A trenchant analysis of sacrifice as the foundation of the modern, as well as the ancient, social order. The modern conception of sacrifice is at once cast as a victory of self-discipline over desire and condescended to as destructive and archaic abnegation. But even in the Old Testament, the dual natures of sacrifice, embodying both ritual slaughter and moral rectitude, were a...(展开全部)

Radical Hermeneutics forges a closer collaboration between hermeneutics and deconstruction than has previously been attempted. For John D. Caputo, hermeneutics means radical thinking without transcendental justification: attending to the ruptures and irregularities in existence before the metaphysics of presence has a chance to smooth over them.

克里斯蒂安·德昆西教授，就职于约翰·F.肯尼迪大学。研究哲学和意识，是哲学研究大学意识研究所主任，智慧学院的创立者，意识、宇宙论和灵性的国际演讲者。他的著作包括：《彻底的认识》、《从僵尸到天使的意识》和小说《深度精神》。他生活在加利福尼亚。

A spirited & severe critique of the turn to an anti-aesthetic in writing including examples from: Blake & Wordsworth to Clint Eastwood. From the Inside Flap This ground-breaking new work offers a spirited and severe critique of the turn to an anti-aesthetic in theoretical writing and asserts that it has now become an intellectual necessity to rethink the aesthetic and remake ae...(展开全部)

Steven Lukes' Power: A Radical View is a seminal work still widely used some 30 years after publication. The second edition includes the complete original text alongside two major new essays. One assesses the main debates about how to conceptualize and study power, including the influential contributions of Michel Foucault. The other reconsiders Steven Lukes' own views in light...(展开全部)

What has happened to the European radical left after the collapse of the USSR? How has it reacted, reformed, even revived? This new volume is the first to provide an extensive answer. It will focus both on communists and non-communists, and will address their non-parliamentary and international activity through a pan-European perspective. It will be of interest to students and ...(展开全部)

For the Greeks, the sharing of cooked meats was the fundamental communal act, so that to become vegetarian was a way of refusing society. It follows that the roasting or cooking of meat was a political act, as the division of portions asserted a social order. And the only proper manner of preparing meat for consumption, according to the Greeks, was blood sacrifice. The fundamen...(展开全部)

A history and critique of the last 200 years of cultural criticism, from Addison and Steele to Barthes and Derrida, by Britain's most stylish critic.

Radical Passivity examines the notion of passivity in the work of Levinas, Blanchot, and Agamben, three thinkers of exceptional intellectual privacy whose writings have decidedly altered the literary and philosophical cultures of our era. Placing their use of passivity in the context of Heidegger and Kant, Wall argues that any philosophical understanding of Levinas's ethics, Bl...(展开全部)

A history and critique of the last 200 years of cultural criticism, from Addison and Steele to Barthes and Derrida, by Britain's most stylish critic.