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Focussed around three core themes - capitalism, the metaphysics of democracy and aesthetics - these 13 essays emphasise the potential of Nancy's political thought and situate it within a broader intellectual context.

Explores the core of Balibars work since 1980This collection explores Balibars rethinking of the connections between subjection and subjectivity by tracing the genealogies of these concepts in their discursive history. The 12 essays provide an overview of Balibars work after his collaboration with Althusser. They explain and expand his framework; in particular, by restoring Arabic and Islamic thought to the conversation on the citizen subject. The collection includes two previously untranslated essays by Balibar himself on Carl Schmitt and Thomas Hobbes. Key FeaturesThe first English-language edited collection to focus on BalibarPresents and explains Balibars key contributions to political theory and the history of political philosophyIncludes two essays by Balibar himself on Carl Schmitt and Thomas Hobbes: 'Schmitts Hobbes, Hobbess Schmitt' and 'The Mortal God and his Faithful Subjects: Hobbes, Schmitt and the Antinomies of Secularism'Contributors include Atienne Balibar, Nancy Armstrong, Giorgos Fourtounis, Mohamed Moulfi

These 13 original essays engage with Ranciere's accounts of literature from across his work, putting his conceptual apparatus to work in acts of literary criticism. From his archival investigations of the literary efforts of 19th-century workers to his engagements with specific novelists and poets, and from his concept of 'literarity' to his central positioning of the novel in his account of the three 'regimes' of literary practice, this collection unearths, consolidates, evaluates and critiques Ranciere's work on literature.

These 13 essays explore Bruno Latour's legal theory from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. They combine analytical tools drawn from Latour's actor-network theory developed in Science in Action, Reassembling the Social and The Making of Law with the philosophical anthropology of the Moderns in An Inquiry into Modes of Existence to blaze a new trail in legal epistemology.

A rich exploration of the meaning and consequences of Jacques Rancière's work in relation to music and the aesthetic The place of music in Rancière's thought has long been underestimated or unrecognised. Rancière and Music responds to this absence with a collection of 15 essays by scholars from a variety of music- and sound-related fields including an original Afterword by Rancière on the role of music in his thought and writing. Contributions engage closely with Rancière's existing commentary on music, its relationship to other arts in the aesthetic regime, revealed through detailed case studies around music, sound, and listening. Rancière's thought is explored along a number of music-historical trajectories, including Italian and German opera, Romantic and modernist music, Latin American and South African music, jazz, and contemporary popular music. Rancière's work is also set creatively in dialogue with other key contemporary thinkers including Adorno, Althusser, Badiou and Deleuze. João Pedro Cachopo is a Marie SkLodowska-Curie Fellow with a joint affiliation at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa and the University of Chicago. Patrick Nickleson is a Postdoctoral Researcher in Cultural Studies at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario. Chris Stover is a Research Fellow at the Ritmo Centre for Interdisciplinary Study in Rhythm Time and Motion and Affiliate Faculty in the Department of Musicology at the University of Oslo.

In this first reappraisal of his filmography (1958-2009), readers are introduced to a new Chabrol, one influenced by Balzac, Magritte, Kubrick.

Offers a collection of essays on philosopher jacques Ranciere's work on film. This book offers a range of responses to and assessments of his contributions to film studies and includes a piece by Ranciere himself. It is an assessment of Ranciere's contribution to film studies and theory.

Offers a collection of essays on philosopher jacques Ranciere's work on film. This book offers a range of responses to and assessments of his contributions to film studies and includes a piece by Ranciere himself. It is an assessment of Ranciere's contribution to film studies and theory.

Paul Virilio is one of the leading and most challenging critics of art and technology working today. This title surveys Virilio's aesthetics and socio-cultural ideas and how they function within his highly politicised approach to visual culture.

Paul Virilio is one of the most challenging critics of art and technology. His work has produced substantial debate, compelling readers to ask if his criticism is out of touch or out in front of traditional perspectives. This title includes 13 original writings, that is suitable for students and researchers into contemporary visual culture.

Bringing together a group of internationally renowned theorists, the volume asks: has there been an ethical turn in Judith Butlers work or is the increasing emphasis on ethics the culmination of ideas in her earlier work? How do ethics relate to politics in her work, and how do they connect to her increasing concern with violence, war and conflict?

Judith Butler is best known for Gender Trouble (1990), the book that introduced the idea of gender performativity. However, with the publication of Giving an Account of Oneself in 2005, it appeared as if her work had taken a different turn. This collection of 10 essays offers a sustained evaluation of that alleged ethical turn.

Alain Badiou formulated a two-pronged question about politics: when, and under what conditions, can an event be said to be political? What is the 'what happens' in so far as it happens politically? This book unpacks the diverse intellectual legacies woven into Badiou's work on contemporary polemics and political interventions.

Examines authors fresh contributions to the study of the political. This collection features, essays that connects and develops the fundamental themes and concepts that animate his political thought. It is suitable for readers working in social and political thought, European philosophy, aesthetics and cultural studies.

Offers a series of edited collections forging connections between contemporary critical theorists and a wide range of research areas, such as critical and cultural theory, gender studies, film, literature, music, philosophy and politics.

A series of edited collections forging new connections between contemporary critical theorists and a wide range of research areas, such as critical and cultural theory, gender studies, film, literature, music, philosophy and politics.

As French philosopher Francois Laruelle's texts have become available in English there has been a rising tide of interest in his work, particularly on the concept of 'Non-philosophy'. This book provides an overview of Laruelle's thought and an understanding of his contemporary relevance.

This collection of essays evaluates Agamben's work from a postcolonial perspective. Svirsky and Bignall assemble leading figures to explore the rich philosophical linkages and the political concerns shared by Agamben and postcolonial theory.

A series of edited collections forging new connections between contemporary critical theorists and a wide range of research areas, such as critical and cultural theory, gender studies, film, literature, music, philosophy and politics.

A collection of 13 essays that directly addresses the work of Alain Badiou, focusing specifically on the philosophical content of his work and the various connections he established with both his contemporaries and his philosophical heritage. It examines Badiou's work through the lens of a number of thinkers and themes.

This collection of essays evaluates Agamben's work from a postcolonial perspective. Svirsky and Bignall assemble leading figures to explore the rich philosophical linkages and the political concerns shared by Agamben and postcolonial theory.

Analysing a wide range of novels and films, Sean McQueen brings renewed Marxian readings to cyberpunk texts previously theorised by Baudrillard or Deleuze. He places them at the heart of the emergence of biopunk and biocapitalism, theorising shifts in capitalism, science, technology, psychoanalysis, literature and film studies.

Taking the challenge of speculative realism seriously, Continental Realism and Its Discontents refuses to discard the philosophical contributions of Kant, Schelling, Merleau-Ponty, Derrida and Nancy without closer scrutiny. Instead, the contributors turn to these thinkers to meet the challenge of realism in contemporary philosophy.

A rich exploration of the meaning and consequences of Jacques Rancière's work in relation to music and the aesthetic The place of music in Rancière's thought has long been underestimated or unrecognised. Rancière and Music responds to this absence with a collection of 15 essays by scholars from a variety of music- and sound-related fields including an original Afterword by Rancière on the role of music in his thought and writing. Contributions engage closely with Rancière's existing commentary on music, its relationship to other arts in the aesthetic regime, revealed through detailed case studies around music, sound, and listening. Rancière's thought is explored along a number of music-historical trajectories, including Italian and German opera, Romantic and modernist music, Latin American and South African music, jazz, and contemporary popular music. Rancière's work is also set creatively in dialogue with other key contemporary thinkers including Adorno, Althusser, Badiou and Deleuze. João Pedro Cachopo is a Marie SkLodowska-Curie Fellow with a joint affiliation at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa and the University of Chicago. Patrick Nickleson is a Postdoctoral Researcher in Cultural Studies at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario. Chris Stover is a Research Fellow at the Ritmo Centre for Interdisciplinary Study in Rhythm Time and Motion and Affiliate Faculty in the Department of Musicology at the University of Oslo.