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“cathy caruth”

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  • Listening to Trauma

    Conversations with Leaders in the Theory and Treatment of Catastrophic Experience

    Interviews and intimate photographic portraits of witnesses to the collective and cultural significance of trauma.This new collection from Cathy Caruth features interviews with a diverse group of leaders in the theorization of, and response to, traumatic experience in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Crossing the boundaries of discipline and profession, Caruth’s subjects include literary ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Knowing the Suffering of Others

    Legal Perspectives on Pain and Its Meanings

    by Austin Sarat, Montré D. Carodine, Cathy Caruth, Alan L. Durham, Brian K. Fair, Steven Hobbs, Gregory Keating, Jeannie Suk, John Fabian Witt0, Assistant Professor Meredith M. Render, J.D.1, Assistant Professor Linda Ross Meyer, J.D.2, Assistant Professor Austin Sarat, J.D.3 ...
    In Knowing the Suffering of Others, legal scholar Austin Sarat brings together essays that address suffering as it relates to the law, highlighting the ways law imagines suffering and how pain and suffering become jurisprudential facts.From fetal imaging to end-of-life decisions, torts to international human rights, domestic violence to torture, and the law of war to victim impact statements, the ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Unclaimed Experience

    Trauma, Narrative, and History

    by Cathy Caruth ...
    The pathbreaking work that founded the field of trauma studies.In Unclaimed Experience, Cathy Caruth proposes that in the widespread and bewildering experience of trauma in our century—both in its occurrence and in our attempt to understand it—we can recognize the possibility of a history no longer based on simple models of straightforward experience and reference. Through the notion of trauma, ... Read more

    $27.09 USD

  • Empirical Truths and Critical Fictions

    Locke, Wordsworth, Kant, Freud

    by Cathy Caruth ...
    In the prevailing account of English empiricism, Locke conceived of self-understanding as a matter of mere observation, bound closely to the laws of physical perception. English Romantic poets and German critical philosophers challenged Locke's conception, arguing that it failed to account adequately for the power of thought to turn upon itself—to detach itself from the laws of the physical world. ... Read more

    $25.39 USD

  • Literature in the Ashes of History

    by Cathy Caruth ...
    What does it mean for history to disappear?Outstanding Academic Title, ChoiceCathy Caruth juxtaposes the writings of psychoanalysts, literary and political theorists, and literary authors who write in a century faced by a new kind of history, one that is made up of events that seem to undo, rather than produce, their own remembrance. At the heart of each chapter is the enigma of a history that, in ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Unclaimed Experience

    Trauma, Narrative and History

    by Cathy Caruth ...
    "If Freud turns to literature to describe traumatic experience, it is because literature, like psychoanalysis, is interested in the complex relation between knowing and not knowing, and it is at this specific point at which knowing and not knowing intersect that the psychoanalytic theory of traumatic experience and the language of literature meet."—from the IntroductionIn Unclaimed Experience, ... Read more

    $24.59 USD

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    by Alain Badiou, Elisabeth Roudinesco ...
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  • The Cambridge Companion to Existentialism

    Edited by Steven Crowell ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Philosophy
    Existentialism exerts a continuing fascination on students of philosophy and general readers. As a philosophical phenomenon, though, it is often poorly understood, as a form of radical subjectivism that turns its back on reason and argumentation and possesses all the liabilities of philosophical idealism but without any idealistic conceptual clarity. In this volume of original essays, the first to ... Read more

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  • A Dictionary of Critical Theory

    by Ian Buchanan ...
    Series series Oxford Quick Reference
    Containing over 750 in-depth entries, this is the most wide-ranging and up-to-date dictionary of critical theory available. This authoritative guide covers the whole range of critical theory, including the Frankfurt school, cultural materialism, cultural studies, gender studies, film studies, literary theory, hermeneutics, historical materialism, and socio-political critical theory. Entries ... Read more

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  • Speech Begins after Death

    by Michel Foucault, Claude Bonnefoy ...
    Translated by Robert Bononno ...
    In 1968, Michel Foucault agreed to a series of interviews with critic Claude Bonnefoy, which were to be published in book form. Bonnefoy wanted a dialogue with Foucault about his relationship to writing rather than about the content of his books. The project was abandoned, but a transcript of the initial interview survived and is now being published for the first time in English. In this brief and ... Read more

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  • Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari

    Intersecting Lives

    by Francois Dosse ...
    Translated by Deborah Glassman ...
    Series series European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
    In May 1968, Gilles Deleuze was an established philosopher teaching at the innovative Vincennes University, just outside of Paris. Félix Guattari was a political militant and the director of an unusual psychiatric clinic at La Borde. Their meeting was quite unlikely, yet the two were introduced in an arranged encounter of epic consequence. From that moment on, Deleuze and Guattari engaged in a ... Read more

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  • Why Psychoanalysis?

    by Elisabeth Roudinesco ...
    Translated by Rachel Bowlby ...
    Series series European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
    Why do some people still choose psychoanalysis-Freud's so-called talking cure-when numerous medications are available that treat the symptoms of psychic distress so much faster? Elisabeth Roudinesco tackles this difficult question, exploring what she sees as a "depressive society": an epidemic of distress addressed only by an increasing reliance on prescription drugs.Far from contesting the ... Read more

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