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Conversations eBook Series

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  • Dispossession

    The Performative in the Political

    by Judith Butler, Athena Athanasiou ...
    Series series Conversations
    Dispossession describes the condition of those who have lost land, citizenship, property, and a broader belonging to the world. This thought-provoking book seeks to elaborate our understanding of dispossession outside of the conventional logic of possession, a hallmark of capitalism, liberalism, and humanism. Can dispossession simultaneously characterize political responses and opposition to the ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

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  • Feminists Theorize the Political

    Edited by Judith Butler, Joan W. Scott ...
    A collection of work by leading feminist scholars, engaging with the question of the political status of poststructuralism within feminism, and affirming the contemporary debate over theory as politically rich and consequential. ... Read more

    $91.16 CAD

  • Judith Butler

    Sexual Politics, Social Change and the Power of the Performative

    by Gill Jagger ...
    Judith Butler's work on gender, sexuality, identity, and the body has proved massively influential across a range of academic disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. Yet it is also notoriously difficult to access.This key book provides a comprehensive introduction to Butler's work, plus a critical examination of it and its precursors, both feminist (including Simone de Beauvoir, Monique ... Read more

    $85.00 CAD

  • Bodies That Matter

    On the Discursive Limits of Sex

    by Judith Butler ...
    Series series Routledge Classics
    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 bodies, sex, and gender. Butler argues that power operates to constrain sex from the start, ... Read more

    $48.04 CAD

  • Gender Trouble

    Feminism and the Subversion of Identity

    by Judith Butler ...
    Series series Routledge Classics
    One of the most talked-about scholarly works of the past fifty years, Judith Butler’s Gender Trouble is as celebrated as it is controversial.Arguing that traditional feminism is wrong to look to a natural, 'essential' notion of the female, or indeed of sex or gender, Butler starts by questioning the category 'woman' and continues in this vein with examinations of 'the masculine' and 'the feminine' ... Read more

    $39.41 CAD

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  • Philosophy of Law

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Raymond Wacks ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    The concept of law lies at the heart of our social and political life. Legal philosophy, or jurisprudence, explores the notion of law and its role in society, illuminating its meaning and its relation to the universal questions of justice, rights, and morality. In this Very Short Introduction Raymond Wacks analyses the nature and purpose of the legal system, and the practice by courts, lawyers, ... Read more

    $6.47 CAD

  • Notes Toward a Performative Theory of Assembly

    by Judith Butler ...
    A Times Higher Education Book of the Week Judith Butler elucidates the dynamics of public assembly under prevailing economic and political conditions, analyzing what they signify and how. Understanding assemblies as plural forms of performative action, Butler extends her theory of performativity to argue that precarity—the destruction of the conditions of livability—has been a galvanizing force ... Read more

    $27.62 CAD

  • Cosmopolitanism and the Geographies of Freedom

    by David Harvey ...
    Series series The Wellek Library Lectures
    Liberty and freedom are frequently invoked to justify political action. Presidents as diverse as Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, Ronald Reagan, and George W. Bush have built their policies on some version of these noble values. Yet in practice, idealist agendas often turn sour as they confront specific circumstances on the ground. Demonstrated by incidents at Abu Ghraib ... Read more

    $35.27 CAD

  • Jurisprudence Lawcards 2012-2013

    by Routledge ...
    Series series Lawcards
    Routledge Lawcards are your complete, pocket-sized guides to key examinable areas of the undergraduate law curriculum and the CPE/GDL. Their concise text, user-friendly layout and compact format make them an ideal revision aid. Helping you to identify, understand and commit to memory the salient points of each area of the law, shouldn’t you make Routledge Lawcards your essential revision ... Read more

    $71.45 CAD

  • Rawls

    A Beginner's Guide

    by Paul Graham ...
    Series series Beginner's Guides
    ‘The principles of justice are chosen behind a veil of ignorance’– John Rawls, A Theory of JusticeWhat is justice? How can we know it? How can we make our society more just? The most significant political philosopher since John Stuart Mill, John Rawls (1921 – 2002) grappled with such dilemmas. His work has been the source not only of academic argument, but also of political debate and legislative ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Philosophy of Law: A Very Short Introduction

    by Raymond Wacks ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    The concept of law lies at the heart of our social and political life, shaping the character of our community and underlying issues from racism and abortion to human rights and international war. But what actually is law? A set of naturally occurring moral principles, or simply rules agreed by a particular society? What is a 'right' and what rights should people actually have? Is law really colour ... Read more

    $6.47 CAD

  • Death of a Discipline

    by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak ...
    Series series The Wellek Library Lectures
    For almost three decades, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak has been ignoring the standardized "rules" of the academy and trespassing across disciplinary boundaries. Today she remains one of the foremost figures in the study of world literature and its cultural consequences. In this new book she declares the death of comparative literature as we know it and sounds an urgent call for a "new comparative ... Read more

    $23.75 CAD