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A Black Forest Walden
(May 2022)
Conversations with Henry David Thoreau and Marlonbrando
David Farrell Krell - Author
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Compares life today in the German Black Forest with Thoreau's experiences at Walden Pond.
A Black Forest Walden is a work of philosophical reflection, nature description, and sly humor. In brief chapters, or aphorisms, the American philosopher David Farrell Krell recounts his experiences in a cabin located in the mountains of southern Germany's Black Forest, where he has liv...(Read More) |
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Unworkable
(February 2022)
Delusions of an Imploding Civilization
Fabio Vighi - Author
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Explores the slow but inevitable implosion of our civilization by considering the correlation between capital, work, and ideology.
Unworkable discusses the ongoing implosion of our globalized world from three distinct angles: the capitalist elimination of labor through technological automation, the dissolution of our shared social narratives, and the subtle imposition of an ...(Read More) |
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Fracture Feminism
(August 2021)
The Politics of Impossible Time in British Romanticism
David Sigler - Author
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Shows how feminist writing in British Romanticism developed alternatives to linear time.
Feminist writers in British Romanticism often developed alternatives to linear time. Viewing time as a system of social control, writers like Mary Wollstonecraft, Anna Barbauld, and Mary Shelley wrote about current events as if they possessed knowledge from the future. Fracture Feminism ...(Read More) |
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The Aesthetic Clinic
(September 2020)
Feminine Sublimation in Contemporary Writing, Psychoanalysis, and Art
Fernanda Negrete - Author
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Examines experimental art and literature by women alongside psychoanalysis and philosophy to develop a new understanding of sublimation and aesthetic experience.
In The Aesthetic Clinic, Fernanda Negrete brings together contemporary women writers and artists well known for their formal experimentation—Louise Bourgeois, Sophie Calle, Lygia Clark, Marguerite Duras, Roni Horn,...(Read More) |
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Jouissance
(August 2020)
A Lacanian Concept
Néstor A. Braunstein - Author
Silvia Rosman - Translation and introduction by
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A comprehensive discussion of an important but elusive Lacanian concept within the field of psychoanalysis, as well as its relevance for philosophy, literature, gender, and queer studies.
Whether inscribed within the context of capitalist or neoliberal logic and its imperative to “enjoy,” as a critique of all forms of heteronormativity, a liberating force in a positive reading of b...(Read More) |
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Thinking Life with Luce Irigaray
(April 2020)
Language, Origin, Art, Love
Gail M. Schwab - Editor
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A broad exploration of Irigaray’s philosophy of life and living.
Featuring a highly accessible essay from Irigaray herself, this volume explores her philosophy of life and living. Life-thinking, an important contemporary trend in philosophy and in women’s and gender studies, stands in contrast to philosophy’s traditional grounding in death, exemplified in the work of philosophers such as Socrates, Plato, and Sc...(Read More) |
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Postcolonial Lack
(March 2020)
Identity, Culture, Surplus
Gautam Basu Thakur - Author
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Examines representations of surplus enjoyment in postcolonial literature and film to focus on self-other relations rather than difference.
Postcolonial Lack reconvenes dialogue between Lacanian psychoanalysis and postcolonial theory in order to expand the range of cultural analyses of the former and make the latter theoretically relevant to the demands of contemporary narrat...(Read More) |
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Psychoanalysis and Repetition
(July 2019)
Why Do We Keep Making the Same Mistakes?
Juan-David Nasio - Author
David Pettigrew - Translator
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Addresses unconscious repetition, a concept that is crucial to an understanding of Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalysis.
In Psychoanalysis and Repetition, Juan-David Nasio, one of the leading contemporary Lacanian psychoanalysts in France, argues that unconscious repetition represents the core of psychoanalysis as well as no less than the fundamental constitution of the human being. Through repetition, the unconscious mem...(Read More) |
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Lacan and Romanticism
(April 2019)
Daniela Garofalo - Editor
David Sigler - Editor
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Draws from the work of Jacques Lacan to provide innovative readings of Romantic literature in the long nineteenth century.
Lacan and Romanticism uses the work of psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan to deliver progressive readings of Romanticism by examining canonical Romantic authors such as William Wordsworth, Mary Shelley, John Keats, and Jane Austen, as well as lesser-known writers such as the graveyard poets and Sarah Scott. ...(Read More) |
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Love and Violence
(January 2019)
The Vexatious Factors of Civilization
Lea Melandri - Author
Antonio Calcagno - Translator
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A critical, philosophical engagement of the psychological structures that propagate the continued oppression of women.
In this book, the Italian feminist thinker Lea Melandri argues that systemic violence against women has deep psychoanalytic roots. Drawing inspiration from the work of Freud and the psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Elvio Fachinelli, along with feminist practices of consciousness-raising, Melandri demonstrates how...(Read More) |
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