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Throwing the Moral Dice: Ethics and the Problem of Contingency by Thomas Claviez
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $32.95More 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: $18.05Booksplease Price: $16.23A 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: $30.95Booksplease Price: $28.43Apologies 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: $20.91Work 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... -
Approaching Disappearance by Anne McConnell
RRP: $32.24Booksplease Price: $31.62Maurice Blanchot (1907-2003), one of the most influential figures of twentieth-century French literature, produced a wide variety of essays and fictions that reflect on the complexities of literary... -
On Poetry and Politics by Jean Paulhan
Booksplease Price: $55.16Jean Paulhan was a legendary editorial figure of twentieth-century French literature, assisting and publishing many of the most important writers of his lifetime. He was also the author of several... -
Arts of Dying: Literature and Finitude in Medieval England by D Vance Smith 9780226640853
RRP: $105.78Booksplease Price: $17.54People in the Middle Ages had chantry chapels, mortuary rolls, the daily observance of the Office of the Dead, and even purgatory--but they were still unable to talk about death. Their inability... -
Pseudo-Memoirs: Life and Its Imitation in Modern Fiction by Rochelle Tobias
RRP: $64.50Booksplease Price: $50.96Pseudo-Memoirs redefines the notion of fiction itself, a form that has all too often been understood in terms of its capacity to produce a seeming reality. Rochelle Tobias argues that the... -
The Extreme In-between (politics and Literature): Jean Paulhan's Place in the Twentieth Century by Anna-Louise Milne
RRP: $96.75Booksplease Price: $77.50This book explores the space Jean Paulhan sought to carve out, between art for art's sake and art for political ends, thereby establishing more clearly his place in the twentieth century. It deals... -
Dis-Enclosure: The Deconstruction of Christianity by Jean-Luc Nancy
RRP: $32.24Booksplease Price: $29.94This book is a profound and eagerly anticipated investigation into what is left of a monotheistic religious spirit-notably, a minimalist faith that is neither confessional nor credulous. Articulating... -
Genealogies of the Text: Literature, Psychoanalysis, and Politics in Modern France by Jeffrey Mehlman 9780521032353
Booksplease Price: $41.43In this 1995 book, which includes a substantial introduction, Jeffrey Mehlman confronts the politically devastating resonances in the work of several leading French writers. The essays focus on the... -
Postcolonial Fiction and Sacred Scripture: Rewriting the Divine? by Sura Qadiri
Booksplease Price: $116.98This book explores the relationship between literary fiction and sacred scripture in contemporary works of fiction and thought. It presents positions that vary from a latent engagement with the... -
Arts of Dying: Literature and Finitude in Medieval England by D Vance Smith
Booksplease Price: $34.42People in the Middle Ages had chantry chapels, mortuary rolls, the daily observance of the Office of the Dead, and even purgatory--but they were still unable to talk about death. Their inability... -
Very Little ... Almost Nothing: Death, Philosophy and Literature by Simon Critchley
RRP: $54.17Booksplease Price: $51.20Very Little ... Almost Nothing puts the question of the meaning of life back at the centre of intellectual debate. Its central concern is how we can find a meaning to human finitude without recourse... -
Facing the Other: The Ethics of Emmanuel Levinas Sean Hand 9780700704156
RRP: $122.54Booksplease Price: $116.98Emmanuel Levinas is one of the key philosophers in the post-Heideggerian field and an increasingly central presence in contemporary debates about identity and responsibility. His work spans and... -
Dis-Enclosure: The Deconstruction of Christianity by Jean-Luc Nancy 9780823228355
RRP: $77.40Booksplease Price: $69.94This book is a profound and eagerly anticipated investigation into what is left of a monotheistic religious spirit-notably, a minimalist faith that is neither confessional nor credulous. Articulating... -
Therapy and the Counter-tradition: The Edge of Philosophy Manu Bazzano 9781138905887
RRP: $58.04Booksplease Price: $54.49Therapy & the Counter-tradition: The Edge of Philosophy brings together leading exponents of contemporary psychotherapy, philosophers and writers, to explore how philosophical ideas may inform... -
The Extreme In-between (politics and Literature): Jean Paulhan's Place in the Twentieth Century by Anna-Louise Milne 9780367604349
RRP: $41.27Booksplease Price: $40.24This book explores the space Jean Paulhan sought to carve out, between art for art's sake and art for political ends, thereby establishing more clearly his place in the twentieth century. It deals... -
Derrida and the Writing of the Body Jones Irwin 9781138278578
RRP: $70.94Booksplease Price: $66.55Michel Foucault refers to 1965-1970 as, in philosophical terms, 'the five brief, impassioned, jubilant, enigmatic years'. This book reinterprets Jacques Derrida's work from this period, most... -
A Brief Apology for a Catholic Moment by Jean-Luc Marion
Booksplease Price: $28.37A 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... -
Facing the Other: The Ethics of Emmanuel Levinas by Sean Hand
RRP: $41.27Booksplease Price: $40.24Study of one of the key philosophers in the post-Heideggerian field and an increasingly central presence in contemporary debates about identity and responsibility.About the AuthorSean Hand is... -
Postcolonial Fiction and Sacred Scripture: Rewriting the Divine? Sura Qadiri 9780367601362
RRP: $59.33Booksplease Price: $55.57This book explores the relationship between literary fiction and sacred scripture in contemporary works of fiction and thought. It presents positions that vary from a latent engagement with the... -
Phantom Limbs and Body Integrity Identity Disorder: Literary and Psychoanalytic Reflections Monika Loewy 9780367280017
RRP: $49.01Booksplease Price: $46.80Phantom Limbs and Body Integrity Identity Disorder discusses the conditions of Phantom Limb Syndrome and Body Integrity Identity Disorder together for the first time, exploring examples from... -
Politics and Suicide: The philosophy of political self-destruction Nicholas Michelsen 9780815377535
RRP: $68.36Booksplease Price: $64.36Politics and Suicide argues that whilst the historical lineage of suicidal politics is recognised, the fundamental significance of autodestruction to the political remains under examined. It contends... -
Learning How to Fall: Art and Culture after September 11 by T. Nikki Cesare Schotzko 9781138796898
RRP: $59.33Booksplease Price: $55.57Beginning with Richard Drew's controversial photograph of a man falling from the North Tower of the World Trade Center on September 11, Learning How to Fall investigates the changing relationship... -
Genealogies of the Text: Literature, Psychoanalysis, and Politics in Modern France by Jeffrey Mehlman 9780521472135
RRP: $132.87Booksplease Price: $125.98In this 1995 book, which includes a substantial introduction, Jeffrey Mehlman confronts the politically devastating resonances in the work of several leading French writers. The essays focus on the... -
Disarming Intelligence: Proust, Valéry, and Modern French Criticism Zakir Paul 9780691257983
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $37.44A critical account of the idea of intelligence in modern French literature and thoughtIn the late nineteenth century, psychologists and philosophers became intensely interested in the possibility of... -
Concerning the Nature of Psychoanalysis: The Persistence of a Paradoxical Discourse Gregorio Kohon 9780367236519
RRP: $49.01Booksplease Price: $46.80In his new book, Considering the Nature of Psychoanalysis: The Persistence of a Paradoxical Discourse, Gregorio Kohon describes the complexity of the psychoanalytic encounter, questioning the... -
Paul Auster's Ghosts: The Echoes of European and American Tradition by María Laura Arce Álvarez 9781498561655
Booksplease Price: $50.81The 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... -
What Is There to Say? by Ann Smock 9780803222380
Booksplease Price: $24.05Herman 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... -
Allegories of the Purge: How Literature Responded to the Postwar Trials of Writers and Intellectuals in France by Philip Watts 9780804731843
RRP: $123.84Booksplease Price: $99.83This book is about four writers-Sartre, Eluard, Blanchot, and Celine-whose works confront and respond to the purge of collaborationist intellectuals in postwar France. It investigates how their... -
Allegories of the Purge: How Literature Responded to the Postwar Trials of Writers and Intellectuals in France by Philip Watts 9780804731850
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $26.26This book is about four writers-Sartre, Eluard, Blanchot, and Celine-whose works confront and respond to the purge of collaborationist intellectuals in postwar France. It investigates how their... -
Writing Death and Absence in the Victorian Novel: Engraved Narratives by Jolene Zigarovich 9781349435210
Booksplease Price: $59.70This book asks why Bronte, Dickens, and Collins saw the narrative act as a series of textual murders and resurrections? Drawing on theorists such as Derrida, Blanchot, and de Man, Zigarovich... -
Literature, Philosophy, Nihilism: The Uncanniest of Guests by Shane Weller 9781349362448
Booksplease Price: $59.70This book charts the history of the concept of nihilism in some of the most important philosophers and literary theorists of the modern and postmodern periods, including Heidegger, Adorno, Blanchot,... -
Community in Twentieth-Century Fiction by Paula Martin Salvan 9781349448753
Booksplease Price: $59.70This book focuses on the imaginary construction and deconstruction of human communities in modern and contemporary fiction. Drawing on recent theoretical debate on the notion of community (Nancy,... -
Community in Twentieth-Century Fiction by Paula Martin Salvan 9781137282835
Booksplease Price: $59.70This book focuses on the imaginary construction and deconstruction of human communities in modern and contemporary fiction. Drawing on recent theoretical debate on the notion of community (Nancy,... -
Nathalie Sarraute: A Life Between by Ann Jefferson 9780691210247
RRP: $36.12Booksplease Price: $30.56The 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: $59.70The 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... -
Lunar Voices: Of Tragedy, Poetry, Fiction, and Thought by David Farrell Krell 9780226452753
RRP: $103.20Booksplease Price: $99.72This text reflects on nine writers and philosophers, including Heidegger, Derrida, Blanchot and Holderlin, in a personal exploration of the meaning of sensual love, language, tragedy and death. The... -
The Event of Style in Literature by Mario Aquilina 9781349490950
Booksplease Price: $60.29The 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...