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  • Dis-Enclosure

    The Deconstruction of Christianity

    by Jean-Luc Nancy, Michael B. Smith ...
    Translated by Bettina Bergo, Gabriel Malenfant ...
    Series series Perspectives in Continental Philosophy
    From one of France's leading contemporary thinkers, "an astutely reasoned philosophical text, offering a revolutionary analysis of theistic religion" ( The Midwest Book Review).This book is a profound and eagerly anticipated investigation into what is left of a monotheistic religious spirit—notably, a minimalist faith that is neither confessional nor credulous. Articulating this faith as works and ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Educating Latino Students

    A Guide to Successful Practice

    by Josefina Villamil Tinajero, Alma Flora Ada, Rebecca Benjamin, Jaun A. Contreras, Yolanda De La Cruz, Julia Rosa Emslie, Cecilia Espinosa, Maria Cristina Gonzalez, Cyndee Gutske, Linda J. Holman, Sandra Rollins Hurley, Jozi de Leon, Elizabeth Varela Lozano, Nancy J. Lucas, Paul Martinez, Karen Moore, Cecilia Navarete, Virginia R. Padilla, Irene Serena, Nancy Jean Smith, Alicia Salnas Sosa, María Luísa González, Ana Huerta-Macias, Elizabeth Quintero ...
    Latino/a students are in a unique position in today's society; teachers and administrators are in an influential position in educating them. Community, parents, and educators alike are poised to enable these students to gain the education they need for success. Chapters by recognized authors and successful practitioners explain theory with actual applicable examples, demonstrating where and how ... Read more

    $100.99 CAD

  • Jean-Luc Nancy among the Philosophers

    by Irving Goh, Georges Van Den Abbeele, Emily Apter, Rodolphe Gasché, Werner Hamacher, Eleanor Kaufman, Ian Alexander Moore, Marie-Eve Morin, Timothy Murray, Jean-Luc Nancy0, John H. Smith1 ...
    Series series Perspectives in Continental Philosophy
    This volume focuses on the relational aspect of Jean-Luc Nancy’s thinking. As Nancy himself showed, thinking might be a solitary activity but it is never singular in its dimension. Building on or breaking away from other thoughts, especially those by thinkers who had come before, thinking is always plural, relational. This “singular plural” dimension of thought in Nancy’s philosophical writings ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

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  • Strange Wonder

    The Closure of Metaphysics and the Opening of Awe

    by Mary-Jane Rubenstein ...
    Series series Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture
    Strange Wonder confronts Western philosophy's ambivalent relationship to the Platonic "wonder" that reveals the strangeness of the everyday. On the one hand, this wonder is said to be the origin of all philosophy. On the other hand, it is associated with a kind of ignorance that ought to be extinguished as swiftly as possible. By endeavoring to resolve wonder's indeterminacy into certainty and ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Cogito and the Unconscious

    sic 2

    Translated by Sina K. Najafi ...
    by Mladen Dolar, Alenka Zupancic ...
    Series Book 2 - [sic] Series
    The Cartesian cogito—the principle articulated by Descartes that "I think, therefore I am"—is often hailed as the precursor of modern science. At the same time, the cogito's agent, the ego, is sometimes feared as the agency of manipulative domination responsible for all present woes, from patriarchal oppression to ecological catastrophes. Without psychoanalyzing philosophy, Cogito and the ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • The Possibility of a World

    Conversations with Pierre-Philippe Jandin

    by Jean-Luc Nancy, Pierre-Philippe Jandin ...
    Translated by Travis Holloway, Flor Méchain ...
    In this series of interviews, Jean-Luc Nancy reviews his life’s work. But like Schlegel’s historian—“a prophet facing backwards”—Nancy takes this opportunity to rummage through the history of art, philosophy, religion, and politics in search of new possibilities that remain to be thought.This journey through Nancy’s thought is interspersed with accounts of places and events and deeply personal ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • Carnal Hermeneutics

    Edited by Richard Kearney, Brian Treanor ...
    Series series Perspectives in Continental Philosophy
    Building on a hermeneutic tradition in which accounts of carnal embodiment are overlooked, misunderstood, or underdeveloped, this work initiates a new field of study and concern.Carnal Hermeneutics provides a philosophical approach to the body as interpretation. Transcending the traditional dualism of rational understanding and embodied sensibility, the volume argues that our most carnal ... Read more

    $53.99 CAD

  • Religion and European Philosophy

    Key Thinkers from Kant to Žižek

    Edited by Philip Goodchild, Hollis Phelps ...
    Religion and European Philosophy: Key Thinkers from Kant to Žižek draws together a diverse group of scholars in theology, religious studies, and philosophy to discuss the role that religion plays among key figures in the European philosophical tradition. Designed for accessibility, each of the thirty-four chapters includes background information on the key thinker, an overview of the main themes, ... Read more

    $96.18 CAD

  • The Soul of the World

    by Roger Scruton ...
    A compelling defense of the sacred from acclaimed philosopher Roger ScrutonIn The Soul of the World, renowned philosopher Roger Scruton defends the experience of the sacred against today's fashionable forms of atheism. He argues that our personal relationships, moral intuitions, and aesthetic judgments hint at a transcendent dimension that cannot be understood through the lens of science alone. To ... Read more

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  • Less Than Nothing

    Hegel and the Shadow of Dialectical Materialism

    by Slavoj Zizek ...
    Discover a 1,000-page resurrection of Hegel, a giant of Western philosophy—from “one of the world’s best-known public intellectuals” (New York Review of Books).For the last two centuries, Western philosophy has developed in the shadow of Hegel, an influence each new thinker struggles to escape. As a consequence, Hegel’s absolute idealism has become the bogeyman of philosophy, obscuring the fact ... Read more

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  • Philosophy and Theology

    by John Caputo ...
    A highly engaging essay that will draw students into a conversation about the vital relationship between philosophy and theology.In this clear, concise, and brilliantly engaging essay, renowned philosopher and theologian John D. Caputoaddresses the great and classical philosophical questions as they inextricably intersect with theology--past, present, and future. Recognized as one of the leading ... Read more

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  • Discovering Girard

    by Michael Kirwan ...
    The work of René Girard is hugely influential in literature and cultural studies. But it is in understanding the relationship between religion and violence that his theory has created the greatest impact. Girard’s understanding of mimetic rivalry and conflict and of scapegoating are seen by many to be the key to a completely new understanding of Christianity.Girard’s name evokes curiosity and – ... Read more

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