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  • Jonathan Martin
    Ansgar Allen
    In this novel Jonathan Martin, Ansgar Allen resurrects the incendiary life of the 19th-century outsider who, in 1829, set fire to York Minster. Martin’s life - at once prophetic, deranged, and tragically emblematic of his age - becomes the ground for Allen’s boldest experiment in historical fiction to date. Blending archival fragments, self-published pamphlets, trial records, a...
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    17,64 €

  • The Faces of Pluto
    Ansgar Allen
    Books are read in an instant and by a single eye. Libraries can no longer burn, they are already in the air. There is nothing left for admirers of truth or accuracy but submission to the absolute, unalterable veracity of the word.The Faces of Pluto remembers an earlier time when truth was a casualty of transcription and errors were commonplace if not an art in themselves. It re...
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  • Plague Theatre
    Ansgar Allen
    Set in Scarborough on the north coast of England, Plague Theatre tells of a great derangement which takes hold of the town in or around 1720. No one can tell if it is the body or the mind that has become infected, but what threatens the town risks making the north east uninhabitable.Plague Theatre is concerned with the plague that is already present in society before the virus,...
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    23,10 €

  • Black Vellum
    Ansgar Allen
    A priest remakes himself from animal flesh. A land surveyor travels into the earth’s crust in search of a boulder. Hauled for centuries it forms a rut, the longest sentence in recorded history.Black Vellum is a Nietzschean experiment. The priest symptomizes Nietzsche’s analysis and serves as an embodiment, a deviant incarnation, of the philosopher himself. Other figures are enc...
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    22,93 €

  • The Wake and the Manuscript
    Ansgar Allen
    In this brooding and obsessive novel, Ansgar Allen recounts the story of a nameless man who attends a funerary wake with no other distraction than papers that once belonged to the body on display. The deceased considered the papers to be his magnum opus, a text that unraveled everything he had been educated to accept, beginning with the spectre of religion-namely The Church of ...
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    18,88 €

  • The Sick List
    Ansgar Allen
    ’The Sick List operates on the far side of literature.’ John SchadIn this novel, an unnamed academic in an unnamed contemporary university, relates his obsession with his tutor, Gordon. He pores over the increasingly bizarre mis-readings in Gordon’s annotations in a strange selection of stolen library books. Is Gordon unraveling a mystery? Or is his own mind unraveling? Meanwhi...
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    21,38 €

  • Education and Philosophy
    Ansgar Allen / Roy Goddard
    An intro-level textbook that provides a core understanding of often difficult philosophical concepts in relation to Education. ...
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    84,21 €

  • The Cynical Educator
    Ansgar Allen
    Ground down, disenchanted, but committed to education. Unable to quit, yet deploring everything education has become. We suffer a weakened and weakening cynicism. This cynicism exploits the last remaining educational commitments of an otherwise broken workforce, draining that workforce of its final pleasure: Revolt. Our cynicism is reactionary and conditional – exhausting us wh...
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    20,59 €

  • Benign Violence
    Ansgar Allen
    Education is a violent act, yet this violence is concealed by its good intent. Education presents itself as a distinctly improving, enabling practice. Even its most radical critics assume that education is, at core, an incontestable social good.Setting education in its political context, this book, now in paperback, offers a history of good intentions, ranging from the birth of...
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    133,85 €