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  • The Proustian Mind

    Edited by Anna Elsner, Thomas Stern ...
    Series series Routledge Philosophical Minds
    When Marcel Proust started to work on In Search of Lost Time in 1908, he wrote this question in his notebook: ‘Should I make it a novel, a philosophical study, am I a novelist?’ Throughout his famous multi-volume work, Proust directly engages several philosophers, and few novels are as thoroughly saturated with philosophical themes and concepts as In Search of Lost Time.The Proustian Mind is an ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

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  • Sartre: Romantic Rationalist. Illustrated

    by Iris Murdoch ...
    In Sartre: Romantic Rationalist, acclaimed novelist and philosopher Iris Murdoch presents a clear and insightful introduction to the complex thought of Jean-Paul Sartre, one of the most influential figures in 20th-century existentialism. This illustrated volume offers both a critique and a sympathetic exploration of Sartre’s philosophical and literary work. Murdoch examines Sartre’s central ideas, ... Read more

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  • Reading for the Plot

    Design and Intention in Narrative

    by Peter Brooks ...
    A book which should appeal to both literary theorists and to readers of the novel, this study invites the reader to consider how the plot reflects the patterns of human destiny and seeks to impose a new meaning on life. ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • A Voice and Nothing More

    by Mladen Dolar ...
    Series series Short Circuits
    A new, philosophically grounded theory of the voice—the voice as the lever of thought, as one of the paramount embodiments of the psychoanalytic object.Plutarch tells the story of a man who plucked a nightingale and finding but little to eat exclaimed: "You are just a voice and nothing more." Plucking the feathers of meaning that cover the voice, dismantling the body from which the voice seems to ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • The Event of the Thing

    Derrida's Post-Deconstructive Realism

    by Michael Marder ...
    Jacques Derrida's writings often embed the key themes of deconstruction in a notion of the thing. The Event of the Thing is the most complete examination to date of Derrida's understanding of thinghood and its crucial role in psychoanalysis, ethics, literary theory, aesthetics, and Marxism.Arguing that the thing, as a figure of otherness, destabilizes the metaphysical edifice it underlies, Michael ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Levinas

    An Introduction

    by Colin Davis ...
    Series series Key Contemporary Thinkers
    In recent years there has been a resurgence of interest in the work of Emmanuel Levinas, widely recognized as one of the most important yet difficult philosophers of the 20th century.In this much-needed introduction, Davis unpacks the concepts at the centre of Levinas's thought - alterity, the Other, the Face, infinity - concepts which have previously presented readers with major problems of ... Read more

    $21.00 USD

  • Derrida's Legacies

    Literature and Philosophy

    Edited by Simon Glendinning, Robert Eaglestone ...
    This volume brings together some of the most well-known and highly respected commentators on the work of Jacques Derrida from Britain and America in a series of essays written to commemorate the life and come to terms with the death of one of the most important intellectual presences of our time.Derrida’s thought reached into nearly every corner of contemporary intellectual culture and the ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Maurice Blanchot

    The Demand of Writing

    Edited by Carolyn Bailey Gill ...
    Series series Warwick Studies in European Philosophy
    This timely collection of essays is the first to be written on the work of Maurice Blanchot in English. One of the finest writers of our time, Blanchot is a contemporary of Bataille and Levinas; his writing has influenced the likes of Derrida and Foucault.Eminent commentators featured here include: Simon Critchley, Paul Davies, Cristopher Fynsk, Rodolphe Gasche, Leslie Hill, Michael Holland, ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • The Disavowed Community

    by Jean-Luc Nancy ...
    Translated by Philip Armstrong ...
    Series series Commonalities
    Over 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 responds in turn with The Disavowed Community. Stemming from Jean-Christophe Bailly’s initial proposal to think community in terms of “number” or the “numerous,” and unfolding as a close reading of Blanchot ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

  • Gaston Bachelard

    Critic of Science and the Imagination

    by Cristina Chimisso ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Philosophy
    In this new study, Cristina Chimisso explores the work of the French Philosopher of Science, Gaston Bachelard (1884-1962) by situating it within French cultural life of the first half of the century. The book is introduced by a study - based on an analysis of portraits and literary representations - of how Bachelard's admirers transformed him into the mythical image of the Philosopher, the ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Spinoza Contra Phenomenology

    French Rationalism from Cavaillès to Deleuze

    by Knox Peden ...
    Series series Cultural Memory in the Present
    Spinoza Contra Phenomenology fundamentally recasts the history of postwar French thought, typically presumed to have been driven by a critique of reason indebted to Nietzsche and Heidegger. Although the reception of phenomenology gave rise to many innovative developments in French philosophy, from existentialism to deconstruction, not everyone in France was pleased with this German import. This ... Read more

    $24.59 USD

  • Lacan

    In Spite Of Everything

    by Elisabeth Roudinesco ...
    Jacques Lacan continues to be subject to the most extravagant interpretations. Angelic to some, he is demonic to others. To recall Lacan’s career, now that the heroic age of psychoanalysis is over, is to remember an intellectual and literary adventure that occupies a founding place in our modernity. Lacan went against the current of many of the hopes aroused by 1968, but embraced their paradoxes, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD