" balances not only the abstractions of theory with the concreteness of the aesthetic, but also their allegiances to Frankfurt School mentors with their fascination for other German, French, and Anglo-American thinkers distinctly outside the Frankfurt tradition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt the core of all their adventures in gravitational thinking is a profound sense that the catastrophic conditions of modern life are not humankind's unalterable fate. In opposition to modernity's disastrous state of affairs, Kluge and Negt regard the huge mass of dark matter throughout the universe as the lodestar for thinking together with others, for dark matter is that absolute guarantee that happier alternatives to our calamitous world are possible. As illustrated throughout Langston's study, dark matter's promise-its critical orientation out of catastrophic modernity-finds its expression, above all, in Kluge's multimedia aesthetic.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor years I've built a bridge across the Atlantic Ocean with Richard Langston for my project on the poetic force of Critical Theory. Langston forges in \u003ci\u003eDark Matter \u003c\/i\u003esubstantial links between central themes from my nearly fifty-year theoretical collaboration with Oskar Negt and a selection of my stories and films over the many years. This book illustrates how the labor involved in thinking together with others over time is like the gravitational effects of dark matter that hold our universe's celestial bodies together. This gravitational thinking is the counterweight necessary for opposing today's world of disruptive algorithms. -- Alexander Kluge\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eDark Matter\u003c\/i\u003e, Richard Langston examines the encounters between director, author, television producer, and lawyer Alexander Kluge and philosopher and social theoretician Oskar Negt, and sees them as an exceptional constellation. Full of tensions, gaps, intersections, synergies, controversies, and reciprocities, Kluge and Negt's remarkable collaborative project is in Langston's account one of the most exciting and brilliant movements of thought in German intellectual history since the seventies. With sensitivity, precision, and erudition, \u003ci\u003eDark Matter \u003c\/i\u003esituates the extensive scope of their books and dialogues within the fields of Critical Theory, political philosophy, historical materialism, literature, art, avant-garde cinema, and the challenges of new media. By meticulously following the twists and turns in their collective thinking, Langston unveils their thought's gravitational centers rooted in capitalism's world of work, modern technologies, counter-public spheres, and aesthetic praxis. \u003ci\u003eDark Matter \u003c\/i\u003esucceeds in an intelligent and exemplary fashion in reconstructing the radicality and actuality of Kluge and Negt's collaborations as a vital renewal of critical thinking beyond codified disciplines and schools of thought. In Langston's eyes, their work is an expedition into the unknown dark zones of historical and social experience, a historically speculative enterprise that turns, with its appeal to sociability, cooperative intelligence, and utopian fantasy, against the pessimistic tendencies of catastrophic modernity. More than just a commentary on the works of Kluge and Negt, \u003ci\u003eDark Matter \u003c\/i\u003epresents readers a deep, investigative look into the intellectual, philosophical, and political spheres of our present moment. -- Joseph Vogl, Humboldt-Universität, Berlin\u003cbr\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eVisions of Violence:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Richard Langston's brilliant book \u003ci\u003eVisions of Violence\u003c\/i\u003e is . had to be written to finally help us find a way out of the spell of the endless repetitions of the very same heroic fable of 1968.\" -- Rembert Hüser * German Quarterly *\u003cbr\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eVisions of Violence:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Anyone with a serious interest in the politics and aesthetics of post-war German art will find that much of Langston's study has compelling implications for a theorised apprehension of the avant-garde project after fascism.\" -- Deborah Lewer * Oxford Art Journal *","brand":"Verso Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49084399288663,"sku":"9781788735179","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781788735179.jpg?v=1725552028"},{"product_id":"splinters-in-your-eye-frankfurt-school-provocations-9781788736015","title":"Splinters in Your Eye: Frankfurt School","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlthough successive generations of the Frankfurt School have attempted to adapt Critical Theory to new circumstances, the work done by its founding members continues in the twenty-first century to unsettle conventional wisdom about culture, society and politics. Exploring unexamined episodes in the school's history and reading its work in unexpected ways, these essays provide ample evidence of the abiding relevance of Horkheimer, Adorno, Benjamin, Marcuse, Löwenthal, and Kracauer in our troubled times. Without forcing a unified argument, they range over a wide variety of topics, from the uncertain founding of the School to its mixed reception of psychoanalysis, from Benjamin's ruminations on stamp collecting to the ironies in the reception of Marcuse's \u003ci\u003eOne-Dimensional Man\u003c\/i\u003e, from Löwenthal's role in Weimar's Jewish Renaissance to Horkheimer's involvement in the writing of the first history of the Frankfurt School. Of special note are their responses to visual issues such as the emancipation of colour in modern art, the Jewish prohibition on images, the relationship between cinema and the public sphere, and the implications of a celebrated Family of Man photographic exhibition. The collection ends with an essay tracing the still metastasising demonisation of the Frankfurt School by the so-called Alt Right as the source of \"cultural Marxism\" and \"political correctness,\" which has gained alarming international resonance and led to violence by radical right-wing fanatics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this sizzling collection of essays, Martin Jay demonstrates again that he is the unsurpassed reader of the group of thinkers known as the \"Frankfurt School.\" In fact, he challenges the false unity and coherence of ideas and views often imposed upon them, including his own earlier writings on the subject. Practicing episodic and fragmentary historiography, he uncovers astonishingly novel angles of interpretation as well as demonstrating brilliant re-readings of known texts. An absolute pleasure to read -- Professor Seyla Benhabib\u003cbr\u003eWith this collection of brilliant and insightful essays Martin Jay has returned to the topic that defined his early career: Critical Theory, i.e. the lives and works of theorists such as Adorno, Horkheimer, Benjamin, Kracauer, and Marcuse. Based on deep historical knowledge and endowed with great sensitivity for theoretical nuances, Jay traces the unfolding of what is commonly called the Frankfurt School. He succeeds in this endeavor by his refusal to treat their thought as the expression of a unified school. For this difficult task one could not have found a more suitable critic than Martin Jay. This book is a precious gift to America in these troubled times. -- Peter Uwe Hohendahl\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSplinters in Your Eye\u003c\/i\u003e provides ample evidence of the abiding relevance of Horkheimer, Adorno, Benjamin, Marcuse, Löwenthal, and Kracauer in our troubled times. -- Ryan Tripp * New Books Network *\u003cbr\u003eIn elegant essays on subjects ranging from Benjamin's stamp collecting to the [Frankfurt School's] engagement with emerging psychoanalytic thought, Jay shows that its writings are not only historical curios, but indispensable for understanding our own age. -- Stuart Jeffries * New Statesman *","brand":"Verso Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49084399747415,"sku":"9781788736015","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781788736015.jpg?v=1725552027"},{"product_id":"everything-all-the-time-everywhere-how-we-became-postmodern-9781788738224","title":"Everything, All the Time, Everywhere: How We","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePost-Modernity is the creative destruction that has shattered our  present times into fragments. 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He tells this history through a riotous gallery that includes, amongst  others:  David Bowie * the Ipod * Frederic Jameson * the demolition of  Pruit-Igoe * Madonna * Post-Fordism *  Jeff Koon's 'Rabbit' * Deleuze  and Guattari * the Nixon Shock * \u003ci\u003eThe Bowery\u003c\/i\u003e series *  Judith Butler   * Las Vegas * Margaret Thatcher * Grand Master Flash * \u003ci\u003eI Love Dick \u003c\/i\u003e* the RAND Corporation * the Sex Pistols *Princess Diana * the Musee D'Orsay *  Grand Theft Auto* Perry Anderson * Netflix * 9\/11\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWe are today scarcely capable of  conceiving politics as a communal activity because we have become  habituated to being consumers rather than citizens. Politicians treat us  as consumers to whom they must deliver. 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A  rich, intellectually meaty history. * Kirkus [for Grand Hotel Abyss] *\u003cbr\u003eStuart Jeffries has produced a compelling and politically pressing group  portrait of the philosophers associated with the Frankfurt School.  Their thinking has never seemed less forbidding and more inspiring -- Matthew Beaumont * [for Grand Hotel Abyss] *\u003cbr\u003eAn engaging and accessible history of the lives and main ideas of the leading thinkers of the Frankfurt School * New York Review of Books [for Grand Hotel Abyss] *\u003cbr\u003eErudite and entertaining ... Everything, All the Time, Everywhere is a detailed and convincing horror story of the amalgamation of the two most dominant intellectual paradigms of the past half century. -- Ryne Clos * Spectrum Culture *\u003cbr\u003eJeffries is a rarity: a journalist with a serious interest in cultural theory ... who writes about it in a way that is both scholarly and welcoming to non-theorists ... entertaining and astute -- Joe Moran * Times Literary Supplement *\u003cbr\u003eIn holding a mirror to a familiar world, Everything looks to reveal hidden complexities ... eminently readable, without eliding the difficulties that are so key to its intrigue -- Daniel Baksi * The Arts Desk *\u003cbr\u003eSplendidly readable ... Jeffries packs a remarkable knowledge of postmodern culture into these pages -- Terry Eagleton * Guardian *\u003cbr\u003eIntriguing -- William Davies * New Statesman *\u003cbr\u003eEverything, All the Time, Everywhere finds Stuart Jeffries examining simply and engagingly how a loss of values and critical thought has led to our 'post-truth', irrational world. * Choice Magazine *\u003cbr\u003eA lively, sparky book -- Michael Rosen * BBC Front Row *\u003cbr\u003eNot only instructive; [Everything, All the Time, Everywhere] is a pleasurable read ... brilliant and entertaining -- Lisa Downing * Financial Times *\u003cbr\u003eEngaging and richly detailed -- Christopher McMichael * New Frame *\u003cbr\u003eAstute -- D.L. 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As ever, Rancière challenges all patterns of thought in which one-time radicalism has become empty convention.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the face of impossible attempts to proceed with progressive ideas within the terms of postmodernist discourse, Rancière shows a way out of the malaise. -- Liam Gillick\u003cbr\u003eRancière's writings offer one of the few consistent conceptualizations of how we are to continue to resist. -- Slavoj Zizek","brand":"Verso Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49084400795991,"sku":"9781788739658","price":11.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781788739658.jpg?v=1725552032"},{"product_id":"the-last-man-takes-lsd-foucault-and-the-end-of-revolution-9781804292648","title":"The Last Man Takes LSD: Foucault and the End of","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eHow Michel Foucault, drugs, California and the rise of neoliberal politics in 1970s France are all connected\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn May 1975, Michel Foucault took LSD in the desert in southern California. He described it as the most important event of his life, one which would lead him to completely rework his History of Sexuality. His focus now would not be on power relations but on the experiments of subjectivity and the care of the self. Through this lens, he would reinterpret the social movements of May '68 and position himself politically in France in relation to the emergent anti- totalitarian and anti-welfare state currents. He would also come to appreciate the possibilities of autonomy offered by a new force on the French political scene that was neither of the Left nor the Right: neoliberalism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor this paperback edition, the authors have written an afterword responding to the debate occasioned by the book's first publication.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe contribution of this important essay is to place Foucault's thought on neoliberalism in its political context of the time. This is the whole point of this essay, all the more fascinating since it offers an overview of the work on Foucault, in particular on its relation to neoliberalism. -- Olivier Doubre * Politis *\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Last Man Takes LSD\u003c\/i\u003e, the sociologists Mitchell Dean and Daniel Zamora meticulously examine the turning point of the seventies to take a critical look at Foucault's political heritage, and to revive the debate on his relationship to the neoliberal school of thought. -- Mathieu Dejean * Les Inrocks *\u003cbr\u003eA volume that offers us an overview of the political field that gave rise to Foucault's ideas. The two authors enrich the debate by proposing to consider the alleged Foucaultian sympathy for neoliberalism as a moment where power seemed to criticize himself, making possible, on the one hand, a policy finally free from the conquest of the State and institutions, and on the other, the idea of an autonomous constitution of oneself - or, what would today be inexorably described as an entrepreneur of the self. -- Carlo Crosato * Il Manifesto *\u003cbr\u003eMichel Foucault saw neoliberalism as an opportunity to think about the revitalization of the left in civil society. The authors Daniel Zamora and Mitchell Dean explain why he lost sight of its authoritarian dimension. -- Pascal Jurt * Woz *\u003cbr\u003eMichel Foucault was among the most prescient analysts of neoliberalism but his own relation to it is now a topic of fierce intellectual dispute. In this brilliant and incisive book, Mitchell Dean and Daniel Zamora show that neoliberalism appeared to Foucault to offer a break with the normalization of the welfare state and a space for new political experiments and individual freedoms. Looking back from our context of generalised precarity, deep inequality and economic and environmental crises, they challenge us to break with this tattered utopia and move beyond Foucault's fascination with the aesthetics of the self to re-invent politics for our time. -- Jessica Whyte\u003cbr\u003eDean and Zamora use Foucault's thesis of the dissolution of the Author as the key to understanding his later shift to issues of governmentality, neoliberalism, and his turn to subjectivity. By so doing, they violate his own injunction of resorting to the author's life to comprehend any work, and consequently produce the best account of his work I have ever encountered. -- Philip Mirowski, University of Notre Dame\u003cbr\u003eBy locating Foucault's later work in the social and political context of the 1970s and 80s, in France, California, and elsewhere, Dean and Zamora have performed a double service. We finish their study better understanding the roots of Foucault's ideas, and the motivation for his dalliance with a nascent neoliberalism. But we also perceive the limited shelf-life of his idiosyncratic notion of freedom; in our time, it would be folly to carry on revering him as - in Sartre's phrase - the 'unsurpassable horizon' of radical thought. -- Peter Dews, University of Essex\u003cbr\u003e\"When I say something,\" Foucault claimed, \"I am speaking to the present.\" How ironic that so little of the discussion around Foucault, particularly in the United States, has focused on his present. In their riveting study, Dean and Zamora do just that, putting Foucault in dialogue not only with the anti-Marxist New Philosophers of the 1970s but also with a neoliberalism emerging from within French socialist circles after 1968. The result is a completely unexpected Foucault, more rooted in the struggles of his own time, yet still speaking, as a cautionary tale, to our own. One would be hard pressed to find a better book on such a complex thinker or a more compulsively readable introduction to the contradictory politics of the left in our current moment. * Corey Robin *\u003cbr\u003eThe Last Man Takes LSD is the best account of Foucault's engagement with neoliberalism. The book raises a number of intriguing questions, not the least of which is: What is left? -- John Foster * The Battleground *\u003cbr\u003eDean and Zamora do an excellent job contextualizing Foucault's research and ideas in his final years. They methodically trace the nuances of the era's prickly political climate, creating a sympathetic portrait of Foucault's promotion of a damaging and - for a thinker who fruitfully explored power and exploitation - self-defeating philosophical turn. -- Jonathan Russell Clark * Los Angeles Times *\u003cbr\u003eNot just a brilliant and well-timed ­exploration of Foucault's intellectual ­trajectory ... it is also a necessary addition to the literature that has emerged over the past five years on the intellectual history of neoliberalism. -- Gavin Jacobson * New Statesman *\u003cbr\u003eThe Last Man Takes LSD questions the lingering significance of Foucault's work today, highlighting a greater gap in Foucauldian thought: the absence of a well-developed theory of the state. -- Samuel Clowes Huneke * The Point *\u003cbr\u003eA fascinating study of Foucault's American years. -- Stuart Jeffries * Spectator *\u003cbr\u003eCompelling. -- Jasper Friedrich * Foucault Studies *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: The Last Man Takes LSD\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. The Birth of a Controversy\u003cbr\u003eFoucault and the liberal arts of government\u003cbr\u003eFoucault in his present\u003cbr\u003eNeoliberalism\u003cbr\u003eThe intellectual\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e2. Searching for a Left Governmentality\u003cbr\u003eFoucault against the post-war Left\u003cbr\u003eNeoliberalism beyond Right and Left\u003cbr\u003eTowards a 'new political culture'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e3. Beyond the Sovereign Subject: Against Interpretation\u003cbr\u003eAgainst the sovereignty of the author\u003cbr\u003eTh e rise and fall of the modern subject\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e4. Ordeals: Personal and Political\u003cbr\u003eVeridiction and forms of truth\u003cbr\u003eExperimentation and knowledge through the ordeal\u003cbr\u003eA 'political spirituality' against the sovereign\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e5. The Revolution Beheaded\u003cbr\u003eTh e self as a battlefield\u003cbr\u003eResistance as 'desubjectification'\u003cbr\u003eProliferation against power\u003cbr\u003eNeoliberalism: a framework for pluralism\u003cbr\u003eAn 'intelligent use' of neoliberalism\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e6. Foucault's Normativity\u003cbr\u003eSexuality and morality\u003cbr\u003eTh e revolution\u003cbr\u003eInequality and neoliberal governmentality\u003cbr\u003eThe California Foucault\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e7. Rogue Neoliberalism and Liturgical Power\u003cbr\u003eThe 1970s: coming down\u003cbr\u003eTowards a left governmentality\u003cbr\u003eConfessional civil war\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEpilogue\u003cbr\u003eAfterword\u003cbr\u003eIndex","brand":"Verso Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49084452536663,"sku":"9781804292648","price":12.34,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781804292648.jpg?v=1725552220"},{"product_id":"power-and-resistance-foucault-deleuze-derrida-althusser-9781839763519","title":"Power and Resistance: Foucault, Deleuze, Derrida,","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe \"structuralist\" theories of power show that the subject is produced and reproduced by the investment of power: but how then can we think of the subject's resistance to power? Based on this fundamental question, \u003ci\u003ePower and Resistance\u003c\/i\u003e interprets critically the (post-)structuralist theory of power and resistance, i.e., the theories of Foucault, Deleuze\/Guattari, Derrida and Althusser. It analyses also the mechanism of power and the strategies of resistance in the era of neoliberalism. 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In our current conceptual conjuncture, this important book has reemerged in English after its French and Japanese editions to provide the thought of a transformation beyond that dialectic of subjection and resistance which merely reinforces the social closure, giving proof positive for the politicality and living force of this set of figures so crucial to twentieth century thought. -- Gavin Walker\u003cbr\u003eThe author is to be commended for his ability to pose problems clearly, for his very thorough and convincing argument, and for his enlightening and stimulating reading of the main authors he discusses, namely: Freud, Lacan, Foucault, Deleuze and Guattari, Derrida, and finally Althusser. -- Jacques-Louis Lantoine * Acta fabula *\u003cbr\u003eSato has taken on the impressive task of isolating, with analytical precision, the sources of resistance within generally conceived structuralist theory. His thesis offers a masterful and erudite reading of Foucault, Freud, Deleuze, Lacan, Derrida, and Althusser, among others. His explanation of a sample of texts by these authors is quite illuminating. Indeed, Sato succeeds in showing that the theory of the subject, if understood in its relation to a constitutive death drive, carries with it the possibility of resisting the cruelty of the law and providing the basis for a general theory of resistance. He further shows that structuralism should not be seen as a 'static' description of social and linguistic structures, and that what is needed is rather a diachronic view of structures that takes into account - without domesticating - the forces of contingency. Starting from the death drive and the contingency of structures, and through an argument that is as erudite as it is enlightening, Sato constructs an explanation of resistance in structuralism (but also for it and its future), thus reviving a debate that has unfortunately been bogged down for some time in clichés and misconceptions. -- Judith Butler\u003cbr\u003eWith unusual clarity, Yoshiyuki Sato reconstructs the relations of appropriation, exclusion and interaction that allow us to speak of a structuralist moment defined by the conjunction of Foucault, Deleuze, Derrida and Althusser. He explores the encounters that took place around the notion of power and, with it, the forms of its internalization: the subject, subjection and subjectivity. Sato shows us the multiple dialogues that took place between these very different thinkers, not in spite of their divergent lexicons, but because of them, and how the questions surrounding power led to an examination of the concept of resistance and its functions in fields as diverse as physics, biology, psychoanalysis and politics. Sato's rigor, his refusal to blur the distinctions between the philosophers in question and his insistence on staying close to their actual texts, sets this study apart from the common interpretations of structuralism and the structuralist moment. It provides a new foundation for the study of French philosophy of the sixties and seventies. -- Warren Montag\u003cbr\u003eSato's book brilliantly testifies to the acuteness, depth and originality of the readings of French philosophy of the twentieth century which are carried out today by young foreign philosophers, especially Japanese. Through them is brought a new freshness, a re-perspective and re-questioning, and therefore these are the conditions for a relaunch of previously passionate debates which reaches us at the opportune moment. As a participant, along with some others, in these debates in which I - quite wrongly - believed to have travelled all avenues, it is with great pleasure that I welcome this critical return and this relaunch. -- Etienne Balibar","brand":"Verso Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49084501754199,"sku":"9781839763519","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781839763519.jpg?v=1725552366"},{"product_id":"new-radical-enlightenment-9781839762987","title":"New Radical Enlightenment","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePhilosophy was born out of discussion, out of the rivalry between world views. 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