Subjectivity and identity : between modernity and postmodernity / by Zima, Peter V., Bloomsbury Philosophy Collection

Table of Contents: “…8 The crisis of the subject in the literature of modernism: Nature and contingency as menace and liberation9 From modernism to postmodernism: A Clockwork Orange; Notes; III Disintegration and Submission of the Individual Subject in Postmodernity: Philosophy and Psychology; 1 From Adorno to Lyotard: The ambivalence of the sublime between modernity and postmodernity; 2 The linguistic subversion of subjects: Between iterability and iterativity; 3 From Laing to Vattimo: 'Divided self ' and sogget to scisso; 4 From Laing to Goff man and Foucault: Stigmatization and organized experience.…”
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Genealogies of political modernity / by Cerella, Antonio, Bloomsbury Philosophy Collection

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Jean-François Lyotard : the interviews and debates / by Lyotard, Jean-François, 1924-1998, Bloomsbury Philosophy Collection

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The Paralysis of Analysis in African American Studies Corporate Capitalism and Black Popular Culture. by Ferguson II, Stephen, Bloomsbury Philosophy Collection

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Fundamentalism and secularization / by Wahbah, Murād, Bloomsbury Philosophy Collection

Table of Contents: “…Fundamentalism and secularization in the contemporary Middle East -- 4. Postmodernism and fundamentalism -- Part II. Essays: 5. …”
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The Social Aesthetics of Human Environments : Critical Themes / by Berleant, Arnold, 1932-, Bloomsbury Philosophy Collection

Table of Contents: “…The Sublime Troubles of Postmodernism Part VII. Aesthetic Community 12. Getting Along Beautifully: Ideas for a Social Aesthetics 13. …”
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Right-wing culture in contemporary capitalism : regression and hope in a time without future / by Nilges, Mathias, Bloomsbury Philosophy Collection

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction: All We Have Is Now; 2 Looking Backward: Nonsynchronism in the Long Now of Capitalism; The long now, a crisis of capitalist temporality; The temporal demos undone; The dialectic of aesthetic form and anticipatory consciousness; Nonsynchronism and the distribution of time; Bloch now: Tracing hope in a time of crisis; The untimeliness of Bloch: Utopian thought and critical theory; 3 The New Paternalism: Anti-Capitalism and Right-Wing Nostalgia; Why anti-postmodernism now? Angry young men and the desire for fathers…”
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Christianity after Christendom Heretical Perspectives in Philosophical Theology. by Koci, Martin, Bloomsbury Philosophy Collection

Table of Contents: “…Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part 1 Postmodern Ends of Christianity -- 1 Lost Credibility: Christianity after Jean-François Lyotard's Critique of Metanarrative -- 2 After Deconstruction: Jean-Luc Nancy and the Essence of Christianity -- 3 The Sense of the After: Jan Patočka and the Post-Christian Epoch -- Postscript to Part I The Questions of After -- Part 2 The Figures of the After -- 4 A Secular Christianity of Nihilist Love: Engaging Gianni Vattimo's Atheism -- 5 Christianity Without Religion: Struggling with John D. …”
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Art Rebellion: The Aesthetics of Social Transformation/ by Malcolm Miles, Bloomsbury Philosophy Collection

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Badiou, Balibar, Ranciere : Re-Thinking Emancipation. by Bloomsbury Philosophy Collection

Table of Contents: “…Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Note on Translations -- Abbreviations -- 1 Contexts and Parameters -- Three characteristics of modern French thought -- The legacy of Louis Althusser -- Concluding remarks -- 2 Alain Badiou: Event, Subject and Truth -- The role of philosophy -- Truth -- The event, movement and change -- Concluding remarks -- 3 The Paradoxes of Alain Badiou's Theory of Politics -- Politics, the event and truth procedures -- Against and beyond the postmodern -- Marxism and historical materialism -- Democracy -- Parliamentary politics -- Badiou's political activism -- Concluding remarks -- 4 Jacques Ranci232;re: Politics is Equality is Democracy -- Listening to the unheard -- Liberal democracy and language -- Defining the political -- Democracy and post-democracy -- Concluding remarks -- 5 Etienne Balibar: Emancipation, Equaliberty and the Dilemmas of Modernity -- The political -- Ambivalence, universality, ideology -- Political violence -- Lenin and Gandhi -- Concluding remarks -- 6 With and Beyond Badiou, Balibar and Ranci232;re -- References and Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.…”
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The science, politics, and ontology of life-philosophy / by Bloomsbury Philosophy Collection

Table of Contents: “…Anachronism and Powerlessness: An Essay on Postmodernism Leonard Lawlor -- 11. Taking Hold of Life: Liberal Eugenics, Autonomy, and Biopower Serena Parekh -- Part IV: Philosophies of Life -- 12. …”
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Beyond Aristotle's poetics in the Italian renaissance : new directions in criticism / by Bloomsbury Philosophy Collection

Table of Contents: “…Critical Imitatio : Renaissance Literary Theory and its Postmodern Avatars, Ayesha Ramachandran (Yale University, USA) -- Appendix: Early Modern Books in the Library of Bernard Weinberg, Paul F. …”
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Lyotard and Critical Practice / by Bloomsbury Philosophy Collection

Table of Contents: “…Citing and Siting the Postmodern: Lyotard and the Black Atlantic / John E. …”
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Theological poverty in continental philosophy : after Christian theology / by Dickinson, Colby, Bloomsbury Philosophy Collection

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Visceral prostheses : somatechnics and posthuman embodiment / by Shildrick, Margrit, Bloomsbury Philosophy Collection

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Differences in identity in philosophy and religion : a cross-cultural approach / by Bloomsbury Philosophy Collection

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The Bloomsbury Handbook of Susanne K. Langer / by Bloomsbury Philosophy Collection

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