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The Continental Aesthetics Reader by Clive Cazeaux
RRP: $81.26Booksplease Price: $76.36The 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: $33.09Shocking, 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... -
Nathalie Sarraute: A Life Between by Ann Jefferson
RRP: $54.18Booksplease Price: $47.64The 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: $56.76Booksplease Price: $44.96A 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: $154.80Booksplease Price: $124.03A 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... -
Theoretical Interpretations of the Holocaust by Dan Stone 9789042015050
Booksplease Price: $86.88This 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: $59.70Blake'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... -
Blake's Night Thoughts by Professor Jeremy Tambling 9781403942845
Booksplease Price: $60.29Blake'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: $39.40Kant, 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... -
Book of Addresses by Peggy Kamuf
RRP: $134.16Booksplease Price: $108.30This 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... -
The Book of Ecclesiastes (Qohelet) and the Path to Joyous Living by T. A. Perry 9781107088047
RRP: $121.25Booksplease Price: $115.70This 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... -
Philosophy, Literature and the Human Good Michael Weston 9780415243384
RRP: $54.17Booksplease Price: $51.20In 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... -
Interruptions: The Fragmentary Aesthetic in Modern Literature by Gerald L. Bruns 9780817359065
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $29.94A 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... -
Textualities: Between Hermeneutics and Deconstruction Hugh J. Silverman 9780415908191
RRP: $23.21Booksplease Price: $23.08Textualities 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... -
The Figural Jew: Politics and Identity in Postwar French Thought Sarah Hammerschlag 9780226315126
Booksplease Price: $36.83The 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,... -
Roger Laporte: The Orphic Text by Ian Maclachlan
RRP: $104.48Booksplease Price: $96.16This 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: $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,... -
The Figural Jew: Politics and Identity in Postwar French Thought by Sarah Hammerschlag 9780226315119
Booksplease Price: $120.91The 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: $93.53Booksplease Price: $89.80Brings 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: $35.29Brings 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: $63.27Booksplease Price: $57.08The 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... -
Black: The Brilliance of a Non-Color by Alain Badiou 9781509512089
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $15.30Who 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... -
Black: The Brilliance of a Non-Color Alain Badiou (l'Ecole normale superieure) 9781509512072
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $37.80Who 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... -
Samuel Beckett's Signature in Years 1929-1938: Reflecting on the Thought Process: Language, the Neutrum and Memory by Rafal Borkowski 9783631884843
RRP: $49.02Booksplease Price: $29.73The 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... -
Nicolas Winding Refn and the Violence of Art: A Critical Study of the Films by Justin Vicari 9780786471829
RRP: $28.37Booksplease Price: $25.27Nicolas 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... -
Book of Addresses by Peggy Kamuf 9780804750592
RRP: $30.95Booksplease Price: $27.27This 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... -
Meetings With Mallarme by Michael Temple 9780859895613
RRP: $96.75Booksplease Price: $80.33From 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... -
On Contemporaneity Today, after Agamben: The Concept and its Times by Zsuzsa Baross 9781845199913
RRP: $51.54Booksplease Price: $51.46Who 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... -
Georges Bataille: Key Concepts Mark Hewson 9781138908567
RRP: $38.69Booksplease Price: $38.04Georges 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... -
Literature, Ethics, and Decolonization in Postwar France: The Politics of Disengagement by Daniel Just 9781107474864
Booksplease Price: $41.43Against 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: $74.30Much 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... -
Altered Reading: Levinas and Literature by Jill Robbins
Booksplease Price: $36.83How 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: $118.11How 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: $117.89Intervervening 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: $93.53Booksplease Price: $76.86Treats 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: $92.88Booksplease Price: $81.95This 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: $23.21Booksplease Price: $20.51The 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... -
Conrad'S Marlow: Narrative and Death in 'Youth', Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim and Chance by Paul Wake 9781784992477
Booksplease Price: $30.37Variously described as 'the average pilgrim', a 'wanderer', and 'a Buddha preaching in European clothes', Charlie Marlow is the voice behind Joseph Conrad's Youth (1898), Heart of Darkness (1899),... -
Moebian Nights: Reading Literature and Darkness by Sandor Goodhart 9781501350818
Booksplease Price: $50.81"I died at Auschwitz," French writer Charlotte Delbo asserts, "and nobody knows it." Moebian Nights: Reading Literature and Darkness develops a new understanding of literary reading: that in the wake... -
Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe: Representation and the Loss of the Subject by John Martis
RRP: $43.86Booksplease Price: $39.96This 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...