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  • Emmanuel Levinas

    Basic Philosophical Writings

    Edited by Adriaan T. Peperzak, Simon Critchley, Robert Bernasconi ...
    Series series Studies in Continental Thought
    Emmanuel Levinas (1906–1996) has exerted a profound influence on 20th-century continental philosophy. This anthology, including Levinas's key philosophical texts over a period of more than forty years, provides an ideal introduction to his thought and offers insights into his most innovative ideas. Five of the ten essays presented here appear in English for the first time. An introduction by ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Heidegger in Question

    The Art of Existing

    by Robert Bernasconi ...
    Robert Bernasconi explores in the context of Heidegger's thought a number of questions of far-reaching concern: what is the role of literary examples within philosophy? Is art dead? What is the relation of art to nature? Is there a place for the idea of a "people" in art and literary theory, and in philosophy? Is the history of philosophy to be written as a narrative? What is the status of ethics ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • Emmanuel Levinas

    Basic Philosophical Writings

    Edited by Adriaan T. Peperzak, Simon Critchley, Robert Bernasconi ...
    Series series Studies in Continental Thought
    Emmanuel Levinas (1906–1996) has exerted a profound influence on 20th-century continental philosophy. This anthology, including Levinas's key philosophical texts over a period of more than forty years, provides an ideal introduction to his thought and offers insights into his most innovative ideas. Five of the ten essays presented here appear in English for the first time. An introduction by ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Critical Philosophy of Race

    Essays

    by Robert Bernasconi ...
    Series series PHILOSOPHY OF RACE SERIES
    The fifteen essays by distinguished philosopher of race Robert Bernasconi that are collected here demonstrate why the critical philosophy of race needs to take a historical turn. Genealogies of the concepts of both race and racism clarify why some of the dominant strategies for combatting racism tend to be ineffective. For example, the Boasian/UNESCO strategy that highlights biology's rejection of ... Read more

    $37.19 CAD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Levinas

    Edited by Simon Critchley, Robert Bernasconi ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Philosophy
    Emmanuel Levinas is now widely recognised alongside Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty and Sartre as one of the most important Continental philosophers of the twentieth century. His abiding concern was the primacy of the ethical relation to the other person and his central thesis was that ethics is first philosophy. His work has also had a profound impact on a number of fields outside philosophy such as ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • How To Read Sartre

    by Robert Bernasconi ...
    Series series
    'I can want only the freedom of others' Jean-Paul SartreJean-Paul Sartre is best known as the pre-eminent philosopher of individual freedom. He is the one who told us that we are totally free. Robert Bernasconi shows how the early existentialist Sartre became, in stages, the political champion of the oppressed. Extracts are drawn from the full range of Sartre's writings: the novel Nausea, the ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Violence, Slavery and Freedom between Hegel and Fanon

    by Ulrike Kistner, Philippe Van Haute, Robert Bernasconi, Ato Sekyi-Otu, Josias Tembo, Beata Stawarska, Reingard Nethersole ...
    A deep dive into the influences of Hegelian thought on the work of revolutionary and postcolonial theorist Frantz FanonHegel is most often mentioned – and not without good reason – as one of the paradigmatic exponents of Eurocentrism and racism in Western philosophy. But his thought also played a crucial and formative role in the work of one of the iconic thinkers of the ‘decolonial turn’, Frantz ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Situating Existentialism

    Key Texts in Context

    Edited by Jonathan Judaken, Robert Bernasconi ...
    This anthology provides a history of the systemization and canonization of existentialism, a quintessentially antisystemic mode of thought. Situating existentialism within the history of ideas, it features new readings on the most influential works in the existential canon, exploring their formative contexts and the cultural dialogues of which they were a part.Emphasizing the multidisciplinary and ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • White on White/Black on Black

    by Kal Alston, Molefi Kete Asante, Bettina G. Bergo, Robert Bernasconi, Janine Jones, Chris Cuomo, Clarence Sholé Johnson, John H. McClendon III, Greg Moses, Monique Roelofs, Crispin Sartwell, Anna Stubblefield ...
    White on White/Black on Black is a unique contribution to the philosophy of race. The book explores how fourteen philosophers, seven white and seven black, philosophically understand the dynamics of the process of racialization. Combined, the contributions demonstrate different and similar conceptual trajectories of raced identities that emerge from within and across the racial divide. Each of the ... Read more

    $71.99 CAD

  • The Provocation of Levinas

    Rethinking the Other

    Edited by Robert Bernasconi, David Wood ...
    Series series Warwick Studies in Philosophy and Literature
    There is a growing recognition of Levinas's importance. It can in part be attributed to an increasing concern that twentieth-century continental philosophy seems to have no place for ethics. In making ethics fundamental to philosophy, rather than a problem to which we might one day return, Levinas transforms continental thought. The book brings together some of the most interesting and far ... Read more

    $105.99 CAD

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  • Levinas

    An Introduction

    by Colin Davis ...
    Series series Key Contemporary Thinkers
    In recent years there has been a resurgence of interest in the work of Emmanuel Levinas, widely recognized as one of the most important yet difficult philosophers of the 20th century.In this much-needed introduction, Davis unpacks the concepts at the centre of Levinas's thought - alterity, the Other, the Face, infinity - concepts which have previously presented readers with major problems of ... Read more

    $31.00 CAD

  • Derrida's Legacies

    Literature and Philosophy

    Edited by Simon Glendinning, Robert Eaglestone ...
    This volume brings together some of the most well-known and highly respected commentators on the work of Jacques Derrida from Britain and America in a series of essays written to commemorate the life and come to terms with the death of one of the most important intellectual presences of our time.Derrida’s thought reached into nearly every corner of contemporary intellectual culture and the ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD