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A Thousand Plateaus by Gilles Deleuze
$59.00 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations
A Thousand Plateaus is the second part of Deleuze and Guattari's landmark philosophical project, Capitalism and Schizophrenia - a project that still sets the terms of contemporary philosophical debate. Written over a seven year period, A Thousand Plateaus provides a compelling analysis of social phenome ...Show more
Aesthetic Theory by Theodor W. Adorno
$36.99 NZD
$44.00 (15% off)
Category: Cultural Studies | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations
Theodor Adorno (1903-69) was undoubtedly the foremost thinker of the Frankfurt School, the influential group of German thinkers that fled to the US in the 1930s, including such thinkers as Herbert Marcuse and Max Horkheimer. His work has proved enormously influential in sociology, philosophy and cultura ...Show more
After Virtue by Alasdair MacIntyre
$30.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations
Highly controversial when it was first published in 1981, Alasdair MacIntyre's After Virtue has since established itself as a landmark work in contemporary moral philosophy. In this book, MacIntyre sought to address a crisis in moral language that he traced back to a European Enlightenment that had made ...Show more
An Actor Prepares by Constantin Stanislavski
$37.00 NZD
Category: Technology & Transport | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations
An Actor Prepares is the most famous acting training book ever to have been written and the work of Stanislavski has inspired generations of actors and trainers. This translation was the first to introduce Stanislavski's 'system' to the English speaking world and has stood the test of time in acting cla ...Show more
Anti-Oedipus by Felix Gilles;Guattari Deleuze
$55.00 NZD
Category: Not a Book | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations
The collaboration of the philosopher Gilles Deleuze and the psychoanalyst Felix Guattari has been one of the most profoundly influential partnerships in contemporary thought. Anti-Oedipus is the first part of their masterpiece, Capitalism and Schizophrenia. Ranging widely across the radical tradition of ...Show more
Being and Event by Alain Badiou
$40.00 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations
Since the book's first publication in 1988, Alain Badiou's Being and Event has established itself of one of the most important and controversial works in contemporary philosophy and its author as one of the most influential thinkers of our time. Being and Event is a comprehensive statement of Badiou's p ...Show more
Building a Character by Konstantin Stanislavski
$37.00 NZD
Category: Technology & Transport | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations
In this follow up to his most famous book, An Actor Prepares, Stanislavski develop his influential 'system' of acting by exploring the imaginative processes at the heart of the actor's craft. Building a Character deals with the physical realisation of character on the stage through such tools as express ...Show more
Creating a Role by Konstantin Stanislavski
$24.99 NZD
Category: Technology & Transport | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations
Creating A Role is the third book - alongside the international bestseller An Actor Prepares and Building A Character - in the series of influential translations that introduced Stanislavski's acting 'system' to the English-speaking world. Here Stanislavski describes the elaborate preparation that an ac ...Show more
Difference and Repetition by Gilles Deleuze
$55.00 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations
Since its publication in 1968, Difference and Repetition, an exposition of the critique of identity, has come to be considered a contemporary classic in philosophy and one of Gilles Deleuze's most important works. The text follows the development of two central concepts, those of pure difference and com ...Show more
Discourse on Free Will by Desiderius Erasmus
$29.99 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations
Desiderius Eramsus (1466/9-1536) was the most renowned scholar of his age, a celebrated humanist and Classicist, and the first teacher of Greek at Cambridge. An influential figure in the Protestant Reformation, though without ever breaking from the Church himself, he satirised both human folly and the c ...Show more
Education for Critical Consciousness by Paulo Freire
$29.99 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations
Famous for his advocacy of 'critical pedagogy', Paulo Freire was Latin America's foremost educationalist, a thinker and writer whose work and ideas continue to exert enormous influence in education throughout the world today. Education for Critical Consciousness is the main statement of Freire's revolut ...Show more
I and Thou by Martin Buber
$37.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy, Spirituality & Religion | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations
'The publication of Martin Buber's I and Thou was a great event in the religious life of the West.' Reinhold NiebuhrMartin Buber (1897-19) was a prolific and influential teacher and writer, who taught philosophy at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem from 1939 to 1951. Having studied philosophy and art a ...Show more