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A Thousand Plateaus by Gilles Deleuze
Category: Fiction | Series: Continuum Impacts S.
This book has set the agenda for contemporary Continental philosophy, arguing for a new theory of radical democracy in politics and art. A Thousand Plateaus completes the landmark philosophical project, Capitalism and Schizophrenia, which Deleuze and Guattari began with Anti-Oedipus. Together, the two v ...Show more
Aesthetic Theory by Theodor W. Adorno
Category: Culture | Series: Continuum Impacts S.
The most important aesthetics of the century, this is a long-awaited work, the culmination of a lifetime's investigation. Among the twelve major sections are Art, Society, Aesthetics; the Categories of the Ugly, the Beautiful, the Technics; Natural Beauty; Coherence and Subject-Object; Towards a Theory ...Show more
Berlin Alexanderplatz: The Story of Franz Biberkopf by Alfred Doblin
Category: Fiction | Series: Continuum Impacts S.
Alfred D?blin (1878-1957) studied medicine in Berlin and specialized in the treatment of nervous diseases. Along with his experiences as a psychiatrist in the workers' quarter of Berlin, his writing was inspired by the work of Holderlin, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche and was first published in the literary ...Show more
Cinema 1: The Movement Image by Gilles Deleuze
Category: Fiction | Series: Continuum Impacts S.
Deleuze identifies three distinct principal types of 'image movement' and draws upon diverse examples from the work of such major filmmakers as Griffith, Eisenstein, Cassavetes and Altman.
Cinema 2: The Time Image by Gilles Deleuze
Category: Film | Series: Continuum Impacts S.
Offers a fascinating analysis of the representation of time in film and the cinematic treatment of memory, thought and speech, and looks at the work of Godard, Hitchcock and Welles.
Discourse on Free Will by Desiderius Erasmus
Category: Fiction | Series: Continuum Impacts S.
Desiderius Eramsus (1466/9-1536) was the most renowned scholar of his age, a celebrated humanist and Classicist, and the first teacher of Greek at Cambridge. An influential figure in the Protestant Reformation, though without ever breaking from the Church himself, he satirised both human folly and the c ...Show more
Education for Critical Consciousness by Paolo Friere
Category: Fiction | Series: Continuum Impacts S.
Education for Critical Consciousness is the main statement of Freire's revolutionary method of education. It takes the life situation of the learner as its starting point and the raising of consciousness and the overcoming of obstacles as its goals. For Freire, man's striving for his own humanity requir ...Show more
Foucault by Gilles Deleuze
Category: unmapped | Series: Continuum Impacts S.
Giles Deleuze (1925-1995) was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris VIII. He is a key figure in poststructuralism and one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century. In "Foucault", Deleuze presents one of the most incisive and productive analyses of the work of Michel Fou ...Show more
Nietzsche and the Vicious Circle by Pierre Klossowski
Category: Fiction | Series: Continuum Impacts S.
'The greatest book of philosophy I have ever read, on a par with Nietzsche himself.' Michel Foucault
The Three Ecologies by Felix Guattari
Category: Fiction | Series: Continuum Impacts S.
This book provides the ideal introduction to the work of one of Europe's most radical thinkers.Extending the definition of ecology to encompass social relations and human subjectivity as well as environmental concerns, "The Three Ecologies" argues that the ecological crises that threaten our planet are ...Show more
Time for Revolution by Antonio Negri
Category: unmapped | Series: Continuum Impacts S.
Time for Revolution explores the burning issue of our times: is there still a place for resistance in a society utterly subsumed by capitalism? Written in prison two decades apart, these two essays reflect Negri's abiding interest in the philosophy of time and resistance. The first is a central work in ...Show more
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