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  • Beckett and Derrida

    by James Martell ...
    Series series Elements in Beckett Studies
    Uncannily similar projects, Beckett's and Derrida's oeuvres have been linked by literary and philosophy scholars since the 1990s. Taking into consideration their shared historical and personal contexts as writers whose main language of expression was 'adopted' or 'imposed', this Element proposes a systematic reading of their main points of connection. Focusing on their engagement with the ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Textual Conspiracies

    Walter Benjamin, Idolatry, and Political Theory

    by James Martel ...
    “This is a sophisticated and fascinating argument written in a very enjoyably entertaining style. It is hard for me to see how readers initially interested in these texts will not be ‘swept off their feet’ by the core assertions of this author, and the devastatingly comprehensive way in which he demonstrates those arguments.”—Brent Steele, University of KansasIn Textual Conspiracies, James R. ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Love is a Sweet Chain

    Desire, Autonomy and Friendship in Liberal Political Theory

    by James Martel ...
    Notions of love intersect with ideas on personal liberty, obligation, individuality, self, and difference in this study. James Martel contends that theorists' inattention to the subject has impoverished our explorations of political discourse. ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Subverting the Leviathan

    Reading Thomas Hobbes as a Radical Democrat

    by James Martel ...
    In Leviathan, Thomas Hobbes's landmark work on political philosophy, James Martel argues that although Hobbes pays lip service to the superior interpretive authority of the sovereign, he consistently subverts this authority throughout the book by returning it to the reader.Martel demonstrates that Hobbes's radical method of reading not only undermines his own authority in the text, but, by ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Divine Violence

    Walter Benjamin and the Eschatology of Sovereignty

    by James Martel ...
    Divine Violence looks at the question of political theology and its connection to sovereignty. It argues that the practice of sovereignty reflects a Christian eschatology, one that proves very hard to overcome even by left thinkers, such as Arendt and Derrida, who are very critical of it. These authors fall into a trap described by Carl Schmitt whereby one is given a (false) choice between anarchy ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • The One and Only Law

    Walter Benjamin and the Second Commandment

    by James Martel ...
    Walter Benjamin’s “Critique of Violence,” widely considered his final word on law, proposes that all manifestations of law are false stand-ins for divine principles of truth and justice that are no longer available to human beings. However, he also suggests that we must have law—we are held under a divine sanction that does not allow us to escape our responsibilities. James R. Martel argues that ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Modernism, Self-Creation, and the Maternal

    The Mother’s Son

    by James Martell ...
    Series series Among the Victorians and Modernists
    Focusing on their conception and use of the notion of the mother,Modernism, Self-Creation, and the Maternal proposes a new interpretation of literature by modernist authors like Rousseau, Baudelaire, Poe, Rimbaud, Rilke, Joyce, and Beckett. Seen through this maternal relation, their writing appears as the product of an "anxiety" rising not from paternal influence, but from the violence done to ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Beckett and Nature

    New analyses on the insightful ways in which Beckett's work actively engages with contested notions of Nature and the natural, developing a radical version of modernism's main questions and insights.Beckett and Nature takes its cue from contemporary developments in Beckett scholarship focused on ecocriticism, posthumanism, and the Anthropocene, going beyond them into a questioning of the very ... Read more

    $97.99 USD

  • Decrypting Sovereignty as Archism

    Moving Toward a New Democracy

    Series series Decrypting Power and Coloniality: Philosophical Perspectives from and through the Global South
    Using the theory of encryption of power in a tight connection with the theory of archism sheds light on sovereignty and thus politics.Archism is that prevailing form of power that seeks to go nameless insofar as it claims to be ubiquitous and just how politics is. The theory of encryption of power explains how the use of language monopolizes and hides power, preventing access to it through the ... Read more

    $93.99 USD

  • The Routledge Handbook on the Lived Experience of Ideology

    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    This groundbreaking handbook reviews, consolidates, and develops the growth of scholarship on ideology as it occurs as part of our political landscape and within the systems of thought and belief that collectively constitute our political subjectivity.It presents ideology functioning on the level of imagination and representation not only as a written and verbal language but also as expressed ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • The Misinterpellated Subject

    Although Haitian revolutionaries were not the intended audience for the Declaration of the Rights of Man, they heeded its call, demanding rights that were not meant for them. This failure of the French state to address only its desired subjects is an example of the phenomenon James R. Martel labels "misinterpellation." Complicating Althusser's famous theory, Martel explores the ways that such ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Transitional Subjects

    Critical Theory and Object Relations

    Series Book 67 - New Directions in Critical Theory
    Critical social theory has long been marked by a deep, creative, and productive relationship with psychoanalysis. Whereas Freud and Fromm were important cornerstones for the early Frankfurt School, recent thinkers have drawn on the object-relations school of psychoanalysis. Transitional Subjects is the first book-length collection devoted to the engagement of critical theory with the work of ... Read more

    $25.99 USD