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This book on Alain Badiou’s philosophy begins with a central theme: the attempt to trace how Badiou has replaced the tradition of critical theory and negation with an affirmative support of his four generic procedures (art, science, love, and art) as inseparable from...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2023-01-25
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This book offers a new theoretical framework within which to understand “the mind-body problem”. The crux of this problem is phenomenal experience, which Thomas Nagel famously described as “what it is like” to be a certain living creature. David Chalmers...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-06-23
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This edited volume examines the psychosocial transformations experienced during the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown, and envisions those that might lead to a more equitable society as we ‘open up’. The book integrates psychoanalysis, sociology, cultural studies, and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-12-01
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Shakespeare ist als Autor weltberühmt. Er war allerdings nicht nur ein genialer Theater-Mann, sondern mindestens ein ebenso exzellenter Psychologe und Anthropologe, der das menschliche Dasein in allen seinen Schattierungen intuitiv verstanden, sowie mit künstlerischer...
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Springer
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2021-12-01
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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Enlightening, thought-provoking and illuminating. Derren Brown asks questions about the world, and his intelligent curiosity benefits us all.'ELIZABETH DAYIn A Book of Secrets, the star of 'Showman', and internationally bestselling author,...
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Transworld Digital
Parution :
2021-09-02
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This book explores how Jacques Lacan has influenced Black Studies from the 1950s to the present day, and in turn how a Black Studies framework challenges the topographies of Lacanianism in its understanding of race. David Marriott examines how a contemporary Black...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-07-02
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Although the term 'jouissance' is common currency in psychoanalysis today, how much does it really tell us? While often taken to designate a fusion of sexuality, suffering and satisfaction, the term has fallen into a purely descriptive use that closes down more...
Editeur :
Polity
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2021-05-28
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This book looks at the representation of viruses in rhetoric, politics, and popular culture. In utilizing Jean Baudrillard’s concept of virality, it examines what it means to use viruses as a metaphor. For instance, what is the effect of saying that a video has gone...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-05-22
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This book shows how persecution is a condition that binds each in an ethical obligation to the other. Persecution is functionally defined here as an impinging, affective relation that is not mediated by reason. It focuses on the works and personal lives of Emmanuel...
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Springer
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2021-04-22
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The classic work on group psychotherapy.Hailed by Jerome Frank as "the best book that exists on the subject," Irvin D. Yalom'sThe Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy has been the standard text in the field for decades.In this completely revised and updated fifth...
Editeur :
Basic Books
Parution :
2020-12-01
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This book examines the theoretical links between Edward W. Said and Sigmund Freud as well the relationship between psychoanalysis, postcolonialism and decoloniality more broadly. The author begins by offering a comprehensive review of the literature on...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-10-30
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This book examines works of four German-Jewish scholars who, in their places of exile, sought to probe the pathology of the Nazi mind: Wilhelm Reich’s The Mass Psychology of Fascism (1933), Erich Fromm’s Escape from Freedom (1941), Siegfried Kracauer’s From...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-08-31
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This book analyses a cultural phenomenon that goes to the very roots of Western civilization: the centrality of death in our sense of human existence. It does so through a close reading of seminal works by the most creative authors of modern French thought, such as...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-08-12
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This book builds on a critique of Slavoj Zizek’s work to outline a new theory of psychoanalytic rhetoric. It turns to Zizek because not only is he one of the most popular intellectuals in the world, but, this book argues, his discourse is shaped by a set of unconscious...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-08-06
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For Freud, dreams were the royal road to the unconscious: through the process of interpretation, the manifest and sometimes bewildering content of dreams can be traced back to the unconscious representations underlying it. But can we understand dreams in another way by...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2020-07-09
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This book turns our search for intimacy on its head, suggesting that our way to creativity in love may be through idiocy. The book takes its readers on a journey through the work of Plato and Melanie Klein in theorizing the dynamics of intimacy while exploring some of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-05-05
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Psychosocial studies in the UK is a diverse area of work characterised by innovation in theory and empirical research. Its extraordinary liveliness is demonstrated in this book, which showcases research undertaken at the Department ofPsychosocial Studies at Birkbeck,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-11-14
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The films of Lars von Trier offer unique opportunities for thinking deeply about how Philosophy and Cinema speak to one another. The book addresses von Trier’s films in order of their release.The earlier chapters discuss his Golden Heart trilogy and USA: Land of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2019-08-31
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This book places Freud’s theory of the reality principle in relation to both everyday experience and global issues of the 21st century and illustrates how it may be practically applied. Arguing against more critical recent accounts of Freud’s science, the author seeks...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-07-09
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This book argues that the story of the orphan girl Pollyanna (namely, her strategy of playing the “glad games” to manage loss, abuse, and social prejudice) serves as a framework for critiquing historical forms of Western scientific Pollyannaism. The author examines...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-06-24
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