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  • Derrida's Voice and Phenomenon

    by Vernon W. Cisney ...
    Series series Edinburgh Philosophical Guides

    $30.99 CAD

  • Deleuze and Derrida

    Difference and the Power of the Negative

    by Vernon W. Cisney ...

    $38.39 CAD

  • The Evolving Project of Cormac McCarthy

    by Dr. Vernon W. Cisney, Jordan Dominy, Dr. Trevor Jackson, Dr. Peter Lurie, Dr. John Vanderheide, Dr. Rachel B. Griffis, Mgr. Kateřina Kovářová, Dr. David Deacon, Alex Harmon, Ahmed Honeini ...
    The Evolving Project of Cormac McCarthy presents eleven essays of original scholarship that undertake a programmatic reassessment of McCarthy’s literary and philosophical worldview. Examining issues of race, morality, history, metaphysics, law, economics, and ecology in McCarthy’s writing reveals how these themes intersect in an overarching, positive gesture that characterizes his work. Taken ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Living Currency

    by Pierre Klossowski ...
    'I should have written you after my first reading of The Living Currency; it was already breath-taking and I should have responded. After reading it a few more times, I know it is the best book of our times.'Letter to Pierre Klossowski from Michel Foucault, winter 1970.Living Currency is the first English translation of Klossowski's La monnaie vivante. It offers an analysis of economic production ... Read more

    $29.49 CAD

  • Biopower

    Foucault and Beyond

    Edited by Vernon W. Cisney, Nicolae Morar ...
    Michel Foucault’s notion of “biopower” has been a highly fertile concept in recent theory, influencing thinkers worldwide across a variety of disciplines and concerns. In The History of Sexuality: An Introduction, Foucault famously employed the term to describe “a power bent on generating forces, making them grow, and ordering them, rather than one dedicated to impeding them, making them submit, ... Read more

    $47.29 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Devil, The: A Biography

    by Vernon Cisney ...
    Narrated by Vernon Cisney ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 15 min

    Discover the complex role the figure of the Devil plays in our belief systems and culture with award-winning Gettysburg College professor Vernon W. Cisney.Known by many names—Lucifer, Beelzebub, Mephistopheles, and Satan, to name but a few—the Devil is universally recognized as the embodiment of pure evil and rebellion in Christianity. Although little is said about this figure in the Bible, the ... Read more

    $21.97 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Philosophy, Film, and the Dark Side of Interdependence

    by David Baumeister, Vernon W. Cisney, Tober Corrigan, Rick Elmore, Jonathan Elmore, Luis Favela, Eric Godoy, Josh Grant-Young, Sydney Lane, Eunah Lee, Brian Onishi, Chandler Rogers, Kendall Phillips, Robert Sinnerbrink ...
    Why might interdependence, the idea that we are made up of our relations, be horrifying? Philosophy, Film, and the Dark Side of Interdependence argues that philosophy can outline the contours of dark specter of interdependence and that film can shine a light on its shadowy details, together revealing a horror of relations. The contributors interrogate the question of interdependence through ... Read more

    $123.09 CAD

  • A Critical Companion to Terrence Malick

    by Joshua Sikora, Matthew Aughtry, Vernon W. Cisney, Adam Daniel, David J. Gilbert, Reno Lauro, Anthony Parisi, Kip Redick, Joshua Russell, Dean Yamada0, Timothy E.G. Bartel1, Naaman Wood2, David LaRocca3 ...
    Series series Critical Perspectives on Contemporary Directors
    From the dust of the Montana plains to the farthest reaches of the cosmos, Terrence Malick’s films have enchanted audiences with transcendent images of nature, humanity, and grace for nearly fifty years. The contributors in this volume explore the profound implications of Malick’s stories, images, processes, and convictions as they offer comprehensive studies of the ten completed films of Terrence ... Read more

    $158.09 CAD

  • Theology and Batman

    Examining the Religious World of the Dark Knight

    by Michael Uslan, Armond Boudreaux, Francesco Del Bianco, Stephen Garner, Ryan Haecker, Peter C. Herman, Randall M. Jensen, Katherine Kelaidis, Andrew Kuzma, Drew McIntyre, Rafael Medoff0, Michael D. Nichols1, Michael Anthony Novak2, Joseph Turner3, Joshua Wise4, Vernon W. Cisney5, Wesley D. Cray6, Clint W. Jones7, Christina M. Knopf8, John C. McDowell9, John M. Thompson0, C. K. Robertson2, Matthew Brake4 ...
    Series series Theology, Religion, and Pop Culture
    Batman is one of the most recognized and popular pop culture icons. Appearing on the page of Detective Comics #27 in 1939, the character has inspired numerous characters, franchises, and spin-offs over his 80+ year history. The character has displayed versatility, appearing in stories from multiple genres, including science fiction, noir, and fantasy and mediums far beyond his comic book origins. ... Read more

    $126.39 CAD

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  • Understanding Cormac McCarthy

    by Steven Frye ...
    Series series Understanding Contemporary American Literature
    A roadmap to the dark and mythic topography of McCarthy's fictionNamed by Harold Bloom as one of the most significant American novelists of our time, Cormac McCarthy has been honored with the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award for All the Pretty Horses, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Pulitzer Prize for The Road, and the coveted MacArthur Fellowship. In ... Read more

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