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Feminism, Capitalism, and Ecology
A philosophical work that exposes the systemic logic by which environmental destruction and gender oppression are jointly rooted in capitalism, establishing the theoretical foundations on which an effective political alliance can be built today.
Literary Conclusions
Analyzing works by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and Heinrich von Kleist, Oliver Simons shows how the emergence of new kinds of literary endings around 1800 is inextricably linked to the history of philosophical and scientific concepts.
The Biopolitics of Punishment
The Biopolitics of Punishment marks a new chapter in the long-standing debate between Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault. The essays collected in this volume chart the undertheorized dialogue between the two philosophers on questions of life, death, punishment, power, and resistance.
Beyond the Public Sphere
This book challenges the notion that the bourgeois public sphere is the most important informal institution between social and political actors and the state. María Pía Lara draws on cinematic images of women’ s struggles to develop a concept of the feminist social imaginary.
The Saving Line
This book reconstructs a wide-ranging dialogue between Walter Benjamin’s major essay on Goethe’s Elective Affinities and Theodor Adorno’s meditation on the Odyssey in Dialectic of Enlightenment. Dornbach leverages the concept of caesura to identify utopian moments in a variety of works.
Prolegomena to Any Future Materialism
Prolegomena to Any Future Materialism, Volume Two: A Weak Nature Alone is the second part of a trilogy on subjectivity in the natural world. Johnston weaves together major works in Western philosophy in a visionary theory that is materialist yet antireductive.
Hegel’s Theory of Normativity
Hegel’s Theory of Normativity offers an interpretation and defense of the systematic foundations of Hegel’s account of right.
Hegel and Spinoza
In his book Hegel and Spinoza, Moder formulates the question that interested Hegel in Spinoza as the question of whether it is possible to think contradiction or movement on the level of the absolute substance or whether it is possible to think the absolute as a fragile absolute.
Points of Departure
Points of Departure is a collection of twelve essays broadly divided into explorations of the nature of spectrality, on the one hand, and the dynamics of reading, on the other.
The Virtual Point of Freedom
The principal motif that runs throughout The Virtual Point of Freedom is a confrontation with the discourse of freedom, or, more specifically, the falsely transgressive ideal of a total emancipation that would know no constraints.
Feminism, Capitalism, and Ecology
A philosophical work that exposes the systemic logic by which environmental destruction and gender oppression are jointly rooted in capitalism, establishing the theoretical foundations on which an effective political alliance can be built today.
Literary Conclusions
Analyzing works by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and Heinrich von Kleist, Oliver Simons shows how the emergence of new kinds of literary endings around 1800 is inextricably linked to the history of philosophical and scientific concepts.
The Biopolitics of Punishment
The Biopolitics of Punishment marks a new chapter in the long-standing debate between Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault. The essays collected in this volume chart the undertheorized dialogue between the two philosophers on questions of life, death, punishment, power, and resistance.
Beyond the Public Sphere
This book challenges the notion that the bourgeois public sphere is the most important informal institution between social and political actors and the state. María Pía Lara draws on cinematic images of women’ s struggles to develop a concept of the feminist social imaginary.
The Saving Line
This book reconstructs a wide-ranging dialogue between Walter Benjamin’s major essay on Goethe’s Elective Affinities and Theodor Adorno’s meditation on the Odyssey in Dialectic of Enlightenment. Dornbach leverages the concept of caesura to identify utopian moments in a variety of works.
Prolegomena to Any Future Materialism
Prolegomena to Any Future Materialism, Volume Two: A Weak Nature Alone is the second part of a trilogy on subjectivity in the natural world. Johnston weaves together major works in Western philosophy in a visionary theory that is materialist yet antireductive.
Hegel’s Theory of Normativity
Hegel’s Theory of Normativity offers an interpretation and defense of the systematic foundations of Hegel’s account of right.
Hegel and Spinoza
In his book Hegel and Spinoza, Moder formulates the question that interested Hegel in Spinoza as the question of whether it is possible to think contradiction or movement on the level of the absolute substance or whether it is possible to think the absolute as a fragile absolute.
Points of Departure
Points of Departure is a collection of twelve essays broadly divided into explorations of the nature of spectrality, on the one hand, and the dynamics of reading, on the other.
The Virtual Point of Freedom
The principal motif that runs throughout The Virtual Point of Freedom is a confrontation with the discourse of freedom, or, more specifically, the falsely transgressive ideal of a total emancipation that would know no constraints.