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Evolutionary Origins of Life and Death
ISBN: PB: 9780226747767, ISBN: HB: 9780226747620, University of Chicago Press, December 2020
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 30 halftones, 3 tables
The question of why an individual would actively kill itself has long been an evolutionary mystery. Pierre M. Durand's ambitious book answers this question through close inspection of life and death in the earliest cellular life. As Durand shows us,...
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£28,00
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£84,00
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Thinking Out of Sight Writings on the Arts of the Visible
ISBN: HB: 9780226140612, University of Chicago Press, October 2020
328 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 7 halftones
Jacques Derrida remains a leading voice of philosophy, his works still resonating today – and for more than three decades, one of the main sites of Derridean deconstruction has been the arts. Collecting nineteen texts spanning from 1979 to 2004, Thin...
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£36,00
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Life Death
ISBN: HB: 9780226699516, University of Chicago Press, June 2020
328 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
One of Jacques Derrida's richest and most provocative works, "Life Death" challenges and deconstructs one of the most deeply rooted dichotomies of Western thought: life and death. Here Derrida rethinks the traditional philosophical understanding of t...
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£36,00
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Geschlecht III Sex, Race, Nation, Humanity
ISBN: HB: 9780226677460, University of Chicago Press, March 2020
168 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm
A significant event in Derrida scholarship, this book marks the first publication of his long-lost philosophical text known only as "Geschlecht III". The third, and arguably the most significant, piece in his four-part Geschlecht series, it fills a g...
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£22,00
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Courting the Abyss Free Speech and the Liberal Tradition
ISBN: PB: 9780226717784, University of Chicago Press, February 2020
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
"Courting the Abyss" updates the philosophy of free expression for a world that is very different from the one in which it originated. The notion that a free society should allow Klansmen, neo-Nazis, sundry extremists, and pornographers to spread the...
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£20,00
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Heidegger The Question of Being and History
ISBN: PB: 9780226678924, ISBN: HB: 9780226355115, University of Chicago Press, July 2019
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 halftones, 3 tables
Few 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 Ecole Normale Superieure,...
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£22,00
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£32,00
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Why Liberalism Failed
ISBN: PB: 9780300240023, Yale University Press, May 2019
256 pp., 21x14 cm
Of the three dominant ideologies of the twentieth century – fascism, communism, and liberalism – only the last remains. This has created a peculiar situation in which liberalism's proponents tend to forget that it is an ideology and not the natural e...
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£12,99
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Theory and Practice
ISBN: HB: 9780226572345, University of Chicago Press, January 2019
144 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
"Theory and Practice" is a series of nine lectures that Jacques Derrida delivered at the ecole Normale Superieure in 1976 and 1977. The topic of "theory and practice" was associated above all with Marxist discourse and particularly the influential in...
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£27,00
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Government of Desire A Genealogy of the Liberal Subject
ISBN: HB: 9780226547374, University of Chicago Press, May 2018
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Liberalism, Miguel de Beistegui argues in "The Government of Desire", is best described as a technique of government directed towards the self, with desire as its central mechanism. Whether as economic interest, sexual drive, or the basic longing for...
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£34,00
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No Exit Arab Existentialism, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Decolonization
ISBN: PB: 9780226503509, ISBN: HB: 9780226499741, University of Chicago Press, March 2018
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones
It is a curious and relatively little-known fact that for two decades – from the end of World War II until the late 1960s – existentialism's most fertile ground outside of Europe was in the Middle East, and Jean-Paul Sartre was the Arab intelligentsi...
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£26,00
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£79,00
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