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Hardback. This book demonstrates the indispensability of the "scenic imagination" to human self-understanding by examining hypothetical scenes of origin in the writings of two dozen thinkers from Hobbes to the present day. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSBH; HPM; JMR. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 585. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804757003
- ISBN
- 9780804757003
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 77.30
€ 77.30
Hardback. This book retraces power's intensification in Foucault in ways that both allow us to reread Foucault's own conceptual itinerary and, more importantly, to think about how we might respond to the mutations of power that that have taken place since his death in 1984. Num Pages: 152 pages. BIC Classification: HP. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 18. Weight in Grams: 295.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 152
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804757010
- ISBN
- 9780804757010
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 115.29
€ 115.29
Hardback. This book provides a penetrating and original reconstruction of Hobbes's materialist accounts of self-consciousness, cognition, and agency and shows how such an account of subjectivity demands that we pursue peace in our ethical and political lives. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: HPCD; HPQ; HPS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 458. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804757478
- ISBN
- 9780804757478
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.50
€ 116.50
Hardback. In Silencing the Demon's Advocate, Rubin presents an interpretation of Descartes' Meditations that avoids many of the standard objections to Descartes' reasoning. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: HPC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 585. Weight in Grams: 381.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804758161
- ISBN
- 9780804758161
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 82.75
€ 82.75
Hardback. Acting Out brings together two short books (the autobiographical I>How I Became a Philosopher and To Love, To Love Me, To Love Us) by Bernard Stiegler, the fruit of the discipline he developed in prison and of the passion he brings to his political, philosophical, and technical diagnoses of contemporary life. Translator(s): Barison, David. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: HPC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 13. Weight in Grams: 249.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 112
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804758680
- ISBN
- 9780804758680
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 109.50
€ 109.50
Hardback. These phenomenological studies on the philosophy of the image review contemporary image theory while defending the fundamental insight that images alone make the artificial presence of things possible. Translator(s): Schott, Nils F. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 168 pages, 5 illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA; HPCF3. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 458. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 168
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804759403
- ISBN
- 9780804759403
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 107.36
€ 107.36
Hardback. In The Arts and the Definition of the Human, Margolis introduces a novel theory of the human person or self as a historical artifact and argues that important topics in the philosophy of art, pictorial representation, and the nature of interpretation make no sense when separated from a "philosophical anthropology" along the lines he suggests. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: HPC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 534. Weight in Grams: 431.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804759533
- ISBN
- 9780804759533
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 138.21
€ 138.21
Hardback. The Image of Law is the first book to examine law through the work of Gilles Deleuze, activating his thought within problems of jurisprudence and developing a concept of judgment that acknowledges its inherently creative capacity. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 336 pages, 2 figures. BIC Classification: HPS; LAB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 567.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804759847
- ISBN
- 9780804759847
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 149.36
€ 149.36
Hardback. This book criticizes theories, dominant today, that reduce the self to a simple illusion, proposing a new theory of the ego that allows us to better understand our existence and our relations with others. Translator(s): Vallier, Robert. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 376 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF3; HPM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 28. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 376
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804759885
- ISBN
- 9780804759885
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 148.79
€ 148.79
Hardback. Gasche's latest book explores the concept or idea of Europe in the philosophies of Husserl, Heidegger, Patoka, and Derrida, and how it is linked to the notions of rationality, universality, world, the relation the other, and responsibility. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF; HPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 789. Weight in Grams: 680.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 432
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804760607
- ISBN
- 9780804760607
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 161.82
€ 161.82
Hardback. Without stigmatizing commercial activity, this book takes a philosophical and anthropological look at the universe of the gift, debt, and money in the West from ancient Greece to the present in order to examine how and why knowledge has long been assumed to be priceless. Translator(s): Morhange, Jean-Louis. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: HPK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 865. Weight in Grams: 789.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 496
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804760812
- ISBN
- 9780804760812
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 162.52
€ 162.52
Hardback. A critical introduction to the work of the Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben. Num Pages: 488 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 865. Weight in Grams: 771.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 488
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804761420
- ISBN
- 9780804761420
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 140.34
€ 140.34
Hardback. Technics and Time, 3 furthers Stiegler's critique of technics, working (back) through Kant in order to examine the nature of "cinematic time" relative to phenomenology and hypertechnology. Translator(s): Barker, Stephen. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: HP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804761673
- ISBN
- 9780804761673
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 149.51
€ 149.51
hardcover. Addresses the rift between major philosophical factions in the United States, which the author describes as a 'philosophically becalmed' three-legged creature made up of analytic philosophy, continental philosophy, and pragmatism. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804762687
- ISBN
- 9780804762687
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 138.06
€ 138.06
Hardback. This lucidly written book looks at the interpretative audacity of five major "overreaders"-Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze, Emmanuel Levinas, Slavoj Zizek and Stanley Cavell-and asks what is at stake and what is to be gained by their approaches to literature and film. Num Pages: 240 pages, ill. BIC Classification: APF; DSBH; HPCF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 534. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804763066
- ISBN
- 9780804763066
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.20
€ 116.20
Hardback. Rejecting the distinction Levinas asserted between Judaism and philosophy, this book reads his philosophical works, Totality and Infinity and Otherwise than Being through the prism of Judaic texts and ideas. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: HPK; HRJ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 558.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804768696
- ISBN
- 9780804768696
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 161.05
€ 161.05
Hardback. These essays provide important interpretations and analyze critical developments in the political philosophy of Gilles Deleuze. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804768771
- ISBN
- 9780804768771
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 138.63
€ 138.63
Hardback. In his new collection of essays, Giorgio Agamben addresses the most urgent themes of his recent research. Translator(s): Kishik, David; Pedatella, Stefan. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 144 pages, 10 illustrations. BIC Classification: AJC; HPC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 407. Weight in Grams: 295.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 144
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804769495
- ISBN
- 9780804769495
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 93.24
€ 93.24
Hardback. This book considers the emergence of dialectic out of the spirit of dialogue and, beginning with the ancient Greeks and moving through modern philosophy, traces a historical and systematic relation between the two. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: HPC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 661. Weight in Grams: 399.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 184
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804770156
- ISBN
- 9780804770156
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 115.95
€ 115.95
Hardback. The Rhetoric of Error considers the important role of error in eighteenth-century accounts of language, subjectivity, and epistemology in authors such as Locke, Smith, Coleridge, Kant, Goethe, and Kleist. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; DSB; HPK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 458. Weight in Grams: 417.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804770170
- ISBN
- 9780804770170
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 82.98
€ 82.98