{"product_id":"of-joints-and-other-articulations-the-futures-of-arthrosophy-hardback-9780810149625","title":"Of Joints and Other Articulations; The Futures of Arthrosophy (Hardback) 9780810149625","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eOf Joints and Other Articulations\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe Futures of Arthrosophy\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMichael Marder (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780810149625, Northwestern University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 15 January 2026\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e176 pages\u003cbr\u003e17.8 x 12.7 x 1.3 cm, 0.454 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eOf Joints and Other Articulations\u003c\/i\u003e is highly original, brilliantly erudite, and extremely well written. Few thinkers can boast such a command of traditions and texts, ancient and modern, Western and Eastern. Marder rigorously controls the metaphorics of joints and articulation to yield a trenchant critique of nihilism in contemporary thought and politics. I know of no competing work.\" - Mary C. Rawlinson, University College, London\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eArticulates a philosophical mode of thinking modeled after our bodily construction points\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e What if we were to reimagine bodies of all kinds - biological and ecosystemic, political and textual, cosmic and artistic - from the perspective of their joints? This is the wager of Michael Marder's philosophical treatise, which explores the extremes of totalization and fragmentation by following the model of the joints, the structures that both articulate anddisarticulate complex living unities. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eOf Joints and Other Articulations: The Futures of Arthrosophy\u003c\/i\u003e proposes that as embodied figures of relations, joints shed new light on the question of time and the meaning of art, the activity of language and the fluctuations of good and ill health, political violence and humility, conversions and perversions. Arthrosophy, the wisdom of joints, supplements and substantiates philosophy itself, teaching us how to think through and with our knees and elbows, hips and shoulders, sutures and pivot joints.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eArthrosophy. The Wisdom of Joints\u003cbr\u003e On Knees and Elbows. The Hinge Joints, or a Speculative Arthrology\u003cbr\u003e Logos. A Dis\/Jointure\u003cbr\u003e On Hips and Shoulders. The Ball-and-Socket Joints, or Freedom and Constriction\u003cbr\u003e Arthro-Psycho-Physiology. Joints in the Composition of the Body and the Soul\u003cbr\u003e On Sutures, or the In-Between\u003cbr\u003e Joints and Time\u003cbr\u003e On Neck and Wrists. The Pivot Joints, or Turns and Turnings\u003cbr\u003e Art’\u003cbr\u003es Articulations\u003cbr\u003e The Arthritic Society\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Northwestern University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52555677499672,"sku":"9780810149625","price":66.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/of-joints-and-other-articulations-the-futures-of-arthrosophy-hardback-9780810149625","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}