[D-G] NEW TITLES: SET 4 IN THE RADICAL THINKERS SERIES / LAUNCH EVENT 'DON'T LOOK BACK' AT THE TATE BRITAIN, 26 NOVEMBER

Mon Nov 16 16:36:23 PST 2009

NEW TITLES: SET 4 IN THE RADICAL THINKERS SERIES:

Theodor Adorno: IN SEARCH OF WAGNER
Louis Althusser and Etienne Balibar: READING CAPITAL
Jean Baudrillard: THE TRANSPARENCY OF EVIL
Walter Benjamin: THE ORIGIN OF GERMAN TRAGIC DRAMA
Simon Critchley: ETHICS-POLITICS-SUBJECTIVITY
Guy Debord: PANEGYRIC
Terry Eagleton: WALTER BENJAMIN
Fredric Jameson: THE CULTURAL TURN
Georg Lukács: LENIN
Chantal Mouffe: THE DEMOCRATIC PARADOX
Gillian Rose: HEGEL CONTRA SOCIOLOGY
Paul Virilio: WAR AND CINEMA

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LAUNCH EVENT WITH TERRY EAGLETON, SIMON CRITCHLEY, KATE SOPER, EYAL 
WEIZMAN AND CHAIR ALBERTO TOSCANO: 
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DON¹T LOOK BACK:
RADICAL THINKERS AND THE ARTS SINCE 1909

Thursday 26 November 2009, 18.3020.00

Tate Britain, Millbank, London SW1P 4RG

On the 100th anniversary of the Futurism Manifesto, join critical 
thinkers TERRY EAGLETON, SIMON CRITCHLEY, KATE SOPER, EYAL WEIZMAN 
and CHAIR ALBERTO TOSCANO  in exploring a century of radical thinking 
and the arts - and debating what lies ahead. The recent Futurism 
exhibition at Tate Modern reminds us of an age when politics and 
aesthetics were densely interwoven in an explosive rejection of the 
past. This distinguished panel will assess the legacy of modernism to 
ask how today's radical thinkers might understand the role of the 
arts at the dawn of the twenty first century and beyond.

Tate Britain  Auditorium
£8 (£6 concessions)
For tickets book online here 
<http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/eventseducation/talks/20576.htm>http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/eventseducation/talks/20576.htm
or call 020 7887 8888.
Speakers:

TERRY EAGLETON is Professor of English Literature at the University 
of Lancaster. His many books include Walter Benjamin: Or, Towards a 
Revolutionary Criticism in Set 4 of Radical Thinkers, Reason, Faith, 
and Revolution: Reflections on the God Debate and the forthcoming The 
Task of the Critic: Terry Eagleton in Dialogue
SIMON CRITCHLEY is Professor of Philosophy at the New School for 
Social Research in New York and author of 
 Ethics-Politics-Subjectivity: Derrida, Levinas and Contemporary 
French Thought in Set 4 of Radical Thinkers, Infinitely Demanding: 
Ethics of Commitment, Politics of Resistance, The Book of Dead 
Philosophers, On Humour and Continental Philosophy: A Very Short 
Introduction.
KATE SOPER is a Professor in the Department of Humanities, Arts and 
Languages at London Metropolitan University and author of To Relish 
the Sublime: Culture and Self-realisation in Postmodern Times and 
What Is Nature?: Culture, Politics and the Non-Human.
EYAL WEIZMAN is an architect and Director of the Centre for Research 
Architecture at Goldsmiths College, University of London and author 
of Hollow Land: Israel's Architecture of Occupation.
Chair: ALBERTO TOSCANO, editor of Historical Materialism, lecturer in 
sociology at Goldsmiths College, University of London and author of 
The Theatre of Production: Philosophy and Individuation Between Kant 
and Deleuze and the forthcoming Fanaticism: On the Uses of an Idea

Supported by
New Statesman

Tate Britain  Auditorium
£8 (£6 concessions)
For tickets book online here 
<http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/eventseducation/talks/20576.htm>http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/eventseducation/talks/20576.htm
or call 020 7887 8888
More information here: 
<http://tinyurl.com/ykkljvs>http://tinyurl.com/ykkljvs   

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Simon Critchley confronts many key figures in 
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Gillian Rose¹s long unavailable work Hegel Contra Sociology.

Louis Althusser and Etienne Balibar¹s groundbreaking study of Marx, 
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Guy Debord¹s fascinating autobiography.

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Reading Capital, ALTHUSSER AND BALIBAR 978 1 84467 347 6
The Transparency of Evil: Essays on Extreme Phenomena, BAUDRILLAR 978 
1 84467 345 2
The Origin of German Tragic Drama, BENJAMIN 978 1 84467 3483
Ethics-Politics-Subjectivity, CRITCHLEY 978 1 84467 351 3
Panegyric, DEBORD 978 1 84467 353 7
Walter Benjamin or Towards a Revolutionary Criticism, EAGLETON 978 1 
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The Cultural Turn: Selected Writings on the Postmodern, JAMESON 978 1 
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Lenin: A Study on the Unity of His Thought, LUKÁCS 978 1 84467 352 0
The Democratic Paradox, MOUFFE 978 1 84467 355 1
Hegel Contra Sociology, ROSE 978 1 84467 354 4
War and Cinema: The Logics of Perception, VIRILIO 978 1 84467 346 9
Radical Thinkers Set 4 (full set) 978 1 84467 344 5

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