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The Lives of Michel Foucault
This biography opens with a moving account of Foucault's death from AIDS. The author then returns to the provincial France of Michel's childhood, and follows the transformation of a conservative...
Power: The Essential Works of Michel Foucault 1954-1984
The Essential Works of Michel Foucault offer the definitive collection of Foucault's articles, interviews and seminars The third and final volume of the Essential Works of Foucault series, Power brings...
Ethics: Subjectivity and Truth: Essential Works of Michel Foucault
The Essential Works of Michel Foucault offer the definitive collection of Foucault's articles, interviews and seminars The Essential Works of Michel Foucault offers the definitive collection of his articles, interviews...
Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings, 1972-1977
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The Archaeology Of Knowledge & The Discourse On Language
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Edition: 1st US ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Boards in good condition. Binding remains tight. Clean and bright copy. This seminal work in...
The Foucault Reader
An introduction to the work of Michel Foucault, including detailed excerpts from all of his major works The Foucault Reader is the ideal introduction to one the most stimulating and...
The History of Sexuality: 3: The Care of the Self
The third volume of Foucault's pioneering analysis of sexuality and power relations, now reissued in Penguin Modern Classics In the third volume of his acclaimed examination of sexuality in modern...
Introducing Foucault: A Graphic Guide
Author: Chris Horrocks Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 175 Explores the work of this influential twentieth century philosoher who overturned our assumptions about madness, sexuality and criminality. Michel Foucault's work...
The History of Sexuality: The Will to Knowledge
Michel Foucault's The Will to Knowledge is the first part of his influential trilogy of books on the history of sexuality. He argues that the recent explosion of discussion about...
Society Must Be Defended: Lectures at the College de France, 1975-76
A devastating critique of the systems of power and control inherent in civilisation, from one of the most radical thinkers of the twentieth century Society Must Be Defended is taken...
The History of Sexuality: 4: Confessions of the Flesh
The final, previously unpublished volume of one of the twentieth century's seminal works Foucault's History of Sexuality changed the way we think about power, selfhood and sexuality. In this fourth...
Madness, Language, Literature
Newly published lectures by Foucault on madness, literature, and structuralism. Perceiving an enigmatic relationship between madness, language, and literature, French philosopher Michel Foucault developed ideas during the 1960s that are...
The History of Sexuality: 2: The Use of Pleasure
The second volume of Foucault's pioneering analysis of sexuality and power relations, now reissued in Penguin Modern Classics The second volume of Michel Foucault's pioneering analysis of the changing nature...
Liberalism as a Way of Life
Author: Alexandre Lefebvre Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 296 Why liberalism is all you need to lead a good, fun, worthy, and rewarding life and how you can become a...
Foucault's Pendulum
A brilliantly executed intellectual detective story from the author of international best seller The Name of the Rose. Three book editors, jaded by reading far too many crackpot manuscripts on...
The History of Sexuality: 1: The Will to Knowledge
The first volume of Foucault's pioneering analysis of sexuality and power relations, now reissued in Penguin Modern Classics We talk about sex more and more, but are we more liberated?...
The Power of Words
'There are certain words which possess, in themselves, when properly used, a virtue which illumines and lifts up towards the good' In these selected writings by Simone Weil - philosopher,...
The Age of Absurdity: Why Modern Life makes it Hard to be Happy
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Liberalism and Its Discontents
Author: Francis Fukuyama Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 A TIMES BEST PHILOSOPHY & IDEAS BOOK OF 2022 A defence of liberalism by the renowned political philosopher 'We need more...
Where Have All the Intellectuals Gone?: Confronting 21st Century
In this urgent and passionate book, Frank Furedi explains the essential contribution of intellectuals both to culture and to democracy - and why we need to recreate a public sphere...
The End of History and the Last Man
A LANDMARK WORK OF POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY. A GLOBAL BESTSELLER. STILL AS RELEVANT TODAY. Ever since its first publication in 1992, The End of History and the Last Man has provoked...
The Complete Essays
The range of topics and the careful consideration given to them by Montaigne is unsurpassed; he studies humanity through poetry, love and ectasy - but also through cannibalism and war-horses...
Homo Irrealis
Author: Andre Aciman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 In Homo Irrealis Andre Aciman explores what the present tense means to artists who cannot grasp the here and now. Irrealis...
Philosophical Provocations: 55 Short Essays
Author: Colin McGinn Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 328 Pithy, direct, and bold- essays that propose new ways to think about old problems, spanning a range of philosophical topics.In Philosophical...
The Ecstasy of Communication
Baudrillard's essential crib-book, lexicon, and companion piece to any and all of his books and a prescient portrait of our contemporary condition."The need to speak, even if one has nothing...
Tocqueville and the Frontiers of Democracy
Author: Ewa AtanassowFormat: Paperback, 152mm x 227mm, 510g, 388 pagesPublished: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom, 2013Alexis de Tocqueville is widely cited as an authority on civil society, religion and American...
Open Socrates: The Case for a Philosophical Life
From philosopher Agnes Callard, one of today's leading public intellectuals, comes a new and vibrant understanding of Socrates, his work, and his unique approach to learning The ancient Greek philosopher...
Debate and Dialogue: Alain Chartier in his Cultural Context
In early humanist France two debating traditions converge: one literary and vernacular, one intellectual and conducted mainly via Latin epistles. Debate and Dialogue demonstrates how the two fuse in the...
Derrida and the End of History
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What does it mean to proclaim 'the end of history'? Francis Fukuyama created a considerable stir in 1992 by claiming that the fall of communism and the triumph of free...
Badiou and His Interlocutors: Lectures, Interviews and Responses
This is a unique collection presenting work by Alain Badiou and commentaries on his philosophical theories. It includes three lectures by Badiou, on contemporary politics, the infinite, cinema and theatre...
A Philosophy Of The Future
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Edition: 1st us ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxing , price clippedMarkings: Previous ownerErnst Bloch's A Philosophy Of The Future presents a profound philosophical inquiry into...
The Consolations of Philosophy
Alain de Botton's The Consolations of Philosophy takes the discipline of logic and the mind back to its roots. Drawing inspiration from six of the finest minds in history -...
Foucault's Pendulum
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Author: Umberto EcoBinding: HardbackPublished: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, New York, 1989Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsUmberto Eco's "Foucault's Pendulum" is a complex and erudite work of literary fiction, blending...
You Can't Always Say What You Want: The Paradox of Free Speech
The freedom to think what you want and to say what you think has always generated a pushback of regulation and censorship. This raises the thorny question: to what extent...
An Introduction to Continental Philosophy
This book provides a clear, concise and readable introduction to philosophy in the continental tradition. It is a wide-ranging and reliable guide to the work of such major figures as...
Meditations
Acclaimed poet and translator Aaron Poochigian's vibrant new translation of Marcus Aurelius' Meditations captures and accentuates an aspect of the best-selling work of classical antiquity that other English translations have,...
Marxism And Art: Writings In Aesthetics And Criticism
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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: N/APages: Good Markings: No markingsA landmark anthology in Marxist aesthetics and cultural theory, Marxism and Art: Writings in Aesthetics and Criticism presents a sweeping collection of...
The Philosophy Gym: 25 Short Adventures in Thinking
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Remembering Socrates: Philosophical Essays
Lindsay Judson and Vassilis Karasmanis present a selection of philosophical papers by an outstanding international team of scholars, assessing the legacy and continuing relevance of Socrates' thought 2,400 years after...
Sartre: A Life
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Author: Annie Cohen-SolalBinding: HardbackPublished: Heinemann, 1985Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: some wear and marks to cloth cover; some tanning...
Philosophy and the Event
This concise and accessible book is the perfect introduction to Badiou's thought. Responding to Tarby's questions, Badiou takes us on a journey that interrogates and explores the four conditions of...
Adam Smith: What He Thought, and Why it Matters
A brilliant account of the life, thought and continuing importance of the world's greatest economist Adam Smith is now widely regarded as 'the father of modern economics' and the most...