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Commonalities eBook Series

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  • The Disavowed Community

    by Jean-Luc Nancy ...
    Translated by Philip Armstrong ...
    Series series Commonalities
    Over thirty years after Maurice Blanchot writes The Unavowable Community (1983)—a book that offered a critical response to an early essay by Jean-Luc Nancy on “the inoperative community”—Nancy responds in turn with The Disavowed Community. Stemming from Jean-Christophe Bailly’s initial proposal to think community in terms of “number” or the “numerous,” and unfolding as a close reading of Blanchot ... Read more

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  • Reading for the Plot

    Design and Intention in Narrative

    by Peter Brooks ...
    A book which should appeal to both literary theorists and to readers of the novel, this study invites the reader to consider how the plot reflects the patterns of human destiny and seeks to impose a new meaning on life. ... Read more

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  • Jacques Lacan, Past and Present

    A Dialogue

    by Alain Badiou, Elisabeth Roudinesco ...
    Translated by Jason E. Smith ...
    In this dialogue, Alain Badiou shares the clearest, most detailed account to date of his profound indebtedness to Lacanian psychoanalysis. He explains in depth the tools Lacan gave him to navigate the extremes of his other two philosophical "masters," Jean-Paul Sartre and Louis Althusser. Élisabeth Roudinesco supplements Badiou's experience with her own perspective on the troubled landscape of the ... Read more

    PHP795.69

  • Jacques Rancière

    History, Politics, Aesthetics

    by Kristin Ross, Alain Badiou ...
    The French philosopher Jacques Rancière has influenced disciplines from history and philosophy to political theory, literature, art history, and film studies. His research into nineteenth-century workers’ archives, reflections on political equality, critique of the traditional division between intellectual and manual labor, and analysis of the place of literature, film, and art in modern society ... Read more

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  • Derrida's Legacies

    Literature and Philosophy

    Edited by Simon Glendinning, Robert Eaglestone ...
    This volume brings together some of the most well-known and highly respected commentators on the work of Jacques Derrida from Britain and America in a series of essays written to commemorate the life and come to terms with the death of one of the most important intellectual presences of our time.Derrida’s thought reached into nearly every corner of contemporary intellectual culture and the ... Read more

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  • Existential Monday

    Philosophical Essays

    by Benjamin Fondane ...
    Translated by Bruce Baugh ...
    Benjamin Fondane—who was born and educated in Romania, moved as an adult to Paris, lived for a time in Buenos Aires, where he was close to Victoria Ocampo, Jorge Luis Borges’s friend and publisher, and died in Auschwitz—was an artist and thinker who found in every limit, in every border, “a torture and a spur.” Poet, critic, man of the theater, movie director, Fondane was the most daring of the ... Read more

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  • Spinoza Contra Phenomenology

    French Rationalism from Cavaillès to Deleuze

    by Knox Peden ...
    Series series Cultural Memory in the Present
    Spinoza Contra Phenomenology fundamentally recasts the history of postwar French thought, typically presumed to have been driven by a critique of reason indebted to Nietzsche and Heidegger. Although the reception of phenomenology gave rise to many innovative developments in French philosophy, from existentialism to deconstruction, not everyone in France was pleased with this German import. This ... Read more

    PHP1,425.39

  • For Strasbourg

    Conversations of Friendship and Philosophy

    by Jacques Derrida ...
    The eminent philosopher pays homage to his beloved French city and the philosophical friendships he had there—"an illuminating addition to his legacy" ( The Times Literary Supplement).A towering figure in twentieth-century philosophy, Jacques Derrida was born in Algeria, but spent four decades living in the French city of Strasbourg, located on the border between France and Germany. This moving ... Read more

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  • Badiou

    A Subject To Truth

    by Peter Hallward ...
    Alain Badiou is one of the most inventive and compelling philosophers working in France today—a thinker who, in these days of cynical resignation and academic specialization, is exceptional in every sense. Guided by disciplines ranging from mathematics to psychoanalysis, inspired as much by Plato and Cantor as by Mao and Mallarmé, Badiou’s work renews, in the most varied and spectacular terms, a ... Read more

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  • Georges Bataille

    by Dr Michael Richardson, Michael Richardson ...
    George Bataille (1867-1962) is widely recognized as one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century. This is the first book in English to examine Bataille's work as a whole. It offers an accessible introduction to a complex and often ambiguous thinker. ... Read more

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  • Althusser and His Contemporaries

    Philosophy's Perpetual War

    by Warren Montag ...
    Series series Post-Contemporary Interventions
    Althusser and His Contemporaries alters and expands understanding of Louis Althusser and French philosophy of the 1960s and 1970s. Thousands of pages of previously unpublished work from different periods of Althusser's career have been made available in French since his death in 1990. Based on meticulous study of the philosopher's posthumous publications, as well as his unpublished manuscripts, ... Read more

    PHP1,458.09

  • Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari

    Intersecting Lives

    by Francois Dosse ...
    Translated by Deborah Glassman ...
    Series series European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
    In May 1968, Gilles Deleuze was an established philosopher teaching at the innovative Vincennes University, just outside of Paris. Félix Guattari was a political militant and the director of an unusual psychiatric clinic at La Borde. Their meeting was quite unlikely, yet the two were introduced in an arranged encounter of epic consequence. From that moment on, Deleuze and Guattari engaged in a ... Read more

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