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Continental Theory Buffalo
(December 2021)
Transatlantic Crossroads of a Critical Insurrection David R. Castillo - Editor Jean-Jacques Thomas - Editor Ewa Plonowska Ziarek - Editor
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The Little Crystalline Seed
(June 2019)
The Ontological Significance of Mise en Abyme in Post-Heideggerian Thought Iddo Dickmann - Author
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Shows how contemporary French philosophy adopted this literary paradigm and argues for its significance for addressing concerns in ethics, ontology, and aesthetics.
Mise en abyme is a term developed from literary theory denoting a work that doubles itself within itself—a story placed within a story or a play within a play. The term flourished in experimental fiction in midcentury France, having not only a strong imp...(Read More) |
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The Last Fortress of Metaphysics
(February 2018)
Jacques Derrida and the Deconstruction of Architecture Francesco Vitale - Author Mauro Senatore - Translator
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Examines the relationship of Derrida’s writings on architecture to his methodology of deconstruction and to deconstrutivism in architecture.
Between 1984 and 1994 Jacques Derrida wrote and spoke a great deal about architecture both in his academic work and in connection with a number of particular building projects around the world. He engaged significantly with the work of architects such as Bernard Tschumi, Peter Eisenm...(Read More) |
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Between Philosophy and Non-Philosophy
(November 2016)
The Thought and Legacy of Hugh J. Silverman Donald A. Landes - Editor Leonard Lawlor - Editor Peter Gratton - Editor
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Engages the work and career of a central figure in contemporary philosophy.
Hugh J. Silverman was an inspiring scholar and teacher, known for his work engaging and shaping phenomenology, hermeneutics, psychoanalysis, structuralism, poststructuralism, and deconstruction. As Professor of Philosophy and Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies at Stony Brook University, State University of New York, Silverman&rsq...(Read More) |
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The Other Side of Pedagogy
(November 2014)
Lacan's Four Discourses and the Development of the Student Writer T. R. Johnson - Author
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Delineates Lacan’s theory of the four discourses as a practical framework through which faculty can reflect on where their students are, developmentally, and where they might go.
University classrooms are increasingly in crisis—though popular demands for accountability grow more insistent, no one seems to know what our teaching should seek to achieve. This book traces how we arrived at our current impa...(Read More) |
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Inner Experience
(September 2014)
Georges Bataille - Author Stuart Kendall - Translated and with an introduction by
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Outlines a mystical theology and experience of the sacred founded on the absence of god.
Originally published in 1943, Inner Experience is the single most significant work by one of the twentieth century’s most influential writers. It outlines a mystical theology and experience of the sacred founded on the absence of god. Bataille calls Inner Experience a “narrative of despair,” ...(Read More) |
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Habitations of the Veil
(July 2014)
Metaphor and the Poetics of Black Being in African American Literature Rebecka Rutledge Fisher - Author
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A hermeneutical study of metaphor in African American literature.
In Habitations of the Veil, Rebecka Rutledge Fisher uses theory implicit in W. E. B. Du Bois’s use of metaphor to draw out and analyze what she sees as a long tradition of philosophical metaphor in African American literature. She demonstrates how Olaudah Equiano, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Zora Neale Hurston, Richard Wright, and R...(Read More) |
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Derrida and Joyce
(May 2013)
Texts and Contexts Andrew J. Mitchell - Editor Sam Slote - Editor
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All of Derrida’s texts on Joyce together under one cover in fresh, new translations, along with key essays covering the range of Derrida’s engagement with Joyce’s works.
Bringing together all of Jacques Derrida’s writings on James Joyce, this volume includes the first complete translation of his book Ulysses Gramophone: Two Words for Joyce as well as the first translation of the...(Read More) |
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Jean-Luc Nancy and Plural Thinking
(August 2012)
Expositions of World, Ontology, Politics, and Sense Peter Gratton - Editor Marie-Eve Morin - Editor
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Wide-ranging essays on Jean-Luc Nancy’s thought.
Jean-Luc Nancy is one of the leading voices in European philosophy of the last thirty years, and he has influenced a range of fields, including theology, aesthetics, and political theory. This volume offers the widest and most up-to-date responses to his work, oriented by the themes of world, finitude, and sense, with attention also given to his recent proje...(Read More) |
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Deleuze and Guattari's Immanent Ethics
(August 2011)
Theory, Subjectivity, and Duration Tamsin Lorraine - Author
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Explains how the work of Deleuze and Guattari speaks to feminism and other progressive movements.
In Deleuze and Guattari’s Immanent Ethics, Tamsin Lorraine focuses on the pragmatic implications of Deleuze and Guattari’s work for human beings struggling to live ethical lives. Her bold alignment of Deleuze and Guattari’s project with the feminist and phenomenological projects of ground...(Read More) |
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