A Man of Little Faith
(December 2014)
Michel Deguy - Author Christopher Elson - Translated, edited, and with an introduction by Jean-Luc Nancy - Contributor
A poetic and philosophical negotiation of the alternatives of atheism and religious faith.
In A Man of Little Faith the French poet and philosopher Michel Deguy reflects on the loss of religious faith both personally and culturally. Disenchanted not only with the oversimplifications of radical atheism but also with what he sees as an insipid sacralization of art as the influence of religion has waned, Deg...(Read More)
The Creation of the World or Globalization
(March 2007)
Jean-Luc Nancy - Author François Raffoul - Translation and introduction by David Pettigrew - Translation and introduction by
Philosophical reflections on the phenomenon of globalization.
Appearing in English for the first time, Jean-Luc Nancy’s 2002 book reflects on globalization and its impact on our being-in-the-world. Developing a contrast in the French language between two terms that are usually synonymous, or that are used interchangeably, namely globalisation (globalization) and mondialisation (world-formin...(Read More)
The Title of the Letter
(April 1992)
A Reading of Lacan Jean-Luc Nancy - Author Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe - Author François Raffoul - Translator David Pettigrew - Translator
"I advise you to read a book called The Title of the Letter. It is with the greatest satisfaction that I have read it. I could not encourage its distribution enough. I can say, in a way, if it is a question of reading, that I have never been read so well..." --Jacques Lacan
This bookis a close reading of Jacques Lacan's seminal essay, "The Agency of the Letter in the Unconscious or Reason Since Freud, " selected for t...(Read More)
The Literary Absolute
(March 1988)
The Theory of Literature in German Romanticism Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe - Author Jean-Luc Nancy - Author Philip Barnard - Translator Cheryl Lester - Translator
"The authors have effectively situated romanticism within its philosophical context in a brilliant way." -- Mark C. Taylor, Williams College
The Literary Absolute is the first authoritative study of the emergence of the modern concept of literature in German romanticism. The authors trace this concept from the philosophical crisis bequeathed by Kant to his successors, to its development by the central figures of the Athenaeum g...(Read More)
