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  • The Cosmic Time of Empire

    Modern Britain and World Literature

    by Adam Barrows ...
    Series Book 3 - FlashPoints
    Combining original historical research with literary analysis, Adam Barrows takes a provocative look at the creation of world standard time in 1884 and rethinks the significance of this remarkable moment in modernism for both the processes of imperialism and for modern literature. As representatives from twenty-four nations argued over adopting the Prime Meridian, and thereby measuring time in ... Read more

    $38.69 USD

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  • The Meaning of Life

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Terry Eagleton ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    We have all wondered about the meaning of life. But is there an answer? And do we even really know what we're asking? Terry Eagleton takes a stimulating and quirky look at this most compelling of questions: at the answers explored in philosophy and literature; at the crisis of meaning in modern times; and suggests his own solution to how we might rediscover meaning in our lives. ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Living in the End Times

    by Slavoj Zizek ...
    The celebrated philosopher explores the end of global capitalism at the hands of its key drivers—the ‘4 riders of the apocalypse’—in this analysis “of fierce brilliance” (Guardian).There should no longer be any doubt: global capitalism is fast approaching its terminal crisis. Slavoj Žižek has identified the 4 horsemen of this coming apocalypse: the worldwide ecological crisis; imbalances within ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

  • At the Speed of Light There is Only Illumination

    A Reappraisal of Marshall McLuhan

    Edited by John Moss, Linda M. Morra ...
    Series series Reappraisals: Canadian Writers
    At the Speed of Light There is Only Illumination collects a dozen re-evaluative essays on Marshall McLuhan and his critical and theoretical legacy; from intellectual adventurer creating a complex architecture of ideas to cultural icon standing in line in Woody Allen’s Annie Hall. Given McLuhan’s prominent status in many academic disciplines, the contributors reflect a multi-disciplinary background ... Read more

    $9.39 USD

  • How to Think Like an Anthropologist

    by Matthew Engelke ...
    From an award-winning anthropologist, a lively accessible, and at times irreverent introduction to the subjectWhat is anthropology? What can it tell us about the world? Why, in short, does it matter? For well over a century, cultural anthropologists have circled the globe, from Papua New Guinea to suburban England and from China to California, uncovering surprising facts and insights about how ... Read more

    $15.09 USD

  • The Idea of Culture

    by Terry Eagleton ...
    Series series Wiley-Blackwell Manifestos
    Terry Eagleton's book, in this vital new series from Blackwell, focuses on discriminating different meanings of culture, as a way of introducing to the general reader the contemporary debates around it. ... Read more

    $27.39 USD

  • Dark Deleuze

    by Andrew Culp ...
    Series series Forerunners: Ideas First
    French philosopher Gilles Deleuze is known as a thinker of creation, joyous affirmation, and rhizomatic assemblages. In this short book, Andrew Culp polemically argues that this once-radical canon of joy has lost its resistance to the present. Concepts created to defeat capitalism have been recycled into business mantras that joyously affirm “Power is vertical; potential is horizontal!”Culp ... Read more

    $4.95 USD

  • A Critique of Postcolonial Reason

    by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak ...
    Are the "culture wars" over? When did they begin? What is their relationship to gender struggle and the dynamics of class? In her first full treatment of postcolonial studies, a field that she helped define, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, one of the world's foremost literary theorists, poses these questions from within the postcolonial enclave. ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • World History and the Eonic Effect

    Civilization, Darwinism, and Theories of Evolution Fourth Edition

    by John Landon ...
    At a time when theories of evolution are undergoing renewed controversy, the study of the Eonic Effect can break the deadlock, by looking at world history in the light of evolution. The assumption that evolution occurs at random is the crux of the dispute, and one confused with issues of religion and secularism. We can detect a non-random pattern in the record of civilization itself, to see ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Utopia/Dystopia

    Conditions of Historical Possibility

    Edited by Helen Tilley, Gyan Prakash, Professor Michael D. Gordin ...
    The concepts of utopia and dystopia have received much historical attention. Utopias have traditionally signified the ideal future: large-scale social, political, ethical, and religious spaces that have yet to be realized. Utopia/Dystopia offers a fresh approach to these ideas. Rather than locate utopias in grandiose programs of future totality, the book treats these concepts as historically ... Read more

    $34.59 USD

  • Post-Apocalyptic Culture

    Modernism, Postmodernism, and the Twentieth-Century Novel

    by Teresa Heffernan ...
    In Post-Apocalyptic Culture, Teresa Heffernan poses the question: what is at stake in a world that no longer believes in the power of the end? Although popular discourse increasingly understands apocalypse as synonymous with catastrophe, historically, in both its religious and secular usage, apocalypse was intricately linked to the emergence of a better world, to revelation, and to disclosure.In ... Read more

    $27.39 USD

  • Theory's Empire

    An Anthology of Dissent

    Edited by Daphne Patai, Wilfrido Corral ...
    Not too long ago, literary theorists were writing about the death of the novel and the death of the author; today many are talking about the death of Theory. Theory, as the many theoretical ism's (among them postcolonialism, postmodernism, and New Historicism) are now known, once seemed so exciting but has become ossified and insular. This iconoclastic collection is an excellent companion to ... Read more

    $40.49 USD