Product Description: Badiou and Politics offers a much-anticipated interpretation of the work of the influential French philosopher Alain Badiou. Countering ideas of the philosopher as a dogmatic, absolutist, or even mystical thinker enthralled by the force of the event as a radical break, Bruno Bosteels reveals Badiou’s deep and ongoing investment in the dialectic...read more

Product Description: Between 1965 and 1968, the celebrated French philosopher Alain Badiou hosted a televised series in which he interviewed some of the most influential contemporary philosophers of the period, including Michel Foucault, Paul Ricoeur, Michel Henry and Michel Serres...read more

Product Description: The essays in this volume, including a new piece by Badiou himself, reflect the formative traditions that shape the background of his political thought. They intervene critically and evaluate the present state of Badiou's work, while also breaking new ground and creating new thresholds of political thought...read more

Product Description: What is a medium? Why is there always a middle? Can media produce 'immediacy'? Henri Bergson recognized mediation as the central philosophical problem of modernity. This book traces his influence on the 'media philosophies' of Gilles Deleuze, Marshall McLuhan, Walter Benjamin and Michel Serres...read more

Product Description: 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, or destroying them...read more

Product Description: Maurice Blondel n'est pas seulement un homme de cabinet: il prend parti dans les crises de son temps. Analysant le national-socialisme, il declare en 1940: Un premier axe, dont on celebre la puissance et les succes, va s'accompagner d'un autre axe perpendiculaire du Pacifique a l'Atlantique, etalant sur l'Ancien Continent, en attendant le Nouveau Monde, une immense croix gammee dont les crochets pourront s'abattre jusqu'au cap de Bonne-Esperance ou jusqu'au cap Nord...read more

Product Description: Le but de l’ouvrage, conformément à la vocation de la collection « Figures du savoir », est de faire connaître la pensée de Jacques Derrida (1930-2004) à un public large, ne se limitant pas aux enseignants et aux étudiants en philosophie...read more

Product Description: Jacques Derrida’s final seminars were devoted to animal life and political sovereignty―the connection being that animals slavishly adhere to the law while kings and gods tower above it and that this relationship reveals much about humanity in the West...read more

Product Description: Reassesses the term 'atheism' in the context of contemporary French philosophy. Drawing primarily on the work of Alain Badiou, Jean-Luc Nancy and Quentin Meillassoux, Watkin explores post-theological reassessments of atheism through the ideas of the death of God and nihilism in contemporary French philosophy, and probes the limits of any 'atheistic politics'...read more

Product Description: This collection of conversations eavesdrops on contemporary themes in French intellectual life. The short question and answer form of the dialogue provides an introduction to the work of modern French philosophers. Such well-known figures as Jacques Derrida, Luce Irigaray and Emmanuel Levinas are joined in this book by thinkers whose writings are only now beginning to make an impact on the English-speaking world: Michelle LeDoeuff, Monique Schneider and Michel Serres...read more

Product Description: The first sustained exploration of Simondon's work to be published in English. This collection of essays, including one by Simondon himself, outlines the central tenets of Simondon's thought, the implication of his thought for numerous disciplines and his relationship to other thinkers such as Heidegger, Deleuze and Canguilhem...read more

'The author does a wonderful job of telling a gripping story that also gives a sense of the complexity of the reign and the period ... Students who read this will be well instructed about a very significant period of English history – and they will be entertained as well.' – Anne McLaren, University of Liverpool, UK Henry VIII was one of England’s most unforgettable monarchs. He was at once inspiring, menacing and perplexing to his contemporaries, and his reputation remains both impressive and enigmatic. Lucy Wooding's timely study provides an insightful and original portrait of this larger-than-life figure, and of the many paradoxes of his character and reign. Building on significant advances in recent research to put forward a distinctive interpretation of Henry’s complex character and remarkable style of kingship, Wooding locates him firmly in the context of the English Renaissance and the fierce currents of religious change that characterized the early Reformation. Complete with colour illustrations, this compelling new biography gives a fresh portrayal of Henry VIII, cutting away the misleading mythology in order to provide a vivid account of this passionate, wilful, intelligent and destructive king.