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  • From Life to Survival

    Derrida, Freud, and the Future of Deconstruction

    by Robert Trumbull ...
    Contemporary continental thought is marked by a move away from the “linguistic turn” in twentieth-century European philosophy, as new materialisms and ontologies seek to leave behind the thinking of language central to poststructuralism as it has been traditionally understood. At the same time, biopolitical philosophy has brought critical attention to the question of life, examining new formations ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

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    The Raft

    The Courageous Struggle of Three Naval Airmen against the Sea

    by Robert Trumbull ...
    Narrated by Grover Gardner ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 29 min

    “The sinking of the plane was like a magician’s trick. It was there and then it was gone, and there was nothing left in our big, wet, darkening world but the three of us and a piece of rubber that was not yet a raft.”In 1942, three men on an antisubmarine patrol flight became lost and pitched into the Pacific. The plane sank beneath them, carrying most of the survival gear down with it. For thirty ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Gold Metallogeny

    in the Sino-Korean Platform

    by Hongsheng Bai, Zhiliang Li, Giulio Morteani, Robert B. Trumbull ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Geology and Tectonics through Earth's history and selected gold deposits of Hebei Province, NE china, are briefly described in this monograph. Additionally, instructive maps, diagrams and photographs as well as aspects of metallogenesis and a proposed metallogenetic model make it valuable for scientists and practitioners working in the field of geology of Precambrian rocks associated with gold ... Read more

    $64.09 CAD

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    A Chapter in the History of Rationalist Thought

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    In this extraordinarily original and profound work, Noam Chomsky discusses themes in the study of language and mind since the end of the sixteenth century in order to explain the motivations and methods that underlie his work in linguistics, the science of mind, and even politics. This edition includes a new and specially written introduction by James McGilvray, contextualising the work for the ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Subjects of Desire

    Hegelian Reflections in Twentieth-Century France

    by Judith Butler ...
    Translated by Damon Young ...
    This classic work by one of the most important philosophers and critics of our time charts the genesis and trajectory of the desiring subject from Hegel's formulation in Phenomenology of Spirit to its appropriation by Kojève, Hyppolite, Sartre, Lacan, Deleuze, and Foucault. Judith Butler plots the French reception of Hegel and the successive challenges waged against his metaphysics and view of the ... Read more

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  • Giving an Account of Oneself

    Twentieth Anniversary Edition, with a new preface by the author

    by Judith Butler ...
    What does it mean to lead a moral life?In their first extended study of moral philosophy, Judith Butler offers a provocative outline for a new ethical practice—one responsive to the need for critical autonomy yet grounded in the opacity of the human subject.Butler takes as their starting point one’s ability to answer the questions “What have I done?” and “What ought I to do?” They show that these ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • Hermeneutics and the Human Sciences

    Essays on Language, Action and Interpretation

    by Paul Ricoeur, John B. Thompson ...
    Series series Cambridge Philosophy Classics
    Collected and translated by John B. Thompson, this collection of essays by Paul Ricoeur includes many that had never appeared in English before the volume's publication in 1981. As comprehensive as it is illuminating, this lucid introduction to Ricoeur's prolific contributions to sociological theory features his more recent writings on the history of hermeneutics, its central themes and issues, ... Read more

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  • Freud, the Reluctant Philosopher

    by Alfred I. Tauber ...
    Freud began university intending to study both medicine and philosophy. But he was ambivalent about philosophy, regarding it as metaphysical, too limited to the conscious mind, and ignorant of empirical knowledge. Yet his private correspondence and his writings on culture and history reveal that he never forsook his original philosophical ambitions. Indeed, while Freud remained firmly committed to ... Read more

    $48.39 CAD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Lacan

    Edited by Jean-Michel Rabaté ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    This collection of specially commissioned essays by academics and practising psychoanalysts, first published in 2003, explores key dimensions of Jacques Lacan's life and works. Lacan is renowned as a theoretician of psychoanalysis whose work is still influential in many countries. He refashioned psychoanalysis in the name of philosophy and linguistics at the time when it underwent a certain ... Read more

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  • What IS Sex?

    by Alenka Zupancic ...
    Series series Short Circuits
    Why sexuality is at the point of a “short circuit” between ontology and epistemology.Consider sublimation—conventionally understood as a substitute satisfaction for missing sexual satisfaction. But what if, as Lacan claims, we can get exactly the same satisfaction that we get from sex from talking (or writing, painting, praying, or other activities)? The point is not to explain the satisfaction ... Read more

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  • Simone de Beauvoir, Philosophy, and Feminism

    by Nancy Bauer ...
    Series series Gender and Culture Series
    In the introduction to The Second Sex, Simone de Beauvoir notes that "a man never begins by establishing himself as an individual of a certain sex: his being a man poses no problem." Nancy Bauer begins her book by asking: "Then what kind of a problem does being a woman pose?" Bauer's aim is to show that in answering this question The Second Sex dramatizes the extent to which being a woman poses a ... Read more

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  • Four Phenomenological Philosophers

    Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty

    by Christopher Macann ...
    Macann guides the student through the major texts of the four great thinkers of the phenomenological movement. ... Read more

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