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  • Living On After Failure

    Affective Structures of Modern Life

    by Irving Goh ...
    In Living On After Failure, Irving Goh dwells with failure and all of its negative affects. Goh does not seek a theorization of failure as something to overcome or turn into a recuperative philosophy or progress narrative. Rather, he engages with the ontological condition of failure as a process of staying with the impasse that failure brings. Drawing on the thought of Berlant, Derrida, Foucault, ... Read more

    $18.69 USD

  • The Reject

    Community, Politics, and Religion after the Subject

    by Irving Goh ...
    Series series Commonalities
    This book proposes a theory of the reject, a more adequate figure than the subject for thinking friendship, love, community, democracy, the postsecular, and the posthuman.Through close readings of Nancy, Deleuze, Derrida, Cixous, Clement, Bataille, Balibar, Ranciere, and Badiou, Goh shows how the reject has always been nascent in contemporary French thought. The recent turn to animals and bare ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • Jean-Luc Nancy among the Philosophers

    by Irving Goh, Georges Van Den Abbeele, Emily Apter, Rodolphe Gasché, Werner Hamacher, Eleanor Kaufman, Ian Alexander Moore, Marie-Eve Morin, Timothy Murray, Jean-Luc Nancy0, John H. Smith1 ...
    Series series Perspectives in Continental Philosophy
    This volume focuses on the relational aspect of Jean-Luc Nancy’s thinking. As Nancy himself showed, thinking might be a solitary activity but it is never singular in its dimension. Building on or breaking away from other thoughts, especially those by thinkers who had come before, thinking is always plural, relational. This “singular plural” dimension of thought in Nancy’s philosophical writings ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • The Deconstruction of Sex

    by Jean-Luc Nancy, Irving Goh ...
    Series series a Cultural Politics book
    In The Deconstruction of Sex, Jean-Luc Nancy and Irving Goh discuss how a deconstructive approach to sex helps us negotiate discourses about sex and foster a better understanding of how sex complicates our everyday existence in the age of #MeToo. Throughout their conversation, Nancy and Goh engage with topics ranging from relation, penetration, and subjection to touch, erotics, and jouissance. ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • The Future of Continental Philosophy of Religion

    by Catherine Malabou, Gavin Hyman, Irving Goh, Leon Niemoczynski, John Thibdeau, Joseph Ballan, Edward F. Mooney, Devin Singh, Randall Johnson, Lenart Škof, Christina M. Gschwandtner, Philip Goodchild, Noëlle Vahanian, John D. Caputo, Steven Shakespeare, Katharine Moody ...
    Series series Philosophy of Religion
    What is the future of Continental philosophy of religion? These forward-looking essays address the new thinkers and movements that have gained prominence since the generation of Derrida, Deleuze, Foucault, and Levinas and how they will reshape Continental philosophy of religion in the years to come. They look at the ways concepts such as liberation, sovereignty, and post-colonialism have engaged ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Touching Literature, or The Experience of the Limit

    by Irving Goh ...
    Touching Literature, or The Experience of the Limit shows how radical engagements with touch allow literature to transcend boundaries of temporality, mortality and finitude, subjectivity, territorial differences, and the material limits of the artwork itself. Departing from philosophies of touch—proposed by such thinkers as Jean-Paul Sartre, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Jean-Luc Nancy, Luce Irigaray, ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

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  • French Thought and Literary Theory in the UK

    Edited by Irving Goh ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature
    This collection presents a sort of counter-history or counter-genealogy of the globalization of French thought from the point of view of scholars working in the UK. While the dominating discourse would attribute the US as the source of that globalization, particularly through the 1966 conference on the Languages of Criticism and the Sciences of Man at Johns Hopkins University, this volume of ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Nancy Now

    Edited by Verena Conley, Irving Goh ...
    Series series Theory Now
    Jean-Luc Nancy stands as one of the great French theorists of "deconstruction." His writings on philosophy, politics, aesthetics, and religion have significantly contributed to the development of contemporary French thought and helped shape and transform the field of continental philosophy. Through Nancy's immense oeuvre, which covers a wide range of topics such as community, freedom, existence, ... Read more

    $21.00 USD

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  • 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

  • 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

    $28.49 USD

  • Incontinence of the Void

    Economico-Philosophical Spandrels

    by Slavoj Zizek ...
    Series series Short Circuits
    The “formidably brilliant” Žižek considers sexuality, ontology, subjectivity, and Marxian critiques of political economy by way of Lacanian psychoanalysis.If the most interesting theoretical interventions emerge today from the interspaces between fields, then the foremost interspaceman is Slavoj Žižek. In Incontinence of the Void (the title is inspired by a sentence in Samuel Beckett's late ... Read more

    $13.99 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