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By: Barreno, Maria Isabel; Horta, Maria Teresa; Da Costa, Maria Velho
Price: $4.00
Publisher: Bantam Books: 1976
Edition: 1st Printing
Seller ID: 2263071
Condition: Very Good
1st printing. Pages toned. 1976 Mass Market Paperback. A work by three Woman's Rights activists who were arrested for their shocking literary output. View more info
By: Bjelic, Dusan I.
Price: $18.00
Publisher: MIT Press: 2005
Seller ID: 2269637
ISBN: 0262524481
Condition: Very Good
Faint edge wear. 2005 Trade Paperback. Pioneering essays on the idea of the Balkan as a body of knowledge and a cultural metaphor.Balkan. Somewhere between a tragedy and a myth, a place and a condition, the term is perhaps best understood as a metaphor. It has been used and abused in academia by proponents of opposing political views. Multiculturalism has appropriated it, as have postmodernism and postcommunism. It is used pejoratively to refer to excessive specialization and nostalgically to refer to Europe's lost people?its wild warriors and passionate geniuses. This book explores the idea o... View more info
By: Callinicos, Alex
Price: $8.00
Publisher: St. Martin's: 1990
Seller ID: 2279277
ISBN: 0312042256
Condition: Very Good
Ink marks on a couple pages. 1990 Trade Paperback. This challenges the idealist irrationalism of post-structuralism. It questions the existence of any radical break separating allegedly Postmodern from Modern art. And it denies that recent socio-economic developments represent any fundamental shift from classical patterns of capital accumulation. View more info
By: Cappelen, Herman
Price: $35.00
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing: 2005
Seller ID: 2187031
ISBN: 1405126752
Condition: Good
Ink underlining and marginalia. 2005 Trade Paperback. Insensitive Semantics is an overview of and contribution to the debates about how to accommodate context sensitivity within a theory of human communication, investigating the effects of context on communicative interaction and, as a corollary, what a context of utterance is and what it is to be in one. This work: provides detailed and wide-ranging overviews of the central positions and arguments surrounding contextualism; addresses broad and varied aspects of the distinction between the semantic and non-semantic content of language; defends... View more info
By: Derrida, Jacques; Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty
Price: $10.00
Publisher: John Hopkins University Press: 1977
Edition: 2nd Printing
Seller ID: 2287873
ISBN: 0801818796
Condition: Very Good
2nd printing. Spine creased. 1977 Trade Paperback. Jacques Derrida's revolutionary theories about deconstruction, phenomenology, psychoanalysis, and structuralism, first voiced in the 1960s, forever changed the face of European and American criticism. The ideas in De la grammatologie sparked lively debates in intellectual circles that included students of literature, philosophy, and the humanities, inspiring these students to ask questions of their disciplines that had previously been considered improper. Thirty years later, the immense influence of Derrida's work is still igniting controversy... View more info
Price: $15.00
Publisher: University of Chicago Press: 1983
Edition: Second Edition
Seller ID: 2279266
ISBN: 0226163121
Condition: Very Good
Second edition. Faint edge wear. 1983 Trade Paperback. To demonstrate the sense in which Foucault's work is beyond structuralism and hermeneutics, the authors unfold a careful, analytical exposition of his oeuvre. They argue that during the of Foucault's work became a sustained and largely successful effort to develop a new method—interpretative analytics—capable fo explaining both the logic of structuralism's claim to be an objective science and the apparent validity of the hermeneutical counterclaim that the human sciences can proceed only by understanding the deepest meaning of the subj... View more info
By: Eribon, Didier
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Harvard: 1991
Seller ID: 2265666
ISBN: 0674572874
Condition: Very Good
Ink underlining to first 30 pages only. Light edge wear to jacket. 1991 Hard Cover. At the time of his death in 1984, at the age of fifty-eight, Michel Foucault was widely regarded as one of the most powerful minds of this century. Hailed by distinguished historians and lionized on his frequent visits to America, he continues to provoke lively debate. The nature and merits of his accomplishments remain tangled in controversy. Rejecting traditional liberal and Marxist dreams of solidarity, Foucault became the very model of the modern intellectual, replacing Sartre as the figure of the eminent P... View more info
By: Habermas, Jurgen
Price: $25.00
Publisher: MIT Press: 1990
Seller ID: 2279267
ISBN: 0262581027
Condition: Near Fine
An exceptional copy. 1990 Trade Paperback. The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity is a tour de force that has the immediacy and accessibility of the lecture form and the excitement of an encounter across, national cultural boundaries. Habermas takes up the challenge posed by the radical critique of reason in contemporary French poststructuralism. Tracing the odyssey of the philosophical discourse of modernity, Habermas's strategy is to return to those historical crossroads at which Hegel and the Young Hegelians, Nietzsche and Heidegger made the fateful decisions that led to this outcome. His... View more info
Price: $20.00
Publisher: University of Indiana: 1988
Edition: Revised Edition
Seller ID: 2279601
ISBN: 025320478X
Condition: Very Good
Light creasing to spine. 1988 Trade Paperback. A lecture course that Martin Heidegger gave in 1927, The Basic Problems of Phenomenology continues and extends explorations begun in Being and Time. In this text, Heidegger provides the general outline of his thinking about the fundamental problems of philosophy, which he treats by means of phenomenology, and which he defines and explains as the basic problem of ontology. View more info
By: Hill, Leslie
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Cambridge at the University Press: 2007
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2277945
ISBN: 0521682819
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. An exceptional copy. 2007 Trade Paperback. Few thinkers of the latter half of the twentieth century have so profoundly and radically transformed our understanding of writing and literature as Jacques Derrida (1930-2004). Derridian deconstruction remains one of the most powerful intellectual movements of the present century, and Derrida's own innovative writings on literature and philosophy are crucially relevant for any understanding of the future of literature and literary criticism today. Derrida's own manner of writing is complex and challenging and has often been misrepresen... View more info
By: Pears, David; Kermode, Frank
Price: $5.00
Publisher: The Viking Press: 1970
Seller ID: 2277369
ISBN: 0670019100
Condition: Good
Light stain to edges of wrappers, ink name on half-title page, minor ink marks. 1970 Trade Paperback. 208 pp. Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein (26 April 1889 – 29 April 1951) was an Austrian-British philosopher who worked primarily in logic, the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of language. Described by Bertrand Russell as the most perfect example I have ever known of genius as traditionally conceived, passionate, profound, intense, and dominating,Wittgenstein is considered by many to be the greatest philosopher of the 20th century. Helping to inspire two... View more info
By: [Foucault]; Bernauer, James; Rasmussen, David
Price: $6.00
Publisher: MIT: 1988
Seller ID: 1964944
ISBN: 0262521326
Condition: Good
Minor ink underlining. 1988 Trade Paperback. Michel Foucault left a rich legacy of ideas and approaches, many of which still await exposition and analysis. The Final Foucault is devoted to his last published (and some as yet unpublished) work and includes a translation of one of his last interviews, a comprehensive bibliography of his publications, and a biographical chronology.Foucault was still working on his history of sexuality when he died in 1984, but his main concern remained, as throughout his career, a deeper understanding of the nature of truth. View more info
