Badiou indicts this approach, which reduces politics to a matter of opinion, thus eliminating any of its truly radical and emancipatory possibilities. Against this intellectual tradition, Badiou propo
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With the publication of Specters of Marxin 1993, Jacques Derrida redeemed a longstanding pledge to confrontMarx's texts directly and in detail. His characteristically bravurapresentation provided a p
The Democratic Paradox is Chantal Mouffe’s most accessible and illuminating study of democracy’s sharp edges, fractures, and incongruities. Orienting her discussion within the debates over modern libe
A rich and suggestive analysis of military "ways of seeing," revealing the convergence of perception and destruction in the parallel technologies of warfare and cinema.
How is it possible that modern criticism, which was born of the struggle against the absolutist state, could be reduced to its current status as part of the public relations branch of the literary ind
In these pages Jacqueline Rose explores the encounter between feminism, psychoanalysis, semiotics and film theory. She argues for the importance of sexual difference and fantasy as key concepts throug
The most brilliant exponent of Frankfurt School Marxism subtly interweaves aesthetics and ideology in this probing analysis of the controversial composer's oeuvre.
Baudrillard sees the power of the terrorists as lying in the symbolism of slaughter – not merely the reality of death, but in a sacrifice that challenges the whole system. Where previously the old rev
Feuerbach’s departure from the traditional philosophy of Hegel opened the door for generations of radical philosophical thought. His philosophy has long been acknowledged as the influence for much of
