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  • Black Minded

    The Political Philosophy of Malcolm X

    by Michael E. Sawyer ...
    Series series Black Critique
    Known as 'the angriest black man in America', Malcolm X was one of the most famous activists to ever live. Going beyond biography, Black Minded examines Malcolm X's philosophical system, restoring his thinking to the pantheon of Black Radical Thought.Michael Sawyer argues that the foundational concepts of Malcolm X's political philosophy - economic and social justice, strident opposition to white ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Door of No Return

    Being-As-Black

    by Michael E. Sawyer ...
    In The Door of No Return, Michael E. Sawyer presents a bold work of speculative theory and philosophy that explores how Black people bring the future into being—and what existence in that future looks like. He considers what people of African descent face and the proper response to the situation. He introduces the idea of Being-As-Black as a response and questions the overarching ethos that will ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • An Africana Philosophy of Temporality

    Homo Liminalis

    by Michael E. Sawyer ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book is a timely intervention in the areas of philosophy, history, and literature. As an exploration of the modern political order and its racial genealogy, it emerges at a moment when scholars and activists alike are wrestling with how to understand subject formation from the perspective of the subordinated rather than from dominant social and philosophical modes of thought. For Sawyer, ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

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    by Jason Stanley ...
    How propaganda undermines democracy and why we need to pay attentionOur democracy today is fraught with political campaigns, lobbyists, liberal media, and Fox News commentators, all using language to influence the way we think and reason about public issues. Even so, many of us believe that propaganda and manipulation aren't problems for us—not in the way they were for the totalitarian societies ... Read more

    $23.09 CAD

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  • Man for Himself

    An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics

    by Erich Fromm ...
    The New York Times –bestselling author and social philosopher explores the function of ethics and morality in the human psyche: "A fascinating volume . . . magnificent in its implications" ( Saturday Review ).Are we primarily determined by nature or nurture? What are the best ways that people can live productively? In Man for Himself, renowned social philosopher Erich Fr... ... Read more

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  • The Force of Nonviolence

    An Ethico-Political Bind

    by Judith Butler ...
    “The most creative and courageous social theorist working today” examines the ethical binds that emerge within the force field of violence (Cornel West).“ . . . nonviolence is often seen as passive and resolutely individual. Butler’s philosophical inquiry argues that it is in fact a shrewd and even aggressive collective political tactic.” —New York TimesJudith Butler shows how an ethic of ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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  • Absence of Mind: The Dispelling of Inwardness from the Modern Myth of the Self

    by Marilynne Robinson ...

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  • Dispossession

    The Performative in the Political

    by Judith Butler, Athena Athanasiou ...
    Series series Conversations
    Dispossession describes the condition of those who have lost land, citizenship, property, and a broader belonging to the world. This thought-provoking book seeks to elaborate our understanding of dispossession outside of the conventional logic of possession, a hallmark of capitalism, liberalism, and humanism. Can dispossession simultaneously characterize political responses and opposition to the ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Out of Eden

    Adam and Eve and the Problem of Evil

    by Paul W. Kahn ...
    "Paul Kahn's book is one of the deepest meditations on evil that I have read. It is insightful, rich, and original." —Moshe Halbertal, Hebrew University, JerusalemIn Out of Eden, Paul W. Kahn offers a philosophical meditation on the problem of evil. He uses the Genesis story of the Fall as the starting point for a profound articulation of the human condition. Kahn shows us that evil expresses the ... Read more

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  • Notes Toward a Performative Theory of Assembly

    by Judith Butler ...
    A Times Higher Education Book of the Week Judith Butler elucidates the dynamics of public assembly under prevailing economic and political conditions, analyzing what they signify and how. Understanding assemblies as plural forms of performative action, Butler extends her theory of performativity to argue that precarity—the destruction of the conditions of livability—has been a galvanizing force ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • Senses of the Subject

    by Judith Butler ...
    This book brings together a group of Judith Butler’s philosophical essays written over two decades that elaborate her reflections on the roles of the passions in subject formation through an engagement with Hegel, Kierkegaard, Descartes, Spinoza, Malebranche, Merleau-Ponty, Freud, Irigaray, and Fanon. Drawing on her early work on Hegelian desire and her subsequent reflections on the psychic life ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • History of Philosophy. G.W.F. Hegel. His Life, Works and Thought.

    by Stefano Ulliana ...
    This e-book tries to describe fairly quickly, but at the same time precisely and in an articulated way, the structure in becoming of the thought of G.F.W. Hegel (1870-1831), an idealist German thinker. This work analyzes his thought from its first phase, animated by Jacobin and revolutionary ideals, similar to that ones of his friends Hölderlin and Schelling, to its conclusions, when the Hegelian ... Read more

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