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Dissemination by Jacques Derrida; Barbara Johnson (Translator)
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations Ser.
"In Dissemination - more than in any previous work - Derrida weav es] a complex pattern of puns, verbal echoes and allusions, intended to 'deconstruct' both the pretension of criticism to tell the truth about literature, and the pretension of philosophy to be the literature of truth." New StatesmanJacqu ...Show more
Eclipse of Reason by Max Horkheimer
Category: Reference | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations
In his most important work, Max Horkheimer surveys and demonstrates the gradual ascendancy of Reason in Western philosophy, its eventual total application to all spheres of life, and what he considers its present reified domination. First published in 1947, Horkheimer here explores the ways in Nazism - ...Show more
Everyday Life in the Modern World by Henri Lefebvre
Category: Reference | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations Ser.
When Lefebvre's book first appeared in the 1960s it was considered a manifesto for a social movement that focused on the quality of life experi-enced by the individual--by the com-mon man and woman. His emphasis on the quality of life will have even more appeal to those currently living with the problem ...Show more
Evolution and Conversion : Dialogues on the Origins of Culture by René Girard
Category: Philosophy | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations
Goering - The Iron Man by Richard Overy
Category: Biography Memoir | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations Ser.
Published in the Bloomsbury Revelations series and featuring a new preface by the author, this classic biography by acclaimed historian Richard Overy takes the reader on a chilling journey into the heart of Hitler's inner circle.Hermann Goering was Hitler's most loyal supporter, his designated successor ...Show more
I and Thou by Martin Buber
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations
'The publication of Martin Buber's I and Thou was a great event in the religious life of the West.' Reinhold NiebuhrMartin Buber (1897-19) was a prolific and influential teacher and writer, who taught philosophy at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem from 1939 to 1951. Having studied philosophy and art a ...Show more
Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre by Keith Johnstone
Category: Fiction | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations Ser.
In this landmark work Keith Johnstone provides a revelatory guide to rediscovering and unlocking the imagination. Admired for its clarity and zest, Impro lays bare the techniques and exercises used to foster spontaneity and narrative skill for actors. These techniques and exercises were evolved in the a ...Show more
In Defence of Politics by Bernard Crick
Category: Reference | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations
Faced with political scandal, broken promises and the seeming impotence of governments in the face of economic globalization, cynicism about politics is rampant in the established democracies of the west. Meanwhile, the 'Arab Spring' of 2011 saw people out on the streets willing to put their lives on th ...Show more
Infinite Thought: Truth and the Return to Philosophy by Alain Badiou
Category: Culture | 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
Intensive Science and Virtual Philo by Manuel DeLanda
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations
First published 10 years ago, Manuel DeLanda's Intensive Science and Virtual Philosophy rapidly established itself as a landmark text in contemporary continental thought. DeLanda here draws on the realist philosophy of Gilles Deleuze to the domain of philosophy of science. As well as contemporary philos ...Show more
Interrogating the Real by Rex Butler
Category: Culture | 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
Key Writings by Keith Ansell-Pearson
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations
The twentieth century - with its unprecedented advances in technology and scientific understanding - saw the birth of a distinctively new and 'modern' age. Henri Bergson stood as one of the most important philosophical voices of that tumultuous time. An intellectual celebrity in his own life time, his w ...Show more