Philosophical Screens Wed 25 Apr 18:30 at BFI Southbank (NFT3) Matthieu Potte-Bonneville on L’exercice de l’État (The Minister) (France 2011. Dir Pierre Schöller.     With Olivier Gourmet, Michel Blanc, Zabou Breitman. 115min. EST) Philosophical Screens is a new series, running twice per semester, that invites audiences to explore dialogues between philosophy and film, through [...]

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, [...]

Since its publication in 1967, Of Grammatology has had a profound impact on philosophy, literary theory and the Humanities in general. Through a series of close readings of selected passages by writers from a wide range of disciplines, this collection aims to discover anew this important work and its continuing influence. It includes new readings [...]

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 [...]

The Journal for Cultural Research is a journal dedicated to the transdisciplinary analysis of culture and the changing values that underpins it. The journal publishes the latest thinking of leading international figures and the best writing of a new generation of scholars around the globe. Contributions interrogate the transvaluation and deformation of cultural spaces: virtual, [...]

By developing his own conception of the ‘figure’ Andrew Benjamin has written an innovative and provocative study of the complex relationship between philosophy, the history of painting and their presentation of both Jews and animals. As Benjamin makes clear the ‘Other’ is never abstract. He underscores the means by which the ethical imperative, arising from [...]

The Derrida Dictionary is a comprehensive and accessible guide to the world of Jacques Derrida, the founder of deconstruction and one of the most important and influential European thinkers of the twentieth century. Meticulously researched and extensively cross-referenced, this unique book covers all his major works, ideas and influences and provides a firm grounding in [...]