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The Many Voices of Lydia Davis: Translation, Rewriting, Intertextuality by Jonathan Evans
RRP: $50.68Booksplease Price: $46.18The first in-depth analysis of Lydia Davis's translations and writing'The Many Voices of Lydia Davis' shows how translation, rewriting and intertextuality are central to the work of Lydia Davis, a... -
Philosophy and the Art of Writing by Richard Shusterman 9781032230801
RRP: $81.88Booksplease Price: $77.40Philosophy and literature enjoy a close, complex relationship. Elucidating the connections between these two fields, this book examines the ways philosophy deploys literary means to advance its... -
Language and Relation: . . . that there is language by Christopher Fynsk 9780804727143
RRP: $52.63Booksplease Price: $45.79The most recent version of the "linguistic turn," the revolution in language theory shaped by Saussure's structural linguistics and realized in a sweeping revision of investigations throughout the... -
Art and the Human Adventure: Andre Malraux's Theory of Art by Derek Allan 9789042027497
Booksplease Price: $225.62Andre Malraux was a major figure in French intellectual life in the twentieth century. A key component of his thought is his theory of art which presents a series of fundamental challenges to... -
The Politics of Nothing: On Sovereignty by Clare Monagle 9781138946613
RRP: $91.63Booksplease Price: $85.68This book questions what sovereignty looks like when it is de-ontologised; when the nothingness at the heart of claims to sovereignty is unmasked and laid bare. Drawing on critical thinkers in... -
The Apotheosis of Nullity: A Transhistorical Genealogy of Human Subjectivity by Bartosz Lubczonok 9781433134654
RRP: $209.24Booksplease Price: $187.20This massive book is an intensive inquest into the fate of the human subject as it passes through the primitive, despotic, passional and capitalist regimes found in Deleuze and Guattari. Emphatic,... -
Silence Nowhen: Late Modernism, Minimalism, and Silence in the Work of Samuel Beckett by Duncan McColl Chesney 9781433122477
RRP: $138.45Booksplease Price: $123.12The dramatic and prose works of Samuel Beckett have long been understood as central to twentieth-century literature and particularly to questions about aesthetics, ethics, and the... -
Mystics: Presence and Aporia by Michael Kessler 9780226432090
RRP: $156.00Booksplease Price: $150.74When we speak of mystics, we normally think of people who have confessed extraordinary experiences of divine presence. But mysticism can also refer to the ways that people have described and... -
The Ethics of Psychoanalysis: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan: Book VII by Jacques Lacan 9781138834590
Booksplease Price: $215.26A charismatic and controversial figure, Lacan is one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century and his work has revolutionized linguistics, philosophy, literature, psychology, cultural... -
Derrida on Time Joanna Hodge (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK) 9780415597203
RRP: $95.53Booksplease Price: $88.98This is a comprehensive investigation into the theme of time in the work of Jacques Derrida and shows how temporality is one of the hallmarks of his thought. Drawing on a wide array of Derrida's... -
Writing Colonisation: Violence, Landscape, and the Act of Naming in Modern Italian and Australian Literature by Sabina Sestigiani 9781433123986
RRP: $141.08Booksplease Price: $125.40Writing Colonisation: Violence, Landscape, and the Act of Naming in Modern Italian and Australian Literature offers a unique comparative analysis of modern Italian and Australian literature which has... -
A Propos, Levinas by David Appelbaum 9781438443102
Booksplease Price: $50.02Rejects Levinas's argument for the preeminence of ethics in philosophy."Imagine listening at a keyhole to a conversation with the task of transcribing it, and the result may be a text similar to the... -
The Other Shore: Essays on Writers and Writing by Michael Jackson 9780520275249
RRP: $122.85Booksplease Price: $109.71In this book, ethnographer and poet Michael Jackson addresses the interplay between modes of writing, modes of understanding, and modes of being in the world. Drawing on literary, anthropological and... -
Antonin Artaud: A Critical Reader by Edward Scheer
RRP: $77.98Booksplease Price: $74.08This resource collects for the first time some of the best criticism on Artaud's life and work from writers such as Jacques Derrida, Julia Kristeva, Maurice Blanchot, Herbert Blau, Leo Bersani and... -
The Other Shore: Essays on Writers and Writing by Michael Jackson 9780520275263
RRP: $58.50Booksplease Price: $49.16In this book, ethnographer and poet Michael Jackson addresses the interplay between modes of writing, modes of understanding, and modes of being in the world. Drawing on literary, anthropological and... -
The Book of Margins by Edmond Jabes 9780226388885
Booksplease Price: $178.31The death of Edmond Jabes in January 1991 silenced one of the most compelling voices of the postmodern, post-Holocaust era. Jabes's importance as a thinker, philosopher, and Jewish theologian cannot... -
Traumatic Realism: The Demands of Holocaust Representation by Michael Rothberg 9780816634590
RRP: $40.93Booksplease Price: $35.57Analyzes the impact of historical trauma on contemporary culture.How to approach the Holocaust and its relationship to late twentieth-century society? While some stress the impossibility of... -
Meetings With Mallarme by Michael Temple 9780859895620
RRP: $39.00Booksplease Price: $34.03From 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... -
Mystics: Presence and Aporia Michael Kessler 9780226432106
Booksplease Price: $59.34When we speak of mystics, we normally think of people who have confessed extraordinary experiences of divine presence. But mysticism can also refer to the ways that people have described and... -
The Ethics of Psychoanalysis: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan: Book VII by Jacques Lacan
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $33.33A charismatic and controversial figure, Lacan is one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century and his work has revolutionized linguistics, philosophy, literature, psychology, cultural... -
The Secret Violence of Henry Miller by Katy Masuga
RRP: $87.75Booksplease Price: $86.76Henry Miller is a cult figure in the world of fiction, in part due to having been banned for obscenity for nearly thirty years. Alongside the liberating effect of his explicit treatment of sexuality,... -
Figural Space: Semiotics and the Aesthetic Imaginary by William D. Melaney 9781538179888
Booksplease Price: $65.31This book is concerned with the continuing viability of both Freud and Hegel to the reading of modern literature. The book begins with Julia Kristeva's attempts to relate Hegelian thought to a... -
Given Time II Jacques Derrida 9780226823201
RRP: $62.40Booksplease Price: $55.19The long-awaited conclusion to Derrida's seminar on the gift and time. In 1991, Jacques Derrida published the first half of a seminar delivered from 1978 to 1979 on gifts and time, but the second... -
Around the Book: Systems and Literacy by Henry Sussman 9780823232833
RRP: $179.40Booksplease Price: $156.20Amid radical transformation and rapid mutation in the nature, transmission, and deployment of information and communications, Around the Book offers a status report and theoretically nuanced update... -
Philosophy and Kafka by Brendan Moran 9780739180891
Booksplease Price: $178.80The relationship of philosophy with Kafka's oeuvre is complex. It has been argued that Kafka's novels and stories defy philosophic extrapolation; conversely, it has also been suggested that precisely... -
Ecrits: A Selection by Jacques Lacan
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $36.54Genius and charismatic leader of a psychoanalytic movement that in the 1950s and 1960s provided a focal point for the French intelligentsia, Jacques Lacan attracted a cult following. Ecrits is his... -
On the Human Race: Essays and Commentary by Robert Antelme 9780810160644
RRP: $44.83Booksplease Price: $39.70Rescued in 1945 from Dachau - where he lay dying when Francois Mitterand, his onetime comrade in the resistance, recognized him among the thousands of quarantined prisoners - Robert Antelme set out... -
The Obsessions of Georges Bataille: Community and Communication by Andrew Mitchell 9781438428239
RRP: $141.38Booksplease Price: $135.74Considers Bataille's work from an explicitly philosophical perspective.Featuring a new translation of Jean-Luc Nancy's "Confronted Community" and three essays by Bataille on community and... -
Literature, Ethics, and Decolonization in Postwar France: The Politics of Disengagement by Daniel Just
RRP: $183.30Booksplease Price: $174.90Against 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... -
The Ontology of Death: The Philosophy of the Death Penalty in Literature by Dr Aaron Aquilina 9781350339484
Booksplease Price: $176.61Through 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... -
Romanian Joyce: From Hostility to Hospitality by Arleen Ionescu 9783631652916
RRP: $113.39Booksplease Price: $101.58This study makes Romania's largely unknown Joycean heritage visible to an international readership. Reviewing Joyce's critical reception and translations, as well as the writer's influence on... -
Literary Theories of Uncertainty by Dr Mette Leonard Hoeg 9781350259706
Booksplease Price: $61.46As the first study to examine the concept of uncertainty of meaning as it relates to modern and contemporary literature and literary theory, Literary Theories of Uncertainty demonstrates how this... -
Derrida, Literature and War: Absence and the Chance of Meeting by Sean Gaston 9781847065537
Booksplease Price: $88.34This is a fascinating examination of the relation between absence and chance in Derrida's work and through that a re-examination of the relation between war and literature. "Derrida, Literature... -
Cinesexuality Patricia MacCormack 9781138053625
RRP: $95.53Booksplease Price: $88.98Cinesexuality explores the queerness of cinema spectatorship, arguing that cinema spectatorship represents a unique encounter of desire, pleasure and perversion beyond dialectics of subject/object... -
Humanism of the Other by Emmanuel Levinas
RRP: $31.18Booksplease Price: $27.96In Humanism of the Other, Emmanuel Levinas argues that it is not only possible but of the highest exigency to understand one's humanity through the humanity of others. Based in a new appreciation for... -
Rue Ordener, Rue Labat by Sarah Kofman
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $26.44Rue Ordener, Rue Labat is a moving memoir by the distinguished French philosopher Sarah Kofman. It opens with the horrifying moment in July 1942 when the author's father, the rabbi of a small... -
Thinking After Heidegger David Wood 9780745616230
Booksplease Price: $36.29In Thinking After Heidegger, David Wood takes up the challenge posed by Heidegger - that after the end of philosophy we need to learn to think. But what if we read Heidegger with the same respectful... -
Into the Breach: Samuel Beckett and the Ends of Literature by Thomas Trezise 9780691604541
RRP: $62.40Booksplease Price: $56.59Arguing that Beckett's understanding of subjectivity cannot be reduced to that of phenomenology or existential humanism, Thomas Trezise offers a major reinterpretation of Beckett in light of Freud... -
Of Minimal Things: Studies on the Notion of Relation by Rodolphe Gasche 9780804736770
RRP: $52.63Booksplease Price: $45.79Of Minimal Things is an exploration and reassessment of the philosophical notion of relation. In contrast to the scholastic, ontological conception of relation as a thing of diminished being, this... -
The Trespass of the Sign: Deconstruction, Theology, and Philosophy by Kevin Hart 9780823220502
RRP: $60.45Booksplease Price: $55.87The Trespass of the Sign offers a clear and thorough account of the relations between deconstruction and theology. Kevin Hart argues that, contrary to popular thought on the topic, deconstruction...