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  • The End of the World and Other Teachable Moments

    Jacques Derrida's Final Seminar

    by Michael Naas ...
    A Derrida scholar traces the evolution of the philosopher's final seminar in Paris as he contemplates the state of the world and his own mortality.For decades, philosopher Jacques Derrida held weekly seminars in Paris, spending years at a time on a single, complex theme. From 2001 to 2003, he delivered the final work in this series, entitled "The Beast and the Sovereign." As this final seminar ... Read more

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  • For Strasbourg

    Conversations of Friendship and Philosophy

    The eminent philosopher pays homage to his beloved French city and the philosophical friendships he had there—"an illuminating addition to his legacy" ( The Times Literary Supplement).A towering figure in twentieth-century philosophy, Jacques Derrida was born in Algeria, but spent four decades living in the French city of Strasbourg, located on the border between France and Germany. This moving ... Read more

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  • To Think Is to Say No

    To Think Is to Say No presents, for the first time in English, a remarkable early lecture course delivered by Jacques Derrida at the Sorbonne during the 1960–1961 academic year. Composed of four sessions and drawn from Derrida’s handwritten manuscripts, this volume offers a rare glimpse into the development of one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century.Taking its title from ... Read more

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  • Plato's Animals

    Gadflies, Horses, Swans, and Other Philosophical Beasts

    Edited by Jeremy Bell, Michael Naas ...
    Series series Studies in Continental Thought
    "A unique and intriguing point of entry into the dialogues and a variety of concerns from metaphysics and epistemology to ethics, politics, and aesthetics." —Eric Sanday, University of KentuckyPlato's Animals examines the crucial role played by animal images, metaphors, allusions, and analogies in Plato's dialogues. These fourteen lively essays demonstrate that the gadflies, snakes, stingrays, ... Read more

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  • Threshold Phenomena

    Derrida and the Question of Hospitality

    by Michael Naas ...
    Choice: Outstanding Academic TitleThreshold Phenomena reexamines Jacques Derrida’s thinking of hospitality, from his well-known writings of the 1990s to his recently-published seminars on the same topic. The book follows Derrida’s rereading of several central figures and texts on hospitality (Sophocles’ Oedipus at Colonus, Kant’s Perpetual Peace, Levinas’s Totality and Infinity) and his attempt to ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Reading Continental Philosophy and the History of Thought

    Series series Continental Philosophy and the History of Thought
    This book frames the mission of the Continental Philosophy and History of Thought series at Lexington Books. International leading scholars contribute essays that explore and redefine the relationship between received arguments in contemporary Continental philosophy and various influential figures and arguments in the history of thought. By bringing Continental philosophy and the histories of ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Apocalyptic Ruin and Everyday Wonder in Don DeLillo’s America

    Apocalyptic Ruin and Everyday Wonder in Don DeLillo's America is a fresh and engaging study of “last things” in Don DeLillo's works-things like death, mourning, and the decline of the American empire, but then also the apocalypse, the last judgment, and the end of the world more generally. Michael Naas untangles complex themes in short, witty chapters that highlight and celebrate DeLillo's ... Read more

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  • Class Acts

    Derrida on the Public Stage

    by Michael Naas ...
    Series series Perspectives in Continental Philosophy
    Class Acts examines two often neglected aspects of Jacques Derrida’s work as a philosopher, his public presentations at lectures and conferences and his teaching, along with the question of the “speech act” that links them. What, Michael Naas asks, is one doing when one speaks in public in these ways?The book follows Derrida’s itinerary with regard to speech act theory across three public lectures ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • Throwing the Moral Dice

    Ethics and the Problem of Contingency

    Series series Just Ideas
    More than a purely philosophical problem, straddling the ambivalent terrain between necessity and impossibility, contingency has become the very horizon of everyday life. Often used as a synonym for the precariousness of working conditions under neoliberalism, for the unknown threats posed by terrorism, or for the uncertain future of the planet itself, contingency needs to be calculated and ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Don DeLillo, American Original

    Drugs, Weapons, Erotica, and Other Literary Contraband

    Don DeLillo, American Original is a startlingly original and provocative reinterpretation of one of the most important novelists of the 20th and 21st centuries. Adopting a direct approach that steers clear of debates with secondary literature and covering the full arc of Don DeLillo's career from A to Z – Americana (1971) to Zero K (2016) – Michael Naas shows that the extraordinary power, ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Derrida From Now On

    by Michael Naas ...
    Series series Perspectives in Continental Philosophy
    Written in the wake of Jacques Derrida's death in 2004, Derrida From Now On attempts both to do justice to the memory of Derrida and to demonstrate the continuing significance of his work for contemporary philosophy and literary theory.If Derrida's thought is to remain relevant for us today, it must be at once understood in its original context and uprooted and transplanted elsewhere. Michael Naas ... Read more

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  • Life Death

    Series series The Seminars of Jacques Derrida
    The seventh in our series of Derrida's seminars, Life Death provides interdisciplinary reflections on the relationship of life and death—now in paperback.One of Jacques Derrida’s most provocative works, Life Death deconstructs a deeply rooted dichotomy of Western thought: life and death. In rethinking the relationship between life and death, Derrida undertakes a multi-disciplinary analysis of a ... Read more

    $19.49 USD