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1. Mark G. E. Kelly

Normal Now

"A bold, challenging and provocative analysis of how we have moved from a society governed by rules to one governed by norms. Building on work by Georges Canguilhem and Michel Foucault, this is a fundamental challenge to normative political theory."Stuart Elden, University of Warwick "The pressure to be normal has a long history. But, as Mark Kelly reveals in this sharp and exciting book, normality has undergone a mutation in recent years whereby, to come across as normal, we also have to refuse normality. How, then, could we ever escape norms?"Carl Cederström, author of The Wellness Syndrome

1. Etienne Balibar

Spinoza, the Transindividual

Étienne Balibar, one of the foremost living French philosophers, builds on his landmark work 'Spinoza and Politics' with this exploration of Spinoza's ontology. Balibar situates Spinoza in relation to the major figures of Marx and Freud as a precursor to the more recent French thinker Gilbert Simondon's concept of the transindividual.

1. Mark G. E. , Kelly

The Political Philosophy of Michel Foucault

This book is the first to systematically reconstruct Foucault's political and philosophical thought across his career, arguing that Foucault had a consistent but ever-growing political and philosophical viewpoint.

Problems in Twentieth Century French Philosophy

Through the lens of a single key concept in 20th century French philosophy, that of the ‘problem’, this book relates the concept to specific thinkers, situating it in relation to the wider history of philosophy and contemporary concerns. This book was first published as a special issue of Angelaki.