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  • The Scent of the Father

    Essay on the Limits of Life and Science in Sub-Saharan Africa

    de Valentin-Yves Mudimbe ...
    Traducido por Jonathan Adjemian ...
    Series series Critical South
    Valentin-Yves Mudimbe is a Congolese philosopher, novelist, poet, essayist, and academic, widely considered to be one of the most important African thinkers of his generation. The ideas and arguments he has developed in his writings since the 1970s, including The Invention of Africa, have been hugely influential across many disciplines and established his reputation as one of the essential ... Leer más

    $20.00 USD

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  • The Social Construction of Reality

    A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge

    de Peter L. Berger, Thomas Luckmann ...
    A watershed event in the field of sociology, this text introduced "a major breakthrough in the sociology of knowledge and sociological theory generally" (George Simpson, American Sociological Review ).In this seminal book, Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann examine how knowledge forms and how it is preserved and altered within a society. Unlike earlier theorists and philosophers, Berger and ... Leer más

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  • We Have Never Been Modern

    de Bruno Latour ...
    With the rise of science, we moderns believe, the world changed irrevocably, separating us forever from our primitive, premodern ancestors. But if we were to let go of this fond conviction, Bruno Latour asks, what would the world look like? His book, an anthropology of science, shows us how much of modernity is actually a matter of faith. What does it mean to be modern? What difference does the ... Leer más

    $29.69 USD

  • How To Read Foucault

    de Johanna Oksala ...
    Michel Foucault was a twentieth-century philosopher of extraordinary talent, a political activist, social theorist, cultural critic and creative historian. He shaped the ways we think today about such controversial issues as power, sexuality, madness and criminality. Johanna Oksala explores the conceptual tools that Foucault gave us for constructing new forms of thinking as well as for smashing ... Leer más

    $12.59 USD

  • From Extreme Violence to the Problem of Civility

    A Selection from Violence and Civility: On the Limits of Political Philosophy

    de Étienne Balibar ...
    Traducido por G.M. Goshgarian ...
    In this impassioned argument, Étienne Balibar boldly confronts the insidious causes of violence, racism, nationalism, and ethnic cleansing worldwide. Through a novel synthesis of theory and empirical studies of violence drawn from contemporary life, Balibar tests the limits of political philosophy to formulate new, productive conceptions of war, revolution, sovereignty, and class. Balibar explores ... Leer más

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  • The Invention of Africa: Gnosis, Philosophy, and the Order of Knowledge

    de Vy Mudimbe ...
    "... groundbreaking... clear, straightforward, and economical.... seminal... " ―American Anthropologist "This is a challenging book... a remarkable contribution to African intellectual history." ―International Journal of African Historical Studies "Mudimbe’s description of the struggles over Africa’s self-invention are vivid and rewarding. From Blyden to Sartre, Temples to Senghor, Mudimbe ... Leer más

    $6.99 USD

  • Time and the Other

    How Anthropology Makes Its Object

    de Johannes Fabian ...
    Time and the Other is a classic work that critically reexamined the relationship between anthropologists and their subjects and reoriented the approach literary critics, philosophers, and historians took to the study of humankind. Johannes Fabian challenges the assumption that anthropologists live in the "here and now," that their subjects live in the "there and then," and that the "other" exists ... Leer más

    $31.49 USD

  • Religion and Culture

    de Michel Foucault ...
    First Published in 1999. Postmodern theorist Michel Foucault is best known for his work on power/ knowledge, and on the regulation of sexuality in modern society. Yet throughout his life, Foucault was continually concerned with Christianity, other spiritual movements and religious traditions, and the death of God, and these themes and materials scattered are throughout his many writings. Religion ... Leer más

    $58.99 USD

  • On Love

    A Philosophy for the Twenty-First Century

    de Luc Ferry ...
    All the great ideals that gave life meaning in earlier societies - God, the nation, revolution, freedom, democracy - are in disarray today, questioned by many and rejected by those who have lost faith in them. But there is another value, rooted in the birth of the modern family and in the passage from traditional to modern marriage, that has transformed our lives in profound and often unrecognized ... Leer más

    $10.00 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Foucault

    Edición de Gary Gutting ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Philosophy
    For Michel Foucault, philosophy was a way of questioning the allegedly necessary truths that underpin the practices and institutions of modern society. He carried this out in a series of deeply original and strikingly controversial studies on the origins of modern medical and social scientific disciplines. These studies have raised fundamental questions about the nature of human knowledge and its ... Leer más

    $40.99 USD

  • Jacques Rancière

    History, Politics, Aesthetics

    de Kristin Ross, Alain Badiou ...
    The French philosopher Jacques Rancière has influenced disciplines from history and philosophy to political theory, literature, art history, and film studies. His research into nineteenth-century workers’ archives, reflections on political equality, critique of the traditional division between intellectual and manual labor, and analysis of the place of literature, film, and art in modern society ... Leer más

    $21.59 USD

  • The Terms of Order

    Political Science and the Myth of Leadership

    de Cedric J. Robinson ...
    Do we live in basically orderly societies that occasionally erupt into violent conflict, or do we fail to perceive the constancy of violence and disorder in our societies? In this classic book, originally published in 1980, Cedric J. Robinson contends that our perception of political order is an illusion, maintained in part by Western political and social theorists who depend on the idea of ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD