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  • The World after the End of the World

    A Spectro-Poetics

    by Kas Saghafi ...
    Series series SUNY series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy
    Examines themes of loss and mourning in the late work of Derrida.In this book, Kas Saghafi argues that the notion of "the end the world" in Derrida's late work is not a theological or cosmological matter, but a meditation on mourning and the death of the other. He examines this and several other tightly knit motifs in Derrida's work: mourning, survival, the phantasm, the event, and most ... Read more

    $33.29 USD

  • Deconstructing the Death Penalty

    Derrida's Seminars and the New Abolitionism

    by Kelly Oliver, Katie Chenoweth, Lisa Guenther, Christina Howells, Peggy Kamuf, Kir Kuiken, Elissa Marder, Michael Naas, Elizabeth Rottenberg0, Kas Saghafi1, Sarah Tyson2, Nicole Anderson3, Adam Thurschwell4 ...
    This volume represents the first collection of essays devoted exclusively to Jacques Derrida's Death Penalty Seminars, conducted from 1999 to 2001. The volume includes essays from a range of scholars working in philosophy, law, Francophone studies, and comparative literature, including established Derridians, activist scholars, and emerging scholars. These essays attempt to elucidate and expand ... Read more

    $38.69 USD

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  • One-Dimensional Man

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  • Of Grammatology

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    Translated by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak ...
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  • From Extreme Violence to the Problem of Civility

    A Selection from Violence and Civility: On the Limits of Political Philosophy

    by Étienne Balibar ...
    Translated by G.M. Goshgarian ...
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  • Truth and Truthfulness

    An Essay in Genealogy

    by Bernard Williams ...
    What does it mean to be truthful? What role does truth play in our lives? What do we lose if we reject truthfulness? No philosopher is better suited to answer these questions than Bernard Williams. Writing with his characteristic combination of passion and elegant simplicity, he explores the value of truth and finds it to be both less and more than we might imagine.Modern culture exhibits two ... Read more

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  • Giving an Account of Oneself

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  • The Religion of Existence

    Asceticism in Philosophy from Kierkegaard to Sartre

    by Noreen Khawaja ...
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  • Means Without End

    Notes on Politics

    by Giorgio Agamben ...
    Series series Theory Out of Bounds
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  • On Deconstruction

    Theory and Criticism after Structuralism

    by Jonathan Culler ...
    With an emphasis on readers and reading, Jonathan Culler considered deconstruction in terms of the questions raised by psychoanalytic, feminist, and reader-response criticism. On Deconstruction is both an authoritative synthesis of Derrida's thought and an analysis of the often-problematic relation between his philosophical writings and the work of literary critics. Culler's book is an ... Read more

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