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  • !Resistid!

    Un manifiesto contra la sumisión

    Translated by Dimitris Pappas ...
    UN GRITO QUE LLAMA A LA CONCIENCIA COLECTIVA DE TODOS LOS EUROPEOS.«Grecia, que fue la primera democracia europea, está llamada ahora a regenerar el sistema para que sea la gente la que esté en el poder». Manolis Glezos ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • !ببخشید، دست خط بابا خوب نیست

    نامه هایی به فرزندانم و تمام فرزندان جهان برای آگاه کردن آنها

    by Siamak Rastin ...
    عامل عمده اتفاقات ناخوشایند این روزها، نوع رفتار ما انسانهاست. بی توجهی به آینده و عواقب ناشی از رفتار بیخردانه در پایین ترین سطح جامعه یعنی خانواده تا بالاترین سطح آن که در تعیین سیاست های کلان حکومتی موثر است، منجر به بروز اتفاقهایی می شود که اغلب آنها به سادگی قابل جبران نخواهند بود و البته راه کار عملی برای برون رفت از این مشکلات هم تنها با نقد و محکوم کردن این قبیل رفتارها، به دست نمی آید ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • "Gorgias" and "Phaedrus"

    Rhetoric, Philosophy, and Politics

    by Plato ...
    Translated by James H. Nichols ...
    Series series Agora Editions
    With a masterful sense of the place of rhetoric in both thought and practice and an ear attuned to the clarity, natural simplicity, and charm of Plato's Greek prose, James H. Nichols Jr., offers precise yet unusually readable translations of two great Platonic dialogues on rhetoric.The Gorgias presents an intransigent argument that justice is superior to injustice: To the extent that suffering an ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • "Mort à la démocratie"

    L'auteur, autrefois candidat d’un grand parti à une élection, aura tiré de cette expérience les leçons qui s’imposent : il ne prendra plus jamais part à aucun scrutin, de quelque nature qu’il soit.Dans ce bref essai, il nous explique pourquoi.« Mort à la démocratie » : ce slogan, tagué sur les murs de l’École des hautes études en sciences sociales de Paris (EHESS) durant le mouvement contre le CPE ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • "On the Republic" and "On the Laws"

    Translated by David Fott ...
    Series series Agora Editions
    "This is an excellent book. David Fott's scrupulously accurate and smoothly readable translation makes Cicero’s precise use of terms available to the English reader. And of course these two works by Cicero are of the greatest value for our continuing inquiries into republican government."―James H. Nichols, Claremont McKenna CollegeCicero’s On the Republic and On the Laws are his major works of ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • "Revolution in Poetic Language" Fifty Years Later

    New Directions in Kristeva Studies

    Edited by Emilia Angelova ...
    Series series SUNY series in Gender Theory
    In her 1974 Revolution in Poetic Language, Julia Kristeva resisted the abstract use of language, with its aim of totalization and finality, in all its colonizing and alienating forms. A major thinker and critic, Kristeva reappropriated Hegel's concepts of desire and negativity, in conjunction with the thought of Heidegger, Arendt, Freud, and Lacan, to revolt against modernity's culture of nihilism ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

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  • "The Wise Strategies For Winning Elections To Elective Offices"

    This concise special e-book contains twelve wise strategies which any wise political office aspirant can employ to win or get a landslide victory in any election to any elective office.The concise special e-book is dedicated to your landslide victory in every election to every elective office which you aspire to contest.If you aspire to contest for any election to any elective office sooner or ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • "We the Sheeple"

    "If This Book Does Not Make You Mad, Nothing Will"

    by Ken Braun ...
    The Federal government, through criminal intent on behalf of the tyrannical owners of the Federal Reserve, alongside faulty regulation contrived by Congressional greed, and the endemic weakness of corruption, caused the economic collapse of 2008 by creating conditions favorable to the rampant spending, exorbitant debt, greed, and immoral monetary manipulation by those participatory in the global ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • "Welche und wie viele Flüchtlinge sollen wir aufnehmen?"

    Philosophische Essays

    Die Flüchtlingsströme aus Syrien, dem Irak, Afghanistan und Afrika gehören zu den drängendsten politischen und humanitären Herausforderungen Deutschlands und Europas. Einerseits ist in der allgemeinen Erklärung der Menschenrechte ein Recht auf Asyl verankert, andererseits ist die Integration von Millionen Flüchtlingen eine Aufgabe, die Demokratien in ihrer Stabilität bedrohen könnte. Für uns ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • "What Is an Apparatus?" and Other Essays

    Translated by David Kishik, Stefan Pedatella ...
    Series series Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
    The three essays collected in this book offer a succinct introduction to Agamben's recent work through an investigation of Foucault's notion of the apparatus, a meditation on the intimate link of philosophy to friendship, and a reflection on contemporariness, or the singular relation one may have to one's own time."Apparatus" (dispositif in French) is at once a most ubiquitous and nebulous concept ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • #Accelerate

    The Accelerationist Reader

    An apparently contradictory yet radically urgent collection of texts tracing the genealogy of a controversial current in contemporary philosophy.Accelerationism is the name of a contemporary political heresy: the insistence that the only radical political response to capitalism is not to protest, disrupt, critique, or détourne it, but to accelerate and exacerbate its uprooting, alienating, ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • #descontent@mento

    O que comunicam os protestos brasileiros de 2013

    Em junho de 2013 o Brasil surpreendeu-se com protestos públicos em série que tomaram as ruas e as praças das metrópoles e cidades de médio e pequeno porte. A palavra de ordem era protestar, e os motivos para tais demonstrações de desagrado frente a realidade eram múltiplos embora fluíssem conjuntamente para um único dilema: as condicionantes historicamente estabelecidas que instruem a relação ... Read more

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  • 'Along the color line'

    Eine Reise durch Deutschland 1936

    Translated by Johanna Koppenfels ...
    Series series textura
    1936 reist der afroamerikanische Bürgerrechtler W. E. B. Du Bois nach Deutschland. Als Kritiker des Rassismus in den USA beobachtet er das Leben in der totalitären Diktatur und die Entrechtung der Juden. Seine Reportagen aus diesen Monaten erscheinen hier erstmals auf Deutsch. 1936 reist der afroamerikanische Soziologe W. E. B. Du Bois zu einem mehrmonatigen Forschungsaufenthalt ins ... Read more

    $16.11 USD

  • 'Democratic Knowledge' and Knowledge Production

    Preliminary Reflections on Democratisation in North Africa

    Edited by Larbi Sadiki ...
    Sudden change in North Africa manifested through popular protests followed by the end of authoritarian regimes in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya revitalised the scholarly concern with democracy in the region. Democratisation and democracy received fresh attention in the ‘Arab Spring’. Arab citizens displayed their grasp and possession of ‘democratic knowledge’ in a bottom-up groundswell of activism ... Read more

    $56.99 USD

  • 'Der Dienstbetrieb ist nicht gestört'

    Die Deutschen und ihre Justiz 1943-1948

    Kaum beirrt von Bombenkrieg, Kapitulation und alliierter Besatzung liefen Gerichtsverfahren vor und nach 1945 einfach weiter, mit denselben Akteuren, nach den gleichen Regeln. Der Rechtshistoriker Benjamin Lahusen deckt in seiner fulminanten Studie unheimliche Kontinuitäten der deutschen Justiz auf und zeichnet so das eindringliche Bild einer Gesellschaft, die den großen Einschnitt so klein wie ... Read more

    $29.04 USD

  • 'Twilight of the Idols' and Nietzsche’s Late Philosophy

    Toward a Revaluation of Values

    Thomas Brobjer revisits Nietzsche's Twilight of the Idols (1888) and positions it as a rich and stimulating work that contains and summarizes much of Nietzsche's late philosophy, especially his unfinished magnum opus, The Revaluation of All Values.By examining the contents and the purpose of The Twilight of the Idols in relation to Nietzsche's Hauptwerk, Brobjer shows the deep influence of the ... Read more

    $93.99 USD

  • (En)gendering the Political

    Citizenship from marginal spaces

    Edited by Joe B. Turner ...
    What is the relationship between being political and citizenship? What might it mean to be marginalised through both the practices and knowledge of citizenship? What might citizenship look like from a position of social, political and cultural exclusion? This book responds to these questions by treating marginalisation as a political process and position. It explores how different lives, ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • (Il)liberal Europe: Islamophobia, Modernity and Radicalization

    Edited by Irfan Ahmad, Natalie Doyle ...
    Europe sees itself as embodying the ideals of modernity, especially in relation to democracy and the respect for human rights. Faced on the one hand with the need for public recognition of a new population of Muslim identity, and the threat of violent radicalization on the other, Europe is falling prey to the politics of fear and is tempted to compromise on its professed ideals.Reflecting on the ... Read more

    $56.99 USD

  • (In)visible European Government

    Critical Approaches to Transparency as an Ideal and a Practice

    Series series Routledge/UACES Contemporary European Studies
    This book questions the theoretical premises and practical applications of transparency, showing both the promises and perils of transparency in a methodologically innovative way and in a cross-section of policy instruments. It scrutinizes transparency from three perspectives - methodologically, theoretically, and empirically - both in the specific context of the EU but also in the wider context ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • (Mis)readings of Marx in Continental Philosophy

    Edited by J. Habjan, J. Whyte ...
    (Mis)readings of Marx In Continental Philosophy reflects on the way major European philosophers related to the work of Karl Marx. It brings together leading and emerging critical theorists to address the readings of Marx offered by Benjamin, Adorno, Arendt, Althusser, Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze, Negri, Badiou, Agamben, Rancière, Latour and Žižek. ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • (New) Fascism

    Contagion, Community, Myth

    by Nidesh Lawtoo ...
    Series series Breakthroughs in Mimetic Theory
    Fascism tends to be relegated to a dark chapter of European history, but what if new forms of fascism are currently returning to the forefront of the political scene? In this book, Nidesh Lawtoo furthers his previous diagnostic of crowd behavior, identification, and mimetic contagion to account for the growing shadow cast by authoritarian leaders who rely on new media to take possession of the ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • (Re-)Defining Racism

    A Philosophical Analysis

    Series series African American Philosophy and the African Diaspora
    What is racism? is a timely question that is hotly contested in the philosophy of race. Yet disagreement about racism’s nature does not begin in philosophy, but in the sociopolitical domain. Alberto G. Urquidez argues that philosophers of race have failed to pay sufficient attention to the practical considerations that prompt the question “What is racism?” Most theorists assume that “racism” ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • (Re-)Imagining New Media

    Techno-Imaginaries around 2000 and the case of "Piazza virtuale" (1992)

    Series series Neue Perspektiven der Medienästhetik
    The late 20th century was a formative phase in the history of digital media culture. The introduction of "new media" was associated with promises for the future that still resonate today. This book brings together contributions that discuss key aspects of the "imaginaries" surrounding new media in this epoch. The focus is on the works of the media artist group Van Gogh-TV, especially the ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • (Un) Thinking Nationalism: From India to (H)india

    by Victor Ferrao ...
    Nationalism thinks and marks the space of people, that it imagines belong to it. There is a constitutive spatial and a constructed loyalist political dimension to all forms of nationalism. (Un)thinking nationalism is an attempt to (re)mediate these marked spaces, constructed identities, crafted exclusions, deliberate inclusions and varied subject positions ranging from triumphant privileged ... Read more

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