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Reproduces the Cogito debate: the central articles written by Foucault and Derrida, and the correspondence between Jean-Marie Beyssade and Foucault. In the second part of the book, 10 essays by well-known contemporary continental philosophers address the intersections and divergences between Foucault and Derrida.

Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault are two of the most influential philosophers of the 20th century. Both share a similar motivation to challenge our fundamental structures of meaning. Between Foucault and Derrida explores the notorious Cogito debate, an argument between the two thinkers about the idea of madness in Descartes' Meditations.

Explores how knowledge of French helped shape Russian identities and their views on the Russian language. This explores the profound impact of the French language and culture on Russian high society and consciousness in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It contributes to knowledge of the development of national self consciousness in Russia.

This book addresses the idea that art and literature deal in the subject of everyday reality and discusses the subject of the familiar and the trivial in the work of canonical writers and artists.

This book offers an extensive investigation of the life and multi-faceted career of Florence Marryat (1837-1899) the much feted Victorian novelist, editor, actress and public orator.

This is the first book to take political devolution as an organising context for the presentation and discussion of main currents in contemporary Scottish poetry.

This collection of essays seeks to explore Agamben's work from philosophical and literary perspectives, thereby underpinning its place within larger debates in continental philosophy.

Two of James Hogg's pastoral dramas with songs, presented here with full explanatory notes and glossary.

This book aims to challenge the current orthodoxy concerning how Deleuze's work is viewed, whilst also bringing illumination to bear on areas of his work that too often seem obscure, even impenetrable.

A contemporary and lively introduction to the study of popular culture through one central case study.

A comprehensive study of the media in Scotland.

An innovative insight to the everyday lives of Muslims in Britain, focusing on the intersection of race, place and identities. It gathers a range of reflections on how Muslims in Britain negotiate their everyday lives, manage experiences of racism and exclusion, and develop local networks and global connections.

A series of studies on small national (or sub-national) cinemas

The only available editions of these two works by Scott, presented with full explanatory notes and glossary.

This book provides a stimulating discussion of, and introduction to, just war theory.

This new edition prints together, for the first time, the surviving pre-1807 versions of poems included in The Mountain Bard, the full 1807 collection, and the complete 1821 version.

A wide-ranging introduction to film history, this anthology covers the history of film from 1895 to the present day.

In the third and final volume of Alastair Campbell's acclaimed account of the Campbells the story resumes at a high pace.

Challenging the linear view of history which confines or predetermines the outcome of politics, this book argues for an 'untimely' politics, rendering the past problematic and the future unpredictable.

This is a unique and accessible reference guide to the work of figures who have played an important role in the development of ideas about language. It includes 80 entries on individual thinkers in the Western tradition, ranging from antiquity to the present day, chosen because of their impact on the description or theory of language.

This major textbook offers both an introduction to and key readings in twenty core political concepts. It blends original essays that survey debates and contact with up-to-date primary literature to provide students with an ideal collection for use on a wide range of courses in political studies.

Represnts the first collection of critical responses to be made to the work of Slavoj Zizek.

This anthology brings together 26 readings from the classic works of German Idealist philosophy. The four towering figures - Kant, Fichte, Hegel and Schelling - are given extensive coverage, while the work of Schiller is also included.

Aims both to reflect and to foster the extraordinary ongoing impact of Helene Cixous's writing across a wide spectrum of academic disciplines and literary forms

The first edition of The Spy since its original publication in 1810-11 includes early versions of some of Hogg's best-known poetry and prose besides a wealth of fascinating and lesser-known material.

This is the first ever Flora of the Glasgow area that relates how plants have changed over time.

A new, corrected and enlarged edition of the record of James Boswell's quest over more than twenty years to amplify his knowledge of his major biographical subject, Samuel Johnson.