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Last Steps: Maurice Blanchot's Exilic Writing by Christopher Fynsk 9780823251032
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £26.32Writing, Maurice Blanchot taught us, is not something that is in one's power. It is, rather, a search for a nonpower that refuses mastery, order, and all established authority. For Blanchot, this... -
Maurice Blanchot and Fragmentary Writing: A Change of Epoch by Leslie Hill 9781441166227
Booksplease Price: £43.76Writing in fragments is often held to be one of the most distinctive signature effects of Romantic, modern, and postmodern literature. But what is the fragment, and what may be said to be its... -
Samuel Beckett and the Terror of Literature by Christopher Langlois
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £90.60Samuel Beckett and the Terror of Literature addresses the relevance of terror to understanding the violence, the suffering, and the pain experienced by the narrative voices of Beckett s major... -
Maurice Blanchot on Poetry and Narrative: Ethics of the Image by Professor Kevin Hart 9781350349056
Booksplease Price: £90.57Blanchot and his writings on three major poets, Mallarmé, Hölderlin, and Char, provide a decisive new point of departure for English language criticism of his philosophical writings on narrative in... -
Samuel Beckett and the Terror of Literature by Christopher Langlois 9781474444378
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £27.79Samuel Beckett and the Terror of Literature' addresses the relevance of terror to understanding the violence, the suffering, and the pain experienced by the narrative voices of Beckett's major... -
The Disavowed Community by Jean-Luc Nancy
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £20.12Over 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... -
Emmanuel Levinas and Maurice Blanchot: Ethics and the Ambiguity of Writing by William Large 9781903083338
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £10.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903083338Author William LargeFormat PaperbackPage Count 167Imprint -
The Writing of Terrorism: Contemporary American Fiction and Maurice Blanchot by Christian Klockner 9783631714102
RRP: £62.00Booksplease Price: £55.39Terrorism has long been a popular subject for American fiction writers. This book argues that terrorism in 1990s novels by Paul Auster, Philip Roth, and Bret Easton Ellis serves as a key trope to... -
The Instant of My Death /<I>Demeure</I>: Fiction and Testimony by Maurice Blanchot 9780804733267
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.40This volume records a remarkable encounter in critical and philosophical thinking: a meeting of two of the great pioneers in contemporary thought, Maurice Blanchot and Jacques Derrida, who are also... -
Committing the Future to Memory: History, Experience, Trauma by Sarah Clift 9780823254217
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £23.99Whereas historical determinacy conceives the past as a complex and unstable network of causalities, this book asks how history can be related to a more radical future. To pose that question, it does... -
Blanchot Romantique: A Collection of Essays by John McKeane 9783039119738
RRP: £68.40Booksplease Price: £60.90The work of French writer and essayist Maurice Blanchot (1907-2003) is without doubt among the most challenging the twentieth century has to offer. Contemporary debate in literature, philosophy, and... -
Decreation and the Ethical Bind: Simone Weil and the Claim of the Other by Yoon Sook Cha 9780823275250
RRP: £36.00Booksplease Price: £33.30In Simone Weil's philosophical and literary work, obligation emerges at the conjuncture of competing claims: the other's self-affirmation and one's own dislocation; what one has and what one has to... -
Haptic Experience in the Writings of Georges Bataille, Maurice Blanchot and Michel Serres by Crispin T. Lee 9783034317917
RRP: £51.65Booksplease Price: £46.49Our sensory relationships with the social and biological world have altered appreciably as a result of recent developments in internet and other mobile communication technologies. We now look at a... -
Foucault / Blanchot: Maurice Blanchot: The Thought from Outside and Michel Foucault as I Imagine Him by Michel Foucault
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £17.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780942299038Author Michel FoucaultFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint -
The Event: Literature and Theory by Ilai Rowner 9780803245853
Booksplease Price: £59.30What is an event? From a philosophical perspective, events are irregular occurrences-moments of change and interruption-categorized by human perception, language, and thought. While philosophers have... -
The Blanchot Reader Michael Holland (St Hugh's College, Oxford) 9780631190844
RRP: £40.95Booksplease Price: £38.81Maurice Blanchot remains a writer whose work, though often cited, is little-known to the English-speaking reader. In The Blanchot Reader Michael Holland answers that urgent need and does so in a... -
The Imperative to Write: Destitutions of the Sublime in Kafka, Blanchot, and Beckett by Jeff Fort 9780823254699
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £34.42Is writing haunted by a categorical imperative? Does the Kantian sublime continue to shape the writer's vocation, even for twentieth-century authors? What precise shape, form, or figure does this... -
Work Want Work: Labour and Desire at the End of Capitalism by Mareile Pfannebecker 9781786997272
Booksplease Price: £85.65Work Want Work considers in captivating detail how a logic of work has become integral to everything we do, even as the place of formal work has become increasingly precarious. With reference to... -
Radical Indecision: Barthes, Blanchot, Derrida, and the Future of Criticism by Leslie Hill 9780268031077
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.72In his newest book, Radical Indecision, esteemed scholar Leslie Hill poses the following question: If the task of a literary critic is to make decisions about the value of a literary work or the... -
Marquis De Sade and Continental Philosophy by Lode Lauwaert 9781474430692
RRP: £115.00Booksplease Price: £105.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474430692Author Lode LauwaertFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint -
The Inner Harbour: A Post-Exotic Novel Antoine Volodine 9781517919696
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.58A beguiling, perspective-shifting story of obsession and loss set in the grimy, late-colonial decadence of Macau at the end of the twentieth century In The Inner Harbour, Antoine Volodine focuses... -
Throwing the Moral Dice: Ethics and the Problem of Contingency by Thomas Claviez
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £25.54More than a purely philosophical problem, straddling the ambivalent terrain between necessity and impossibility, contingency has become the very horizon of everyday life. Often used as a synonym for... -
Marquis de Sade and Continental Philosophy by Lode Lauwaert
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £22.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474430708Author Lode LauwaertFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint -
Work Want Work: Labour and Desire at the End of Capitalism by Mareile Pfannebecker 9781786997289
Booksplease Price: £16.21Work Want Work considers in captivating detail how a logic of work has become integral to everything we do, even as the place of formal work has become increasingly precarious. With reference to... -
Labyrinths of Language: Philosophical and Cultural Investigations Franson Manjali 9781032364988
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69Thirteen essays in the book explore and investigate diverse contemporary philosophically current themes and issues. The title is derived from Wittgenstein's statement that 'anguage is a labyrinth of... -
After Bataille: Sacrifice, Exposure, Community by Patrick Ffrench
RRP: £94.99Booksplease Price: £90.98This book maps French intellectual history in the twentieth century through an interpretative engagement with the thought and legacy of Georges Bataille. It highlights the influence of Bataille and... -
Reading at the Limits of Poetic Form: Dematerialization in Adorno, Blanchot, and Celan by Jacob McGuinn 9780810146983
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £25.04Pushing the boundaries of critical reading and the role of objects in literature How does literary objecthood contend with the challenge of writing objects that emerge at an extreme limit of... -
A Brief Apology for a Catholic Moment by Jean-Luc Marion
Booksplease Price: £21.99A timely new work by one of France's premier philosophers, A Brief Apology for a Catholic Moment offers insight into what "catholic" truly means. In this short, accessible book, Jean-Luc Marion... -
After Bataille: Sacrifice, Exposure, Community Patrick Ffrench 9780367603748
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.08This book maps French intellectual history in the twentieth century through an interpretative engagement with the thought and legacy of Georges Bataille. It highlights the influence of Bataille and... -
Sonic Encounters with Blanchot by Adam Potts 9780367660161
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24Sonic Encounters with Blanchot is the first book to explore the relationship of sound and music with the work of Maurice Blanchot. The volume brings together scholars from a range of disciplines who... -
Paul Auster's Ghosts: The Echoes of European and American Tradition by María Laura Arce Álvarez 9781498561655
Booksplease Price: £39.39The following book explores the intertextual relationship between Paul Auster's first and most remarkable work, The New York Trilogy (1987), and the works of certain American and European writers who... -
Awaiting Oblivion by John Gregg
Booksplease Price: £28.22"Another of Blanchot's almost-fictions ...throwing into deliciously baffling high relief the enigmatic condition of a man and woman alone in a sparsely furnished hotel room who try to remember what... -
Nathalie Sarraute: A Life Between by Ann Jefferson 9780691210247
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £23.69The definitive biography of a leading twentieth-century French writerA leading exponent of the nouveau roman, Nathalie Sarraute (1900-1999) was also one of France's most cosmopolitan literary... -
The Event of Style in Literature by Mario Aquilina 9781137426918
Booksplease Price: £46.28The Event of Style in Literature brings discussions about the question of style up-to-date by schematising the principal issues relating to the topic through a critical overview of the canon of style... -
The Event of Style in Literature by Mario Aquilina 9781349490950
Booksplease Price: £46.74The Event of Style in Literature brings discussions about the question of style up-to-date by schematising the principal issues relating to the topic through a critical overview of the canon of style... -
What Is There to Say? by Ann Smock 9780803222380
Booksplease Price: £18.64Herman Melville's Bartleby, asked to account for himself, "would prefer not to." Tongue-tied Billy Budd, urged to defend his innocence, responds with a murderous blow. The Bavard, by Louis-Rene des... -
The Continental Aesthetics Reader by Clive Cazeaux
RRP: £62.99Booksplease Price: £59.19The Continental Aesthetics Reader brings together classic and contemporary writings on art and aesthetics from the major figures in continental thought. The second edition is clearly divided into... -
Nathalie Sarraute: A Life Between by Ann Jefferson
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £36.93The definitive biography of a leading twentieth-century French writerA leading exponent of the nouveau roman, Nathalie Sarraute (1900-1999) was also one of France's most cosmopolitan literary... -
Place Matters: Critical Topographies in Word and Image by Jonathan Bordo 9780228013914
RRP: £44.00Booksplease Price: £34.85A place comes into existence through the depth of relationships that underwrite a physical location with layers of sedimented names. In Place Matters scholars and artists conduct varied forms of... -
Place Matters: Critical Topographies in Word and Image by Jonathan Bordo 9780228013907
RRP: £120.00Booksplease Price: £96.15A place comes into existence through the depth of relationships that underwrite a physical location with layers of sedimented names. In Place Matters scholars and artists conduct varied forms of...