Tag: Critique

January 15, 2025

Against Constitutional Originalism A Historical Critique (Yale Law Library Series in Legal History and Reference)

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Free Download Against Constitutional Originalism: A Historical Critique (Yale Law Library Series in Legal History and Reference) by Jonathan Gienapp
English | September 3, 2024 | ISBN: 0300265859 | 368 pages | PDF | 4.74 Mb
A detailed and compelling examination of how the legal theory of originalism ignores and distorts the very constitutional history from which it derives interpretive authority

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January 11, 2025

Anteaesthetics Black Aesthesis and the Critique of Form (Inventions Black Philosophy, Politics, Aesthetics)

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Free Download Anteaesthetics: Black Aesthesis and the Critique of Form (Inventions: Black Philosophy, Politics, Aesthetics) by Rizvana Bradley
English | October 24, 2023 | ISBN: 1503637131 | 406 pages | PDF | 53 Mb
In Anteaesthetics, Rizvana Bradley begins from the proposition that blackness cannot be represented in modernity’s aesthetic regime, but is nevertheless foundational to every representation. Troubling the idea that the aesthetic is sheltered from the antiblack terror that lies just beyond its sanctuary, Bradley insists that blackness cannot make a home within the aesthetic, yet is held as its threshold and aporia. The book problematizes the phenomenological and ontological conceits that underwrite the visual, sensual, and abstract logics of modernity.

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December 29, 2024

The Ascent of Affect Genealogy and Critique

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Free Download The Ascent of Affect: Genealogy and Critique by Ruth Leys
English | November 10, 2017 | ISBN: 022648842X, 022648856X | True EPUB | 416 pages | 1.4 MB
In recent years, emotions have become a major, vibrant topic of research not merely in the biological and psychological sciences but throughout a wide swath of the humanities and social sciences as well. Yet, surprisingly, there is still no consensus on their basic nature or workings.

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December 23, 2024

The Empire of Civil Society A Critique of the Realist Theory of International Relations

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Free Download The Empire of Civil Society: A Critique of the Realist Theory of International Relations by Justin Rosenberg
English | November 26, 2024 | ISBN: 1804295973 | 256 pages | EPUB | 0.43 Mb
The Empire of Civil Society mounts a compelling critique of the orthodox "realist" theory of international relations and provides a historical-materialist approach to the international system.

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December 16, 2024

The Japanese Ideology A Marxist Critique of Liberalism and Fascism

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Free Download The Japanese Ideology: A Marxist Critique of Liberalism and Fascism by Jun Tosaka, Robert Stolz
English | September 17, 2024 | ISBN: 023121653X | 392 pages | PDF | 4.04 Mb
A major Marxist thinker and critic in 1930s Japan, Tosaka Jun was among the world’s most incisive―yet underrecognized―theorists of capitalism, fascism, and ideology during the years before World War II. The Japanese Ideology is his masterpiece, first published in 1935, as Japan and the world plummeted into an age of reaction. Tosaka offers a ruthless philosophical critique of contemporary ideology that exposes liberalism’s deep complicity with fascism.

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