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  • The States of the Earth

    An Ecological and Racial History of Secularization

    by Mohamed Amer Meziane ...
    Translated by Jonathan Adjemian ...
    **"An extraordinary book. Mohamed Amer Meziane's breathtaking analysis of the making of fossil states opens to a new genre of history writing where the very layers of earth's riches are at its center."—Ann Laura Stoler, author of Carnal Knowledge and Imperial Power, Along the Archival GrainHow the disenchantment of empire led to climate change**While industrial states competed to colonize Asia and ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Scent of the Father

    Essay on the Limits of Life and Science in Sub-Saharan Africa

    by Valentin-Yves Mudimbe ...
    Translated by Jonathan Adjemian ...
    Series series Critical South
    Valentin-Yves Mudimbe is a Congolese philosopher, novelist, poet, essayist, and academic, widely considered to be one of the most important African thinkers of his generation. The ideas and arguments he has developed in his writings since the 1970s, including The Invention of Africa, have been hugely influential across many disciplines and established his reputation as one of the essential ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Open to Reason

    Muslim Philosophers in Conversation with the Western Tradition

    by Souleymane Bachir Diagne ...
    Translated by Jonathan Adjemian ...
    Series Book 34 - Religion, Culture, and Public Life
    What does it mean to be a Muslim philosopher, or to philosophize in Islam? In Open to Reason, Souleymane Bachir Diagne traces Muslims’ intellectual and spiritual history of examining and questioning beliefs and arguments to show how Islamic philosophy has always engaged critically with texts and ideas both inside and outside its tradition. Through a rich reading of classical and modern Muslim ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • Open to Reason

    Muslim Philosophers in Conversation with the Western Tradition

    by Souleymane Bachir Diagne ...
    Translated by Jonathan Adjemian ...
    Series Book 34 - Religion, Culture, and Public Life
    What does it mean to be a Muslim philosopher, or to philosophize in Islam? In Open to Reason, Souleymane Bachir Diagne traces Muslims’ intellectual and spiritual history of examining and questioning beliefs and arguments to show how Islamic philosophy has always engaged critically with texts and ideas both inside and outside its tradition. Through a rich reading of classical and modern Muslim ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

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    by Peter L. Berger, Thomas Luckmann ...
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    A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge

    by Peter L. Berger, Thomas Luckmann ...
    A general and systematic account of the role of knowledge in society aimed to stimulate both critical discussion and empirical investigations.This book is concerned with the sociology of ‘everything that passes for knowledge in society’. It focuses particularly on that ‘common-sense knowledge’ which constitutes the reality of everyday life for the ordinary member of society.The authors are ... Read more

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  • We Have Never Been Modern

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  • How To Read Foucault

    by Johanna Oksala ...
    Michel Foucault was a twentieth-century philosopher of extraordinary talent, a political activist, social theorist, cultural critic and creative historian. He shaped the ways we think today about such controversial issues as power, sexuality, madness and criminality. Johanna Oksala explores the conceptual tools that Foucault gave us for constructing new forms of thinking as well as for smashing ... Read more

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  • From Extreme Violence to the Problem of Civility

    A Selection from Violence and Civility: On the Limits of Political Philosophy

    by Étienne Balibar ...
    Translated by G.M. Goshgarian ...
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  • The Invention of Africa: Gnosis, Philosophy, and the Order of Knowledge

    by Vy Mudimbe ...
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  • Time and the Other

    How Anthropology Makes Its Object

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  • Religion and Culture

    by Michel Foucault ...
    First Published in 1999. Postmodern theorist Michel Foucault is best known for his work on power/ knowledge, and on the regulation of sexuality in modern society. Yet throughout his life, Foucault was continually concerned with Christianity, other spiritual movements and religious traditions, and the death of God, and these themes and materials scattered are throughout his many writings. Religion ... Read more

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