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Continental Philosophy
Emanuele Severino Translated by Damiano Sacco, ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry, Germany Written by one of the foremost Italian philosophers of the 20th century, Emanuele Severino's Law and Chance (Legge e Caso) explores how the concept of laws and legality push against the freedom to think freely and radically Severino is increasingly being recognised as a truly foundational thinker in the formation of contemporary theory and his nuanced concept of legality explored in this work has particular relevance for issues around protest, police power and the role of personal conscience in how to live
UK February 2023 • US February 2023 • 192 pages PB 9781350273139 • £1799 / $2495 • HB 9781350273122 • £5500 / $7500 ePub 9781350273153 • £1619 / $2334 ePdf 9781350273146 • £1619 / $2334 Bloomsbury Academic World English
Capitalism and the New Political Unconscious
A Philosophy of Immanence
Edited by Fabio Vighi, Cardiff University, UK & Riccardo Panattoni, Verona University, Italy Taking seriously Lacan’s claim that “the unconscious is politics”, this volume interrogates the assumption that contemporary capitalism functions by tapping into people’s forms of unconscious enjoyment rather than providing transcendental conditions for the articulation of political meaning Written by leading international scholars, including Roberto Esposito and Slavoj Žižek, each chapter reflects on contemporary power structures and inspires consideration of new political potentialities, which our focus on politics in transcendental rather than immanent terms has thus far obscured In so doing, this volume uncovers the centrality of both psychoanalysis and the philosophy of immanence to an up-to-date understanding of the political
UK March 2023 • US March 2023 • 272 pages HB 9781350240247 • £8500 / $11500 ePub 9781350240278 • £7650 / $10578 ePdf 9781350240261 • £7650 / $10578 Series: Political Theory and Contemporary Philosophy • Bloomsbury Academic Jean-Francois Lyotard Edited by Robert Harvey, Stony Brook University, USA & Kiff Bamford, Leeds Beckett University, UK ‘Nobody knows how to write’ Thus opens this nuanced and accessible collection of essays by one of the most important philosophers of the 20th century, Jean-François Lyotard First published as Lectures d’enfance, investigating Lyotard's idea of infantia, or the infancy of thought that resists all forms of development, these essays are published together in English for the first time. Each essay responds to thinkers central to cultural modernism, including James Joyce, Franz Kafka, Hannah Arendt, and Sigmund Freud With a foreword and afterword by Robert Harvey and Kiff Bamford, this volume contextualises Lyotard’s thought and demonstrates his continued relevance today
UK February 2023 • US February 2023 • 208 pages PB 9781350167346 • £2199 / $2995 • HB 9781350167353 • £6500 / $9000 ePub 9781350167377 • £1979 / $2747 ePdf 9781350167360 • £1979 / $2747 Bloomsbury Academic World English
Posthumanism in Practice
Edited by Christine Daigle, Brock University, Canada & Matthew Hayler, University of Birmingham, UK Posthumanism in Practice applies posthumanist thinking to intersectional practices in the arts, sciences and humanities In this book, artists, researchers, educators and curators set out how their own work has changed in response to engaging with posthumanism, or how the things that they have discovered can be better understood within this different paradigm By capturing these ideas, this volume shows how posthumanist thought can move beyond theory, inform action and produce new artefacts, effects and methods that are more relevant and useful for the incoming realities for all life in the 21st century
UK February 2023 • US February 2023 • 272 pages HB 9781350293809 • £8500 / $11500 ePub 9781350293823 • £7650 / $10578 ePdf 9781350293816 • £7650 / $10578 Series: Posthumanism in Practice • Bloomsbury Academic
Against New Materialisms
Edited by Benjamin Boysen, Independent Scholar, Denmark & Jesper Lundsfryd Rasmussen, Aarhus University, Denmark This is the first collection to offer comprehensive scrutiny of the theories associated with new materialisms, including but not limited to: speculative realism, new materialism, objectoriented ontology and actor-network theory Looking at these theories from a number of interdisciplinary angles – from ontology and phenomenology to epistemology and ecology – this volume examines the theoretical and practical problems connected with the rejection of modernity and the human subject Bringing together international scholars, including Markus Gabriel, Andrew Cole, and Dipesh Chakrabarty, the contributors here question the ability of this trend to provide solutions to the current global crises
UK April 2023 • US April 2023 • 256 pages HB 9781350172876 • £8500 / $11500 ePub 9781350172890 • £7650 / $10578 ePdf 9781350172883 • £7650 / $10578 Bloomsbury Academic
Elias Canetti and Social Theory
The Bond of Creation
Andrea Mubi Brighenti, University of Trento, Italy Elias Canetti is increasingly being recognised in the social and political sciences for the seminal text, Crowds and Power (1960) While this work has been criticised for its alleged antihistoricity, anti-modernism and dark vision of humankind, it can instead be interpreted as a critique of the mono-dimensionality and obsessiveness of power This book argues that the alleged anti-modernism of Canetti actually makes him more contemporary than many contemporary social-political thinkers Dealing with key concepts including: commands, increase, resistance, and commonality, each of these is connected with real, lived social realities, making this book a compelling argument for Canetti's relevance today
UK January 2023 • US January 2023 • 256 pages • 4 bw illus HB 9781350344419 • £8500 / $11500 ePub 9781350344433 • £7650 / $10578 ePdf 9781350344426 • £7650 / $10578 Bloomsbury Academic World English
A Philosophy of Worldbuilding and Imaginary Play
Stefano Gualeni, University of Malta, Malta & Riccardo Fassone, University of Torino, Italy What roles do imaginary games have in storytelling? Why do fiction authors outline the rules of a game that the audience will never play? Combining perspectives from philosophy, literary theory and game studies, this book provides the first-in-depth investigation into the significance of fictional games within fictional worlds. With examples from contemporary cinema and literature, from The Hunger Games to Iain M. Banks, Gualeni and Fassone introduce five key functions that imaginary games have in worldbuilding In doing so, Fictional Games inspires us to consider imaginary games anew: not just as moments of playful reprieve, but as multi-layered expressive devices
UK January 2023 • US January 2023 • 240 pages • 20 bw illus HB 9781350277083 • £8500 / $11500 ePub 9781350277106 • £7650 / $10578 ePdf 9781350277090 • £7650 / $10578 Bloomsbury Academic
Sam McAuliffe, Monash University, Australia In the first book to examine the relationship between musical improvisation and philosophical hermeneutics, Sam McAuliffe asks: what exactly is improvisation? And how does it relate to our beingin-the-world? Drawing on the work of Heidegger, Gadamer, and Malpas, this book provides a rich account of how we are all already experienced improvisers Part I uses improvised music to uncover the ontological structure of improvisation: a structure that McAuliffe demonstrates is identical to that of hermeneutic engagement Part II offers a new reading of Gadamer’s hermeneutics, revealing how Gadamer’s accounts of truth, language, and ethics each possess an essentially improvisational character
UK February 2023 • US February 2023 • 240 pages HB 9781350338012 • £8500 / $11500 ePub 9781350338036 • £7650 / $10578 ePdf 9781350338029 • £7650 / $10578 Bloomsbury Academic
The Philosophy of Mannerism
From Aesthetics to Modal Metaphysics
Sjoerd van Tuinen, Erasmus University, the Netherlands Examining afresh the 16th-century style of mannerism, Van Tuinen synthesises philosophy and aesthetics to demonstrate both the contemporary relevance of mannerism and its broader significance as a form of modal thinking Beyond an artistic style that spurned the balance of earlier Renaissance painting in favour of compositional instability, this book looks a-historically at mannerism to investigate what it can tell us about continental modal metaphysics, focusing especially on its artificial and what Van Tuinen calls ‘secondary’ nature Drawing on Bergson, Simondon, Deleuze and Agamben, this book uncovers the rich new pathways created by the combination of philosophy and art history
UK December 2022 • US December 2022 • 256 pages HB 9781350322479 • £8500 / $11500 ePub 9781350322493 • £7650 / $10578 ePdf 9781350322486 • £7650 / $10578 Bloomsbury Academic
Genet, Lacan and the Ontology of Incompletion
James Penney, Trent University, Canada Bringing Jean Genet and Jacques Lacan into dialogue, James Penney reveals their shared ontology of fragility and incompletion This book exposes the two thinkers' unwavering ontological conviction that the representations making up the world of appearances are inherently enigmatic and reveals how, in the same manner as Lacan’s psychoanalytic act, Genet’s acts of poetry seek to uncover the fragile prop that holds our reality together, baring the fissures in being for which fantasy normally compensates. Exploring the whole of Genet’s oeuvre and combining this with psychoanalysis, Penney opens up new avenues for thinking about Genet, Lacan and our wanting being
UK January 2023 • US January 2023 • 240 pages HB 9781350300507 • £8500 / $11500 ePub 9781350300521 • £7650 / $10578 ePdf 9781350300514 • £7650 / $10578 Bloomsbury Academic
The Living Philosophy of Edith Stein
Peter Tyler, St Mary's University College, Twickenham, UK Drawing on previously untranslated and neglected sources, Peter Tyler reveals how the work of Edith Stein lies at the interface of philosophy, psychology, and theology By bringing Stein into conversation with numerous scholars and traditions, from Nietzsche to Witttgenstein, Tyler investigates two core aspects of her thinking: her ‘spiritual anthropology’ and her ‘philosophy of life’ Through examination of Stein’s varied contributions to social and political issues still critical today, this book demonstrates how Stein is the guide we all need, as we seek to develop our own philosophy for life in the contemporary world
UK January 2023 • US January 2023 • 256 pages HB 9781350265561 • £8500 / $11500 ePub 9781350265585 • £7650 / $10578 ePdf 9781350265578 • £7650 / $10578 Bloomsbury Academic
Affirmative Love and Friendship
Emilio Carlo Corriero, University of Turin, Italy Corriero traces the notion of ‘the gift’ in Thus Spoke Zarathustra providing a new interpretation, alongside ‘the gift’s’ evolution as a key concept in the history of western philosophy and Christianity Nietzsche's writings on the death of God, The Will to Power, the Overman, and eternal recurrence are analysed anew in Corriero’s reading Using key 20th century writings on ‘the gift’ from Derrida, Benveniste, and Esposito, Corriero traverses compassionate love and affirmative love, to present Zarathustra as Nietzsche’s ultimate gift, at the same time cementing the centrality of ‘the gift’ to the history of sociality and philosophy
UK March 2023 • US March 2023 • 142 pages PB 9781350212299 • £2899 / $3995 Previously published in HB 9781350212268 ePub 9781350212282 • £7650 / $10578 ePdf 9781350212275 • £7650 / $10578 Bloomsbury Academic World All Languages (except Italian)
Andrew Alexander Davis, Belmont University, USA Providing a fresh perspective on Hegel’s preface to the Phenomenology of Spirit, Andrew Davis contends that it is not an introduction to Hegel’s philosophical method, but rather an overview of what philosophy is not Each chapter explores a different form of pseudo-philosophy that Hegel addresses in his preface, allowing Hegelian philosophy to appear in relief as precisely what cannot be achieved through explanation, edification, formalism, phenomenology, mathematical proof, propositional truth, or personal revelation A jargon-free introduction to Hegel’s thought, this book yields crucial insights into the organisation of a preface that has long been decried as incomprehensible
UK February 2023 • US February 2023 • 240 pages HB 9781350347755 • £8500 / $11500 ePub 9781350347779 • £7650 / $10578 ePdf 9781350347762 • £7650 / $10578 Bloomsbury Academic
The Real is Radical
Marx after Laruelle
Jonathan Fardy, Idaho State University, USA The Real is Radical is centrally concerned with the explication and development of François Laruelle’s theory of “non-standard Marxism” Fardy assembles a constellation of concepts designed to put Laruelle’s work into dialogue with diverse theoretical perspectives, including Althusser, Tronti, Adorno, Baudrillard, Kolozova and others while demonstrating the novelty and theoretical saliency of Laruelle’s work This book provides a muchneeded introduction to non-standard Marxism and a useful starting point for the development of its theoretical potential
UK March 2023 • US March 2023 • 240 pages PB 9781350261013 • £2899 / $3995 Previously published in HB 9781350168077 ePub 9781350168091 • £7650 / $10578 ePdf 9781350168084 • £7650 / $10578 Bloomsbury Academic
Parallax
The Dialectics of Mind and World
Edited by Dominik Finkelde, Munich School of Philosophy, Germany, Slavoj Žižek, Birkbeck Institute for Humanities, University of London, UK & Christoph Menke, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Germany Building on Žižek’s The Parallax View, this volume shows how parallax is used as a figure of thought that proves how the incompatibility between the physical and the theoretical touches not only upon the ontological, but also politics and aesthetics Featuring renowned philosophers including Frank Ruda and Graham Harman, this book shows how modes of parallax remain central to many modern theoretical disciplines and to debates about speculative realism and dialectical materialism
UK February 2023 • US February 2023 • 272 pages PB 9781350253377 • £2899 / $3995 Previously published in HB 9781350159624 ePub 9781350172050 • £7650 / $10578 ePdf 9781350172043 • £7650 / $10578 Bloomsbury Academic Vanishing Words and Hermeneutical Openness in the 'Phenomenology of Spirit'
Jeffrey Reid, University of Ottawa, Canada Reading the Phenomenology of Spirit through a linguistic lens, Jeffrey Reid provides an original commentary to Hegel’s most famous work Beginning with a close analysis of the preface, where Hegel himself addresses the book’s difficulty and explains his tortured language in terms of what he calls the “speculative proposition”, Reid demonstrates how every of form of consciousness discussed in the Phenomenology of Spirit involves and reveals itself as a form of language
UK January 2023 • US January 2023 • 248 pages PB 9781350213630 • £2899 / $3995 Previously published in HB 9781350213593 ePub 9781350213616 • £7650 / $10578 ePdf 9781350213609 • £7650 / $10578 Bloomsbury Academic
A New Philosophy of Modernity and Sovereignty
Towards Radical Historicisation
Przemyslaw Tacik, Jagiellonian University, Poland Tackling important philosophical questions on modernity, Przemyslaw Tacik challenges the idea that modernity marks a particular epoch, and historicises its conception to offer a radical critique of it Including reflections on Hegel, Heidegger, Arendt, Agamben and Žižek, Tacik proposes a paradigm shift in our understanding of modernity, drawing on Hegelianism, Marxism, deconstruction, and critical theory to create wide-ranging implications for contemporary continental philosophy, theories of modernity, political theory, and critical reassessments of Marxism Uniquely speaking to the philosophical and legal history of modernity, this book ambitiously re-orients our understanding and suggests how we might move beyond its theoretical limitations
UK March 2023 • US March 2023 • 232 pages PB 9781350201309 • £2899 / $3995 Previously published in HB 9781350201262 ePub 9781350201286 • £7650 / $10578 ePdf 9781350201279 • £7650 / $10578 Bloomsbury Academic
