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The Age of the Poets
And Other Writings on Twentieth-Century Poetry and Prose
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
The Age of the Poets revisits the age-old problem of the relation between literature and philosophy, arguing against both Plato and Heidegger’s famous arguments. Philosophy neither has to ban the poets from the republic nor abdicate its own powers to the sole benefit of poetry or art. Instead, it...
by Alain Badiou
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2021
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2021
The Adventure of French Philosophy is essential reading for anyone interested in what Badiou calls the “French moment” in contemporary thought.
Badiou explores the exceptionally rich and varied world of French philosophy in a number of groundbreaking essays, published here for the first...
Concept and Form, Volume 1
Selections from the Cahiers pour l'Analyse
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2012
Edited by a small group of students—including Alain Badiou, Jacques-Alain Miller and François Regnault—at the Ecole normale supérieure in Paris, the Cahiers pour l’Analyse appeared in ten volumes between 1966 to 1969. The journal was conceived as a contribution to a philosophy based on the...
Supercommunity
Diabolical Togetherness Beyond Contemporary Art
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2017
Leading artists, theorists, and writers exhume the dystopian and utopian futures contained within the present
“I am the supercommunity, and you are only starting to recognize me. I grew out of something that used to be humanity. Some have compared me to angry crowds in public squares; others...
Making Money
The Philosophy of Crisis Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
What is money? Where does it come from? Who makes our money today? And how can we understand the current state of our economy as a crisis of money itself?
In Making Money, Ole Bjerg turns these questions into a matter of philosophical rather than economic analysis. Using the thinking of Slavoj...
Iran Without Borders
Towards a Critique of the Postcolonial Nation
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2016
A history of the cosmopolitan forces that made contemporary Iran
“No ruling regime,” writes Hamid Dabashi, “could ever have a total claim over the idea of Iran as a nation, a people.” For decades, the narrative about Iran has been dominated by a false binary, in which the traditional...
An Ecology of World Literature
From Antiquity to the Present Day
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
What constitutes a nation’s literature? How do literatures of different countries interact with one another? In this groundbreaking study, Alexander Beecroft develops a new way of thinking about world literature. Drawing on a series of examples and case studies, the book ranges from ancient epic...
by Emanuele Severino
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
A groundbreaking classic of contemporary philosophy for the first time in English translation
Between 1961 and 1970, Emanuele Severino was subjected to a thorough investigation by the Vatican Inquisition. The “fundamental incompatibility” identified between his thought and Christian doctrine...
by Georges Perec
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2017
Darkly funny account of the office worker’s mindset by the celebrated French novelist
A long-suffering employee in a big corporation has summoned up the courage to ask for a raise. But as he runs through the looming encounter in his mind, his neuroses come to the surface: What is the best...
A Civil War
A History Of The Italian Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
A Civil War is a history of the wartime Italian Resistance, recounted by a historian who took part in the struggle against Mussolini’s Fascist Republic. Since its publication in Italy, Claudio Pavone’s masterwork has become indispensable to anyone seeking to understand this period and its...
Return
A Palestinian Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2015
An extraordinary memoir of exile and the impossibility of finding home, from the author of In Search of Fatima
“The journey filled me with bitterness and grief. I remember looking down on a nighttime Tel Aviv from the windows of a place taking me back to London and thinking hopelessly, ‘flotsam...
In Praise of Disobedience
The Soul of Man Under Socialism and Other Works
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
Works of Wilde's annus mirabilis of 1891 in one volume, with an introduction by renowned British playwright.
The Soul of Man Under Socialism draw on works from a single miraculous year in which Oscar Wilde published the larger part of his greatest works in prose -- the year he came into maturity...
Genes, Cells and Brains
The Promethean Promises of the New Biology
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2013
Our fates lie in our genes and not in the stars, said James Watson, co-discoverer of the structure of DNA. But Watson could not have predicted the scale of the industry now dedicated to this new frontier. Since the launch of the multibillion-dollar Human Genome Project, the biosciences have promised...
Raymond Chandler
The Detections of Totality
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2016
The master of literary theory takes on the master of the detective novel
Raymond Chandler, a dazzling stylist and portrayer of American life, holds a unique place in literary history, straddling both pulp fiction and modernism. With The Big Sleep, published in 1939, he left an indelible imprint...