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(P/B) DEMOCRACY AND POLITICAL VIOLENCE
Democracy and Political Violence adopts a distinct perspective: that both community and conflict are at the heart of all but the smallest of democratic societies, and that they need to be reconciled in order for democracy to be successful. John Schwarzmantel applies democratic theory to the problem of creating a liberal democracy in a situation of conflict, violence and social division. Within this framework, the book focuses on the particular issue of the challenge posed by violence, both to established democracies and to the establishmen...
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(P/B) WITTGENSTEIN AND POLITICAL THEORY
Christopher Robinson connects Wittgenstein's philosophy to strategies for achieving political vision in this age where politics has been replaced by bureaucracy as the predominant form of public order, and now takes the form of dissent. In particular, Wittgenstein's remarks on perception are brought to bear on theory's historical and etymological roots in clear seeing. This frees the theorist to explore the city of language and sheds fresh light on political concepts such as liberty, dignity, dissent, and ideology. This book is designed to...
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(H/B) THE EDINBURGH HISTORY OF THE GREEKS, C.500 TO 1050
This volume traces the social, economic and political history of the Greeks between 500 and 1050. The book adopts an interdisciplinary approach and uses archaeological evidence, as well as coins and seals, fiscal documents, medieval chronicles, and hagiographic literature to examine the development of Greek culture in the early medieval period. Several themes provide the foundation for this volume and run through the chapters; these include the Balkan context, the Social Role of the Army and the Onset of Economic Growth. Special attention ...
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(P/B) DESCARTES' MEDITATIONS ON FIRST PHILOSOPHY
Descartes' Meditations is one of the most commonly studied texts in introductory philosophy courses. Rather than simply telling the reader what to think, Meditations invites them to undertake a philosophical journey for themselves. This book is designed to accompany readers on that journey; it prepares them for its demands, helps them to engage with each stage of the text, and suggests ways through the more difficult passages. Brandhorst offers students a fresh approach by bringing to life the path of self-discovery encapsulated in the wor...
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(P/B) PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE A-Z

(H/B) DREAM I TELL YOU
"Dream I Tell You gives us a privileged glimpse into the raw material of Helene Cixous' art. These dreams, written at the moment of waking, on an almost daily basis, and unrevised for publication, raise fascinating questions about Cixous' creative method". Beverley Bie Brahic "Dream I Tell You", Helene Cixous, Translated by Beverley Bie Brahic "The secret of literature is thus the secret itself. It is the secret place in which it establishes itself as the very possibility of the secret, the place it, literature as such, begins, the place o...
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(P/B) AN INTRODUCTION TO KANT'S "CRITIQUE OF JUDGEMENT"
Kant's third "Critique, the Critique of Judgement", is regarded as one of the most influential books in the history of aesthetics. This book is designed as a reader's guide for students trying to work their way, step-by-step, through Kant's text. It is also a guide to the text-in-context in that it sets Kant's concepts, language and aims in the context of Kant's philosophy in general and the late eighteenth century. This is one of the first comprehensive introductions to Kant's "Critique of Judgement". Not only does it include a detailed a...
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(P/B) JAPANESE HORROR CINEMA
A much-needed critical introduction to some of the most important Japanese horror films produced over the last fifty years, Japanese Horror Cinema provides an insightful examination of the tradition's most significant trends and themes. The book examines the genre's dominant aesthetic, cultural, political and technological underpinnings, and individual chapters address key topics such as: the debt Japanese horror films owe to various Japanese theatrical and literary traditions; the popular 'avenging spirit' motif; the impact of atomic warf...
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(P/B) NOT HALF NO END
Gathers Bennington's essays since the death of his friend Jacques Derrida in 2004. These 16 continue the work of elucidating Derrida's difficult and complex thought, often with reference to his persistent interrogation of the concepts of life and death, mourning and melancholia, and what he sometimes calls "half-mourning". Bennington relates these to the core concepts in Derrida's work: deconstruction and "difference". Derrida's suspension of the end - in "difference", in death - has wide-ranging consequences for our thinking and how we at...
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(P/B) THE LYOTARD DICTIONARY
Drawing on a multidisciplinary team of experts, the 168 entries in "The Lyotard Dictionary" explain all of his main concepts, contextualising these within his work as a whole and relating him to his contemporaries. 118 entries cover all of Lyotard's concepts and concerns, from "Addressee" and "Aesthetics", through "I don't know what" and "Is it happening?" to "Unpresentable" and "Writing". A further 50 "linking" entries contextualise Lyotard within the wider intellectual currents of his time, from concepts such as Nazism and Memory to thin...
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(P/B) UNDERSTANDING ETHICS
How can we find true or reasonable moral principles to live our everyday lives by? Torbjorn Tannsjo presents the reader with seven radically different basic moral theories, each of which attempts to provide an ultimate answer to the question of what we ought to do and why. The theories covered are: utilitarianism, egoism, deontological ethics, the ethics of rights, virtue ethics, feminist ethics, environmental or ecological ethics. In this second edition, each theory is now illustrated with the famous "trolley" cases and a new final chapte...
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(H/B) INSISTER OF JACQUES DERRIDA
In 2003 Derrida had promised to attend a colloquium on "Reading Cixous and Derrida Reading Each Other/Themselves". His untimely death in 2004 meant that it was, as Cixous writes, "Impossible to keep one's word on this subject". "Insister of Jacques Derrida" is Cixous' poignant and compelling response to his unfulfilled promise and a moving tribute to the colleague, collaborator and friend with whom she created some of the most memorable meditations on literature and philosophy of the last century. Written in Cixous' lucid, poetic style, th...
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(P/B) THE ETHICS OF DECONSTRUCTION
It is now widely accepted that The Ethics of Deconstruction was the first book to argue for the ethical turn in Derrida's work and to show as powerfully as possible how deconstruction has persuasive ethical consequences that were vital to our thinking through of questions of politics and democracy. Now reissued with three new appendices which restate as well as reflect upon and deepen the book's arguments, The Ethics of Deconstruction is undoubtedly the standard work in the field. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) THE PHILOSOPHY OF MUSIC
New and distinctive approaches to five central topics in musical aesthetics are provided in this outstanding book. The topics are: understanding, representation, expression, performance and profundity. The theme of the book is the failure of the orthodox view - that pieces of music are more or less self-contained structures of sound - to account for some important features of our musical experience, and to explain why music should matter to us. In exposing and correcting that failure, the book introduces readers to the main problems and po...
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(P/B) GILLES DELEUZE'S DIFFERENCE AND REPETITION
This is the first critical introduction toDifference and Repetition, Gilles Deleuze's most important work of philosophy and one of the most significant texts of contemporary philosophy. In offering a critical analysis of Deleuze's methods, principles and arguments, the book enables readers to engage with the revolutionary core of Deleuze's philosophy and take up favourable or critical positions with respect to its most innovative and controversial ideas. The book will also help to extend Deleuze's work to philosophers working in the analyt...
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(P/B) THE DEATH AND RETURN OF THE AUTHOR
For the late twentieth century, the death of the author assumed a significance analogous to the death of God one hundred years previously. In this now classic study, Burke both provides the first detailed explanation of anti-authorialism and shows how, even taken on its own terms, the attempt to abolish the author is philosophically untenable. Rather than developing a traditionally humanist defence, Burke effectively out-theorises theory through rigorous readings which demonstrate that the concept of the author remained profoundly active e...
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(P/B) EUROPEAN CINEMAS IN THE TELEVISION AGE
European Cinemas in the Television Age is a radical attempt to rethink the post-war history of European cinemas. The authors approach the subject from the perspective of television’s impact on the culture of cinema’s production, distribution, consumption and reception. Thus they indicate a new direction for the debate about the future of cinema in Europe. In every European country television has transformed economic, technological and aesthetic terms in which the process of cinema production had been conducted. Television’s growing popular...
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(P/B) THEORIES OF RELIGION: A READER
This book provides a comprehensive selection of readings that relate to and explore the definition of religion. The texts come from a wide range of approaches to religion - unified both by the questions they are addressing and the broadly social scientific perspective. The disciplines covered include Anthropology, Phenomenology, Psychology and Sociology. The editors have also included some key texts relating to the Feminist approach to and critique of religion. The initial section of the book includes some of the foundational texts relatin...
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(P/B) ALTERNATIVE AND ACTIVIST MEDIA
This study of alternative and activist media provides an introduction to alternative media theories, audiences and practices. It brings diverse voices and concepts from outside the commercial media world to the fore, enriching and challenging mass media. Illustrated with historical and current examples, from both a UK and international perspective, it also includes carefully constructed exercises and discussion topics based on case studies and available texts. Topics include the place of alternative media in a mass-media world; a history o...
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(P/B) ROMAN RELIGION
This book introduces students to the complex and foreign world of Roman religion and to major trends in its study. Praised in the Enlightenment for its supposed tolerance, it has been vilified for persecuting the early Christians. It professed a profound conservatism and yet received myths from Greece and Asia and gods from every corner of the Empire. Clifford Ando presents fourteen papers on central topics in the study of Roman religion and its connections with Roman literature, history and culture. Subjects treated include the nature and...
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