Structuralism and Post-structuralism Books

Offers a description of what happens to survivors after a death, based on the effect this death has on the survivor's relation to the spatial and temporal world occupied after the loss of the deceased.A Death of the World offers a phenomenological...

Analyzes Derrida's 1975 seminar "La vie la mort" as a deconstruction of biology with relevance to his work more broadly.In Biodeconstruction, Francesco Vitale demonstrates the key role that the question of life plays in Jacques Derrida's work. In the...

This book is a novel study on the way revolutions in science, technology and communication impact philosophy/world outlook including Marxism, society's future, mode of production, capitalism/socialism dichotomy, world economy, and trends like...

This collection asks what it might mean to think about a seemingly oxymoronic thing: Derrida's Bible. Reading little bits of scripture alongside little bits of Derrida, the contributors invite you to a series of Bible Studies that certainly wouldn't fit...

This engrossing study, first published in 1989, explores the basic mutuality between philosophy and translation. By studying the conceptions of translation in Plato, Seneca, Davidson, Walter Benjamin and Freud, Andrew Benjamin reveals the interplay...

Explores the relationship between technics and humanity, tracing the emergence of a bio-technical conception of existence in contemporary continental philosophy.From Technological Humanity to Bio-technical Existence can be framed as a metaphysics of the...

This original study examines Jean-François Lyotard's philosophical concept of the differend and details its unexplored implications for literature. it provides a new framework with which to understand the discourse itself, from its Homeric beginnings to...

Crystal L. Downing introduces students (especially those in the arts) to postmodernism: where it came from, and how Christians can best understand, critique and benefit from its insights.

Postmodern theory has engaged the hearts and heads of the brightest students because of its apparent political and social radicalism. Despite this Professor Gavin Kitching claims that, 'At the heart of postmodernism is very poor, deeply confused and...

Apuntes para abandonar el derecho: estado de excepción colonial en Puerto Rico es una intervención crítica urgente en la coyuntura actual puertorriqueña. Propone una re-visión en clave decolonial al "estado de excepción" elaborado por Agamben, entre...

In dialogue with Derrida, formulates a new philosophical problem - a complex aporia that underlines the topic of the handwritten as a sign of legal identification.

Hugh J. Silverman was an inspiring scholar and teacher, known for his work engaging and shaping phenomenology, hermeneutics, psychoanalysis, structuralism, poststructuralism, and deconstruction. As Professor of Philosophy and Comparative Literary and...

The aim of this book is to show that precisely in the indeterminacy of literature we can find the possibility of ethics and it will start with the examination of a work that clearly has a paradoxical nature - Sreten Ugričić’s Infinitive. The...

The methods developed by Freud and Marx have enabled a range of scholars to critically reflect upon the ideological underpinnings of modern and now postmodern or hypermodern western societies. In this intriguing book, the discipline of psychology itself...

An increasing number of scholars, students and practitioners of psychology are becoming intrigued by the ideas of Gilles Deleuze and of Felix Guattari. This book aims to be a critical introduction to these ideas, which have so much to offer psychology in...

'I swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth' we say in a court of law. 'In a court of law, the truth is precisely what we will not say', says Lacan. 'If God is dead, everything is permitted', writes Dostoyevsky. 'If God is...

MERE CHRISTIAN is a personal journal written from a layman's perspective. Arthur Bryne documents his efforts to reconcile modern ideas about Jesus with Christian scripture, modern politics, and Old Testament precedent.For believers struggling to ignore...

Postmodern Theology consists in a sharp-edged retrospective and reflection on the forty-year history of the most important movement in contemporary religious thought that is only now passing from the scene. The author, Dr. Carl Raschke, is generally...

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The Palgrave Handbook of German Idealism and Poststructuralism offers a wide-ranging dialogue between theory and German Idealism, joining up the various lines of influence connecting German Idealist and Romantic philosophies in all their variety to...

Dieses essential stellt einen systematischen und philosophischen Lektürevorschlag zur Diskussion: Systematisch werden Foucaults Schriften von seiner methodologischen Perspektive her als nihilistische, nominalistische und historizistische Analyse...

Gramsci's theory of common sense is a meta-narrative that can be used to explain both religion and political formations. This book examines Gramsci's perspective and how his theories translate in South Asian society.

In Modernism and Subjectivity: How Modernist Fiction Invented the Postmodern Subject, Adam Meehan argues that theories of subjectivity coming out of psychoanalytic, poststructuralist, and adjacent late--twentieth--century intellectual traditions had...

Recombinant Theory is a collection of literary essays that challenge how readers interact with and perceive text, context, and critical writing. Working with printed pages and scissors, Joel Katelnikoff applies literal cut-up techniques to the complete...

A fresh, provocative reading of Freud's theory of sexuality.

Investigates, through a critical exploration of Derrida's political thought, the foundations of modern secular discourse in relation to issues of race and colonialism.

Explores the various ways in which poetic and philosophical writing meet in texts by, and on, Paul Celan.Paul Celan's works dwell on the threshold between the extremes of poetic expression and philosophical reflection. The divergent literary and critical...

Investigates, by way of Derrida's engagements with Kant, how the foundations of modern constitutionalism can be differently conceived to address some of the challenges of the twenty-first century.

An original reading of Blanchot's thought with far-reaching philosophical and literary implications.

Explores why Derrida, Hegel, and Heidegger conceive their thought as a "movement" rather than as a presentation of results or conclusions, and of the consequences of such an indirect method for critique and responsibility.

Shows how contemporary French philosophy adopted this literary paradigm and argues for its significance for addressing concerns in ethics, ontology, and aesthetics.

Examines the relationship of Derrida's writings on architecture to his methodology of deconstruction and to deconstrutivism in architecture.

An analysis of Derrida's early work engaging Plato, Hegel, and the life sciences.

Anthology of recent, cutting-edge work in psychoanalysis and philosophy on the concept of inheritance.

Joseph Anténor Firmin (1850-1911) was the reigning public intellectual and political critic in Haiti in the nineteenth century. He was the first "Black anthropologist" and "Black Egyptologist" to deconstruct the Western interpretation of global history...

The Pythagoreans once believed the pentagram was a symbol for wellbeing, equality, and mutual respect. A closer look reveals the pentagram as a blueprint for decentralization. Build Circles & Destroy Pyramids exists to answer the questions: Why...

The thrilling conclusion to the Saga of Beef. Will Bottle explode into a cloud of shrapnel? Will Skip the Editor even really learn to stop caring about Bottle's confuddling approach to reality? Will GREGORY ever find a piano to keep his fidgeting fingers...

This volume brings together some of the most well-known and highly respected commentators on the work of Jacques Derrida from Britain and America in a series of essays written to commemorate the life and come to terms with the death of one of the most...

Bottle of Beef, Book 1. The book of the blog of the facebook posts from September 2019 to June 2020. Somewhere below the Earth's surface, a man and his ragtag crew of imaginary minions run a media empire. This is not their story. Instead, please enjoy...

Somewhere below the Earth's surface, a man and his ragtag crew of imaginary minions run a media empire. This IS their story. You'll meet exciting corporate functions like Skip the Editor, Front Office Gladys, Carl the Janitor, our personal personnel...

Thirteen essays in the book explore and investigate diverse contemporary philosophically current themes and issues.  The title is derived from Wittgenstein's statement that 'anguage is a labyrinth of paths,' and it studiously avoids any conclusive...

Literature, Interpretation, and Ethics argues for the centrality of hermeneutics in the context of ongoing debates about the value of literature, and about the role and ethics of literary study.

Although normally associated with modernity or modernism, utopia has made a comeback in the age of globalization. Just as the discoveries of the New World and the social upheavals of early modern Europe inspired Thomas More's Utopia and its many...

This book dialogues with deconstruction's ""religion without religion"" and its implications for theology. In the view of many, deconstruction is a purely nihilistic force bent on the wanton destruction of long-held philosophical, religious, and moral...

""Delenda Austria! Die Aufl������sung �����sterreichs als eine Notwendigkeit unserer Zeit"" ist ein Buch von Louis Vogel, das im Jahr 1849 ver������ffentlicht wurde. Das Werk besch�����ftigt sich mit der Frage der Aufl������sung �����sterreichs als Staat...

The Anti-Oedipus Complex critically explores the post-'68 dramatic developments in Freudo-Lacanian psychoanalysis and cultural theory. Beginning with the decline of patriarchy and the master, exemplified by Freud's paean for the Father, the revolutionary...