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The Space of Vacillation: The Experience of Language in Beckett, Blanchot, and Heidegger by Michiko Tsushima 9783906770819
RRP: £60.80Booksplease Price: £50.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783906770819Author Michiko TsushimaFormat PaperbackPage Count 233Imprint
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
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...
Reading at the Limits of Poetic Form: Dematerialization in Adorno, Blanchot, and Celan by Jacob McGuinn 9780810146990
RRP: £96.00Booksplease Price: £77.39Pushing 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 material...
Words Underway: Continental Philosophy of Language by Carolyn Culbertson 9781786608055
Booksplease Price: £41.36Words Underway offers the first full account of the important contributions the Continental tradition has made to the philosophy of language. Carolyn Culbertson examines the vital work of a range of...
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...
Rarity and the Poetic: The Gesture of Small Flowers by Harold Schweizer 9781137589286
Booksplease Price: £46.28Rarity is a quality by which things flowers, leaves, light, sound fleetingly appear and disappear, leaving in their wake a resonance of something we just thought we had glimpsed. Each of the nine...
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...
Derrida, Heidegger, Blanchot: Sources of Derrida's Notion and Practice of Literature by Timothy Clark 9780521057790
RRP: £41.00Booksplease Price: £40.09Jacques Derrida is undoubtedly one of the foremost figures in the development of twentienth-century literary theory. The school of 'deconstruction' that has grown out of his work has been either...
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...
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...
Literature Suspends Death: Sacrifice and Storytelling in Kierkegaard, Kafka and Blanchot by Chris Danta 9781623560454
Booksplease Price: £40.79This is the first book-length study of how three important European thinkers-Kierkegaard, Kafka and Blanchot-use the Binding of Isaac to illuminate the sacrificial situation of the literary writer...
Expectation: Philosophy, Literature by Jean-Luc Nancy 9780823277605
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £27.88Expectation is a major volume of Jean-Luc Nancy's writings on literature, written across three decades but, for the most part, previously unavailable in English. More substantial than literary...
Ellipsis: Of Poetry and the Experience of Language after Heidegger, Hölderlin, and Blanchot by William S. Allen 9780791471524
RRP: £25.50Booksplease Price: £22.31Examines poetic language in the work of Heidegger, Hoelderlin, and Blanchot.What is the nature of poetic language when its experience involves an encounter with finitude; with failure, loss, and...
The Eroticization of Distance: Nietzsche, Blanchot, and the Legacy of Courtly Love by Joseph D. Kuzma 9781498524384
Booksplease Price: £81.47In The Eroticization of Distance: Nietzsche, Blanchot and the Legacy of Courtly Love, Joseph D. Kuzma explores the significance of courtly erotic themes in Friedrich Nietzsche's mature philosophy and...
Readings: The Poetics of Blanchot, Joyce, Kakfa, Kleist, Lispector, and Tsvetayeva by Helene Cixous 9780816619412
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816619412Author Helene CixousFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint
Derrida, Heidegger, Blanchot: Sources of Derrida's Notion and Practice of Literature by Timothy Clark 9780521405393
RRP: £94.00Booksplease Price: £89.69Jacques Derrida is undoubtedly one of the foremost figures in the development of twentienth-century literary theory. The school of 'deconstruction' that has grown out of his work has been either...
Cinematic Art and Reversals of Power: Deleuze via Blanchot by Eugene B. Young 9781350272408
Booksplease Price: £31.86Bringing together Deleuze, Blanchot, and Foucault, this book provides a detailed and original exploration of the ideas that influenced Deleuze's thought leading up to and throughout his cinema...
Mallarme's Sunset: Poetry at the End of Time by Barnaby Norman 9780367601157
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.08This book retraces Mallarme's trajectory as a poet, showing how he positioned his work in relation to Hegel's Aesthetics. Norman argues that Mallarme situated his work at the conclusion of the...
Marking Time: Derrida Blanchot Beckett des Forêts Klossowski Laporte by Ian Maclachlan 9789042036093
Booksplease Price: £78.37Drawing on the work of Jacques Derrida, Marking Time presents an innovative account of literary time, in which the temporality and ontology of the literary are seen to be essentially intertwined...
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...
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...
Mallarme's Sunset: Poetry at the End of Time by Barnaby Norman
RRP: £94.99Booksplease Price: £90.68This book retraces Mallarme's trajectory as a poet, showing how he positioned his work in relation to Hegel's Aesthetics. Norman argues that Mallarme situated his work at the conclusion of the...
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...
Against Democracy: Literary Experience in the Era of Emancipations by Simon During 9780823242559
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £23.21This book argues that we can no longer envision a political system that might practically displace democracy or, more accurately, global democratic state capitalism. Democracy has become fundamental:...
The Aesthetics of Desire and Surprise: Phenomenology and Speculation by Jadranka Skorin-Kapov 9781498518482
Booksplease Price: £41.78The Aesthetics of Desire and Surprise: Phenomenology and Speculation covers issues central to contemporary continental philosophy (desire, expectations, excess, rupture, transcendence, immanence,...
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...
The Ontology of Death: The Philosophy of the Death Penalty in Literature Dr Aaron Aquilina 9781350339521
Booksplease Price: £30.54Through examination of the death penalty in literature, Aaron Aquilina contests Heidegger's concept of 'being-towards-death' and proposes a new understanding of the political and philosophical...
Forms of Education: Rethinking Educational Experience Against and Outside the Humanist Legacy Emile Bojesen 9781032083193
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69Forms of Education analyses the basic tenets of the humanist legacy in terms of its educational ethos, examining its contradictions and its limits, as well as the extent of its capture of educational...
Cinematic Art and Reversals of Power: Deleuze via Blanchot Eugene B. Young (Le Moyne College, Syracuse, USA) 9781350176096
Booksplease Price: £102.21Bringing together Deleuze, Blanchot, and Foucault, this book provides a detailed and original exploration of the ideas that influenced Deleuze's thought leading up to and throughout his cinema...
Deleuze, The Dark Precursor: Dialectic, Structure, Being by Eleanor Kaufman
Booksplease Price: £52.20Gilles Deleuze is considered one of the most important French philosophers of the twentieth century. Eleanor Kaufman situates Deleuze in relation to others of his generation, such as Jean-Paul...
De-signing Design: Cartographies of Theory and Practice by Elizabeth Grierson 9780739179123
Booksplease Price: £85.65De-Signing Design: Cartographies of Theory and Practice throws new light on the terrain between theory and practice in transdisciplinary discourses of design and art. The editors, Elizabeth Grierson,...
Parages by Jacques Derrida
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.24Parages brings together four essays by Derrida on the fictions of Maurice Blanchot. Three of the essays-"Living On," "Title To Be Specified," and "The Law of Genre," are by now canonical. The fourth,...
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...
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 Intertwining of Aesthetics and Ethics: Exceeding of Expectations, Ecstasy, Sublimity by Jadranka Skorin-Kapov 9781498524568
Booksplease Price: £90.57The Intertwining of Aesthetics and Ethics: Exceeding of Expectations, Ecstasy, Sublimity analyzes the common experiential ground for both aesthetics and ethics by considering experiential environment...
Blank Splendour: Mere Existence in British Romanticism David Collings 9781487556044
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £32.08Certain moments in British Romantic poetry and art depict a state from which the attributes of existence - time and space, subject and object, language and visuality - have fallen away, leaving a...
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...
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...
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