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Grzegorz Konat
The Polish Transformation takes an in-depth look at a hitherto unexplored part of the oeuvre of prominent Polish economist and historian of economic thought Tadeusz Kowalik: his thesis that the…
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Gavin Rae
Argues for a rethinking of sexuality as a constellation, rather than substantive identity
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This book brings into conversation geographically diverse theorists to question the meaning, purpose, and place of conceptual borders in philosophy. It shows how contemporary theory is constituted by a dynamic…
This volume shows that the question of the subject is a key one for many poststructuralist thinkers, that they are aware of the problematic status of agency that arises from…
The book takes an in-depth look at a hitherto unexplored part of the oeuvre of prominent Polish economist and historian of economic thought Tadeusz Kowalik: his thesis that the systemic…
As the largest and most strategically important country in Central-Eastern Europe, Poland’s transformation from socialism to capitalism has brought with it immense political changes. This title analyses the changes to…
This book examines Poland’s public sector and welfare state. These are historically rooted in economic and social structures and amount to a form of public capital. There is an ongoing…
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Gavin Rae offers an original approach to sovereign violence by looking at a wide range of thinkers, which he organises into three models. Benjamin, Schmitt, Arendt, Deleuze and Guattari form…
Gavin Rae analyses the history of Western conceptions of evil, showing it to be remarkably complex, differentiated and contested. He traces the problem of evil from early and Medieval Christian…
Gavin Rae shows that the problematic status of agency caused by the poststructuralist decentring of the subject is a central concern for poststructuralist thinkers. He shows how this plays out…
In this book, Gavin Rae analyses the foundationsof political life by undertaking a critical comparative analysis of thepolitical theologies of Carl Schmitt and Emmanuel Levinas.
Guided by the contention that different conceptions of the political are committed to specific conceptions of subjectivity while different conceptions of subjectivity have different political implications, the essays in this…
Guided by Benjamin’s essay Critique of Violence, this collection shows how subsequent thinkers within critical theory, phenomenology, psychoanalysis, deconstructionism, and biopolitical theory have conceptualized violence.
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This volume reconsiders poststructuralism historically and demonstrates the ways in which it remains relevant, especially for debates in aesthetics, ethics, and politics. It examines issues including biopolitics, culture, embodiment, epistemology…
Gavin Muge
During a football match no one pays the referee or the referee's assistants any attention - until they make a mistake. Then all hell breaks loose. Gavin Muge threads an…
