Bloomsbury Revelations series

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What is Art?

Leo Tolstoy

Reprint. Originally published: London: Bristol Classical Press, 1994.

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Libidinal Economy

Jean-Francois Lyotard

Is regarded as the most important response to the philosophies of desire, as expounded by thinkers such as de Sade, Nietzsche, Bataille, Foucault and Deleuze and Guattari. It is a…

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The Modes of Modern Writing: Metaphor, Metonymy, and the Typology of Modern Literature

David Lodge

Reprint. Originally published: London: E. Arnold, 1977.

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States and Markets

Susan Strange

Previous edition: New York; London: Pinter, 1994. Bloomsbury revelations edition 2015 with foreword by Ronen Palan.

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The Sexual Politics of Meat - 25th Anniversary Edition: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory

Carol J. Adams (Activist and Freelance Author, USA)

Argues that what, or more precisely who, we eat is determined by the patriarchal politics of our culture, and that the meanings attached to meat eating are often clustered around…

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Apologia Pro Vita Sua

John Henry Newman

The spiritual autobiography of an influential Church of England vicar who converted to Roman Catholicism. The Apologia employs flowing, conversational prose to explore the very depths and nature of Christianity.

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The Theatre of the Absurd

Martin Esslin

This edition, including the new foreword, was first published in Great Britain by Methuen Publishing Limited, London, in 2001 –T.p. verso.

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The Odyssey

Homer

One of the greatest adventure tales in history, The Odyssey - Odysseus’ journey home after The Trojan War - is still a must-read for young and old alike.

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Among the Dead Cities: Is the Targeting of Civilians in War Ever Justified?

Professor A. C. Grayling

A controversial examination by one of Britain’s leading philosophers of one of the most important and morally complex issues of our time

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Marx’s Concept of Man: Including ‘Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts

Erich Fromm,Karl Marx

Erich Fromm - one of the most important psychoanalytic thinkers of the 20th century - presents and responds to Karl Marx’s Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts –

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After Virtue

Alasdair MacIntyre

First published in 1981this edition has a new final chapter which elaborates on the connections between philosophy/history and moral philosophy/theology.

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Building a Character

Constantin Stanislavski,Constantin Stanislavski

No-one has had greater influence on acting as we know it than Stanislavski. His ‘system’ or interpretations of it - has become the central force determining almost every performance we…

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Eclipse of Reason

Max Horkheimer

Max Horkheimer was a leading figure in hugely influential Frankfurt School who highlighted the tyrannical aspects of our new rational cure.

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Truth and Method

Hans-Georg Gadamer (author of Truth and Method)

Written in the 1960s, TRUTH AND METHOD is Gadamer’s magnum opus. Looking behind the self-consciousness of science, he discusses the tense relationship between truth and methodology. In examining the different…

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Time for Revolution

Antonio Negri

These two key essays by Antonio Negri, brought together here for the first time, were written in prison two decades apart. Together, the two essays explore the burning issue of…

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The Intelligence of Evil: or, The Lucidity Pact

Jean Baudrillard

This translation originally published: Oxford: Berg, 2005.

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A Thousand Plateaus

Gilles Deleuze (No current affiliation),Felix Guattari ((1930-1992) was a French psychoanalyst, philosopher, social theorist and radical activist. He is best known for his collaborative work with Gilles Deleuze.)

This book has set the agenda for contemporary Continental philosophy, arguing for a new theory of radical democracy in politics and art. A Thousand Plateaus completes the landmark philosophical project…

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Language of the Third Reich: LTI: Lingua Tertii Imperii

Victor Klemperer

Victor Klemperer was Professor of French Literature at Dresden University. As a Jew, he was removed from his post in 1935, only surviving thanks to his marriage to an Aryan…

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Interrogating the Real

Slavoj Zizek (Birkbeck Institute for Humanities, University of London, UK; New York University, USA; University of Ljubljana, Slovenia)

Presents collected writings of Slavoj Zizek - one of the world’s leading contemporary cultural commentators. Drawing upon a range of his prolific output, the articles here cover psychoanalysis, philosophy and…

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Cinema I: The Movement-Image

Gilles Deleuze (No current affiliation)

English translation first published in 1986 by The Athlone Press –T.p. verso.

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Being and Event

Alain Badiou (Ecole Normale Superieure, France)

A work on set theory - the cornerstone of the author’s whole philosophy. This book includes a series of analyses of such key figures as Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Hegel, Rousseau…

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The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers and The Eumenides

Aeschylus

First performed in 458BC, Aeschylus’s trilogy of plays - known collectively as ‘The Oresteia’ - remains perhaps the great masterpiece of ancient tragic drama. Telling the bloody story of the…

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Key Writings

Henri Bergson

Henri Bergson (1859-1941) wrote seminal texts on topics that remain at the heart of current philosophical inquiry, such as time, consciousness, and evolution. This volume acts as a textbook and…

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The Universal Exception

Slavoj Zizek (Birkbeck Institute for Humanities, University of London, UK; New York University, USA; University of Ljubljana, Slovenia)

Bringing together a selection of Slavoj Zizek’s major writings on politics, this book includes his interventions on such world political events as the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001 and…

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Infinite Thought: Truth and the Return to Philosophy

Alain Badiou (Ecole Normale Superieure, France)

This translation first published: London: Continuum, 2003.

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Difference and Repetition

Gilles Deleuze (No current affiliation)

From the author of Nietzsche and Philosophy , Kant’s Critical Philosophy , Cinema I and Cinema II , and Logic of Sense , this book provides an exposition of the…

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Theoretical Writings

Alain Badiou (Ecole Normale Superieure, France)

Swimming against the tide of postmodern orthodoxy, Alain Badiou’s thought revitalizes philosophy’s perennial attempt to provide a systematic theory of truth. This volume, assembled with the collaboration of the author…

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Logic of Sense

Gilles Deleuze (No current affiliation)

The Logic of Sense begins with an extended exegesis of Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland. Considering stoicism, language, games, sexuality, schizophrenia, and literature, Deleuze determines the status of meaning and…

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Towards the Light: The Story of the Struggles for Liberty and Rights that Made the Modern West

Professor A. C. Grayling

Presents the stories of Martin Luther, Mary Wollstonecraft and Rosa Parks, whose sacrifices make us value these precious rights, especially in an age when governments under pressure find it necessary…

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I and Thou

Martin Buber

Originally published in German in 1923, I and Thou was an influential work that explained the meaning behind human existence. Buber explains that existence can be addressed in two ways…

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Violence and the Sacred

Dr Rene Girard

An analysis of Greek drama and the basis of social violence.

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Course in General Linguistics

Ferdinand de Saussure

Translation of Cours de linguistique gaenaerale.

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An Actor Prepares

Constantin Stanislavski,Constantin Stanislavski

Stanislavski’s ‘system’ or interpretations of it - has become the central force determining almost every performance we see on stage or screen. An Actor Prepares has stood the test of…

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Origins of Analytical Philosophy

Michael Dummett

When contrasted with Continental philosophy, analytical philosophy is often called Anglo-American. Dummett argues that Anglo-Austrian would be a more accurate label. By re-examining the similar origins of the two traditions…

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Creating A Role

Constantin Stanislavski,Constantin Stanislavski

Stanislavski’s ‘system’ or interpretations of it - has become the central force determining almost every performance we see on stage or screen. His classic texts An Actor Prepares, Building a…

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Cinema II: The Time-Image

Gilles Deleuze (No current affiliation)

English translation first published in 1989 by The Athlone Press –T.p. verso.

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Rhythmanalysis: Space, Time and Everyday Life

Henri Lefebvre

In the analysis of rhythms Lefebvre shows the interrelation of space and time in the understanding of everyday life. He discusses music, the commodity, measurement, the media and the city…

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All Men Are Brothers

Mohandas K. Gandhi

This is a collection of Gandhi’s trenchant writings on non-violence, especially in the context of a post-nuclear world. This compendium, which reads like a traditional book - is drawn from…

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The Three Ecologies

Felix Guattari ((1930-1992) was a French psychoanalyst, philosopher, social theorist and radical activist. He is best known for his collaborative work with Gilles Deleuze.)

Argues that the ecological crises that threaten our planet are the direct result of the expansion of a form of capitalism and that an ecosophical approach must be found which…

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Anti-Oedipus

Gilles Deleuze (No current affiliation),Felix Guattari ((1930-1992) was a French psychoanalyst, philosopher, social theorist and radical activist. He is best known for his collaborative work with Gilles Deleuze.)

First published in the United States of America by The Viking Press 1977 –T.p. verso.

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Intensive Science and Virtual Philosophy

Professor Manuel DeLanda (University of Pennsylvania, USA)

Intensive Science and Virtual Philosophy cuts to the heart of the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and of today’s science wars. At the start of the 21st Century, Deleuze is now…

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Aesthetic Theory

Theodor W. Adorno

This text on aesthetics includes major sections on: Art, Society, Aesthetics; the Categories of the Ugly, the Beautiful, the Technics; Natural Beauty; Coherence and Subject-Object; and Towards a Theory of…

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The Nazi Dictatorship: Problems and Perspectives of Interpretation

Ian Kershaw

This new edition examines the ways in which the termination of the German Democratic Republic’s historiographical tradition and the aftermath of German unification in general are affecting perspectives on the…

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The Essence of Truth: On Plato’s Cave Allegory and Theaetetus

Martin Heidegger

The Essence of Truth is an examination of the most fundamental theme in Heidegger’s philosophy: the difference between truth as ‘the unhiddenness of beings’ and truth as ‘the correctness of…

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Bloomsbury Revelations series

What is Art?

Libidinal Economy

The Modes of Modern Writing: Metaphor, Metonymy, and the Typology of Modern Literature

States and Markets

The Sexual Politics of Meat - 25th Anniversary Edition: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory

Apologia Pro Vita Sua

The Theatre of the Absurd

The Odyssey

Among the Dead Cities: Is the Targeting of Civilians in War Ever Justified?

Marx’s Concept of Man: Including ‘Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts

After Virtue

Building a Character

Eclipse of Reason

Truth and Method

Time for Revolution

The Intelligence of Evil: or, The Lucidity Pact

A Thousand Plateaus

Language of the Third Reich: LTI: Lingua Tertii Imperii

Interrogating the Real

Cinema I: The Movement-Image

Being and Event

The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers and The Eumenides

Key Writings

The Universal Exception

Infinite Thought: Truth and the Return to Philosophy

Difference and Repetition

Theoretical Writings

Logic of Sense

Towards the Light: The Story of the Struggles for Liberty and Rights that Made the Modern West

I and Thou

Violence and the Sacred

Course in General Linguistics

An Actor Prepares

Origins of Analytical Philosophy

Creating A Role

Cinema II: The Time-Image

Rhythmanalysis: Space, Time and Everyday Life

All Men Are Brothers

The Three Ecologies

Anti-Oedipus

Intensive Science and Virtual Philosophy

Aesthetic Theory

The Nazi Dictatorship: Problems and Perspectives of Interpretation

The Essence of Truth: On Plato’s Cave Allegory and Theaetetus