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Offers an examination of the concept of life in Adorno's philosophy. This book relates Adorno's thought in this context to a number of key thinkers in the history of Continental philosophy, including Marx and provides an argument for the relevance and importance of Adorno's critical philosophy of life at the beginning of the 21st century.

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An important monograph presenting a critique of the work of Theodor W. Adorno, a founding member of the Frankfurt School.

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A monograph that presents a critique of the work of Theodor W Adorno, a founding member of the Frankfurt School. It concerns with Adorno's notoriously difficult writing, a feature most commentators acknowledge only to set it aside on the way to an expository account of 'what Adorno is saying'.

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Offers an examination of Hegelian/Marxist theory of alienation in light of Derrida's deconstruction of the metaphysics of presence. This title demonstrates in what way Derridian deconstruction can itself be said to be a critique of alienation.

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A new examination of Hegelian/Marxist theory of alienation in light of Derrida's deconstruction of the metaphysics of presence.

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Examines how for Merleau-Ponty the work of art opens up, without conceptualizing, the event of being. This title treats Merleau-Ponty's renderings of the artwork - specifically in his later writings during the period ranging from 1952-1961 - as a path into the being that precedes phenomenology.

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Presents the crucial work on politics by two giants of contemporary French philosophy, Jacques Derrida and Alain Badiou. This book shows how the political views of these two major thinkers diverse and converge, thus providing a comprehensive exposition of their respective political systems.

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Examines the important contributions of three giants of contemporary French thought to the field of political theory: Alain Badiou, one of the most important continental thinkers; Etienne Balibar who has forged new approaches to democracy and citizenship; and, Jacques Ranciere who has crossed boundaries between history, politics and aesthetics.

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Bringing together three contemporary French philosophers, Alain Badiou, Etienne Balibar, and Jacques Ranciere, the author examines the political aspects of their work. He also identifies and explores problems in each of Badiou, Balibar and Ranciere's work, arguing that none offers a wholly convincing approach.

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Addresses the question of whether it is possible to coherently think the notion of grace strictly in terms of immanence. This book develops a model for the thought of an immanent grace that avoids the traps of both obscurantism and banality.

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Examines the relationship between mathematics and ontology in Heidegger's thought, from his earliest writings, through "Being and Time", up to and including his work of the 1930s. This book charts the unfamiliar territory of Heidegger's conception of mathematics, and explores the relationship between time and number in "Being and Time".

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Examines Cornelius Castoriadis' thought and the radical alternative it presents to the legacy of Michel Foucault, focusing on three central notions that are central in both scholars' theories: the subject, the production of social meaning and representation, and social/cultural change.

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From the early 1980s onwards, Derrida has addressed political subjects more and more explicitly; here Alex Thomson argues that the time has come for a fresh understanding of deconstruction - one that acknowledges its relevance for, and potential contribution to, political thinking.

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Derrida addressed political questions more and more explicitly in his writing, yet there is still confusion over the politics of deconstruction. This book evaluates and substantiates Derrida's provocative claim, assessing the importance of this controversial contemporary philosopher's work for political thought.

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The future of deconstruction lies in the ability of its practitioners to mobilise the tropes and interests of Derrida's texts into new spaces and creative readings. This title sets out to do just that, to continue the task of deconstructive reading both with and without Derrida.

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Constructs, problematizes, and defends a Deleuzian philosophy of history. Drawing on Deleuze's philosophy of time, this book identifies ideas and suggestions related to the philosophy of history from Deleuze and Guattari's major writings. It covers the following themes: the role of dates in historical chronology; historical causality; and more.

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Constructs, problematizes and defends a Deleuzian philosophy of history. Drawing on Deleuze's philosophy of time, this title identifies key ideas and suggestions related to the philosophy of history from Deleuze and Guattari's major writings - including the seminal contemporary texts "Anti-Oedipus", "A Thousand Plateaux", and more.

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A highly original reassessment of Deleuze and Guattari's much-discussed Anti-Oedipus project, without doubt one of the most influential works of philosophy of the 20th century.

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Shows that, as much as it is an insightful critique of the assimilationist vein in psychoanalysis, "Anti-Oedipus" remains fully committed to Freud's most singular discovery of an unconscious that is procedural and dynamic.

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Challenges the theory that the self is narrative alone or that concordance reigns over discordance in the self. Drawing upon the works of Gilles Deleuze, this book proposes that deep to the sense of a unified, represented self is a more fundamental self of difference, a self that is more than merely coherent narrative.

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A highly original analysis of Paul Ricoeur's 'narrative self', specifically in relation to the philosophy of difference articulated by Gilles Deleuze, thus bringing together two giants of twentieth-century Continental philosophy for the first time.

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An examination of Deleuze's notion of the diagram from philosophical and aesthetic perspectives that develops the concept into a critical touchstone for contemporary multidisciplinary art. It charts Deleuze's corpus according to aesthetic concepts such as the map, the sketch and the drawing to bring out a comprehensive concept of the diagram.

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Makes an original and important contribution to Deleuze studies.

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A contribution to Deleuze studies, this book argues that Deleuze's thought, far from carrying out a critique of representation, is in fact an account of its genesis. It also describes the way in which Edmund Husserl theorized the production of meaning and representation.