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The Concept of Conversation - From Cicero's Sermo to the Grand Siecle's Conversation - Bog af David Randall - Paperback

The Concept of Conversation traces the way the rise of conversation spread out from the history of rhetoric to include the histories of friendship, the court and the salon, the Rlic of Letters, periodical press and women.

DKK 274.95

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The Concept of the State in International Relations - Philosophy, Sovereignty and Cosmopolitanism - Stirk Peter M R

The concept of the state plays a central role in international relations, particularly in realist and neo-realist approaches. Yet, the meaning of the state is persistently taken to be self-evident by both advocates of the sovereign state and its critics. This volume assesses the concepts of the state and sovereignty in international relations.

DKK 236.95

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Heidegger'S Ontology of Events - James Bahoh

Critically reconstructs Heidegger's concept of event - the most fundamental concept in Heidegger's later philosophy James Bahoh proposes a new methodology for explaining Heidegger's philosophy: diagenic analysis'. This approach solves a set of interpretive problems that have stymied previous approaches to his difficult later work and led to substantial inconsistencies in the available scholarship. Using it, Bahoh reconstructs Heidegger's concept of event in relation to his theories of history, truth,..

DKK 228.95

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The Politics of Property - Labour, Freedom and Belonging - Bog af Laura Brace - Paperback

This book provides an up-to-date analysis of the concept of prperty, taking into account current debates about gender, slavery and colonialism, and introducing property as a contested concept in debates between thinkers, across ideologies and in political practice.

DKK 287.95

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Queer Defamiliarisation - Writing, Mattering, Making Strange - Helen Palmer

Helen Palmer examines the Russian formalist concept of defamiliarisation from a contemporary critical perspective, bringing together new materialist feminisms, experimental linguistic formalism and queer theory.

DKK 245.95

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Contemporary Feminism and Women's Short Stories - Bog af Emma Young - Paperback

This book offers a wide-ranging survey of contemporary women's short stories and introduces a new way of theorising feminism in the genre through the concept of 'the moment'.

DKK 225.95

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The Priority of Events - Deleuze's Logic of Sense - Bog af Sean Bowden - Paperback

This is a radical interpretation of Deleuze's Logic of Sense. It focuses on Deleuze's concept of events and brings Deleuze's work into relation with the traditions of process philosophy and American pragmatism.

DKK 292.95

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Standing Up for Scotland - Nationalist Unionism and Scottish Party Politics, 1884-2014 - Bog af David Torrance - Paperback

David Torrance combines nationalist theory with empirical historical and archival research to reassess the relationship between 'nationalism' and 'unionism' in Scottish politics, challenging a binary reading of the two ideologies with the concept of 'nationalist unionism'.

DKK 232.95

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The Politics of Community - Theory and Practice - Bog af Adrian Little - Paperback

Community is one of the most widely used yet also one of the most complex concepts in modern political thought. This book provides an introduction to the concept, showing how philosophical ideas can be used in political practice.

DKK 287.95

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Onto-Cartography - An Ontology of Machines and Media - Bog af Levi R. Bryant - Paperback

What sort of interaction is there between, for example, slow-moving objects like climate and comparatively fast-moving objects like governments? Using real-world examples, the author shows how a networked concept of space and time is at the heart of our central political concerns.

DKK 350.95

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STASIS - Civil War as a Political Paradigm - Bog af Giorgio Agamben - Paperback

Offers Agamben's genealogy of power in terms of political, philosophical and legal thought. This book investigates the genealogy of the strife between the Polis and its population with particular regard to the Greek concept of stasis and the strife with the commonwealth of Hobbes' Leviathan.

DKK 207.95

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The Emergence of Minorities in the Middle East - The Politics of Community in French Mandate Syria - Bog af Benjamin Thomas White - Paperback

Why, in the years around 1920, did the concept of 'minority' suddenly become prominent in public affairs worldwide? The author uses a study of Syria under the French mandate to show what historical developments led people to start describing themselves and others as 'minorities'.

DKK 272.95

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Theatrical Milton - Politics and Poetics of the Staged Body - Bog af PRAWDZIK BRENDAN - Paperback

Theatrical Milton' brings coherence to the presence of theatre in John Milton through the concept of theatricality. In this book, 'theatricality' identifies a discursive field entailing the rhetorical strategies and effects of framing a given human action, including speech and writing, as an act of theatre.

DKK 274.95

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Affirming Divergence - Deleuze'S Reading of Leibniz - Bog af Alex Tissandier - Paperback

Alex Tissandier traces Leibniz's ambiguous status for Deleuze to explain two key ideas in Deleuzian philosophy: a concept of difference that is not reducible to a relation of contradiction and an account of the genesis of the world that does not presuppose the structure of representation.