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Infinite Thought: Truth and the Return to Philosophy by Alain Badiou
$32.00 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations
Alain Badiou (1937- ) is one of the most high profile and controversial philosophers writing in France today. A leading light in the generation of thinkers who come of intellectual age in 1968, his work deftly draws on a wide range of intellectual traditions and thinkers from Plato and Lucretius, throug ...Show more
Interrogating the Real by Slavoj Zizek
$40.00 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations
Slavoj eiuek is one of the world's foremost cultural commentators: a prolific writer and thinker, whose vividly adventurous, unorthodox and wide-ranging writings have won him a unique place as one of the most high profile thinkers of our time. Covering psychoanalysis, philosophy and popular culture and ...Show more
Neither Man nor Beast: Feminism and the Defense of Animals by Carol J. Adams
$40.00 NZD
Category: Feminism | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations
In this landmark work of animal rights activism, Carol J. Adams - the bestselling author of The Sexual Politics of Meat - explores the intersections and common causes of feminism and the defense of animals. Neither Man Nor Beast explores the common link between cultural attitudes to women and animals in ...Show more
Philosophy - Principles and Problems by Roger Scruton
$25.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations
In Philosophy: Principles and Problems Roger Scruton shares the ideas and arguments which initially attracted him to the subject and those which have engaged his attention throughout his career. Through discussions of major philosophers, Kant and Wittgenstein in particular, he attempts to show how philo ...Show more
The Essence of Truth: On Plato's Cave Allegory and Theaetetus by Martin Heidegger
$32.00 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations
Martin Heidegger is one of the most important and influential philosophers of the 20th Century. A major figure in the development of phenomenology, his work also profoundly influenced many of the intellectual movements that followed in his wake, from Sartre's Existentialism to Derrida's deconstructionis ...Show more
The Intelligence of Evil: or, The Lucidity Pact by Jean Baudrillard
$29.99 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations
In the wake of the 9/11 attacks, after the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq and at the height of the "War on Terror", the controversial postmodernist thinker Jean Baudrillard wrote The Intelligence of Evil. In tackling the rhetoric of the so-called "clash of civilizations" between a capitalist West and ...Show more
The Invisible Actor by Yoshi Oida; Lorna Marshall
$32.80 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations Ser.
The Invisible Actor presents the captivating and unique methods of the distinguished Japanese actor and director, Yoshi Oida. While a member of Peter Brook's theatre company in Paris, Yoshi Oida developed a masterful approach to acting that combined the oriental tradition of supreme and studied control ...Show more
Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World by Rene Girard
$35.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations
Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World presents a highly original global theory of culture. Here, in his greatest work, Rene Girard explores the function of violence, mimetic desire and the mechanism of the scapegoat, in the history of society and religion. Girard's vision is a brilliant and de ...Show more
To Have Or to Be by Erich Fromm
$29.99 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations
To Have Or to Be? is one of the seminal books of the second half of the 20th century. Nothing less than a manifesto for a new social and psychological revolution to save our threatened planet, this book is a summary of the penetrating thought of Eric Fromm. His thesis is that two modes of existence stru ...Show more
Towards the Light: The Story of the Struggles for Liberty and Rights That Made the Modern West by A. C. Grayling
$33.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy, Spirituality & Religion | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations
In Towards the Light, A.C. Grayling tells the story of the long and difficult battle for freedom in the West, from the Reformation to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, from the battle for the vote to the struggle for the right to freedom of conscience. As Grayling passionately affirms, it is a ...Show more
Understanding Music : Philosophy and Interpretation by Scruton Roger
$40.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations Ser.
With Understanding Music and The Aesthetics of Music (1997) Roger Scruton set a new standard of rigour and seriousness in the philosophy of music. This collection of wide-ranging essays covers all aspects of the theory and practice of music, showing the significance of music as an expression of the mora ...Show more
World Crisis Volume III: 1916-1918: 1916-1918 by Sir Winston S. Churchill
$45.00 NZD
$54.99 (18% off)
Category: History | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations
The World Crisis is considered by many to be Winston S. Churchill's literary masterpiece. Published across five volumes between 1923 and 1931, Churchill here tells the story of The Great War, from its origins to the long shadow it cast on the following decades. At once a history and a first-hand account ...Show more