Fiction

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    Details: Without Maurice Blanchot, literary theory as we know it today would have been unthinkable. Jacques Derrida, Paul de Man, Michel Foucault, Roland Barthes, Gilles Deleuze: all are key theorists crucially influenced by Blanchot's work.This accessible guide:* works 'idea by idea' through Blanchot's writings, anchoring them in historical...

      Details: This volume provides an introduction to the historical dimensions and theoretical concepts associated with colonial and post-colonial discourses. It examines: the ideologies and history of colonialism; the relationship of colonial discourse to literature; challenges to colonialism, surveying anticolonial discourses and recent developments in post-colonial theories and...

      Details: Jung's discovery of the 'collective unconscious', a psychic inheritance common to all humankind, transformed the understanding of the self and the way we interpret the world. In On the Nature of the Psyche Jung describes this remarkable theory in his own words, and presents a masterly...

   

   

   

   

        Details: Paul Virilio is a challenging and original thinker whose work on technology, state power and war is increasingly relevant today. Exploring Virilio's main texts from their political and historical contexts, and case studies from contemporary culture and media in order to explain his philosophical concepts,...

      Details: For the past four decades Frank Kermode, critic and writer, has steadily established himself as one of the most brilliant minds of his generation. Questioning the public's harsh perception of 'the artist', Kermode at the same time gently pokes fun at artists' own, often inflated, self-image....

    Details: On its publication in 1957, The Poverty of Historicism was hailed by Arthur Koestler as 'probably the only book published this year which will outlive the century.' A devastating criticism of fixed and predictable laws in history, Popper dedicated the book to all those 'who fell victim...

      Details: Dialogue is a many-sided critical concept; at once an ancient philosophical genre, a formal component of fiction and drama, a model for the relationship of writer and reader, and a theoretical key to the nature of language. In all its forms, it questions ‘literature’, disturbing the...

       

          Details: A clear, concise guide to the history and structure of irony from Socrates to the Derrida and Deleuze. Explores the philosophical, literary and political dimensions of irony.  

    Details: A beautiful hardback, elastic hinged desk diary with a week to a view alongside an inspiring and powerful quote or a photograph of Chimamanda and a brand-new introduction from her. ‘We teach girls to shrink themselves, to make themselves ’ ‘ one day longer.’ This year, with...

     

  Details: Why did Aeschylus characterize differently from Sophocles? Why did Sophocles introduce the third actor? Why did Euripides not make better plots? So asks H.D.F Kitto in his acclaimed study of Greek tragedy, available for the first time in Routledge Classics. Kitto argues that in spite of dealing with...

    In Bodies That Matter, renowned theorist and philosopher Judith Butler argues that theories of gender need to return to the most material dimension of sex and sexuality: the body. Butler offers a brilliant reworking of the body, examining how the power of heterosexual hegemony forms the "matter" of...

    Details: From the Gracchi to Nero is an outstanding history of the Roman world from 133 BC to 68 AD. Fifty years since publication it is widely hailed as the classic survey of the period, going through many revised and updated editions until H.H. Scullard?s death. It explores...

   

   

    Details: Martin Buber was one of the most significant religious thinkers of the twentieth century. In this short and remarkable book he presents the essential teachings of Hasidism, the mystical Jewish movement which swept through Eastern Europe in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Told through stories of imagination...

   

     

    Details: The title is just the first of many startling asides, observations and insights that fill this guide to Hollywood on the Lacanian psychoanalyst?s couch. Zizek introduces the ideas of Jacques Lacan through the medium of American film, taking his examples from over 100 years of cinema, from...

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  Brand: CRC Press Binding: Paperback Number Of Pages: 176 Release Date: 09-01-2025 EAN: 9781041060871 Languages: English

     

     

   

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      Details: 🔥A Haunting Tale of Ideals, Revolution, and the Human SoulThe Devils is one of Dostoevsky’s most powerful and controversial novels, inspired by a real-life political assassination. It examines how ideals, when corrupted, can lead to terror. At the heart of the story is a philosophical conflict...

        Details: The world would be a very different place if it were not for Albert Einstein. Like Newton and Galileo before him, this remarkable scientist changed forever mankind's understanding of the universe. In 1921, five years after proclaiming his general theory of relativity, Einstein was awarded...

        Details: Philosophers have traditionally concentrated on the qualities that make human beings different from other species. In Beast and Man Mary Midgley, one of our foremost intellectuals, stresses continuities. What makes people tick? Largely, she asserts, the same things as animals. She tells us humans are...

   

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    Details: Jung believed that the unconscious is not merely the hiding place of demons but the province of angels and ministers of grace, which he called the 'archetypes', symbols of all the inner forces that work toward unity, health, fullness of life, and purposeful conscious development.' - Lewis...

   

    Details: 📘 Unlock the Blueprint of Modern Economics – Discover the Timeless Genius of Adam Smith's The Wealth of NationsThe Originals Wealth of Nations" is more than a book—it's the bedrock of modern economic thought. Written by Adam Smith, this unabridged edition presents his revolutionary ideas on free...

  Details: A Masterpiece of Emotion, Morality, and Human Struggle — Discover Dostoevsky's Greatest WorkDive into one of the most profound novels ever written.The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky is an unflinching exploration of the human soul, faith, doubt, and the eternal struggle between good and evil. Set in 19th-century...

      Details: There is nothing stronger than those two: Patience and Time. The year was 1805. Napoleon’s conquest of western Europe was causing anxiety among the Russians. In alliance with the Austrian empire, the Russian troops were trying to resist Napoleon’s onslaught. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy...

      Details: 📚 Embark on an Epic Journey Through the Afterlife with Dante’s Timeless MasterpieceStep into one of the greatest literary adventures ever written with The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri. This unabridged edition from The Originals series faithfully presents Dante’s visionary journey through the realms of Hell...

    Details: “Poor wretches! I rather pity their folly and indiscretion, than their loss of time and money; for these may be recovered by Industry: but to be a fool born is a disease incurable.” Written by English dramatist, Ben Jonson, Volpone, the 17th-century Renaissance drama is a sharp...

    Details: "She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom. Nathaniel Hawthorne masterpiece, the Scarlet letter, set in 17th-century Puritan Massachusetts Bay colony, is the tale of Hester Prynne ‘shame’ following the birth of a child whose father remains unidentified for the larger part of the...

        Details: The War of the Worlds, a science fiction masterpiece by H.G. Wells, immerses readers in a gripping tale of alien invasion. Set in Victorian England, the novel follows the sudden and brutal arrival of Martians, whose advanced technology and ruthless tactics bring humanity to the...

        Details: In the adventures of Huckleberry Finn, a sequel to the adventures of Tom Sawyer, Huck escapes from the clutches of his abusive drunk father ‘pap’, and the ‘sivilizing’ guardian widow Douglas. After faking his own death in pursuit of freedom, during one of his travels,...

  Details: "Occasionally I told astrologers to select my worst periods, according to planetary indications, and I would still accomplish whatever task I set myself. It is true that my success at such times has been accompanied by extraordinary difficulties. But my conviction has always been justified: faith in the...