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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... -
Writing Death and Absence in the Victorian Novel: Engraved Narratives by Jolene Zigarovich 9781137007025
Booksplease Price: £46.74This 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... -
Lunar Voices: Of Tragedy, Poetry, Fiction, and Thought by David Farrell Krell 9780226452777
Booksplease Price: £34.14This 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 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... -
Such a Deathly Desire by Pierre Klossowski 9780791471968
Booksplease Price: £25.65Shocking, brilliant, and eccentric, the French author, translator, and artist Pierre Klossowski (1905-2001) exerted a profound effect on French intellectual culture throughout the twentieth century... -
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... -
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... -
Theoretical Interpretations of the Holocaust by Dan Stone 9789042015050
Booksplease Price: £67.35This book aims to show the many resources at our disposal for grappling with the Holocaust as the darkest occurrence of the twentieth century. These wide-ranging studies on philosophy, history, and... -
Blake's Night Thoughts by Professor Jeremy Tambling 9781349521661
Booksplease Price: £46.28Blake's Night Thoughts discusses Blake as a poet and artist of night, considering night through graveyard poetry and Young in the eighteenth-century, urbanism in the nineteenth and Levinas and... -
Kant, Adorno, and the Forms of History Dr William S. Allen 9798765133972
Booksplease Price: £30.54Kant, Adorno, and the Forms of History sets the works of Theodor Adorno, Immanuel Kant and Peter Weiss in dialogue, revealing how an interrogation of the aesthetics of 'the whole' and the conception... -
Blake's Night Thoughts by Professor Jeremy Tambling 9781403942845
Booksplease Price: £46.74Blake's Night Thoughts discusses Blake as a poet and artist of night, considering night through graveyard poetry and Young in the eighteenth-century, urbanism in the nineteenth and Levinas and... -
Book of Addresses by Peggy Kamuf
RRP: £104.00Booksplease Price: £83.95This book consists of a series of essays that all turn around questions of the address of speech or writing. They argue and demonstrate that meaning is not just a matter of the active intention of a... -
Interruptions: The Fragmentary Aesthetic in Modern Literature by Gerald L. Bruns 9780817359065
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.21A history of fragmentary-or interrupted-writing in avant-garde poetry and prose by a renowned literary critic. In Interruptions: The Fragmentary Aesthetic in Modern Literature, Gerald L. Bruns... -
The Book of Ecclesiastes (Qohelet) and the Path to Joyous Living by T. A. Perry 9781107088047
RRP: £93.99Booksplease Price: £89.69This is the first full-length study of Ecclesiastes using methods of philosophical exegesis, specifically those of the modern French philosophers Levinas and Blanchot. T. A. Perry opens up new... -
Textualities: Between Hermeneutics and Deconstruction Hugh J. Silverman 9780415908191
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £17.89Textualities is both an account of recent developments in Continental philosophy and a demonstration of philosophy as a distinctive theoretical practice of its own. It can be read as a presentation... -
Philosophy, Literature and the Human Good Michael Weston 9780415243384
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69In this provocative new examination of the philosophical, moral and religious significance of literature, Michael Weston explores the role of literature in both analytic and continental traditions... -
Roger Laporte: The Orphic Text by Ian Maclachlan
RRP: £80.99Booksplease Price: £74.54This is the first full-length study devoted to Roger Laporte, whose lifelong exploration of the stakes of writing has produced a body of work on the borderline of literature and philosophy. Charting... -
Literature, Philosophy, Nihilism: The Uncanniest of Guests by Shane Weller 9780230551541
Booksplease Price: £46.28This 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,... -
The Figural Jew: Politics and Identity in Postwar French Thought Sarah Hammerschlag 9780226315126
Booksplease Price: £28.55The rootless Jew, wandering disconnected from history, homeland, and nature, was often the target of early twentieth-century nationalist rhetoric aimed against modern culture. But after World War II,... -
The Figural Jew: Politics and Identity in Postwar French Thought by Sarah Hammerschlag 9780226315119
Booksplease Price: £93.73The rootless Jew, wandering disconnected from history, homeland, and nature, was often the target of early twentieth-century nationalist rhetoric aimed against modern culture. But after World War II,... -
The Scene of the Voice: Thinking Language after Affect by Michael Eng 9781438492520
RRP: £72.50Booksplease Price: £69.61Brings the figure of the voice and the problem of mimesis in Heidegger and post-Heideggerian continental thought to bear on the dismissal of language by the affective and aesthetic turns of... -
The Scene of the Voice: Thinking Language after Affect by Michael Eng 9781438492513
Booksplease Price: £27.36Brings the figure of the voice and the problem of mimesis in Heidegger and post-Heideggerian continental thought to bear on the dismissal of language by the affective and aesthetic turns of... -
Beyond the Limits of Language: Apophasis and Transgression in Contemporary Theoretical Discourse by Agata Wilczek 9783631670286
RRP: £49.05Booksplease Price: £44.25The book explores the way in which apophatic discourse of negative theology has illuminated contemporary critical theory. It demonstrates the significance of apophasis both in Jacques Derrida's... -
Samuel Beckett's Signature in Years 1929-1938: Reflecting on the Thought Process: Language, the Neutrum and Memory by Rafal Borkowski 9783631884843
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £23.05The study offers new readings of early works, both novels and short stories, of Samuel Beckett in the context of Beckett's signature. The author analyses the given signature through such terms as... -
Black: The Brilliance of a Non-Color by Alain Badiou 9781509512089
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.86Who hasn't had the frightening experience of stumbling around in the pitch dark? Alain Badiou experienced that primitive terror when he, with his young friends, made up a game called "The Stroke of... -
Black: The Brilliance of a Non-Color Alain Badiou (l'Ecole normale superieure) 9781509512072
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.30Who hasn't had the frightening experience of stumbling around in the pitch dark? Alain Badiou experienced that primitive terror when he, with his young friends, made up a game called "The Stroke of... -
Nicolas Winding Refn and the Violence of Art: A Critical Study of the Films by Justin Vicari 9780786471829
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £19.59Nicolas Winding Refn has emerged as a uniquely talented international filmmaker with an eye for visceral, iconic images. A 21st century mythmaker from his cult Pusher trilogy to the award-winning... -
On Contemporaneity Today, after Agamben: The Concept and its Times by Zsuzsa Baross 9781845199913
RRP: £39.95Booksplease Price: £39.89Who are our contemporaries today? Alain Badiou, Jean-Luc Nancy, or Giorgio Agamben, or the already neglected Althusser or Lacoue-Labarthe? From among the thinkers of the last great generation of the... -
Meetings With Mallarme by Michael Temple 9780859895613
RRP: £75.00Booksplease Price: £62.27From Paul Valery to Julia Kristeva, the work of Stephane Mallarme has had a lasting impact on twentieth-century French culture. His texts have served as emblem and inspiration for successive... -
Book of Addresses by Peggy Kamuf 9780804750592
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £21.14This book consists of a series of essays that all turn around questions of the address of speech or writing. They argue and demonstrate that meaning is not just a matter of the active intention of a... -
Literature, Ethics, and Decolonization in Postwar France: The Politics of Disengagement by Daniel Just 9781107474864
Booksplease Price: £32.12Against the background of intellectual and political debates in France during the 1950s and 1960s, Daniel Just examines literary narratives and works of literary criticism arguing that these texts... -
Readers and Reading by Andrew Bennett 9780582212909
Booksplease Price: £57.60Much literary criticism focuses on literary producers and their products, but an important part of such work considers the end-user, the reader. It asks such questions as: how far can the author... -
Georges Bataille: Key Concepts Mark Hewson 9781138908567
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £29.49Georges Bataille (1897 - 1962) was a philosopher, writer, and literary critic whose work has had a significant impact across disciplines as diverse as philosophy, sociology, economics, art history... -
Altered Reading: Levinas and Literature by Jill Robbins
Booksplease Price: £28.55How might the ethical philosophy of the renowned French thinker Emmanuel Levinas relate to literature? Because his philosophy addresses the very opening of ethical experience, it cannot be applied... -
Altered Reading: Levinas and Literature by Jill Robbins 9780226721125
Booksplease Price: £91.56How might the ethical philosophy of the renowned French thinker Emmanuel Levinas relate to literature? Because his philosophy addresses the very opening of ethical experience, it cannot be applied... -
Subjectivity as Radical Hospitality: Recasting the Self with Augustine, Descartes, Marion, and Derrida by John Martis 9781498543996
Booksplease Price: £91.39Intervervening in a lively debate in contemporary European philosophy, this book offers a radically revisioned account of the self subjected to experience. Patiently yet vigorously engaging Jean-Luc... -
Immemorial Silence by Karmen MacKendrick 9780791448779
RRP: £72.50Booksplease Price: £59.58Treats time, eternity, language, and silence in an original way.Drawing on philosophy, theology, and literature, from the early Middle Ages to the present, Immemorial Silence traces a series of... -
Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe: Representation and the Loss of the Subject by John Martis 9780823225347
RRP: £72.00Booksplease Price: £63.53This is the first full-length book in English on the noted French philosopher Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe. Martis introduces the range of Lacoue-Labarthe's thinking, demonstrating the systematic nature... -
The Little Book of Unsuspected Subversion by Edmond Jabes 9780804726849
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £15.90The late Edmond Jabes was a major voice in French poetry in the latter half of this century. An Egyptian Jew, he was haunted by the question of place and the loss of place in relation to writing. He...