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Adornoby Martin JayISBN 0674005155 (0-674-00515-5)
Softcover, Harvard University Press
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After Theoryby Terry EagletonISBN 0465017746 (0-465-01774-6)
Softcover, Basic Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'After Theory'Book summary:For anyone forced to wrestle with the likes of Derrida and Foucault during their college days, Terry Eagleton needs no introduction. His clear and accessible primer on literary theory was (and is) an indispensable guide to the post-modern era in the humanities. Now Eagleton argues that the golden age of cultural theory has ended, and with characteristic wit and verve, he traces its rise and fall from structuralism to post-colonial studies and beyond. In a new era of globalization and terrorism, Eagleton warns, the bundle of ideas known as post-modernism is essentially toothless.In this eloquent synthesis of a lifetime of learning, Eagleton challenges contemporary intellectuals to engage with a range of vital topics-love, evil, death, morality, religion, and revolution-that they've ignored over the past thirty years. Lively and provocative, Eagleton's latest will engage readers inside and outside the academy who are eager for a more holistic and humane way of "reading" the world."A rare opportunity to enjoy the art of cultural and social diagnosis at its purest! Eagleton offers a unique combination of theoretical stringency and acerbic common-sense witticism, of critical historical reflection and the ability to ask the 'big' metaphysical questions."-Slavoj Zizek[via]-
Archaeology of Knowledgeby Michel FoucaultISBN 0394711068 (0-394-71106-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Archaeology of Knowledge'Book summary:In France, a country that awards its intellectuals the status other countries give their rock stars, Michel Foucault was part of a glittering generation of thinkers, one which also included Sartre, de Beauvoir and Deleuze. One of the great intellectual heroes of the twentieth century, Foucault was a man whose passion and reason were at the service of nearly every progressive cause of his time. From law and order, to mental health, to power and knowledge, he spearheaded public awareness of the dynamics that hold us all in thrall to a few powerful ideologies and interests. Arguably his finest work, Archaeology of Knowledge is a challenging but fantastically rewarding introduction to his ideas. [via]
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Autonomy and Solidarity: Interviews With Jurgen Habermasby Peter DewsISBN 0860915794 (0-86091-579-4)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Between Facts and Norms: Contributions to a Discourse Theory of Law and Democracyby Jurgen Habermas, William RehgISBN 0262581620 (0-262-58162-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Between Facts and Norms: Contributions to a Discourse Theory of Law and Democracy'Book summary:Jurgen Habermas, an esteemed political philosopher who lived in Germany during the Nazi reign, has produced a thought-provoking work on what he calls "deliberative politics." To summarize his view, true democracy isn't just the compilation of opinions or a blanket treatment of majority rules, but a social process in which people meet, discuss, modify and, ultimately, agree. He draws connections between how such a process could shape the making of laws and direct the course of nations. His writings here represent a lifetime of political thought on the nature of democracy and law, and deserve an audience and a place in the foundations of democratic theory. [via]
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Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "Sexby Judith ButlerISBN 0415903661 (0-415-90366-1)
Softcover, Routledge
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "Sex'Book summary:In Bodies That Matter, Judith Butler further develops her distinctive theory of gender by examining the workings of power at the most "material" dimensions of sex and sexuality. Deepening the inquiries she began in Gender Trouble, Butler offers an original reformulation of the materiality of bodies, examining how the power of heterosexual hegemony forms the "matter" of bodies, sex, and gender.
Butler argues that power operates to constrain "sex" from the start, delimiting what counts as a viable sex. She offers a clarification of the notion of "performativity" introduced in Gender Trouble and explores the meaning of a citational politics. The text includes readings of Plato, Irigaray, Lacan, and Freud on the formation of materiality and bodily boundaries; "Paris is Burning," Nella Larsen's "Passing," and short stories by Willa Cather; along with a reconsideration of "performativity" and politics in feminist, queer, and radical democratic theory. [via]More editions of Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "Sex:
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Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photographyby Roland BarthesISBN 0374521344 (0-374-52134-4)
Softcover, Hill & Wang Pub
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Critical Terms for Literary Studyby Frank Lentricchia, Thomas McLaughlinISBN 0226472027 (0-226-47202-7)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Critical Terms for Literary Studyby Thomas McLaughlin, Frank LentricchiaISBN 0226472035 (0-226-47203-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Critical Terms for Literary Study'Book summary:Since its publication in 1990, Critical Terms for Literary Study has become a landmark introduction to the work of literary theorygiving tens of thousands of students an unparalleled encounter with what it means to do theory and criticism. Significantly expanded, this new edition features six new chapters that confront, in different ways, the growing understanding of literary works as cultural practices.[via]
These six new chapters are "Popular Culture," "Diversity," "Imperialism/Nationalism," "Desire," "Ethics," and "Class," by John Fiske, Louis Menand, Seamus Deane, Judith Butler, Geoffrey Galt Harpham, and Daniel T. O'Hara, respectively. Each new essay adopts the approach that has won this book such widespread acclaim: each provides a concise history of a literary term, critically explores the issues and questions the term raises, and then puts theory into practice by showing the reading strategies the term permits.
Exploring the concepts that shape the way we read, the essays combine to provide an extraordinary introduction to the work of literature and literary study, as the nation's most distinguished scholars put the tools of critical practice vividly to use.More editions of Critical Terms for Literary Study:
Critical Theory Since 1965by Hazard Adams, Leroy SearleISBN 0813008441 (0-8130-0844-1)
Softcover, Univ Pr of Florida
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Critique, Norm, and Utopia: A Study of the Foundations of Critical Theoryby Seyla BenhabibISBN 023106165X (0-231-06165-X)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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Culture and Imperialismby Edward W. SaidISBN 0679750541 (0-679-75054-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Culture and Imperialism'Book summary:Edward Said makes one of the strongest cases ever for the aphorism, "the pen is mightier than the sword." This is a brilliant work of literary criticism that essentially becomes political science. Culture and Imperialism demonstrates that Western imperialism's most effective tools for dominating other cultures have been literary in nature as much as political and economic. He traces the themes of 19th- and 20th-century Western fiction and contemporary mass media as weapons of conquest and also brilliantly analyzes the rise of oppositional indigenous voices in the literatures of the "colonies." Said would argue that it's no mere coincidence that it was a Victorian Englishman, Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton, who coined the phrase "the pen is mightier . . ." Very highly recommended for anyone who wants to understand how cultures are dominated by words, as well as how cultures can be liberated by resuscitating old voices or creating new voices for new times. [via]
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Cultures of United States Imperialismby Amy Kaplan, Donald E. PeaseISBN 0822314134 (0-8223-1413-4)
Softcover, Duke Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cultures of United States Imperialism'Book summary:Cultures of United States Imperialism represents a major paradigm shift that will remap the field of American Studies. Pointing to a glaring blind spot in the basic premises of the study of American culture, leading critics and theorists in cultural studies, history, anthropology, and literature reveal the "denial of empire" at the heart of American Studies. Challenging traditional definitions and periodizations of imperialism, this volume shows how international relations reciprocally shape a dominant imperial culture at home and how imperial relations are enacted and contested within the United States.[via]
Drawing on a broad range of interpretive practices, these essays range across American history, from European representations of the New World to the mass media spectacle of the Persian Gulf War. The volume breaks down the boundary between the study of foreign relations and American culture to examine imperialism as an internal process of cultural appropriation and as an external struggle over international power. The contributors explore how the politics of continental and international expansion, conquest, and resistance have shaped the history of American culture just as much as the cultures of those it has dominated. By uncovering the dialectical relationship between American cultures and international relations, this collection demonstrates the necessity of analyzing imperialism as a political or economic process inseparable from the social relations and cultural representations of gender, race, ethnicity, and class at home.Contributors. Lynda Boose, Mary Yoko Brannen, Bill Brown, William Cain, Eric Cheyfitz, Vicente Diaz, Frederick Errington, Kevin Gaines, Deborah Gewertz, Donna Haraway, Susan Jeffords, Myra Jehlen, Amy Kaplan, Eric Lott, Walter Benn Michaels, Donald E. Pease, Vicente Rafael, Michael Rogin, José David Saldívar, Richard Slotkin, Doris Sommer, Gauri Viswanathan, Priscilla Wald, Kenneth Warren, Christopher P. Wilson
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The Dialectics of Seeing: Walter Benjamin and the Arcades Projectby Susan Buck-MorssISBN 0262521644 (0-262-52164-4)
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Eclipse Of Reasonby Max HorkheimerISBN 0826477933 (0-8264-7793-3)
Softcover, Continuum Intl Pub Group
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The Essential Frankfurt School Readerby Andrew Arato, Eike GebhardtISBN 0826401945 (0-8264-0194-5)
Softcover, Continuum Intl Pub Group
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The Foucault Readerby Michel FoucaultISBN 0394713400 (0-394-71340-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Foucault Reader'Book summary:Michel Foucault was one of the most influential thinkers in the contemporary world, someone whose work has affected the teaching of half a dozen disciplines ranging from literary criticism to the history of criminology. But of his many books, not one offers a satisfactory introduction to the entire complex body of his work. The Foucault Reader was commissioned precisely to serve that purpose.
The Reader contains selections from each area of Foucault's work as well as a wealth of previously unpublished writings, including important material written especially for this volume, the preface to the long-awaited second volume of The History of Sexuality, and interviews with Foucault himself, in the course of which he discussed his philosophy at first hand and with unprecedented candor.
This philosophy comprises an astonishing intellectual enterprise: a minute and ongoing investigation of the nature of power in society. Foucault's analyses of this power as it manifests itself in society, schools, hospitals, factories, homes, families, and other forms of organized society are brought together in The Foucault Reader to create an overview of this theme and of the broad social and political vision that underlies it. [via]More editions of The Foucault Reader:
The Foucault Readerby Paul Rabinow, Michel FoucaultISBN 0394529049 (0-394-52904-9)
Hardcover, Pantheon Books
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Gender Troubleby Judith ButlerISBN 1428815627 (1-4288-1562-7)
Softcover, Academic Internet Pub Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gender Trouble'Book summary:Never HIGHLIGHT a Book Again! Virtually all testable terms, concepts, persons, places, and events are included. Cram101 Textbook Outlines gives all of the outlines, highlights, notes for your textbook with optional online practice tests. Only Cram101 Outlines are Textbook Specific. Cram101 is NOT the Textbook. Accompanys: 9780415924993 [via]
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Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identityby Judith ButlerISBN 0415389550 (0-415-38955-0)
Softcover, Routledge
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gender Trouble: Feminism And the Subversion of Identity'Book summary:In a new introduction to the 10th-anniversary edition of Gender Trouble--among the two or three most influential books (and by far the most popular) in the field of gender studies--Judith Butler explains the complicated critical response to her groundbreaking arguments and the ways her ideas have evolved as a result. Nevertheless, she has resisted the urge to revise what has become a feminist classic (as well as an elegant defense of drag, given Butler's emphasis on the performative nature of gender). The book was produced, according to Butler, "as part of the cultural life of a collective struggle that has had, and will continue to have, some success in increasing the possibilities for a livable life for those who live, or try to live, on the sexual margins." An attack on the essentialism of French feminist theory and its basis in structuralist anthropology, Gender Trouble expands to address the cultural prejudices at play in genetic studies of sex determination, as well as the uses of gender parody, and also provides a critical genealogy of the naturalization of sex. A primer in gender studies--and sexy reading for college cafés. --Regina Marler [via]
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History and Class Consciousness: Studies in Marxist Dialecticsby Gyorgy LukacsISBN 0262620200 (0-262-62020-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'History and Class Consciousness: Studies in Marxist Dialectics'Book summary:This is the first time one of the most important of Lukács' early theoretical writings, published in Germany in 1923, has been made available in English. The book consists of a series of essays treating, among other topics, the definition of orthodox Marxism, the question of legality and illegality, Rosa Luxemburg as a Marxist, the changing function of Historic Marxism, class consciousness, and the substantiation and consciousness of the Proletariat.Writing in 1968, on the occasion of the appearance of his collected works, Lukács evaluated the influence of this book as follows:"For the historical effect of History and Class Consciousness and also for the actuality of the present time one problem is of decisive importance: alienation, which is here treated for the first time since Marx as the central question of a revolutionary critique of capitalism, and whose historical as well as methodological origins are deeply rooted in Hegelian dialectic. It goes without saying that the problem was omnipresent. A few years after History and Class Consciousness was published, it was moved into the focus of philosophical discussion by Heidegger in his Being and Time, a place which it maintains to this day largely as a result of the position occupied by Sartre and his followers. The philologic question raised by L. Goldmann, who considered Heidegger's work partly as a polemic reply to my (admittedly unnamed) work, need not be discussed here. It suffices today to say that the problem was in the air, particularly if we analyze its background in detail in order to clarify its effect, the mixture of Marxist and Existentialist thought processes, which prevailed especially in France immediately after the Second World War. In this connection priorities, influences, and so on are not particularly significant. What is important is that the alienation of man was recognized and appreciated as the central problem of the time in which we live, by bourgeois as well as proletarian, by politically rightist and leftist thinkers. Thus, History and Class Consciousness exerted a profound effect in the circles of the youthful intelligentsia."George Lichtheim, also in 1968, writes that "...The originality of the early Lukács lay in the assertion that the totality of history could be apprehended by adopting a particular 'class standpoint': that of the proletariat. Class consciousness ;not indeed the empirical consciousness of the actual proletariat, which was hopelessly entangled with the surface aspects of objective reality, but an ideal-typical consciousness proper to a class which radically negates the existing order of reality: that was the formula which had made it possible for the Lukács of 1923 to unify theory and practice."
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Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Lifeby Giorgio AgambenISBN 0804732183 (0-8047-3218-3)
Softcover, Stanford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life'Book summary:The work of Giorgio Agamben, one of Italys most important and original philosophers, has been based on an uncommon erudition in classical traditions of philosophy and rhetoric, the grammarians of late antiquity, Christian theology, and modern philosophy. Recently, Agamben has begun to direct his thinking to the constitution of the social and to some concrete, ethico-political conclusions concerning the state of society today, and the place of the individual within it.[via]
In Homo Sacer, Agamben aims to connect the problem of pure possibility, potentiality, and power with the problem of political and social ethics in a context where the latter has lost its previous religious, metaphysical, and cultural grounding. Taking his cue from Foucaults fragmentary analysis of biopolitics, Agamben probes with great breadth, intensity, and acuteness the covert or implicit presence of an idea of biopolitics in the history of traditional political theory. He argues that from the earliest treatises of political theory, notably in Aristotles notion of man as a political animal, and throughout the history of Western thinking about sovereignty (whether of the king or the state), a notion of sovereignty as power over life is implicit.
The reason it remains merely implicit has to do, according to Agamben, with the way the sacred, or the idea of sacrality, becomes indissociable from the idea of sovereignty. Drawing upon Carl Schmitts idea of the sovereigns status as the exception to the rules he safeguards, and on anthropological research that reveals the close interlinking of the sacred and the taboo, Agamben defines the sacred person as one who can be killed and yet not sacrificeda paradox he sees as operative in the status of the modern individual living in a system that exerts control over the collective naked life of all individuals.More editions of Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life:
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Image, Music, Textby Stephen Heath, Roland BarthesISBN 0006348807 (0-00-634880-7)
Hardcover, Fotana
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Image, Music, Text'Book summary:Roland Barthes, the French critic and semiotician, was one of the most important critics and essayists of this century. His work continues to influence contemporary literary theory and cultural studies. Image-Music-Text collects Barthes's best writings on photography and the cinema, as well as fascinating articles on the relationship between images and sound. Two of Barthes's most important essays, "Introduction to the Structural Analysis of Narrative" and "The Death of the Author" are also included in this fine anthology, an excellent introduction to his thought. [via]
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Image, Music, Textby Roland BarthesISBN 0374521360 (0-374-52136-0)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Image, Music, Text'Book summary:Roland Barthes, the French critic and semiotician, was one of the most important critics and essayists of this century. His work continues to influence contemporary literary theory and cultural studies. Image-Music-Text collects Barthes's best writings on photography and the cinema, as well as fascinating articles on the relationship between images and sound. Two of Barthes's most important essays, "Introduction to the Structural Analysis of Narrative" and "The Death of the Author" are also included in this fine anthology, an excellent introduction to his thought. [via]
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Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalismby Benedict AndersonISBN 1844670864 (1-84467-086-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin And Spread of Nationalism'Book summary:What makes people love and die for nations, as well as hate and kill in their name? While many studies have been written on nationalist political movements, the sense of nationality - the personal and cultural feeling of belonging to the nation - has not received proportionate attention. In this widely acclaimed work, Benedict Anderson examines the creation and global spread of the 'imagined communities' of nationality. Anderson explores the processes that created these communities: the territorialisation of religious faiths, the decline of antique kingship, the interaction between capitalism and print, the development of vernacular languages-of-state, and changing conceptions of time. He shows how an originary nationalism born in the Americas was modularly adopted by popular movements in Europe, by the imperialist powers, and by the anti-imperialist resistances in Asia and Africa. This revised edition includes two new chapters, one of which discusses the complex role of the colonialist state's mindset in the development of Third World nationalism, while the other analyses the processes by which all over the world, nations came to imagine themselves as old. [via]
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Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Societyby Raymond WilliamsISBN 0856642894 (0-85664-289-4)
Hardcover, Fontana
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LA Chambre Claireby Roland BarthesISBN 207020541X (2-07-020541-X)
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Literary Language & Its Public in Late Latin Antiquity and in the Middle Agesby Erich Auerbach, Ralph ManheimISBN 0691024685 (0-691-02468-5)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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The Madwoman in the Atticby Sandra GilbertISBN 0300025963 (0-300-02596-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Madwoman in the Attic'Book summary:This pathbreaking book of feminist criticism is now reissued with a substantial new introduction by Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar that reveals the origins of their revolutionary realization in the 1970s that "the personal was the political, the sexual was the textual". [via]
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The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imaginationby Sandra M. Gilbert, Susan GubarISBN 0300084587 (0-300-08458-7)
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The Marx-Engels Readerby Friedrich Engels, Karl Marx, Robert C. TuckerISBN 0393099652 (0-393-09965-2)
Softcover, Norton
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The Communist Manifesto (Marx and Engels) Translated by Samuel Moore
Das Kapital (Marx) Translated by Samuel Moore and Edward Aveling
Critique of the Gotha Programme (Marx)
Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte (Marx) Translated by Emil F. Teichert
The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844 (Engels) Translated by Florence Kelley Wischnewetzky
Speech at the Grave of Karl Marx (Engels)Essays (Marx) Translated by H. J. Stenning:
A Criticism of The Hegelian Philosophy of Right
On The Jewish Question
On The King of Prussia And Social Reform
Moralizing Criticism And Critical Morality: A Polemic Against Karl
Proudhon
French Materialism
The English RevolutionAppendix:
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Karl Marx Biography
Friedrich Engels Biography
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The Marx-Engels Readerby Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Robert C. TuckerISBN 039309040X (0-393-09040-X)
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Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literatureby Erich AuerbachISBN 069111336X (0-691-11336-X)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature'Book summary:A half-century after its translation into English, Erich Auerbach's Mimesis still stands as a monumental achievement in literary criticism. A brilliant display of erudition, wit, and wisdom, his exploration of how great European writers from Homer to Virginia Woolf depicted reality has taught generations how to read Western literature. This new expanded edition includes a substantial essay in introduction by Edward Said as well as an essay, never before translated into English, in which Auerbach responds to his critics. [via]
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The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticismby Vincent B. LeitchISBN 0393974294 (0-393-97429-4)
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Of Grammatologyby Jacques Derrida, Gayatri Chakravorty SpivakISBN 0801858305 (0-8018-5830-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Of Grammatology'Book summary:The author is one of the most acclaimed thinker, and expounder of philosophic process of thought of our time. Influence enough to have affected the entire French critical scene, Jacques Derrida has been hailed as the most important philosopher in France today. His ideas of reading and writing, his notion of de-construction, his reinterpretations of phenomenology, of psychoanalysis, and of strucuralism have profoundly influenced the vanguard of European and American criticism and have occasioned lively controversy. Derrida`s philosophical background baffles some literary critics. This role of exposing the common assumption shared by combatants in a controversy raises Derrida`s importance above merely the French scene. [via]
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On Deconstructionby Jonathan CullerISBN 041504555X (0-415-04555-X)
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Culler's book is an indispensable guide for anyone interested in understanding modern critical thought. This edition marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the first publication of this landmark work and includes a new preface by the author that surveys deconstruction's history since the 1980s and assesses its place within cultural theory today.
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On Deconstruction: Theory and Criticism After Structuralismby Jonathan CullerISBN 0801492017 (0-8014-9201-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'On Deconstruction: Theory and Criticism After Structuralism'Book summary:From reviews of the first edition?"Academic literary crticism continues to be dominated by 'theory' and the struggle between deconstructionist and humanist approaches to the business of reading. Jonathan Culler's On Deconstruction is a typically patient, thoughtful, illuminating exposition of the ideas of Jacques Derrida and their application to literary studies."-David Lodge, Commonwealth"Culler is lucid and thorough, can move into and out of other people's arguments without losing the sense of his own voice and argument, and can manage to seem equally at home with Freudianism, feminism, and traditional literary criticism."-Times Literary Supplement"As a practicing critic Culler has always been a deconstructor, and he approaches this topic with special immediacy and force. In On Deconstruction he offers generous summaries of numerous representative articles and a fine annotated bibliography. . . . His magisterial way of tracing particular topics and techniques through our diaspora of critical texts, and his provocative analyses, cannot fail to focus any critic's thinking about deconstruction."-Modern Language Quarterly"Gifted with grace and clarity, Culler provides us with a stimulating survey of contemporary literary criticism."-Antioch ReviewWith an emphasis on readers and reading, Jonathan Culler considered deconstruction in terms of the questions raised by psychoanalytic, feminist, and reader-response criticism. On Deconstruction is both an authoritative synthesis of Derrida's thought and an analysis of the often-problematic relation between his philosophical writings and the work of literary critics. Culler's book is an indispensable guide for anyone interested in understanding modern critical thought. This edition marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the first publication of this landmark work and includes a new preface by the author that surveys deconstruction's history since the 1980s and assesses its place within cultural theory today. [via]
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Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings, 1972-1977by Colin Gordon, Michel FoucaultISBN 0394513576 (0-394-51357-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings, 1972-1977'Book summary:Michel Foucault has become famous for a series of books that have permanently altered our understanding of many institutions of Western society. He analyzed mental institutions in the remarkable Madness and Civilization; hospitals in The Birth of the Clinic; prisons in Discipline and Punish; and schools and families in The History of Sexuality. But the general reader as well as the specialist is apt to miss the consistent purposes that lay behind these difficult individual studies, thus losing sight of the broad social vision and political aims that unified them.
Now, in this superb set of essays and interviews, Foucault has provided a much-needed guide to Foucault. These pieces, ranging over the entire spectrum of his concerns, enabled Foucault, in his most intimate and accessible voice, to interpret the conclusions of his research in each area and to demonstrate the contribution of each to the magnificent -- and terrifying -- portrait of society that he was patiently compiling.
For, as Foucault shows, what he was always describing was the nature of power in society; not the conventional treatment of power that concentrates on powerful individuals and repressive institutions, but the much more pervasive and insidious mechanisms by which power "reaches into the very grain of individuals, touches their bodies and inserts itself into their actions and attitudes, their discourses, learning processes and everyday lives"
Foucault's investigations of prisons, schools, barracks, hospitals, factories, cities, lodgings, families, and other organized forms of social life are each a segment of one of the most astonishing intellectual enterprises of all time -- and, as this book proves, one which possesses profound implications for understanding the social control of our bodies and our minds. [via]More editions of Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings, 1972-1977:
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Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings, 1972-1977by Michel FoucaultISBN 039473954X (0-394-73954-X)
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Now, in this superb set of essays and interviews, Foucault has provided a much-needed guide to Foucault. These pieces, ranging over the entire spectrum of his concerns, enabled Foucault, in his most intimate and accessible voice, to interpret the conclusions of his research in each area and to demonstrate the contribution of each to the magnificent -- and terrifying -- portrait of society that he was patiently compiling.
For, as Foucault shows, what he was always describing was the nature of power in society; not the conventional treatment of power that concentrates on powerful individuals and repressive institutions, but the much more pervasive and insidious mechanisms by which power "reaches into the very grain of individuals, touches their bodies and inserts itself into their actions and attitudes, their discourses, learning processes and everyday lives"
Foucault's investigations of prisons, schools, barracks, hospitals, factories, cities, lodgings, families, and other organized forms of social life are each a segment of one of the most astonishing intellectual enterprises of all time -- and, as this book proves, one which possesses profound implications for understanding the social control of our bodies and our minds. [via]More editions of Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings, 1972-1977:
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The Practice of Everyday Lifeby Michel De Certeau, Steven RendallISBN 0520236998 (0-520-23699-8)
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Reason and Revolutionby Herbert MarcuseISBN 0415214505 (0-415-21450-5)
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Reason and Revolution: Hegel and the Rise of Social Theoryby Herbert MarcuseISBN 0391029991 (0-391-02999-1)
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S/Zby Roland BarthesISBN 0374521670 (0-374-52167-0)
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S/Zby Honore De Balzac, Roland BarthesISBN 0809083752 (0-8090-8375-2)
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Selected Writings: 1913-1926by Gary Smith, Walter Benjamin, Michael W. Jennings, Howard Eiland, Marcus Paul BullockISBN 0674945859 (0-674-94585-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Selected Writings: 1913-1926'Book summary:A leading German critic of his day and a member of the generation scarred by the First World War, Walter Benjamin's writing career was marked by deep philosophical insights and tumultuous emotional crises. His work has mostly been unavailable in English translations, but this collection marks the first of three proposed volumes of his essays. In his early work, we encounter Benjamin as an idealistic university student and come to see him commenting on the aesthetics of such subjects as morality in children's books, the uses of force and violence, and writers such as Goethe and Dostoyevsky. [via]
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Selected Writings: 1927-1934by Gary Smith, Rodney Livingstone, Walter Benjamin, Michael W. Jennings, Howard Eiland, Marcus Paul BullockISBN 0674945867 (0-674-94586-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Selected Writings: 1927-1934'Book summary:A leading German critic from the generation of Europeans scarred by the First World War, Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) had a writing career marked by deep philosophical insights and tumultuous emotional crises. But until recently, most of his work was unavailable in English; the handful of essays that could be read in English, like "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction," were undisputed classics, but the full spectrum of Benjamin's thought remained untapped. That has changed with Harvard University's publication of the multivolume Selected Writings. This second volume covers Benjamin's work from 1927 to 1934, the period in which he established himself as a leading public intellectual, and encompasses a wide variety of literary forms addressing an even wider variety of subject matter. From interviews with André Gide to film reviews of work by Chaplin and Eisenstein, from the autobiographical recollections of "A Berlin Chronicle" to his reflections on the cultural nostalgia for children's literature and toys, Benjamin wrote with perception and unflagging inquisitiveness. The editors have provided a chronological essay, which helps place the assembled writings in the context of Benjamin's life; the collection considered as a whole will undoubtedly be of vital importance to any scholar of modern European philosophy. [via]
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The Society of the Spectacleby Guy DebordISBN 0942299795 (0-942299-79-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Society of the Spectacle'Book summary:The Das Kapital of the 20th century. An essential text, and the main theoretical work of the situationists. Few works of political and cultural theory have been as enduringly provocative. From its publication amid the social upheavals of the 1960's up to the present, the volatile theses of this book have decisively transformed debates on the shape of modernity, capitalism, and everyday life in the late 20th century. This new edition is the Ken Knabb translation. Certainly it has the most "modern" design of all three editions, as well as a short new introduction from the translator. [via]
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Strangers to Ourselvesby Julia Kristeva, Leon S. RoudiezISBN 0231071574 (0-231-07157-4)
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The Theory of Communicative Action: Reason and the Rationalization of Societyby Jurgen HabermasISBN 0807015075 (0-8070-1507-5)
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Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings 1927-1930by Walter Benjamin, Michael W. Jennings, Rodney LivingstoneISBN 0674015886 (0-674-01588-6)
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Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings 1931-1934by Walter Benjamin, Gary Smith, Michael W. Jennings, Marcus Bullock, Howard EilandISBN 0674017463 (0-674-01746-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings 1931-1934'Book summary:In the frenzied final years of the Weimar Republic, amid economic collapse and mounting political catastrophe, Walter Benjamin emerged as the most original practicing literary critic and public intellectual in the German-speaking world. Volume 2 of the Selected Writings is now available in paperback in two parts.
In Part 1, Benjamin is represented by two of his greatest literary essays, "Surrealism" and "On the Image of Proust," as well as by a long article on Goethe and a generous selection of his wide-ranging commentary for Weimar Germany's newspapers.
Part 2 contains, in addition to the important longer essays, "Franz Kafka," "Karl Kraus," and "The Author as Producer," the extended autobiographical meditation "A Berlin Chronicle," and extended discussions of the history of photography and the social situation of the French writer, previously untranslated shorter pieces on such subjects as language and memory, theological criticism and literary history, astrology and the newspaper, and on such influential figures as Paul Valery, Stefan George, Hitler, and Mickey Mouse.
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Walter Benjamin Selected Writings: 1935-1938by Walter Benjamin, Michael W. Jennings, Howard EilandISBN 0674019814 (0-674-01981-4)
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Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, 1913-1926by Walter Benjamin, Michael W. JenningsISBN 0674013557 (0-674-01355-7)
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De La Grammatologieby Jacques DerridaISBN 2707300128 (2-7073-0012-8)
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Homo Sacerby Giorgio AgambenISBN 8806138502 (88-06-13850-2)
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