805 results for 'Ellul, Jacques'

Lone Sloane: Delirius Vol. 2 (Graphic Novel) by Jacques Lob is a gripping sci-fi graphic novel that follows the endless struggles of its protagonist, stuck on the planet Delirius. A lone traveler...

Noise: A radical perspective on music and its role in shaping society. In this influential work, Jacques Attali challenges traditional views of culture and economy, arguing that music is not simply a...

Rhetoric has shaped our understanding of language and literature for over two millennia. This influential concept continues to inspire debate in contemporary culture. Jennifer Richards explores the...

This collection of essays celebrates the 800th anniversary of the foundation of the Dominican Order and explores the richness in Catholic thought and praxis over the past century. Covering topics...

Explore the dark and vibrant streets of Montreal through the eyes of its diverse writers.A new addition to Akashic Books' acclaimed Noir series, Montreal Noir brings together 12 original short...

This groundbreaking volume explores the relevance of Jacques Lacan's thought to theology and its development. The book examines how Lacan's ideas can be applied to understand various aspects of...

The Haunted Text: A Study of Contemporary Fiction and the Gothic Tradition. Joanne Watkiss's Gothic Contemporaries explores how twenty-first-century fiction reworks traditional ghost stories, drawing...

Feminine Sexuality: Jacques Lacan and the École Freudienne presents a collection of articles on feminine sexuality by key figures in the école freudienne, a school of psychoanalysis founded by Lacan...

Christopher Nolan's films are known for their complex narratives and thought-provoking themes. However, beneath their commercial success lies a darker sensibility that questions the nature of reality...

The New French Philosophy by Ian James offers a critical assessment of key developments in contemporary French thought. This book provides a close comparative reading of seven influential thinkers,...

Jacques Derrida's Points... Interviews, 1974-1994 brings together twenty-three conversations that span nearly two decades. These interviews showcase the breadth of his concerns, touching on topics...

Athens, Still Remains by Jacques Derrida is an extended commentary on a series of photographs of contemporary Athens. In this work, Derrida develops his ideas in several unexpected directions,...

Derrida and Queer Theory by Christian Hite is a thought-provoking volume that explores the intersection of Jacques Derrida's philosophy and queer theory. This collection of essays brings together key...

Derrida and Religion: Other Testaments explores the intersection of philosophy and religion through the lens of Jacques Derrida's work. This collection of essays brings together leading scholars to...

Badiou and Deleuze Read Literature is an exploration of how two influential philosophers engage with literary texts. Jean-Jacques Lecercle examines the 'strong readings' imposed by Alain Badiou and...

The Challenge to Friendship in Modernity by Preston T. King and Heather Devere explores the complexities of friendship in modern society. The authors examine the project of creating meaningful...

Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Social Contract is a foundational work of political philosophy that has sparked intense debate since its publication in 1762. In this new translation, Rousseau presents his...

Under the Volcano A Novel by Malcolm Lowry In this powerful and lyrical novel, Geoffrey Firmin's life is marked by turmoil. His struggles with addiction have overshadowed his existence, leaving him...

Jacques Lacan's life and work remain a subject of intense debate. This biography offers a nuanced exploration of his intellectual and literary adventure, which occupies a founding place in modernity...

Explore the foundational ideas of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, one of the leading thinkers of the Enlightenment. This collection includes his groundbreaking works, including "The Confessions", a pioneering...

Introduction to Deconstruction - Derrida by Julian Wolfreys provides a critical exploration of Jacques Derrida's work and its application in literary interpretation. This book challenges traditional...

Cinematic Geopolitics by Michael J. Shapiro explores how film reflects and shapes our understanding of the world. Drawing on his experience as a juror at film festivals, Shapiro examines the ways in...

Jacques Lacan was a pivotal figure in psychoanalysis, building upon Sigmund Freud's work to refine insights through linguistics. His ideas have been both praised and misunderstood, with some critics...

Dance and Dream by Javier Marías is a haunting exploration of violence, corruption and human resilience. After being recruited into an undercover spy network, Jacques Deza finds himself entangled in...

Burgundian Poleaxe: The Noble Art of Chivalric Axe Combat The pollaxe is a fearsome weapon that dominated medieval combat, particularly among knights. Its dual function as both an armour-breaching...

Adam Shatz explores the complex relationship between writing and politics in this thought-provoking collection of essays. Through close readings of the lives and works of influential thinkers, Shatz...

The Birth of the Gods and the Origins of Agriculture by Jacques Cauvin This groundbreaking study explores the transformative changes that occurred in the Near East between 10,000 and 7,000 BC. As...

Toward a Cosmic Theology explores how Christian revelation draws on forces and worlds beyond our own, from the vastness of the universe to the subatomic realm. This book considers topics such as the...

A new examination of the performative concept explores its continued relevance in the 21st century. From its origins in J.L. Austin's speech-act theory, the performative has grown to encompass...

Observing Behaviour in Sports Training: A New Approach to Education and Development. This book proposes a novel methodology for teaching observation skills, essential for effective coaching and...

Heinrich Meier's Political Philosophy and the Challenge of Revealed Religion explores the relationship between philosophy and revealed religion. The author argues that philosophy must justify its...

The Body in Theory: Essays After Lacan and Foucault Becky R. McLaughlin and Eric Daffron explore the complexities of the human body through twelve essays that bring together the ideas of two...

Derrida's Politics of Friendship: A Reevaluation 25 years after its initial publication, this edited collection brings together 23 critical chapters that revisit Jacques Derrida's influential work...

The human experience is often understood as unique and separate from the natural world. However, this assumption can lead to contradictions and disconnections within ourselves and with others. Eric D...

A Full Description of the Daguerreotype Process As Published by M. Daguerre. In 1839, Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre published a groundbreaking description of his photographic process, which was met...

Richard Boothby's Freud as Philosopher offers a fresh perspective on Sigmund Freud's ambitious attempt at a general theory of mental functioning, metapsychology. Using Jacques Lacan's work as a key,...

Jacques Pépin's memoir is a captivating account of his life in the kitchen, from his early days as a homesick boy working on a farm in war-ravaged France to his rise as an Emmy Award-winning chef and...

Jacques Derrida: A Biography by Benoît Peeters tells the story of a complex and influential thinker whose life was marked by both intellectual brilliance and personal turmoil. This biography explores...

Disagreement: A New Approach to Political Philosophy by Jacques Rancière explores the relationship between philosophy and politics. Rancière argues that the phrase "political philosophy" expresses a...

Jacques Rancière's Uncertain Times offers a provocative critique of the globalized capitalist consensus. Thirty years after the supposed triumph of democracy, Rancière argues that the era touted as...

Acts of Literature brings together a collection of Jacques Derrida's writings on literary texts, exploring the question of literature in Western culture. Spanning his career, these essays examine the...

Introducción a Derrida is a comprehensive and concise exploration of the philosophical thought of Jacques Derrida. First published in 2006, this book by Maurizio Ferraris offers a critical...

Cultural Graphology: Writing After Derrida explores the intersection of psychoanalysis, deconstruction, and writing in early modern England. Juliet Fleming builds upon the ideas of Jacques Derrida,...

The Octonauts Underwater Adventures is a four-book hardcover box set that launched the hit animated TV show worldwide. This special edition includes the original hardcover storybooks and a...

The Government of Poland by Jean-Jacques Rousseau In this unique work, Rousseau applies his principles from the Social Contract to real-world governance, exploring the transformation of individuals...

Trauma and Embodied Healing in Dramatherapy, Theatre and Performance by J. F. Jacques explores the connection between embodiment and somatic approaches to healing trauma from a dramatherapy, theatre...

Sonia Delaunay's artistic vision expanded into textiles and industrial design, enriching modernist abstraction. This volume presents her sketches, textile designs, paintings, interior and fashion...

Landscape and Film explores a fundamental aspect of cinema that has been largely overlooked in theory and criticism. This collection of new work examines how cinematic landscape differs from...

Emile Zola's The Beast Within is a haunting study of a man's slow corruption by jealousy. Translated from French with an introduction and notes, this Penguin Classics edition explores the dark and...

Alain Badiou's Lacan Anti-Philosophy 3 is a transcript of his year-long seminar on Jacques Lacan's psychoanalytic theory, offering a highly original and compelling account of Lacan's ideas. Badiou...

Philosophers on Art from Kant to the Postmodernists A Critical Reader brings together twenty-five texts on art written by twenty philosophers. These essays cover a range of topics, including...

A Philosophy of Discomfort by Jacques Pezeu-Massabuau explores comfort and discomfort as historical and philosophical concepts. Comfort is often seen as a lack of discomfort, but it's unclear which...

Richard Boothby's Embracing the Void offers a radical reinterpretation of the origin of religion through a psychoanalytic lens. Drawing on Jacques Lacan's theory of das Ding, an unfathomable excess...

The End of Work: Theological Critiques of Capitalism by John Hughes This book explores the complex relationship between work and faith in the context of modern capitalism. Through a critical...

Deconstructive Constitutionalism: A New Perspective on Modern Governance This book explores how the foundations of modern constitutionalism can be reimagined to address the challenges of the 21st...

Jacques Lacan's Ecrits: A Comprehensive Collection of His Thought This pivotal period in Lacan's work offers a unique insight into modern thought on key subjects such as otherness, subjectivity, and...

The Helene Cixous Reader presents a substantial collection of texts by one of the most creative and brilliant minds of the twentieth century. Spanning twenty years of intellectual thought, this...

The Social Contract, A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, and A Discourse on Political Economy by Jean-Jacques Rousseau Rousseau's seminal work explores the fundamental nature of human freedom...

Political Change in Southeast Asia by Jacques Bertrand provides a comprehensive survey of politics and political change in the region. Against the backdrop of rapid economic development and social...

How Did Jesus Know He Was God? Self-Consciousness and Human Knowledge of Christ: Maritain, Rahner, and Weinandy by William Chami explores a contemporary christological issue that seeks to understand...

Ex-Cinema offers insightful readings of a diverse range of avant-garde films and videos, including Derek Jarman's Blue and Martin Arnold's found footage works. Akira Lippit's essays explore the...

Lacan and the Subject of Language explores the diverse teachings of Jacques Lacan, one of the most influential psychoanalysts of the 20th century. Written by leading American and European scholars...

The Yale Critics Deconstruction in America by Jonathan Arac, Wlad Godzich, and Wallace Martin A new generation of scholars brings fresh perspectives to the work of a group of influential critics who...

The Autobiography Effect: Writing the Self in Post-Structuralist Theory by Dennis Schep explores the paradoxical relationship between autobiography and authorship. Despite post-structuralism's...

Hélène Cixous's Hemlock is a deeply personal and introspective work that explores the complexities of human attachment through the author's own experiences. This poignant memoir weaves together...

Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a central figure of the European Enlightenment, whose profound ideas continue to shape modern thought. This study by Robert Wokler explores Rousseau's life and works,...

Rousseau: The Social Contract and Other Later Political Writings by Jean-Jacques Rousseau is a comprehensive collection of his major later political writings in modern English translations. This...

Sacred geography, contained in six maps, is revealed in this collection of 18th century manuscripts. Digitised by Gale ECCO to preserve these invaluable works, they are now available in print for the...

A History of Disability by Henri-Jacques Stiker explores how Western societies have responded to disability throughout history. This sweeping narrative examines the cultural assumptions that underpin...

Proust Between Deleuze and Derrida: The Remains of Literature by James Dutton explores the unique intersection of philosophy and literature in Proust's seminal work, À la recherche du temps perdu...

Jacques Rancière's Modern Times Temporality in Art and Politics is a radical critique of modernist ideology. He challenges the traditional view of time as a linear progression from past to future,...

Fragonard: Painting Out of Time explores the enigmatic life and work of 18th-century French painter Jean-Honoré Fragonard, whose artistic silence in the years leading up to his death has long been a...

Kant's Observations and Remarks: A Critical Guide provides in-depth analysis of two pivotal works from Immanuel Kant's oeuvre. Written in 1764 and 1764-1765, these fragments reveal the evolution of...

The Triumph of Religion by Jacques Lacan explores the complex relationship between religion and spirituality in modern society. Born into a devout Catholic family, Lacan's early life was shaped by...

Roland Barthes' death after lunch with François Mitterand sent shockwaves through the literary world. But what if it wasn't an accident? Laurent Binet's novel reimagines this event as a murder,...

Rancière and Literature by Grace Hellyer and Julian Murphet is a collection of 13 original essays that engage with Jacques Rancière's accounts of literature. These essays put Rancière's conceptual...

Freud and Beyond: A History of Modern Psychoanalytic Thought explores the evolution of psychoanalytic thought since Sigmund Freud's death in 1939. This comprehensive history presents over a hundred...

The Forgotten Bookshop in Paris is a heart-wrenching tale of love and loss set against the backdrop of war. In 1940, Jacques is forced to watch as the Nazis take away everything he holds dear,...

Kings and Queens is a highly entertaining collection of poems about all forty-one English Kings and Queens since William I. With wonderfully witty illustrations by Robin Jacques, history has never...

Sensation in the Pelvic Region by Jean Jacques Wyndaele explores the complex world of sensation in the pelvic region, an area containing numerous structures and viscera that play a crucial role in...

Yve-Alain Bois's An Oblique Autobiography is a collection of essays and reminiscences spanning over four decades of his work as an art historian. This volume traces a personal itinerary through the...

The Doctrine of Absolute Predestination Stated and Asserted: With a Preliminary Discourse on the Divine Attributes. Girolamo Zanchi's seminal work on predestination is now available in print for the...

Television: A Challenge to the Psychoanalytic Establishment by Jacques Lacan is a collection of papers that document the controversy surrounding Lacan's teaching and his expulsion from the...

A comprehensive history of French New Wave cinema offers a fresh perspective on the social, economic, and aesthetic factors that shaped this influential film movement. Richard Neupert's study...

Echographies of Television Filmed Interviews is a thought-provoking exploration of the impact of teletechnologies on our philosophical and political moment. In this book, Jacques Derrida engages in a...

Buddhism in Chinese Society: An Economic History from the Fifth to the Tenth Centuries by Jacques Gernet provides a comprehensive understanding of the social and political organization, Buddhist...

Jacques Tardi's latest collaboration with Jean-Patrick Manchette is a thrilling and darkly humorous tale of kidnapping, deception, and survival. A troubled young woman, Julie, is hired as a nanny for...

Lacan Reframed: Interpreting Key Thinkers for the Arts by Steven Levine is an accessible introduction to the complex ideas of Jacques Lacan. This book uses the language of art and visual culture to...

The Second Vatican Council on Other Religions by Gerald O'Collins This book examines five key documents from the 1962-65 Catholic Church gathering that marked a significant shift in Roman Catholic...

A Scholar's Tale: Intellectual Journey of a Displaced Child of EuropeGeoffrey Hartman's memoir offers a unique insight into his life and work, tracing the development of his literary scholarship from...

Molecular Nanomagnets by Dante Gatteschi, Roberta Sessoli, and Jacques Villain is a comprehensive guide to the rapidly expanding field of nanomagnetism. This book provides an in-depth exploration of...

Heather Hadlock explores Jacques Offenbach's final masterpiece, Les Contes d'Hoffmann, in this lively study. The opera is a complex fusion of irony and profundity, peopled by archetypes that comprise...

Abraham and Rol: A Partnership in Design In 1955, Janine Abraham and Dirk-Jan Rol met at Jacques Dumond's studio, marking the beginning of a creative partnership that would span decades. Their shared...

Andy Warhol: A Deeper Look Artists on Andy Warhol is a thought-provoking exploration of the artist's work and legacy. This compact paperback book delves into Warhol's iconic phrase, "If you want to...

Deconstructing the Death Penalty: Derrida's Seminars and the New Abolitionism brings together scholars from philosophy, law, and literature to explore Jacques Derrida's final years' work on the death...

The Queen's Fool is a gripping historical adventure that weaves fact and fiction together to create a thrilling tale of sisterly bonds and self-discovery. When Cat's sister Meg is torn from their...

Cuisine Niçoise Recipes from a Mediterranean Kitchen by Jacques Médecin offers an authentic guide to the cookery of his city. This legendary cookbook, first published in 1972 and now reissued for the...

Falling for a French Dream by Jennifer Bohnet is a heartwarming story about new beginnings and finding one's place in life. After a tragic loss, Nicola Jacques and her teenage son Oliver relocate to...

Jacques Maritain's essays on natural law and natural rights offer a clear statement of his theory, providing a middle ground between individualism and collectivism. Written during a time of growing...

The Beast and the Sovereign, Volume I by Jacques Derrida explores the persistent association between bestiality and sovereignty. In this seminar from 2001-2002, Derrida deconstructs traditional...