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  • Aristocratic Power in the Spanish Monarchy

    The Borromeo Brothers of Milan, 1620-1680

    by Samuel Weber ...
    In Italy, the powerful Borromeo family of Milan have long been held up as a rare example of paternalist aristocrats who withstood the temptations of self-enrichment so many of their peers succumbed to during the period of Spanish rule. Aristocratic Power in the Spanish Monarchy, the first major study of the family in the seventeenth century, challenges this myth and explains how it came about. ... Read more

    $77.39 CAD

  • Preexisting Conditions

    Recounting the Plague

    by Samuel Weber ...
    A stunning philosophical and literary account of canonical plague talesMany are the losses suffered and lives lost during the recent COVID-19 pandemic. Since 2020, writers around the globe have penned essays and books that make sense of this medical and public health catastrophe. But few have addressed a pressing question that precedes and is the foundation of their writings: How does the very act ... Read more

    $37.39 CAD

  • Singularity

    Politics and Poetics

    by Samuel Weber ...
    An influential thinker on the concept of singularity and its implications on politics, theology, economics, psychoanalysis, and literatureFor readers versed in critical theory, German and comparative literature, or media studies, a new book by Samuel Weber is essential reading. Singularity is no exception. Bringing together two decades of his essays, it hones in on the surprising implications of ... Read more

    $38.49 CAD

  • Targets of Opportunity

    On the Militarization of Thinking

    by Samuel Weber ...
    The title of this book echoes a phrase used by the Washington Post to describethe American attempt to kill Saddam Hussein at the start of the war againstIraq. Its theme is the notion of targeting (skopos) as the name of an intentionalstructure in which the subject tries to confirm its invulnerability by aiming todestroy a target. At the center of the first chapter is Odysseus’s killing of the ... Read more

    $37.59 CAD

  • Theatricality as Medium

    by Samuel Weber ...
    Ever since Aristotle's Poetics, both the theory and the practice of theater have been governed by the assumption that it is a form of representation dominated by what Aristotle calls the "mythos," or the "plot." This conception of theater has subordinated characteristics related to the theatrical medium, such as the process and place of staging, to the demands of a unified narrative.This readable, ... Read more

    $53.59 CAD

  • Play in the Age of Goethe

    Theories, Narratives, and Practices of Play around 1800

    by Christian P. Weber, Samuel Heidepriem, Nicholas Rennie, Patricia Anne Simpson, Ian F. McNeely, Christiane Frey, Michael Powers, David Martyn, Brian Tucker ...
    Series series New Studies in the Age of Goethe
    We are inundated with game play today. Digital devices offer opportunities to play almost anywhere and anytime. No matter our age, gender, social, cultural, or educational background—we play. Play in the Age of Goethe: Theories, Narratives, and Practices of Play around 1800 is the first book-length work to explore how the modern discourse of play was first shaped during this pivotal period ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Apocalypse-Cinema

    2012 and Other Ends of the World

    by Peter Szendy ...
    Translated by Will Bishop ...
    Apocalypse-cinema is not only the end of time that has so often been staged as spectacle in films like 2012, The Day After Tomorrow, and The Terminator. By looking at blockbusters that play with general annihilation while also paying close attention to films like Melancholia, Cloverfield, Blade Runner, and Twelve Monkeys, this book suggests that in the apocalyptic genre, film gnaws at its own ... Read more

    $44.79 CAD

  • Singing in the Saddle

    The Life and Times of Yellowstone Chip

    by Nan Weber, Yellowstone Chip Samuell ...
    After finding traces of Yellowstone Chips writing at the historic OTO Dude Ranch north of Yellowstone National Park, Nan Weber tracked Chips history. In the course of her research, she found Chips memoirs, his music, his cartooning, and his family.Chips story follows his travels from his Illinois childhood home to the majesty of the Western United States. His lively journey encompasses music, ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

  • Swiss Finance

    Banking, Finance, and Digitalization

    by Henri B. Meier, John E. Marthinsen, Pascal A. Gantenbein, Samuel S. Weber ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    How could a small country in the middle of Europe, surrounded by much bigger countries and economic giants like Germany and France and in direct competition with North American and Asian rivals, develop world-class, cutting-edge financial markets? Swiss Finance answers this question, separating myth from reality, by explaining how Switzerland managed dramatic pressures brought to bear on its ... 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

    $52.79 CAD

  • A Farewell to Truth

    by Gianni Vattimo ...
    Translated by William McCuaig ...
    With Western cultures becoming more pluralistic, the question of "truth" in politics has become a game of interpretations. Today, we face the demise of the very idea of truth as an objective description of facts, though many have yet to acknowledge that this is changing.Gianni Vattimo explicitly engages with the important consequences for democracy of our changing conception of politics and truth, ... Read more

    $25.59 CAD

  • Out of Italy

    Two Centuries of World Domination and Demise

    by Fernand Braudel ...
    Translated by Siân Reynolds ...
    From the author of Memory and the Mediterranean, a comprehensive history of the Italian city states from 1450 to 1650.In the fifteenth century, even before the city states of the Apennine Peninsula began to coalesce into what would become, several centuries later, a nation, "Italy" exerted enormous influence over all of Europe and throughout the Mediterranean. Its cultural, economic, and political ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

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