The Seminar of Jacques Lacan: The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis by Jacques Lacan
$45.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought | Series: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan
This volume is based on a year's seminar in which Dr. Lacan addressed a larger, less specialized audience than ever before, among whom he could not assume familiarity with his work. For his listeners then, and for his readers now, he wanted to "introduce a certain coherence into the major concepts on wh ...Show more
Queer Theory: Law, Culture, Empire by Robert Leckey
$71.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
Queer Theory: Law, Culture, Empire uses queer theory to examine the complex interactions of law, culture, and empire. Building on recent work on empire, and taking contextual, socio-legal, comparative, and interdisciplinary approaches, it studies how activists and scholars engaged in queer theory projec ...Show more
Gender Trouble by Judith P. Butler
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Category: Contemporary Thought | Series: Routledge Classics Ser.
One of the most talked-about scholarly works of the past fifty years, Judith Butler¿s Gender Trouble is as celebrated as it is controversial. Arguing that traditional feminism is wrong to look to a natural, 'essential' notion of the female, or indeed of sex or gender, Butler starts by questioning the ca ...Show more
Queer Theory by Annamarie Jagose
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Category: Contemporary Thought | Series: Interpretations
Ten years ago queer' was a term of abuse; now it is routinely, although controversially, used as self-description. Queer Theory traces the intriguing history of same-sex sex over the last century through the mid-century homophile movements, gay liberation, the women's movement and lesbian feminism to th ...Show more
On Feminine Sexuality, the Limits of Love and Knowledge: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book XX by Jacques Lacan
$30.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
Often controversial, always inspired, Jacques Lacan here weighs theories of the relationship between the desire for love and the attainment of knowledge from such thinkers as Aristotle, Marx, and Freud. He leads us through mathematics, philosophy, religion, and, naturally, psychoanalysis into an entirel ...Show more
The Universe in Your Hand: A Journey Through Space, Time and Beyond by Christophe Galfard
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Category: Science
Imagine if The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy were a real, practical book about the mysteries of the universe...The Universe In Your Hand takes us on a wonder-filled journey to the surface of our dying Sun, shrinks us to the size of an atom and puts us in the deathly grip of distant Black Holes. Along ...Show more
The War on Women by Sue Lloyd-Roberts
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
Sue Lloyd-Roberts joined ITN in 1973 as a news trainee, she went on to become the UK's first female video-journalist, reporting alone from the bleak outposts of the former Soviet Union and China. With a 30-year-long career in human-rights journalism, she has travelled the globe and witnessed the worst a ...Show more
The Poet's Voice in the Making of Mind by Russell Meares
$72.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
How did the human mind evolve and how does it emerge, again and again, in individual lives? In The Poet's Voice in the Making of Mind, Russell Meares presents a fascinating inquiry into the origin of mind. He proposes that the way in which mind, or self, evolved, may resemble the way it emerges in child ...Show more
The Mind and the Market: Capitalism in Modern European Thought by Muller Jerry Z
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Category: Words & Ideas
How Not to be Wrong: The Hidden Maths of Everyday Life by Jordan Ellenberg
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Category: Contemporary Thought
The maths we learn in school often seems like a mysterious and impenetrable set of rules, laid down by the ancients and not to be questioned. In How Not to Be Wrong, acclaimed mathematician Jordan Ellenberg shows us just how wrong this view is- in fact, maths touches everything we do, allowing us to see ...Show more
Field Guide to Lies by Daniel Levitin
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Category: Contemporary Thought
The bestselling author of The Organized Mind explains and debunks statistics in the information age We live in a world of information overload. Facts and figures on absolutely everything are at our fingertips, but are too often biased, distorted, or outright lies. From unemployment figures to voting pol ...Show more