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Circular Narratives in Modern European Literature by Juan Luis Toribio Vazquez 9781501384875
Booksplease Price: $127.44Breaking with linearity - the ruling narrative model in the Jewish-Christian tradition since the ancient world - many 20th-century European writers adopted circular narrative forms. Juan Luis Toribio... -
Ekphrasis, Memory and Narrative after Proust: Prose Pictures and Fictional Recollection Leonid Bilmes 9781350336872
Booksplease Price: $40.66This book explores the relationship between ekphrasis and memory in the novel. Drawing on A la recherche du temps perdu, Leonid Bilmes considers how Vladimir Nabokov, W. G. Sebald, Ben Lerner, Ali... -
The Poetics of Sleep: From Aristotle to Nancy by Simon Wortham 9781472579485
Booksplease Price: $52.09To what extent does sleep constitute a limit for the philosophical imagination? Why does it recur throughout philosophy? What is at issue in the repeated relegation of sleep to the realm of... -
Madame Bovary (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Gustave Flaubert
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91A major new translation of one of the most popular classics of all time, now in a gorgeous deluxe edition. Emma Bovary is beautiful and bored, trapped in her marriage to a mediocre doctor and stifled... -
Philosophy and Kafka by Brendan Moran 9781498511261
Booksplease Price: $66.69The relationship of philosophy with Kafka's oeuvre is complex. It has been argued that Kafka's novels and stories defy philosophic extrapolation; conversely, it has also been suggested that precisely... -
Early Israel: Cultic Praxis, God, and the Sod Hypothesis by Alex Shalom Kohav
RRP: $180.60Booksplease Price: $165.61Early Israel offers the most sweeping reinterpretation of the Pentateuch since the nineteenth-century Documentary Hypothesis. Engaging a dozen-plus modern academic disciplines-from anthropology,... -
The End of the World and Other Teachable Moments: Jacques Derrida's Final Seminar by Michael Naas 9780823263295
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $24.23The End of the World and Other Teachable Moments follows the remarkable itinerary of Jacques Derrida's final seminar, "The Beast and the Sovereign" (2001-3), as the explicit themes of the... -
The End of the World and Other Teachable Moments: Jacques Derrida's Final Seminar by Michael Naas 9780823263288
RRP: $87.72Booksplease Price: $77.95The End of the World and Other Teachable Moments follows the remarkable itinerary of Jacques Derrida's final seminar, "The Beast and the Sovereign" (2001-3), as the explicit themes of the... -
Counter-Experiences: Reading Jean-Luc Marion by Kevin Hart 9780268205966
RRP: $154.80Booksplease Price: $108.76Unarguably, Jean-Luc Marion is the leading figure in French phenomenology as well as one of the proponents of the so-called "theological turn" in European philosophy. In this volume, Kevin Hart has... -
Citizen Subject: Foundations for Philosophical Anthropology by Etienne Balibar
RRP: $38.69Booksplease Price: $36.35What can the universals of political philosophy offer to those who experience "the living paradox of an inegalitarian construction of egalitarian citizenship"? Citizen Subject is the summation of... -
Counter-Experiences: Reading Jean-Luc Marion by Kevin Hart 9780268030780
RRP: $39.99Booksplease Price: $36.29Unarguably, Jean-Luc Marion is the leading figure in French phenomenology as well as one of the proponents of the so-called "theological turn" in European philosophy. In this volume, Kevin Hart has... -
Night Train A. L. Snijders 9780811228565
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $14.01Gorgeously translated by Lydia Davis, the miniature stories of A. L. Snijders might concern a lost shoe, a visit with a bat, fears of travel, a dream of a man who has lost a glass eye: uniting them... -
Language, Eros, Being: Kabbalistic Hermeneutics and Poetic Imagination by Elliot R. Wolfson 9780823224197
RRP: $54.18Booksplease Price: $50.98This long-awaited, magisterial study-an unparalleled blend of philosophy, poetry, and philology-draws on theories of sexuality, phenomenology, comparative religion, philological writings on Kabbalah,... -
The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis by Lydia Davis
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis is the complete collection of short fiction from the world-renowned Lydia Davis.WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2013.'Big rejoicing: Lydia Davis has... -
Asero Franois Dominique 9781942658788
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.95"A singular novel." -Lydia Davis, author of Can't and Won't and Essays One"An exhilarating adventure!" -Alberto Manguel, author of The Library at Night and Fabulous Monsters"Extraordinary. . . ... -
A Semite: A Memoir of Algeria by Denis Guenoun 9780231164023
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $37.44In this vivid memoir, Denis Guenoun excavates his family's past and progressively fills out a portrait of an imposing, enigmatic father. Rene Guenoun was a teacher and a pioneer, and his secret... -
Album: Unpublished Correspondence and Texts by Roland Barthes 9780231179874
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $32.91Album provides an unparalleled look into Roland Barthes's life of letters. It presents a selection of correspondence, from his adolescence in the 1930s through the height of his career and up to the... -
André Butzer. Hölderlin André Butzer 9783754400159
RRP: $64.50Booksplease Price: $49.08Friedrich Hoelderlin is probably Andre Butzer's favorite poet and ranks alongside Walt Disney and Henri Matisse among his "favorite people ever." His identification with the poet goes even further,... -
Mindful Aesthetics: Literature and the Science of Mind by Chris Danta 9781501308673
Booksplease Price: $52.62In the last few decades, literary critics have increasingly drawn insights from cognitive neuroscience to deepen and clarify our understanding of literary representations of mind. This cognitive turn... -
Against Value in the Arts and Education by Sam Ladkin 9781783484904
Booksplease Price: $72.39Against Value in the Arts and Education proposes that it is often the staunchest defenders of art who do it the most harm, by suppressing or mollifying its dissenting voice, by neutralizing its... -
Thresholes by Lara Mimosa Montes 9781566895798
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.95Autostraddle's "Books Relevant to Your Queer and Feminist Interests in 2020" and Latin Post's "Must Read Books by Latin Authors in 2020"In elegiac and fervent poetry, Lara Mimosa Montes writes across... -
World, Affectivity, Trauma: Heidegger and Post-Cartesian Psychoanalysis by Robert D. Stolorow 9780415893442
RRP: $39.98Booksplease Price: $39.14Stolorow and his collaborators' post-Cartesian psychoanalytic perspective - intersubjective-systems theory - is a phenomenological contextualism that illuminates worlds of emotional experience as...