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Ending and Unending Agony
On Maurice Blanchot
Inbunden, 2015
1227 kr
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Published posthumously, Ending and Unending Agony is Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe's only book entirely devoted to the French writer and essayist Maurice Blanchot (1907–2003). The place of Blanchot in Lacoue-Labarthe's thought was both discreet and profound, involving difficult, agonizing questions …
Ending and Unending Agony
On Maurice Blanchot
Häftad, 2015
442 kr
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Published posthumously, Ending and Unending Agony is Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe's only book entirely devoted to the French writer and essayist Maurice Blanchot (1907–2003). The place of Blanchot in Lacoue-Labarthe's thought was both discreet and profound, involving difficult, agonizing questions …
Reading with John Clare
Biopoetics, Sovereignty, Romanticism
Av Sara Guyer
Inbunden, 2015
1158 kr
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Reading with John Clare argues that at the heart of contemporary biopolitical thinking is an insistent repression of poetry. By returning to the moment at which biopolitics is said to emerge simultaneously with romanticism, this project renews our understanding of the operations of contemporary …
Reading with John Clare
Biopoetics, Sovereignty, Romanticism
Av Sara Guyer
Häftad, 2015
373 kr
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Reading with John Clare argues that at the heart of contemporary biopolitical thinking is an insistent repression of poetry. By returning to the moment at which biopolitics is said to emerge simultaneously with romanticism, this project renews our understanding of the operations of contemporary …
Modernity's Mist
British Romanticism and the Poetics of Anticipation
Inbunden, 2015
1223 kr
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Modernity's Mist explores an understudied aspect of Romanticism: its future-oriented poetics. Whereas Romanticism is well known for its relation to the past, Emily Rohrbach situates Romantic epistemological uncertainties in relation to historiographical debates that opened up a radically …
Modernity's Mist
British Romanticism and the Poetics of Anticipation
Häftad, 2015
425 kr
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Modernity's Mist explores an understudied aspect of Romanticism: its future-oriented poetics. Whereas Romanticism is well known for its relation to the past, Emily Rohrbach situates Romantic epistemological uncertainties in relation to historiographical debates that opened up a radically …
Theory at Yale
The Strange Case of Deconstruction in America
Inbunden, 2015
1368 kr
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This book examines the affinity between "theory" and "deconstruction" that developed in the American academy in the 1970s by way of the "Yale Critics": Harold Bloom, Paul de Man, Geoffrey Hartman, and J. Hillis Miller, sometimes joined by the French philosopher Jacques Derrida.With this …
Theory at Yale
The Strange Case of Deconstruction in America
Häftad, 2015
445 kr
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This book examines the affinity between "theory" and "deconstruction" that developed in the American academy in the 1970s by way of the "Yale Critics": Harold Bloom, Paul de Man, Geoffrey Hartman, and J. Hillis Miller, sometimes joined by the French philosopher Jacques Derrida.With this …
Constellations of a Contemporary Romanticism
Av Jacques Khalip, Forest Pyle
Inbunden, 2016
1563 kr
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Constellations of a Contemporary Romanticism takes its title and point of departure from Walter Benjamin's concept of the historical constellation, which puts both "contemporary" and "romanticism" in play as period designations and critical paradigms. Featuring fascinating and diverse contributions …
Constellations of a Contemporary Romanticism
Av Jacques Khalip, Forest Pyle
Häftad, 2016
537 kr
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Constellations of a Contemporary Romanticism takes its title and point of departure from Walter Benjamin's concept of the historical constellation, which puts both "contemporary" and "romanticism" in play as period designations and critical paradigms. Featuring fascinating and diverse contributions …
Prophecies of Language
The Confusion of Tongues in German Romanticism
Inbunden, 2016
1628 kr
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The scenes of Babel and Pentecost, the original confusion of tongues and their redemption through translation, haunt German Romanticism and Idealism. This book begins by retracing the ways in which the task of translation, so crucial to Romantic writing, is repeatedly tied to prophecy, not in the …
Prophecies of Language
The Confusion of Tongues in German Romanticism
Häftad, 2016
494 kr
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The scenes of Babel and Pentecost, the original confusion of tongues and their redemption through translation, haunt German Romanticism and Idealism. This book begins by retracing the ways in which the task of translation, so crucial to Romantic writing, is repeatedly tied to prophecy, not in the …
Writing of the Formless
Jose Lezama Lima and the End of Time
Inbunden, 2016
544 kr
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In this book, Jaime Rodríguez Matos proposes the "formless" as a point of departure in thinking through the relationship between politics and time. Thinking through both literary and political writings around the Cuban Revolution, Rodríguez Matos explores the link between abstract symbolic …
Writing of the Formless
Jose Lezama Lima and the End of Time
Häftad, 2016
397 kr
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In this book, Jaime Rodríguez Matos proposes the "formless" as a point of departure in thinking through the relationship between politics and time. Thinking through both literary and political writings around the Cuban Revolution, Rodríguez Matos explores the link between abstract symbolic …
Kant on the Frontier
Philosophy, Politics, and the Ends of the Earth
Inbunden, 2017
1773 kr
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Frontier: the border between two countries; the limits of civilization; the bounds of established knowledge; a new field of activity. At a time when all borders, boundaries, margins, and limits are being—often violently—challenged, erased, or reinforced, we must rethink the concept of frontier …
Atopias
Manifesto for a Radical Existentialism
Inbunden, 2017
1235 kr
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This book offers a manifesto for a radical existentialism aiming to regenerate the place of the outside that contemporary theory underestimates. Neyrat calls this outside "atopia": not utopia, a dreamt place out of the world where everything would be perfect, but atopia, the internal outside that …
Atopias
Manifesto for a Radical Existentialism
Häftad, 2017
342 kr
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This book offers a manifesto for a radical existentialism aiming to regenerate the place of the outside that contemporary theory underestimates. Neyrat calls this outside "atopia": not utopia, a dreamt place out of the world where everything would be perfect, but atopia, the internal outside that …
On the Nature of Marx's Things
Translation As Necrophilology
Inbunden, 2018
1190 kr
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On the Nature of Marx's Things is a major rethinking of the Marxian tradition, one based not on fixed things but on the inextricable interrelation between the material world and our language for it. Lezra traces to Marx's earliest writings a subterranean, Lucretian practice that he calls …
On the Nature of Marx's Things
Translation As Necrophilology
Häftad, 2018
373 kr
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On the Nature of Marx's Things is a major rethinking of the Marxian tradition, one based not on fixed things but on the inextricable interrelation between the material world and our language for it. Lezra traces to Marx's earliest writings a subterranean, Lucretian practice that he calls …
Last Things
Disastrous Form from Kant to Hujar
Häftad, 2018
393 kr
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The arrival of the Anthropocene brings the suggestion that we are only now beginning to speculate on an inhuman world that is not for us, only now confronting fears and anxieties of ecological, political, social, and philosophical extinction. While pointing out that reflections on disaster were not …
Portrait
Inbunden, 2018
1287 kr
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This book examines the practice of portraits as a way in to grasping the paradoxes of subjectivity. To Nancy, the portrait is suspended between likeness and strangeness, identity and distance, representation and presentation, exactitude and forcefulness. It can identify an individual, but it can …
Portrait
Häftad, 2018
373 kr
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This book examines the practice of portraits as a way in to grasping the paradoxes of subjectivity. To Nancy, the portrait is suspended between likeness and strangeness, identity and distance, representation and presentation, exactitude and forcefulness. It can identify an individual, but it can …
Lives of the Dead Poets
Keats, Shelley, Coleridge
Av Karen Swann
Häftad, 2019
445 kr
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Any reader engaging the work of Keats, Shelley, or Coleridge must confront the role biography has played in the canonization of each. Each archive is saturated with stories of the life prematurely cut off or, in Coleridge's case, of promise wasted in indolence. One confronts reminiscences of …
Lives of the Dead Poets
Keats, Shelley, Coleridge
Av Karen Swann
Inbunden, 2019
1368 kr
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Any reader engaging the work of Keats, Shelley, or Coleridge must confront the role biography has played in the canonization of each. Each archive is saturated with stories of the life prematurely cut off or, in Coleridge's case, of promise wasted in indolence. One confronts reminiscences of …
Old Schools
Modernism, Education, and the Critique of Progress
Häftad, 2020
417 kr
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Winner: AAIS First Book PrizeOld Schools marks out a modernist countertradition. The book makes sense of an apparent anachronism in twentieth-century literature and cinema: a fascination with outmoded, paradigmatically pre-modern educational forms that persists long after they are displaced in …
Old Schools
Modernism, Education, and the Critique of Progress
Inbunden, 2020
1321 kr
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Winner: AAIS First Book PrizeOld Schools marks out a modernist countertradition. The book makes sense of an apparent anachronism in twentieth-century literature and cinema: a fascination with outmoded, paradigmatically pre-modern educational forms that persists long after they are displaced in …
Anarchaeologies
Reading As Misreading
Häftad, 2020
429 kr
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How do we read after the so-called death of literature? If we are to attend to the proclamations that the representational apparatuses of literature and politics are dead, what aesthetic, ethical, and political possibilities remain for us today? Our critical moment, Graff Zivin argues, demands …
Anarchaeologies
Reading As Misreading
Inbunden, 2020
1514 kr
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How do we read after the so-called death of literature? If we are to attend to the proclamations that the representational apparatuses of literature and politics are dead, what aesthetic, ethical, and political possibilities remain for us today? Our critical moment, Graff Zivin argues, demands …
Middling Romanticism
Reading in the Gaps, from Kant to Ashbery
Av Zachary Sng
Inbunden, 2020
850 kr
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Romanticism is often understood as an age of extremes, yet it also marks the birth of the modern medium in all senses of the word. Engaging with key texts of the romantic period, the book outlines a wide-reaching project to re-imagine the middle as a constitutive principle. Sng argues that …
Shibboleth
Judges, Derrida, Celan
Inbunden, 2020
1514 kr
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Working from the Bible to contemporary art, Shibboleth surveys the linguistic performances behind the politics of border crossings and the policing of identities.In the Book of Judges, the Gileadites use the word shibboleth to target and kill members of a closely related tribe, the Ephraimites, who …
