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Adieu Derrida
by Costas Douzinas
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This book offers a unique series of philosophical eulogies to the leading French intellectual, Jacques Derrida. In it, a cast of renowned contributors offer their own personal and philosophical testimonies to Derrida´s influence both at large and to their own work. |
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2007
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150
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40 £
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978-0-230-00714-7
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The French revolts of May 1968, the largest general strike in twentieth-century europe, were among the most famous and colourful episodes of the twentieth century. Julian Bourg argues taht during the subsequent decade the reolts led to a remarkable paradigm shift in French thought - the concern for revolution in the 1960s was transformed into a fascination with ethics.
Challenging the prevalent view that the 1960s did not have any lasting effect, From Revolution to Ethics demonstrates that intellectuals and activists turned to ethics as the touchstone for understanding interpersonal, institutional, and political dilemmas. In absorbing and scrupuluously researched detail Bourg explores the developing ethical fascination as it emerged among student Maoists courting terrorism, anti-psychiatric celebrations of madness, feminists mobilizing against rape, and pundits and philosophers championing human rights. From Revolution to Ethics provides a compelling picture of how May 1968 helped make ethics a compass for navigating contemporary global experience. |
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From Revolution to Ethics
May 1968 and Contemporary French Thought by Julian Bourg
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McGill-Queen´s University Press
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2007
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512
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17,99 £
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9780773531994
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How to read Lacan
by Slavoj Zizek
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Is psychoanalysis dead or are we to read frequent attacks on its theoretical mistakes and clinical frauds as a proof of its vitality? In this slim volume packed with ambitious, dynamic discourse, the great cultural theorist Slavoj Zizek embarks upon a passionate defence of Lacan, and reasserts the ethical urgency of psychoanalysis.
Since for Lacan psychoanalysis itself is a procedure of reading, each chapter uses a passage from Lacan as a tool to interpret another text from philosophy, art or popular ideology. Lacan is read with Hegel and Hitchcock, with Shakespeare and Dostoevsky.
Zizek effectively distils over two decades of close readings and explanations of the fundamental tenets of Lacanian dogmatics: the subject´s relation to the Symbolic order, the disturbing paradoxes of fantasy, the blind caprice of the Real, the obscene enjoyment of the Big Other, God´s spectral afterlife within psychoanalysis, and the unexpected political consequence of the notion of perversion.
Although there is perhaps little that is new for Zizek followers from a theoretical point of view, this book is impressive in its coherence, and the ease with which it accompanies the reader through Lacan´s key concepts.
An excellent introduction to Zizek´s sprawling body of work. |
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Granta
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2007
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978-1-86207-894-7
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In this passionate blend of autobiography and cultural history, love and sex and art collide with hatred, withering French xenophobia, and death. How does Paris, with all its faults, remain not only the world´s most visited tourist destination, but also the locus of endless sexual fantasy and the very image of the good life for Americans, and for writer and art historian Eunice Lipton?
In sensual and intellectually thrilling prose, Lipton explores how her Eastern European father lured her to France across his fantasies, and then how she surrendered to the food, the textures and smells, the art, and the astonishingly maternal French state. But she is also forced to confront the anti-Semitism of the Dreyfus Affair that lay beneath the dazzling light of Impressionism; the racial disdain of France´s Roaring Twenties; and the unspeakable poverty of peasant life that paid for the luxury of eighteenth-century Versailles. And how can a Jewish woman forgive France for its betrayal of its Jews to the Nazis? Lipton, one of our most respected cultural historians, deftly dissects her love-hate relationship with France, transporting the Francophile in all of us back to that first love, and then way beyond to something startlingly new.
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French Seduction
An American´ Encouter with France, Her Father, and the Holocaust by Eunice Lipton
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Carroll & Graf
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2006
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Number of Pages :
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224
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24 $
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0786716266
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The Chomsky - Foucault Debate
On Human Nature
by Noam Chomsky & Michel Foucault
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In 1971, at the height of the Vietnam War and at a time of great political and social instability, two of the world´s leading intellectuals, Noam Chomsky and Michel Foucault, were invited by Dutch philosopher Fons Elders to debate an age-old question: is there such a thing as “innate” human nature independent of our experiences and external influences?
The resulting dialogue is one of the most original, provocative, and spontaneous exchanges to have occurred between contemporary philosophers, and above all serves as a concise introduction to their basic theories. What begins as a philosophical argument rooted in linguistics (Chomsky) and the theory of knowledge (Foucault), soon evolves into a broader discussion encompassing a wide range of topics, from science, history, and behaviorism to creativity, freedom, and the struggle for justice in the realm of politics.
In addition to the debate itself, this volume features a newly written introduction by noted Foucault scholar John Rajchman and includes substantial additional texts by Chomsky and Foucault.
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The New Press
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2007
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Number of Pages :
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128
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15 $
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1595581340
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