International Studies Sale: Philosophy
Virtual space for conference attendees and those interested in the International Studies Association. Books on sale, info on University of Minnesota Press, and more.
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS: 40% OFF BOOKS
All books below are 40% off using code MN89010. Code expires June 1, 2022.
BROWSE BOOKS:
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PHILOSOPHY // POLITICAL SCIENCE // THEORY
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HEALTH AND MEDICINE // URBAN STUDIES // HUMAN RIGHTS
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- Lively Cities Reconfiguring Urban Ecology Maan Barua 2023 Spring
- A journey through unexplored spaces that foreground new ways of inhabiting the urban
- Gut Anthro An Experiment in Thinking with Microbes Amber Benezra 2023 Spring
- A fascinating ethnography of microbes that opens up new spaces for anthropological inquiry
- Rough Metaphysics The Speculative Thought and Mediumship of Jane Roberts Peter Skafish 2023 Spring
- A powerful case for why anthropology should study outsiders of thought and their speculative ideas
- The Frankfurt School in Exile Thomas Wheatland 2023 Spring
- An examination of the influence of German intellectuals on postwar American thought
- Making Sense in Common A Reading of Whitehead in Times of Collapse Isabelle Stengers 2023 Spring
- A leading philosopher seeks to recover “common sense” as a meeting place to reconcile science and philosophy
- Rubber Boots Methods for the Anthropocene Doing Fieldwork in Multispecies Worlds Nils Bubandt, Astrid Oberborbeck Andersen and Rachel Cypher, Editors 2022 Fall
- A methodological follow-up to Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet
- The Lichen Museum A. Laurie Palmer 2023 Spring
- A radical proposal for how a tiny organism can transform our understanding of human relations
- The Long 2020 Richard Grusin and Maureen Ryan, Editors 2022 Fall
- Sharply intelligent, often personal reflections on the global crises of 2020 that are still ongoing
- African Meditations Felwine Sarr 2022 Fall
- An influential thinker’s fascinating reflections and meditations on his native Senegal after years of study abroad
- The Architecture of Disability Buildings, Cities, and Landscapes beyond Access David Gissen 2022 Fall
- A radical critique of architecture that places disability at the heart of the built environment
- Imagination and Invention Gilbert Simondon 2022 Fall
- A radical rethinking of the theory and the experience of mental images
- Rescue Me On Dogs and Their Humans Margret Grebowicz 2023 Spring
- What exactly is it we want from dogs today?
- On the Wandering Paths Sylvain Tesson 2022 Spring
- A walking journey through France’s vast interior becomes a meditation on both personal recovery and the role of history in the present—more than 425,000 copies sold in France
- Plant Life The Entangled Politics of Afforestation Rosetta S. Elkin 2022 Spring
- How afforestation reveals the often-concealed politics between humans and plants
- The Cyclist and His Shadow A Memoir Olivier Haralambon 2022 Spring
- A philosopher and former racing cyclist examines how competitive riders lose their sense of self as they pursue perfect motion and mastery over pain
- Does the Earth Care? Indifference, Providence, and Provisional Ecology Mick Smith and Jason Young 2022 Fall
- Rethinking our relationship with Earth in a time of environmental emergency
- A Guerrilla Guide to Refusal Andrew Culp 2022 Spring
- A field guide to a nonfascist life at the end of the world as we know it
- Insecurity Richard Grusin, Editor 2022 Spring
- Investigating insecurity as the predominant logic of life in the present moment
- Disorderly Families Infamous Letters from the Bastille Archives Arlette Farge and Michel Foucault 2021 Fall
- The first English translation of letters of arrest from eighteenth century France held in the archives of the Bastille
- Language, Madness, and Desire On Literature Michel Foucault 2021 Fall
- Insight into the importance of literature for Michel Foucault—published in English for the first time
- Care Ethics in the Age of Precarity Maurice Hamington and Michael Flower, Editors 2021 Fall
- How care can resist the stifling force of the neoliberal paradigm
- The World Is Gone Philosophy in Light of the Pandemic Gregg Lambert 2022 Spring
- Exploring the existential implications of the Covid-19 crisis through meditations
- Scale Theory A Nondisciplinary Inquiry Joshua DiCaglio 2021 Fall
- A pioneering call for a new understanding of scale across the humanities
- The Three Sustainabilities Energy, Economy, Time Allan Stoekl 2021 Fall
- Bringing the word sustainability back from the brink of cliché—to a substantive, truly sustainable future
- The Lesser Existences Étienne Souriau, an Aesthetics for the Virtual David Lapoujade 2021 Spring
- On the complex aesthetics and ontology at work in Étienne Souriau’s unique oeuvre
- Intolerable Writings from Michel Foucault and the Prisons Information Group (1970–1980) Michel Foucault and Prisons Information Group Edited by Perry Zurn 2021 Spring
- A groundbreaking collection of writings by Michel Foucault and the Prisons Information Group documenting their efforts to expose France’s inhumane treatment of prisoners
- The Dispossessed Karl Marx's Debates on Wood Theft and the Right of the Poor Daniel Bensaïd 2021 Spring
- Excavating Marx’s early writings to rethink the rights of the poor and the idea of the commons in an era of unprecedented privatization
- Molecular Capture The Animation of Biology Adam Nocek 2021 Spring
- How computer animation technologies became vital visualization tools in the life sciences
- Radioactive Ghosts Gabriele Schwab 2020 Fall
- A pioneering examination of nuclear trauma, the continuing and new nuclear peril, and the subjectivities they generate
- Gaian Systems Lynn Margulis, Neocybernetics, and the End of the Anthropocene Bruce Clarke 2020 Fall
- A groundbreaking look at Gaia theory’s intersections with neocybernetic systems theory
- Practicing the Good Desire and Boredom in Soviet Socialism Keti Chukhrov 2020 Spring
- A philosophical consideration of Soviet Socialism that reveals the hidden desire for capitalism in contemporary anticapitalist discourse and theory
- A Silvan Tomkins Handbook Foundations for Affect Theory Adam J. Frank and Elizabeth A. Wilson 2020 Fall
- An accessible guide to the work of American psychologist and affect theorist Silvan Tomkins
- The Death of Asylum Hidden Geographies of the Enforcement Archipelago Alison Mountz 2020 Spring
- Investigating the global system of detention centers that imprison asylum seekers and conceal persistent human rights violations
- Individuation in Light of Notions of Form and Information Gilbert Simondon 2020 Spring
- A long-awaited translation on the philosophical relation between technology, the individual, and milieu of the living
- Individuation in Light of Notions of Form and Information, Volume II Volume II: Supplemental Texts Gilbert Simondon 2020 Spring
- Unique access to archival material of a major thinker, including presentations, early drafts, and a thorough introduction to the history of the philosophical notion of the individual
- The Elements of Foucault Gregg Lambert 2020 Spring
- A new conceptual diagram of Foucault’s original vision of the biopolitical order
- On Not Dying Secular Immortality in the Age of Technoscience Abou Farman 2020 Spring
- An ethnographic exploration of technoscientific immortality
- How Not to Make a Human Pets, Feral Children, Worms, Sky Burial, Oysters Karl Steel 2019 Fall
- From pet keeping to sky burials, a posthuman and ecocritical interrogation of and challenge to human particularity in medieval texts
- Afrotopia Felwine Sarr 2019 Fall
- A vibrant meditation and poetic call for an African utopian philosophy of self-reinvention for the twenty-first century
- From Montaigne to Montaigne Claude Lévi-Strauss Emmanuel Désveaux, Editor 2019 Fall
- Two previously unpublished lectures charting the renowned anthropologist’s intellectual engagement with the sixteenth-century French essayist Michel de Montaigne
- Aesthesis and Perceptronium On the Entanglement of Sensation, Cognition, and Matter Alexander Wilson 2019 Fall
- A new speculative ontology of aesthetics
- Bleak Joys Aesthetics of Ecology and Impossibility Matthew Fuller and Olga Goriunova 2019 Fall
- A philosophical and cultural distillation of the bleak joys in today’s ambivalent ecologies and patterns of life
- Discourse, Figure Jean-François Lyotard 2020 Spring
- Lyotard’s earliest major work, available in English for the first time
- An Ecotopian Lexicon Matthew Schneider-Mayerson and Brent Ryan Bellamy, Editors 2019 Fall
- Presents thirty novel terms that do not yet exist in English to envision ways of responding to the environmental challenges of our generation
- Homesickness Of Trauma and the Longing for Place in a Changing Environment Ryan Hediger 2019 Fall
- Introducing a posthumanist concept of nostalgia to analyze steadily widening themes of animality, home, travel, slavery, shopping, and war in U.S. literature after 1945
- Medical Technics Don Ihde 2020 Spring
- A personal account of the aging body and advanced technologies by a preeminent philosopher of technology
- Archives of Infamy Foucault on State Power in the Lives of Ordinary Citizens Nancy Luxon, Editor 2019 Spring
- Expanding the insights of Arlette Farge and Michel Foucault’s Disorderly Families into policing, public order, (in)justice, and daily life
- Theory for the World to Come Speculative Fiction and Apocalyptic Anthropology Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer 2019 Spring
- Can social theories forge new paths into an uncertain future?
- Design, Nature, and Revolution Toward a Critical Ecology Tomás Maldonado 2019 Spring
- Metaphysical Experiments Physics and the Invention of the Universe Bjørn Ekeberg 2019 Spring
- An engaging critique of the science and metaphysics behind our understanding of the universe
- Cyberwar and Revolution Digital Subterfuge in Global Capitalism Nick Dyer-Witheford and Svitlana Matviyenko 2019 Spring
- Uncovering the class conflicts, geopolitical dynamics, and aggressive capitalism propelling the militarization of the internet
- Another Mother Diotima and the Symbolic Order of Italian Feminism Cesare Casarino and Andrea Righi, Editors 2018 Fall
- A groundbreaking volume introduces the unique feminist thought of the longstanding Italian group known as Diotima
- The Alphonso Lingis Reader Alphonso Lingis Tom Sparrow, Editor 2018 Fall
- A selection of the writings of Alphonso Lingis, showcasing a unique blend of travelogue, cultural anthropology, and philosophy
- Elements of a Philosophy of Technology On the Evolutionary History of Culture Ernst Kapp 2018 Fall
- The first philosophy of technology, constructing humans as technological and technology as an underpinning of all culture
- Heidegger Phenomenology, Ecology, Politics Michael Marder 2018 Fall
- Understanding the political and ecological implications of Heidegger’s work without ignoring his noxious public engagements
- Outsider Theory Intellectual Histories of Unorthodox Ideas Jonathan P. Eburne 2018 Fall
- A vital and timely reminder that modern life owes as much to outlandish thinking as to dominant ideologies
- 99 Theses on the Revaluation of Value A Postcapitalist Manifesto Brian Massumi 2018 Fall
- A speculative exploration of value, emphasizing practical experimentation in its future forms
- The User Unconscious On Affect, Media, and Measure Patricia Ticineto Clough 2018 Spring
- Wide-ranging essays and experimental prose forcefully demonstrate how digital media and computational technologies have redefined what it is to be human
- After Extinction Richard Grusin, Editor 2018 Spring
- A multidisciplinary exploration of extinction and what comes next
- What Is Information? Peter Janich 2018 Spring
- A novel way of looking at information challenges longstanding dogmas—from a preeminent German thinker
- Life A Modern Invention Davide Tarizzo 2017 Fall
- A paradigm-shifting genealogy of biological life as metaphysical concept rather than a scientific category
- The Microbial State Global Thriving and the Body Politic Stefanie R. Fishel 2017 Fall
- An innovative exploration of the metaphorical power of bodies on global politics and the potential for the planet’s future
- Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet Ghosts and Monsters of the Anthropocene Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, Heather Anne Swanson, Elaine Gan and Nils Bubandt, Editors 2017 Spring
- Can humans and other species continue to inhabit the earth together?
- Anthropocene Feminism Richard Grusin, Editor 2017 Spring
- A stunning experiment in thinking of the Anthropocene through feminism and queer theory
- Matters of Care Speculative Ethics in More Than Human Worlds María Puig de la Bellacasa 2017 Spring
- Challenging the view that caring is only human
- Carceral Humanitarianism Logics of Refugee Detention Kelly Oliver 2017 Spring
- Considering the uneasy alliance between humanitarian aid, human rights, and military operations
- Against Purity Living Ethically in Compromised Times Alexis Shotwell 2016 Fall
- Why contamination and compromise might be a starting point for doing something, instead of a reason to give up
- Marxist Thought and the City Henri Lefebvre 2016 Fall
- For the first time in English, Lefebvre’s essential work on how Marx and Engels conceptualized the development of the city
- Exposed Environmental Politics and Pleasures in Posthuman Times Stacy Alaimo 2016 Fall
- A bold call to approach environmentalism from the inside out
- Manifestly Haraway Donna J. Haraway 2016 Spring
- Breaking down the binaries: two manifestos and a conversation on dogs and cyborgs, the implosion of technology, and human and nonhuman beings
- Toward an Architecture of Enjoyment Henri Lefebvre Lukasz Stanek, Editor 2014 Spring
- The relationship between bodily pleasure, space, and architecture—from one of the twentieth century’s most important urban theorists
- Political Affect Connecting the Social and the Somatic John Protevi 2009 Fall
- Encounters the visceral connection between politics and emotion
- The Politics of Bitcoin Software as Right-Wing Extremism David Golumbia 2016 Fall
- The first comprehensive account of Bitcoin’s underlying right-wing politics