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A Thousand Plateaus by Gilles Deleuze
$52.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | 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: Special Orders | 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: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | 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: Plays, Theatre & Dance | 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
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | 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
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | 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: Special Orders | 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
Brecht on Theatre by Bertolt Brecht; Marc Silberman (Editor); Tom Kuhn (Editor); Steve Giles (Editor)
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Category: Plays, Theatre & Dance | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations Ser.
Brecht on Theatre is a seminal work that has remained the classic text for readers and students wanting a rich appreciation of the development of Brecht's thinking on theatre and aesthetics. First published in 1964 and on reading lists ever since, Brecht's writings are presented in this definitive editi ...Show more
Building a Character by Konstantin Stanislavski
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Category: No Category | 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
Cinema I - The Movement-Image by Gilles Deleuze
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Category: Film & TV | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations | Reading Level: very good
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
Creating a Role by Konstantin Stanislavski
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Category: Plays, Theatre & Dance | 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
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | 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