By: Jamil Khader (Stetson University) and Molly Anne Rothenberg (Tulane University)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745653716, Pub Date US Apr 2013, Pub Date RoW Mar 2013, Pub Date Aus Mar 2013
E-book, ISBN: 9780745664378, Pub Date US May 2013, Pub Date RoW May 2013,

Description: Arguably the most prolific and most widely read philosopher of our time, Slavoj Zizek has made indelible interventions into many disciplines of the s...

By: Hélène Cixous (Centre de Recherches en Études Féminines at Paris VIII University, France)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745653877, Pub Date US Dec 2012, Pub Date RoW Nov 2012, Pub Date Aus Nov 2012
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745653860, Pub Date US Dec 2012, Pub Date RoW Nov 2012, Pub Date Aus Nov 2012

Description: "Isn't it … particularly difficult to 'speak' of your work?" Frédéric-Yves Jeannet asks Hélène Cixous in this fasc...

By: Benoit Peeters
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745656151, Pub Date US Oct 2012, Pub Date RoW Nov 2012, Pub Date Aus Nov 2012
E-book, ISBN: 9780745676159, Pub Date US Apr 2013, Pub Date RoW Apr 2013,

Description: This biography of Jacques Derrida (1930–2004) tells the story of a Jewish boy from Algiers, excluded from school at the age of twelve, who we...

By: McKenzie Wark (New School for Social Research, New York)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745653990, Pub Date US Sep 2012, Pub Date RoW Aug 2012, Pub Date Aus Aug 2012
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745653983, Pub Date US Sep 2012, Pub Date RoW Aug 2012, Pub Date Aus Aug 2012

Description: The telegraph, telephone, and television, not to mention the Internet and mobile telephony, are all forms of communication that move information fa...

By: Paul Ricoeur (Professor Emeritus at the University of Paris X and at the University of Chicago)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745661247, Pub Date US Aug 2012, Pub Date RoW Jul 2012, Pub Date Aus Jul 2012
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745661230, Pub Date US Aug 2012, Pub Date RoW Jul 2012, Pub Date Aus Jul 2012

Description: Paul Ricoeur's Freud and Philosophy was a major reinterpretation of psychoanalysis and its philosophical significance, but Ricoeur also wrote many ...

By: Catherine Malabou (University of Paris-X Nanterre)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745652610, Pub Date US Jul 2012, Pub Date RoW Jun 2012, Pub Date Aus Jun 2012
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745652603, Pub Date US Jul 2012, Pub Date RoW Jun 2012, Pub Date Aus Jun 2012

Description: In the usual order of things, lives run their course and eventually one becomes who one is. Bodily and psychic transformations do nothing but reinf...

By: John Armitage (Northumbria University)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745642291, Pub Date US Jun 2012, Pub Date RoW May 2012, Pub Date Aus May 2012
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745642284, Pub Date US Jun 2012, Pub Date RoW May 2012, Pub Date Aus May 2012

Description: In books such as The Aesthetics of Disappearance, War and Cinema, The Lost Dimension, and The Vision Machine, Paul Virilio has fundamentally changed ...

By: Roland Barthes (Formerly, University of Paris)
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745650807, Pub Date US Mar 2012, Pub Date RoW Dec 2011, Pub Date Aus Dec 2011
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745650814, Pub Date US Oct 2013, Pub Date RoW Sep 2013, Pub Date Aus Oct 2013

Description: In 1974 Roland Barthes travelled in China as part of a small delegation of distinguished French philosophers and literary figures. They arrived in ...

By: Christina Howells (Wadham College, Oxford)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745652757, Pub Date US Dec 2011, Pub Date RoW Nov 2011, Pub Date Aus Nov 2011
E-book, ISBN: 9780745636290, Pub Date US May 2013, Pub Date RoW May 2013,

Description: This wide ranging and challenging book explores the relationship between subjectivity and mortality as it is understood by a number of twentieth-cent...

By: Alexander Etkind (King's College, Cambridge)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745651309, Pub Date US Nov 2011, Pub Date RoW Oct 2011, Pub Date Aus Oct 2011
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745651293, Pub Date US Nov 2011, Pub Date RoW Oct 2011, Pub Date Aus Oct 2011

Description: This book gives a radically new reading of Russia’s cultural history. Alexander Etkind traces how the Russian Empire conquered foreign territ...

By: Simon Critchley (New School for Social Research), Carl Cederstrom (New School for Social Research) and Todd Kesselman
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745653211, Pub Date US Dec 2011, Pub Date RoW Oct 2011, Pub Date Aus Oct 2011
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745653204, Pub Date US Dec 2011, Pub Date RoW Oct 2011, Pub Date Aus Oct 2011

Description: Impossible objects are those about which the philosopher, narrowly conceived, can hardly speak: poetry, film, music, humor. Such "objects" do not rel...

By: Alex Goody (Oxford Brookes University)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745639543, Pub Date US Jun 2011, Pub Date RoW May 2011, Pub Date Aus May 2011
E-book, ISBN: 9780745637280, Pub Date US Apr 2013, Pub Date RoW Apr 2013,

Description: Technology, Literature and Culture provides a detailed and accessible exploration of the ways in which literature across the twentieth century has re...

By: Rachel Jones (University of Dundee)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745651057, Pub Date US Apr 2011, Pub Date RoW Mar 2011, Pub Date Aus Mar 2011
E-book, ISBN: 9780745637815, Pub Date US May 2013, Pub Date RoW May 2013,

Description: The work of French Philosopher Luce Irigaray has exerted a profound influence on feminist thinking of recent decades and provides a far-reaching chal...

By: Jacques Ranciere
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745645315, Pub Date US Feb 2011, Pub Date RoW Dec 2010, Pub Date Aus Dec 2010
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745645308, Pub Date US Feb 2011, Pub Date RoW Dec 2010, Pub Date Aus Dec 2010

Description: The politics of literature is not the same as the politics of writers and their commitments, nor does it concern the way writers represent social str...

By: Stacey Keltner (Kennesaw State University)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745638973, Pub Date US Jan 2011, Pub Date RoW Dec 2010, Pub Date Aus Dec 2010
E-book, ISBN: 9780745658056, Pub Date US May 2013, Pub Date RoW May 2013,

Description: Julia Kristeva is one of the most creative and prolific writers to address the personal, social, and political trials of our times. Linguist, psychoa...

By: Paul A. Taylor (Institute of Communications Studies, University of Leeds)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745643687, Pub Date US Dec 2010, Pub Date RoW Nov 2010, Pub Date Aus Nov 2010
E-book, ISBN: 9780745675213, Pub Date US Apr 2013, Pub Date RoW Apr 2013,

Description: Slavoj Zizek reaches the parts of the media that other theorists cannot. With sources ranging from Thomas Aquinas to Quentin Tarantino and Desperate ...

By: Hélène Cixous and Laurent Milesi
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745644165, Pub Date US Aug 2010, Pub Date RoW Jul 2010, Pub Date Aus Jul 2010
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745644158, Pub Date US Aug 2010, Pub Date RoW Jul 2010, Pub Date Aus Jul 2010

Description: Zero's Neighbour is Hélène Cixous's tribute to the minimalist genius of the artist in exile who courted nothingness in his writing like...

By: Anne Phillips (London School of Economics and Political Science)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745648002, Pub Date US Jun 2010, Pub Date RoW Apr 2010, Pub Date Aus Apr 2010
E-book, ISBN: 9780745659275, Pub Date US Apr 2013, Pub Date RoW Apr 2013,

Description: The idea that respect for cultural diversity conflicts with gender equality is now a staple of both public and academic debate. Yet discussion of the...

Edited by: Ryan Bishop (Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton)
By: Ryan Bishop (Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745647081, Pub Date US Aug 2009, Pub Date RoW Jul 2009, Pub Date Aus Jul 2009
E-book, ISBN: 9780745659190, Pub Date US Apr 2013, Pub Date RoW Apr 2013,

Description: The writings of Jean Baudrillard have dramatically altered the face of critical theory and promise to pose challenges well into the 21st century. His...

By: Stefan Muller-Doohm (Oldenburg University) and Rodney Livingstone
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745631097, Pub Date US Feb 2009, Pub Date RoW Dec 2008, Pub Date Aus Dec 2008

Description: 'Even the biographical individual is a social category', wrote Adorno. ‘It can only be defined in a living context together with others.’...

By: Suman Gupta
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745640242, Pub Date US Dec 2008, Pub Date RoW Nov 2008, Pub Date Aus Nov 2008
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745640235, Pub Date US Dec 2008, Pub Date RoW Nov 2008, Pub Date Aus Nov 2008

Description: This book presents a state-of-the-art overview of the relationship between globalization studies and literature and literary studies, and the bearing...

By: Mary Trotter
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745633435, Pub Date US Nov 2008, Pub Date RoW Sep 2008, Pub Date Aus Sep 2008
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745633428, Pub Date US Nov 2008, Pub Date RoW Sep 2008, Pub Date Aus Sep 2008

Description: Analysing major Irish dramas and the artists and companies that performed them, Modern Irish Theatre provides an engaging and accessible introduction...

By: James Smith (University of Queensland)
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745636092, Pub Date US Jul 2008, Pub Date RoW May 2008, Pub Date Aus May 2008
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745636108, Pub Date US Jul 2008, Pub Date RoW May 2008, Pub Date Aus May 2008

Description: Terry Eagleton is one of the most influential contemporary literary theorists and critics. His diverse body of work has been crucial to developments ...

By: Gretel Adorno and Walter Benjamin
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745636696, Pub Date US Mar 2008, Pub Date RoW Dec 2007, Pub Date Aus Dec 2007

Description: We must see to it that we put the best of ourselves in our letters; for there is nothing to suggest that we shall see each other again soon. So wrote...

By: Alain Badiou (l'Ecole normale superieure)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745636320, Pub Date US Apr 2007, Pub Date RoW Feb 2007, Pub Date Aus Feb 2007
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745636313, Pub Date US Apr 2007, Pub Date RoW Feb 2007, Pub Date Aus Feb 2007

Description: Everywhere, the twentieth century has been judged and condemned: the century of totalitarian terror, of utopian and criminal ideologies, of empty ill...

By: Theodor W. Adorno (The Frankfurt School)
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745638300, Pub Date US Mar 2007, Pub Date RoW Jan 2007, Pub Date Aus Jan 2007

Description: "Dreams are as black as death." —Theodor W. Adorno Adorno was fascinated by his dreams and wrote them down throughout his life. He envisaged ...

By: Karin Littau (University of Essex)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745616599, Pub Date US Dec 2006, Pub Date RoW Dec 2006, Pub Date Aus Dec 2006
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745616582, Pub Date US Feb 2007, Pub Date RoW Dec 2006, Pub Date Aus Dec 2006

Description: Why do literary theorists see reading as an act of dispassionate textual analysis and meaning production, when historical evidence shows that readers...

By: Stephen Morton (University of Southampton)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745632858, Pub Date US Jan 2007, Pub Date RoW Dec 2006, Pub Date Aus Dec 2006
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745632841, Pub Date US Feb 2007, Pub Date RoW Dec 2006, Pub Date Aus Dec 2006

Description: Gayatri Chakravorty Spivaks seminal contribution to contemporary thought defies disciplinary boundaries. From her early translations of Derrida to he...

By: Reidar Andreas Due (Magdalen College, Oxford)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745630359, Pub Date US Feb 2007, Pub Date RoW Nov 2006, Pub Date Aus Nov 2006
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745630342, Pub Date US Feb 2007, Pub Date RoW Dec 2006, Pub Date Aus Dec 2006

Description: This book provides a clear and concise introduction to the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze. It analyses his key theoretical concepts, such as difference...

By: Colin Bulman
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745636887, Pub Date US Dec 2006, Pub Date RoW Oct 2006, Pub Date Aus Oct 2006
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745636870, Pub Date US Dec 2006, Pub Date RoW Oct 2006, Pub Date Aus Oct 2006

Description: All writers are familiar with terms like plot, suspense, conflict and character. They may be less familiar with intertextuality, anachrony, and fabul...

By: Richard Lane (Malaspina University-College, Canada)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745632797, Pub Date US Jul 2006, Pub Date RoW Jun 2006, Pub Date Aus Jun 2006
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745632780, Pub Date US Jul 2006, Pub Date RoW Jun 2006, Pub Date Aus Jun 2006

Description: A concise introduction to a core and popular area of literary studies.Provides extended case studies which survey and summarise key critical debates ...

By: David Inglis (University of Aberdeen) and John Hughson (University of Wolverhampton)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745625621, Pub Date US Oct 2003, Pub Date RoW Aug 2003, Pub Date Aus Aug 2003
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745625614, Pub Date US Oct 2003, Pub Date RoW Aug 2003, Pub Date Aus Aug 2003

Description: Confronting Culture offers a clear and accessible discussion and analysis of the complex field of the sociology of culture, and how it compares with ...

By: Mary Orr (University of Southampton)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745631219, Pub Date US Sep 2003, Pub Date RoW Jun 2003, Pub Date Aus Jun 2003
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745606217, Pub Date US Sep 2003, Pub Date RoW Jun 2003, Pub Date Aus Jun 2003

Description: This book is a comprehensive introduction to the idea of intertextuality and the debates surrounding it, focusing on the four key thinkers whose work...

By: Nigel Gibson (Emerson College, Boston, Brown University, Harvard University)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745622613, Pub Date US Jun 2003, Pub Date RoW Apr 2003, Pub Date Aus Apr 2003
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745622606, Pub Date US Jun 2003, Pub Date RoW Apr 2003, Pub Date Aus Apr 2003

Description: Frantz Fanon was a French psychiatrist turned Algerian revolutionary of Martinican origin, and one of the most important and controversial thinkers o...

By: Sarah Kay (University of Cambridge)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745622088, Pub Date US Apr 2003, Pub Date RoW Mar 2003, Pub Date Aus Mar 2003
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745622071, Pub Date US Apr 2003, Pub Date RoW Mar 2003, Pub Date Aus Mar 2003

Description: Žižek is hailed as the most significant interdisciplinary thinker of modern times. His work is a powerful, often explosive combination of L...

By: Nicholas Harrison (Kings College, London)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745621821, Pub Date US Apr 2003, Pub Date RoW Mar 2003, Pub Date Aus Mar 2003

Description: In the field of postcolonial studies, the full richness and complexity of the connections between literature, history and ideology are often overlook...

By: David Wood
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745616230, Pub Date US Oct 2002, Pub Date RoW Aug 2002, Pub Date Aus Aug 2002
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745616223, Pub Date US Oct 2002, Pub Date RoW Aug 2002, Pub Date Aus Aug 2002

Description: In Thinking After Heidegger, David Wood takes up the challenge posed by Heidegger - that after the end of philosophy we need to learn to think. But w...

By: Beverley Clack (Roehampton Institute)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745622798, Pub Date US Nov 2002, Pub Date RoW Jul 2002, Pub Date Aus Jul 2002
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745622781, Pub Date US Nov 2002, Pub Date RoW Jul 2002, Pub Date Aus Jul 2002

Description: For centuries people have debated the nature of the human self. Running beneath these various arguments lie three certainties – we are born, re...

By: Espen Hammer (University of Essex)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745623580, Pub Date US Mar 2002, Pub Date RoW Feb 2002, Pub Date Aus Feb 2002
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745623573, Pub Date US Mar 2002, Pub Date RoW Feb 2002, Pub Date Aus Feb 2002

Description: Stanley Cavell is a leading figure in American philosophy and one of the most exhilarating and wide-ranging intellectuals of our time. In this book E...

By: Susan Rowland (University of Greenwich)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745625171, Pub Date US Feb 2002, Pub Date RoW Dec 2001, Pub Date Aus Dec 2001
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745625164, Pub Date RoW Dec 2001, Pub Date Aus Dec 2001

Description: Jung: A Feminist Revision explores the relationship between feminist theory and Jungian studies. It combines an original student-friendly introductio...

By: Graeme Gilloch
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745610085, Pub Date US Feb 2002, Pub Date RoW Dec 2001, Pub Date Aus Dec 2001
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745610078, Pub Date US Feb 2002, Pub Date RoW Dec 2001, Pub Date Aus Dec 2001

Description: The works of Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) are widely acclaimed as being among the most original and provocative writings of twentieth-century critical...

By: Jonathan Dollimore (University of York)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745627649, Pub Date US Aug 2001, Pub Date RoW Jun 2001, Pub Date Aus Jun 2001
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745627632, Pub Date US Aug 2001, Pub Date RoW Jun 2001, Pub Date Aus Jun 2001

Description: Those who love and live by art, tell us that it is the most exalted expression of civilized life. In this provocative new book Jonathan Dollimore arg...

By: Valerie Kennedy (Bilkent University, Turkey)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745620190, Pub Date US Sep 2000, Pub Date RoW Aug 2000, Pub Date Aus Aug 2000
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745620183, Pub Date US Oct 2000, Pub Date RoW Aug 2000, Pub Date Aus Aug 2000

Description: Edward Said is one of the foremost thinkers writing today. His work as a literary and cultural critic, a political commentator, and the champion of t...

By: Elizabeth Wright (University of Cambridge)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745619682, Pub Date US Apr 2000, Pub Date RoW Jan 2000, Pub Date Aus Jan 2000
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745619675, Pub Date US Apr 2000, Pub Date RoW Jan 2000, Pub Date Aus Jan 2000

Description: This new book is a lively and original study of psychoanalysis and its relations to the arts....

By: Ato Quayson (University of Toronto)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745617138, Pub Date US Jan 2000, Pub Date RoW Oct 1999, Pub Date Aus Oct 1999

Description: This important new book provides a critical introduction to the rapidly expanding field of postcolonial studies....

By: Michael Caesar
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745608501, Pub Date US Aug 1999, Pub Date RoW May 1999, Pub Date Aus May 1999
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745608495, Pub Date US Aug 1999, Pub Date RoW May 1999, Pub Date Aus May 1999

Description: This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the work and thought of Umberto Eco - one of the most important writers in Europe today....

By: Christina Howells (Wadham College, Oxford)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745611686, Pub Date US Dec 1998, Pub Date RoW Nov 1998, Pub Date Aus Nov 1998
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745611679, Pub Date US Jan 1991, Pub Date RoW Jan 1999, Pub Date Aus Jan 1999

Description: This book is an unusually readable and lucid account of the development of Derrida's work, from his early writings on phenomenology and structuralism...

By: E. L. Wright (University of Cambridge )
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745619668, Pub Date US Oct 1998, Pub Date RoW Aug 1998, Pub Date Aus Aug 1998
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745619651, Pub Date RoW Aug 1998, Pub Date Aus Aug 1998

Description: What is psychoanalytic criticism and how can it be justified as a type of criticism in its own right? In this new and thoroughly revised edition of h...

By: James D. Williams (University of Dundee)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745611006, Pub Date US Oct 1998, Pub Date RoW Aug 1998, Pub Date Aus Aug 1998
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745610993, Pub Date US Oct 1998, Pub Date RoW Aug 1998, Pub Date Aus Aug 1998

Description: Jean-François Lyotard was one of the most influential European thinkers in recent decades. He was a leading participant in debates about post-...

By: Rosalind Minsky (Anglia Polytechnic University)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745615806, Pub Date RoW Jul 1998, Pub Date Aus Jul 1998
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745615790, Pub Date RoW Jul 1998, Pub Date Aus Jul 1998

Description: Written in a readable, accessible style, with plenty of up-to-date examples Psychoanalysis and Culture provides a brilliant introduction to key issue...