Click here to order What has happened since de Man and Derrida first read Austin? How has the encounter between deconstruction and the performative affected each of these terms? In addressing these questions, this book brings together scholars whose works have been provoked in different ways by the encounter of deconstruction and the performative. Following [...]

The Ontology of an Accident: An Essay on Destructive Plasticity (Polity, 2012) Go to: http://www.polity.co.uk/book.asp?ref=9780745652603 In the usual order of things, lives run their course and eventually one becomes who one is. Bodily and psychic transformations do nothing but reinforce the permanence of identity. But as a result of serious trauma, or sometimes for no [...]

The future of deconstruction lies in the ability of its practitioners to mobilise the tropes and interests of Derrida’s texts into new spaces and creative readings. In Deconstruction without Derrida, Martin McQuillan sets out to do just that, to continue the task of deconstructive reading both with and without Derrida. The book’s principal theme is an attention [...]

Alexandre Kojève has been an often subterranean influence on twentiethcentury thought. With his profound interpretation of Hegel he became a key reference for such varied thinkers as Jean-Paul Sartre, André Breton, Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, and Leo Strauss. He returned to prominence after the collapse of the Soviet Union, as the surprise inspiration [...]

Laruelle and Non-Philosophy, edited by John Mullarkey and Anthony Paul Smith, Edinburgh University Press, 2012. This is the first collection of critical essays on the work of this most original thinker. Francois Laruelle is one of the most important French philosophers of the last 20 years, and as his texts have become available in English [...]

The Poetics of Sleep: From Aristotle to Nancy (Bloomsbury, 2013) Simon Morgan Wortham To what extent does sleep constitute a limit for the philosophical imagination? Why does it recur throughout the ‘text’ of philosophy? Does philosophy entail a certain repression of sleep in all its conceptual impossibility? Through a series of engagements with key thinkers [...]

Horror isn’t what it used to be. Nor are its Gothic avatars. The meaning of monsters, vampires and ghosts has changed significantly over the last two hundred years, as have the mechanisms (from fiction to fantasmagoria, film and video games) through which they are produced and consumed. Limits of horror, moving from gothic to cybergothic, [...]

Roland Barthes (Or the Profession of Cultural Studies) Roland Barthes was one of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century, but why should the reader of today, or tomorrow, be concerned with him? Martin McQuillan provides a fresh perspective on Barthes, addressing his political and institutional inheritance and considering his work as the origins [...]

  Includes:   Conjuring Bodies: Kofman’s Lesson on Death Pleshette DeArmitt     Déjà Vieux: Derrida’s Late Conjuration of de Man Martin McQuillan     The Chase: Rivalry and Conjuration Kas Saghafi     In the Name of the Event: The Deconstructive Conjuration Mauro Senatore     Conjuring Time: Jacques Derrida, Between Testimony and Literature [...]

Why is film becoming increasingly important to philosophers? Is it because it can be a helpful tool in teaching philosophy, in illustrating it? Or is it because film can also think for itself, because it can create its own philosophy? In fact, a popular claim amongst film-philosophers is that film is no mere handmaiden to [...]