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  • The Darkroom

    by Marguerite Duras ...
    Translated by Alta Ifland, Eireene Nealand ...
    Series series Critical Century
    “One must make films with this knowledge: there’s no point anymore. Let film meet its end, that’s the only cinema.”The Darkroom contains the script for Marguerite Duras’s 1977 radically experimental film Le camion (The Truck). Between images of a truck in motion, juxtaposed voiceovers, and cutaways to Duras in conversation with Gérard Depardieu, Le camion turns the art of film into a means of ... Read more

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  • Listening

    by Jean-Luc Nancy ...
    Translated by Charlotte Mandell ...
    Series series Perspectives in Continental Philosophy
    "A book of philosophy very much captivated with music . . . an acoustemological elaboration of [Nancy's] theorization of difference." — Journal of the American Musicological SocietyIn this lyrical meditation on listening, Jean-Luc Nancy examines sound in relation to the human body. How is listening different from hearing? What does listening entail? How does what is heard differ from what is seen? ... Read more

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  • Sexistence

    by Jean-Luc Nancy ...
    "[From] our preeminent living philosopher of being-with. . . . A profound―and profoundly necessary―meditation on sex and being." —Tim Dean, author of Unlimited Intimacy: Reflections on the Subculture of BarebackingSex, more than just a part of our experience, troubles our conceptions of existence.Drawing on a fascinating array of sources, ancient and modern, philosophical and literary, Jean-Luc ... Read more

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  • The Pleasure in Drawing

    by Jean-Luc Nancy ...
    Translated by Philip Armstrong ...
    The renowned philosopher contemplates the medium of drawing in "a book full of dazzling insights, imaginative curves and provocative renewals" (Sarah Clift, University of King's College).In 2007, philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy curated an exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts in Lyon. This book, originally written for that exhibition, explores the interplay between drawing and form—viewing the act of ... Read more

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  • The Ground of the Image

    by Jean-Luc Nancy ...
    Translated by Jeff Fort ...
    Series series Perspectives in Continental Philosophy
    The renowned philosopher provides "noteworthy contributions to themes connected with images, imagination, representation, aesthetics, and . . . religion." — Journal of American Academy of ReligionWhat is this power that lies in the depths and recesses of an image—which is always only an impenetrable surface? What secrets are concealed in the ground or in the figures of an image—which never does ... Read more

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  • Dis-Enclosure

    The Deconstruction of Christianity

    by Jean-Luc Nancy, Michael B. Smith ...
    Translated by Bettina Bergo, Gabriel Malenfant ...
    Series series Perspectives in Continental Philosophy
    From one of France's leading contemporary thinkers, "an astutely reasoned philosophical text, offering a revolutionary analysis of theistic religion" ( The Midwest Book Review).This book is a profound and eagerly anticipated investigation into what is left of a monotheistic religious spirit—notably, a minimalist faith that is neither confessional nor credulous. Articulating this faith as works and ... Read more

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  • After Fukushima

    The Equivalence of Catastrophes

    by Jean-Luc Nancy, Danielle Cohen-Levinas, Yuji Nishiyama, Yotetsu Tonaki ...
    Translated by Charlotte Mandell ...
    The renowned philosopher offers "a powerful reflection on our times . . . and the fate of our civilization, as revealed by the catastrophe of Fukushima" (François Raffoul, Louisiana State University).In 2011, a tsunami flooded Japan's Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, causing three nuclear meltdowns, the effects of which will spread through generations and have an impact on all living things. ... Read more

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  • CINEMA, THOUGHT, LIFE. Conversations with Fata Morgana

    by Paolo Jedlowski, Roberto De Gaetano, Jacques Rancière, Roberto Esposito, Slavoj Žižek, Paul Schrader, Werner Herzog, Angela Ricci Lucchi, Yervant Gianikian, Julio Bressane, Marie, Jean, Francesco Casetti, Mario Martone, Francesco Ceraolo, Luc Nancy, Louis Comolli, Georges Didi, Huberman, Raoul Ruiz, David Freedberg, Marco Bellocchio, Julia Kristeva, Edgar Reitz, José Mondzain, Walter Siti, Toni Servillo, Richard Schechner, Shinya Tsukamoto, Amos Gitai ...
    24 conversazioni apparse su Fata Morgana con grandi figure della contemporaneità, studiosi e artisti che parlano del cinema facendone un luogo del pensiero e una forma di vita. Un viaggio in cui il cinema e l’immagine, più di ogni altra forma d’arte, si riscoprono indissolubilmente legati alla complessità del nostro presente. Per la prima volta riunite e tradotte in inglese in un’unica ... Read more

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  • Conversations on Cinema

    by De Gaetano Roberto, Slavoj Žižek, Paul Schrader, Paolo Jedlowski, Werner Herzog, Roberto Esposito, Jean-Louis Comolli, Julio Bressane, Jacques Rancière, Jean-Luc Nancy, Angela Ricci Lucchi, Yervant Gianikian, Georges Didi-Huberman ...
    Eleven conversations taken from as many issues of Fata Morgana. Eleven conversations which synthesize the project behind the journal which was born in spring 2006. At the time it was decided against having an editorial comment because of the conviction that if the journal was going to succeed it would speak for itself. However, the time has come to say a few words. A journal is first and foremost ... Read more

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  • Heidegger, Philosophy, and Politics

    The Heidelberg Conference

    by Jacques Derrida, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, Reiner Wiehl ...
    Three renowned philosophers discuss the work of Martin Heidegger, and the moral quandary of engaging with a major philosopher who was also a Nazi.In February 1988, philosophers Jacques Derrida, Hans-Georg Gadamer, and Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe came together in Heidelberg before a large audience to discuss the philosophical and political implications of Martin Heidegger's thought. Heidegger's ... Read more

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  • Expectation

    Philosophy, Literature

    by Jean-Luc Nancy ...
    Translated by Robert Bononno ...
    "A courtship between philosophy and literature that has never been presented with such wit, grace, and finesse" from one of France's leading thinkers (Jean-Michel Rabaté, from the Introduction).Expectation is a major volume of Jean-Luc Nancy's writings on literature, written across three decades but, for the most part, previously unavailable in English.More substantial than literary criticism, ... Read more

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  • What's These Worlds Coming To?

    by Jean-Luc Nancy, Aurélien Barrau ...
    Translated by Travis Holloway, Flor Méchain ...
    Series series Forms of Living
    The eminent philosopher and an emerging astrophysicist return to the ancient art of cosmology in a study of plural worlds and their rebuilding.Our contemporary challenge, according to Jean-Luc Nancy and Aurelien Barrau, is that a new world has stolen up on us. We no longer live in a world, but in worlds. We do not live in a universe anymore, but rather in a multiverse. We no longer create; we ... Read more

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