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New Books Catalogue 2017-18 PHILOSOPHY, PAGE 2 THEOLOGY, BIBLICAL STUDIES& PAGE 29 RELIGIOUS STUDIES PAGE 41 NEW BOOKS CATALOGUE 2017-18 PAGE 50 9 781350 057005 PhilTheoBib_FINAL.indd 1-2 03/08/2017 11:19 TM Instant digital access to more than 6,000 eBooks across the social sciences and humanities, including titles from The Arden Shakespeare, Continuum, Bristol Classical Press, and Berg. Subjects covered include: Anthropology • Biblical Studies • Classical Studies & Archaeology • Education • Film & Media • History • Law • Linguistics • Literary Studies • Philosophy • Religious Studies • Theology CONTENT HIGHLIGHTS FEATURES • 125 Collections, expanded annually by subject discipline • Advanced and full text search across all content. • Archive Collections in key subject areas such as ancient • Filter results by subject, series, or collection history, Christology, continental philosophy, and more • Pagination matches print exactly • Special Collections such as International Critical • Personalization features: save searches, export citations Commentary, Ancient Commentators on Aristotle, and and favorite, download, or print documents Education Around the World series • Footnotes, endnotes, and bibliographic references are hyperlinked To register your interest for a free institutional trial, or for further information email: Americas: [email protected] UK, Europe, Middle East, Africa, Asia: [email protected] Australia and New Zealand: [email protected] www.bloomsburycollections.com Collections_advert_2.indd 1 19/07/2017 08:52 Contents Philosophy Biblical Studies Primary Philosophy ��������������������������������������������������������2 Biblical Studies General ������������������������������������������������ 35 Continental Philosophy ��������������������������������������������������6 Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. 36 Continental Philosophy: Social & Political ������������������������ 13 The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies ���������� 37 Analytic Philosophy . 14 Early Jewish Writings & History �������������������������������������� 40 Analytic Philosophy: Epistemology & Metaphysics �������������� 16 New Testament . 41 Philosophy of Religion �������������������������������������������������� 17 The Library of New Testament Studies. 43 Philosophy of Art & Aesthetics . 21 Religious Studies Asian Philosophy . 23 Religion & Popular Culture �������������������������������������������� 49 History of Western Philosophy & Modern Philosophy. 25 Asian Religions ������������������������������������������������������������ 50 Theology Islam ������������������������������������������������������������������������ 53 Philosophical Theology ������������������������������������������������ 27 Religious Studies: Theory & Method �������������������������������� 55 Political Theology �������������������������������������������������������� 27 Sociology of Religion ���������������������������������������������������� 58 Theological Ethics . 28 Anthropology of Religion. 59 Systematic Theology ���������������������������������������������������� 29 Major Reference Works 60 Catholic Theology �������������������������������������������������������� 31 Index ������������������������������������������������������������������������ 62 Reformed Theology . 32 Representatives, Agents & Distributors ���������������������������� 67 Contemporary Theology ������������������������������������������������ 32 Editorial Contacts . 68 Church History & Historical Theology ������������������������������ 33 EBooks Proposals EBook availability is indicated under each book entry: If you have a book proposal, please contact one of the editors listed on page 68 or submit your proposal using forms available at Individual eBook: available for your e-reader www.bloomsbury.com/academic/forauthors Library eBook: available for institution-wide access and also for pdf sale to individuals Inspection / Exam Copies See the website for details of vendors, or to purchase individual eBooks direct. 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Whilst we endeavour to ensure that prices, publication dates and other details in this catalogue are correct on going to press, they are subject to Imprint is Bloomsbury Academic unless indicated otherwise. change without further notice. Bloomsbury Academic is a division of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc. Registered in England No. 01984336. www.bloomsbury.com • USA, Canada, Latin America • 888-330-8477 • [email protected] 1 Alienation and Freedom The Pornographic Age Frantz Fanon Alain Badiou, École Normale Supérieure, France Edited by Jean Khalfa Translated by A. J. Bartlett & Justin Clemens, Translated by Steven Corcoran University of Melbourne Never before published in English, Alienation and A philosophical call to arms, Alain Badiou offers a Freedom is a rare opportunity to read the last compelling indictment of our contemporary society. writings of a major 20th-century philosopher, whose Through a close analysis of Genet's play The disruptive and moving work continues to shape how Balcony, this is a searing critique of the current age we look at the world. and its democratic systems of power. Badiou argues that true radical Frantz Fanon is regarded as a foundational thinker of Postcolonial politics must begin by dismantling the obscene or pornographic Studies, bringing together the analysis of colonialism from an relations of parliamentary capitalism. objective, historical perspective and an interrogation of its Accompanied by critical commentary from Badiou translators and subjective effects on colonizer and colonized alike. This book scholars A.J. Bartlett and Justin Clemens, he asks us to confront the PRIMARY PHILOSOPHY PRIMARY furthers his powerful intervention into how we think about identity, debasement of the political realities of the present, to galvanize race and activism and provides a unique insight into Fanon's literary, ourselves to action. psychiatric and journalistic theories. UK February 2018 • US February 2018 • 208 pages UK March 2018 • US March 2018 • 416 pages PB 9781350014794 • £17.99 / $24.95 • HB 9781350014787 • £55.00 / $74.00 HB 9781474250214 • £19.99 / $29.95 Individual eBook 9781350014800 • £17.99 / $18.99 Individual eBook 9781474250245 • £19.99 / $21.99 Library eBook 9781350014770 Library eBook 9781474250221 Bloomsbury Academic Bloomsbury Academic World English World English Glimpse of Light How to Be a Marxist in New Meditations on First Philosophy Philosophy Stephen Mumford, Durham University, UK Louis Althusser, 16 October 1918 – 22 October This lively challenge to Descartes, written in the 1990) was a French Marxist philosopher. style of Descartes' Meditations, presents a new Translated by G. M. Goshgarian way of understanding reality. Philosopher Benedict With a superb introduction from translator Chilwell faces a crisis of confidence and hopes to and Althusser archivist G.M. Goshgarian, this resolve it in a self-imposed exile, far away in the provocative, and often controversial book re- north of Norway. From his cabin, he begins his meditations, pondering inspires contemporary Marxist thought and reinvigorates our notions the mysteries of philosophy in the dark Arctic winter. In six days of what political activism can be. approaching the return of the light, Benedict discovers a basis for certainty and tries his best to convince his hosts. Through doubts, In this first ever English translation, one of the most famous Marxist questions and reasoning, Chilwell inadvertently follows in Descartes’ philosophers of the 20th century shares his concept of what it means footsteps. to be a forceful and fruitful political thinker. UK June 2017
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