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A Thousand Plateaus by Gilles Deleuze
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Category: Critical Thinking | 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
After Virtue by Alasdair MacIntyre
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Category: Critical Thinking | 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
Among the Dead Cities: Is the Targeting of Civilians in War Ever Justified? by A. C. Grayling
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Category: Critical Thinking | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations Ser.
Is it ever right to target civilians in a time of war? Or do the ends sometimes justify the means? The twentieth century - the age of 'total war' - marked the first time that civilian populations came to be seen as legitimate military targets. At this policy's most terrible extreme came the dropping of ...Show more
An Actor Prepares by Constantin Stanislavski
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Category: Film & Performing Arts | 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
Being and Event by Alain Badiou
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Category: Critical Thinking | 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
Beyond the Chains of Illusion : My Encounter With Marx and Freud by Erich Fromm
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Category: Psychology | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations
First published in 1962 Beyond the Chains of Illusion is Fromm's landmark book about Marx and Freud. Here he delivers original readings of these hugely influential thinkers and, in doing so, offers us new ways of understanding the individual and society. Perhaps even more revealing than these readings i ...Show more
Building a Character by Konstantin Stanislavski
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Category: Film & Performing Arts | 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
Can't We Make Moral Judgements? by Mary Midgley
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Category: Critical Thinking | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations
Cinema I - The Movement-Image by Gilles Deleuze
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Category: Film & Performing Arts | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations
Gilles Deleuze was one of the most influential figures in twentieth-century philosophy, well known for his works on the philosophy of art and for his master-works, Difference and Repetition and - with Felix Guattari - A Thousand Plateaus and Anti-Oedipus. Cinema I is the first volume of Deleuze's revolu ...Show more
Cinema II: The Time-Image by Gilles Deleuze
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Category: Critical Thinking | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations
Gilles Deleuze was one of the most influential figures in twentieth-century philosophy, whose master-works, Difference and Repetition and - with Felix Guattari - A Thousand Plateaus and Anti-Oedipus have become one of the most widely-influential bodies of work in contemporary thought. Cinema II is Deleu ...Show more
Course in General Linguistics by Ferdinand de Saussure
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Category: Critical Thinking | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations
Ferdinand de Saussure is commonly regarded as one of the fathers of 20th Century Linguistics. His lectures, posthumously published as the Course in General Linguistics ushered in the structuralist mode which marked a key turning point in modern thought. Philosophers such as Jacques Derrida and Roland Ba ...Show more
Creating a Role by Konstantin Stanislavski
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Category: Film & Performing Arts | 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