 | Detour and Access: Strategies of Meaning in China and Greece (Zone books) by F Jullien
Buy used from: £23.94 An excellent introduction to the divergence of western and eastern thought.
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 | The Propensity of Things: Towards a History of Efficacy in China by François Jullien
Buy used from: £19.83 As good as it gets. Bathe in Chinese immanence.
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 | Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation (Athlone Contemporary European Thinkers) by Gilles Deleuze
Buy new: £33.24 / Used from: £28.55 A mature Deleuze tackles the question of painting.
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 | Infinite Thought: Truth and the Return of Philosophy by Alain Badiou
Buy used from: £5.30 Badiou's project is perhaps the most interesting in contemporary philosophy. This is good introduction to his approach.
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 | Parables for the Virtual: Movement, Affect, Sensation (Post-Contemporary Interventions / Latin America in Translation) by Brian Massumi
Buy new: £12.27 / Used from: £9.92 Fascinating! Anybody interested in affectivity should read this.
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 | Pure Immanence: Essays on a Life by G Deleuze
Buy new: £23.70 / Used from: £16.93 The brief and pure final deployment of Deleuze's transcendental empiricism in this volume plus some complementary stuff. Stunning.
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 | The Invention of Modern Science (Theory out of bounds) by Isabelle Stengers
Buy new: £15.00 / Used from: £15.98 Keeping it real. This is how the philosophy of science should be done.
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 | Two Sisters and Their Mother: The Anthropology of Incest by F Heritier
Buy new: £23.76 / Used from: £5.28 Discover the concepts that lie beneath your everyday understanding of family.
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 | Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics) by Giorgio Agamben
Buy new: £13.65 / Used from: £9.25 Wow! A post-focauldian tour de force.
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 | A Society without Fathers or Husbands: The Na of China by Cai Hua
Buy used from: £17.08 Rethink the most basic structures of human life. The Na are the exception that proves the rule.
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 | The Fold: Leibniz and the Baroque by Gilles Deleuze
A simply extraordinary book.
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 | Arresting Language: From Leibniz to Benjamin (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics) by Peter Fenves
Buy new: £22.33 / Used from: £16.05 A rewarding perspective on German literature and philosophy.
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 | Wonders and the Order of Nature, 1150-1750 by Lorraine Daston
Buy new: £21.80 / Used from: £16.66 A quite wonderful investigation into the history of wonder.
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 | Contributions to Philosophy: From Enowning (Studies in Continental Thought) by Martin Heidegger
Buy new: £27.54 / Used from: £34.76 Heidegger's uncompromising struggle to comprehend Being breaks into new ground in this work. One doubts if he really gets anywhere, but it is interesting to watch.
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 | Deleuze: the Clamor of Being (Theory out of bounds) by Alain Badiou
Buy new: £11.13 / Used from: £8.00 Challenging and highly original reading of Deleuze.
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 | Potentialities: Collected Essays in Philosophy (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics) by Giorgio Agamben
Buy new: £24.23 / Used from: £21.59 Some incredible stuff in this volume.
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 | Matter and Memory by H Bergson
Buy new: £12.01 / Used from: £13.71 A very different take on the philosophy of mind from one of the great but often forgotten figures French intellectual history.
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 | Process and Reality (Gifford lectures) by Alfred North Whitehead
Buy new: £12.09 / Used from: £9.00 Dense, technical but with filled with a strange empirical playfulness. This guy should be remembered for more than "process theology".
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 | A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History (Swerve Editions) by Manuel De Landa
Buy new: £12.41 / Used from: £9.02 A great way in to the kind of thinking that features on this list.
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 | Capital Times: Tales from the Conquest of Time (Theory Out of Bounds) by Eric Alliez
Buy new: £17.58 / Used from: £19.21 A poor translation (I'm told) but this unique study will help you realise just how rich and radical the world of medieval philosophy can be.
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 | Pandora's Hope: An Essay on the Reality of Science Studies by B Latour
Buy new: £14.65 / Used from: £9.99 A bit bitty but a good way in.
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 | A Vital Rationalist: Selected Writings from Georges Canguilhem by Georges Canguilhem
Buy used from: £24.76 I could put some Foucault on this list but you've probably read him. For something a little more off the beaten track and an insight into his influences try this volume.
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 | Time for Revolution (Athlone Contemporary European Thinkers) by Antonio Negri
Buy new: £18.99 / Used from: £2.31 A very philosophical Negri here. Whatever you make of his politics (and I'm sympathetic) this guy occupies a facinating place in the history of ideas.
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 | Metamorphoses of the Body (Theory Out of Bounds) by Jose Gil
Buy new: £16.00 / Used from: £20.08 A different approach to the origins of the state.
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 | The Expressiveness of the Body and the Divergence of Greek and Chinese Medicine by Shigehisa Kuriyama
Buy new: £16.10 / Used from: £9.14 Another investigation into the specificity of eastern and western thought.
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